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Principia Discordia => Two vast and trunkless legs of stone => Topic started by: Junkenstein on July 09, 2020, 06:38:37 PM

Title: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Junkenstein on July 09, 2020, 06:38:37 PM
Bolsanoro commemorative edition
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: LMNO on July 09, 2020, 06:43:26 PM
Open bar: Chloroquine on tap.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on July 09, 2020, 06:51:29 PM
Quote from: LMNO on July 09, 2020, 06:43:26 PM
Open bar: Chloroquine on tap.

:argh!:

I just suggested that!  But mine had Hydroxy.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Johnny on July 09, 2020, 11:20:34 PM

Open Bar: Wuhan Bat and Pangolin Buffet Tuesdays
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: axod on July 09, 2020, 11:33:35 PM
Open Bar: Bats and Tonic
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on July 10, 2020, 01:12:21 AM
Open Bar: It's 2020 and all we have left is cheap rail gin.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Johnny on July 10, 2020, 01:59:15 AM

Open Bar: God-Emperor Kanye and the 5G Towers
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 10, 2020, 07:29:25 AM
Open Bar: nothing imaginable is worse than what will happen
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Brother Flight Risk on July 10, 2020, 11:03:34 AM
Open Bar: Please Drink The Hand Sanitiser Provided and Wipe Your Feet On The Way Out
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on July 10, 2020, 01:16:09 PM
Open Bar: please sit 6+ feet away from me
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 10, 2020, 03:15:48 PM
Done.  Cain, if you had a better idea, go ahead and put a wrench on this thing.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on July 10, 2020, 03:41:16 PM
Nah, I'm good with this. I was struggling with making a choice myself - there were a lot of good suggestions!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 10, 2020, 09:42:23 PM
75% done with the fire recovery.  I have cables strung all over the fucking place and plastic sheeting everywhere.  Looks like the repair scene in Brazil.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Junkenstein on July 10, 2020, 09:55:19 PM
9 hour drive for a funeral. Duration - 20 mins.

While away, and right in the middle of it, junkenwife breaks her leg back at home. So that was a fun drive back.

Without the 12 person limit, she would have attended so at this point I'm holding Johnson and sturgeon jointly responsible for this entire shitshow.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 10, 2020, 11:42:37 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on July 10, 2020, 09:55:19 PM
9 hour drive for a funeral. Duration - 20 mins.

While away, and right in the middle of it, junkenwife breaks her leg back at home. So that was a fun drive back.

Without the 12 person limit, she would have attended so at this point I'm holding Johnson and sturgeon jointly responsible for this entire shitshow.

She'd have just fallen into the hole.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 11, 2020, 05:00:46 AM
I have been largely inaccessible for two days for two reasons. First, some background.

Instead of:

A giant theoretically super-powered laptop that weighs 20 lbs and has a power brick fit to flatten an engine block that doesn't consistently boot due to a bum GPU
And
A sleek thin laptop that barely was able to run Google Docs and now cannot connect to the internet for unknown reasons and has no battery

I have:

A sleek thin super-powered laptop that works 100% of the time after I got all the drivers up to speed
And
A second-hand Microsoft Surface Pro 4 that is just about perfect for everything necessary for professional work and not powerful enough to offer compelling distractions. (Also, has a battery and connects to the internet.)

So there's two things going on now due to this change in accessible technology.

First: I'm working on some stuff a friend had suggested to me, but it's one of those "tons of one-time prep work and then you can do things that make a small amount of money for a small amount of effort" deals. Well worthwhile since I can't look for work until near the end of the month.

This involves separating the two machines into work and life machines. Clearly the convertible tablet with the nifty knock-off Pelican case and rifle sling is my work machine, because the other laptop can play Resident Evil 7. So I'm doing the download/install/configure dance right now on them both, which doesn't leave much time for chatting.

EDIT: Posted early, whoops.

To continue: the second thing is that I'm preparing for my travel to Chicago by arranging things into "carry-on-able", "shippable", and "oh fuck me what do I do with this".

This may seem premature, but consider that I realized early on that it would be impossible to ship OR carry-on a significant portion of non-clothes/electronics, and had to get my current host to make an Amazon purchase for me (repaid, he has PayPal) for a different, larger second backpack.

(Yes, I have two backpacks. I need to carry one or the other often but rarely both. It makes sense in action and incidentally helps me carry more of my stupid garbage on an airplane.)

So between those and all the bottom-tier ungraded nonsense that pops up at random, my schedule is packed. Apologies folks.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 11, 2020, 07:54:28 AM
Regarding the process of configuration and what not, I have irreparably turned the Surface Pro into a no fun allowed zone by changing the system font to Fixedsys Exclesior. :lulz:

More tomorrow. It's horrifying.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on July 11, 2020, 01:15:50 PM
Pretty understandable, IMO. Well, except Fixedsys Excelsior, because seriously wtf
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 11, 2020, 03:41:29 PM
Quote from: Cain on July 11, 2020, 01:15:50 PM
Pretty understandable, IMO. Well, except Fixedsys Excelsior, because seriously wtf

:lulz: I don't know why I did it but now I can't change it back
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on July 11, 2020, 03:42:28 PM
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Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 11, 2020, 03:45:42 PM
like I said, strictly no fun allowed

:lulz: i cant stop cackling at it, LOOK AT THE CLOCK
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 11, 2020, 05:04:36 PM
I think it works even better in the full context of its environment, to be fair

Again, this was a gift, I'm not (ok, not ENTIRELY) to blame for this shit, but I'll tell you now I have no regrets abt it either
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Ari on July 12, 2020, 01:22:16 PM
"this is all normal"

so my endo lost their license to treat "normies" that can't pay out of their own pockets. no new prescription for me till possibly september.
one fourty eight hour panic attack later i am able to convince my therapist that he is gonna fix me up on monday so i don't cash out. i had this problem before; and the results are not something i am willing to put up with again.

same time a root canal goes full tits up. good ol' friday affternoon one sided hamster face; going to the emergency dentist the next day to get my gum lanced cause the goddess knows i needed more pain in my life so i finally understand something i still dont understand; i never knew one can have a panic attack while already having a panic attack? i am really sorry for spitting blood and puss at these people who were just "on call" that weekend. maybe they learnt what i didn't? it's been all kinds of fucked.

relationships are crumbling left and right cause apparently i am only worth-while company when i can provide useful mad science stuff and help others sort out their shit: it's always too difficult to deal with "my erratic nonsense" --- yeah thanks.

it's the middle of the month. my landlord is soon gonna show up and ask why i didn't pay rent yet; i will hand in the cancellation papers for the contract when he does. it's the paper i have and can legally print myself. it's not gonna be much of a home soon anyways, when they turn off the power, and then the internet. it's time to leave this place.
anywhere but here, will be an improvement.


this is gonna be an amazing summer. maybe i'll even see autumn to celebrate my two year mark.
for the time being; i gotta focus on possible survival options - and maybe turn some of this shit into words.


this is all normal, eh?


i am tired.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: minuspace on July 12, 2020, 10:18:08 PM
Quote from: altered on July 11, 2020, 05:04:36 PM
I think it works even better in the full context of its environment, to be fair

Again, this was a gift, I'm not (ok, not ENTIRELY) to blame for this shit, but I'll tell you now I have no regrets abt it either


I mean, I did hear people /were/ dedicated to fruityloops... that's some serious legacy shit.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 12, 2020, 10:39:49 PM
Quote from: minuspace on July 12, 2020, 10:18:08 PM
Quote from: altered on July 11, 2020, 05:04:36 PM
I think it works even better in the full context of its environment, to be fair

Again, this was a gift, I'm not (ok, not ENTIRELY) to blame for this shit, but I'll tell you now I have no regrets abt it either


I mean, I did hear people /were/ dedicated to fruityloops... that's some serious legacy shit.

Shut the fuck up, you small-dicked lozenge-brained little man. I didn't ask, and no one fucking else did either. You're as welcome as syphilis and come with less pleasant neurological symptoms in your victims. Your every post serves only to remind me that I despise you and want to take a juicy dump on everything you do until you go the fuck away.

Go lick a church doorknob and wash it down with some of whatever strange elixir makes your brain this shriveled.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 13, 2020, 01:14:28 AM
Quote from: altered on July 12, 2020, 10:39:49 PM
Quote from: minuspace on July 12, 2020, 10:18:08 PM
Quote from: altered on July 11, 2020, 05:04:36 PM
I think it works even better in the full context of its environment, to be fair

Again, this was a gift, I'm not (ok, not ENTIRELY) to blame for this shit, but I'll tell you now I have no regrets abt it either


I mean, I did hear people /were/ dedicated to fruityloops... that's some serious legacy shit.

Shut the fuck up, you small-dicked lozenge-brained little man. I didn't ask, and no one fucking else did either. You're as welcome as syphilis and come with less pleasant neurological symptoms in your victims. Your every post serves only to remind me that I despise you and want to take a juicy dump on everything you do until you go the fuck away.

Go lick a church doorknob and wash it down with some of whatever strange elixir makes your brain this shriveled.

I approve of this sort of losing of shit.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 13, 2020, 02:00:07 AM
 :lulz:

You might be surprised to learn that I'm in a damned fine mood. I have a fucking future and the mental capacity to plan things over a month out in the future!

All the more reason to push a token amount of that energy into shitting on LuciferX when he decides he can pretend like he didn't threaten me with fake gangsters and Clarence.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 13, 2020, 03:13:56 AM
Quote from: altered on July 13, 2020, 02:00:07 AM
:lulz:

You might be surprised to learn that I'm in a damned fine mood. I have a fucking future and the mental capacity to plan things over a month out in the future!

All the more reason to push a token amount of that energy into shitting on LuciferX when he decides he can pretend like he didn't threaten me with fake gangsters and Clarence.

Fucking Clarence.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 13, 2020, 03:14:30 AM
Quote from: Ari on July 12, 2020, 01:22:16 PM
"this is all normal"

so my endo lost their license to treat "normies" that can't pay out of their own pockets. no new prescription for me till possibly september.
one fourty eight hour panic attack later i am able to convince my therapist that he is gonna fix me up on monday so i don't cash out. i had this problem before; and the results are not something i am willing to put up with again.

same time a root canal goes full tits up. good ol' friday affternoon one sided hamster face; going to the emergency dentist the next day to get my gum lanced cause the goddess knows i needed more pain in my life so i finally understand something i still dont understand; i never knew one can have a panic attack while already having a panic attack? i am really sorry for spitting blood and puss at these people who were just "on call" that weekend. maybe they learnt what i didn't? it's been all kinds of fucked.

relationships are crumbling left and right cause apparently i am only worth-while company when i can provide useful mad science stuff and help others sort out their shit: it's always too difficult to deal with "my erratic nonsense" --- yeah thanks.

it's the middle of the month. my landlord is soon gonna show up and ask why i didn't pay rent yet; i will hand in the cancellation papers for the contract when he does. it's the paper i have and can legally print myself. it's not gonna be much of a home soon anyways, when they turn off the power, and then the internet. it's time to leave this place.
anywhere but here, will be an improvement.


this is gonna be an amazing summer. maybe i'll even see autumn to celebrate my two year mark.
for the time being; i gotta focus on possible survival options - and maybe turn some of this shit into words.


this is all normal, eh?


i am tired.

This is in fact all normal.  It's the post-American century
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 13, 2020, 04:41:37 AM
For Ari,

All I can say for all of that is that not only is Howl right, but that there is no bottom to the awful, and it's all normal down there too.

Fight to keep your footing. A slight slip can mean free fall, and it sounds like you've alienated your support network the way I have in the past. It IS recoverable, but move fast and give up on having pride. Pride is for people, you and I have to be worms for now: vulnerable and disgusting.

(Also, Pride as in last month has become a ridiculous, cartoonish display of respectability politics and corporate sponsorship, so fuck that kind too.)

Don't end up like me. Let go of your pride fast, learn to kiss ass, and use the time you just bought for yourself by doing so to do some SERIOUS soul searching on the relative importance of your various physical health issues and REALLY HARD work on your personal brain shit. It sucks, but you need to be palatable to others to keep your feet under you in this world and there are trade offs you will need to make on your healthcare. I wish it wasn't that way. But it is.

I'm speaking from a decade of homelessness, largely spent on this very forum. Please listen to me when I say all of this is recoverable, but that it can quickly become beyond recovery if you don't salvage connections or forge new ones, and fast.

I spent time trying to think of how best to balance writing this in terms of urgency versus sympathy, but the cold facts are that every minute is a risk for you now, and you will not get out without making that network and working on your brain. Cannot get out. It is impossible for you to do it on your own, and it's impossible for others to give you stability if your brain is shaped for a different, kinder world rather than our current hellscape. This work is mandatory.

Do the work, do it fast, do not spend time mulling over mistakes, just move point to point and build a support network. Nothing else can ensure your safety, and you need it, you need it, I can't stress it enough.

I can't give you any other advice until and unless it is too late and you're in the same fucking pit I've been in. Don't let me give you any other advice.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: minuspace on July 13, 2020, 04:52:24 AM
Quote from: altered on July 13, 2020, 02:00:07 AM
:lulz:

You might be surprised to learn that I'm in a damned fine mood. I have a fucking future and the mental capacity to plan things over a month out in the future!

All the more reason to push a token amount of that energy into shitting on LuciferX when he decides he can pretend like he didn't threaten me with fake gangsters and Clarence.


Look, you can be as pretentious as you want. It will never make up for frootyloops. There is no defensible reason to excuse that behaviour.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 13, 2020, 05:03:28 AM
Again, nobody fucking asked you. Not one fucking person even hinted at asking you. Instead, I'm going to give you a number of suggestions you can do instead of being here, you tiny moron fuck.

Change your password to a keyboard smash and log out.
Live in a dumpster.
Fist-fight a brown bear.
Cut your power cable.
Purchase and race a combine harvester.
Set your computer on fire (be sure to use a magnesium firestarter).
Eat twenty or more oranges in under 24 hours.
Go join the #discord IRC channel and find out where zlax and the other Nazicordians live these days.
Make a threat on this forum again so you can get banned.
Raise emus.
Climb a dead tree, without safety equipment, in a rainstorm.
Move to a remote Russian peninsula where you can't access the internet.
Live on a boat in the South China Sea.
Start a business adding pointless internet access capabilities to something that doesn't need and can't make use of them, i.e. Juicero.
Sell all of your worldly possessions, invest in Bitcoin, and wait for the market to rise.
Build a rocket to go into space so you can prove the earth is flat.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on July 13, 2020, 01:25:06 PM
Around here (suburbs of NYC, which is in phase IV right now, basically everything except bars / movie theaters / etc are open but with reduced capacity and mask/distancing requirements), a lot of us have resumed some elements of normal life.

My close in-town friends have been sequestered since it started. Basically any time we've reached out to them, they've said "NO. We're locked down until this thing is over."

like, okay, that's fair---but you do know this isn't "ending" right? Not any time soon, at least. We can't suspend life indefinitely, we have to figure out how to keep living WITHIN these conditions. Don't know about you guys, but I can't handle "just don't see any people for a full year". You can't crank the safety dial to 100% forever or you'll go crazy. So we've been doing porch hangouts, backyard dinners, hikes with friends. No parties or indoor socializing, but we kinda need SOME face-to-face social experience every other week or so.

My in-town friends finally broke, invited us to walk in the park with them. Suggested that back-porch D&D might be a Thing again soon.


It was a huge relief, because we'd kinda written those guys off.


how have you folks been dealing with the lockdown conditions in your region?  how has your life changed as of July & what concessions have you made?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: LMNO on July 13, 2020, 02:09:01 PM
We've eaten at a few patios, and yesterday finally had our first 6-person backyard distance party.  I still don't like going into public buildings, and I'm not sure when I'm ever going to be able to play live music again.

We were supposed to go to Montana in August, but made the foolish assumption in March that the country would have at least figured out how to manage the virus.  Thanks to the dummies, I'm terrified to go into an airport, much less a plane.  Fuckers.

I've been doing curbside pickup of groceries, which Whole Foods was good at.  But then our local WF decided to prohibit workers wearing BLM signage, so I now I've been trying to figure out how to get everything I need from various local places.  Add to that the Goya boycott, and it takes like a whole day to get stuff.

We're lucky enough to be able to work from home, so we've at least been solvent.  I know a lot of people don't have that luxury.

I've also started jogging again.  Boy, I'm out of shape.

Unexpectedly, I'm honestly enjoying wearing a mask.  My go-to is a gaiter that looks like a handkerchief.  It looks pretty badass.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on July 13, 2020, 02:36:15 PM
Quote from: LMNO on July 13, 2020, 02:09:01 PM
I'm not sure when I'm ever going to be able to play live music again.

Same story with running larps

I sent out a survey to my customers, basically saying that there aren't any LEGAL obstacles to running this upcoming event... Connecticut is allowing up to 150 people to gather outdoors, and this particular game doesn't have any combat or close social contact that would prevent you from masking or observing social distance. So we COULD run, but how do you feel?

Only 25% of the people surveyed said they would "definitley" or "probably" buy a ticket to an event in September. So it's cancelled, hoping the world is in better shape this Spring.


after we clear the safety hurdle, the next hurdle is consumer confidence

and without good leadership at the national level, and given how politicized safety has become, that hurdle is absurdly high

Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 13, 2020, 03:12:20 PM
Quote from: LMNO on July 13, 2020, 02:09:01 PM
We've eaten at a few patios, and yesterday finally had our first 6-person backyard distance party.  I still don't like going into public buildings, and I'm not sure when I'm ever going to be able to play live music again.


We're hunkered down as this shit roars through Arizona like goddamn Lord Humongous.  Our social activities now include:

1.  Weekly Zoom things with friends.
2.  Video games.
3.  Rewatching every single Star Trek, in chronological order.

TOS is, by the way, awful.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on July 13, 2020, 03:14:04 PM
two days ago, I subjected my fiance to TOS

after 20 minutes, she made me turn it off





Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 13, 2020, 03:14:51 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on July 13, 2020, 03:14:04 PM
two days ago, I subjected my fiance to TOS

after 20 minutes, she made me turn it off

It's frankly shit.

Has she watched any of the other Treks?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on July 13, 2020, 03:29:42 PM
lol, nope -- I thought TOS might be a little more exciting and pulpy than TNG, and Shatner's acting is a fun ride all by itself

but yeah, it still kinda sucks
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on July 13, 2020, 03:40:43 PM
Not much has changed with me, because I was mostly working from home before the virus hit and I'm not someone who generally goes out a lot anyway.

I'm more careful about my shopping now - I go once a week, wear a mask, wash my hands before leaving and on return. I also cancelled my gym membership, because my local 24 hour gym (which was awesome) was closed for several months.

I would have liked to have visited either of my parents for their birthdays, but my parents are in their mid-50s and early 60s now, so travelling by train means a significant risk of picking up the virus and then passing it onto them, and my father barely survived a combination of pneumonia, flu and sepsis last year so I'd rather not try his chances with this in particular.

Right now the UK is "reopening" things like bars, hairdressers and so on. So right now I'm being even more careful because there has been a small, but noticeable upswing in infection and deaths over the past couple of weeks already.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on July 13, 2020, 03:43:50 PM
If you haven't been indoctrinated into TOS by age 12, I expect you develop a natural resistance to the stuff.  Even then, there are probably only four or five episodes worth going back to.

The Galileo Seven
The City at the Edge of Forever
Space Seed (but only because Ricardo Montalban)

...uh...hmm.  Is that all?

P.S. I hate Trouble with Tribbles
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 13, 2020, 03:45:56 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on July 13, 2020, 03:29:42 PM
lol, nope -- I thought TOS might be a little more exciting and pulpy than TNG, and Shatner's acting is a fun ride all by itself

but yeah, it still kinda sucks

Enterprise and Discovery are good for new folks.

Picard needs too much backstory.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 13, 2020, 03:53:58 PM
I watched TNG at my last temporary place, and the first season was almost entirely ASS. From there it rapidly improved, and I ended up liking it more than I wanted to.

But I'm still going to watch Discovery, when I figure out where and how.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on July 13, 2020, 04:28:32 PM
On my rewatch of all the series that started with the baby (when I do the night feeds I put it on my phone) I've finished
TOS
Next Gen
DS9
Enterprise (First time watch)
Discovery
Picard
Starting voyager next

The Original series has 5 scripts, that it changes the cookie cutter creature, omnipotent being etc. If there is a villain with a female companion, Kirk is required to have sex with her, she will than betray the villain. It's very dated but relaxing to watch, the one stand out episode I loved (and there is only one) is The City on the Edge of Tomorrow. Possibly the only episode worth watching.

The Next Gen has the best exploration of individual sci-fi concepts, and some of the worst (The planet of the black men who try to buy Tasha yar was pretty cringy, and Crusher Banging the Scottish Ghost).

DS9 Starts so bad, you cant even feel the potential of where it will go in season 1 and I can understand everyone who gave it up in that. Every season is better than the last, and every single episode from season 3 is great. It has the best characterisations, people actually grow as individuals and has multiple proper morality plays which often don't end forcing a nice ending (a lot of the really tangled morality plays of the Next gen have unbelievably neat bows to tie them all all up). The characters all start as the least charismatic, but by the end they are my favourite (except Bashir, fuck Bashir)

Enterprise is the George W Bush In space show. Trip is the only real character who has any arc. Every episode of season 1 is bad, most of two is bad, and all of three and four are great, it was cut off in its prime, when it had finally hit its stride.

Discovery I really disliked when I first watched it. The newest show always has the title of most hated, until another show comes along. Its well acted, well shot, but suffers from Doctor Who pacing, the fast dialog (a departure from the Naval formality of the old shows) kind of makes it feel more fun, but strips away the feeling of exploration. Season 1 is good with a bad conclusion. Season 2 is terribly written, and having a ship that can go anywhere in time and space is somehow both overpowered, and squandered at the same time. It also has one of the worst AI stories in modern sci-fi. I am really hoping for more once off episodes in the next season because this shows characters would be great at the exploration stories.

Picard- The world of the federation is now an Aldi brand knock off blade runner, the federation surrendered all the Rodenberry ideals for a stupid September 11th stand in. And thats just the premise.
Everything is terrible. Everything is dark and moody and miserable. Picard is not Picard. The writing sucks and plagerised Mass Effect 3. I actively hate this show. Discovery has promise and an execution that failed. This does not have redeeming characteristics.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 13, 2020, 04:43:46 PM
Quote from: Faust on July 13, 2020, 04:28:32 PM

Discovery I really disliked when I first watched it. The newest show always has the title of most hated, until another show comes along. Its well acted, well shot, but suffers from Doctor Who pacing, the fast dialog (a departure from the Naval formality of the old shows) kind of makes it feel more fun, but strips away the feeling of exploration. Season 1 is good with a bad conclusion. Season 2 is terribly written, and having a ship that can go anywhere in time and space is somehow both overpowered, and squandered at the same time. It also has one of the worst AI stories in modern sci-fi. I am really hoping for more once off episodes in the next season because this shows characters would be great at the exploration stories.



But it wasn't an exploration series.  It was a horror series, much as TOS was Westerns and TNG was classic literature.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on July 13, 2020, 04:51:30 PM
Interesting, how do you mean?
I see horror the odd individual horror parts: body horror for the Klingon Dude, Pike knowing his fate, spore drive eating the ship, but it conflicts with the presentation and the super upbeat way everyone speaks to each other. When I say exploration, I see it for some of the individual events and episodes, but not for the overarching plot of the Klingon conflict or the Red Angel / AI thing. It's violent frequently, but I never felt any sense of horror
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Post by: Doktor Howl on July 13, 2020, 04:57:09 PM
Quote from: Faust on July 13, 2020, 04:51:30 PM
Interesting, how do you mean?
I see horror the odd individual horror parts: body horror for the Klingon Dude, Pike knowing his fate, spore drive eating the ship, but it conflicts with the presentation and the super upbeat way everyone speaks to each other. When I say exploration, I see it for some of the individual events and episodes, but not for the overarching plot of the Klingon conflict or the Red Angel / AI thing. It's violent frequently, but I never felt any sense of horror

Dude, ep 2 was the classic derelict ship horror.  Every ep was a different horror trope, including but not definitely limited to the ones you named.

Thing is, somewhere, the federation shines brightly.  Somewhere people are happy and equal.  Just not these schmoes.  They're stuck out there, and EVERY SINGLE horror trope is used, but they're federation so they keep on keeping on, because THIS series is about remembering who you are, no matter how bad it gets.

The tropes are horror, the script-writing is Star Trek, and I love that combo.

