Don't worry, he'll send a bear to maul some kids for making fun of a bald man soon enough.
Quote from: Cain on October 02, 2018, 12:20:11 AM
Don't worry, he'll send a bear to maul some kids for making fun of a bald man soon enough.
Nobody ever did that for me. :cry:
Don't forget this one:
"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns."
- Ecclesiastes 25:6:4
Quote from: Hoopla! on October 02, 2018, 03:50:24 AM
Don't forget this one:
"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns."
- Ecclesiastes 25:6:4
This has NEVER been more true.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 02, 2018, 01:18:06 AM
Quote from: Cain on October 02, 2018, 12:20:11 AM
Don't worry, he'll send a bear to maul some kids for making fun of a bald man soon enough.
Nobody ever did that for me. :cry:
This may have been an Elisha specific deal. Perform some more miracles and prophecies - maybe God won't notice the difference.
I'm just sitting here watching Brett Kavenaugh get pushed under the bus. :lulz:
Every fucking day is a festival.
Fine, I 'need' some new computers in order to watch/serve the show. So I look at my favorite friendly purveyor of stylishly modded unix boxes, uncle mac. To my horror, they soldered all user servicable parts to the 'logic' board of their portable devices. If history (mine) is any guide, this does not bode well for my use profile... Also, I use blender, which supposedly melts the clock on this 'optimized' configuration. Does anyone have any advice before I get fired for using boxes that are over a decade young?
[cost is not an issue, apparently, but I'm not guaranteed full upgrade for who knows how long]
Quote from: axod on October 04, 2018, 08:55:04 PM
Fine, I 'need' some new computers in order to watch/serve the show. So I look at my favorite friendly purveyor of stylishly modded unix boxes, uncle mac. To my horror, they soldered all user servicable parts to the 'logic' board of their portable devices. If history (mine) is any guide, this does not bode well for my use profile... Also, I use blender, which supposedly melts the clock on this 'optimized' configuration. Does anyone have any advice before I get fired for using boxes that are over a decade young?
[cost is not an issue, apparently, but I'm not guaranteed full upgrade for who knows how long]
Never again buy from that person. I have tossed vendors involving millions of dollars per year over that sort of shit. Then I make it known that I did.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 04, 2018, 09:38:30 PM
Quote from: axod on October 04, 2018, 08:55:04 PM
Fine, I 'need' some new computers in order to watch/serve the show. So I look at my favorite friendly purveyor of stylishly modded unix boxes, uncle mac. To my horror, they soldered all user servicable parts to the 'logic' board of their portable devices. If history (mine) is any guide, this does not bode well for my use profile... Also, I use blender, which supposedly melts the clock on this 'optimized' configuration. Does anyone have any advice before I get fired for using boxes that are over a decade young?
[cost is not an issue, apparently, but I'm not guaranteed full upgrade for who knows how long]
Never again buy from that person. I have tossed vendors involving millions of dollars per year over that sort of shit. Then I make it known that I did.
okay, but the other guy runs his ship like a hoar-house. at least he used to. not that theres anything wrong with that, except when you cant even synch 44kHz audio reliably. that caused at least one person to sprain an ankle.
Modded Unix, uncle mac, you mean apple shite?
Yeah they mold all their components, and inject with plastic save a mm in space, kill the heat profile of the device, you can never repair a faulty component, it forces users to replace the whole thing. I've been apple free since 2016 when I got rid of itunes, haven't had their hardware since 2014. Have never looked back.
Quote from: Faust on October 04, 2018, 11:00:58 PM
Modded Unix, uncle mac, you mean apple shite?
Yeah they mold all their components, and inject with plastic save a mm in space, kill the heat profile of the device, you can never repair a faulty component, it forces users to replace the whole thing. I've been apple free since 2016 when I got rid of itunes, haven't had their hardware since 2014. Have never looked back.
if I may be so bold, could you be kind enough to tell us what you run?
(I did enjoy osX's free bsd kernel and bash shell)
(I might just get a 2017 and run a linux box)
[edit 0]
IIRC some noob now owns git. so i feel a smidge less sure of myself.
[edit 1]
Q) Dear Axod, why is your knowledge of hardware so deplorable?
A) Internet porn, Sir.
I have a custom build laptop from PC specialist
https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/laptops/
I7, 16 GB RAM, older graphics card (as the newest game I play on this is morrowind), SSD for the OS, regular sata for larger storage
My one regret is I went cheap on the case (at the time I thought I don't care about looks), but there are a couple of robustness issues with the plastic, if you go down this route and spend a lot on the internals, spend a little more on the case.
For the OS a mix of debian, and windows 10 (which probably means the 3 letter agencies know everything about me, but I'm not very exciting).
As an aside, ppl round here been running a shit-ton of red lights bout me. I'd lov to think it just a ludic principle. Or, are people really losing it for real this time?
I will say on the graphics card front, you can still get away with a GTX 1060 for most modern games. I bought Rise of the Tomb Raider the other week and it runs almost perfectly on a mix of high and ultra settings. Anything more is nice, but completely unnecessary until probably the next-gen consoles are released. Unless you're mining bitcoins or something, but then you're a terrible person anyway.
I was using my custom box to mine Necronomicoin, until it crawled up the wall and screamed in 1000 voices. :(
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 02, 2018, 07:37:41 PM
I'm just sitting here watching Brett Kavenaugh get pushed under the bus. :lulz:
Every fucking day is a festival.
And then, the inevitable happened.
Quote from: LMNO on October 05, 2018, 12:59:18 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 02, 2018, 07:37:41 PM
I'm just sitting here watching Brett Kavenaugh get pushed under the bus. :lulz:
Every fucking day is a festival.
And then, the inevitable happened.
Trump went on Air Force 1 with toilet paper stuck to his shoe?
That, too. I meant more that Brett the Rapist Judge isn't getting quashed, he's getting support.
And the GOP base is getting riled up to vote in November. So much for the "blue wave".
Apparently he had to write the WSJ op-ed because they still didn't have 50 votes. But yeah. And I've posted my thoughts on the "blue wave" already.
It would have been a 'blue ripple', if anything.
Now, it's "welcome to the kleptocracy"
On the other hand, after that outburst during the last hearing, there will be a good argument from now to eternity to have him recuse himself from any strongly political case, since his bias is clear and overt.
I mean, we all know where John Roberts stands, for example, but he also didn't make a complete arse of himself ranting about Clintonian conspiracy theories during his hearing.
"Judge Kavenaugh, please recuse yourself from this case."
"NO."
"Uh.... ok, then."
Quote from: LMNO on October 05, 2018, 12:59:18 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 02, 2018, 07:37:41 PM
I'm just sitting here watching Brett Kavenaugh get pushed under the bus. :lulz:
Every fucking day is a festival.
And then, the inevitable happened.
Yeah, the fat bastard was just hedging his bets. I knew Flake was gonna flip, but I didn't expect Collins.
I know he won't. But the argument will get made, every time. The video will get shown, every time.
If you want to start the ball rolling on Supreme Court reform, then that's going to be the centrepiece.
Quote from: Cain on October 05, 2018, 03:54:27 PM
On the other hand, after that outburst during the last hearing, there will be a good argument from now to eternity to have him recuse himself from any strongly political case, since his bias is clear and overt.
I mean, we all know where John Roberts stands, for example, but he also didn't make a complete arse of himself ranting about Clintonian conspiracy theories during his hearing.
Also, with one glaring exception (Citizens United), Roberts' record hasn't actually been all that bad, considering who installed him.
Quote from: LMNO on October 05, 2018, 02:57:47 PM
That, too. I meant more that Brett the Rapist Judge isn't getting quashed, he's getting support.
And the GOP base is getting riled up to vote in November. So much for the "blue wave".
If 41% of the left show up at the polls, I will kiss my own ass in public.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 05, 2018, 04:01:49 PM
Quote from: Cain on October 05, 2018, 03:54:27 PM
On the other hand, after that outburst during the last hearing, there will be a good argument from now to eternity to have him recuse himself from any strongly political case, since his bias is clear and overt.
I mean, we all know where John Roberts stands, for example, but he also didn't make a complete arse of himself ranting about Clintonian conspiracy theories during his hearing.
Also, with one glaring exception (Citizens United), Roberts' record hasn't actually been all that bad, considering who installed him.
Yeah, he's a judge first and foremost, which cannot be said of Kavanaugh, going by both his statements and his past rulings.
Today is gong to be busy for me, but check back later for some fucked up weirdness. I have something that is too ticklish to not write down.
51-49 yea votes, confirmation votes starts tomorrow.
Quote from: LMNO on October 05, 2018, 04:14:16 PM
51-49 yea votes, confirmation votes starts tomorrow.
Fucking knew it.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 05, 2018, 04:50:35 PM
Quote from: LMNO on October 05, 2018, 04:14:16 PM
51-49 yea votes, confirmation votes starts tomorrow.
Fucking knew it.
In a 'shocking' twist, one Republican voted no, and one Democrat voted yes.
Quote from: LMNO on October 05, 2018, 04:54:05 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 05, 2018, 04:50:35 PM
Quote from: LMNO on October 05, 2018, 04:14:16 PM
51-49 yea votes, confirmation votes starts tomorrow.
Fucking knew it.
In a 'shocking' twist, one Republican voted no, and one Democrat voted yes.
I saw that. Which democrat? This requires life-long shaming.
Joe Manchin of West Virginia. The 'yes' Republican was Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.
Quote from: LMNO on October 05, 2018, 04:59:24 PM
Joe Manchin of West Virginia. The 'yes' Republican was Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.
She was no.
But she will roll over in the full session. Bank on it.
Manchin needs some sweet, sweet FB & Snailmail lovin'.
Right, I got that flipped.
Faust:
Ty for the specs. For the commercial OS, I'm prolly still gonna have to do a hackintosh, because I dont see being able to migrate back to windows anytime soon. cant even think about /usr/local.
Cain/E.O.C:
Yeah, I still dont understand GPU's very well. when I'm doing neural nets tho, I know I need about 4Gigs, at least thats what works on the desktop.
---
So, instead, today I bought some chains at the hardware store, to which I can still somewhat relate. Oh, and now I need broadband or Mr. Thiel is gonna pull me over.
Dumpster dove some Quadro k6000. Dunno if any work because my damn power supply is short a cable :argh!:
My luck though is they're actually fried.
I was trying to teach myself to deglaze a pan, and accidentally made a small quantity of what I can only describe as "teriyaki caramel".
I don't know how to repeat this, and suspect it would be unwise to try.
Quote from: axod on October 06, 2018, 02:33:04 AM
Cain/E.O.C:
Yeah, I still dont understand GPU's very well. when I'm doing neural nets tho, I know I need about 4Gigs, at least thats what works on the desktop.
I did a quick and dirty price comparison, and a GTX 680 4GB only costs around $40 less than a GTX 1060, which is listed as 3GB but is effectively 16GB of virtual RAM. Given the difference, I would go for the latter as the price difference is negligible but having more VRAM is always nice - it will allow you to do other things while the neural nets work away.
Quote from: Cain on October 06, 2018, 06:40:18 AM
Quote from: axod on October 06, 2018, 02:33:04 AM
Cain/E.O.C:
Yeah, I still dont understand GPU's very well. when I'm doing neural nets tho, I know I need about 4Gigs, at least thats what works on the desktop.
I did a quick and dirty price comparison, and a GTX 680 4GB only costs around $40 less than a GTX 1060, which is listed as 3GB but is effectively 16GB of virtual RAM. Given the difference, I would go for the latter as the price difference is negligible but having more VRAM is always nice - it will allow you to do other things while the neural nets work away.
Current Status: Well, at least 1080 is divisible by pi. Thar goes my future in IT and liberal democracy.
Sidebar: that rocket thing was cool, again.
Quote from: axod on October 08, 2018, 01:08:48 AM
Quote from: Cain on October 06, 2018, 06:40:18 AM
Quote from: axod on October 06, 2018, 02:33:04 AM
Cain/E.O.C:
Yeah, I still dont understand GPU's very well. when I'm doing neural nets tho, I know I need about 4Gigs, at least thats what works on the desktop.
I did a quick and dirty price comparison, and a GTX 680 4GB only costs around $40 less than a GTX 1060, which is listed as 3GB but is effectively 16GB of virtual RAM. Given the difference, I would go for the latter as the price difference is negligible but having more VRAM is always nice - it will allow you to do other things while the neural nets work away.
Current Status: Well, at least 1080 is divisible by pi. Thar goes my future in IT and liberal democracy.
That number after the three letter acronym, I think it's related to the clock rate. Not sure you need that to be big if you're doing nets/demoscene art instead of full texture scene rendering at 60 fps for hyper-responsive high-end gameplay. If you were looking for a laptop, one of those GPU's may require breakout via thunderbolt. Just my 2 cent.
Oh yeah, for sure it would be overkill and then some. But for such a small price difference, I thought I'd mention the option.
Quote from: Trivial on October 06, 2018, 03:44:05 AM
Dumpster dove some Quadro k6000. Dunno if any work because my damn power supply is short a cable :argh!:
My luck though is they're actually fried.
Could just be an ity bity resistor? Give us a ring next time, we have all diving certifications.
Quote from: Cain on October 08, 2018, 07:00:46 PM
Oh yeah, for sure it would be overkill and then some. But for such a small price difference, I thought I'd mention the option.
I for one appreciate knowing that that might be overkill— at least now I know which way is up. its frankly disorienting, this technology is.
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on October 06, 2018, 04:42:51 AM
I was trying to teach myself to deglaze a pan, and accidentally made a small quantity of what I can only describe as "teriyaki caramel".
I don't know how to repeat this, and suspect it would be unwise to try.
It kept on whispering, "put that in your pipe and smoke it."
Quote from: axod on October 08, 2018, 07:20:25 PM
Quote from: Trivial on October 06, 2018, 03:44:05 AM
Dumpster dove some Quadro k6000. Dunno if any work because my damn power supply is short a cable :argh!:
My luck though is they're actually fried.
Could just be an ity bity resistor? Give us a ring next time, we have all diving certifications.
Quote from: Cain on October 08, 2018, 07:00:46 PM
Oh yeah, for sure it would be overkill and then some. But for such a small price difference, I thought I'd mention the option.
I for one appreciate knowing that that might be overkill— at least now I know which way is up. its frankly disorienting, this technology is.
Many prospects here.
"Much of the information I've cribbed out of this book, but since I wrote the book it's probably okay."
I love academia sometimes.
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on October 09, 2018, 07:48:37 PM
"Much of the information I've cribbed out of this book, but since I wrote the book it's probably okay."
I love academia sometimes.
:lulz:
I have been caught lifting my own rants from here and posting them on facebook.
But, you know, they're
mine, and I can cock & repost anytime I want.
So I went to Nashville seeking The American Dream and found out it's Disney Land for white bridal parties bouncing in the back of a school bus with the roof cut off to the same Shania Twain song over and over and over again.
I felt like I was in a play by Sartre.
Maybe that is the American Dream?
*edited for stupid spelling mistake
Quote from: Trivial on October 09, 2018, 04:01:34 PM
Quote from: axod on October 08, 2018, 07:20:25 PM
Quote from: Trivial on October 06, 2018, 03:44:05 AM
Dumpster dove some Quadro k6000. Dunno if any work because my damn power supply is short a cable :argh!:
My luck though is they're actually fried.
Could just be an ity bity resistor? Give us a ring next time, we have all diving certifications.
Quote from: Cain on October 08, 2018, 07:00:46 PM
Oh yeah, for sure it would be overkill and then some. But for such a small price difference, I thought I'd mention the option.
I for one appreciate knowing that that might be overkill— at least now I know which way is up. its frankly disorienting, this technology is.
Many prospects here.
I like.
I am gaining a really, really good understand of how money moves.
People are stupid and refuse to learn. Just putting that out there.
But then this shit happens and I have to :lulz:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/police-seeking-person-who-put-googly-eyes-on-historic-georgia-statue/ar-BBOl50G?ocid=spartanntp
Been working 2nd shift 10 hour nights and it's exhausting and eating away at my time for here and most everything else. It will pay the bills though. I'm stamping out metal parts in a press shop. Last night I helped do 2500 wheel wells. My hands are adapting to the repetitive motion and my feet are made of leather so I'm actually not all that uncomfortable. I'm way behind on reading stuff here so I'll be picking through the threads piecemeal when I can. Just wanted you folks to know I'm doing ok and that I will still be around here from time to time. As a temp I'm not allowed overtime so I have Fridays off. That's probably when I'll be most involved here.
I'm spending most weekends with my GF! I'm pleased to say that I have a pretty great relationship going. It's done wonders for my mental outlook and motivation. It's nice to have someone to love again.
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on October 13, 2018, 11:53:13 PM
Been working 2nd shift 10 hour nights and it's exhausting and eating away at my time for here and most everything else. It will pay the bills though. I'm stamping out metal parts in a press shop. Last night I helped do 2500 wheel wells. My hands are adapting to the repetitive motion and my feet are made of leather so I'm actually not all that uncomfortable. I'm way behind on reading stuff here so I'll be picking through the threads piecemeal when I can. Just wanted you folks to know I'm doing ok and that I will still be around here from time to time. As a temp I'm not allowed overtime so I have Fridays off. That's probably when I'll be most involved here.
I'm spending most weekends with my GF! I'm pleased to say that I have a pretty great relationship going. It's done wonders for my mental outlook and motivation. It's nice to have someone to love again.
Glad to hear things have stabilized. I was worried about you.
I mean, the Doktor still hates you and prays nightly for an asteroid, but I was still worried.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 13, 2018, 11:54:46 PM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on October 13, 2018, 11:53:13 PM
Been working 2nd shift 10 hour nights and it's exhausting and eating away at my time for here and most everything else. It will pay the bills though. I'm stamping out metal parts in a press shop. Last night I helped do 2500 wheel wells. My hands are adapting to the repetitive motion and my feet are made of leather so I'm actually not all that uncomfortable. I'm way behind on reading stuff here so I'll be picking through the threads piecemeal when I can. Just wanted you folks to know I'm doing ok and that I will still be around here from time to time. As a temp I'm not allowed overtime so I have Fridays off. That's probably when I'll be most involved here.
I'm spending most weekends with my GF! I'm pleased to say that I have a pretty great relationship going. It's done wonders for my mental outlook and motivation. It's nice to have someone to love again.
Glad to hear things have stabilized. I was worried about you.
I mean, the Doktor still hates you and prays nightly for an asteroid, but I was still worried.
Thanks for your concern man. I'm finally getting out of my long depression. I have to still take a bunch of meds, but it has worked pretty well and I'm back to living a life again. I'm hoping that my creative spark comes back soon. I want to tell tales and get my rant on. Hopefully with my change in outlook and a little encouragement I will be back on the horse in no time. My girl really likes the "Wizard" tales I've told her. I just have to get them written down. One step at a time.
Glad to hear from you, WizJo!
So, the left-wing screeching about the dems has reached new levels on social media. Apparently, if you vote to stop the redneck trash in the GOP, you are literally the next Hitler.
Do your part, America. Shove a progressive down a manhole today.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 16, 2018, 04:22:24 PM
So, the left-wing screeching about the dems has reached new levels on social media. Apparently, if you vote to stop the redneck trash in the GOP, you are literally the next Hitler.
Do your part, America. Shove a progressive down a manhole today.
What's this now?
That awkward moment when you get a call from the Florida EPA. :horrormirth:
Quote from: Trivial on October 16, 2018, 07:44:20 PM
That awkward moment when you get a call from the Florida EPA. :horrormirth:
They don't seem to be very busy, for having their state wash out to sea.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 16, 2018, 04:22:24 PM
So, the left-wing screeching about the dems has reached new levels on social media. Apparently, if you vote to stop the redneck trash in the GOP, you are literally the next Hitler.
Do your part, America. Shove a progressive down a manhole today.
Is this about Warren's DNA test fiasco?
Quote from: Hoopla! on October 16, 2018, 05:39:51 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 16, 2018, 04:22:24 PM
So, the left-wing screeching about the dems has reached new levels on social media. Apparently, if you vote to stop the redneck trash in the GOP, you are literally the next Hitler.
Do your part, America. Shove a progressive down a manhole today.
What's this now?
I just had - and I'm not kidding, here - some raging berner tell me that he isn't voting this year because Bernie never even got a chance to run for the ticket.
I mean, nobody did. IT'S NOT A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION YEAR.
I hate everyone. I hate everyone and I demand a return of the Spanish flu.
Quote from: LMNO on October 16, 2018, 07:54:42 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 16, 2018, 04:22:24 PM
So, the left-wing screeching about the dems has reached new levels on social media. Apparently, if you vote to stop the redneck trash in the GOP, you are literally the next Hitler.
Do your part, America. Shove a progressive down a manhole today.
Is this about Warren's DNA test fiasco?
No, the progressives I'm talking about think Warren is part of the problem.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 16, 2018, 07:54:02 PM
Quote from: Trivial on October 16, 2018, 07:44:20 PM
That awkward moment when you get a call from the Florida EPA. :horrormirth:
They don't seem to be very busy, for having their state wash out to sea.
To explain the issue poorly: people are scared because europe is saying use gasmasks there after the hurricane took out their measuring tool.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 16, 2018, 07:55:32 PM
Quote from: Hoopla! on October 16, 2018, 05:39:51 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 16, 2018, 04:22:24 PM
So, the left-wing screeching about the dems has reached new levels on social media. Apparently, if you vote to stop the redneck trash in the GOP, you are literally the next Hitler.
Do your part, America. Shove a progressive down a manhole today.
What's this now?
I just had - and I'm not kidding, here - some raging berner tell me that he isn't voting this year because Bernie never even got a chance to run for the ticket.
I mean, nobody did. IT'S NOT A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION YEAR.
I hate everyone. I hate everyone and I demand a return of the Spanish flu.
I wish people would stop ruining the term "progressive". I mean, it's getting to be the same reaction when I tell people I'm a Discordian -- there are far too many assholes who don't get it, giving it a bad name.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 16, 2018, 07:55:32 PM
Quote from: Hoopla! on October 16, 2018, 05:39:51 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 16, 2018, 04:22:24 PM
So, the left-wing screeching about the dems has reached new levels on social media. Apparently, if you vote to stop the redneck trash in the GOP, you are literally the next Hitler.
Do your part, America. Shove a progressive down a manhole today.
What's this now?
I just had - and I'm not kidding, here - some raging berner tell me that he isn't voting this year because Bernie never even got a chance to run for the ticket.
I mean, nobody did. IT'S NOT A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION YEAR.
I hate everyone. I hate everyone and I demand a return of the Spanish flu.
Sounds like that corrupt DNC tbh
Quote from: LMNO on October 16, 2018, 08:33:05 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 16, 2018, 07:55:32 PM
Quote from: Hoopla! on October 16, 2018, 05:39:51 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 16, 2018, 04:22:24 PM
So, the left-wing screeching about the dems has reached new levels on social media. Apparently, if you vote to stop the redneck trash in the GOP, you are literally the next Hitler.
Do your part, America. Shove a progressive down a manhole today.
What's this now?
I just had - and I'm not kidding, here - some raging berner tell me that he isn't voting this year because Bernie never even got a chance to run for the ticket.
I mean, nobody did. IT'S NOT A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION YEAR.
I hate everyone. I hate everyone and I demand a return of the Spanish flu.
I wish people would stop ruining the term "progressive". I mean, it's getting to be the same reaction when I tell people I'm a Discordian -- there are far too many assholes who don't get it, giving it a bad name.
Last week, I got tired of my Republicult™ neighbor carrying on about me being a "Librul." (I do not start political conversations with him, as they are a waste of my time.)
Now, in the not too distant past, I considered myself to be a "moderate." But, being a moderate doesn't seem to be possible these days.
As far as political party membership goes, I am, and have been for a couple of decades, officially registered as "non-affiliated." However, by today's standards in the era of Trump, I might as well be a Card-Carrying Communist. So, I calmly told the neighbor that I am a Communist.
He didn't believe me, so I guess I'm going to have to design and print-out a membership card. This is not over.
Quote from: LMNO on October 16, 2018, 08:33:05 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 16, 2018, 07:55:32 PM
Quote from: Hoopla! on October 16, 2018, 05:39:51 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 16, 2018, 04:22:24 PM
So, the left-wing screeching about the dems has reached new levels on social media. Apparently, if you vote to stop the redneck trash in the GOP, you are literally the next Hitler.
Do your part, America. Shove a progressive down a manhole today.
What's this now?
I just had - and I'm not kidding, here - some raging berner tell me that he isn't voting this year because Bernie never even got a chance to run for the ticket.
I mean, nobody did. IT'S NOT A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION YEAR.
I hate everyone. I hate everyone and I demand a return of the Spanish flu.
I wish people would stop ruining the term "progressive". I mean, it's getting to be the same reaction when I tell people I'm a Discordian -- there are far too many assholes who don't get it, giving it a bad name.
Yeah I've stopped telling people I'm from Earth. Everyone is giving me a bad name.
Quote from: Brother Mythos on October 16, 2018, 10:33:40 PM
Quote from: LMNO on October 16, 2018, 08:33:05 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 16, 2018, 07:55:32 PM
Quote from: Hoopla! on October 16, 2018, 05:39:51 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 16, 2018, 04:22:24 PM
So, the left-wing screeching about the dems has reached new levels on social media. Apparently, if you vote to stop the redneck trash in the GOP, you are literally the next Hitler.
Do your part, America. Shove a progressive down a manhole today.
What's this now?
I just had - and I'm not kidding, here - some raging berner tell me that he isn't voting this year because Bernie never even got a chance to run for the ticket.
I mean, nobody did. IT'S NOT A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION YEAR.
I hate everyone. I hate everyone and I demand a return of the Spanish flu.
I wish people would stop ruining the term "progressive". I mean, it's getting to be the same reaction when I tell people I'm a Discordian -- there are far too many assholes who don't get it, giving it a bad name.
Last week, I got tired of my Republicult™ neighbor carrying on about me being a "Librul." (I do not start political conversations with him, as they are a waste of my time.)
Now, in the not too distant past, I considered myself to be a "moderate." But, being a moderate doesn't seem to be possible these days.
As far as political party membership goes, I am, and have been for a couple of decades, officially registered as "non-affiliated." However, by today's standards in the era of Trump, I might as well be a Card-Carrying Communist. So, I calmly told the neighbor that I am a Communist.
He didn't believe me, so I guess I'm going to have to design and print-out a membership card. This is not over.
Remember to get a proper CPUSA one, none of that DSA nonsense. Nothing worse than getting called out by Communists
and Conservatives.
Quote from: Brother Mythos on October 16, 2018, 10:33:40 PM
Quote from: LMNO on October 16, 2018, 08:33:05 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 16, 2018, 07:55:32 PM
Quote from: Hoopla! on October 16, 2018, 05:39:51 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 16, 2018, 04:22:24 PM
So, the left-wing screeching about the dems has reached new levels on social media. Apparently, if you vote to stop the redneck trash in the GOP, you are literally the next Hitler.
Do your part, America. Shove a progressive down a manhole today.
What's this now?
I just had - and I'm not kidding, here - some raging berner tell me that he isn't voting this year because Bernie never even got a chance to run for the ticket.
I mean, nobody did. IT'S NOT A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION YEAR.
I hate everyone. I hate everyone and I demand a return of the Spanish flu.
I wish people would stop ruining the term "progressive". I mean, it's getting to be the same reaction when I tell people I'm a Discordian -- there are far too many assholes who don't get it, giving it a bad name.
Last week, I got tired of my Republicult™ neighbor carrying on about me being a "Librul." (I do not start political conversations with him, as they are a waste of my time.)
Now, in the not too distant past, I considered myself to be a "moderate." But, being a moderate doesn't seem to be possible these days.
As far as political party membership goes, I am, and have been for a couple of decades, officially registered as "non-affiliated." However, by today's standards in the era of Trump, I might as well be a Card-Carrying Communist. So, I calmly told the neighbor that I am a Communist.
He didn't believe me, so I guess I'm going to have to design and print-out a membership card. This is not over.
Invite him to the secret meetings.
Quote from: Cain on October 16, 2018, 11:26:39 PM
Remember to get a proper CPUSA one, none of that DSA nonsense. Nothing worse than getting called out by Communists and Conservatives.
Thanks for the advice.
I had to look up "DSA," as I had never heard of them. Then, I remembered having accidentally met some members of the Philadelphia Chapter of the CPUSA, back in the late seventies. They were in pretty bad shape back then, as their leader was clearly suffering from what is now commonly diagnosed as dementia. It wouldn't surprise me if those people morphed into today's DSA, as no one took them seriously as Communists.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 16, 2018, 11:57:10 PM
Invite him to the secret meetings.
I may offer to do that, but only if he invites me to one of his secret
Klan Teabagger Tea Party meetings.
Anyway, I think I can work with these:
(https://uscstoryspace.com/2017-2018/tianlewu/Fall_Midterm/img/card.jpg)
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-U6XoFGXfKNU/UYuwl2gY1tI/AAAAAAAAN-g/1rISz2RqMyA/s1600/CPUSA.png)
YouTub3 just crashed; I was checking-out maze-solving algorithms. Nothing to see here.
[edit: I was bored and looking forward to the bit on Godel's incompleteness theorem, clicked on it, and then everything went down. For some reason I find this marvelous]
Quote from: LuciferX on October 17, 2018, 02:37:27 AM
YouTub3 just crashed; I was checking-out maze-solving algorithms. Nothing to see here.
Yeah, it got me too. At first I thought it was my browser fucking up, so I deleted all my cookies and history....but nope. Google fucks up again (probably)
Quote from: Cain on October 17, 2018, 02:49:16 AM
Quote from: LuciferX on October 17, 2018, 02:37:27 AM
YouTub3 just crashed; I was checking-out maze-solving algorithms. Nothing to see here.
Yeah, it got me too. At first I thought it was my browser fucking up, so I deleted all my cookies and history....but nope. Google fucks up again (probably)
I was projecting a negative value judgement: "man this guy needs to get a life" I kept saying to myself about the person I was watching. Then the irony hit me hard when it crashed on Godel's bit. :lulz:
Sometimes, when a major internet service goes down, I imagine that the United States has been annihilated in a major nuclear attack.
But I always end up disappointed.
Looks like it is working again, sorry to disappoint.
On the plus side, this down time likely interrupted no less than 200 new Nazi/incel/Qanon videos from being uploaded.
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on October 17, 2018, 03:36:01 AM
Sometimes, when a major internet service goes down, I imagine that the United States has been annihilated in a major nuclear attack.
But I always end up disappointed.
Me, I've been pleasantly surprised for like 75 years and counting.
Quote from: Cain on October 17, 2018, 03:45:43 AM
Looks like it is working again, sorry to disappoint.
On the plus side, this down time likely interrupted no less than 200 new Nazi/incel/Qanon videos from being uploaded.
Hey, remember when we thought ISIS was our biggest threat?
(well, not you Cain, I meant people who don't pay attention)
Quote from: Brother Mythos on October 17, 2018, 01:09:09 AM
Thanks for the advice.
I had to look up "DSA," as I had never heard of them. Then, I remembered having accidentally met some members of the Philadelphia Chapter of the CPUSA, back in the late seventies. They were in pretty bad shape back then, as their leader was clearly suffering from what is now commonly diagnosed as dementia. It wouldn't surprise me if those people morphed into today's DSA, as no one took them seriously as Communists.
The DSA is more of an attempt to create a social democratic wing in the Democrats. Communists hate it, because Social Democrats are insufficiently committed to
Sparkle Motion the Revolution.
That said, the CPUSA is probably also still a joke. Just not as much of a joke as the Revolutionary Communist Party, I think Bob Avakian may be actually crazy.
Canada is collectively hitting the bong today. It's THE LAW.
There is fresh butthurt. :lulz:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/roseanne-barr-lashes-out-after-'the-conners'-offs-her-character/ar-BBOuk6L?ocid=spartanntp
Quote from: Ziegejunge on October 15, 2018, 08:49:19 PM
Glad to hear from you, WizJo!
WizJo... I like that. Lately I've been thinking of myself as Joebot, the multifunctional love robot. Joebot can do most anything for hours on end if properly fueled and maintained.
For writing purposes I go with T.W. Joseph.
Quote from: Hoopla! on October 17, 2018, 02:48:48 PM
Canada is collectively hitting the bong today. It's THE LAW.
HR released a new policy, "F-1: Fit for Duty". It blabbled on for a bit about addiction, mental illness, alcohol, cannabis, and responsibility, but the import was:
1. Don't come to work high.
2. If taking alcohol or drugs harms your job performance, you will face the Discipline Weasel.
I'd rather they
had trimmed the verbiage a bit, because I think that the policy could be read as saying that one is not supposed to come to work under the effects of antidepressants*. A pity. The illusion of mental health was nice while it lasted.
*Or caffeine, for that matter.
Yesterday, they posted notices on the employee entrance doors, with stock art balloons, and the caption "Something new is coming!"
Today, there was a new "Please swipe your badge" notice on the doors. Semi-transparent, nicely lettered, cut-to-fit, and a definite improvement over the piece of paper they used to have stuck on there with tape. It was also completely pointless, since you can't actually get in or out without your badge, because of the electromagnetic door locks.
If someone thought that new signage was worth getting excited about, I wonder how they would react to free doughnuts.
Suddenly, the bank just charged for bill on cash deposit account, after they had automatically moved that sum to savings. My, today's gonna be a romp.
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on October 20, 2018, 05:06:51 AM
Yesterday, they posted notices on the employee entrance doors, with stock art balloons, and the caption "Something new is coming!"
Today, there was a new "Please swipe your badge" notice on the doors. Semi-transparent, nicely lettered, cut-to-fit, and a definite improvement over the piece of paper they used to have stuck on there with tape. It was also completely pointless, since you can't actually get in or out without your badge, because of the electromagnetic door locks.
If someone thought that new signage was worth getting excited about, I wonder how they would react to free doughnuts.
You need to start putting balloons on everything. When the cleaner comes out of the bathroom you run in and put up "fresh and clean!" balloons.
Aha, Christmas must be just around the corner. I know because the local supermarket is stocking it's turkey and cranberry and sausages and stuffing and bacon sandwiches.
Quote from: Cain on October 25, 2018, 01:37:15 PM
stuffing and bacon sandwiches.
As it turns out, there
is something interesting about British food.
It's not as good as it sounds. The cranberry sauce seems like it was mailed in, and the sausage with bacon halfway across the sandwich from it is not a pig in blanket.
Still, it beats egg and cress or suspicious looking ham.
Or marmite.
I did my first open mic! Read "There Is *A* Moon" and "Glorious Inefficiency" from Holy Nonsense and "All Of It" (Love Your Ugly) from my other project.
There were only four people there
Including me
It's a start.
Congrats GQ - that takes guts!
I find smaller crowds much more inimidating than big ones, actually.
That's awesome, QGP!
Love it. Well done!
Just applied for an editor gig at Wizards of the Coast - wish me luck! Slim chances, but it would be a dream.
Good luck Cram!
Quote from: Cramulus on October 26, 2018, 08:29:49 PM
Just applied for an editor gig at Wizards of the Coast - wish me luck! Slim chances, but it would be a dream.
I bet you've got a better chance than you think, you modest and talented bastard. Good luck though!
Quote from: Cramulus on October 26, 2018, 08:29:49 PM
Just applied for an editor gig at Wizards of the Coast - wish me luck! Slim chances, but it would be a dream.
Cram's going to crush the dreams of Magic players everywhere. He's all grown up.
I promised myself I wouldn't cry. :cry:
Cram is going to write a sourcebook for D&D that has an actual ritual to summon a perfect copy of Gurdjieff's rancid carcass onto the floor of Congress. I can feel it in my poo. They'll be stacked like cordwood on the day of publication.
(https://i.imgur.com/sqa0obt.png)
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on October 25, 2018, 04:22:23 PM
I did my first open mic! Read "There Is *A* Moon" and "Glorious Inefficiency" from Holy Nonsense and "All Of It" (Love Your Ugly) from my other project.
There were only four people there
Including me
It's a start.
vuvuzela noises Neato!
Oh yay
DEAR LMNO:
QuoteRadium Radium Arsenic Arsenic Arsenic
Radon Molybdenum Radon Molybdenum Molybdenum
Gallium Gallium Oxygen Lanthanum Lanthanum
That is all.
Also, Whitey Bulger just croaked.
I did some open source intelligence training today. It was fun. Turns out you can get a lot from Facebook profiles with the right search strings.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 30, 2018, 04:53:10 PM
DEAR LMNO:
QuoteRadium Radium Arsenic Arsenic Arsenic
Radon Molybdenum Radon Molybdenum Molybdenum
Gallium Gallium Oxygen Lanthanum Lanthanum
That is all.
That's not just a bad romance, it's downright HORRIBLE.
Quote from: LMNO on October 30, 2018, 06:39:01 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 30, 2018, 04:53:10 PM
DEAR LMNO:
QuoteRadium Radium Arsenic Arsenic Arsenic
Radon Molybdenum Radon Molybdenum Molybdenum
Gallium Gallium Oxygen Lanthanum Lanthanum
That is all.
That's not just a bad romance, it's downright HORRIBLE.
Still a better love story than Twilight?
Honestly, in the years since, KStew and JPats have been pretty cool about the whole thing, and are better human beings than I gave them credit for.
But, yes.
Quote from: LMNO on October 30, 2018, 06:39:01 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 30, 2018, 04:53:10 PM
DEAR LMNO:
QuoteRadium Radium Arsenic Arsenic Arsenic
Radon Molybdenum Radon Molybdenum Molybdenum
Gallium Gallium Oxygen Lanthanum Lanthanum
That is all.
That's not just a bad romance, it's downright HORRIBLE.
It is the only thing I love that loves me back. Shut your horrible face. :crankey:
So, my search for a new laptop within bounds of practical reason keeps returning zero. from this I deduce the proximity of some kind of tectonic shift... isnt having like 9 (nine) cpu's an oxymoron or something?
for fucks sake, pls. understand nature of your appointment
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 30, 2018, 04:56:52 PM
Also, Whitey Bulger just croaked.
I believe the phrase is "got croaked".
Quote from: Hoopla! on October 31, 2018, 12:28:05 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 30, 2018, 04:56:52 PM
Also, Whitey Bulger just croaked.
I believe the phrase is "got croaked".
In his line of work, that's natural causes.
Point.
Quote from: Cain on October 30, 2018, 06:21:53 PM
I did some open source intelligence training today. It was fun. Turns out you can get a lot from Facebook profiles with the right search strings.
interesting! is there google-indexed info that isn't public?
Quote from: Cramulus on November 01, 2018, 01:06:29 PM
Quote from: Cain on October 30, 2018, 06:21:53 PM
I did some open source intelligence training today. It was fun. Turns out you can get a lot from Facebook profiles with the right search strings.
interesting! is there google-indexed info that isn't public?
Not that I'm aware of. But with some fairly simple Facebook-domain URL functions and the ID number of the person you're interested in, you can get a lot of information, depending on how strictly they've put their privacy settings.
Quote from: Cain on November 01, 2018, 05:22:46 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on November 01, 2018, 01:06:29 PM
Quote from: Cain on October 30, 2018, 06:21:53 PM
I did some open source intelligence training today. It was fun. Turns out you can get a lot from Facebook profiles with the right search strings.
interesting! is there google-indexed info that isn't public?
Not that I'm aware of. But with some fairly simple Facebook-domain URL functions and the ID number of the person you're interested in, you can get a lot of information, depending on how strictly they've put their privacy settings.
So, I should maybe give an example here, from the exercises we did on the training day.
We were given a list of information to find on a target. Favourite cafe, country of origin...stuff that would be fairly easy to find. But then it's things like where he was on a specific date, his favourite kind of exercise and where he does it, what kind of car does he drive.
What's especially nasty is that if people tag you on public posts, you can get that information from them. In the case of the car, we found out the make because a friend said it looked just like the target's. Comments on public groups or pages of public figures are also not protected by your privacy settings. It's tedious work sometimes, but you can get a LOT, very easily.
Hey guys, new (2 yo., via xorg) Linux BSD bug gives you root with one simple command:
CVE-2018-14665
Quote from: LuciferX on November 01, 2018, 10:17:11 PM
Hey guys, new (2 yo., via xorg) Linux BSD bug gives you root with one simple command:
CVE-2018-14665
I don't worry too much about exploits that require console access. Unless the admin is paranoid, physical access is enough to hack most linux boxes with no more than a reboot. Just set init=/bin/bash in the bootloader, and you're in.
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on November 01, 2018, 11:04:08 PM
Quote from: LuciferX on November 01, 2018, 10:17:11 PM
Hey guys, new (2 yo., via xorg) Linux BSD bug gives you root with one simple command:
CVE-2018-14665
I don't worry too much about exploits that require console access. Unless the admin is paranoid, physical access is enough to hack most linux boxes with no more than a reboot. Just set init=/bin/bash in the bootloader, and you're in.
you could remotely ssh and escalate any user to root without physical access or reboot privs. or, is ssh considered physical access?
Quote from: axod on November 02, 2018, 12:05:15 AM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on November 01, 2018, 11:04:08 PM
I don't worry too much about exploits that require console access. Unless the admin is paranoid, physical access is enough to hack most linux boxes with no more than a reboot. Just set init=/bin/bash in the bootloader, and you're in.
you could remotely ssh and escalate any user to root without physical access or reboot privs. or, is ssh considered physical access?
ssh is not physical access. I would consider remote privilege escalation (via ssh) a more serious problem.
What I mean, is that if you're physically present at the computer's console (keyboard and display), you can often get control over it quite easily (which may include unplugging it, picking it up, and walking away).
This is the sort of thing I'm talking about: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Reset_lost_root_password
Edit: And to make the context clear, it appears that CVE-2018-14665 requires console access.
I had some leftover Halloween candy, but I'm on a diet, and leaving it around the house would be a Bad Idea.
Then I remembered that I hate my co-workers, so I took it to work, and dumped it all on the counter in front of the coffee machine.
ENJOY YOUR OBESITY, BASTARDS.
It was all gone by mid-afternoon. :evil:
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on November 02, 2018, 12:24:01 AM
Quote from: axod on November 02, 2018, 12:05:15 AM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on November 01, 2018, 11:04:08 PM
I don't worry too much about exploits that require console access. Unless the admin is paranoid, physical access is enough to hack most linux boxes with no more than a reboot. Just set init=/bin/bash in the bootloader, and you're in.
you could remotely ssh and escalate any user to root without physical access or reboot privs. or, is ssh considered physical access?
ssh is not physical access. I would consider remote privilege escalation (via ssh) a more serious problem.
What I mean, is that if you're physically present at the computer's console (keyboard and display), you can often get control over it quite easily (which may include unplugging it, picking it up, and walking away).
This is the sort of thing I'm talking about: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Reset_lost_root_password (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Reset_lost_root_password)
Edit: And to make the context clear, it appears that CVE-2018-14665 requires console access.
Pre-scriptum:
By this insistence on the word "console" I predict that you operate in a windows environment.
From what I gather, 14665 does not require physical access and has been executed via SSH:
"OpenBSD #0day Xorg LPE via [...] 665 can be triggered from remote SSH"
—@HaXOrFantastique
PS: I'm not THAT fat yet
Quote from: LuciferX on November 02, 2018, 03:09:37 AM
Pre-scriptum:
By this insistence on the word "console" I predict that you operate in a windows environment.
Hardly. The last Microsoft OS I have significant experience was Windows 98. Then I spent a couple years with RedHat, until I developed a deathly hatred for RPM, after which I switched to Gentoo, which I have been using ever since. They let me use it at work, too, although most of my co-workers use Ubuntu.
Quote
From what I gather, 14665 does not require physical access and has been executed via SSH:
"OpenBSD #0day Xorg LPE via [...] 665 can be triggered from remote SSH"
—@HaXOrFantastique
My initial reading on the subject was focussed on Linux, where it appears to be a local-only exploit, but on further searching, it appears that it can be remotely triggered on OpenBSD. I partially retract my initial glibness.
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on November 02, 2018, 03:57:11 AM
Quote from: LuciferX on November 02, 2018, 03:09:37 AM
Pre-scriptum:
By this insistence on the word "console" I predict that you operate in a windows environment.
Hardly. The last Microsoft OS I have significant experience was Windows 98. Then I spent a couple years with RedHat, until I developed a deathly hatred for RPM, after which I switched to Gentoo, which I have been using ever since. They let me use it at work, too, although most of my co-workers use Ubuntu.
Quote
From what I gather, 14665 does not require physical access and has been executed via SSH:
"OpenBSD #0day Xorg LPE via [...] 665 can be triggered from remote SSH"
—@HaXOrFantastique
My initial reading on the subject was focussed on Linux, where it appears to be a local-only exploit, but on further searching, it appears that it can be remotely triggered on OpenBSD. I partially retract my initial glibness.
what would make BSD remove that line of code from BSD update!
Well, I voted.
As soon as the liquor store opens, I'm buying a bottle of rye. It'll either be celebratory or mourning... either way, whiskey is appropriate.
If I made a joke about my also voting, what are the chances it would be on FOX News within a week as proof of illegal voting?
If you do it on FB and Twitter, I give it three hours.
I yelled at some people on the internet to get out and vote against Trump, so I guess that counts as foreign interference.
5 days until the 100th anniversary of the end of world war I.
When I was a kid, "100 years ago" seeemed like a completely different era. But the end of WW1 doesnt seem all that long ago. I guess I'm old. :cry:
I just think it's nifty that 100 years ago, we had a war to end all wars, and it's been pretty good since then.
Wait, I think I posted this in the wrong thread. (https://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php/topic,38506.0.html)
Quote from: LMNO on November 06, 2018, 04:01:00 PM
I just think it's nifty that 100 years ago, we had a war to end all wars, and it's been pretty good since then.
Wait, I think I posted this in the wrong thread. (https://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php/topic,38506.0.html)
Also, JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald died natural deaths in 1963 and everything has been FINE ever since.
Assuming I'm not screwed over on the references front, it appears I have a new job. Legal research ahoy!
Quote from: Cain on November 08, 2018, 03:52:00 PM
Assuming I'm not screwed over on the references front, it appears I have a new job. Legal research ahoy!
:banana:
No more dealing with asshole children, thank god. Nope, now I'll be dealing with asshole lawyers.
Hip-hip-hooray!
Quote from: Cain on November 08, 2018, 05:11:21 PM
No more dealing with asshole children, thank god. Nope, now I'll be dealing with asshole lawyers.
Yes. Yes, you will.
I wish you the best of luck, but I advise that you don't stop sending out those CVs just yet.
Depending on how this role goes, it may simply be a stopgap measure until I figure out what to do PhD wise.
We'll see. It does mean not having to dip into the savings to pay for rent though, which is always nice. Edit: hell, doing my daily commute on the Central Line might be enough to kill my will to live.
Again, best of luck, and mind the gap.
Good to hear about your new job Cain. Happy for you.
It was 35F in Tucson this morning and everyone died. :cry:
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 13, 2018, 09:11:41 PM
It was 35F in Tucson this morning and everyone died. :cry:
Well yeah what did you expect, it's freezing over; you people elected a Democrat.
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on November 14, 2018, 01:45:45 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 13, 2018, 09:11:41 PM
It was 35F in Tucson this morning and everyone died. :cry:
Well yeah what did you expect, it's freezing over; you people elected a Democrat.
HI NEW GUY!
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 13, 2018, 09:11:41 PM
It was 35F in Tucson this morning and everyone died. :cry:
Geez, doesn't water freeze at, like, 60 degrees, there?
Quote from: Emo Howard on November 14, 2018, 08:48:47 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 13, 2018, 09:11:41 PM
It was 35F in Tucson this morning and everyone died. :cry:
Geez, doesn't water freeze at, like, 60 degrees, there?
Water?
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 14, 2018, 04:21:39 PM
Quote from: Emo Howard on November 14, 2018, 08:48:47 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 13, 2018, 09:11:41 PM
It was 35F in Tucson this morning and everyone died. :cry:
Geez, doesn't water freeze at, like, 60 degrees, there?
Water?
It's, uh... It's kind of like unflavored Mountain Dew.
And yes, it's exactly as disgusting as it sounds.
Quote from: Emo Howard on November 14, 2018, 06:19:21 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 14, 2018, 04:21:39 PM
Quote from: Emo Howard on November 14, 2018, 08:48:47 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 13, 2018, 09:11:41 PM
It was 35F in Tucson this morning and everyone died. :cry:
Geez, doesn't water freeze at, like, 60 degrees, there?
Water?
It's, uh... It's kind of like unflavored Mountain Dew.
And yes, it's exactly as disgusting as it sounds.
Ugh. So it basically just gets your mouth wet?
I don't need that. I need someone who will play a few bars on a saxophone when I say something clever.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 15, 2018, 04:27:29 PM
Quote from: Emo Howard on November 14, 2018, 06:19:21 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 14, 2018, 04:21:39 PM
Quote from: Emo Howard on November 14, 2018, 08:48:47 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 13, 2018, 09:11:41 PM
It was 35F in Tucson this morning and everyone died. :cry:
Geez, doesn't water freeze at, like, 60 degrees, there?
Water?
It's, uh... It's kind of like unflavored Mountain Dew.
And yes, it's exactly as disgusting as it sounds.
Ugh. So it basically just gets your mouth wet?
I don't need that. I need someone who will play a few bars on a saxophone when I say something clever.
Two words: Saxophone Kazoos.
https://www.amazon.com/Forum-Novelties-Saxophone-Musical-Instrument/dp/B004PT1J1Q/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1542362532&sr=8-1&keywords=saxophone+kazoo
Got one a few years back when I was Sexy Sax Man for Halloween. Can't recommend it highly enough, though i will say the diaphragm will likely suffer a blowout after a few hours of heavy use, but I'm sure you could figure out a way to make replacements.
I've been known for blowing out some diaphragms in my time.
I'm somewhat relieved that you got that joke in before I did.
Quote from: LMNO on November 16, 2018, 01:34:58 PM
I'm somewhat relieved that you got that joke in before I did.
You can't do the heavy lifting all the time.
That's what she said!
:lmnuendo:
Quote from: Hoopla! on November 16, 2018, 12:59:46 PM
I've been known for blowing out some diaphragms in my time.
Did it make a kazoo sound when you did?
I HAVE BEEN IN THE SAME FACEBOOK ARGUMENT ABOUT NANCY PELOSI FOR THE PAST 24 HRS SOMEONE KILL ME.
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on November 19, 2018, 03:27:20 AM
I HAVE BEEN IN THE SAME FACEBOOK ARGUMENT ABOUT NANCY PELOSI FOR THE PAST 24 HRS SOMEONE KILL ME.
Will it change anything if you win?
If not, take control of the situation, and lose in the most glorious fashion possible.
Lose so that future generations will speak your name in a hushed whisper. "Never has anyone in the history of the internet lost an argument so spectacularly."
But whatever you do, the important thing is to have a good time doing it.
I picked a fight with the head of security at Boston City Hall today.
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on November 20, 2018, 02:15:38 AM
I picked a fight with the head of security at Boston City Hall today.
I need to know how that went.
Quote from: nullified on November 20, 2018, 03:54:48 AM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on November 20, 2018, 02:15:38 AM
I picked a fight with the head of security at Boston City Hall today.
I need to know how that went.
Honestly it was over really quick. The Boston Public School kids walked out and did a die-in at the Mayor's office and I went with some other folks to support them. The office is right by the elevators, so we were blocking the path, and I said something to the effect of "protests are supposed to be inconvenient" at him. He got all blustery and appealed to his own authority and said he could have me removed from the building, but declined to actually order any such thing when I said I was fine with that.
Excellent job.
Zuckerberg has fantastically broken Facebook, in case if anyone is wondering if it's just their connection.
Coworker discovered that there's slashfic written about her involving her job here. She's a tech support person too.
So, HR is going to have a fun day, at least.
Quote from: Cain on November 20, 2018, 04:19:32 PM
So, HR is going to have a fun day, at least.
Well, it's clients writing it. They really like her disembodied voice.
That's... specific.
"Have you tried, you know.... turning it off and turning it back on again? Can you reboot for me?"
:fap:
:boot:
This story is useless without links
I'll see what I can find, she's overly creeped out by it-- but now wonders if she can make money reading random tech support things on youtube.
Quote from: Trivial on November 20, 2018, 05:33:15 PM
I'll see what I can find, she's overly creeped out by it-- but now wonders if she can make money reading random tech support things on youtube.
If it's gonna bother her more obviously don't, but it's be fun to have a giggle at the authors' expense
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on November 20, 2018, 05:47:22 PM
Quote from: Trivial on November 20, 2018, 05:33:15 PM
I'll see what I can find, she's overly creeped out by it-- but now wonders if she can make money reading random tech support things on youtube.
If it's gonna bother her more obviously don't, but it's be fun to have a giggle at the authors' expense
Yeah, I'm curious because a good % of people that call in to us are TV people.
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on November 20, 2018, 04:06:22 AM
Quote from: nullified on November 20, 2018, 03:54:48 AM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on November 20, 2018, 02:15:38 AM
I picked a fight with the head of security at Boston City Hall today.
I need to know how that went.
Honestly it was over really quick. The Boston Public School kids walked out and did a die-in at the Mayor's office and I went with some other folks to support them. The office is right by the elevators, so we were blocking the path, and I said something to the effect of "protests are supposed to be inconvenient" at him. He got all blustery and appealed to his own authority and said he could have me removed from the building, but declined to actually order any such thing when I said I was fine with that.
"protests are supposed to be inconvenient" If you have not already done so, you may want to consider doing "your thing" with this statement.
I've discovered that if I write down what the voice in my head is saying, and post it on this forum, then the voice shuts up for a bit. Or it starts saying something else, which is fine too.
Alright, the month from hell is nearly coming to an end. The tenancy agreement has been signed, so I'm not homeless for at least the next few months, no matter what.
Now I just gotta move my shit and clean my departing flat.
From the future is here files:
https://metro.co.uk/2017/10/02/hackers-can-detect-your-butt-plug-from-outside-your-house-and-turn-it-on-6971070/ (https://metro.co.uk/2017/10/02/hackers-can-detect-your-butt-plug-from-outside-your-house-and-turn-it-on-6971070/)
Quote from: Trivial on November 28, 2018, 02:12:27 PM
From the future is here files:
https://metro.co.uk/2017/10/02/hackers-can-detect-your-butt-plug-from-outside-your-house-and-turn-it-on-6971070/ (https://metro.co.uk/2017/10/02/hackers-can-detect-your-butt-plug-from-outside-your-house-and-turn-it-on-6971070/)
Finally some useful technology.
I mean, I was hoping...
BTW, I've been in therepy for about three months now and in a MUCH better headspace, and told I am making excellent progress. It's shocking how helpful just talking can be!
Quote from: Hoopla! on November 28, 2018, 02:26:36 PM
BTW, I've been in therepy for about three months now and in a MUCH better headspace, and told I am making excellent progress. It's shocking how helpful just talking can be!
Even if you have to do it with
someone else.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 28, 2018, 03:25:49 PM
Quote from: Hoopla! on November 28, 2018, 02:26:36 PM
BTW, I've been in therepy for about three months now and in a MUCH better headspace, and told I am making excellent progress. It's shocking how helpful just talking can be!
Even if you have to do it with someone else.
Agreed. I think I was incredibly lucky in that regard.
Doktor Legume from the Church of the Subgenius died yesterday. :cry:
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 28, 2018, 04:07:29 PM
Doktor Legume from the Church of the Subgenius died yesterday. :cry:
Fuck. Any details?
Quote from: Hoopla! on November 28, 2018, 04:14:45 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 28, 2018, 04:07:29 PM
Doktor Legume from the Church of the Subgenius died yesterday. :cry:
Fuck. Any details?
Stage IV stomach cancer, died in bed with some friends and family around.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 28, 2018, 04:21:17 PM
Quote from: Hoopla! on November 28, 2018, 04:14:45 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 28, 2018, 04:07:29 PM
Doktor Legume from the Church of the Subgenius died yesterday. :cry:
Fuck. Any details?
Stage IV stomach cancer, died in bed with some friends and family around.
Goddamit. Fuck cancer.
Fuck Cancer
Glad your therapist is a good fit, Hoopla
Fuck cancer.
Fuck cancer.
Bought a set of shelves off Amazon through 3rd party vendor. Got a set delivered from Walmart. Plus some napkins for some reason.
If someone is trying to be some sort of middleman between Amazon and Walmart, their profit margin per transaction is stupidly low.
Please refrain from broadcasting seasonal music over your store's PA system.
Christmas music transforms me into a raving maniac, with the insatiable urge to kill.
Excepting "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen". I like that one.
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on December 04, 2018, 01:08:04 PM
Please refrain from broadcasting seasonal music over your store's PA system.
Christmas music transforms me into a raving maniac, with the insatiable urge to kill.
Excepting "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen". I like that one.
I am unsure how serious you are about wanting to kill based on hearing seasonal music.
Also, Last Christmas by Wham or GTFO.
Quote from: Hoopla! on December 04, 2018, 02:17:12 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on December 04, 2018, 01:08:04 PM
Please refrain from broadcasting seasonal music over your store's PA system.
Christmas music transforms me into a raving maniac, with the insatiable urge to kill.
Excepting "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen". I like that one.
I am unsure how serious you are about wanting to kill based on hearing seasonal music.
(I deserved that.)In the interests of public welfare, I do my best to avoid venues where such music may be played, but there is always the risk of ...
accidents.
I was in a shopping mall the other day, and my left eye twitched slightly. No one was injured, thank God.
Sounds like someone isn't
simply
having
a wonderful Christmas time!
:crankey:
I was in Rona (it's like Home Depot) on Tuesday, and heard a chirping noise. I looked up, and there were small birds alighting on the trusswork, and hopping around on the top of some shelving (aisle 11, electrical).
I wonder how they got in. I wonder how this will end.
There is a crack.
There is a crack.
In everything.
I will duck-tape the universe, but someone else has to clean up the bird poop.
ANNNNNNNND THEN PHOENIX :lulz:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/how-phoenix-explains-a-rise-in-police-violence-it's-the-civilians'-fault/ar-BBQKwnL?ocid=spartandhp
"Now look at what YOU made me do!"
First day at the new office was OK. Probably would have been better if I had more than 3 hours sleep and wasn't learning how to use an obtuse database that is getting discarded in 3 months. On the plus side, apart from "following basic instructions" and "not drooling like an idiot", the day wasn't too hard. Office is nice and cheery and modern and, unlike the poor saps on the floor below, I don't have to call random people and interrogate them about law firms all day.
I also see the country went insane in my temporary absence.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on December 10, 2018, 04:01:33 PM
ANNNNNNNND THEN PHOENIX :lulz:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/how-phoenix-explains-a-rise-in-police-violence-it's-the-civilians'-fault/ar-BBQKwnL?ocid=spartandhp
Hey, isn't Phoenix near Joe Arpaio's old stomping grounds? I'm sure he'll be glad to know they're carrying on his legacy.
Quote from: Cain on December 10, 2018, 06:44:38 PM
First day at the new office was OK. Probably would have been better if I had more than 3 hours sleep and wasn't learning how to use an obtuse database that is getting discarded in 3 months. On the plus side, apart from "following basic instructions" and "not drooling like an idiot", the day wasn't too hard. Office is nice and cheery and modern and, unlike the poor saps on the floor below, I don't have to call random people and interrogate them about law firms all day.
I also see the country went insane in my temporary absence.
I had to do something like this for my new job. One of the online training modules for our database was "click on the News & Updates list and submit the top release as your assignment." The top story was that the database was being replaced.
Had a meteorologist that called in to support often because their station was full of old ass machines. Station kept changing between huge news corps which kept tech contracts from doing hardware replacement. Anyway, station manager tells him he's got to go now because "we need a set of boobs on camera."
He learned his replacement is getting paid minimum wage.
That's horribly depressing. Both for the woman taking over, and the guy who summed her up as "a set of boobs."
Quote from: Trivial on December 11, 2018, 05:35:27 PM
Had a meteorologist that called in to support often because their station was full of old ass machines. Station kept changing between huge news corps which kept tech contracts from doing hardware replacement. Anyway, station manager tells him he's got to go now because "we need a set of boobs on camera."
He learned his replacement is getting paid minimum wage.
This is why you have a voice recorder on your cellphone, and run/dump it at all times at work.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on December 11, 2018, 07:30:54 PM
Quote from: Trivial on December 11, 2018, 05:35:27 PM
Had a meteorologist that called in to support often because their station was full of old ass machines. Station kept changing between huge news corps which kept tech contracts from doing hardware replacement. Anyway, station manager tells him he's got to go now because "we need a set of boobs on camera."
He learned his replacement is getting paid minimum wage.
This is why you have a voice recorder on your cellphone, and run/dump it at all times at work.
He is suing for breach of contract stuff, expecting harassment suits from new people, hoping they have guts. But yeah he said they've always been horrible people, but now they're not even using corporate speak anymore. Said the whole team just got replaced. All contracts are talent contracts, no journalists or meteorologists.
Ratings so far have tanked.
Bonus is some of the local businesses have sponsored his facebook and web page. He might come out ahead.
Quote from: Trivial on December 11, 2018, 08:24:06 PM
Said the whole team just got replaced. All contracts are talent contracts, no journalists or meteorologists.
Ratings so far have tanked.
The natural progression is to replace the weather report with reality TV. Have a bunch of untrained people go outside, look at the sky, get rained on, etc. The one with the best forecasts at the end of ten weeks wins $5000. Imagine how much money the station will save!
I went somewhere I don't belong
I don't belong (here)
I don't know what I wanted
I wanted (to find people like me)
I learned something I mustn't forget
I mustn't forget (if you take away the rules I'm not a nice person)
The more I study people, the more I realize everyone is just like me
everyone is just like me (and that is horrifying)
The more I study people, the more I realize nobody is anything like me
nobody is anything like me (and that is terrifying)
I'm trying too hard to appear clever, which is genuinely stupid.
you can't help me, you're part of the problem
Stealing that last line
Urgh. Problems with the new flat are becoming apparent. Not least that flat-mates, who all seem decent lads, work late shift. I can be flexible to an extent with mine, but the realities of the central line mean working anything but 0730-1600 is insanity. But if the lads are getting back at midnight... Also problems getting things fixed in a timely manner, some clearly broken things that shouldn't be etc.
I am tied into a contract, but I do have the option to move to another building (leased by the same firm). May not be a long-term solution, but I can try and pick somewhere more sturdy, with older and more professional people living there. But with Xmas coming up sorting it out is gonna be tricky. Might have to wait for the new year. And then moving again, urgh...
what's the central line? noisy train, I'm guessing?
do you mean that the flat mates bother you up when they come home at midnight?
The central train line, if you go anything later then the times Cain mentions you'll be lucky if you can get enough space to move your arms or breath.
Quote from: Cramulus on December 13, 2018, 03:35:24 PM
what's the central line? noisy train, I'm guessing?
do you mean that the flat mates bother you up when they come home at midnight?
It's one of the major tube lines through London. As Faust says, it means getting onto trains where you're nose to nose with people if you're lucky. I've had sex that was less intimate and involved less body contact.
And yeah. They don't mean to, its not their fault that the walls are all paper thin. They come home, they want to eat and have a smoke before bed. That's pretty fair. Fortunately for now I still have use of the old place, so it's not a major deal. But come January, I need alternative solutions.
(https://static.standard.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2016/05/06/15/tube.jpg?w968)
That's a panic attack, not a train station.
Daaaamn, even worse than Grand Central at 9 AM
Kiddo is getting a bone marrow biopsy Thursday. Here's hoping it turns out normal.
Quote from: Trivial on December 18, 2018, 04:58:02 AM
Kiddo is getting a bone marrow biopsy Thursday. Here's hoping it turns out normal.
Here's hoping. :)
Trains here are far more crowded than that at rush hour but the Yamanote-sen lacks the low ceilings, angry people, and stench of sweat and desperation that make the London tube experience so unique.
Got a new client at work... the Concordia Group.
Serves you right, really
It does indeed.
Quote from: Hoopla! on January 04, 2019, 05:49:21 PM
Got a new client at work... the Concordia Group.
You're fucked now, hippie.
Hello, friends.
What happened to roger? I'm guessing there is no detailed chronicle regarding his departure
Any other interesting old-fart departures?
Quote from: Sepia on January 05, 2019, 03:58:17 PM
Hello, friends.
What happened to roger? I'm guessing there is no detailed chronicle regarding his departure
Any other interesting old-fart departures?
He passed away in a tragic weasel-wrangling incident on the I-90. Sad, but what can you expect when motorcycling?
Quote from: Cain on January 05, 2019, 04:34:11 PM
Quote from: Sepia on January 05, 2019, 03:58:17 PM
Hello, friends.
What happened to roger? I'm guessing there is no detailed chronicle regarding his departure
Any other interesting old-fart departures?
He passed away in a tragic weasel-wrangling incident on the I-90. Sad, but what can you expect when motorcycling?
There are worse ways to go than ferret-legging at 120mph.
rip in peace roger
ferret
legged
Quote from: Sepia on January 06, 2019, 02:01:56 PM
rip in peace roger
ferret
legged
We buried him in a jam jar and threw it into the sewer, per his wishes.
dog died today. trustees stealing 20G per year. tomorrow, well, you know.
Sorry about the dog
Yeah, same. It's always bad when a dog dies on you.
"we need to find the right balance" is the styrofoam packing peanuts of things to say in a meeting.
In every planning meeting I've ever attended, some manager or exec lists two possible failure scenarios (usually things that other people just brought up) and concudes "we just need to find a path between these two"
ohhhh shit we got a real brain-genius over here. GOD DAMN, look at those leadership skills.
Sounds like they need to agily externalize their assets more efficiently, IMO.
