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  1. The new overtime law takes effect 12/1/16. It would require my company to give many of us  $10k raises. I highly doubt that will happen. They'll probably make us all hourly instead. 

    https://www.google.com/amp/khon2.com/2016/05/17/new-rule-expands-overtime-pay-to-millions-of-salaried-workers/amp/#

    1. Sledgstone

      Sledgstone

      Wages seem all out of whack to me now. I have a strong feeling that the more people are going to get paid, the less amount of coworkers they'll have to share the work load with. Sure higher pay generally equals more work, but when it takes away all your free time or you have to do double the work and not get double pay, its complete BS. In the same sense, I think about the $15 an hour minimum wage for fast food workers starting in NY. I wouldn't be surprised if most of those fast food places start running on skeleton crews soon. I've already seen articles show casing new "order your own food here kiosks" at fast food places. Thats one less employee.. and other articles about how the person taking your order at a drive thru can be outsourced to another country like customer service is for many companies. Some person in Indonesia will take your order and input it in the system because McDonalds can pay that guy $2 an hour and eliminate another $15 an hour job. All stores that have salary management are either going to have some less managers or have to change their pay structure to make the money come from somewhere. Of course the money has to come out of the employees somehow, because the CEOs with their multi million dollar jobs will never take a pay cut. And the profit paid out to stock holders will never get decreased.

    2. Strider Hiryu

      Strider Hiryu

      Interesting changes, I heard a little about this yesterday with the Wendy's Kiosk thing they're rolling out. While I feel it's a good change because lets face it, low-end salaried managers get the hose when it comes to working hours. I know while I was still working at Wal-Mart most Assistant Managers pulled up to or even more then 70 hours a week and were only paid for 50 (most of them making below or right at this base line of $47k) this will have sweeping repercussions once implemented. Wal-Mart will most likely do away with their profit-sharing program to cover the costs (if they don't fuck their salaried managers) which means the hourly workers won't get that nice little bonus every 3 months if they make profit (it's a weird program honestly, I never fully understood it but I never complained about the extra $300-$500 it put on my check when it paid out). They'll probably cut down on their already bloated management staff as well (at the Wal-Mart I used to work at (and probably work at again if they hire me back) they have 4 Co-Managers and at least 16 Assistant Managers (you could easily cut that to 2 Co's and half as many Assistants)). How other businesses will handle this is up in the air but I'm pretty sure that's what Wal-Mart would do (I mean they already run their stores with the bare minimum employees needed). Sadly Wal-Mart's pay increase in my area was pretty shitty. My friends say they received a 2% raise when this all went into effect but then again they are some of the best paid hourly employees in the company (when I left I was making $17.80 an hour after 4 years (4 normal raises) and 6 cost of living raises and other minor increases, my friend is currently making $18.12 an hour. They're lucky also because when the company dropped starting wages they rolled all that money into their base wages so they wouldn't loose it). Not so much anymore as I've heard the starting wages dropped to $12 an hour for days and I believe $14 an hour for nights (down from $15 and $17 respectively, this is due to the oil boom in the Bakken dropping off drastically). This is still more then the national average for Wal-Mart employees but it's a general idea of what at least one Wal-Mart is paying.

    3. DeathscytheX

      DeathscytheX

      That's exactly right. A lot of people don't understand that $15 min wage is bad. These are entry level jobs that kids should be doing, not a way of life. Now it's gonna be harder for young people to get their first work experience because no one is going to want to hire a kid for a hugh wage. If everyone could live comfortably making French fries then you'd have less people willing to work for a more skilled occupation that's a value to society. Human drive is why socialism doesn't work and never will. Star Trek economics will never happen. As for the OT rules, yeah if they increase my wage I see longer hours and less help in the future. 

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  2. I miss playing Overwatch :/. I didn't think I'd have this type of withdraws. I can't wait to relax on my vacation and play. :D

    1. Strider Hiryu

      Strider Hiryu

      Poor, poor DX XD I can't lie I kinda miss playing it too. Thankfully I have new Rainbow 6 DLC to play to keep me distracted.

    2. Sledgstone

      Sledgstone

      That was a solid beta and it was a fun game. I wish I had more time to try every character out thoroughly.