Beats the fuck out of watching the bridge crew play flutes, anyway.
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Post by: Doktor Howl on July 13, 2020, 05:07:17 PM
What they NEED to do is Star Trek: Howl.
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Post by: Faust on July 13, 2020, 05:13:31 PM
Eventually fed up of his complaining about the monkeys not leaving his planet, the monkeys bundled Howl into an oil barrel and shot him out past the further reaches of the galaxy, where his continuing mission of exploration each week is both sexy and Nightmarish

I'm going to go back and watch some random episodes of discovery, its possible I missed those individual plots bundled up with the wishy washy red angel, Multiverse, time travel AI shite, but there is something to what you are saying, the second ep derelict ship, I suppose parts even of the Harry Mud time loop, and Saru's sisters world with the horrible oppressive ruling fish monsters.
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Post by: The Wizard Joseph on July 13, 2020, 05:14:11 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 13, 2020, 04:57:09 PM
Quote from: Faust on July 13, 2020, 04:51:30 PM
Interesting, how do you mean?
I see horror the odd individual horror parts: body horror for the Klingon Dude, Pike knowing his fate, spore drive eating the ship, but it conflicts with the presentation and the super upbeat way everyone speaks to each other. When I say exploration, I see it for some of the individual events and episodes, but not for the overarching plot of the Klingon conflict or the Red Angel / AI thing. It's violent frequently, but I never felt any sense of horror

Dude, ep 2 was the classic derelict ship horror.  Every ep was a different horror trope, including but not definitely limited to the ones you named.

Thing is, somewhere, the federation shines brightly.  Somewhere people are happy and equal.  Just not these schmoes.  They're stuck out there, and EVERY SINGLE horror trope is used, but they're federation so they keep on keeping on, because THIS series is about remembering who you are, no matter how bad it gets.

The tropes are horror, the script-writing is Star Trek, and I love that combo.

Beats the fuck out of watching the bridge crew play flutes, anyway.

I stopped watching shortly after they hop universes in season 1 (I knew Lorca was a fuck from ep 1 onward) and have yet to pick it back up just yet. This is by no means a measure of distaste. The shit was too intense for me at the time. It was like my mind just needed a break because it was adding to the existing horror IRL and it was just like too much black pepper, and I LOVE black pepper, so it was like a loooot of it.

I do intend to finish it, if I can get CBS access again.

Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 13, 2020, 05:07:17 PM
What they NEED to do is Star Trek: Howl.

It could focus on the life of an engineering crew doing all sorts of irregular shit to keep an ill supplied frigate making supply runs that gets pulled into high adventure plot, but always in the background as implausible and horrible bullshit orders come down from the bridge.
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Post by: Doktor Howl on July 13, 2020, 05:15:51 PM
Quote from: Faust on July 13, 2020, 05:13:31 PM
Eventually fed up of his complaining about the monkeys not leaving his planet, the monkeys bundled Howl into an oil barrel and shot him out past the further reaches of the galaxy, where his continuing mission of exploration each week is both sexy and Nightmarish

I'm going to go back and watch some random episodes of discovery, its possible I missed those individual plots bundled up with the wishy washy red angel, Multiverse, time travel AI shite, but there is something to what you are saying, the second ep derelict ship, I suppose parts even of the Harry Mud time loop, and Saru's sisters world with the horrible oppressive ruling fish monsters.


...who more or less turned out to be the good guys.  Or, I should say, the less bad guys.
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Post by: Doktor Howl on July 13, 2020, 05:24:57 PM
Quote from: Faust on July 13, 2020, 05:13:31 PM
Eventually fed up of his complaining about the monkeys not leaving his planet, the monkeys bundled Howl into an oil barrel and shot him out past the further reaches of the galaxy, where his continuing mission of exploration each week is both sexy and Nightmarish

Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on July 13, 2020, 05:14:11 PM
It could focus on the life of an engineering crew doing all sorts of irregular shit to keep an ill supplied frigate making supply runs that gets pulled into high adventure plot, but always in the background as implausible and horrible bullshit orders come down from the bridge.

No, it would be an R&D ship like in Discovery, only designed by committee and incomplete, like Enterprise...And the bits that ARE there are obsolete/worn out, like in DS9 season 1.

I would be the science officer, I think, at least these days.  The engineer would always be looking to cut costs at the expense of safety, the first officer just sits in his office and sweats, and the medical officers have Covid 19.  I don't know who the security folks are, because man, do they come and go.  Don't even learn their names, you'll only get hurt.

The weapons officer is explaining navigation to the navigator, who isn't paying attention because she's hitting on that hot new ensign.  The ensign is trying to grow a mustache to look more promotible. 

There are - and I can't stress this enough - NO alien human hybrids. 

Cramulus is the morale officer and Altered is the counselor. 

The Captain hasn't been seen in years.  There in fact has not been contact with any elements in the federation, and not because we've gotten flung out to the gamma quadrant, it's just that star fleet is annoying as hell, so we ripped the commo circuits out four years ago.
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Post by: altered on July 13, 2020, 05:36:21 PM
In fairness, it was the captain who did it and everyone else just sort of said "well that wasn't supposed to happen but honestly fuck those assholes, time to get the real work done".

Also, I have a sideline in armory work because I love to tinker with phasers and the last armorer got in a confrontation with Cramulus and went to the last functioning holodeck and hasn't been seen since.
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Post by: The Wizard Joseph on July 13, 2020, 05:38:15 PM
I want to be a not-too-bright Ferengi with connections in the black market that are nowhere nearly as good as he thinks and so he's always getting bottom grade dilithium and tainted "bio memetic gel" from dubious sources, but it's the only shit available outside of Federation regulations.

I may also be running a holo-brothel scam on the side.
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Post by: altered on July 13, 2020, 05:41:10 PM
"Pay no attention to the bones in the corner."

"I don't like them. Computer, remove those bones."

...

...

"Pay no attention to the bones in the corner."
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Post by: The Wizard Joseph on July 13, 2020, 06:06:02 PM
Quote from: altered on July 13, 2020, 05:41:10 PM
"Pay no attention to the bones in the corner."

"I don't like them. Computer, remove those bones."

...

...

"Pay no attention to the bones in the corner."
"No refunds"

...

...
*arch appears, its sharpness contrasting against the shitty holo-resolution*

"Your time has elapsed. Please exit immediately or insert 3 strips of latinum to continue."
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Post by: Doktor Howl on July 13, 2020, 06:23:19 PM
Holodeck.   :lulz:

NO.  There is no time for such fripperies.  There is only time for the hard work of beaming tribbles into the replicator, because that's how science gets managed in the future.

If you want holodecks and brothels, you can tune into TNG and DS9.  On this Star Trek, we've got things to do.

You make. That. Latinum.
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Post by: altered on July 13, 2020, 06:29:05 PM
I said it WAS the last working one.

I didn't say anyone USED it anymore. Dead man stink puts a damper on the proceedings.
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Post by: Doktor Howl on July 13, 2020, 06:30:54 PM
If we can't make a star implode, then what's the POINT of all this stuff?
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Post by: Cramulus on July 13, 2020, 06:34:39 PM
How many times do I have to say I'm sorry about Holodecks 1-8 and 10-14???

in my defense, everybody clicked YES to the terms of service; they CONSENTED to what happened to them.




Deserved what they got, IMO.
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Post by: Faust on July 13, 2020, 06:38:00 PM
We need one semi working holideck, it only needs to be stable for five minutes, it is not for recreation of the crew, but we will tell our investors it is
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Post by: Cain on July 13, 2020, 06:38:36 PM
Security procedures in general need to be overhauled. My proposal is a giant sign, which says "No", which the Chief Security Officer can hit people with when they suggest stupid ideas.

"That's a derelict ship of unknown origin, lets send over a small team with no biohazard protections so we can investigate."

*hit with the sign*

"This unknown but quite hostile alien species wants to open a communication channel but there seems to be a lot of data involved. Well, let's hope they're not hacking the ships defenses hey!"

*hit with the sign*

"Lets contact the Q continuum and..."

*yeeted out the airlock without hesitation*
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Post by: The Wizard Joseph on July 13, 2020, 06:38:48 PM
I was thinking more like a holo-closet or booth that only fits one average sized humanoid and gets wiped down once a month whether it needs it or not. 2/3 of the latinum gets kicked upstairs for protec.. Er I mean research.

Quote from: Cramulus on July 13, 2020, 06:34:39 PM
How many times do I have to say I'm sorry about Holodecks 1-8 and 10-14???

in my defense, everybody clicked YES to the terms of service; they CONSENTED to what happened to them.




Deserved what they got, IMO.

WHAT PART OF "SAFETY PROTOCOLS DISENGAGED" WAS SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND!?
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Post by: Cain on July 13, 2020, 06:39:42 PM
Also all dating/romance holosuite programs are to be replaced with ultafast extranet and fleshlights or dildos. No exceptions.
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Post by: Doktor Howl on July 13, 2020, 06:42:39 PM
Quote from: Cain on July 13, 2020, 06:38:36 PM
Security procedures in general need to be overhauled. My proposal is a giant sign, which says "No", which the Chief Security Officer can hit people with when they suggest stupid ideas.

"That's a derelict ship of unknown origin, lets send over a small team with no biohazard protections so we can investigate."

*hit with the sign*

"This unknown but quite hostile alien species wants to open a communication channel but there seems to be a lot of data involved. Well, let's hope they're not hacking the ships defenses hey!"

*hit with the sign*

"Lets contact the Q continuum and..."

*yeeted out the airlock without hesitation*

"Have we tried negotiating with the ship that's covered in coffins?"
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Post by: Doktor Howl on July 13, 2020, 06:43:32 PM
Quote from: Faust on July 13, 2020, 06:38:00 PM
We need one semi working holideck, it only needs to be stable for five minutes, it is not for recreation of the crew, but we will tell our investors it is

I am all about "emergency" holo programs.

"Hello, I'm TGRR.  What is your rage emergency?"
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Post by: Cramulus on July 13, 2020, 06:43:42 PM
Everybody laughed when I said I was gonna train the romance AI on Chuck Tingle novels

Nobody was laughing when they got pounded in the ass by a sentient version of the Terms of Service agreement

LOVE IS REAL
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Post by: Doktor Howl on July 13, 2020, 06:44:30 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on July 13, 2020, 06:43:42 PM
Everybody laughed when I said I was gonna train the romance AI on Chuck Tingle novels

Nobody was laughing when they got pounded in the ass by a sentient version of the Terms of Service agreement

LOVE IS REAL

Okay, I changed my mind.  The holo deck is in, but at the sole discretion of the morale officer.
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Post by: Doktor Howl on July 13, 2020, 06:48:17 PM
It just occurred to me that Peter Pan was basically a vampire story told from a child victim's point of view.
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Post by: Cramulus on July 13, 2020, 06:51:46 PM
true -- & that's basically the plot of Lost Boys

(https://i.imgur.com/USHmod0.gif?1)
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Post by: Doktor Howl on July 13, 2020, 06:52:15 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on July 13, 2020, 06:51:46 PM
true -- & that's basically the plot of Lost Boys

(https://i.imgur.com/USHmod0.gif?1)

LOL, never made that connection.
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Post by: chaotic neutral observer on July 13, 2020, 06:56:11 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 13, 2020, 06:48:17 PM
It just occurred to me that Peter Pan was basically a vampire story told from a child victim's point of view.
Second star to the right, and straight on 'til morning.

Pay particular attention to this point.  It's very important that you stop and seek shelter when the sun rises, or you will burst into flames and die.
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Post by: Faust on July 13, 2020, 07:49:53 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 13, 2020, 06:52:15 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on July 13, 2020, 06:51:46 PM
true -- & that's basically the plot of Lost Boys

(https://i.imgur.com/USHmod0.gif?1)

Ive never thought about it beyond "the lost boys live forever",  but pan and the count share an awful lot:
Detachable shadows wrecking menace, hovering outside young girls bed windows needing to be invited in.
LOL, never made that connection.
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Post by: Cramulus on July 13, 2020, 08:11:42 PM
btw if you've seen Lost Boys but haven't seen the Sexy Sax Man Awakens Michael's Sexuality edit, you owe it to yourself to watch the full 3 minutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpuwcINDHnQ
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Post by: Cramulus on July 14, 2020, 12:18:17 AM
on the note of peter pan

(https://66.media.tumblr.com/22f85a4520fc4fbf8c362654265712f9/b4e6f17166a73f5a-ce/s1280x1920/c867a1f07b51a3189ca61f1200c86b60ae695093.jpg)
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Post by: Pergamos on July 14, 2020, 04:03:59 AM
Quote from: Cramulus on July 13, 2020, 01:25:06 PM
Around here (suburbs of NYC, which is in phase IV right now, basically everything except bars / movie theaters / etc are open but with reduced capacity and mask/distancing requirements), a lot of us have resumed some elements of normal life.

My close in-town friends have been sequestered since it started. Basically any time we've reached out to them, they've said "NO. We're locked down until this thing is over."

like, okay, that's fair---but you do know this isn't "ending" right? Not any time soon, at least. We can't suspend life indefinitely, we have to figure out how to keep living WITHIN these conditions. Don't know about you guys, but I can't handle "just don't see any people for a full year". You can't crank the safety dial to 100% forever or you'll go crazy. So we've been doing porch hangouts, backyard dinners, hikes with friends. No parties or indoor socializing, but we kinda need SOME face-to-face social experience every other week or so.

My in-town friends finally broke, invited us to walk in the park with them. Suggested that back-porch D&D might be a Thing again soon.


It was a huge relief, because we'd kinda written those guys off.


how have you folks been dealing with the lockdown conditions in your region?  how has your life changed as of July & what concessions have you made?

My wife and I live in a little cabin in the mountains. We don't really know our neighbors.  Most of our friends live a fair distance away.  The biggest change has been that we don't visit my family, who live in a small town that is a tourist community.  Or any of our friends there.  That's been hard, but we're going to refrain at least until things settle down a bit more.   Once people accept masks as normal, restrictions as normal, etc.  Until then it's too dangerous.
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Post by: Ari on July 14, 2020, 12:57:09 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 13, 2020, 05:07:17 PM
What they NEED to do is Star Trek: Howl.

I wanna sign up.

My skills include fixing shit and hating engineers. And i do more or less anything for some good science.

And none of this "it's gonna take twelve hours to fix - i give you six - fine, i will do it in four" nonsense.
it will take twelve. maybe a little less if you shoot the engineer so i can work in peace.
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Post by: Doktor Howl on July 14, 2020, 03:04:44 PM
Quote from: Ari on July 14, 2020, 12:57:09 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 13, 2020, 05:07:17 PM
What they NEED to do is Star Trek: Howl.

I wanna sign up.

My skills include fixing shit and hating engineers. And i do more or less anything for some good science.

And none of this "it's gonna take twelve hours to fix - i give you six - fine, i will do it in four" nonsense.
it will take twelve. maybe a little less if you shoot the engineer so i can work in peace.

The C in engineering stands for "Can Do".

But don't kill CNO.  He's the last engineer in existence that doesn't think he knows everything.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Ari on July 14, 2020, 04:17:15 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 14, 2020, 03:04:44 PM
Quote from: Ari on July 14, 2020, 12:57:09 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 13, 2020, 05:07:17 PM
What they NEED to do is Star Trek: Howl.

I wanna sign up.

My skills include fixing shit and hating engineers. And i do more or less anything for some good science.

And none of this "it's gonna take twelve hours to fix - i give you six - fine, i will do it in four" nonsense.
it will take twelve. maybe a little less if you shoot the engineer so i can work in peace.

The C in engineering stands for "Can Do".

But don't kill CNO.  He's the last engineer in existence that doesn't think he knows everything.

I leave the shooting of engineers to the officers; don't have time in my schedule to deal with that anyways.
If you want the engineer welded into a specific confined place to closely observe progress from the inside, just give me the proper specs and sign the papers that let me work in the EX area.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on July 14, 2020, 04:29:44 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 14, 2020, 03:04:44 PM
Quote from: Ari on July 14, 2020, 12:57:09 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 13, 2020, 05:07:17 PM
What they NEED to do is Star Trek: Howl.

I wanna sign up.

My skills include fixing shit and hating engineers. And i do more or less anything for some good science.

And none of this "it's gonna take twelve hours to fix - i give you six - fine, i will do it in four" nonsense.
it will take twelve. maybe a little less if you shoot the engineer so i can work in peace.

The C in engineering stands for "Can Do".

But don't kill CNO.  He's the last engineer in existence that doesn't think he knows everything.

My ignorance transcends the limits of this universe.
In fact, I can't even begin to comprehend the extent of the things I don't know.
Worse yet, some of the things I think I know, are just plain wrong.  I'm not sure which ones, though.  That's what testing is for.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on July 14, 2020, 04:54:22 PM
Quote from: Ari on July 14, 2020, 04:17:15 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 14, 2020, 03:04:44 PM
Quote from: Ari on July 14, 2020, 12:57:09 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 13, 2020, 05:07:17 PM
What they NEED to do is Star Trek: Howl.

I wanna sign up.

My skills include fixing shit and hating engineers. And i do more or less anything for some good science.

And none of this "it's gonna take twelve hours to fix - i give you six - fine, i will do it in four" nonsense.
it will take twelve. maybe a little less if you shoot the engineer so i can work in peace.

The C in engineering stands for "Can Do".

But don't kill CNO.  He's the last engineer in existence that doesn't think he knows everything.

I leave the shooting of engineers to the officers; don't have time in my schedule to deal with that anyways.
If you want the engineer welded into a specific confined place to closely observe progress from the inside, just give me the proper specs and sign the papers that let me work in the EX area.

You're hired.  Report to Waste Reclamation.  Here's your scrub brush and kneepads.  You report to Ensign Miner.  She's a Horta, so try not to annoy her.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on July 15, 2020, 08:39:21 AM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on July 14, 2020, 04:29:44 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 14, 2020, 03:04:44 PM
Quote from: Ari on July 14, 2020, 12:57:09 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 13, 2020, 05:07:17 PM
What they NEED to do is Star Trek: Howl.

I wanna sign up.

My skills include fixing shit and hating engineers. And i do more or less anything for some good science.

And none of this "it's gonna take twelve hours to fix - i give you six - fine, i will do it in four" nonsense.
it will take twelve. maybe a little less if you shoot the engineer so i can work in peace.

The C in engineering stands for "Can Do".

But don't kill CNO.  He's the last engineer in existence that doesn't think he knows everything.

My ignorance transcends the limits of this universe.
In fact, I can't even begin to comprehend the extent of the things I don't know.
Worse yet, some of the things I think I know, are just plain wrong.  I'm not sure which ones, though.  That's what testing is for.

Words to fucking live by!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Ari on July 15, 2020, 09:16:46 AM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on July 14, 2020, 04:54:22 PM
You're hired.  Report to Waste Reclamation.  Here's your scrub brush and kneepads.  You report to Ensign Miner.  She's a Horta, so try not to annoy her.

While I was down there I took the liberty of cleaning out that weird Fatberg. I think it was semi-sentient already: the thing did grumble a bit, there may have been some sort of a scream? No idea; but i got the job done.

So that's all cleared up now and should fuel the food replicators for at least a week


No Ensign Miner to be found anywhere though. Must have missed her.
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Post by: Faust on July 15, 2020, 10:39:32 AM
Something needs to be done about the Brutal Ocampa occupation of Bajor
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Post by: Faust on July 15, 2020, 05:24:07 PM
Thinking of forming a cabal of Mens Rites activists, by which I of course mean chaos magic rites channeling the power of the menstrual cycle
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 15, 2020, 06:07:52 PM
Quote from: Faust on July 15, 2020, 05:24:07 PM
Thinking of forming a cabal of Mens Rites activists, by which I of course mean chaos magic rites channeling the power of the menstrual cycle

So, literally the plot of Bloodborne?

Okay Micolash.
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Post by: Faust on July 15, 2020, 06:14:37 PM
That... doesnt sound like such a bad thing. I'll find a nice umbrella holder to wear over my head

Edit: My birth cert is Mikalis so its a good fit, better than the wiccar basket
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Johnny on July 15, 2020, 06:34:19 PM
Quote from: altered on July 15, 2020, 06:07:52 PM
Quote from: Faust on July 15, 2020, 05:24:07 PM
Thinking of forming a cabal of Mens Rites activists, by which I of course mean chaos magic rites channeling the power of the menstrual cycle

So, literally the plot of Bloodborne?

Okay Micolash.

Ill join, but playing role of Vicar Amelia is too much effort for me, too much screaming (Cleric Beast neither)... i wouldnt mind Oceiros tho.
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Post by: altered on July 15, 2020, 06:37:56 PM
Different universe, Johnny!

You're the Celestial Emissary.
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Post by: chaotic neutral observer on July 15, 2020, 06:41:49 PM
Let us sit about, and speak feverishly. Chatting into the wee hours of... new ideas, of the higher plane...

Can I be Father Gascoigne?  I like his hat.
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Post by: Cramulus on July 15, 2020, 06:51:53 PM
if we're choosing bloodborne roles, I wanna be horny old Gehrman.

he crushes on Lady Maria so hard that he builds his own RealDoll... and then lends it out to people.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 15, 2020, 06:59:09 PM
I, of course, am The Keeper of the Old Lords, because I get the coolest witch hat, all the edginess I could ask for, and a neat way to light cigarettes.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 15, 2020, 07:07:00 PM
So my car's computer shat in traffic yesterday, which is awesome for a "fly by wire" vehicle.

I will have my revenge on 2020.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Johnny on July 15, 2020, 07:31:00 PM
Quote from: altered on July 15, 2020, 06:37:56 PM
Different universe, Johnny!

You're the Celestial Emissary.

Tea party with Ebrietas everyday WOOO
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 15, 2020, 07:38:55 PM
She's a sweetheart, huh?

Also, Howl, in all honesty, you need to just start to make your peace with God.

You know?

By upper-decking his toilet.



Again.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 15, 2020, 08:36:54 PM
Quote from: altered on July 15, 2020, 07:38:55 PM
She's a sweetheart, huh?

Also, Howl, in all honesty, you need to just start to make your peace with God.

You know?

By upper-decking his toilet.



Again.

Woop woop! 

I mean, if I'm gonna burn, I may as well have fun on the way.
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Post by: Faust on July 15, 2020, 11:06:37 PM
I've spent the last while going through the testimonials about Warren Ellis

https://www.somanyofus.com/

They are depressing, paint a picture of a gross, needy and controlling little man who preyed on his groupies.
But it looks like he knew where to draw the line: I don't see any that suggest he either insinuated access or media contacts. He did consistently plug these women in his emails blogs etc, which is the tangential way of using his prestige to both endear and control them but its not the same as saying, I will send this on to X person, though some of these women did form contacts through this vicarious method with comic book industry people it is through them being contacted by others in the industry off their own bat after seeing the plug in warrens email, to me that's not the same.
There's a pattern of manipulation, as a form of abuse, but nothing like sexual abuse or anything, though there is consistent pesting.

He's a scumbag, but what I said previously about him never working again, there's no smoking gun like that or even a suggestion of it. In fact a lot of the testimonials are pushing for him to confront and grow because they still think he could be a good voice in the comics industry to do good.


I dont think I feel like reading anything of his for a while, and may not again, but hopefully the good these women seeks come of that. When people talk about Cancel culture, I really like these womens approach, they both want him to own what he did, confront it, grow and be a positive voice through the reach he has.
I guess that wouldnt be possible if he was a rapist or something, he didn't do anything illegal, just shitty.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on July 20, 2020, 08:26:49 PM
My fiance's mom and her sister have both gotten into The Secret.

Eris, give me strength.



Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: LMNO on July 20, 2020, 08:28:32 PM
Clap back with extensive quotes from The Celestine Prophecy.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 20, 2020, 08:31:18 PM
I don't know what either of these things is and I want to be told in a way that is just wrong enough that if I talk about it I'll give everyone who knows about them a fucking aneurysm on the goddamned spot
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: LMNO on July 20, 2020, 08:33:28 PM
I don't know who needs to know about this, but somebody started a parody "Humans of New York" FB page using AI-generated text and images.

I present to you, "Bots of New York" (https://www.facebook.com/botsofnewyork/).
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 20, 2020, 08:44:08 PM
I seriously just about shat myself and then just about died shortly afterwards Jesus fucking Christ LOOK AT THIS SHIT
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 20, 2020, 08:44:41 PM
The best part about these is they read like old Clickhole stuff
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on July 20, 2020, 09:25:11 PM
these are great :lulz: :lulz:

https://www.facebook.com/botsofnewyork/videos/1261241087414521/

just keeps getting weirder




Quote from: altered on July 20, 2020, 08:31:18 PM
I don't know what either of these things is and I want to be told in a way that is just wrong enough that if I talk about it I'll give everyone who knows about them a fucking aneurysm on the goddamned spot

The Secret is a book about the Law of Attraction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_attraction_(New_Thought)), which is basically like secular witchcraft, but they don't see it that way. Think Sigilization, but instead of occult aesthetic, it's Live, Laugh, Love aesthetic. You make a dream board with pictures of beach houses and, because you visualized it, the universe will give it to you. So if you're miserable, just cheer up. Your sadness attracts negative energy, so knock it off.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 20, 2020, 09:30:04 PM
Unfortunately I know too much about the Law of Attraction and its cousins (contagion, recurrence/memory, etc) for that explanation to allow me to really desperately upset people the way I need.

It's too late now, you ruined the only chance i had to greatly misunderstand something
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 21, 2020, 01:07:31 AM
Quote from: Cramulus on July 20, 2020, 08:26:49 PM
My fiance's mom and her sister have both gotten into The Secret.

