The most worrying part of that story is that the SquareEnix rep was able to see the old password. That is a HUGE security no-no. If any website/company is ever able to tell you what your password was, they are doing things horribly wrong! You are supposed to only store hashes of passwords, so that not even the computer system that stores it knows what it is. There's a little more to it than just that, but they can't even do this one basic step correctly, so it is only a matter of time before their security is breached and all of those plaintext passwords end up circulating on hacker websites.
@@Johncw87 This, 100% this! If I saw that, I would immediately change the password to something completely different and then boycott the game. That is an unacceptable risk in today's world.
When he’s laughing at the end of his story and says the “and the ironic part is” I was immediately like “he used ‘fuck you’ as his password too didn’t he” and YEP! 😂 Loved that story
Why would he make him keep guessing? It's obviously a fake address. Ironically, someone who knew Dabney IRL or even just someone else who was also frustrated could have guessed it was a barrage of F-bombs.
I had to admit, hearing that long story was worth getting to the end, because was just soooo funny!!! Basically, it was him recalling the time when he was systematically saying "Screw you, Square Enix!!"
Gotta love Managers who basically think everyone's replaceable until *they* are the ones that need to do the replacing! Or the ones that wind being replaced!
I completely lost it at "Domamu! I've come to change my password!" I laughed out so loud, my roommate heard it from the other room and came to see what's so funny. :D I am severely depressed and have multiple other mental illnesses which in my case means that I rarely laugh or feel happy. This must have been the first time in months that I laughed. Thank you.
"I genuinely don't know if this story is gonna be remotely entertaining..." 9:57 Then proceed to tell the most hilarious and relatable story ever 😆😆😆 I always felt that i was the only one who gets that frustrated with tech forms and sign up accounts and password...
I am a FF14 stan. I recommend it to everyone. But dealing with the FF14 wbsite is one of the most dreadful experiences I've ever had with online forms. It's like SquareEnix does not want me to five rhem money for this game
ahhh that's what i ran into when i tried to log in to facebook so i could delete my old account. so i have a rogue facebook account out there i can't find or delete lol
"I'm not sure this story is gonna be even remotely entertaining" turned out to be the funniest personal rSlash story to date. I almost spat milk on my computer
I am laughing my ass off right now because SQEX's account creation process has always been annoying for me and my friends. rSlash's fucking XIV story encapsulates everything wrong with that system
It's a nightmare!! I hate it so much!! Why is your billing system an entirely different website from your account management?! Why do you only have half of your website translated properly?! Why is your recovery process so esoteric?! I love that game but oh man, I don't have the patience.
I wanna bet that guy who got to assist rSlash and his brother in getting his password back got his day made by that whole saga. It's probably something he loves to tell people about. 🤣🤣🤣
For some reason, that lady in the first story just gives me the vibe of “Southern belle who goes to church just so they can say they are good church going lady”
A lady who thinks she's "holier than thou" just because she goes to church EVERY Sunday and participates at every church event. But still complains to the cashier just because that $2.00 off coupon for her instant coffee that she ALWAYS buys expired two weeks ago and insults the new generation as "those stupid millennials".
also funny how she was at a church concert that she snuck into basically commiting theft of services and thus breaking the commandment "Thou Shalt Not Steal."
@@kristenrdesinski2937 unless youre truly disheartened/concerned for something that happened to someone you feel empathy for. Dont let the internet trick you into thinking generalities. This was only really used as an insult in the 80s and 90s. SOME do still use it as an insult but not so many as the internet suggests.
The reason OP in the first story didn't care about Karen skipping out on the ticket was because the church group gets that money. The group had already paid to rent out the space.
@@mbr7156 I will say not all of them but yeah there sure are a lot that are like that. I don't know how being a terrible person scores any points with the big guy upstairs in their mind.
I'm pretty sure there's a story out there on Reddit about a guy at customer support at square enix that had to give your bother your password information lol
I hate it when those survey sites ask me questions like "what's your mother's maiden name?" Or especially "how many pubic hairs do you know?" Lmaooooooo
I have a gender neutral name, so whenever there is an insurance question, my husband will call and pretend to be me since he understands that stuff better first hand. One time he went through the whole verification process and was finally able to ask the question..."do I need preauthorization for my upcoming childbirth?"
