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2024.05.16 23:18 ds_contractor What are the issues with concurrent A/B tests?
I'm trying to determine if I can proceed with running multiple tests at the same time.
Experiment A: test whether a personalized ad serving model produces more clicks on ads than legacy ad serving.
Experiment B: test whether version A of an ad is produces more clicks on the ad than version B.
Experiment C: test whether the web layout A produces more clicks on ads than web layout B.
Everything I've read, learned, and practiced tells me that you shouldn't run these experiments together on the same samples because you can't attribute the effect to any one experiment and because the results can be biased or misrepresented.
In terms of execution, I have no real way of segmenting my samples in such a way that my whole population averts one experiment or another. This means I'd have to run these experiments in series since I can't restrict a user of a specific experiment.
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Experiment A: test whether a personalized ad serving model produces more clicks on ads than legacy ad serving.
Experiment B: test whether version A of an ad is produces more clicks on the ad than version B.
Experiment C: test whether the web layout A produces more clicks on ads than web layout B.
Everything I've read, learned, and practiced tells me that you shouldn't run these experiments together on the same samples because you can't attribute the effect to any one experiment and because the results can be biased or misrepresented.
In terms of execution, I have no real way of segmenting my samples in such a way that my whole population averts one experiment or another. This means I'd have to run these experiments in series since I can't restrict a user of a specific experiment.
2024.05.16 23:17 Certain_Lecture6733 Is this common for startups?
I just had an interview today. I'm an experienced writer with a grad degree. The job ad asked for 3+ years of experience, knowledge of MadCap Flare, API documentation, and HTML/CSS.
During the interview, I picked up these juicy nuggets:
I'm curious why I was even called for an interview because my resume and portfolio clearly demonstrated that I'm not a recent college grad with no experience who would be willing to take $50k (which is not only an on-paper pay cut, but an even bigger one because the COL is higher than my current location).
Is this just how startup-type companies operate? Or did I just run into a particularly predatory company?
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During the interview, I picked up these juicy nuggets:
- They are hiring urgently because the last person left.
- They only have one technical writer role (meaning they don't have a writer right now).
- The hiring minimum is $50k in a HCOL market for a job that requires API knowledge, coding knowledge, and HTML/CSS knowledge.
- I was told explicitly "we typically hire writers for this role fresh out of college."
I'm curious why I was even called for an interview because my resume and portfolio clearly demonstrated that I'm not a recent college grad with no experience who would be willing to take $50k (which is not only an on-paper pay cut, but an even bigger one because the COL is higher than my current location).
Is this just how startup-type companies operate? Or did I just run into a particularly predatory company?
2024.05.16 23:15 Thromnomnomok The Mariners' offense has a 112 wRC+ over the past month, 6th best in baseball
Since April 15th we've hit .240/.312/.411, which doesn't sound all that great at first, but offense has been pretty down so far this year- over the same stretch the league as a whole is hitting .237/.307/.381, and our pitching staff has allowed a brilliant .188/.255/.316 slash line.
We're still striking out a ton (28.0% over that stretch, the second highest team is a tie between the Rockies and Red Sox at 25.9%), but we're also 4th in homers and 5th in BABIP, so we're doing enough damage when we make contact to put up a decent batting line overall.
We're a bit worse in runs, at 4.25 Runs/Game (11th), because 112 wRC+ assumes a neutral environment and we're in a really pitcher-friendly one, but that's a perfectly fine scoring output when we're allowing just 3.07 Runs/Game (3rd best, only the Dodgers and Braves have been better). Our Run Differential is a pretty good +33, translating to a .644 Pythagorean win expectation (nearly matched by our actual .643 win percentage, 18-10) which is... once again, 6th, behind the Dodgers, Phillies, Yankees, Orioles, and Braves.
(#6org will live on forever)
The improvement has been pretty much team-wide, too:
(In this table I left out Samad Taylor, who has no games after April 15th, and Jonathan Clase, Sam Haggerty, and Leo Rivas, who have no games before- none of them has very many PA's, in any case)
Of those 13, 6 had huge improvements, adding at least 70 to their wRC+ (though in Zavala's case in particular, the sample size is absolutely tiny), with Canzone also having an improvement by this split but he went on the IL on the 14th and just came back yesterday so kinda hard to draw any real conclusions from him. Ty France, Dylan Moore, and Josh Rojas hit more marginally better, Jorge Polanco marginally worse, and then there's Mitch Haniger and Luis Urias who are the glaring exceptions to the teamwide trend, having crushed it the first couple of weeks but have largely been bad since then.
Why did we start so bad and get better? Hard to say for sure. Might have been early bad weather, might have just been random chance, but looking back, it looks like we just faced a big slate of tough pitching in those first couple of weeks- in our 6 road games against the Jays and Brewers, we were closer to an average offensive team (90 wRC+) and scored 25 runs across those games (exactly matching our recent 4.25 Runs/Game average), but in the 9 home games? .193/.274/.272 (70 wRC+), with 24 Runs (2.67 Runs/Game). Which is terrible, but in all fairness, those 9 games were against the Red Sox (3.53 Runs Allowed/Game, with a MLB-leading 2.74 ERA), Guardians (3.66 Runs Allowed/Game), and Cubs, who are closer to average overall (4.25 Runs Allowed/Game), but they started both Shota Imanaga and Javier Assad against us, who are currently 1st and 3rd among qualified starters in ERA, at 0.96 and 1.49, respectively. (But on the other hand, we also failed to score a single run off the Cubs' middling bullpen in 11 innings of that 3-game series so... there's also some just us sucking in there)
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We're still striking out a ton (28.0% over that stretch, the second highest team is a tie between the Rockies and Red Sox at 25.9%), but we're also 4th in homers and 5th in BABIP, so we're doing enough damage when we make contact to put up a decent batting line overall.
We're a bit worse in runs, at 4.25 Runs/Game (11th), because 112 wRC+ assumes a neutral environment and we're in a really pitcher-friendly one, but that's a perfectly fine scoring output when we're allowing just 3.07 Runs/Game (3rd best, only the Dodgers and Braves have been better). Our Run Differential is a pretty good +33, translating to a .644 Pythagorean win expectation (nearly matched by our actual .643 win percentage, 18-10) which is... once again, 6th, behind the Dodgers, Phillies, Yankees, Orioles, and Braves.
(#6org will live on forever)
The improvement has been pretty much team-wide, too:
(In this table I left out Samad Taylor, who has no games after April 15th, and Jonathan Clase, Sam Haggerty, and Leo Rivas, who have no games before- none of them has very many PA's, in any case)
| Player | wRC+ through 4/14 | wRC+ since 4/15 |
|---|---|---|
| Josh Rojas | 141 | 163 |
| Dominic Canzone | 134 | 184 (in 1 game) |
| Mitch Haniger | 127 | 72 |
| Luis Urias | 114 | 71 |
| Dylan Moore | 102 | 106 |
| Jorge Polanco | 88 | 80 |
| Ty France | 86 | 100 |
| Cal Raleigh | 68 | 146 |
| J.P. Crawford | 61 | 132 |
| Mitch Garver | 45 | 115 |
| Julio Rodriguez | 34 | 124 |
| Luke Raley | -17 | 161 |
| Seby Zavala | -100 (0 for 12) | 172 (6 for 18) |
Why did we start so bad and get better? Hard to say for sure. Might have been early bad weather, might have just been random chance, but looking back, it looks like we just faced a big slate of tough pitching in those first couple of weeks- in our 6 road games against the Jays and Brewers, we were closer to an average offensive team (90 wRC+) and scored 25 runs across those games (exactly matching our recent 4.25 Runs/Game average), but in the 9 home games? .193/.274/.272 (70 wRC+), with 24 Runs (2.67 Runs/Game). Which is terrible, but in all fairness, those 9 games were against the Red Sox (3.53 Runs Allowed/Game, with a MLB-leading 2.74 ERA), Guardians (3.66 Runs Allowed/Game), and Cubs, who are closer to average overall (4.25 Runs Allowed/Game), but they started both Shota Imanaga and Javier Assad against us, who are currently 1st and 3rd among qualified starters in ERA, at 0.96 and 1.49, respectively. (But on the other hand, we also failed to score a single run off the Cubs' middling bullpen in 11 innings of that 3-game series so... there's also some just us sucking in there)
2024.05.16 23:12 ecvike Upgraded my diy aerator to dual rotors :)
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2024.05.16 23:10 Far-War-3804 A07 U.S. NAVY JAG INVESTIGATORS ARRESTS Former DEPUTY SECRETARY of STATE WENDY SHERMAN. May 6, 2024
 | https://preview.redd.it/cin910wysu0d1.jpg?width=696&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4f695ab14280e1f37bd14620cbbfbd0cf61d8d28 submitted by Far-War-3804 to CourtofAges [link] [comments] A07 U.S. NAVY JAG INVESTIGATORS ARRESTS Former DEPUTY SECRETARY of STATE WENDY SHERMAN. May 6, 2024 U.S. Navy JAG investigators last week apprehended former Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman for illicitly promising Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba “unlimited resources” to fight Russian encroachment and potentially force Vladimir Putin to abdicate office, JAG sources told Real Raw News. Sherman’s political career was rife with ties to the Deep State. Her journey toward the dark side began in 1993 when President Clinton appointed her counselor to the State Department, ordinarily an honorary position bestowed upon friends of political elitists. Sherman and her boss, the despicable, hideous Madeleine Albright, had Clinton’s ear, and they had persuaded him to bomb Yugoslavian civilians into oblivion during the 1999 Kosovo War. Sherman resurfaced in the political state in 2011 after the criminal Barack Hussein Obama named her undersecretary of state for political affairs, a job in which she answered to the murderous secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, and her successor, the cowardly John Kerry. In 2020, illegitimate pResident Joseph R. Biden nominated Sherman to serve as deputy director of state under the deepest of Deep State traitors, Antony Blinken, a position she held until July 28, 2023. In April 2024, White Hats obtained a recording of a telephone conversation between Sherman and Ukrainian diplomat Dmytro Kuleba, Zelenskyy’s righthand man. On the call, Sherman is heard telling Kuleba that Biden is wholly vested in Ukraine’s security and overthrowing Vladimir Putin, and that the United States would fund those objectives to fruition, irrespective of cost. “How can you promise this?” Kuleba said on the March 22, 2023, call. “Many in your government do not like to give us money.” “You and President Zelenskyy have my personal promise,” Sherman replied. “However much it takes, you’ll have it. This I swear.” White Hats got the recording from a surprising informant. In August 2023, RRN exclusively scooped a story about General Smith and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu forming a cautious détente; they created a joint U.S. Special Forces-Russian Spetsnaz strike team to eradicate child traffickers in Ukraine. It is our understanding that this team still operates under a blanket of secrecy. Shoigu also proved helpful in January: He supplied White Hats with DNA evidence proving war criminal and mass murderer Lloyd Austin died to a Russian attack on a Kyiv command bunker. And last month Shoigu sent Gen. Smith an .mp3 of the Sherman-Kuleba telephone call. “Sergei Shoigu didn’t say how he got it or if his people dealt with Kuleba, but he wanted us to know about Sherman’s involvement. Shoigu has shown himself trustworthy, but we’re in an environment where anything and everything can be Deep Faked. We had to authenticate it, regardless of Shoigu’s assurances,” our source said. He added that experts in audio forensics at Marine Corps Cyberspace Command performed spectrographic and digital integrity analyses on the file to look for signs of editing or manipulation. “They said it had a 97% probability of authenticity. That percentage was high enough to hand it off to Adm. Crandall, and he decided that clandestinely promising Kuleba cash was criminal. We’ve convicted several Deep Staters who secretly sent U.S. Treasury Department money to Ukraine, but she was the first for just promising it,” our source said. JAG investigators arrested Sherman without incident at her Reston, Virginia, home Saturday morning. “This one surprised me. But the admiral isn’t known for signing off on a warrant unless he believes he can secure a conviction,” our source said. |
2024.05.16 23:09 Honeyboneyh I criticized the devs a lot, time to give them credit
Ammo Loader is now no pain to use! Added sounds are appreciated. And thank god the scopes are finally playable! Those changes are welcomed. Good Job CWS
I think even if someone made a more stable (less buggy) competition to this game Ghosts of Tabor has its own gritty charm. CWS is ambitious and its clear they are passionate about the game. This is fr the only game which makes VR worth it for me.
But this being said. I hope they focus more on making a stable nice experience before adding too much content. While I know there are people who get bored when no content comes out, but this makes the game way more enjoyable and makes it feel polished. New content can be made later.
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I think even if someone made a more stable (less buggy) competition to this game Ghosts of Tabor has its own gritty charm. CWS is ambitious and its clear they are passionate about the game. This is fr the only game which makes VR worth it for me.
But this being said. I hope they focus more on making a stable nice experience before adding too much content. While I know there are people who get bored when no content comes out, but this makes the game way more enjoyable and makes it feel polished. New content can be made later.
2024.05.16 23:08 Finklemeire Overwatch University Ep.5 Hosted by NineK, Aid & Moon ft. Tobi Translations
Sorry it's so late this week. I'm an ex Seoul Dynasty player as well and I was a bit too busy so I kind of just listened to all for it and then got way too busy for a few days with work. Here's the loose translations for episode 5 of Overwatch University. Rush had to leave very early on due to Internet issues and Moon who was watching at the time volunteered to help as a lot of the talk was in regards to the Seoul vs Shanghai Rivalry anyways so having both POVs was insightful
Topic 1 Intros and Seoul Dynasty Season 1
Aid: Have you seen Overwatch University given you have been invited by NineK
Tobi: Not really. I've skimmed around and seen pieces of the Crusty interview and Moon interview.
Aid: We're going to go over Tobis lengthy career as we were both pros
NineK: Isn't it kind of disrespectful to Tobi for you to group him up with you?
Aid: I had a lot of talent I just got cursed with a shit Coach like you NineK right Tobi?
Tobi: True
Aid: See two instances of your failures
NineK: What does that make the people who won under me? You two must've been the problem.
Aid: (pulled up Seoul Dynasty s1 roster and Tobi just explains who all of them were) Honestly you guys didn't do amazing right?
Tobi: No we were bad we went 7-3, 7-3, 5-5, and then 3-7. Just mid
NineK: Did you feel in preseason scrims you were in trouble?
Tobi: No I didn't we did very well even in the preseason games we won everything.
Rush: There any problems we didn't know about you can tell us?
Tobi: I can tell all the potential members we could've had though. Carpe, Fury, Gesture, Jjonak
NineK: Wow you started and ended with Seoul now that I think about it.
Aid: So we heard lots of rumors about Seoul but I heard you had unique member rotations where only allowing certain players for certain stages?
Tobi: If I'm clarifying a bit the split rosters was more of a season 2 decision with an A team and B team where eventually the roster mixed together. Biggest issue was the coaches couldn't agree. So sometimes they would just take turns like coach A gets to decide today then coach B gets to decide what to do and then coach c.
NineK: I heard you basically did that with a new coach per stage.
Rush: Who was your head coach?
Tobi: 4 coaches + extras
Aid: How did you decide who played what?
Tobi: Honestly the meta was so hard locked at the time the biggest issue was the coaches disagreed how we should play and it was very confusing how we should do it. We basically went back and forth with a coach of the day deciding what we did.
NineK: Too many games too. That's how Shanghai went 0-40 cause there was way too much. Not to mention no one wanted to scrim them cause it's not like you wanted to be their first victory either.
Tobi: We scrimmed them a bit
NineK: Wow you're nice people.
Tobi: They've invited us over at times and made food for us too.
Rush: Yeah there's pictures of it.
NineK: Cause of the Korean members?
Tobi: No this was way before that
NineK: Wow so kind. Isn't it cause your results weren't good either?
Tobi: Uhhh... Where were you in season 1?
NineK: I came in late. Stage 3. Season 1 was fun though
Aid: Honestly getting dragged back and forth by your coaches must be stressful. As a player there has got to be times when you do something one way and think to yourself why the heck does he want me to do it this way instead
NineK: Also they'd probably never had that many members to work with either since they just added players to Lunatic Hai
Tobi: True. We had 11 starting members and then acquired Gambler when I was having wrist issues. Then we lost another member and went back to 11. I truly believe having 12 members was so pointless
NineK: I agree like it's good if you can make it work but if you don't it just makes people feel awful. I don't know why people insisted so much on large rosters.
Tobi: Lots of people lots of possibilities I guess?
Rush: Also this is when OWL wanted to copy traditional sports so they got a bunch of players on their rosters
Tobi: They did invest more in OWL back then
NineK: They were really the team designed to win everything weren't they?
