u/Fragmented_Poem

The job just isn’t what it used to be for me. Perhaps I’ve changed as a person, who knows.

But I was hired about two years ago as a PT and enjoyed it at the time. But as things have gotten more stringent. The constant credit card begging and now the huge emphasis on sales not being met and the threatening of positions getting cut because goals aren’t being met, it’s just making me loathe ever working here.

Credit card aside. You can only do so much on the sales floor with what little people are willing to spend on beauty. Gas is expensive, food is expensive. People can’t justify paying these prices for some of these products and are going to skip out on it for more necessary things. No shit sales are down.

I’m not doing to nickel and dime someone out of their funds. If I wanted to do that, I’ll work at a casino.

I don’t know, I just wanted to rant a bit.

Warden, he gives me chode vibes

I’m usually patient but this is ridiculous. This shit has been going for 5 days now. At the beginning old chats or long chats wouldn’t even load. Whatever, creating chats gave errors but after a few clicks you can still get into the chat and you just have to paste the opener from the description.

Now I can’t even enter chats without being booted out to the homepage. Who knows if the Dev is even alive anymore considering he doesn’t even speak to the mods.

Am I tripping or did it not even go in stock during the weekly restock?

I need genuine advice, no bullshit like "don't get hit bro". Im a shit player, I know but I can't fucking beat the exo bots. Artemis and Apollo, Ares they're both literal cake walks but the second I get to the phase where thanatos use's his laser I just fucking die. I try dodging but I can't do much if it circles around me. If I try dashing through him he locks me with the laser, If I try teleporting out with a rod of discord he just locks on to me with the laser.

I've tried searching guides and posts but all pertain to old versions of the game where his laser turning speed was a snails pace.

I'm genuinely losing my fucking mind.

Edit: Finally beat him after 20 tries. Let me tell you, a fun, cool and interesting fight ruining by a gimmick attack.

I mean this in the best way possible but does anyone get a gourmand, sexy Play-Doh like smell from Sand Dance? It’s addicting but that’s what pops in my head.

Wow, just wow. This thing lasted me easily 12 hours out of the box (without maceration).

And the compliments I got at work from coworkers? Left and right. Just wow. Keep in mind I’ve worn Turathi blue in the past and never got that response before.

Now I have the urge to spend $350 dollars blind buying safe scents from Monty

This update genuinely lined up what remained of Grok that was useable and executed it with a AA gun. Image edited utterly shit now. The filter sensitivity seems turned to max and oddly enough, usage limits seem to be even quicker than pre-update for my Super Grok account (my heavy seems fine)

Genuinely out, canceling all my shit before deleting all my accounts after plans expire. I was one of those guys who scuffed at the constant posts about Grok earlier and how unusable it was for lite users, etc. But I get it now.

They currently have a killer deal on Sand Dance, and I had a promo code for recent decant purchases, bringing the total to $130 for a bottle of Sand Dance. Of course I bought it immediately and of course the first thing I see when I type there name in this subreddit is that thread from a Redditor who was accused of lying about their missing perfumes when they shipped a empty box.

Now I'm worried, I don't want that crap happening to me. I mean of course I charged it on a credit card so in case the worse happens I can charge back, but still.

So, getting tired of rate limits on grok, censorship and what not I’ve made the painful decision of forcing myself to learn something new, and that’s workflows.

This shit is completely foreign to me. So far I’ve learned to downloaded and use lustify, make a basic workflow from prompts to image generations and even load images but man, the quality of these images aren’t a light to grok.

I’m not against learning to do this but I don’t want to put in the effort, watch hours of YouTube videos just to achieve even a third of the quality of grok generations.

I work at Macy’s once in a while and good god, with how often leadership begs about credit when I’m working it makes me pick up less and less shifts.

I get it, management want another bonus and that’s why every few minutes they mention credit cards but man does it make me hate working. It doesn’t help we’re working at a time where people are struggling and credit delinquency is at an all time high.