Quote from: Cramulus on January 07, 2019, 08:29:54 PM
"we need to find the right balance" is the styrofoam packing peanuts of things to say in a meeting.
In every planning meeting I've ever attended, some manager or exec lists two possible failure scenarios (usually things that other people just brought up) and concudes "we just need to find a path between these two"
ohhhh shit we got a real brain-genius over here. GOD DAMN, look at those leadership skills.
I usually say "the data is inconclusive", then sit back and watch competing egos fight over the best way to lose your ass.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on January 07, 2019, 09:09:25 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on January 07, 2019, 08:29:54 PM
"we need to find the right balance" is the styrofoam packing peanuts of things to say in a meeting.
In every planning meeting I've ever attended, some manager or exec lists two possible failure scenarios (usually things that other people just brought up) and concudes "we just need to find a path between these two"
ohhhh shit we got a real brain-genius over here. GOD DAMN, look at those leadership skills.
I usually say "the data is inconclusive", then sit back and watch competing egos fight over the best way to lose your ass.
Last thing I heard was "cover ier ass"
Quote from: Cramulus on January 07, 2019, 08:29:54 PM
"we need to find the right balance" is the styrofoam packing peanuts of things to say in a meeting.
In every planning meeting I've ever attended, some manager or exec lists two possible failure scenarios (usually things that other people just brought up) and concudes "we just need to find a path between these two"
ohhhh shit we got a real brain-genius over here. GOD DAMN, look at those leadership skills.
Make an action item to record these scenarios in the risk register, and then investigate parallel implementation strategies.
I mean, if you don't know what you're doing, just try a bunch of different things. One of them has to work, right?
Im a fucking ninja.
Quote from: Cramulus on January 07, 2019, 08:29:54 PM
"we need to find the right balance" is the styrofoam packing peanuts of things to say in a meeting.
In every planning meeting I've ever attended, some manager or exec lists two possible failure scenarios (usually things that other people just brought up) and concudes "we just need to find a path between these two"
ohhhh shit we got a real brain-genius over here. GOD DAMN, look at those leadership skills.
I had this recently, I made the mistake of saying "The options are irreconcilable, pick one and do it well", I've never made my bosses angry (to the point of turning red) as telling them they cant have the cake and eat it too.
Quote from: Faust on January 08, 2019, 09:45:37 AM
Quote from: Cramulus on January 07, 2019, 08:29:54 PM
"we need to find the right balance" is the styrofoam packing peanuts of things to say in a meeting.
In every planning meeting I've ever attended, some manager or exec lists two possible failure scenarios (usually things that other people just brought up) and concudes "we just need to find a path between these two"
ohhhh shit we got a real brain-genius over here. GOD DAMN, look at those leadership skills.
I had this recently, I made the mistake of saying "The options are irreconcilable, pick one and do it well", I've never made my bosses angry (to the point of turning red) as telling them they cant have the cake and eat it too.
EVERY. DAY. OF MY. LIFE. :lulz:
Well, it finally happened. My newsfeed slideshow thingie was entirely links to clickbait.
Well I'm on the job hunting trail again. I've been through three jobs and each for various reasons has not worked out so far. Tomorrow I sign up with the staffing agencies in town. I'm also going to apply at an electronics recycling plant. I'm real good with a soldering iron and have a background in electronic assembly. I could just as easily sort and disassemble stuff.
On a personal note things are still going very well with me and my GF! She's been very understanding of my troubles, and is just an awesome person in general.
My Phablet died. All of my interactions here and on Facebook are going to be through a cheap phone. I do intend to participate more though. As soon as I have stable work I may even be able to help fund some projects. For some reason I can't seem to quit discordia, so I might as well get to participating!
Oh good. In addition to my shower and my washing machine, now my internet is fucked too.
Dial-up would be an improvement on this
Woo kiddo's bone marrow is normal, so now it's looking at genetics again to see wtf is eating his platelets. Here's hoping that all looks normal and his immune system is just slightly confused at the moment.
that's great news.
Yeah, the remaining options are not as scary as bone marrow gone bad.
Hurray for kicking cancer's ass
Glad to hear it Trivial!
Quote from: Trivial on January 09, 2019, 05:37:20 PM
Woo kiddo's bone marrow is normal, so now it's looking at genetics again to see wtf is eating his platelets. Here's hoping that all looks normal and his immune system is just slightly confused at the moment.
How old is he?
Quote from: Hoopla! on January 09, 2019, 09:32:06 PM
Quote from: Trivial on January 09, 2019, 05:37:20 PM
Woo kiddo's bone marrow is normal, so now it's looking at genetics again to see wtf is eating his platelets. Here's hoping that all looks normal and his immune system is just slightly confused at the moment.
How old is he?
16 months.
The next scary test is Fanconi's anemia.
Quote from: Trivial on January 09, 2019, 09:37:43 PM
Quote from: Hoopla! on January 09, 2019, 09:32:06 PM
Quote from: Trivial on January 09, 2019, 05:37:20 PM
Woo kiddo's bone marrow is normal, so now it's looking at genetics again to see wtf is eating his platelets. Here's hoping that all looks normal and his immune system is just slightly confused at the moment.
How old is he?
16 months.
The next scary test is Fanconi's anemia.
Have they checked if it is idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura? I had that around that age and it sounds pretty similar.
Quote from: Hoopla! on January 10, 2019, 04:31:09 AM
Quote from: Trivial on January 09, 2019, 09:37:43 PM
Quote from: Hoopla! on January 09, 2019, 09:32:06 PM
Quote from: Trivial on January 09, 2019, 05:37:20 PM
Woo kiddo's bone marrow is normal, so now it's looking at genetics again to see wtf is eating his platelets. Here's hoping that all looks normal and his immune system is just slightly confused at the moment.
How old is he?
16 months.
The next scary test is Fanconi's anemia.
Have they checked if it is idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura? I had that around that age and it sounds pretty similar.
Well, itp is usually something that goes away after 12 months, at least what the hematologist said. I think with some of his other health issues they just want to tie it to a neat package. Sometimes a kid is just unlucky. Other issues have resolved.
Well, that is good at least.
Glad to hear <3
My flat mates really are unrepentant douchebags (he said, typing this while having his headphones on and still able to hear their music over his own). It's exactly like having to deal with students all over again, down to the incessant pot smoking, not going to bed until 5am and letting doors slam because fuck everyone else who's trying to sleep, right?
Fortunately, I seem to have found a decent new place. Going to take a couple of days to confirm, but it would somehow result in a faster commute, despite being further out from central London and thus giving me more space for about the same price.
Weather Forecast models are shit now possibly due to government shutdown. Now you're going to see which weather anchors actually preview the show before on air.
Thanks Obama
My beloved is about to have her gallbladder removed. It's simple routine surgery but we are both still scared. The past few days have been hell for her.
My friend Knuckles died today, at age 52. Heart attack.
I am running out of hard cases. :cry:
Shit, that sucks. My condolences.
Too much death.
Sorry it's in your life so often, Roger.
Death is a bell curve. Congrats Rog, We've lived long enough to hit the part where all our peers start dropping like flies :horrormirth:
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on January 14, 2019, 07:20:58 PM
Death is a bell curve. Congrats Rog, We've lived long enough to hit the part where all our peers start dropping like flies :horrormirth:
I'M. STILL. HERE.
Quote from: LMNO on January 14, 2019, 07:01:16 PM
Too much death.
Sorry it's in your life so often, Roger.
Nature hates you after 40.
Nature hates us anyway. Sorry about your friend.
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on January 15, 2019, 11:27:28 AM
Nature hates us anyway. Sorry about your friend.
Knuckles was here for a good time, not a long time.
So, just looking at pictures of an empty capitol city.
Things fell apart, nobody did anything.
Sorry to hear about Knuckles, Dok.
I'm moving. Again. Hopefully on Saturday, if I can find a removalist willing to come within 24 hours. Which I probably will do, this is London. Anyway, it will get me away from the asshole brigade here, who kindly informed me I was disrespecting them by complaining about being woken up at 1am in the morning, when I go to work at 6am.
I'm sure you can imagine my response.
Another thing occurs to me, regarding my new position. Not that I would ever abuse it, but a) I know the best type of legal firm in this city for every single sector and b) every lawyer in this, and every other city, wants to be my best friend because not only can I influence their ratings, I can tell them about their rivals.
They're now trying to be as noisy as possible without waking the neighbours. Aw, that's cute. Too bad I'm taking a day off tomorrow.
Sorry about your loss Dok.
For my part I'm employed again! Went through a staffing agency. My position may or may not be permanent. I'm covering for a person out on indefinite medical leave. The job is checking and refilling machine coolant and some industrial clean up. Working the weekend shift 12hr days fri-sun. It will be nice to have the 4 days off and the job is pretty easy.
I kinda hope that the person I'm covering for doesn't come back because I could do this for a long time and go to online school on my days off. I feel little bad about hoping someone doesn't recover to my own gain, but only a little bit.
Maybe being ill will throw his life into perspective and he will run away and join a punk rock band, touring people's couches across the country.
Also, new place again. This place looks a lot cleaner and seems (so far) a lot quieter than the other one. And for only £15 more a month, it has double the space and a faster commute as well.
Apart from some sneezing, I've not seen or heard from the new flatmates. I consider this a good sign.
Sounds like you got a good place then. Glad to hear it Cain!
Fingers crossed. Now I just have to overcome this fever and maybe get a new chair for my room (this one is rather, uh, uncomfortable) and I'll be set.
not arrested not dead
You should demand your money back
Also interested in hearing QGP's current status.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on January 20, 2019, 04:11:06 AM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on January 19, 2019, 08:32:02 PM
not arrested not dead
Any fun stories?
About 13-20 alt right fuckwits beat us to the common and were established very close to the stage before we got there. The stage was extremely loud so there wasn't a ton of back and forth during the actual program, but they tried to chant over the speakers. Fun fact: "booger people" maps well to "build the wall" which is great when you're trying to muddle someone else's chant.
The main body of the women's march left and it was just the Nazis behind their police barricade and antifa behind another police line and me and like five other people in the middle. I led some chants, which is a dumb thing to do on a sore throat. As the idiots were being escorted to the trains, one of the antifa kids did something to catch a case and everything got real fucking tense. Black bloc lined up linked elbows and the cops blocked off the entire width of the street (which involved some yelling at me for being offsides) and nobody was saying anything so I marched up and down the line getting people to yell. There's video. Then cop cars appeared at the bottom of the hill and my spider sense went off, so I Jason Bourne'd the fuck outta dodge.
Afterward I checked the bars the idiots usually frequent, but they weren't at either. It probably was unwise to check by myself, but I still had some crazy left.
There's video of some of it, if people want to see. Only one arrest.
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on January 20, 2019, 06:49:40 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on January 20, 2019, 04:11:06 AM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on January 19, 2019, 08:32:02 PM
not arrested not dead
Any fun stories?
About 13-20 alt right fuckwits beat us to the common and were established very close to the stage before we got there. The stage was extremely loud so there wasn't a ton of back and forth during the actual program, but they tried to chant over the speakers. Fun fact: "booger people" maps well to "build the wall" which is great when you're trying to muddle someone else's chant.
The main body of the women's march left and it was just the Nazis behind their police barricade and antifa behind another police line and me and like five other people in the middle. I led some chants, which is a dumb thing to do on a sore throat. As the idiots were being escorted to the trains, one of the antifa kids did something to catch a case and everything got real fucking tense. Black bloc lined up linked elbows and the cops blocked off the entire width of the street (which involved some yelling at me for being offsides) and nobody was saying anything so I marched up and down the line getting people to yell. There's video. Then cop cars appeared at the bottom of the hill and my spider sense went off, so I Jason Bourne'd the fuck outta dodge.
Afterward I checked the bars the idiots usually frequent, but they weren't at either. It probably was unwise to check by myself, but I still had some crazy left.
There's video of some of it, if people want to see. Only one arrest.
I would like to see it.
You're my hero.
Glad to hear you raised some hell and made it out legally and physically intact.
hxxps://www.facebook.com/mikegamms/videos/10110591424157969/?__tn__=%2CdlC-R&eid=ARC5LImmDdQosvxhVc2X3ETxbTsAmfjeVMv4qGbqlO0Cp7EH7s7ImRkrVIra-w6Xj-hi9TYAryg4ZFgc&hc_ref=ARRlIM73UlN6r6pbHIpBPkPpQVVGAygYmjkvMc6C_h1SnBmCOwVy54L8e-w2JWgIwyE around 2:30 and then the Jason Bourneing
hxxps://www.facebook.com/athiest/videos/10218900485365740 around 14:00 or so it gets interesting, they split antifa from the idiots and I avoid getting trapped behind the barricade because I'm not an idiot. Later I'mleading the "whose streets?" and you can hear my voice crack. There's also a Jesus Centrist.
Also not arrested or dead. Pushing some possibly ethical boundaries of what can be deemed "work". Probably too good to last, but it's been a while now...
Glad to see the usual fucks are/ aren't alive.
Glad to see you're still walking the earth.
Been told to stop making people feel bad by coming in too early. At least until my probation period is over.
I mean, it wasn't really by choice, it was because the central line was so terrible. But OK.
In other news, I know more about mergers and acquisitions than I ever wanted.
Quote from: Cain on January 24, 2019, 09:31:15 PM
In other news, I know more about mergers and acquisitions than I ever wanted.
PREACH
Quote from: Doktor Howl on January 24, 2019, 10:47:04 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 24, 2019, 09:31:15 PM
In other news, I know more about mergers and acquisitions than I ever wanted.
PREACH
Ah it's more after action reports, picking over the carcass of the deals and criticising those involved for incorrect form.
Still more than I ever cared to know.
Yesterday I was in a meat shop, and on a whim, picked up something called "Biltong", not knowing what it was.
It's a South African proto-jerky. But rather than being cut in thin strips, like conventional jerky, it's quite thick. It's also so tough that I had difficulty cutting off a piece with a steak knife, and expect that a hacksaw might have been more effective. Actually consuming said comestible left my jaw muscles quite fatigued.
Nice flavour, though.
Friend of mine was asking for money for a mission trip to evangelize to the heathen country of Finland...
Issues::
1) They're already mostly some flavor of Christian.
2) This time of the year it's dark and they're drunk.
At least this is what my Finnish co-worker told me.
Quote from: Trivial on January 27, 2019, 02:37:37 AM
Friend of mine was asking for money for a mission trip to evangelize to the heathen country of Finland...
Issues::
1) They're already mostly some flavor of Christian.
2) This time of the year it's dark and they're drunk.
At least this is what my Finnish co-worker told me.
I can confirm both of these thanks to my friend who lives there. She doesn't drink but the booze scent is enough that she is drunk anyway.
Quote from: Trivial on January 27, 2019, 02:37:37 AM
Friend of mine was asking for money for a mission trip to evangelize to the heathen country of Finland...
Issues::
1) They're already mostly some flavor of Christian.
2) This time of the year it's dark and they're drunk.
At least this is what my Finnish co-worker told me.
Why not send your friend here?
It's less money than a trip to Finland, and it's been
forever since I was last evangelized.
Finnish christianity is so dull, melancholic and self-loathing, that anything your friend could bring to it would be a positive change. I too want to dance in church. Tell them to watch out for Lalli tho.
Talking in tongues, handling snakes and smiting the demon of numerology all sounds like fun games, but you know where it ends up
(https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2018/08/08/PIND/4b833ef8-93ab-41d2-b959-4ff4fa3e537d-Joel_Osteen_in_LA.jpg?width=534&height=401&fit=bounds&auto=webp)
Yeah, there are worse things than boring.
:lulz: :lulz:
this will be my last week at the respite services job. every time i try to feel bad about leaving, one of the clients tries to wrestle me for more red paint. Things can only go up from here.
Quote from: Cain on January 27, 2019, 08:59:14 PM
Yeah, there are worse things than boring.
Agreed, but boring will hardly never trip on its own shoelaces, crash down, and burn in a spectacular fashion. As a millenial I'm not entertained by anything else.
I'm in Wisconsin and the bars closed due to weather. :eek:
Quote from: Trivial on January 29, 2019, 04:31:17 AM
I'm in Wisconsin and the bars closed due to weather. :eek:
MAKE YOUR TIME
Quote from: Doktor Howl on January 29, 2019, 03:25:49 PM
Quote from: Trivial on January 29, 2019, 04:31:17 AM
I'm in Wisconsin and the bars closed due to weather. :eek:
MAKE YOUR TIME
The liquor stores are still open during the day, still clinging to life.
Unrelated: tmw you see someone you respected sail away on a wave of blatantly false populism.
"TEH WORKURZ ENDED TEH SHUTDOWN SUCCEZZFULLY"
I had thought that the HOLYTM was no longer going to flow on account of the drastic toning down of my manic episodes thanks to modern chemistry, but, I think some of it still leaks out.
UNFORTUNARELTY
I HAVE
TO
Reijn it in or it will go full episode
And then I just got the Nigel treatment from Chelagoras.
Treatment protocol remains unchanged, due to 100% success rate. BLOCKT
Quote from: Don Coyote on January 30, 2019, 02:12:40 AM
I had thought that the HOLYTM was no longer going to flow on account of the drastic toning down of my manic episodes thanks to modern chemistry, but, I think some of it still leaks out.
UNFORTUNARELTY
I HAVE
TO
Reijn it in or it will go full episode
DRUGS CANNOT STOP TEH HOLY
Quote from: Doktor Howl on January 30, 2019, 01:01:11 AM
Unrelated: tmw you see someone you respected sail away on a wave of blatantly false populism.
"TEH WORKURZ ENDED TEH SHUTDOWN SUCCEZZFULLY"
This sucks, every goddamn time. I've lost more people than I have appendages that way. (Not necessarily populism alone, but the whole general deal of people buying into bullshit with their entire life savings.)
Quote from: Doktor Howl on January 30, 2019, 01:01:11 AM
Unrelated: tmw you see someone you respected sail away on a wave of blatantly false populism.
"TEH WORKURZ ENDED TEH SHUTDOWN SUCCEZZFULLY"
But didnt you know? Democrats cant do anything but be the lapdogs of our corporate overords and Pelosi had absolutely nothing to do with dragging it out long enough for the work stoppages and impending ones to any effect at all. It's just logic that the proletariate did all the work.
To be fair there, I'm still in mild disbelief that Pelosi had one solid vertebra, let alone the relatively complete spine put on display. If I could deny my eyes, I'd say it was nothing to do with her or Chuck "I will roll over if you make the little finger motion and won't even ask for a treat" Schumer.
Unfortunately, I'm cursed to believe that events I watch happen are actually happening.
...we all knew that it was going to end before the Superbowl, right?
I mean, millions of NFL dollars flowing into Atlanta. No way they were going to short staff the airport.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on January 30, 2019, 02:19:02 AM
And then I just got the Nigel treatment from Chelagoras.
Treatment protocol remains unchanged, due to 100% success rate. BLOCKT
What happened?
It might hit zero Celsius tonight (smugs in non-American)
Quote from: Hoopla! on January 30, 2019, 01:42:32 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on January 30, 2019, 02:19:02 AM
And then I just got the Nigel treatment from Chelagoras.
Treatment protocol remains unchanged, due to 100% success rate. BLOCKT
What happened?
He was on about how Pelosi wasn't the hero, tHe WoRKerS were. Despite the fact that there was no union action, and that people stopped going in to the airports only when they literally lacked the gasoline to get to work.
His response was something along the lines of "ARE YOU CALLING ME SEXIST?"
At which point I blocked him. Never putting up with that kind of shit again.
Quote from: Cain on January 30, 2019, 03:50:05 PM
It might hit zero Celsius tonight (smugs in non-American)
Might get below 20C tonight (leers in Southwest).
Quote from: Doktor Howl on January 30, 2019, 03:51:46 PM
Quote from: Hoopla! on January 30, 2019, 01:42:32 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on January 30, 2019, 02:19:02 AM
And then I just got the Nigel treatment from Chelagoras.
Treatment protocol remains unchanged, due to 100% success rate. BLOCKT
What happened?
He was on about how Pelosi wasn't the hero, tHe WoRKerS were. Despite the fact that there was no union action, and that people stopped going in to the airports only when they literally lacked the gasoline to get to work.
His response was something along the lines of "ARE YOU CALLING ME SEXIST?"
At which point I blocked him. Never putting up with that kind of shit again.
Jesus.
Why are people so resistant to looking at their own bad ideas?
I discovered last night what seems to be some latent sexism related to a character on a tv ahow which was simultaneously illuminating and disturbing. We all have fucking prejudices... we can only start fixing them if we confront them head on.
Quote from: Hoopla! on January 30, 2019, 03:55:51 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on January 30, 2019, 03:51:46 PM
Quote from: Hoopla! on January 30, 2019, 01:42:32 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on January 30, 2019, 02:19:02 AM
And then I just got the Nigel treatment from Chelagoras.
Treatment protocol remains unchanged, due to 100% success rate. BLOCKT
What happened?
He was on about how Pelosi wasn't the hero, tHe WoRKerS were. Despite the fact that there was no union action, and that people stopped going in to the airports only when they literally lacked the gasoline to get to work.
His response was something along the lines of "ARE YOU CALLING ME SEXIST?"
At which point I blocked him. Never putting up with that kind of shit again.
Jesus.
Why are people so resistant to looking at their own bad ideas?
I discovered last night what seems to be some latent sexism related to a character on a tv ahow which was simultaneously illuminating and disturbing. We all have fucking prejudices... we can only start fixing them if we confront them head on.
I knew that as soon as either Sanders or Clinton started making squishy noises about running, everyone would go batshit insane again. And since Sanders has to fuck up everything he touches, he announced that he was planning to announce the day the shutdown ended. Tell me THAT is a fucking coincidence. Then the next day, he starts jabbering that Pelosi shouldn't get credit for the result, but instead that it was some kind of IWW Wobbly revolt. And then his followers go fucking batshit, toss away their rationality, and you get what happened yesterday.
Funniest bit was, the Nigel thing was when *I* was interested in Sanders, which goes to show that this isn't a progressive problem, it's that humans are stupid and should all die. Like today. Like, get the fuck off of my Goddamn planet. Stupid hairless apes.
OR THIS. HAHAHAHA DOOM.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/melting-glaciers-in-arctic-reveal-land-hidden-for-40000-years-study-says/ar-BBSTGVO?ocid=spartanntp
Meanwhile, Matt Bevin feels your child should man up to -35F weather.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/were-getting-soft-kentucky-governor-says-america-is-weak-for-closing-schools-as-a-deadly-arctic-deep-freeze-wreaks-havoc-with-record-breaking-low-temperatures/ar-BBSXzv2?ocid=spartanntp
"Back in my day, we literally froze the inside of our lungs, and we liked it!"
Flibbedly Foo!
It's only cold enough to freeze a cracked egg on a sidewalk. Those children should man up.
The next election is in 21+ months, and I already hate everyone. Every single progressive, every single moderate dem, and - and this goes without saying - every single republican. I am not talking about the candidates, mind you, I am talking about their fans. I mean, you want to watch everyone left of Attila the Hun lose their shit and devour themselves, just mention *any* candidate. Then sit back and watch the blood splatter on the ceiling tiles.
Everyone is stupid and humans should die.
Sometimes my job is like trying to teach a bear to nail jello to the wall. If the bear eats the jello instead of me, I call it a good day. When the bear eats the wall, it's time to take some vacation days.
Every once in a while, I drop a hint that to management that I could do more with a bigger bear, but they tell me there's only project budget for nails. I've already got a pretty big bear, anyway.
Chelegoras and I have reached an understanding.
A co-worker said something really nice to me today.
He thanked me for setting the precedent of not working overtime.
I'm becoming a bad influence. :evil:
Fuck the rpg community at large for fucking up what is considered a fair price for shitty elfgame shit.
I also sold my first copy of a game today.
Allow me to explain my past few days.
1: wake up to non emergency police gathering my stuff and me in a friend of an acquaintance's house in Fresno. This would be the first of February.
2: spend 4 nights in unpowered, unheated sheds in a homeless shelter. Acquire bedbugs.
3: get simultaneous offers to bankroll my escape and give me a place to go from friends.
4: bedbugs defeated by, apparently, black magic. We have no idea.
5: board a greyhound to Michigan.
6: Las Vegas sucks. It looks like a migraine and everyone acts like they aren't happy unless you have a migraine too.
7: let me just say Utah is annoying to look at in the winter snow. Fortunately I didn't have five minutes in the Salt Lake City bus station before we were crammed into a van toting a trailer. This is what passes for transit in Utah.
8: we get to Butte MT and are told all further busses east are cancelled, do not go to Billings you will die in the cold, find a hotel here
9: panic
10:friend buys a hotel room, other friend reaches out to his huge network, I am temporarily rich (I had 900 dollars before I booked all the stuff for leaving shithole USA, I still have around 250)
11: now waiting for taxi to take me to the bus station which is only open from, I kid ye not, midnight to 6pm. It's unconscionable and fucking weird too
And let me just say. There are no Ubers or Lyfts here. No DoorDash or Grubhub here. Your smartphone is a phone and nothing else as long as you are in Montana. If you can't drive, you had better be okay with taking a taxi or simply walking.
Extra fun: all this happened about one month after I nearly got human trafficked in San Bernardino. My life is a fucking mess. Hopefully this cleans it up a bit.
Oh yeah, so: this time I'm going back to Utah and taking the goddamn train to Chicago, dropping a piece of luggage to be shipped there, then taking a bus which only lets you check two bags (hence the dropping off luggage) to Lansing.
I will never board a Greyhound again, this is the second time doing so nearly killed me.
what in the ever living FUCK
I have the sneaking suspicion the worst of the badness is over, so I summarized it all now.
Idea was basically that there's no point giving blow by blow updates and depressing everyone, better to be like "look at this bullshit I survived" after the fact. And that's how it feels right now, I have been through the wringer but goddamn it I won!
Sucks what you went through.
Yay for winning!
Quote from: Trivial on February 10, 2019, 01:06:21 AM
Sucks what you went through.
Yay for winning!
Goddamn right yay for winning. If life is a game I must have accidentally picked hardcore mode in nightmare difficulty, but I'll be damned if that stops me from beating this bastard.
True story, I don't think I'd have made it through if it weren't for the lessons folks here taught me over the years. Credit where credit is due, you flea ridden mutants and tentacle faced antifa terrorists and mustachioed mad scientists and everyone I can't think of a snappy term for off the top of my head. Your internet drivel gave me the motivation and inner strength and damn bull headed stubbornness to keep moving when all was apparently lost.
Damn, and I was stressed by moving while ill.
Quote from: Cain on February 10, 2019, 01:14:53 PM
Damn, and I was stressed by moving while ill.
Eh, thing I learned that I think is important is not to critique yourself for what stresses you or fucks with your head. "Look how bad I have it, stop whining" is just a kind of victim shaming. I have no doubt that you had a stressful trip, and I'm not going to play some dumb comparison game. I'm glad you made it out the other side of your situation, that's all that matters imo.
Whoa! I guess it's kinda a dick move following up that with my good news but dick I am, so here goes - My partners and I just sold our business and I got myself about 3 years of runway cash now, with which to become a professional artist and/or launch an AR business. Got a gig next month at facebook HQ in London Being filmed competing in an art battle with 15 proper pros. Don't expect to do particularly well but it's all about teh networking. Been bored for about the last 5 years. It's time for some adventure before I snuff it from old age and poor lifestyle choices! 8)
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on February 11, 2019, 09:08:43 AM
Whoa! I guess it's kinda a dick move following up that with my good news but dick I am, so here goes - My partners and I just sold our business and I got myself about 3 years of runway cash now, with which to become a professional artist and/or launch an AR business. Got a gig next month at facebook HQ in London Being filmed competing in an art battle with 15 proper pros. Don't expect to do particularly well but it's all about teh networking. Been bored for about the last 5 years. It's time for some adventure before I snuff it from old age and poor lifestyle choices! 8)
That's super awesome! Good luck with the whole competition thing.
Someone in r/occult today was asking what is the best way to get the attention of Eris. So, we're likely all doomed.
Quote from: Hoopla! on February 11, 2019, 08:23:52 PM
Someone in r/occult today was asking what is the best way to get the attention of Eris. So, we're likely all doomed.
Throw a party; don't invite her.
Quote from: LMNO on February 11, 2019, 08:34:50 PM
Quote from: Hoopla! on February 11, 2019, 08:23:52 PM
Someone in r/occult today was asking what is the best way to get the attention of Eris. So, we're likely all doomed.
Throw a party; don't invite her.
Definitely.
You have to invite someone on Her level though. It's cool if it's like "no deities allowed!" Who knows, maybe you're discussing overthrowing the gods again. Good idea to let folks keep that on the down low.
But if you invite a deity who isn't Her, now you're just being rude. On purpose. She knows you know how She feels about that sort of thing.
Quote from: Hoopla! on February 11, 2019, 08:23:52 PM
Someone in r/occult today was asking what is the best way to get the attention of Eris. So, we're likely all doomed.
Did they say why? What were they trying to do? Whatever the reason, there's usually a less dangerous solution than getting a chaos goddess involved.
Before summoning Eris, they should be encouraged to first try some of the safer alternatives, like going to a job interview with pasta* down their pants, riding a walrus down the freeway during rush hour, or setting off firecrackers at an airport security checkpoint.
*Al dente. With sauce.
It's not even about having a party with gods, Eris wouldn't be about the fine details such as their status in the pantheon. Inviting Patrick Swayze could draw her attention even more than inviting Zeus depending on her mood.
In short, she will show up when she wants to show up. Don't call her, she will call you.
I think you just gotta wake up in the morning and say SURPRISE ME, ERIS for like 23 days in a row
Man, I should really get that published.
If anyone was looking for it... (https://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php/topic,24245.msg837915.html#msg837915)
I just wanted everyone to know I am safe in Michigan, with wonderful people and a comfortable place to sleep. The nightmare appears to have ended for now.
Quote from: nullified on February 13, 2019, 04:32:12 AM
I just wanted everyone to know I am safe in Michigan, with wonderful people and a comfortable place to sleep. The nightmare appears to have ended for now.
Quote from: Cramulus on February 12, 2019, 03:48:41 PM
I think you just gotta wake up in the morning and say SURPRISE ME, ERIS for like 23 days in a row
Look, I promise you I never once said such words. I'm done with surprises.
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on February 12, 2019, 12:05:30 AM
Quote from: Hoopla! on February 11, 2019, 08:23:52 PM
Someone in r/occult today was asking what is the best way to get the attention of Eris. So, we're likely all doomed.
Did they say why? What were they trying to do? Whatever the reason, there's usually a less dangerous solution than getting a chaos goddess involved.
Before summoning Eris, they should be encouraged to first try some of the safer alternatives, like going to a job interview with pasta* down their pants, riding a walrus down the freeway during rush hour, or setting off firecrackers at an airport security checkpoint.
*Al dente. With sauce.
I don't ask why some guys want to smash their testicles with a hammer, and I don't ask about shit like this either.
I've recently decided to participate more actively in my finances, so I've started looking at the stock market. I'm starting out small-scale and conservative, until I get some experience, and have a better understanding of How Everything Works. (I even bought a book!)
Last week, I ran across a startup mining/ore-processing stock that looked promising (and slightly undervalued), so I decided to buy a few shares in it--not enough that I would miss the money much if they got wiped out, but enough that I might make a decent profit if they Made it Big.
On Monday, I put in an order to purchase, but I set the limit price too low, so it expired. So, Monday evening, I put in another order, at $0.54 per share. When I checked my account on Tuesday, I discovered that my order had been filled...at $0.30. Before the market opened, the company had issued a report that they had reassessed their progress, and that although construction was on schedule, they were about $300 million short on their cost estimates. The stock had crashed.
The price had rebounded by mid-morning, so I sold enough at $0.34 to recover my initial investment, the transaction fees, and make about $200, with a small amount of stock left over.
This was the worst possible outcome.
If I had got in one day earlier, I would have lost 37%, learned my lesson, and learned it hard. As it stands, I made 7% in one day, and part of my brain insists on framing this as a success, and wondering if I can do it again, even though it was actually just a confluence of raw stupidity and pure dumb luck.
Come on down to the secret casino tonight
Indulge yourself in a fool-hearted game for once
But if you get addicted, it might start getting scary
It's a habit-forming kind of ecstasy
Russian, Russian Roulette
--Russian Roulette (Nakahara Meiko) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTMe1vhUxh0)
I think I'd better finish reading the book before doing anything more. It seems to be treating "people are basically irrational" as an axiom, and saying things like "smarter people that you have lost money on the stock market," so it's probably on the right track.
Yesterday I was reminded of the Orange eating contest because I had to stop my toddler from being fed oranges continuously.
Quote from: Don Coyote on February 18, 2019, 03:51:26 PM
Yesterday I was reminded of the Orange eating contest because I had to stop my toddler from being fed oranges continuously.
*screams internally*
How old is the kid, now?
The ringing in my ears and increased heart rate do not pair well with how mundane catching up with old ghosts is.
Someone goose you?
Me? No the geese are fine they're flying home for the summer
Why are your ears ringing and your heart palpitating?
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 19, 2019, 04:35:13 AM
Quote from: Don Coyote on February 18, 2019, 03:51:26 PM
Yesterday I was reminded of the Orange eating contest because I had to stop my toddler from being fed oranges continuously.
*screams internally*
How old is the kid, now?
14 months
We're at the "understands words and HATE THEM" stage of life. Also I have grapple him to wipe shit from his ass.
Quote from: Don Coyote on February 19, 2019, 05:52:06 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 19, 2019, 04:35:13 AM
Quote from: Don Coyote on February 18, 2019, 03:51:26 PM
Yesterday I was reminded of the Orange eating contest because I had to stop my toddler from being fed oranges continuously.
*screams internally*
How old is the kid, now?
14 months
We're at the "understands words and HATE THEM" stage of life. Also I have grapple him to wipe shit from his ass.
That gets easier when they turn 20 or so.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 19, 2019, 04:44:29 PM
Quote from: Don Coyote on February 19, 2019, 05:52:06 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 19, 2019, 04:35:13 AM
Quote from: Don Coyote on February 18, 2019, 03:51:26 PM
Yesterday I was reminded of the Orange eating contest because I had to stop my toddler from being fed oranges continuously.
*screams internally*
How old is the kid, now?
14 months
We're at the "understands words and HATE THEM" stage of life. Also I have grapple him to wipe shit from his ass.
That gets easier when they turn 20 or so.
Months or years?
Years.
I'm learning that faster each day.
Quote from: Don Coyote on February 19, 2019, 05:52:06 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 19, 2019, 04:35:13 AM
Quote from: Don Coyote on February 18, 2019, 03:51:26 PM
Yesterday I was reminded of the Orange eating contest because I had to stop my toddler from being fed oranges continuously.
*screams internally*
How old is the kid, now?
14 months
We're at the "understands words and HATE THEM" stage of life. Also I have grapple him to wipe shit from his ass.
Ha, my son is at that stage, he's 17 months.
Quote from: Don Coyote on February 19, 2019, 05:41:14 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 19, 2019, 04:44:29 PM
Quote from: Don Coyote on February 19, 2019, 05:52:06 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 19, 2019, 04:35:13 AM
Quote from: Don Coyote on February 18, 2019, 03:51:26 PM
Yesterday I was reminded of the Orange eating contest because I had to stop my toddler from being fed oranges continuously.
*screams internally*
How old is the kid, now?
14 months
We're at the "understands words and HATE THEM" stage of life. Also I have grapple him to wipe shit from his ass.
That gets easier when they turn 20 or so.
Months or years?
Years. ENJOY!
Quote from: Don Coyote on February 19, 2019, 05:52:06 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 19, 2019, 04:35:13 AM
Quote from: Don Coyote on February 18, 2019, 03:51:26 PM
Yesterday I was reminded of the Orange eating contest because I had to stop my toddler from being fed oranges continuously.
*screams internally*
How old is the kid, now?
14 months
We're at the "understands words and HATE THEM" stage of life. Also I have grapple him to wipe shit from his ass.
Also, what are his opinions on pants?
Quote from: Trivial on February 20, 2019, 03:14:41 PM
Quote from: Don Coyote on February 19, 2019, 05:52:06 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 19, 2019, 04:35:13 AM
Quote from: Don Coyote on February 18, 2019, 03:51:26 PM
Yesterday I was reminded of the Orange eating contest because I had to stop my toddler from being fed oranges continuously.
*screams internally*
How old is the kid, now?
14 months
We're at the "understands words and HATE THEM" stage of life. Also I have grapple him to wipe shit from his ass.
Also, what are his opinions on pants?
Pants YES
Shirt SCREEEEEEEEEECH
Coat YES
Socks YES
Technical question:
Is there a way to radically up my posts per second without getting spammy or boring?
Quote from: Con-troll on February 21, 2019, 03:28:58 AM
Technical question:
Is there a way to radically up my posts per second without getting spammy or boring?
y
Quote from: Don Coyote on February 21, 2019, 06:02:34 AM
Quote from: Con-troll on February 21, 2019, 03:28:58 AM
Technical question:
Is there a way to radically up my posts per second without getting spammy or boring?
y
There was this bdsm-site i singed up for. I tried to induce conversation about an actual, real kink of wanting to roleplay as ancient reptilian warlord, among other things. Now everybody just ignores me and considers me as a troll for trying to make a real contribution for their sexual spectrum. :lulz:
That's where y'all come in. I feel like I hang out here too much and this forum has fucked up my head. So only logical solution is to fuck up the forums head back.
Back in the day if you wanted to fuck with this forum all you had to do was pretend to be Poptard or bring up Libertarianism. Doubt it's that easy anymore.
I'll be outraged for someone as a sign of appreciation for taking the time to troll us.
Quote from: Con-troll on February 21, 2019, 08:49:34 AM
Quote from: Don Coyote on February 21, 2019, 06:02:34 AM
Quote from: Con-troll on February 21, 2019, 03:28:58 AM
Technical question:
Is there a way to radically up my posts per second without getting spammy or boring?
y
There was this bdsm-site i singed up for. I tried to induce conversation about an actual, real kink of wanting to roleplay as ancient reptilian warlord, among other things. Now everybody just ignores me and considers me as a troll for trying to make a real contribution for their sexual spectrum. :lulz:
That's where y'all come in. I feel like I hang out here too much and this forum has fucked up my head. So only logical solution is to fuck up the forums head back.
but y tho
Quote from: Con-troll on February 21, 2019, 08:49:34 AM
That's where y'all come in. I feel like I hang out here too much and this forum has fucked up my head. So only logical solution is to fuck up the forums head back.
Let us know how that works out.
Quote from: Con-troll on February 21, 2019, 08:49:34 AM
That's where y'all come in. I feel like I hang out here too much and this forum has fucked up my head. So only logical solution is to fuck up the forums head back.
Pretty sure the 90's beat you to the punch
Quote from: Con-troll on February 21, 2019, 08:49:34 AM
I feel like I hang out here too much and this forum has fucked up my head. So only logical solution is to fuck up the forums head back.
You've got to ask yourself one question: "
Do I feel lucky?" Well, do you, punk?
--Sylvester Stallone, "Sleepless in Seattle"
Quote from: Con-troll on February 21, 2019, 08:49:34 AM
That's where y'all come in. I feel like I hang out here too much and this forum has fucked up my head. So only logical solution is to fuck up the forums head back.
Not for nothing, I do appreciate you letting us know in advance. I'll go make sure everything is in working order.
:mind ray:
:zombie:
:cramulus:
:hitlerbanjo:
:tldr:
:lolchix:
:rwhn:
:cpd:
:regret:
Ok, everything seems to be in working order....
:notnice:
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on February 22, 2019, 12:57:37 PM
Quote from: Con-troll on February 21, 2019, 08:49:34 AM
I feel like I hang out here too much and this forum has fucked up my head. So only logical solution is to fuck up the forums head back.
You've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do you, punk?
--Sylvester Stallone, "Sleepless in Seattle"
:lulz:
Quote from: Con-troll on February 21, 2019, 08:49:34 AM
Quote from: Don Coyote on February 21, 2019, 06:02:34 AM
Quote from: Con-troll on February 21, 2019, 03:28:58 AM
Technical question:
Is there a way to radically up my posts per second without getting spammy or boring?
y
There was this bdsm-site i singed up for. I tried to induce conversation about an actual, real kink of wanting to roleplay as ancient reptilian warlord, among other things. Now everybody just ignores me and considers me as a troll for trying to make a real contribution for their sexual spectrum. :lulz:
That's where y'all come in. I feel like I hang out here too much and this forum has fucked up my head. So only logical solution is to fuck up the forums head back.
(https://media1.tenor.com/images/a73da635eb2db04b2f0edb0a0beef598/tenor.gif?itemid=4742387)
You know what's discouraging? The people here to FITE TEH POWAR right now are absolutely indistinguishable from the people who did it in 2006. There is nothing new under the sun.
HAVING SAID THAT: We got 6 inches of snow. In Tucson. Well, just North of Tucson. You know what I mean. :rogpipe:
I got an aunt and uncle who have over a foot out in AZ.
We here in Tennessee have got, like, 6 feet of rain or some thang.
Kids are Kayaking on campus.
So, both the jeep and the toyota having been totaled by Tucson incompetence, I have bought a Lincoln Towncar.
I dare you, Tucson. I fucking double dog dare you.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 26, 2019, 04:05:43 AM
So, both the jeep and the toyota having been totaled by Tucson incompetence, I have bought a Lincoln Towncar.
I dare you, Tucson. I fucking double dog dare you.
Now, get out there on the highway, play "Ride of the Valkyries" as loud as your eardrums can stand it, and see what that Town Car can do!
Or, if you're in a more mellow mood, "Hot Rod Lincoln" is an excellent choice.
FWIW, I went the other way. I traded in my old worse-for-wear-and-tear gray '89 Town Car in for a Jeep Wrangler. I like the Jeep, but I still miss
The Dreadnought.
Quote from: Brother Mythos on February 26, 2019, 04:38:55 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 26, 2019, 04:05:43 AM
So, both the jeep and the toyota having been totaled by Tucson incompetence, I have bought a Lincoln Towncar.
I dare you, Tucson. I fucking double dog dare you.
Now, get out there on the highway, play "Ride of the Valkyries" as loud as your eardrums can stand it, and see what that Town Car can do!
Or, if you're in a more mellow mood, "Hot Rod Lincoln" is an excellent choice.
FWIW, I went the other way. I traded in my old worse-for-wear-and-tear gray '89 Town Car in for a Jeep Wrangler. I like the Jeep, but I still miss The Dreadnought.
Karl Orff
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 26, 2019, 04:44:25 AM
Quote from: Brother Mythos on February 26, 2019, 04:38:55 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 26, 2019, 04:05:43 AM
So, both the jeep and the toyota having been totaled by Tucson incompetence, I have bought a Lincoln Towncar.
I dare you, Tucson. I fucking double dog dare you.
Now, get out there on the highway, play "Ride of the Valkyries" as loud as your eardrums can stand it, and see what that Town Car can do!
Or, if you're in a more mellow mood, "Hot Rod Lincoln" is an excellent choice.
FWIW, I went the other way. I traded in my old worse-for-wear-and-tear gray '89 Town Car in for a Jeep Wrangler. I like the Jeep, but I still miss The Dreadnought.
Karl Orff
"Carmina Burana" is certainly a good choice, but I'm more of an "Apocalypse Now" kind of guy.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 26, 2019, 04:44:25 AM
Quote from: Brother Mythos on February 26, 2019, 04:38:55 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 26, 2019, 04:05:43 AM
So, both the jeep and the toyota having been totaled by Tucson incompetence, I have bought a Lincoln Towncar.
I dare you, Tucson. I fucking double dog dare you.
Now, get out there on the highway, play "Ride of the Valkyries" as loud as your eardrums can stand it, and see what that Town Car can do!
Or, if you're in a more mellow mood, "Hot Rod Lincoln" is an excellent choice.
FWIW, I went the other way. I traded in my old worse-for-wear-and-tear gray '89 Town Car in for a Jeep Wrangler. I like the Jeep, but I still miss The Dreadnought.
Karl Orff
Bollocks. You know what song to play. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caXcu2I7EOs)
Quote from: LMNO on February 26, 2019, 04:38:08 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 26, 2019, 04:44:25 AM
Quote from: Brother Mythos on February 26, 2019, 04:38:55 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 26, 2019, 04:05:43 AM
So, both the jeep and the toyota having been totaled by Tucson incompetence, I have bought a Lincoln Towncar.
I dare you, Tucson. I fucking double dog dare you.
Now, get out there on the highway, play "Ride of the Valkyries" as loud as your eardrums can stand it, and see what that Town Car can do!
Or, if you're in a more mellow mood, "Hot Rod Lincoln" is an excellent choice.
FWIW, I went the other way. I traded in my old worse-for-wear-and-tear gray '89 Town Car in for a Jeep Wrangler. I like the Jeep, but I still miss The Dreadnought.
Karl Orff
Bollocks. You know what song to play. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caXcu2I7EOs)
What the fuck was I thinking?
This is why I keep coming to the boards. TO KEEP YOU MOTHERFUCKERS POINTED TO THE LIGHT.
(http://i.imgur.com/Fkbk0WR.gif)
I keep coming back because I am a cargo cultist that thinks that if I perform the right dance steps or whatnot, this place will deliver the goods it delivered between 2006 and 2013.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 26, 2019, 04:50:16 PM
I keep coming back because I am a cargo cultist that thinks that if I perform the right dance steps or whatnot, this place will deliver the goods it delivered between 2006 and 2013.
Proof that Apathetic God Theory is truer than Malevolent God Theory.
I'M TRYING DOC
I'm trying real hard
Since this is an open bar, and many open bars have a working jukebox and cause I don't wanna make a new thread just for this...happy National Brotherhood Week, all! This late, great holiday is almost over (we're on day 8 of 10 of the week!), so get out there and smile at the people you don't give a damn about. Putting up with them just means more chances to confuse them! :lulz:
https://youtu.be/CgASBVMyVFI
https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-02-21/whatever-became-national-brotherhood-week
I'm not good for much, but I can shovel snow like a maniac.
I thought I'd not get too many opportunities to show my snow shoveling stamina and ability, but I'd get a little bit. Michigan, end of winter, yknow.
It's not as bad as the single winter storm (literally just one worth remembering) that I spent in Boston with QGP and company, but by god, it just never stops. We had three clear days, just enough to get a nice crust of ice that fucks up the shovel blade and makes it impossible to dig in there nicely, then bam, a good half foot overnight, and my dumb ass started shoveling while it was still falling and has a wild compulsion to have at least gotten enough snow cleared on every important surface that I can't scrape more up with the shovel blade.
My hands look like I put them in Enrico Salazar's chamberpot after a good night out.
I'm going to sleep.
shit fuck damn, I just closed a tab where I had like 4 pages written :argh!:
Quote from: Cramulus on February 27, 2019, 09:28:09 PM
shit fuck damn, I just closed a tab where I had like 4 pages written :argh!:
control shift t to reopen tab, and there is a chance it is still there.
Quote from: nullified on February 27, 2019, 12:15:43 PM
I'm not good for much, but I can shovel snow like a maniac.
I thought I'd not get too many opportunities to show my snow shoveling stamina and ability, but I'd get a little bit. Michigan, end of winter, yknow.
It's not as bad as the single winter storm (literally just one worth remembering) that I spent in Boston with QGP and company, but by god, it just never stops. We had three clear days, just enough to get a nice crust of ice that fucks up the shovel blade and makes it impossible to dig in there nicely, then bam, a good half foot overnight, and my dumb ass started shoveling while it was still falling and has a wild compulsion to have at least gotten enough snow cleared on every important surface that I can't scrape more up with the shovel blade.
My hands look like I put them in Enrico Salazar's chamberpot after a good night out.
I'm going to sleep.
Legends of the Salazar chamberpot still whisper on the foam of the world's waves.
Quote from: Faust on February 27, 2019, 09:41:33 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on February 27, 2019, 09:28:09 PM
shit fuck damn, I just closed a tab where I had like 4 pages written :argh!:
control shift t to reopen tab, and there is a chance it is still there.
IT WORKED! YOU BEAUTIFUL BASTARD
burns told me the same thing AND WAS RIGHT
MUAH MUAH MUAH
(that's me kissing your avatar)
MUAH MUAH MUAHMUAHmuahmuahmuahnom
Quote from: nullified on February 27, 2019, 12:15:43 PM
We had three clear days, just enough to get a nice crust of ice that fucks up the shovel blade and makes it impossible to dig in there nicely,
I like those old-timey steel shovels. They're a lot heavier, but the aluminum snow shovels they sell nowadays flex too much to deal with the denser stuff (and if you try to put any weight into them, the edge takes damage).
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on February 28, 2019, 12:59:29 AM
Quote from: nullified on February 27, 2019, 12:15:43 PM
We had three clear days, just enough to get a nice crust of ice that fucks up the shovel blade and makes it impossible to dig in there nicely,
I like those old-timey steel shovels. They're a lot heavier, but the aluminum snow shovels they sell nowadays flex too much to deal with the denser stuff (and if you try to put any weight into them, the edge takes damage).
Plastic shovel, steel blade, and the edge is still all messed up.
I sold part of my soul to a condo association, so I don't have to deal with such things like lawn mowing or snow removal.
Forgot which part though. Feels like a bargain right now.
It worked for me.
Same.
User: I am complaining about thing
Coworker: Makes note on case stating user is complaining about thing.
User: How dare you say I am complaining! I'm going to complain to your boss for saying I'm a complainer!
Quote from: Trivial on February 28, 2019, 07:19:20 PM
User: I am complaining about thing
Coworker: Makes note on case stating user is complaining about thing.
User: How dare you say I am complaining! I'm going to complain to your boss for saying I'm a complainer!
And racists don't think they are racists. It's almost as if people actively avoid honest observations of their own behavior.
Quote from: Hoopla! on February 28, 2019, 09:20:03 PM
Quote from: Trivial on February 28, 2019, 07:19:20 PM
User: I am complaining about thing
Coworker: Makes note on case stating user is complaining about thing.
User: How dare you say I am complaining! I'm going to complain to your boss for saying I'm a complainer!
And racists don't think they are racists. It's almost as if people actively avoid honest observations of their own behavior.
The playback of the first call was pretty amusing. It started with "I'm calling to complain about"
Firing gun nut employee. BRB. :lulz:
Poop, crowd funded series I like is going to fail and I don't have near enough cash to keep it going.
Shameless Plug:
Strowlers (https://www.amazon.com/Pilot-Seattle-USA/dp/B07HLC8YSW/ref=sr_1_1?crid=BGV543WEB3PC&keywords=strowlers&qid=1551732650&s=gateway&sprefix=strowl%2Caps%2C157&sr=8-1)
If you like it:
Strowlers the Kickstarter (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zombieorpheus/strowlers-three-new-stories?ref=nav_search&result=project&term=strowlers%7Dhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zombieorpheus/strowlers-three-new-stories?ref=nav_search&result=project&term=strowlers)
World setting is magic is real, time period is now, humans can literally 'splode from magicness, and the government needs to deal and does so poorly.
Sup, spags. Actually nice to see this place kinda active.
Quote from: Telarus on March 04, 2019, 11:17:20 PM
Sup, spags. Actually nice to see this place kinda active.
Good to see you here! This place gets just a little more magical everyday.
:magick:
:lulz: Thanks. I've been dealing with my own personal mental health shit, and this place has always been good for that.
Also, I some-how ended up managing the "Discordianism" page on Facebook :evil: (along with a few other spags), and needed content. ;)
:pax:
:magick:
You have been missed and if you leave again we will release the grenade-equipped jackals.
WB Telarus.
In Coyote related news. I look to have made a massive 12.26 USD from my shitty storygame.
TELARUS!
Great to have you back.
WELL SHIT, Big T said to look to the east, and there he is, just gandalfin' away
Mental health update: I made it to cooking again finally, had my first ever kitchen disaster, AND DIDN'T FREAK OUT.
Fuck you PTSD. Fuck your stupid bitch FACE
Quote from: nullified on March 05, 2019, 11:37:04 PM
Mental health update: I made it to cooking again finally, had my first ever kitchen disaster, AND DIDN'T FREAK OUT.
How does one fix such a disaster? My first guess is to drown the disastrous food in barbecue sauce if appropriate. My second guess, if that doesn't work, is to drown the food in GRAPE JELLY barbecue sauce. Surely that will work...right? :lulz:
Quote from: Al Qədic on March 05, 2019, 11:42:14 PM
Quote from: nullified on March 05, 2019, 11:37:04 PM
Mental health update: I made it to cooking again finally, had my first ever kitchen disaster, AND DIDN'T FREAK OUT.
How does one fix such a disaster? My first guess is to drown the disastrous food in barbecue sauce if appropriate. My second guess, if that doesn't work, is to drown the food in GRAPE JELLY barbecue sauce. Surely that will work...right? :lulz:
As it happened, the dry meatballs weren't dry enough that they needed any more than the mulatto pepper bechemel sauce I made. It wasn't GREAT sauce, tasted mostly of flour no matter how much pepper and other seasonings I put in, but it was smooth and it worked well with the meatballs.
The taste of the cheese sauce saved it despite the grainy texture, so the mac and cheese was middle of the road too.
The unambiguous hit was the stuff I made for the kid who can't have bacon: mixed up a small amount of thyme and vegetable oil, then fried broccoli florets and garlic in that. Everyone agreed: perfectly delicious. They did not survive salad time.
Oh gods, I just accidentally a whole political thread on rpg.net. Kill me now. :roll:
(Thanks for the warm welcome everyone.)
Quote from: Telarus on March 10, 2019, 07:31:05 PM
Oh gods, I just accidentally a whole political thread on rpg.net. Kill me now. :roll:
(Thanks for the warm welcome everyone.)
For SHAME
Tone policing is a funny thing.
If someone calls you out on something and you go along with it, that person - doesn't matter who it is - will start doing it more and more over less and less until you hate their stupid face.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 11, 2019, 03:16:13 AM
Tone policing is a funny thing.
If someone calls you out on something and you go along with it, that person - doesn't matter who it is - will start doing it more and more over less and less until you hate their stupid face.
Have you considered being really nice and passive aggressive instead of being a proper upright hominid?
Quote from: Don Coyote on March 11, 2019, 03:34:32 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 11, 2019, 03:16:13 AM
Tone policing is a funny thing.
If someone calls you out on something and you go along with it, that person - doesn't matter who it is - will start doing it more and more over less and less until you hate their stupid face.
Have you considered being really nice and passive aggressive instead of being a proper upright hominid?
Naw, I'm just blocking people when they do it the 3rd time. :lulz:
I've graduated myself from the introductions thread to Apple Talk. Seems that this is where returning members hang out after an extended hiatus. Have some things in mind, Gob only knows how soon I'll get to them...
That Michael Jackson documentary is not the most uplifting way to spend an evening...
Then why do my co-workers keep on insisting that I watch it?
I just keep on telling them to beat it. Just beat it.
Quote from: Cain on March 11, 2019, 06:52:31 PM
Then why do my co-workers keep on insisting that I watch it?
I just keep on telling them to beat it. Just beat it.
:crankey:
Quote from: Cain on March 11, 2019, 06:52:31 PM
Then why do my co-workers keep on insisting that I watch it?
I just keep on telling them to beat it. Just beat it.
It's like talking to the man in the mirror with these people some times...
I thought I had the worst job in the world, only it's the second-worst job in the world. I know this because I was just offered a job that makes my current job look morally okay.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 12, 2019, 12:14:56 AM
I thought I had the worst job in the world, only it's the second-worst job in the world. I know this because I was just offered a job that makes my current job look morally okay.
But you're not a lawyer?
Quote from: Cain on March 12, 2019, 12:32:04 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 12, 2019, 12:14:56 AM
I thought I had the worst job in the world, only it's the second-worst job in the world. I know this because I was just offered a job that makes my current job look morally okay.
But you're not a lawyer?
"Industrial intelligence analyst."
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 12, 2019, 05:42:53 PM
Quote from: Cain on March 12, 2019, 12:32:04 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 12, 2019, 12:14:56 AM
I thought I had the worst job in the world, only it's the second-worst job in the world. I know this because I was just offered a job that makes my current job look morally okay.
But you're not a lawyer?
"Industrial intelligence analyst."
:omg:
Quote from: LMNO on March 12, 2019, 05:47:15 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 12, 2019, 05:42:53 PM
Quote from: Cain on March 12, 2019, 12:32:04 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 12, 2019, 12:14:56 AM
I thought I had the worst job in the world, only it's the second-worst job in the world. I know this because I was just offered a job that makes my current job look morally okay.
But you're not a lawyer?
"Industrial intelligence analyst."
:omg:
I don't even like the job description. But it appeals to me anyway.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 12, 2019, 05:42:53 PM
Quote from: Cain on March 12, 2019, 12:32:04 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 12, 2019, 12:14:56 AM
I thought I had the worst job in the world, only it's the second-worst job in the world. I know this because I was just offered a job that makes my current job look morally okay.
But you're not a lawyer?
"Industrial intelligence analyst."
Close enough. Doing a discovery is just legal spying.
Quote from: Cain on March 12, 2019, 06:27:30 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 12, 2019, 05:42:53 PM
Quote from: Cain on March 12, 2019, 12:32:04 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 12, 2019, 12:14:56 AM
I thought I had the worst job in the world, only it's the second-worst job in the world. I know this because I was just offered a job that makes my current job look morally okay.
But you're not a lawyer?
"Industrial intelligence analyst."
Close enough. Doing a discovery is just legal spying.
Most of it's not even that cool, really. It's mostly watching markets and seeing what goes plonk and why.
:magick: Facebook down!
Ah, I was about to ask if it was down or if I was banned
I will just have to share my Jacob Wohl news here https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1105688835336388608
Quote from: Cain on March 13, 2019, 06:44:06 PM
Ah, I was about to ask if it was down or if I was banned
I will just have to share my Jacob Wohl news here https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1105688835336388608
From the screenshot of that guy's alt:
"Hater of racists,
homophones, and bigots."
:lulz:
It's back :argh!:
Quote from: Cain on March 13, 2019, 07:33:47 PM
Quote from: Trivial on March 13, 2019, 07:00:30 PM
It's back :argh!:
Still fucked here
Yeah I'm having problems accessing my profile and groups. Was about to go fishing for submissions to Holy Nonsense. Apparently we've gotten some submissions back already but according to Q.G. they're not... They're not great.
I thought my browser was on the fritz. I would load a blank page, and in the Source Code view everything was good except for except a blank <body></body> tag.... Damn zukerburg :argh!:
Well, today is Ron L. Hubbard's birthday, so the internet Spiders must be too busy celebrating :?
:magick:
Quote from: The Johnny on March 13, 2019, 09:23:16 PM
Well, today is Ron L. Hubbard's birthday, so the internet Spiders must be too busy celebrating :?
:magick:
:lulz: :lulz:
I wonder how the scientologists feel about him, Jack Parsons, the whole Babalon working thing.
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on March 13, 2019, 09:30:32 PM
Quote from: The Johnny on March 13, 2019, 09:23:16 PM
Well, today is Ron L. Hubbard's birthday, so the internet Spiders must be too busy celebrating :?
:magick:
:lulz: :lulz:
I wonder how the scientologists feel about him, Jack Parsons, the whole Babalon working thing.
I believe their official word on that is that LRH was working undercover for the US Navy, and had to blend in.
Quote from: Hoopla! on March 13, 2019, 09:51:15 PM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on March 13, 2019, 09:30:32 PM
Quote from: The Johnny on March 13, 2019, 09:23:16 PM
Well, today is Ron L. Hubbard's birthday, so the internet Spiders must be too busy celebrating :?
:magick:
:lulz: :lulz:
I wonder how the scientologists feel about him, Jack Parsons, the whole Babalon working thing.
I believe their official word on that is that LRH was working undercover for the US Navy, and had to blend in.
:lulz: :lulz:
Blend in by playing Kelly to Parson's Dee?
I guess we are what we pretend to be.
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on March 13, 2019, 09:56:10 PM
Quote from: Hoopla! on March 13, 2019, 09:51:15 PM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on March 13, 2019, 09:30:32 PM
Quote from: The Johnny on March 13, 2019, 09:23:16 PM
Well, today is Ron L. Hubbard's birthday, so the internet Spiders must be too busy celebrating :?
:magick:
:lulz: :lulz:
I wonder how the scientologists feel about him, Jack Parsons, the whole Babalon working thing.
I believe their official word on that is that LRH was working undercover for the US Navy, and had to blend in.
:lulz: :lulz:
Blend in by playing Kelly to Parson's Dee?
I guess we are what we pretend to be.
It was his patriotic duty to engage in magical sodomy in the desert.
Quote from: Hoopla! on March 13, 2019, 10:12:26 PM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on March 13, 2019, 09:56:10 PM
Quote from: Hoopla! on March 13, 2019, 09:51:15 PM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on March 13, 2019, 09:30:32 PM
Quote from: The Johnny on March 13, 2019, 09:23:16 PM
Well, today is Ron L. Hubbard's birthday, so the internet Spiders must be too busy celebrating :?
:magick:
:lulz: :lulz:
I wonder how the scientologists feel about him, Jack Parsons, the whole Babalon working thing.
I believe their official word on that is that LRH was working undercover for the US Navy, and had to blend in.
:lulz: :lulz:
Blend in by playing Kelly to Parson's Dee?
I guess we are what we pretend to be.
It was his patriotic duty to engage in magical sodomy in the desert.
:lulz: if I could put that in the news feed I would!
Can you even imagine working for FB right now? You're trying to fix shit and a few hundred million people are all trying to log in every second, for hours.
:lulz:
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Facebook is still a no-go for me. I can see things and my profile, and the profiles of others, but I can't post or even like things. This is kind of getting on my nerves because I have some fishing and questions to ask for Holy Nonsense.
Grrrr :argh!:
I don't want to have to be the one to point out to people that we're not missing much here, but... we're not missing much here.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 12, 2019, 07:37:36 PM
Quote from: Cain on March 12, 2019, 06:27:30 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 12, 2019, 05:42:53 PM
Quote from: Cain on March 12, 2019, 12:32:04 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 12, 2019, 12:14:56 AM
I thought I had the worst job in the world, only it's the second-worst job in the world. I know this because I was just offered a job that makes my current job look morally okay.
But you're not a lawyer?
"Industrial intelligence analyst."
Close enough. Doing a discovery is just legal spying.
Most of it's not even that cool, really. It's mostly watching markets and seeing what goes plonk and why.
Speaking of which...guess what our company's long term strategy is intended to be?
I'm not sure if they have realised that providing market intelligence of areas of interest to law firms means having accurate market intelligence on everything that makes money.
The tail is going to end up wagging the dog.
Well, it's good to be the one holding the leash then, I guess?
Quote from: Cain on March 14, 2019, 01:12:31 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 12, 2019, 07:37:36 PM
Quote from: Cain on March 12, 2019, 06:27:30 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 12, 2019, 05:42:53 PM
Quote from: Cain on March 12, 2019, 12:32:04 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 12, 2019, 12:14:56 AM
I thought I had the worst job in the world, only it's the second-worst job in the world. I know this because I was just offered a job that makes my current job look morally okay.
But you're not a lawyer?
"Industrial intelligence analyst."
Close enough. Doing a discovery is just legal spying.
Most of it's not even that cool, really. It's mostly watching markets and seeing what goes plonk and why.
Speaking of which...guess what our company's long term strategy is intended to be?
I'm not sure if they have realised that providing market intelligence of areas of interest to law firms means having accurate market intelligence on everything that makes money.
The tail is going to end up wagging the dog.
:lulz:
We are all collaborating with the armies of the world, Cain. :lulz:
What kind of SICK FUCK plays smooth jazz for their hold music? :crankey:
Quote from: LMNO on March 14, 2019, 02:50:04 PM
Well, it's good to be the one holding the leash then, I guess?
I don't think anyone can. Don't get me wrong, we definitely have the datasets to identify trends (incidentally, I found an old interview with Donald Trump in our archives a couple of months back). But the analysis would require a literal army, even with the investments being made into the latest digital visualisation and integration tools that we are apparently purchasing. It would require hundreds upon hundreds of experts to have a handle on that data.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 14, 2019, 04:42:42 PM
:lulz:
We are all collaborating with the armies of the world, Cain. :lulz:
Hey now, lawyers are quite strict about keeping the blood to a minimum. Other bodily fluids too, come to think of it.
But yes. All I can hope is that my membership in every single Posadist group on Facebook will save me when the revolution comes.
:magick:
I'm currently doing some crazy stuff with a javascript wiki, and I managed to import a 3rd party UI plugin that lets you design forms with text schemas. I've been banging my head against javascript and this particular wiki setup for a year now. This feels really good.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled quantum static.
Old classmate of mine got an MRI and when asked what for had the best possible typo:
Dick Extrusion
Hey guys, back on the forum after making some major shakeups in my life. Decided the entire mental health field could do well without me, decided to start driving Lyft unironically (like seriously, they're starting a union and shit) while i pursue more fun and fulfilling things, namely stand up comedy, voice-acting, and making a podcast with a friend of mine about nerd shit.
Welcome back! I hope your enterprises prove fruitful.
Alright, so, I can listen to headphones at work. This is ideal, because I hate social interaction and it has allowed me to listen to a lot of the audiobooks of The Malazan Books of the Fallen while writing reports.
However...I'm running out of things to listen to. Fortunately, work allows me to also use Youtube and Spotify. So, in short, I need podcast suggestions.
Quote from: Cain on March 18, 2019, 08:16:10 PM
Alright, so, I can listen to headphones at work. This is ideal, because I hate social interaction and it has allowed me to listen to a lot of the audiobooks of The Malazan Books of the Fallen while writing reports.
However...I'm running out of things to listen to. Fortunately, work allows me to also use Youtube and Spotify. So, in short, I need podcast suggestions.