This is going to be an interesting one for me... I'm going through the whole process of getting my legal name changed because I'm trans and at least the name change doesn't require six months of therapy first. But that means that there will be several months of my official name being Oliver and me picking up the phone with my squeaky girl voice insisting that I am, in fact, Oliver...
@@olivergregory5093 if it's any consolation, the rep on the phone didn't skip a beat and just told him the info. As long as he verified all the info correctly (last 4 of ssn, birth date, etc), they did not care.
@@olivergregory5093 that really sucks, especially as it leads to unwanted hatred for trans people because of ignorant idiots mouthing off. i hope that you didn’t have to experience it for long
@@olivergregory5093 congrats on your journey to your real self. I wish you kindness from all & happiness for you. My oldest stepchild lives across the country & transitioned. Being so far away my husband & I haven't been able to meet him, but I'm looking forward to getting to know my son when he is ready. It didn't go so smoothly with the other set of parents, they were assholes. My younger son went off on both of them on how they treated his brother (they have been best friends their whole lives, 2.5 yrs apart). So proud of both of my boys.
The last story got me crackling like a madman but the build up to the password was genius. Couldn't hold back my tears when you revealed what it was lmao
Re: Final Fantasy 14. This is my exact experience regarding it. “You know those moments where you want to play a game so you go to log into the game and have to guess your old password and you guess wrong so you have to reset your password and so you do and you set up your new password as the old password and “your new password cant be the same as your old password” so you make a different password and save it then you go to log in and enter the new password you just made and it says “invalid password” so you do the process again and use the password you just tried and “your new password cant be the same as your old password” and so this time you copy the password into a notepad file so you cant get it wrong and then complete the password replacement process and try again but “incorrect password” and you try one more time typing it out rather than copying it from the notepad and now “due to incorrect password entry your account is locked” and so you black out and now your whole house is on fire”
Ahhhhhh, okay. So bots are copypasting comments in order to show some semblance of sentience now. The first few were pretty clever but the game has revealed itself to me
Dabney... Man... My heart goes out to you on the "I've come to change password..." repeat loop. It sounds a LOT like my frustration in trying to play Anno 2070 again and dealing with the Ubisoft crapstorm that is ALL the logins to play. Their over complications to play are the reason why I'll never buy another game from that company. I would not shed a tear if their website ate itself.
I've ner laughed more during a story than at the personal one you just told. My face hurts from smiling. It was hilarious and I liked the way you told it. Awesome one! :D
Your ending story is an amazing example of why I like your content. You put actual, genuine effort into making your videos entertaining; you could, yknow, just sit there and read the posts. But you choose to put in the extra work to tell related, hilarious stories, or for AITA, you give OP advice, doing voices for characters, putting emotion behind your voice... and it really sounds like you actually enjoy what you do. It really separates you from the other "Reddit RU-vidrs" imo, it's a nice breath of fresh air. Keep doing you :)
Dude, as someone who has been playing FF14 for years, the amount of bureaucracy on the website is ABSURD LMFAO!!! BTW, if you play on the Crystal Data Center, I'd love to do some dungeons with you! :3
It's a Japanese company and a Japanese game, Japan loves their bureaucracy and making everything as complicated as possible, I'm not shocked that they have it for their games as well. Though what does shock me is the fact that their passwords are saved in plaintext meaning any hacker can get everyone's account passwords without having the decrypt it first!
@@AlbireoTheLion I’ve been playing every day for the past 3 years but 2 of those were on pc so I had to input my password every day. I recently (back in February) switched to PS4 once I got one and I now struggle to remember my password if I’m logging into the site so I understand the pain resetting your password can be but damn, I was lucky I didn’t have to try for 3 weeks, that sentence hurts to even look at lmao
Same. I'm usually playing ff14 while listening and I nearly squeed cause so few RU-vidrs I listen to ever really talk about playing it. But yeah, Squinex's tech support is hellish.
