Hellshark in Hellworld

Always kinda upset by how discourse about media spoilers goes these days. Like at the risk of sound like a senile "those darn kids!" hag I really don't enjoy how it's treated as a minor crime to discuss anything beyond the first ten minutes MAYBE of any given piece of media. Like I understand that everyone has different standards for what is and is not a spoiler, some people don't care about being "spoiled" on completionist content in a video game cuz they won't see it themselves, some people earnestly want to be surprised by it. I just would posit that people's standards are tightening to want fewer spoilers because our media is just so banal and predictable these days we want to be surprised by SOMETHING. Even our escapism is soulless capitalist slop these days and everyone desperately wants a fix of nostalgia for when media was full of genuine wonder and awe for them. So they just identify prolific discourse as the problem, which it certainly can be, and try to consume media as uncritically as possible to avoid discourse and the spoilers that'll come with it.

What I'm saying is that when Starfield comes out there will be "spoilers guys!" posts talking about that game's Preston Garvey stand-in as if his presence is in any way surprising or unexpected and it's gonna take months off my life every time I see it.

Always kinda upset by how discourse about media spoilers goes these days. Like at the risk of sound like a senile "those darn kids!" hag I really don't enjoy how it's treated as a minor crime to discuss anything beyond the first ten minutes MAYBE of any given piece of media. Like I understand that everyone has different standards for what is and is not a spoiler, some people don't care about being "spoiled" on completionist content in a video game cuz they won't see it themselves, some people earnestly want to be surprised by it. I just would posit that people's standards are tightening to want fewer spoilers because our media is just so banal and predictable these days we want to be surprised by SOMETHING. Even our escapism is soulless capitalist slop these days and everyone desperately wants a fix of nostalgia for when media was full of genuine wonder and awe for them. So they just identify prolific discourse as the problem, which it certainly can be, and try to consume media as uncritically as possible to avoid discourse and the spoilers that'll come with it.

Shift meeting at work all about the five phases of "6S" which is bullshit out of the gate cuz there's only five, you pulled a sixth imaginary phase out of your ass to justify a buzzword pun. Anyways I'm internally screaming because it was just a bunch of vapid prattling about standardization and "lean management" when we're a fucking HAZMAT warehouse responsible for so many different substances some of them are still only theoretically toxic. By management's own admission our product catalogue is far too large and our handling spaces far too small for there to be a concurrent catalogue of best labor practices to go with each material/packaging solution which means standardization is automatically a pipe dream. Instead of addressing the fundamental safety/ergonomic/productivity nightmare that is shoving 2000 different materials in hundreds of different packaging configurations through less than 20 work spaces we got...colored tape and labels and supervisor audits to make sure we're respecting the labels. I know business degrees don't come with any real skills but the flippant disregard for even the most basic level of academic rigor in "continuous improvement" makes my blood boil. We have godamn explosives here and your idea of a process improvement is to rearrange all of our work spaces, tell us there will be disciplinary consequences if we put it back, and automatically pat yourselves on the back? No close study of a trial process? No consultation with an actual sample size of the workers whose lives are on the line here? Just straight into a non-solution with the champagne already open I guess.

Finally got a sorimori comm, I am officially a real sharkposter now.