Rush: I remember an article saying they had an 80% chance of winning
NineK: People don't get how hard this time was cause of the random Mercy meta. Honestly probably wouldn't have been this bad for Seoul if patches came out like they do now
Tobi: Meta was unfavorable sure but we just played poorly to be honest
NineK: Wow so honest very cool
Topic 2: Ryujekong
Aid: Everyone was so confused by Ryujehong on Tank I want to hear what happened
Tobi: Honestly it's been so long I don't remember this time very well. I also wasn't even scrimming or playing at the time because of my wrist. I was basically just going to the doctor. We had kuki who for reasons was having troubles so he stopped playing and then Miro was having a lot of struggles at the time as well with how the meta was playing. It's mostly because of the comms cause obviously Miro had better mechanics Jehong sucks at primaling too but he would take space well and call out commands for the team to help
Aid: How did your scrims go?
Tobi: I don't remember
NineK: He can't help but not remember there were only scrims allowed at the practice facilities at the time and kids that were ill like him straight up just didn't even go. There were set times
Aid: So this isn't Jehongs main position and he was forced to tank must have been hard.
NineK & Rush: Must be
Tobi: It absolutely was. Imagine how sorry he felt to Miro. He was a support replacing Miro. If he fails not only does he get ridiculed for it but people slander Miro for being replaced by a tank of this caliber he felt very burdened feeling sorry that Miro might get insulted more than he did
NineK: I remember at the time a lot of people said Jehong had a bad Zenyatta as well but I thought it was good
Aid: Yeah I don't really see how he was particularly bad
NineK: Honestly the way things were he was probably just getting compared to Jjonak who was a beast at the time. The flame for Jehong was insane at the time
Aid: I remember his team would just hyper pocket Jjonak and have him just frag. NYXL were so defensive and good at pocketing.
NineK: In another way of seeing things that playstyle not being meta anymore might be why NYXL couldn't hack it in finals.
(Watching VOD of Seoul vs London)
NineK: Damn Munchkin fucking sucked at Tracer
Rush: Wait why is Fleta playing Widow?
Tobi: He was really good at Widow
NineK: He was
Rush: Then what is Munchkin good at
NineK: Just Cassidy Soldier. But Widow was so broken back then
Aid: Monkey could never catch her cause of her grapple cooldown
NineK: Nearly all the monkeys sucked at primal dribbling too. If a Mercy pocketed her she never died either. Who was good then again? Carpe...
Tobi: Linkzr Surefour Pine
Aid: Wow such names from my memories
NineK: Gesture Fury were way too good at Monkey D.va. Honestly there's so much shit about London I wanna expose
Aid: Bring Profit
NineK: I'll get Rascal easily. Wow Bdosin looks so young here what the he'll.
Topic 3: End of Season 2 VOD of Jehong Tobi Crying Post Elimination to Spark
Aid: I didn't know this happened at the time but NineK mentioned this happened can you explain?
Tobi: At the time role lock got forced and doomfist hanzo reaper were good. At the time we were kind of really good in scrims but lost to a team in tournament we never lost too in scrims. Jehong was already out there crying and I didn't want to come out and Danny kept forcing me to come out even though I said I didn't want too. But I was afraid the broadcast would get delayed or ruined cause of me so I was forced to.
Ninek: At the time we were preparing for our game up right after them but our GM was so fuxking angry at the time like how could you force them to do this right after they lost he complained a lot to Blizzard. Cause just imagine, thank God you brought out two veterans and media trained players. Imagine if you brought out complete noobies if it was this hard for these 2 veterans imagine what they might let slip on a broadcast when emotions are this high. This is also right after their season ended and they were officially eliminated.
Rush: From Blizzards POV these 2 were icons of the game and they probably felt like they could really show the importance and feelings toward this game to the audience watching
NineK: But like RIGHT after they lost is insane to me. Like let them process instead of fucking ambushing them as they're coming down from the stage.
Rush: But it's important cause this is when they're at the peak of the emotions being felt so I get it.
NineK: There's actually so many players who went down that stage to the hallways down crying
Aid: Of course they work hard and it didn't work.
Tobi: When we scrimmed we only lost to 1 team ever. Shock. We beat Vancouver NYXL Spark everyone else.
NineK: Wow so strong
Tobi: But in the end we just lost to Spark
NineK: I can say this now but we scrimmed Hangzhou a lot at this time. They didn't have a coach we were their coaches. Literally they would scrim us and copy us the next day in games. Since GOATs they basically decided they couldn't beat us so they copied our opening strats positioning skill usage everything. That's why they did decent
Aid: So Seoul lost cause of you
Tobi: We regretted a lot because of some of our microplays. There was a thing when double shield was first happening where Moria sprays her heals on the tanks right? The enemy Sigmas could shoot their shield out behind the Orisa to block the heals. And we thought this was possible but went and said it wasn't going to be a difference maker and ignored it
NineK: Wait we were doing that since day 1 lol
Tobi: We lost to Spark because of that. We felt awful cause this is something we thought could happen but ignored. At the time Marvel was our Sigma and Michelle who was a traditional offtank was forced on Orisa. We had Fissure who was good at Orisa who retired so we had no Orisas.
Aid: Timings always been off for Seoul I guess
NineK: No wonder you felt so many emotions. I was so sad seeing this. Seoul was honestly so good in season 2 but always somehow was just one step short. It hurt my heart to see them.
Aid: Players don't like to cry like that so they have to have been feeling so much to cry like this
Topic 4: Seoul vs Shanghai
Aid: We had Moon and he said some stuff on this we were all in the West and we would just see the results but this May Melee where you were up 3-0 and got reverse swept... your stories about this?
Tobi: We didn't get ahead of ourselves Shanghai was always good at Gibraltr and we thought we would lose this map but win the rest for a 4-1. I'm not sure how we lost Busan though
Tobi: We won a lot with our double shield
Rush: Fearless wasn't supposed to play
Aid: Fearless told me at the time he didn't get to scrim even once and then came in and won everything
NineK: Wow
Aid: Yeah no scrims at all
NineK: Wait Tobi why us Bdosin on Brig and you on Baptiste?
Tobi: I played the Baptiste for Seoul at the time cause Bdosin fucking sucked at Bap. This mother fucker could never use his abilities properly. He must've gotten sick in the head watching Viol2t play or something cause whenever he had cooldowns he would be on some high ground alone shooting and scream "Aghhh" and die off on his own
NineK: I remember now it wasn't super locked who played what because no one had Briggitte experience at the time
Tobi: Also if this happened there would be cases where in double shield mirror your Brig had to swap to Zenyatta but at the time Gesture had too many complaints about coordinating his pulls with Bdosin
NineK: I have no idea how Seoul lost this right now
Tobi: There's no absolutes in Overwatch. But the only thing I remember is our loss in Junkertown
Aid: For Kings Row I remember the Felta carry with Widow this was probably in all of those OWL top 5 highlights. I still can't believe how far Shnghai got in Junkertown though
NineK: Wow even Fearless is playing Orisa here
Tobi: That's why we thought we would win here. It's such a double tank focused map. Fits was randomly flanked high on the left and I td him to get down but he died on our A defense.
NineK: Wow you guys got out ult cycled like crazy
Rush: The Torbjorn choice here leaves a lot to be desired
NineK: I agree
Aid: So then there is that little celebration Shanghai did how did you feel
Tobi: Can I curse?
NineK: Seoul is just so ugh... like back in season 2 they beat New York during GOATs who was supposed to be top 2 but Seould couldn't take those next steps to greatness here as well. There are those super important games that once you win you just go on a roll and Seoul never got to do it
Tobi: I really hated losing to Shanghai cause I could've been on the team.
NineK: Really?
Tobi: Yeah I received offers from them on 3 separate occasions but ended up choosing Seoul. I wanted to believe I made the right choice so I wanted to win
Topic 5: Tobi Happy. Season 3
Aid: There's this gif of you happy after a win
NineK: It's so funny you took your glasses off before cheering
Tobi: At the time we lost to Shanghai so often but then finally beat them
NineK: The thing is Seoul was lucky cause they actually shouldn't have been in the season 3 finals originally.
Rush: Washington was the biggest offender
NineK: Off memory it felt like a "everyone suffered because of COVID so everyone gets a chance" thing
Tobi: But the thing to note is we did well in the West before we were forced to go to Korea and beat Glads and Valiant. We won like all of our scrims at the time.
NineK: Fine I'll give you that
Rush: Seoul was honestly really good during the online era
Aid: What did you think of the Hog meta?
Tobi: I was a huge doubter. Like at the time it was Zarya Hog or Sigma Hog. It just had none of the fundamentals of Overwatch I was used to seeing. I just couldn't believe it.
NineK: Tobis a purist "where do you come from thinking Hog could ever be a main tank"
Tobi: His ability to take space was unreal at the time. But Gesture was really into it and Wizardhyeong pushed for it
Aid: Gesture was a really good Hog though
NineK: All the guys there had good Hogs. Gesture Super Smurf Fearless were all good at it
Rush: But Shanghai didn't play it
NineK: I don't know Shanghais reasoning but I know Shock played how they did cause Viol2t fucking sucked at Ana lol. The thing is he did win with it but his scrim results as Ana was terrible
Rush: Viol2t Ana is known in the community as weaker though
NineK: But he doesn't think so
Tobi: I heard it got to the point where Crusty said he would do better if he played than Viol2t
NineK: That's why Architect played it for a bit. They had Twilight but I have no idea why they didn't use him more. I don't know how much I should say when there's no Shock rep from the time here but as far as I Know Super wasn't supposed to play. Smurf was but he didn't fit with his playstyle and the team well enough at the time
Tobi: If I have to point out regrets in the Shock game it was not using Zenyatta on Busan
NineK: But shouldn't you playing something other than the Ashe?
Tobi: No this was when Ashe was super broken and Profit was really good at her
Aid: The more I see it the more I really feel regrets about Seouls performances
NineK: That's what I've been saying Seoul was almost never bad and had huge upside a lot for different points in time. Honestly they're Asia's Philly Fusion
Tobi: You know how it is NineK if one thing changed with your Hotba strategy or Rascal not waking the monkey
NineK: I had a team with Tobi and Carpe and caught the 2nd place curse
Tobi: Woah why are you blaming me I've won plenty.
NineK: I did too before meeting you guys
Tobi: Then it's Carpes fault
NineK: I guess it is lol
Aid: At this point we need to have Carpe on to defend himself
NineK: We're going to go watch his games this Saturday
Tobi: The Hollwood bug pissed me off too
(Vod review where Tobi popped Valkyrie in spawn and the D.va bomb from Choi killed Tobi in the respawn room) this and Viol2t living at 1 health
Aid: Wow you guys are just destined to not win that day
Tobi: It was everything against us honestly
NineK: Honestly in the regular Hog comps Seoul and Dhock were about even but Seoul couldn't beat Shocks Hog and Ball Comp
Tobi: I actually wanted to go Numbani here instead of Hollywood
NineK: I remember at this time Choihyobin was getting gapped by Hanbin a bit and all of us joked his time was over and Hanbin would replace him as the new offtank goat
NineK: I remember at this time Shock felt Bdosin was scarier. They took more maps with him. Even though they defended better with Creative
Tobi: I think at the time he wasn't getting too much scrim time so he just said to let Creative play
Topic 6 Coach Tobi
Aid: You came back after being a player for Fusion to being Head Coach of Seoul Dynasty how was that for you?
Tobi: I kind of just stopped feeling the desire to compete like "I definitely can still compete mechanically but guess it might just not work out from here"
Tobi: Was worried that newer players he hadn't yet played with wouldn't follow his leadership well
Aid: So who was the player who least listened to you
Tobi: Everyone below me followed very well
Aid: So did you work well with the other coaches given it was mentioned there were previously conflicting visions?
Tobi: Oh these people were later coaches and we had very good talks together and worked well together
NineK: Since we wanna wait for our other guest when we talk about the next topic let's move on and talk about our time together in Fusion
Tobi: There were a lot of regrets weren't there?
NineK: The biggest problem for me was I didn't know we would be playing in Korea when I made the roster and heard it from someone from another team.
NineK: I felt sorry to Carpe for that. He's like Seoul where certain key moments not working out it feels like de-railed everything for him.
Aid: What did you think when you joined and first got to know NineK?
Tobi: When I joined I did so because I heard so much good stuff about him. Like he just knows a lot about Overwatch so I was curious about him and learned a lot. There's Crusty NineK Moon and Rush that are the coaches that are very well talked about that I was curious about. I got to meet NineK and Wow I'd never believed someone could get so angry over this game he would slam on the desk yelling while coaching. But the thing was while doing that he would always be right about what he's saying
Topic 7: Moon Joins
(Moon joins the podcast because Rush was lagging out)
NineK: So is it true you sent offers to Tobi
Moon: I guess I should say hi first. My name is Coach Moon who tried to get Tobi every year but failed.
NineK: I tried that with Fury
Aid: Is one of the reasons you wanted to beat Seoul no matter what because you didn't get to recruit Tobi?
Moon: No actually around that time I got in a lot of trouble with my wife. She said I talked to Tobi more than her. This was before we signed LeeJaeGon
Tobi: In 2020 season Shanghai actually had a lot of players I wanted to play with. Fleta Lip and such. As well as just giving a better offer out right.
NineK: Void too.
Tobi: Yeah always keeps contact with him too. But I really wanted to run it back with Ryujehong one last time because of the regrets of our last 2 seasons together to redeem ourselves. But he ended up choosing Vancouver and as I ended up wanting to go to Shanghai instead, they ended up already getting LeeJaeGon instead
Aid: Man the timing has just never worked out for Tobi
NineK: When he was on Fusion with me he used to always joke "damn if I was on Shanghai at least I could've been winning while benched"
Moon: So at the time LeeJaeGon and Tobi were my first choices but LJG told me he didn't want to join because he wanted to go to Mayhem with other Runaway members and then Tobi was looking at Seoul so I almost ended up with no one. But eventually LeeJaeGon chose us and tobi reached out the day after that.
NineK: So you regret not getting Tobi?
Moon: I mean you can't argue this given our results...
Tobi: They did so well
NineK: Tobi would've made the team fun for you though. That season was really bad for us but we had a lot of fun
Topic 8: Seoul vs Shanghai KickOff Clash
Aid: It looked like Seoul was happier beating Shanghai in winners finals than beating Philly in finals
Moon: The thing was the situation was so terrible for us at this time. We were quarantined with nothing.
Tobi: This team was the one we wanted to beat more than anyone else. It's why Profit was crying at the end of it all.
Moon: I will say their strats against us were very good they deserved the win regardless of what circumstances we had
Tobi: This gave me PTSD cause there was a moment when we were reverse swept in May Melee where Bdosin got pulsed with Rally. I told Vindsim no matter what to hold your shield up when he has it and in this one moment in the VOD he got stuck by fleta but thankfully Profit clutched
NineK: I will say when we got to the Hawaii LAN Shock picked you guys at Shanghai and I'll just say I didn't want to pick you.
Aid: Ahh it was the eternal rivals (implying Crusty chose Shanghai for revenge)
Moon: This time was really tough for us and we had a bunch of retirements after this. I think we thought more about what we would get to eat the next day or when we would be able to go to a Koreatown for the food we missed
NineK: It was so long
Moon: Honestly it was the hardest times for us.
NineK: It was really tough for us as well lockdown was so long.
Moon: I honestly don't want to hear lockdown complaints from anyone around me. If we were offline and I told you our horror stories everyone here would cry.
NineK: I mean everyone suffered but this sounds like military stories lol. Like everyone thinks they had it the hardest. Anyways Tobi tell us how you did things that led to that win.
Tobi: So you know there are things a lot of us say behind the scenes about coaches right? Like this guy is more of just a caretaker or this guy is more just strategies but I really wanted to be the coach who wouldn't have players feel bad I was their Coach. It's why I asked for a lot of help from previous coaches I worked under. I wanted all of my least favorite aspects of coaches I've seen in the past to not be things my players go through I let them all speak casually to me so they wouldn't be uncomfortable with me
NineK: Moon has the opposite take. He said his players can never act chummy with him and will always refer to him as coach
Tobi: My feelings were that I had previously worked with a lot of these players in the past so it feels okay
(VOD shows Seoul winning Kick off Clash 4-0 over Philly Fusion
NineK: Oh Carpes expression came out (literally half covered in shadows)
Aid: I didn't want to become a useless coach. Every explayer wants to be the opposite of the coaches they hated
Tobi: When I first won I was so happy to finally get a star under the Seoul Dynasty banner for Gen G.
NineK: I thought at the time though "all that for a stage win?"
Aid: We were like Wow they really are happy for a stage win
Moon: Well it was their first win of course they're happy and they beat us to do it
NineK: As coaches we can tell whether they just got lucky or actually were prepared. Poor Carpe though
Topic 9: Q & A
Aid: If you became a coach again and had to form a team which players would you want?
Moon: Wait but isn't the answer for those year very obvious?
Tobi: Yeah just erase Moons name and put me in
NineK: Then mix and match a bit
Tobi: Smurf Stalk3r Lip Chorong seems very good and then Shu
NineK: That's basically Crazy Raccoons. I'll just say this is cause he doesn't watch it
Tobi: I watched all the big games actuall
Moon: If he was really keeping up with the scene wouldn't he have picked Donghak?