  3. Trying to finish my dailies, I hop on to WvW and see a fellow JQer getting 4v1ed on a camp site. He was just trying to get his daily like me. I mark/well bombed the group and RS4ed into them taking them all down. Daily accomplished. XD #ReaperLife

    1. Sledgstone

      Sledgstone

      Nice. XD Are you using your pve power reaper build? Or a variant of it? I might swap my reaper to a fear build just to troll. I started doing more WvW dailies to. I'm glad it's getting more popular. Last night at reset the EB map had a queue of 49. Btw master of monuments daily is bugged. I claimed a ruin the other day and didn't get the daily.

    2. DeathscytheX

      DeathscytheX

      I stick with the power build. I destroyed a MM Necro the other day that wanted to chase me down. I'd say spamming all your staff attacks and entering shroud works just as good in WvW as it does in PvP. Most the time people will just retreat. I've won a few 2v1 and 3v1s trying to get back to the zerg. It's always fun to rally off a neutral animal when you get downed only to clean up the guys you have low on health. XD

  4. With dailies, and my wood node run, I'm neting a cool 5g a day on GW2. If this keeps up, they'll up the rate that wood drops to flood the market. Gold shouldn't be this easy to make. Along with my rare drops it goes up to almost 10g a day.

    1. Sledgstone

      Sledgstone

      Inflation is kicking in fast. Everything is going up in price like crazy. Supplies of goods are dropping with ppl buying up surplus with their extra gold. Steel ingots are almost back up to its all time high:

      https://www.gw2tp.com/item/19688-steel-ingot?full=1

      And gold to gem conversion is at crazy levels right now and they'll only continue to go up.

  5. "Oh look, it's FAREN...the last person I wanted to see." XD ever since the HoT beta that's been my favorite dynamic event in gw2. 

    1. Sledgstone

      Sledgstone

      I haven't done that event since the beta. I remember when he was wearing that speedo and everyone had a wtf moment at his nakedness. XD

    2. DeathscytheX

      DeathscytheX

      It's a Tarzan cloth now. XD

    3. Sledgstone
  6. After they announced their world premiere on 5/6, Battlefield shared a 1942 clip advertising their world premiere. I hope that means something. 

    1. Sledgstone

      Sledgstone

      Ohhh. It better be good. Battlefield 3 and 4 had me hooked for a solid 6 months each.

    2. DeathscytheX

      DeathscytheX

      I wonder what Gearbox did to deserve Overwatch's Open Beta and BF's world premiere take place during Battleborn's launch. XD

    3. Sledgstone

      Sledgstone

      Sucks for them. Its like a how a good movie might come out the same weekend as a new Star Wars and bomb horribly just because of bad timing.

  7. Bolt is not only visually impressive, Its no where near as common as the 3 legendary Greatswords. Twilight is still my favorite, but Bolt is awesome, and someone complemented me on it during Frozen Maw and asked if it was worth making. XD

    1. Sledgstone

      Sledgstone

      Bolt really is uncommon. I only see maybe a couple a week. That was pretty damn awesome yesterday tho. We made matching legendaries on the same day. After I make another gift of fortune I'm going to buy one of those ghostly infusions for my ranger. XD I have the red SAB infusion but not the blue. Now I kind of regret not getting those yellow sab skins for it. oh well. lol.

  8. If COD: Infinite Warfare comes with a fully remastered COD4 I will buy it, download COD4, and then turn IW in for whatever trade in credit I could get. #worthit

    1. Sledgstone

      Sledgstone

      Quote

      7. Can I play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered without buying Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare?
      No, you must own Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare in order to get Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered.

      12. Will Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered have dedicated servers?
      Yes, it will.

      It wont be sold separately. :\ I'll wait and see if they eventually release it standalone.

      Dedicated servers in a CoD game!? wow. O_O

    2. DeathscytheX

      DeathscytheX

      Thats a faux statement. Its a hyrbrid in which you never really know if you are on P2P or Dedicated servers. Blops 3 uses it and it still has similar issues. COD4's netcode was good enough that P2P was never noticeable outside of cheaters. I have a feeling the 10 missing maps will be tied to the season pass. They're desperate for sales since Ghosts was received so negatively. Honestly I'm surprised they are taking the gamble. When everyone realizes how shit IW is, they'll all go to MW1... but then when the younger crown gets rekt by those skilled at non gimmicky gunplay, they'll stop playing it. A few insta downs from the M16 or MP5 and they'll be going back to blops 3.