If I wanted to open up credits I’ll just go work at a dealer ship.

At the very least pay us more to incentivize us to open up credit.

I feel like the more I buy decants and bottles the more I’m noticing it more and more.

I don’t think it’s good or bad, just noticeable.

I’ve been in the fragrance game since 2019. Going from Designer to clones to now wanting to finally embrace Niche’s. So it’s safe to assume a lot of the ‘popular’ clone’s of Niche I’ve got my nose on. Not the same of course but I get a sense of what they are smell wise.

The only ‘Niche’ scents I own and like are Tribeca by BN9, Black Phantom by Kilian, Bloody wood by liquid imaginaries, Amour Cafe by Mancera, Promises Promises by Kerosene and Musk Therapy by Initio.

Looking towards stuff that smell divine and is noticeable. Trying to get my money’s worth off of longevity. Just don’t want something to become a skin scent within a hour that’s all.

Big fan of sweet fragrances. Like caramels and fruits, stuff that smell edible (don’t necessarily have to be gourmand.)

Examples of fragrances in this realm would be Initio’s Absolute Aphrodisiac, New York Nights by BN9, French Defense, Oajan.

Admittedly I need more freshies but so far the only ones I truly like are LV’s Imagination and Symphomy.

I know it’s a popular subject and people always recommend it but I don’t think it’s talked enough for what it’s worth.

Notes alone never tell the full story. The amount of times as of late I would have blind bought something but decided to sample it and ended up disliking it. Easily could be in the $1000+.

I was really into AOT when it first came out, both visual and novel form but really hated the direction it went. I stopped watching halfway through season 3. No particular reason. I of course at the time of the rest of series being released heard about what was going on and it really didn't compel me back to the series.

I hate how the series pivoted to complex geopolitical conflicts with Marley, Eren's whole ouroboros about trying to fight change, etc.

What drove me to love this series initially was the whole post-apocalyptic mystery of the world. Humanity fighting for its survival against monsters. And as the series goes on and slowly points the monsters to being man-made that made it even cooler. The possible authoritarian society established to subjugate the majority of Eldian's through fear, oppression and isolation. Suggesting that this was a sort of ploy from the rich and powerful of Eldian to stay powerful. Perhaps even a punishment from years ago for a potential civil war they created. Or that the corps even have this tier system where the scouts are used as pawns to die while the other corps closer to the inner walls don't come close to the scouts.

It just felt like a whole different series when they involved the Marlians. I'm not even fully against the premise of some sort of war, etc. If it stayed within the themes of what the series was originally.

Perhaps I’ll stick more to the designer/popular niche side of perfumery.

I tested the likes of pineward, Filippo Sorcelini, zoologist, Orto Parisi, etc. You get the idea. I’ll admit, I was going for my dark, broody, sad florals. And while some were quite interesting, some I may even consider buying (if only they lasted or projected longer). A lot smelt like butt ass (I’m looking at you But Not Today).

It was a nice little step out of the comfort zone but I suppose it isn’t for me.

I know it’s fairly talked about but for me it’s Encre Noir. I remember buying it as a blind buy 3 years ago and absolutely loved it.

It just screamed a foggy, thick forest that was freshly rained upon. The soil is moist and moss surrounds you. Do I wear it a lot? Absolutely not, but i love smelling it.

It's so difficult for me to truly be dogmatic following my 'progressive' noble officer playthrough (first time playing the game). I just dont have it in me to kill people off or go through dogmatic routes.

Iconoclast dialogue just make the most sense to me. The only dogmatic thing that genuinely felt right was glassing the planet in act one, only because emperor knows there are things far worse then death and that is a daemon world.

A month ago I decided to finally jump onto Grok and see what everyone was touting it about. (Supergrok).

Genuinely the most censored waste of money ever. Like video rejections for fucking bikini’s seriously? Funny, Elon’s hypocritical ass touting Grok’s ability yet it feels like it’s been lobotomized and severely handicapped.