Aid: If Gen G or T1 asked you to coach or team up with Ryujehong again for OWCS?
Tobi: I already got an offer to play with them and said no
Aid: Oh really why?
Tobi: Cause I knew what would happen lol. The kids nowadays level of play is so high
NineK: Just for fun I guess
Tobi: Well yeah if I streamed it and stuff sure but the team even with me or without wouldn't have done well
Moon: Honestly the player gap between the experienced old guard and the new is high right now but you'd hope it would get closer by next year
NineK: More than player gaps I'd rather be worried about the coaching level. It's really just Moon Crusty Rush again. Tobi isn't coaching anymore either... so tobi this is to say coach again please.
Tobi: I did get an offer but the timing didn't work out.
Aid: Always the timing
Tobi: Before Falcons formed I think it could've worked but Smurf was gone and all the teams were formed and then I got the call and was a decent offer. But the timing was bad.
Moon: Where the players weren't available anymore. But just swipe them from their teams
Tobi: But I didn't wanna steal players with offers of contracts
Moon: Why not?
NineK: The difference between a dirty person and clean person
Moon: But the thing is they don't have contracts
NineK: Yeah wait they definitely would want money
Moon: That's my point he could've offered stability to more players in the scene
NineK: Then you are at fault Tobi
Tobi: There was a condition though. The org really wanted to win and asked if I could form a team to win.
Moon: Oh that would be hard (smiling in Crazy Raccoons)
NineK & Aid: (dies of laughter at the humble brag)
Moon: I did work really hard to swipe the good players.
NineK: Was it a foreign org?
Tobi: Yeah it was
Moon: I wish more teams came into the space
NineK: If tobi even at least coached Genesis they would've been better
Tobi: I did get that offer but said no
NineK: Didn't want to work for bottom feeder teams?
Tobi: Well I wasn't close with any of the players either
NineK: You shouldve just gone to orga offering up super teams and swiped like Moon did.
Moon: I just had a skeleton crew formed and did mine
NineK: Whatever it was it's just kind of sad Tobi isn't coaching actively right now is all
NineK: I like this question. If Coach Tobi could speak to player Tobi of the past what would you say to them?
Tobi: Probably to be sure of yourself and confident in your play and your decision. I used to basically fly to whoever screamed for help no matter who was in a bad position trying to help. I definitely learned afterwards and worked really hard to improve my Mercy
NineK: I remember at that time Yobi worked really hard to improve his Mercy and it was really good I agree. It's sad to hear given how things went for Seoul but it is a cool answer
Aid: ProFits from friend POV to players POV
Tobi: Profit whether as a friend or player was a great and reliable friend. Fits was the hassle
Aid: How so?
Tobi: Never listening always whining just a big baby. Cute little brother while Profit was a reliable friend
(Just chatting while looking for interesting questions)
Moon: I'm saying this now but Shanghai starting at 0-40 we worked so hard to hit that 40-40 and it took so long. We won so much and still took a while
NineK: A fun thing to ask whenever we have an ex-player is have they ever felt like watching a scrim they would do better?
Tobi: I have scrimmed actually. Vindaim was ill and in the hospital so I played. We won.
Ninek: You say yes to this question if you win the scrims if you lost you would say it didn't happen
Tobi: True
Tobi: Here's one about Seoul I like. Why did you when you had LeeSooMin and Krillin make Krillin a main support? The answer is Krillin said during Washington he got to try a bunch of heroes and LeeSooMin was pretty decent at Kirik at the time. I had worked one year with Vindaim and it was good for us so I hoped for the same to happen. The initial meta was good for us too until we hit the Sombra meta
NineK: I think the only ones happy to hit the Sombra meta was Atlanta
Moon: (struggling to find a good question when smurf comments in chat) Yo Smurf don't you need to go practice right now?
Moon: Sorry that was a joke
NineK: Oh I like that one
Tobi: So there's a question about our 2023 roster and I wanted to talk about it. Right after 2022 going into 2023 was to keep Smurf Profit then get Lip who was receiving some offers at the time keep Vindaim and get Twilight. This would've been my personal choice if I had the money to form my team but everyone ran out of money. I even had back ups for everyone but like Bernar planned but everything fell through
Moon: Do you regret picking up Void?
Tobi: No I don't
NineK: What about losing to former players of yours and stuff?
Moon: Want me to call Void and ask him what it felt like losing to the Fleta Tank?
NineK: Oh my god that sounds so good
Tobi: I think he's working right now
Moon: Oh that's right he would be working right now
NineK: Man I'm so curious. I hate losing to my former players
NineK: Wanted to know if back in OW1 you had a team fully built around you who would it be and would you win?
Tobi: Honestly looking at my history I'm kind of bad at forming teams lol. Honestly I could've been on NYXL in season 1 as well.
NineK: Wow.
Moon: I can say one thing. I've literally walked to his house before. He thought a lot about it. Like I didn't think it should be this hard a decision when I was so convincing.
Tobi: I just really wanted to run it back with Jehong one last time and Fearless wasn't in the planned roster at the time either.
Moon: True it was very early on in the team formation
Tobi: Yeah it's regrettable isn't it?
NineK: Tobi does make bad choices that's why he joined Fusion under me
Tobi: Timing worked for that time period though
NineK: Alright back to the question make your super team only caveat is you can't change them and have to run them seasons 1 through 6
Tobi: To be happily teamed with them Carpe Profit Gesture Fury...
NineK: Wait a second Ryujehong isn't being brought up
Tobi: We are excluding him from this but honestly there's way too many good flex supports so I don't know. Shu was really good but Viol2t is also nah just Shu.
NineK: Shu is fun and good.
Tobi: He's good at like everything. Even since season 2 when I'd play Mercy he would shoot me so much more than everyone else as Ana
NineK: When you went game 5 against MightyAOD any players that stood out to you?
Tobi: Did we go game 5 against MightyAOD? I genuinely can't remember the Lunatic Hai games that well outside of just like finals games anymore. I'm sorry but it's been years.
Moon: Ooh how did you feel about Prophet being on your team and then once he was dropped and went to 02Blast losing to him?
Tobi: He was good but the thing is whatever we put him on just didn't fit with how the team played and the Sombra meta was at its peak as well. We were tired and he was tired cause it just wasn't the best fit for either of us. I wanted him to keep doing well so I could be confident it was just a mismatch and that my scouting ability was still good. But then the meta swapped to like Widow Hanzo.
Moon: Oh wait so once again it's a choice Tobi made he regrets...
Tobi: Well no technically in the last game versus them we did win to be fair. Honestly though when he did win damn I felt low key a little bit upset/betrayed
NineK: Did you see him do the X on the Dynasty symbol spray?
Tobi: I didn't mind that all the players do that
NineK: Hears something funny for Moon to answer. " I heard Lip purposefully made sure not to wear the Fusion skins for Asia Finals is it true"
Moon: I specifically checked his PC to make sure he wasn't wearing it "Are you wearing a Fusion skin or not? Yes or no."
NineK: Wow you check their PCs?
Moon: Yeah I made sure none of them wore Fusion skins for Asia Finals
Tobi: Carpe might need to come on here at this point
Moon: I don't believe in jinxes like this but my players do so I did it just so they don't have to think for a second there is some Fusion curse that will make them lose
Tobi: Like you don't want unnecessary factors creeping into their minds
Moon: Exactly
NineK: Did you have any of those jinxes or lucky charms as a player?
Tobi: During Lunatic Hai I would on game days only eat noodle dishes and then we would win. I'd wear the same pair of socks for all the big games as well. But then I went to the League and kept losing and none of that stuff applied anymore
Moon: Yeah I don't believe in it as a supernatural force but whatever makes people more confident the better
(Randomly scrolling for questions)
Moon: I really did wanna try coaching Dynasty once.
Tobi: Why?
Moon: You know as a Korean it was kind of sad seeing the Korean team under perform I wanted to go there after my contract with Shanghai ended and try to get them a big win
Tobi: I see
Moon: Now that I'm thinking about it I never got an offer from Seoul ever
NineK: Really? I think I got an offer from Seoul basically every year since 2019
Moon: Oh one thing I really wanted to ask was how you beat the Infernal (Dynasty vs Infernal early 2023 when Infernal scrimbux was way better than everyone else)
Tobi: Oh that? They just played poorly.
Moon: I was so curious cause they were supposed to be so good
Tobi: Yeah they must have been nervous or something we didn't win cause we were better they were just worse that day.
NineK: When Tobi first joined Fusion he actually beat Dynasty and was so happy about it. He was such a good player to have he was on the bench for quite a while initially but kept his mental up and was a very good teammate for us.
Final Words
Tobi: I'm not actually retired from coaching. I still keep up with the League and love the game. I hope Overwatch keeps growing and I want everyone to know I'm not gone just yet. If there's a chance I'm ready whenever
NineK: Honestly I will say a lot of Overwatch kids have this issue not just Tobi where they hope opportunity will fall on their laps.
Tobi: I'll agree. It was my first time doing this stuff and I had no idea what the scene was going to be like.
Moon: I was very proactive and quick about it for sure
NineK: Do you have any team you'd like to join? Quickly before we end the podcast appeal to Moon for a job
Tobi: Well if you just give me the call I'm ready
Moon: Well one thing I will note when Tobi was talking about coaches he asked for advice on being a coach he didn't contact me at all? Even though we talked for hours?
Tobi: I only contacted the people I actually worked under. I didn't want to bother everyone with my questions. It's not like I could expect other coaches that don't know me as well would divulge their secrets
Moon: I would've. I think it would have been very cool if you asked for my help
Tobi: Well to be fair before you joined I did say Crusty NineK Moon and Rush were the coaches I really wanted to try working with
NineK: It's not too late Tobi he's here now
Aid: Anyways final thoughts from you Tobi?
Tobi: It's been a while since I got to see fans of Overwatch and sit down with fellow coaches. I hope you all keep supporting Overwatch University and myself in the future.
NineK and Aid: Thank you to Moon as well for helping us last minute.
Moon: It's no problem I saw Tobis face and wanted to join right away.
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Topic 1 Intros and Seoul Dynasty Season 1
Aid: Have you seen Overwatch University given you have been invited by NineK
Tobi: Not really. I've skimmed around and seen pieces of the Crusty interview and Moon interview.
Aid: We're going to go over Tobis lengthy career as we were both pros
NineK: Isn't it kind of disrespectful to Tobi for you to group him up with you?
Aid: I had a lot of talent I just got cursed with a shit Coach like you NineK right Tobi?
Tobi: True
Aid: See two instances of your failures
NineK: What does that make the people who won under me? You two must've been the problem.
Aid: (pulled up Seoul Dynasty s1 roster and Tobi just explains who all of them were) Honestly you guys didn't do amazing right?
Tobi: No we were bad we went 7-3, 7-3, 5-5, and then 3-7. Just mid
NineK: Did you feel in preseason scrims you were in trouble?
Tobi: No I didn't we did very well even in the preseason games we won everything.
Rush: There any problems we didn't know about you can tell us?
Tobi: I can tell all the potential members we could've had though. Carpe, Fury, Gesture, Jjonak
NineK: Wow you started and ended with Seoul now that I think about it.
Aid: So we heard lots of rumors about Seoul but I heard you had unique member rotations where only allowing certain players for certain stages?
Tobi: If I'm clarifying a bit the split rosters was more of a season 2 decision with an A team and B team where eventually the roster mixed together. Biggest issue was the coaches couldn't agree. So sometimes they would just take turns like coach A gets to decide today then coach B gets to decide what to do and then coach c.
NineK: I heard you basically did that with a new coach per stage.
Rush: Who was your head coach?
Tobi: 4 coaches + extras
Aid: How did you decide who played what?
Tobi: Honestly the meta was so hard locked at the time the biggest issue was the coaches disagreed how we should play and it was very confusing how we should do it. We basically went back and forth with a coach of the day deciding what we did.
NineK: Too many games too. That's how Shanghai went 0-40 cause there was way too much. Not to mention no one wanted to scrim them cause it's not like you wanted to be their first victory either.
Tobi: We scrimmed them a bit
NineK: Wow you're nice people.
Tobi: They've invited us over at times and made food for us too.
Rush: Yeah there's pictures of it.
NineK: Cause of the Korean members?
Tobi: No this was way before that
NineK: Wow so kind. Isn't it cause your results weren't good either?
Tobi: Uhhh... Where were you in season 1?
NineK: I came in late. Stage 3. Season 1 was fun though
Aid: Honestly getting dragged back and forth by your coaches must be stressful. As a player there has got to be times when you do something one way and think to yourself why the heck does he want me to do it this way instead
NineK: Also they'd probably never had that many members to work with either since they just added players to Lunatic Hai
Tobi: True. We had 11 starting members and then acquired Gambler when I was having wrist issues. Then we lost another member and went back to 11. I truly believe having 12 members was so pointless
NineK: I agree like it's good if you can make it work but if you don't it just makes people feel awful. I don't know why people insisted so much on large rosters.
Tobi: Lots of people lots of possibilities I guess?
Rush: Also this is when OWL wanted to copy traditional sports so they got a bunch of players on their rosters
Tobi: They did invest more in OWL back then
NineK: They were really the team designed to win everything weren't they?
Rush: I remember an article saying they had an 80% chance of winning
NineK: People don't get how hard this time was cause of the random Mercy meta. Honestly probably wouldn't have been this bad for Seoul if patches came out like they do now
Tobi: Meta was unfavorable sure but we just played poorly to be honest
NineK: Wow so honest very cool
Topic 2: Ryujekong
Aid: Everyone was so confused by Ryujehong on Tank I want to hear what happened
Tobi: Honestly it's been so long I don't remember this time very well. I also wasn't even scrimming or playing at the time because of my wrist. I was basically just going to the doctor. We had kuki who for reasons was having troubles so he stopped playing and then Miro was having a lot of struggles at the time as well with how the meta was playing. It's mostly because of the comms cause obviously Miro had better mechanics Jehong sucks at primaling too but he would take space well and call out commands for the team to help
Aid: How did your scrims go?
Tobi: I don't remember
NineK: He can't help but not remember there were only scrims allowed at the practice facilities at the time and kids that were ill like him straight up just didn't even go. There were set times
Aid: So this isn't Jehongs main position and he was forced to tank must have been hard.
NineK & Rush: Must be
Tobi: It absolutely was. Imagine how sorry he felt to Miro. He was a support replacing Miro. If he fails not only does he get ridiculed for it but people slander Miro for being replaced by a tank of this caliber he felt very burdened feeling sorry that Miro might get insulted more than he did
NineK: I remember at the time a lot of people said Jehong had a bad Zenyatta as well but I thought it was good
Aid: Yeah I don't really see how he was particularly bad
NineK: Honestly the way things were he was probably just getting compared to Jjonak who was a beast at the time. The flame for Jehong was insane at the time
Aid: I remember his team would just hyper pocket Jjonak and have him just frag. NYXL were so defensive and good at pocketing.
NineK: In another way of seeing things that playstyle not being meta anymore might be why NYXL couldn't hack it in finals.
(Watching VOD of Seoul vs London)
NineK: Damn Munchkin fucking sucked at Tracer
Rush: Wait why is Fleta playing Widow?
Tobi: He was really good at Widow
NineK: He was
Rush: Then what is Munchkin good at
NineK: Just Cassidy Soldier. But Widow was so broken back then
Aid: Monkey could never catch her cause of her grapple cooldown
NineK: Nearly all the monkeys sucked at primal dribbling too. If a Mercy pocketed her she never died either. Who was good then again? Carpe...
Tobi: Linkzr Surefour Pine
Aid: Wow such names from my memories
NineK: Gesture Fury were way too good at Monkey D.va. Honestly there's so much shit about London I wanna expose
Aid: Bring Profit
NineK: I'll get Rascal easily. Wow Bdosin looks so young here what the he'll.
Topic 3: End of Season 2 VOD of Jehong Tobi Crying Post Elimination to Spark
Aid: I didn't know this happened at the time but NineK mentioned this happened can you explain?
Tobi: At the time role lock got forced and doomfist hanzo reaper were good. At the time we were kind of really good in scrims but lost to a team in tournament we never lost too in scrims. Jehong was already out there crying and I didn't want to come out and Danny kept forcing me to come out even though I said I didn't want too. But I was afraid the broadcast would get delayed or ruined cause of me so I was forced to.
Ninek: At the time we were preparing for our game up right after them but our GM was so fuxking angry at the time like how could you force them to do this right after they lost he complained a lot to Blizzard. Cause just imagine, thank God you brought out two veterans and media trained players. Imagine if you brought out complete noobies if it was this hard for these 2 veterans imagine what they might let slip on a broadcast when emotions are this high. This is also right after their season ended and they were officially eliminated.
Rush: From Blizzards POV these 2 were icons of the game and they probably felt like they could really show the importance and feelings toward this game to the audience watching
NineK: But like RIGHT after they lost is insane to me. Like let them process instead of fucking ambushing them as they're coming down from the stage.