I like Sayer for a fiction podcast. Nonfiction High Weirdness, I think Astonishing Legends and Unexplained are pretty good. Beyond that, I'm not well versed in podcasts, but all of those have massive back catalogs.
ETA: I'd be interested if knowing if Telarus has any suggestions for a good ancient religion/cultures podcast. I have yet to find one that isn't clear Nazi-feed.
Quote from: Cain on March 18, 2019, 08:16:10 PM
Alright, so, I can listen to headphones at work. This is ideal, because I hate social interaction and it has allowed me to listen to a lot of the audiobooks of The Malazan Books of the Fallen while writing reports.
However...I'm running out of things to listen to. Fortunately, work allows me to also use Youtube and Spotify. So, in short, I need podcast suggestions.
You should listen to the "Red Scare" podcast.
Well,
not really should, but their whole discourse is this parroting freightrain of cognitive dissonances which im sure is giving Derrida a boner from the grave and beyond.
It was announced today that all MySpace media content uploaded before 2016 is GONE. Supposedly due to a "server migration error", some notable internet-spags speculate a cost-dumping scheme to no longer pay hosting for 53 million songs from 14.2 million artists.
There are no backups. There is no requesting to download your data. GONE. Electronic static. Entropy spitting in the face of "The internet means forever" and flicking its balls. Apparently this happened LAST YEAR and it has taken this long for pressure from users to force the truth out.
Think about that a second. Did you have a MySpace account at one distant time? Did you just forget the password and abandon it?
YOU DON'T ANYMORE
In 2016 all text content (including all wall posts between users) older than a certain date was also deleted "accidentally". This "reboot" caused every musician on the site to have to manually rebuild their communities from (I suppose) old distribution lists.
The internet archivists interviewed by the Loyal Order of Floating Librarions of Mu are PISSED. I mean, these are the guys that recovered GeoCities! And they can do noting. If you've been watching the Magicians tv series, you hve some idea how dangerous a librarian with nothing to loose is.
End of an era. Give me a drink.
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https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/03/myspace-apparently-lost-12-years-worth-of-music-and-almost-no-one-noticed/
Thanks for the suggestions. So far all I had was Dan Carlin, Last Podcast on the Left and that weird one with Ed Miliband (whom I unironically like as UK politicians go), so anything with a backlog fills it out nicely.
You could listen to PatriotNurse on Youtube.
...or you could just punch yourself in the balls; the effect is basically the same.
For some reason, I chose the former, and then read the comments.
Punching myself in the balls wouldn't have come with comments.
I chose poorly. :sad:
Do they fight infections with belief in free enterprise and the American way?
Quote from: Telarus on March 19, 2019, 01:52:20 AM
It was announced today that all MySpace media content uploaded before 2016 is GONE. Supposedly due to a "server migration error", some notable internet-spags speculate a cost-dumping scheme to no longer pay hosting for 53 million songs from 14.2 million artists.
There are no backups. There is no requesting to download your data. GONE. Electronic static. Entropy spitting in the face of "The internet means forever" and flicking its balls. Apparently this happened LAST YEAR and it has taken this long for pressure from users to force the truth out.
Think about that a second. Did you have a MySpace account at one distant time? Did you just forget the password and abandon it?
YOU DON'T ANYMORE
In 2016 all text content (including all wall posts between users) older than a certain date was also deleted "accidentally". This "reboot" caused every musician on the site to have to manually rebuild their communities from (I suppose) old distribution lists.
The internet archivists interviewed by the Loyal Order of Floating Librarions of Mu are PISSED. I mean, these are the guys that recovered GeoCities! And they can do noting. If you've been watching the Magicians tv series, you hve some idea how dangerous a librarian with nothing to loose is.
End of an era. Give me a drink.
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https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/03/myspace-apparently-lost-12-years-worth-of-music-and-almost-no-one-noticed/
Myspace has been popping up here and there on my feed for the last few weeks. I recently tried to log in using my old info (thinking: wouldn't it be great to just migrate back to a 17 year old feed and pick it up where I left off?) and found that none of it worked, despite some copy on the website saying all your old content is still there.
And I already tried shitposting on linkedin... it's just not the same. I once made a fake profile for a surgeon, added a bunch of fake credentials and friended other doctors, then posted status updates about getting fuckin fratboy style plastered every weekend. But literally nothing happened, so it was kind of a wash.
I also enjoyed Ello for a brief moment, because nobody was there except me and Cainad and Roko's Basilisk, saying "No,
I will be the last one to post on Ello" (Cainad won when my phone wouldn't update the app and I couldn't log in anymore)
What's left? Friendster? no. Goddamn it.
Quote from: Cain on March 19, 2019, 07:36:57 AM
Thanks for the suggestions. So far all I had was Dan Carlin, Last Podcast on the Left and that weird one with Ed Miliband (whom I unironically like as UK politicians go), so anything with a backlog fills it out nicely.
You might consider Tanis as well then.
It's fiction, it's badly written (there's a formula to every episode and a formula to every season), and my suspension of disbelief levitated out the window for season 4, where Grigori Rasputin who never truly died appeared from nowhere to perform a magic ritual with the main character and then maybe tried to bring about the end of the world out of capitalist greed.
I was very hesitant to just shove that at you, for (I hope) obvious reasons, but if you just need backlog...
Also good for sheer volume: all the non fiction high weirdness shit Aaron Mahnke is connected to (Lore, Cabinet of Curiosities, MAYBE Unobscured: it is much smaller in quantity but has longer runtime and much higher quality writing), the ol classic Welcome to Night Vale, and the fiction podcast Archive 81, which doesn't really find its feet until Season 3, and now I really want season 4.
Quote from: Cain on March 18, 2019, 08:16:10 PM
So, in short, I need podcast suggestions.
Might not be your cup of tea, but this has been suggested to me many times. (http://www.rupaulpodcast.com/episodes)
Quote from: Cain on March 19, 2019, 10:15:29 AM
Do they fight infections with belief in free enterprise and the American way?
I think they use pet store antibiotics for that.
It's mostly about killin' libruls.
Quote from: Cain on March 18, 2019, 08:16:10 PM
Alright, so, I can listen to headphones at work. This is ideal, because I hate social interaction and it has allowed me to listen to a lot of the audiobooks of The Malazan Books of the Fallen while writing reports.
However...I'm running out of things to listen to. Fortunately, work allows me to also use Youtube and Spotify. So, in short, I need podcast suggestions.
Welcome to Nightvale is a great fiction podcast. Weird little desert town community radio show with a dry sense of humor similar to monty python.
Quote from: Cramulus on March 19, 2019, 11:51:43 AM
Quote from: Telarus on March 19, 2019, 01:52:20 AM
It was announced today that all MySpace media content uploaded before 2016 is GONE. Supposedly due to a "server migration error", some notable internet-spags speculate a cost-dumping scheme to no longer pay hosting for 53 million songs from 14.2 million artists.
There are no backups. There is no requesting to download your data. GONE. Electronic static. Entropy spitting in the face of "The internet means forever" and flicking its balls. Apparently this happened LAST YEAR and it has taken this long for pressure from users to force the truth out.
Think about that a second. Did you have a MySpace account at one distant time? Did you just forget the password and abandon it?
YOU DON'T ANYMORE
In 2016 all text content (including all wall posts between users) older than a certain date was also deleted "accidentally". This "reboot" caused every musician on the site to have to manually rebuild their communities from (I suppose) old distribution lists.
The internet archivists interviewed by the Loyal Order of Floating Librarions of Mu are PISSED. I mean, these are the guys that recovered GeoCities! And they can do noting. If you've been watching the Magicians tv series, you hve some idea how dangerous a librarian with nothing to loose is.
End of an era. Give me a drink.
-----
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/03/myspace-apparently-lost-12-years-worth-of-music-and-almost-no-one-noticed/
Myspace has been popping up here and there on my feed for the last few weeks. I recently tried to log in using my old info (thinking: wouldn't it be great to just migrate back to a 17 year old feed and pick it up where I left off?) and found that none of it worked, despite some copy on the website saying all your old content is still there.
And I already tried shitposting on linkedin... it's just not the same. I once made a fake profile for a surgeon, added a bunch of fake credentials and friended other doctors, then posted status updates about getting fuckin fratboy style plastered every weekend. But literally nothing happened, so it was kind of a wash.
I also enjoyed Ello for a brief moment, because nobody was there except me and Cainad and Roko's Basilisk, saying "No, I will be the last one to post on Ello" (Cainad won when my phone wouldn't update the app and I couldn't log in anymore)
What's left? Friendster? no. Goddamn it.
Diaspora is a neat one, not terribly populated, bbut it is open source, so no ads or monetization.
So I tried to buy car insurance today and found out my driver's license is suspended. I had an accident in November of 2017 and was apparently supposed to go through some sort of right-of-way class or something. I never got any notice that this was necessary. Unless I can find another way to get my license reinstated I'm suspended until 2023 :fnord:
I'll still drive if I have to for work purposes, but every time I drive I risk getting pulled over and hit with a hefty fine. I'm hoping there's a way to resolve this quickly.
dude! That sucks!! I don't suppose there's some bus route to work, is there?
There should be some option to apply for an Occupational Limited License. I have to deal with that all the time.
Quote from: Cramulus on March 21, 2019, 08:44:06 PM
dude! That sucks!! I don't suppose there's some bus route to work, is there?
Lately I've been doing day labor jobs on a very temporary basis while I wait for one of the staffing agencies to show me something worth working temp to hire.
I often have to travel a fair distance out of town for the day labor jobs. I live in the downtown area so I'm going to expand my work search to include the local area. I'm doing okay financially for now so I have some breathing room, but the squeeze is on now.
I'm not necessarily afraid to drive for work purposes, I just have to be ready for the possibility of a hefty fine if I get caught. Recreational travel outside the city is now a no-go though. This sucks because my girlfriend lives about 45 minutes outside town, out in the Sticks.
Quote from: Hoopla! on March 21, 2019, 08:47:41 PM
There should be some option to apply for an Occupational Limited License. I have to deal with that all the time.
I'll find out what my options are When I visit the DMV tomorrow or maybe Saturday morning. I'm hoping all I have to do is take the class, pay the fees, and get reinstated. I got a pretty good share of tax return money back so I'm not too worried about the fine, but I have to get this resolved as soon as possible.
What's this, people are posting? YES.
But what's this, it's jobs and insurance and the DMV? :?
Cram's fake doctor is cool, though. :lulz:
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on March 22, 2019, 12:39:06 AM
What's this, people are posting? YES.
But what's this, it's jobs and insurance and the DMV? :?
Cram's fake doctor is cool, though. :lulz:
Well, it IS the bar thread. We've discussed hootchie cancer here.
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on March 22, 2019, 12:39:06 AM
What's this, people are posting? YES.
But what's this, it's jobs and insurance and the DMV? :?
Cram's fake doctor is cool, though. :lulz:
By god, I saw your avatar and had flashbacks to the drug threads. It was like seeing the moment of my death from outside of my body.
How long have you been lurking anyway???
Fuck, it's 2010-2014 spag reunion this past couple fucking weeks.
Don't mind tripping over TGRR's mummified corpse. There may have been some bad physics.
Are I the harbinger of the Spagocalypse or who came back earlier?
I really wonder what triggered it.
Quote from: The Johnny on March 22, 2019, 02:10:05 AM
Are I the harbinger of the Spagocalypse or who came back earlier?
I really wonder what triggered it.
Eris is waking back up :fnord:
Quote from: The Johnny on March 22, 2019, 02:10:05 AM
Are I the harbinger of the Spagocalypse or who came back earlier?
I really wonder what triggered it.
I recall someone rejoining the forum shortly before you. I don't remember who it was though.
We should start a betting pool on who returns next, and whether we get another returnee before another dumbass says something racist and gets themselves banned while fighting with an admin and stanning for Nazis.
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on March 22, 2019, 03:01:50 AM
Quote from: The Johnny on March 22, 2019, 02:10:05 AM
Are I the harbinger of the Spagocalypse or who came back earlier?
I really wonder what triggered it.
Eris is waking back up :fnord:
Did you say The Words?!
I know I sure as fuck didn't do it, so it has to be one of you other guys. Either way, if she's awake the only thing to do now is to roll underneath a sturdy wooden bed that has been bolted to the floor and hope we survive the aftermath.
Quote from: nullified on March 22, 2019, 03:15:13 AM
Quote from: The Johnny on March 22, 2019, 02:10:05 AM
Are I the harbinger of the Spagocalypse or who came back earlier?
I really wonder what triggered it.
I recall someone rejoining the forum shortly before you. I don't remember who it was though.
We should start a betting pool on who returns next, and whether we get another returnee before another dumbass says something racist and gets themselves banned while fighting with an admin and stanning for Nazis.
Ah i wished some of the australian cheeky mates were around, but i sure dont miss BH nor yatto **shudders**
Someone actually got banned? Thats extraordinary
Quote from: nullified on March 22, 2019, 03:18:51 AM
Did you say The Words?!
I know I sure as fuck didn't do it, so it has to be one of you other guys. Either way, if she's awake the only thing to do now is to roll underneath a sturdy wooden bed that has been bolted to the floor and hope we survive the aftermath.
I've been saying "Surprise me, Eris" for about a week, but I haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary happening. I haven't even noticed myself
trying to notice things out of the ordinary.
Do you have to be a
real Discordian for it to work?
Quote from: nullified on March 22, 2019, 03:18:51 AM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on March 22, 2019, 03:01:50 AM
Quote from: The Johnny on March 22, 2019, 02:10:05 AM
Are I the harbinger of the Spagocalypse or who came back earlier?
I really wonder what triggered it.
Eris is waking back up :fnord:
Did you say The Words?!
I know I sure as fuck didn't do it, so it has to be one of you other guys. Either way, if she's awake the only thing to do now is to roll underneath a sturdy wooden bed that has been bolted to the floor and hope we survive the aftermath.
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on March 22, 2019, 04:47:28 AM
Quote from: nullified on March 22, 2019, 03:18:51 AM
Did you say The Words?!
I know I sure as fuck didn't do it, so it has to be one of you other guys. Either way, if she's awake the only thing to do now is to roll underneath a sturdy wooden bed that has been bolted to the floor and hope we survive the aftermath.
I've been saying "Surprise me, Eris" for about a week, but I haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary happening. I haven't even noticed myself trying to notice things out of the ordinary.
Do you have to be a real Discordian for it to work?
Please stop, today i did my laundry, sweeped and mopped the floor, and when you accidentaly from all the invoking its gonna get all over the place. :horrormirth:
They don't know until they do.
Holyshit spags. I'm 38 years old today.
Thank you, Eris, for giving me the Strife I could handle for the past 38 years (and none of that apocalypse-now level shit).
DRINKS FOR EVERYONE SCRID
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Hurrah!
Happy birthday Telarus!!
I'll have a martini, Scrid.
Happy birthday Telarus. You're still relatively Young, and one day I hope that you become an excellent cranky old coot of a wizard!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PACNW ZYGOTE. :crankey:
I am not on here much. But, I was just in a meeting where someone said FAPT. And I had to stifle myself. Faculty Affairs and Promotion to Tenure is apparently not a laughing matter. :fap:
Happy spagday, Telarus. Congratulations on not dying for however many years it is in a row.
Congrats on another jog around the sun!
So I applied for some part-time thing at another dodgy private intelligence outfit. Differences from previous ones: 1) this one has actualy clients, and so b) this one pays. A very little bit.
Anyway I haven't actually gotten a position yet but they're making me jump through some pretty significant hoops for the chance. I'm currently at the third stage and it's like "argh, you've seen my CV and background, three sample pieces of writing, an improptu analysis from a slow news week and now you want two more articles? Make a decision already".
Today I learned racial slurs used with their original intent are not considered hate speech on Facebook.
So, if I use the N-word as a way to denigrate, dehumanize, and Other descendants of slaves, that's OK to Facebook?
Some little shit ass indie rpg designer deleted his whole fucking account including his storefront because I reported him for harassing me.
Quote from: Don Coyote on March 25, 2019, 03:04:28 PM
Some little shit ass indie rpg designer deleted his whole fucking account including his storefront because I reported him for harassing me.
Details, please.
Quote from: Hoopla! on March 25, 2019, 03:05:21 PM
Quote from: Don Coyote on March 25, 2019, 03:04:28 PM
Some little shit ass indie rpg designer deleted his whole fucking account including his storefront because I reported him for harassing me.
Details, please.
Alright
So, someone started up some noise about making itch.io the place for folks to set-up and selling rpg shit because drive-thru rpg takes a stupid big cut. We get a forum specif to table-top games.
There is a discussion on how games in general need more tools for narrative guidance. Sure, some do. Then op goes into why DnD NEEDS them. Shit like 'explaining what a dragon can mean metaphorically' and 'how to use violence to tell a narrative explicitly.' So I start asking questions. And I get misunderstood. And insulted. And misunderstood. Repeatedly. So I finally say, 'look I know what a fucking metaphor is. I have a fucking degree related to this.'
So THIS ASSHOLE doesn't even get into this thread, even through two of friends, were two different degrees of hostile to mean, who I both reported and nothing happened to them. This asshole white cis man makes a thread in the same subforum passive-aggressively saying white (cis) men need to shut-up and not "explain and keep explaining and cite our qualifications and rephrase ourselves,' because I guess me being in ONE thread was dominating the forum.
So sure, he sort of had a point. I had no idea what I was doing a pattern of behavior that has a chilling effect on marginalized creators. But he ended with a "ps if you think I am indirectly talking about you, I might be." At first I was, sure, maybe he has a point, kind of a rude shit with his childish ps.
Then I notice that him, and two of folks who were aggressive, and two of the mods, and another person who was 'reasonable' are all part of a small gaming cohort. And I start thinking, 'wait. I recognize this. This is a trolling tactic.'
So I called him out for calling me out, telling him to shut up because why the fuck should I listen to a white cis man telling me wut. And reported him for indirectly harassing me.
Another mod stepped in and gently reminded us to adhere to the code of conduct, which at a the time was in an inaccessible sub-forum.
Another mod locked and archived the thread after I reported the OP citing the breaking of the site code of conduct.
Then I find out this piece of shit was vague tweeting me on twitter crying about how I won an argument because I kept talking in the powers that be step in to support me.
Like no?
BTW
The forum, while still new, is kind of dead except for a bunch of theory wank. All of the game specific dev forums have minimal activity, and ostensibly this was supposed to be a place for trad and indie/story gamers to start talking to each other again. But all I see is mostly indie gamers wanking about theory.
Welcome to Howl's World.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 25, 2019, 04:42:59 PM
Welcome to Howl's World.
For real. I restrained myself full on shitting him because i am an adult and I actually do shut up and listen, when folks are talking other games I am not interested or about the intersection if racism and the like.
But the instant some punkasses start trying to say what dnd OUGHT to do, I just have to say 'why.' DND is always at worst the 3rd best game at doing any one thing. Like if the thrust of someone's arguement is 'shut up white boy get fucked.
Quote from: Don Coyote on March 25, 2019, 04:53:20 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 25, 2019, 04:42:59 PM
Welcome to Howl's World.
For real. I restrained myself full on shitting him because i am an adult and I actually do shut up and listen, when folks are talking other games I am not interested or about the intersection if racism and the like.
But the instant some punkasses start trying to say what dnd OUGHT to do, I just have to say 'why.' DND is always at worst the 3rd best game at doing any one thing. Like if the thrust of someone's arguement is 'shut up white boy get fucked.
When they follow you home with stupid grins and their pants full of shit, you are a Doktor.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 25, 2019, 05:01:13 PM
Quote from: Don Coyote on March 25, 2019, 04:53:20 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 25, 2019, 04:42:59 PM
Welcome to Howl's World.
For real. I restrained myself full on shitting him because i am an adult and I actually do shut up and listen, when folks are talking other games I am not interested or about the intersection if racism and the like.
But the instant some punkasses start trying to say what dnd OUGHT to do, I just have to say 'why.' DND is always at worst the 3rd best game at doing any one thing. Like if the thrust of someone's arguement is 'shut up white boy get fucked.
When they follow you home with stupid grins and their pants full of shit, you are a Doktor.
The best part is only the white cis man got moderated and then flounced. But it's the Man coming on him that is such a travesty.
This kind of BS is why I dropped out of tabletop communities. I had a tabletop system I was working on focused on politics, social combat and heist sort of gameplay, and the communities soured me on ever fleshing it out beyond running, max, one campaign with some friends some day.
Well it did basically sour me on participating in this grand new forum. Like I have a game-conceot I'd really like non-dnd grogs to look at, but like fuck most indie gamers.
Quote from: Don Coyote on March 25, 2019, 09:35:36 PM
Well it did basically sour me on participating in this grand new forum. Like I have a game-conceot I'd really like non-dnd grogs to look at, but like fuck most indie gamers.
It's all so /cliquey/. Everywhere I go. I hate it. And so I left it; they don't need me and I don't want them.
If you need some feedback, I make no promises on speed, but I am obsessive about mechanical design and wouldn't mind doing some consultancy.
I'll even give you a 50% off deal from my usual price of 0USD/hr and waive my flat fee entirely (normally ten cents).
Today:
I was reaching to unplug a cable, and zapped the little finger of my left hand at 60V. Tingly and unpleasant, not to mention startling. It's not as if I brushed my finger against that capacitor's case on purpose, but I didn't expect it to be halfway to line voltage, either. Good thing I did that one-handed. I will now give the power supply a wide berth, and unplug the cable at the other end. I sometimes suspect that I'm a whole lot stupider/clumsier than I give myself credit for.
A mix-up with a certain mutual fund company resulted in some awkwardness at the local bank branch. Probably weirder for the teller than for me. (Side note: never buy mutual funds from a neighbour, even if you've known them for years and they're employed with a major financial institution. His interests are not your interests, and you'll be lucky to beat inflation.)
While walking back from the bank, I saw some broccoli florets scattered under a pine tree. I'm sure there was some sort of interesting story there.
went to the first LA rideshare Drivers strike. The strike went well i think, but FUCK do i need to stay off the rideshare FB groups. Motherfucking bootlicker douchebags openly BRAGGING about having scabbed today. "Yea i love it when you guys strike. I got so many rides today. Keep it up!" I'm actively wondering what the odds are on more of them being deliberate plants or fucking morons.
Quote from: nullified on March 25, 2019, 09:26:51 PM
This kind of BS is why I dropped out of tabletop communities. I had a tabletop system I was working on focused on politics, social combat and heist sort of gameplay, and the communities soured me on ever fleshing it out beyond running, max, one campaign with some friends some day.
Heist you say?
(https://i.imgur.com/rAZXBWb.jpg)
It plays even better than it reads.
That is horribly sized and I'm not even going to try and fix that.
And then Chuck Berry died. :(
A podcast I've been listening to
https://www.earwolf.com/show/beautiful-anonymous/
just people being decent with each other, which isn't a bad thing at all
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 27, 2019, 11:30:38 PM
And then Chuck Berry died. :(
This thing that you do....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMddte6yD2w (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMddte6yD2w)
tbh i thought Chuck Berry had died during the last Cool Person Purge of 2015
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on March 30, 2019, 05:26:19 PM
tbh i thought Chuck Berry had died during the last Cool Person Purge of 2015
Mandela Effect! Jk
I got my license reinstated. Had to take a boring online course and pay some money, but I got it done. I'd been driving illegal for like 5 months!
oh what a relief--that's great news
for this occasion, I'm just gonna close my eyes and pick an emote or two at random
:cramulus: :baby:
:lulz: :lulz:
The startled baby one gets me everytime.
Happy Trans Day of Visibility, spags. Also happy 29-Part-IV-th birthday to my high school math teacher. Now that I think about it, his startled reaction face (dubbed by him to be the Face of Cornfusion™) could make a good emote. :lol:
But anyway, it being the abovementioned visibility day, some fabulous weirdos went and covered a map on pixelplace.io (you remember r/place? Yeah, that's a thing again now) in rainbows and other assorted pride flags, and I jumped in with a golden apple on one of em; Eris is slapped right on southern South America. Enjoy, and apologies in advance for the terrible picture quality, but at least the apple becomes more apple-shaped.
https://m.imgur.com/a/WYChWEn
I fail to understand the visibility thing. Why can't we all be ninja?.. anyway, yes, happy trans day of visibility, some of you fuckers are hot.
Quote from: Fujikoma on April 01, 2019, 03:02:57 AMWhy can't we all be ninja?
Because only real Gs move in silence, like lasagna.
I swear we all went over this in 2016...
Trans Day of Visibility is April Fool's Day? Or was this posted yesterday?
I'm pretty sure it was yesterday (the 31st)
Quote from: Cain on April 01, 2019, 10:51:05 AM
Quote from: Fujikoma on April 01, 2019, 03:02:57 AMWhy can't we all be ninja?
Because only real Gs move in silence, like lasagna.
I swear we all went over this in 2016...
I wasn't here in 2016, apologies, I was still going over WHY I got my ass roasted here, and I'm slow so it took a bit.
EDIT: Granted, that little punk ass that used to be me deserved it.
I meant the entire planet kinda discussed it.
But it was 2011, apparently.
I was stuck in the middle of nowhere tending to various animals and plants... I missed a lot.
EDIT:When your primary source of information consists almost exclusively of "The Blue Cliff Record" and giggling your ass off at Alex Jones while your boss tries to tell you to take it seriously, everything sort of loses focus.
Well, today was interesting: first day of the new quarter. One class is identical in its beginnings to when I tried and failed to take it last quarter, yet somehow seems more interesting this time. Maybe because the teach isn't that "likely plucked from a high school and so understands teaching as demeaning teenagers" type. Another class (world relations politics of all things) has a pretty funny guy for a prof; he opened class with something I'll paraphrase below for brevity's sake. Third class ended a half hour early, and I'm kinda torn about it, cause it's the "I'm enrolled in this because I need the units but I don't necessarily plan on taking it" kinda class for me right now, but other than the annoyingness of watching movies as homework (boy don't I sound fun at parties? :kingmeh:), it seems really chill and interesting. We'll see what pans out. Also, left the Cult of The Upright Citizens Cabal (if those spags see this; hey Doc Rev, good luck with your shit), so yeah. EDIT: Also learned today that the graffiti that is my icon is still in its normal spot, untouched, much to my surprise. The TV lives!
Now for that story from the Poli Sci prof:
He started with this: You know, we live in a very bureaucratic world, especially here on campus. But what's bureaucracy?
So, I live pretty close to campus. For a while, I just walked to work. But eventually I thought "Hey, you know that whole parking pass system thing the school has? Maybe I should use that."
And it's funny that I thought that, really, cause the thing about that system is, you get access to parking in exchange for basically agreeing not to take a carpool to work. Weird, right? But whatever.
So I go to the parking office, wait in line forever--you know how it is--and I get up to the front desk, tell them I want to get myself a pass to access certain parking spots, and the lady goes:
"Well...where's your bike?"
"My...my what?"
"Your bike."
"I...don't use one. I walk to work."
She went on from there about how "that's just not going to cut it." So fine; I'll get a bike. Went into my garage--I have 3 kids--and I looked at the bikes, just sitting there lined up. Now, I didn't wanna inconvenience them, and I didn't want to inconvenience myself too much by going through with all this, so I grab the smallest one.
Next day, I go to this place on campus where they do bike repairs and rentals and such, and they can register your bikes with the state. So I go up to them, they ask what bike I want to register, and I plonk down this tiny little tricycle. Naturally, they look at me with confusion, but they nod, and accept it, and in due time it's done.
So I go back to the parking office, get to the front of the line, put my kid's now-registered bike on the desk and say, "Here's my bike." The lady just blinks, looks totally unfazed, and we start the paperwork to get me that parking pass.
He just smiled, walked back to his laptop to continue the lecture slides, and said, "That's bureaucracy."
Ok I didn't read most of your post because I promptly became convinced you were a crytaline being, and not like, germy mutant apes like the rest of us.
EDIT: I do like you, just, teasing?
Quote from: Fujikoma on April 02, 2019, 06:01:41 AM
I promptly became convinced you were a crytaline being, and not like, germy mutant apes like the rest of us.
I'll gladly take either of those as compliments. :lulz:
That is not a very good thing, but ok, send pics.
Quote from: Fujikoma on April 02, 2019, 06:39:56 AM
That is not a very good thing, but ok, send pics.
Of what? Myself? The graffiti? If you want the latter, you're looking at it right now. If you want the former, then...no. :kingmeh:
So I've applied for work at a local Foundry. It'll be very hot and dirty, but the pay is excellent with a lot of potential for overtime. I have an interview next Tuesday. Here's to hoping because the benefits package is excellent and I very much need good insurance. I'll probably be grinding burrs off metal Parts at first, but I wouldn't mind one day moving up to working with molten metal. If I can stick it out there for another 30 years I'd be able to retire sitting very nice indeed. I'm really hopeful that I'll get the job. Working as a temp and day labor is lame.
Good luck!
And if you get the job, throw me some of whatever luck you have left over, I could use an income instead of begging friends to keep me alive.
Quote from: nullified on April 02, 2019, 10:45:02 PM
Good luck!
And if you get the job, throw me some of whatever luck you have left over, I could use an income instead of begging friends to keep me alive.
Thanks!
If I knew of a way to transfer you some good fortune I would. I know how it feels to be leaning on friends just to get by. Unless they're Saints or suckers eventually they'll stop and things can get bitter.
Have you considered signing up with a staffing agency or something?
I appreciate the thought, but staffing and similar options are not good ones for me due to a whole shitload of medical and mental issues. There is no point going into extreme detail, suffice to say I need a stable job that fits a whole bunch of unusual parameters or a stable enough living situation to leech off of that I can get SSI again, which is not a short term stay.
Quote from: nullified on April 03, 2019, 12:45:52 AM
I appreciate the thought, but staffing and similar options are not good ones for me due to a whole shitload of medical and mental issues. There is no point going into extreme detail, suffice to say I need a stable job that fits a whole bunch of unusual parameters or a stable enough living situation to leech off of that I can get SSI again, which is not a short term stay.
Fair enough. My sincere best wishes. I hope you find somthing that works!
Working on that SSI now. I have my fingers crossed.
Agh, my fucking brain wants to explode, but it does that from time to time.
The bullshit RPG forum is still mostly theory wanking, indie/storygame discussions, and one person telling folks why they don't like the OSR or DnD. :lulz:
I mean I'm not a huge D&D fan but ... like, you could be playing Rifts or some shit. And it's hard to convince any random group to play anything but D&D or Pathfinder, d20 isn't an innately terrible system, and simplicity has its value?
And although some OSR systems definitely go too far, mistaking genuine stupidity for a good thing lost over time, the ones I've seen tend to be on the good side of that line. They aren't for me, but I'm sure they'll end up inspiring things that are indeed for me.
Yeah, but the bulk of any critque of any DnD I see from THOSE PEOPLE is, DnD is imperialistic/colonialist/racist/white male power fantasy, only about combat, needs to have MOAR storytelling tools (or tools it already has but like reading it hard), or isn't a RPG because PCs can die (easily in OSR) so there is no real character development or growth.
And I'm all...ok some of those are valid points, but...like shut up unless you got some shit better than "I took A creative writing, women/gender/race studies course in college" level takes.
AND dnd etal are a pretty good lingua franca. A lot of THOSE PEOPLE just seem really bitter than no one wants to play their hipster game at their local shop.
Also RIFTS is literally heavily and baroquely house-ruled AD&D.
"die easily"
GURPs says hi.
That's all true, but Rifts is also bar none the most irritating system I ever smashed my head into in the wild. I'd rather play Shadowrun 4e, no house rules, with someone who only knows how to run old White Wolf games, than spend ten minutes in Rifts ever again.
Sounds like you need to play more FATAL
You can't just say that sort of shit, dude, it makes everyone unhappy. I had /forgotten/. Forgotten, do you understand? You ruined it! You've ruined everything! Now I need to go back to therapy and be chased by wildebeests again.
Quote from: nullified on April 04, 2019, 09:30:37 PM
You can't just say that sort of shit, dude, it makes everyone unhappy. I had /forgotten/. Forgotten, do you understand? You ruined it! You've ruined everything! Now I need to go back to therapy and be chased by wildebeests again.
But have you tried
GURPS: FATAL :horrormirth:
That can't be a real thing. I'm not even going to look, i just will pretend you're making it the fuck up to /poison/ my soul
Quote from: Cain on April 04, 2019, 09:25:48 PM
"die easily"
GURPs says hi.
Or Rolemaster. Although tbh it's not that hard because you have crossreference like 20 charts before you find out if you died or not.
My daughter and her crew at vocational-school tried playing a session of Human Occupied Landfill (https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/HoL:_Human_Occupied_Landfill) last month. Yeah, that game never lasts more than 1 session. They went back to their weird oD&D+3.5+4+Pathfinder2.0 thing they play between other games...
If you want a game that takes this kind of this 'seriously/humorously' (instead of juvinile-humorously), I recommend Tales from the Floating Vagabond.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/TalesFromTheFloatingVagabond
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/2010/Tales-From-The-Floating-Vagabond
Also, I seemed to have designed something that can create character sheets for any system as part of another javascript-wiki I use. It helps if you know HTML a bit, and 'common wiki-syntax', to get started, so I'm trying to design a more user-friendly package. But it does need testing if anyone is curious.
How interested are you in mobile testing? I have a computer too, but I barely have time for it lately.
OMFG someone dropped the F bomb... shit.
Quote from: Don Coyote on April 04, 2019, 08:54:31 PM
The bullshit RPG forum is still mostly theory wanking, indie/storygame discussions, and one person telling folks why they don't like the OSR or DnD. :lulz:
Could you post a link? I could use some RPG discussion.
Quote from: Cain on April 04, 2019, 09:25:48 PM
"die easily"
GURPs says hi.
I GM GURPS and have yet to have a PC die that didn't intend to.
Quote from: Telarus on April 04, 2019, 10:02:57 PM
My daughter and her crew at vocational-school tried playing a session of Human Occupied Landfill (https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/HoL:_Human_Occupied_Landfill) last month. Yeah, that game never lasts more than 1 session. They went back to their weird oD&D+3.5+4+Pathfinder2.0 thing they play between other games...
If you want a game that takes this kind of this 'seriously/humorously' (instead of juvinile-humorously), I recommend Tales from the Floating Vagabond.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/TalesFromTheFloatingVagabond
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/2010/Tales-From-The-Floating-Vagabond
Also, I seemed to have designed something that can create character sheets for any system as part of another javascript-wiki I use. It helps if you know HTML a bit, and 'common wiki-syntax', to get started, so I'm trying to design a more user-friendly package. But it does need testing if anyone is curious.
I'd like to be involved, I know HTML
I didn't "get" roleplay when I first posted to these forums, which is a strange thing for a Discordian. I hadn't actually done any roleplay, I played some shitty DnD campaigns, the most traumatic of which wasn't a shitty campaign, it was run by my stepfather, a no-nonsense motherfucker who preferred to play "lawful evil"... yes, he was a right bastard. We should've kept playing but after the first TPK that we deserved, we walked away. Stupid.
Years later I find these MUDs classified as "RPIs", I didn't want to investigate but one of my board members on a PVP mud has a serious emotional breakdown over a dead character. I decided anything that caused anyone so much anguish, was worth investigating... so I did, the results are, I don't fucking know but actually RPing a character is fun as hell, despite the inevitable, fiery death.
Ah HOL, I seem to remember cornholed by god was a stat or some sort of character trait.
I have the book with the CHART CHART somewhere.
I liked running Paranoia, but moments of it reminds me too much of work now.
I never actually got to play HOL, but the book was raw punk rock.. I love how it's clearly written by people that have had ENOUGH of D&D and "Gary" style games. And the fact that the whole thing looks like it's scribbled in someone's notebook gives it this rugged DIY energy.. makes me want to design my own game.
I have had a hankering recently for something that gives a different experience than the "power fantasy", or something that's less mechanically driven and more of a storytelling game. I have only run one session of Dungeon World, but I'm loving it because it's soooo collaborative. But I'm also the king of prep, and Dungeon World basically asks you not to prepare for sessions as a DM, aside from picking out a few images and monster ideas you want to incorporate.
I used to play white wolf a little bit, but I really felt like the gameplay described in the rulebook was always pretty far from how the game actually plays out (except for werewolf). Like, Vampire is a game ostensibly about people struggling and failing to retain their humanity, tragic personal spirals... except the games I played were always more like political thrillers, and the humanity was kind of just this mechanic. I feel like that probably expresses itself better over a long arc, but our games always just descended into petty PvP until we break up the chronicle because everybody's mad at each other.
Mage was real cool, but the game is, like, designed to spiral into a series of philosophical discussions. Which is fun if that's what you're into. But again, we never managed to resolve any cool plotlines because we'd get hung up on topics like "Can divination solve the Halting Problem?"
Sometime we should chat about my system I've been working on, Cram. I have just started to get to the crunchy bits, but the high level stuff I've been working on is very very much a different experience than power fantasy (and it's more than theory, the structure is built to encourage it). Even when you parse power fantasy generally enough to catch spy shit in the mix. I think you'd have good input on some of the concepts, too.
Quote from: Cramulus on April 05, 2019, 02:02:56 PM
I never actually got to play HOL, but the book was raw punk rock.. I love how it's clearly written by people that have had ENOUGH of D&D and "Gary" style games. And the fact that the whole thing looks like it's scribbled in someone's notebook gives it this rugged DIY energy.. makes me want to design my own game.
I have had a hankering recently for something that gives a different experience than the "power fantasy", or something that's less mechanically driven and more of a storytelling game. I have only run one session of Dungeon World, but I'm loving it because it's soooo collaborative. But I'm also the king of prep, and Dungeon World basically asks you not to prepare for sessions as a DM, aside from picking out a few images and monster ideas you want to incorporate.
I used to play white wolf a little bit, but I really felt like the gameplay described in the rulebook was always pretty far from how the game actually plays out (except for werewolf). Like, Vampire is a game ostensibly about people struggling and failing to retain their humanity, tragic personal spirals... except the games I played were always more like political thrillers, and the humanity was kind of just this mechanic. I feel like that probably expresses itself better over a long arc, but our games always just descended into petty PvP until we break up the chronicle because everybody's mad at each other.
Mage was real cool, but the game is, like, designed to spiral into a series of philosophical discussions. Which is fun if that's what you're into. But again, we never managed to resolve any cool plotlines because we'd get hung up on topics like "Can divination solve the Halting Problem?"
I think those are universal experiences with WW games. VTM is always either political thriller or champions w/ fangs, and MTA either champions w/ MAJIK or PHIL.
Wraith was pretty close to how it was described but I'm probably the only human being alive who actually enjoyed Wraith.
Also, Demon. Though Demon tended to get fucking stupid in the late stages of any campaign.
I guess Hunter was pretty close to how it was presented too, but really, who played Hunter? Anyone? Didn't fucking think so. And all the fun shit was Lost Creed shit anyway.
I played one session of Hunter and it remains one of my fav RPG sessions ever. But probably because our troupe was really good, responded well to each other, really fleshed out those characters in interesting ways.
My buddy used to run Hunter as basically D&D that takes place in the world of darkness. I think--if that's what you want... werewolf does it much better.... I mean, werewolf actually kinda has XP, levels, monsterous antagonists, and magic items, if that's what you're looking for.
I can't imagine enjoying Vampire as a tabletop. LARP was workable, because you have enough players to break off into cliques and get real tight with your buddies while scheming against the other PCs, while doing your best to avoid the PLOT trying to kill you before you finish XYZ.
I've been to like half a dozen vampire larp events and every single time, I'm like "why do people enjoy this"
I mean, aside from the corsets and shiny boots
plotting plotting plotting plotting plotting plotting plotting plotting ACTION Reaction plotting plotting plotting plotting plotting plotting
every vampire game I've attended seemed like Team Nerdball (http://www.foolreversed.com/nerdball-the-game-no-one-wants-to-play/).
my personal low point was attending this event which was billed as being a really exciting conclusion to a long arc
in-play, our characters were standing on the roof of a building, doing some kind of initiation ritual which involved riding a motorcycle up a ramp and jumping through a burning hoop
suddenly, antagonists on motorcycles jumped onto the roof of our building from another nearby building, and started shooting us with automatic weapons
also, a helicopter appeared overhead and a sniper began shooting at us from the sky
A) it SOUNDS cool, but this all took place while we were seated in chairs in a hotel ballroom. Like, how is this a larp? The action is entirely narrated. It's a tabletop, but in costume.
B) Vampire combat with more than 3 people is the most boring shit in the world... after taking only 2 actions over the course of 20 minutes, I just quietly excused myself from the event and never returned.
every single fuckin time I go vampire larping, I approach it with an open mind, like, "I hope this is fun because if it is, I will definitely come back" -- and then I have to interact with some asshole who says something like "My character wants to kill your character. But you can't take that info in-game because I'm telling you that out of character. In fact, if I don't succeed, I'm gonna accuse you of metagaming." that literally happened.
I shouldn't hate on it, I know...
Vampire is extremely fun if you play it like you're Jason Bourne and his suspiciously Jason Bourne-esque pals.
Edit: autocorrect
Edit2: Also I'm talking tabletop, not LARP. SCA is the closest I've been to LARP.
Let's be fair, corsets and shiny boots can often count for a lot.
I ran a tabletop Vampire game once at our old game shop, on a dare.
I was asked to join by a friend, because she wanted to play but a dude was creeping on her and she wanted me to sit between her and dude.
So I did. It was basically NPC theater. Bad dude is so badass that you can't touch him. DM asks me what I'm gonna do, I say "I'm gonna sit here and wait for your old character to show up and save us again."
DM gets all pissed off and says "I suppose you can do this better?"
So I take the dare for the following Sunday. I make a bunch of mooks using Hunter to build basic humans with no abilities (there were no regular people in the game system, for whatever reason). Choose a moderate bad guy. Game starts on Sunday. 5 players having a great time kicking the shit out of mooks, regular DM sulks a bunch. Then they beat the shit out of the big bad and throw him down a manhole.
A good time was had by all (except dude). I never played the game again.
I like the old WoD games mostly for setting (exceptions for Wraith and Orpheus which had actually interesting mechanical traits as well), so I don't really blame you.
The only mechanic the Storyteller system as a whole has that I genuinely like is the /freedom/ of roll choices a nice DM can give players. The "Talents" or "Skills" or whatever are such loose categories that there's value in allowing a player to wrack their brain for a combo that lets them bullshit their way past something they lack the required skill for. Bump the difficulty appropriately since they're bullshitting it. It almost approximates creative problem solving mechanically, complete with horrible nightmare failures for rednecking it.
That said, a system built for that exact purpose would do it better, I just haven't figured out how to really get that "I have a working knowledge of gunsmithing and that's KINDA like an internal combustion engine right?" terrible terrible fucking idea vibe in there yet.
The TV version of What We Do in the Shadows had a good take on vampire larping.
Last time I played a WoD game, I won, playing one of those ugly-ass vampires, and the rest of the characters died, not like we were attacking the problem at different speeds, I didn't get that, and the DM was like, "Fuck, you figured it all out..." "Yeah, that's because I dumped all my points into resources."
EDIT: I mean, I thought the DM was cute but like, he knew that from the time we spent in high school already... he ran a group with us and literally everyone else died... He was neither expecting them to die, nor for me to loose the supervillain monologue on his supervillain at the end. He expected at least a couple of them to survive to stop me.
My stupid vampire managed to negotiate quite a nice spot with those vampires once it was done, and all the other players were dead, so no follow up.
If they ever make a Muppet version of Naked Lunch, they should let Gonzo Play the role of Doctor Henway.
Quote from: Emo Howard on April 09, 2019, 11:23:44 AM
If they ever make a Muppet version of Naked Lunch, they should let Gonzo Play the role of Doctor Henway.
There's the horrifying story of him doing open heart surgery on a pregnant woman in the bathroom of the subway with a plunger, imagining gonzo doing that makes it way better.
Jim Henson Productions and lucas arts can consult on the Mugwamp puppet, animatronic or hand manipulated, jizzing from its head
Quote from: Faust on April 09, 2019, 12:27:22 PM
Quote from: Emo Howard on April 09, 2019, 11:23:44 AM
If they ever make a Muppet version of Naked Lunch, they should let Gonzo Play the role of Doctor Henway.
There's the horrifying story of him doing open heart surgery on a pregnant woman in the bathroom of the subway with a plunger, imagining gonzo doing that makes it way better.
Jim Henson Productions and lucas arts can consult on the Mugwamp puppet, animatronic or hand manipulated, jizzing from its head
We will not be living in a Brave New World
tm until we see a Muppet adaptation of Sartre's works
Quote from: The Johnny on April 09, 2019, 02:23:16 PM
Quote from: Faust on April 09, 2019, 12:27:22 PM
Quote from: Emo Howard on April 09, 2019, 11:23:44 AM
If they ever make a Muppet version of Naked Lunch, they should let Gonzo Play the role of Doctor Henway.
There's the horrifying story of him doing open heart surgery on a pregnant woman in the bathroom of the subway with a plunger, imagining gonzo doing that makes it way better.
Jim Henson Productions and lucas arts can consult on the Mugwamp puppet, animatronic or hand manipulated, jizzing from its head
We will not be living in a Brave New Worldtm until we see a Muppet adaptation of Sartre's works
(https://imgur.com/BnAOJvN.jpg)
Just finished my first interview for the foundery job. I think it went very well! Now my application goes to the supervisors and if they accept me I'll have a second interview into tour. Then there will be a drug screen and a physical examination to see if I can physically do the job. There's also a background check. I don't expect a problem with any of these. Hopefully within a week I'll start a new career working iron. I very much need regular physical exertion for my health. The first few weeks are going to be rather painful but after that once I've adapted I expect to get a lot stronger and more physically healthy. I'll probably even lose weight, which I very much need to do before I hit 40.
Quote from: Cramulus on April 09, 2019, 02:28:16 PM
Quote from: The Johnny on April 09, 2019, 02:23:16 PM
Quote from: Faust on April 09, 2019, 12:27:22 PM
Quote from: Emo Howard on April 09, 2019, 11:23:44 AM
If they ever make a Muppet version of Naked Lunch, they should let Gonzo Play the role of Doctor Henway.
There's the horrifying story of him doing open heart surgery on a pregnant woman in the bathroom of the subway with a plunger, imagining gonzo doing that makes it way better.
Jim Henson Productions and lucas arts can consult on the Mugwamp puppet, animatronic or hand manipulated, jizzing from its head
We will not be living in a Brave New Worldtm until we see a Muppet adaptation of Sartre's works
(https://imgur.com/BnAOJvN.jpg)
:golfclap:
While I kept running off into tangents while trying to post to the Cancel Culture thread, I found out one of the only extreme metal dudes I had thought was cool apparently raped a woman.
This would have been bad enough.
He also misgendered his trans bandmate while talking to me and took credit for all of her fucking musical and creative decisions, while telling me straightfaced that he was trans friendly.
I'm reaching out to that lady now but fuck's sake. I'm furious. He's got a terminal illness and I'd still sock him in the fucking mouth if I met him now. What a piece of shit. I talked his fucking music up because I thought he was decent. He can choke on asphalt.
TIL that it's been a whole damn year to the day since the cunt who ran NXIVM got arrested. Given the pile of human shit that he was/is, and the atrocious behavior that has made the "company" infamous, I dunno if this occasion calls more for :lulz: or :horrormirth:. In any case, let's hope he rots in prison; maybe he'll get a "tattoo" of his own some day.
Are you somehow surprised by humanity being pond scum?
I have the best bad news (or worst good news) I've had in a long time.
For the first time in around a full year I have more than a month's notice that I need to find a new situation. For the first time in around 10-11 months I have more than 30 days to panic-search for a new place to live.
And for the first time ever, I have an actual lead prepared for this eventuality /before I hear about it/.
I'm not sure whether to cry, laugh, scream or all at once.
Quote from: nullified on April 15, 2019, 01:11:24 AM
I have the best bad news (or worst good news) I've had in a long time.
For the first time in around a full year I have more than a month's notice that I need to find a new situation. For the first time in around 10-11 months I have more than 30 days to panic-search for a new place to live.
And for the first time ever, I have an actual lead prepared for this eventuality /before I hear about it/.
I'm not sure whether to cry, laugh, scream or all at once.
Hang in there nullified. I hope that things take a turn for the better.
I'm missing the funeral today. His mom has been amazing but this still hurts.
That does suck. Hope you're still doing okay, for sane values of okay under the circumstances. You have my number if you need it, just be aware I'll be in an appointment for SSI disability determination from 2:45 to about 4, so if I don't pick up a call around then, text me instead.
HTML stands for hate mail
Sending or receiving?
I didn't grab pictures but...someone put surprisingly large googly eyes on trash cans at a dining hall on campus...
...which one of you fuckers did it this time? :lulz:
Your poetry moved me, QG, and I'm sorry this is happening to you. I'm sorry you missed the funeral as well, but I've never gotten much from funerals, just, "This is a box, with a thing that used to be a person inside, and now we're going to set it on fire, or bury it, I dunno, maybe both."
Look, don't blame yourself, I can tell by your words how you regard the people you care about. It's a ritual, it doesn't change what is. People, pass on, that's the cost of life, everyone knows it will happen someday, but when it does, no one expects it. You can't be blamed for what you couldn't know, and you can't be blamed for being a beautiful, wonderful person... that said, I've had some people I care about pass, and I'm very unhappy with it, so I can understand feeling conflicted. None of it was your fault, yeah?
I think I may be allergic to nuts :horrormirth:
Quote from: Don Coyote on April 21, 2019, 07:41:16 PM
I think I may be allergic to nuts :horrormirth:
ZE JOKES! ZEY WRITE ZEMSELVES!
At church today the minister was giving his "the fuk do UUs do about Easter?" speech, and mentioned all the different actual belief systems in our congregation, from atheists and christians to buddhists, deists, pagans, "and shout out to our resident discordian." It is weird to be so genuinely accepted in a community.
I picked up my computer to use it, and the bottom panel was bowed outward. That's concerning, so I checked it. The battery is swelling. It's a crappy refurbished laptop, but it was all I had. And now it is dangerous to use for any length of time. If I had the money, I'd just build a small form factor computer and never touch a laptop again, I have a bad history with them.
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on April 21, 2019, 11:54:00 PM
"and shout out to our resident discordian." It is weird to be so genuinely accepted in a community.
That
does sound weird...kinda makes me want to look into a UU church some time.
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on April 21, 2019, 11:54:00 PM
At church today the minister was giving his "the fuk do UUs do about Easter?" speech, and mentioned all the different actual belief systems in our congregation, from atheists and christians to buddhists, deists, pagans, "and shout out to our resident discordian." It is weird to be so genuinely accepted in a community.
That sounds pretty awesome.
One of my friends doing some weird shitting on millenials for doing things shit reminds me of other reasons to leave FB. Like. I don't even know if she's oblivious to being a millenial or if she's doing some kind of weird 'witness my eruditness as I shit upon my peers and their behavior when we were kids' shit?
EDIT
My high school friends are such insufferable 'smart-people.'
Quote from: Doktor Howl on April 21, 2019, 08:57:00 PM
Quote from: Don Coyote on April 21, 2019, 07:41:16 PM
I think I may be allergic to nuts :horrormirth:
ZE JOKES! ZEY WRITE ZEMSELVES!
What if vampires were weak against nuts, instead of garlic, and there is a global conspiracy to make the world more vampire-friendly by raising awareness of nut allergies?
I now have a mental image of vampire slayers going into battle coated in a layer of peanut butter.
I've met some UU's, they're pretty awesome. I also like a lot of what I've read about the Baha'i but they have this weird thing about homosexuals or something like, "Well, if you do this then just don't discuss it here or we'll have to ask you to leave."
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on April 22, 2019, 04:37:07 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on April 21, 2019, 08:57:00 PM
Quote from: Don Coyote on April 21, 2019, 07:41:16 PM
I think I may be allergic to nuts :horrormirth:
ZE JOKES! ZEY WRITE ZEMSELVES!
What if vampires were weak against nuts, instead of garlic, and there is a global conspiracy to make the world more vampire-friendly by raising awareness of nut allergies?
I now have a mental image of vampire slayers going into battle coated in a layer of peanut butter.
Oh dear, and those poor, poor Malchavians.
Quote from: Don Coyote on April 22, 2019, 02:53:54 AM
One of my friends doing some weird shitting on millenials for doing things shit reminds me of other reasons to leave FB. Like. I don't even know if she's oblivious to being a millenial or if she's doing some kind of weird 'witness my eruditness as I shit upon my peers and their behavior when we were kids' shit?
EDIT
My high school friends are such insufferable 'smart-people.'
I believe the proper tag group for that is "Imagine being such a pick me ass bitch."
If anyone likes death metal, I was shown something interesting. Mostly of interest to fans of 90s brutal death, tech death, and early slam, or people interested in this early stage of weak pseudo-AI replacing humans in the making of art.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CNNmBtNcccE&feature=youtu.be
As an actual band, it's overly chaotic trash, combining the worst attributes of slam death, high schoolers trying to be Demilich, and early Kataklysm. As something generated from here to eternity by a neural network, it's quite interesting.
Is it healthy to try to make sense of the lyrics?
TIL that Joan of Arc is kinda sorta a Confederate Flag among the French far-right; she symbolizes national pride to a people who are deeply xenophobic, and her actual xenophobia in history (cause, y'know, she was a farmer peasant child who didn't know better about how politics works) just emboldens them. Go figure. :kingmeh:
News to me. Sucks anyway.
I always thought Joan of Arc was pretty cool, shame she's become a flag for a bunch of shitty incels.
Work had massive computer purge. Very fun dumpster dive.
Sad all the monitors are actually dead though.
Watching the travesty that was the Battle of Winterfell has me convinced that about 500 Malazan marines could probably knock over all of Westeros even without Moranth munitions or a High Mage backing them.
I seriously cannot get over how bad the battle tactics for that episode were.
"OK, so first, we all set up in front of our trenches, right. And then, we put the trebuchets as close as we can to the front line, so that the enemy can capture them and turn them on Winterfell without having to risk their dragon. And then we initiate battle with a charge by the Dothraki who, when I last checked were light calvalry. Support? No, they won't need it. Then we will undertake a disorganized retreat to the gates without preparing a rearguard and take sanctuary. In the crypt. When fighting a necromancer."
This is about the point someone should have slit both Dany and Jon Snow's throats and taken command. But alas...
Quote from: Cain on May 01, 2019, 09:28:49 PM
Watching the travesty that was the Battle of Winterfell has me convinced that about 500 Malazan marines could probably knock over all of Westeros even without Moranth munitions or a High Mage backing them.
I seriously cannot get over how bad the battle tactics for that episode were.
"OK, so first, we all set up in front of our trenches, right. And then, we put the trebuchets as close as we can to the front line, so that the enemy can capture them and turn them on Winterfell without having to risk their dragon. And then we initiate battle with a charge by the Dothraki who, when I last checked were light calvalry. Support? No, they won't need it. Then we will undertake a disorganized retreat to the gates without preparing a rearguard and take sanctuary. In the crypt. When fighting a necromancer."
This is about the point someone should have slit both Dany and Jon Snow's throats and taken command. But alas...
Maybe its the producer's and writers notion of humour?
Or a spit to the face and a kick to the nuts to GRR Martin?
Like sure, i can get down with a suspension of disbelief for dragons and popsicle zombies
but this is
too much
On second consideration, this whole situation was driven to happen due to plot neccessities of the future.
Ill let people deduce them by themselves as not to predict-spoil.
Quote from: Cain on May 01, 2019, 09:28:49 PM
Watching the travesty that was the Battle of Winterfell has me convinced that about 500 Malazan marines could probably knock over all of Westeros even without Moranth munitions or a High Mage backing them.
I seriously cannot get over how bad the battle tactics for that episode were.
"OK, so first, we all set up in front of our trenches, right. And then, we put the trebuchets as close as we can to the front line, so that the enemy can capture them and turn them on Winterfell without having to risk their dragon. And then we initiate battle with a charge by the Dothraki who, when I last checked were light calvalry. Support? No, they won't need it. Then we will undertake a disorganized retreat to the gates without preparing a rearguard and take sanctuary. In the crypt. When fighting a necromancer."
This is about the point someone should have slit both Dany and Jon Snow's throats and taken command. But alas...
This is the same army that is led by the woman who gave the wights a dragon to save her boyfriend?
The wall was the perfect defense, the walkers approach, the wall hardens because of the cold.
In fact, there is no indication that the Night King ever even considered going south, until someone handed him a dragon.
Quote from: Cain on May 01, 2019, 09:28:49 PM
Watching the travesty that was the Battle of Winterfell has me convinced that about 500 Malazan marines could probably knock over all of Westeros even without Moranth munitions or a High Mage backing them.
I seriously cannot get over how bad the battle tactics for that episode were.
"OK, so first, we all set up in front of our trenches, right. And then, we put the trebuchets as close as we can to the front line, so that the enemy can capture them and turn them on Winterfell without having to risk their dragon. And then we initiate battle with a charge by the Dothraki who, when I last checked were light calvalry. Support? No, they won't need it. Then we will undertake a disorganized retreat to the gates without preparing a rearguard and take sanctuary. In the crypt. When fighting a necromancer."
This is about the point someone should have slit both Dany and Jon Snow's throats and taken command. But alas...
It's pretty well established that Westeronis are huge morons when it comes to fighting anything other than dudes on foot.
Like, how is this war the first time in history somebody thought "what would kill big dragon? oh! *slaps forehead* big arrow"
Quote from: The Johnny on May 01, 2019, 10:22:19 PM
On second consideration, this whole situation was driven to happen due to plot neccessities of the future.
Ill let people deduce them by themselves as not to predict-spoil.
Probably. But still...
Quote from: Faust on May 01, 2019, 11:01:47 PM
This is the same army that is led by the woman who gave the wights a dragon to save her boyfriend?
The wall was the perfect defense, the walkers approach, the wall hardens because of the cold.
In fact, there is no indication that the Night King ever even considered going south, until someone handed him a dragon.
I believe it was always established that they were heading south, but you're right about the wall being the perfect defence. Clearly it wasn't a Westerosi commander who came up with that idea, because it was smart.
Quote from: Cramulus on May 01, 2019, 11:07:45 PM
It's pretty well established that Westeronis are huge morons when it comes to fighting anything other than dudes on foot.
Like, how is this war the first time in history somebody thought "what would kill big dragon? oh! *slaps forehead* big arrow"
I'm not even sure they're good at fighting dudes on foot. They had some significant heavy infantry...if the Dothraki had been converted to heavy cavalry and properly supported their charge might have broken the front line, which would have allowed the heavies to rush in. If they used wedge formations they could keep the wights separated long enough for skirmishers and wildlings to rush through the gaps, looking for the White Walkers to kill and dropping the army.
Or they could have remembered that Tyrion once hired an alchemist who set the entire of the bay outside King's Landings on fire and burned a majority of Stannis' navy and hired him to rig up something nasty. They could have utilized hit and run tactics and whittled down the Night King's army while taking minimal casualties and turned his strategy of attrition against him.
But nope. Give someone a dragon and the brain apparently falls out of the back of their head.
In the first minute of the attack, I giggled, "zerg rush!"
I will say, once I suspended disbelief, they did a really good job of conveying the feeling of "everyone is fucked". Which made the end of the episode more powerful for me (though I have to admit, I'm an Arya stan).
Well I finally got some good work. I'll be assembling commercial grade heaters. The commute isn't bad. The pay is acceptable. I'll be working second shift. It's not everything I want but it's something.
Going to keep hitting the job search in the meantime. But for now this job is what I need when I need it. Only problem is it's long-term temporary. The contract might only last until January or February during their busy season. I'm told sometimes they hire people in through the temp agencies, but for now I really need to see about getting some kind of health insurance. Still I'm excited to have some kind of work and an income again.
money is always good!
on that note, i just realized i can file for unemployment during the summer! (i'm a substitute teacher these days) hopefully i'll be a full teacher come this fall and i have reasonable savings but goddamn, it would be a load off my shoulders to have some fucking income during the summer. i have a program to pay for and another set of credential tests to take bc social science teachers are a dime a dozen but english teachers are not.
Really? I'm surprised by that. Over here, history and English teachers are a dime a dozen, it's hard sciences, maths and languages where the recruiting falls (because those graduates especially have far better options than a 25% chance of being violently attacked, per week, for below graduate pay, long hours and increasingly, working through holidays).
Quote from: Cain on May 02, 2019, 05:45:17 PM
Really? I'm surprised by that. Over here, history and English teachers are a dime a dozen, it's hard sciences, maths and languages where the recruiting falls (because those graduates especially have far better options than a 25% chance of being violently attacked, per week, for below graduate pay, long hours and increasingly, working through holidays).
oh, there's a signing bonus for STEM teachers in my state. none of the rest of us get that, not even SPED teachers akaik despite the fact that special education is also a high need area. but yeah, with teacher burn out and options available (i guess?) to english BAs elsewhere, there's always need for that subject. it's social science and PE that are hard to land in desirable districts bc people squat on them forever.
being attacked is a
possibility at some of the schools in my district, which is where i'd like to work, but i've literally never been concerned about it. we've got a union, too. last round of negotiations, discipline was one of the things on the docket and they got a small pay bump but teachers here get paid like they live in LA. there are also districts in the surrounding area that pay significantly more even for first year teachers. we're talking like $60k but then you have to either live in those rinky dink towns or take an extremely cursed highway through murderfog in the winter, and
n o p e, no thanks.
i hear teachers in the UK have it even rougher than we do here, though, so i'm not surprised to hear that.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one with actual critiques of those ridiculous seige-defense tactics. It felt like "well, we only have so much time to setup the final climax, and we need everyone to be overwhelmed.... so, cut all the good tactics, we don't have screen time for them."
It was neat to see a trick my silat guru taught me take down the Night King, tho. Trust me, catching a falling knife like that ain't easy.
I swear to god I'm going to write something soon. I know it's like weeks/months between posts and shit, but for some reason my brain can't track a forum as quickly as it used to. Days go by and I'm like "oh, yeah, I gotta contribute something to PD soon..." And then it gets procrastinated on, subsequently forgotten about, rinse, repeat. Fuck.
Anyhow, I feel like maybe if I just mention some things I'd like to write, it might set a mild sense of obligation. But I've really wanted to do a sort of "post mortem" on BIP 2013. My deep involvement on the latter end of the project was something that had quite an effect on me, and maybe I could share some behind the scenes shit... We'll see I guess.
not being on facebook is kind of weird
Upon closer inspection, cuttlefish are basically adorable squishy cthulhus. With this in mind, I'm disappointed that there isn't an art trend of drawing cuttlethulhu.
But apparently one thing that does exist is the cuttlefish of cthulhu...which is the penis of a CG character that acts as a stand-in for a thrash metal band member... :horrormirth:
Quote from: IntentionallyLeftBlank on May 09, 2019, 08:04:57 PM
I swear to god I'm going to write something soon. I know it's like weeks/months between posts and shit, but for some reason my brain can't track a forum as quickly as it used to. Days go by and I'm like "oh, yeah, I gotta contribute something to PD soon..." And then it gets procrastinated on, subsequently forgotten about, rinse, repeat. Fuck.
Same.
Quote from: Don Coyote on May 10, 2019, 03:39:58 AM
not being on facebook is kind of weird
How so? I'm not really into social media like at all, so I'm curious what you're noticing about not being on it.
Quote from: IntentionallyLeftBlank on May 09, 2019, 08:04:57 PM
But I've really wanted to do a sort of "post mortem" on BIP 2013. My deep involvement on the latter end of the project was something that had quite an effect on me, and maybe I could share some behind the scenes shit... We'll see I guess.
same, I've been thinking about how it might be useful to do a short-run of small 1-paragraph descriptions of prison cells & bars
my own thinking about the BIP has come so far since the original pamphlet, it's still a huge part of my psychology... and I feel like I should boil it down into something useful.
Quote from: Al Qədic on May 10, 2019, 05:05:52 AM
Upon closer inspection, cuttlefish are basically adorable squishy cthulhus. With this in mind, I'm disappointed that there isn't an art trend of drawing cuttlethulhu.
But apparently one thing that does exist is the cuttlefish of cthulhu...which is the penis of a CG character that acts as a stand-in for a thrash metal band member... :horrormirth:
Quote from: nullified on May 10, 2019, 12:18:04 PM
Quote from: Don Coyote on May 10, 2019, 03:39:58 AM
not being on facebook is kind of weird
How so? I'm not really into social media like at all, so I'm curious what you're noticing about not being on it.
Pretty much the only way I kept up with my extended family and friends. But I ditched fb because it's been regularly reminding of some shit. Also fuck zuck.
Ah, gotcha. Well, I hope it goes well for you, and you can find another way to keep in touch with those you care to keep in touch with.
I'm just waiting for the social media site I care to use to finally show up: thus far, no luck. One day, maybe.
i'd like to delete mine, too, bc uuuuuugh facebook, but also i have cousins/friends i like who i have no other way to keep track of/in touch with.
Facebook is that place where all my family and best friends' family dissappoint me with pro-trump posts calling liberals "tards" every three minutes. I have a facebook page, but I can't be arsed to check it.
I stopped talking to my relatives like that like a decade ago. 🤷
All my relatives are either like that, or apolitical and clueless. Though, there might be a chance for some of the newer members to pull their heads out of our collective ass.
I remain hopeful, but disturbed.
The entire culture of my hometown is Donald trumps wet dream, which he is currently living.
I was told growing up that I would understand when I was older; that the wisdom of the previous generations would become clear as I aged. To my dismay, I have, over the years come to realize that I, in my youthful ignorance, had vastly underestimated the stupidity with which I had been surrounded by and infused with despite my best, yet still feeble efforts to protect myself from it. It my attempts to filter out the overwhelming ambient noise of my native environment, I tuned out all external stimuli, leaving me with nothing but my own internally generated delusions for some semblance of a reality.