Eris, give me strength.

:horrormirth:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on July 21, 2020, 02:13:44 AM
Quote from: Cramulus on July 20, 2020, 08:26:49 PM
My fiance's mom and her sister have both gotten into The Secret.

Eris, give me strength.

Can you at least ask them how they're finding 2008?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: LMNO on July 21, 2020, 12:48:40 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on July 20, 2020, 09:25:11 PM
Quote from: altered on July 20, 2020, 08:31:18 PM
I don't know what either of these things is and I want to be told in a way that is just wrong enough that if I talk about it I'll give everyone who knows about them a fucking aneurysm on the goddamned spot

The Secret is a book about the Law of Attraction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_attraction_(New_Thought)), which is basically like secular witchcraft, but they don't see it that way. Think Sigilization, but instead of occult aesthetic, it's Live, Laugh, Love aesthetic. You make a dream board with pictures of beach houses and, because you visualized it, the universe will give it to you. So if you're miserable, just cheer up. Your sadness attracts negative energy, so knock it off.
Quote from: altered on July 20, 2020, 09:30:04 PM
Unfortunately I know too much about the Law of Attraction and its cousins (contagion, recurrence/memory, etc) for that explanation to allow me to really desperately upset people the way I need.

It's too late now, you ruined the only chance i had to greatly misunderstand something

The Celestine Prophecy is to Asian religions as Taco Bell is to Mexican food: a messy and crass approximation of wildly disparate and poorly crafted things, to be consumed by Americans who honestly think it's authentic.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Johnny on July 21, 2020, 01:54:34 PM
Quote from: LMNO on July 21, 2020, 12:48:40 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on July 20, 2020, 09:25:11 PM
Quote from: altered on July 20, 2020, 08:31:18 PM
I don't know what either of these things is and I want to be told in a way that is just wrong enough that if I talk about it I'll give everyone who knows about them a fucking aneurysm on the goddamned spot

The Secret is a book about the Law of Attraction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_attraction_(New_Thought)), which is basically like secular witchcraft, but they don't see it that way. Think Sigilization, but instead of occult aesthetic, it's Live, Laugh, Love aesthetic. You make a dream board with pictures of beach houses and, because you visualized it, the universe will give it to you. So if you're miserable, just cheer up. Your sadness attracts negative energy, so knock it off.
Quote from: altered on July 20, 2020, 09:30:04 PM
Unfortunately I know too much about the Law of Attraction and its cousins (contagion, recurrence/memory, etc) for that explanation to allow me to really desperately upset people the way I need.

It's too late now, you ruined the only chance i had to greatly misunderstand something

The Celestine Prophecy is to Asian religions as Taco Bell is to Mexican food: a messy and crass approximation of wildly disparate and poorly crafted things, to be consumed by Americans who honestly think it's authentic.

At least Taco Bell is good tho
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: LMNO on July 21, 2020, 02:01:41 PM
 :ohnotache:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 21, 2020, 02:25:34 PM
Taco Bell is LEGITIMATELY good for three purposes

Meat in face on cheap
Veggie and meat options on cheap
Colonic
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on July 21, 2020, 02:37:54 PM
Sometimes you just need a good purge.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: LMNO on July 21, 2020, 03:11:33 PM
Quote from: Cain on July 21, 2020, 02:37:54 PM
Sometimes you just need a good purge.

Can't tell if you're referring to Taco Bell or The Celestine Prophecy.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on July 21, 2020, 03:13:22 PM
Quote from: LMNO on July 21, 2020, 12:48:40 PM
The Celestine Prophecy is to Asian religions as Taco Bell is to Mexican food: a messy and crass approximation of wildly disparate and poorly crafted things, to be consumed by Americans who honestly think it's authentic.

They opened a Taco Bell a few blocks from here.  I went there once, was thoroughly unimpressed, and haven't returned.

I saw a copy of The Celestine Prophecy in a department store once, picked it up, skimmed a couple passages, and put it back.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on July 21, 2020, 03:15:37 PM
Quote from: altered on July 21, 2020, 02:25:34 PM
Taco Bell is LEGITIMATELY good for three purposes

...

Colonic

Quote from: Cain on July 21, 2020, 02:37:54 PM
Sometimes you just need a good purge.

I've heard this said many times of Taco Bell, but I must have ordered the wrong thing, because my experience was entirely uneventful.

(I ordered a Taco).
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 21, 2020, 03:36:52 PM
Taco Bell is God warning you to act right.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 21, 2020, 03:45:40 PM
For the real Taco Bell experience, get the Mexican Pizza or the Beefy 5-Layer Burrito. ALWAYS get the Baja Blast with the food.

You'll be unable to STOP shitting. You'll pressure wash the seat of your fucking pants with it. You'll crack your fucking toilet bowl.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on July 21, 2020, 05:51:56 PM
Stuff on Netflix I think is worth checking out: The Midnight Gospel

made by Pendelton Ward (from Adventure Time, which I've never actually seen)


basically, each episode has two different components... the audio is a conversation with someone that has interesting ideas. The video is almost unrelated, it shows the characters adventuring through this surreal VR simulation.

It's really like two independent shows, one for your left and one for your right brain. Often, I'll watch an episode with my fiance and we have COMPLETELY different impressions - I pick up on the verbal, she picks up on the visual, and then we kinda have to piece together how they're related.

topics include drugs, spirituality, magic--weird shit & heady thoughts

Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: LMNO on July 21, 2020, 06:13:51 PM
I'll totally check that out.

I recommend The Old Guard, if for nothing else, absolutely brilliant LGBTQ relationships.

But there IS more.  There's explosions! And Charlize Theron being very Charlize Theron-y! 

The Big Bad is kinda stupid, but I can let that go.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on July 21, 2020, 06:20:36 PM
Quote from: LMNO on July 21, 2020, 03:11:33 PM
Quote from: Cain on July 21, 2020, 02:37:54 PM
Sometimes you just need a good purge.

Can't tell if you're referring to Taco Bell or The Celestine Prophecy.

Yes.

Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on July 21, 2020, 03:15:37 PM
I've heard this said many times of Taco Bell, but I must have ordered the wrong thing, because my experience was entirely uneventful.
(I ordered a Taco).

I've actually never been, we don't have it over here. London doesn't even have popular bad "Mexican" food, let alone good, readily available Mexican food.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on July 21, 2020, 06:21:23 PM
someone told me that The Old Guard is like how action movies used to be in the 90s.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Bruno on July 21, 2020, 06:42:17 PM
Here in the south, we have "Mexican" restaurants around every corner, and also a fairly high Hispanic population.

I can't think of a single Canadian restaurant. Maybe they have those further north?

When I want poutine, I usually just dump a can of roast beef n' gravy on top of some frozen fries that I heated up in the toaster oven. I still haven't figured out what kind of cheese to put on it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 21, 2020, 07:16:07 PM
For poor-dude's poutine, either mozzarella or cheddar. Mozza is closer, cheddar is less weird if you don't have real brown sauce.

And yes, there is a poutine place in AT LEAST Boston and Detroit — those are just the two that I know of.

And yeah, there's "Mexican" places all over, even around Dallas. Austin has the real deal though.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: LMNO on July 21, 2020, 07:27:32 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on July 21, 2020, 06:21:23 PM
someone told me that The Old Guard is like how action movies used to be in the 90s.

Personally, I think it's better.  A lot less misogyny and homophobia.

While we're on the subject of Netflix shows:
Disclosure - it's a pretty good Trans documentary.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Junkenstein on July 21, 2020, 07:46:14 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 21, 2020, 03:36:52 PM
Taco Bell is God warning you to act right.

After the franchise wars, all restaurants are now taco bell.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Bruno on July 21, 2020, 07:59:28 PM
Quote from: altered on July 21, 2020, 07:16:07 PM
For poor-dude's poutine, either mozzarella or cheddar. Mozza is closer, cheddar is less weird if you don't have real brown sauce.

And yes, there is a poutine place in AT LEAST Boston and Detroit — those are just the two that I know of.

And yeah, there's "Mexican" places all over, even around Dallas. Austin has the real deal though.

My understanding is that they use some kind of un-aged cheddar, and the only practical way to get it is to make it yourself, and restaurants in Canada that serve poutine make their own in-house. Permits and regulations make it nearly impossible for a restaurant to do that here in the U.S.

We have at least one Real Deal Mexican place, and I've heard rumors of another, but I haven't been there. My favorite Tex-Mex place has some really good fajitas, but the authentic place has some of the best beans I've ever eaten. The owner says they're meatless. I really wish I knew what he used to season them with. They're not regular pinto beans either. It's some kinda fancy bean you gotta have connections to get, I guess.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 21, 2020, 08:03:10 PM
They don't use un-aged cheddar, they use cheese curds. Which you can get by straining cottage cheese if you're desperate enough for the real thing, but if you don't have real brown sauce (AND YOU DO NOT) it isn't worth it.

Fresh mozza is closest to cheese curd. Cheddar has more of the sharpness of it though, so if you aren't using real brown sauce just stop lying to yourself and use some bagged shredded cheddar.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Don Coyote on July 21, 2020, 11:01:55 PM
Taco Bell is a TEST of FORTITUDE that LESSER THINGS FAIL
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 21, 2020, 11:27:42 PM
My theory is that Taco Bell is the remains of a Cold War era project to help soldiers fly for short distances at low altitude.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Bruno on July 22, 2020, 07:17:14 AM
For some reason Krystal burgers are worse for me than Taco Bell. No idea why. The only thing I can think of is the cooked onions, but I can eat far more cooked onions than can be found in a 6 pack of Krystals and not achieve anywhere near that level of flatulence.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 22, 2020, 08:04:34 AM
Flatulence?

I'm talking about turning your ass into a rocket motor. That isn't flatulence anymore, especially since we're talking about solid propellants.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Bruno on July 22, 2020, 08:41:20 AM
I see what you're saying.

It's just that Krystal burgers are the closest thing I can relate to what seems to be the common Taco Bell Experience. Somehow I seem immune to whatever dark magic they use, but then tiny hamburgers activate hovercraft mode, somehow.

It just literally farts in the face of all scientific knowledge.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Pergamos on July 22, 2020, 02:58:32 PM
Tucson has a poutine place.  America Fries, or something.  It's very decidedly Poutine, not Canadian.

Bellingham has an actually Canadian poutine place.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Juana on July 23, 2020, 02:29:44 AM
Taco Bell is just Bad. Doesn't make me miserable other than the actual act of eating it, but every time I go I remember why I don't. We have real Mexican food here and it's fucking good, so why?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Trivial on July 23, 2020, 03:44:19 AM
Quote from: altered on July 21, 2020, 08:03:10 PM
They don't use un-aged cheddar, they use cheese curds. Which you can get by straining cottage cheese if you're desperate enough for the real thing, but if you don't have real brown sauce (AND YOU DO NOT) it isn't worth it.

Fresh mozza is closest to cheese curd. Cheddar has more of the sharpness of it though, so if you aren't using real brown sauce just stop lying to yourself and use some bagged shredded cheddar.

I can get cheese curds at gas stations here.  It's good when it's still squeaks when you eat it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Don Coyote on July 23, 2020, 05:26:35 AM
Quote from: Juana on July 23, 2020, 02:29:44 AM
Taco Bell is just Bad. Doesn't make me miserable other than the actual act of eating it, but every time I go I remember why I don't. We have real Mexican food here and it's fucking good, so why?

Sometimes you just want taco bell.
The heart wants what the heart wants.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Bruno on July 23, 2020, 08:11:40 AM
I've been eating a lot of gas station pizza (Hunt Bros.) on the weekends. It just seems like the least likely food product to transmit the Covid. I want to minimize how much the food is handled after being cooked, or without cooking. Taco Bell and Subway are at the top of my sketchy foods list for that reason. Haven't been to either since probably February, or so.

Which is also about the last time I went to a barber shop. I've just been trimming it myself to keep it out of my eyes and off the ears.

At this point, I'm totally rocking a Plague Mullet.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on July 23, 2020, 02:33:11 PM
yeah sometimes you want BAD food

cause sometimes that's perfect

Taco Bell is in the same category as those cheese danishes you can get at a gas station. You know what I'm talking about? they're mass produced, wrapped in plastic, have probably never contacted oxygen. They are terrible and perfect. It's somehow the worst possible cheese danish and also its ideal form.

Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: LMNO on July 23, 2020, 03:22:11 PM
In my head, y'all are still talking about how Taco Bell compares with The Celestine Prophecy, and to me that's wonderful.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Juana on July 23, 2020, 07:12:57 PM
Quote from: Don Coyote on July 23, 2020, 05:26:35 AM
Quote from: Juana on July 23, 2020, 02:29:44 AM
Taco Bell is just Bad. Doesn't make me miserable other than the actual act of eating it, but every time I go I remember why I don't. We have real Mexican food here and it's fucking good, so why?

Sometimes you just want taco bell.
The heart wants what the heart wants.

If I want bad food, there's better bad food.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 23, 2020, 11:30:09 PM
Well, my job is probably moving to Cheyenne after all, but my boss just hit me with sack of money so I guess I'm going.

Bad news/good news is the best you can hope for in 2020.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 23, 2020, 11:30:52 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on July 23, 2020, 02:33:11 PM
yeah sometimes you want BAD food

cause sometimes that's perfect

Taco Bell is in the same category as those cheese danishes you can get at a gas station. You know what I'm talking about? they're mass produced, wrapped in plastic, have probably never contacted oxygen. They are terrible and perfect. It's somehow the worst possible cheese danish and also its ideal form.

If I want bad food, gas station sushi takes care of all of my bad impulses.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on July 24, 2020, 12:04:59 AM
On the bright side, you can now experience baking hot summers and freezing cold winters.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 24, 2020, 12:16:25 AM
Quote from: Cain on July 24, 2020, 12:04:59 AM
On the bright side, you can now experience baking hot summers and freezing cold winters.

85 F is not "baking hot."

So I get cold summers and fatal winters.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on July 24, 2020, 12:31:12 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 23, 2020, 11:30:09 PM
Well, my job is probably moving to Cheyenne after all, but my boss just hit me with sack of money so I guess I'm going.

Bad news/good news is the best you can hope for in 2020.

There's a lot to be said for a chance to entirely relocate and reorganize your situation that is entirely subsidized by someone else. Your destination is a bag of dicks, but given that The Shit is about to go down at least you have a chance to set things up for hard times in essentially hostile territory. As far as shennanigans go it could be seen as a target rich environment.

However it turns out I wish you the best.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 24, 2020, 01:28:36 AM
I returned to Chicago from Texas.

I'm in the between space that comes after "arrival feast" but before "second shower so you REALLY FEEL as clean as you actually are". The cat is worse than I remembered in some ways, also twice as big and floofed out like an expensive plushie. So soft. I've taken a few claws to the face to touch the fuzz already.

I also learned today that we're getting a continuation of the increased PUA payouts, just reduced.

For me, that gives me loads of ride time while I look for work. So I'm way more confident, homelessness might be over for me.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on July 24, 2020, 01:34:58 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 24, 2020, 12:16:25 AM
Quote from: Cain on July 24, 2020, 12:04:59 AM
On the bright side, you can now experience baking hot summers and freezing cold winters.

85 F is not "baking hot."

So I get cold summers and fatal winters.

Don't worry, global warming will fix that.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on July 24, 2020, 01:57:47 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 24, 2020, 12:16:25 AM
Quote from: Cain on July 24, 2020, 12:04:59 AM
On the bright side, you can now experience baking hot summers and freezing cold winters.

85 F is not "baking hot."

So I get cold summers and fatal winters.

Hot begins at +30 C.  Cold begins at -20 C.  Cheyenne, Wyoming has a seasonal range from -8 to +29.  Temperate, I'd call that.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on July 24, 2020, 02:11:14 AM
Quote from: altered on July 24, 2020, 01:28:36 AM
The cat is worse than I remembered in some ways, also twice as big and floofed out like an expensive plushie. So soft. I've taken a few claws to the face to touch the fuzz already.
An abrupt increase in feline fluffiness/contempt/tailcount is often symptomatic of a certain preternatural transformation.  You may have a nekomata on your hands.  Did you count its tails?  You should count its tails.


Quote
So I'm way more confident, homelessness might be over for me.
That is good.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 24, 2020, 03:50:22 AM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on July 24, 2020, 01:57:47 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 24, 2020, 12:16:25 AM
Quote from: Cain on July 24, 2020, 12:04:59 AM
On the bright side, you can now experience baking hot summers and freezing cold winters.

85 F is not "baking hot."

So I get cold summers and fatal winters.

Hot begins at +30 C.  Cold begins at -20 C.  Cheyenne, Wyoming has a seasonal range from -8 to +29.  Temperate, I'd call that.

No, that is Jack London bullshit and everyone falls through the ice and dies miserably.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 24, 2020, 03:51:02 AM
Quote from: altered on July 24, 2020, 01:28:36 AM
So I'm way more confident, homelessness might be over for me.

That's awesome.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 24, 2020, 03:57:37 AM
This week I'm taking a fucking break. Turns out that no one actually wanted the content I was making for trickle income, so I'm just gonna take a couple days for Me before I throw myself at the job market.

My most popular stuff has been my album reviews. I'll put a price on them and write them by request, once I figure out how to price them.

Might set it at a flat rate of 100 per album for bands and labels, and as a courtesy for fans who donate anything. The fans could get something super good or super unprofessional, the bands and labels are going to get High Quality Stuff and (unless they TRULY suck enormous ass) a positive review.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on July 24, 2020, 02:02:11 PM
Quote from: altered on July 24, 2020, 01:28:36 AM
I also learned today that we're getting a continuation of the increased PUA payouts, just reduced.

the pick-up artists union is really worth those dues, huh?

QuoteSo I'm way more confident, homelessness might be over for me.

I'm really glad to hear that, Altered! How's your headspace been these last few weeks?

Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: LMNO on July 24, 2020, 02:05:19 PM
Quote from: altered on July 24, 2020, 01:28:36 AM
I returned to Chicago from Texas.

I'm in the between space that comes after "arrival feast" but before "second shower so you REALLY FEEL as clean as you actually are". The cat is worse than I remembered in some ways, also twice as big and floofed out like an expensive plushie. So soft. I've taken a few claws to the face to touch the fuzz already.

I also learned today that we're getting a continuation of the increased PUA payouts, just reduced.

For me, that gives me loads of ride time while I look for work. So I'm way more confident, homelessness might be over for me.


So good to hear that!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on July 24, 2020, 02:06:39 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 23, 2020, 11:30:09 PM
Well, my job is probably moving to Cheyenne after all, but my boss just hit me with sack of money so I guess I'm going.

Bad news/good news is the best you can hope for in 2020.


wait


WAIT



wait.


they're letting you out of Arizona?



is this one of those Orpheus things where if you look back over your shoulder, ZIP ZORP SKEEBELOP ALOOP, Doug Doucey kicks your ass back home?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 24, 2020, 07:47:05 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on July 24, 2020, 02:06:39 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 23, 2020, 11:30:09 PM
Well, my job is probably moving to Cheyenne after all, but my boss just hit me with sack of money so I guess I'm going.

Bad news/good news is the best you can hope for in 2020.


wait


WAIT



wait.


they're letting you out of Arizona?



is this one of those Orpheus things where if you look back over your shoulder, ZIP ZORP SKEEBELOP ALOOP, Doug Doucey kicks your ass back home?

Wyoming is apparently just Arizona's basement.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on July 24, 2020, 07:53:10 PM
Wyoming is what you get when you ask your parents for Arizona, and they tell you that they have Arizona at home already.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 24, 2020, 07:59:27 PM
Quote from: Cain on July 24, 2020, 07:53:10 PM
Wyoming is what you get when you ask your parents for Arizona, and they tell you that they have Arizona at home already.

This. 

Also mosquitoes and ice age conditions.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 24, 2020, 09:25:14 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on July 24, 2020, 02:02:11 PM
Quote from: altered on July 24, 2020, 01:28:36 AM
I also learned today that we're getting a continuation of the increased PUA payouts, just reduced.

the pick-up artists union is really worth those dues, huh?

Watch it, stache man. I'll peck you like a chicken.

Quote
QuoteSo I'm way more confident, homelessness might be over for me.

I'm really glad to hear that, Altered! How's your headspace been these last few weeks?

WEIRD

Like good but also panic and now BAM all the sudden I'm just not worried at all because I have coast time to spare? Weird shit. Looking for work starting Mon or Thurs depending on my mood.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 24, 2020, 09:34:52 PM
If you don't just wake up back in Tucson on the 1st Jan in 2021, you might need to rewrite some of your old content.

If you need advice on surviving weather that allows rubber to remain solid in sunlight, I have loads of it, like this:



If the thermometer says 75, it is safe to step outside without sunglasses, suntan lotion, parasol or solar protection suits. You can walk like it's inside of your house.

If the thermometer says 50, you may see other people continuing to walk around like it's inside of their house. Do not attempt to emulate them: they are the Fair Folk and they will curse you to age to a withered husk overnight. Instead, wear pajamas underneath your regular outside clothes.

If the ground looks like clean white sand outside, do not go outside. That is cocaine, and the feds are watching.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Juana on July 24, 2020, 11:19:15 PM
Quote from: altered on July 24, 2020, 09:34:52 PM
If the ground looks like clean white sand outside, do not go outside. That is cocaine, and the feds are watching.
:lulz:

Also, YAY ALTERED!! 🎉🎉🎉
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Juana on July 24, 2020, 11:20:46 PM
I repeat my prediction from Facebook: Howl will well and truly go feral, and be the Wild Man™ the Goddess meant him to be. We'll hear about him on the news as the Sasquatch.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 25, 2020, 12:52:05 AM
Quote from: Juana on July 24, 2020, 11:20:46 PM
I repeat my prediction from Facebook: Howl will well and truly go feral, and be the Wild Man™ the Goddess meant him to be. We'll hear about him on the news as the Sasquatch.

Well, yeah.  It's not like I'm gonna start wearing pants.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Fujikoma on July 25, 2020, 01:07:02 AM
Yay Altered! I know you hate me but fuck it, I hope it works out in spite of your hate for me, I curse you to happiness. Now I go back to lurking.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 25, 2020, 05:28:14 AM
Whole fucking gunfight near me. I'm far from downtown so this wasn't feds. Might have been a gang thing but I don't think so because a squad of cops (including motorcycle cops) went by between the first shot and the rest of them.

Not convinced I wouldn't have been hamburger if I was outside at the time, bullets had to have been dividing the air right in front of the door.

Must stress: back around March, this neighborhood's scariest threat was package theft.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 25, 2020, 04:32:14 PM
 :lulz:

Someone, somehow, stole my work email. Cait.null.pro@gmail.com, meant to impress the hiring managers with how SERIOUS I am. Just fucking gone. I got force-logged out of it this morning and can't recover it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cainad (dec.) on July 26, 2020, 04:19:07 AM
I joined this forum when I was 17. Today I turned 30 years old.

Just felt like saying it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: minuspace on July 26, 2020, 04:54:46 AM
Happy Bud-day!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 26, 2020, 06:00:21 PM
Quote from: Cainad (dec.) on July 26, 2020, 04:19:07 AM
I joined this forum when I was 17. Today I turned 30 years old.

Just felt like saying it.

I joined when I was 34.

I'm dead now.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Trivial on July 27, 2020, 04:33:07 AM
Weird Regis Philbin died I didn't hear anything about iit.  And by hear, I mean none of my fb feed people posted about it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Fujikoma on July 27, 2020, 06:57:01 AM
The price is wrong, biatch. Probably the wrong game show.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on July 27, 2020, 08:20:41 PM
The phone rang.  We still have a landline.  Mom told me to get it.
I answered.  It was a recording, from Visa/Mastercard account services; I'd qualified for a 0% interest rate.
But this time, there was a difference.  I pressed one.

There was a long pause, pregnant with the impregnable silence of the pit.

Then, sound; first, the background noise of a call center, and then a man with an Indian accent.  I don't remember what he said.  It didn't matter.

I inhaled, and screamed.  A hideous, bone-scraping, mind-flaying scream, a wail drawn from deepest void of hell, a cry empty of sanity, of humanity, of hope.  And as my breath slowly dwindled, my voice fading to a gasping, agonized moan,
I hung up.

I'd like to think I ruined his day.

I have a taste for this, now.
Next time will be worse.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on July 27, 2020, 08:26:06 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on July 27, 2020, 08:20:41 PM
There was a long pause, pregnant with the impregnable silence of the pit.

What the fuck is that line?  "Pregnant with the impregnable"?  Are you just stringing together random words and pretending that's clever?  God, you're such a moron.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: POFP on July 27, 2020, 08:35:22 PM
 :lulz:

This should also be a mobile app. It should respond to all calls from specified numbers or numbers owned by specified organizations with blood-curdling screams, and then maybe throw in a Wilhelm here and there.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 28, 2020, 04:23:08 AM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on July 27, 2020, 08:20:41 PM
The phone rang.  We still have a landline.  Mom told me to get it.
I answered.  It was a recording, from Visa/Mastercard account services; I'd qualified for a 0% interest rate.
But this time, there was a difference.  I pressed one.