Rush: But it's important cause this is when they're at the peak of the emotions being felt so I get it.
NineK: There's actually so many players who went down that stage to the hallways down crying
Aid: Of course they work hard and it didn't work.
Tobi: When we scrimmed we only lost to 1 team ever. Shock. We beat Vancouver NYXL Spark everyone else.
NineK: Wow so strong
Tobi: But in the end we just lost to Spark
NineK: I can say this now but we scrimmed Hangzhou a lot at this time. They didn't have a coach we were their coaches. Literally they would scrim us and copy us the next day in games. Since GOATs they basically decided they couldn't beat us so they copied our opening strats positioning skill usage everything. That's why they did decent
Aid: So Seoul lost cause of you
Tobi: We regretted a lot because of some of our microplays. There was a thing when double shield was first happening where Moria sprays her heals on the tanks right? The enemy Sigmas could shoot their shield out behind the Orisa to block the heals. And we thought this was possible but went and said it wasn't going to be a difference maker and ignored it
NineK: Wait we were doing that since day 1 lol
Tobi: We lost to Spark because of that. We felt awful cause this is something we thought could happen but ignored. At the time Marvel was our Sigma and Michelle who was a traditional offtank was forced on Orisa. We had Fissure who was good at Orisa who retired so we had no Orisas.
Aid: Timings always been off for Seoul I guess
NineK: No wonder you felt so many emotions. I was so sad seeing this. Seoul was honestly so good in season 2 but always somehow was just one step short. It hurt my heart to see them.
Aid: Players don't like to cry like that so they have to have been feeling so much to cry like this
Topic 4: Seoul vs Shanghai
Aid: We had Moon and he said some stuff on this we were all in the West and we would just see the results but this May Melee where you were up 3-0 and got reverse swept... your stories about this?
Tobi: We didn't get ahead of ourselves Shanghai was always good at Gibraltr and we thought we would lose this map but win the rest for a 4-1. I'm not sure how we lost Busan though
Tobi: We won a lot with our double shield
Rush: Fearless wasn't supposed to play
Aid: Fearless told me at the time he didn't get to scrim even once and then came in and won everything
NineK: Wow
Aid: Yeah no scrims at all
NineK: Wait Tobi why us Bdosin on Brig and you on Baptiste?
Tobi: I played the Baptiste for Seoul at the time cause Bdosin fucking sucked at Bap. This mother fucker could never use his abilities properly. He must've gotten sick in the head watching Viol2t play or something cause whenever he had cooldowns he would be on some high ground alone shooting and scream "Aghhh" and die off on his own
NineK: I remember now it wasn't super locked who played what because no one had Briggitte experience at the time
Tobi: Also if this happened there would be cases where in double shield mirror your Brig had to swap to Zenyatta but at the time Gesture had too many complaints about coordinating his pulls with Bdosin
NineK: I have no idea how Seoul lost this right now
Tobi: There's no absolutes in Overwatch. But the only thing I remember is our loss in Junkertown
Aid: For Kings Row I remember the Felta carry with Widow this was probably in all of those OWL top 5 highlights. I still can't believe how far Shnghai got in Junkertown though
NineK: Wow even Fearless is playing Orisa here
Tobi: That's why we thought we would win here. It's such a double tank focused map. Fits was randomly flanked high on the left and I td him to get down but he died on our A defense.
NineK: Wow you guys got out ult cycled like crazy
Rush: The Torbjorn choice here leaves a lot to be desired
NineK: I agree
Aid: So then there is that little celebration Shanghai did how did you feel
Tobi: Can I curse?
NineK: Seoul is just so ugh... like back in season 2 they beat New York during GOATs who was supposed to be top 2 but Seould couldn't take those next steps to greatness here as well. There are those super important games that once you win you just go on a roll and Seoul never got to do it
Tobi: I really hated losing to Shanghai cause I could've been on the team.
NineK: Really?
Tobi: Yeah I received offers from them on 3 separate occasions but ended up choosing Seoul. I wanted to believe I made the right choice so I wanted to win
Topic 5: Tobi Happy. Season 3
Aid: There's this gif of you happy after a win
NineK: It's so funny you took your glasses off before cheering
Tobi: At the time we lost to Shanghai so often but then finally beat them
NineK: The thing is Seoul was lucky cause they actually shouldn't have been in the season 3 finals originally.
Rush: Washington was the biggest offender
NineK: Off memory it felt like a "everyone suffered because of COVID so everyone gets a chance" thing
Tobi: But the thing to note is we did well in the West before we were forced to go to Korea and beat Glads and Valiant. We won like all of our scrims at the time.
NineK: Fine I'll give you that
Rush: Seoul was honestly really good during the online era
Aid: What did you think of the Hog meta?
Tobi: I was a huge doubter. Like at the time it was Zarya Hog or Sigma Hog. It just had none of the fundamentals of Overwatch I was used to seeing. I just couldn't believe it.
NineK: Tobis a purist "where do you come from thinking Hog could ever be a main tank"
Tobi: His ability to take space was unreal at the time. But Gesture was really into it and Wizardhyeong pushed for it
Aid: Gesture was a really good Hog though
NineK: All the guys there had good Hogs. Gesture Super Smurf Fearless were all good at it
Rush: But Shanghai didn't play it
NineK: I don't know Shanghais reasoning but I know Shock played how they did cause Viol2t fucking sucked at Ana lol. The thing is he did win with it but his scrim results as Ana was terrible
Rush: Viol2t Ana is known in the community as weaker though
NineK: But he doesn't think so
Tobi: I heard it got to the point where Crusty said he would do better if he played than Viol2t
NineK: That's why Architect played it for a bit. They had Twilight but I have no idea why they didn't use him more. I don't know how much I should say when there's no Shock rep from the time here but as far as I Know Super wasn't supposed to play. Smurf was but he didn't fit with his playstyle and the team well enough at the time
Tobi: If I have to point out regrets in the Shock game it was not using Zenyatta on Busan
NineK: But shouldn't you playing something other than the Ashe?
Tobi: No this was when Ashe was super broken and Profit was really good at her
Aid: The more I see it the more I really feel regrets about Seouls performances
NineK: That's what I've been saying Seoul was almost never bad and had huge upside a lot for different points in time. Honestly they're Asia's Philly Fusion
Tobi: You know how it is NineK if one thing changed with your Hotba strategy or Rascal not waking the monkey
NineK: I had a team with Tobi and Carpe and caught the 2nd place curse
Tobi: Woah why are you blaming me I've won plenty.
NineK: I did too before meeting you guys
Tobi: Then it's Carpes fault
NineK: I guess it is lol
Aid: At this point we need to have Carpe on to defend himself
NineK: We're going to go watch his games this Saturday
Tobi: The Hollwood bug pissed me off too
(Vod review where Tobi popped Valkyrie in spawn and the D.va bomb from Choi killed Tobi in the respawn room) this and Viol2t living at 1 health
Aid: Wow you guys are just destined to not win that day
Tobi: It was everything against us honestly
NineK: Honestly in the regular Hog comps Seoul and Dhock were about even but Seoul couldn't beat Shocks Hog and Ball Comp
Tobi: I actually wanted to go Numbani here instead of Hollywood
NineK: I remember at this time Choihyobin was getting gapped by Hanbin a bit and all of us joked his time was over and Hanbin would replace him as the new offtank goat
NineK: I remember at this time Shock felt Bdosin was scarier. They took more maps with him. Even though they defended better with Creative
Tobi: I think at the time he wasn't getting too much scrim time so he just said to let Creative play
Topic 6 Coach Tobi
Aid: You came back after being a player for Fusion to being Head Coach of Seoul Dynasty how was that for you?
Tobi: I kind of just stopped feeling the desire to compete like "I definitely can still compete mechanically but guess it might just not work out from here"
Tobi: Was worried that newer players he hadn't yet played with wouldn't follow his leadership well
Aid: So who was the player who least listened to you
Tobi: Everyone below me followed very well
Aid: So did you work well with the other coaches given it was mentioned there were previously conflicting visions?
Tobi: Oh these people were later coaches and we had very good talks together and worked well together
NineK: Since we wanna wait for our other guest when we talk about the next topic let's move on and talk about our time together in Fusion
Tobi: There were a lot of regrets weren't there?
NineK: The biggest problem for me was I didn't know we would be playing in Korea when I made the roster and heard it from someone from another team.
NineK: I felt sorry to Carpe for that. He's like Seoul where certain key moments not working out it feels like de-railed everything for him.
Aid: What did you think when you joined and first got to know NineK?
Tobi: When I joined I did so because I heard so much good stuff about him. Like he just knows a lot about Overwatch so I was curious about him and learned a lot. There's Crusty NineK Moon and Rush that are the coaches that are very well talked about that I was curious about. I got to meet NineK and Wow I'd never believed someone could get so angry over this game he would slam on the desk yelling while coaching. But the thing was while doing that he would always be right about what he's saying
Topic 7: Moon Joins
(Moon joins the podcast because Rush was lagging out)
NineK: So is it true you sent offers to Tobi
Moon: I guess I should say hi first. My name is Coach Moon who tried to get Tobi every year but failed.
NineK: I tried that with Fury
Aid: Is one of the reasons you wanted to beat Seoul no matter what because you didn't get to recruit Tobi?
Moon: No actually around that time I got in a lot of trouble with my wife. She said I talked to Tobi more than her. This was before we signed LeeJaeGon
Tobi: In 2020 season Shanghai actually had a lot of players I wanted to play with. Fleta Lip and such. As well as just giving a better offer out right.
NineK: Void too.
Tobi: Yeah always keeps contact with him too. But I really wanted to run it back with Ryujehong one last time because of the regrets of our last 2 seasons together to redeem ourselves. But he ended up choosing Vancouver and as I ended up wanting to go to Shanghai instead, they ended up already getting LeeJaeGon instead
Aid: Man the timing has just never worked out for Tobi
NineK: When he was on Fusion with me he used to always joke "damn if I was on Shanghai at least I could've been winning while benched"
Moon: So at the time LeeJaeGon and Tobi were my first choices but LJG told me he didn't want to join because he wanted to go to Mayhem with other Runaway members and then Tobi was looking at Seoul so I almost ended up with no one. But eventually LeeJaeGon chose us and tobi reached out the day after that.
NineK: So you regret not getting Tobi?
Moon: I mean you can't argue this given our results...
Tobi: They did so well
NineK: Tobi would've made the team fun for you though. That season was really bad for us but we had a lot of fun
Topic 8: Seoul vs Shanghai KickOff Clash
Aid: It looked like Seoul was happier beating Shanghai in winners finals than beating Philly in finals
Moon: The thing was the situation was so terrible for us at this time. We were quarantined with nothing.
Tobi: This team was the one we wanted to beat more than anyone else. It's why Profit was crying at the end of it all.
Moon: I will say their strats against us were very good they deserved the win regardless of what circumstances we had
Tobi: This gave me PTSD cause there was a moment when we were reverse swept in May Melee where Bdosin got pulsed with Rally. I told Vindsim no matter what to hold your shield up when he has it and in this one moment in the VOD he got stuck by fleta but thankfully Profit clutched
NineK: I will say when we got to the Hawaii LAN Shock picked you guys at Shanghai and I'll just say I didn't want to pick you.
Aid: Ahh it was the eternal rivals (implying Crusty chose Shanghai for revenge)
Moon: This time was really tough for us and we had a bunch of retirements after this. I think we thought more about what we would get to eat the next day or when we would be able to go to a Koreatown for the food we missed
NineK: It was so long
Moon: Honestly it was the hardest times for us.
NineK: It was really tough for us as well lockdown was so long.
Moon: I honestly don't want to hear lockdown complaints from anyone around me. If we were offline and I told you our horror stories everyone here would cry.
NineK: I mean everyone suffered but this sounds like military stories lol. Like everyone thinks they had it the hardest. Anyways Tobi tell us how you did things that led to that win.
Tobi: So you know there are things a lot of us say behind the scenes about coaches right? Like this guy is more of just a caretaker or this guy is more just strategies but I really wanted to be the coach who wouldn't have players feel bad I was their Coach. It's why I asked for a lot of help from previous coaches I worked under. I wanted all of my least favorite aspects of coaches I've seen in the past to not be things my players go through I let them all speak casually to me so they wouldn't be uncomfortable with me
NineK: Moon has the opposite take. He said his players can never act chummy with him and will always refer to him as coach
Tobi: My feelings were that I had previously worked with a lot of these players in the past so it feels okay
(VOD shows Seoul winning Kick off Clash 4-0 over Philly Fusion
NineK: Oh Carpes expression came out (literally half covered in shadows)
Aid: I didn't want to become a useless coach. Every explayer wants to be the opposite of the coaches they hated
Tobi: When I first won I was so happy to finally get a star under the Seoul Dynasty banner for Gen G.
NineK: I thought at the time though "all that for a stage win?"
Aid: We were like Wow they really are happy for a stage win
Moon: Well it was their first win of course they're happy and they beat us to do it
NineK: As coaches we can tell whether they just got lucky or actually were prepared. Poor Carpe though
Topic 9: Q & A
Aid: If you became a coach again and had to form a team which players would you want?
Moon: Wait but isn't the answer for those year very obvious?
Tobi: Yeah just erase Moons name and put me in
NineK: Then mix and match a bit
Tobi: Smurf Stalk3r Lip Chorong seems very good and then Shu
NineK: That's basically Crazy Raccoons. I'll just say this is cause he doesn't watch it
Tobi: I watched all the big games actuall
Moon: If he was really keeping up with the scene wouldn't he have picked Donghak?
Aid: If Gen G or T1 asked you to coach or team up with Ryujehong again for OWCS?
Tobi: I already got an offer to play with them and said no
Aid: Oh really why?
Tobi: Cause I knew what would happen lol. The kids nowadays level of play is so high
NineK: Just for fun I guess
Tobi: Well yeah if I streamed it and stuff sure but the team even with me or without wouldn't have done well
Moon: Honestly the player gap between the experienced old guard and the new is high right now but you'd hope it would get closer by next year
NineK: More than player gaps I'd rather be worried about the coaching level. It's really just Moon Crusty Rush again. Tobi isn't coaching anymore either... so tobi this is to say coach again please.
Tobi: I did get an offer but the timing didn't work out.
Aid: Always the timing
Tobi: Before Falcons formed I think it could've worked but Smurf was gone and all the teams were formed and then I got the call and was a decent offer. But the timing was bad.
Moon: Where the players weren't available anymore. But just swipe them from their teams
Tobi: But I didn't wanna steal players with offers of contracts
Moon: Why not?
NineK: The difference between a dirty person and clean person
Moon: But the thing is they don't have contracts
NineK: Yeah wait they definitely would want money
Moon: That's my point he could've offered stability to more players in the scene
NineK: Then you are at fault Tobi
Tobi: There was a condition though. The org really wanted to win and asked if I could form a team to win.
Moon: Oh that would be hard (smiling in Crazy Raccoons)
NineK & Aid: (dies of laughter at the humble brag)
Moon: I did work really hard to swipe the good players.
NineK: Was it a foreign org?
Tobi: Yeah it was
Moon: I wish more teams came into the space
NineK: If tobi even at least coached Genesis they would've been better
Tobi: I did get that offer but said no
NineK: Didn't want to work for bottom feeder teams?
Tobi: Well I wasn't close with any of the players either
NineK: You shouldve just gone to orga offering up super teams and swiped like Moon did.
Moon: I just had a skeleton crew formed and did mine
NineK: Whatever it was it's just kind of sad Tobi isn't coaching actively right now is all
NineK: I like this question. If Coach Tobi could speak to player Tobi of the past what would you say to them?
Tobi: Probably to be sure of yourself and confident in your play and your decision. I used to basically fly to whoever screamed for help no matter who was in a bad position trying to help. I definitely learned afterwards and worked really hard to improve my Mercy
NineK: I remember at that time Yobi worked really hard to improve his Mercy and it was really good I agree. It's sad to hear given how things went for Seoul but it is a cool answer
Aid: ProFits from friend POV to players POV
Tobi: Profit whether as a friend or player was a great and reliable friend. Fits was the hassle
Aid: How so?
Tobi: Never listening always whining just a big baby. Cute little brother while Profit was a reliable friend
(Just chatting while looking for interesting questions)
Moon: I'm saying this now but Shanghai starting at 0-40 we worked so hard to hit that 40-40 and it took so long. We won so much and still took a while
NineK: A fun thing to ask whenever we have an ex-player is have they ever felt like watching a scrim they would do better?
Tobi: I have scrimmed actually. Vindaim was ill and in the hospital so I played. We won.
