#contract system

[alibonbonn]

Guy who went to Baldur’s Gate law school and passed the Baldur’s Gate bar exam some time long ago

[happypeachsludgeflower]

Why do I feel like if Yue Qingyuan were to die pre canon, Shen Jiu would have gone Luo Binghe level feral, kidnapped his corpse, and found some way to bring him back even if he came back wrong because ain’t no wait Shen Jiu’s letting that man escape him. They are codependent divorced toxic yaoi and there is no escaping. It was in the contract and if Yue Qi didn’t want to be defiled, he shouldn’t have signed it 😤

[gojoest]

[shanklin]

It’s the most honest job Stan’s ever had.

Sure, the company he’s working for is downright diabolical, scamming their customers in all aspects of life, but that’s not Stan’s problem.

As Le Ville Corp’s most successful customer service agent in the Oregon area his only job is to follow the company guidelines, sell as many bad deals as possible and never ever let anyone back out of a contract. 

Morality aside, nothing the company does is actually illegal, so at the end of the day Stan gets to collect his almost-minimum-wage-sized paycheck and go home in the knowledge, that no pigs will come knocking on his door anytime soon.

Life is good. Or at least as good as it gets where Stan is concerned. Last month he even got a raise for selling every bad product the company had to offer to one poor kind sucker. 

From household appliances to car insurance, magazine subscriptions and even their extremely shitty telephone and electricity contracts - the McGucket guy brought it all.

Thanks to him, Stan could upgrade from his car to an almost black mold free one room appartment with a community bathroom one block over.

Stan was finally moving up in the world and then his phone rings. He recognises the number. It’s his good friend Fiddle-not-gonna-say-the-rest McGucket.

Stan grins and cracks his knuckles. It’s about time McGucket figured out he’s gotten scammed. Time to make the poor guy’s life a living hell. No one is getting out of a contract on his watch.

“Thank you for calling Le Ville Corp. For us you are more than just a customer. You are family! This is Piers. How can I help you today?”

The moment Stan starts his greeting, he is bombarded with noise disturbances from the other side.

Ah, the good old Le Ville Corp telephone network working as intended. Maybe Stan can convince the guy to upgrade to a slightly less egregious version. 

Wait, what did he say?

His name is Dr. Stammered Lynes? Weird, but okay. Still better than Fiddle-nope-not-saying-it Hardon McGucket.

As it turns out, Stan finally met the mysterious roommate whose money McGucket has been using to pay for all of their products. Stan didn’t think the guy had it in him to ditch his roommate after the scam got discovered. Good for him!

Now, how to best screw Dr. Lynes here over.

***

An hour and a half of data security safety questions and a new phone contract later the doc hangs up to Stan’s cheery and corporate mandated farewell:

“And don’t forget we here at Le Ville Corp consider you our forever family, because you will stay with us forever!”

***

Stanford Pines just had the worst month of his life [not counting the weeks after the science fair that he refuses to think about].

The portal test was a disaster, his partner left, his muse refuses to explain himself and on top of all of that his new fridge won’t open, because this week’s subscription fee hasn’t been paid yet.

What the f-FIDDLEFORD!

[lesbianaglaya]

finally playing dh:doto and i mean. having fun. love that daud looks terrible. but the tonal… idk inconsistency isnt the right word. okay rephrasing. trying to have a game with the same vibes as dh1 and dh2 (and the daud dlcs) but not having it take place in a time of major political upheaval makes all the previous games feel like. what was the point here. because if there are still draconian security measures in use and catastrophic infrastructure breakdowns even when things are “better” (and like, dh2 did try to qualify it as marginally better and critique empire. it also failed. but that’s a different post.) then why did we care if burrows or delilah were running things? and with the problem of doto being ‘outsider bad’ instead of ‘fascist coup’ theres a huge gulf between the problems billie actually sees compared to the problem shes trying to solve. which in turn cheapens the environmental storytelling dh is usually so good at by making the small scale tragedies she sees feel pointless. and it would be one thing if you could interpret billie as totally apathetic (i dont think she is but that aside) but the game has her explicitly comment on things like the eyeless draining people of their blood for aristocrats like! doto suffers even more pronouncedly from the problems of dh2 except almost worse because both billie and daud feel like characters who should know better than the game tells us they do while emily can at least be interpreted as blinded by privilege. which sucks because like i love billie! I want to spend time with her! and im having fun! but a daud billie dlc could have been soooo crazy and it instead… isn’t.

