Gabriel

Gabriel @gabriel_true Kroger is an awful company. Its 'Union' is a joke, but to get health insurance through the company you MUST join the union and pay their members' dues for zero protection against corporate nonsense. Also they WILL leak your employee records, so prepare to get identy theft protection too while you're at it. Publix is the better option if you get a choice.

Under The Mistletoe @joemama711 Man that's big yikes, also it's DELI aka the worst department apparently. I don't need insurance I just need some cash I'm really hoping out Publix will call me in today, if not I'll have to call/bug em. I also got a different phone interview from a different company. All else fails, hopefully the firefighter or trucking or electrician works out.

Gabriel @gabriel_true Try electrician. It may yet be your calling.

Under The Mistletoe @joemama711 I think I'll go for that tbh, firefightering wants to know my last ten years of everything x.x They'd find out I quit so many jobs lol

Gabriel @gabriel_true Tell them you wanted to be a firefighter because you're experienced at getting fired up about new opportunities for work!

Under The Mistletoe @joemama711 Haha hopefully that excuse can be used multiple times, sadly had to accept Kroger offer. Publix never called back and the other job interview is like 45 mins away with the start times being 5 or 6 am no thanks

Gabriel @gabriel_true Many new decks are using some form of "crash into your opponent to inflict burn damage" strategies. There is even a whole ritual summon deck as well that is built upon that premise. Another strategy people will use is to summon a Kaiju monster on your side of the field and then attack into it multiple times to kill you in a matter similar to this video.

Under The Mistletoe @joemama711 That's pretty interesting strategy wise but I guess you just gotta work with what you're against.

Gabriel @gabriel_true A counter to that strategy is using the trap card Impermanence to negate the effect or you can play any card that bounces the monster back into the hand. So this strategy only works if your opponent doesn't have a side deck to exchange strategies. Sadly Master Duel is always BEST OF ONE, meaning your deck is always weak to something and the best anyone can do is build around the current meta.

Gabriel @gabriel_true Would you be mad if I told you in Virginia we don't test Alleyway Backing or Parallel anymore. You only have to Straight Back and Offset with bumper placement. Then you pass, haha!

Under The Mistletoe @joemama711 Honestly no, from what I heard it's random on state test in Georgia. So you could do any of those randomly selected unless they changed it, sadly it's mandated with the school test here

Gabriel @gabriel_true I believe North Carolina does the same. But yeah apparently Virginia has watered down the test to be as easy to pass as reasonably possible.

Under The Mistletoe @joemama711 I'm jealous lol, I over slept today and missed the aptitude test for Electrician union. I'm retaking the class on Oct 10th, I am tempted to do the company sponsored training

Gabriel @gabriel_true I know someone else personally that started as an electrician when they had absolutely no other trade skills and it was what laid the foundation for a successful career in engineering. I'm glad that despite the setback you've given yourself other avenues to succeed! Keep at it. I genuinely am confident you're gonna find a path that works out!

Under The Mistletoe @joemama711 That's awesome actually! I got a few interviews for Firefightering as well, I'm just gonna keep going after something, thank you for believing in me though

Gabriel @gabriel_true Whatever you end up doing in life remember to do it well.

Gabriel @gabriel_true If only they brought that back. It was delicious!

Under The Mistletoe @joemama711 I'm tempted to try it at home, at least with a better piece of chicken

Gabriel @gabriel_true Do you build any decks yourself? I have several including a casual Vampire deck as well as Darklords, Floowandereeze, and Amazement.

Under The Mistletoe @joemama711 I don't , I feel like it would be kinda confusing keeping track of all that information. Do you go to any tournaments or play the games?

Gabriel @gabriel_true Last game I played was Master Duel. That however uses the Original Card Game (OCG) ban list for Japan and Korea. Why that's an issue is the North American and European Trading Card Game (TCG) has a stricter list that hits cards that have the ability to consistently win games within the first turn. So essentially the Japanese are of the mind auto win conditions should be normalized as where North America tries to slow the game back to a reasonable pace inviting more experimental styles of play vs. "Boom! Every deck is just Exodia. OBLITERATE!"

Under The Mistletoe @joemama711 Is that the PC version? Idk if the NA version is slower compared to Japan nowadays but I've never been in the tournaments

Gabriel @gabriel_true You can play Master Duel on computer or console. OCG is notoriously fast and averages about 2 turns to defeat an opponent. TCG you can usually go a few more turns in before its checkmate!

Under The Mistletoe @joemama711 I'm tempted to rewatch the original series.

Gabriel @gabriel_true Honestly that's the only version of Yu-Gi-Oh that matters. I only partially watched GX and couldn't be bothered to see the other spinoffs.

Under The Mistletoe @joemama711 That's fair but the other spin offs actually made me enjoy Yu-Gi-Oh series again since it was kinda different. Can't say I'll try the kid version though

Gabriel @gabriel_true I don't even know which version you're referring too, but I'd probably agree.

Under The Mistletoe @joemama711 I feel like almost every Yu-Gi-Oh spin off brought something new and exciting. GX was about youth and fusions I think, 5Ds was about betrayal and rebellion I think? Zexal was about finding your own way and going Super Saiyan with a alien companion, Arc V tried to do the Multi verse thing and failed terribly and Vrains was about revenge and being too cold and calculated leading to isolation. After that looks like the art and writing took a nose dive with Yu-Gi-Oh Seven and Go Rush looking like baby shows. Did anyone actually enjoy the dice part of Yu-Gi-Oh Monsters or do we pretend that doesn't exist too XD

Gabriel @gabriel_true Dungeon Dice Monsters was an actual board game for a very brief stint back in the mid 2000's.

Under The Mistletoe @joemama711 Oh nice lol, I can't tell if that's more BS luck then Dual Monsters

Gabriel @gabriel_true The card game itself is no longer luck based with most meta decks simply allowing you to search for the exact cards to combo into rather than draw and get lucky like the original version of the game used to be.