Ninek: You say yes to this question if you win the scrims if you lost you would say it didn't happen
Tobi: True
Tobi: Here's one about Seoul I like. Why did you when you had LeeSooMin and Krillin make Krillin a main support? The answer is Krillin said during Washington he got to try a bunch of heroes and LeeSooMin was pretty decent at Kirik at the time. I had worked one year with Vindaim and it was good for us so I hoped for the same to happen. The initial meta was good for us too until we hit the Sombra meta
NineK: I think the only ones happy to hit the Sombra meta was Atlanta
Moon: (struggling to find a good question when smurf comments in chat) Yo Smurf don't you need to go practice right now?
Moon: Sorry that was a joke
NineK: Oh I like that one
Tobi: So there's a question about our 2023 roster and I wanted to talk about it. Right after 2022 going into 2023 was to keep Smurf Profit then get Lip who was receiving some offers at the time keep Vindaim and get Twilight. This would've been my personal choice if I had the money to form my team but everyone ran out of money. I even had back ups for everyone but like Bernar planned but everything fell through
Moon: Do you regret picking up Void?
Tobi: No I don't
NineK: What about losing to former players of yours and stuff?
Moon: Want me to call Void and ask him what it felt like losing to the Fleta Tank?
NineK: Oh my god that sounds so good
Tobi: I think he's working right now
Moon: Oh that's right he would be working right now
NineK: Man I'm so curious. I hate losing to my former players
NineK: Wanted to know if back in OW1 you had a team fully built around you who would it be and would you win?
Tobi: Honestly looking at my history I'm kind of bad at forming teams lol. Honestly I could've been on NYXL in season 1 as well.
NineK: Wow.
Moon: I can say one thing. I've literally walked to his house before. He thought a lot about it. Like I didn't think it should be this hard a decision when I was so convincing.
Tobi: I just really wanted to run it back with Jehong one last time and Fearless wasn't in the planned roster at the time either.
Moon: True it was very early on in the team formation
Tobi: Yeah it's regrettable isn't it?
NineK: Tobi does make bad choices that's why he joined Fusion under me
Tobi: Timing worked for that time period though
NineK: Alright back to the question make your super team only caveat is you can't change them and have to run them seasons 1 through 6
Tobi: To be happily teamed with them Carpe Profit Gesture Fury...
NineK: Wait a second Ryujehong isn't being brought up
Tobi: We are excluding him from this but honestly there's way too many good flex supports so I don't know. Shu was really good but Viol2t is also nah just Shu.
NineK: Shu is fun and good.
Tobi: He's good at like everything. Even since season 2 when I'd play Mercy he would shoot me so much more than everyone else as Ana
NineK: When you went game 5 against MightyAOD any players that stood out to you?
Tobi: Did we go game 5 against MightyAOD? I genuinely can't remember the Lunatic Hai games that well outside of just like finals games anymore. I'm sorry but it's been years.
Moon: Ooh how did you feel about Prophet being on your team and then once he was dropped and went to 02Blast losing to him?
Tobi: He was good but the thing is whatever we put him on just didn't fit with how the team played and the Sombra meta was at its peak as well. We were tired and he was tired cause it just wasn't the best fit for either of us. I wanted him to keep doing well so I could be confident it was just a mismatch and that my scouting ability was still good. But then the meta swapped to like Widow Hanzo.
Moon: Oh wait so once again it's a choice Tobi made he regrets...
Tobi: Well no technically in the last game versus them we did win to be fair. Honestly though when he did win damn I felt low key a little bit upset/betrayed
NineK: Did you see him do the X on the Dynasty symbol spray?
Tobi: I didn't mind that all the players do that
NineK: Hears something funny for Moon to answer. " I heard Lip purposefully made sure not to wear the Fusion skins for Asia Finals is it true"
Moon: I specifically checked his PC to make sure he wasn't wearing it "Are you wearing a Fusion skin or not? Yes or no."
NineK: Wow you check their PCs?
Moon: Yeah I made sure none of them wore Fusion skins for Asia Finals
Tobi: Carpe might need to come on here at this point
Moon: I don't believe in jinxes like this but my players do so I did it just so they don't have to think for a second there is some Fusion curse that will make them lose
Tobi: Like you don't want unnecessary factors creeping into their minds
Moon: Exactly
NineK: Did you have any of those jinxes or lucky charms as a player?
Tobi: During Lunatic Hai I would on game days only eat noodle dishes and then we would win. I'd wear the same pair of socks for all the big games as well. But then I went to the League and kept losing and none of that stuff applied anymore
Moon: Yeah I don't believe in it as a supernatural force but whatever makes people more confident the better
(Randomly scrolling for questions)
Moon: I really did wanna try coaching Dynasty once.
Tobi: Why?
Moon: You know as a Korean it was kind of sad seeing the Korean team under perform I wanted to go there after my contract with Shanghai ended and try to get them a big win
Tobi: I see
Moon: Now that I'm thinking about it I never got an offer from Seoul ever
NineK: Really? I think I got an offer from Seoul basically every year since 2019
Moon: Oh one thing I really wanted to ask was how you beat the Infernal (Dynasty vs Infernal early 2023 when Infernal scrimbux was way better than everyone else)
Tobi: Oh that? They just played poorly.
Moon: I was so curious cause they were supposed to be so good
Tobi: Yeah they must have been nervous or something we didn't win cause we were better they were just worse that day.
NineK: When Tobi first joined Fusion he actually beat Dynasty and was so happy about it. He was such a good player to have he was on the bench for quite a while initially but kept his mental up and was a very good teammate for us.
Final Words
Tobi: I'm not actually retired from coaching. I still keep up with the League and love the game. I hope Overwatch keeps growing and I want everyone to know I'm not gone just yet. If there's a chance I'm ready whenever
NineK: Honestly I will say a lot of Overwatch kids have this issue not just Tobi where they hope opportunity will fall on their laps.
Tobi: I'll agree. It was my first time doing this stuff and I had no idea what the scene was going to be like.
Moon: I was very proactive and quick about it for sure
NineK: Do you have any team you'd like to join? Quickly before we end the podcast appeal to Moon for a job
Tobi: Well if you just give me the call I'm ready
Moon: Well one thing I will note when Tobi was talking about coaches he asked for advice on being a coach he didn't contact me at all? Even though we talked for hours?
Tobi: I only contacted the people I actually worked under. I didn't want to bother everyone with my questions. It's not like I could expect other coaches that don't know me as well would divulge their secrets
Moon: I would've. I think it would have been very cool if you asked for my help
Tobi: Well to be fair before you joined I did say Crusty NineK Moon and Rush were the coaches I really wanted to try working with
NineK: It's not too late Tobi he's here now
Aid: Anyways final thoughts from you Tobi?
Tobi: It's been a while since I got to see fans of Overwatch and sit down with fellow coaches. I hope you all keep supporting Overwatch University and myself in the future.
NineK and Aid: Thank you to Moon as well for helping us last minute.
Moon: It's no problem I saw Tobis face and wanted to join right away.
2024.05.16 23:08 Confident_Ear4396 Hilarious partnership offer from an ‘expert’ wholesaler.
I don’t know why I hate this guy, but he just seems like a douche. He is constantly seeking partners and pushing questionable deals. He puts out hiring ads for jobs that don’t exist. He keeps trying to hire a ‘marketing manager’ that he pays $1000 to if they source a set up and coordinate a wholesale deal that closes.
The guy corners me once in a while and explains his absolutely revolutionary system. He puts houses with an assumable loan under contract and wholesales them to people with enough money to buy out the equity who can then have an old timer interest rate. It isn’t bad, but it is pretty rare. Probably 2 deals a year.
When I push back he just keeps saying that I ‘don’t get it’.
I get it. I just don’t care. We are in a pretty small market and it isn’t a big enough number of deals to care about. The delta is tiny. By the time you math out the price and the down payment there isn’t much left on the bones.
The current partnership deal:
He provides a deal with financing under 5%
You provide the cash and operate it as a STR. You do all the operating.
The property: literally a house from the MLS that sat for 100 days. The price is full retail value. Might not even appraise at purchase price.
I didn’t hear the split. I was laughing too hard.
“No, bro, you just don’t get it”
Maybe I don’t.
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The guy corners me once in a while and explains his absolutely revolutionary system. He puts houses with an assumable loan under contract and wholesales them to people with enough money to buy out the equity who can then have an old timer interest rate. It isn’t bad, but it is pretty rare. Probably 2 deals a year.
When I push back he just keeps saying that I ‘don’t get it’.
I get it. I just don’t care. We are in a pretty small market and it isn’t a big enough number of deals to care about. The delta is tiny. By the time you math out the price and the down payment there isn’t much left on the bones.
The current partnership deal:
He provides a deal with financing under 5%
You provide the cash and operate it as a STR. You do all the operating.
The property: literally a house from the MLS that sat for 100 days. The price is full retail value. Might not even appraise at purchase price.
I didn’t hear the split. I was laughing too hard.
“No, bro, you just don’t get it”
Maybe I don’t.
2024.05.16 23:08 Superbly_Humble Group game design (UPDATE 1) & sub news
Hey friends!
Looks like the deck building card battle (20 card decks) won yesterday. Thank you for participating in the vote.
Because this is the first group game, it will be very casual, as this will all be done on Reddit. I'll enable our chat to help out, but I'll need your help to keep people from abusing it. For the future, I want to have a discord server where we can interact better, but that's a slow process for me (anyone with experience please DM me).
I'll start out by really introducing myself; I'm Magnus, a game designer in Vancouver, Canada. My company, BRB Games, has been a subsidiary of a large game company, and my employees and I primarily designed games for ages 3-12. I have worked on a few other projects as a consultant, mainly doing logic, core design, testing, etc. In November we found out cutbacks were incoming. Due to a tight contract, I've had a second job the last few years as a lead robotics designer (among other hats) to cover my costs, plus top-up my own employees at BRB. I was often doing 16 hour days, juggling way too much, ontop of a 3 hour commute if I even went home. We all talked and closure was the best choice. Most of my employees were picked up right away, or transitioned into the parent company, and in April, my last person got a fantastic job remotely for an Australian company as a junior designer. I gave my notice with my employer and that brings me to here and now. I have time to actually go to conventions again, I'll be teaching 4 classes a month in person, I'm interning a highschool student in game design from California currently, a volunteer math tutor, and I feel I can finally help everyone in boardgamedesign. I want build this community back up, the best it's ever been. When it closed due to the Reddit protest, we lost 80,000 subs. I became the mod after 2 attempts (and a long talk with Reddit admins). Honestly, this calling in life fulfills me, and if I can pass on anything to you, or help get your game noticed and sold, I'm more than happy to. Long intro short, I'm here to help, so feel free to ask me anything and if I don't know the answer (happens a lot), we can find out!
Also, thanks to our mods u/bgg-uglywalrus and u/MudkipzLover. Without them, we couldn't do this. Their experience, determination and willingness for anything boardgames is inspirational and a foundation of what we are. Thank you, muchly.
So to get started on the game, I want to focus on the first aspects of proper design:
Card Game: Deck Builder (Boardgamedesign Edition)
1 - Main Objective (DEVELOPMENT STAGE)
Closed as the artwork isn't finished yet, and play conditions are directly controlled
It's time to dedicate our resources to visual appeal and player immersion
To be fair, the rules will be compiled already, this is the design aspect
We are able to send out prototypes before this step
Honestly this should be happening very early. The more people know about your game from an early stage, the more they feel connected. Ask for controlled opinions, and respond to everyone within reasonable limits. Every person and is a potential customer now and in the future, and you are building loyalty to YOU, not the game.
Please feel free to add a comment with the section you'd like to add to. We can respond to those threads for more detail, but EACH comment will be a different design element. Your name will be added to that section and that's your contribution! More than 1 person can be credited for the section, and more than 1 section can be credited because we are all collaborating!
When it comes to the deck creations, keep the art and theme to yourself for now, but list what you want in a deck mechanic.
This document will be updated constantly until we lock it and create the next stage.
If we determine that this projevt comes to a marketable standing (which is not intended, but never say no to glory), contributors will have a few options. Either DM me your real info for credit or your username will be used. I know privacy is a premium on the internet, but I can only credit those that want it. If that means creating a new account to protect your privacy, you'll have to DM the mod team so we can approve you due to low karma automod.
Lastly, anything you contribute to this project is considered the IP of the project as a whole. Credit where credit is due (having your name on a project is a HUGE start for your resume), but please only contribute if you understand that there is no financial incentive, nor compensation of any kind outside of credit. I can't afford to feed you all :)
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Looks like the deck building card battle (20 card decks) won yesterday. Thank you for participating in the vote.
Because this is the first group game, it will be very casual, as this will all be done on Reddit. I'll enable our chat to help out, but I'll need your help to keep people from abusing it. For the future, I want to have a discord server where we can interact better, but that's a slow process for me (anyone with experience please DM me).
I'll start out by really introducing myself; I'm Magnus, a game designer in Vancouver, Canada. My company, BRB Games, has been a subsidiary of a large game company, and my employees and I primarily designed games for ages 3-12. I have worked on a few other projects as a consultant, mainly doing logic, core design, testing, etc. In November we found out cutbacks were incoming. Due to a tight contract, I've had a second job the last few years as a lead robotics designer (among other hats) to cover my costs, plus top-up my own employees at BRB. I was often doing 16 hour days, juggling way too much, ontop of a 3 hour commute if I even went home. We all talked and closure was the best choice. Most of my employees were picked up right away, or transitioned into the parent company, and in April, my last person got a fantastic job remotely for an Australian company as a junior designer. I gave my notice with my employer and that brings me to here and now. I have time to actually go to conventions again, I'll be teaching 4 classes a month in person, I'm interning a highschool student in game design from California currently, a volunteer math tutor, and I feel I can finally help everyone in boardgamedesign. I want build this community back up, the best it's ever been. When it closed due to the Reddit protest, we lost 80,000 subs. I became the mod after 2 attempts (and a long talk with Reddit admins). Honestly, this calling in life fulfills me, and if I can pass on anything to you, or help get your game noticed and sold, I'm more than happy to. Long intro short, I'm here to help, so feel free to ask me anything and if I don't know the answer (happens a lot), we can find out!
Also, thanks to our mods u/bgg-uglywalrus and u/MudkipzLover. Without them, we couldn't do this. Their experience, determination and willingness for anything boardgames is inspirational and a foundation of what we are. Thank you, muchly.
So to get started on the game, I want to focus on the first aspects of proper design:
Card Game: Deck Builder (Boardgamedesign Edition)
1 - Main Objective (DEVELOPMENT STAGE)
- Design an engaging card game battle experience with deck building mechanics.
- Defeat opponents deck by reducing Heath to zero
- OR Creating a lock out condition.
- Character cards, artifact cards, condition cards
- (Group Defined)
- Cards are played from hand as defined per card.
- Cards are activated using resources (?)
- Cards are activated with combining each cards defined resource value(?)
- (Group Defined Input)
- 20 Cards per deck hard limit
- Players construct a deck using individual preset decks of 20 cards.
- Players share a pool of universal condition cards (?)
- (Group Defined)
- Shuffle Determine turn order Draw (x) cards to hand (?)
- First turn rules (no attacks, activations?)
- Turn Structure and Phases Draw Playing Activating Resolving Player Universal Actions Resolving Turn
- Activation
- Checks
- Blocks
- Damage Dealt
- Conditions (Weakness, Lasting effects?)
- Interactions
- Resolution
- Reducing players health to zero
- Defeating all defensive cards (?)
- Creating a zero sum condition (unique mechanic or the gimmick)
- Spreadsheet stats analysis (as we go)
- FIRST INTERNAL PLAYTESTING (yay!)
- Recording data sets of all conditions
- Extensive strategy testing
- Group input about what worked, and didn't
- Refine Ruleset
- Card conditions and activation tweaks
- Gameplay change and redesign as needed (you can ALWAYS change your game at any time, this is just a checks and balance dedicated to it)
Closed as the artwork isn't finished yet, and play conditions are directly controlled
- Create play sheets for players
- Conditions to try Feedback for a variety of mechanics
- Seek out closed groups (either local, or online)
- Compile data and rework as needed
It's time to dedicate our resources to visual appeal and player immersion
- Artwork
- Overall game theme Deck theme Character theme Dice, Spinner, token theme (components)
- Player Immersion Game backstory ("Once a year, players...")
- Individual deck story Unique wording and phrases Compelling intrigue dialogue
- Promotional Materials (Unique Art and tone)
- Art testing Compile feedback forms Test for colour visions, dyslexia and other impairments
- Art reworks and touchups
To be fair, the rules will be compiled already, this is the design aspect
- List all game rules and mechanisms
- Startup guide (can be seperate insert)
- Quick references (if complicated)
- Determine phrasing based on thematics
- Artwork and formatting
- Page count Structure and finesse
- Decide on platform (Digital or Physical)
- Digital
- Select release program Design phase (Inhouse or hire)
- Testing inhouse
- Testing public
- Feedback Review and reworks
- Physical
- Determine desired materials (Request sample)
- Playtest with physical prototypes (We know certain materials hold up and reuse them to save time, so we only need to heavily test if we are using an unknown vendor, new product or process, or new paints).
