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Setsuna's crazy adventures - a cataloguing
mariokirby:
--- Quote from: Setsuna on June 03, 2016, 02:12:12 pm ---Not having a PS4 isn't the end of the world surprisingly - Considering the PS4k is inbound later this year, the delay actually works out in my favour, considering I can wait for a PS4 price drop. I'm also tossing up if I want to get Firis in Japanese, as I'm expected to do..
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Oh, yeah. I forgot about the Neo. I wonder if a lot of people are going to upgrade. Though, it seems you would rather have a price drop PS4 instead, which is fine since games support both Neo and regular PS4. But, I wonder how companies feel about that trying to develop 2 modes for one game. I hope the regular mode doesn't suffer too much.
--- Quote from: Setsuna on June 03, 2016, 02:12:12 pm ---then again, I'm pretty convinced most people read through the thread so far and have said 'There's no way she's telling the truth. No one person can have that many things happen to them in the modern day and age, and not have gone insane, because reality isn't supposed to work that way'.
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I'm sure a lot people here believe you. Some people can have terrible luck and things don't fall in the right place. I think you mentioned you don't expect anyone to read your posts, so this is something you wanted to do. Some people express themselves via writing or chatting. If anything, I think I learned a thing or two from your life experiences.
Setsuna:
Sometimes you have to wonder if some people are just cursed to have issues no matter how things go.
As some of you guys know I've played a lot, and I play mostly cause it's the only bit of reality I seem to have any control over.
The joke always is though, something seems to go wrong...
I've been wanting to hunt down Deathsmiles, Code of Princess and the Umihara Kawase trilogy on PC, and Green man gaming have the game set for 40 US (It's 50 US - 20% code)
Of course, it wouldn't be that easy, because you know...
Apparently they won't take the credit card.
Or more accurately they'll charge it just fine with an authorization. I don't get charged though, so go the heck figure.
I'm dealing with them now, and they asked me to try again after they removed the ghosts (At least THIS time around, they can get at said ghosts)
Should things go this wrong this many times?
Probably not, but the whole thing is what it is.
Setsuna:
For the record, I'm now quite ticked off, because well, I'm PRETTY sure the system works for everyone else.
After killing 4 separate attempts, we decided to change the purchase mode - I tried using through paypal.
Of course, we hit the 500 error, and they now charged the money via paypal.
I'm very sure that Greenmangaming isn't some dodgy site (I had previously successfully run a purchase of another game there even!) and I'm back to customer service asking them to fix yet another problem.
I'm flat out convinced that I'm on some blacklist that says 'Life is not supposed to work properly' because I'm PRETTY sure that anyone else who rocks up and runs purchases anywhere don't get this sort of problem.
Setsuna:
Okay, time for another installment of 'So how badly can the world work for one person, anyway?'
As you might have known, I currently am scheduled to work for the Australian Electoral Commission as part of the Australian Federal 2016 election, as a 2IC of a polling place on the day of the election - I report to the OIC, who's the guy who calls all the shots.
It's one day though, and I'd like to put in additional time, so I've applied for roles revolving around that.
Of course, we wouldn't be here if things went as planned.
I passed application stage (because you know, if they can trust me with supervising a booth, and I know a lot about how the election process goes, you'd probably want to keep me for related work) and they now require a online video interview.
Yes, it's what it sounds like - You get given questions, a window to read them, then a set time to answer them, and you only get one shot, while being filmed via your smartphone/mobile/laptop/whatever.
So I do it the first time, after full calibration as per their tests and the whole nine yards, and there were 9 questions, and I fire them through, because you know, it's nothing new.
I do a quick review of the video.
4 of the questions failed to carry audio, but the other 5 did.
So I call up and go 'Okay, what's going on?'
We find out there's a technical issue, and I'd have to reshoot the entire interview. This DOES give me a slight unfair advantage, because now I know exactly what they're going to ask me.
But we wouldn't be here unless something ABSURD happens...
So I get the email to redo the interview.
It first opens an application I don't recall making which is marked as incomplete. I punt it through because well, maybe they remade that. It's nothing insane, since it was a 'fast tracked' version of the position I'm applying for.
No link to the interview after that. Okay...
So I log out and back in, and a link comes up. Looks about right, so I follow it through.
Then I get this:
Number of Questions:
361
Time to Answer:
1,076 minutes (approx.)
For an idea, their system wants me to do a ~18 hour long interview.
Needless to say, I have to escalate this all the way up.
And people keep telling me that I have to be making this up, because one person can't POSSIBLY have this many things go seriously wrong in a row, right?
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