@@laurenbassett507 I wasn’t expecting him to mention it at all so it was a really great surprise indeed! I’ve only heard it mentioned once in a Sorry about some healer bitching at a RDM for healing, other then that, I haven’t heard anyone talk about it.
"Dormamu, I've come to change my password." The funniest part of this whole thing is that I'm currently watching Doctor Strange while I'm listening to R/SLASH!!!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣
In the video he said how many pubic hairs do you know and I just asked him I think I accidentally replied to your comment I am sorry I meant to put that on the public one
"Announced the end of paid vacations" - this is such an incoceivable concept that an employer could ever be allowed to pull something like this legally.
“I don’t know if this story is remotely entertaining” “For the town try F**K you, for the state try F**K YOU, for the country try F**K YOU” What do you MEAN, thats an AMAZING story LMAO
The "Final Fantasy" story reminds me of early on in my railroad career. I had just learned how to obtain a track occupancy permit (track and time in the US) so I wasn't quite proficient at it yet. A colleague/buddy of mine was sitting behind me in our work truck pushing and pulling the back of my seat quietly making moaning sounds so only me and my foreman can hear but cannot be picked up by the microphone for the radio. So as I am repeating back to the train dispatcher the information required I am laughing a bit (trying not to). The dispatcher says to me "well it's not so funny". I apologized and continued "yeah, but you are not here".
I could not stop laughing during that final fantasy story. I laughed so hard I gave myself hiccups. I did not expect there to be so many f you’s in the address. This is why I luv u and this channel. U always manage to put a smile on my face. Keep doing what ur doing luv!
I always listen to rslash when I get ready in the morning! It's the best way to start my day! But I always love it when he tells those personal stories, and especially when he starts to have those giggle fits!! Makes the start of my day even better!! Thanks rslash for all you do!!
Oml your story about changing passwords was HILARIOUS I was fucking rolling! I have been trapped in that same type of situation before with so many sites cuz I have such shit memory
I had a co-worker quit on the spot once when he came in upset at some of the other workers in the yard. He was ranting about how he felt like he was the only person doing work out there and at one point in his anger he said “I could get a job at the dollar tree for better pay and less work”. I feel like he said this all just to let his anger out bc he was frustrated, it happens. All of this he was saying to my manager. Well, my manager got pissed after he said that and said “then go” in response. Co-worker immediately took his badge off, slammed it on the desk and said “okay then, bye” before walking out. The rest of the week all I heard from this particular manager was complaining that co-worker left on the spot like that, as if he didn’t literally tell him to. I realize they were both being jerks at this moment, but seriously, if you’re a manager and you have a worker come to you in distress, upset and feeling abused, and your response when they say they’d rather go somewhere else than keep dealing with it is to tell them to leave, then don’t be upset when they do exactly that.
The credit card story. Sounds about right. A lot of company's just drag their feet until you force their hand. I had a friend who an issue with his insurance company. Short version of the back story, a drunk driver slammed his car through my friends living room. Driver was 100% at fault and a nearby traffic camera caught the whole thing in glorious HD, the police paperwork took longer sort out than the crash investigation, but done in 48 hours, CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) was already throwing a case together because it was open and shut, frankly having a judge taking a look at the file was a waste of time, but formalities. So, my friend files a claim, he told to send in a copy of his policy, the police report and some photos of the damage. A claims adjuster will be out ASAP to verify the claim ASAP. Cool, he mails it. 2 weeks later nothing, no call, no letter, no e-mail or messenger pigeon. So he calls them up because he's pretty sick of the tarpaulin acting as the front of his house. "We didn't receive your documents, please send them again", 'kay, he compiles. Another 2 weeks, same story. This time he's beyond annoyed, he get our mutual lawyer friend involved to make sure he was doing things right. He doesn't want to make a fuss but he has had a car shaped hole in the front of his house for a month now. Our lawyer friend prepares the documents, records everything and sends it off using recorded mail (a Post Office service, it means the recipient has to sign for the letter and the sender is informed when it's received), took 20 minutes and the promise of some wine. Another 2 weeks, same story, "I sent it by recorded mail, I was notified you got the letter". Yeah, minimum wage monkey didn't have an answer for that, so the floor manager claimed it must of been lost internally so my friend has to send it again. Our lawyer friend is now on a warpath. She has some spare time and can take a pro-bono corporate spanking job. She reprepares the documents, this time, with her law firms approval, with a "nicely worded" letter amounting to an explanation of what evidence she already had and a thinly veiled threat that ignoring my friend any longer would result in being sued so far into Hades the only client they will ever have again is Cerberus. She had it hand delivered by courier. Wouldn't you know it, "This has been a terrible mistake and over-sight, we apologise for the delay", read "Make the scary lawyer lady go away, and we will give you whatever you want". Friend got his wall fixed and sizable compensation for the 6 weeks of [expletive]ery.