There was a long pause, pregnant with the impregnable silence of the pit.

Then, sound; first, the background noise of a call center, and then a man with an Indian accent.  I don't remember what he said.  It didn't matter.

I inhaled, and screamed.  A hideous, bone-scraping, mind-flaying scream, a wail drawn from deepest void of hell, a cry empty of sanity, of humanity, of hope.  And as my breath slowly dwindled, my voice fading to a gasping, agonized moan,
I hung up.

I'd like to think I ruined his day.

I have a taste for this, now.
Next time will be worse.

:mittens:

You gotta prerecord some screams of the damned stuff laid over you saying "WE GOT YOUR FRIENDS."
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 28, 2020, 05:26:21 AM
Gotta do it in a nice Beetlejuice croak. Southern accent to really draw it out for the best effect.

And you gotta pipe that screams of the damned shit in from the side so it comes in clear and you can still talk live.

You know. Gotta have a conversation. About your dog. We got him too. And what's next? Your neighbor? Your savior? Well, too late for them. We got them and we got it all and we got you too. Click.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 28, 2020, 04:01:37 PM
Or just the voiceover from the end of Fett's Vette.

"Hey Chris, it's Bowie, uh, I'm at the Pathstation... I was wondering if I could crash on your couch, would that be cool? They locked me out of my apartment. Um... so call me back, man, there's a payphone here, some kid stole my cellphone, but the joke's on him cause Sprint shut it off... uh... just come by the station, alright? I'm gonna be sleeping on one of the benches"
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 28, 2020, 04:29:23 PM
Just make a whole fucking playlist. So much potential. :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on July 29, 2020, 07:50:14 AM
Hey guys, I'm back! 2020 has somehow failed to kill me thus far. should ask for my fucking money back.

recently got a new job producing spiritually themed candles for a local small business. Pays better and is safer than what i would have been doing before the pandemic, so i'm pretty happy with it. Also we make dick candles, which is still funny.

Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on July 29, 2020, 01:43:51 PM
congrats on the new job

do you need suggestions for spiritual candle names? Cause we could help with that


-Angel's Laundry
-Musty Old Bible
-St. Gulik's Secret Stash

Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on July 29, 2020, 03:15:57 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on July 29, 2020, 01:43:51 PM
-Musty Old Bible
I love the smell of old books.  I'm not a candle person, but I'd buy one of those.

I also like petrichor and the scent of lead-free solder.

Quote
-Angel's Laundry
Before or after washing?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Johnny on July 29, 2020, 10:20:24 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on July 29, 2020, 01:43:51 PM
congrats on the new job

do you need suggestions for spiritual candle names? Cause we could help with that


-Angel's Laundry
-Musty Old Bible
-St. Gulik's Secret Stash

Belle Delphine Bathwater
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on July 30, 2020, 12:28:04 AM
Gamer Girl Scent will go for big bucks.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on July 30, 2020, 01:31:24 AM
Virgin Waifu Pillow

Definitely Not Virgin Waifu Pillow

Unscented Zen

Caramel Social Collapse

Lavender Teargas

Boring Vanilla Lover
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 30, 2020, 01:57:50 AM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on July 30, 2020, 01:31:24 AM
Virgin Waifu Pillow

Definitely Not Virgin Waifu Pillow

Unscented Zen

Caramel Social Collapse

Lavender Teargas

Boring Vanilla Lover

:lol:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 30, 2020, 03:02:17 AM
Still not dead yet.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on July 30, 2020, 03:48:32 AM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 30, 2020, 03:02:17 AM
Still not dead yet.

Both good to hear AND a cool name for a scented candle.

Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: minuspace on July 30, 2020, 03:59:26 AM
Snuff the Magic Dragon
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on July 30, 2020, 04:32:58 AM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 30, 2020, 03:02:17 AM
Still not dead yet.
Hi, QGP!

Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on July 30, 2020, 03:48:32 AM
Both good to hear AND a cool name for a scented candle.
"Not-Dead-Yet Battlefront" was also the temporary name of a certain misotheistic revolutionary group, as I recall.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 30, 2020, 04:51:02 AM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 30, 2020, 03:02:17 AM
Still not dead yet.

Best news all week. Keep living, we're here for you.




Unrelated: I got a plague diary entry to write up, but here's the kicker: all I got for my fucking trouble was BAD MATCHA. I didn't even know that was possible.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on July 30, 2020, 05:00:58 AM
What could be worse than bad, misspelled macha?

Well now that you mention it...
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on July 30, 2020, 05:02:50 AM
*and Joe could never honorably return to PD again, not that he stopped*
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 30, 2020, 05:15:23 AM
First: not misspelled, simply an obsolete Romanization that was adopted as the English word. This is how all of our Greek roots are, by the by, we misspell all of them to better match English orthology. All the "ch" words are actually "kh", and so on. But yeah. Check the wiki page for Matcha, it's in the info box.

Second: there are things worse than bad matcha, but not many things that you can be mistaken into looking forward to that also involve an entry in the Plague Diary thread. Soon.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Juana on July 30, 2020, 05:04:00 PM
More spiritual candle names:

- yoni egg
- SMoKy QuArTz
- thieves vinegar (must smell like star anise and the sharpest white vinegar you can find)
- hand of glory
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on July 30, 2020, 05:52:07 PM
Quote from: altered on July 30, 2020, 05:15:23 AM
First: not misspelled, simply an obsolete Romanization that was adopted as the English word. This is how all of our Greek roots are, by the by, we misspell all of them to better match English orthology. All the "ch" words are actually "kh", and so on. But yeah. Check the wiki page for Matcha, it's in the info box.

Second: there are things worse than bad matcha, but not many things that you can be mistaken into looking forward to that also involve an entry in the Plague Diary thread. Soon.

I misspelled it on purpose knowing that it would be taken as a reference to your spelling rather than my own.

I'm regretging it a bit now in the full light of day, but only because shit sounds dire and I was not trying to be that big of an ass.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 30, 2020, 07:42:41 PM
It's okay: I said orthology when I meant orthography, because I'm a dipshit.

Also, guess who appears to have had a cardiac event today!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: LMNO on July 30, 2020, 07:51:26 PM
Fuck.  You ok?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 30, 2020, 07:59:41 PM
Unknown. Probably won't know until I keel over or something, I still have no health insurance.

I recognized the chest and left shoulder pain when breathing, the shakiness and the indigestion. I sat the fuck down, went into deep breaths autopilot, and made a point of moving slow like a sloth and not lifting a goddamn thing for the rest of the day.

I have intermittent pain spikes at random in my head, neck and chest, but they're mild, short lived and have no obvious correlation with anything I'm doing at the time. I have told everyone what's happening, and my current limitations.

This came on while having a panic attack AND helping a new roommate move stuff that is far too heavy for me, so it isn't weird that it happened. I'm just sick of this fucking bullshit.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on July 30, 2020, 08:25:01 PM
Quote from: altered on July 30, 2020, 07:59:41 PM
Unknown. Probably won't know until I keel over or something, I still have no health insurance.

I recognized the chest and left shoulder pain when breathing, the shakiness and the indigestion. I sat the fuck down, went into deep breaths autopilot, and made a point of moving slow like a sloth and not lifting a goddamn thing for the rest of the day.

I have intermittent pain spikes at random in my head, neck and chest, but they're mild, short lived and have no obvious correlation with anything I'm doing at the time. I have told everyone what's happening, and my current limitations.

This came on while having a panic attack AND helping a new roommate move stuff that is far too heavy for me, so it isn't weird that it happened. I'm just sick of this fucking bullshit.

Fuck. Goddamn fucking fuck.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 30, 2020, 08:45:59 PM
Like Howl said before, God can't just let me have nice things unless he can drizzle diarrhea all over them first.

Homelessness conquered, but survival still uncertain. Just like American Jesus intended.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 30, 2020, 09:31:26 PM
My injury count for this week:

Chemical burns, right index finger and thumb
Cat scratches, back of right hand
Cut to bone, left index fingertip
Mild concussion from partially disassembled table, top center of skull
Fucking cardiac event, my damn chest

And I still have ... 3 hours to go before the week ends.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Juana on July 30, 2020, 10:17:45 PM
Quote from: altered on July 30, 2020, 07:59:41 PM
Unknown. Probably won't know until I keel over or something, I still have no health insurance.

I recognized the chest and left shoulder pain when breathing, the shakiness and the indigestion. I sat the fuck down, went into deep breaths autopilot, and made a point of moving slow like a sloth and not lifting a goddamn thing for the rest of the day.

I have intermittent pain spikes at random in my head, neck and chest, but they're mild, short lived and have no obvious correlation with anything I'm doing at the time. I have told everyone what's happening, and my current limitations.

This came on while having a panic attack AND helping a new roommate move stuff that is far too heavy for me, so it isn't weird that it happened. I'm just sick of this fucking bullshit.
Shit, girl.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 30, 2020, 11:21:18 PM
I'm better for the ost part now, but my limbs have decreased in strength from "20 lbs maximum per hand" to "five might be overdoing it a little idk"

I tried to lift a duffel bag that had nothing but socks and a pack of cigarettes in it and my body told me that carrying it meant I had to lean over at a 45 degree angle and hold my arm at full extension. Which made it feel weightless, but tugging annoyingly at my fingers as I walked.

I don't know if I can get used to that, but apparently (yes my doctor is google shut up shut up) after a two to three week period I can use stairs again, so maybe it'll improve to my normal wimpiness instead of this super sucky sleepy poltergeist wimpiness.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: minuspace on July 30, 2020, 11:55:04 PM
This whole Altered having a bad heart thing does not sit well with me. Someone please make this better.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 31, 2020, 03:15:45 AM
3 more cases at work, for a total of 19, with two deaths.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 31, 2020, 03:17:51 AM
Waiting room is full.  Bovine19 seems to be RWHN. 
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 31, 2020, 06:54:08 AM
 :lulz: he's a COVID truther now???

Of course he fucking is
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on July 31, 2020, 07:38:08 AM
Worse than that, it's an attempted pun.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 31, 2020, 08:04:17 AM
He's really let himself go.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on July 31, 2020, 08:16:58 AM
Sorry to hear about Altered's heart troubles. Hope you can get the help you need.

Also it breaks my heart that we don't actually produce any scented candles, cuz these names are fucking GOLD.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on July 31, 2020, 08:19:21 AM
Also, hey QGP!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 31, 2020, 01:11:26 PM
I am also sorry about Altered's troubles.  Had my own scare a few years back, I know how it feels.

Altered, may I suggest you cue up Jethro Tull's "Too Old to Rock and Roll"?  It was what I needed.


Aside from that, I haven't had much to say in the last 4 years.   I have something to say now, though, once it's done percolating.  Sometime today, I think.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Bovine19 on July 31, 2020, 01:26:25 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 31, 2020, 03:17:51 AM
Waiting room is full.  Bovine19 seems to be RWHN.

What's a RWHN?

Greetings, how goes the day?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 31, 2020, 04:34:57 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 31, 2020, 01:11:26 PM
I am also sorry about Altered's troubles.  Had my own scare a few years back, I know how it feels.

Altered, may I suggest you cue up Jethro Tull's "Too Old to Rock and Roll"?  It was what I needed.


Aside from that, I haven't had much to say in the last 4 years.   I have something to say now, though, once it's done percolating.  Sometime today, I think.

For me, I just needed to get into a good fuck-you mindset to the people who kept putting me in fucked up health-destroying situations.

So I listened to Coal Chamber, the songs Rivals and One Step did what I needed. Mostly One Step.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 31, 2020, 07:58:57 PM
Altered: get your ass to a COVID test. Cardiac events in our age bracket are a potential symptom.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Johnny on July 31, 2020, 09:31:20 PM
Quote from: Bovine19 on July 31, 2020, 01:26:25 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 31, 2020, 03:17:51 AM
Waiting room is full.  Bovine19 seems to be RWHN.

What's a RWHN?

Greetings, how goes the day?

Good day sir, do you happen to have an opinion on DRUGS?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: minuspace on July 31, 2020, 10:42:05 PM
Some asshole with a Galaxy s9+ just connected to my Bluetooth and is spoofing WiFi at the studio. Color me impressed (fuck you, I HATE changing passwords)


ETA; landlord just got a new caretaker that also went through my mail... Thanks
Quote



"com.apple.bluetooth.sensorTracking.stateChanged" has been registered 23420 times - this may be a leak
Jul 31 13:46:11 XXX com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.AirPortBaseStationAgent): Service only ran for 5 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 5 seconds.


ETA: and then, when confronted, they obfuscate with piddle about IP addresses... PWNED


... added VPN auto connect and going for a run
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 31, 2020, 11:15:48 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 31, 2020, 07:58:57 PM
Altered: get your ass to a COVID test. Cardiac events in our age bracket are a potential symptom.

I will, but it's super unlikely to be that because of the sheer number of risk factors I have for cardiovascular problems (frankly it's surprising I didn't have one in Texas) and the specific cause (lifting and moving heavy stuff while having a freak-out panic attack for the third straight hour, in the sun).

When it comes to cardiac events, I am well above and beyond where I should be by my age. The smoking, the meat heavy diet, the stress. COVID should strike me dead to the ground instantly, and I have no other symptoms. I am tired by the normal amount, my rare coughs have obvious triggers (inhaling food for instance), and I have, if anything, more energy since I'm not wasting it doing tasks that require a lot of energy.

Again, I'll get the test. It's free here, after all. But I won't be worried.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Bovine19 on August 01, 2020, 12:34:04 AM
Quote from: The Johnny on July 31, 2020, 09:31:20 PM
Quote from: Bovine19 on July 31, 2020, 01:26:25 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 31, 2020, 03:17:51 AM
Waiting room is full.  Bovine19 seems to be RWHN.

What's a RWHN?

Greetings, how goes the day?



Good day sir, do you happen to have an opinion on DRUGS?

No?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: POFP on August 01, 2020, 01:57:37 AM
Quote from: Bovine19 on August 01, 2020, 12:34:04 AM
Quote from: The Johnny on July 31, 2020, 09:31:20 PM
Quote from: Bovine19 on July 31, 2020, 01:26:25 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 31, 2020, 03:17:51 AM
Waiting room is full.  Bovine19 seems to be RWHN.

What's a RWHN?

Greetings, how goes the day?



Good day sir, do you happen to have an opinion on DRUGS?

No?

I'm not gonna be cool until he does a FAT LINE OF WEED and proves he's cool.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on August 01, 2020, 02:27:03 AM
Quote from: PoFP on August 01, 2020, 01:57:37 AM
Quote from: Bovine19 on August 01, 2020, 12:34:04 AM
Quote from: The Johnny on July 31, 2020, 09:31:20 PM
Quote from: Bovine19 on July 31, 2020, 01:26:25 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 31, 2020, 03:17:51 AM
Waiting room is full.  Bovine19 seems to be RWHN.

What's a RWHN?

Greetings, how goes the day?



Good day sir, do you happen to have an opinion on DRUGS?

No?

I'm not gonna be cool until he does a FAT LINE OF WEED and proves he's cool.

You're just a shill for Big Cool.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Juana on August 01, 2020, 02:31:56 AM
Quote from: Bovine19 on August 01, 2020, 12:34:04 AM
Quote from: The Johnny on July 31, 2020, 09:31:20 PM
Quote from: Bovine19 on July 31, 2020, 01:26:25 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 31, 2020, 03:17:51 AM
Waiting room is full.  Bovine19 seems to be RWHN.

What's a RWHN?

Greetings, how goes the day?



Good day sir, do you happen to have an opinion on DRUGS?

No?
Hello newb, you're in for a bit of a trial.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Pergamos on August 01, 2020, 02:45:26 AM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on July 29, 2020, 07:50:14 AM
Hey guys, I'm back! 2020 has somehow failed to kill me thus far. should ask for my fucking money back.

recently got a new job producing spiritually themed candles for a local small business. Pays better and is safer than what i would have been doing before the pandemic, so i'm pretty happy with it. Also we make dick candles, which is still funny.

Spiritually themed dicks?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: POFP on August 01, 2020, 03:20:51 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 01, 2020, 02:27:03 AM
Quote from: PoFP on August 01, 2020, 01:57:37 AM
Quote from: Bovine19 on August 01, 2020, 12:34:04 AM
Quote from: The Johnny on July 31, 2020, 09:31:20 PM
Quote from: Bovine19 on July 31, 2020, 01:26:25 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 31, 2020, 03:17:51 AM
Waiting room is full.  Bovine19 seems to be RWHN.

What's a RWHN?

Greetings, how goes the day?



Good day sir, do you happen to have an opinion on DRUGS?

No?

I'm not gonna be cool until he does a FAT LINE OF WEED and proves he's cool.

You're just a shill for Big Cool.

I'm completely within my right to charge as much as I want for my Cool!   :argh!:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Bovine19 on August 01, 2020, 03:43:15 AM
Quote from: Juana on August 01, 2020, 02:31:56 AM
Quote from: Bovine19 on August 01, 2020, 12:34:04 AM
Quote from: The Johnny on July 31, 2020, 09:31:20 PM
Quote from: Bovine19 on July 31, 2020, 01:26:25 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 31, 2020, 03:17:51 AM
Waiting room is full.  Bovine19 seems to be RWHN.

What's a RWHN?

Greetings, how goes the day?



Good day sir, do you happen to have an opinion on DRUGS?

No?
Hello newb, you're in for a bit of a trial.

And tribulations?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: minuspace on August 01, 2020, 06:05:42 AM
Quote from: PoFP on August 01, 2020, 03:20:51 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 01, 2020, 02:27:03 AM
Quote from: PoFP on August 01, 2020, 01:57:37 AM
Quote from: Bovine19 on August 01, 2020, 12:34:04 AM
Quote from: The Johnny on July 31, 2020, 09:31:20 PM
Quote from: Bovine19 on July 31, 2020, 01:26:25 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 31, 2020, 03:17:51 AM
Waiting room is full.  Bovine19 seems to be RWHN.

What's a RWHN?

Greetings, how goes the day?



Good day sir, do you happen to have an opinion on DRUGS?

No?

I'm not gonna be cool until he does a FAT LINE OF WEED and proves he's cool.

You're just a shill for Big Cool.

I'm completely within my right to charge as much as I want for my Cool!   :argh!:


Cram, it's Friday...
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on August 01, 2020, 06:07:33 AM
Quote from: Pergamos on August 01, 2020, 02:45:26 AM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on July 29, 2020, 07:50:14 AM
Hey guys, I'm back! 2020 has somehow failed to kill me thus far. should ask for my fucking money back.

recently got a new job producing spiritually themed candles for a local small business. Pays better and is safer than what i would have been doing before the pandemic, so i'm pretty happy with it. Also we make dick candles, which is still funny.

Spiritually themed dicks?
i mean, yea, apparently. if you're into candle magic
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Johnny on August 01, 2020, 06:46:52 AM
Quote from: Bovine19 on August 01, 2020, 03:43:15 AM
Quote from: Juana on August 01, 2020, 02:31:56 AM
Quote from: Bovine19 on August 01, 2020, 12:34:04 AM
Quote from: The Johnny on July 31, 2020, 09:31:20 PM
Quote from: Bovine19 on July 31, 2020, 01:26:25 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 31, 2020, 03:17:51 AM
Waiting room is full.  Bovine19 seems to be RWHN.

What's a RWHN?

Greetings, how goes the day?



Good day sir, do you happen to have an opinion on DRUGS?

No?
Hello newb, you're in for a bit of a trial.

And tribulations?

Trails and intubations OWO
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on August 01, 2020, 07:19:03 AM
At what point do we just assume this is RWHN back for round three and threaten to sic the weed gangsters on him again
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on August 01, 2020, 12:43:14 PM
I mean, I've already assumed that. But I can see IP addresses, so that might be cheating
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on August 01, 2020, 05:16:38 PM
 :lulz:

Time to call up the weed gangsters with the location of RWHN's stash of illicit drug prevention stuff again
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on August 01, 2020, 11:26:13 PM
There's a minor twist in the plan to get a COVID test.

I can't leave the apartment.

I mean, without risking another heart attack or diving out a window. I'm on the third floor and there are no elevators.

Aside from that: good days so far. I'm recovering from my cardiac event after a minor hiccup yesterday (fucking can't even wash dishes!!!), the roommates are fun, I'm better with money management than they are (but no ones hurting), my PS4 and computers are all setup in a row.

Brain is moving a bit slower, I'm moving a bit slower, but I'm finally... not worried. My anxiety has dropped as low as it's been for over two years. Housing means stability means I can get work means continued housing and stability.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Juana on August 02, 2020, 12:16:31 AM
That is...a concern. Yikes. But! I'm glad you're less anxious and have the space to get shit done!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: minuspace on August 02, 2020, 12:45:32 AM
See, that's why I was all like "California."


...




But noooooooo.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Juana on August 02, 2020, 01:35:59 AM
Quote from: minuspace on August 02, 2020, 12:45:32 AM
See, that's why I was all like "California."


...




But noooooooo.
What in the fuck are you talking about
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: minuspace on August 02, 2020, 01:47:32 AM
Quote from: Juana on August 02, 2020, 01:35:59 AM
Quote from: minuspace on August 02, 2020, 12:45:32 AM
See, that's why I was all like "California."


...




But noooooooo.
What in the fuck are you talking about


How hard
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Juana on August 02, 2020, 03:05:09 AM
Quote from: minuspace on August 02, 2020, 01:47:32 AM
Quote from: Juana on August 02, 2020, 01:35:59 AM
Quote from: minuspace on August 02, 2020, 12:45:32 AM
See, that's why I was all like "California."


...




But noooooooo.
What in the fuck are you talking about


How hard
Why are you allowed
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on August 02, 2020, 06:15:55 AM
He's one of those humans that doesn't meet emissions code. Just dispose of him.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on August 02, 2020, 01:54:07 PM
More like a collapsed bee hive. Not so long ago he seemed much more coherent. Might have been one of those temporary illusions of order tho.

I fully agree that he needs to check his emissions.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Bovine19 on August 02, 2020, 03:40:36 PM
Quote from: minuspace on August 02, 2020, 12:45:32 AM
See, that's why I was all like "California."


...




But noooooooo.

And that's why I was all, "Idaho, Alaska"
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Don Coyote on August 02, 2020, 05:33:16 PM
gross someone shit poster is using a cow referencing username.
I hate you.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: minuspace on August 02, 2020, 06:17:55 PM
Quote from: Bovine19 on August 02, 2020, 03:40:36 PM
Quote from: minuspace on August 02, 2020, 12:45:32 AM
See, that's why I was all like "California."


...




But noooooooo.

And that's why I was all, "Idaho, Alaska"
For a second I was thinking Iowa, then I was all like Hawaii... Still wanna do that tho sometimes, I think its hereditary.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Juana on August 02, 2020, 07:41:00 PM
Quote from: altered on August 02, 2020, 06:15:55 AM
He's one of those humans that doesn't meet emissions code. Just dispose of him.
:lol:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on August 02, 2020, 11:03:13 PM
Quote from: Don Coyote on August 02, 2020, 05:33:16 PM
gross someone shit poster is using a cow referencing username.
I hate you.

It's drugs boy, back for round three of us telling the marijuana mafia where his dog goes to school so he can flame out spectacularly
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: minuspace on August 02, 2020, 11:49:49 PM
Again, I am impressed.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on August 03, 2020, 12:00:24 AM
A reminder for LuciferX:

Quote from: altered on July 13, 2020, 05:03:28 AM
Again, nobody fucking asked you. Not one fucking person even hinted at asking you. Instead, I'm going to give you a number of suggestions you can do instead of being here, you tiny moron fuck.

Change your password to a keyboard smash and log out.
Live in a dumpster.
Fist-fight a brown bear.
Cut your power cable.
Purchase and race a combine harvester.
Set your computer on fire (be sure to use a magnesium firestarter).
Eat twenty or more oranges in under 24 hours.
Go join the #discord IRC channel and find out where zlax and the other Nazicordians live these days.
Make a threat on this forum again so you can get banned.
Raise emus.
Climb a dead tree, without safety equipment, in a rainstorm.
Move to a remote Russian peninsula where you can't access the internet.
Live on a boat in the South China Sea.
Start a business adding pointless internet access capabilities to something that doesn't need and can't make use of them, i.e. Juicero.
Sell all of your worldly possessions, invest in Bitcoin, and wait for the market to rise.
Build a rocket to go into space so you can prove the earth is flat.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Bovine19 on August 03, 2020, 03:10:23 AM
You have to be careful with the emus, they get a little feisty when you try to pick them up. 
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Johnny on August 03, 2020, 06:21:41 AM
Quote from: Bovine19 on August 03, 2020, 03:10:23 AM
You have to be careful with the emus, they get a little feisty when you try to pick them up.

Im injecting krokodile into my veins ITT
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on August 03, 2020, 07:10:16 AM
Quote from: The Johnny on August 03, 2020, 06:21:41 AM
Quote from: Bovine19 on August 03, 2020, 03:10:23 AM
You have to be careful with the emus, they get a little feisty when you try to pick them up.