      They'll sell it eventually. It may be a year after the game comes out just to milk some sales, but they'll do it. It will probably be a GOTY edition with all related stuff that was tied into the season pass.

    3. Sledgstone

      Sledgstone

      Hybrid setup. ehhh. Activision needs to go full dedicated. If they release it at a decent price as a standalone I'll buy it for the campaign, but if they're going to release this only as a combo I'll never buy it. It makes me wonder how much work they had to put into the remaster to have it combo'd with a new full CoD game at a $79 price point. I remember that one article where the majority of CoD's game engine has never changed since modern warfare. Its like the entire series is setup like a factory assembly line. They probably just had to load the original Modern Warfare files into their workstations and it was all ready to go except for adding new textures to make it 'remastered'. Of course I have no idea if I'm even close to being right about this assumption since I have no experience with programing. lol.

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  9. Finished up HPs in VB and then caught a train in AB. I'm 60 HPs away from completing my scrapper. The hammer play is pretty cool, I need all my gyros to get the full experience.

    1. DeathscytheX

      DeathscytheX

      The HPs in HoT are still champions. I thought they were changing them to vets like most the events, but I guess not. I was able to solo the communes surrounded by vets by spamming nade kit, but I was lucky enough to catch the champion HPs in progress. I don't know how people enjoy base engineer. its such a massive rotation that is all ground targeted with ass for mobility. I guess I'm so use to being able to faceroll with DH and Reaper, or the high mobility of Ranger and Mesmer with their stamina regen traits/skills. Engi has some great damage, but you can't afford to take as much punishment as other classes like Warrior/Reaper/Rev.

    2. Sledgstone

      Sledgstone

      Interesting. Whats your setup so far? Hammer, rifle, double pistols? You can only equip a couple of kits at a time right? like flamethrower and grenades?

    3. DeathscytheX

      DeathscytheX

      Rifle is meta fo base, but it's laughable. You stay in nade kit and rotate 1-5 F1-5. I'm probably never gonna run fractals or raids with her so I'll use the power hammer build on meta battle. I already invested in zerk gear before the condi update. 

  10. Stomped an Anet employee on EoTM. XD A lot more Zerg v Zerg going on these days. Its pretty fun. The reward track is the best thing to happen to WvW.

    1. DeathscytheX

      DeathscytheX

      I dunno. I mean if you have everything else you want it is kinda worth it. My DH has 15k HP now from vital infusions on my ascended armor/trinkets. XD that's absurd for Guardian. 

    2. Sledgstone

      Sledgstone

      All of my infusion slots are full of agony resistance. x_x The only way I can add power is to make those expensive things. But the fractal mastery does have a vendor that lets me extract infusions for 24 silver per piece of armor. I've used it so many times swapping AR around. I made sure to save my +20 exp and +20 magic find infusions that I bought with laurels. If I can finally put high level fractals to the curb I'll swap some of this AR over to power infusions and save the AR ones for a rainy day. I really wish AR was an account bound upgrade thing like a mastery and not tied to armor slots.

    3. DeathscytheX

      DeathscytheX

      Yeah I use vital/power. It's a great boost for regular dungeons.

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  11. Mike O'Brien will be under center today when GW2's quarterly update goes live. Nothing has been revealed about it, and its a different approach to this type of stuff than we're all use to under Colin. That being said, there is no telling how much Colin had his hand on this update, and how much was changed under Mike. 

    1. Sledgstone

      Sledgstone

      I'm hoping for the best but expecting minimal changes to the aspects of the game that affect what I play. I don't care for the raids and pvp was pretty much ruined for me. Unless some new content happens via LW or WvW soon, the only thing I'll have left in the game is fractal farming for my back piece and finishing bolt. If the HoT maps do get more casual I could actually play them in my spare time which would give me something new to do.