- Determine content arrangement
- Choose box size
- Design insert
- Box art creation
- Decide on manufacturer
- Get specifications about batch sizes, weight, and distribution to warehouse / choice location
- Calculate shipping and vendor distribution
- You'll have the data to do this now.
We are able to send out prototypes before this step
- Select choice game stores, boardgame bars, playtesting groups, reviewers, streamers / YouTubers, notable designers, game design companies, publishers, and convention directors (You'll want to have a diaglue about review in exchange for free game or money, both, or return shipping. Also a timeframe!).
Honestly this should be happening very early. The more people know about your game from an early stage, the more they feel connected. Ask for controlled opinions, and respond to everyone within reasonable limits. Every person and is a potential customer now and in the future, and you are building loyalty to YOU, not the game.
- Forums, Reddit, Online videos, Interviewers, Blogs, Website, Conventions, In person, everywhere!
- Business cards are affordable, grab them
- (More?)
- We'll cover this more
Please feel free to add a comment with the section you'd like to add to. We can respond to those threads for more detail, but EACH comment will be a different design element. Your name will be added to that section and that's your contribution! More than 1 person can be credited for the section, and more than 1 section can be credited because we are all collaborating!
When it comes to the deck creations, keep the art and theme to yourself for now, but list what you want in a deck mechanic.
This document will be updated constantly until we lock it and create the next stage.
If we determine that this projevt comes to a marketable standing (which is not intended, but never say no to glory), contributors will have a few options. Either DM me your real info for credit or your username will be used. I know privacy is a premium on the internet, but I can only credit those that want it. If that means creating a new account to protect your privacy, you'll have to DM the mod team so we can approve you due to low karma automod.
Lastly, anything you contribute to this project is considered the IP of the project as a whole. Credit where credit is due (having your name on a project is a HUGE start for your resume), but please only contribute if you understand that there is no financial incentive, nor compensation of any kind outside of credit. I can't afford to feed you all :)
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2024.05.16 23:04 guileus Performing live: how do you play synths that had effects added to them at the mixing stage live?
I perform live EBM and Techno Body Music with my band. The way we prepare outu sets is basically to bounce into audio stems every track we're not going to manipulate live: for instance soundscapes, pads etc. We then play the lead synth live, sing over the tracks while playing with the effects (delays etc), add drum fills and launch samples and lastly, play with some synths' (mainly the bass) envelopes such as filter, decay etc. The idea is to have the bounced tracks relieve us from having to take care of them and also reduce the chances something goes wrong, and so be able to focus on the instruments we are going to play and manipulate live. My problem is that we've produced a few tracks where some of those synths we're going to play or manipulate live have a ton of effects added at the mixing stage. So the synth by itself is going to sound differently from the one playing in the track. I've thought that with those I only want to play with their envelopes (ie. Not actually play the notes on keyboard, maybe because they are an arpeggiated fast bass or something), I could bounce the track to audio and add effects to the audio such as a filter etc. The problem is that some envelopes belong to the synth itself; for example, if I play a bounced track of a synth with a filter effect on top, I can't play with its decay envelope.
Have any of you guys experienced this issue? How have you tackled it?
submitted by guileus to IndustrialMusicians [link] [comments]
Have any of you guys experienced this issue? How have you tackled it?
2024.05.16 23:03 FewNature2993 PreInstalled QPADM for free - 👇 start modelling today 🤩
Preinstalled Admixtools (QPADM) for windows - Super easy
*I want everyone to be able to model so we learn proper modelling together. And make discoveries.
You may have seen me upload and delete results but this is because I’m getting better and striving for maximum accuracy. I can’t do that alone.
That’s why I want you to join me… hence me giving you this free very easily to use QPADM software for windows. Admixtools1 windows clone*
excited?
Let’s start
—
Here is the link to the Preinstalled AT1 clone (Not as good as linux but a lot faster) for windows :
Link is only available for 30 days
***Type www dot then ufile.io/f/vblmt
It doesn’t let me put the link in…***
Download it. Follow the instructions and bam.
Instructions :
Step number 1 = Download and extract all the files into a directory (A place) you are comfortable with.
Step number 2 = Download the Harvard labs HO dataset... as it is quicker to run and has modern samples too so you can test modern samples.
https://reich.hms.harvard.edu/allen-ancient-dna-resource-aadr-downloadable-genotypes-present-day-and-ancient-dna-data
Step number 3 = open up a text file and write down the below text. This will be called the parqpadm file... titled "parqpadm.txt"... its very important. and you need it to run qpadm function.
DIR: C:\Directory\path\to\admixtools\directory\ indivname: (Datasetname).ind snpname: (Datasetname).snp genotypename: (Datasetname).geno popleft: left.txt popright: right.txt details: YES allsnps: YES inbreed: NO ## default NO
**Fill in the directory info by right clicking and selecting copy path and pasting it in the text above in front of DIR
**The dataset name you download where it says dataset name without paranthesis....
Step 4 = Create a text file and name i right
A right file is a text file wherein your "Right or reference population lies".... It is very very very important for correct right group selection... best practices differ depending on who you ask... even researchers...
and I have recently learned what reich labs does today and what they used to do and recommend is different.
You will be safe with the below right group for most eurasians
Mbuti.DG Jordan_PPNB Israel_Natufian Russia_Karelia_HG Iraq_PPN Morocco_Iberomaurusian Russia_AfontovaGora3 Russia_MA1_HG.SG Serbia_IronGates_Mesolithic Turkey_Boncuklu_N Turkey_Epipaleolithic Switzerland_Bichon Iran_GanjDareh_N Georgia_Kotias.SG ONG.SG Mongolia_North_N
Step 5 = Create a text file and name it left. The first population name in your left file will be your target... and the following are the sources you want to use to measure it
so for example
Me Source Source Souce
in this format...
** You can look up all population names on the right column of the .ind file you downloaded...
All names are there.
Once you do this... save both your left and right and parqpadm files in the directory **
Step 6 =
Everything is ready now
if you have looked up what target and sources you want modelled
go to your windows terminal.. look it up on search
and type
cd copy and paste path to directory or place of admixtools folder here
and if done correctly the path is added to the text on the left
Now just type qpAdm -p parqpadm.txt > whatevername.txt
whatevername = the results of your run
how to read :
if successful after a few minutes a text file appears and is populated with relevant stats... scroll down and look for "summ"
P value is listed as the second number after the population name
with wight after that. wight times a hundred = percent of that source your pop has.
if percentages are off or stupid like - or 200% your model sucks.**
there is also a section called STE slightly above this area. Make sure that is below .04 fir plausible models.
P values should be above .05 for a pass. 5e-3 = .005... 5e-4 .0005 and so on
STE errors should be below .04
and weights have to add up to a hundred... cant have bizarre stuff.
if all the above have been met and your right group is good. You have a plausible model.
Best practices :
Read and ask about best right groups
Dont use too many similar populations you need distinct mixes for good modelling
Dont force models
Good luck
submitted by FewNature2993 to illustrativeQPADM [link] [comments]
*I want everyone to be able to model so we learn proper modelling together. And make discoveries.
You may have seen me upload and delete results but this is because I’m getting better and striving for maximum accuracy. I can’t do that alone.
That’s why I want you to join me… hence me giving you this free very easily to use QPADM software for windows. Admixtools1 windows clone*
excited?
Let’s start
—
Here is the link to the Preinstalled AT1 clone (Not as good as linux but a lot faster) for windows :
Link is only available for 30 days
***Type www dot then ufile.io/f/vblmt
It doesn’t let me put the link in…***
Download it. Follow the instructions and bam.
Instructions :
Step number 1 = Download and extract all the files into a directory (A place) you are comfortable with.
Step number 2 = Download the Harvard labs HO dataset... as it is quicker to run and has modern samples too so you can test modern samples.
https://reich.hms.harvard.edu/allen-ancient-dna-resource-aadr-downloadable-genotypes-present-day-and-ancient-dna-data
Step number 3 = open up a text file and write down the below text. This will be called the parqpadm file... titled "parqpadm.txt"... its very important. and you need it to run qpadm function.
DIR: C:\Directory\path\to\admixtools\directory\ indivname: (Datasetname).ind snpname: (Datasetname).snp genotypename: (Datasetname).geno popleft: left.txt popright: right.txt details: YES allsnps: YES inbreed: NO ## default NO
**Fill in the directory info by right clicking and selecting copy path and pasting it in the text above in front of DIR
**The dataset name you download where it says dataset name without paranthesis....
Step 4 = Create a text file and name i right
A right file is a text file wherein your "Right or reference population lies".... It is very very very important for correct right group selection... best practices differ depending on who you ask... even researchers...
and I have recently learned what reich labs does today and what they used to do and recommend is different.
You will be safe with the below right group for most eurasians
Mbuti.DG Jordan_PPNB Israel_Natufian Russia_Karelia_HG Iraq_PPN Morocco_Iberomaurusian Russia_AfontovaGora3 Russia_MA1_HG.SG Serbia_IronGates_Mesolithic Turkey_Boncuklu_N Turkey_Epipaleolithic Switzerland_Bichon Iran_GanjDareh_N Georgia_Kotias.SG ONG.SG Mongolia_North_N
Step 5 = Create a text file and name it left. The first population name in your left file will be your target... and the following are the sources you want to use to measure it
so for example
Me Source Source Souce
in this format...
** You can look up all population names on the right column of the .ind file you downloaded...
All names are there.
Once you do this... save both your left and right and parqpadm files in the directory **
Step 6 =
Everything is ready now
if you have looked up what target and sources you want modelled
go to your windows terminal.. look it up on search
and type
cd copy and paste path to directory or place of admixtools folder here
and if done correctly the path is added to the text on the left
Now just type qpAdm -p parqpadm.txt > whatevername.txt
whatevername = the results of your run
how to read :
if successful after a few minutes a text file appears and is populated with relevant stats... scroll down and look for "summ"
P value is listed as the second number after the population name
with wight after that. wight times a hundred = percent of that source your pop has.
if percentages are off or stupid like - or 200% your model sucks.**
there is also a section called STE slightly above this area. Make sure that is below .04 fir plausible models.
P values should be above .05 for a pass. 5e-3 = .005... 5e-4 .0005 and so on
STE errors should be below .04
and weights have to add up to a hundred... cant have bizarre stuff.
if all the above have been met and your right group is good. You have a plausible model.
Best practices :
Read and ask about best right groups
Dont use too many similar populations you need distinct mixes for good modelling
Dont force models
Good luck
2024.05.16 23:02 guileus Performing live: how do you play synths that had effects added on the mixing stage live?
I perform live EBM and Techno Body Music with my band. The way we prepare outu sets is basically to bounce into audio stems every track we're not going to manipulate live: for instance soundscapes, pads etc. We then play the lead synth live, sing over the tracks while playing with the effects (delays etc), add drum fills and launch samples and lastly, play with some synths' (mainly the bass) envelopes such as filter, decay etc. The idea is to have the bounced tracks relieve us from having to take care of them and also reduce the chances something goes wrong, and so be able to focus on the instruments we are going to play and manipulate live. My problem is that we've produced a few tracks where some of those synths we're going to play or manipulate live have a ton of effects added at the mixing stage. So the synth by itself is going to sound differently from the one playing in the track. I've thought that with those I only want to play with their envelopes (ie. Not actually play the notes on keyboard, maybe because they are an arpeggiated fast bass or something), I could bounce the track to audio and add effects to the audio such as a filter etc. The problem is that some envelopes belong to the synth itself; for example, if I play a bounced track of a synth with a filter effect on top, I can't play with its decay envelope.
Have any of you guys experienced this issue? How have you tackled it?
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Have any of you guys experienced this issue? How have you tackled it?
2024.05.16 23:01 ohyanooo The relief of rejection
I want to share my story with everyone and I’d appreciate your thoughts/opinions
So, I’m a full time pharmaceutical professional. Around a month ago, I received an invite from a recruiter at one major pharmaceutical company to discuss an MSL role. This went well and I was invited to speak with the hiring manager for 45 minutes the following week. Again, I prepared very well and the interview went great. A couple of days later, on a Thursday I was invited for the last stage panel interview, consisting of presentation, RP and competency based interview. Despite being given only one day and one time slot option (the following Wednesday), which was tight, I believed it was a great opportunity and manageable, so I agreed to the suggested date and time. I dedicated hours over the weekend to preparation, sacrificing sleep and putting in extra work. Additionally, I took a half-day off on Tuesday and a full day off on Wednesday (the interview day) to further enhance my preparation.
On the interview day, my presentation went smoothly, but the role-play was decent, not exceptional. competency based interview with HR wasn’t the best (the most HRy questions ever - I literally couldn’t answer two of their questions as I simply couldn’t remember relevant situations). I was probably the first candidate, so I was told the hiring manager would be away for some time and then an/other candidate/s will be interviewed.
During this waiting time, I didn’t stop. I reflected on the questions asked during my interview, particularly regarding establishing new territories. Although I provided theoretical answers during the interview, I wanted to showcase my ability in a real-world scenario. So, I put together another presentation, including a map of hospitals/clinics within the potential territory, a sample list of potential KOLs, and relevant resources such as journals, institutions, and upcoming conferences for the this TA. I emailed the hiring manager letting them know what I’d been up to and offered to send the ppt if they wanted to review it. No response though.
Today (15 days since the panel interview) I got a rejection email. At least I don’t think it’s automated as it states :” if you would like additional feedback reach out to x (hiring manager)” which I already did.
Disappointing, indeed, but life continues. I've already applied to two other jobs.
Now, what are your thoughts? What would you do differently? Your insights are appreciated.
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So, I’m a full time pharmaceutical professional. Around a month ago, I received an invite from a recruiter at one major pharmaceutical company to discuss an MSL role. This went well and I was invited to speak with the hiring manager for 45 minutes the following week. Again, I prepared very well and the interview went great. A couple of days later, on a Thursday I was invited for the last stage panel interview, consisting of presentation, RP and competency based interview. Despite being given only one day and one time slot option (the following Wednesday), which was tight, I believed it was a great opportunity and manageable, so I agreed to the suggested date and time. I dedicated hours over the weekend to preparation, sacrificing sleep and putting in extra work. Additionally, I took a half-day off on Tuesday and a full day off on Wednesday (the interview day) to further enhance my preparation.
On the interview day, my presentation went smoothly, but the role-play was decent, not exceptional. competency based interview with HR wasn’t the best (the most HRy questions ever - I literally couldn’t answer two of their questions as I simply couldn’t remember relevant situations). I was probably the first candidate, so I was told the hiring manager would be away for some time and then an/other candidate/s will be interviewed.
During this waiting time, I didn’t stop. I reflected on the questions asked during my interview, particularly regarding establishing new territories. Although I provided theoretical answers during the interview, I wanted to showcase my ability in a real-world scenario. So, I put together another presentation, including a map of hospitals/clinics within the potential territory, a sample list of potential KOLs, and relevant resources such as journals, institutions, and upcoming conferences for the this TA. I emailed the hiring manager letting them know what I’d been up to and offered to send the ppt if they wanted to review it. No response though.
Today (15 days since the panel interview) I got a rejection email. At least I don’t think it’s automated as it states :” if you would like additional feedback reach out to x (hiring manager)” which I already did.
Disappointing, indeed, but life continues. I've already applied to two other jobs.
Now, what are your thoughts? What would you do differently? Your insights are appreciated.
2024.05.16 22:57 unicornontheknob WFH and Hybrid is a joke (at my company)
Hey yall! I started at a new job back in January, and when my offer was made, my recruiter told me it would be a hybrid position. Additionally, someone who started a few before I did, also was told the same thing. Flash forward a few weeks after we have been through the initial phase of training and ramp up. I asked my boss when would our hybrid days and schedule begin, and he was “putting together a team schedule”. Fine.
A few weeks after that, we received a calendar with one WFH day every other week, which IMO, is clearly not hybrid. He mentioned once we have a little more headcount, this would move to once a week. Still, annoyed but okay. A few days after that, he tells us in our weekly team meeting, that he will be leaving at 1pm on Monday/Wednesday every week so he can WFH, to be on time for his sons’ baseball practices. Now, if you’ve read this far, he is getting one WFH day a week, with the team still at two days once a month.
Flash forward to today. My coworker who started before me, resigned last week, and her WFH day were on Fridays. I asked to be moved to that day (since I am next in seniority) and was told no. My boss is now additionally adding Fridays to his WFH days, giving him two full days of working at home per week, while we are stuck at two a month.
I am livid. I negotiated my salary to align with the idea of being hybrid, now I am working and covering more job duties, in addition to this guy getting to work from home twice a week while we are lucky to get two days a month at home.
What would you do?
EDIT: I am also five months pregnant. finding a new job would be tough, plus I have to keep my insurance.
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A few weeks after that, we received a calendar with one WFH day every other week, which IMO, is clearly not hybrid. He mentioned once we have a little more headcount, this would move to once a week. Still, annoyed but okay. A few days after that, he tells us in our weekly team meeting, that he will be leaving at 1pm on Monday/Wednesday every week so he can WFH, to be on time for his sons’ baseball practices. Now, if you’ve read this far, he is getting one WFH day a week, with the team still at two days once a month.