Given a choice from birth between stupidity or insanity, I chose the latter. I regret nothing.
Quote from: Emo Howard on May 11, 2019, 10:41:09 AM
All my relatives are either like that, or apolitical and clueless. Though, there might be a chance for some of the newer members to pull their heads out of our collective ass.
I remain hopeful, but disturbed.
The entire culture of my hometown is Donald trumps wet dream, which he is currently living.
I was told growing up that I would understand when I was older; that the wisdom of the previous generations would become clear as I aged. To my dismay, I have, over the years come to realize that I, in my youthful ignorance, had vastly underestimated the stupidity with which I had been surrounded by and infused with despite my best, yet still feeble efforts to protect myself from it. It my attempts to filter out the overwhelming ambient noise of my native environment, I tuned out all external stimuli, leaving me with nothing but my own internally generated delusions for some semblance of a reality.
Given a choice from birth between stupidity or insanity, I chose the latter. I regret nothing.
I love this post.
Quote from: nullified on May 11, 2019, 11:36:02 AM
Quote from: Emo Howard on May 11, 2019, 10:41:09 AM
All my relatives are either like that, or apolitical and clueless. Though, there might be a chance for some of the newer members to pull their heads out of our collective ass.
I remain hopeful, but disturbed.
The entire culture of my hometown is Donald trumps wet dream, which he is currently living.
I was told growing up that I would understand when I was older; that the wisdom of the previous generations would become clear as I aged. To my dismay, I have, over the years come to realize that I, in my youthful ignorance, had vastly underestimated the stupidity with which I had been surrounded by and infused with despite my best, yet still feeble efforts to protect myself from it. It my attempts to filter out the overwhelming ambient noise of my native environment, I tuned out all external stimuli, leaving me with nothing but my own internally generated delusions for some semblance of a reality.
Given a choice from birth between stupidity or insanity, I chose the latter. I regret nothing.
I love this post.
Thanks.
Apparently the wisdom of elder generations is believing that Hillary Clinton kills babies for Satan because some rando on 8chan says he's a secret agent with a top level clearance.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Quote from: Cramulus on May 10, 2019, 02:26:13 PM
Quote from: IntentionallyLeftBlank on May 09, 2019, 08:04:57 PM
But I've really wanted to do a sort of "post mortem" on BIP 2013. My deep involvement on the latter end of the project was something that had quite an effect on me, and maybe I could share some behind the scenes shit... We'll see I guess.
same, I've been thinking about how it might be useful to do a short-run of small 1-paragraph descriptions of prison cells & bars
my own thinking about the BIP has come so far since the original pamphlet, it's still a huge part of my psychology... and I feel like I should boil it down into something useful.
Same. Though, for what I have in mind for the near future is more like a breakdown of everything that went into making it, the amount of work it took and how it effected my life. I was hit pretty hard psychologically from working on that project, which is sorta the reason I left PD. Just couldn't handle it anymore. But, yeah, my immediate focus is more of an analysis as opposed to new works, though I'm not against the idea.
Spoiler feelings for game of thrones - not really gone on the last episode.
The story beats make sense from an overall perspective (which makes sense as the overall outline was given to the show writers), but how they arrive at those points tends to be in really stupid ways.
A slow decent into madness and what should feel like a tragic moment or a tipping point instead comes across as almost petulant. We never get a feel that she is trapped into her decisions, instead it's more the first bump in the road that is met after season after season of resounding success in every venture triggers the irredeemable nuclear option. Gradually escalating feelings of being trapped and desperation leading to the ol Targarian madness would have made sense for the character. Instead we get the arc accelerated to the point that it is the portrayal of a sore winner jealous of her partner and driven by avarice. With all the talk about gender role models in the media this is a really bad execution, not because of the outcome but because of her reasons for getting there, a Queen Lear would be sympathetic and the strength of her decisions in the past wouldnt be undermined, instead we got Veruca Salt. "Well it's MY party and you are all going to treat me like a queen and if you don't I am going to tear this house down"
Agreed.
How much truth is there to the rumor that GRRM told the show runners how this would end way back in Season 1? Because they could have spent the entire series setting up hints and twists that could have made all three of the Idiot Ball moments (I'm including Jamie and Arya (and if we're throwing in the previous episode, Brienne)) more of an "aha... I wasn't expecting it, but it makes perfect sense" moment.
He did, they just executed it badly.
The hints were there, but with this mad rush to the finishing line (are HBO running out of money?), characterization is going out of the window. As I pointed out, I'm not so surprised at this outcome as all the elements for it had been set up and hinted at a long time ago (just look at how Dany is a mirror to Cersei - hilariously inept ruler, indulgent towards her murderous child, fashion sense, incest), but the way in which it happened, and in particular the lack of reaction from other characters is telling.
Both Varys and Tyrion in particular are not stupid, and have served multiple mad rulers in Varys' case. They would have seen the warning signs early on. I'm not entirely willing to sell Varys out yet, as we don't know the full content of the letters he was writing in the last episode, but it's not a good look that they thought everything was fine, right up until the point she abruptly descended into insanity.
I was hoping that Varys might hire Bronn to take out everyone with a claim to the throne and institute a people's republic of Westeros, but, alas, that seems rather unlikely now. Varys and Tyrion are no Ammanas and Cotillion, more's the pity. Shaking up the entire political order is not their style.
Prediction: Arya, seeing the catastrophe of King's Landing First hand, (and you know, riding out on a Pale Horse), amends her kill list, and does in Dany (but not until Tyrion gets whacked by Bronn). Jon gets the Ceaser treatment (again), Sansa remains in the north, and Gendry ascends the throne.
I'm thinking murder-suicide by Jon. The Targaryens seriously need to fuck off, as do dragons.
But it's probably a race between him, Arya, Davos Seaworth, whatever assassins Varys dispatched with his final missive (Bronn) and whatever assassins Sansa has dredged up from her days following Littlefinger around. I don't think Tyrion has to worry about Bronn any longer, since he's not getting paid.
Good point about Bronn.
I can see it playing it out in one of two ways, Dany is confronted by john, dragon fires him which wont harm him, and the remaining people around depose her, possibly killing her, john is named as king but refuses and goes north of the wall to live in exile.
Or John tries to talk Dany down, someone kills him, and she goes off the rails and is also killed.
In either case neither end up with the crown. That doesn't leave a whole lot of options: Yora... unlikely. Sansa, maybe. Bronn, would be funny and probably a good cyclical loop back to pig ignorant Robert, not sure how to be king but good at what he does, would also complete the running joke about him getting a castle: He gets kings landing but it is a fixer upper.
I'm not sure if it was foreshadowing or not but the dragon fire blowing up green from the buildings to me implies Cersie expected Danys worst imulses, and has rigged the whole city to blow and potentially kill the final dragon.
Quote from: Cain on May 14, 2019, 07:29:50 PM
The hints were there, but with this mad rush to the finishing line (are HBO running out of money?), characterization is going out of the window. [...]
I watched up to Season 6 and stopped not for any particular reason except that its too much of a time investment for me but what Ive heard/thought:
*They are running out of source material, apparently the books are still in the events of the city of Meereen, the creation of Reek, the walk of shame of Cersei, etc
*And isnt GOT like HBOs one trick pony? Why would they rush to get rid off it since it is its suscriber cashcow?
https://www.quora.com/How-much-profit-would-each-season-of-Game-of-Thrones-be-making
The only logic i see in the abruptness and twitchiness of the events unfolding is that the script writers have zero talent, and once the source material ran out, which was their guiding rails they just crashed and burned like a train without tracks.
Or perhaps theres a limited license that has an expiration date?
Or maybe the actor's contracts are expiring too and they dont want to renew?
These signs i could scavenge for all point to anything except economic reasons.
I think it's simpler then that. I think they meticulously constructed the character development scenes from the books, highlighting and using the dialog which gave the show it's strength.
They are not good at writing dialogue so they are not as adventurous with it. Without that connective tissue you get an acceleration from plot point to plot point. Take the dumb Euron vs Jamie fight. On both sides we could have seen build up, Euron threatened because he can't replace Jamie in Cersies heart, Jamie trying to move on with his life and be with Brianne but knowing thats not the right life for him. It wouldn't take much, a scene or two on either side to set up a dramatic tension. Without that connective tissue, it just becomes, asshole wanders out of the see and sees his girlfriends ex and decides to fight him for some reason.
I think it's even simpler than that. These guys have been doing the show for ten years, and want to move on and direct the next Star Wars film. Time to wrap it up.
https://www.cnet.com/news/game-of-thrones-creators-get-next-star-wars-film-and-not-everyones-happy/
Mr Creepy Sociopath Uncle is dead? good. i've been on #TeamQueenYara since she turned up last season and i wanted him to die anyway.
Quote from: LMNO on May 15, 2019, 12:49:07 PM
I think it's even simpler than that. These guys have been doing the show for ten years, and want to move on and direct the next Star Wars film. Time to wrap it up.
https://www.cnet.com/news/game-of-thrones-creators-get-next-star-wars-film-and-not-everyones-happy/
i may not be all that invested in GoT but that's super fucking tacky, especially since this is the final season. jesus.
Quote from: The Johnny on May 15, 2019, 01:06:20 AM
Quote from: Cain on May 14, 2019, 07:29:50 PM
The hints were there, but with this mad rush to the finishing line (are HBO running out of money?), characterization is going out of the window. [...]
I watched up to Season 6 and stopped not for any particular reason except that its too much of a time investment for me but what Ive heard/thought:
*They are running out of source material, apparently the books are still in the events of the city of Meereen, the creation of Reek, the walk of shame of Cersei, etc
*And isnt GOT like HBOs one trick pony? Why would they rush to get rid off it since it is its suscriber cashcow?
https://www.quora.com/How-much-profit-would-each-season-of-Game-of-Thrones-be-making
The only logic i see in the abruptness and twitchiness of the events unfolding is that the script writers have zero talent, and once the source material ran out, which was their guiding rails they just crashed and burned like a train without tracks.
Or perhaps theres a limited license that has an expiration date?
Or maybe the actor's contracts are expiring too and they dont want to renew?
These signs i could scavenge for all point to anything except economic reasons.
You're correct with the books. You can see the reduction in quality of writing from the point of departure from the books. It did lead to two notoriously funny scenes (the Hound and the Chicken, and the Hound and Tormund Giantsbane), but little else of note.
And it is HBO's cash cow, but the actors and production team have been at this for the better part of a decade now. And they're famous as a result. Potentially famous enough to make breaking a contract to work somewhere else, somewhere more lucrative *cough*Hollywood*cough* seem more worthwhile.
Also, the CGI scenes are a massive drain on HBO's finances. The Battle of the Bastards cost somwhere around $11 million to film, and the season 8 episodes had a projected cost of $15 million per episode.
And they padded that out with two episodes of not much happening.
Quote from: Juana on May 15, 2019, 04:49:25 PM
Mr Creepy Sociopath Uncle is dead? good. i've been on #TeamQueenYara since she turned up last season and i wanted him to die anyway.
Quote from: LMNO on May 15, 2019, 12:49:07 PM
I think it's even simpler than that. These guys have been doing the show for ten years, and want to move on and direct the next Star Wars film. Time to wrap it up.
https://www.cnet.com/news/game-of-thrones-creators-get-next-star-wars-film-and-not-everyones-happy/
i may not be all that invested in GoT but that's super fucking tacky, especially since this is the final season. jesus.
Yara Greyjoy? She's been in the show for years.
Quote from: Hoopla! on May 15, 2019, 06:46:02 PM
Quote from: Juana on May 15, 2019, 04:49:25 PM
Mr Creepy Sociopath Uncle is dead? good. i've been on #TeamQueenYara since she turned up last season and i wanted him to die anyway.
Quote from: LMNO on May 15, 2019, 12:49:07 PM
I think it's even simpler than that. These guys have been doing the show for ten years, and want to move on and direct the next Star Wars film. Time to wrap it up.
https://www.cnet.com/news/game-of-thrones-creators-get-next-star-wars-film-and-not-everyones-happy/
i may not be all that invested in GoT but that's super fucking tacky, especially since this is the final season. jesus.
Yara Greyjoy? She's been in the show for years.
I started watching last season and assumed she was new, incorrectly so apparently? I think I've watched most of season one and maybe part of season two so 🤷. Go me, lmao.
I felt like getting donuts today. There's a lovely artisanal place halfway across town, but they close at 1600 on Tuesday, and I get off work at 1530. I get distracted, and don't get away until 1540. I take the fastest route I can think of, hit a good number of green lights, get held up briefly by a Lexus driving well under the speed limit :argh!:, drive casual past a couple of police officers :|, and make it there with 5 minutes to spare.
The place has a number of elementary-school-aged kids hanging around inside. For a second, I'm concerned that there aren't any donuts left; this place only makes enough for the day, and when they're out, they're out. But, there are eight left! I buy six (two each of the remaining three flavours), leaving behind one of their signature vegan chocolate donuts, and something with grapefruit sugar on it.
As I'm leaving, a couple of the kids approach the counter. Not to buy the remainder, but to survey the damage. I overhear some disconnected phrases. "..divide it..." "...unless someone else comes..."
I add two and two together. When the shop closes, they must give the remaining donuts away *free*. I just swooped in and deprived those poor kids of their bounty at the last second.
I feel like kinda a jerk, but if I had known...I would have done exactly the same thing.
And I can live with myself. I can live with myself.
Because they're really good donuts.
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on May 16, 2019, 01:43:42 AM
I felt like getting donuts today. There's a lovely artisanal place halfway across town, but they close at 1600 on Tuesday, and I get off work at 1530. I get distracted, and don't get away until 1540. I take the fastest route I can think of, hit a good number of green lights, get held up briefly by a Lexus driving well under the speed limit :argh!:, drive casual past a couple of police officers :|, and make it there with 5 minutes to spare.
The place has a number of elementary-school-aged kids hanging around inside. For a second, I'm concerned that there aren't any donuts left; this place only makes enough for the day, and when they're out, they're out. But, there are eight left! I buy six (two each of the remaining three flavours), leaving behind one of their signature vegan chocolate donuts, and something with grapefruit sugar on it.
As I'm leaving, a couple of the kids approach the counter. Not to buy the remainder, but to survey the damage. I overhear some disconnected phrases. "..divide it..." "...unless someone else comes..."
I add two and two together. When the shop closes, they must give the remaining donuts away *free*. I just swooped in and deprived those poor kids of their bounty at the last second.
I feel like kinda a jerk, but if I had known...I would have done exactly the same thing.
And I can live with myself. I can live with myself.
Because they're really good donuts.
If you werent such an unpatriotic commie, you woulda bought all of them and gorged on them right in front of them like a real american should.
Show those damn Obama loving mooching rascals. :argh!:
So funny enough, the final balance does point GOT ending this way due to economic reasons, but not the ones we discredited, just that everyone involved except HBO wants to move on.
Thx for the insight everyone.
Quote from: The Johnny on May 16, 2019, 03:32:09 AM
If you werent such an unpatriotic commie, you woulda bought all of them and gorged on them right in front of them like a real american should.
Show those damn Obama loving mooching rascals. :argh!:
Well, I'm actually Canadian. Being an unpatriotic commie is pretty common up here. Canadians aren't particularly patriotic, as a group, although we are united in a smug sense of superiority where Americans are concerned.
(I'm only a commie by American standards. My personal economic ideal tends more toward "socialism for natural monopolies, capitalism for fungible commodities." It's probably a good thing I'm not in a position of power).
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on May 16, 2019, 04:10:08 AM
Quote from: The Johnny on May 16, 2019, 03:32:09 AM
If you werent such an unpatriotic commie, you woulda bought all of them and gorged on them right in front of them like a real american should.
Show those damn Obama loving mooching rascals. :argh!:
Well, I'm actually Canadian. Being an unpatriotic commie is pretty common up here. Canadians aren't particularly patriotic, as a group, although we are united in a smug sense of superiority where Americans are concerned.
(I'm only a commie by American standards. My personal economic ideal tends more toward "socialism for natural monopolies, capitalism for fungible commodities." It's probably a good thing I'm not in a position of power).
We seem to be getting pretty damned patriotic recently. Despite my best efforts.
just gonna toss out my ideal GoT ending that definitely won't happen
Jon gets eaten by the dragon
Arya kills Dany
Bran becomes the King
Bran would be the perfect king because he knows everything - wouldn't even need advisors.
Failing that, Jon can be king and Bran can advise him.
also
yes, the writing is clumsy and rushed. A lot of these scenes feel real paint-by-numbers.
But I still enjoyed the twist of Dany going apeshit on everything. I'm actually real glad I didn't see it coming. The show had built her up to be such a savior, I really thought the payoff was going to be that she and her lady friends "break the wheel" and lead in the new era of matriarchy. It's nice that the show doesn't just wrap everything up in a nice little package.
also
just want to take a momen to marvel at the fact that there are only like 11 characters left alive. I think the show has had something like 150 characters? all toast.
My wife asked me on Sunday night who I thought Varys was writing the messages to, and I immediately said "All the major houses in the 7 Kingdoms", then I realized that almost all the major houses have been decimated... Lannisters, Tyrells, Tarlys, Tullys (well, Cat's brother might still be alive?), Arryn, Baratheon, Mormont, Frey..... like its sort of just Starks and Yara Greyjoy at this point. That's a pretty massive power vacuum.
y'know, that's a good point. Who was he writing to? The Citadel?
Bronn, with a promise of gold that Varys has stashed away with one of his "little birds", should he kill Dany.
That's what I'd do, but Varys has kinda dropped the ball lately, between "not noticing your queen is insane" and "being burned alive".
That latter point will certainly hinder him in the future.
I guess he might have been writing to Illyrio, though the show seems to have forgotten about him.
Quote from: Hoopla! on May 16, 2019, 05:49:03 PM
I guess he might have been writing to Illyrio, though the show seems to have forgotten about him.
Nowadays everybody wanna talk like they got something to say
But nothing comes out when they move their lips
Just a bunch of gibberish
And motherfuckers act like they forgot about Illyrio
word
Incidentally, I saw a still with a close-up of the letter. It says "true heir".
That would be Jon, right?
Depends whether its true that Aerys actually did disinherit Rhaegar before he died. But I can't for the life of me remember if that was ever mentioned in the show, so let's just say yes.
Probably going to see Dany try to kill Jon with fire and fail.
Hey spags.
I can't weigh in on Game of Thrones, because I quit watching it, but hey.
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on May 17, 2019, 07:03:19 AM
Hey spags.
I can't weigh in on Game of Thrones, because I quit watching it, but hey.
Well, hey!
Just a quick recap: the Chair of Swords became sentient and ate a dragon egg which caused it to evolve like a pokemon into the Chair of Guns and it shoots laser beams out of it's eyestalks and now everybody wants to sit on Tyrion, especially the Chair of Guns, who is now married to Galadriel.
Quote from: Emo Howard on May 17, 2019, 07:12:19 AM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on May 17, 2019, 07:03:19 AM
Hey spags.
I can't weigh in on Game of Thrones, because I quit watching it, but hey.
Well, hey!
Just a quick recap: the Chair of Swords became sentient and ate a dragon egg which caused it to evolve like a pokemon into the Chair of Guns and it shoots laser beams out of it's eyestalks and now everybody wants to sit on Tyrion, especially the Chair of Guns, who is now married to Galadriel.
That sounds like the best ending ever.
You actually watch TV? Alright, hand in your badge.
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on May 17, 2019, 07:03:19 AM
Hey spags.
I can't weigh in on Game of Thrones, because I quit watching it, but hey.
:wave:
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on May 17, 2019, 07:03:19 AM
Hey spags.
I can't weigh in on Game of Thrones, because I quit watching it, but hey.
Hey! How have things been?
:canuck:
Oh shit, hey stranger!
Hey there, not new person!
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on May 17, 2019, 07:03:19 AM
Hey spags.
I can't weigh in on Game of Thrones, because I quit watching it, but hey.
Nigel! Great to see you - and I don't blame you for quitting Game of Thrones, but I am a glutton for punishment.
Quote from: Hoopla! on May 16, 2019, 05:49:03 PM
I guess he might have been writing to Illyrio, though the show seems to have forgotten about him.
I spat coffee.
Hey Nigel!
Quote from: LMNO on May 17, 2019, 03:33:02 PM
Quote from: Hoopla! on May 16, 2019, 05:49:03 PM
I guess he might have been writing to Illyrio, though the show seems to have forgotten about him.
More proof that people were fools to forget about Dr Illyrio
Quote from: Cain on May 16, 2019, 05:17:46 PM
Bronn, with a promise of gold that Varys has stashed away with one of his "little birds", should he kill Dany.
That's what I'd do, but Varys has kinda dropped the ball lately, between "not noticing your queen is insane" and "being burned alive".
Yeah, while Dany going apeshit on King's Landing wasn't really super shocking, Varys and Tyrion kind of dropped the ball seeing as they were always portrayed as smart and politically savvy. Even before she found out about Jon, she'd been paranoid about traitors and didn't tolerate any threat to her rule. Then Tyrion finds about about Jon, tells Varys, tells Dany about Varys and then is all (*insert shocked Pikachu meme here) when she decides to burn Varys alive, followed by King's Landing.
And Jon trying to get everyone to stop fighting - little late for that bud. You don't really get to call "time out" in the middle of everyone hacking each other to death.
Jon Snow used to know nothing. Now he does nothing. Like seriously, what HAS he done this season? He couldn't even be arsed to tell Sansa and Arya about his parents.
Well I called the Mountain/Hound double knockout on Friendface so thou shalt bend thy knee in honour of my gloaty countenance 8)
also, when the means of seizing the throne is physically taking it by force, who the fuck cares about the proper line of succession?
like, Varys is all "you're the true king, dude", but if that meant anything, there wouldn't be a war for the throne, right?
"the people prefer you tho hur hur hur" WHO LITERALLY CARES, the series has repeatedly shown that means as much as nine dicks in a dick boat
you know what -- blondie made Gendry "officially robert baratheon's heir", I bet, when it's all said and done, he gets the throne.
well probably not
but I want to call it now, so if it happens, I can gloat about it.
What does the magic chair do, anyway?
Like... does it fly, or grant wishes, or what?
It cuts people.
Like some kind of Lovecraftian horror, it forces people to seek it out, only to go insane once they sit upon it.
Quote from: Cain on May 17, 2019, 07:46:38 PM
Like some kind of Lovecraftian horror, it forces people to seek it out, only to go insane once they sit upon it.
Might kill all the peasentry and then yourself, but at least you wont die out of an iron deficiency! Vitamin supplements were a commodity even monarchs didnt have access to.
Hoo boy.
Quote from: nullified on May 17, 2019, 11:50:27 AM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on May 17, 2019, 07:03:19 AM
Hey spags.
I can't weigh in on Game of Thrones, because I quit watching it, but hey.
Hey! How have things been?
Pretty brilliant until last week, actually. I got a Masters degree in neurobiology and stuff. Now I'm in an epidemiology program learning to be John Snow.
That's awesome! I'm glad to hear it's been good for you, and it's good seeing you around here again.
Yeah, break out the finest meats and cheeses, that kinda shit.
Went to the gym for the first time since my back injury last year.
I am sore, but it's good to be somewhat active again.
Quote from: nullified on May 18, 2019, 03:24:07 AM
That's awesome! I'm glad to hear it's been good for you, and it's good seeing you around here again.
Thanks! I've gotten really interested in epigenetics and the social determinants of health, and particularly on the effects of early-life stress on later-life health. I'm especially into housing insecurity stress, and also, right now, kind of obsessed with how circadian disruption affects health. My MS thesis was on a circadian-derived reproductive process, which really got me hooked on circadian research. We have created an artificial year-round 16/8 photoperiod for ourselves, which is so different from our evolutionary photoperiod that I feel, given the strong influence of photoperiod on metabolism and reproduction, can't help but have disruptive effects, like imagine it was midsummer in Copenhagen. What is your body going to think it's time to do? It's gonna be all oh, shit, winter is coming! And this effect should be worse the more extreme our human-made photoperiod is. It's especially concerning that most Americans get only 6-7 hours sleep a night, and our indoor lighting has transitioned from mostly medium and long-wave to a lot of short-wave and full spectrum light, because that's the kind of light our brains use to determine how long the days are.
Well hello again Nigel! Welcome back to PD. :)
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 18, 2019, 04:27:57 AM
Went to the gym for the first time since my back injury last year.
I am sore, but it's good to be somewhat active again.
Glad to hear that you're on the mend. I didn't know you'd hurt your back. I've been taking atrocious amounts of Naproxen getting used to the job I'm doing. I highly recommended for muscle aches of all kinds. It's also an anti-inflammatory. But if you drink on it your insides will melt or something.
wow. That's a lot of really interesting stuff that is weirdly relevant to me! (I could probably be a damned case study in your epigenetics thing, and maybe unrelatedly???my sleep cycle is so broken that I just last night double-dosed on sedatives and only slept two hours despite desperately aiming for 7+.)
Anywhere you're putting any of this out, or is it more of a general research (as opposed to scientific or academic) or saving for publication sorta deal right now? I'd love to read more about it all, as I said, it's almost creepily relevant to my life.
Hey, Nigel, awesome! If you ever want to talk to someone with severe social deficiencies, assloads of developmental stress as well as a tendency to go nocturnal, pm me.
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on May 18, 2019, 07:48:11 AM
Thanks! I've gotten really interested in epigenetics and the social determinants of health, and particularly on the effects of early-life stress on later-life health. I'm especially into housing insecurity stress, and also, right now, kind of obsessed with how circadian disruption affects health. My MS thesis was on a circadian-derived reproductive process, which really got me hooked on circadian research. We have created an artificial year-round 16/8 photoperiod for ourselves, which is so different from our evolutionary photoperiod that I feel, given the strong influence of photoperiod on metabolism and reproduction, can't help but have disruptive effects, like imagine it was midsummer in Copenhagen. What is your body going to think it's time to do? It's gonna be all oh, shit, winter is coming! And this effect should be worse the more extreme our human-made photoperiod is. It's especially concerning that most Americans get only 6-7 hours sleep a night, and our indoor lighting has transitioned from mostly medium and long-wave to a lot of short-wave and full spectrum light, because that's the kind of light our brains use to determine how long the days are.
I took last week off work to attend
gardening horticulture classes at the local university, and one day I partook of a tour of the agriculture greenhouses.
At one point, the tour guide was showing off a greenhouse equipped with shades, and recounted how a researcher was having trouble getting a particular set of plants to flower, until she noted that the plants originated from
Ecuador. So, they used the shades to produce a 50% day/night cycle, and the plants began flowering. (These greenhouses are above 52° N. Equal length days and nights aren't something we do here).
It would be interesting if individual (human) reactions to photoperiod was partially dependent on geographic origin. After all, lighter skin colour appears to be an adaptation to the amount of sunlight.
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on May 18, 2019, 07:56:54 AM
Well hello again Nigel! Welcome back to PD. :)
Thanks!
Quote from: nullified on May 18, 2019, 08:02:36 AM
wow. That's a lot of really interesting stuff that is weirdly relevant to me! (I could probably be a damned case study in your epigenetics thing, and maybe unrelatedly???my sleep cycle is so broken that I just last night double-dosed on sedatives and only slept two hours despite desperately aiming for 7+.)
Anywhere you're putting any of this out, or is it more of a general research (as opposed to scientific or academic) or saving for publication sorta deal right now? I'd love to read more about it all, as I said, it's almost creepily relevant to my life.
My first incredibly boring paper on circadian-relevant hormonal pathways will be published as a collaboration sometime next year, but since I just transitioned from basic research to epidemiology last Fall, it's gonna be a while before any of my current work is published. In the meantime, this paper may be of interest to you (let me know if you're unable to access it and I'll see if I can find a version that isn't behind a paywall, it's not always clear whether it's paywalled or not on my end): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31026301
Quote from: Fujikoma on May 18, 2019, 12:47:57 PM
Hey, Nigel, awesome! If you ever want to talk to someone with severe social deficiencies, assloads of developmental stress as well as a tendency to go nocturnal, pm me.
Sounds like a laugh riot!
Seriously though, one of the reasons I'm so interested in this topic is that these issues you are experiencing are pervasive and increasing in our society. We tend to assume that health is driven by behavior, and it's just that in my behavioral neuroendocrinology training I started to see things the other way around.
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on May 18, 2019, 02:14:00 PM
I took last week off work to attend gardening horticulture classes at the local university, and one day I partook of a tour of the agriculture greenhouses.
At one point, the tour guide was showing off a greenhouse equipped with shades, and recounted how a researcher was having trouble getting a particular set of plants to flower, until she noted that the plants originated from Ecuador. So, they used the shades to produce a 50% day/night cycle, and the plants began flowering. (These greenhouses are above 52° N. Equal length days and nights aren't something we do here).
It would be interesting if individual (human) reactions to photoperiod was partially dependent on geographic origin. After all, lighter skin colour appears to be an adaptation to the amount of sunlight.
That is a very interesting question, and I wouldn't be surprised if that is true. After all, circadian clock programming is determined partially through DNA methylation, and differential DNA methylation may occur during pregnancy, priming the fetus' wake-sleep rhythms to match the mother's. Interestingly, the time of day you are born matters; night babies are at higher risk for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia than day babies, and there is evidence of circadian disruption in both those diseases.
One thing to keep in mind is that there is nowhere on earth a 16/8 photoperiod occurs naturally year-round.
"Nine dicks in a dickboat"?
All we need now is Hugh or Eldora back and it will be a proper PD party. :kingmeh:
I'm honestly glad all this horrible shit happened to me so I can have a fresh pair of eyes. Doktor Howl, did you try out Armageddon?
Quote from: Fujikoma on May 19, 2019, 04:10:17 PM
I'm honestly glad all this horrible shit happened to me so I can have a fresh pair of eyes. Doktor Howl, did you try out Armageddon?
Not yet. I landed a consulting gig and the spare time I have has been used dragging teabilly Christian sharia law freaks around by the ankles.
It's stressful as hell, I hate independent work, so in case it does me in, I have decided to have my will tattooed on my torso. Given how long probate takes, and the need for a physical copy of the will, this means my relatives will have to freeze my body for the duration, and wheel my frozen carcass into a conference room or courthouse 3 times every two months or so. At some point during each proceeding, my naked hairy frozen arse will have to be flung on the table and stared at.
Call it Dok's Last Fuck You.
LOL. Well hopefully you get time someday... congrats on the job, though it sounds like it sucks.
My Game of thrones take... Played it safe. Not disappointed but not satisfied either. A lot of lavish iconography but minimal plot development. The resolution through melodrama for the first plotline I felt rang hollow. The resolution for the kingdom, was less so, but still felt off.
Poochie flew away to his home planet where I assume at some point he will get voiced by Sean Connery.
Since the books ran out they have avoided using a lot of dialog, and everyone but Tyrion came off clunky and big leaps occur based on small lines.
I think of Twin peaks from a couple of years ago, which I loved, but has a deliberately dissatisfying ending, a literal "you can never go home". But everything else about that was trying something artistically interesting, this is just trying to ring the right notes successfully and it did that in a very wobbly fashion.
The horse drawing sums it up well. Seasons 1-3 were detailed rich stories driven by excellent dialog and unexpected story telling. This, was a crude approximation of that.
As I've said multiple times, after watching a Queen commanding magic beasties lay waste to armies and cities, they decided to find the next best person with incredibly exploitable and unnatural powers and make him King?
Good job everyone. Twenty years from now, people talking shit about him are going to get pecked to death in the streets...possibly before they can even actually say anything. Though not taking any of Grey Worm's shit was a good start.
I felt Tyrion's comments were a nice nod to the argument between Varys and Littlefinger about the nature of the realm.
Quote from: Cain on May 21, 2019, 01:08:36 AM
As I've said multiple times, after watching a Queen commanding magic beasties lay waste to armies and cities, they decided to find the next best person with incredibly exploitable and unnatural powers and make him King?
Good job everyone. Twenty years from now, people talking shit about him are going to get pecked to death in the streets...possibly before they can even actually say anything. Though not taking any of Grey Worm's shit was a good start.
I felt Tyrion's comments were a nice nod to the argument between Varys and Littlefinger about the nature of the realm.
Hey guys, monarchy doesnt seem to work, and democracy is such a retarded idea, PSHH, obviously the best solution seems to give absolute rule to AN ALL SEEING MAGICAL BIG BROTHER.
WHAT COULD GO WRONG?
Who, if he abuses his warg powers, may be functionally immortal, lets not forget (this wasn't shown in the series, but the warg skinchanger Jon Snow kills actually escapes by placing his spirit in an eagle - which is promptly jacked by another warg and incinerated by Melisandre).
I do like the fact that the bad guys get killed just as fast as the good guys.
Quote from: Cain on May 21, 2019, 01:08:36 AM
As I've said multiple times, after watching a Queen commanding magic beasties lay waste to armies and cities, they decided to find the next best person with incredibly exploitable and unnatural powers and make him King?
Good job everyone. Twenty years from now, people talking shit about him are going to get pecked to death in the streets...possibly before they can even actually say anything. Though not taking any of Grey Worm's shit was a good start.
I felt Tyrion's comments were a nice nod to the argument between Varys and Littlefinger about the nature of the realm.
His murderous impulses are clearly tempered by the power of autism. Until he Wargs Drogon (the only thing he had any interest in in his kingdoms council meeting) and declares himself God Emperor.
:lulz:
i got my third letter of rec yesterday and now i can start applying to more teaching jobs. the new one mentions things that i was really hoping to see (kind but firm classroom management and always in control of the room, they complain i make them work and don't let them play with their phones, p good at working with students to improve their writing). i feel like all three letters i have speak pretty damn well of me as a potential teacher but bc i'll have an intern credential, i'm still bottom of the pile. hoping the letters bump me up bc i can clearly teach and i know how to run a classroom reasonably well, even though long term and short term classroom management are very different creatures.
Obligatory "whee 5/23 fnord fnord newm'rologee". :lulz:
Scholarly bureaucracy has put me in a slump, for better and worse: on one hand, I have to crank out writings and reading about a topic that, even though it would normally be interesting to dive into, is being presented painfully dumb and pessimistically (seriously, how can digital privacy feel so trite and repetitive?). On the other hand, my mother is excited about her loving daughter, and my procrastination-for-the-sake-of-sanity has allowed me to really enjoy an update to one of my favorite mobile games, and a charity livestream that happened a few weeks back.
I also learned that one of my high school teachers (barely interacted with him on a teacher to student level, but interned in his classroom for a bit in junior year, and he seemed like a nice guy) got arrested for...well, this is a high school we're talking about, you can guess. :horrormirth:
Life is fucked and so am I. Just a few more weeks to go in the quarter, though.
Quote from: Al Qədic on May 24, 2019, 04:53:41 AM
I also learned that one of my high school teachers (barely interacted with him on a teacher to student level, but interned in his classroom for a bit in junior year, and he seemed like a nice guy) got arrested for...well, this is a high school we're talking about, you can guess. :horrormirth:
yeah, my freshman health teacher, who i
liked, got arrested for banging students - in his classroom no less. i wanna fight adults who do that to kids.
Happy Towel Day 2019, all. To add to the long list of useful things a towel can be used for, I recommend wearing towels of all fabrics and colors, especially on and around the cranial region. Now, anyone can make use of this trick, but in the right place and with the right skin color, you can really excite the local wildlife of the planet and continent of your choosing.
Particularly daring hitchhikers have reported that older, paler members of the neo-Magrathean species will froth at the mouth, huddle together into what the locals call "news rooms", and berate the wearer (in an odd, half-baked sort of grunting language), saying that their choice of towel accessorization is an affront to one of their many gods, which are of course just mass-hallucinations which lay dominion over their psyches. Threats of violence are commonly heard but rarely carried through, though there is much talk of foreign policy and its related struggles, so interstellar diplomats, beware! Thank goodness for Babel fish, though, eh? Without them, it would be hard to tell what passes as language with these older specimens.
In any case, do continue to sass any hoopy froods you may bump into, and enjoy some videos for your viewing pleasure.
https://youtu.be/64C0cGeb2_Y
https://youtu.be/htxUPNtdfPM
Quote from: Juana on May 24, 2019, 04:57:35 PM
Quote from: Al Qədic on May 24, 2019, 04:53:41 AM
I also learned that one of my high school teachers (barely interacted with him on a teacher to student level, but interned in his classroom for a bit in junior year, and he seemed like a nice guy) got arrested for...well, this is a high school we're talking about, you can guess. :horrormirth:
yeah, my freshman health teacher, who i liked, got arrested for banging students - in his classroom no less. i wanna fight adults who do that to kids.
at my school it was the guy who taught cooking classes. I remember one of the girls in our class even had her suspicions before he was fired, cuz apparently he'd been ogling her pretty noticeably.
Good fucking christ, howl, whoever that is had it coming but every time I see someone crying it hurts me...
Quote from: Fujikoma on May 28, 2019, 01:28:10 AM
Good fucking christ, howl, whoever that is had it coming but every time I see someone crying it hurts me...
When Theresa May cries an angel gets its wings.
Quote from: Fujikoma on May 28, 2019, 01:28:10 AM
Good fucking christ, howl, whoever that is had it coming but every time I see someone crying it hurts me...
Her policies while Home Office Minister saw British citizens being deported to places like Jamaica because of ridiculous burdens of proof placed on people to show that they lived here.
It also saw 90,000 students banned from entering the country and branded cheaters without due process.
It saw vans driving around ethnic minority areas of London telling immigrants to "go home", echoing some very vile 1970s racist propaganda.
And all that was before she became PM.
Don't feel sorry for her.
Quote from: Cain on May 28, 2019, 05:37:13 PM
Quote from: Fujikoma on May 28, 2019, 01:28:10 AM
Good fucking christ, howl, whoever that is had it coming but every time I see someone crying it hurts me...
Her policies while Home Office Minister saw British citizens being deported to places like Jamaica because of ridiculous burdens of proof placed on people to show that they lived here.
It also saw 90,000 students banned from entering the country and branded cheaters without due process.
It saw vans driving around ethnic minority areas of London telling immigrants to "go home", echoing some very vile 1970s racist propaganda.
And all that was before she became PM.
Don't feel sorry for her.
Yeah, ^^^ this. I get it - other people's pain upsets me but also? Sometimes they fucking
deserve it. She is reaping what she has sown.
Been my longest hiatus since I first stumbled across these boards over 10 years ago.
I think my last update was I fell off a mountain and didn't die? Specifically this (https://www.denverpost.com/2017/05/28/climber-falls-boulder-canyon/)
Two years later, well, finished the degree finally. Got engaged. Currently interviewing for new job. Still in Denver.
Until next time.
(https://pics.me.me/do-ya-like-dags-28536909.png)
Yes, yes I do
welcome back dude, glad you're still kickin after that horrible mountain experience
Yeah I like Dags. I like caravans not falling off of mountains more though
In this week's edition of "Goddamnit, people" news:
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https://youtu.be/TRHcHJceFe0
"It's MY waifuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!"
I just bought my fourth copy of the Rubiyyat of Omar Khayyam. I'm starting to feel like Mel Gibson in Conspiracy Theory, collecting all those copies of Catcher in the Rye. It's such a beautiful poem though!
Right now I'm reading this book about Sufism by Idries Shah, and he syas that Omar Khayyam hid an esoteric message in the poem. Some aspects of this Sufic reading it were lost in the Fitzgerald "translation", but some remain. I just learned that Idries Shah created his own translation of the original Rubiyyat, which preserves the Sufic meaning. So I had to have it.
Soon (ie when I finish reading about him), I'm going to make a thread about the original Omar Khayyam. It's interesting -- it's very likely that teenage Kerry Thornely was not aware of the mystical depth of this name he chose, I suspect he just loved that so many of the poems are about getting drunk. But who knows. There's a lot of interesting stuff here which may tell us something about Discordia too.
I sometimes feel that Discordians at their best are really just shitty Sufis.
FB Discordians have me preferring the term "shitty sufi".
Quote from: Hoopla! on June 04, 2019, 04:29:39 PM
FB Discordians have me preferring the term "shitty sufi".
Tru dat.
I had some shitty Sufi once. Gave me the runs. That's the last time I get mine from a gas station.
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on June 04, 2019, 06:50:16 PM
I had some shitty Sufi once. Gave me the runs. That's the last time I get mine from a gas station.
Your guts are weak, and will not survive the winter.
hell with climate change starting to show up, we might not survive the summer
Omar Khayyam is name of worst curry house in Stirlingshire (possibly the entire christendom) So fuck that prick. Omar Khayyam may have wisdom and enlightenment all dripping out the wazzoo but his onion bhajis suck weasel dick! :argh!:
If he was that enlightened he would make something edible, I agree
so its been a while since i mentioned what i'm up to on this place so here goes: was working with autistic?mentally handicapped adults, decided 15 bux an hour was way too little pay to get slapped around for no reason with little behavioral training, quit that to try my hand at doing Lyft full time while swearing to work on my podcast which i defied all expectation by ACTUALLY DOING, realized I had chosen to pursue full-time rideshare driving at the exact point in history where that's no longer a viable income source, and went crawling back to the mental health field to work with autistic children for 17 bux an hour. So a net gain, overall.
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on June 07, 2019, 04:00:38 AM
so its been a while since i mentioned what i'm up to on this place so here goes: was working with autistic?mentally handicapped adults, decided 15 bux an hour was way too little pay to get slapped around for no reason with little behavioral training, quit that to try my hand at doing Lyft full time while swearing to work on my podcast which i defied all expectation by ACTUALLY DOING, realized I had chosen to pursue full-time rideshare driving at the exact point in history where that's no longer a viable income source, and went crawling back to the mental health field to work with autistic children for 17 bux an hour. So a net gain, overall.
It's weird how people get really good at something, but it's not always what they like. A properly ordered universe would have peoples' aptitudes match their preferences.
link to podcast?
I know right? Like on paper I should be some kind of theater kid, but it just never happened.
Link to podcast: https://anchor.fm/dorksanddiscourse
Is it weird that I need to catch a buzz to watch Handmaid's tale?
Without at least 3 beers in me, it just stresses me out and I start shopping for guns, again.
Seems unhealthy on maybe a couple of levels.
Quote from: Emo Howard on June 08, 2019, 09:28:01 AM
Is it weird that I need to catch a buzz to watch Handmaid's tale?
Without at least 3 beers in me, it just stresses me out and I start shopping for guns, again.
Seems unhealthy on maybe a couple of levels.
As someone who recently started watching that show, I can't blame you. The political commentary embedded into the plot is both disgusting and fascinating as hell.
Pretty sure my coworkers at shit second job were exchanging some kind of white drug that comes in little plastic bags. Normally I wouldn't give a shit, but the boss is also my friend and roommate, so it puts me in a rather difficult position. The way I see it is I have two options: ignore it and if they do it again, go, "you know that I live with the boss, right? I don't care of you like drugs, but don't be obvious about having them on you here" or I can be like, "check the security cameras from last night, look for blatant stupidity."
On the bright side, I only need to work there for 16 more days total in order to have enough money until September 20, when regular paychecks for TAing resume. Also, I don't have a wedding to pay for anymore, so, regular monthly sacrifice no longer occurs.
Quote from: Al Qədic on June 09, 2019, 07:14:51 AM
Quote from: Emo Howard on June 08, 2019, 09:28:01 AM
Is it weird that I need to catch a buzz to watch Handmaid's tale?
Without at least 3 beers in me, it just stresses me out and I start shopping for guns, again.
Seems unhealthy on maybe a couple of levels.
As someone who recently started watching that show, I can't blame you. The political commentary embedded into the plot is both disgusting and fascinating as hell.
Thing is, I'm starting a diet, which is going to mean cutting out the 3 or 4 beers after work 5-6 nights a week. I've spent about a third of my gun budget for the year, and the year is about a third over, so I'm good there. But now that I'm giving up my crutch, things are bound to escalate.
Fortunately, I'll have more money since I'm not spending it on booze anymore. So I guess it works out.
I forgot to bookmark it, I can't think of the right keywords to save my life, and I can't remember what threads have a link to it; anyone remember the thread where a challenge to let Eris fuck someone's shit for 30 days resulted in Cram (probably Cram, might've been LMNO) writing a parable about death by madness mantra? That was a good'un, I wanna save that for later.
That was LMNO, I think it's in Literate Chaotic.
I'm pretty sure the thread is called thirty days of Eris
The thread title is "An error has occurred!". It was LMNO and the fun begins here: https://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php/topic,24245.msg837915.html#msg837915
Quote from: nullified on March 22, 2019, 01:03:30 AM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on March 22, 2019, 12:39:06 AM
What's this, people are posting? YES.
But what's this, it's jobs and insurance and the DMV? :?
Cram's fake doctor is cool, though. :lulz:
By god, I saw your avatar and had flashbacks to the drug threads. It was like seeing the moment of my death from outside of my body.
DRUGZ AND RHWN AND YR CHIDREN AND...never mind.
GO RAPTORS!!!!
woot woooooot
:noodledance:
So tomorow or Monday, I find out if I have in fact found the worst job yet.
Which would be better than what I have now.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on June 14, 2019, 06:00:06 AM
So tomorow or Monday, I find out if I have in fact found the worst job yet.
Which would be better than what I have now.
I wish you luck, if that's appropriate.
Quote from: Juana on June 14, 2019, 08:21:44 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on June 14, 2019, 06:00:06 AM
So tomorow or Monday, I find out if I have in fact found the worst job yet.
Which would be better than what I have now.
I wish you luck, if that's appropriate.
Thank you. I found out today that I do in fact have the worst job in the world now. :)
So this afternoon I was talking to a guy I knew back in Chicago. He was my friend's nephew, really smart kid.
Now he's got his masters in mathematics from the University of Chicago, and I was left in the dust. I mean, it's not that I forgot all that much of math (I have), but that I never even heard of half the shit he's talking about.
I never thought of differential equations as "the end of the beginning," but I do now.
We had a couple of "pure mathematics" types when I was doing the logic courses in Philosophy.
I don't think anyone understands them.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on June 14, 2019, 10:03:32 PM
Quote from: Juana on June 14, 2019, 08:21:44 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on June 14, 2019, 06:00:06 AM
So tomorow or Monday, I find out if I have in fact found the worst job yet.
Which would be better than what I have now.
I wish you luck, if that's appropriate.
Thank you. I found out today that I do in fact have the worst job in the world now. :)
Oof. Sorry to hear
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on June 15, 2019, 07:34:39 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on June 14, 2019, 10:03:32 PM
Quote from: Juana on June 14, 2019, 08:21:44 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on June 14, 2019, 06:00:06 AM
So tomorow or Monday, I find out if I have in fact found the worst job yet.
Which would be better than what I have now.
I wish you luck, if that's appropriate.
Thank you. I found out today that I do in fact have the worst job in the world now. :)
Oof. Sorry to hear
I am remarkably okay with that. It beats hustling for PLC programming gigs.
Woke up at 8:30 from a nap, now it's 10, and I'm in Tennessee and jet lagged as hell. Hooray for summer.
With a lot of help, a lot of frustration, and a lot of digging for the perfect solutions to a problem that might as well be hand tailored to prevent me from making headway...
I can now kind of read Lua, and am on my way to maybe writing some. It's intimidating and scary since I couldn't even literally see large blocks of code for most of my life, sort of like dyslexia but weirdly specific.
But I'm here now, and while Lua is basically fucking worthless, it's what I can do, and the roadblocks I hit with other languages I've found myself sort of able to read (ability to do things I can motivate myself with, decent resources, literally anyone willing to explain things to me without trying to be a smug bastard about it) do not exist here.
Lua is built for video game stupidity, has resources designed to make you feel like a genius, and lots of regular people who don't consider themselves technically inclined who can write it. I have no fucking excuses.
So...
It might happen! I might write a big code for the first time in my godforsaken life! It's a big day!
My digital LED clock stopped working. (It was a novelty clock, that supported binary and hexadecimal display, but I never used those functions; I just wanted a decent clock that showed the date and time in seconds, and this is what I got.) At first, I thought there had been a power outage, and it had just reset itself, but not only could I not set the time anymore, but the display began to flicker.
I opened it up with considerable difficulty; instead of being held together with screws, there were six of those plastic springy-wedge locking thingies, which are impossible to defeat without a flat-blade screwdriver, which inevitably scratches the case.
The guts of the device were worse. Ignoring the oxidized flux residue, the hand soldering was so horrible it belonged in a text book of How Not to Do it. Burn marks, excessive solder, insufficient solder, soldering on the wrong side... I already had more skill than that after two hours practice under the disapproving glare of one of our manufacturing staff. I can only assume that it was assembled by a baboon.
The worst of it? There was a small circuit board that had been bodged onto the main PCB. Not screwed on; it was just sort of flopping, held on by a couple of wire leads, and maybe a thin strip of glue. There was nothing preventing the metal case of the crystal(?) on that board from making contact with two pins on the main PCB. Definitely not IPC-compliant.
I found a part number on that small board, and discovered that it was actually the guts of one of those cheap AA-battery powered mechanical wall clocks. Whoever designed this disaster apparently couldn't figure out the "clock" part of making a clock, so they just sort of tacked one inside the box. This may have explained why it gained about a minute a month.
I tried powering it up with the case off, but it didn't even flicker. Probed the power connector, but there was hardly any voltage; there was a dead short somewhere.
But, at this point, I didn't care enough to try debugging further. I ordered a raspberry pi and a TFT display from digikey. I'm going to make my own clock. You want something done right, you gotta do it yourself.
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on June 24, 2019, 11:52:52 PM
My digital LED clock stopped working. (It was a novelty clock, that supported binary and hexadecimal display, but I never used those functions; I just wanted a decent clock that showed the date and time in seconds, and this is what I got.) At first, I thought there had been a power outage, and it had just reset itself, but not only could I not set the time anymore, but the display began to flicker.
I opened it up with considerable difficulty; instead of being held together with screws, there were six of those plastic springy-wedge locking thingies, which are impossible to defeat without a flat-blade screwdriver, which inevitably scratches the case.
The guts of the device were worse. Ignoring the oxidized flux residue, the hand soldering was so horrible it belonged in a text book of How Not to Do it. Burn marks, excessive solder, insufficient solder, soldering on the wrong side... I already had more skill than that after two hours practice under the disapproving glare of one of our manufacturing staff. I can only assume that it was assembled by a baboon.
The worst of it? There was a small circuit board that had been bodged onto the main PCB. Not screwed on; it was just sort of flopping, held on by a couple of wire leads, and maybe a thin strip of glue. There was nothing preventing the metal case of the crystal(?) on that board from making contact with two pins on the main PCB. Definitely not IPC-compliant.
I found a part number on that small board, and discovered that it was actually the guts of one of those cheap AA-battery powered mechanical wall clocks. Whoever designed this disaster apparently couldn't figure out the "clock" part of making a clock, so they just sort of tacked one inside the box. This may have explained why it gained about a minute a month.
I tried powering it up with the case off, but it didn't even flicker. Probed the power connector, but there was hardly any voltage; there was a dead short somewhere.
But, at this point, I didn't care enough to try debugging further. I ordered a raspberry pi and a TFT display from digikey. I'm going to make my own clock. You want something done right, you gotta do it yourself.
REAL dilettantes make their own wind up clocks.
:snob:
Quote from: Doktor Howl on June 25, 2019, 12:48:15 AM
REAL dilettantes make their own wind up clocks.
:snob:
Now that you mention it, a steam-driven self-winding mechanical clock, that used nuclear power to produce the steam (Polonium-210, let's say) would be pretty nifty.
(Edit - hit the modify button instead of the respond button. - Dok)
Then you can bring it to school, and have deranged people make conspiracy theories about you for forever
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on June 25, 2019, 02:08:39 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on June 25, 2019, 12:48:15 AM
REAL dilettantes make their own wind up clocks.
:snob:
Now that you mention it, a steam-driven self-winding mechanical clock, that used nuclear power to produce the steam (Polonium-210, let's say) would be pretty nifty.
(Edit - hit the modify button instead of the respond button. - Dok)
They called me
mad.
Quote from: Cain on June 25, 2019, 02:10:35 AM
Then you can bring it to school, and have deranged people make conspiracy theories about you for forever
Oh, shit. That thing. :lulz:
Quote from: Doktor Howl on June 25, 2019, 02:11:29 AM
Quote from: Cain on June 25, 2019, 02:10:35 AM
Then you can bring it to school, and have deranged people make conspiracy theories about you for forever
Oh, shit. That thing. :lulz:
Tell them you're a Mason. And Jewish. They'll shit themselves to death.
So, where is everyone? Legends tell that once the place was thriving and filled with actual people. For some reason i keep refreshing the page like this was some social media. Does anything happen like, ever?
Quote from: TastyCle on July 01, 2019, 01:01:26 PM
So, where is everyone? Legends tell that once the place was thriving and filled with actual people. For some reason i keep refreshing the page like this was some social media. Does anything happen like, ever?
Yes, but we only talk in the Secret Forum now.
Quote from: TastyCle on July 01, 2019, 01:01:26 PM
So, where is everyone? Legends tell that once the place was thriving and filled with actual people. For some reason i keep refreshing the page like this was some social media. Does anything happen like, ever?
We're still here, but it's a different place.
I haven't done an open bar thing in a while; Work is... work (I no longer make things, I write up plans how to make things) and I feel like someone tricked me into doing something less fun then I was. It's also a massive time sink so the few hobbies I have get neglected (cough fix the css in the mobile theme)
I have been sporadically doing a Call of Cthulu game with experimental scenarios and I am looking forward to trying out Fiasco since Flirtini recommended it and I picked up a copy.
After a shameful year and a half of no reading I have started back with some Mary Renault stuff (The King must die and the Persian Boy) oh and Johnathan Hickmans The Black Monday Murders, that's really good.
So, how are things? (you, yes you reading this)
short answer: no. Long answer: nooooooooooooooooooooope.
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on July 01, 2019, 11:49:14 PM
short answer: no. Long answer: nooooooooooooooooooooope.
(https://media.giphy.com/media/b4pPnoO1QDd1C/giphy.gif)
Quote from: TastyCle on July 01, 2019, 01:01:26 PM
So, where is everyone? Legends tell that once the place was thriving and filled with actual people. For some reason i keep refreshing the page like this was some social media. Does anything happen like, ever?
Dude, Facebook killed just about every forum on the internet. This place puked out in 2015.
Which was actually a pretty good showing, IMO. Apart from the very largest forums, most of them croaked out well before.
Quote from: Cain on July 02, 2019, 02:02:52 AM
Which was actually a pretty good showing, IMO. Apart from the very largest forums, most of them croaked out well before.
debatepolitics is still there, and maybe 2-3 more that I know of.
I define "still there" as "people posting about as fast I as I can keep up."
My favorite forum peoples went to facebook and then migrated to discord.
Quote from: TastyCle on July 01, 2019, 01:01:26 PM
So, where is everyone? Legends tell that once the place was thriving and filled with actual people. For some reason i keep refreshing the page like this was some social media. Does anything happen like, ever?
Purity tests are a real bitch
Quote from: Faust on July 01, 2019, 11:30:44 PM
So, how are things? (you, yes you reading this)
I can't complain, but I want to.
I'm writing a parable, amassing hundreds of pictures for a collage, one of my favorite mobile games just got its last major update sans some bug fixes and tweaks down the road, I have a psych eval scheduled Wednesday for the sake of starting transition, and I'm heading to a local pride event in a couple weeks with my adorably-proud-and-loving mother.
I'm also being reminded of my immediate family's stagnating problems more often than I'd like, have a rough month ahead of me in the form of a fast-paced writing class that will surely be as Bureaucratic as it's predecessors were, and, well, LDRs are always fun.
Life is good. But the fact that I don't truly know how good I have it means that sometimes life feels like shit.
I've seen people shitpost in facebook. They are not fun at all.
Quote from: Faust on July 01, 2019, 11:30:44 PM
So, how are things? (you, yes you reading this)
I decided that university is for nerds, mainly because they didn't let me in. So now I'm gonna get a real job from trade school. How does one convince to itself and ones around it that it's actually unhealthy to be intellectual. Do I need become an unronical Pol Pot fangirl or something to save my ego?
I have not had a broken rib for decades. I forgot how Goddamn annoying it is. Every time you move, God puts a cigarette out on you.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 03, 2019, 02:36:51 AM
I have not had a broken rib for decades. I forgot how Goddamn annoying it is. Every time you move, God puts a cigarette out on you.
How did that happen? (Hopefully putting the fear of "Bob" into some nazis.)
Dear Tastycle,
if discordians no here
why me a dog can type???
Good Boy!
Mild bruised rib from the protest yesterday. Some dumb fuck decided his commute was more important than the march and proceeded to ride his bike through. I was blocking traffic, and don't fucking play around.
You know, just in case you thought yelling at buildings was over or something.
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 03, 2019, 06:32:56 PM
Mild bruised rib from the protest yesterday. Some dumb fuck decided his commute was more important than the march and proceeded to ride his bike through. I was blocking traffic, and don't fucking play around.
You know, just in case you thought yelling at buildings was over or something.
Oof. Glad you're okayish
Quote from: TastyCle on July 01, 2019, 01:01:26 PM
So, where is everyone? Legends tell that once the place was thriving and filled with actual people. For some reason i keep refreshing the page like this was some social media. Does anything happen like, ever?
My participation declining here coincides with me going back to school to finish my bachelor's. I'm not saying that's the only reason, of course, but it is a significant one. I'm still in school--I only have my Master's thesis left, as well as applying to PhD programs and slogging through a few more years. I found that I had less to contribute. The last major thing I remember doing is illustrations on demand because I felt like drawing
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 03, 2019, 06:32:56 PM
Mild bruised rib from the protest yesterday. Some dumb fuck decided his commute was more important than the march and proceeded to ride his bike through. I was blocking traffic, and don't fucking play around.
You know, just in case you thought yelling at buildings was over or something.
Damn.
Speedy recovery, and I hope his ass was jailed (and very late for work.) Surely there was police presence and they made themselves useful for once, rather than committing their usual gross abuses? Or an I being a hopeless idealist?
Quote from: TastyCle on July 02, 2019, 07:38:53 AM
I've seen people shitpost in facebook. They are not fun at all.
Quote from: Faust on July 01, 2019, 11:30:44 PM
So, how are things? (you, yes you reading this)
I decided that university is for nerds, mainly because they didn't let me in. So now I'm gonna get a real job from trade school. How does one convince to itself and ones around it that it's actually unhealthy to be intellectual. Do I need become an unronical Pol Pot fangirl or something to save my ego?
You could always cultivate an attitude of disdain toward the institutions of indoctrination, while still pursuing your own intellectual improvement independently.
Quote from: Pergamos on July 03, 2019, 09:41:09 PM
Quote from: TastyCle on July 02, 2019, 07:38:53 AM
I've seen people shitpost in facebook. They are not fun at all.
Quote from: Faust on July 01, 2019, 11:30:44 PM
So, how are things? (you, yes you reading this)
I decided that university is for nerds, mainly because they didn't let me in. So now I'm gonna get a real job from trade school. How does one convince to itself and ones around it that it's actually unhealthy to be intellectual. Do I need become an unronical Pol Pot fangirl or something to save my ego?
You could always cultivate an attitude of disdain toward the institutions of indoctrination, while still pursuing your own intellectual improvement independently.
My motivation has been lacking since I blew my brains with various chemicals. That's totally on the institution though.
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 03, 2019, 06:32:56 PM
Mild bruised rib from the protest yesterday. Some dumb fuck decided his commute was more important than the march and proceeded to ride his bike through. I was blocking traffic, and don't fucking play around.
You know, just in case you thought yelling at buildings was over or something.
I feel your pain.
Quote from: kiss my axe on July 03, 2019, 11:51:58 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 03, 2019, 02:36:51 AM
I have not had a broken rib for decades. I forgot how Goddamn annoying it is. Every time you move, God puts a cigarette out on you.
How did that happen? (Hopefully putting the fear of "Bob" into some nazis.)
We had a little problem with aluminum at work. Fire may have been involved.
Quote from: TastyCle on July 02, 2019, 07:38:53 AM
I've seen people shitpost in facebook. They are not fun at all.
Quote from: Faust on July 01, 2019, 11:30:44 PM
So, how are things? (you, yes you reading this)
I decided that university is for nerds, mainly because they didn't let me in. So now I'm gonna get a real job from trade school. How does one convince to itself and ones around it that it's actually unhealthy to be intellectual. Do I need become an unronical Pol Pot fangirl or something to save my ego?
Nothing wrong with the trades, but there is nothing more dismal and banal than a tradesman griping about college kids.
Quote from: kiss my axe on July 03, 2019, 08:23:20 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 03, 2019, 06:32:56 PM
Mild bruised rib from the protest yesterday. Some dumb fuck decided his commute was more important than the march and proceeded to ride his bike through. I was blocking traffic, and don't fucking play around.
You know, just in case you thought yelling at buildings was over or something.
Damn.
Speedy recovery, and I hope his ass was jailed (and very late for work.) Surely there was police presence and they made themselves useful for once, rather than committing their usual gross abuses? Or an I being a hopeless idealist?
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: no
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 04, 2019, 12:51:31 AM
Quote from: TastyCle on July 02, 2019, 07:38:53 AM
I've seen people shitpost in facebook. They are not fun at all.
Quote from: Faust on July 01, 2019, 11:30:44 PM
So, how are things? (you, yes you reading this)
I decided that university is for nerds, mainly because they didn't let me in. So now I'm gonna get a real job from trade school. How does one convince to itself and ones around it that it's actually unhealthy to be intellectual. Do I need become an unronical Pol Pot fangirl or something to save my ego?
Nothing wrong with the trades, but there is nothing more dismal and banal than a tradesman griping about college kids.
Yep. Aside from the fact that college give you formal education in the basics of a range of subjects before you specialize, it makes you defend your ideas. It's not the only way to get those skills but if your GPA is on the line it's going to motivate you to do it. It also hopefully makes one realize that you're scratching the surface of subjects and respect expertise.
Society needs both tradespeople and academics.
On the front of how I'm doing, i have 8 more shifts at my second job, and I'm very much looking forward to getting my weekends back, being able to do make progress on my research, getting my weekends back and spending more time with my wife. Also not taking the train home at night, missing the last bus and having to weigh the options of paying for a rideshare or walking for 90 minutes home
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 04, 2019, 03:33:46 AM
Quote from: kiss my axe on July 03, 2019, 08:23:20 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 03, 2019, 06:32:56 PM
Mild bruised rib from the protest yesterday. Some dumb fuck decided his commute was more important than the march and proceeded to ride his bike through. I was blocking traffic, and don't fucking play around.
You know, just in case you thought yelling at buildings was over or something.
Damn.
Speedy recovery, and I hope his ass was jailed (and very late for work.) Surely there was police presence and they made themselves useful for once, rather than committing their usual gross abuses? Or an I being a hopeless idealist?
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: no
:horrormirth: :horrormirth: :horrormirth: :horrormirth:
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on July 04, 2019, 06:27:40 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 04, 2019, 12:51:31 AM
Quote from: TastyCle on July 02, 2019, 07:38:53 AM
I've seen people shitpost in facebook. They are not fun at all.
Quote from: Faust on July 01, 2019, 11:30:44 PM
So, how are things? (you, yes you reading this)
I decided that university is for nerds, mainly because they didn't let me in. So now I'm gonna get a real job from trade school. How does one convince to itself and ones around it that it's actually unhealthy to be intellectual. Do I need become an unronical Pol Pot fangirl or something to save my ego?
Nothing wrong with the trades, but there is nothing more dismal and banal than a tradesman griping about college kids.
Yep. Aside from the fact that college give you formal education in the basics of a range of subjects before you specialize, it makes you defend your ideas. It's not the only way to get those skills but if your GPA is on the line it's going to motivate you to do it. It also hopefully makes one realize that you're scratching the surface of subjects and respect expertise.
Society needs both tradespeople and academics.
I'm thinking about going to uni after getting a trade. Then I could shout at people for being detached from the reality.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 04, 2019, 12:49:29 AM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 03, 2019, 06:32:56 PM
Mild bruised rib from the protest yesterday. Some dumb fuck decided his commute was more important than the march and proceeded to ride his bike through. I was blocking traffic, and don't fucking play around.
You know, just in case you thought yelling at buildings was over or something.
I feel your pain.
Ribs are one thing I've never had. Which is weird, given Tae Kwon Do is at least 50% kicking people in the ribs (when you can't get the head).
But everything I've heard suggests I'm not missing out on a great experience.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 04, 2019, 12:49:29 AM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 03, 2019, 06:32:56 PM
Mild bruised rib from the protest yesterday. Some dumb fuck decided his commute was more important than the march and proceeded to ride his bike through. I was blocking traffic, and don't fucking play around.
You know, just in case you thought yelling at buildings was over or something.
I feel your pain.
It's a really mild bruise, nothing like a crack or anything. Sorry to hear you got the worse end
Hey, does the Scrid still tend bar?
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 04, 2019, 01:57:41 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 04, 2019, 12:49:29 AM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 03, 2019, 06:32:56 PM
Mild bruised rib from the protest yesterday. Some dumb fuck decided his commute was more important than the march and proceeded to ride his bike through. I was blocking traffic, and don't fucking play around.
You know, just in case you thought yelling at buildings was over or something.
I feel your pain.
It's a really mild bruise, nothing like a crack or anything. Sorry to hear you got the worse end
I'll heal. Just not as fast as I used to, for reasons that are not understood.
By which I mean, "I'm in denial. I am actually still 22 years old and all of this is a temporary inconvenience."
Quote from: Cramulus on July 03, 2019, 01:15:28 PM
Dear Tastycle,
if discordians no here
why me a dog can type???
