SilverAlchemic

Oldschool name change.

I work 12 months out of the year and don't have full vacation breaks like teachers (2 week winter break, 2 week spring break, etc) including summer. Teachers come back and ask us how our summer was, "oh it was great! I was still here, working!" I cry a little inside when they ask.

I spent my Thanksgivin' having dinner with Treemo's family and watching Scooby Doo Wrestlemania Mystery.

yeah, thanksgiving is just shitty christmas really. it lacks the cheer and spirit christmas brings, and its a lot more stressful. plus the season itself is shitty. thanksgiving always happens during the ugly part of fall where it's not snowed yet and everything is brown and gray and depressing.

Black Friday has been a big deal for a few years. I couldn't tell you when it happened. Now that everyone knows the drill, though, I think employees do get perks for working that day. I know some stores let you sign up for it voluntarily and they try to make it a fun event. 
 
It's hard are to say when Black Friday peaked or if it's still growing in the US. It's a trend now to close stores on Thanksgiving again. I feel like the insane Black Friday hype has died down. 

Most retail shops are hourly pay so I guess since they're open til late people will get the extra hours paid without hassle. Not sure what the protocol would be regarding like, Amazon/the post offices and delivery companies though. Once it settles as a definitely annual thing there'll be something, lol. 
At least (so far as I know) the shops here aren't opening at crazy early hours like I've heard what happens in the US, just open til later than usual. The shopping centre here closes at half 5 on fridays usually, but is open til like 8pm for Black Friday? Just like what happens every Thursday I guess lol. But with MORE ADVERTISING and DEALS. I will not be going near the centre tomorrow. Last year I made that mistake and just. queues. queues everywhere. not even happy queues.

I'd say "we didn't commit genocide for this land tho" but that's just a fashionable thing to complain about. That and it was basically the British empire who did it, right?; but because they split off and made the US we're happy to not take responsibility for that over here. Like, we don't, so I don't really know why the current generation of Americans should either.
I wonder if the unions have caught on to the trend and demanded people get extra pay for Black Friday yet. I feel like it's probably a thing in America to get paid extra for the BF shift, but I can imagine some people haven't taken those measures here yet.

wow you guys dont have thanksgiving guess youre just not thankful for anything ever HUH

The only part of this that the UK has appropriated is Black Friday. Not sure if we've always done Black Friday, but I've noticed the advertising increase over the past couple years. Can't avoid Black Friday hype this year.
I don't really know how they're related though.
Had a look. Here's an article from 2010: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1331965/Black-Friday-2010-Christmas-price-war-begins-shops-try-bring-event-Britain.html
So yeah, Amazon caused Black Friday to migrate to the UK. Kind of surreal that it's suddenly grown into such a big thing. Feel like 2015 will be the year it really caught on though.

Good luck!

GO FOR IT! I can't wait to see what you've put together!
In other news, I've just officially registered to go to GDC 2016! AND NOW I'M OUT SEVERAL THOUSAND DOLLARS. HURRAY.

God bless. Hope it works out! Maybe you could do a little process tumblr while you're working. I'd follow that.

Just so y'all know, you're all probably going to see a lot less of me in the coming months due to me finally deciding to tackle a personal project I've been sitting on for 6 years. 
Which basically involves me creating an entire animated (short??? IDK how long it's gonna be) film all by myself.
My days of free time and sleep are over.

Thanks everyone

Tappy Birthday, Michael!

I'm 3 episodes in and I think it's pretty good.
I never bothered to look into the cast list or the plot (if it was even known), however I was not expecting the antagonist to be this person. I will not say WHO it is, as I still want it to be a secret for those WHO haven't seen the show yet (or heard).
Needless to say... I don't want to go... to bed, because I have more to watch!

I like the News app on iOS9. You can pick and choose what you wanna subscribe to. I don't have to get pissed off at politics and social issues but still see the news. 
Or I can see The Guardian and BBC stuff that's less retarded than American news 

Careful, Ben. "It's not that gay because they kind of look like a woman anyway" is the first rationale of the soon-to-be-homosexual. Soon you could seriously be thinking about male genitalia in a new light, leading to the destigmatization of appreciation of the masculine figure, and eventually you'll be full blown gay. Watch your step, Ben. It's a slippery slope.
Sex With A Man: Not Even Once

Teto you should probably spoiler that

can't believe i have to wait til december for Snake to be confirmed

It helps that the crossbows are rad as shit

Would prefer to see a female Link as interpreted by a standard Zelda game, but it's cool to see people embracing this idea. People are judging her for being a typical anime girl with no really special characteristics, but from what I can remember of Hyrule Warriors, Link himself is pretty bland as well. So her being as mind-numbingly typical as the other female characters in Hyrule Warriors in no biggie.

 
 

 
well it turns out this was actually a dude and long story short I guess I'm bi now

We stayed until 6 am. We had to be at work at noon.
:)
God only knows
She just turned 27, I'm 24
I see her practically everyday. It went well today. We didn't mention it at all really. She hasn't acted any different. She's always been really flirty and touchy and I reciprocate pretty often anyway. Last night was just me taking advantage of a situation. It could have gone farther if I had pushed it, but I started to feel bad for her husband so I backed off a bit.