u/PimplePopper6969

First day on the floor at Nursing and Rehabilitation place in NYC. It’s so much better than my old job in assisted living. No one is overworked. The building has like 7 floors. My floor is just 17 rooms between four CNAs. This is so much better than being split between 3 CNAs doing helping dozens on one floor. I’m not treated like a leper for being male. This floor is men only. I’m not the only male cna in the whole building unlike my old job. In fact I work with one in my unit and there’s plenty more down stairs too. Lots of male nurses and med techs. Thank God I’m not the only man in the whole building anymore.

I feel relieved. It’s hard work but it’s reasonable hard work and I don’t have people breathing down my neck. I was reported to my boss at my old job for making some co-workers “uncomfortable” and I didn’t do shit. It’s like there was a target on my back for being male. On this floor the male to female ratio is more balanced towards male staff.

More importantly they hold far better standards of professionalism. At my old Assisted Living job they would sometimes have us use a hoyer lift by ourselves even though it required two people minimum. Here, they say it requires two. There’s teamwork. I was struggling doing the beds in a presentable manner and the head cna stood there and had me redo it repeatedly until I got it. THOSE are standards and they actually give a shit making sure I know how’s it’s done from day one. No people forcing me to transfer a 6ft tall late stage Parkinson’s resident from chair to bed all by myself and expecting me to know how to treat him. Good Lord. There’s one resident who is combative and violent and shouts but we have someone on the floor that watches him and keeps him in check plus he’s mostly all bark and mostly responded to things he just doesn’t want. Either way, it’s so much better. Like vastly.

Plus I get fed a free lunch on the dot. What??? And it’s actually nutritious. Rice, chicken with sauce, vegetables, soup. For someone lacking money and was homeless just a few days ago this is amazing. I don’t have to buy lunch and since I do OMAD this is the only thing I’m eating all day

People acted like nursing homes are worse than assisted living. I know not every nursing home is the same but I think they’re crazy due to my experience. Old job put me, a fresh newly licensed cna with no experience, in memory care. Like??

The original DK and DKC games let you get into the action quick.

Its main rival, Mario 64, lets you get into the game and having fun within seconds.

DK64 starts with awful overly long, poorly directed cinematics and the corniest, most God awful kiddy intro I’ve ever seen in a video game (intro to the Kong Crew), Then there’s the game itself. Holy bananas, I could only last twenty minutes.

It tries to latch onto Banko Kazooie but with none of that games charm, wit, smoothness, or fun. Meanwhile it spits on its origins of quick pick up and play gameplay with some of the most boring banal shit possible. It’s no wonder no one talked about this game back in the day versus Mario 54, Ape Escape, or Banjo.

Then there’s the music. Holy shit you hit gold mine with DKC1-3 and then make a 3d sequel a give it this corny ass music?

Doo doo.

I had to play DKC2 to wash the shit out of my hands. This game came out the same year as Sonic Adventure?! Bro, me and my friends could not stop playing Sonic Adventure’s demo which is far more riveting than the full game of DK64. They actually put that corny rap song out in 1999? I’m actually shocked. That’s the first problem this game has: tone. It’s decidedly uncool even for its era. Compare the Knuckles rap song (which is cool despite being cheesy) with the DK rap. This game already starts on the wrong foot. Sonic Adventure straight up DOG WALKS this game and I feel embarrassed for Rare.

I was a PlayStation kid so I didn’t play N64 games growing up besides Goldeneye, Mario, and especially Zelda. So the past few years I’ve got a N64 and buying legit games and going through the N64 canon if you will. I’ve been beyond impressed by Rare’s output from Goldeneye to Banjo, Conker, and Jet Force Gemini and I have to say that as a massive DK fan this game is the first Rare bomb I’ve played from their golden era.

I’m on Namek near the end when Gohan takes Piccolo to Goku’s ship and flies off after talking to his mom. The kid is night and day different than the cry baby on the first episode to an utterly insane degree.

It’s heartbreaking that they didn’t stick with Gohan being the main character for Buu saga because the story Toriyama was telling here just needed to stick the landing and it would have been perfect. At least we have Cell.

Where I’m from (Texas) doctors mostly focus on giving you medicine to cure stuff but here in nyc my doctor actually seems to give a shit?? Gives realistic solutions and cares about my health? I’ve never seen anything like it and it truly disarms me. From medical doctors to the ENT. They all give a shit. What the fuck?

Holy crap, where did the time go? When this came out everyone was OBSESSED on and offline. It felt like one of the first truly international popular anime popping off at the same time because usually we were years behind Japan. DBZ for example, didn't get dubbed for years until after it was finally over in Japan. But thanks to high speed internet and fansubs we were all watching it within hours of Japan release and it was a genuine international phenomenon. It was the first manga I read. I hated comic books before Love Hina but my friend got some copy of volume 1 manga with both English and Japanese text in it and we all bum rushed through it. In fact, once the anime ended we all went straight to the manga to finish the story. I've been a manga head ever since. It was the first time we all did that. My friend who lent me that copy of the manga has passed away now, but in my memories I still think him and our love for Love Hina.