  12. Checked my crafting station with the mind set of making ascended armor for the first time. I was able to craft 2 more pieces for my Guardian. I just need to save up more damask to get the last 3. I might as well get it done before they increase the requirements more. It's been a while since I spent all day on GW2.

    1. Sledgstone

      Sledgstone

      I have 2 pieces of ascended armor on my warrior from ascended armor drops from fractals (i know at least 1 was from fractals, can't remember about the other). But I've been doing fractals off and on for over a year. And I thought it'd be a good way to farm ascended armor. jokes on me. x_x

  13. When you go to the DZ solo for the sole purpose of killing 10 cleaners for the weekly and the cleaner boss drops a gear set piece... I didn't need that stress, but I extracted successfully. X_x

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    1. Strider Hiryu

      Strider Hiryu

      Eh, I'll probably attempt it tonight after I do the HM missions when they reset. That 30 creds would give me enough to by the M44 blueprint.

    2. DeathscytheX

      DeathscytheX

      I see now why those weapons are almost 1000 credits... they are 204 gear score. I guess it makes sense now. I bought my striker pads today and I rolled 99% scavenging on them. I'll try my luck in CM drops. I hear you can get a 204 weapon drop if you're lucky.

    3. Strider Hiryu

      Strider Hiryu

      Yea I noticed that today when I got on. Nice scavenging score, pretty sure you'll get a 204 HE with that). Finally bought the M44 blueprint and, while I probably didn't get the best rolls on it, the thing is a beast in the test range (almost 108,000 on headshot, almost 152,000 on crit headshot). Can't wait to actually try it out on enemies.

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  14. Ratchet & Clank is a blast. Its been so long since I've played the first game, I can't remember of any resemblance of it in this one. I remember the story, and its definitely told a bit differently here. The visuals are pixar quality for sure.

    1. Sledgstone

      Sledgstone

      Sounds fun. :D Back in the day I had the chance to play Ratchet & Clank and never did. I regretted that. Instead I played Crash Bandicoot. That was fun at the time but all these years later Ratchet & Clank looks like the better franchise.

    2. DeathscytheX

      DeathscytheX

      R&C is def better than Bandicoot. Bandiicoot was just a regular platformer. R&C along with platforming and various puzzles, has always had an amazing array of weapons, tools, and abilities. Not only that it's always had an interesting upgrade system to go along with each weapon. Although the games have always been super easy, this preorder weapon I got is ultra OP. XD I've stopped using it after I maxed it by the 3rd planet I was on just to play with other weapons. Its really one of those games you just sit back and enjoy without any frustrating moment. The story has always been great, the check points are beyond forgiving on death, and its just an all around casual good time. :P

    3. Sledgstone

      Sledgstone

      You really know how to sell a game. *is tempted to buy* :D

  15. WTF is this ice on the floor on SAB W2... X_x I'd rage so hard if this was on any of the regular world JPs.

    1. Sledgstone

      Sledgstone

      I hate that ice. x_x If you hit the shovel skill you can stop your sliding tho.

  16. With DOOM and Overwatch on the horizon it would be nice to see oldschool mechanics come back to the FPS genre. Hopefully these games do very well. I might pick up DOOM for the single player.

    1. Sledgstone

      Sledgstone

      I'd play DOOM for the single player. The multiplayer for that looks like an afterthought like the uncharted 3, tomb raider and last of us multiplayer modes.

  17. Overwatch's MMR has me interested in trying out their competitve leauge play once I get a grasp on the game.

    1. Sledgstone

      Sledgstone

      I love the variety of classes in this game. Hopefully theres no one class that everyone declares 'meta' and runs with endlessly.

  18. Strider's first challenge mode was one of the roughest missions. XD The clutch main valve shut off with seconds left on the timer was epic.

    1. DeathscytheX

      DeathscytheX

      My first time it took 5 hours to beat it X_x. 80% came from the timed part.

    2. Strider Hiryu

      Strider Hiryu

      XD, that Colby clutch was beyond epic (10 secs left and he pulled that off). Was freaking fun and I'm glad it didn't take 5 hours to beat (over an hour was long enough). Definitely learned that I need better gear going forward when it comes to running CM's (which I got plenty of upgrades from that and those hard modes we ran).
    3. DeathscytheX

      DeathscytheX

      Lexington Event Center is a cake walk by comparison. Bullet King Farm helped me obtain all HE gear. Otherwise it can be a long grind for all the blue prints. That vector and extended mag blue print is top priority IMO.