Flash forward to today. My coworker who started before me, resigned last week, and her WFH day were on Fridays. I asked to be moved to that day (since I am next in seniority) and was told no. My boss is now additionally adding Fridays to his WFH days, giving him two full days of working at home per week, while we are stuck at two a month.
I am livid. I negotiated my salary to align with the idea of being hybrid, now I am working and covering more job duties, in addition to this guy getting to work from home twice a week while we are lucky to get two days a month at home.
What would you do?
EDIT: I am also five months pregnant. finding a new job would be tough, plus I have to keep my insurance.
2024.05.16 22:56 calloutpost HR Specialist salary expectations?
Hey guys!! I’m trying to determine if I am right to feel a bit undervalued/underpaid for my role. I obviously am grateful to even have a job and be paid what I get now but with a company acquisition that added a giant load of work onto my plate for months amongst other changes, I feel a little shorted lol.
I’m at 3 years of experience at the same midsize company in IT consulting, 1 year of recruiting experience then with a full switch to HR Specialist. I have worn a lot of hats- I took over payroll about 1 year in, I handled our 401k audit twice, I handled all onboarding/offboarding/employee inquiries and special projects from the CFO as well.
When we were acquired, I had to work on a LOT of data importing and integration projects, not to mention I assisted with planning an entire merged companies on-site event at the same time. We’re now much larger with over 1k EEs globally and I am now involved in more initiatives such as branding, engagement events, etc. I did not get a quarterly bonus as I anticipated in Q4, in fact bonuses were axed entirely, which sucked when other people were getting Christmas/Q4 bonuses and all the work I did wasn’t worth anything apparently.
I finally received a raise to $69k (was already at about 63 which wasn’t market aligned) at my review this year, tried to push back for $70k and was told no. Is 70-80k too high of an expectation??
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I’m at 3 years of experience at the same midsize company in IT consulting, 1 year of recruiting experience then with a full switch to HR Specialist. I have worn a lot of hats- I took over payroll about 1 year in, I handled our 401k audit twice, I handled all onboarding/offboarding/employee inquiries and special projects from the CFO as well.
When we were acquired, I had to work on a LOT of data importing and integration projects, not to mention I assisted with planning an entire merged companies on-site event at the same time. We’re now much larger with over 1k EEs globally and I am now involved in more initiatives such as branding, engagement events, etc. I did not get a quarterly bonus as I anticipated in Q4, in fact bonuses were axed entirely, which sucked when other people were getting Christmas/Q4 bonuses and all the work I did wasn’t worth anything apparently.
I finally received a raise to $69k (was already at about 63 which wasn’t market aligned) at my review this year, tried to push back for $70k and was told no. Is 70-80k too high of an expectation??
2024.05.16 22:56 Far-War-3804 A05 COL. KURTZ to GEN. SMITH: LET'S NUKE WASHINGTON D.C. MAY 9 2024
 | https://preview.redd.it/y79aszfiqu0d1.jpg?width=696&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8bebc620eccd83a35a93779746249361649efcc4 submitted by Far-War-3804 to CourtofAges [link] [comments] A05 COL. KURTZ to GEN. SMITH: LET'S NUKE WASHINGTON D.C. MAY 9 2024 “He’s gone completely insane,” General Eric M. Smith said of Col. Kurtz following what one source called a debate on the ethics of warfare that began with a respectful handshake and ended in a shocking betrayal. Our source was not present at the meeting, so we can only share what Gen. Smith told staff upon returning to Camp Pendleton. The meeting took place in a hotel suite in Coral Gables, Florida, last Friday afternoon, with Kurtz already alone in the room and sipping a glass of iced tea when the general and one of his longtime aides arrived. Gen. Smith was in full military dress, while Kurtz—a former Marine colonel who resigned in disgust after Biden stole the 2020 presidential election—wore khaki shorts and a tee shirt emblazoned with a “Fuck Joe Biden” decal. Although they shook hands, Kurtz immediately tried asserting dominance by warning the general not to double-cross him, saying he could “take him” anytime he wanted. Marines do not betray other Marines, Gen. Smith assured him, but he also replied that even unarmed, he could defend himself adequately. Gen Smith and Kurtz agreed the Deep State had to be neutralized before it could bring to fruition its plan to shift the United States into a one-world government and silence, enslave, or kill anti-globalists and patriots. However, any amicability between them devolved rapidly when Kurtz took umbrage at how President Trump and General Berger’s failure to avail themselves of appropriate countervailing force allowed the Deep State to entrench itself in politics, culture, and society. Kurtz spoke without interruption for 15 minutes, elucidating on his decision to resign his commission at a time his country needed him the most. He had hoped that Trump and the White Hats would have, by any means necessary, thwarted Biden’s illegitimate presidency before it began, and accused Trump of squandering time as the regime solidified power and furthered plans to subjugate the citizenry. One tactical nuclear bomb dropped on D.C., in Kurtz’s opinion, could have averted three more years of Deep State oppression. Kurtz had suggested the idea, but Gen. Berger rejected it as pure lunacy and recommended that Kurtz take leave to fix his head. Kurtz said he chose to retreat into the shadows and build an army capable of striking at the heart of the Deep State without moral ambiguity or fear of political repercussions. “General Smith said Kurtz’s eyes ‘were full of crazy’ and madness,” our source said. “Kurtz begrudges President Trump for not taking a sterner stance against the Deep State and for allowing ‘snakes’ back in his circle.” Kurtz reportedly launched a lengthy rant about Ron DeSantis, calling him a weaselly, conniving, self-serving serpent who betrayed Trump and then wiggled his way back to Mar-a-Lago. He faulted Trump for allowing enemies in his midst. Gen. Smith reminded Kurtz that Trump operated according to his own plan and that it was Trump who empowered the White Hats to pursue and prosecute Deep State traitors. “And where has that gotten you? You’re sitting on several hundred thousand indictments, but how many have you jailed—or hanged? Not enough. Meanwhile, our country, and we’ve both spilled our share of blood for it, has decayed, and our wealth shipped overseas, and our children taken. I do applaud your efforts—we fight for the same cause, but even you, General Smith, must realize stronger actions are now required,” Col. Kurtz had told General Smith, per his recollection of the meeting. Kurtz said Gen. Smith had at his fingertips the power and authority to “end the nightmare.” He knew that General Berger gave Gen. Smith the command codes to the country’s nuclear triad when he retired. “Let’s make D.C. glow in the dark. You can do what Trump and Berger wouldn’t,” Kurtz had said. “We’re at war; there are no rules.” “Gen. Smith told him that would never happen and even suggested it was insanity. Kurtz said he didn’t think Gen. Smith had the courage to do what was really necessary to fix the country,” our source said. With or without nukes, Kurtz said he would expend his last breath fighting the Deep State, and he claimed to have an enormous arsenal and 50,000 men at his disposal. He said he had been biding his time patiently, recruiting foot soldiers willing to take the fight to the “next level,” even if it meant civilian casualties. Gen. Smith asked him why 50,000 Armed Forces personnel would follow an ex-Marine of questionable integrity. “Who says they’re all military? Many could be average citizens who have heard the call to arms. We’re among you, General Smith. Nothing you plan escapes my notice. We Red Hats are now at full strength. I didn’t expect you to see things rationally, but I still hoped, just maybe. I’m glad we’re face-to-face; I see in your eyes you and I share the same goal. Just let us do what must be done, and we won’t intrude on you,” Kurtz had said. “Do what must be done? Like causing an earthquake that could’ve killed thousands all over a mythical particle accelerator in some underground cavern?” the general said. “It was there, and they would’ve used it to open the gates of Hell. You destroy a few laser planes and call that an accomplishment. What I did was stave off oblivion. And I’m far from done,” Kurtz told the general. “Then I guess our meeting is over,” Gen. Smith said. Both men stood, this time without a handshake. Kurtz flashed a toothy smile and glanced at the general’s aide. “Your forces are bifurcating,” Kurtz said as the general’s aide stepped forward and stood beside him. “He’s one of us. I told you—we are all around you.” Smith, our source said, glanced menacingly at both men. “This is how it is?” “It’s how it has been,” the aide said. “And will be,” Kurtz added. Our source said: “It’s clear Kurtz has pull. Gen. Smith was of course caught off guard at the end. Our job continues, and we’re praying Kurtz doesn’t bring his war into the streets of America.” |
2024.05.16 22:53 Total_anon1 Issues with passing variables when using sheets in Swift?
I am currently making a Calorie Tracking app using Swift, but am having some issues with how different views are presented using sheets when trying to pass a variable
I have 2 views - my CaloriesView:
I instead want the food to be saved into the Firestore document with the relevant mealType, depending on which section the button is clicked in
I have tried doing this by passing a mealType variable through when the “Add Food For \(category)" button is clicked, as you can see in the new versions of CaloriesView and FoodView below:
CaloriesView:
The original code did not do this - any ideas why? Thanks
Edit - for anMVP Minimal Reproducible Example, see my Stack Overflow question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78492454/why-does-passing-a-variable-into-a-view-that-is-presented-using-a-sheet-cause-th?noredirect=1#comment138379430_78492454
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I have 2 views - my CaloriesView:
import SwiftUI import Firebase import FirebaseAuth import FirebaseFirestoreSwift struct CaloriesView: View { u/EnvironmentObject var viewModel: AuthViewModel @EnvironmentObject var calsViewModel: CaloriesViewModel @State private var shouldPresentSheet: Bool = false @State private var selectedCategory: String? = nil var body: some View { NavigationView { ScrollView { VStack(spacing: 20) { CurrentCaloriesView(viewModel: calsViewModel) mealSection("Breakfast", foods: calsViewModel.breakfasts) mealSection("Lunch", foods: calsViewModel.lunches) mealSection("Dinner", foods: calsViewModel.dinners) mealSection("Other Food", foods: calsViewModel.otherFoods) } .navigationBarTitle("Calories", displayMode: .inline) } } .onAppear { Task { await calsViewModel.fetchTodayMacros() await calsViewModel.fetchTodayFoodIntake() } } .sheet(isPresented: $shouldPresentSheet) { FoodListView(calsViewModel: calsViewModel) } } @ViewBuilder private func mealSection(_ category: String, foods: [(String, Double)]) -> some View { VStack(alignment: .leading, spacing: 10) { Text(category) .font(.headline) .padding(.top) ForEach(foods.indices, id: \.self) { index in let food = foods[index] VStack(alignment: .leading, spacing: 8) { Text(food.0) .font(.headline) .bold() Text("Weight: \(food.1, specifier: "%.2f") g") } .padding(.vertical, 8) } Button(action: { Task { let currentDate = Date() // Use the current date let currentUserId = Auth.auth().currentUser!.uid // Directly using the user ID as we're sure user is logged in do { let macrosDocumentExists = await calsViewModel.doesMacrosDocumentExist(userId: currentUserId, date: currentDate) if !macrosDocumentExists { try await calsViewModel.createMacrosDocument(userId: currentUserId, date: currentDate) } let foodIntakeDocumentExists = await calsViewModel.doesFoodIntakeDocumentExist(userId: currentUserId, date: currentDate) if !foodIntakeDocumentExists { try await calsViewModel.createIntakeDocument(userId: currentUserId, date: currentDate) } selectedCategory = category shouldPresentSheet = true } catch { print("Error creating documents: \(error.localizedDescription)") // Handle errors, perhaps by showing an alert to the user } } }) { Label("Add Food For \(category)", systemImage: "plus.circle.fill") .font(.headline) .foregroundColor(.white) .padding() .frame(maxWidth: .infinity) .background(Color.green) .cornerRadius(10) } .padding(.bottom) } } } And my FoodView:import SwiftUI import Firebase import FirebaseAuth import FirebaseFirestoreSwift struct FoodListView: View { @ObservedObject var calsViewModel: CaloriesViewModel @ObservedObject var foodViewModel = FoodViewModel() @Environment(\.dismiss) private var dismiss @Environment(\.presentationMode) var presentationMode var body: some View { NavigationView { List(foodViewModel.foods) { food in NavigationLink(destination: FoodDetailView(calsViewModel: calsViewModel, food: food)) { Text(food.name) } } .navigationTitle("Select Food") .toolbar { ToolbarItem(placement: .navigationBarLeading) { Button("Cancel") { dismiss() } } } .onAppear { foodViewModel.fetchFoods() } } } } struct FoodDetailView: View { @ObservedObject var calsViewModel: CaloriesViewModel var food: Food @State private var weight: String = "100" @State private var showConfirmation: Bool = false @State private var errorMessage: String? @ObservedObject var authViewModel = AuthViewModel() var body: some View { VStack { TextField("Enter weight in grams", text: $weight) .keyboardType(.numberPad) .textFieldStyle(RoundedBorderTextFieldStyle()) .padding() if let weightAsDouble = Double(weight) { Text("Calories: \(Double(food.calories) * weightAsDouble / 100, specifier: "%.2f") kcal") Group { Text("Protein: \(food.protein * weightAsDouble / 100, specifier: "%.2f") g") Text("Carbs: \(food.carbs * weightAsDouble / 100, specifier: "%.2f") g") Text("Fat: \(food.fat * weightAsDouble / 100, specifier: "%.2f") g") } .font(.headline) } Spacer() Button("Add Food") { Task { let today = Date() guard let userId = Auth.auth().currentUser?.uid else { errorMessage = "Unexpected error: User ID is not available." return } do { let weightDouble = Double(weight) ?? 100 let mealType: MealType = .other // This should be determined or selected by the user print("Adding food with weight: \(weightDouble)") // Debug log try await calsViewModel.addFoodIntakeAndUpdateMacros(userId: userId, date: today, food: food, weight: weightDouble, mealType: mealType) showConfirmation = true } catch { errorMessage = "An unexpected error occurred: \(error.localizedDescription)" } } } .alert("Food Added", isPresented: $showConfirmation) { Button("OK", role: .cancel) { } } message: { Text("Your daily intake has been updated.") } if let errorMessage = errorMessage { Text(errorMessage) .foregroundColor(.red) .padding() } Spacer() } .padding() .navigationTitle("\(food.name) Details") } } Currently, in FoodDetailsView, the mealType variable that is being saved to the firestore document is hardcoded to be ‘Other Food’, so all of the food, no matter which of the 4 "Add Food For \(category)" buttons I click is being shown in the ‘Other Food’ categoryI instead want the food to be saved into the Firestore document with the relevant mealType, depending on which section the button is clicked in
I have tried doing this by passing a mealType variable through when the “Add Food For \(category)" button is clicked, as you can see in the new versions of CaloriesView and FoodView below:
CaloriesView:
import SwiftUI import Firebase import FirebaseAuth import FirebaseFirestoreSwift struct CaloriesView: View { @EnvironmentObject var viewModel: AuthViewModel @EnvironmentObject var calsViewModel: CaloriesViewModel @State private var shouldPresentSheet: Bool = false @State private var selectedCategory: String? = nil @State private var selectedMealType: MealType? = nil var body: some View { NavigationView { ScrollView { VStack(spacing: 20) { CurrentCaloriesView(viewModel: calsViewModel) mealSection("Breakfast", foods: calsViewModel.breakfasts, mealType: .breakfast) mealSection("Lunch", foods: calsViewModel.lunches, mealType: .lunch) mealSection("Dinner", foods: calsViewModel.dinners, mealType: .dinner) mealSection("Other Food", foods: calsViewModel.otherFoods, mealType: .other) } .navigationBarTitle("Calories", displayMode: .inline) } } .onAppear { Task { await calsViewModel.fetchTodayMacros() await calsViewModel.fetchTodayFoodIntake() } } .sheet(isPresented: $shouldPresentSheet) { if let selectedMealType = selectedMealType { FoodListView(calsViewModel: calsViewModel, mealType: selectedMealType) } } } @ViewBuilder private func mealSection(_ category: String, foods: [(String, Double)], mealType: MealType) -> some View { VStack(alignment: .leading, spacing: 10) { Text(category) .font(.headline) .padding(.top) ForEach(foods.indices, id: \.self) { index in let food = foods[index] VStack(alignment: .leading, spacing: 8) { Text(food.0) .font(.headline) .bold() Text("Weight: \(food.1, specifier: "%.2f") g") } .padding(.vertical, 8) } Button(action: { Task { let currentDate = Date() let currentUserId = Auth.auth().currentUser!.uid do { let macrosDocumentExists = await calsViewModel.doesMacrosDocumentExist(userId: currentUserId, date: currentDate) if !macrosDocumentExists { try await calsViewModel.createMacrosDocument(userId: currentUserId, date: currentDate) } let foodIntakeDocumentExists = await calsViewModel.doesFoodIntakeDocumentExist(userId: currentUserId, date: currentDate) if !foodIntakeDocumentExists { try await calsViewModel.createIntakeDocument(userId: currentUserId, date: currentDate) } selectedCategory = category selectedMealType = mealType shouldPresentSheet = true } catch { print("Error creating documents: \(error.localizedDescription)") } } }) { Label("Add Food For \(category)", systemImage: "plus.circle.fill") .font(.headline) .foregroundColor(.white) .padding() .frame(maxWidth: .infinity) .background(Color.green) .cornerRadius(10) } .padding(.bottom) } } } FoodView:import SwiftUI import Firebase import FirebaseAuth import FirebaseFirestoreSwift struct FoodListView: View { @ObservedObject var calsViewModel: CaloriesViewModel @ObservedObject var foodViewModel = FoodViewModel() @Environment(\.dismiss) private var dismiss @Environment(\.presentationMode) var presentationMode var mealType: MealType var body: some View { NavigationView { List(foodViewModel.foods) { food in NavigationLink(destination: FoodDetailView(calsViewModel: calsViewModel, food: food, mealType: mealType)) { Text(food.name) } } .navigationTitle("Select Food") .toolbar { ToolbarItem(placement: .navigationBarLeading) { Button("Cancel") { dismiss() } } } .onAppear { foodViewModel.fetchFoods() } } } } struct FoodDetailView: View { @ObservedObject var calsViewModel: CaloriesViewModel var food: Food var mealType: MealType @State private var weight: String = "100" @State private var showConfirmation: Bool = false @State private var errorMessage: String? @ObservedObject var authViewModel = AuthViewModel() var body: some View { VStack { TextField("Enter weight in grams", text: $weight) .keyboardType(.numberPad) .textFieldStyle(RoundedBorderTextFieldStyle()) .padding() if let weightAsDouble = Double(weight) { Text("Calories: \(Double(food.calories) * weightAsDouble / 100, specifier: "%.2f") kcal") Group { Text("Protein: \(food.protein * weightAsDouble / 100, specifier: "%.2f") g") Text("Carbs: \(food.carbs * weightAsDouble / 100, specifier: "%.2f") g") Text("Fat: \(food.fat * weightAsDouble / 100, specifier: "%.2f") g") } .font(.headline) } Spacer() Button("Add Food") { Task { let today = Date() guard let userId = Auth.auth().currentUser?.uid else { errorMessage = "Unexpected error: User ID is not available." return } do { let weightDouble = Double(weight) ?? 100 print("Adding food with weight: \(weightDouble)") // Debug log try await calsViewModel.addFoodIntakeAndUpdateMacros(userId: userId, date: today, food: food, weight: weightDouble, mealType: mealType) showConfirmation = true } catch { errorMessage = "An unexpected error occurred: \(error.localizedDescription)" } } } .alert("Food Added", isPresented: $showConfirmation) { Button("OK", role: .cancel) { } } message: { Text("Your daily intake has been updated.") } if let errorMessage = errorMessage { Text(errorMessage) .foregroundColor(.red) .padding() } Spacer() } .padding() .navigationTitle("\(food.name) Details") } } But doing it this way causes the sheet containing FoodListView to be presented as completely blank, containing not even the ‘Cancel’ buttonThe original code did not do this - any ideas why? Thanks
Edit - for an
2024.05.16 22:48 You_minivan Ready to share my story (long). Hopefully, this can help others recognize when they are being "quiet fired."