Fuck, I must be hallucinating again.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 04, 2019, 10:01:27 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 04, 2019, 01:57:41 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 04, 2019, 12:49:29 AM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 03, 2019, 06:32:56 PM
Mild bruised rib from the protest yesterday. Some dumb fuck decided his commute was more important than the march and proceeded to ride his bike through. I was blocking traffic, and don't fucking play around.
You know, just in case you thought yelling at buildings was over or something.
I feel your pain.
It's a really mild bruise, nothing like a crack or anything. Sorry to hear you got the worse end
I'll heal. Just not as fast as I used to, for reasons that are not understood.
By which I mean, "I'm in denial. I am actually still 22 years old and all of this is a temporary inconvenience."
Sympathies to both of you. For what it's worth strapping ice and bags of cold vegetables got me through my last couple a bit easier but they really are a fucker. In the plus side in around 3months you'll notice it doesn't hurt to breathe anymore and the HATE diminishes for a moment.
Milkshakes are evil now, according to pundits, and people being pelted with milkshakes.
https://youtu.be/mIjsdrLtXyM
Honestly, now I'm thirsty for a milkshake...hey bartender, make yourself useful. Extra soy, hold the concrete! :lol:
Quote from: Al Qədic on July 06, 2019, 04:10:57 AM
Milkshakes are evil now, according to pundits, and people being pelted with milkshakes.
https://youtu.be/mIjsdrLtXyM
Honestly, now I'm thirsty for a milkshake...hey bartender, make yourself useful. Extra soy, hold the concrete! :lol:
How long before they pelt themselves with quick dry concrete milkshakes and blame it on the other side? I swear the victimization strategy is such an overused cliché and it always works.
Edit: also regarding the video in itself... its pretty good, but it would be 1000x times better if they would drop the "conservatives are dumb and idiotic" rhetoric... sure its gratifying if you agree, and it is my sentiment, but its divisive, if anyone from the other bandcamp listens to it, its gonna turn it off immediately and call it propaganda. Zero effort to gain converts and just preaching to the choir.
Quote from: The Johnny on July 06, 2019, 04:50:19 AM
Quote from: Al Qədic on July 06, 2019, 04:10:57 AM
Milkshakes are evil now, according to pundits, and people being pelted with milkshakes.
https://youtu.be/mIjsdrLtXyM
Honestly, now I'm thirsty for a milkshake...hey bartender, make yourself useful. Extra soy, hold the concrete! :lol:
How long before they pelt themselves with quick dry concrete milkshakes and blame it on the other side? I swear the victimization strategy is such an overused cliché and it always works.
Edit: also regarding the video in itself... its pretty good, but it would be 1000x times better if they would drop the "conservatives are dumb and idiotic" rhetoric... sure its gratifying if you agree, and it is my sentiment, but its divisive, if anyone from the other bandcamp listens to it, its gonna turn it off immediately and call it propaganda. Zero effort to gain converts and just preaching to the choir.
My biggest issue with that vid in particular is how Cenk tries to use the moral high ground as the reason the far left maybe shouldn't prod the Nazis too hard. Like, no, you already gave a good reason; this shit is illegal, often immoral, and the right always claps back like the idiots they are...but when we're talking about soaking white supremacists with lattes, who cares about being the better person?
As for TYT themselves; yeah, their slant is blatant and they know it, but preaching to the choir ain't the worst thing in the world when a lot of the unconverted are leaving vomit and flaming turds in every comment section. Not the best route to go down, but it's the one they're committed to, and they've made it work.
Besides if they don't do that, they're probably gonna be thought of as weak/bland and lose viewership, I do get it.
It might be something blatantly obvious, but, it seems that a lot of people overlook the important communication aspect of talking for yourself and arguing against a hypothetical individual.
Communication and rhetorics themselves are poisoned and degraded by hive mentality... I would say: don't ever make overstatements because your pack/gang is behind you to back you up and tell you youre right and dont talk to the opposition like youre talking to your own encampment.
I know given the context thats an unreasonable expectation, but thats how one needs to proceed if its gonna be anything more than an echo-chamber... between all the things that exist, theres things called "thought-terminating clichés", and those come from your side and from the opposition... from your side it encourages blind agreement, from the opposition it encourages blind disagreement... and calling someone idiotic, dumb, retarded, etc. is one of those "thought-terminating" phrases and deep-down we know its a cheap insult that is baseless... it takes more than retardation to be malicious, it's more of a matter of bending the truth for self convenience and personal interest. At least insult in an accurate manner...
Ok im done with my ranting, obviously this isnt directed at you... its just that Ive learned a lot from how identity politics is actually becoming a thing in my country when it previously was non-existant.
Without even clicking on that video, I knew it would be The Young Turks, just from Johnny's description.
Quote from: Junkenstein on July 05, 2019, 02:01:37 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 04, 2019, 10:01:27 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 04, 2019, 01:57:41 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 04, 2019, 12:49:29 AM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 03, 2019, 06:32:56 PM
Mild bruised rib from the protest yesterday. Some dumb fuck decided his commute was more important than the march and proceeded to ride his bike through. I was blocking traffic, and don't fucking play around.
You know, just in case you thought yelling at buildings was over or something.
I feel your pain.
It's a really mild bruise, nothing like a crack or anything. Sorry to hear you got the worse end
I'll heal. Just not as fast as I used to, for reasons that are not understood.
By which I mean, "I'm in denial. I am actually still 22 years old and all of this is a temporary inconvenience."
Sympathies to both of you. For what it's worth strapping ice and bags of cold vegetables got me through my last couple a bit easier but they really are a fucker. In the plus side in around 3months you'll notice it doesn't hurt to breathe anymore and the HATE diminishes for a moment.
I am getting used to sleeping on my left side.
Quote from: The Johnny on July 06, 2019, 06:15:58 AM
Communication and rhetorics themselves are poisoned and degraded by hive mentality... I would say: don't ever make overstatements because your pack/gang is behind you to back you up and tell you youre right and dont talk to the opposition like youre talking to your own encampment.
See "PD.com, circa 2013-2015" :lol:
Quote from: Al Qədic on July 06, 2019, 04:10:57 AM
Milkshakes are evil now, according to pundits, and people being pelted with milkshakes.
https://youtu.be/mIjsdrLtXyM
Honestly, now I'm thirsty for a milkshake...hey bartender, make yourself useful. Extra soy, hold the concrete! :lol:
The concrete milkshake thing is of course bullshit, but it's a GREAT idea.
My milkshake hit a proud boy in the head
It was concrete, and it cracked his Dome
Damn right, it cracked his Dome.
Nobody sorry that he wound up dead. X2
He was a skinhead
And nobody sorry
No political platform for
The fascist scum
Think they want some
So here it comes
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
My milkshake hit a proud boy in the head
It was concrete, and it cracked his Dome
Damn right, it cracked his Dome.
Nobody sorry that he wound up dead X2
I can see you're angry
Well I can show thee
Milkshakes that kill proud boys
They're not store bought
Just don't get caught
Mask up if you're smart
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
My milkshake hit a proud boy in the head
It was concrete, and it cracked his Dome
Damn right, it cracked his Dome.
Nobody sorry that he wound up dead X2
As to how I'm doing recently... Mix of good and bad. I lost my girlfriend. We're still friends but the relationship part of things is over. I also couldn't hold down the job I was working. The work was simple. The people were professional, even friendly. I just kept getting these massive anxiety attacks and even got physically ill on the line.
To make things more complicated by the end of July I'm leaving lacrosse and heading back to my hometown, there to live under my father's roof until I can get a job and an apartment of my own Once again.
There's more but I don't know that I'm ready to talk about it. Suffice it to say that I have a deep and Grievous difference of opinion with my family on a great many things. But we do love each other and I must depend upon them now more than ever as I attempt to pull my life together.
I hope all the rib injuries heal quickly. I've been quietly lurking for a while, but I hope to start posting more frequently in the future.
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on July 08, 2019, 09:19:03 AM
My milkshake hit a proud boy in the head
It was concrete, and it cracked his Dome
Damn right, it cracked his Dome.
Nobody sorry that he wound up dead. X2
He was a skinhead
And nobody sorry
No political platform for
The fascist scum
Think they want some
So here it comes
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
My milkshake hit a proud boy in the head
It was concrete, and it cracked his Dome
Damn right, it cracked his Dome.
Nobody sorry that he wound up dead X2
I can see you're angry
Well I can show thee
Milkshakes that kill proud boys
They're not store bought
Just don't get caught
Mask up if you're smart
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
My milkshake hit a proud boy in the head
It was concrete, and it cracked his Dome
Damn right, it cracked his Dome.
Nobody sorry that he wound up dead X2
How can that person be so wrong,
their mind so weak, their will so strong.
Making them to think is tough,
brainwashing isn't good enough.
They are bad and they are scary.
You too should become wary.
Things they're fearing make no sense
so we'll turn to violence.
Quote from: TastyCle on July 08, 2019, 02:16:27 PM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on July 08, 2019, 09:19:03 AM
My milkshake hit a proud boy in the head
It was concrete, and it cracked his Dome
Damn right, it cracked his Dome.
Nobody sorry that he wound up dead. X2
He was a skinhead
And nobody sorry
No political platform for
The fascist scum
Think they want some
So here it comes
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
My milkshake hit a proud boy in the head
It was concrete, and it cracked his Dome
Damn right, it cracked his Dome.
Nobody sorry that he wound up dead X2
I can see you're angry
Well I can show thee
Milkshakes that kill proud boys
They're not store bought
Just don't get caught
Mask up if you're smart
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
My milkshake hit a proud boy in the head
It was concrete, and it cracked his Dome
Damn right, it cracked his Dome.
Nobody sorry that he wound up dead X2
How can that person be so wrong,
their mind so weak, their will so strong.
Making them to think is tough,
brainwashing isn't good enough.
They are bad and they are scary.
You too should become wary.
Things they're fearing make no sense
so we'll turn to violence.
Violence has its place. Leaving fascists unbeaten is not a virtue.
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on July 08, 2019, 09:19:03 AM
My milkshake hit a proud boy in the head
It was concrete, and it cracked his Dome
Damn right, it cracked his Dome.
Nobody sorry that he wound up dead. X2
He was a skinhead
And nobody sorry
No political platform for
The fascist scum
Think they want some
So here it comes
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
My milkshake hit a proud boy in the head
It was concrete, and it cracked his Dome
Damn right, it cracked his Dome.
Nobody sorry that he wound up dead X2
I can see you're angry
Well I can show thee
Milkshakes that kill proud boys
They're not store bought
Just don't get caught
Mask up if you're smart
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
My milkshake hit a proud boy in the head
It was concrete, and it cracked his Dome
Damn right, it cracked his Dome.
Nobody sorry that he wound up dead X2
Damnit, I can tell when Dok parodies Mairzy Doats, but
you put
this shit in front of me and suddenly I can't figure out the tune.
Good song though, me like. :lol:
Quote from: Al Qədic on July 09, 2019, 04:09:51 AM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on July 08, 2019, 09:19:03 AM
My milkshake hit a proud boy in the head
It was concrete, and it cracked his Dome
Damn right, it cracked his Dome.
Nobody sorry that he wound up dead. X2
He was a skinhead
And nobody sorry
No political platform for
The fascist scum
Think they want some
So here it comes
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
My milkshake hit a proud boy in the head
It was concrete, and it cracked his Dome
Damn right, it cracked his Dome.
Nobody sorry that he wound up dead X2
I can see you're angry
Well I can show thee
Milkshakes that kill proud boys
They're not store bought
Just don't get caught
Mask up if you're smart
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
My milkshake hit a proud boy in the head
It was concrete, and it cracked his Dome
Damn right, it cracked his Dome.
Nobody sorry that he wound up dead X2
Damnit, I can tell when Dok parodies Mairzy Doats, but you put this shit in front of me and suddenly I can't figure out the tune.
Good song though, me like. :lol:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i4YutyVP7ig
There's a third verse to the song but It was late and I ran out of Creative Juice.
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on July 09, 2019, 04:17:53 AM
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i4YutyVP7ig
There's a third verse to the song but It was late and I ran out of Creative Juice.
The fact that I didn't recognize it from the word "milkshake" alone shows how tired I am from getting 5 hours of sleep this morning. :kingmeh:
Quote from: Al Qədic on July 09, 2019, 04:09:51 AM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on July 08, 2019, 09:19:03 AM
My milkshake hit a proud boy in the head
It was concrete, and it cracked his Dome
Damn right, it cracked his Dome.
Nobody sorry that he wound up dead. X2
He was a skinhead
And nobody sorry
No political platform for
The fascist scum
Think they want some
So here it comes
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
My milkshake hit a proud boy in the head
It was concrete, and it cracked his Dome
Damn right, it cracked his Dome.
Nobody sorry that he wound up dead X2
I can see you're angry
Well I can show thee
Milkshakes that kill proud boys
They're not store bought
Just don't get caught
Mask up if you're smart
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
My milkshake hit a proud boy in the head
It was concrete, and it cracked his Dome
Damn right, it cracked his Dome.
Nobody sorry that he wound up dead X2
Damnit, I can tell when Dok parodies Mairzy Doats, but you put this shit in front of me and suddenly I can't figure out the tune.
Good song though, me like. :lol:
"
Shit, I do PD Paradise and Bye Bye Discordian Pie, and I get remembered for Mairzy Doats.
I'm so alone. :sad:
So just out of curiosity since I've been out of the loop for awhile, who has left and who's here under new names? I see RWHN is back under a new name
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 09, 2019, 04:35:45 AM
Shit, I do PD Paradise and Bye Bye Discordian Pie, and I get remembered for Mairzy Doats.
I'm so alone. :sad:
You forget I'm still a pretty fresh newspag, Dok; haven't been around long enough to view them thar ye olde threades.
Good taste, you old bastard. :)
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on July 09, 2019, 05:09:02 AM
So just out of curiosity since I've been out of the loop for awhile, who has left and who's here under new names? I see RWHN is back under a new name
Yes, for now anyway
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 08, 2019, 11:55:13 PM
Quote from: TastyCle on July 08, 2019, 02:16:27 PM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on July 08, 2019, 09:19:03 AM
My milkshake hit a proud boy in the head
It was concrete, and it cracked his Dome
Damn right, it cracked his Dome.
Nobody sorry that he wound up dead. X2
He was a skinhead
And nobody sorry
No political platform for
The fascist scum
Think they want some
So here it comes
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
My milkshake hit a proud boy in the head
It was concrete, and it cracked his Dome
Damn right, it cracked his Dome.
Nobody sorry that he wound up dead X2
I can see you're angry
Well I can show thee
Milkshakes that kill proud boys
They're not store bought
Just don't get caught
Mask up if you're smart
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
My milkshake hit a proud boy in the head
It was concrete, and it cracked his Dome
Damn right, it cracked his Dome.
Nobody sorry that he wound up dead X2
How can that person be so wrong,
their mind so weak, their will so strong.
Making them to think is tough,
brainwashing isn't good enough.
They are bad and they are scary.
You too should become wary.
Things they're fearing make no sense
so we'll turn to violence.
Violence has its place. Leaving fascists unbeaten is not a virtue.
Yes! I love violence. Espcially against the people who threaten to use it on me and my friends!
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on July 09, 2019, 05:09:02 AM
So just out of curiosity since I've been out of the loop for awhile, who has left and who's here under new names? I see RWHN is back under a new name
The Johnny, the artist formerly known as Joh'Nyx, a.k.a. third world hyena.
But ok seriously, pretty much everyones gone, you dont recognize anyone not because they changed their name, its just that its actually new people.
EDIT:
Im not supposed to tell you, but Cramulus and Cain actually swapped usernames and identities - you see, thats why "Cramulus" (in reality now Cain) hasnt posted lately, its because hes in a deep infiltration mission at the Gurdujeff Institute.
And Im actually Kai, I underwent some years of deep-hypnosis and now im reformed under a new monicker, living a new life.
I'm AKK
Quote from: Cain on July 09, 2019, 12:09:30 PM
I'm AKK
Now now Cramulus, dont confuse our friend here, you need to go study more counter-intelligence manuals so you dont blow your cover.
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on July 09, 2019, 05:09:02 AM
So just out of curiosity since I've been out of the loop for awhile, who has left and who's here under new names? I see RWHN is back under a new name
IT'S A NARK
HE WANTS TO KNOW OUR NAMES
EVERYBODY ACT CASUAL
:tinfoilhat:
Quote from: TastyCle on July 09, 2019, 11:09:36 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 08, 2019, 11:55:13 PM
Quote from: TastyCle on July 08, 2019, 02:16:27 PM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on July 08, 2019, 09:19:03 AM
My milkshake hit a proud boy in the head
It was concrete, and it cracked his Dome
Damn right, it cracked his Dome.
Nobody sorry that he wound up dead. X2
He was a skinhead
And nobody sorry
No political platform for
The fascist scum
Think they want some
So here it comes
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
My milkshake hit a proud boy in the head
It was concrete, and it cracked his Dome
Damn right, it cracked his Dome.
Nobody sorry that he wound up dead X2
I can see you're angry
Well I can show thee
Milkshakes that kill proud boys
They're not store bought
Just don't get caught
Mask up if you're smart
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
My milkshake hit a proud boy in the head
It was concrete, and it cracked his Dome
Damn right, it cracked his Dome.
Nobody sorry that he wound up dead X2
How can that person be so wrong,
their mind so weak, their will so strong.
Making them to think is tough,
brainwashing isn't good enough.
They are bad and they are scary.
You too should become wary.
Things they're fearing make no sense
so we'll turn to violence.
Violence has its place. Leaving fascists unbeaten is not a virtue.
Yes! I love violence. Espcially against the people who threaten to use it on me and my friends!
This one's cute
Also, hiya Twid.
I bought new running shoes. Actually went for a jog. The first in... um... 3 years?
I am so out of shape despite not looking it.
Your typing looks fine to me.
When I see a "How's my driving" sign on the back of a vehicle, I often have the urge to call the number and say, "Your driving is okay."
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on July 09, 2019, 02:41:26 PM
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on July 09, 2019, 05:09:02 AM
So just out of curiosity since I've been out of the loop for awhile, who has left and who's here under new names? I see RWHN is back under a new name
IT'S A NARK
HE WANTS TO KNOW OUR NAMES
EVERYBODY ACT CASUAL
:tinfoilhat:
Spoken like someone who hasn't been here long
Quote from: The Johnny on July 09, 2019, 12:06:46 PM
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on July 09, 2019, 05:09:02 AM
So just out of curiosity since I've been out of the loop for awhile, who has left and who's here under new names? I see RWHN is back under a new name
The Johnny, the artist formerly known as Joh'Nyx, a.k.a. third world hyena.
But ok seriously, pretty much everyones gone, you dont recognize anyone not because they changed their name, its just that its actually new people.
EDIT:
Im not supposed to tell you, but Cramulus and Cain actually swapped usernames and identities - you see, thats why "Cramulus" (in reality now Cain) hasnt posted lately, its because hes in a deep infiltration mission at the Gurdujeff Institute.
And Im actually Kai, I underwent some years of deep-hypnosis and now im reformed under a new monicker, living a new life.
I kinda figured (the true parts, that is), just wanted to make sure
Quote from: Norman on July 09, 2019, 11:06:51 AM
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on July 09, 2019, 05:09:02 AM
So just out of curiosity since I've been out of the loop for awhile, who has left and who's here under new names? I see RWHN is back under a new name
Yes, for now anyway
Cheers, like
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 09, 2019, 04:35:45 AM
Quote from: Al Qədic on July 09, 2019, 04:09:51 AM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on July 08, 2019, 09:19:03 AM
My milkshake hit a proud boy in the head
It was concrete, and it cracked his Dome
Damn right, it cracked his Dome.
Nobody sorry that he wound up dead. X2
He was a skinhead
And nobody sorry
No political platform for
The fascist scum
Think they want some
So here it comes
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
My milkshake hit a proud boy in the head
It was concrete, and it cracked his Dome
Damn right, it cracked his Dome.
Nobody sorry that he wound up dead X2
I can see you're angry
Well I can show thee
Milkshakes that kill proud boys
They're not store bought
Just don't get caught
Mask up if you're smart
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
My milkshake hit a proud boy in the head
It was concrete, and it cracked his Dome
Damn right, it cracked his Dome.
Nobody sorry that he wound up dead X2
Damnit, I can tell when Dok parodies Mairzy Doats, but you put this shit in front of me and suddenly I can't figure out the tune.
Good song though, me like. :lol:
"
Shit, I do PD Paradise and Bye Bye Discordian Pie, and I get remembered for Mairzy Doats.
I'm so alone. :sad:
I'm still waiting for the promised Peter Gabriel cover.
Quote from: Junkenstein on July 10, 2019, 03:29:43 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 09, 2019, 04:35:45 AM
Quote from: Al Qədic on July 09, 2019, 04:09:51 AM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on July 08, 2019, 09:19:03 AM
My milkshake hit a proud boy in the head
It was concrete, and it cracked his Dome
Damn right, it cracked his Dome.
Nobody sorry that he wound up dead. X2
He was a skinhead
And nobody sorry
No political platform for
The fascist scum
Think they want some
So here it comes
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
My milkshake hit a proud boy in the head
It was concrete, and it cracked his Dome
Damn right, it cracked his Dome.
Nobody sorry that he wound up dead X2
I can see you're angry
Well I can show thee
Milkshakes that kill proud boys
They're not store bought
Just don't get caught
Mask up if you're smart
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
My milkshake hit a proud boy in the head
It was concrete, and it cracked his Dome
Damn right, it cracked his Dome.
Nobody sorry that he wound up dead X2
Damnit, I can tell when Dok parodies Mairzy Doats, but you put this shit in front of me and suddenly I can't figure out the tune.
Good song though, me like. :lol:
"
Shit, I do PD Paradise and Bye Bye Discordian Pie, and I get remembered for Mairzy Doats.
I'm so alone. :sad:
I'm still waiting for the promised Peter Gabriel cover.
Do I LOOK like a barbarian?
I really, really, REALLY do not want to take the qualifying tests to teach English but ☹️ social science teachers are about a quarter of a dozen and there's always a need for English. Ugh. That's another $300.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 11, 2019, 01:53:31 AM
Quote from: Junkenstein on July 10, 2019, 03:29:43 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 09, 2019, 04:35:45 AM
Quote from: Al Qədic on July 09, 2019, 04:09:51 AM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on July 08, 2019, 09:19:03 AM
My milkshake hit a proud boy in the head
It was concrete, and it cracked his Dome
Damn right, it cracked his Dome.
Nobody sorry that he wound up dead. X2
He was a skinhead
And nobody sorry
No political platform for
The fascist scum
Think they want some
So here it comes
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
My milkshake hit a proud boy in the head
It was concrete, and it cracked his Dome
Damn right, it cracked his Dome.
Nobody sorry that he wound up dead X2
I can see you're angry
Well I can show thee
Milkshakes that kill proud boys
They're not store bought
Just don't get caught
Mask up if you're smart
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
My milkshake hit a proud boy in the head
It was concrete, and it cracked his Dome
Damn right, it cracked his Dome.
Nobody sorry that he wound up dead X2
Damnit, I can tell when Dok parodies Mairzy Doats, but you put this shit in front of me and suddenly I can't figure out the tune.
Good song though, me like. :lol:
"
Shit, I do PD Paradise and Bye Bye Discordian Pie, and I get remembered for Mairzy Doats.
I'm so alone. :sad:
I'm still waiting for the promised Peter Gabriel cover.
Do I LOOK like a barbarian?
Hard to say: the only barbarians I'm aware of are white guys, heavily muscled. One was bald, but had face paint. The rest had long hair, facial modifications optional. So, given you have significant overlap with barbarians I know of, without having seen how muscular you are I can't say if you look like a barbarian or not.
Or I'm using this answer to try and blow up the internet for showing me horrible things by getting a photo of your back hair lodged in it. You decide!
Quote from: Juana on July 11, 2019, 06:10:41 AM
I really, really, REALLY do not want to take the qualifying tests to teach English but ☹️ social science teachers are about a quarter of a dozen and there's always a need for English. Ugh. That's another $300.
:sad:
I'll survive. I'm just poor and cheap, lmao
Quote from: Juana on July 11, 2019, 09:52:05 PM
I'll survive. I'm just poor and cheap, lmao
That reminds me. I'm probably going to have to shell out quite a bit for admissions applications to PhD programs this fall
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on July 12, 2019, 01:35:45 PM
Quote from: Juana on July 11, 2019, 09:52:05 PM
I'll survive. I'm just poor and cheap, lmao
That reminds me. I'm probably going to have to shell out quite a bit for admissions applications to PhD programs this fall
Yeah, that shit ain't cheap from what I've heard.
Quote from: Juana on July 12, 2019, 03:52:36 PM
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on July 12, 2019, 01:35:45 PM
Quote from: Juana on July 11, 2019, 09:52:05 PM
I'll survive. I'm just poor and cheap, lmao
That reminds me. I'm probably going to have to shell out quite a bit for admissions applications to PhD programs this fall
Yeah, that shit ain't cheap from what I've heard.
On the one hand, I'm only going to apply to Boston area.
On the other hand, I'm applying to Boston area
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on July 12, 2019, 06:57:03 PM
Quote from: Juana on July 12, 2019, 03:52:36 PM
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on July 12, 2019, 01:35:45 PM
Quote from: Juana on July 11, 2019, 09:52:05 PM
I'll survive. I'm just poor and cheap, lmao
That reminds me. I'm probably going to have to shell out quite a bit for admissions applications to PhD programs this fall
Yeah, that shit ain't cheap from what I've heard.
On the one hand, I'm only going to apply to Boston area.
On the other hand, I'm applying to Boston area
Yeah, I imagine that's more expensive than elsewhere.
Also, I have a rib misaligned and I'm mad about it bc I can't figure out how I did it.
Seems like it's the month of rib injuries. That's the third one.
Quote from: nullified on July 12, 2019, 07:52:48 PM
Seems like it's the month of rib injuries. That's the third one.
Goddamn
Quote from: Juana on July 12, 2019, 07:48:09 PM
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on July 12, 2019, 06:57:03 PM
Quote from: Juana on July 12, 2019, 03:52:36 PM
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on July 12, 2019, 01:35:45 PM
Quote from: Juana on July 11, 2019, 09:52:05 PM
I'll survive. I'm just poor and cheap, lmao
That reminds me. I'm probably going to have to shell out quite a bit for admissions applications to PhD programs this fall
Yeah, that shit ain't cheap from what I've heard.
On the one hand, I'm only going to apply to Boston area.
On the other hand, I'm applying to Boston area
Yeah, I imagine that's more expensive than elsewhere.
Also, I have a rib misaligned and I'm mad about it bc I can't figure out how I did it.
Get well soon!
It's more the amount of places I can apply. Though I'm pretty sure that I can expect not to get into Harvard or MIT due to competition. To be fair, even though MIT is prestigious, I hear their biology department is more interested in what I can do with bacteria than what I can find out with bacteria
On the last leg of my latest trip, headed out to Boston. I had an almost totally uneventful journey, except for the damages of regular travel and a 12 hour layover in Detroit. (Our bus was late coming in, we missed the connection, and we had to wait for the next one.)
A friend is getting me a hotel room when I arrive, and from there begins the wonderful task of finding housing and income. It's going to be some effort, but if I have to be homeless anywhere, Boston's where it's at I think.
Went to Boise, did nothing Boise related.
Got home, am now playing the game of "Where's that smell coming from?"
Is there anything Boise related worth doing?
Quote from: nullified on July 14, 2019, 08:35:18 AM
On the last leg of my latest trip, headed out to Boston. I had an almost totally uneventful journey, except for the damages of regular travel and a 12 hour layover in Detroit. (Our bus was late coming in, we missed the connection, and we had to wait for the next one.)
A friend is getting me a hotel room when I arrive, and from there begins the wonderful task of finding housing and income. It's going to be some effort, but if I have to be homeless anywhere, Boston's where it's at I think.
Oof. Well, welcome to Boston when you get here
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on July 15, 2019, 12:46:25 PM
Quote from: nullified on July 14, 2019, 08:35:18 AM
On the last leg of my latest trip, headed out to Boston. I had an almost totally uneventful journey, except for the damages of regular travel and a 12 hour layover in Detroit. (Our bus was late coming in, we missed the connection, and we had to wait for the next one.)
A friend is getting me a hotel room when I arrive, and from there begins the wonderful task of finding housing and income. It's going to be some effort, but if I have to be homeless anywhere, Boston's where it's at I think.
Oof. Well, welcome to Boston when you get here
I arrived early yesterday and spent the day half-awake with QGP (briefly) and her husband (mostly). My feet are angry at me. Maybe if you've got some free time I could say hi, I'm going to have a lot of empty time today and probably be traveling anyway.
Quote from: nullified on July 15, 2019, 01:05:01 PM
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on July 15, 2019, 12:46:25 PM
Quote from: nullified on July 14, 2019, 08:35:18 AM
On the last leg of my latest trip, headed out to Boston. I had an almost totally uneventful journey, except for the damages of regular travel and a 12 hour layover in Detroit. (Our bus was late coming in, we missed the connection, and we had to wait for the next one.)
A friend is getting me a hotel room when I arrive, and from there begins the wonderful task of finding housing and income. It's going to be some effort, but if I have to be homeless anywhere, Boston's where it's at I think.
Oof. Well, welcome to Boston when you get here
I arrived early yesterday and spent the day half-awake with QGP (briefly) and her husband (mostly). My feet are angry at me. Maybe if you've got some free time I could say hi, I'm going to have a lot of empty time today and probably be traveling anyway.
I might have a bit of time tomorrow--what part of Boston are you around?
That's tough to answer.
Technically I'm homeless right now, came back to Boston because if I have to be homeless somewhere (which I currently do) there isn't a better location than here. Everywhere else has a large risk that the few homeless shelters even available will decide that me being trans is evil and decide to screw my life over. Here at least, it's hyper-blue and has legal repercussions for anyone who dares be a bigoted sack of rancid garbage.
Right now I mostly stick toward the northern side, Cambridge/Somerville/Chelsea/etc. but I will be all over the place until I can find somewhere to drop my stuff off and sleep. When that happens I have no idea where I'll actually be, but I'm aiming to stay on a train line. So I can meet up basically anywhere that suits you, truth be told. PM me.
Managed to run a mile this morning.
Managed to run 0 feet today.
Air suspension in the beast went out in the back, so now I have a low rider. It's a fucking blast on I-10.
Me: "I think I'll just stay in this lane."
Beast: "GRAB YOUR ASS, WE ARE DOING ALL THE THINGS."
Man, the bots are getting lazy. The last one's server showed up, I shit you not, as "node.salesandmktg.com".
At least try.
I'm going to see if there if I can get a better captcha to block them, it has definitely been on the increase lately
Quote from: Cain on July 15, 2019, 10:56:29 AM
Is there anything Boise related worth doing?
I haven't figured out what that means.
They do have a zoo that lets you feed a bear. I didn't get to do that.
Feeding a bear means it's a city where there are things worth doing
Quote from: TQ on July 16, 2019, 03:05:59 PM
Quote from: Cain on July 15, 2019, 10:56:29 AM
Is there anything Boise related worth doing?
I haven't figured out what that means.
They do have a zoo that lets you feed a bear. I didn't get to do that.
They also have woods were you can feed mountain lions, but only once. :)
Quote from: The Johnny on July 16, 2019, 05:53:00 PM
Quote from: TQ on July 16, 2019, 03:05:59 PM
Quote from: Cain on July 15, 2019, 10:56:29 AM
Is there anything Boise related worth doing?
I haven't figured out what that means.
They do have a zoo that lets you feed a bear. I didn't get to do that.
They also have woods were you can feed mountain lions, but only once. :)
The average person has 4 limbs. You just have to be adventurous enough.
Mountain lions are just overgrown cats. Swat them on the nose and tell them "no" in a stern voice. If they push it, get the water spray.
Quote from: Cain on July 18, 2019, 01:27:07 AM
Mountain lions are just overgrown cats. Swat them on the nose and tell them "no" in a stern voice. If they push it, get the water spray.
:lulz: :lulz:
Quote from: Don Coyote on July 18, 2019, 01:00:26 AM
Quote from: The Johnny on July 16, 2019, 05:53:00 PM
Quote from: TQ on July 16, 2019, 03:05:59 PM
Quote from: Cain on July 15, 2019, 10:56:29 AM
Is there anything Boise related worth doing?
I haven't figured out what that means.
They do have a zoo that lets you feed a bear. I didn't get to do that.
They also have woods were you can feed mountain lions, but only once. :)
The average person has 4 limbs. You just have to be adventurous enough.
Hold on, isn't it, "The average person has
less than four limbs"?
Quote from: LMNO on July 18, 2019, 01:58:02 PM
Quote from: Don Coyote on July 18, 2019, 01:00:26 AM
The average person has 4 limbs. You just have to be adventurous enough.
Hold on, isn't it, "The average person has less than four limbs"?
It depends on which definition of average you use.
The modal person has four. The median person also has four. The mean person has as many limbs as he can collect before the police catch up with him.
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on July 18, 2019, 02:24:33 PM
Quote from: LMNO on July 18, 2019, 01:58:02 PM
Quote from: Don Coyote on July 18, 2019, 01:00:26 AM
The average person has 4 limbs. You just have to be adventurous enough.
Hold on, isn't it, "The average person has less than four limbs"?
It depends on which definition of average you use.
The modal person has four. The median person also has four. The mean person has as many limbs as he can collect before the police catch up with him.
:golfclap:
Quote from: LMNO on July 18, 2019, 03:26:31 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on July 18, 2019, 02:24:33 PM
Quote from: LMNO on July 18, 2019, 01:58:02 PM
Quote from: Don Coyote on July 18, 2019, 01:00:26 AM
The average person has 4 limbs. You just have to be adventurous enough.
Hold on, isn't it, "The average person has less than four limbs"?
It depends on which definition of average you use.
The modal person has four. The median person also has four. The mean person has as many limbs as he can collect before the police catch up with him.
:golfclap:
Yes.
Hold on a minute here, I have a fucking TALE TO TELL YOU.
I'm ripping this from the email I wrote to a wonderful lady in Michigan who helps no-hopers like me find work, and asked me to keep her looped in after I got to Boston.
Ahem.
So! The precise moment I changed over all of my information to point to Boston on ZipRecruiter and Monster, I had recruiters doing the stalker heavy breathing thing over my shoulder. Literally, all over me like sand on a beach. I'm hardly exaggerating here: four job offers before I could even place a search, seven more after I finally got a search typed in.
I had between fifteen and twenty phone calls a day from recruiters, I could barely do so much as wash my hands without missing a call. In fact, I missed a call while in an interview, missed another call from the same person in that same interview, and missed five texts from the same person in the same interview. This interview took fifteen minutes.
From that initial 4, one in particular was a huge stretch. People in fancy suits and such turning up to apply, giant company doing outsourced direct marketing campaign work for Fortune 100 companies. Enter me, dressed in the usual hoodie, jeans, t-shirt, sweating like a pig, lugging two giant bags like a hobo, panting like a dog. Minimal work history in an old, old field. No qualifications at all.
Absolutely ridiculous that I'd even bother wasting their time, yeah? I mean, I was seeing other offers in the minimum wage range, doing cold lead sales and call center tech support. That's definitely my speed: low-level consumer-facing punishment-detail type work. This though? This is big time: folks with expensive suits purpose designed to intimidate the Morlocks of blue collar land, and cars that sound like they belong on a Formula One track and look like spaceships. People who fly out of the country twice a week and cannot imagine a bank account with less than five figures in it. (That would be "flat broke" to such rarified individuals.) This is way out of my league, right?
Not right. I got into the second round of interviews, which is 1% of the first round of interviews: I was in the top ten applicants. That's already crazy: all these rich Harvard kids fell below me on the pecking order. So I go in for the second round only slightly nicer (showered, dress shirt, only one bag). And apparently ace the interview hard.
So then they immediately rushed me through the third round of interviews, which is top five applicants out of over 1000 applicants. So five MORE rich Harvard/MIT students fall out of the running. And I'm still there. Finish that round, go home, and wait for the call.
Call comes up. First they ask me how I thought I did. By this point I'm getting a big ol' ego boost, so I tell them I think I did amazing, certainly better than the folks who didn't make it to all three rounds, right? She says yep, you're right, Brian and Garrett thought you did fantastic. Then the drumroll beings, here comes the reveal. And the winner is... well. Just, bear with me here:
I was in the top 2 or 3 applicants. Out of over 1000.
They recommended me for management fast track.
—Assuming I do the work, this means things like "having access to the company yacht" and "international business trips" inside of two months.
——That's two months like "late September". At the outside.
And finally...
Expectation is that I come in to start Monday. As in the day after the day after tomorrow. Probably just "the day after tomorrow" or "today" when you get this, depending on the day.
Well. Uh.
Boston!
Well Goddessdamn, Null, way to knock things outta the park! Hat's off to ya. :golfclap:
Hell yeah nullified! Go chase Your Destiny and be all you can!
!!!!!!!! Awesome news, Null!
Congratulations! Good luck!
Quote from: nullified on July 20, 2019, 02:45:15 AM
"having access to the company yacht"
Don't you
dare turn yup on me.
I'm way more interested in helping other people than yacht club bullshit. I look at this and I see power I can bring to bear toward solving serious problems. No need to worry about me.
Quote from: nullified on July 20, 2019, 02:45:15 AM
Hold on a minute here, I have a fucking TALE TO TELL YOU.
I'm ripping this from the email I wrote to a wonderful lady in Michigan who helps no-hopers like me find work, and asked me to keep her looped in after I got to Boston.
Ahem.
So! The precise moment I changed over all of my information to point to Boston on ZipRecruiter and Monster, I had recruiters doing the stalker heavy breathing thing over my shoulder. Literally, all over me like sand on a beach. I'm hardly exaggerating here: four job offers before I could even place a search, seven more after I finally got a search typed in.
I had between fifteen and twenty phone calls a day from recruiters, I could barely do so much as wash my hands without missing a call. In fact, I missed a call while in an interview, missed another call from the same person in that same interview, and missed five texts from the same person in the same interview. This interview took fifteen minutes.
From that initial 4, one in particular was a huge stretch. People in fancy suits and such turning up to apply, giant company doing outsourced direct marketing campaign work for Fortune 100 companies. Enter me, dressed in the usual hoodie, jeans, t-shirt, sweating like a pig, lugging two giant bags like a hobo, panting like a dog. Minimal work history in an old, old field. No qualifications at all.
Absolutely ridiculous that I'd even bother wasting their time, yeah? I mean, I was seeing other offers in the minimum wage range, doing cold lead sales and call center tech support. That's definitely my speed: low-level consumer-facing punishment-detail type work. This though? This is big time: folks with expensive suits purpose designed to intimidate the Morlocks of blue collar land, and cars that sound like they belong on a Formula One track and look like spaceships. People who fly out of the country twice a week and cannot imagine a bank account with less than five figures in it. (That would be "flat broke" to such rarified individuals.) This is way out of my league, right?
Not right. I got into the second round of interviews, which is 1% of the first round of interviews: I was in the top ten applicants. That's already crazy: all these rich Harvard kids fell below me on the pecking order. So I go in for the second round only slightly nicer (showered, dress shirt, only one bag). And apparently ace the interview hard.
So then they immediately rushed me through the third round of interviews, which is top five applicants out of over 1000 applicants. So five MORE rich Harvard/MIT students fall out of the running. And I'm still there. Finish that round, go home, and wait for the call.
Call comes up. First they ask me how I thought I did. By this point I'm getting a big ol' ego boost, so I tell them I think I did amazing, certainly better than the folks who didn't make it to all three rounds, right? She says yep, you're right, Brian and Garrett thought you did fantastic. Then the drumroll beings, here comes the reveal. And the winner is... well. Just, bear with me here:
I was in the top 2 or 3 applicants. Out of over 1000.
They recommended me for management fast track.
—Assuming I do the work, this means things like "having access to the company yacht" and "international business trips" inside of two months.
——That's two months like "late September". At the outside.
And finally...
Expectation is that I come in to start Monday. As in the day after the day after tomorrow. Probably just "the day after tomorrow" or "today" when you get this, depending on the day.
Well. Uh.
Boston!
That's awesome! Congratulations!
Its a weird, cartoonish meteoric rise for me over here. It's hard to believe that tomorrow I go in to work. But I do! Ten hour days while I'm in training (unpaid training but they know you have to eat) but i hardly care. In fact, I'm going all in. Optional Saturday training and everything. What else am I going to do, play phone games? The structure will help my sleep schedule anyway.
That's awesome!
Congrats!
Fucking nice, Null! Congrats!
Just had a similar, albeit less elevating and impressive shift in my career as well. It's a bizarre, but satisfying feeling to be chosen over the Edubicated and on-paper-qualified.
Good luck! Even though it sounds like you won't need it.
Tail end of our lunch break, it's been pretty good. Next up is a few hours of madness, door to door sales shit I guess? It's bound to be demoralizing but I'm basically okay with that. It's just the first step.
No context
Quotedude, we are living in the strange times
you better learn to fap in the middle of an existential crisis or you're gonna die of semen poisoning
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 22, 2019, 10:10:53 PM
No context
Quotedude, we are living in the strange times
you better learn to fap in the middle of an existential crisis or you're gonna die of semen poisoning
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
:spittake:
And now I have to clean my phone.
Today in weird stuff I learned working a thankless door to door sales job while angling for promotion on the management fast track:
The golden apple is also a symbol of Shiva the Destroyer. In fact, it's an eschatological symbol.
Today in my rollercoaster life:
Fired for having piercings.
Well, shit. Did they not notice that when they hired you?
It went from "you seem perfect!" And fighting to get me interested to calling my supervisor on the carpet for letting me do that and telling me to leave. I guess a customer complained to a client about it. Good thing I didn't say shit about being trans.
Oh well, stuff that begins like that could end MUCH worse... Sorry to hear anyway.
Honestly, I suspect the whole thing was an act to get a couple of days of free work out of you.
Quote from: Emo Howard on July 23, 2019, 06:40:07 PM
Honestly, I suspect the whole thing was an act to get a couple of days of free work out of you.
If that's the case, they got one day. Just one. And one sale that I won't get paid for because they didn't teach me Meridian before I got canned. Plus two phone calls and three warm leads. So it is a pretty believable suggestion.
Great news: work is so goddamned easy to find these days that I just went and put out 20 applications all over again, and this time eyeballed the job requirements for "polished/professional appearance". Cut those ones right out and still have a massive selection.
I'll never be a suit. I'm not built for it on any level — for one thing, customers tend not to fucking hate me on principle. And if I end up somewhere else that expects you in a monkey suit with a buzz cut and no piercings or tattoos, I expect I'll repeat this whole mess.
I got a debt collections agency that wants me and just applied to ten tech support jobs on top of that. Even got some interest for a nice paying secretary job. Part time, but still good pay. These last jokers just lost out, and I condemn them to huddle fearfully in a ditch downwind of the eternal tire fire. Such is my power.
I'm wondering why we continue to employ our sales people. "Hey, station needs thing, sell them thing" "I'll put it in their next contract." "They need it now or they can't do thing on air"
"Fine I'll write something up."
Could just replace them with a web page. WTF is wrong with them.
Up sales and convincing the uncertain.
You can sell anything via webpage, but it's a lot harder to create a problem that only you can solve, and which conveniently you can solve right now for the low low price of your dignity, a cost that will only come due years and years from now when you realize how badly you let yourself be manipulated.
From the customer end, it opens an opportunity to wrangle deals and price cuts out of the seller. Everyone gains from having human sales people in the loop, so long as they're verifiably sociopathic.
I'm not saying any salesperson, just ours, they don't seem to like it when support gives them leads.
Ah, my mistake. Yeah, they're defective. It sounds like you should return them to the manufacturer.
Your salespeople would get on well with our purchasers, they hate ordering anything out of schedule. I learnt to avoid talking to them about parts after spending 45mins arguing that the part shown in the parts list, and on the production drawing was the correct part. I had to get a statement from the manufacturer that it was the right part number before he'd order it.
The bots are hammering this place hard today. Must have turned down near to 10 of them.
Yep, I have banned a few russian domains because they all seem to be coming from there
Yeah, I had three try to activate at once, all from the same IP. Hopefully that'll slow things down.
Not ready to have my meltdown (good kind) yet but watch this space.
Short story: life is weird and I might be working a dream job for more money than I ever could have hoped for from any place I applied for. Might. I don't want to get out of hand here.* There's hype to be had, I must admit...but...
Note: I didn't say "any other place". I didn't apply to this one. They didn't have open applications on the sites I was trawling.
Also note: This is historically how I've gotten every job I've ever had: I've never applied to and then gotten a job.
* I will get out of hand on request, but recontainment may be impossible. Choose wisely.
Quote from: Cain on July 25, 2019, 02:54:21 PM
Yeah, I had three try to activate at once, all from the same IP. Hopefully that'll slow things down.
I've got a couple of dodgy looking ones in queue right now and I don't know enough to know if they're bots. You mind taking a look?
No problem. The first and last ones were both tagged by StopForumSpam and CleanTalk, two of the more reliable spam reporting sites in my experience.
It's like a sudden change, I think they might have found an exploit for SMF to circumvent the checks:
I added an addition Human test "What is the surname of the Emperor of the United States and protector of Mexico" and the captcah appears to be working ok.
I could look at using the google captcha with the click the images thing, that one seems a bit more robust
That could well be it, the exploit issue. A lot of them do look to be fairly obvious bots, so it's very possible there's an issue there
I skipped over a lot, but you're right, I shouldn't give a flying fuck about people like that.
Does anybody have a flying monkey army? Dude on facebook was shitting on a friend of mine because he takes medication to not want to kill himself. Granted it was on a a third friends' wall in 2nd amendment turned abortion discussion thread, but something about it made me contemplate the upsides to torture.
Well, I just banned a particularly nasty spam bot.
Faust, is there any easy way to clean this up?
Its not a bot, not fully, its targetted, I will clean up from db in the morning and possibly add a pay wall to registration of 10 cents
I took care of the mess.
Cheers Cain, I've added the google recaptcha but not sure if that will work, if it doesnt I will put in the irritating 10c paywall, but would like to avoid that if I can as that would put a lot of people off.
I decided to experiment with growing some miniature watermelons, despite this not being the best climate for it. I put a couple planter boxes on the edge of the driveway, since it was the only place with enough light throughout the day, and my primary garden is a fair way outside the city, and I can't get out there to water often enough.
A couple days ago, I found one of the two plants had been cut off at the stem. The leaves were intact, but the taproot was gone. Didn't seem like cutworm damage, so I decided to blame the jackrabbits which populate the area.
To protect against future rabbit attacks, I placed a large number of bamboo skewers (pointy end up) around the plant.
I am reasonably certain this will be effective, since I have already stabbed myself in the hand twice, once hard enough to pierce the skin. I am not a clumsy person, per se, but situational awareness is not one of my strong points.
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on July 29, 2019, 02:35:16 PM
I decided to experiment with growing some miniature watermelons, despite this not being the best climate for it. I put a couple planter boxes on the edge of the driveway, since it was the only place with enough light throughout the day, and my primary garden is a fair way outside the city, and I can't get out there to water often enough.
A couple days ago, I found one of the two plants had been cut off at the stem. The leaves were intact, but the taproot was gone. Didn't seem like cutworm damage, so I decided to blame the jackrabbits which populate the area.
To protect against future rabbit attacks, I placed a large number of bamboo skewers (pointy end up) around the plant.
I am reasonably certain this will be effective, since I have already stabbed myself in the hand twice, once hard enough to pierce the skin. I am not a clumsy person, per se, but situational awareness is not one of my strong points.
I promise you you will regret this.
You won't know why you will regret it until it's too late and you have regrets.
Then again, aren't you the one with the mice? Maybe you'll be fine after all. But your clothes won't be.
Man found dead in punji pit, watermelon clasped in hand, stem missing, police opening lines of inquiry.
Witnesses report seeing angry jackrabbits fleeing the scene
I keep logging in with the option "Forever", alas, forever only lasts till i reopen my browser.
ETERNITY REJECTS ME, REEEEEEE
Quote from: The Johnny on July 29, 2019, 11:41:59 PM
I keep logging in with the option "Forever", alas, forever only lasts till i reopen my browser.
ETERNITY REJECTS ME, REEEEEEE
Does your browser automatically clear cookies on closing? Do you need to allow one for here?
Quote from: Faust on July 29, 2019, 11:45:02 PM
Quote from: The Johnny on July 29, 2019, 11:41:59 PM
I keep logging in with the option "Forever", alas, forever only lasts till i reopen my browser.
ETERNITY REJECTS ME, REEEEEEE
Does your browser automatically clear cookies on closing? Do you need to allow one for here?
It's just a bad joke, nothing to worry about, thanks tho.
First thought watching The Boys: why is Karl Urban so fucking good?
Seriously, I have never seen anything with him in that I haven't liked.
I need to resume watching this. For whatever, I think I've only gotten through the first 1 or 2 episodes.
[edit] The demise of Translucent was the last one I saw.
I'm on a binge, so I just breezed onto episode 4 now.
Not familiar with the source material, aside the basic premise and author, but I'm probably better off that way.
Quote from: Cain on August 01, 2019, 08:48:55 PM
I'm on a binge, so I just breezed onto episode 4 now.
Not familiar with the source material, aside the basic premise and author, but I'm probably better off that way.
Wait. Isn't the Boys a Garth Ennis thing?
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 01, 2019, 09:56:55 PM
Quote from: Cain on August 01, 2019, 08:48:55 PM
I'm on a binge, so I just breezed onto episode 4 now.
Not familiar with the source material, aside the basic premise and author, but I'm probably better off that way.
Wait. Isn't the Boys a Garth Ennis thing?
That's the one.
From what I understand, the TV series is a bit toned down from the comics. Which given so far I have seen someone explode, someone have their skull crushed during sex, someone die from C4 in the rectum, several people disembowled and a dolphin get run over (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyi2ZYNYxNQ), is probably saying something.
Quote from: Cain on August 01, 2019, 10:00:09 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 01, 2019, 09:56:55 PM
Quote from: Cain on August 01, 2019, 08:48:55 PM
I'm on a binge, so I just breezed onto episode 4 now.
Not familiar with the source material, aside the basic premise and author, but I'm probably better off that way.
Wait. Isn't the Boys a Garth Ennis thing?
That's the one.
From what I understand, the TV series is a bit toned down from the comics. Which given so far I have seen someone explode, someone have their skull crushed during sex, someone die from C4 in the rectum, several people disembowled and a dolphin get run over (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyi2ZYNYxNQ), is probably saying something.
You would really HAVE to tone down the books. :lol:
They're funny in a "traumatized for life" kinda way.
I have to admit, I laughed maybe just a little too much at the dolphin scene.
I think if you havent read the source material it is more accessible.
I found it hard to get into the same way I found preacher hard to get into, it had to be toned back and there are some things I expect will not be in the show (x-men as a pedo cult), it's because the sense of humour is changed slightly, Seth Rogan has his own style (which I do like) but its not as mean spirited as Garth Ennis sense of humour
Taken as is and ignoring the comic, it's not bad. Whoever did the casting clearly did their homework.
The bad is how much is clearly going to be changed/different. Literally every key players backstory is significantly changed. This works out well in some cases but it's also a massive shift of certain plot points, particularly some big ones. There's a bunch of reveals that aren't even possible now. I was kind of hoping they'd be more full on with it but I guess it either wouldn't have been made or the marvel and Disney lawyers induced mortal terror.
A solid 7, better pacing than preacher but it's very much it's own thing with borrowed ideas.
I couldn't get into the comic because it seemed like they were going for a gross award. The show gives you why the gross is there early enough to not turn me away. I'm liking it so far.
Been years though since I read the comic though. Might check it out again.
Also, I may have laughed too much at the dolphin scene as well. That's also the last episode I saw.
Holy crap, so was checking on a childhood friend, mostly to see if he was alive because he had cancer when we were kids and he's a creative director at HBO.
Whatever that means.
Pretty awesome addition to the whole still being alive thing.
Creative director is the FUN job in media. You get to transform anything you get assigned into your own particular personal vision.
Okay, that's an exaggeration. That's only a really slight exaggeration, though.
See, you're expected to be good at making things marketable and popular, so if you're no good at that, people might decide you don't get to be a creative director anymore.
But so long as you can't be clearly blamed for failures, you get a cushy gig telling other people how to make things your way.
I'm fucking jealous.
Holy shitballs that's awesome.
He must be fairly good, been there since 2006.
It's a few weeks old, but I wanted to share a story from my girlfriend's workplace, an elementary school.
We all know that on the last day of the D.A.R.E. program, everybody gets T-shirts they wear ironically when they inevitably start smoking pot in their teens.
This year, on the last day of school, the DARE officers handed out blue lives matter shirts.
As the day was ending, a teacher pulled the principal aside and said "You know... I don't feel remotely comfortable sending black kids home with Blue Lives Matter t-shirts, what's the deal with this?"
the Principal was like WHAT??? --- she had no idea about the shirts
so the principal RAN out to the busses, where the kids were boarding, and personally yanked all of the t-shirts out of their hands.
SORRY NOT SORRY
What a fucking horror story that is. It reminds me of the third rate Cthulhu Mythos junk where the day is saved... FOR NOW.
I forgot to mention last night on account of exhaustion, but I've got a job at least until Friday and quite probably thereafter. (The story goes that if your attendance isn't garbage, you get the job. I am an hour early eternally, to anything.)
Today's the second day.
Good on the teacher and principal. That is such bullshit, especially to pull with elementary students.
Oh and I should say, this is a tech support position, not a goddamn sales job. No commissions, no bonuses, just sanity.
grats on the new jorb!
Thanks! Best part is, I work nights. I get a good few hours in the extremely early hours of the day but my best work is at night by far.
Just dealt with the scrap metal dealer that carts off our aluminum, etc.
The tariffs are treating him very well, indeed. He has an extra 15% margin, because he isn't importing shit and he has people lined up around the block. We are both buying from and selling to him.
Which just goes to show, no matter how stupid el presidente is, someone gets paid.
Lucky him.
Quote from: Juana on August 08, 2019, 09:11:35 AM
Lucky him.
Yeah, well, it's not like he's a crook. Or a Trumpster. He's a recycler, and right now new raw materials are getting kinda pricey.
Unrelated:
That moment when someone has decided that you're scum or at least not to be spoken to because you didn't dribble sympathy all over someone who very publicly shat all over you when YOU were down.
:lulz:
What that tells me is that I have significantly lower intrinsic value than the other person, I don't count as much and should be flexible about things, and that I should learn to accept that.
Yeah, eat my entire arse. Everyone involved just stopped existing.
:lulz:
Unrelated to the above unrelated comment, it is less than 100F today and I am growing concerned.
I feel you. It's supposed to be 90° here on Saturday and ????? 90° in August ? What malarkey is this?
Quote from: Juana on August 08, 2019, 08:57:20 PM
I feel you. It's supposed to be 90° here on Saturday and ????? 90° in August ? What malarkey is this?
Also, the monsoon is potato. Humidity is balls disgusting, but we have had maybe one inch of rain so far.
I am not worried, though. I expect a half a dozen hurricanes to slam into the Baja coast again this year, and that will fill our aquifers nicely.
It's quite nice here, though my sense of what is hot is off, after escaping the cooker that was my previous flat.
It can be in the high 20s (C) outside and it feels quite nice in my flat, as opposed to wanting to die constantly once the weather is above 24C, as it previously was. I think having a south-facing bedroom and a building designed for some airflow is making a significant difference.
Quote from: Cain on August 09, 2019, 12:01:56 PM
It's quite nice here, though my sense of what is hot is off, after escaping the cooker that was my previous flat.
It can be in the high 20s (C) outside and it feels quite nice in my flat, as opposed to wanting to die constantly once the weather is above 24C, as it previously was. I think having a south-facing bedroom and a building designed for some airflow is making a significant difference.
Sounds like a good deal!!
I texted a bunch of the teachers I've subbed for before aaaand I now have four days booked and a potential long term sub gig at one of our local magnet middle schools teaching English and US history. I don't usually do long term gigs bc it's only $8 more a day in exchange for a fuck ton more work buuut I wanna teach either of these subjects and it looks good on a resume. Also, the kids at this particular magnet are tiny nerds and one Teacher Look™ is enough to wrangle them 90% of the time. The remaining 10% is still a breeze compared to pretty much any other school.
Working interview over. Paycheck acquired.
Job: acquired. Today's training and Monday will continue it it seems!
Quote from: nullified on August 09, 2019, 08:52:55 PM
Working interview over. Paycheck acquired.
Job: acquired. Today's training and Monday will continue it it seems!
Excellent! Good luck!
:noodledance:
Second call I listened in on today I ended up helping out. Basics like "how airplane mode works" and "standard WiFi network setup and nomenclature" are mystical powers to some of our reps. Fun stuff though.
Quote from: nullified on August 10, 2019, 04:02:04 AM
Second call I listened in on today I ended up helping out. Basics like "how airplane mode works" and "standard WiFi network setup and nomenclature" are mystical powers to some of our reps. Fun stuff though.
I have the same thing at work with industrial controls. To everyone around me, they are a weird black box powered by voodoo.
I'm like "Come on, this is obvious." Then they look at me funny and call me a damned wizard.
To be fair, this was a man in the middle of nowhere, using an enterprise class modem-router-switch-WAP combo (who the fuck uses a Ubiquity for their fucking house come on) and these were people who had no idea what an Access Point was and were mystified when he said "VLAN".
Quote from: nullified on August 10, 2019, 05:36:00 AM
To be fair, this was a man in the middle of nowhere, using an enterprise class modem-router-switch-WAP combo (who the fuck uses a Ubiquity for their fucking house come on) and these were people who had no idea what an Access Point was and were mystified when he said "VLAN".
Half of what you said made no sense at all.
WIZARD!
Oh and I should say, the customer had no fucking clue how to use his fancy expensive setup.
My ankle is a potato, so I might not start running again.
I've made something like $30 over the weekend off a game supplement. I MIGHT have solid leads on getting some wider distro. Just need to get past the anxiet that money causes.
I might have arthritis in my ankle, so I should be trying to up my disability with the VA :lulz:
Dumb shit time:
With my fancy new paycheck in hand, I went to Target today and found olive green cargo pants.
Everyone who knows me knows my fashion sense tends to waver between "whatever I got on sale" and "rotting log in an old forest." I mean, I always prefer stuff that covers my entire body and has a billion pockets, but the colors are ... variable.
But. Finally, I have a complete set of "pile of pond slime" colored clothes. Eventually I will finish this most holy color collection with "rancid meat", that dark faded red that signifies bacon flavoring in the grocery store; and "dog poo and dead trees", all mustard browns and dark grey-browns.
I'm extremely, pointlessly pleased, and I am gonna take that small win and run with it.
Suicide watch: An act analogous to bird-watching, in which one watches someone commit suicide.
This week is just fucking surreal. All the little things good in life, all the large things good in life. Good things in life, in general. I have the feeling I need to just start going out and meeting people every chance I get, every single time without fail I meet an interesting and useful contact.
Quote from: nullified on August 12, 2019, 05:49:19 AM
This week is just fucking surreal. All the little things good in life, all the large things good in life. Good things in life, in general. I have the feeling I need to just start going out and meeting people every chance I get, every single time without fail I meet an interesting and useful contact.
Story of my life.
I am broke more often than I would like to think about, but the world remains interesting.
So it does. I suppose some areas are better suited to some people: meeting people has the desired effect in Massachusetts, elsewhere it's a crapshoot.
So I may have introduced an HR rep to Holy Nonsense :lulz:
Holy fuck! Facebook killed every Yahoo discussion group and yet, the Open Bar persists.
VICTORY!!!!!!!! :pax:
Quote from: Mangrove on August 15, 2019, 04:12:36 AM
Holy fuck! Facebook killed every Yahoo discussion group and yet, the Open Bar persists.
VICTORY!!!!!!!! :pax:
Holy fuckballs it's Mangrove!
By god where have you been??? How have you been??? What have you done???
Quote from: Mangrove on August 15, 2019, 04:12:36 AM
Holy fuck! Facebook killed every Yahoo discussion group and yet, the Open Bar persists.
VICTORY!!!!!!!! :pax:
Who do you think Facebook paid to kill Yahoo?
8)
Quote from: Mangrove on August 15, 2019, 04:12:36 AM
Holy fuck! Facebook killed every Yahoo discussion group and yet, the Open Bar persists.
VICTORY!!!!!!!! :pax:
Viva Discordia and welcome back!
PD. com: We are small but we are fierce
Hello! Good to see you around!
Quote from: Mangrove on August 15, 2019, 04:12:36 AM
Holy fuck! Facebook killed every Yahoo discussion group and yet, the Open Bar persists.
VICTORY!!!!!!!! :pax:
Hey, Mang!
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on August 15, 2019, 12:24:53 PM
Quote from: Mangrove on August 15, 2019, 04:12:36 AM
Holy fuck! Facebook killed every Yahoo discussion group and yet, the Open Bar persists.
VICTORY!!!!!!!! :pax:
Viva Discordia and welcome back!
PD. com: We are small but we are fierce
We actually just developed Stockholm's over the years. :fnord:
Quote from: The Johnny on August 15, 2019, 02:50:35 PM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on August 15, 2019, 12:24:53 PM
Quote from: Mangrove on August 15, 2019, 04:12:36 AM
Holy fuck! Facebook killed every Yahoo discussion group and yet, the Open Bar persists.
VICTORY!!!!!!!! :pax:
Viva Discordia and welcome back!
PD. com: We are small but we are fierce
We actually just developed Stockholm's over the years. :fnord:
PD was briefly unreachable by my phone yesterday. I didn't freak out but I was deeply worried something had happened to it. A lot of my writings on here are not backed up anywhere else. I was struck by a vision of my life without PD. It was a much sadder life. If this is Stockholm Syndrome I don't want to be well!
HI MANGROVE!! :wave:
Who's mangrove?
Welcome back, Person I'm Only Half Certain I Remember Interacting With!
so i'm half wanting to vent and half wanting some help with this. There's a dude i know through my Rocky Horror troupe, and i swear this guy is one red hat away from being a goddamn Nazi. His posts are a constant stream of the kind of cringy edgelord shit that was funny in middle school. I finally had to talk to him about keeping his Nazi jokes out of our RH group chat(which is basically a bunch of Rocky horror peeps posting memes about cheese) and he started pouting about how he should be able to make nazi jokes wherever he wants, and how Nazis aren't really a threat to anyone because the left just CALLS everyone they don't like a Nazi, and then just withdrew and kept making his shit jokes elsewhere. I'm wondering if its worth fucking with this guy or just blocking him from my social media life. One of my friends is his ex, says that hes always like this and this is exactly why she holds him in disdain, but the energy and possible intergroup drama this might cause might not be worth the headache. Thoughts?
speaking as someone who doesn't have to hang out with him in any capacity, I say poke & provoke until allllll the true colors come out.
we have to stop letting assholes feel welcome in shared spaces
we have to stop ceding ground
I'll remind you that MANY Facebook groups (like most of the Discordian Societies and, to varying degree, the Robert Anton Wilson Fan group) went directly into the shitter in 2015. During this time, we watched ironic horribleness gradually transition into authentic horribleness. People said shitty things and then acted like any negative response was just special snowflake oversensitivity. Fuck all that noise and the horse it rode in on.
If he's not part of the troupe or social media group anymore, let him go. You won't convince him.
If he is still part of the "shared space" as Cram says, then call him out whenever he does shitty things.
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on August 15, 2019, 07:35:34 PM
Welcome back, Person I'm Only Half Certain I Remember Interacting With!
so i'm half wanting to vent and half wanting some help with this. There's a dude i know through my Rocky Horror troupe, and i swear this guy is one red hat away from being a goddamn Nazi. His posts are a constant stream of the kind of cringy edgelord shit that was funny in middle school. I finally had to talk to him about keeping his Nazi jokes out of our RH group chat(which is basically a bunch of Rocky horror peeps posting memes about cheese) and he started pouting about how he should be able to make nazi jokes wherever he wants, and how Nazis aren't really a threat to anyone because the left just CALLS everyone they don't like a Nazi, and then just withdrew and kept making his shit jokes elsewhere. I'm wondering if its worth fucking with this guy or just blocking him from my social media life. One of my friends is his ex, says that hes always like this and this is exactly why she holds him in disdain, but the energy and possible intergroup drama this might cause might not be worth the headache. Thoughts?
MAKE A FUCKER BOUNCE.
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on August 15, 2019, 07:35:34 PM
Welcome back, Person I'm Only Half Certain I Remember Interacting With!
so i'm half wanting to vent and half wanting some help with this. There's a dude i know through my Rocky Horror troupe, and i swear this guy is one red hat away from being a goddamn Nazi. His posts are a constant stream of the kind of cringy edgelord shit that was funny in middle school. I finally had to talk to him about keeping his Nazi jokes out of our RH group chat(which is basically a bunch of Rocky horror peeps posting memes about cheese) and he started pouting about how he should be able to make nazi jokes wherever he wants, and how Nazis aren't really a threat to anyone because the left just CALLS everyone they don't like a Nazi, and then just withdrew and kept making his shit jokes elsewhere. I'm wondering if its worth fucking with this guy or just blocking him from my social media life. One of my friends is his ex, says that hes always like this and this is exactly why she holds him in disdain, but the energy and possible intergroup drama this might cause might not be worth the headache. Thoughts?
I think you should apologize for infringing on his freedom of expression and ask him to rejoin the group; that you just had a bad hysterical moment and were being intolerant. :fnord:
Ok, but seriously now, you're asking the discordian choir, its always good to harass nazis if theres no imminent danger from it.
Fair enough. Who else wants a piece of this? i can only harass him so many hours of the day, plus i have a hunch he may have sockpuppets.