Im injecting krokodile into my veins ITT

Rank fucking amateur

Real addicts like me ran out of veins year ago and have taken to dripping it directly into the spinal column using nothing but a rusty nail welded to their water heater and an old garden hose connected to a bag of the good shit

They call it Prick Dicking and it's basically the bare fucking minimum to even be a krokodil hobbyist so stop faking it for internet rep
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: minuspace on August 03, 2020, 07:41:33 AM
Quote from: altered on August 03, 2020, 12:00:24 AM
A reminder for LuciferX:

Quote from: altered on July 13, 2020, 05:03:28 AM
Again, nobody fucking asked you. Not one fucking person even hinted at asking you. Instead, I'm going to give you a number of suggestions you can do instead of being here, you tiny moron fuck.

Change your password to a keyboard smash and log out.
Live in a dumpster.
Fist-fight a brown bear.
Cut your power cable.
Purchase and race a combine harvester.
Set your computer on fire (be sure to use a magnesium firestarter).
Eat twenty or more oranges in under 24 hours.
Go join the #discord IRC channel and find out where zlax and the other Nazicordians live these days.
Make a threat on this forum again so you can get banned.
Raise emus.
Climb a dead tree, without safety equipment, in a rainstorm.
Move to a remote Russian peninsula where you can't access the internet.
Live on a boat in the South China Sea.
Start a business adding pointless internet access capabilities to something that doesn't need and can't make use of them, i.e. Juicero.
Sell all of your worldly possessions, invest in Bitcoin, and wait for the market to rise.
Build a rocket to go into space so you can prove the earth is flat.


Yes, the power cable bit  :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Johnny on August 03, 2020, 08:35:07 AM
Quote from: altered on August 03, 2020, 07:10:16 AM
Quote from: The Johnny on August 03, 2020, 06:21:41 AM
Quote from: Bovine19 on August 03, 2020, 03:10:23 AM
You have to be careful with the emus, they get a little feisty when you try to pick them up.

Im injecting krokodile into my veins ITT

Rank fucking amateur

Real addicts like me ran out of veins year ago and have taken to dripping it directly into the spinal column using nothing but a rusty nail welded to their water heater and an old garden hose connected to a bag of the good shit

They call it Prick Dicking and it's basically the bare fucking minimum to even be a krokodil hobbyist so stop faking it for internet rep

Oh altered, you fell into my Trap Pun Card, you've been bamboozled and played like a fiddle, and now you're banished to the shadow realm - Do you even know how the locals call me?????
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KROKODILE JOHNNY - anyhow, where did i leave my feisty emu...

(Crocodile Dundee, if anyone missed it, WOOSH)
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Bovine19 on August 03, 2020, 01:19:38 PM
Quote from: The Johnny on August 03, 2020, 06:21:41 AM
Quote from: Bovine19 on August 03, 2020, 03:10:23 AM
You have to be careful with the emus, they get a little feisty when you try to pick them up.

Im injecting krokodile into my veins ITT

Snap!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Bovine19 on August 06, 2020, 01:43:36 PM
Has anyone else found the murder hornets thread of the pandemic mildly disappointing?  Way less murdery hornetting than was sold in the trailer!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on August 06, 2020, 02:21:08 PM
Quote from: Bovine19 on August 06, 2020, 01:43:36 PM
Has anyone else found the murder hornets thread of the pandemic mildly disappointing?

700,000 people have died from this pandemic.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on August 06, 2020, 03:39:14 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on August 06, 2020, 02:21:08 PM
Quote from: Bovine19 on August 06, 2020, 01:43:36 PM
Has anyone else found the murder hornets thread of the pandemic mildly disappointing?

700,000 people have died from this pandemic.

We're not even done with the prelude.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on August 06, 2020, 04:51:45 PM
Are we all just gonna sit here and ignore our assets?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Bovine19 on August 06, 2020, 04:58:11 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on August 06, 2020, 02:21:08 PM
Quote from: Bovine19 on August 06, 2020, 01:43:36 PM
Has anyone else found the murder hornets thread of the pandemic mildly disappointing?

700,000 people have died from this pandemic.

That's what happens when humans with the mental capacities of cucumbers are put in charge.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on August 06, 2020, 05:23:14 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 06, 2020, 04:51:45 PM
Are we all just gonna sit here and ignore our assets?

:? I don't know what you mean exactly.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on August 06, 2020, 09:54:27 PM
Today I learned that there is a lot of people who think the USSR were the good guys at the end of WWII and the Cold War, and I don't have the patience to tell them that they don't need to pick that side just because America is shit.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on August 06, 2020, 10:03:34 PM
Ah, tankies

I hate them
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on August 07, 2020, 04:23:30 PM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on August 06, 2020, 05:23:14 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 06, 2020, 04:51:45 PM
Are we all just gonna sit here and ignore our assets?

:? I don't know what you mean exactly.

Towards the end, RWHN began to refer to children as "our assets".
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on August 07, 2020, 06:54:49 PM
good god i forgot that shit
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on August 08, 2020, 03:28:57 AM
I have a specter of death haunting the other residents of my building, who invite a bunch of friends over without masks to bitch about the COVID hoax.

I'm wondering how best to tell him food has arrived without disrupting the Ominous Aura.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on August 08, 2020, 08:40:31 PM
Quote from: altered on August 08, 2020, 03:28:57 AM
I have a specter of death haunting the other residents of my building, who invite a bunch of friends over without masks to bitch about the COVID hoax.

I'm wondering how best to tell him food has arrived without disrupting the Ominous Aura.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on August 09, 2020, 03:29:30 PM
It's 95F in London. Everything is horrible and I want to die in a freezer.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on August 09, 2020, 04:23:26 PM
Saskatoon hit 34 C last week; this morning we're at +13, with today's forecast at 22.

Saskatchewan normally has screwy weather, but there's something off this year.  Y'know how beans are stupidly easy to grow?  I had a germination rate of about 50% and what came up isn't doing well.  On the other hand, my carrots often come up patchy, so I sometimes need to reseed some sections two or three times.  This year, they all came up beautifully, on the first planting, and are now threatening to invade the adjacent rows of onions.

I really should stop fertilizing them, for everyone's safety, but they said that if I did that, they would eat the neighbour's cat for nutrients
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on August 09, 2020, 04:28:11 PM
London's summer weather has been off as well. Last week was like 22C and overcast, as had most of the summer. But we get occasional days - or in this case, a whole week - where everything goes insane. It's been 95F from Friday and will be until this Friday, and we're also due to have serious thunderstorms from tomorrow onwards.

Usually there will be a thunderstorm at the end of a heatwave, but cocurrent with it, for multiple days? That just doesn't happen here.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Johnny on August 09, 2020, 10:15:28 PM
Quote from: Cain on August 09, 2020, 03:29:30 PM
It's 95F in London. Everything is horrible and I want to die in a freezer.

Thats disgusting even for mid-Mexico standards. I can easily bear up to 32C if the humidity is below 30%, but anything beyond that i just want to cry and hug an ice bag.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on August 09, 2020, 10:59:13 PM
I do best in the 40-60 F range (40 without wind, 60 with wind).

I spent about a week in the 100-105 F range in Texas. And I had to wear a hoodie outside, in the sun, cause of a skin condition.

It just isn't fair.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on August 10, 2020, 12:11:48 AM
Quote from: Cain on August 09, 2020, 03:29:30 PM
It's 95F in London. Everything is horrible and I want to die in a freezer.

*Laughs in 113F*

*died last week*
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on August 10, 2020, 12:14:17 AM
It might actually be that hot in London. Inbetween the urban heat island effect, the humidity and the fact everyone in this country is built to absorb and trap heat, I am willing to bet there is at least 5C on whatever is reported as the actual temperature.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Pergamos on August 10, 2020, 04:28:50 AM
In Washington it just didn't stop raining,  Usually it stops in July, it didn't.  We've had a little summer heat, and then it started raining in August too, which it really doesn't do.

Better than what you poor saps are getting, but still concerning.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Junkenstein on August 10, 2020, 03:09:35 PM
Currently working out of a cave.

The echoing laugh you hear in the distance is me.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on August 10, 2020, 03:26:01 PM
At least I know the thunderstorms are on their way. Should also rain overnight, which will help. The days aren't so bad, it's the nights that are killing me.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Bruno on August 11, 2020, 06:04:39 AM
Roger stone is coming to a church about 30 mile from my house. it's Pastor Greg Locke's church. You may have been unfortunate enough to have seen him on FB or some other interweb. He was recently noted for threatening "I'm going to take these work boots and I'm going to kick your teeth down your throat" to a Dunkin Donuts employee for telling him to wear a mask in his store. Which he then bragged about on his youtube.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2020/08/trump-loving-anti-mask-pastor-threatens-dunkin-donuts-employee-with-assault/

Christ, what an asshole.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on August 11, 2020, 06:12:51 AM
Quote from: Bruno on August 11, 2020, 06:04:39 AM
Roger stone is coming to a church about 30 mile from my house. it's Pastor Greg Locke's church. You may have been unfortunate enough to have seen him on FB or some other interweb. He was recently noted for threatening "I'm going to take these work boots and I'm going to kick your teeth down your throat" to a Dunkin Donuts employee for telling him to wear a mask in his store. Which he then bragged about on his youtube.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2020/08/trump-loving-anti-mask-pastor-threatens-dunkin-donuts-employee-with-assault/

Christ, what an asshole.

Every day the light
further dwindles from my eyes
Fuck off Roger Stone
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: LMNO on August 11, 2020, 10:09:29 PM
Quote from: Cain on August 09, 2020, 03:29:30 PM
It's 95F in London. Everything is horrible and I want to die in a freezer.

But hey, at least it's a wet heat.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Juana on August 11, 2020, 10:35:18 PM
That sounds like living in an armpit, Cain. Hope it cools down a bit!


My district is doing distance learning for the foreseeable future and I'll still be getting work, so now I have to make a work station in my tiny house. I found some shelves on Craigslist so I'll be able to use my vanity as a desk, at least.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on August 11, 2020, 11:00:28 PM
Some tree trimming service was working its way down the back alley, and it seems they snagged an overhead fiber optic line.  It's broken at the utility pole where my house is connected.

Since my internet hasn't gone out, I'm guessing that:

The connection to the head-end is somewhere to the west.
Several of the neighbors to the east will soon be very pissed, if they aren't already.
I'm likely to have a brief outage sometime in the next few days, when the repair guys show up.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on August 12, 2020, 01:30:29 PM
Quote from: LMNO on August 11, 2020, 10:09:29 PM
Quote from: Cain on August 09, 2020, 03:29:30 PM
It's 95F in London. Everything is horrible and I want to die in a freezer.

But hey, at least it's a wet heat.

I'm so glad Josh Ellis mentioned that on Facebook. He lives in a goddamn desert and he finds London's heatwave unbearable. So it's not just me here, not liking the heat like I do, it really is that bad.

Quote from: Juana on August 11, 2020, 10:35:18 PM
That sounds like living in an armpit, Cain. Hope it cools down a bit!

Apparently today will be the last of the worst of it. Tomorrow will drop below 30C and the thunderstorms will properly hit, then on Friday it will be about 25C during the day. After that, it's back to 22C days and 15C nights.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on August 12, 2020, 09:53:05 PM
Cain, the waiting room is full.

LOOKS like all bots, but I didn't want to zap any because I'm not entirely certain.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on August 12, 2020, 10:10:17 PM
Good call, they were all bots. I watched them piling up but it was too hot to do anything
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Elder Iptuous on August 13, 2020, 12:20:11 AM
Man. I'm feeling so thirsty for an -ism, lately!
Just mentally exhausted from the Shit Going On, and slogging through nuance and a lack of -ism fueled certainty.

It looks so tempting.  I see folks everywhere drinking their curriculum, and dining on channels, and they seem so satisfied...

Was hung mung ecstatic or despondent as he slapped his ass?  I used to be the former, but am currently feeling the latter.

Please advise.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on August 13, 2020, 02:46:42 AM
Quote from: Elder Iptuous on August 13, 2020, 12:20:11 AM
Man. I'm feeling so thirsty for an -ism, lately!
Just mentally exhausted from the Shit Going On, and slogging through nuance and a lack of -ism fueled certainty.

It looks so tempting.  I see folks everywhere drinking their curriculum, and dining on channels, and they seem so satisfied...

Was hung mung ecstatic or despondent as he slapped his ass?  I used to be the former, but am currently feeling the latter.

Please advise.

In 2020, you only have two choices:

(https://i.imgur.com/w2fW0Fa.jpg?1)

or

(https://i.imgur.com/yQQB0Km.jpg?1)

Or whatever the fuck this is

(https://i.imgur.com/KvwfR1L.jpg?1)
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on August 13, 2020, 03:30:07 AM
The only -ism left is schism.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on August 13, 2020, 04:50:40 AM
There's always katagelasticism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katagelasticism).
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on August 13, 2020, 05:13:30 AM
That's ME.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on August 13, 2020, 04:03:39 PM
Grrr, the storm has not started yet, even though it's super dark outside. It's still hot, though thankfully not as hot as it has been
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on August 17, 2020, 07:10:41 AM
its so hot here in CA i have been contemplating buying several bags of ice, tossing them in the tub and laying on them until a bath results.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on August 17, 2020, 01:20:56 PM
I've heard. Wasn't it predicted to be like 115F on the coast? Even with building for air flow and A/C, that's too hot. Like, Italians take into account heat and I've been in Rome when it's above 110F and it's still miserable.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on August 17, 2020, 03:15:32 PM
Welcome to Tucson, everyone!   :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: POFP on August 17, 2020, 03:31:14 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 17, 2020, 03:15:32 PM
Welcome to Tucson, everyone!   :lulz:

If you can't come to Tucson, Tucson will come to you.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: LMNO on August 17, 2020, 03:36:45 PM
Hey y'all, just got back from Montana.  The landshark menace has been beaten back for another year.

Now, I need to get a brain tickle and stay inside for 2 weeks.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on August 18, 2020, 08:55:54 AM
Some dipshit just rolled up in the glass door of the dojo. About my height and fairly built, upright posture. Wore a skully cap and long sleeve light jacket on a fine August night, gloves. Had himself a striker baton in his hand. I was sitting on the couch tucked up to the left of the door in the front room. A buddy of mine I had invited by was sitting more in sight from the door tucked up to the right.

Dude quickly realized my friend was sitting there as he played a video game and looked up. Motherfucker bolted. He was unmasked and clearly not expecting to see anyone. He was clearly dressed and prepped for a little game of smash and grab. Whoever he was he was fast enough to be gone by the time we got up and out the door, quiet enough that I caught no footfalls.

Despite seeing that some of the lights were on and looking like a pro or at least fairly smart amateur he expected nobody to be in or he would not have stepped up. I sold my car today. It has sat out front announcing my presence every night for weeks lights on or off. I'm certain this guy had a plan and was specifically targeting the dojo. The first time my car was gone from its usual place seems like a bit too strong of a coincidence. We made him, but only my friend got a clear look at his face. I don't think he was even aware of me as I remained still. My plan if he swung was to spread a blanket to hand on the couch to cover the glass as I was barefooted. The rest is whatever.

I have no reason to believe he will be back soon, but I suspect he might try a do over at some point if he spots all the lights out when my car never comes back. Some of the weapons and equipment are quite valuable on the right market.

I may just arrange a surprise for him if he does. I don't need much light. Gonna have an interesting conversation with the sensei come tomorrow.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on August 18, 2020, 07:59:43 PM
Apparently there's a wave of people seeking out trans women to brutalize them in public.

No one is doing anything to help them. Cops walking past laughing. And the trans community, largely extremely left wing, is saying "arm up and play like you're in a warzone".

So, since I'm in Chicago, and it's bad here and the weapon laws are insanely punitive, I just am not going to go outside anymore for any reason ever.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on August 18, 2020, 08:01:15 PM
To be clear, I've only been going out for food and necessities, and only during the day. But now I don't feel like even that's a good idea and I feel like my best bet is to not go anywhere at all.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on August 18, 2020, 08:41:22 PM
 :mad:

Times get bad and the opportunists are out in force. Sounds like the brown shirts have just learned to be metastic self directed cells instead of an organized formal heirarchy. God fucking damn it. Stay safe as well as you can altered.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: LMNO on August 18, 2020, 08:45:31 PM
Fuck, you just can't catch a break!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on August 19, 2020, 08:46:21 PM
So, I am being stalked by Ron Paul Weed XXX dude.

On the even creepier side, he now lives about 45 minutes away.

On the less creepy side, he's not actually scary and I don't care.

:lol:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on August 19, 2020, 10:17:36 PM
Just give him the gas face if you see him in real life, he'll spontaneously launch his intestines out through his toenails.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: LMNO on August 19, 2020, 10:30:09 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/UR7871f.gif)
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on August 19, 2020, 10:38:05 PM
Quote from: altered on August 19, 2020, 10:17:36 PM
Just give him the gas face if you see him in real life, he'll spontaneously launch his intestines out through his toenails.

If I meet him in real life, it's because he crossed 50 miles of desert to make it happen.

The gas face would at some point be involved, but would hardly be the entire process.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on August 19, 2020, 10:38:19 PM
Quote from: LMNO on August 19, 2020, 10:30:09 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/UR7871f.gif)

This is why I love the 80s.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on August 20, 2020, 07:49:57 PM
So, after hearing about Amazon doing a Wheel of Time TV series scheduled for release next year, I decided to re-read the Wheel of Time series.

AMA about braid-tugging or why shrilly scolding someone with the power to level a continent and is going insane is the best way to handle matters.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on August 20, 2020, 09:51:28 PM
Quote from: Cain on August 20, 2020, 07:49:57 PM
So, after hearing about Amazon doing a Wheel of Time TV series scheduled for release next year, I decided to re-read the Wheel of Time series.

AMA about braid-tugging or why shrilly scolding someone with the power to level a continent and is going insane is the best way to handle matters.

A kick in the nads is really the only reasonable course.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on August 20, 2020, 10:34:47 PM
This series would be 10,000 better if it were Matrim and Birgitte Drinking Adventures, with Talmanes as the sensible adult of the group. Actually, for the most part I can stand most of it except for

- Egwene. Just Egwegne
- Perrin and Faile's emotionally abusive relationship
- Every Aes Sedai in existence acting completely insufferably for idiot reasons
- Rand wangsting about women he's killed or caused to be killed, rather than worrying about going insane and the end of the world, which are legitimate concerns
- EVIL RED AJAH LESBIANS
- Everything to do with Rand's harem. Just...why?
- Thom spending like 4 books offscreen, doing nothing. Because that's not a complete waste of an awesome character.
- Sammael Sitting On His Illian Throne, doing the best Orcus impersonation possible by doing absolutely nothing right up until the moment Rand yeets him from the Pattern.
- For that matter all of The Forsaken, minus perhaps Demandred, being absolute morons.

And of course the inevitable slowing down of the plot, which I've hit through reaching book 8.

It does make me wonder though. A lot of the books work through individual character introspection and their inner voice narrating things. They can do a certain amount as exposition, of course, but that is going to be hard to translate into a series, no matter what. And a lot of things won't really make much sense without a very detailed picture of what the characters are thinking at a given time.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on August 21, 2020, 03:34:39 AM
In further "can't catch a fucking break" news:

My laptop probably needs RMA'd. GPU failure. Brand fucking new. I'm asking around for ways to sidestep this fucking issue, but I'm not making much headway yet. RMA seems to be the answer. GOD DAMNIT.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on August 21, 2020, 09:07:59 AM
Urgh. God damn laptops...they certainly don't seem to make them to last, though breaking while brand new is a new one on me.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on August 21, 2020, 09:35:36 AM
Also? In the time of COVID, RMA is not too different from throwing a laptop out with the awareness you'll get one for your next birthday.

So I'll be computerless for awhile... again. I'm hoping there's a different solution.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: LMNO on August 21, 2020, 06:20:37 PM
Quote from: LMNO on August 17, 2020, 03:36:45 PM
Hey y'all, just got back from Montana.  The landshark menace has been beaten back for another year.

Now, I need to get a brain tickle and stay inside for 2 weeks.

Brain got tickled.  24 hour turnaround.  Negative. 
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on August 21, 2020, 07:18:32 PM
The landshark menace is metasizing into a gang problem thanks to this fuckup

(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dhxc0kFsjOA/hqdefault.jpg)
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: LMNO on August 21, 2020, 07:28:53 PM
It was a tough year, to be sure.  The gang lost three horses to that fucking hammerhead.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on August 21, 2020, 10:09:59 PM
Best Buy are an Authorized Product Repair center for ASUS products, so I'm going to be dropping my computer off there soon. Probably today. I'll have my phone, but goddamnit.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: minuspace on August 22, 2020, 11:38:18 PM
I demand MIA
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on August 23, 2020, 12:32:35 AM
LuciferX needs to take a high dive head first into a dilapidated quarry.



In other news: Best Buy employee says I can expect them to junk out my tiny laptop after a couple weeks and give me credit toward a new one. And I'll just get another of the exact same one, honestly, because it's a gaming laptop with ten hours battery life and a weight less than 4 pounds, and I am the first person so far to have any SERIOUS issues with it.

(Mostly cosmetic crap and user error is common, no one has RMAd one for a GPU failure yet. Except me.)

(Also, I cant get over how handy it is to have something the total size of two 13" MacBooks duct taped together that can stream video and play retro games for ten hours on a single charge AND smash every benchmark through the ceiling once you plug it in.)

In the meantime, I have a tiny Surface Pro thing with two hours on a full charge of the battery, and my phone. So...
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on August 23, 2020, 10:47:44 AM
 :lulz:

Surface Pro died for good after... 3 hours of YouTube videos.

Yeah.

I'm having a good ol goddamn time now.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Juana on August 24, 2020, 11:13:52 PM
It's just one thing after another with you, jeez. ☹️


California continues to be smoky hell. We got a little rain last night, surprisingly, and it knocked some shit out of the air so it's not currently sunset honey gold at 3p like it has been for the last couple days. but that will not hold bc there's still not enough prison slaves to fight the umpteen fires, the valley is pretty much in a ring of fucking fire, and dry thunderstorms predicted for sacramento. 🙃 I need to move out of the state at the very least
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on August 28, 2020, 04:03:34 PM
Sometimes living in the future is fun.

I want to set up an outdoor temperature sensor, but (1) it can't be too close to the house, (2) I want it to be wired, and (3) I don't want to trip over the cable.  So I surfed youtube for a bit, starting out with horizontal boring augers, and somehow progressing to DIY hydraulic mining (https://youtu.be/eSGzFeze8dY?t=129).  Then I took a trip to Home Despot.

BOM:

10ft 1/2 in. conduit ($4.78)
    (Not pressure rated, but I'd rather pressurize conduit temporarily than run cable through a water pipe (even if it's just 2 mA at 5V)).

1/2 in. PVC cap ($0.93)
    (I cement this to one end of the conduit, and drill a small hole to make a "nozzle")

1/2 in. PVC threaded adapter ($0.48)
1/2 in. to 3/4 in. swivel adapter ($3.64)
    (These are to hook up the garden hose to the other end of the conduit)

Grey PVC cement ($6.20)
    (But no primer, because fuck you (https://www.plumbingsupply.com/the-great-pvc-primer-debate.html)).

So, after $16.03 (plus tax) and about 15 minutes of work in somewhat muddy conditions, I've run ten foot of conduit from a shady spot under a pine tree, beneath a brick wall, under a concrete-slab walkway, and out under the deck attached to the house.

That was way easier than it had any right to be.

Feel free to get all pedantic about how the evaporative cooling from the pine trees will affect measurement accuracy.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on September 01, 2020, 09:33:03 PM
I'm trying to find this gif... I know it originally came from SomethingAwful forums but it was seen here sometimes too

it was basically like this  :eek: <- but with one big eye, and it slowly got bigger and bigger and bigger


somebody must remember where to find this gem of a gif
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on September 01, 2020, 09:47:10 PM
(https://oi209.photobucket.com/albums/bb163/wompcabal/forum/ohsnap-1.gif)
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on September 01, 2020, 10:23:42 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on September 01, 2020, 09:33:03 PM
I'm trying to find this gif... I know it originally came from SomethingAwful forums but it was seen here sometimes too

it was basically like this  :eek: <- but with one big eye, and it slowly got bigger and bigger and bigger


somebody must remember where to find this gem of a gif

This is the original, if you can reverse image search might get it

(https://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-pwn.gif)
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on September 03, 2020, 04:54:37 PM
no luck, I'll probably have to dig up an old computer to find it. I swore I had it in the old wompvault.



