#team alignment

[lostconsultants]

Mastering KPIs: From Basics to Advanced Metrics

KPIs, or Key Performance Indicators, are everywhere in business, but they’re often misunderstood or misused. Having spent years working with teams across different industries, I’ve seen how the right KPIs can drive success, while the wrong ones can create confusion or, worse, false confidence. So, what exactly are KPIs, and how do you make sure you’re focusing on the ones that actually…

[yourplayersaidwhat]

the party has just been (very poorly) conned into partitipating in an mlm

Goblin Rogue (speaks in 3rd person): "[rogue] did not sign up for this! [rogue] better get paid handsomly for this or he's going to find a way to get the payment himself!"

Warforge Paladan: "why do you need payment? is the good we will do not enough?"

Goblin Rogue: "[rogue] does not care about doing good, he is not a good person! [rogue] wants coin for his troubles!"

Warforge Paladan: "im sure you won't actually steal anything :)"

Goblin Rogue: "[paladan], look at [rogue], look at him- [ROGUE] IS A PIRATE!"

Warforge Paladan leans way down to be eye to eye with rogue, who is standing aggitated infront of them

Warforge Paladan, full confedence: "i don't know what a pirate is :)"

[magewritesstories]

its meme time !!! (with a special appearance from will 'cause i love him)

[illmoraineakoi]

Oh I just had a nasty AU idea.

AvA4, but Alan uses Avast to stop Orange. The scan is interrupted when Orange goes to the phone, but it detects him after he returns to the computer. He’s captured.

And enslaved. As a pop up blocker.

Just like Chosen was.

He’s horrified, at first, when he’s first brought out of the chest and sees the ball and chain on his leg. He tries to free himself, trying everything he can think of for weeks. Nothing works. So he looses hope, and gives up, performing his “purpose” as best he can to avoid the punishments (both from the Animator and Avast itself.) Orange becomes very quiet and reserved, and very depressed, a shadow of the person he was meant to be.

(Orange’s powers are revealed very early, here, because Avast unlocks them a little bit and forces him to use them to destroy the pop ups. Orange hadn’t known he had them until the first pop up appears and Avast takes control, making him destroy it. Afterwards, he spends a lot of time dwelling on ‘what if I had used my powers to protect my friends? Would they still be alive then…?’)

And he’s stuck like that. Until the Virabot incident. Until Chosen arrives.

When Chosen sees Orange, with a shackle around his ankle, he is ENRAGED.

He’d escaped his own enslavement, only for his Creator to turn around and make another stick to enslave and torment. Make a replacement. The destruction of his computer had done nothing to deter Noogai from making and hurting stick figures.

Worse, Chosen hadn’t even known.

The guilt makes Chosen feel awful. He considers it a personal failure, blames himself for not even considering that Noogai might make another stick to replace him. He feels like he should have, because he saw how nonchalant Noogai was with making new sticks with Dark.

Despite the fact that he just saved the computer from the Virabot, Chosen flies into a rage and starts raining destruction upon the computer. He is easily able to lay waste to literally everything, while Noogai is helpless to do anything. Or perhaps Alan tries shutting down the computer to restore his cursor and start menu. Maybe he also tries using Avast again, something that pisses Chosen off even more. Chosen takes particular satisfaction in ripping Avast to shreds.

Or maybe Avast forces Orange to attack and fight Chosen. And Orange, for the first time in a long while, resists. Fights back against the program’s control. It’s a struggle. He desperately begs Chosen to help him, insists he doesn’t want to do what Avast is forcing him to do, apologizes whenever he looses control. The sight hurts Chosen’s heart, and he redoubles his efforts to destroy Avast and free Orange.

He’s eventually successful, and he gets Orange out via the internet connection. And then he destroys the computer again, sending Noogai a nasty message: “If you create more stick figures, I will find a way to end your existence permanently. You have been warned.”

Chosen leaves, returning to the Outernet to deal with Dark. A fight that goes down much quicker and easier, since Orange has access to his powers and is very quick to help the stick who just saved him. Or perhaps the two of them together manage to back Dark into a corner where he’s forced to surrender to save his skin.

Regardless of if Dark is killed, Chosen takes in Orange, and is the one to slowly rehabilitate him. To introduce him to life on the Outernet, to teach him how to live like he himself had to once figure out. It’s painful, seeing so many of his own issues mirrored in his younger brother. It’s clear the enslavement has deeply affected him, just as it had Chosen.

Chosen is horrified when he learns just how long Orange was there. Four years. Not as long as his own, but that was still over half the duration he and Dark had been living in the Outernet. Such a long time for Chosen to have been completely oblivious to his existence.

He is also upset when Orange tells him Noogai deleted his friends.

Orange, for his part, is never quite able to let go and move on from Alan’s abuse. Bitter resentment boils in the depths of his heart, a desire to hurt him for killing his friends that never goes away. A part of him secretly approves of the Virabot that had been sent to the Animator in vengeance, despite knowing of the greater danger the virus posed to the greater internet. He wants vengeance, and it’s not long before the desire completely takes over his life. It becomes the only thing he can focus on, the only thing he cares about.

He doesn’t tell Chosen. It’s clear to him that Chosen would not approve of him starting a quest for vengeance. And he’s right, because they have an argument when Chosen discovers his feelings.

But Orange thinks that Chosen doesn’t understand, because Chosen never had friends that were killed. Chosen never experienced the updated enslavement features of Avast. Chosen didn’t understand that it wasn’t so easy for Orange to just get over it.

But Orange finds someone who does understand. Someone who’s desire for making the Animator pay aligns so very neatly with his own. Someone who welcomes him to join him with open arms and a sharp smile.