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on August 15, 2019, 11:28:09 PM
Fair enough. Who else wants a piece of this? i can only harass him so many hours of the day, plus i have a hunch he may have sockpuppets.
This kid.
First week of work over. Verdict: I love this fucking job. Weird to say about mid to low tier customer service (we aren’t even trusted with our own goddamn emails) but also true. It’s satisfying work with lots of weird fucking puzzles to solve. It’s focused on being nice to people. It’s good shit.
Edit: there is no weirder feeling than end of day Friday, get off a call with a customer, look expectantly at the queue, and... the lines are closed. “What do you mean it’s midnight this is bullshit” while everyone else is like “no I’m fucking out of here”.
Quote from: Mangrove on August 15, 2019, 04:12:36 AM
Holy fuck! Facebook killed every Yahoo discussion group and yet, the Open Bar persists.
VICTORY!!!!!!!! :pax:
OMG it's Mangrove.... there is something in the water recently.
Good to see you again old friend!
Well, the Roy Bean account is disabled, having been reported by one of my stalkers as a fake name.
This really is kind of pathetic. What kind of loser do you have to be, to be a perpetual snitch? :lulz:
Not to mention Roy Bean is a very real name. It's just not yours.
Quote from: Cain on August 20, 2019, 04:05:16 PM
Not to mention Roy Bean is a very real name. It's just not yours.
Meh, the account has been reported 4 times in two days, and I finally wasn't able to convince Zucc's robots that it was real. Someone is my NUMBER ONE FAN! :lulz:
This seems to be personal. Whomever it is really hates me.
Good.
Hey Guys!
Well, I gotta say I am really glad this place is still here. I haven't been involved in any forums for a very long time and a few nights ago I had this urge to check in and see if PD was still around or whether it was another Facebook induced wasteland.
And of course, having checked to see if PD still had I pulse, I went over to MysticWicks. No, I really truly did. :lulz: It's as bad as you think it is, only with less people.
Biographical round up:
My business died circa 2015. I work in a Doctor's office. Mrs Mang' & I are on grandchild #3. I met Chick Corea in Albany (but only to irritate LMNO). A tree fell on our house 30th Oct 2016 and we got into a war with State Farm insurance (terrible company. Shun them at all costs). I still do not own a cell phone or a driver's license. I am running out of space to put all my books. I don't read/watch/listen to much news, so I am thoroughly out of the loop as far as pop culture goes. (Though I did hear that a game show host is running the country??)
What's everyone been up to?
Mang'.
Oh dear.
If you don't already know the whole story on Trump, become educated on it. It is worse than the tabloids could come up with. It makes the most rabid, feverish ideas surrounding political figures you've ever heard of sound positively mild.
Also, there are literal no shit neo-Nazis running in gangs from city to city, holding "free speech rallies" that are a thinly veiled excuse to be publicly racist; beat up leftists, women, lgbt folks and non-whites; and occasionally kill people. They end up outnumbered and humiliated most times.
You're out there missing the end of the world, Mang!
What did your house do to piss off that tree?? ye probably deserved it.
It's always great to see you around here, Mangrove. What kinda stuff have you been reading?
It's funny how this place feels calm and quiet in comparison to facebook. Like, facebook is the crowded night club, this place is a dive bar where you can hear each other talk.
Quote from: Cramulus on August 21, 2019, 01:48:26 PM
What did your house do to piss off that tree?? ye probably deserved it.
It's always great to see you around here, Mangrove. What kinda stuff have you been reading?
It's funny how this place feels calm and quiet in comparison to facebook. Like, facebook is the crowded night club, this place is a dive bar where you can hear each other talk.
Excuse me, we are the old leather queen bar with Disco Strangler by the Eagles playing on the Wurlitzer Zodiac jukebox.
YES
So update on that dude I was talking about. I've been looking for a post that's worth ragging on, but I can't really find one? Like it seems like he's toned it down. I can't find a post of his that wouldn't fit in, well, HERE, TBH. I'm kinda hoping he's learned something rather than just gotten clever about how openly he can be a shitbag.
Thing with me and work: I always go above and beyond. User WiFi problems are not our problem, but this guy had a brand new router I had personally dealt with for years, and was incredibly familiar with. So I stepped in and started walking him through the steps.
And stopped.
The basic fucking settings like the checkbox for "radio" (e.g. disabling the 5GHz band) aren't there. Verizon sandboxed the whole fucking firmware into kindergarten mode.
So I told him to call them and yell over and over "Disable 5G" until hung up on or success. It's dirty pool, but they already told him they "couldn't" do it which is fucking lies and horseshit, and they stopped him from doing it himself, so fuck them.
Overheard: "If there's anyone you like well enough to work with, but dislike enough to have them work here, please let me know."
Quote from: nullified on August 21, 2019, 05:32:28 AM
Oh dear.
If you don't already know the whole story on Trump, become educated on it. It is worse than the tabloids could come up with. It makes the most rabid, feverish ideas surrounding political figures you've ever heard of sound positively mild.
Also, there are literal no shit neo-Nazis running in gangs from city to city, holding "free speech rallies" that are a thinly veiled excuse to be publicly racist; beat up leftists, women, lgbt folks and non-whites; and occasionally kill people. They end up outnumbered and humiliated most times.
You're out there missing the end of the world, Mang!
Trump? Shit. I was hoping it was Bob Barker from the Price Is Right.
Ok, so I might have exaggerated my media blackout.... :lol: But I am keeping a low intake. Right after the election I put a ban on political discussion in the house. I was upstairs noodling around on my saxophone and all I could hear from downstairs was the 'Charlie Brown cartoon teacher's voices' only more aggressive. It was wrecking my ability to focus on my practice. Anyway, it's Mrs Mang' and her Fox addicted ex yammering on about the election. So I walked downstairs and yelled "EVERYBODY SHUT THE FUCK UP. I AM NOT GOING TO LISTEN TO THIS SHIT IN MY HOUSE FOR FOUR YEARS,
ESPECIALLY OVER MY FOOD!!!!. Because no one was expecting me to stroll downstairs and flip out, it had the desired effect. Thus minimal Trump mentions and Mrs Mang' gave up watching the news because it was making her anxious and nauseous. She feels better and I don't have to listen to the microscopic analysis of every last molecule of McDonald's grease he happens to deposit onto his phone. I hope it's McDonald's grease....
Quote from: Cramulus on August 21, 2019, 01:48:26 PM
What did your house do to piss off that tree?? ye probably deserved it.
It's always great to see you around here, Mangrove. What kinda stuff have you been reading?
It's funny how this place feels calm and quiet in comparison to facebook. Like, facebook is the crowded night club, this place is a dive bar where you can hear each other talk.
Well, the rather hefty White Oak that poked holes in our living room and partially squished our car had a couple of things not in it's favor. Connecticut was ravaged by Gypsy Moths for about 3 summers and we had to get hooked up to the town sewer system. The grinder pump (I know, sounds like something else) was placed near to the tree and a number of people have suggested that the root system was probably compromised from that. Add in crap loads of rain, soft ground and strong winds and presto, it's 1:30am and it sounds like the whole fucking neighborhood went boom. Tree down, no power and water is running down the walls in the living room. Did we deserve it?
Possibly?That was Oct 30th 2017. We got the roof fixed before Xmas but the inside living room damage was on hold til 2 weeks ago after an expensive and protracted slug fest with State Farm. Currently Mrs & Mang and I are living out of the kitchen and one of the downstairs bedrooms while the living room is gutted and re-done.
Quote from: Mangrove on August 22, 2019, 03:59:38 AM
Quote from: nullified on August 21, 2019, 05:32:28 AM
Oh dear.
If you don't already know the whole story on Trump, become educated on it. It is worse than the tabloids could come up with. It makes the most rabid, feverish ideas surrounding political figures you've ever heard of sound positively mild.
Also, there are literal no shit neo-Nazis running in gangs from city to city, holding "free speech rallies" that are a thinly veiled excuse to be publicly racist; beat up leftists, women, lgbt folks and non-whites; and occasionally kill people. They end up outnumbered and humiliated most times.
You're out there missing the end of the world, Mang!
Trump? Shit. I was hoping it was Bob Barker from the Price Is Right.
Ok, so I might have exaggerated my media blackout.... :lol: But I am keeping a low intake. Right after the election I put a ban on political discussion in the house. I was upstairs noodling around on my saxophone and all I could hear from downstairs was the 'Charlie Brown cartoon teacher's voices' only more aggressive. It was wrecking my ability to focus on my practice. Anyway, it's Mrs Mang' and her Fox addicted ex yammering on about the election. So I walked downstairs and yelled "EVERYBODY SHUT THE FUCK UP. I AM NOT GOING TO LISTEN TO THIS SHIT IN MY HOUSE FOR FOUR YEARS, ESPECIALLY OVER MY FOOD!!!!. Because no one was expecting me to stroll downstairs and flip out, it had the desired effect. Thus minimal Trump mentions and Mrs Mang' gave up watching the news because it was making her anxious and nauseous. She feels better and I don't have to listen to the microscopic analysis of every last molecule of McDonald's grease he happens to deposit onto his phone. I hope it's McDonald's grease....
Hamberder grease is best grease
Quote from: Mangrove on August 22, 2019, 04:12:03 AM
That was Oct 30th 2017. We got the roof fixed before Xmas but the inside living room damage was on hold til 2 weeks ago after an expensive and protracted slug fest with State Farm. Currently Mrs & Mang and I are living out of the kitchen and one of the downstairs bedrooms while the living room is gutted and re-done.
Probably a weird time for me to butt in--howdy stranger whose name I vaguely recall from looking at old threads!--but I can't not comment on the fact that the day a tree goes whump in your house is the same day my Marine-serving cancer-surviving grandfather died.
In any case, glad to see another old face pop up again. Hope your summer's been good!
Coincidences are weird like that, ain't they? :horrormirth:
Quote from: Cain on August 22, 2019, 12:59:46 PM
Quote from: Mangrove on August 22, 2019, 03:59:38 AM
Quote from: nullified on August 21, 2019, 05:32:28 AM
Oh dear.
If you don't already know the whole story on Trump, become educated on it. It is worse than the tabloids could come up with. It makes the most rabid, feverish ideas surrounding political figures you've ever heard of sound positively mild.
Also, there are literal no shit neo-Nazis running in gangs from city to city, holding "free speech rallies" that are a thinly veiled excuse to be publicly racist; beat up leftists, women, lgbt folks and non-whites; and occasionally kill people. They end up outnumbered and humiliated most times.
You're out there missing the end of the world, Mang!
Trump? Shit. I was hoping it was Bob Barker from the Price Is Right.
Ok, so I might have exaggerated my media blackout.... :lol: But I am keeping a low intake. Right after the election I put a ban on political discussion in the house. I was upstairs noodling around on my saxophone and all I could hear from downstairs was the 'Charlie Brown cartoon teacher's voices' only more aggressive. It was wrecking my ability to focus on my practice. Anyway, it's Mrs Mang' and her Fox addicted ex yammering on about the election. So I walked downstairs and yelled "EVERYBODY SHUT THE FUCK UP. I AM NOT GOING TO LISTEN TO THIS SHIT IN MY HOUSE FOR FOUR YEARS, ESPECIALLY OVER MY FOOD!!!!. Because no one was expecting me to stroll downstairs and flip out, it had the desired effect. Thus minimal Trump mentions and Mrs Mang' gave up watching the news because it was making her anxious and nauseous. She feels better and I don't have to listen to the microscopic analysis of every last molecule of McDonald's grease he happens to deposit onto his phone. I hope it's McDonald's grease....
Hamberder grease is best grease
Grease is the word, is the word, is the word that you heard
It's got a groove, it's got a meaning
Grease is the time, is the place, is the motion
Grease is the way we are feeling
Quote from: Al Qədic on August 22, 2019, 10:14:51 PM
Quote from: Mangrove on August 22, 2019, 04:12:03 AM
That was Oct 30th 2017. We got the roof fixed before Xmas but the inside living room damage was on hold til 2 weeks ago after an expensive and protracted slug fest with State Farm. Currently Mrs & Mang and I are living out of the kitchen and one of the downstairs bedrooms while the living room is gutted and re-done.
Probably a weird time for me to butt in--howdy stranger whose name I vaguely recall from looking at old threads!--but I can't not comment on the fact that the day a tree goes whump in your house is the same day my Marine-serving cancer-surviving grandfather died.
In any case, glad to see another old face pop up again. Hope your summer's been good!
Coincidences are weird like that, ain't they? :horrormirth:
Sorry for your loss. :sad:
All our tree damage was fixable and no one got hurt, so we tended to focus on that. Plus, when the house got hit, it was around the time of all the crazy storms in Texas and Puerto Rico. Our town was without power for a few days. Whenever white privilege rage sprang up (it is small town, Connecticut after all) we were like "Well it's not Texas or P.Rico so, stop yer bitchin'". We didn't lose anything important like people or livelihoods or safety etc.
Quote from: Mangrove on August 23, 2019, 04:18:13 AM
Quote from: Cain on August 22, 2019, 12:59:46 PM
Quote from: Mangrove on August 22, 2019, 03:59:38 AM
Quote from: nullified on August 21, 2019, 05:32:28 AM
Oh dear.
If you don't already know the whole story on Trump, become educated on it. It is worse than the tabloids could come up with. It makes the most rabid, feverish ideas surrounding political figures you've ever heard of sound positively mild.
Also, there are literal no shit neo-Nazis running in gangs from city to city, holding "free speech rallies" that are a thinly veiled excuse to be publicly racist; beat up leftists, women, lgbt folks and non-whites; and occasionally kill people. They end up outnumbered and humiliated most times.
You're out there missing the end of the world, Mang!
Trump? Shit. I was hoping it was Bob Barker from the Price Is Right.
Ok, so I might have exaggerated my media blackout.... :lol: But I am keeping a low intake. Right after the election I put a ban on political discussion in the house. I was upstairs noodling around on my saxophone and all I could hear from downstairs was the 'Charlie Brown cartoon teacher's voices' only more aggressive. It was wrecking my ability to focus on my practice. Anyway, it's Mrs Mang' and her Fox addicted ex yammering on about the election. So I walked downstairs and yelled "EVERYBODY SHUT THE FUCK UP. I AM NOT GOING TO LISTEN TO THIS SHIT IN MY HOUSE FOR FOUR YEARS, ESPECIALLY OVER MY FOOD!!!!. Because no one was expecting me to stroll downstairs and flip out, it had the desired effect. Thus minimal Trump mentions and Mrs Mang' gave up watching the news because it was making her anxious and nauseous. She feels better and I don't have to listen to the microscopic analysis of every last molecule of McDonald's grease he happens to deposit onto his phone. I hope it's McDonald's grease....
Hamberder grease is best grease
Grease is the word, is the word, is the word that you heard
It's got a groove, it's got a meaning
Grease is the time, is the place, is the motion
Grease is the way we are feeling
best song from that movie
not even in the original play
You try to warn people of the obvious, but they do not listen.
https://www.apnews.com/a5f4c5fac71f42438a0228dee7c93b45
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 23, 2019, 08:45:23 PM
You try to warn people of the obvious, but they do not listen.
https://www.apnews.com/a5f4c5fac71f42438a0228dee7c93b45
"But they insisted. They went ahead," she said.
I like that the first hikers needed help an hour after they started.
Who starts a hike at the hottest time of the day?
Quote from: Hoopla! on August 23, 2019, 09:39:17 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 23, 2019, 08:45:23 PM
You try to warn people of the obvious, but they do not listen.
https://www.apnews.com/a5f4c5fac71f42438a0228dee7c93b45
"But they insisted. They went ahead," she said.
I like that the first hikers needed help an hour after they started.
Who starts a hike at the hottest time of the day?
People who also don't bring enough water.
That area is among the most dangerous in Arizona, alongside maybe the Catalina mountains.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 23, 2019, 09:40:43 PM
Quote from: Hoopla! on August 23, 2019, 09:39:17 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 23, 2019, 08:45:23 PM
You try to warn people of the obvious, but they do not listen.
https://www.apnews.com/a5f4c5fac71f42438a0228dee7c93b45
"But they insisted. They went ahead," she said.
I like that the first hikers needed help an hour after they started.
Who starts a hike at the hottest time of the day?
People who also don't bring enough water.
That area is among the most dangerous in Arizona, alongside maybe the Catalina mountains.
I hope it was fucking Blood Meridian for them.
A lesson I learned: if you think you have enough water for whatever you're doing, BRING MORE.
So, I was in my kitchen and i saw a group of 10 disenfranchised ants aimlessly running around, and it made me think of the Amazon forests burning with all the species dying out, and it made me really sad.
So i made a small house for them out of some cardboard packaging.
Now they're my tenants.
Quote from: The Johnny on August 24, 2019, 01:38:08 AM
So, I was in my kitchen and i saw a group of 10 disenfranchised ants aimlessly running around, and it made me think of the Amazon forests burning with all the species dying out, and it made me really sad.
So i made a small house for them out of some cardboard packaging.
Now they're my tenants.
Ants just wanna clean up your mess. So we poison them.
Quote from: nullified on August 23, 2019, 11:54:51 PM
A lesson I learned: if you think you have enough water for whatever you're doing, BRING MORE.
I tell people who need to drive through this region (The Sonoran Desert) to bring no less than 5 gallons per person, in the trunk. And some pedialite pixie sticks.
I have done airsoft in Florida, and that was with a 5L Camelbak in my backpack. I still nearly collapsed by the end. Yeah, sure, I was lugging the 10lb LMG and a 4lb light rifle in an infiltration game, but I had to be dragged off the field, the water carrier totally empty, after three hours. This was a Florida spring.
I sit in a Boston office all day taking calls and go through 3 liters a day, immobile.
You never have enough water. You're made of the shit and your body is very efficient at cycling the old water out for the new.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 24, 2019, 05:27:38 AM
Quote from: The Johnny on August 24, 2019, 01:38:08 AM
So, I was in my kitchen and i saw a group of 10 disenfranchised ants aimlessly running around, and it made me think of the Amazon forests burning with all the species dying out, and it made me really sad.
So i made a small house for them out of some cardboard packaging.
Now they're my tenants.
Ants just wanna clean up your mess. So we poison them.
RWHN's puns were of way less quality than this and they got acknowledged with rage, now I gotta rethink my entire life. :sad:
You fucking cutthroat bastard I didn't even spot it. You slipped that under my goddamned radar.
You can't see it from where you're at but I want you to know I'm foaming at the mouth and turning luminous red. If my eyeballs could light fires there would be a swath of unquenchable flames from Boston to Texas, where the little border wall that could would reflect my blazing gaze right back on Massachusetts.
Howl might get to laugh, but LMNO and QGP would be baked into the void itself. And that's awful.
Feel bad, Johnny, for this impossible hypothetical series of events.
(Does that help?)
Yes, yes it does :lol:
In the Sechura desert we could get away with 4 gallons per person, but only because it's winter and the sea brings the temperature down considerably. And that there are enough settlements to pick up additional water (or, more likely, Inca Kola) along the way.
Still drier than Satan's bunghole, though.
Quote from: The Johnny on August 24, 2019, 06:24:00 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 24, 2019, 05:27:38 AM
Quote from: The Johnny on August 24, 2019, 01:38:08 AM
So, I was in my kitchen and i saw a group of 10 disenfranchised ants aimlessly running around, and it made me think of the Amazon forests burning with all the species dying out, and it made me really sad.
So i made a small house for them out of some cardboard packaging.
Now they're my tenants.
Ants just wanna clean up your mess. So we poison them.
RWHN's puns were of way less quality than this and they got acknowledged with rage, now I gotta rethink my entire life. :sad:
I am the slow and tired
:argh!: :argh!: :argh!: :argh!: :argh!: :argh!: :argh!: :argh!: :argh!: :argh!: :argh!: :argh!: :argh!: :argh!: :argh!: :argh!: :argh!: :argh!: :argh!:
Quote from: The Johnny on August 24, 2019, 06:24:00 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 24, 2019, 05:27:38 AM
Quote from: The Johnny on August 24, 2019, 01:38:08 AM
So, I was in my kitchen and i saw a group of 10 disenfranchised ants aimlessly running around, and it made me think of the Amazon forests burning with all the species dying out, and it made me really sad.
So i made a small house for them out of some cardboard packaging.
Now they're my tenants.
Ants just wanna clean up your mess. So we poison them.
RWHN's puns were of way less quality than this and they got acknowledged with rage, now I gotta rethink my entire life. :sad:
I didn't notice the pun until you pointed it out, and now my quality of life is measurably lower.
In other news, the "You have 3 messages in your inbox" newsfeed catches me again, for ten minutes on the train. I was distracted, okay?
Also in other news I just remembered a thing I said today. Presented without context:
"Cherries are the peaches of Satan. You can tell because they're red like communism and the gays love 'em."
Quote from: nullified on August 26, 2019, 05:24:05 AM
In other news, the "You have 3 messages in your inbox" newsfeed catches me again, for ten minutes on the train. I was distracted, okay?
I'm undeniably proud of that one and the (sadly long since dead) "fly walking across the screen" gif
God I miss the fly. It never got me, but it always gave me a chuckle.
I just want to remind everyone that Devo II happened and was a thing.
We seem to have pissed off some Indonesian spammers today.
I've blocked emails from 4 different domains, all of which come from the aforementioned country.
Quote from: Cain on August 28, 2019, 10:00:51 PM
We seem to have pissed off some Indonesian spammers today.
I've blocked emails from 4 different domains, all of which come from the aforementioned country.
Yeah, I saw the one after the one I told you about. I was reasonably sure it wouldn't get by you. :lulz:
Quote from: Cain on August 28, 2019, 10:00:51 PM
We seem to have pissed off some Indonesian spammers today.
I've blocked emails from 4 different domains, all of which come from the aforementioned country.
The Google captcha helped a bit but they are still getting through
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 28, 2019, 10:59:14 PM
Quote from: Cain on August 28, 2019, 10:00:51 PM
We seem to have pissed off some Indonesian spammers today.
I've blocked emails from 4 different domains, all of which come from the aforementioned country.
Yeah, I saw the one after the one I told you about. I was reasonably sure it wouldn't get by you. :lulz:
You mean bestcoffeshop.com isn't a legitimate email address?!
Quote from: Faust on August 28, 2019, 11:11:18 PM
Quote from: Cain on August 28, 2019, 10:00:51 PM
We seem to have pissed off some Indonesian spammers today.
I've blocked emails from 4 different domains, all of which come from the aforementioned country.
The Google captcha helped a bit but they are still getting through
Yeah, it's definitely reduced them, we just seem to be having a weirdly active day on that front
QuoteCarl Friedrich "Totalitarian dictatorship and autocracy"
"To envisage what this technological advance means in terms of political control, one has only to think of the weapons field.
The Constitution of the United States guarantees to every citizen the right to bear arms (fourth amendment). In the days of the Minutemen, this was a very important right, and the freedom of the citizen was indeed symbolized by the gun over the hearth, as it is in Switzerland to this day.
But who can "bear" such arms as a tank, a bomber, or a flamethrower, let alone an atom bomb? The citizen as an individual, and indeed in larger groups, is simply defenseless against the overwhelming technological superiority of those who can centralize in their hands the means with which to wield modern weapons and thereby physically to coerce the mass of the citizenry."
(p. 24)
Shout out to the person that recommended this author
Whoever that was sounds like a giant nerd who hates FREEDOM
Quote from: Cain on August 30, 2019, 10:25:20 AM
Whoever that was sounds like a giant nerd who hates FREEDOM
I can't hear you over the BRRRRRRRTTTTT of based Warthog.
Not dead not arrested
I'm in Rome.
Anyone need anything?
Quote from: Hoopla! on September 03, 2019, 11:16:10 PM
I'm in Rome.
Anyone need anything?
Yeah, we could use a half-dozen Brutuses. (Brutii?)
Quote from: Hoopla! on September 03, 2019, 11:16:10 PM
I'm in Rome.
Anyone need anything?
If you could bring back the Trevi Fountain, that'd be great.
Quote from: Hoopla! on September 03, 2019, 11:16:10 PM
I'm in Rome.
Anyone need anything?
If you pass near the Vatican, I could use some fresh holy relics. Most of the holy has worn off my current set. No femurs, please.
Bring me one Roman legionnaire. I need it for a friend.
Real olive oil, thanks. Some Colatura or Garam would be great.
Hey, which one of youse wrote the psychohistory of New Bedford, again?
Weirdly enough, I think it's relevant to something on FB.
Just FYI, for all spambots I'm now putting sitewide bans on their email provider if they're not using a legit one.
So obviously gmail, yahoo etc are fine, but if someone signs up with say, an @seogreatspam.dprk address, everyone signing up with that address will get banned. Yes, I google them before I approve, so I know if the email is from a legit provider or not.
Good to know. I'll make sure my spambots are all using stolen Gmail addresses from now on.
More seriously, thanks for keeping the shit out of here, every forum I know is packed with trash and spam now, if it's even alive.
Yeah, I hope the extreme measures will cause an overall drop in traffic. A few years ago there were quite a few gmail addresses being used, but it seems Google woke up and took care of business.
In other news, I got sick today and my boss told me to leave. I was sure I could push through but I was on the decline bad. Now I'm home so to speak and I feel as if I have had my bones surgically removed to make room for mild nausea. So I'm going to pass out and hope tomorrow is less bad.
There's definitely something going around. I spent the last two days feeling pretty uncomfortable myself.
I'm 100% not superstitious, but there's some bad/tense energy going around since about 2 days ago
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Uranus is retrograded :bunny:
I found a person whose facebook feed is 90% OMG save the animals and 10% OMG illegal immigrants are here to murder people.
Not a combo I'm familiar with.
Quote from: TriviQ on September 06, 2019, 02:58:37 PM
I found a person whose facebook feed is 90% OMG save the animals and 10% OMG illegal immigrants are here to murder people.
Not a combo I'm familiar with.
This viewpoint is entirely consistent, if you assume they only want to save the
good kind of animals.
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on September 06, 2019, 03:14:57 PM
Quote from: TriviQ on September 06, 2019, 02:58:37 PM
I found a person whose facebook feed is 90% OMG save the animals and 10% OMG illegal immigrants are here to murder people.
Not a combo I'm familiar with.
This viewpoint is entirely consistent, if you assume they only want to save the good kind of animals.
Sort of want to troll them with "Cool, you found out how to express your hate for humans in a socially acceptable way."
Oooh, or " I thought you were pro-human murder"
TBH, the biggest misanthropes ive met love animals with a passion...
Now, im making a distinction in which "misanthrope =/= psychopath", but curious enough, the true psychopaths ive met, as per the cliche killed and tortured animals in their youth, but in adulthood they went the opposite way.
Also, even tho PETA people and save the planet types are construed as liberal types, theres a lot of right wing "pagans" (MysticWicks ring a bell?)
Quote from: The Johnny on September 06, 2019, 03:42:18 PM
TBH, the biggest misanthropes ive met love animals with a passion...
Now, im making a distinction in which "misanthrope =/= psychopath", but curious enough, the true psychopaths ive met, as per the cliche killed and tortured animals in their youth, but in adulthood they went the opposite way.
Also, even tho PETA people and save the planet types are construed as liberal types, theres a lot of right wing "pagans" (MysticWicks ring a bell?)
I remember an article about Newt Gingrich describing this. Newt loves animals, and has a lot of psychopath behaviors.
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I found a person whose facebook feed is 90% OMG save the animals and 10% OMG illegal immigrants are here to murder people.
Not a combo I'm familiar with.
Not entirely unheard of. Savitri Devi was a trailblazer in this particular area of lunacy, and both the El Paso and Christchurch shooters expressed views along those lines.
Quote from: Cain on September 06, 2019, 04:28:35 PM
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I found a person whose facebook feed is 90% OMG save the animals and 10% OMG illegal immigrants are here to murder people.
Not a combo I'm familiar with.
Not entirely unheard of. Savitri Devi was a trailblazer in this particular area of lunacy, and both the El Paso and Christchurch shooters expressed views along those lines.
Huh, interesting.
The idea being the natural world is a wonderous beauty and treasure that must be secured for the white race against the ravages of Jewish capitalism, usually.
Fascists are weird like that.
Quote from: Cain on September 06, 2019, 04:52:11 PM
The idea being the natural world is a wonderous beauty and treasure that must be secured for the white race against the ravages of Jewish capitalism, usually.
Fascists are weird like that.
Yeah, I had never heard of Savitri Devi. Just a weird read. Must reduce suffering in animals, but increase suffering in humans because they deserve it. Well not this flavor of human, they're ok.
After all, Schopenhauer, Paris Hilton and Hitler all really loved their pets and all the animals of God's kingdom, but...
Animals don't get disgusted by the horrible things you say.
Quote from: The Johnny on September 06, 2019, 09:03:39 AM
I'm 100% not superstitious, but there's some bad/tense energy going around since about 2 days ago
An acquaintance on FB said the exact same thing. Weird.
Quote from: Magpie on September 06, 2019, 07:16:58 PM
Animals don't get disgusted by the horrible things you say.
Are you speaking from your personal experience? As a magpie, I mean
Quote from: Cain on September 07, 2019, 12:19:10 AM
Quote from: Magpie on September 06, 2019, 07:16:58 PM
Animals don't get disgusted by the horrible things you say.
Are you speaking from your personal experience? As a magpie, I mean
As someone that frequently feeds sparrows while discussing human eugenics in the backyard, can confirm, birds don't get disgusted by my personal views - not necessarily true regarding
all other animals tho, needs further testing.
Quote from: The Johnny on September 07, 2019, 01:35:21 PM
Quote from: Cain on September 07, 2019, 12:19:10 AM
Quote from: Magpie on September 06, 2019, 07:16:58 PM
Animals don't get disgusted by the horrible things you say.
Are you speaking from your personal experience? As a magpie, I mean
As someone that frequently feeds sparrows while discussing human eugenics in the backyard, can confirm, birds don't get disgusted by my personal views - not necessarily true regarding all other animals tho, needs further testing.
Food is food, besides,
human eugenics won't affect your sparrows.
I read something years ago commenting on Nazis who would treat jews, Slavs etc so much worse than they would an animal, the idea was that even Nazis couldn't stop themselves from seeing their enemies as human and the brutality was to drown out their consciences.
Quote from: Magpie on September 07, 2019, 01:55:41 PM
Quote from: The Johnny on September 07, 2019, 01:35:21 PM
Quote from: Cain on September 07, 2019, 12:19:10 AM
Quote from: Magpie on September 06, 2019, 07:16:58 PM
Animals don't get disgusted by the horrible things you say.
Are you speaking from your personal experience? As a magpie, I mean
As someone that frequently feeds sparrows while discussing human eugenics in the backyard, can confirm, birds don't get disgusted by my personal views - not necessarily true regarding all other animals tho, needs further testing.
Food is food, besides, human eugenics won't affect your sparrows.
I read something years ago commenting on Nazis who would treat jews, Slavs etc so much worse than they would an animal, the idea was that even Nazis couldn't stop themselves from seeing their enemies as human and the brutality was to drown out their consciences.
Well, id make several important distinctions:
-On a policy/ideological level, they were literally considered "sub-human", "vermin" or "a disease".
-On a conscious level, I'm sure there were extreme variances on perception... from your regular indifferent and burocreatic minded Hans that was "Just following orders bro" to the guys that believed and enjoyed it.
-Then there's the unconscious level, which we will never know... perceiving and treating fellow humans as mere objects is way more common than one would imagine... so were they dehumanizing them so they could treat them brutally? or did the brutality come from the perception that they were un-human?... and even these questions are flawed, because it would have to be answered on an individual basis.
I saw a few protesters near a major intersection, yesterday. There were five or six of them, two wearing yellow vests. The placards were poorly lettered*, but I managed to read:
"No United Nations"
"gas ... oil"
"No carbon tax"
"Stop Trudeau now"
"Thank you to our veterans"
I haven't been paying much attention to the whole yellow vest thing, but I guess it's safe to assume by default that anyone wearing such a vest is an asshole?
*Aside from multicolored lettering being childish, light yellow on white is bloody hard to read.
It began not like that. Early on it was basically a union thing: stop treating us like shit and pay us a living wage kind of deal.
Then the xenophobes and morons tacked their shit on the end. Now it's garbage.
If not having a functioning car didn't cramp my style so much, trying to figure out what's wrong with mine would be fun.
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on September 08, 2019, 06:18:40 PM
I saw a few protesters near a major intersection, yesterday. There were five or six of them, two wearing yellow vests. The placards were poorly lettered*, but I managed to read:
"No United Nations"
"gas ... oil"
"No carbon tax"
"Stop Trudeau now"
"Thank you to our veterans"
I haven't been paying much attention to the whole yellow vest thing, but I guess it's safe to assume by default that anyone wearing such a vest is an asshole?
*Aside from multicolored lettering being childish, light yellow on white is bloody hard to read.
Outside of France, all yellowvests are trash. They're nu anons, more or less
Quote from: nullified on September 08, 2019, 07:16:02 PM
It began not like that. Early on it was basically a union thing: stop treating us like shit and pay us a living wage kind of deal.
Then the xenophobes and morons tacked their shit on the end. Now it's garbage.
I was wondering if there might be some sort of identifying accoutrement or symbol for "the good guys", but then it occurred to me that if there was, it would get co-opted quickly.
I could wear a golden apple lapel pin, but everyone would just think I was a teacher.
Yeah, I can forgive the French protestors, they had some legitimate greivances and the far-right didn't make up the majority of the movement.
However, the UK and Canadian offshoots are trash. The British offshoot in particular can be traced to EDL and football hooligan elements, the same ones who were fighting the police in central London yesterday.
Trudeau REALLY pisses off a certain segment of the Canadian population.
Quote from: Hoopla! on September 08, 2019, 09:51:06 PM
Trudeau REALLY pisses off a certain segment of the Canadian population.
That's the part that wishes they had Trump as a PM, right?
New random fb idiot talking point: Minnesota is a Muslim filled hellhole.
what a time to be alive. :lulz:
I might have fucking ruined my knee. We'll see: I have today and tomorrow off and intend to spend as little time on the stairs or walking as possible, let's see if the rest helps.
What happened, for the curious: there is this bridge around here I have to cross to get home from the bus stop. Someone removed one of the planks for the stairs down to ground level. My foot went through to the (mercifully close by) concrete with tension for a much shorter, smaller step down on my other knee. Immediate crippling pain, followed by a long walk home and trip up two flights of stairs. Right below my knee cap feels like a knife made of dry ice is lodged in it, and every slight movement of the knee is grinding it against all the bones and tendons.
Also it feels, unaccountably, soaking wet. It may be difficult to believe, but I checked and it is bone dry.
So I might have ruined my knee.
You might have ruined your knee, but think about the liability claims.
What has your knee ever done for you anyway, that money cannot?
It is really unlikely that someone like me will get a liability payout. Poor, itinerant, trans. Can't see it happen.
Also: money does not bend my leg, which is a necessary part of such tasks as transit, climbing stairs, and shitting. Money does not ease the difficulty of these necessary tasks, unless money can provide magical elevator service, stand-up toilets designed for poo, and transit I can sort of full-body flop into, with around 4 feet of room in front of the seats to accept a fully straightened leg.
While I am aware all of these things can indeed be provided with sufficient money, a tiny Boston suburb will not provide sufficient money.
Not with that attitude they wont.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 09, 2019, 02:54:51 AM
Quote from: Hoopla! on September 08, 2019, 09:51:06 PM
Trudeau REALLY pisses off a certain segment of the Canadian population.
That's the part that wishes they had Trump as a PM, right?
Correct. And larger than I ever imagined.
I am genuinely baffled. Have they not watched what he's done? Is owning the libs or whatever nonsense is driving them really worth that?
On a lighter note, I'm super pleased to be subbing for the teacher I'm covering for until Thursday. I know literally all his kids very well and they're a fucking delight.
Knee update: no more spasmodic, icy agony so long as I watch my weight when I bend it. It almost works again, stairs are the hellish part.
I got damned lucky. If I hadn't had my hands out my head would have smashed like an egg on the sidewalk. And my knee injury was very temporary (or so it seems). Someone else before or after me may not have been so fortunate. Whoever removed that plank should be rolled under a passing train.
We've moved
Ironically into the second place we've lived together.
Which is the address my drivers license has.
My brother in-law made the acquaintance of the only person in my life to ever make me wish I had a gun just in case he shows up again.
And my brother in-law, who live here previously, kept house in the manner best described as "depressed stoner."
Hey, look.
Some good news.
https://www.apnews.com/265f2982ba9543909424c772a9592506
September 11th memorials have become a form of porn.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 11, 2019, 07:09:05 PM
September 11th memorials have become a form of porn.
Especially for Ted Cruz (https://www.funnyordie.com/politics/2018/9/11/17846920/its-the-anniversary-of-ted-cruz-liking-a-porn-tweet-on-9-11)
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 11, 2019, 07:09:05 PM
September 11th memorials have become a form of porn.
Palmetto State Armory has their "Hero-15" 9/11 memorial stripped AR-15 lowers for just $49 this week! Get 'em while they're HOT!
Now you can NEVER FORGET in style!
Quote from: Juana on September 10, 2019, 07:31:54 PM
I am genuinely baffled. Have they not watched what he's done? Is owning the libs or whatever nonsense is driving them really worth that?
On a lighter note, I'm super pleased to be subbing for the teacher I'm covering for until Thursday. I know literally all his kids very well and they're a fucking delight.
They hate what he's doing. The carbon tax alone makes them apoplectic.
Cain,
We have another spam bot with a convenient email address in the waiting room.
Someone beat me to it. Sorry, was AFK.
Seems I've managed to fall upstairs this time. I've gotten a job basically making Servo motors for things that fly and go boom for the government. There was a time when doing this would have given me an ethical conundrum, but now as an older man I have no such concerns about putting my skills to the war machine for reasonably good pay. Much about the job will be new to me as it's not Electronics per se, but I look forward to the challenge and will basically be getting paid to learn. I'm very excited and realize that I am also very fortunate indeed to have found such an opportunity through a good friend.
There's a part of me that thinks that I am not in fact one of the good guys. Not sure that I ever was, but I am definitely down for a good time while I'm here on Earth. For me a good time in part means using some of my newfound resources for shenanigans political and otherwise. I intend to support Q.G. to this end. I will also break a little bit off for PD. Not just because I use the Forum but because having the PD freely available online seems to me an important symbolic and spiritual gesture.
The position I've taken will likely involve a lot of overtime and I have a 45 minute commute, so I'm basically dedicating a huge chunk of my life to this and wish to use the resources as I see fit. I see fit to give about 5% to what discordia means to me. I've never been one to tithe regularly, but I'm only giving half of what YHVH would Allegedly ask. I may not ever be on the front lines of a protest, But I can Harvest resources and support those that are. In the end Logistics is one of the most important factors in a war, And like it or not I am at war. I'm not an idealist and I'm a dirty fighter. I throw my lot in with discordia. We shall see what comes of it.
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on September 13, 2019, 11:46:13 AM
Seems I've managed to fall upstairs this time. I've gotten a job basically making Servo motors for things that fly and go boom for the government. There was a time when doing this would have given me an ethical conundrum,
I am currently being shamed by some friends on FB for this kinda shit, and I'm like "This was me all along."
All humans must be destroyed.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 13, 2019, 02:22:36 PM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on September 13, 2019, 11:46:13 AM
Seems I've managed to fall upstairs this time. I've gotten a job basically making Servo motors for things that fly and go boom for the government. There was a time when doing this would have given me an ethical conundrum,
I am currently being shamed by some friends on FB for this kinda shit, and I'm like "This was me all along."
All humans must be destroyed.
It took a fair amount of therapy, meditation, and some martial arts practice for me to come to terms with my destructive side and stop guiltily internalizing it to the detriment of my mental health.
You see I'm just as destructive as any other of the mad primates on this planet, I'm just not REPRESSING anymore like the others. This may make me a social pariah among idealists seeking 'peace', but fuck them. I'm healthier this way. Why self destruct when you can just destroy instead?
All humans WILL die
And Who am I
To play the preserver?
I recently met a young woman I think can tolerate me who drives me crazy. Hopefully this turns out well. To be honest I thought it was impossible, turns out I just hadn't stumbled around an unexpected corner and run into a specific sort of person yet... and it's probably good I hadn't, because if idiot younger me had, they'd have fucked it all up, somehow.
EDIT: Idiot younger me would've definitely fucked it up, and idiot current me still has to be wary of fucking it up.
Searched for random things in here on a whim just now, noticed podcast recommendations a few dozen pages back;
The Bright Sessions is a recently-ish concluded podcast about a psychiatrist treating teens and adults whose maladies happen to be superpowers and various supernatural abilities combined with actual mental health issues (spontaneous time travel brought on by anxiety attacks, empathic abilities with a healthy dose of sensory issues, good ol' psychopathy with a hint of mind-control, etc.)
Ars Paradoxica revolves around the spoopy and mysterious Philadelphia Experiment, where a government project trying to cloak a battleship with scientism in the midst of WWII ends up being interrupted by another science mishap in the 2XXX's, wherein our main character gets teleported to the U.S.S. Eldridge, gets recruited by the feds, ends up on a research team out in the desert to rival the one that actually made The Bomb, and has to deal with temporal shenanigans as a result of her own displacement. Also the government quickly learns to weaponize said shenanigans, so there are neat butterfly effect things in place. Haven't caught up with it myself yet (been busy, and some of the secret codes at the end of episodes have me stumped for the time being). Has some of the same voice actors as Bright Sessions, iirc.
Also hi all. Feels like it's been a while since I've been in the swing of things. Scholarships and the inevitable bugbears and growing pains of the start of transition have been fun hurdles to surmount.
Glad to hear you're okay. And I'm envious about the start of transition thing, I'm still years behind. Good luck with it!
Quote from: nullified on September 14, 2019, 04:09:27 PM
Glad to hear you're okay. And I'm envious about the start of transition thing, I'm still years behind. Good luck with it!
Aw, thanks Null~ :) I'm not on hormones yet (far from it at this rate, we'll see). But yeah, just two meetings in with the psych person who's supposed to validate my trans-ness and help get me the referrals I need to get to endo and whatnot. Instead of that I've been met with the brick wall that is psych person not Doing It Right and assuming that non-crippling dysphoria and a lack of hate for my dick
clearly means that I'm just non-binary and not a lady.
So yeah, they've already gotten a little letter from me (and their supervisor will get a copy too once I can figure out how to contact him), and I'll be looking for someone else to handle that side of medical bureaucracy in their stead.
In other related news, the trans support groups I've been attending (both in and outside of my health care provider) have been real neat. I learned that trans guys have their dicks not just constructed
from arm skin, but they actually build it
on the arm, create the necessary blood flow for the tissue to survive, and
then they relocate it to the groin.
What a weird medical world we live in.
Medical science is crazy. A few years back a replacement eye was made from a wad of meat and a tooth. I'm not joking.
It looked like Resident Evil and gave about the same visual acuity as the artificial options currently available, but those options took decades and this was an experimental first time thing. So given a few decades and some dedicated people, meaty tooth eyes might be the thing, and you'd never know, and that's fucking awesome.
Quote from: nullified on September 14, 2019, 06:39:44 PM
Medical science is crazy. A few years back a replacement eye was made from a wad of meat and a tooth. I'm not joking.
It looked like Resident Evil and gave about the same visual acuity as the artificial options currently available, but those options took decades and this was an experimental first time thing. So given a few decades and some dedicated people, meaty tooth eyes might be the thing, and you'd never know, and that's fucking awesome.
My brain just misread "tooth" as "toothpick"...and either way, that
is fucking awesome. :lulz:
I demand meaty tooth eyes and I demand them right fucking now!
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on September 14, 2019, 10:26:11 PM
I demand meaty tooth eyes and I demand them right fucking now!
You should grow them on your arm. Along with a penis.
Combine the two and men will at long last have an answer to vaginal dentata.
Quote from: Cain on September 14, 2019, 10:53:31 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on September 14, 2019, 10:26:11 PM
I demand meaty tooth eyes and I demand them right fucking now!
You should grow them on your arm. Along with a penis.
Combine the two and men will at long last have an answer to vaginal dentata.
Meat teeth and arm dicks? That's way too much effort for a male vagina dentata equivalent. Steal the obsidian teeth from the vagina of the Maori night goddess who killed Maui...
then build an arm dick! :lulz:
I made the executive decision at 2AM that I'm gonna bite the bullet and sometime in the next two months I'm going to get my name and gender marker changed on everything but my birth certificate (which isn't from Massachusetts and so is a hell of a lot harder).
This process involves all of two things: going to Fenway Health, and spending around 300 dollars.
Okay, I'm glossing over a lot of paperwork and visiting various offices, but those are the two MAIN things.
I intend to be fucking up badly coded database software throughout the state real soon.
Good luck for both of you with your transitions, seriously. I know a little about it, it seems like a daunting prospect at the best of times (and these are clearly not that).
I'm looking into the freelance copywriting and content creation industry. Plus: setting my own hours, working from home, I'm a fast enough writer that I can output 1500 words a day on subjects I know nothing about, no problem. Negatives: convincing myself to write things instead of trolling politicians all day on Twitter. Some of the sites in question are also in America, which can only mean good things given the current exchange rate.
Quote from: Cain on September 15, 2019, 07:59:11 AM
Good luck for both of you with your transitions, seriously. I know a little about it, it seems like a daunting prospect at the best of times (and these are clearly not that).
I'm looking into the freelance copywriting and content creation industry. Plus: setting my own hours, working from home, I'm a fast enough writer that I can output 1500 words a day on subjects I know nothing about, no problem. Negatives: convincing myself to write things instead of trolling politicians all day on Twitter. Some of the sites in question are also in America, which can only mean good things given the current exchange rate.
I appreciate the thought, but I at least am in Massachusetts. I wasn't joking about the effort required being low: I need only find a trans friendly doctor to vigorously nod when prompted regarding my treatment being sufficient to transition legally. And the name change is just a paperwork thing and a court fee.
Yeah, I need to publish it in a local paper, but I don't care too much about that. And I can choose my paper. Maybe I'll pick the local queer newspaper. Or maybe the local old people newspaper, for kicks.
After that's done, the same documents used for name and ID gender marker change fix my social security card too. So it's basically just taking things to offices and waving them at bureaucrats, after the initial court thing. I've had more difficult website signups.
Quote from: nullified on September 15, 2019, 06:55:30 AM
I intend to be fucking up badly coded database software throughout the state real soon.
You are doing the Goddess's work.
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on September 15, 2019, 04:30:28 PM
Quote from: nullified on September 15, 2019, 06:55:30 AM
I intend to be fucking up badly coded database software throughout the state real soon.
You are doing the Goddess's work.
But of course! :lulz:
If your website, database, or other data input software cannot handle LASTNAME="Null" then you don't deserve to have it. Also, it's my religious duty to scare up all of the bugs and garbage that surround me in day to day life so I can point at them and go "WOW! Look at that! It's super neat! I bet it will be my friend!" while everyone else screams and runs away in pants-shitting terror.
Every day, I learn things at this new gig that horrify me.
Friday's topic: "When dealing with a mob, the number one rule is to eliminate the agitators before the mob starts to move."
More, please. Sounds like good prep material to appropriately adjust from the strange times to the horrible times.
Quote from: Junkenstein on September 15, 2019, 06:55:29 PM
More, please. Sounds like good prep material to appropriately adjust from the strange times to the horrible times.
It's all intuitive, just not things a reasonable person thinks about.
"If the mob does begin to move, target the ones who allow the crowd to pass them by."
"Whichever side can escalate violence *faster* wins. Momentum is based on escalation, not capability."
"If someone is pulled out of the line, you forget them and reform the line."
What's fucked up is that these work no matter which side of the line you are on.
"If the mob does begin to move, target the ones who allow the crowd to pass them by."
Hmmm, so I should find a new tactic.
Quote from: Cain on September 15, 2019, 07:59:11 AM
Good luck for both of you with your transitions, seriously. I know a little about it, it seems like a daunting prospect at the best of times (and these are clearly not that).
I'm looking into the freelance copywriting and content creation industry. Plus: setting my own hours, working from home, I'm a fast enough writer that I can output 1500 words a day on subjects I know nothing about, no problem. Negatives: convincing myself to write things instead of trolling politicians all day on Twitter. Some of the sites in question are also in America, which can only mean good things given the current exchange rate.
Luck is appreciated. We'll see what good it does in the face of the American healthcare system, but at least I'm lucky enough to have been born in California. :lulz:
I always assume malice in the face of telecommunications companies and healthcare providers. They are incompetent, greed driven, assume user stupidity, and will outright lie to you to get you to go away without changing anything.
And if I need to go to them I do the same thing to both types of company: I repeat myself over and over again until the problem is resolved, and accept no answer other than "one moment while I fix that" followed by resolution of the problem.
They are not on your side.
Heard a funny one from an acquaintance, he noticed that his birth certificate had the wrong gender on it, so he went in to the parish clerk (I think ?)to have it corrected. They said they'd send in an official copy.
He gets a photocopy showing the F crossed out with M written in sharpie.
He said he wondered what they'd do if he were transgender.
Rick Ocasek died. :cry:
It’s a really fucking strange feeling to be able to plan ahead a week. It’s been years of having to make decisions on the basis of immediate needs and not being able to think about tomorrow, let alone next week.
Finally, I have the capability of budgeting, not as a personal ability thing (I’ve always had that) but as a “there is money I don’t need right this second to not die or go mad” thing. I can actually exercise this capability I have of planning ahead and making decisions.
Even accounting for bad decisions (some quite intentional), I’ve got 270 dollars in a “savings account” (since all my banking is through PayPal, this is actually just an Acorns investment account and I use it simply because it integrates nicely to PayPal and the money is explicitly not immediately available to me: it takes time and effort to access it) and I’ve built up a sizeable chunk that hasn’t migrated that direction quite yet out of sheer nervousness about maybe needing it.
It’s weird.
Edit:
Having taken several Tucson calls here now, I can confirm for those outside the gravity well that Tucson is indeed just Like That.
Highlights:
“I’m sorry; normally we’d continue to troubleshoot for a temporary fix but your system is possessed by demons.”
“I’m not sure whether to ask you to call the installers again or to pray to your deity of choice: both seem appropriate. Can I offer you two free months?”
“We have an IP address, we have a connection, but your SIM card is suspended and will not reactivate. It’s probably a visual thing, but if your system magically stops working please call us so we can replace it.”
Wait, can I grow a second dick for transplant out of my arm?
Quote from: nullified on September 16, 2019, 05:29:01 PM
It's a really fucking strange feeling to be able to plan ahead a week. It's been years of having to make decisions on the basis of immediate needs and not being able to think about tomorrow, let alone next week.
Finally, I have the capability of budgeting, not as a personal ability thing (I've always had that) but as a "there is money I don't need right this second to not die or go mad" thing. I can actually exercise this capability I have of planning ahead and making decisions.
Even accounting for bad decisions (some quite intentional), I've got 270 dollars in a "savings account" (since all my banking is through PayPal, this is actually just an Acorns investment account and I use it simply because it integrates nicely to PayPal and the money is explicitly not immediately available to me: it takes time and effort to access it) and I've built up a sizeable chunk that hasn't migrated that direction quite yet out of sheer nervousness about maybe needing it.
It's weird.
Edit:
Having taken several Tucson calls here now, I can confirm for those outside the gravity well that Tucson is indeed just Like That.
Highlights:
"I'm sorry; normally we'd continue to troubleshoot for a temporary fix but your system is possessed by demons."
"I'm not sure whether to ask you to call the installers again or to pray to your deity of choice: both seem appropriate. Can I offer you two free months?"
"We have an IP address, we have a connection, but your SIM card is suspended and will not reactivate. It's probably a visual thing, but if your system magically stops working please call us so we can replace it."
PROPER calls from Tucson should just involve static, the screams of tortured souls, and Monty Haul saying he has your family.
In perfect seriousness: we actually get those. They never have an account in our system, and when we call back we either get a "This number is not in service" or an unrelated company who say they have never heard of us but if someone called us they'll find out who and tell them to call us back.
The exact sounds vary: one time I got the sound of a power drill being revved on a loop, with distant incoherent yelling, and twice I've gotten what sounds like a car crash on loop (revving engine, brake screech, loud crash, repeat).
We've heard weird mumbling and crackling flames, the things they all have in common are no account, no one on the other end to respond to us, a looping sound of some sort (usually horror movie shit) and inability to get a customer on the line when we call back.
Quote from: nullified on September 17, 2019, 10:26:01 PM
In perfect seriousness: we actually get those. They never have an account in our system, and when we call back we either get a "This number is not in service" or an unrelated company who say they have never heard of us but if someone called us they'll find out who and tell them to call us back.
The exact sounds vary: one time I got the sound of a power drill being revved on a loop, with distant incoherent yelling, and twice I've gotten what sounds like a car crash on loop (revving engine, brake screech, loud crash, repeat).
We've heard weird mumbling and crackling flames, the things they all have in common are no account, no one on the other end to respond to us, a looping sound of some sort (usually horror movie shit) and inability to get a customer on the line when we call back.
Those calls are in reality all from the 85705 and 85703 zip codes. They're trying to tell you important things, but there's a Schwarzschild radius in the way so it comes out more "Classic Tucson."
I sometimes walk along the riverbank during my lunchbreak. With the object of increasing my range, I decided to eat while walking today. Chewing while walking on rough terrain being a bad idea, I naturally bit my lip hard enough to draw blood.
On the way back, I took a less-traveled path through the brush a bit above the shoreline. Head held high, admiring the autumn colours, oblivious to the ground beneath me, I stepped in quite a deep hole, and fell, almost rolling down the riverbank in the process. Once I managed to drag myself back onto the path, I found I had a cut on one finger, and a bump on my right shin that will turn purple by morning.
I'm not sure what the origin of the hole was; it was too large and vertical for any critter I know of, so I think it was some sort of river-erosion induced sinkhole.
TL;DR: I took the road less traveled by, and almost fell off.
We had "everyone gets rib injuries" month, now it seems to be "fall through a hole by a river" month. Glad you're mostly okay.
Quote from: nullified on September 15, 2019, 08:09:31 AM
Yeah, I need to publish it in a local paper, but I don't care too much about that. And I can choose my paper. Maybe I'll pick the local queer newspaper. Or maybe the local old people newspaper, for kicks.
I'm a little jealous you get to pick which paper. I only really wanna change my last name (bc a) i don't think the state i was born in *has* a third option and b) i feel like that's not a good idea in the current political climate?) but my state requires us to run an announcement for 4 weeks in a row in two papers. There's a list of local papers we're required to chose from and it costs an arm and a goddamn leg to do so. Anyway, good luck my friend!
Also, I caught a cold from one of my kids last week and i am so irritated with myself. I was planning to go to the beach this weekend but waited too long to make a reservation, so we're gonna postpone it until
next weekend, when it'll be even cooler. :( I am a delicate desert flower.
I seriously can't believe this, I found the most beautiful woman I've ever SEEN in my life (entirely by chance), and she's smart, quirky, open-minded, low-drama, has all the problems I do so she can easily identify, and she wants to talk all day every day and doesn't get tired of me. The cynical side of me thinks this is just a sick joke to humble me further, but the stubborn part of me wants to believe this foul-mouthed Jamaican skate punk speed-cubing woman is a gift from god...
It's been weeks of constant communication. She knows I'm smitten and it doesn't bother her. She likes to tease and be lewd. I recognize that a relationship could become an impossibility if she finds a dude she really likes, but I really don't mind, she's a good person at heart and would make an excellent friend, if nothing else.
Quote from: Fujikoma on September 19, 2019, 11:59:16 PM
I seriously can't believe this, I found the most beautiful woman I've ever SEEN in my life (entirely by chance), and she's smart, quirky, open-minded, low-drama, has all the problems I do so she can easily identify, and she wants to talk all day every day and doesn't get tired of me. The cynical side of me thinks this is just a sick joke to humble me further, but the stubborn part of me wants to believe this foul-mouthed Jamaican skate punk speed-cubing woman is a gift from god...
It's been weeks of constant communication. She knows I'm smitten and it doesn't bother her. She likes to tease and be lewd. I recognize that a relationship could become an impossibility if she finds a dude she really likes, but I really don't mind, she's a good person at heart and would make an excellent friend, if nothing else.
Jesus H Christ, have you asked her out?
Um, sort of? It's at that "We'll see, maybe someday" sort of point... plus she lives several hundred miles away, so physically it's impossible. She's seen pictures of my goofy ass and we primarily use voice chat because she has difficulty with written text, which is a bit of an adjustment for me, as I'm the opposite in some ways, so our skills compliment eachother. Also are you picking on me? I'm really bad at recognizing sarcasm, if so it's funny, if not, sorry for asking.
EDIT: I get to help her with her college homework by reading the questions aloud and providing moral support. She could do it herself typicallly but this one professor she has words things really confusingly and throws in a bunch of irrelevant information, which is difficult to keep track of because there's so many reversals and "Which one of these is NOT" questions. Considering my friend was accepted into the program on a provisional basis, she has to make at least a "B" or she's SOL. This is all rather intimidating. It's hard for me to provide much assistance with "business ethics".
So... After the dust settled it looks like I'll be working in mundane electronics instead of weapons manufacture. I got an offer that was too good to pass up from a company that I used to work for doing automated Optical inspection and in line repair work. I'll still be working on cool high-end stuff like aircraft equipment, but I must admit I was quite curious about how Servo Motors are built. Tomorrow morning I'm going to write the email to inform the weapons manufacturer that the electronics firm won out.
It's for the best in the long run. I'll be working with people that I know and love, doing something that I'm good at and enjoy doing, and the commute will be more like 10 minutes instead of 45 one way. The pay is pretty much equivalent.
At least my long search for a good job is over and I can get back to the actions of living. I'm trying to build an independent life for myself again after several very hard years. With the acquisition of this job I feel like a new chapter is beginning in my life story. I'm actually excited to see how my life will play out from here. Not used to looking forward to life but it's a good feeling.
Ok, so for all practical purposes I did. The answer gave no rejection or confirmation.
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on September 20, 2019, 01:51:16 AM
So... After the dust settled it looks like I'll be working in mundane electronics instead of weapons manufacture. I got an offer that was too good to pass up from a company that I used to work for doing automated Optical inspection and in line repair work. I'll still be working on cool high-end stuff like aircraft equipment, but I must admit I was quite curious about how Servo Motors are built. Tomorrow morning I'm going to write the email to inform the weapons manufacturer that the electronics firm won out.
It's for the best in the long run. I'll be working with people that I know and love, doing something that I'm good at and enjoy doing, and the commute will be more like 10 minutes instead of 45 one way. The pay is pretty much equivalent.
At least my long search for a good job is over and I can get back to the actions of living. I'm trying to build an independent life for myself again after several very hard years. With the acquisition of this job I feel like a new chapter is beginning in my life story. I'm actually excited to see how my life will play out from here. Not used to looking forward to life but it's a good feeling.
That last paragraph is where I have been lately. It's weird and surreal and great. It feels like the good dissociation ("literally this has to be fake, someone's got cameras but fuck it let's enjoy this") about two thirds of the time, and standard good day the other third. Congratulations dude.
Also I copy/pasted what I said and she thought it was cute.
Yeah for all practical purposes she may as well be my girlfriend but fuck all that gender assigning bullshit.
Quote from: nullified on September 20, 2019, 03:30:53 AM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on September 20, 2019, 01:51:16 AM
So... After the dust settled it looks like I'll be working in mundane electronics instead of weapons manufacture. I got an offer that was too good to pass up from a company that I used to work for doing automated Optical inspection and in line repair work. I'll still be working on cool high-end stuff like aircraft equipment, but I must admit I was quite curious about how Servo Motors are built. Tomorrow morning I'm going to write the email to inform the weapons manufacturer that the electronics firm won out.
It's for the best in the long run. I'll be working with people that I know and love, doing something that I'm good at and enjoy doing, and the commute will be more like 10 minutes instead of 45 one way. The pay is pretty much equivalent.
At least my long search for a good job is over and I can get back to the actions of living. I'm trying to build an independent life for myself again after several very hard years. With the acquisition of this job I feel like a new chapter is beginning in my life story. I'm actually excited to see how my life will play out from here. Not used to looking forward to life but it's a good feeling.
That last paragraph is where I have been lately. It's weird and surreal and great. It feels like the good dissociation ("literally this has to be fake, someone's got cameras but fuck it let's enjoy this") about two thirds of the time, and standard good day the other third. Congratulations dude.
Thanks nullified! You know The Struggle at least as well as I do, probably better. It definitely is a surreal feeling when after things going poorly for so long, they finally inexplicably improve. I don't know if it's disassociating to think that God has my back, but I do sometimes get the feeling the cosmos is paying attention to what I do and occasionally offers up opportunities for positive change. I guess that I would say Fortune has recently favored me, and I'm glad it has favored you! Let us seek our Destinies then, and build good things upon that which we have already gained.
That's how I feel lately as well. Strange times are afoot, it would seem.
indeed. i've had some similar experiences re feeling like someone/something is looking out for me this year and it's a nice feeling. especially after, ya know, years of being a little bit afraid and uncertain about what i'm actually going to do with my life professionally. like, i love being a substitute teacher and it's been good for me in a lot of ways but it's not really a living.
So yeah, I pitched the idea to her that I might possibly move and make use of the homelessness services in the city she lives in, saying "Please don't freak out. I think it would be cool to hang out every once in a while." to which she replies "Bitch, we'd hang out every fucking day. I think I'm obsessed with you."
And here I was worrying she'd get wary and upset. I know it's not a normal sort of thing... but that doesn't bother her. This is good, because if she's bothered by the abnormal then this is not going to work. I just have to plan ahead if things go sour where I'm currently living, which it looks like they might, but it's certainly not worst case scenario if it does.
In other news I just blindly walked right into the classic "my friend passes out and his girl suddenly gets way too up close and personal" trap. Any tips on how to make this worse?
My ears are ringing. And i feel so stupid for not realizing. You can print "Scratch and Sniff" on anything in the world. All it takes is a label maker.
I have labeled all staplers in the office "not microwave safe" and all the microwaves are labeled " Not fit for human consumption"
Atleast its funny to watch the hard hats pick up the can of Lysol. Scratch the paper post post factory label, and say "smells kinda fruity Jim" about the obviously fake sticker I applied. Only for Jim to roll his eyes and take the can from Bob, Scratch the sticker, hold it to his nose, and say "nah, smells like mint."
Moral of the story is never read labels. Or don't label things. Cause that's just prejudice and shit, but the real moral is that a human with a label printer shouldnt play pranks.
I find that if you have relations over your passed out friend's body, with his girl then you aren't a good friend.
Do the funny drugs in the bathroom.
Quote from: Grapes on September 21, 2019, 07:05:52 AM
My ears are ringing. And i feel so stupid for not realizing. You can print "Scratch and Sniff" on anything in the world.
"Scratch and Sniff", like "And this too shall pass" is a phrase that is appropriate at all times and in all situations.
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I have labeled all staplers in the office "not microwave safe"
This is technically correct.
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and all the microwaves are labeled " Not fit for human consumption"
I have never attempted to eat a microwave, myself, but this seems like good advice.
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but the real moral is that a human with a label printer shouldnt play pranks.
Why not? I'm not seeing the downside, here.
Also: Welcome back, new guy!
Quote from: Frontside Back on September 21, 2019, 06:55:20 AM
In other news I just blindly walked right into the classic "my friend passes out and his girl suddenly gets way too up close and personal" trap. Any tips on how to make this worse?
Scratch and Sniff?
You could start shouting conspiracy theories?
Quote from: Frontside Back on September 21, 2019, 06:55:20 AM
In other news I just blindly walked right into the classic "my friend passes out and his girl suddenly gets way too up close and personal" trap. Any tips on how to make this worse?
A lot of factors change the situation:
I was gonna break it down by age, but mostly its like if youre under 21, who cares, just live and do whatever... but if youre older a lot of factors come into play, like, does he even care? Im 32 and id react more like "what does this mean?" that needs to get answered immediately rather than get enraged.
Ok, new question. If your horns tend to get stuck in the doorframes, and their weight is beginning to affect posture, should you wank more or less?
Quote from: Frontside Back on September 21, 2019, 03:42:53 PM
Ok, new question. If your horns tend to get stuck in the doorframes, and their weight is beginning to affect posture, should you wank more or less?
Depends on how much you like the look of your horns, if you don't mind getting them trimmed a vet is probably a better bet than a doctor and no need to change your habits.
Quote from: Frontside Back on September 21, 2019, 03:42:53 PM
Ok, new question. If your horns tend to get stuck in the doorframes, and their weight is beginning to affect posture, should you wank more or less?
Wank into your horns, that should lube them up and easier to drag/push around
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on September 19, 2019, 12:24:54 AM
I sometimes walk along the riverbank during my lunchbreak. With the object of increasing my range, I decided to eat while walking today. Chewing while walking on rough terrain being a bad idea, I naturally bit my lip hard enough to draw blood.
On the way back, I took a less-traveled path through the brush a bit above the shoreline. Head held high, admiring the autumn colours, oblivious to the ground beneath me, I stepped in quite a deep hole, and fell, almost rolling down the riverbank in the process. Once I managed to drag myself back onto the path, I found I had a cut on one finger, and a bump on my right shin that will turn purple by morning.
I'm not sure what the origin of the hole was; it was too large and vertical for any critter I know of, so I think it was some sort of river-erosion induced sinkhole.
TL;DR: I took the road less traveled by, and almost fell off.
Yoink?
Campaign is eating most of my everything, and being behind on work-work is eating the rest.
Working with the local street medic trainer to improve their mental health first aid resources, some holy nonsense material may end up getting rolled up in that (pope card format but without the pope card part). Anti-nazi project is moving along well. Hope all these new faces don't get chewed off before November when I can be around more.
