Mike Dragon

Let's play the infamous Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace on tonight's Gaming Friday!

 

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Let's run through Hyrule on tonight's Gaming Friday!

 

 

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LOL

https://clips.twitch.tv/EndearingFineLEDCopyThis

 

Lovely and peaceful drive around the beautiful roads of Scandinavia with @David Edson and @TFM DJ ccowie. Thank you, fellas!

Man, I should really go to bed. I don't actually feel tired but I just know I must be super tired. I'm in that stage of tiredness where I find almost anything that's meant to be funny absurdly funny. Even what actually isn't actually all that funny.

https://i.chzbgr.com/full/9037125120/h0011CC01

 

Okay, I go now. Good night everyone and once more, thank you all for the birthday wishes and congratulations for the promotion. I hope to do well on my trial period.  Bye-ye!

Man... I was NOT expecting today's convoy to be so huge! A LOT more people attended it than they did on the last ETS2 convoy. RIP my GTX 650 on many occasions. I will not attend another convoy until I get my GTX 1060. With that being said, here's a few screenshots of the event:

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198034887799/screenshots/

Me if I decide to go watch that movie and they sell out:

http://fav.me/dbpijrn

Meanwhile, after a long day of checking reports and appeals:

 

 

 

 

 

@A Simple Cheeseburger

My internet has been fixed. So since it is Halloween and I could not do the livestream I had planned for last night, I'll push it to today instead. As such, I'll be playing Ghostbusters: The Video Game later this afternoon, not much long after TMP's Halloween convoy. Expect the stream to begin at around 6 PM eastern time.

 

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My now weekly chill Sunday art stream is now live over at Twitch! Since the embedded player appeals to be broken, use this link to reach it, instead:

http://www.twitch.tv/mike_dragon

 

My usual art stream of every Sunday, the Chill Art Sunday, is starting now. Let's have a chat while I draw something! 

 

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New report filed. And the one I filed a couple days ago has just been accepted. The player I reported was banned for 4 days for ramming and reckless driving. It's so good when it is a good admin that handles your report! Thank you, @Aragon0450! <3

New World of Trucks event and DLC, chaps!

https://blog.scssoft.com/2019/10/pink-ribbon-charity-event.html

 

 

No stream today. Sorry guys! I'm just too tired to think straight enough to livestream. -.- zzZ I'll be streaming normally on Friday, however!

 

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P.S: I'll be going through all tags and posts wishing me a happy birthday very soon. I didn't forget! 

Noob question time: What exactly would a "pure key" in Rocket League be? I'm looking forward to buy the Party Time goal explosion on Rocket League Garage and there is this one offer ( https://rocket-league.com/trade/92d6a113b609 ) where the guy says "Only pure keys guys". I'm not quite sure if that's supposed to mean something in particular.

Nothing better to end the night than a relaxing drive with a friend.

 

@Harley

Now that I am a little more awoken, it is time to art.

 

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Now that the staff convoy is over and I had my break, it's time to head over to the regular programming and do some art on today's Chill Art Sunday! So join me and let's have some fun!

 

 

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O stream de teste de hoje está no ar. Será exclusivamente em português. Venha para meu Twitch para assistir!

 

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Oh man... I just watched the whole race of Group 6 and yes, I was right! The one and only thing that cost me the race was my crash at the start because I was dumb enough to change camera view on a bend. I had a very good start and could have made it to one of the heats but that crash set me back so bad. T_T Still, I made a good race! I managed to pass four trucks and arrived in 6th, right after whoever made it into 5th. I ended up in 6th place. 6th out of 14 racers. Not too bad, everything considered! It really came down to that one crash, after all.

 

*sigh* Oh well... now I've learned my lesson. Better luck to me, next time! Good job to all the winners on Group 6, by the way. Good luck on the heats and finals!

 

Group 6's race @5:22:00.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/142765274

Oh my God, I'm so happy right now!!! This has never happened before!

 

And this is the one: https://www.worldoftrucks.com/en/image_detail.php?id=00000000002171E5&back=online_profile.php%3Fid%3D123786

Oh, by the way... there is a new World of Trucks event going on!

 

Read all the details on SCS's blog right here: http://blog.scssoft.com/2017/08/trade-connections-france.html

Oh, hi, you beautiful people! This Sunday's stream is now live! Come and join me for another Chill Art Sunday and let us have a nice chat.

 

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Ok, so on Tuesday I posted this: https://forum.truckersmp.com/index.php?/profile/666-mike-dragon/&status=61971&type=status

 

I talked to my boss about the situation (apparently he wasn't meaning to talk about it but I made him) and to sum up the story, thank God I am not losing my job. I still don't know if there will be any cuts, however, but that right now is the least of my concerns.

 

One thing he brought up a while after we talked is that the way I treat our clients may not really been the actual reason why they cancelled with our company. Because I'd have to get into specifics and that would result in a VERY long text, I will cut short and go straight to the two main details: All the clients that cancelled under the excuse that my treatment and/or services were poor have one thing in common: The partner company that provides them with a store sales system for management of their sales and products. My boss also pointed out an issue our major client was having not long ago with the speed with one of their stores was accessing the system, which is hosted in their server in the main store, so it relies on an internet connection.

 

For a while they have been complaining that every two days, around the same time, the store would lose connection to the system and the server so they called us to investigate the problem. I monitored their connection for weeks and the connection itself was perfectly fine. What was happening is that their ISP was changing the external IP and the software in the server, responsible for managing and "translating" that IP to one that's always static was not renewing the connection quickly enough. I brought this up to my boss at the time and the pattern would repeat itself every two days around the same hour. The external IP would always change and the software was not renewing it quickly enough and we know that all ISPs do an auto-renew of each IP they provide every few days. The solution? Have the client contact their ISP to either ask for a change on the time in which the IP was being renewed or hire a static IP service. But what happened instead is that the owner (or manager, I don't know what the guy is) of the company that provides them with that sales software system said instead that they should simply upgrade their internet to a optical fiber connection. Well, they did. I went to both stores to set up the new modem in their network. The connection is great and fast! But guess what still would happen? Yeah, that's right. The connection to the server was still being lost for a few minutes and the IP was still changing in the same pattern. They complained about it to us, naturally, and my boss told the owner of the company (our client) that they have been warned and told what to do to fix that problem, that the solution was not upgrade to fiber and that that decision they made had been suggested by the guy of the sales software company and they (the client) took his suggestion on their own and without our knowledge.

 

So his theory is that the client brought that up to the guy of the sales software company who certainly was not happy about, well... essentially being told by the IT company that his solution for his client was wrong and ours was right so he must have contacted our clients in common and told them something awful that convinced them to cancel their contract with us. It would be too much of a coincidence that all the clients who use the same sales system would cancel within very few months apart and for the same reason, while the other clients who don't use the same sales system are still with us, have no complaints and in fact, two actually praised my service and treatment, recently. Something just doesn't add up!

 

I am absurdly upset and down with all of this but I feel better now that I have calmed down and am not losing my job. Also, thank you all who showed me your support and encouragement on the previous status post. I am really sorry this one turned out as long as it did. I tried to be as brief as I could, I promise! Hahah. Anyway, thank you for reading.

One hour late due to some other matters that got in the way, today's Chill Art Sunday stream is now live. Join me for another relaxing drawing session.

 

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