DIFFERENT TOPIC

I'm halfway through HBO's Watchmen - this may be the best TV show I've seen in years

Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on September 03, 2020, 06:59:33 PM
It's a very interesting take, isn't it? I like that they went with a sequel, rather than just rehashing the comic - as much as I think Watchmen would work best as a televised miniseries I would prefer to watch something new - and this series was very new in several ways.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on September 03, 2020, 07:40:43 PM
yeah -- without spoiling anything ---

The way the show discusses the whitewashing of history, and how power structures morph and adopt their attackers tactics in order to preserve themselves ... it's a good telling of history, but it also feels prophetic



Like, look at this screenshot -- this was made in 2019! How did they capture feeling of 2020 so perfectly?
(https://specials-images.forbesimg.com/imageserve/5ee3c7128446ca0006e9e774/960x0.jpg?fit=scale)


The spirit of the Watchmen includes the whole narrative surrounding "good guys" and "bad guys" (the very bones of superhero fiction) always ends up twisting into a defense of state power and the status quo. Batman never actually fights wealth inequality, he fights its exaggerated cartoonish symptoms. Superman never fought the KKK. (except for on the old timey radio show (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gopZ2X4FUiM)) Most superhero fiction measleads us into thinking that crime comes from "bad guys" - and by doing that, it protects institutional failure and injustice.


SO GOOD

just a really smart and well-produced show
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on September 03, 2020, 07:57:05 PM
And in addition to all of that, it has Jeremy Irons chewing the scenery in a way that makes his stint as Rodrigo Borgia/Pope Alexander VI look restrained by comparison.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: LMNO on September 03, 2020, 09:25:58 PM
That was an AMAZING show.

If you're not watching "Lovecraft Country", you should.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on September 03, 2020, 09:50:19 PM
Quote from: Cain on September 03, 2020, 07:57:05 PM
And in addition to all of that, it has Jeremy Irons chewing the scenery in a way that makes his stint as Rodrigo Borgia/Pope Alexander VI look restrained by comparison.

True! But the peak of his acting career was clearly the D&D movie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOCGeOtjIHQ)


Quote from: LMNO on September 03, 2020, 09:25:58 PM
That was an AMAZING show.

If you're not watching "Lovecraft Country", you should.

Yeah I am absolutely putting that show into my face that as soon as I finish Watchmen

Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on September 05, 2020, 03:24:45 AM
I've contracted some sort of plague (possibly the plague it's own self, even though I've been obsessive, but I'll get to that) and feel so shitty today that I bowed out of some forum mafia games I'm in.

And it turns out that this roommate who moved in with my friend and I is just so far from a good fit that it's unreal, and as a result I AND my friend might end up homeless again if this fucker does what he's planning — planning without telling us, and playing the solid stonewall dipshit when we confront him about it.

He's selling his brand new TV and all his furniture to buy an RV. I.e., moving out.

We were not consulted. We have not been told about anything we have done. We were not ... anything.

How much not anything?

My friend was blocked from viewing the Facebook post about selling these things. He found out about it from his boyfriend. The post is up, we have confirmed it, but my friend was literally blocked from seeing it.

When confronted, he said he was only selling "knick-knacks" and he couldn't possibly know why my friend would be unable to see it. My friend gave up on pressing the matter. Which is foolishness, but I suppose unavoidable: If I had been pressing I might have ended up squeezing his lying eyeballs out.

If this kid moves out and refuses to pay his last month of rent (or fucks off right before it's due) we are utterly fucked, and cannot make rent. At that point we have no choice but a brittle smile, a quiet shrug, and moving out.

It's all I can do to not have a screaming meltdown at this disrespectful sociopathic bullshit. I haven't so much as said "hi" since I found out because it would come out as "fuck you".

And now I am seriously ill. Crohn's flare up, nausea that outdoes food poisoning, shakiness, exhaustion. No respiratory issues, but those aren't guaranteed anyway.

So let's say I have the plague somehow. I haven't left the apartment in a month.

How would I get it?

Fuckstick, that's how.

Dipshit goes out to hang out with friends and go browse at Wal-Mart all the time, never consulting or informing us beforehand. He's a massive spread risk and I am at high risk for contracting it.

If it turns out I have the 2020 Deathitis, I'm going to strangle this little monster with my last breath, I swear to fucking god, because we both told him a hundred times that his going out and playing like his little cloth mask is perfect protection is UNACCEPTABLE in this household.

We told him! If you aren't wearing MOPP-3 and decontaminating everything before you hit the stairs, you're putting my life at risk, particularly with a recent cardiac event and a history of smoking, and now I have an unknown and unknowable illness that I can't figure out how I could have contracted given I have been nowhere but my room, the kitchen and the bathroom in weeks. I'm livid and I'm too sick to take it out on anyone.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on September 05, 2020, 03:32:28 AM
Actually, sorry, I have been one place outside of the house in recent times: Best Buy, dropping off my busted laptop. I was wearing my respirator with N99 filters and nonvented goggles, and I slathered everything in hand sanitizer, changed my clothes and got a shower as soon as I returned.

I did not even have anyone get closer than 5 feet by /accident/ the entire time I was there, and the one invasion of my 6 foot bubble I held my breath for the duration of. (And that person was masked up like I was, thank god.)

My risk from Best Buy seems extremely small. Extremely. Meanwhile his cloth mask and unprotected eyes and hanging out at Walmart and in restaurants with friends seems absurdly high risk. So, you know.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Trivial on September 05, 2020, 05:24:41 AM
Fuck, kid's platelet count is lower than last years and it's still at the "we don't fucking know what's wrong" phase.


Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Juana on September 05, 2020, 05:30:05 AM
That's not good! :eek: how is the kid doing?

Quote from: altered on September 05, 2020, 03:32:28 AM
Actually, sorry, I have been one place outside of the house in recent times: Best Buy, dropping off my busted laptop. I was wearing my respirator with N99 filters and nonvented goggles, and I slathered everything in hand sanitizer, changed my clothes and got a shower as soon as I returned.

I did not even have anyone get closer than 5 feet by /accident/ the entire time I was there, and the one invasion of my 6 foot bubble I held my breath for the duration of. (And that person was masked up like I was, thank god.)

My risk from Best Buy seems extremely small. Extremely. Meanwhile his cloth mask and unprotected eyes and hanging out at Walmart and in restaurants with friends seems absurdly high risk. So, you know.
Eat him. If he tries to move out, eat him. Can you possibly start looking for another roommate whole he lies like the little coward he is?



On the note of the plague, my sister's in laws both have it, her husband has it, and my sister almost certainly has it, too. The MIL has been hospitalized, her FIL is at home, my BIL just has sore muscles and headaches, and she has a sore throat. 🙃 Hoping her MIL comes home soon and nobody else gets anything worse than the current symptoms.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Trivial on September 05, 2020, 07:44:53 PM
Well, he's fine, a very energetic 3 yr old. We don't know if we have a time bomb or if it's going to go down and up and he's just never going to be in a contact sport.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on September 06, 2020, 06:24:48 AM
Note to self for Tuesday:  The term your senile ass can't remember when you need it is "Acoustic emission spectroscopy".
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on September 07, 2020, 09:15:53 AM
Quote from: Trivial on September 05, 2020, 07:44:53 PM
Well, he's fine, a very energetic 3 yr old. We don't know if we have a time bomb or if it's going to go down and up and he's just never going to be in a contact sport.
I cant imagine the worry, at least he's comfortable, hopefully its one of those things that normalises over time
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Juana on September 07, 2020, 09:41:06 PM
Sister is is probably asymptomatic (she had a sore throat but, like, it's fire season). BIL still can't taste it smell, and as far as I know he's still sore and headachy.

The Creek fire is north east of me by like 30 miles and totally uncontrolled. Ash is coming down like the first flurries of snow, though not as much as yesterday. We're okay at least. Fires don't usually make it down to the valley floor from the mountains and I don't actually recall that happening in the 23 years I've lived here.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on September 09, 2020, 09:04:01 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 06, 2020, 06:24:48 AM
Note to self for Tuesday:  The term your senile ass can't remember when you need it is "Acoustic emission spectroscopy".

Apparently, this shit is so new nobody is doing it yet.

So much for "non-destructive testing," fire up the fucking band saw.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Juana on September 09, 2020, 11:07:08 PM
Quote from: Juana on September 07, 2020, 09:41:06 PM
Sister is is probably asymptomatic (she had a sore throat but, like, it's fire season). BIL still can't taste it smell, and as far as I know he's still sore and headachy.

The Creek fire is north east of me by like 30 miles and totally uncontrolled. Ash is coming down like the first flurries of snow, though not as much as yesterday. We're okay at least. Fires don't usually make it down to the valley floor from the mountains and I don't actually recall that happening in the 23 years I've lived here.
Update: sister tested negative for the Rona! 🎉 the Creek fire is a freak and also like 21 miles from me. ☹️
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on September 11, 2020, 03:23:25 AM
I owe Howl a hate letter still, but while I started the first draft today, I've scrapped it and will not be starting a new one.

Why?

My laptop will be returned to me within the week, as in "I probably pick it up Sunday or Monday", and I'm going to have ever so much more fun typing on that little bastard than fighting with mobile keyboards and tiny screens.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on September 11, 2020, 04:03:19 AM
Quote from: altered on September 11, 2020, 03:23:25 AM
I owe Howl a hate letter still, but while I started the first draft today, I've scrapped it and will not be starting a new one.

Why?

My laptop will be returned to me within the week, as in "I probably pick it up Sunday or Monday", and I'm going to have ever so much more fun typing on that little bastard than fighting with mobile keyboards and tiny screens.

No hurry, I know you're good for it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Trivial on September 11, 2020, 05:20:35 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 09, 2020, 09:04:01 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 06, 2020, 06:24:48 AM
Note to self for Tuesday:  The term your senile ass can't remember when you need it is "Acoustic emission spectroscopy".

Apparently, this shit is so new nobody is doing it yet.

So much for "non-destructive testing," fire up the fucking band saw.

I thought it was something my husband used at his previous job and found I was very wrong.

From how it's described I hope it means I can figure out what something is made of by yelling at it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on September 11, 2020, 03:40:26 PM
Quote from: Trivial on September 11, 2020, 05:20:35 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 09, 2020, 09:04:01 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 06, 2020, 06:24:48 AM
Note to self for Tuesday:  The term your senile ass can't remember when you need it is "Acoustic emission spectroscopy".

Apparently, this shit is so new nobody is doing it yet.

So much for "non-destructive testing," fire up the fucking band saw.

I thought it was something my husband used at his previous job and found I was very wrong.

From how it's described I hope it means I can figure out what something is made of by yelling at it.

:lol:

More along the lines of "Make the thing yell at YOU."
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on September 11, 2020, 09:20:44 PM
THE LAPTOP RETURNS. FUNCTIONAL. WITH ONLY SOME MINOR SMUDGES.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: minuspace on September 11, 2020, 11:33:18 PM
 :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on September 12, 2020, 08:41:27 AM
Alright I'm moving today so if Boris Johnson could not blow up any more international treaties before, say, 1400, that would be appreciated.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on September 12, 2020, 02:34:07 PM
OK, all moved, please proceed with destroying any lingering vestiges of respect for the UK.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on September 12, 2020, 03:46:53 PM
Quote from: Cain on September 12, 2020, 02:34:07 PM
OK, all moved, please proceed with destroying any lingering vestiges of respect for the UK.

*yells to someone off-camera* HE'S ALL SET, BOYS. BACK TO WORK.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on September 12, 2020, 09:56:45 PM
They probably won't break anything more until the Sunday morning interviews anyway. Saturday is usually a slow news day in the UK regardless.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on September 14, 2020, 04:00:52 PM
They see me rollin'...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qHCwWpuISU&feature=youtu.be

:lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on September 14, 2020, 04:44:50 PM
Sir, do you have any idea how fast you were shitting?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: minuspace on September 14, 2020, 10:25:14 PM
Up next, shit rolls uphill.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Da6s on September 17, 2020, 06:02:49 AM
Like two weeks ago I brought shame upon my family and discovered I actually enjoy Twitch. Specifically, I stumbled into the wide world of live DJ streaming sets, both individuals and clubs. Here's one example that some of you heathens may enjoy: https://www.twitch.tv/faithintheglitch (https://www.twitch.tv/faithintheglitch) . This guy actually did a set last night for the 25 year anniversary of Hackers.

Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Johnny on September 17, 2020, 06:36:08 AM
Quote from: Da6s on September 17, 2020, 06:02:49 AM
Like two weeks ago I brought shame upon my family and discovered I actually enjoy Twitch. Specifically, I stumbled into the wide world of live DJ streaming sets, both individuals and clubs. Here's one example that some of you heathens may enjoy: https://www.twitch.tv/faithintheglitch (https://www.twitch.tv/faithintheglitch) . This guy actually did a set last night for the 25 year anniversary of Hackers.

Recently Facebook banned live music streaming and DJing... so its actually legal in Twitch???

I thought in Twitch they were banning people left and right for copyright infringement on music? Or is that just when they use it as background music while playing games?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Da6s on September 18, 2020, 02:18:18 AM
Quote from: The Johnny on September 17, 2020, 06:36:08 AM
Quote from: Da6s on September 17, 2020, 06:02:49 AM
Like two weeks ago I brought shame upon my family and discovered I actually enjoy Twitch. Specifically, I stumbled into the wide world of live DJ streaming sets, both individuals and clubs. Here's one example that some of you heathens may enjoy: https://www.twitch.tv/faithintheglitch (https://www.twitch.tv/faithintheglitch) . This guy actually did a set last night for the 25 year anniversary of Hackers.

Recently Facebook banned live music streaming and DJing... so its actually legal in Twitch???

I thought in Twitch they were banning people left and right for copyright infringement on music? Or is that just when they use it as background music while playing games?

Streams with copyright music just have sections blocked off silent on the recordings. Still allowed live.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Bovine19 on September 18, 2020, 06:12:25 PM
Quote from: minuspace on September 14, 2020, 10:25:14 PM
Up next, shit rolls uphill.

"I don't think you understand the gravity of this situation sir!"
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Pope Pixie Pickle on September 18, 2020, 07:11:53 PM
hey folks!

how is everyone?

I'd tell you all how I'm doing but it might take too long to explain.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on September 18, 2020, 08:50:17 PM
Quote from: Pope Pixie Pickle on September 18, 2020, 07:11:53 PM
hey folks!

how is everyone?

I'd tell you all how I'm doing but it might take too long to explain.

HOLY SHIT PIXIE IS BACK

How many englishmen have you beheaded this year
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Trivial on September 18, 2020, 09:13:32 PM
Hmm, wondering if moving to Czech republic is a good idea. Well, for someone how has no f'n clue about the language.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on September 18, 2020, 09:18:09 PM
I mean, I had no problems when I was on holiday there.

If you like cheap, good beer, suspiciously German/Hungarian food, defenestration and Russian spies there are few places better.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on September 19, 2020, 12:53:09 AM
Quote from: Trivial on September 18, 2020, 09:13:32 PM
Hmm, wondering if moving to Czech republic is a good idea. Well, for someone how has no f'n clue about the language.

Aren't you from Finland? What's wrong there right now?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on September 19, 2020, 12:57:25 AM
What's right? Winter is coming. There's only two things to do in winter in Finland, drive over the border to purchase cheap Russian alcohol, and get absolutely hammered.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: minuspace on September 19, 2020, 01:01:23 AM
Quote from: Bovine19 on September 18, 2020, 06:12:25 PM
Quote from: minuspace on September 14, 2020, 10:25:14 PM
Up next, shit rolls uphill.

"I don't think you understand the gravity of this situation sir!"
"That's classified"
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Trivial on September 19, 2020, 02:12:57 AM
Quote from: altered on September 19, 2020, 12:53:09 AM
Quote from: Trivial on September 18, 2020, 09:13:32 PM
Hmm, wondering if moving to Czech republic is a good idea. Well, for someone how has no f'n clue about the language.

Aren't you from Finland? What's wrong there right now?

No, I'm in the US. I don't have enough of anything to claim citizenship elsewhere though.

Honestly I'd take Finland. I'm close to Canada, but I'm not sure that's far enough away.

Czech thing came up on a tech support call.  TV station over there didn't know how to computer.  Had me wondering if I can pull enough strings on the client to get a job there, but you know, the whole getting there.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on September 19, 2020, 05:08:11 AM
honestly i'm considering buying a houseboat because a) its probably cheaper than a house and b) maybe once day i'll go out to sea and "wind up" in Canada
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on September 19, 2020, 07:40:38 AM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on September 19, 2020, 05:08:11 AM
honestly i'm considering buying a houseboat because a) its probably cheaper than a house and b) maybe once day i'll go out to sea and "wind up" in Canada

You gotta watch out for those Victoria pirates.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on September 19, 2020, 09:28:45 AM
I have no hope of leaving, so I'm gearing up to die absolutely disgracefully.

And reality wants to give me a head start: the unit below us, being renovated, has a gas leak. A big, stinky gas leak.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Pope Pixie Pickle on September 19, 2020, 10:05:49 AM
Quote from: altered on September 18, 2020, 08:50:17 PM
Quote from: Pope Pixie Pickle on September 18, 2020, 07:11:53 PM
hey folks!

how is everyone?

I'd tell you all how I'm doing but it might take too long to explain.

HOLY SHIT PIXIE IS BACK

How many englishmen have you beheaded this year

not enough.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on September 19, 2020, 10:29:45 AM
Yeah, noted.

You need to start a contest. I'm sure you can convince your neighbors to join in. Find some wood axes and chainsaws in the back of the shed, and so forth. You can get creative with it. You can get others creative with it. Add an "inventiveness" category, a "style" category, a "hold my pint" category...
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on September 19, 2020, 12:37:44 PM
Quote from: Pope Pixie Pickle on September 18, 2020, 07:11:53 PM
hey folks!

how is everyone?

I'd tell you all how I'm doing but it might take too long to explain.

:wave: hiya pix!!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on September 19, 2020, 05:12:44 PM
HI PIX!  :tgrr:  <--- this is how I smile now
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on September 20, 2020, 02:00:46 PM
...now?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on September 20, 2020, 02:03:46 PM
you know, it's funny -- little bit of forum history about this smiley: (https://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/Smileys/default/roglol.gif)


the filename is roglol.gif


the reason is because, in my first year on the forum, you made some comment about how the smiley guy is you.

I saved it and gave it that filename during some WOMP project where I was grabbing smileys for some other purpose. So Roglol is Roger Lolling.

At some point, a bunch of forum stuff got corrupted and I handed my archive of emotes to Faust... so now it has the name I gave it in like 2008.

(https://media.tenor.com/images/c03871be254b962313ed474b1b5c7872/tenor.gif)
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on September 28, 2020, 09:23:57 AM
Had to have the brain tickled, thankfully came back negative, but it was three days of being locked in a room away from herself and the baby, which is a lot of hard work.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: MMIX on September 29, 2020, 04:49:47 PM
Quote from: Faust on September 28, 2020, 09:23:57 AM
Had to have the brain tickled, thankfully came back negative, but it was three days of being locked in a room away from herself and the baby, which is a lot of hard work.

Glad your brain isn't ticklish. It would leave us poor suuferers even deeper in the shit . . .
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on September 29, 2020, 05:24:29 PM
I felt pretty dumb when I went up for it, I thought they just swab the inside of your cheek, its quite invasive, still better to know sooner than spend two or more weeks of uncertainty  otherwise
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: MMIX on September 29, 2020, 06:20:30 PM
Can't be too careful when you have sprogs. Also, since its covid, wanting to make it past Xmas is an important consideration
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on September 29, 2020, 08:21:56 PM
Quote from: Faust on September 29, 2020, 05:24:29 PM
I felt pretty dumb when I went up for it, I thought they just swab the inside of your cheek, its quite invasive, still better to know sooner than spend two or more weeks of uncertainty  otherwise

It's not that bad.

I mean, if you're old like me and your nerves stopped working in 2006.

Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on September 29, 2020, 08:22:39 PM
Unrelated:

I had never before realized that the Grateful Dead had two drummers, and thus twice the loneliness and despair.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on September 30, 2020, 09:28:48 AM
It shouldnt have been so bad, but it turned out what I had was a sinus infection so they jabbed the source of the fun
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Trivial on September 30, 2020, 04:56:53 PM
Actual work discussion:
"We should take the debate and feed it to the AI captioner.  I want to see what it spits out. Maybe we can use it as a stress test"
"Sure if you want to depress it"
"Or if you want the server to explode"
"Maybe it'll become sentient and destroy everything?"
"I'm not into making skynet"
"Eh, we deserve it"
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: minuspace on October 03, 2020, 12:57:58 PM
So about to prolly lose home of 14 years n a bit. In case anyone was wondering why I wasn't being my normal self shitting the place and all.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Johnny on October 03, 2020, 01:30:27 PM
Quote from: minuspace on October 03, 2020, 12:57:58 PM
So about to prolly lose home of 14 years n a bit. In case anyone was wondering why I wasn't being my normal self shitting the place and all.

You're like a worse version of Fujikoma, I doubt anyone here has any sympathy left for you.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: minuspace on October 03, 2020, 09:36:54 PM
Quote from: The Johnny on October 03, 2020, 01:30:27 PM
Quote from: minuspace on October 03, 2020, 12:57:58 PM
So about to prolly lose home of 14 years n a bit. In case anyone was wondering why I wasn't being my normal self shitting the place and all.

You're like a worse version of Fujikoma, I doubt anyone here has any sympathy left for you.


This is why I just bring it
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: minuspace on October 03, 2020, 10:25:26 PM
 :fap:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on October 06, 2020, 04:32:13 AM
hey y'all. Roommate recently moved out of our one bedroom apartment, which means I get the bedroom as opposed to the living room. Problem is, the property manager literally did not read the 30 day notice my roommate left which read that I would be remaining in the apartment, listed me as a former tenant and nearly fucked up my ability to pay rent. My sister who works as a social worker was able to scare them into accepting my rent payment, but they've also decided that they now need to verify my income to see if i can afford rent, even as I've already afforded rent. I normally make about 2400/month, but they want someone who makes 3x the rent, which is a whopping 3228/month. I dunno what they intend to do if I cant make that, since I'm fairly certain an eviction ban is currently in effect in my area, but with this gang of dick trippers, anything is possible.

adding to this shit salad is the fact that my boss is cutting back my hours due to the fact that me and my coworker have made and dipped so many candles that we have more than we can sell in the foreseeable future. SIGH.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on October 06, 2020, 04:15:53 PM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on October 06, 2020, 04:32:13 AM
hey y'all. Roommate recently moved out of our one bedroom apartment, which means I get the bedroom as opposed to the living room. Problem is, the property manager literally did not read the 30 day notice my roommate left which read that I would be remaining in the apartment, listed me as a former tenant and nearly fucked up my ability to pay rent. My sister who works as a social worker was able to scare them into accepting my rent payment, but they've also decided that they now need to verify my income to see if i can afford rent, even as I've already afforded rent. I normally make about 2400/month, but they want someone who makes 3x the rent, which is a whopping 3228/month. I dunno what they intend to do if I cant make that, since I'm fairly certain an eviction ban is currently in effect in my area, but with this gang of dick trippers, anything is possible.

adding to this shit salad is the fact that my boss is cutting back my hours due to the fact that me and my coworker have made and dipped so many candles that we have more than we can sell in the foreseeable future. SIGH.

What happened is they got embarrassed by their mistake and you must pay for that.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on October 06, 2020, 09:19:47 PM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on October 06, 2020, 04:32:13 AM
hey y'all. Roommate recently moved out of our one bedroom apartment, which means I get the bedroom as opposed to the living room. Problem is, the property manager literally did not read the 30 day notice my roommate left which read that I would be remaining in the apartment, listed me as a former tenant and nearly fucked up my ability to pay rent. My sister who works as a social worker was able to scare them into accepting my rent payment, but they've also decided that they now need to verify my income to see if i can afford rent, even as I've already afforded rent. I normally make about 2400/month, but they want someone who makes 3x the rent, which is a whopping 3228/month. I dunno what they intend to do if I cant make that, since I'm fairly certain an eviction ban is currently in effect in my area, but with this gang of dick trippers, anything is possible.

adding to this shit salad is the fact that my boss is cutting back my hours due to the fact that me and my coworker have made and dipped so many candles that we have more than we can sell in the foreseeable future. SIGH.

Get your state attorney general on the line, you have rights as an existing tenant and they are trying to fuck you.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on October 07, 2020, 05:35:05 AM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on October 06, 2020, 09:19:47 PM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on October 06, 2020, 04:32:13 AM
hey y'all. Roommate recently moved out of our one bedroom apartment, which means I get the bedroom as opposed to the living room. Problem is, the property manager literally did not read the 30 day notice my roommate left which read that I would be remaining in the apartment, listed me as a former tenant and nearly fucked up my ability to pay rent. My sister who works as a social worker was able to scare them into accepting my rent payment, but they've also decided that they now need to verify my income to see if i can afford rent, even as I've already afforded rent. I normally make about 2400/month, but they want someone who makes 3x the rent, which is a whopping 3228/month. I dunno what they intend to do if I cant make that, since I'm fairly certain an eviction ban is currently in effect in my area, but with this gang of dick trippers, anything is possible.

adding to this shit salad is the fact that my boss is cutting back my hours due to the fact that me and my coworker have made and dipped so many candles that we have more than we can sell in the foreseeable future. SIGH.