You know what I find hilarious? I was listening to this in the background while doing some crafting in FF14. I just sat there silently giggling, because I think anyone who has done anything related to Square Enix knows that they have the trashiest website design ever.
So that filling out forms story reminded me of an experience I had with my brother once 😂😂😂 I need to preface this his by saying we are of British ancestry on my grandpa’s side and born in Argentina (2 places known for dark humor and for poking fun at absurdity): long story short, I was in high school (senior and my brother a freshman) and I was going through a bit of anxiety picking a college and our mom wanted me to see a therapist. I didn’t want to go but she picked up the paperwork regardless and gave it to me to fill out. Having no intention of going, I started filling out the questionnaire with the dumbest/craziest answers I could think of in order to show my brother so we could get some laughs out of it. Actual examples: “do you ever intentionally start fires?” “No” “do you ever harm animals?” “No” “do you have any hobbies?” “Giving animals hats that are on fire” (and just in case anyone doesn’t see that I created the response based off of the prior questions, it is 100% a joke. I love animals and would NEVER harm an animal). So, long story short, we laughed are asses off, changed some answers, laughed some more aaaaaand promptly forgot about it. I guess we left the offending document lying around and my mom saw that I had filled out the questionnaire, she figured I’d had a change of heart (and that I didn’t fill out the name/insurance page bc she was the one that had my insurance card. So, being the loving mother she is, she filled it out for me and emailed it to the therapist to set up the appointment. I was at school so I was nine the wiser. Turns out that about 10 minutes after sending the email she gets a FRANTIC call from the therapist herself telling her that I need to be seen immediately and some other nonsense that I don’t remember as we’re talking 17 years ago at this point 😂😂😂 my mom, knowing me and having a similar sense of humor, immediately goes to the questionnaire and reads through the answers and said she started laughing that crazy laugh you get when you’re embarrassed and don’t want to laugh but can’t stop laughing. So now the Doctor thinks she’s nuts too 🤣🤣🤣 and she wants us all to go in 😂😂😂 in the end I pointed out to my mom that clearly this therapist wasn’t going to be a good fit. If im stressed about college and they’re asking me questions about fire and harming animals then clearly there is a disconnect BUT beyond that, based off of the answers I put it was obvious that my answers were not serious so even on a personal basis, there was no way the doctor would understand me and my sense of humor. Needless to say, I didn’t end up going (and I picked a college and loved it so much I went straight into grad school, never having hurt an animal or setting a fire, might I add 😂). PS- this is one of my dad’s favorite stories
Thanks for the image of little forest of furry friends running around wearing little hats that are on fire. This coupled with rSlash laughing and saying f* street. F* city. Etc. Has made my day.
Ok, I have to say this, that story, about recovering your final fantasy password, was downright the best story you have told us yet and I think that’s hilarious
Anyone else find Rslash's unbridled giggling at the end super contagious? 🤣 I'm sitting here smiling like a doofus because it's making ME giggle hahaha
i got stuck in a loop like that trying to log into swtor after a few years away haha i had to call their hotline although luckily cause i had the 2 step login on for so long i had like thousands of premium currency
That's why you don't switch phone numbers randomly. By holding on to your phone number forever you never lose your ability to reset your passwords. Food for thought