Two months ago, I lost a job I had been very happy with for the better part of 3 years due to not acting soon enough to prevent the narcissist from destroying my reputation. I was the (only) administrator and customer service rep for a small company that produced a very specialized product. Having come from supervising a department in a large corporation for 13 years prior to this (and laid off during Covid), the new small office atmosphere was a breath of fresh air for me at the time. Everyone was friendly, collaborative, and willing to help - including the CEO, who I had a great relationship with. The manager that hired me eventually left to do his own thing and someone else was hired. It took some getting used to, but my new manager turned out to be awesome and we worked really well together. He also left to do his own thing after about a year, which meant that there was about a 3 month stretch where there was no true "manger," meaning I had to essentially run the production department by myself while we found someone new.
In walks the Narcissist. On day three of his reign, I walked in, greeted him, and sat down at my desk to start my day. Instead of greeting me back, he said "I didn't know I was your boss, too." I said well yes, I report to you because you have access to my time card, but I answer to everyone here. My job is to do what needs to be done to keep daily operations running smoothly." He then told me that he was disappointed that I didn't wish him a happy bosses day (which happened to be that day). I laughed it off, thinking he was joking. He wasn't. The next week, I had to leave early one day for a doctor's appointment. While I was gone, he answered an email from one of our vendors FROM MY ACCOUNT, basically chewing them out for something and adding, "I am You_Minivan's boss..." I didn't even know how to react when I saw he had done that. This made it clear to me that he had a complete lack of boundaries. He would also constantly sit in my very small office for long periods of time while I was trying to work and voice-text people. Even the CEO joked that it was weird to always find him in my office and not his own.
The company had recently acquired and absorbed another company, so a project came up where we needed to transition our customers to a new website. Being that I was the admin for all of our websites and had experience doing a very similar project before he got there, I thought he would allow me to take the lead in this transition. Instead, he completely took over and refused to acknowledge that I had any useful information that could help with the process. At one point, I mentioned that one specific application had created a lot of issues during the last transition, and I knew how to handle it as I was the only one with experience since I used the application every day. He said, "I've never heard of that application, so I'm sure it doesn't matter." It did matter. It put us months behind, and we ended up losing a lot of money and customers because he refused to believe I knew what I was talking about. The customer backlash affected only me directly, being that I was the first point of contact. The CEO was furious, but of course, I'm the one who was blamed because "I should have told the narc this would happen."
On another occasion, I needed him to communicate with the sales manager about a client issue so that I could continue with next steps. He kept putting this off and minimizing how severe this issue could become if I did not get an answer by a specific date. The date comes and goes, things go as badly as I knew they would, and then he wrote me up for "mishandling" the escalation. I spoke with the sales manager, who confirmed that he was asked (read: told) by the narc to stop sending me weekly updates from his department, which were crucial for me to make informed decisions. He said he was asked to talk to Narc Boss first and that he would relay any relevant information to me. I finally went to HR (one person) to let them know that I was unable to do my job properly because he was intentionally withholding information from me. She seemed to understand and said simply, "Document everything." So I did. I started documenting everything and filled up at least 20 pages front and back in a notebook. Some highlights from my notebook:
One day, I walked in and Narc asked to talk to me really quick.. I said sure. He said "It's clear you aren't happy here, so effective immediately, your position is terminated. I smiled - I honestly thought he was joking for about 5 minutes. He told me he was serious and told me I had 10 minutes to gather my things. I said I'd prefer to be able to speak with someone first. Here's the kicker: This was day one of the HR manager's two week vacation. I asked to speak to the CEO, who was conveniently not there yet. I kept asking him why - what did I do, can you be specific? He told me that the CEO and HR had both already signed off on this and refused to give a reason. He just kept saying "I am your manager - I don't have to give a reason," repeatedly, with his head tilted up and his chin sticking out like some sort of white collar criminal pleading the 5th. After about a half hour of absolute shock and confusion, I handed in my keys and left. My co-workers were all equally as shocked when he held a meeting afterwards, saying I was let go for "personality differences."" One of them ran to see if I was still in the parking lot to give me a hug, but Narc made sure I was already gone. He then ran up to the HR office only to find out she was also gone. The Narc had won, as they always do, but did finally get one thing right. I have major "personality differences" and do not work very well with narcissists.
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In walks the Narcissist. On day three of his reign, I walked in, greeted him, and sat down at my desk to start my day. Instead of greeting me back, he said "I didn't know I was your boss, too." I said well yes, I report to you because you have access to my time card, but I answer to everyone here. My job is to do what needs to be done to keep daily operations running smoothly." He then told me that he was disappointed that I didn't wish him a happy bosses day (which happened to be that day). I laughed it off, thinking he was joking. He wasn't. The next week, I had to leave early one day for a doctor's appointment. While I was gone, he answered an email from one of our vendors FROM MY ACCOUNT, basically chewing them out for something and adding, "I am You_Minivan's boss..." I didn't even know how to react when I saw he had done that. This made it clear to me that he had a complete lack of boundaries. He would also constantly sit in my very small office for long periods of time while I was trying to work and voice-text people. Even the CEO joked that it was weird to always find him in my office and not his own.
The company had recently acquired and absorbed another company, so a project came up where we needed to transition our customers to a new website. Being that I was the admin for all of our websites and had experience doing a very similar project before he got there, I thought he would allow me to take the lead in this transition. Instead, he completely took over and refused to acknowledge that I had any useful information that could help with the process. At one point, I mentioned that one specific application had created a lot of issues during the last transition, and I knew how to handle it as I was the only one with experience since I used the application every day. He said, "I've never heard of that application, so I'm sure it doesn't matter." It did matter. It put us months behind, and we ended up losing a lot of money and customers because he refused to believe I knew what I was talking about. The customer backlash affected only me directly, being that I was the first point of contact. The CEO was furious, but of course, I'm the one who was blamed because "I should have told the narc this would happen."
On another occasion, I needed him to communicate with the sales manager about a client issue so that I could continue with next steps. He kept putting this off and minimizing how severe this issue could become if I did not get an answer by a specific date. The date comes and goes, things go as badly as I knew they would, and then he wrote me up for "mishandling" the escalation. I spoke with the sales manager, who confirmed that he was asked (read: told) by the narc to stop sending me weekly updates from his department, which were crucial for me to make informed decisions. He said he was asked to talk to Narc Boss first and that he would relay any relevant information to me. I finally went to HR (one person) to let them know that I was unable to do my job properly because he was intentionally withholding information from me. She seemed to understand and said simply, "Document everything." So I did. I started documenting everything and filled up at least 20 pages front and back in a notebook. Some highlights from my notebook:
- Frequently peeked his head into my office with rage in his eyes after berating another coworker, saying, "The nerve of that guy...!"
- Told me that he thought his title should be "Director of [Industry]" This title didn't exist and would have made him everyone's boss, including other managers.
- Misspelled the names of products on customer facing media. When I figured out why these items were not being picked up on our production sheets, he said "Oh yes, I've known that for months and nobody noticed."
- Explicitly told me not to do a project that the CEO asked me to do because it "wasn't my job." Asked me to gather the info an essentially do the project myself anyway, then presented it to the CEO as his own work and told him I had refused to do it. This happened with multiple smaller projects I was asked to do for other departments too.
- Told me I should appreciate how much he was "protecting" me from the CEO. Protecting me from what, I still don't know. Told me that he was "training" the CEO how to approach me.
- Told me that nobody in the company respected me, but he did, and that's why I shouldn't do the projects I was being asked to do or continue doing day-to-day tasks that had always been a part of my job.
One day, I walked in and Narc asked to talk to me really quick.. I said sure. He said "It's clear you aren't happy here, so effective immediately, your position is terminated. I smiled - I honestly thought he was joking for about 5 minutes. He told me he was serious and told me I had 10 minutes to gather my things. I said I'd prefer to be able to speak with someone first. Here's the kicker: This was day one of the HR manager's two week vacation. I asked to speak to the CEO, who was conveniently not there yet. I kept asking him why - what did I do, can you be specific? He told me that the CEO and HR had both already signed off on this and refused to give a reason. He just kept saying "I am your manager - I don't have to give a reason," repeatedly, with his head tilted up and his chin sticking out like some sort of white collar criminal pleading the 5th. After about a half hour of absolute shock and confusion, I handed in my keys and left. My co-workers were all equally as shocked when he held a meeting afterwards, saying I was let go for "personality differences."" One of them ran to see if I was still in the parking lot to give me a hug, but Narc made sure I was already gone. He then ran up to the HR office only to find out she was also gone. The Narc had won, as they always do, but did finally get one thing right. I have major "personality differences" and do not work very well with narcissists.
2024.05.16 22:47 Three_Froggy_Problem I don’t like Day of the Tentacle
I love adventure games, and the LucasArts stuff is generally the best of the bunch in my opinion. The Monkey Island games and Indiana Jones & the Fate of Atlantis are some of my favorites ever. In just about every aspect I think these games represent the genre’s gold standard.
But I can’t bring myself to really enjoy Day of the Tentacle, and it feels crazy because this one is considered by many to be one of their best.
Here’s my big issue with the game: it’s too open and there’s too little guidance. Lots of adventure games have scenes where you find yourself beating your head against a wall looking for the solution, but generally even at their worst you can figure them out with enough trial and error because there are only a few different areas you have access to at any given time. But in this game, you have three characters spread across three time periods.
There are so many different rooms, interactable objects, characters, and items between these three characters that figuring out the next step feels completely overwhelming.
At one point I figured out that I could put the vacuum ad in the suggestion box in the past, which was clever; this made it so that a vacuum appeared in the basement in the future. The problem? I have no idea how to get into the basement in the future. Is the solution I’m looking for in the future, or is it in one of the other time periods? For all I know, there’s another puzzle I have to solve first before I can even solve this one.
I don’t think that the game does a good enough job of directing you, and many of the items you find just feel completely random and without any obvious use. I don’t want the game to hold my hand the whole time, but I feel like this one is giving me absolutely nothing to go on.
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But I can’t bring myself to really enjoy Day of the Tentacle, and it feels crazy because this one is considered by many to be one of their best.
Here’s my big issue with the game: it’s too open and there’s too little guidance. Lots of adventure games have scenes where you find yourself beating your head against a wall looking for the solution, but generally even at their worst you can figure them out with enough trial and error because there are only a few different areas you have access to at any given time. But in this game, you have three characters spread across three time periods.
There are so many different rooms, interactable objects, characters, and items between these three characters that figuring out the next step feels completely overwhelming.
At one point I figured out that I could put the vacuum ad in the suggestion box in the past, which was clever; this made it so that a vacuum appeared in the basement in the future. The problem? I have no idea how to get into the basement in the future. Is the solution I’m looking for in the future, or is it in one of the other time periods? For all I know, there’s another puzzle I have to solve first before I can even solve this one.
I don’t think that the game does a good enough job of directing you, and many of the items you find just feel completely random and without any obvious use. I don’t want the game to hold my hand the whole time, but I feel like this one is giving me absolutely nothing to go on.
2024.05.16 22:45 Gullible-System-1400 The Ultimate Guide for Reverse Recruiting: How to Attract Employers to You
1. Build a Standout Personal Brand
Your personal brand is your professional identity online. Here’s how to build a compelling one:
Even though you want employers to come to you, having a polished resume and cover letter ready is crucial:
Networking is key in reverse recruiting. Here’s how to do it effectively:
Use platforms that can put you directly in front of recruiters:
Demonstrating your skills and knowledge can draw employers to you:
Social proof can significantly boost your attractiveness to employers:
Continuous learning and staying current in your field is crucial:
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Your personal brand is your professional identity online. Here’s how to build a compelling one:
- LinkedIn Profile: Ensure your LinkedIn profile is complete and up-to-date. Use a professional photo, write a compelling headline, and craft a summary that highlights your strengths and achievements.
- Portfolio Website: Create a personal website to showcase your work, especially if you’re in a field like design, writing, or software development.
- Social Media Presence: Be active on platforms relevant to your industry. Share insightful content, engage with industry leaders, and participate in discussions.
Even though you want employers to come to you, having a polished resume and cover letter ready is crucial:
- Tailor Your Resume: Highlight skills and experiences that are in demand in your industry. Use keywords that recruiters search for.
- Craft a Compelling Cover Letter: Write a generic cover letter that can be easily customized for different employers, emphasizing your achievements and what you bring to the table.
Networking is key in reverse recruiting. Here’s how to do it effectively:
- Attend Industry Events: Participate in conferences, webinars, and meetups. Make connections and follow up with them.
- Engage on LinkedIn: Connect with recruiters, join relevant groups, and contribute to discussions.
- Informational Interviews: Reach out to professionals in your field for informational interviews. This can often lead to job opportunities.
Use platforms that can put you directly in front of recruiters:
- LinkedIn Jobs: Set your profile to “Open to Work” and fill out the preferences to attract the right recruiters.
- Industry-Specific Job Boards: Join platforms and forums specific to your field where employers actively search for candidates.
- Freelance Platforms: Websites like Upwork or Fiverr can also attract employers looking for long-term hires.
Demonstrating your skills and knowledge can draw employers to you:
- Blog or Vlog: Start a blog or YouTube channel where you share insights about your industry.
- Public Speaking: Give talks at industry events or webinars.
- Publish Articles: Write articles for industry publications or platforms like Medium.
Social proof can significantly boost your attractiveness to employers:
- LinkedIn Recommendations: Ask colleagues, managers, or clients to write recommendations for you on LinkedIn.
- Endorsements: Request endorsements for your skills from your network.
Continuous learning and staying current in your field is crucial:
- Certifications: Obtain certifications relevant to your industry.
- Online Courses: Take courses to upskill and stay competitive.
- Read Industry News: Stay informed about trends and changes in your field.