[jameshurleyhateblog]

ok i blocked him but also i really do hope that guy gets to a point of like, not hating himself so much. like, if you're in the kind of relationship that requires you to be perfomatively totally cool with your own mistreatment and complicit in your own oppression/silencing, that'll fuck you up. i too used to think misandry was a personality trait and loudly hating men was praxis, and then I got out of a bunch of shitty interpersonal relationships and bad situations and learned that bioessentialism is Bad, Actually.

[hillbilly---man]

It was very funny to find out today that Hank Green apparently gave a very passionate presentation on a TV show about how my job should be eliminated

[cheaploafs]

really want to stay at your house..,

[squeakadeeks]

my weedwhacker man ocs on their way to whack some weeds

[vanity-complex]

Genuinely, I think people are very out of touch with the reality of what a revolution is and, instead, have a romantic vision of what they want revolution to be. I think this is because the word revolution has been entirely removed from the words civil war. There is no such thing as a 'quick' revolution. Revolutions are long and bloody conflicts that address great social inequity at the cost of life. Blood is spilled, life is ended, and people suffer. The reality of revolution is that suffering has grown so immense that war does not feel like suffering in contrast. Revolution is an agreement that the social contract has rotted to its very core, and that the only way to fix it is through violence. It is to risk everything to create a power vacuum where an entirely new society and order is created. Revolutions do not settle in a few months - they take years, decades, centuries. The French Revolution, perhaps the most famous romantic revolution, was not just cutting off the head of a king or queen, it was the indeterminate slaughter of a social class and any who dare question the morality of it followed by centuries of new governments. Today in Syria we see revolutionaries finally take hold of their government after 13 years of intense fighting, and still there is so much up in the air for them as they approach creating a new government. In other cases, a monarchy falls and dictatorship takes root. Perhaps an imperfect democracy falls and a new monarch is found. This is not to discredit revolution, as it is a useful tool of the masses to effect change, but it is a reminder that revolution is a tool that is powered by blood and you must ask yourself: is the blood that rots as people suffer greater than the blood that will be spilled to right those wrongs? If so, then organize and revolutionize, but know that life will change forever and, once you start, there is no going back and no telling what lies on the other side.

[asm5129]

So I was watching the new Leftist Cooks video, and I started thinking

The way we tend to talk about improving American society in America often focuses on a model that takes direct inspiration from one source. One country or culture is doing (or has done) things “right” and *we* should do it that way.

But the reality is that part of imagining and building systems that have not existed before is taking inspiration from what has worked in past and present systems and cultures *worldwide* while leaving behind the parts that continue to reinforce harm, and melding them together to create something more than the sum of its parts.

And to me, yes that does include the parts of the US that are valuable because as uncomfortable as it is when looking at how awful this country has been and especially is now, there are genuinely good ideas in how this country was built and those ideas that do have value *should* be preserved, even as they must be revised to represent those that have not been able to have an equal voice in the direction of the country historically

[fayegonnaslay]

A young Eva Gabor in promotional photos for Paramount Pictures, 1941.

[hannie-dul-set]

don't you just hate it when you're in the middle of studying, but get inexplicably possessed by the raw desire to draw ten million scenes from mogi and nabi.

[likesplatterpaint]

Yall

I unofficially officially have an eight week contract with The Art of Education university to produce video tutorials for their graduate course on digital illustration AND despite not getting the subject matter expert position, I’ve been signed on as a consultant for it too

AND a referral from the curriculum chair towards an open graphic design position with them

AHHHHHHHHH

[kingoftheu]

Welcome to Hopping Over the Bar where I keep myself accountable/sane by rewatching Amphibia while studying for the bar. If I ever miss a daily edition please feel free to @ or DM me to remind me to study!

Today I studied Contracts, both under the common law and the UCC (Uniform Commercial Code). In particular we looked at the formation of Contracts. Typically these include an Offer (easily revoked) and Acceptance although their are wrinkles such as a unilateral contracts. They also require consideration, although again there are exceptions such as promissiory estoppel.

Today I watched Anne or Beast and Best Fronds. These are really fun introductions to the world, characters, and humor of Amphibia. There is some early weirdness (no Bessie, Sprig is oddly reluctant to break the rules). But we open with Sprig and Anne, the core friendship of the series, and really get a good understanding of both of them from these early episodes, Sprig being adventurous and Anne essentially good but pushy and with a warped view of friendship. We also have the basic archetypes for Polly and Hop Pop (first failed actor reference).

Connection: Sprig gives Polly a candy bribe in exchange for her not stopping him from running off into the forest. Bribes made by minors are not generally enforceable, but this serves as a useful example of consideration, a bargained for exchange of benefits. Consideration is a crucial underpinning of contract law.

[fire-on-fuel]

me personally if luthen rael showed up at my base and called me a petty anarchist I would just start coughing chemicals in his face