Get your state attorney general on the line, you have rights as an existing tenant and they are trying to fuck you.
Yeah i figure that since this company sells all its other one bedrooms at about 500 bux per month more than I'm currently paying, they were hoping they could "accidently" kick me out of my place and then jack up the rent on the next poor sap. FML
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on October 08, 2020, 09:46:17 PM
Don't have much time and can't catch up the forum, but I will be staying in Gundersen Health Systems' finest COVID psych ward accomodations for an indefinite period of time voluntarily. Still waiting on fast test results to come back to know for sure, but mass COVID exposure happened because some fingerlicking shit knuckle decided to not wear a mask for 1.5 weeks.

I wish COVID would
Step on up 'an throw down
In my personal hood.
This virus can come heavy
This virus can creep light
I my Siblings intend to
Fight fight fight.

Sweet little COVID
Had best kill me
For this whole life
Will have a PHD
In virology

And all the antibodies I ever need to proceed with The Work.

Howl let's see who wins first. I will try to tame or cure Sars cov2. And you keep trying to shatter the galaxy with that femtolaser, whatever that is.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: minuspace on October 09, 2020, 05:50:34 AM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on October 06, 2020, 04:32:13 AM
hey y'all. Roommate recently moved out of our one bedroom apartment, which means I get the bedroom as opposed to the living room. Problem is, the property manager literally did not read the 30 day notice my roommate left which read that I would be remaining in the apartment, listed me as a former tenant and nearly fucked up my ability to pay rent. My sister who works as a social worker was able to scare them into accepting my rent payment, but they've also decided that they now need to verify my income to see if i can afford rent, even as I've already afforded rent. I normally make about 2400/month, but they want someone who makes 3x the rent, which is a whopping 3228/month. I dunno what they intend to do if I cant make that, since I'm fairly certain an eviction ban is currently in effect in my area, but with this gang of dick trippers, anything is possible.

adding to this shit salad is the fact that my boss is cutting back my hours due to the fact that me and my coworker have made and dipped so many candles that we have more than we can sell in the foreseeable future. SIGH.
What with the moratorium on evictions in different states my estimate is no judge would see or ever even sign some shit like that until at least like February. That's the story I tell myself from sites like this in CA httxx://landlordtenant.dre.ca.gov/tenant/protection_guidelines.html (http://httxx//landlordtenant.dre.ca.gov/tenant/protection_guidelines.html)
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Fujikoma on October 09, 2020, 07:33:19 PM
I'm worried about people, I'm going to shut up now.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on October 16, 2020, 05:11:01 PM
I spiked a 101.5 temperature today in 45 minutes.

The good news is my stomach is in an uproar, so it looks like a stomach flu rather than the plague.

That's where we are:  "Thank god I have the shits."
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Junkenstein on October 16, 2020, 07:17:23 PM
That's the perfect slogan for the horrible times. It sets the tone of the new age nicely.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on October 17, 2020, 07:31:54 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 16, 2020, 05:11:01 PM
I spiked a 101.5 temperature today in 45 minutes.

The good news is my stomach is in an uproar, so it looks like a stomach flu rather than the plague.

That's where we are:  "Thank god I have the shits."
That sucks Dok. Hope it all turns out alright
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on October 17, 2020, 08:28:24 PM
The Shits are a potential symptom. Get Thine Brain Swabbed.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on October 18, 2020, 05:51:35 AM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on October 17, 2020, 08:28:24 PM
The Shits are a potential symptom. Get Thine Brain Swabbed.

Fever gone, shits gone.  I'm thinking it was that bastard flu, but I had my shot and I seem to have shaken it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on October 18, 2020, 10:18:00 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 18, 2020, 05:51:35 AM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on October 17, 2020, 08:28:24 PM
The Shits are a potential symptom. Get Thine Brain Swabbed.

Fever gone, shits gone.  I'm thinking it was that bastard flu, but I had my shot and I seem to have shaken it.

Strangely coincidental that it should happen at the same time the authorities stepped in and shut down the doomsday project
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on October 19, 2020, 02:59:28 PM
somehow, MY toilet is clogged ???

Thanks a lot, Dok

I'm not even mad, I'm impressed.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on October 19, 2020, 03:58:26 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on October 19, 2020, 02:59:28 PM
somehow, MY toilet is clogged ???

Thanks a lot, Dok

I'm not even mad, I'm impressed.

Dok has recently been experimenting with non-local phenomena.

I don't understand exactly what "non-local" means, but quantum tunnelling allows objects to poop out of existence at one place, and poop back into existence elsewhere.  The probability of such an event decreases rapidly with increasing mass and distance, but it never quite reaches zero.

No one is safe.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on October 19, 2020, 05:38:05 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on October 19, 2020, 03:58:26 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on October 19, 2020, 02:59:28 PM
somehow, MY toilet is clogged ???

Thanks a lot, Dok

I'm not even mad, I'm impressed.

Dok has recently been experimenting with non-local phenomena.

I don't understand exactly what "non-local" means, but quantum tunnelling allows objects to poop out of existence at one place, and poop back into existence elsewhere.  The probability of such an event decreases rapidly with increasing mass and distance, but it never quite reaches zero.

No one is safe.

One day, I will clog everyone's toilet.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Trivial on October 20, 2020, 06:19:36 AM
Relative of my boss got covid and the only symptom he has so far is lack of taste.  Smell is ok.  So he's going around trying things and reporting what they are like, apparently bananas are gross now, coffee is ok.

Now he's wants to try Malort, because maybe it's better this way.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on October 20, 2020, 04:49:00 PM
I've always thought bananas were gross and coffee is OK.

Oh god, have I had covid my entire life?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Johnny on October 20, 2020, 05:35:50 PM
Quote from: Cain on October 20, 2020, 04:49:00 PM
I've always thought bananas were gross and coffee is OK.

Oh god, have I had covid my entire life?

Always has been.

Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on October 20, 2020, 06:28:43 PM
Turned out I had influenza.  I'm better now.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on October 21, 2020, 02:35:58 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 20, 2020, 06:28:43 PM
Turned out I had influenza.  I'm better now.

I'm glad you're okay.

But, when you discover a group of first-graders playing hide-and-seek in the Pentagon War Room, your relief at confirming that they weren't there to spy on the Big Board should be tempered with concern over the security lapse that made it possible for them to get in there in the first place.

If you could catch the flu, you can catch the plague.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on October 21, 2020, 04:07:32 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on October 21, 2020, 02:35:58 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 20, 2020, 06:28:43 PM
Turned out I had influenza.  I'm better now.

I'm glad you're okay.

But, when you discover a group of first-graders playing hide-and-seek in the Pentagon War Room, your relief at confirming that they weren't there to spy on the Big Board should be tempered with concern over the security lapse that made it possible for them to get in there in the first place.

If you could catch the flu, you can catch the plague.

I can always catch the plague.  I've taken sensible precautions, but it all comes down to a lottery.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: POFP on October 21, 2020, 04:34:23 PM
We had a customer who had Sales Reps with Printer issues, where their Receipt Printer wouldn't print after each transaction. It's almost undoubtedly a hardware issue, but I figured I'd cover my company's ass (We do the Software, not Hardware.).

Normally, the Service Desk would take this kind of issue, but this one somehow made its way to me (I designed their OS, so any issues the Service Desk can't solve quickly come to me.). I figured: "Fuck it, I'm gonna have fun with it, then."  :lol:

(https://i.ibb.co/JxzGPfF/PLEASE-HELP-AM-STUCK-IN-PRINTER.png)
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: POFP on October 21, 2020, 05:56:49 PM
Quote from: PoFP on October 21, 2020, 04:34:23 PM
We had a customer who had Sales Reps with Printer issues, where their Receipt Printer wouldn't print after each transaction. It's almost undoubtedly a hardware issue, but I figured I'd cover my company's ass (We do the Software, not Hardware.).

Normally, the Service Desk would take this kind of issue, but this one somehow made its way to me (I designed their OS, so any issues the Service Desk can't solve quickly come to me.). I figured: "Fuck it, I'm gonna have fun with it, then."  :lol:

(https://i.ibb.co/JxzGPfF/PLEASE-HELP-AM-STUCK-IN-PRINTER.png)

:lulz: :lulz:

THEY SENT A PICTURE RESPONSE:

(https://i.ibb.co/JnFZ888/HELP-PRINTER-STUCK.jpg)

- Doing my part to make this world weirder.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on October 21, 2020, 06:07:43 PM
thank you for your service  :fnord: :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: POFP on October 21, 2020, 06:53:30 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on October 21, 2020, 06:07:43 PM
thank you for your service  :fnord: :lulz:

I may or may not have the access to send custom messages like these to thousands of similar printers across all major US Airports overnight without interrupting any business, and the corporate political sway to brush off complaints about such an operation if I'm discovered.

Currently taking recommendations on custom messages (Must be SFW obviously).
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Johnny on October 21, 2020, 08:04:00 PM

The only good thing that has come out of the election shitfest, was some insult made by some random republican: by calling Democrats "DemonicRats".  :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on October 21, 2020, 09:22:24 PM
Quote from: PoFP on October 21, 2020, 06:53:30 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on October 21, 2020, 06:07:43 PM
thank you for your service  :fnord: :lulz:

I may or may not have the access to send custom messages like these to thousands of similar printers across all major US Airports overnight without interrupting any business, and the corporate political sway to brush off complaints about such an operation if I'm discovered.

Currently taking recommendations on custom messages (Must be SFW obviously).
"The man in the brown jacket is not to be trusted, if he uses the phrase 'Borealis', you must leave immediately. Destroy this and do not let him know you are aware"
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: POFP on October 22, 2020, 02:54:25 AM
Quote from: Faust on October 21, 2020, 09:22:24 PM
Quote from: PoFP on October 21, 2020, 06:53:30 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on October 21, 2020, 06:07:43 PM
thank you for your service  :fnord: :lulz:

I may or may not have the access to send custom messages like these to thousands of similar printers across all major US Airports overnight without interrupting any business, and the corporate political sway to brush off complaints about such an operation if I'm discovered.

Currently taking recommendations on custom messages (Must be SFW obviously).
"The man in the brown jacket is not to be trusted, if he uses the phrase 'Borealis', you must leave immediately. Destroy this and do not let him know you are aware"

:lulz:  :lulz:

I think I thought of a way to milk this long term. Instead of sending it to all of them (We'll keep that in our back pocket for a rainy day), we can target the Self-Checkout machines and send random messages throughout the year without any employees finding out.

Also:

"If you are seeing this message, you have been Chosen. However an imposter has received a similar message, but they have been informed of who you are. Defeat them and you will be rewarded with unprecedented riches, and 100 lbs of flax.

No refunds, and you MUST take the flax.

No flax, no riches.



Even if you lose, you should take the flax. It's in Terminal B Gate 5.

For the love of God, PLEASE take the Flax."
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on October 23, 2020, 12:27:40 PM
Went in to the hospital because of plausible CoV2 exposure. Apparently one of the ass hats that lives above the dojo had been positive and largely asymptomatic for 1.5 weeks or so and never once wore a mask. Random encountered him Friday two weeks ago when I went out for a smoke at 4am. He was sitting in his car for some reason. Glad there was a cross breeze and I kept my ever expanding distance as he described his behavior at my gentle questioning. The whole upstairs dormatory shares air ducts, a hallway, and two bathrooms with poor ventilation and light. It's fucked. Fortunately indeed the dojo is on its own airway system. I had to go get tested. My efforts to secure the dojo have required me to expand influence on the block. Casual contacts are just part of the Game, though I was careful about actual physical contact.

It was recommended after I passed the rapid test that I voluntarily get into Behavioural Health when my hypomanic symptoms apparently provoked a drug screen at urgent care and came up negative for stimulants. I consented. This was undoubtedly the best decision I have made in a decade at least. You guys never knew me on a proper dose of lithium and a mood stabilizer. Like a failspag I stopped taking it in 2009 or so. Figured I could handle it. It damn near killed me a few short years ago and was driving me to mania in a time of global crisis.

*ahem*

I was wrong.

Fortunately now with 'm brain juices set right my mind feels clearer and MUCH faster if anything absent the bipolar static in my signal. It's like when you finally flush and change the oil in an engine long neglected and filthy, or pull that nasty hunk of hair and horror from a slow draining bathtub. Lithium fucks some people right up and hollows other folks out. To me it's that good ass synthetic motor oil I have been missing for so long I FORGOT what healthy function looked like.

The sensei wants me out of the dojo over winter by Nov 1. I have no idea how that will work out, but work out it will. My network of friends and favors owed is extensive and my talents feel newly sharpened in a mind feeling so keen that I am still adjusting to it.

TLDR: The ST let me do a deep RP sesh and buy off some of my nastier mental disads. We're playing on God Mode difficulty now and still in the pregame. Fortunately I have a LOT of XP banked up. 8)
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on October 23, 2020, 03:09:25 PM
I'm glad to hear the meds are helping stablise your moods. As you say, mania and a global pandemic are not a great mix.

I hope you figure something out re: living arrangements. Not much of a deadline to sort things out.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on October 23, 2020, 04:32:45 PM
Quote from: Cain on October 23, 2020, 03:09:25 PM
I'm glad to hear the meds are helping stablise your moods. As you say, mania and a global pandemic are not a great mix.

I hope you figure something out re: living arrangements. Not much of a deadline to sort things out.

Yeah. I am quite good at urban survival, but I would rather be on about my education and projects, especially with 'Rona running all over the place. It's more likley that I will strike a bargain with a close friend in the short term and the LaCrosse county and city have a very strong tradition of social programs as a sort of one time reboot. I will have a county social worker by Monday. Might spend the weekend of Halloween into early November in Racine. Essentially I am looking to set up shop in both areas. There is a fair amount of housing sitting vacant in the neighborhood and I can continue to expand influence on the block and watch over the dojo if I can get set up like a block away.

I have VERY little stuff, and so my mobility is pretty high. Some can sit in the dojo basement effectively indefinitely. I'll be fine. I kind like me a challenge anyway.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Fujikoma on October 25, 2020, 02:25:52 PM
Just a passing thought, but have Trump cultists gone too far? I mean it not in the way it may appear at first glance, I mean, is it ok to view our friends and family that we've since cut ties with over fanatical endorsement of a lying shitbag narcissist, as victims of a cult mentality and welcome them back as though everything is ok once all this is said and done? Or is the root of betrayal so deep that there can be no healing from it? I know what I think and feel about it, I'm just curious how others view it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Johnny on October 25, 2020, 05:18:44 PM
Quote from: Fujikoma on October 25, 2020, 02:25:52 PM
Just a passing thought, but have Trump cultists gone too far? I mean it not in the way it may appear at first glance, I mean, is it ok to view our friends and family that we've since cut ties with over fanatical endorsement of a lying shitbag narcissist, as victims of a cult mentality and welcome them back as though everything is ok once all this is said and done? Or is the root of betrayal so deep that there can be no healing from it? I know what I think and feel about it, I'm just curious how others view it.

We're nowhere near a point where "all has been said and done", election night might just be the beginning.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Fujikoma on October 25, 2020, 05:26:45 PM
Very true. Wishful thinking on my part most likely.

EDIT: Wanted to thank you, TheJohnny, for not shitting on my head for wishfully thinking. Your thoughtful and reasonable response is enough to get me to recognize my own error. We'll have to see what happens on and after election day. There are some who believe Trump is a symptom of a larger disease, I happen to think they're correct. It's silly of me to think the disease is going away with one symptom treated.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on October 25, 2020, 08:31:09 PM
What would be the point in welcoming people back if they do not realise the magnitude of their error? Forgiveness without a recognition of doing wrong is just licence for future similar acts
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Bruno on October 27, 2020, 09:28:34 PM
I haven't cut ties with any relatives over Trump even though the vast majority of them do support him. I already knew they were a bunch of stupid ignorant hicks. That's why I moved out of that county 30 years ago. Of all the friends I've made since then, I don't think any of them are Trump supporters. Apparently, growing up in Dumbfuck County gave me idiot radar that's swole AF, at least for that specific kind of idiot.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Johnny on October 27, 2020, 09:37:54 PM

I think that a person supporting Trump is just a symptom of deep rooted bad qualities... one does not develop such degenerate fetish overnight.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Fujikoma on October 27, 2020, 11:20:46 PM
Well, I keep thinking about what I've read about cults, and it's not necessarily the dumb and/or ignorant who get wrapped up in that manner of thinking. Some educated people have been sucked in by cult mentalities and encouraged to alienate friends and family until the cult is all they have left. After this alienation, if I recall correctly, pride can keep them from admitting they were in the wrong (after all, who wants to face that kind of shame?), as well as fear, what if they beg forgiveness and are rejected? Then they have nothing, no cult, no friends, no family.

Of course, I'm starting from the cult perspective, that's really the only thing that can explain my mom and stepdad being wrapped up in that dumb shit to me. Maybe they've just been dumbass monster truck fans their whole lives and I never realized it, somehow.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on October 28, 2020, 02:01:38 PM
Quote from: Fujikoma on October 27, 2020, 11:20:46 PM
Well, I keep thinking about what I've read about cults, and it's not necessarily the dumb and/or ignorant who get wrapped up in that manner of thinking. Some educated people have been sucked in by cult mentalities and encouraged to alienate friends and family until the cult is all they have left. After this alienation, if I recall correctly, pride can keep them from admitting they were in the wrong (after all, who wants to face that kind of shame?), as well as fear, what if they beg forgiveness and are rejected? Then they have nothing, no cult, no friends, no family.


This also explains Kentucky weddings.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Fujikoma on October 29, 2020, 01:23:54 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 28, 2020, 02:01:38 PM
This also explains Kentucky weddings.

Which also explains sister-cousins.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Trivial on October 29, 2020, 04:25:08 PM
I got my dad posting more human things after I snuck on and blocked Brietbart and Praeger U in his account. It sorta fixed the fb algorithm for what he'd see.  His posts and shares were still conservative-ish-business-religion stuff, but like human and not angry.  Also fairly anti-trump every now and then especially regarding coronavirus stuff. There was a brief relapse over that statue then, but then it was back to the usual.

But now.

Abortion babyparts omg murder. LawnORDER

Dammit

Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Fujikoma on October 29, 2020, 04:59:13 PM
The irony being that part of Trump's treatment plan for Covid-19 was based on research using baby parts... or so I recall reading. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on October 29, 2020, 05:01:41 PM
Yup, that's correct.

And Facebook and Youtube radicalising people for ad revenue...in a just society the people responsible for those algorithms would be hung by their thumbs.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Johnny on October 29, 2020, 06:21:35 PM

And here we are, radicalising ourselves for free, what are we even doing?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on October 29, 2020, 06:26:31 PM
Quote from: The Johnny on October 29, 2020, 06:21:35 PM

And here we are, radicalising ourselves for free, what are we even doing?
Like a bunch of goddamn suckers.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Bovine19 on October 29, 2020, 09:24:46 PM
Quote from: The Johnny on October 27, 2020, 09:37:54 PM

I think that a person supporting Trump is just a symptom of deep rooted bad qualities... one does not develop such degenerate fetish overnight.

Correct.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Johnny on October 30, 2020, 12:56:49 AM
Quote from: Bovine19 on October 29, 2020, 09:24:46 PM
Quote from: The Johnny on October 27, 2020, 09:37:54 PM

I think that a person supporting Trump is just a symptom of deep rooted bad qualities... one does not develop such degenerate fetish overnight.

Correct.

Ah yes, thanks for reminding me to add you to ignore list, off you go!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Fujikoma on October 30, 2020, 01:05:20 AM
Wait, why does he/she get ignored and not me? Nevermind, maybe I don't want the answer. I mean, an echo chamber is boring and not the slightest bit enlightening or enabling of discussion. Bovine has only 20 posts, I haven't studied their other posts, so I can't attest to their quality or lack of quality, maybe it's simply that you don't want a one word response?

Eh, whatever, I, kinda-sorta agree with your quoted statement, The Johnny. but I agree in that some of these things are fixed points in the human condition, like tribalistic thinking, us vs. them thinking, shun the other sort of thing. This happens enough over the course of history, and assuming the pattern holds, prehistory, to be an established, instinctual manner of problem-solving. Instincts aren't always right, especially not right when you have millions of people packed into concrete structures like sardines. City folk have adapted to diversity, people with miles between neighbors may lag behind.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Fujikoma on October 30, 2020, 01:27:08 AM
My father though, my earliest memories were of him giving me a beer and yelling at the TV "Run "n-word" run!" as we watched NFL. He was due for a humbling. While he never lived in a big city, over the course of his life he slowly realized the error of his ways, but, you know, fourty years of life passes in the blink of an eye and by the time he passed away he was a hardcore socialist, anti-racist and supporter of legal marijuana, which, he had been a probation officer in a small Texas town and had a reputation as the worst one to get assigned to.

It's hard to carry the weight of sin that my father carried, he eventually knew it was wrong. Watching him grow as I grew was, well, I guess a sign to me that we don't stop growing until we're dead. He wasn't a great role model, he wasn't even a good one, but he was a human being who would eventually realize they fucked up, and instead of trying to hide it, would own up to it and strive to be better. I hated him when I was a kid, but I respect him now because it takes a lot to just turn your back on doubling down on being right, instead smearing shame on your face for the sake of being actually right.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Johnny on October 30, 2020, 05:09:34 AM
For whom i refuse to waste time on:

1) Adversarial people with an intellectual disability.

2) Racists, totalitarians and zealots of any kind.

For whom sometimes i have the patience for:

1) The "mentally ill"

2) The unwillingly ignorant that either are not sealioning, or im so bored out of my mind that i dont care

My cognitive and emotional fuel can only go so far, when not only im trying to help friends and patients keep it together in the pandemic, but also trying to do all the work pertaining to the writing of a book.

I really dont give a FUCK about one-liners that go nowhere, add nothing and arent even clever... i sometimes give a fuck about peoples issues online but that is entirely dependent on my relation to them, because it is, after all, even more emotional labour.

I also dont need a speech about "echo chambers", diversity, instincts and tribalistic thinking with the addition of a slice of life short story to prove your point.

People that dont contribute anything but expect to take regardless, are miserable and parasitic, and dont deserve even the privilege to be read.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on October 30, 2020, 01:54:33 PM
Quote from: The Johnny on October 30, 2020, 05:09:34 AM
For whom i refuse to waste time on:

1) Adversarial people with an intellectual disability.

2) Racists, totalitarians and zealots of any kind.

For whom sometimes i have the patience for:

1) The "mentally ill"

2) The unwillingly ignorant that either are not sealioning, or im so bored out of my mind that i dont care

My cognitive and emotional fuel can only go so far, when not only im trying to help friends and patients keep it together in the pandemic, but also trying to do all the work pertaining to the writing of a book.

I really dont give a FUCK about one-liners that go nowhere, add nothing and arent even clever... i sometimes give a fuck about peoples issues online but that is entirely dependent on my relation to them, because it is, after all, even more emotional labour.

I also dont need a speech about "echo chambers", diversity, instincts and tribalistic thinking with the addition of a slice of life short story to prove your point.

People that dont contribute anything but expect to take regardless, are miserable and parasitic, and dont deserve even the privilege to be read.

All of that.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on October 30, 2020, 01:55:20 PM
Quote from: Fujikoma on October 30, 2020, 01:05:20 AM
Wait, why does he/she get ignored and not me? Nevermind, maybe I don't want the answer.

Okay.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Johnny on October 30, 2020, 06:18:15 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 30, 2020, 01:55:20 PM
Quote from: Fujikoma on October 30, 2020, 01:05:20 AM
Wait, why does he/she get ignored and not me? Nevermind, maybe I don't want the answer.

Okay.

He made several assumptions in those last two posts, which i find comical, but i was on a good mood.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Fujikoma on October 30, 2020, 07:49:23 PM
I see. I'll likely have to read that a few dozen times to make sure I understand what's being communicated, but regardless, it wasn't my intent to be irritating (at least, not there, it usually isn't save every now and then). I suppose some things just come naturally for me. Point taken that nobody wants a slice of life or certain explanations. In hindsight most, if not everyone here understands those concepts, probably better than I do. I'll try to keep that in mind before making any more posts, though I may slip at times.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Johnny on October 30, 2020, 08:12:43 PM

There's two main forms of expression, either you vomit out your thoughts or you have an intent at communication.

Nobody likes thought vomit. A friend will tolerate it and help you clean it up. Someone who is indifferent will think, what the fuck is this, and move on. Your adversaries will mash your face against it. Therapists are the PAID clean-up crew. Then theres rare cases where researchers can make some use for it.

Then theres communication which can either have a constructive or malicious intent. Communication with malicious intent is just about getting a reaction out of somebody.