  19. I've been waiting for Negan since I first read the moment that will be portrayed on TV this Sunday. Looking forward to seeing Jeffrey Dean Morgan bring him to life.

    1. Sledgstone

      Sledgstone

      I have a strong feeling that Maggie is going to be Negan's first victim.

    2. DeathscytheX

      DeathscytheX

      I thought so until the last episode. Shes not in the group that got caught. Its probably going to be one or more between Daryl, Glenn, Michonne, Rosita, Morgan, and Carol. Although I find it funny how the majority of everyone is wearing the same color jacket to cover up who was laying in the ground in the preview. Michonne is off the table IMO, everyone else is fair game.

  20. SAB!!!!!! GW2 trying to smooth over the rage. XD

    1. Sledgstone

      Sledgstone

      8-bit retro gaming with my MMO character? Yes please. :D It amazes me that vg247 or kotaku will post every single update about Destiny including mundane crap like what the weekly vendor has for sale, but GW2 releases an 8-bit retro festival that it hasn't been seen in over 2 years and no gaming website gives a crap.

  21. Funi added Yu Yu Hakusho to streaming!!!!

    1. Sledgstone

      Sledgstone

      I love that series and I've had dvds of it for years now. ^_^ I don't think the final season ever aired on toonami, and that final season makes the dark tournament seem pretty weak in comparison. :D I bet its been remastered in hd. My Yu Yu Hakusho dvds are really crap quality.

  22. Thinking about picking up Overwatch when it comes out. The more I watch Widowmaker gameplay, the more intrigued I get.

    1. DeathscytheX
    2. Sledgstone

      Sledgstone

      Hell yes blizzard. They know what they're doing.

    3. DeathscytheX

      DeathscytheX

      Blops 3 made this mistake. Apparently the pc version is full of the semi auto sniper rifle. Treyarch refuses to nerf it separately. Mouse and keyboard make it super OP.

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  23. Two new seasons of FLCL? I hope they're just as batshit crazy as the first one.

    1. Sledgstone

      Sledgstone

      The original season was wacky as hell but had deeper meanings thru metaphors for many scenes. It'll be interesting if they can maintain that, or if they're just going to make some crazy anime.

    2. Strider Hiryu

      Strider Hiryu

      As intrigued as I am I'm not to sure I'm happy another studio has the rights to this. I like Production I.G. and the work they've done in the past (GitS: SAC and what not) but they're not really known for bat shit crazy shows like FLCL, that's Gainax's forte. I hope they do it right (they're work on GitS: Arise was not their best work to date) otherwise they'll have a shit ton of pissed off fans.

  24. After winning several 2v4 encounters by trolls, I've discovered there are some really bad players in the DZ. Everyone is making max DPS builds with little skill power.

    1. DeathscytheX

      DeathscytheX

      I run a lot of crit chance on my gear, along with my vector that does high crit damage and even more chance on its talents. Along with scan puse I can melt the tankiest of builds. I keep my HP around 62k.

    2. DeathscytheX

      DeathscytheX

      Running 100k hp builds doesn't seem worth it. Some of my group has it, and they still go down. I prefer skill power for better pulse and sticky bombs. One person I know can insta down a whole team with his sticky because his sp is +30k and he had sticky stats on all his gear XD

    3. DeathscytheX

      DeathscytheX

      My damage mitigation is at 50%. I think armor values can off set lower HP values.

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  25. The Division loot cave has been found! XD

    1. Sledgstone

      Sledgstone

      Oh thats huge then. This will be the first real test to see how quick the devs can fix an exploit.

    2. Strider Hiryu

      Strider Hiryu

      Considering it was just fixed in today's patch I'd say rather quick. Massive won't have any of these farming exploits in there game

    3. DeathscytheX

      DeathscytheX

      Yeah, and they buffed loot/dz gains across the board. Much better than Bungie saying "f you, we'll turn all your purple engrams into blue ones if you dont spend them before the patch" and keep the drops shit. Even thought the drops were already better than anything Destiny gave me in a whole year.

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