Congrats to the folks making progress on legal transitions and Fujikoma's smitten ass
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on September 23, 2019, 01:56:21 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on September 19, 2019, 12:24:54 AM
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TL;DR: I took the road less traveled by, and almost fell off.
Yoink?
Yoink at will.
Aftermath: My shin didn't turn purple after all, just yellowish. Still hurts a little under load. Bone bruise, maybe?
I'm going to see if I can work up the nerve to retrace my steps, assuming I can find that path again. I've been having a bad month, brain-wise, and feel like I should be doing something to fight back.
The road less traveled is always more dangerous... it also has fewer cigarette butts littered about if you need to stop for a smoke break and don't have any because you're poor... but for all of what it lacks it makes up ten-fold in novelty, and this is irreplaceable, though sometimes unpleasant and on occasion, deadly.
That sense of the new that takes the routine, the hum-drum, and reshapes it into something exciting, that stretches the perception of time, splashes cold water on the face of the soul and screams "WAKE UP! IT'S HAPPENING, RIGHT NOW!!!"
Still, knowing what I do now, I'd view it with skepticism, novelty for the sake of novelty has led me to some really bad places. I'd much rather seek these unconventional experiences by either necessity, or if there's a potential payoff beyond simply experiencing the unconventional.
Quote from: Fujikoma on September 23, 2019, 03:35:17 PM
The road less traveled is always more dangerous... it also has fewer cigarette butts littered about if you need to stop for a smoke break and don't have any because you're poor... but for all of what it lacks it makes up ten-fold in novelty, and this is irreplaceable, though sometimes unpleasant and on occasion, deadly.
That sense of the new that takes the routine, the hum-drum, and reshapes it into something exciting, that stretches the perception of time, splashes cold water on the face of the soul and screams "WAKE UP! IT'S HAPPENING, RIGHT NOW!!!"
Still, knowing what I do now, I'd view it with skepticism, novelty for the sake of novelty has led me to some really bad places. I'd much rather seek these unconventional experiences by either necessity, or if there's a potential payoff beyond simply experiencing the unconventional.
I would always know more but yes, sometimes the road less traveled isn't worth it. No need to re-invent the wheel.
On a different and more life-y note, I'm due to start a long term subbing gig on Monday teaching English and history at a magnet middle school, and I'm excited. This is going to be a much better time than the last time I took a long term gig and is a major opportunity for growth, I think. Also, I met the lead teacher for the department and I think I charmed her, which is good bc a position might be opening up here next year and I will be applying.
I had the realization today that when big things happen to me, good or bad, I change as a person. The personality I present shifts, often dramatically.
For most people, this is a "duh" thing, but I have the kind of damage that leads to multiple people living in your brainmeat. Big change in people with that sort of issue tends to manifest in splitting, their own personalities (as opposed to their personae) change much more slowly as a general rule.
So it is surprising to me to realize that I don't recognize myself in my past. Even my recent past. I've come further, faster, than had seemed possible. That's not to say I think my past self was unsalvageable, but rather that my past self was fucked. Age 40, maybe start keeping my shit together a little kind of fucked. Progress possible... eventually.
All of this is to note that I'm out of my probationary period at my company and expectations have been set. I was told that if I want a position, I can and will get it, when rather than if. They will bend over backwards to make time for me. And that I'm the highest performing new hire in over four years, and one of the top performing employees in the entire company.
It's weird to realize that I, the most blatantly self-critical person I personally know the self-critique habits of, took that news not with an attempt to downplay my ability but with a "yeah, I know" sort of confidence, and an eagerness to get down to business on climbing my way through the company. Hence this whole thing. I am not who I was, and that is both particularly weird for me and apparently a good thing.
Some day I intend to write up an exhaustive list of changes I've made, not for a post here but as a sort of reminder that despite my damage, I can be functional, I can improve.
I'm excited for you, null! that sounds awesome on both fronts! :monkeydance:
I was gonna get my flu shot this Wednesday.
Instead, I got the flu on Saturday.
Pour some out for your homie. :cry:
Quote from: LMNO on September 04, 2019, 06:15:13 AM
Real olive oil, thanks. Some Colatura or Garam would be great.
I had
no idea real olive oil would make such a colossal difference - damn.
I mean, I definitely thought it would be better, but not quite so drastically.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 24, 2019, 06:08:25 PM
I was gonna get my flu shot this Wednesday.
Instead, I got the flu on Saturday.
Pour some out for your homie. :cry:
Flu is sneaky like that.
Quote from: Cain on September 04, 2019, 12:56:44 AM
Quote from: Hoopla! on September 03, 2019, 11:16:10 PM
I'm in Rome.
Anyone need anything?
If you could bring back the Trevi Fountain, that'd be great.
It turned out to be over the weight limits for my plane.
Quote from: Hoopla! on September 24, 2019, 07:57:32 PM
Quote from: LMNO on September 04, 2019, 06:15:13 AM
Real olive oil, thanks. Some Colatura or Garam would be great.
I had no idea real olive oil would make such a colossal difference - damn.
I mean, I definitely thought it would be better, but not quite so drastically.
I know, right?
Quote from: LMNO on September 24, 2019, 08:04:29 PM
Quote from: Hoopla! on September 24, 2019, 07:57:32 PM
Quote from: LMNO on September 04, 2019, 06:15:13 AM
Real olive oil, thanks. Some Colatura or Garam would be great.
I had no idea real olive oil would make such a colossal difference - damn.
I mean, I definitely thought it would be better, but not quite so drastically.
I know, right?
And now I know how to identify the real thing.... so that should make things easier moving forward.
How IS it better? I know now that it is but not in what ways.
Angry Russian bot in the waiting room.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 25, 2019, 09:34:00 PM
Angry Russian bot in the waiting room.
Not today
SatanPutin
oh update, i am also dating a lady! We met through Facebook and we've gone out twice so far. We have a lot of the same nerd stuff in common, and shes really sweet and kind so i'm optimistic about things going forward. Her last relationship was a whole lotta bullshit tho, so we're taking it slow while she's working past that.
In career news i'm gonna be working at Dark Harbor this season. I'm gonna be playing The Bearded Lady and i'm pretty excited.
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on September 25, 2019, 11:45:37 PM
oh update, i am also dating a lady! We met through Facebook and we've gone out twice so far. We have a lot of the same nerd stuff in common, and shes really sweet and kind so i'm optimistic about things going forward. Her last relationship was a whole lotta bullshit tho, so we're taking it slow while she's working past that.
In career news i'm gonna be working at Dark Harbor this season. I'm gonna be playing The Bearded Lady and i'm pretty excited.
Sounds great! Just remember that boundaries are pretty important here. If you are held responsible for the last relationship, then it's already gone toxic and will end in a way that makes Doktors smile.
Not saying don't show consideration, just don't become a buttwipe for someone's rebound.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 26, 2019, 12:24:06 AM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on September 25, 2019, 11:45:37 PM
oh update, i am also dating a lady! We met through Facebook and we've gone out twice so far. We have a lot of the same nerd stuff in common, and shes really sweet and kind so i'm optimistic about things going forward. Her last relationship was a whole lotta bullshit tho, so we're taking it slow while she's working past that.
In career news i'm gonna be working at Dark Harbor this season. I'm gonna be playing The Bearded Lady and i'm pretty excited.
Sounds great! Just remember that boundaries are pretty important here. If you are held responsible for the last relationship, then it's already gone toxic and will end in a way that makes Doktors smile.
Not saying don't show consideration, just don't become a buttwipe for someone's rebound.
oh yea, thats totally a flag to watch out for, but so far she seems pretty invested in wanting to talk and hang out, she really only brings up the ex when shes explaining her anxieties, which I can relate to. Also, she's still talking to me after discovering i own a Kirby plushie, AND have started a Steven Universe fanfic. That's girlfriend material.
EDIT: also i mentioned up front that i'm polyamorous, and that WASN'T a deal breaker!
Awesome, Chelagoros! Wishing you luck and happiness.
same to you, man
Oh I got this, I totally got this, it's like fate bent down and whispered into my ear, "It's time.", which was fucking creepy, but I didn't question it. I've seen enough shit to know when the dice are loaded.
Tornados in Tucson. :lulz:
Good thing climate change is a liberal myth.
Quote from: nullified on September 24, 2019, 09:49:54 PM
How IS it better? I know now that it is but not in what ways.
I'm not a foodie like LMNO, so it might be harder for me to say. I'm not sure how to put it but it held it's integrity a lot longer than I am used to. While cooking a bolognese sauce I could still make out a trace of olive oil when stirring. Like a vivid green. Both the color and the taste were much more vivid than I am used to.
That actually sounds worth the time. I'm not foodie either, but...
How do you tell the difference when looking out for it? When I get a place I'll probably try and get some and make a meal.
It doesn't taste like rancid grease.
Trust me, after using the real stuff, the cheap alternatives will taste like that.
It's also way more expensive.
Quote from: nullified on September 27, 2019, 05:47:22 AM
That actually sounds worth the time. I'm not foodie either, but...
How do you tell the difference when looking out for it? When I get a place I'll probably try and get some and make a meal.
Really easy, actually. Just search for the seal in the image posted below. None of my local supermarkets carried anything with the seal, but Toronto has a large market with many vendors, I was able to locate 4 separate brands of olive oil there which carried the seal. A decent farmers market in your area should also carry a few.
(https://i.ibb.co/0Z8N9Y0/77-F8-C08-C-A887-4309-A967-A3780-AD43-C62.jpg) (https://ibb.co/GkBwMCZ)
Quote from: LMNO on September 27, 2019, 12:59:40 PM
It's also way more expensive.
The ones I found weren't priced as bonkers as I expected, but close to $20 Canadian, so... YMMV.
Also, like wines, where the olives are from makes a difference. Greek oils tend to be very peppery, ones from the Balkans tend to be very dark and viscous, etc etc. Once you start going down that rabbit hole, it's hard to get out.
Yeah, they mentioned that to us. Even within Italy, depending where it comes from affects the taste. The oil I have right now is from Sorrento, so I can really only comment on that.
Quote from: Hoopla! on September 27, 2019, 01:16:46 PM
Yeah, they mentioned that to us. Even within Italy, depending where it comes from affects the taste. The oil I have right now is from Sorrento, so I can really only comment on that.
I can't speak to the quality of the olives, but the town is fantastic
(http://www.hotelnicesorrento.com/images/banner-8.jpg)
Also it's right next to Naples, so probably, like everything else in Naples, it's owned or extorted by the Camorra.
Quote from: Cain on September 27, 2019, 03:41:52 PM
Quote from: Hoopla! on September 27, 2019, 01:16:46 PM
Yeah, they mentioned that to us. Even within Italy, depending where it comes from affects the taste. The oil I have right now is from Sorrento, so I can really only comment on that.
I can't speak to the quality of the olives, but the town is fantastic
(http://www.hotelnicesorrento.com/images/banner-8.jpg)
It. Is. Gorgeous.
Quote from: Cain on September 27, 2019, 03:42:26 PM
Also it's right next to Naples, so probably, like everything else in Naples, it's owned or extorted by the Camorra.
Likely true. I only passed through Naples, but what I saw was less visually pleasing than everywhere else I visited in Italy.
I actually liked the old city of Naples. You could see the distinctive Spanish influence on the architecture.
The rest of the city...well, I understand why people don't like it, though I don't share the sentiment. Naples is gloriously loud, chaotic, dirty and dangerous. It's certainly better to visit than to live in.
Sorrento is about half an hour out, I think? No more than an hour, certainly. It's beautiful looking, but it also stands in stark contrast to Naples in terms of being quiet, clean and safe. The food is almost as good as well. I spent a rather relaxing day walking around the town, then having lunch (and returning for dinner) to a small cafe a couple of streets off from the Piazza Tasso, the main square.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Piazza_Tasso_-_Sorrento_BW_2013-05-12.jpg/1280px-Piazza_Tasso_-_Sorrento_BW_2013-05-12.jpg)
LOVING these pictures!
I wish they were mine. I put mine on a hard drive that is sitting at the bottom of my wardrobe somewhere, so I stole this from the internet.
But they are undeniably great photos.
I like the sound of the Greek oil. Also the Balkan oil.
I might end up becoming a fucking olive oil snob, and I am pretty sure that's perfectly in keeping with who I am :lulz:
ETA: also I bought a ticket to my third concert ever today. It's in December. I'm going if it kills me. Really looking forward to seeing these guys live: https://streetsects.bandcamp.com/
Quote from: Cain on September 27, 2019, 04:22:25 PM
I actually liked the old city of Naples. You could see the distinctive Spanish influence on the architecture.
The rest of the city...well, I understand why people don't like it, though I don't share the sentiment. Naples is gloriously loud, chaotic, dirty and dangerous. It's certainly better to visit than to live in.
Sorrento is about half an hour out, I think? No more than an hour, certainly. It's beautiful looking, but it also stands in stark contrast to Naples in terms of being quiet, clean and safe. The food is almost as good as well. I spent a rather relaxing day walking around the town, then having lunch (and returning for dinner) to a small cafe a couple of streets off from the Piazza Tasso, the main square.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Piazza_Tasso_-_Sorrento_BW_2013-05-12.jpg/1280px-Piazza_Tasso_-_Sorrento_BW_2013-05-12.jpg)
To be fair to Naples, I just arrived by train and then drive to Sorrento (it was about an hour, but traffic was brutal - because it was Sunday, apparently) so I likely didnt see any if the nice parts - nor did I get to try any of the food. I loved the food in Sorrento though.
Well, I don't know if the Old City is necessarily a nice part...it's where the Camorra came from, after all. But it is interesting.
(https://previews.123rf.com/images/mikolaj64/mikolaj641701/mikolaj64170100070/69810703-narrow-street-in-old-town-of-naples-city-in-italy.jpg)
And narrow. Very, very narrow.
The food there was mostly fish, lighter on the pasta, heavier on the tomato and sauce. A very welcome change, after northern Italy.
I think people may not understand when I'm joking.
I have a hard time putting any inflection in my voice. I'm almost always monotone. Even when in my head I think I'm putting on a funny voice, its always the same bored voice coming out.
I was doing an on campus volenteering job where you get to pretend to be a secretary at school. Answering phone calls, handing out brochures, but the main part of my job is to make sure that every one who visits campus signs into a book and takes a visitor badge.
So today I am doing my volentold job. When a young woman comes to visit her partner on campus. She stops at the desk. Tells me she needs to sign in. I just nod and say. "Yeah, you do." And hand her a badge. The book is on the table infront of her. "Where do I sign in?" I look her in the eyes, look at the book, then back to her. Only to get cricket noises as a response. I take my pointer finger and point to a blank spot on the table. "Right here." She gives me a odd look. "Right there?" "Yep, right there on the table." "Uhh.. do you have a pen?" I open the desk drawer and pull out a sharpie. "This will do, name date and id badge number. In that order, remember to return the badge when you leave." This lady, like a fucking legend writes her name on the table. Thanks me, then walks out.
I showed my friend then cleaned it up with hand sanitizer.
Dairy entry over.
Are you american by any chance? Cause "american humour" is generally just a retarded excuse for abusing or making fun of someone.
For someone to appreciate a joke or humour, they need to be in on it, and not in a general sense a target of it.
Yeah, I'm in America.
Suppose it, wouldn't be funny to them. Cause they're not in on it. More a story about how I think I'm being sarcastic, but people take me seriously.
Quote from: Grapes on September 28, 2019, 04:29:54 AM
Yeah, I'm in America.
Suppose it, wouldn't be funny to them. Cause they're not in on it. More a story about how I think I'm being sarcastic, but people take me seriously.
Worse is when you think you're being serious and people think you're being sarcastic.
A lot of Brits seem to think Americans, especially older Americans, don't get sarcasm.
I don't know how true that really is, since we've elevated conversational cruelty and misstatement to an art form (a former workplace's style guide reminds us "when you say something is fine or good, American readers consider that a compliment, not a statement of insufficiency") but it could be part of the problem.
Accents can add to it, possibly less of a problem with English accents, but I've had American and Canadian friends who couldn't hear a change in tone because the accent was so foreign.
I have been completed on being very patient and professional over email when that wasn't my intention so I might need that style guide to translate to American.
I can't pick up on sarcasm because, well, unsure why but I take everything seriously. My new friend is having to deal with that, she's like, "Holy shit, you do anything I say." and I'm like, er, yeah, please don't say anything sarcastic.
Quote from: Cain on September 28, 2019, 12:26:19 PM
A lot of Brits seem to think Americans, especially older Americans, don't get sarcasm.
I don't know how true that really is, since we've elevated conversational cruelty and misstatement to an art form (a former workplace's style guide reminds us "when you say something is fine or good, American readers consider that a compliment, not a statement of insufficiency") but it could be part of the problem.
So what does it really mean when a brit says "not bad"?
Quote from: Fujikoma on September 28, 2019, 01:23:56 PM
I can't pick up on sarcasm because, well, unsure why but I take everything seriously. My new friend is having to deal with that, she's like, "Holy shit, you do anything I say." and I'm like, er, yeah, please don't say anything sarcastic.
So you just went from significant other to object. Well done.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 28, 2019, 02:59:53 PM
Quote from: Cain on September 28, 2019, 12:26:19 PM
A lot of Brits seem to think Americans, especially older Americans, don't get sarcasm.
I don't know how true that really is, since we've elevated conversational cruelty and misstatement to an art form (a former workplace's style guide reminds us "when you say something is fine or good, American readers consider that a compliment, not a statement of insufficiency") but it could be part of the problem.
So what does it really mean when a brit says "not bad"?
:lulz:
That's actually one of the more literal ones in the British arsenal. "I'm saying that it's literally "not" "bad"...I'm just not saying that it was good."
Well, I don't mind being an "object"... nobody really ever affords me the respect a person deserves so, may as well suck it up and accept that I'm less than human.
EDIT: She's really silly and cool, I was fortunate she called this morning, what was unfortunate is my natural biological reaction to what I saw, but she knows I'm going to react like that, it amuses her, which is fine with me. I know it sounds bad but she likes to tease, kind of like I like to tease, this can only end in a glorious mess. I like that she's amused because seeing her being happy makes me happy.
Quote from: Magpie on September 28, 2019, 12:54:14 PM
I have been completed on being very patient and professional over email when that wasn't my intention so I might need that style guide to translate to American.
Ooo, my knowledge from a business team-management class a couple quarters ago finally comes in handy. :lulz:
Basically this comes down to trends among cultures. Do they tend to lead, or follow? Are their work conversations thorough and complex, or simple and to-the-point? Do they tend to respect authority and do as told, or challenge it and go their own way?
All these dichotomies and more add up to the general fact that, in certain situations that require certain skills (forethought, quick action, etc), groups from certain countries will excel, others won't, and both will either compliment or ruin the work of their other-cultured teammates. We're all so stuck in our routines that our brain craps out when we find out other people are Doing It Wrong.
More than that, too, signal A only means B to so many people. Shit gets lost in (sometimes literal) translation real easily, hence your email kerfuffle.
One of the examples I still remember was a situation where the Thing To Do was in Mexico. The Mexican team was struggling, so they either brought on, or were offered help from, some companions from Europe (Germany specifically, iirc). The Germans wanted to delegate and command the operation. The Mexicans wanted to keep things their own way.
Eventually it boiled down to:
Germans, grumbling: Damn buncha lazy slobs don't even get that
they're the problem."
Mexicans, also grumbling: "Fuckin micromanaging assholes, we're not gonna cave to
their bullshit authority."
That's much more in depth than my situation, most of my e-mails are sent because if it's not written down it never happened. Me being polite was asking for an up date on work at the due date instead of giving out that we hadn't gotten the final approved document, it was a literal mis-interpretation, to me, asking for an update when something is due implies wanting an explanation as well, I was just getting the update I had actually asked for.
Did you class cover what to expect from different nationalities or just general trends? It sounds interesting even if you're not getting much use out of it.
Quote from: Magpie on September 28, 2019, 10:56:09 PM
Did you class cover what to expect from different nationalities or just general trends? It sounds interesting even if you're not getting much use out of it.
Yeah, it was lots of looking from continent to continent (country to country if some had specific trends that deviated from the larger trend of their continent), things like Americans wanting to go into detail with a lengthy conversation vs Japanese expecting the full breadth of detail to be conveyed with simple instruction. The overall focus was on teambuilding, on finding out how and why you can stuff people in a room with different specializations, skill levels, sexes, and yes, nationalities, and end up with a successful product, or building development, or whatever.
One of the papers I ended up writing in that class was not only a neat hypothetical situation in working with a Chinese person and an Indian person on a project, but also ended up being the way I came out to my mother months later. So that was neat.
Meanwhile that same quarter, I took an art class where an old Brit with tattoos taught me to laugh at the butts and janky proportions in old French paintings. :lulz:
Quote from: Al Qədic on September 28, 2019, 08:21:43 PM
One of the examples I still remember was a situation where the Thing To Do was in Mexico. The Mexican team was struggling, so they either brought on, or were offered help from, some companions from Europe (Germany specifically, iirc). The Germans wanted to delegate and command the operation. The Mexicans wanted to keep things their own way.
Eventually it boiled down to:
Germans, grumbling: Damn buncha lazy slobs don't even get that they're the problem."
Mexicans, also grumbling: "Fuckin micromanaging assholes, we're not gonna cave to their bullshit authority."
Mexicans are uppity even to their own detriment. It's one of the reasons why we'll never manifest something like the Third Reich, nor will we ever be a 1st world country.
It's a weird relation to authority in which we ultimately are submissive to it, but hate with a passion any manifestation of panopticon supervision and having to follow meticulously a procedure/command. We're excellent at doing patchwork and improvising, but finishing something of perfect quality within a specific deadline? Good luck with that.
Took this motherfucker technician
10 days 14 days to fix my computer... and all the time i was thinking "if i make this guy hussle, its gonna cost me about 8x than if i just let him slack off"... unsurprisingly, the repair costed me just $50, just because i didnt tighten up his screws.
Quote from: Al Qədic on September 28, 2019, 11:34:54 PM
One of the papers I ended up writing in that class was not only a neat hypothetical situation in working with a Chinese person and an Indian person on a project, but also ended up being the way I came out to my mother months later. So that was neat.
Always good to find a real world application of your new skills.
(I'm just assuming it went well)
Quote from: Magpie on September 29, 2019, 03:04:53 PM
Quote from: Al Qədic on September 28, 2019, 11:34:54 PM
One of the papers I ended up writing in that class was not only a neat hypothetical situation in working with a Chinese person and an Indian person on a project, but also ended up being the way I came out to my mother months later. So that was neat.
Always good to find a real world application of your new skills.
(I'm just assuming it went well)
It did indeed.
So, just went on a walk around a bit of the neighborhood, and remembered that out in the front of the house of some nice couple I've never met is a tree. This tree is being marketed as a "Poet Tree", and has a few strings strung up for people to put poems on. There's some nice stuff, and...needless to say, methinks it's high time for some nonsensical holiness to grace that plant's clothespins. :lulz:
So this year I've been given the role of Bearded Lady at Dark Harbor. My job consists mostly of following around alpha males and hitting on them as creepily as possible, often using jazz showtunes. It's great. Best part is, i've gotten more compliments from women while wearing drag, than i have in months. Fucking love this job.
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/trending-now/officer-investigated-after-assaulting-emt-at-hospital-over-a-hot-dog-officials-say/991238379
This is why you should avoid hot dogs on fridays.
So I'm still talking to this young woman, she wants me to come spend a week or so with her as sort of a trial run to see if we're as compatible as we both seem to think. Her major complaint about my mannerisms is she doesn't like me criticizing myself, she thinks it's really negative and disagrees with my conclusions. I guess she has a point but I'm a little ambivalent about it because one thing I always have to make sure of is, ok, what is the overall moral value of what I'm doing. It may not seem like that with some of the strange things I say and do, but there's typically a method to my madness. The other part of me is just like, "Shut up and do what she wants, doofus."
I tried telling my family and a few friends I met the most awesome woman in the world, at first they're happy about that, but then when they ask more well, she's an immigrant from Jamaica, oh, yeah, she's erm, really dark skinned, and once they've realized she's black they get really upset with me and I don't understand why. Maybe I'm missing something here but it seems to be racist as hell to me. Yes, she has her citizenship already, so it's not about that. These are people I didn't think were racist, I've known them for many years, but they just seem to have a really bad reaction for some reason. Like seriously, when they ask "Wait, is she black?" that's when it all changes.
I've already decided if we have kids we're not going to be introducing them to my mom. There's no telling what kind of emotional trauma it may inflict on them if their grandma acts racist toward them... I don't know, maybe she'll get used to the idea and grow the fuck up about it, but I have my doubts.
EDIT: So yeah, all this is kinda alien to her because people largely are not racist in Jamaica. When she came to the states she mostly hung out with white people and everyone she meets thinks she's really cool. I mean, she likes going to certain niche competitions because little kids walk up to her and ask for her autograph. She's kind of a big deal in certain circles, and it's not hard to see why, she's really nice, funny, and just likes to have fun.
Quote from: Fujikoma on October 01, 2019, 09:01:22 PM
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/trending-now/officer-investigated-after-assaulting-emt-at-hospital-over-a-hot-dog-officials-say/991238379
This is why you should avoid hot dogs on fridays.
Hot dogs are serious business. That is precisely why I refuse to ever get caught up in the Hot Dog/Sandwich thing.
Small life update: Got blood drawn today. Ironic how they take less vials from me now that I'm seeing (read: in like a week or two) an endo for Trans reasons, as opposed to seeing one for Prematurity And Its Childhood Complications reasons. That may be coincidental though. But either way, one step closer to Doing some Things with myself, literally.
Also, fasting is a bitch, and I have a newfound appreciation for my Muslim peers who are willing and able to enjoy life while maintaining a fast for more than a day (er, evening and early morning). Ended up having a big breakfast this morning as a result of said fasting and blood drawing; my usual protein shake, my first egg cream, and 1 1/2 of the best blintzes I've ever had.
Today has been neat.
I got so sick I called out of work and spent the entire day wobbling between bed and bathroom with a small half-mile detour to get some ginger ale because I have no respect for my ailing carcass. Feeling better now, but also like I'm packed to the gills with dead stuff, like all my innards have died and the rest of me just hasn't caught up. Bright side is a restoration of brain function.
Quote from: nullified on October 02, 2019, 05:55:09 AM
I got so sick I called out of work and spent the entire day wobbling between bed and bathroom with a small half-mile detour to get some ginger ale because I have no respect for my ailing carcass.
Well, at least ginger ale is good for any nausea that might come up, so I've experienced. Glad to hear things are sort of getting better though.
Quote from: Al Qədic on October 02, 2019, 02:46:31 AM
Small life update: Got blood drawn today. Ironic how they take less vials from me now that I'm seeing (read: in like a week or two) an endo for Trans reasons, as opposed to seeing one for Prematurity And Its Childhood Complications reasons. That may be coincidental though. But either way, one step closer to Doing some Things with myself, literally.
Also, fasting is a bitch, and I have a newfound appreciation for my Muslim peers who are willing and able to enjoy life while maintaining a fast for more than a day (er, evening and early morning). Ended up having a big breakfast this morning as a result of said fasting and blood drawing; my usual protein shake, my first egg cream, and 1 1/2 of the best blintzes I've ever had.
Today has been neat.
Ramadan in the summer is a special kind of hell. Our Muslim students had to study and put up with insane heatwaves in addition to not eating or drinking during the 18 or so daylight hours.
By 10pm, we'd normally have a line of pizza guys outside the accommodation doing deliveries.
2 things
1) I have been having a GRAND FUCKING time digging through my posts from 2011 because it was suggested I try to find and connect specific inicdents with dates with certain other things I was dealing with the Army during that time frame because I'm working on increasing my VA disability percentage. 2011 me was such a lolrandom child.
2) On a discord someone has declared that act of pooping is a sandwich.
3) I bought a scythe to mow this fuck huge lawn we now have and 3 weeks into owning it I sliced up my finger sharpening.
Things overheard at work recently:
"What fresh hell is this?"
"I lost Wednesday. Then I woke up thinking it was Thursday, and my wife told me it was Friday."
"Electronics has not made the world a better place."
At work, we had a meeting about a complete overhaul of our phone system. We all need to be totally retrained and will probably horrify customers for a solid month of nightmarish moments as we adjust to autoanswer.
The biggest news was WE CHANGED THE HOLD MUSIC.
Every single person started spontaneously yelling in triumph.
Quote from: Fujikoma on October 01, 2019, 09:16:42 PM
Her major complaint about my mannerisms is she doesn't like me criticizing myself, she thinks it's really negative and disagrees with my conclusions.
Yeah, nobody's got time for that shit.
Quote from: Fujikoma on October 01, 2019, 09:16:42 PM
Her major complaint about my mannerisms is she doesn't like me criticizing myself, she thinks it's really negative and disagrees with my conclusions.
where does this come from? why do you do it?
because you become conscious of something about yourself
your emotional-mind feels bad
the word-mind tries to resolve that feeling, using words
it can't
that whole line of processing is basically a dead end, your word-mind can usually only
describe and
explain.
but by talking through it, you're involving others in this sad process, like following a map but with no destination marked. Just turning down random roads and hoping it'll eventually feel like you arrived.
don't get me wrong - reflection is good, self criticism is good
but we suck at it
when the word-mind encounters a problem, it pulls up a heuristic and gets to work
but we don't have enough perspective on ourselves to have reliable heuristics
and so a lot of us have this verbal tic where we just spew whatever's on our mind, and we think that's "processing"
Today marks an important milestone.
I have a blanket.
I bought this blanket. It was not given to me, loaned to me, taken from a charity. I went to Target and looked at blankets and chose one blanket in particular and purchased that blanket with my money that I earned and is mine. The blanket belongs to me, and no one else may lay any claim to it. No one else is responsible for it.
It is comfortable. There are more comfortable blankets. Some of them were even cheaper than this blanket and I could have chosen them. But this is the one I wanted. Now it is mine. I did not have to beg. I did not even have to ask. I said "I will take this one," and was told to pay and sent on my way.
This all probably sounds ridiculous. Please understand that I have NEVER HAD MY OWN BLANKET BEFORE. I have had hand-me-downs and gifts and loaners and never, ever, a blanket I owned that was mine that I bought that no one could take away ever under any circumstances.
It's a big day.
Quote from: nullified on October 06, 2019, 06:55:19 AM
Today marks an important milestone.
I have a blanket.
I bought this blanket. It was not given to me, loaned to me, taken from a charity. I went to Target and looked at blankets and chose one blanket in particular and purchased that blanket with my money that I earned and is mine. The blanket belongs to me, and no one else may lay any claim to it. No one else is responsible for it.
It is comfortable. There are more comfortable blankets. Some of them were even cheaper than this blanket and I could have chosen them. But this is the one I wanted. Now it is mine. I did not have to beg. I did not even have to ask. I said "I will take this one," and was told to pay and sent on my way.
This all probably sounds ridiculous. Please understand that I have NEVER HAD MY OWN BLANKET BEFORE. I have had hand-me-downs and gifts and loaners and never, ever, a blanket I owned that was mine that I bought that no one could take away ever under any circumstances.
It's a big day.
It doesn't sound ridiculous at all.
That's awesome, Null!
Now to slowly but surely buy more of them and craft the blanket fort to end all blanket forts.
Nope. Two blankets, one quilt/comforter. I need and want no more. After all, if I end up homeless again, I have to carry this around.
But that does sound like a good idea for someone to do!
Quote from: nullified on October 06, 2019, 06:55:19 AM
Today marks an important milestone.
I have a blanket.
I bought this blanket. It was not given to me, loaned to me, taken from a charity. I went to Target and looked at blankets and chose one blanket in particular and purchased that blanket with my money that I earned and is mine. The blanket belongs to me, and no one else may lay any claim to it. No one else is responsible for it.
It is comfortable. There are more comfortable blankets. Some of them were even cheaper than this blanket and I could have chosen them. But this is the one I wanted. Now it is mine. I did not have to beg. I did not even have to ask. I said "I will take this one," and was told to pay and sent on my way.
This all probably sounds ridiculous. Please understand that I have NEVER HAD MY OWN BLANKET BEFORE. I have had hand-me-downs and gifts and loaners and never, ever, a blanket I owned that was mine that I bought that no one could take away ever under any circumstances.
It's a big day.
Congrats, you just took your first hit of capitalism! My first taste was so long ago I can't even remember what I bought (probably drugs) but for me it felt like ideological suicide. Nonetheless I sucked it up and you know what? It's a fucking sight more straightforward than leaving the village, heading out into the wilderness and finding some wise person you can cajole into teaching you how to make a blanket, right?
Just remember the first rule of capitalism: You own the blanket. Blanket does not own you :wink:
I've bought many things, and honestly I'm not too keen on capitalism. I purchased video games, music, clothes, hygiene products, medical care, food. This isn't my first rodeo here.
It's not about "I bought a blanket", that's just the description of what happened. It's about "I have a blanket that no one gave to me or donated or threw away." It is a blanket I actually wanted, and I got it, and I got it for me, and for no one else.
The feeling doesn't boil down to simplicity or possessiveness. It's legitimately nigh impossible to explain if you haven't been where I've been. But I'm going to try, because I'm in that twilight state where I've been trying very hard to sleep and failing, and now have mere hours until I need to go to work.
Having a blanket is important.
It is a symbol of triumph over a life of bullshit. Not only do I have money I can spend on things. I chose to spend that money on something that, while wholly unnecessary for survival, greatly improves comfort.
It's a symbol of triumph over the kind of mental illness that says "I do not deserve this." For years I decided my comfort and well-being was secondary, because I had it drilled into me that anything I wanted was the least important thing possible. Other people mattered more, I was dirt. Now I have a blanket. I got it for myself, because I deserve it.
It's a symbol of triumph over the kind of poverty that people don't believe exists outside of Africa and Indonesia. It's a symbol that whatever help I might need, I no longer need support for basic necessities. For most of my adult life, I've been on the streets, begging people for a way to survive one more day. Now I have a blanket. I didn't need that money for food. The blanket was all I needed and I got it.
Moreover, I wanted it. It wasn't someone else's cast-off detritus, or a beloved but impermanent loaner. That makes it a symbol that I have the power to choose what I get, even if it's in trivial ways. Before, comfort and even survival came with a caveat: this is what you are getting because it is what we can afford to give to you. Now I have a blanket, and it is exactly the one I wanted to purchase. I could have picked any blanket they had in stock. This is the one I wanted. I saw it and made my decision immediately. I checked the others and considered them. But this one is the one I decided on. So I got it.
Buying a blanket that I wanted with money that is my own says, in short, "I win." It doesn't matter if I lose later or not, I have this tangible proof that for a time, I rose above.
I know this feeling. It's a good feeling, even though (as P3nt mentions), it's a dopamine effect of The System.
But you know what? Fuck it. I'm happy for you that you have a blanket that is yours, that you chose and bought.
I am happy for your blanket, and the symbology behind it.
Quote from: nullified on October 06, 2019, 06:55:19 AM
Today marks an important milestone.
I have a blanket.
I bought this blanket. It was not given to me, loaned to me, taken from a charity. I went to Target and looked at blankets and chose one blanket in particular and purchased that blanket with my money that I earned and is mine. The blanket belongs to me, and no one else may lay any claim to it. No one else is responsible for it.
It is comfortable. There are more comfortable blankets. Some of them were even cheaper than this blanket and I could have chosen them. But this is the one I wanted. Now it is mine. I did not have to beg. I did not even have to ask. I said "I will take this one," and was told to pay and sent on my way.
This all probably sounds ridiculous. Please understand that I have NEVER HAD MY OWN BLANKET BEFORE. I have had hand-me-downs and gifts and loaners and never, ever, a blanket I owned that was mine that I bought that no one could take away ever under any circumstances.
It's a big day.
This is so close to being a Holy Nonsense page. Are you up for expanding or letting me take a crack at it?
Also this is HUGE and I'm so happy for you!
ETA I hit reply before I read the rest of the thread. Can I roll some of your second post into this and go? I think I can see the shape of it.
I trust your editor self. I expanded a bit below that post in reply to P3nt, you might find parts that work there. I don't think I have it in me to splice them sanely today, so it's all yours.
(https://i.imgur.com/t9tKoaF.jpg)
Space for a by-line, whatever you want for that
Pick something appropriately ridiculous and edgy. It's talking about a blanket and I have a theme to keep up.
In other news, I went three and a half hours into my shift today and my voice box crapped out. Now, I had anticipated this, due to throat pain and other moderate miseries. So I packed cough drops, the kind with an oral anesthetic in them.
I suspect now that they merely made it impossible for me to tell how badly the talking was messing my throat up. And so I merrily vocalized my way into being sent home.
Fortunately, I have PTO to apply. And it stacks with the hours I did work, so I get 11.5 hours today.
Awesome to see a story of a blanket turned into a lovely piece of HoNo. Now if I can just find the time to write something, myself :lulz:
In other news, I was late for my first class this morning, but fuck Geoffrey Chaucer, I just met an actually-good endocrinologist (as far as I can anecdotally tell, at least) and have a sweet 3mg of estradiol in my body. Also the weekly gay agenda meeting was neat as always.
Things are Happening, and that's weird in the good way right now.
Quote from: nullified on October 07, 2019, 11:45:07 AM
I've bought many things, and honestly I'm not too keen on capitalism. I purchased video games, music, clothes, hygiene products, medical care, food. This isn't my first rodeo here.
It's not about "I bought a blanket", that's just the description of what happened. It's about "I have a blanket that no one gave to me or donated or threw away." It is a blanket I actually wanted, and I got it, and I got it for me, and for no one else.
The feeling doesn't boil down to simplicity or possessiveness. It's legitimately nigh impossible to explain if you haven't been where I've been. But I'm going to try, because I'm in that twilight state where I've been trying very hard to sleep and failing, and now have mere hours until I need to go to work.
Having a blanket is important.
It is a symbol of triumph over a life of bullshit. Not only do I have money I can spend on things. I chose to spend that money on something that, while wholly unnecessary for survival, greatly improves comfort.
It's a symbol of triumph over the kind of mental illness that says "I do not deserve this." For years I decided my comfort and well-being was secondary, because I had it drilled into me that anything I wanted was the least important thing possible. Other people mattered more, I was dirt. Now I have a blanket. I got it for myself, because I deserve it.
It's a symbol of triumph over the kind of poverty that people don't believe exists outside of Africa and Indonesia. It's a symbol that whatever help I might need, I no longer need support for basic necessities. For most of my adult life, I've been on the streets, begging people for a way to survive one more day. Now I have a blanket. I didn't need that money for food. The blanket was all I needed and I got it.
Moreover, I wanted it. It wasn't someone else's cast-off detritus, or a beloved but impermanent loaner. That makes it a symbol that I have the power to choose what I get, even if it's in trivial ways. Before, comfort and even survival came with a caveat: this is what you are getting because it is what we can afford to give to you. Now I have a blanket, and it is exactly the one I wanted to purchase. I could have picked any blanket they had in stock. This is the one I wanted. I saw it and made my decision immediately. I checked the others and considered them. But this one is the one I decided on. So I got it.
Buying a blanket that I wanted with money that is my own says, in short, "I win." It doesn't matter if I lose later or not, I have this tangible proof that for a time, I rose above.
Yeah, mate, I get it. I've been there. Like I said - congrats. Sincerely
We had a major water pipe burst in my area, but never fear, Thames Water is on the case
(https://i.imgur.com/MhTuHY5.jpg)
Well, they'll have to dig down to the leak won't they, and you can't start digging until you work out how many hole supervisors you need.
Quote from: Magpie on October 08, 2019, 10:51:18 PM
Well, they'll have to dig down to the leak won't they, and you can't start digging until you work out how many hole supervisors you need.
Also, if it's more than 1.3 meters down, they need to do a confined space entry permit.
And they have to make sure no other utilities are in the way.
And later they need a couple of guys with shovels.
Having had one of those jobs, part of it is someone thinking if they throw twice as many people at it it'll get done faster, despite only one person fitting in the damn hole.
One time they found a skull. Good times.
Just the skull and nothing else? Was that time for police or archaeologists?
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 09, 2019, 12:05:54 AM
Quote from: Magpie on October 08, 2019, 10:51:18 PM
Well, they'll have to dig down to the leak won't they, and you can't start digging until you work out how many hole supervisors you need.
Also, if it's more than 1.3 meters down, they need to do a confined space entry permit.
And they have to make sure no other utilities are in the way.
And later they need a couple of guys with shovels.
They haven't paid any great attention to the law before (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-46653684), so why start now?
The burst pipe damage was pretty extensive, too
(https://i.imgur.com/whGfvh8.png)
Looks like Houston, but more quaint.
Things I said at work:
"There's probably only like two or three problems, but they're combining so it looks like a mess. Think of it like paint: you have a can of blue paint, a can of red paint, and you smash your head into it until you black out."
Quote from: nullified on October 10, 2019, 03:35:04 AM
Things I said at work:
"There's probably only like two or three problems, but they're combining so it looks like a mess. Think of it like paint: you have a can of blue paint, a can of red paint, and you smash your head into it until you black out."
:lulz:
Tonight was an express trip to hell. It had all the hallmarks of a fucking manager who's never worked a call center floor in their life who got obsessed with something fucking shiny.
Untested, pushed through on hardware that didn't support it, no IT or internal support personnel on floor, literally were not able to take a call all fucking night. What a fucking mess.
Actually, it's just this fucking day. I woke up to a new genocide, walked into a useless mass of chromebooks and despair, got fucking deadnamed by my work computer, and am now being tailed all the way home by a bunch of highly drunk homophobes.
Fortunately, I haven't been clocked, they're paying me no mind. Unfortunately, I get to hear all the fun shit they have to say about "faggots."
Quote from: nullified on October 10, 2019, 05:11:57 AM
Tonight was an express trip to hell. It had all the hallmarks of a fucking manager who's never worked a call center floor in their life who got obsessed with something fucking shiny.
Untested, pushed through on hardware that didn't support it, no IT or internal support personnel on floor, literally were not able to take a call all fucking night. What a fucking mess.
I can now confirm that this was in fact EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED.
ETA: Surprisingly, they somehow got the system working today. We are two hours past time of breakdown last night and it's actually smooth! Slow as hell, but without incoherent breakage. Big surprise there.
Quote from: Magpie on October 09, 2019, 07:46:01 AM
Just the skull and nothing else? Was that time for police or archaeologists?
Archaeologists, I don't think we got when the person died. I do know they determined it was native and they put it under a boulder on the side of the road and marked it in city maps.
Oh that reminds me there's this one mysterious blanks spot in Dubuque that would have an awesome view for any sort of building, completely void of trees unlike the surrounding area on the hill. I learned there was a cemetery there and they exhumed the bodies that were marked and moved them to another cemetery, but then they just kept finding more bodies. Construction has since halted because you have to pay $1000 to move an old body. They found like 900 there in 2007.
Anyway, there's also apparently buried treasure around there. Maybe they can get a reality show to pay to remove bodies while they search for it.
https://bit.ly/2oq8GpT (https://bit.ly/2oq8GpT) Jester found a flaw in this website's design.
Some of it is pretty easy to fiddle with:
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Thanks for the insight, Cram. Very good points. Sometimes, for me, it's a little too easy to let the conscious mind interfere with the haze of grey, intuitive static that is actual thought. Retroactive self-criticism can be healthy to a degree but overdoing it is likely not a good idea. The conscious mind has other things to be handling, some things aren't within its scope. Luckily there seems to be few ways to screw this up. Overthinking things is one of them.
I should also add that I decided to stop being a caveman and get some vaccinations. One was for the flu, which, I've traditionally objected to because it used to make me sick, and the other was for hepatitis B, which I'd somehow previously been infected with, and fought it off but showed no signs of antibodies, so me and my doctor decided to nuke the site from low orbit because it beats taking another test before deciding whether or not to vaccinate. I didn't get sick. Neat. Unsure if they changed something in the way vaccines are produced or not but not even a sniffle. I guess I CAN be socially responsible, well, at least, sometimes.
I quit smoking, took up vaping but every week I vape less and less, perhaps someday I'll eliminate that cash-sink outright, but it's been a shitton cheaper than smoking. I recently got a prescription for Naltrexone in the hopes that it will help me train my mind to not drink until I'm half-dead. All in all, things are looking up. Getting my shit together, one small piece at a time.
Quote from: Fujikoma on October 12, 2019, 05:59:06 PM
I should also add that I decided to stop being a caveman and get some vaccinations. One was for the flu, which, I've traditionally objected to because it used to make me sick, and the other was for hepatitis B, which I'd somehow previously been infected with, and fought it off but showed no signs of antibodies, so me and my doctor decided to nuke the site from low orbit because it beats taking another test before deciding whether or not to vaccinate. I didn't get sick. Neat. Unsure if they changed something in the way vaccines are produced or not but not even a sniffle. I guess I CAN be socially responsible, well, at least, sometimes.
I quit smoking, took up vaping but every week I vape less and less, perhaps someday I'll eliminate that cash-sink outright, but it's been a shitton cheaper than smoking. I recently got a prescription for Naltrexone in the hopes that it will help me train my mind to not drink until I'm half-dead. All in all, things are looking up. Getting my shit together, one small piece at a time.
Good man. I'm doing much the same, though I'm replacing ennui with enthusiasm instead of replacing toxic sludge in a tube with vapor in a tube. Satisfaction will come in due time, eh?
For my part, I've replaced optimism and believing the best of people by default with a grin and the absolute 100% certainty that if they cannot find a pig to fuck, they will buy some bacon and play oinking noises on YouTube.
I literally laid out a roadmap of how this would go down and asked for bets. My team had no takers. Sure enough, we're sitting just above the high tide mark, watching the sewage roll in. Every single person in the company has now said this was a disaster and has only made things worse. But Lord Overseer has made the demand, and so the valves are open and the shit will flood in and we will all die.
And I can't really bring myself to care too much. In fact, I've started using the system as an excuse to fuck off at work. I /never/ fuck off at work here, it requires effort and excuses must be made and witnesses must be shot in the throat and the bodies stashed on the scaffolding in the smoker's alley. This new system does all of that for me, and actively prevents me from DOING THE WORK THEY PAY ME FOR, so why not?
Quote from: nullified on October 13, 2019, 08:00:34 AM
For my part, I've replaced optimism and believing the best of people by default with a grin and the absolute 100% certainty that if they cannot find a pig to fuck, they will buy some bacon and play oinking noises on YouTube.
Newsfeed
Flashing back to suffering through the first anthrax shot AND small pox. ugh. Just get flu shots.
Yesterday night I also had the realization that I am actually legitimately terrifying to people who have no idea who I am, especially to interact with me for the first time. I combine the worst apparent traits of all-knowing high wizard, moody anime antagonist, and foul mouthed cyberpunk hacker bitch.
The people I was talking to warmed up to it after they learned a bit about me, but there was some definite tension of the “Are you judging me? Are you going to kill me? Are you going to steal my credit card information and beat me to death with it?” varieties there.
This realization led me to the separate realization that I am not someone you want to meet if I don’t like you for some reason, and that I can use this power for good.
Particularly I have a certain manager in my sights. I wonder if I can get a chance to talk to him one on one for a few minutes? I should find out.
ETA: I just had another realization. Even though I call myself harmless, I am the exact opposite of harmless and can be allowed to continue existing only because I have total and complete control over my capacity for harm.
This can also be used for good.
Somehow my sinister aura inverted itself and now strangers sit near me and start conversations... it's odd, it's like one day things just got flipped on their ear.
Quote from: Fujikoma on October 14, 2019, 04:08:25 AM
Somehow my sinister aura inverted itself and now strangers sit near me and start conversations... it's odd, it's like one day things just got flipped on their ear.
Cool, I've recently noticed the opposite, maybe we switched? Or I've finally grown a proper resting bitch face.
I dunno, it's just weird. It may be that I started avoiding white people. It shouldn't be about race but I've always had issues with them. I have one white friend these days but, she's a badass from Boston who takes no shit.
My latest goal: get the fuck off these HELL PHONES right away.
Means: email training.
Approach: be basically competent.
Current status: success.
Tomorrow I train all day. Then I beg them to put me on the (horribly undersized) email team, who would take a trained parrot with a severed hand right now. Then I work two more godawful days on the HELL PHONES. Then I get a day off, and one more day in HELL PHONES. Finally, I leave them behind, and go back to what I'm good at: typing a fucking lot.
I worked email for Nike for a bit. That was comically corporate. Shit like the first time you refer to the SportWatch, you need to call it the 'Nike+ SportWatch GPS. After that refer to it as the 'SportWatch'. It was still hell, but it was funny hell and didn't require me to have to think on my feet so much.
A definite upgrade.
Quote from: nullified on October 16, 2019, 12:32:40 AM
My latest goal: get the fuck off these HELL PHONES right away.
Means: email training.
Approach: be basically competent.
Current status: success.
Tomorrow I train all day. Then I beg them to put me on the (horribly undersized) email team, who would take a trained parrot with a severed hand right now. Then I work two more godawful days on the HELL PHONES. Then I get a day off, and one more day in HELL PHONES. Finally, I leave them behind, and go back to what I'm good at: typing a fucking lot.
Here it's stuff like "don't put the company in the news" and "be a human being not a marketing robot" and "follow basic rules for writing terse, readable, useful emails".
There’s a libertarian on this bus ranting at the driver. He just decried fiat currency and expounded upon the gold standard while saying crypto is great. :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
ETA: update! He just said crypto will eliminate exchange rates and the concept of debt. This is fucking amazing.
ETA2: now its gone into bankers are brainwashing the little folk and is just skirting the edge of “the Jews are evil”. I want to throw rocks.
Final update:
By the time I got off it had gotten distinctly frothing. Globalist bankers rule the world through greed, we should build a party and take back what is ours, etc...
I watched a libertarian convince himself on fascism in real fucking time. Someone just knock me the fuck out, I want to sleep.
Quote from: nullified on October 16, 2019, 05:07:25 AM
... "be a human being not a marketing robot" and "follow basic rules for writing terse, readable, useful emails".
If how you post here is any indication, you can do it!
Quote"don't put the company in the news"
If how you post here...is any...indication...
:um:
How I post here is an accurate indication, except I swear less and I know my audience (rich racist old people, primarily).
I have not been called unprofessional by anyone to date, except one guy who was clearly enjoying the lack of professionalism, which I was offering only because I had accurately judged him to be the sort of person to enjoy a cynical and sarcastic sense of humor.
In other words, I'm really, really good at this job.
I ran out of money and needed to eat. My job and horrible commute doesn't give me enough time to cook actual real human food that is affordable. So what did I do?
With my last 6 dollars, I bought cheezits. I reasoned that I lived on those for WEEKS while traveling across the country, so what could go wrong?
Verdict: not enough carbs. Nearly blacked out. Bad move.
Tonight I was STARVING and knew I needed food to live off of tomorrow more than I needed to sleep. I cooked up two broccoli cheddar Knorr Rice Sides (you know, the dollar bags of rice and cheap flavorings) and two cans of corned beef hash.
I did this because I had them mostly, but also because it took only an hour (largest amount of time I could spare) and everything else would have taken longer or been insufficient.
At the end of this (which was an ADVENTURE, I nearly was murdered by the corned beef hash because I decided to fry two full cans of it in a single pan) I filled up a small bowl with a delightful mix of textureless green specks and crunchy reddish brown chunks of meat in a sea of yellow, cheesy rice and golden fried potato.
I was full in five bites. I managed to fit the rest of it in me, but it was a struggle. Keep in mind I can eat a full pizza in one sitting and have room for seconds (QGP can confirm).
So, uh, that's impressive.
Now I have almost a liter and a half of this stuff, which tastes like heaven and has enough grease to make a fatberg out of. I could live off of this for a week. I'm actually intimidated.
I enjoy dumping cans of tuna into velveeta shells and cheese. Explore this option at your own peril, it may consume your soul, and fill you with unholy preservatives.
EDIT: There's just something with the way canned tuna fish blends with velveeta. I don't know what it is, but it's seriously witchcraft.
Tuna is useless to me, as I need a diet with a lot of fat. No, Kraft cheese product isn't fatty enough.
Or it's the wrong kind of fat, anyway: animal fat seems to be better for my purposes, namely "not being hungry again in one hour" — I have had limited luck with vegan, artificial or chemically manipulated fats.
Also, there's a balance that needs to be struck:
Without sufficient fat, I burn through everything in minutes.
Without sufficient carbs, I am essentially non-functional although alive and usually awake.
Without sufficient fiber, I eat three times as much as I do otherwise, and I have an intestinal traffic jam that turns my fecal matter into pre-stressed concrete.
Without sufficient protein, I have trouble transitioning from the fast-burning brain fuel carbs to the slow-burning survival fuel fat.
The overall mixture is hard to get just right, but my body is very good at explaining to me what I need to have, so I just follow my gut instinct.
Interesting fact I learned due to that: a tub of ice cream has several thousand calories, almost all of which are in fat and carbs. Ice cream with a lot of fruit and grains (for example: strawberry shortcake ice cream) provides sufficient fiber. All I need to have with it is a single slice of pizza and I can run for a good six hours, no problem, adjusting only with occasional cravings for protein sources (almonds, usually, as they're the only nut that I seem able to digest).
Pasta and pesto.
Pasta will take about 10 minutes, if you're getting the wholewheat stuff, and the pesto will take about 30 seconds to stir in. Make a massive container of it, say 1 kilo, and that can keep you going for a week, assuming you're transporting it from fridge to fridge. Most pestos use unsaturated fats as well, so they're good in terms of calorie content, but it's also the better kind of fat.
Cooking time isn't the only concern. There's also "make a token effort to not leave a gigantic fucking mess" time, which is what really takes it over the half hour mark. Pesto is no exception, because it sticks to everything it touches, and if you have cause to leave it there for a moment it becomes a caul of impenetrable disgusting looking green stains.
Also, I haven't found premade pesto. Which is surprising, as this is America and we like that sort of grody shit. But here we are, and as a result preparing pesto triples the amount of dishes I need to clean and takes forever all on its lonesome.
That is surprising, it's common as muck over here. I literally have jars of the stuff as part of my emergency Brexit stash.
Quote from: nullified on October 21, 2019, 05:07:18 PM
Cooking time isn't the only concern. There's also "make a token effort to not leave a gigantic fucking mess" time, which is what really takes it over the half hour mark. Pesto is no exception, because it sticks to everything it touches, and if you have cause to leave it there for a moment it becomes a caul of impenetrable disgusting looking green stains.
Also, I haven't found premade pesto. Which is surprising, as this is America and we like that sort of grody shit. But here we are, and as a result preparing pesto triples the amount of dishes I need to clean and takes forever all on its lonesome.
Kroger carries it.
My return to Boston means I am not sure where I can find a Kroger, but I'm sure if I ask enough people today I'll have someone point me to the green goop.
This week, I'm experimenting with something I'm calling "Fajita Fried Slaw".
It's one shredded red cabbage, a pound of ground sirloin, prolly bout a cup of olive oil, and a pack of fajita seasoning. Everything fried in each other.
It's a variation of "Country Fried Slaw", which is hot breakfast sausage, and shredded cabbage fried in each other. I'm trying to eat healthy, now. Also, the ground sirloin was BOGO, otherwise, it would have been ground 97% lean turkey doped with Better Than Bullion, or some other concentrated extract of bovine.
The hardest part of making any kind of fried slaw is fitting a whole shredded cabbage into a frying pan. It's not so much fried as greased and steamed. I think to do it right, I would need an upside down galvanized trash can lid, and a medium-sized bonfire.
Never heat galvanized metal unless you want to die horribly. I speak from partial experience (I got a whiff of zinc fumes one time and the resultant headache was wrestling with cluster headaches for the worst pain ever) but the literature speaks for itself.
I've had a couple classes on welding. I'm familiar with zinc fume fever.
Had one guy tell me that you won't get it if you weld with your mouth full of milk. :lulz:
Quote from: nullified on October 21, 2019, 06:49:03 PM
My return to Boston means I am not sure where I can find a Kroger, but I'm sure if I ask enough people today I'll have someone point me to the green goop.
If they stock it, try the red stuff also. Normally red pesto has cheese, so the fat content is even better.
Yeah, heating galvanized steel is a bad idea. I've been lead to believe that it's normal steel that's been bathed in a chemical bath. My boss at a metal shop once welded some for a customer, who ended up not wanting to pay for the result anyway which, well, sucked. He shouldn't have done that and he knew he shouldn't have, but he just wanted the guy to go away and stop distracting us from our contract work. He had green loogies and snot for a little while. Don't cook with galvanized steel, unsure what the temperatures are that cause the reaction but it's nasty stuff.
Honestly, I don't think cooking temperatures would be enough to vaporize the zinc, but maybe? The bigger issue would probably be zinc being dissolved in the food itself. Either way, I promise that if i decide to really commit to eating a lot of fried cabbage, I'll at least invest in a bigass wok or something before I try cooking on a garbage can lid.
Quote from: nullified on October 21, 2019, 06:49:03 PM
My return to Boston means I am not sure where I can find a Kroger, but I'm sure if I ask enough people today I'll have someone point me to the green goop.
Stop & Shop and nearly every other store I've looked stocks it. Small glass container, usually on the top shelf with the marinaras.
I see the world with new eyes, hear it with new ears, I've been hibernating for a very long time, and someone came along and breathed new life into that.
EDIT: This can only end in disaster. That said, I feel a stirring of everything I've denied myself during my quest for self-improvement, and now, it seems far less sinister.
Quote from: Fujikoma on October 21, 2019, 08:42:22 PM
I see the world with new eyes, hear it with new ears, I've been hibernating for a very long time, and someone came along and breathed new life into that.
EDIT: This can only end in disaster. That said, I feel a stirring of everything I've denied myself during my quest for self-improvement, and now, it seems far less sinister.
New eyes and new ears only help you if you live in a world that does not look like shit and sound like bad farts.
Inside every person there is a better person trying to get out. Find that better person and kick the mortal fuck out of him, because he's only going to cause problems. There is no place in the world for better people.
I first heard of discordianism a very long time ago. I had a friend, also ex-infantry, who'd run across a strange cult, and since I was all about weird shit he decided to tell me about it. They'd met someone who was handholding them through a difficult situation. It turned out, this person decided they didn't like me, with but a few details, said I was an "autistic channeller" and that I had no soul, that I was just reaching out and grabbing other souls at random and using them to portray a fiction of identity. Hmm, well, I only have my own self as a point of reference, so, if I project my own model of consciousness onto others, then they don't have a concrete identity either.
This has been a mystery to me for a while. I admit, I didn't know what a discordian was at the time, nor did I do any research, but I immediately claimed they were a sham. I was told, simply, "Maybe." up until the point where said discordian told my friend that their leader was a fat, stinky dude who lived in his mom's basement, at which point, he decided they were a sham, I admit I got a little curious, but I filed it away for later. It would be some time before I revisited that memory and discovered the true illuminati.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 21, 2019, 08:47:11 PM
Quote from: Fujikoma on October 21, 2019, 08:42:22 PM
I see the world with new eyes, hear it with new ears, I've been hibernating for a very long time, and someone came along and breathed new life into that.
EDIT: This can only end in disaster. That said, I feel a stirring of everything I've denied myself during my quest for self-improvement, and now, it seems far less sinister.
New eyes and new ears only help you if you live in a world that does not look like shit and sound like bad farts.
Inside every person there is a better person trying to get out. Find that better person and kick the mortal fuck out of him, because he's only going to cause problems. There is no place in the world for better people.
Oh no, Roger. You don't understand, I'm all about nurturing my own inner beast, and this is what it wants. I am a bad mother. It will be a better beast. You're right, the world currently looks like shit, but I'm willing to wait and see if the humans learn from it this time. If they do, it will be a miracle, but also a huge benefit that keeps paying off.
Quote from: Fujikoma on October 21, 2019, 08:58:18 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 21, 2019, 08:47:11 PM
Quote from: Fujikoma on October 21, 2019, 08:42:22 PM
I see the world with new eyes, hear it with new ears, I've been hibernating for a very long time, and someone came along and breathed new life into that.
EDIT: This can only end in disaster. That said, I feel a stirring of everything I've denied myself during my quest for self-improvement, and now, it seems far less sinister.
New eyes and new ears only help you if you live in a world that does not look like shit and sound like bad farts.
Inside every person there is a better person trying to get out. Find that better person and kick the mortal fuck out of him, because he's only going to cause problems. There is no place in the world for better people.
Oh no, Roger. You don't understand, I'm all about nurturing my own inner beast, and this is what it wants. I am a bad mother. It will be a better beast. You're right, the world currently looks like shit, but I'm willing to wait and see if the humans learn from it this time. If they do, it will be a miracle, but also a huge benefit that keeps paying off.
Let me know how that works out. :lol:
Quote from: Fujikoma on October 21, 2019, 08:55:36 PM
I first heard of discordianism a very long time ago. I had a friend, also ex-infantry, who'd run across a strange cult, and since I was all about weird shit he decided to tell me about it. They'd met someone who was handholding them through a difficult situation. It turned out, this person decided they didn't like me, with but a few details, said I was an "autistic channeller" and that I had no soul, that I was just reaching out and grabbing other souls at random and using them to portray a fiction of identity. Hmm, well, I only have my own self as a point of reference, so, if I project my own model of consciousness onto others, then they don't have a concrete identity either.
This has been a mystery to me for a while. I admit, I didn't know what a discordian was at the time, nor did I do any research, but I immediately claimed they were a sham. I was told, simply, "Maybe." up until the point where said discordian told my friend that their leader was a fat, stinky dude who lived in his mom's basement, at which point, he decided they were a sham, I admit I got a little curious, but I filed it away for later. It would be some time before I revisited that memory and discovered the true illuminati.
All gurus are shams. Every last one of them. Especially when
they think they are legit.
And this sorry sack of shit sounds like a preacher for "false memetic consciousness," which is a great philosophy for people who are afraid of being alive.
Thanks for validating my soul, or lack thereof, it means a lot to me... with the way a lot of people have treated me it, kinda leaves a doubt, like, I see all these other people, and I feel like I'm missing something.
The Canadian Federal Election was yesterday. The Liberals won a minority government. I guess I'm okay with this.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 21, 2019, 08:47:11 PM
Quote from: Fujikoma on October 21, 2019, 08:42:22 PM
I see the world with new eyes, hear it with new ears, I've been hibernating for a very long time, and someone came along and breathed new life into that.
EDIT: This can only end in disaster. That said, I feel a stirring of everything I've denied myself during my quest for self-improvement, and now, it seems far less sinister.
New eyes and new ears only help you if you live in a world that does not look like shit and sound like bad fart
Inside every person there is a better person trying to get out. Find that better person and kick the mortal fuck out of him, because he's only going to cause problems. There is no place in the world for better people.
the map is not the territory
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on October 22, 2019, 01:42:39 PM
The Canadian Federal Election was yesterday. The Liberals won a minority government. I guess I'm okay with this.
Christ, at least you didn't get Scheer.
And now Trudeau has to play ball with the NDP, right?
Quote from: Fujikoma on October 21, 2019, 10:52:10 PM
Thanks for validating my soul, or lack thereof, it means a lot to me... with the way a lot of people have treated me it, kinda leaves a doubt, like, I see all these other people, and I feel like I'm missing something.
Everyone is just like you. Some can plaster a GRIN over it, is all. :lol:
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 22, 2019, 08:06:14 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on October 22, 2019, 01:42:39 PM
The Canadian Federal Election was yesterday. The Liberals won a minority government. I guess I'm okay with this.
Christ, at least you didn't get Scheer.
And now Trudeau has to play ball with the NDP, right?
Looks like it. He's 13 seats short, and he won't be finding many friends among the Conservatives or the BQ.
Sup nerds?
If you're in the Boston area and you wanna check out some LOCAL ART and see YOURS TRULY acting like a respectable member of society come out to the Malden Arts Matter event tomorrow afternoon from 3-7. I'll be handing out not-exactly-Pope Cards from 5pm on
I have some PTO, but I think I need to save it for the winter. So, tell whoever shows up to enjoy it enough to make up for me not being there!
In other news, I'm done making sprints to the trains. On the other hand, I'm getting no weekend next week. I'm looking forward to the FULL 8.75 HOURS of OT, surprisingly: emails, not phones! I also have a potential move to IT lined up, so let's see where it goes.
I'm retired, if I'm to visit an event you have to let me know in advance because I'm legally incompetent to handle my own funds so I have to go through my payee for big purchases, like airplane travel. I hate to say I'm retired, I'm just, too unstable to do much of anything meaningful, unless you want chaos.
Anybody remember the "Discordian meme generator" I think it was called. It was a page that just spit out random quips. "A conclusion is just where you stopped thinking," etc.
I'm specifically looking for the thing about "if you believe there are elves living in the clouds, every time it rains it gets proven" only...worded well.
Anybody have a memory of that?
chaos is my bag, I know, sounds like some penis gland bullshit, except it's not. I am educated in the ancient arts of strategy and wonder why most people fail to study it. This puppy-mill of employees is not working, it cannot create anything that can compete or relate to me. I wake up every day to this reality and despair, if only. Anyway, not here to start an actual freaking riot, and not here to start a cult, here to communicate with equals who've had their own experiences.
I'm here to lead the new ones to the promised land, but I want my own kids, I need it, and, it seems like every step is a fire trap of pain and confusion, but, I'm used to it. Burn me, I won't stop anymore. I won't be stopped by every discouragement, I won't be stopped by every application of pain, I will not be stopped until the day I die. I'm done with being a tool.
I refuse to be bound by any restraints, even those of the discordians, who I hold in high regard. You will not tell me what to do and I'm about to show you in some twenty some-odd years that I was right. I won't be told no anymore, no, get back, I'm about to fucking explode on the worst possible levels, with parasitic spores, you dig? It won't be pretty and I'm not in the mood for getting poked. I will show you a new world. If I suceed, we'll all be happy.
