Last one folks! I'm glad to see so many people interested in sharing their opinions on the albums generally considered to be "the bad ones". That being said, this is personally my least favorite album from the group. Granted, I think that's mostly a product of the impressively bad production, and not the fault of Genesis themselves. Without further ado, let's rank FGtR!
13: Where the Sour Turns to Sweet
12: Fireside Song
11: One Day
10: In Limbo
9: In the Wilderness
8: In Hiding
7: Silent Sun
6: In the Beginning
5: Window
4: A Place to Call My Own
3: The Conqueror
2: The Serpent
1: Am I Very Wrong?
I am still reading for the first time. Completed the NT in English/Dutch and now at 30-50% of the OT.
Bonus question: How good is your Hebrew?
EDIT: The title should be: How much Times have you read from Genesis to Revelation.
Open to trading/selling bulk cards at a fair value. Commons/uncommons range from NM to MP.
Holos:
- Base Holos
- Fossil Holos
- Jungle Holos
- Base 2 and Team Rocket Holos
- Holos - Neos, Unseen Forces Celebi
- Promos, Misc holos
Shadowless:
Bulk:
- Base WOTC
- Jungle WOTC
- Fossil WOTC
- Base Set 2 WOTC
- Team Rocket WOTC - several 1st edition
- 720+ Bulk Foreign Cards - $45 shipped. 85% of the cards are 1st edition
- Burger King Cards - 43 cards - $2.50 shipped
All holo cards are priced off of condition and TCGPlayer.
Looking for:
- Neo Genesis Holos LP-NM (preferably first edition)
- Neo Revelation Holos LP-NM (preferably first edition)
- Team Rocket Holos LP-NM (first edition or non-first)
- WOTC Promos
- Jungle - Snorlax 11
- Southern Islands Cards
- Neo Discovery or Neo Destiny bulk common/uncommon/rares
- XY Evolutions Misty's Determination Full Art 108
- Bulk trades for earlier card sets
I've had this engine for about two months. It was new in box on eBay, there was no wear on the wheels so I do believe that.
The engine has always been a bit noisy but I thought it would wear in, it has a bit but not much.
Now onto the problems I have had. The first was an electrical pickup issue, the engine would not get power when stopped. I fixed this by adding some conductive lube at the end of the axles by the power pickups.
The second problem is the noise it makes when running. It has always been about this volume. I opened one of the gear towers of the trucks and there is an oil like lube in there. I've seen mention of motor bearings needing lube but have not done that.
The third problem is the smell. This engine makes a noticeable electric motor smell. Not sure how else to describe it.
I've been out of the hobby for a while and have recently gotten back into it. Buying an Athearn Genesis I thought I would get a nicely detailed and nice running locomotive but I seem to only have gotten one part of that. Any assistance would be great.
Grades: http://imgur.com/gallery/OD3i2CL
PSA 9 Blaines Zard - SOLD, PSA 9 blastoises - SOLD, PSA 9 prerelease aerodactyl - SOLD, PSA 9 Pichu - SOLD
PSA 10 1st ed Steelix - $175
PSA 10 Kingdra - $85
PSA 10 1st ed Lt. Surge Raichu - $140
Base 2 Charizard - $60
Typhlosions - $60 each
PSA 8 base 2 Blastoise - $43
Dark Blastoise - $40
1st Ed Ampharos - $35
1st Ed Heracross - $45
1st Ed Giovanni's Gyarados - $85
Misty's Seadra Prerelease Stamped - $16 each
Base Set 2 Zapdos - $17
Ho-oh Holo Bleed Error - $120
Comment if you want to know prices about the others! Prices are 10-15% off ebay :)
I worked at an incredibly toxic company for over three years, and finally quit this past summer. My new job is a stark contrast to what I experienced. Deprogramming from what I had been used to has been eye opening to say the least. It’s hard to wrap my head around how completely unhappy and distressed that I was. Even typing the words out is hard, so I apologize if this seems choppy, and it will probably be long. I feel like I need to share my experiences, what my work environment is like now, and how my life as a whole had been affected.
Past company (QA analyst, then sales):
- Scolded for asking for OT pay when I worked OT (“We’re all a team here.”)
- Written up for having a conversation with a coworker about their partner’s pay and benefits (“We want to keep an environment of trust here.”)
- Directed to lie and mislead current and potential clients about software bugs, features, size of support teams, location, etc
- Banned from having tools needed for half of job responsibilities (client support) when working from home, then scolded for not “doing my part,” despite practically begging for said tools
- Continually bullied and used as punching bag for leadership. It was “acceptable” though because they apologized and acknowledged that I didn’t deserve it, but I was just “so nice,” it was easier for them to be mean
- Coerced to bring my child into to office when they were sick so that I could still work
- Coerced to drive in dangerous conditions to go to the office (and again, bring my child), despite the city being shut down and in a declared state of emergency
- Having to ask permission to leave my desk to go to the restroom
- Having to outline exact details about PTO requests (what, when, where, why, how, etc)
- When working as their sole sales executive, was not allowed to know pricing of products or see contracts
- Never given commission contract during 8+ months in role, and when I asked for metrics to be defined so that I could understand my pay, told it was too hard and impossible, and they would pay what they believed I deserved/earned
- …I could go on
I already suffer from several mental illnesses (PTSD and ADHD, among others), but this job had me spiraling. I was completely suicidal, and the only thing that kept me alive was the fact that I was a single parent. My physical health was also abysmal - I was gaining weight, my skin was awful, my hair was falling out, smoking weed nightly to self-medicate, etc.
These things SHOULD NOT BE NORM
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It makes zero sense. Genesis is the first bible book and Revelations the last. So why have the codename for the ending be the beginning?
