I think most people expected Trump to be a blathering insane idiot and so when he avoids questions to rant about something nonsequitor and bizarre its "normal". Anyone with all their mental faculties should be able to run circles around someone like Trump.

People are disappointed that Biden is in such shambles as they were hoping he'd be able to debate against a brain-worm ridden bigoted chatterbox and he dropped the ball so fucking bad and now they're worried about the future of democracy in the country

Naw, it made some kinda sense for a while but the writers really jumped the shark in the past decade.

The debate was a shit show.

Both candidates belong in a nursing home and no where near public life. One looks like they're hardly awake the other can't form a sentence that makes any sense.

"May you live in interesting times" eh?

Streaming is just cable

P sure the original devs want you to pirate this one as the company pushed them out and tried to capitalize on the game in some bizarre ways, very antithetical to the games message.

Steal this game.

Ahhh, General "Cobalt Collar" MacArthur.

Dude was a fucking monstrosity of a human being with an utter disregard for morality.

I'll save you a click, the game was ArcheAge and the article doesn't go into detail about their dispute, but does mention that they flew from Newark NJ to Jacksonville FL to try and attack em.

I think AI can take far fewer jobs than people will try to replace with AI, that's kind of the issue

The response that it's too hard has been weird to me. I'm not very good at these sorts of games but it hasn't been terribly tricky compared to other parts of the base game. And I'm having a lot of fun with it.

I do think the advice of taking advantage of the balancing mechanics they literally put in the DLC to make it challenging and help mitigate that is solid.

Oh, one hundred percent. The way I treat people who have zero decision making ability differed greatly from purchasing agents or decision makers. They were largely in the same spot as me. It's important to understand that the sales agents are also wage slaves, the tasks are just different.

Dealing with people like me was one of the stupid things they gotta do at work to make their pay and go home, just like me making 80+ calls an hour at some points was one of my stupid things. I wanted to get them off the phone as soon as possible, be that either by ending the call or getting passed onto someone who could buy. You can use that to build rapport and speed up the process. You can even make it jovial. The goal is to make the sales process as painless as possible while recognizing that being a pest is effective.

Sales agents who put the big pitch on the second they get someone to talk to em are not thinking straight and hindering themselves. Though, sometimes there's parts of a service that simplifies their lives, which I'd mention while waiting for a decision maker or during another break.

I'm in the former group. Not just that, but I'm good at sales. Like, nicknamed The Closer and that sorta corporate motivational bullshit at one point good.

I will strike up conversations with people in a bar and make new friends waiting in lines. It's a talent, but its also a skill that can be taught and learned. It's a hat you wear to help you at work.

All that said, cold calls suck ass and they're a nuisance on most any individual. I'd refuse to do them on non-business customers.

As someone who's had to do cold calls as part of a sales pipeline,

1. it's spam,
2. I wouldn't say it's spam on LinkedIn, that's where I tell lies to get better jobs,
3. if it's B2B, I do not feel any shame, every business is a fuck

Edit: I'll also add that B2B cold calls do work. If you have a good product or service and approach it the right way, you can generate plenty of business this way. That said, it's wholly a numbers game. When I was training sales agents, they'd ask me "how do I get sales like you do?" and I'd tell em simply "Make more calls." As I said elsewhere, I'm good at this. I had a roughly 2-3% conversation rate. Understand that means if I made a hundred calls, I made two to three sales. And that's pretty damn good. Before we were more established and could drop that model, we found that cold calling generally had around a 1.4% conversion rate. It relies on you being chipper and persistent to the point of annoyance. Some people literally do break at one point and say stuff like "Well, I need to get something, and if I sign with you, will you stop calling me?"

It was always far more enjoyable to call established leads, people who already expressed and interest and just needed help making up their mind. Better on the customer, better on the agent, a better process overall.