Retail is the worst. My wife was fired from Portrait Innovations during the holidays a few years back. Turns out she'd earned a $3000 bonus which was due in March, the caveat being you had to work there until it was to be paid. They said she was let go because of her numbers, but there were MUCH worse employees at that location, one of which was going to quit soon anyways.

I've never hated a company more than Portrait Innovations. Never get your pictures done there. The guys in the store are awesome, but I'll never forgive their sleazy corporate dickwads.

It's not even about the money. $3k is great and would have been nice, helpful even! But we've been keeping afloat on my salary alone for three years since.

They made my wife cry on Christmas. Never been so close to breaking out a Molotov.

FUCK PORTRAIT INNOVATIONS

It happens a lot when I'm typing while forming thoughts. My guess is my brain just sort of re-thinks the end of a sentence, then inserts the new ending, but it includes a few words that were already there. But since I hadn't typed any of the old stuff yet it never occurs to me to delete anything.

Well in ED you are in the cockpit of a space ship. Your body is rendered and you can look around and feels like you're in the ship. Everything outside of your ship feels like it's right outside of the ship you're in, and you still get the sense of scale when entering a space station or approaching a land-able planet.

The main difference between that and playing on a monitor is that even though you're looking through a portal of some kind, be it the front glass of a cockpit, or a helmet, or a windshield, the outside world is still 3D and connected to your portal in a way that makes it feel like you're there and not just looking at it.

I don't know if you ever played games on a 3D monitor, like NVidia 3DVision. That by itself was a huge step towards immersion because it was like looking through a window into a living game world, one where you could see the depth and weight of the world. In Assassin's Creed, for instance, when scaling a wall on a 3D monitor you can see the little hand holds jutting out of the climbable surfaces. The equipment on his body, sheathed swords and daggers and the like, have separation and they looks and feel like actual objects.

TL;DR: Instead of feeling like you're looking at a video game thing in a monitor, it feels like you're hanging out near a thing that exists.

I see what you

you did there.

If you don't think working in a space ship is fun, then maybe you have played Elite Dangerous.