I'd be happy if I never again heard "you dig?" outside of a 70's movie.
Is this the world you propose? If so I'll sign on to that.
No, "you dig" will be a staple expression, I fear our visualized worlds are incompatible.
Quote from: Fujikoma on October 25, 2019, 02:54:51 AM
No, "you dig" will be a staple expression, I fear our visualized worlds are incompatible.
Unless you are Bootsy Collins, this is wrong.
Quote from: Roly Poly Oly-Garch on October 25, 2019, 02:02:23 AM
Anybody remember the "Discordian meme generator" I think it was called. It was a page that just spit out random quips. "A conclusion is just where you stopped thinking," etc.
I'm specifically looking for the thing about "if you believe there are elves living in the clouds, every time it rains it gets proven" only...worded well.
Anybody have a memory of that?
I don't remember anything,
ever. My brain doesn't work any more.
"If you were taught that elves caused rain, every time it rained, you'd see the proof of elves."
-- https://www.principiadiscordia.com/memebombs/kwotes.pl?action=show&id=3951
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on October 25, 2019, 04:04:37 AM
Quote from: Roly Poly Oly-Garch on October 25, 2019, 02:02:23 AM
Anybody remember the "Discordian meme generator" I think it was called. It was a page that just spit out random quips. "A conclusion is just where you stopped thinking," etc.
I'm specifically looking for the thing about "if you believe there are elves living in the clouds, every time it rains it gets proven" only...worded well.
Anybody have a memory of that?
I don't remember anything, ever. My brain doesn't work any more.
"If you were taught that elves caused rain, every time it rained, you'd see the proof of elves."
-- https://www.principiadiscordia.com/memebombs/kwotes.pl?action=show&id=3951
MEMEBOMBS!!! Thank you, thank you!
Quote from: Roly Poly Oly-Garch on October 25, 2019, 02:29:43 AM
I'd be happy if I never again heard "you dig?" outside of a 70's movie.
The movie I'm thinking of is from 1966.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2w9X_tHU7k
Quote from: Roly Poly Oly-Garch on October 25, 2019, 02:02:23 AM
Anybody remember the "Discordian meme generator" I think it was called. It was a page that just spit out random quips. "A conclusion is just where you stopped thinking," etc.
I'm specifically looking for the thing about "if you believe there are elves living in the clouds, every time it rains it gets proven" only...worded well.
Anybody have a memory of that?
you're looking for this
https://principiadiscordia.com/memebombs/kwotes.pl?action=show&id=3951
edit: whoops didn't see someone already answered!
One point for that Jesus guy. From beyond the grave he managed to hypnotize a person to give me free food!
We had our sexual harassment training yesterday at work where they rolled out their new trans-friendly bathroom policy, much to the moans, groans and mumbles of "Obama" from a number of people.
I think it's actually because of California state laws, not federal laws, but hey, why would they pass up an opportunity to blame Obama for anything they don't like?
That was a perfect time to stand up and shame them. Hope you did.
Quote from: LMNO on October 29, 2019, 06:52:16 PM
That was a perfect time to stand up and shame them. Hope you did.
Actually, they were pretty quiet during the training, some grimaces, head shaking, and generally dour expressions, but they kept their mouths shut in front of the HR guy. the groaning and blaming Obama happened later out on the production floor.
I did tell them they should just get over it, and then there was mentions of God and what they teach their kids, and I was just like "Lol, whatever, dude."
Quote from: Bruno on October 29, 2019, 06:43:48 PM
We had our sexual harassment training yesterday at work where they rolled out their new trans-friendly bathroom policy, much to the moans, groans and mumbles of "Obama" from a number of people.
I think it's actually because of California state laws, not federal laws, but hey, why would they pass up an opportunity to blame Obama for anything they don't like?
Has anyone told them that Obama has been gone for 3 years? :lulz:
Must have been some kind of time bomb he left behind. :argh!:
Everyone should own a little bit of penny stock. Something in mining, perhaps. Watching the price fluctuations is enlightening, not to mention entertaining, and can teach a valuable lesson.
It's not profitable, of course.
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on October 30, 2019, 04:02:08 AM
Everyone should own a little bit of penny stock. Something in mining, perhaps. Watching the price fluctuations is enlightening, not to mention entertaining, and can teach a valuable lesson.
It's not profitable, of course.
It's a fun game. Personally I prefer cryprocurrency, since what it means is sillier than penny stocks, but the game is pretty similar.
Isn't that like slot machines without all the shiny colors?
Quote from: Bruno on October 29, 2019, 08:14:06 PM
Must have been some kind of time bomb he left behind. :argh!:
O-bomb-a
It's ok, I have a store of bad pun creds.
Quote from: Frontside Back on October 30, 2019, 05:01:30 PM
Isn't that like slot machines without all the shiny colors?
Not really. Slot machines are usually subject to regulatory limits that keep you from losing money too quickly.
I just want to remind everyone that I cannot die, I'm an immortal abomination from beyond the fucking stars and I will exile would-be murderers to the piss void, to live among the gremlins and forgotten drunken covers of third rate pop music from the mid 80s
Quote from: Don Coyote on October 31, 2019, 12:29:04 AM
I made fun of a man with a bloated rpg today and made $182, $128 of it his. I don't think he liked it. Because he blocked all my accounts.
Not following this.
It occurs to me that Halestorm is just Taylor Swift with a leather jacket.
Quote from: nullified on November 01, 2019, 02:26:38 AM
I just want to remind everyone that I cannot die, I'm an immortal abomination from beyond the fucking stars and I will exile would-be murderers to the piss void, to live among the gremlins and forgotten drunken covers of third rate pop music from the mid 80s
Last night was apparently wild. Something on the order of demonic possession going on here.
Also this Red Line train is fucking cursed, in the classical sense: it smells like rotting meat and burnt hair, half the lights are out and which ones change at every stop, it randomly buzzes and vibrates like the exterior cladding is attached to the third rail while not in motion, the driver keeps going distant, echoey, incredibly loud, and extremely strained like he's dying of a heart attack for a few moments on the intercom before returning to normal. Cursed as fuck.
Ah, sounds pretty normal Nullified. The only thing you forgot to mention is the band of juggling dwarves, and the goat.
Quote from: nullified on November 02, 2019, 01:19:09 AM
Quote from: nullified on November 01, 2019, 02:26:38 AM
I just want to remind everyone that I cannot die, I'm an immortal abomination from beyond the fucking stars and I will exile would-be murderers to the piss void, to live among the gremlins and forgotten drunken covers of third rate pop music from the mid 80s
Last night was apparently wild. Something on the order of demonic possession going on here.
Also this Red Line train is fucking cursed, in the classical sense: it smells like rotting meat and burnt hair, half the lights are out and which ones change at every stop, it randomly buzzes and vibrates like the exterior cladding is attached to the third rail while not in motion, the driver keeps going distant, echoey, incredibly loud, and extremely strained like he's dying of a heart attack for a few moments on the intercom before returning to normal. Cursed as fuck.
Yesterday was Halloween. Probably some kids in the area were screwing around with rituals they didn't understand and ruptured an aetheric seal, and you were caught in the boundary layer.
The effects should wear off in a week or so, but in the meantime, be very cautious with real-estate transactions, avoid consuming South African meat products, and remember to put the lime in the coconut and drink them both up.
Fuck that, suckle the blood out of the still-beating heart of something living. This ain't some hollywood witch movie, do you want PREcautions, or PROcautions?
Ok, as a vegan alternative you can cover a furby in mayonaise and sriracha.
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Quote from: nullified on November 01, 2019, 02:26:38 AM
I just want to remind everyone that I cannot die, I'm an immortal abomination from beyond the fucking stars and I will exile would-be murderers to the piss void, to live among the gremlins and forgotten drunken covers of third rate pop music from the mid 80s
Last night was apparently wild. Something on the order of demonic possession going on here.
Also this Red Line train is fucking cursed, in the classical sense: it smells like rotting meat and burnt hair, half the lights are out and which ones change at every stop, it randomly buzzes and vibrates like the exterior cladding is attached to the third rail while not in motion, the driver keeps going distant, echoey, incredibly loud, and extremely strained like he's dying of a heart attack for a few moments on the intercom before returning to normal. Cursed as fuck.
If you're in Boston, you are right on the mark. The MBTA is evil incarnate, and the Red line in particular. Lots of Richter-related fatalities on that line.
I described the Sally-Anne test to my mom and she failed it. The explanation what it means didn't work for her either. Which is weird I, I remembered explaining it to her years ago from an anthropology class about the difference between 3 and 5 year olds (she's a preschool teacher), but maybe I didn't describe the whole story.
I'm not sure if this means she's never had theory of mind, but it would explain some things. For one, she loves mystery shows and novels, and I wonder if it's just more surprising to her than most people. Maybe she lost it from getting older, but she's only in her early 60's.
Maybe it means I need to perform some psychological experiments on my parents.
Cain, can you please send this to Zon at Once Again, Satan is the Logical and Compassionate Choice?
Or anyone else who is not busy.
I am FB banned for 30 days.
Gotta love those Facebook community standards.
Quote from: Juana on November 05, 2019, 05:08:53 AM
Gotta love those Facebook community standards.
Can you post that to Zon? And maybe holler that I'm out on my page? I'd appreciate it.
I got muted from a discord recently for bullying someone, thing is the bullied person had me on mute (and had a policy of bullying anyone like me in the past)... all I had to do is reveal that they said "lmao" out loud and that tipped the dominos. An admin swooped in to save the day by muting like, four or five people in one swoop, I guess mister bully was going to cry or something. I told the admin in question that while I understand, surely they must see the humor. Admins aren't allowed to have a sense of humor it seems.
See, this shitlord is arrogant as fuck. In some ways it's justified because he writes some straight up legit Path of Exile guides, but he's still a dick so I shoved something up his peehole. I was drunk at the time, in hindsight, it was a dumb decision. I keep thinking about the kind of pain I may've caused his massive ego and asking "Was it really worth it to hurt someone like that? I'm an asshole."
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 05, 2019, 05:10:16 AM
Quote from: Juana on November 05, 2019, 05:08:53 AM
Gotta love those Facebook community standards.
Can you post that to Zon? And maybe holler that I'm out on my page? I'd appreciate it.
Zon's aware but I'll go post on your page, for sure!
Quote from: Fujikoma on November 05, 2019, 05:31:48 AM
I got muted from a discord recently for bullying someone, thing is the bullied person had me on mute (and had a policy of bullying anyone like me in the past)... all I had to do is reveal that they said "lmao" out loud and that tipped the dominos. An admin swooped in to save the day by muting like, four or five people in one swoop, I guess mister bully was going to cry or something. I told the admin in question that while I understand, surely they must see the humor. Admins aren't allowed to have a sense of humor it seems.
See, this shitlord is arrogant as fuck. In some ways it's justified because he writes some straight up legit Path of Exile guides, but he's still a dick so I shoved something up his peehole. I was drunk at the time, in hindsight, it was a dumb decision. I keep thinking about the kind of pain I may've caused his massive ego and asking "Was it really worth it to hurt someone like that? I'm an asshole."
Compost all of them.
I think if I composted them, the resulting fertilizer would contaminate the vegitation.
Hey, Fujikoma, protip: all videogaming communities are full of awful, awful fucking people and should be burned to the ground.
I don't know what it is about videogaming that brings out the absolute worst in people, but even the queer heavy spaces get positively fucking horrific about shit like "SJWs" and "fake gamers".
I managed to find TWO I could tolerate to date. The first one is for an unreleased XCOM-like called Phoenix Point. The second one was for the classic roguelike developer/fan community around RogueBasin. (I left that one due to some weird behavior of a user that in retrospect I think I misinterpreted the intent of.)
Somehow, both of those are perfectly fine. It's uncanny not having to brace for Pepes and Nazi memes and rape threats where video games are involved, particularly in the communities for the hardest of the hardcore.
Quote from: nullified on November 05, 2019, 05:53:18 AM
Hey, Fujikoma, protip: all videogaming communities are full of awful, awful fucking people and should be burned to the ground.
I don't know what it is about videogaming that brings out the absolute worst in people, but even the queer heavy spaces get positively fucking horrific about shit like "SJWs" and "fake gamers".
I managed to find TWO I could tolerate to date. The first one is for an unreleased XCOM-like called Phoenix Point. The second one was for the classic roguelike developer/fan community around RogueBasin. (I left that one due to some weird behavior of a user that in retrospect I think I misinterpreted the intent of.)
Somehow, both of those are perfectly fine. It's uncanny not having to brace for Pepes and Nazi memes and rape threats where video games are involved, particularly in the communities for the hardest of the hardcore.
In my murky side of the internets, the appropriate term is "toxic communities" or the synonym "cancer communities".
Multiplayer games which revolve around ranked gameplay 100% are that way; story driven games/RPGs and communities rarely.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 05, 2019, 04:24:48 AM
Cain, can you please send this to Zon at Once Again, Satan is the Logical and Compassionate Choice?
Sorry, I was asleep.
Zon has said that there will be zero tolerance from now on however for any kind of shitneckery in the group.
Quote from: The Johnny on November 05, 2019, 06:47:15 AM
Quote from: nullified on November 05, 2019, 05:53:18 AM
Hey, Fujikoma, protip: all videogaming communities are full of awful, awful fucking people and should be burned to the ground.
I don't know what it is about videogaming that brings out the absolute worst in people, but even the queer heavy spaces get positively fucking horrific about shit like "SJWs" and "fake gamers".
I managed to find TWO I could tolerate to date. The first one is for an unreleased XCOM-like called Phoenix Point. The second one was for the classic roguelike developer/fan community around RogueBasin. (I left that one due to some weird behavior of a user that in retrospect I think I misinterpreted the intent of.)
Somehow, both of those are perfectly fine. It's uncanny not having to brace for Pepes and Nazi memes and rape threats where video games are involved, particularly in the communities for the hardest of the hardcore.
In my murky side of the internets, the appropriate term is "toxic communities" or the synonym "cancer communities".
Multiplayer games which revolve around ranked gameplay 100% are that way; story driven games/RPGs and communities rarely.
I agree with this. Luckily, the ESO and Bioware communities are pretty great, (ending of Mass Effect 3 aside and the month around the latest significant patch day aside) otherwise I'd have to go back to modding Skyrim in my spare time.
Quote from: The Johnny on November 05, 2019, 06:47:15 AM
Multiplayer games which revolve around ranked gameplay 100% are that way; story driven games/RPGs and communities rarely.
Yeah, the JRPG discord I hang out at is pretty mellow. Serious political discussions have been known to devolve into arguments over how to season potatoes.
Rosemary or GTFO
Yeah, the weird thing is I end up the resident "SJW" in a lot of communities, because I'm pushing back against a lot of alt-right bullshit. The irony is palpable here because I used to be one of these shitbirds. Nobody calls me out on it, I guess I'm being diplomatic? Maybe I'm not being enough of a hardass, but I do feel like I'm getting through to the feels, and like I can make a difference. Also in a number of communities you have a hard pushback composed of the actual mythical "SJW" types, and those are the ones everyone takes issue with. Those sorts of polarizing games don't do anyone any favors, and tend to serve only the ego.
I'm all for LGBTQ persons being able to interact without being harrassed and bullied. The sad fact of the matter is that just one or two militant representitives of said community can turn a community toxic from a lashback effect. It takes me months to get on someone's good side because they've been radicalized by opposition, and then I get shit like "Well, you're one of the GOOD weirdos, unlike most of them who deserve to die in a fire." and I'm like NOOOOO!
It's really disturbing but some people are playing right into the hands of Vladamir Putin, and helping to radicalize the people they're supposed to be converting.
Quote from: Cain on November 05, 2019, 11:50:46 AM
Quote from: The Johnny on November 05, 2019, 06:47:15 AM
Quote from: nullified on November 05, 2019, 05:53:18 AM
Hey, Fujikoma, protip: all videogaming communities are full of awful, awful fucking people and should be burned to the ground.
I don't know what it is about videogaming that brings out the absolute worst in people, but even the queer heavy spaces get positively fucking horrific about shit like "SJWs" and "fake gamers".
I managed to find TWO I could tolerate to date. The first one is for an unreleased XCOM-like called Phoenix Point. The second one was for the classic roguelike developer/fan community around RogueBasin. (I left that one due to some weird behavior of a user that in retrospect I think I misinterpreted the intent of.)
Somehow, both of those are perfectly fine. It's uncanny not having to brace for Pepes and Nazi memes and rape threats where video games are involved, particularly in the communities for the hardest of the hardcore.
In my murky side of the internets, the appropriate term is "toxic communities" or the synonym "cancer communities".
Multiplayer games which revolve around ranked gameplay 100% are that way; story driven games/RPGs and communities rarely.
I agree with this. Luckily, the ESO and Bioware communities are pretty great, (ending of Mass Effect 3 aside and the month around the latest significant patch day aside) otherwise I'd have to go back to modding Skyrim in my spare time.
You think the ESO communities are great? UESP, of all places, has a shitty blob who is de facto untouchable in the community because he makes all the ESO content these days and everyone else is just barely keeping up with him.
Anyway Johnny is wrong because I've seen this shit in communities for fucking Troika games (Arcanum and VtMB communities are horrible and awful in particular and you'd best just stay away) and the classic Fallouts which has no competitive aspects or multiplayer in them at all so
Well I wouldn't know about UESP. But people in the game are rarely toxic, and I'm saying that as someone who pugs, as a tank, for veteran content. Admittedly I don't do vet trials, it could be all the really salty, hyper-competitive people are in those, but if I'm doing goddamn Fang Lair HM and not getting death threats and abuse for "letting" people die, then it's a step up from a lot of other games.
Oh, the IN GAME community's toxic bullshit is all hidden in the roleplaying community. And it's fucking horrible there.
Ah, I haven't had so much to do with them, though I did not the distinct scent of people huffing their own farts when looking into some of the hubs on EU.
Not to mention I can just imagine how the vampire and werewolf communities are. Goddamn furries and fangs are always the worst.
Would you be surprised to hear it's the opposite?
It's the Nords and Dunmer that are the worst. Imperials aren't much better. Extremely toxic.
Oh, I think I know at least one of the guilds you are talking about. People in Great House Dres wanting to get handsy with the "help", rather than ride around all day on their awesome giant wasp cavalry.
That's one. The Temple folks are shitty too, but the fuckers who split from the Temple early are the worst, because they harassed and outed a transwoman IRL over their stupid RP.
If Drethas is still around, she's the ONLY Morrowind RPer I wouldn't toss off a cliff. Hundorian also wouldn't get tossed but I don't think he counts as Morrowind, really. He just sort of gets into everything.
Urgh, that is exceptionally shitty. But now I think about it. I can definitely see how Morrowind would attract the worst kind of roleplayers.
Quote from: nullified on November 05, 2019, 05:53:18 AM
Hey, Fujikoma, protip: all videogaming communities are full of awful, awful fucking people and should be burned to the ground.
I don't know what it is about videogaming that brings out the absolute worst in people, but even the queer heavy spaces get positively fucking horrific about shit like "SJWs" and "fake gamers".
I managed to find TWO I could tolerate to date. The first one is for an unreleased XCOM-like called Phoenix Point. The second one was for the classic roguelike developer/fan community around RogueBasin. (I left that one due to some weird behavior of a user that in retrospect I think I misinterpreted the intent of.)
Somehow, both of those are perfectly fine. It's uncanny not having to brace for Pepes and Nazi memes and rape threats where video games are involved, particularly in the communities for the hardest of the hardcore.
I am thinking it's actually a status thing. Being primates, humans need status in the pack. A human who has no status at all in the "real world" but finds belonging in a gaming culture (or whatever else) is going to try to fit into that culture and advance his own stock in it.
Add that to a toxic culture where "real men" are "strong" and don't care about women or minorities or whatever, and you have this.
The basic result is the three-time loser:
They have no status in their world.
They shit on others to try to gain status in an artificial environment,
even if it dooms them to forever being a loser in their actual environment.They see no problem with this.
Quote from: Cain on November 05, 2019, 05:05:39 PM
Urgh, that is exceptionally shitty. But now I think about it. I can definitely see how Morrowind would attract the worst kind of roleplayers.
It attracted the best kind too, except they all bailed after a few weeks of too much horseshit and went to High Rock, which also had the best ever werewolf and vampire guilds in roleplaying history.
Legitimately interesting werewolf angst (cursed nobility attempting to return honor to the family name combined with outrageous and hilarious harm reduction schemes, an intentional comedy of errors), vampire stories focused on lone vampires who aren't entirely sure what happened (based more on Morrowind vampires) and Direnni research into vampirism (very Tremere feeling, that group).
Would that be the Stormhaven RP hub? I've seen it mentioned a bit.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 05, 2019, 05:10:04 PM
Quote from: nullified on November 05, 2019, 05:53:18 AM
Hey, Fujikoma, protip: all videogaming communities are full of awful, awful fucking people and should be burned to the ground.
I don't know what it is about videogaming that brings out the absolute worst in people, but even the queer heavy spaces get positively fucking horrific about shit like "SJWs" and "fake gamers".
I managed to find TWO I could tolerate to date. The first one is for an unreleased XCOM-like called Phoenix Point. The second one was for the classic roguelike developer/fan community around RogueBasin. (I left that one due to some weird behavior of a user that in retrospect I think I misinterpreted the intent of.)
Somehow, both of those are perfectly fine. It's uncanny not having to brace for Pepes and Nazi memes and rape threats where video games are involved, particularly in the communities for the hardest of the hardcore.
I am thinking it's actually a status thing. Being primates, humans need status in the pack. A human who has no status at all in the "real world" but finds belonging in a gaming culture (or whatever else) is going to try to fit into that culture and advance his own stock in it.
Add that to a toxic culture where "real men" are "strong" and don't care about women or minorities or whatever, and you have this.
The basic result is the three-time loser:
They have no status in their world.
They shit on others to try to gain status in an artificial environment, even if it dooms them to forever being a loser in their actual environment.
They see no problem with this.
Well, that makes WAY too much sense. Shame though.
I think that this may be the best year for chaos ever.
It's like you can point at America or the UK and make up the weirdest possible shit based on what's going on, only you read about it the next day in the paper.
The Strange Times was a name we applied a few years too early, for all the wrong reasons.
The season is Aftermath, I say.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, QG!
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My milkshake hit a proud boy in the head
It was concrete, and it cracked his Dome
Damn right, it cracked his Dome.
Nobody sorry that he wound up dead. X2
He was a skinhead
And nobody sorry
No political platform for
The fascist scum
Think they want some
So here it comes
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
My milkshake hit a proud boy in the head
It was concrete, and it cracked his Dome
Damn right, it cracked his Dome.
Nobody sorry that he wound up dead X2
I can see you're angry
Well I can show thee
Milkshakes that kill proud boys
They're not store bought
Just don't get caught
Mask up if you're smart
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
La la, la la, la
Mix one up
La la, la la, la
Proud boys are bleeding
My milkshake hit a proud boy in the head
It was concrete, and it cracked his Dome
Damn right, it cracked his Dome.
Nobody sorry that he wound up dead X2
Damnit, I can tell when Dok parodies Mairzy Doats, but you put this shit in front of me and suddenly I can't figure out the tune.
Good song though, me like. :lol:
"
Shit, I do PD Paradise and Bye Bye Discordian Pie, and I get remembered for Mairzy Doats.
I'm so alone. :sad:
I'm still waiting for the promised Peter Gabriel cover.
Do I LOOK like a barbarian?
Now I want to find a way to send that to Kelis. I think she'd like it.
Dok, fb jail again? What happened this time?
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 07, 2019, 11:01:36 PM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, QG!
What!
Our tentacle faced flyer-Queen is another eternity older! The stars have come right again!
I wish I could have swung by to say hi, QGP, I got stuck at work and the only thing this job is a nightmare about is attendance. Happy birthday!
Quote from: kiss my axe on November 07, 2019, 11:22:02 PM
Dok, fb jail again? What happened this time?
I made fun of a self-proclaimed Spokesperson for All LGBT Folks™.
Also, because I can't think of a better place to put it, todays soundtrack.
https://daughters.bandcamp.com/album/you-wont-get-what-you-want
Quote from: nullified on November 07, 2019, 11:42:09 PM
Also, because I can't think of a better place to put it, todays soundtrack.
https://daughters.bandcamp.com/album/you-wont-get-what-you-want
A song that has no sound?
I don't know about no sound. If you said "accordions being beaten with nightsticks" I'd admit you had a point, but no sound... no.
Quote from: nullified on November 08, 2019, 01:14:48 AM
I don't know about no sound. If you said "accordions being beaten with nightsticks" I'd admit you had a point, but no sound... no.
I have loaded it 5 times, and it has no sound.
Not sure what the problem is, but it may be related to all the angry Russians in my laptop.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 08, 2019, 01:26:14 AM
Quote from: nullified on November 08, 2019, 01:14:48 AM
I don't know about no sound. If you said "accordions being beaten with nightsticks" I'd admit you had a point, but no sound... no.
I have loaded it 5 times, and it has no sound.
Not sure what the problem is, but it may be related to all the angry Russians in my laptop.
It worked for me. Anyway, here's an alternate link to that song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=534uNzGoR1s
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on November 08, 2019, 01:33:11 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 08, 2019, 01:26:14 AM
Quote from: nullified on November 08, 2019, 01:14:48 AM
I don't know about no sound. If you said "accordions being beaten with nightsticks" I'd admit you had a point, but no sound... no.
I have loaded it 5 times, and it has no sound.
Not sure what the problem is, but it may be related to all the angry Russians in my laptop.
It worked for me. Anyway, here's an alternate link to that song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=534uNzGoR1s
Okay. Either my laptop is broken or God is protecting me from this video.
Less Sex isn't even the best song on the album. No idea why it's the one that got the video. Satan in the Wait, Long Road, No Turns, Daughter and The Reason They Hate Me are all AT LEAST equally good. I think Satan in the Wait is better.
City Song and The Lords Song are acquired tastes, however, and Guest House is legitimately annoying trash.
Just nuked 4,309 pieces of malware, and my speakers work again.
Also this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9mQQpBGCz4&list=RDMMS9mQQpBGCz4&start_radio=1
Not quite fair, because Daughters got /less/ edgy and this happened. But I get it.
Quote from: nullified on November 07, 2019, 11:42:09 PM
Also, because I can't think of a better place to put it, todays soundtrack.
https://daughters.bandcamp.com/album/you-wont-get-what-you-want
That is like having Shinedown do a Tom Waits song.
The vocalist has been described as "drunk methhead Elvis", and I can definitely hear that. I think I like your take better.
It misses the fact that the guitar tone is alien nightmare shit though.
I listened to THIS while helping fix people's security systems today. I was MORE productive.
Quote from: nullified on November 08, 2019, 02:25:05 AM
The vocalist has been described as "drunk methhead Elvis", and I can definitely hear that. I think I like your take better.
It misses the fact that the guitar tone is alien nightmare shit though.
I listened to THIS while helping fix people's security systems today. I was MORE productive.
I listen to Sabaton and Exit Eden at work. Because crash and boom.
I know Sabaton. I'll have to look up Exit Eden.
Quote from: nullified on November 08, 2019, 02:29:12 AM
I know Sabaton. I'll have to look up Exit Eden.
HEY!
HEAVY METAL OPERA LADY GAGA!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Enu3Oy6_L-I
:lulz: I will have to wait until I get off the bus but that sounds like a fucking trip and a half, I'm fucking excited
Quote from: nullified on November 08, 2019, 02:38:01 AM
:lulz: I will have to wait until I get off the bus but that sounds like a fucking trip and a half, I'm fucking excited
Their entire discography is fantastic. They redid "Total Eclipse of the Heart" better than the original, "imcomplete" from the BBB, and even made a Bryan Adams song good. The resulting explosion killed half the population of Thuringia.
Since we're all posting music, here's something from Ningen Isu (Human Chair).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbI79e5iZKs
Verdict on Exit Eden:
Glorious cheese, really high quality musicianship. The vocalist is the WEAKEST member, and that's saying ... well, a lot. I want them to pair up with some pop song writer and release original material: despite my best efforts, covers never stay in my listening rotation.
Ningen Isu:
This is perfect. Cheese quotient low, but still present, with a vocalist who has both a legitimately excellent voice and a completely gimmicky style. The whole thing gives me the feeling of "What if Demilich were Japanese and did power metal instead of aliens pretending to be Finnish who do death metal?" Which is really awesome.
Summary:
Let them join forces. The world would not survive.
Quote from: nullified on November 08, 2019, 03:04:31 AM
Verdict on Exit Eden:
Glorious cheese, really high quality musicianship. The vocalist is the WEAKEST member, and that's saying ... well, a lot. I want them to pair up with some pop song writer and release original material: despite my best efforts, covers never stay in my listening rotation.
Ningen Isu:
This is perfect. Cheese quotient low, but still present, with a vocalist who has both a legitimately excellent voice and a completely gimmicky style. The whole thing gives me the feeling of "What if Demilich were Japanese and did power metal instead of aliens pretending to be Finnish who do death metal?" Which is really awesome.
Summary:
Let them join forces. The world would not survive.
Which vocalist? There are 5.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 07, 2019, 11:40:43 PM
Quote from: kiss my axe on November 07, 2019, 11:22:02 PM
Dok, fb jail again? What happened this time?
I made fun of a self-proclaimed Spokesperson for All LGBT Folks™.
Not fair. Who could resist making fun of THAT???
Quote from: kiss my axe on November 08, 2019, 02:58:27 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 07, 2019, 11:40:43 PM
Quote from: kiss my axe on November 07, 2019, 11:22:02 PM
Dok, fb jail again? What happened this time?
I made fun of a self-proclaimed Spokesperson for All LGBT Folks™.
Not fair. Who could resist making fun of THAT???
IKR? And it wasn't even the full Howl treatment. I just called dude a dumbass.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 08, 2019, 02:10:08 PM
Quote from: nullified on November 08, 2019, 03:04:31 AM
Verdict on Exit Eden:
Glorious cheese, really high quality musicianship. The vocalist is the WEAKEST member, and that's saying ... well, a lot. I want them to pair up with some pop song writer and release original material: despite my best efforts, covers never stay in my listening rotation.
Ningen Isu:
This is perfect. Cheese quotient low, but still present, with a vocalist who has both a legitimately excellent voice and a completely gimmicky style. The whole thing gives me the feeling of "What if Demilich were Japanese and did power metal instead of aliens pretending to be Finnish who do death metal?" Which is really awesome.
Summary:
Let them join forces. The world would not survive.
Which vocalist? There are 5.
Blame the sleep meds, because I sure am.
But all of them. That's not a put-down, because they're up against some incredible musicians there. You'd be hard pressed to find a vocalist who wouldn't be the weakest link.
Quote from: nullified on November 08, 2019, 03:11:12 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 08, 2019, 02:10:08 PM
Quote from: nullified on November 08, 2019, 03:04:31 AM
Verdict on Exit Eden:
Glorious cheese, really high quality musicianship. The vocalist is the WEAKEST member, and that's saying ... well, a lot. I want them to pair up with some pop song writer and release original material: despite my best efforts, covers never stay in my listening rotation.
Ningen Isu:
This is perfect. Cheese quotient low, but still present, with a vocalist who has both a legitimately excellent voice and a completely gimmicky style. The whole thing gives me the feeling of "What if Demilich were Japanese and did power metal instead of aliens pretending to be Finnish who do death metal?" Which is really awesome.
Summary:
Let them join forces. The world would not survive.
Which vocalist? There are 5.
Blame the sleep meds, because I sure am.
But all of them. That's not a put-down, because they're up against some incredible musicians there. You'd be hard pressed to find a vocalist who wouldn't be the weakest link.
Yeah, well, what you have is 4 classically-trained opera singers (One French, one German, one American, one Brazilian, and the bartender says, "is this some kind of JOKE"?, backed up by three crazy Swedes, one of which does the male vocals.
But yes, the musicians are amazing. If you'd told me that got that sound on just three instruments, I'd have laughed.
My legs have been tormenting me more everyday for days on end. Today I broke down after my knees felt like they were dipped in hot metal and bought a cane.
After I bought the cane my legs felt fine until I left work, forgetting the fucking thing, and got on the train. Cue a death march back to the office to grab it.
Then I realized.
I don't know how to use a cane and have the coordination of Surgeon Simulator.
So now I'm fast-limping home with my useless cane hooked on my bag like a fucking moron. I'm pissed.
I'm so sorry, I hope, you feel better soon. I had a not so good day but I don't want to talk about why it was bad. Some days I just don't want to live.
Quote from: nullified on November 09, 2019, 02:36:38 AM
My legs have been tormenting me more everyday for days on end. Today I broke down after my knees felt like they were dipped in hot metal and bought a cane.
I had some pretty painful knee (and hip) problems a few years back. A G.P. at a clinic incorrectly diagnosed it as reactive arthritis, when it appears to have been caused by insufficient exercise, possibly exacerbated by my miswired psychology keeping me in a state of almost continuous physical tension (which puts extra stress on the joints).
The short term solution to my knee problems was a few rounds of physiotherapy (I'm not sure if this is an option for you, currently), which involved a lot of stretching; the long-term solution is doing squats, at least twenty every morning. I started out doing them the way the physiotherapist recommended, hands on the back of a chair, shins kept vertical, down just until my thighs are almost horizontal with the floor. Now I do 'em all the way down, while holding a kettlebell.
If doing a few squats doesn't increase your pain, they may be worth trying.
My issues are definitely NOT related to insufficient exercise. I walk everywhere, carrying my bag (which isn't exactly a military ruck or anything but it weighs enough that after 30 minutes on the move my shoulders hate me).
I also have the funny ADD/ADHD/autism/Tourette's (no one gives the same fucking answer twice but they're all certain it's only the one they call it) thing where I constantly move my limbs even when I'm doing nothing. I doubt it's atrophy.
The issue with the knees is simple: when they are having a fit, bending or straightening them is excruciating. While bending them, they have no ability to support weight so I just immediately fall over, and straightening them while under load is DIFFICULT and leads to unpleasant popping sounds. (I had someone ask me if I stepped on bubble wrap at work. I was standing up out of my seat. It was BAD. That was why I got the cane.)
Result: watch me waddle around the Red Line platform at DTX like a penguin on stilts and navigate stairs like a novice might navigate a challenging mountain climb. Also: I awkwardly have to explain all the time that yeah, I need the extra leg room to straighten my legs all the way out or I will not be able to get up without help. I might need the help anyway.
I wouldn't have thought my problem was atrophy, either (I was walking fairly regularly before my 'extended episode'), but your specific symptoms don't match well with mine, so I shall desist with the 'giving unsolicited advice on the basis of perceived common ground' schtick.
If you ever start randomly getting thigh pain while just sitting there, though....squats.
Having chanced upon an Answer to his Problem, however Specific, he took it as Gospel; and thereafter, upon slightest Provocation, would Preach its Merits to Any and All, counting not their Situation.
Squats.
It's fine, dude. Here, have some really awesome music you can't hear but birds can.
(https://tenor.com/view/ahh-dance-head-bang-parrot-gif-12137905)
ETA: apparently not even birds can hear it :lulz: :lulz: I fucked up
I got a 3 day Dok for calling white trash "white trash" again.
As white trash I find that sort of talk racist.
As human trash i find that discriminating, I already have enough everyday with raccoons harrassing and clawing at me.
Quote from: kiss my axe on November 11, 2019, 06:04:06 AM
I got a 3 day Dok for calling white trash "white trash" again.
I'm pulling 30 for being mean.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 11, 2019, 02:27:24 PM
Quote from: kiss my axe on November 11, 2019, 06:04:06 AM
I got a 3 day Dok for calling white trash "white trash" again.
I'm pulling 30 for being mean.
30?
I need to up my game. :lulz:
Quote from: kiss my axe on November 11, 2019, 10:22:00 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 11, 2019, 02:27:24 PM
Quote from: kiss my axe on November 11, 2019, 06:04:06 AM
I got a 3 day Dok for calling white trash "white trash" again.
I'm pulling 30 for being mean.
30?
I need to up my game. :lulz:
I am the only person I know to have gotten a 90.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 11, 2019, 11:19:06 PM
Quote from: kiss my axe on November 11, 2019, 10:22:00 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 11, 2019, 02:27:24 PM
Quote from: kiss my axe on November 11, 2019, 06:04:06 AM
I got a 3 day Dok for calling white trash "white trash" again.
I'm pulling 30 for being mean.
30?
I need to up my game. :lulz:
I am the only person I know to have gotten a 90.
#goals
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
I'm pretty sure the bots got me on these last two. It was instantaneous and there wasn't even anyone in the thread who disagreed, so I doubt anyone reported it.
Quote from: kiss my axe on November 11, 2019, 11:33:59 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 11, 2019, 11:19:06 PM
Quote from: kiss my axe on November 11, 2019, 10:22:00 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 11, 2019, 02:27:24 PM
Quote from: kiss my axe on November 11, 2019, 06:04:06 AM
I got a 3 day Dok for calling white trash "white trash" again.
I'm pulling 30 for being mean.
30?
I need to up my game. :lulz:
I am the only person I know to have gotten a 90.
#goals
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
I'm pretty sure the bots got me on these last two. It was instantaneous and there wasn't even anyone in the thread who disagreed, so I doubt anyone reported it.
The bots will do that.
I'm doing a long term sub gig rn and I have to give yet another standardized test in the name of data and Jesus fuck, we have things to do.
One day I really need to devise a methodology to show that data-diven tests and information give dimishing returns after a certain point in time.
Like, we've had a data revolution in the past five years, and what has it really done for anyone, in terms of changing their lives? Sweet fuck all.
YEP. I can see their results already and at least two of them, their scores are not matching the output I have seen from them.
This is the downside of dataism. At some point the labels become more important than the content.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 12, 2019, 11:29:56 PM
This is the downside of dataism. At some point the labels become more important than the content.
That's exactly what happening here. The only useful thing it's told me is that they don't know Greek and Latin root words at all and I already knew that.
Because I Facebook is unavailable to me, I have been hunting down stand alone BBSs like the good old days.
And then getting the BANNED FOREBBER page. Like the old days.
If you want entertainment, in 2 days time I am going to be doing charity work.
By which I mean pugging as a tank during the ESO "Undaunted" event. This means hordes of people will be doing group dungeons, usually very badly, in anticipation of extra loot. There will be lots of fake tanks around, and lots of people who do not know what they are doing, hence why this is charity work.
I however, am not a fake tank. I am covered from head to toe in glorious heavy armour. I have taunts, and a shield. I have 42k health and the ability to fight down a dragon with no healer support. I have mastered the art of standing right up in the boss's face and going "lolno". And I will carry the pugs to glorious victory.
Mostly because I need more bloody transmute crystals.
Templar? Stam or mag?
Imperial Dragonknight, hybrid build (with buffs running, 18k magicka, 42k health, 24k stamina). Sword and board on the front, infused frost staff on the back, 5 Ebon, 5 Akaviri Dragonguard, 2 Chudan, all golded out. Pierce Armour, Igneous Shield, Heroic Slash, Absorb Missile, Green Dragon Blood and Magma Shell on the front, Elemental Blockade, Unrelenting Grip, Inner Rage, Blood Altar, Equilibrium and Aggressive Horn on the back.
Cain: Doing gods work
So our software is weak AI, self-training shit.
I am just sitting here for the next 4 hours watching two miniature terminators trying to find better ways to kill each other.
Dok,
At total peace with the universe.
I'm slowly infecting the Emails team with horrible noisy garbage.
I caught someone listening to Daughters the other day. They weren't someone I knew. They got it because of someone I knew.
Also, I claimed I was a Yeti Crab in a meaty suit and got understanding nods.
Heroic charity work cancelled, the servers died (again), so...probably another week of looting plunder skulls :sad:
The servers just know about what happened the LAST time you did "charity" work.
You did more damage than Richter's ass.
Took more damage, you mean. Trust me, I can and have killed dungeon bosses solo (Battle Roar is a dirty, dirty passive and I will abuse the shit out of it by combining it with Magma Shell), but the two hours spent doing it with Heroic Slash/Puncture/Shield Bash/Potion of Heroism over and over and over again...urgh.
I wasn't talking about ESO. I was talking about a certain nonexistent organization's dirty, filthy activities. You scoundrel.
I can neither confirm nor deny these allegations
Neither can Enrico Salazar's third cousin. Anymore, at least.
Just saying.
That's the best kind of plausible deniability - the one where everyone involved is dead, or at least unable to talk again.
[insert Epstein meme here]
It turns out you can use saxophones in the heavy metals.
You can use saxophones in any music ever.
I have heard it with my own ears. From grindcore to trashy electronica to goth shit, saxophones work with everything.
This is Pima County. Where I live.
https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/11/15/20966471/tucson-police-video-amputee-group-home
I read about that last night. A quadrouple amputee? Seriously? What's he going to do? Spit at you? Fucking disgusting. There's no call for that kind of shit.
On a completely different note because I can't address that FUCKING GARBAGE while keeping my phone intact and my ass out of jail...
I was reminded today of the magic of Aldi: a place where you can spend 50 dollars, fully half of that on weird shit that doesn't contribute to basic survival, and still have a week's worth of good food.
I spent 6 dollars on really weird cheese, got some generic energy drink for a buck, bought a goddamn pillow to go with the goddamn blanket (8 dollars), spent 2 dollars on a chocolate bar, 2 on some pop tart knockoffs, 7 on a flatbread pizza that I didn't need, and the remaining food is still a weeks worth.
Also: Cain, I found the red pesto! I'm gonna eat it!
RIP library. So, I put my books in storage and since my new place doesn't have the shelf space, I left them there.
And then, the factory next to the warehouse burned down. And burned down the warehouse along with it. And my library.
I'm currently in the process of claiming my insurance based on my initial booking forms. But still, bleh.
Quote from: Cain on November 17, 2019, 12:08:37 AM
RIP library. So, I put my books in storage and since my new place doesn't have the shelf space, I left them there.
And then, the factory next to the warehouse burned down. And burned down the warehouse along with it. And my library.
I'm currently in the process of claiming my insurance based on my initial booking forms. But still, bleh.
:cry:
Quote from: Cain on November 17, 2019, 12:08:37 AM
RIP library. So, I put my books in storage and since my new place doesn't have the shelf space, I left them there.
And then, the factory next to the warehouse burned down. And burned down the warehouse along with it. And my library.
I'm currently in the process of claiming my insurance based on my initial booking forms. But still, bleh.
:cry: Ill pm you something that might be of use
Quote from: Cain on November 17, 2019, 12:08:37 AM
RIP library. So, I put my books in storage and since my new place doesn't have the shelf space, I left them there.
And then, the factory next to the warehouse burned down. And burned down the warehouse along with it. And my library.
I'm currently in the process of claiming my insurance based on my initial booking forms. But still, bleh.
From someone who has lost 2 physical libraries and 3 digital ones, I feel your pain. Condolences.
At least my digital one is backed up in multiple places. Given its size, I couldn't bear to lose that.
Were you actually going to read the books or did you just keep them safe for the future generations who'd be too hyperactive to even watch a movie?
Quote from: Cain on November 17, 2019, 12:08:37 AM
RIP library. So, I put my books in storage and since my new place doesn't have the shelf space, I left them there.
And then, the factory next to the warehouse burned down. And burned down the warehouse along with it. And my library.
I'm currently in the process of claiming my insurance based on my initial booking forms. But still, bleh.
OOF, that's a DAMN SHAME -- If my books failed a saving throw, I'd be devastated. Good luck recouping losses.
Quote from: Frontside Back on November 17, 2019, 08:31:45 PM
Were you actually going to read the books or did you just keep them safe for the future generations who'd be too hyperactive to even watch a movie?
Some of them were actually useful. It was mostly my physical academic texts, so things like "Political Terrorism" or...well, lots of books with variations on terrorism in the title.
Quote from: Cramulus on November 17, 2019, 08:46:26 PM
OOF, that's a DAMN SHAME -- If my books failed a saving throw, I'd be devastated. Good luck recouping losses.
Thanks. The company so far seems pretty good about keeping in touch and letting people know what's going on - perhaps because it wasn't their fault, and having all our claims will bolster their own insurance claims against the factory. It helps that they're not being adversarial about it, so far.
Quote from: Cain on November 17, 2019, 12:08:37 AM
RIP library. So, I put my books in storage and since my new place doesn't have the shelf space, I left them there.
And then, the factory next to the warehouse burned down. And burned down the warehouse along with it. And my library.
I'm currently in the process of claiming my insurance based on my initial booking forms. But still, bleh.
I don't know how I missed this.
Have you fought the responsible party yet? Have you looked them in the eye and called them a jackass? Have you set THEIR library on fire?
In other news: guess who MIGHT not be homeless anymore!
I'm probably jumping the gun but we bought drinks and a small order of fries for a five minute conversation (we all had work tomorrow and had been up WAY too late the night before) that ended up being an hour and a half of geeking out over bugs, podcasts, and The Thing.
Quote from: nullified on November 17, 2019, 09:10:38 PM
Quote from: Cain on November 17, 2019, 12:08:37 AM
RIP library. So, I put my books in storage and since my new place doesn't have the shelf space, I left them there.
And then, the factory next to the warehouse burned down. And burned down the warehouse along with it. And my library.
I'm currently in the process of claiming my insurance based on my initial booking forms. But still, bleh.
I don't know how I missed this.
Have you fought the responsible party yet? Have you looked them in the eye and called them a jackass? Have you set THEIR library on fire?
I think given their factory caught on fire, setting anything else on fire might be obsolete.
The fire was even big enough to get some news coverage https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-50375809
Quote from: Cain on November 17, 2019, 12:08:37 AM
RIP library. So, I put my books in storage and since my new place doesn't have the shelf space, I left them there.
And then, the factory next to the warehouse burned down. And burned down the warehouse along with it. And my library.
I'm currently in the process of claiming my insurance based on my initial booking forms. But still, bleh.
Shit. I hope you at least didn't lose anything that was irreplaceable, or heirloom, or anything.
Sorry to hear about your library, Cain. I hope that your efforts to build it back up again don't put you on any more government watch lists.
Quote from: nullified on November 18, 2019, 04:34:27 AM
In other news: guess who MIGHT not be homeless anymore!
I'm probably jumping the gun but we bought drinks and a small order of fries for a five minute conversation (we all had work tomorrow and had been up WAY too late the night before) that ended up being an hour and a half of geeking out over bugs, podcasts, and The Thing.
YAY! I hope.
I’ve been trying to figure out whether “restrained manic glee” is an actual emotion or not, because if it is, that’s what I’m experiencing. Can’t get too hyped BUT IT’S PROMISING and I AM TOTALLY READY TO GO APESHIT ON THE CALL CENTER FLOOR
Edit: I said floot originally instead of floor :lulz:
Festive!
https://www.shinesty.com/products/santapede-christmas-sweater?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=&utm_campaign=g-us-shopping-smart-xmas&utm_content=388333647026&gclid=Cj0KCQiAn8nuBRCzARIsAJcdIfPFNIAjpyaNOgJHDwWgaplV7Skm2mIYqGXp-a6PXeyhLJvUECJuBREaAuFwEALw_wcB&fbclid=IwAR2AZ9xdkrqcIKPrUFfA0uY7ThJEI1XG29H-zedC28KfHBZ9Pkc6IXuNhwQ
EDIT: NSFW
~ Howl
Today I saw something amazing.
I boarded the train, and it was nearly empty. A tiny man boarded with me, and no one else.
This man knew where to sit. He spotted a space of five seats, and sat exactly in the center of it.
Result: four empty seats, no one sitting in them, the train filling up further and further, and our protagonist (certainly not me!) having plenty of elbow room.
But he got his at Haymarket, where he ended up being the only person on the train sitting next to anyone else, and he had TWO of them.
I don't know if there's a moral, but there's certainly a narrative.
Quote from: nullified on November 19, 2019, 03:53:57 PM
Today I saw something amazing.
I boarded the train, and it was nearly empty. A tiny man boarded with me, and no one else.
This man knew where to sit. He spotted a space of five seats, and sat exactly in the center of it.
Result: four empty seats, no one sitting in them, the train filling up further and further, and our protagonist (certainly not me!) having plenty of elbow room.
But he got his at Haymarket, where he ended up being the only person on the train sitting next to anyone else, and he had TWO of them.
I don't know if there's a moral, but there's certainly a narrative.
The moral is to always sit on the end.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 19, 2019, 03:54:51 PM
Quote from: nullified on November 19, 2019, 03:53:57 PM
Today I saw something amazing.
I boarded the train, and it was nearly empty. A tiny man boarded with me, and no one else.
This man knew where to sit. He spotted a space of five seats, and sat exactly in the center of it.
Result: four empty seats, no one sitting in them, the train filling up further and further, and our protagonist (certainly not me!) having plenty of elbow room.
But he got his at Haymarket, where he ended up being the only person on the train sitting next to anyone else, and he had TWO of them.
I don't know if there's a moral, but there's certainly a narrative.
The moral is to always sit on the end.
Glad to know I don't have any learning to do there :lulz:
This is why I always carry a good sized backpack on the train. Oh what a shame, my bag is so large and heavy, I will have to take it off and put it on the seat next to me, as it certainly won't fit under the seat or in the overhead storage.
There isn't any under the seat or overhead storage on the MBTA. It's seats and floorspace and sorrow.
Quote from: Cain on November 19, 2019, 03:57:02 PM
This is why I always carry a good sized backpack on the train. Oh what a shame, my bag is so large and heavy, I will have to take it off and put it on the seat next to me, as it certainly won't fit under the seat or in the overhead storage.
Oops, I accidentally spilled my coffee all over your backpack as I stepped off the train.
Quote from: nullified on November 19, 2019, 04:00:02 PM
There isn't any under the seat or overhead storage on the MBTA. It's seats and floorspace and sorrow.
Ah, so like the tube but with less random bombings.
Quote from: LMNO on November 19, 2019, 04:07:01 PM
Oops, I accidentally spilled my coffee all over your backpack as I stepped off the train.
That's fine, it's a hiking rucksack.
Quote from: nullified on November 19, 2019, 04:00:02 PM
There isn't any under the seat or overhead storage on the MBTA. It's seats and floorspace and sorrow.
And stops that don't actually exist. South Attelborough, for example.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 19, 2019, 04:29:45 PM
Quote from: nullified on November 19, 2019, 04:00:02 PM
There isn't any under the seat or overhead storage on the MBTA. It's seats and floorspace and sorrow.
And stops that don't actually exist. South Attelborough, for example.
Everyone swears that the orange line used to have a stop at Government Center.
It does not and has never. I checked. It's crazy.
Quote from: nullified on November 19, 2019, 05:22:01 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 19, 2019, 04:29:45 PM
Quote from: nullified on November 19, 2019, 04:00:02 PM
There isn't any under the seat or overhead storage on the MBTA. It's seats and floorspace and sorrow.
And stops that don't actually exist. South Attelborough, for example.
Everyone swears that the orange line used to have a stop at Government Center.
It does not and has never. I checked. It's crazy.
Scollay Square will not allow itself to be remembered in records. Outside of wikepedia. And even then they don't say what happened to everyone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scollay_Square
It is worth mentioning that your friends are remembering things that happened 70 years ago, for what it is worth.
https://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php/topic,33775.msg1325704.html#msg1325704
Molasses won't affect my rucksack either.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 19, 2019, 05:32:02 PM
Quote from: nullified on November 19, 2019, 05:22:01 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 19, 2019, 04:29:45 PM
Quote from: nullified on November 19, 2019, 04:00:02 PM
There isn't any under the seat or overhead storage on the MBTA. It's seats and floorspace and sorrow.
And stops that don't actually exist. South Attelborough, for example.
Everyone swears that the orange line used to have a stop at Government Center.
It does not and has never. I checked. It's crazy.
Scollay Square will not allow itself to be remembered in records. Outside of wikepedia. And even then they don't say what happened to everyone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scollay_Square
It is worth mentioning that your friends are remembering things that happened 70 years ago, for what it is worth.
That's a hole in causality the size of downtown Boston, and older than almost anyone I know. Jesus.
Quote from: LMNO on November 19, 2019, 05:44:33 PM
https://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php/topic,33775.msg1325704.html#msg1325704
This is the bit:
QuoteThis went on until one night on June 20, 1961. Screams were heard coming from the theater, and passerby smelled smoke. The alarm was raised, and fire crews rushed to the scene. The fire was small, and produced quite a lot of smoke, but was able to be contained relatively quickly. The emergency crews appeared shaken, however, and when police arrived, they immediately cleared the square. Though the fire was small, and didn't do much structural damage, it was quickly ordered condemned and was razed to the ground within a week.
On a related note, the Church of the Covenant in Copley Square, not too far away, worked closely with the Avon Home, a Cambridge orphanage. On June 21, 1961, seventy-three orphans were recorded as having been admitted to the Avon Home, the largest single admittance in their history. All of the children were reported to be malnourished and suffering greatly from a great variety of physical and mental trauma.
20,000 people picked up and moved, or were moved, and 73 kids landed in an orphanage the next day (hardly surprising, as some slum occupants could hardly afford to move a family).
All this for a fire in one building?
I am not saying that a certain New Yorker is involved, but
First of all:
This information has not made my life better, but it has made it weirder.
Secondly:
QGP is entirely to blame for me getting hyped over Brussels sprouts.
ETA: seriously, they were the best part of my lunch. Brussels sprouts made properly are a fucking gift to humanity that we do not deserve. And Brussels sprouts made improperly are horrifying, sad, punishment for our sins, proof of the inevitable doom of our species.
Quote from: nullified on November 19, 2019, 09:16:30 PM
First of all:
This information has not made my life better, but it has made it weirder.
Secondly:
QGP is entirely to blame for me getting hyped over Brussels sprouts.
ETA: seriously, they were the best part of my lunch. Brussels sprouts made properly are a fucking gift to humanity that we do not deserve. And Brussels sprouts made improperly are horrifying, sad, punishment for our sins, proof of the inevitable doom of our species.
"Made properly" = burned to a cinder and give a decent burial.
If they aren't burnt they were cooked wrong! Also, it's important the insides got cooked too or you just made everyone excited then kicked them in the teeth. With sad flavor.
I see no mention of being drowned in gravy so it's still being done wrong.
Drowned in honey and chili oil, in this case.
Just enough Brussels sprouts flavor to make it worth using them as the vehicle for spicy sweetness, otherwise just use potatoes you heathens.
Okay, I cannot tell if dude in the waiting room is a bot or not, Cain.
Checked and yeeted
It was one of those "more fun than you really wanted" kind of days. I first realized something might be somewhat wrong when my ass exploded like a pressurized gas canister that someone knocked the valve off of.
I ended up applying PTO and leaving early. When you feel the force levitating you off the toilet, work is over for the day. A hospital trip would be in the cards, but I have work tomorrow, 2100 dollars for housing to raise somehow, and I've dealt with worse.
Quote from: nullified on November 20, 2019, 01:06:33 AM
It was one of those "more fun than you really wanted" kind of days. I first realized something might be somewhat wrong when my ass exploded like a pressurized gas canister that someone knocked the valve off of.
I ended up applying PTO and leaving early. When you feel the force levitating you off the toilet, work is over for the day. A hospital trip would be in the cards, but I have work tomorrow, 2100 dollars for housing to raise somehow, and I've dealt with worse.
You're turning into me, you know.
Pretty soon you won't bother taking PTO.
I need the money. If I didn't, I'd say "fuck it".
Quote from: nullified on November 20, 2019, 01:15:56 AM
I need the money. If I didn't, I'd say "fuck it".
Naw, I mean you'd stay at work and traumatize your coworkers.
Oh, fuck that. We're all CS drones for a security company. We've got enough collective trauma to fill an ER.
Also, I wouldn't want to do that to the janitorial staff. They deserve better.
Quote from: nullified on November 20, 2019, 01:24:35 AM
Oh, fuck that. We're all CS drones for a security company. We've got enough collective trauma to fill an ER.
Also, I wouldn't want to do that to the janitorial staff. They deserve better.
When I was at the chemical plant, there was a plumber that would curse at me every time he saw me.
:lulz: I don’t aspire to that here, because our cleaning staff don’t work for the company, only the building.
If I had taken that government job that paid pennies, though, you bet my ass that I’d be striving to see how many people I could get to quit on the strength of stink alone.
Bonus points if someone had the toilet back up on them due to a “discourtesy flush”. Ah, what might have been.
ETA: also, given the food they bring us at work, the results might get me fired under the Geneva Convention.
Intestinal distress is a given with Jamaican food. But if you already HAVE intestinal distress before you dig into that amazing goat curry, they have to evacuate the premises and send in a decontamination team.
ETA 2: in other news, “more fun than you really wanted” day continues with some of our greatest hits: tripping up the stairs, missing the pillow and smashing your head into hard wooden things, and that all time classic, hitting your elbow on the doorframe. Let’s take it from the top!
Quote from: nullified on November 20, 2019, 01:37:21 AM
ETA 2: in other news, "more fun than you really wanted" day continues with some of our greatest hits: tripping up the stairs, missing the pillow and smashing your head into hard wooden things, and that all time classic, hitting your elbow on the doorframe. Let's take it from the top!
That's just God punishing you for your brussel sprouts addiction.
I don't know why she'd bother punishing me for that. I have far worse failings, like my addiction to third rate nu metal bands or my deep occult knowledge of birds.
Even those aren't all that bad though. The real reason God needs to come after me is my knowledge of how security systems work.
The fact is, I have learned too much and if you ever want to know about it you'll have to go somewhere else. They put a tiny giraffe in my stomach and every time it notices me spilling the company secrets it bites a hole in my spleen so I die of internal bleeding. I wish to god I was joking. Oh fuck the tiny giraffe is also a company secret someone please get this tiny giraffe out of my stomach before it wakes up and notices I've told the secrets
The waiting room is full of Viagra salesmen.
ARE YOU PEOPLE INSANE? WE HAVE ENOUGH PROBLEMS!
:fursecution:
Goddamn, another one.
How many fucking Viagra users are there to warrant this kind of effort?
Well I've already banned four today so...at least five?
I am going to look into the stopforumspam thing this weekend, last weekend was a run around but I should get a while to take a look at it then. It's persistent and annoying.
It's an annoyance, mostly because I kind of have to leave all the intake business to Cain, whom I imagine has other things that need doing.
But in your own time, Faust, as it is only an annoyance.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 20, 2019, 01:59:42 AM
Quote from: nullified on November 20, 2019, 01:37:21 AM
ETA 2: in other news, "more fun than you really wanted" day continues with some of our greatest hits: tripping up the stairs, missing the pillow and smashing your head into hard wooden things, and that all time classic, hitting your elbow on the doorframe. Let's take it from the top!
That's just God punishing you for your brussel sprouts addiction.
I'm making brussel sprouts tonight. This should be fun.
Quote from: Hoopla! on November 20, 2019, 10:45:34 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 20, 2019, 01:59:42 AM
Quote from: nullified on November 20, 2019, 01:37:21 AM
ETA 2: in other news, "more fun than you really wanted" day continues with some of our greatest hits: tripping up the stairs, missing the pillow and smashing your head into hard wooden things, and that all time classic, hitting your elbow on the doorframe. Let's take it from the top!
That's just God punishing you for your brussel sprouts addiction.
I'm making brussel sprouts tonight. This should be fun.
And then Toronto got the fist o' god.
We'll hear the crack from Boston. It might drown out the hellscreeching of the Green Line.
Quote from: nullified on November 20, 2019, 11:01:47 PM
We'll hear the crack from Boston. It might drown out the hellscreeching of the Green Line.
So we're just gonna all sit here and pretend the purple line isn't the problem?
WHICH PURPLE LINE???
There are at least twenty!
Quote from: nullified on November 20, 2019, 11:04:04 PM
WHICH PURPLE LINE???
There are at least twenty!
The one that goes to Providence. For some reason.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 20, 2019, 10:41:03 PM
It's an annoyance, mostly because I kind of have to leave all the intake business to Cain, whom I imagine has other things that need doing.
But in your own time, Faust, as it is only an annoyance.
Instead of deleting them, banning them works too, if its @viagraspam.com or something can ban with rule *@viagraspam and that will stop any more from there
Quote from: Faust on November 20, 2019, 11:50:35 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 20, 2019, 10:41:03 PM
It's an annoyance, mostly because I kind of have to leave all the intake business to Cain, whom I imagine has other things that need doing.
But in your own time, Faust, as it is only an annoyance.
Instead of deleting them, banning them works too, if its @viagraspam.com or something can ban with rule *@viagraspam and that will stop any more from there
Point.
Someone showed me something I didn't want.
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0ZqG9GUsIi5e3PtwSkcsft22g
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0biA2kkWN3UXfjjwVxIZibbSw
Edited to add context so all of you can fucking suffer with me
Quote from: nullified on November 21, 2019, 02:09:59 AM
Someone showed me something I didn't want.
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0ZqG9GUsIi5e3PtwSkcsft22g
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0biA2kkWN3UXfjjwVxIZibbSw
Edited to add context so all of you can fucking suffer with me
Again, you are turning into me.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 21, 2019, 02:22:44 AM
Quote from: nullified on November 21, 2019, 02:09:59 AM
Someone showed me something I didn't want.
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0ZqG9GUsIi5e3PtwSkcsft22g
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0biA2kkWN3UXfjjwVxIZibbSw
Edited to add context so all of you can fucking suffer with me
Again, you are turning into me.
THERE ARE WORSE FATES BUT THEY DONT COME WITH CHOLERA
Quote from: nullified on November 21, 2019, 02:24:12 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 21, 2019, 02:22:44 AM
Quote from: nullified on November 21, 2019, 02:09:59 AM
Someone showed me something I didn't want.
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0ZqG9GUsIi5e3PtwSkcsft22g
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0biA2kkWN3UXfjjwVxIZibbSw
Edited to add context so all of you can fucking suffer with me
Again, you are turning into me.
THERE ARE WORSE FATES BUT THEY DONT COME WITH CHOLERA
:lulz:
I really am turning into you, I’m walking in the rain with my ID badge STILL ON, stiff gait, posture like I have a secret and a gun and you’re getting both of them, manic fixed grin plastered on my face like a bad special effect
Edit: I really should have noticed the grin when no one would meet my eyes on the train but instead it took until my face hurt
I'm about to sleep but FIRST!!!!!!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cqa4_YuQQV8
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0vstF8laYrs
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPIzzY6MZRY
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F6EUNKvnqUE
ENJOY MY BRAINDAMAGE SOUNDTRACK I HAVE TO BE PASSED OUT 20 MINUTES AGO
Edit because I missed the most important one
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RZJkRVZbgXg
Stumbo gonna step on the human race good night
Quote from: nullified on November 21, 2019, 02:53:38 AM
I really am turning into you, I'm walking in the rain with my ID badge STILL ON, stiff gait, posture like I have a secret and a gun and you're getting both of them, manic fixed grin plastered on my face like a bad special effect
Edit: I really should have noticed the grin when no one would meet my eyes on the train but instead it took until my face hurt
After a while, your face stops hurting.
So, after taking a couple weeks off because I had a sore throat, today I went for another walk down by the river bank during my lunch break. There was a warm spell a couple days ago, so there are icy patches everywhere, and, naturally, I slip and fall on my butt, and skin my right elbow in the process.
Wait, that doesn't make sense.
It's winter. I'm wearing a long sleeved shirt, and a medium-weight wool coat over that. Neither show any sign of damage in the vicinity of my elbow. I mean, nothing. No rip, no tear, no signs of wear, not even an indication that the fibers were slightly compressed. However did I manage to skin my elbow through my coat?
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on November 21, 2019, 04:32:38 AM
So, after taking a couple weeks off because I had a sore throat, today I went for another walk down by the river bank during my lunch break. There was a warm spell a couple days ago, so there are icy patches everywhere, and, naturally, I slip and fall on my butt, and skin my right elbow in the process.
Wait, that doesn't make sense.
It's winter. I'm wearing a long sleeved shirt, and a medium-weight wool coat over that. Neither show any sign of damage in the vicinity of my elbow. I mean, nothing. No rip, no tear, no signs of wear, not even an indication that the fibers were slightly compressed. However did I manage to skin my elbow through my coat?
The fabric of reality is wearing thin. The fabric of your coat is definitely going to become questionable at some point.
Speaking of reality, I somehow missed the fact that Gene Ray died.
Sweet fucking Jesus, am I glad it's Thanksgiving break.
I tend to celebrate thanksgiving by getting drunk and yelling at the beneficiaries of "white privilege" over the internet, I plan to shift gears this holiday season.
EDIT: WHY CAN'T YOU JUST BE HAPPY AND EAT TURKEY?! WHY IS THIS EVEN A THING!?
I suppose it's different when black people celebrate it, so I'm ok with that, just, confused why they're celebrating it but hey, everyone gets to feast, so let's be happy.
That's different from white people acting like it was some kind of celebratory feast, I mean, hey, ok, so it was good, where'd them natives go? Smallpox blankets? Oh, psht, right, you whiteys fucked that one up. Must've gotten some part of near-genocide right though.
I look at it as an excuse to eat pumpkin pie and cranberry sauce. We don't really go all out. I'm just glad not to be at work rn
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TL;DR: I took the road less traveled by, and almost fell off.
Yoink?
Yoink at will.
Aftermath: My shin didn't turn purple after all, just yellowish. Still hurts a little under load. Bone bruise, maybe?
I'm going to see if I can work up the nerve to retrace my steps, assuming I can find that path again. I've been having a bad month, brain-wise, and feel like I should be doing something to fight back.
(https://i.imgur.com/ncn4iua.jpg)
That is an excellent choice of picture. :)
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on December 02, 2019, 01:22:13 PM
That is an excellent choice of picture. :)
It's a bunch of images smashed together, but I'm really happy with the final result and I'm really glad you like it!