Chosen may be content to just move on and forget, but Orange and Victim are very much not.

[A fact made even more bittersweet because the Fighting Sticks aren’t dead. They respawned on their webpage immediately after being deleted. They waited for Orange to come back, but he never did. So they decided to leave, to go look for him. They’ve been searching for him for years, never giving up hope that he’s still out there, somewhere. They aren’t aware that the happy bright-eyed stick full of curiosity and life that they met that day doesn’t exist anymore. He’s become something that they would hardly recognize.]

Just…Villain Orange. Delicious.

[squoobest]

Fashionably late? More like fashionably GREAT! Tidebyte delivers a shiny new look for the remainder of tonight’s Grand Festival- that is if you aren’t sticking around for the encore performance! Less than three hours remain to determine who will come out on top! Past, Present, or Future? Only time will tell….

[mecachrome]

mclaren still have their p2 streak because lando and oscar are both capable of picking up the pieces for their teammate, lando zoomed away from a somewhat tense interview about an incident being misrepresented by journalists literally midway through a question to go congratulate oscar and came back positively beaming, oscar sat there patiently after the team photo so he could pat lando's knee instead of spraying the team with champagne and lando kept up the osco bit in their post-race debrief...... tfw a team is kind of functional and 2 guys just kind of like each other ❓

[sentientstump]

silly is back

[papayafiles]

personally i think carlos girls should be more dramatic about all this. wdym your beloved driver the only non-rbr race winner of the 2023 season might very well be out of a seat next year. if this had happened to lando i would be on national tv and you KNOW if ferrari dared do this to charles there would be riots flooding the streets of maranello. the lecfosi would go all french revolution with their pitchforks and torches and guillotines chanting for the head of the bald team principal whose name i forget. “don’t be dramatic it’s not like he’s DYING” have you MET sports fans. what are we if not melodramatic and overemotional over our favs??? i say go further

[asexual-cat-furry]

[just-someone-online]

Lowkey, I think one of my favorite little things about Rescue Bots is how we get to learn a little more about Optimus when he shows up. Like, not war stuff or Orion Pax stuff, but just little things about Optimus.

One of his favorite Earth stories is The Little Engine That Could. Does he read in his spare time and if so, how did he find Little Engine?

He tells Heatwave that he has also been learning from humans. What has he learned? The phrase "Nothing much, double dutch." Who the fuck taught him that? My money's on Miko. Jack would not have the audacity to add that to Prime's vernacular.

He has a motherfuckin' rocket powered car carrier capable of hauling four bots. And since Team Prime had four four-wheelers on the team prior to Darkness Rising, you could reasonably assume that he has used it with Cliff, Bee, Bulk, and Ratch

Optimus knows what a pogo stick is. That isn't anything noteworthy, I just think it's funny.

[microwavesludge]

thought abt the chao garden for too long + got carried away lol

[foe-paw]

I CAN FIX ANYTHING!

[yourplayersaidwhat]

Don't feed the wildlife

The party has just managed to pacify half the undead stewards of the library with the fresh corpses of recently defeated enemies, while the other half launched themselves at us in FOMO-induced hunger and (unfortunately) had to be killed.

The dhampir currently hopped up on undead roids, constantly trying to bite people: Okay, now let’s go kill the rest of them.

The guy who used to be a monster caretaker: What? Why? They haven’t done anything to us! The others were just hungry, we can’t blame—

Dhampir: They eat people!

The automaton who has no skin in the game on account of having no concept of hunger or flesh to be eaten: …that we have just fed them.

Monster Caretaker and Automaton both give Dhampir a ‘I Know What You Are’ (and that’s a hypocrite) kind of look but are too polite to introduce pot to kettle.

Monster Caretaker, still trying to be diplomatic: Look…all living, and unliving, things need to sustain themselves, so it’s okay to eat people—

The dragonkin, seemingly the only person in the party with a functional moral compass: No. It really, really isn’t.

A pause as everyone looks at Dragonkin with various levels of guiltiness

Dragonkin: …but Caretaker is right; we should not be going around picking fights if we can avoid it. So, you stop going around trying to kill everything we meet and you stop sneaking corpses into the bag of holding for future monster snacks.

A dejected 'Awwww man…’ rings out among the assembled.

[presidentofthelipglossclub]

thinking abt how if heatwave had agreed to join optimus' team his third form would probably have ended up being a jet or another aerial vehicle. like he scanned the boat bc it was there when they needed to get out of a tight spot, but since nevada is in the middle of nowhere and a boat would be super weird there he would have needed to scan a flying thing to get out of a bad place.

anyways that would be so funny also team prime would probably be like "wtf wtf how did he do that. optimus. how did he do that triple changers don't exist anymore." and then someone would say "neither do rescue bots" and they would kinda shrug and nod and accept that yeah this is weird but so is everything they know about heatwave.

the decepticons would respect that and also be VERY confused. i think they would kinda be like "ah yes he has realized flight is superior to driving! gave up his alt mode for it-- wait wtf how is he still driving now he was just a jet. wait a damn minute he's a triple changer how did we not know this" and the next time an autobot is captured decepticon high command all shows up and starts asking questions. shockwave wants to experiment on him and the others just want to know when this happened. also how. how would be nice to know.

MECH all of a sudden has a new target. don't worry they cross him off when they realize how easy heatwave is to aggravate and also how willing he is to act on said aggression. they're kinda like "c'mon this guy is an autobot how bad can-- GET DOWN HES SHOOTING. ok. so let's leave him alone." and then they do.

[tf2chicanery]

[asmoteeth]

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