In short, you, and some other people i dont care to mention, are for all practical matters, vomit covered sealions.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Fujikoma on October 30, 2020, 11:13:48 PM
Point taken, I will seriously consider this. I can kind of see where you're coming from so already partway to giving it some serious thought.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on October 31, 2020, 05:21:54 AM
One thing you can do is recognize your hostility for what it is, and stop.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Fujikoma on October 31, 2020, 05:52:19 AM
I'll hostility your vacuum collapse. You didn't think about me or anyone else, just that sweet, sweet payoff.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Fujikoma on October 31, 2020, 06:14:50 AM
Nevermind, obviously that was satire and I was trying to play into the joke. Can you point out how I'm hostile? I'd like to know because I don't see it from here, but that doesn't mean I don't react in a hostile fashion, like, previously, ugh.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Johnny on October 31, 2020, 09:46:34 AM

Simping for the woman that was:

1. Being passive-agressive
2. Expressing irresponsible and ignorant advice
3. Arguing with someone with experience with psychiatric medication, and others with master's level expertise on the field.

Also, simping for RHWN's alt account:

1. Whom is a boot-licking fascist lap-dog.
2. Is an enthusiastic shill for not only the drug war, but also the prison industry.
3. Has a mental disability that gives him a compulsion to do kindergarden level puns and one-liners.
4. Which is the central cause of 500 or so pages of drug threads and waste of human hours (and oxygen, btw).

Also:

-Pestering Altered, if i recall correctly
-Getting weird on Dok
-Telling me im "afraid" of "novel points of view" and that "im stuck in an echo chamber"
-Derailing threads with nonsense
-Sealioning to get me to write this, i guess

So you alternate between small plateaus of insight and human speak, just enough to bait everyone and then right away dive into the depths of the valley of shitposting.

Really i shouldnt even bother writing all of this out, but this is a testament to how bored i am, how i over-analyze things, and well, a reminder of how people that cant regulate their emotions are incapable of having a good discussion or conversation. Cause its not about ideas after all isnt it? Its just about getting off in the most short-sighted way you can muster.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on October 31, 2020, 11:22:40 AM
This is why I do bad things when Fujikoma starts to tickle me the wrong way, Johnny. I am terminally bored and I have so much free time. I can devise and execute complicated plans to make Fujikoma dance around all funny in public for me and then I have passed significant amounts of time and have been rewarded for doing so.

You should consider evil. It really is more rewarding.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Fujikoma on October 31, 2020, 11:50:30 AM
As far as arguing with the woman who was giving bad advice:

I have psychological problems, so I have experience with those wtf moments when shit goes upside down. She does too apparently. Being disenchanted with the history of psychiatry is completely understandable, given my own experiences. That said, I believe in the current state of psychiatry, I trust my psychiatrist and I take my pills everyday, and I've expressed before that I think it's irresponsible not to. I've heard horror stories though, and I can't blame everyone for not being immediately on-board with every aspect of psychiatry and sometimes looking for solutions outside the box. I recognize how dangerous that is and that in an ideal world, we'd all just trust our doctors and give it a try, that said, the abuses of the past are still fresh in memory and not at all distant from us. It sucks that trust has been damaged so much, but I respect why it has. Almost every one of my posts was stressing the importance of trusting your doctor, but it's really hard sometimes and I can show respect for someone who doesn't trust the experts without being a "simp", a simp is someone who expects something in return and is such a tired word, like the right wing throwing the word "cuck" around. I said many times that things aren't like they once were and to trust the people who went to school for a long time to know what the actual fuck they're talking about.

RWHN: Didn't know I'd been defending him, but based on what I've read it's very wrong. Was likely a knee-jerk response to seeing everyone relentlessly shit on anyone with a slightly different opinion, but in his case he deserves no respect or patience, I can see why that would upset someone and didn't realize I'd done that. The point is taken and that sometimes I need to shut up and just let the adults handle things when issues like that crop up. There's really not a good excuse for coming to the defense of someone like that, so I'll admit that was one of many serious fuckups on my part.

Altered: Didn't mean to pester Altered. I like Altered's posts, even though some of them are especially venomous. I mean it when I say I wish the best for Altered and I get worried when Altered doesn't post for a while. Sure Altered spammed my email account with some weird spam-mail, and when that happened it hit me that she was really upset and that she might step it up a notch if I upset her further, I chose to remove myself from the equation for then because I have people and situations I deeply care about and someone's grudge over the internet was not something I wanted to feed into. That's not the hill I wanted to die on, in other words.

Doctor Howl: Of all the things I regret, one of the ones I regret the most is antagonizing Howl. Howl has posts of substance and I enjoy reading them. The Billy thread is one of the major things that keeps me coming back and reading. I may not always agree with his thoughts or manner of communication, but I read his posts because I like the way he expresses himself. There's really no excuse for me antagonizing Howl in the past, beyond some childish shit like "He started it!" when really he didn't and I deserved the shit I got from him.

In all, I can see how I've shat the bed, and hoping people will graciously sweep it under the rug yet again is asking a bit much... hell, when I started posting here a decade ago I was a shit-eating Libertarian tool, I've grown since then, in no small part thanks to the pushback I experienced here. I find myself wondering if I'd have the same views if I hadn't stuck my toe in the waters and experienced the bubbly swarming of pirhanas. But as has been pointed out to me, there are people who simply take, and then there are people who give back. I must admit I have no idea how to give back in such a community. Not exactly equipped well enough intellectually to do much other than crack a few jokes hopefully people don't take the wrong way.

I appreciate your responses, Johnny. I know you likely didn't want a few paragraphs of mind-vomit but that's the only way I know how to express my thoughts. I'll work on that as things progress.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Fujikoma on October 31, 2020, 12:44:33 PM
But no, I don't sea-lion, that's where you're actually %100 wrong. There's no bad faith here. I do read, I do listen, I do carefully consider. I won't lick your butthole but I will hear what you have to say and spend a while digesting it. It won't be immediate, sadly. It will be something I stew on and consider from multiple angles, something I test out, something I keep at the back of my mind during all interactions, before it eventually sinks in. Rome wasn't built in a day, but evidence suggests it can burn in one.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: MMIX on October 31, 2020, 12:48:17 PM
James Bond is dead -
sorry to interject IRL shit :(
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Fujikoma on October 31, 2020, 12:56:48 PM
Shit, which James Bond? Did he get lazered from crotch to face? If not Howl hasn't been doing his job. Sorry, respect for the dead, which one?

EDIT: Apparently live and let die didn't work out.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: MMIX on October 31, 2020, 02:04:37 PM
Quote from: Fujikoma on October 31, 2020, 12:56:48 PM
Shit, which James Bond? Did he get lazered from crotch to face? If not Howl hasn't been doing his job. Sorry, respect for the dead, which one?

EDIT: Apparently live and let die didn't work out.
There is only one - but some call him Connery, Sean Connery . . .
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Fujikoma on October 31, 2020, 02:23:55 PM
Oh fuck... He will be missed.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on October 31, 2020, 03:09:19 PM
Quote from: MMIX on October 31, 2020, 02:04:37 PM
Quote from: Fujikoma on October 31, 2020, 12:56:48 PM
Shit, which James Bond? Did he get lazered from crotch to face? If not Howl hasn't been doing his job. Sorry, respect for the dead, which one?

EDIT: Apparently live and let die didn't work out.
There is only one - but some call him Connery, Sean Connery . . .

He was a good age, but still hurts, it will be Diamonds are Forever or Goldfinger tonight if we can get the sprout to stay in her bed.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Fujikoma on October 31, 2020, 04:04:36 PM
I will miss him. I don't know what to say other than I loved his thick accent. What did him in anyway?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on October 31, 2020, 04:06:31 PM
Unknown. He'd apparently been ill for some time, and he was also 90, so it could be any number of things.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on October 31, 2020, 09:08:36 PM
I think Trump might have had Sean Connery killed

(https://i.imgur.com/lyrAfsm.png)
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on October 31, 2020, 09:54:47 PM
Quote from: Cain on October 31, 2020, 09:08:36 PM
I think Trump might have had Sean Connery killed

(https://i.imgur.com/lyrAfsm.png)

The lone survivor sat shivering from blood loss and fatigue as his CO tried once again to get a coherent debriefing. The mission parameters had allotted for high casualties but nobody had been prepared for near total losses. Of 12 brave men only this last remained, and not much of him at that. The only mission record was the suprisingly easy ingress to the British black site where Connery had been housed while recieving the Queen's own longevity treatments. The orders were shoot on sight, but the point man had understandably hesitated on seeing Connery lying in stately repose. It was all that had been necessary for the knight to turn his oxygen mask into a flamethrower and strike a panic button. All comms and reportedly all electronic devices had immediately malfunctioned. The entire team had proven grossly unprepared for hell to open up beneath them.

"CAN YOU CONFIRM TERMINATION OF THE TARGET??"

The CO spat as the sole survivor continued to look distant and vaguely shook his head, wincing from the hand-shaped tissue damage he had suffered there.

The decision was made to report the "death" through the usual channels anyway. Nobody involved could afford to acknowledge the events of the 30th of October 2020, not even The Crown.

May God have mercy on us all.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on November 01, 2020, 03:21:29 AM
Well, I turned 52 today.

Which means I've been in this fucking place for EIGHTEEN YEARS.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Fujikoma on November 01, 2020, 03:30:19 AM
Somewhat longer than I have, but I don't really count my earlier years because I was dumber then than I am now. Happy Birthday, Howl. I'm still dumb and nobody wants me here, fuck that, birthday time.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on November 01, 2020, 03:38:17 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 01, 2020, 03:21:29 AM
Well, I turned 52 today.

Which means I've been in this fucking place for EIGHTEEN YEARS.

Happy birthday. This place is definitely much richer for your participation. I hope you choose to do as I intend to do and keep on dancing the PD shuffle until the lights go out.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on November 01, 2020, 04:39:00 PM
Congrats, your PD account is now old enough to go fight in Afghanistan.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Johnny on November 02, 2020, 11:36:51 AM

Its making me irrationaly angry all this stupid talk about "second wave" of the plague in Mexico.

The 1st wave never ended just cause its an eternal plateau, if anything its a slowly rising flood.

Now, Italy and Belgium, those aint "second waves" those are fucking TSUNAMIS.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on November 02, 2020, 02:46:33 PM
Quote from: Fujikoma on November 01, 2020, 03:30:19 AM
Somewhat longer than I have, but I don't really count my earlier years because I was dumber then than I am now. Happy Birthday, Howl. I'm still dumb and nobody wants me here, fuck that, birthday time.

Your birthday wishes to me that somehow became about you are appreciated.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on November 02, 2020, 03:07:27 PM
Happy Birfday, Dok

Did you get any opportunity to celebrate? birthdays are weird, this time around.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on November 02, 2020, 03:17:32 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on November 02, 2020, 03:07:27 PM
Happy Birfday, Dok

Did you get any opportunity to celebrate? birthdays are weird, this time around.

My wife and I spent the day together, at home.

I'm okay with that.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: TheAudience on November 02, 2020, 05:31:59 PM
Happy Birthday Dok! I'm wishing you the best!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Fujikoma on November 02, 2020, 07:05:32 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 02, 2020, 02:46:33 PM
Quote from: Fujikoma on November 01, 2020, 03:30:19 AM
Somewhat longer than I have, but I don't really count my earlier years because I was dumber then than I am now. Happy Birthday, Howl. I'm still dumb and nobody wants me here, fuck that, birthday time.

Your birthday wishes to me that somehow became about you are appreciated.
Of course Dok, glad you enjoyed your birthday. May you have many more.

EDIT: I drank like a fish and pissed a lot of people off to celebrate.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Pergamos on November 02, 2020, 11:59:17 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 02, 2020, 03:17:32 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on November 02, 2020, 03:07:27 PM
Happy Birfday, Dok

Did you get any opportunity to celebrate? birthdays are weird, this time around.

My wife and I spent the day together, at home.

I'm okay with that.

Those can be the best birthdays.  Congratulations on making it another time around the sun.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on November 03, 2020, 03:47:58 PM
Found out last night that Rona has a grip on my best friend and one remaining love on this soggy, rotten pringle of a world. But hey, maybe it will spare her a horrible cancer death from constant tetraflouroborate poisoning. This world can get fucked. I do believe I shall do some of the fucking my damn myself.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Fujikoma on November 03, 2020, 04:56:43 PM
It terrifies me that a close friend of mine might catch Covid... not only is she vulnerable, because her system hasn't in the past reacted well to illness, but a close and dear family member of hers is vulnerable as well. TWJ I seriously hope your friend's case is one of those cases that is recovered from easily. I'll pray for your friend, but God typically does whatever she feels appropriate. I wish I could offer more, but I'm helpless when it comes to this plague, or, just about anything.

I only mention my own fear of this virus as a way of communicating that I understand how overwhelming and horrible all this is. I don't know what I'd do if I were in your shoes...
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on November 03, 2020, 06:49:38 PM
Banned from Facebook for 30 days.
Banned from Twitter for 12 hours.

Good start to election day over here.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Pope Pixie Pickle on November 06, 2020, 08:30:23 PM
hopefully starting the process of an autism assessment on Tuesday. also my fb got hacked so HMU on Pixie O'Fubar for my backup acct
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on November 06, 2020, 11:45:50 PM
Hey everyone, still Not Dead Yet. Was at Copley Square for the "satanic ritual" where some performance artists ate trumps heart and burned him in effigy. Our local foodbank has capped how many people they will deliver to until we can scrounge up some more drivers, and I'm afraid they may limit it even if we get volunteers to show up. Two more owner occupied cars have joined the permanent one in the parking lot behind Dockside and one of the neighbors we're trying to help is living in a tent.

I've been posting art and packing food. Hope you all are staying busy.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Bruno on November 10, 2020, 03:06:30 PM
I'm starting to have trouble keeping up with who I hate and why I hate them. Is there some kind of specialized shitlist management software out there, or do I just need to learn SQL?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on November 10, 2020, 03:30:54 PM
Quote from: Bruno on November 10, 2020, 03:06:30 PM
I'm starting to have trouble keeping up with who I hate and why I hate them. Is there some kind of specialized shitlist management software out there, or do I just need to learn SQL?

Have you considered adopting general misanthropy?  It cuts down on the paperwork.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on November 10, 2020, 03:56:12 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on November 10, 2020, 03:30:54 PM
Quote from: Bruno on November 10, 2020, 03:06:30 PM
I'm starting to have trouble keeping up with who I hate and why I hate them. Is there some kind of specialized shitlist management software out there, or do I just need to learn SQL?

Have you considered adopting general misanthropy?  It cuts down on the paperwork.

This
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Bruno on November 10, 2020, 04:33:49 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on November 10, 2020, 03:30:54 PM
Quote from: Bruno on November 10, 2020, 03:06:30 PM
I'm starting to have trouble keeping up with who I hate and why I hate them. Is there some kind of specialized shitlist management software out there, or do I just need to learn SQL?

Have you considered adopting general misanthropy?  It cuts down on the paperwork.

You make a valid point, and that is more or less my default state, but it presents itself as a passive sense of mistrust. My sense of aesthetics requires a more scientific approach to active implementation of hatred.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on November 14, 2020, 02:35:42 AM
So I live in fucking Virginia now. Despite protestation and attempts to not come here, I'm fucking here.

The good news is that the Navy actually gave us a nice house.
The bad news is that this is Norfolk and apparently gunshots are normal.

This is the biggest fucking Navy installation I have ever seen, and San Diego is massive.

The weather is absolute shit, and being castigated by both my mom and Mr. Suu over the last few days about finding work despite pandemic and not following through with my PhD applications elsewhere has made me so fucking salty that I am drunk applying to random shit all around Hampton Roads. Nothing in my field is hiring because of COVID, so I am going to probably get exposed working retail for the holidays, die, and maybe my parents will feel bad about it. Mr. Suu doesn't want me to work retail, but whatever. I just want to pay down some debt we accumulated from me not working in Jacksonville.

Mr. Suu is back on Sea Duty, so he's not going to be around. There is no reason for me to be in this huge fucking house working at Michaels for 3 years until he retires and we're officially broke forever because COVID killed museums.

Sick of being called a loser by my family. I hope Biden takes all their fucking guns. (He won't, but you know.)
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on November 14, 2020, 04:20:06 AM
My brother spent 6 years in Norfolk.  It's part of why he's an incurable prick (the other part is that the fucker was just born an asshole).

And tell your family to get wrecked.  There's a fucking plague on and nobody needs to hear that kind of bullshit.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on November 14, 2020, 02:50:01 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 14, 2020, 04:20:06 AM
My brother spent 6 years in Norfolk.  It's part of why he's an incurable prick (the other part is that the fucker was just born an asshole).

And tell your family to get wrecked.  There's a fucking plague on and nobody needs to hear that kind of bullshit.

Let's be real, living in New England for 14 fucking years already made me insufferable, but this place is batshit insane and I've only been here 5 days. The locals hate the Navy, the Navy hates the locals. Jacksonville was bad, but I KNEW coming here was gonna be worse. You get sent to LANT to die. Mr. Suu and I have been arguing about it for months, and he was fine with me finding work or school elsewhere, but we ran out of time, and well, pandemic. I have a referred app in with a gobermint-related gig in the DC area, but it's been longer than it should be, so my guess is that it was filled and they never bothered to update USAJobs.

On the upside, NATO is here, so sliding into a think tank position if I can find one here is not out of the question. Otherwise, my PhD application is just waiting on 2 letters of recommendation and $30 at this point. It needs to be in by December 1st. If shit still looks bad next summer, then I'll defer admission a year, but then I'm balls deep in his twilight tour and there be deployments on the horizon.

I'll survive just fine, that's not the issue, I'm just exhausted. Three moves in 4 years is a lot even by Navy standards.

And yeah, mom was nice enough to help us move, and we did need the extra hand, but didn't appreciate her telling me to just be a good wife and stay in the nice big house and "just get a job and deal until he's done." I'm almost fucking 40.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on November 16, 2020, 12:53:20 PM
Well I'm hopping a train south to New Orleans because I have nowhere to stay in Wisconsin and winter is coming on fast. I never intend to reside here again. I have friends and business interests so I may visit from time to time, but I was already looking to make a leap before my car broke down in LaX in June. I have a friend I'm meeting up with in the French Quarter and intend to set down new roots there fairly quickly. I have a couple hundred each in cash and food stamps and a few hundred on my debit card. Managed to pare down my posessions to a stuffed backpack, a rather nice all way roller luggage I got at a thrift shop, and my walking staff, which always goes where I go. In for some challenges to be sure, but my spirit is optimistic and I am as well prepped as an old hand gamer can be for a potentially difficult adventure.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: LMNO on November 16, 2020, 01:09:51 PM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on November 16, 2020, 12:53:20 PM
Well I'm hopping a train south to New Orleans because I have nowhere to stay in Wisconsin and winter is coming on fast. I never intend to reside here again. I have friends and business interests so I may visit from time to time, but I was already looking to make a leap before my car broke down in LaX in June. I have a friend I'm meeting up with in the French Quarter and intend to set down new roots there fairly quickly. I have a couple hundred each in cash and food stamps and a few hundred on my debit card. Managed to pare down my posessions to a stuffed backpack, a rather nice all way roller luggage I got at a thrift shop, and my walking staff, which always goes where I go. In for some challenges to be sure, but my spirit is optimistic and I am as well prepped as an old hand gamer can be for a potentially difficult adventure.

You're one of the most cautious/paranoid people about Covid that I've ever seen, and you've decided to live in NEW ORLEANS?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on November 16, 2020, 03:06:52 PM
And then TWJ was swallowed by the whirlpool of virus.  :(
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on November 17, 2020, 12:53:50 AM
Quote from: LMNO on November 16, 2020, 01:09:51 PM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on November 16, 2020, 12:53:20 PM
Well I'm hopping a train south to New Orleans because I have nowhere to stay in Wisconsin and winter is coming on fast. I never intend to reside here again. I have friends and business interests so I may visit from time to time, but I was already looking to make a leap before my car broke down in LaX in June. I have a friend I'm meeting up with in the French Quarter and intend to set down new roots there fairly quickly. I have a couple hundred each in cash and food stamps and a few hundred on my debit card. Managed to pare down my posessions to a stuffed backpack, a rather nice all way roller luggage I got at a thrift shop, and my walking staff, which always goes where I go. In for some challenges to be sure, but my spirit is optimistic and I am as well prepped as an old hand gamer can be for a potentially difficult adventure.

You're one of the most cautious/paranoid people about Covid that I've ever seen, and you've decided to live in NEW ORLEANS?

Sounds more like he may not have a choice.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on November 17, 2020, 02:19:55 AM
It is entirely an act of desperation, and in part a choice of where to go if I had to pick a city to die in, partly circumstantial opportunity. Me and the dojo sensei got into a little disagreement over his imaginary friends. I was not polite about what a crazy fucker he was being. A couple days later I went in for a covid test due to circumstantial exposure risk from the derelicts that live in the rooms above. The hospital staff suggested I admit myself when I tested clean for drugs due to obvious hypomanic symptoms. While in the ward I kept him updated by phone on occasion. The punk CALLED MY PSYCHOLOGIST and tried to make it out like I was dangerously insane. Fortunately this psychologist knew me from my last visit. The sensei kept him on the phone for over 50 min apparently talking about me hypothetically because I had given no permission for him to contact me or my doctors. We eventually had a three way call. He reneged on our agreement of honor and all plans to partner up in the future. I had initially 1 week after I got out to leave the dojo. Managed to push that back by a week and a half as I tried to improvise a move. He still plays friendly because I was courteous, but he's a lunatic with paper thin pretenses in place of Honor. Much of my stuff remains in his basement. He asked me to leave my key, given by a now dead teacher and mutual friend.

I am making that lemonade that they speak of. I intend to drink it spiked among the graves and with music in the air. Plus the friend I am meeting is an amazing person and I look forward to talking IRL.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Bruno on November 17, 2020, 03:31:12 PM
TWJ, and really anybody for that matter, I just wanted to point out that N95 masks are actually available now, sporadically. I found a box of 15 on grainger.com.  Some of them have exhalation valves which would need to be covered.

These are the ones that were available to ship when I checked just now:






3M

Disposable Respirator, Universal, NIOSH Rating N100, ASTM Splash Rating Not Rated
Item # 4JG03

Price$14.82 / each
Availability

Expected to arrive Thu. Nov 19.   

This item is restricted in certain countries.




GRAINGER APPROVED

Disposable Respirators, Universal, NIOSH Rating N95, ASTM Splash Rating Not Rated, PK 40
Item # 56JZ89

Price$109.22 / pkg. of 40
Availability

Expected to arrive Thu. Nov 19.
AlertPandemic product not subject to addtl. discounts




HONEYWELL NORTH

Disposable Respirator, M/L, NIOSH Rating N95, ASTM Splash Rating Not Rated
Item # 4VT73

Price$29.40 / pkg. of 20
Availability

Expected to arrive Thu. Nov 19.   

This item is restricted in certain countries.




GRAINGER APPROVED

Disposable N95 respirator, Universal, NIOSH Rating N95, PK 20
Item # 56JM02

Price$54.48 / pkg. of 20
Availability

Expected to arrive Thu. Nov 19.
AlertPandemic product not subject to addtl. discounts





MOLDEX

Disposable Respirator, M/L, NIOSH Rating N95, ASTM Splash Rating Not Rated
Item # 1DLL5

Price$31.50 / pkg. of 20
Availability

Expected to arrive Thu. Nov 19.   

This item is restricted in certain countries.




MOLDEX

Disposable Respirator, M/L, NIOSH Rating N95, Nuisance Organic Vapor, Nuisance Ozone
Item # 1DLN2

Price$67.72 / pkg. of 10
Availability

Expected to arrive Thu. Nov 19.   

This item is restricted in certain countries.




MOLDEX

Disposable Respirator, M/L, NIOSH Rating N95, Nuisance Organic Vapor, Nuisance Ozone
Item # 52ZV49

Price$19.06 / pkg. of 2
Availability

Expected to arrive Thu. Nov 19.   

This item is restricted in certain countries.




MOLDEX

Disposable Respirator, M/L, NIOSH Rating N95, Nuisance Organic Vapor, Nuisance Ozone
Item # 3NML2

Price$69.82 / pkg. of 10
Availability

Expected to arrive Thu. Nov 19.   

This item is restricted in certain countries.




MOLDEX

Disposable Respirator, M/L, NIOSH Rating P100, ASTM Splash Rating Not Rated
Item # 3CDE3

Price$71.92 / pkg. of 5
Availability

Expected to arrive Thu. Nov 19.   





MOLDEX

Disposable Respirator, M/L, NIOSH Rating Nuisance Organic Vapor, Nuisance Ozone, R95
Item # 3NMJ6

Price$78.22 / pkg. of 10
Availability

Expected to arrive Thu. Nov 19.   

Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Bruno on November 17, 2020, 03:40:55 PM
Also, some dumbass I've hated since 6th grade just posted this shit on fb.

This same fucker feels that the fact that some members of our church, including some deacons and elders voted against Trump is a serious issue that needs to be addressed.

I have a feeling that a life of violent crime may be in my not-to-distant future.

Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on November 19, 2020, 01:53:40 AM
So get this. I am wandering an unknown neighborhood with my pack and my staff and this young fella comes up trying to hustle a bit. We get to talking. He invites me to chill. Turns out the house is looking for a new roomie. The kid is alright, but the landlord is a Puerto Rican New Yorker and old school Discordian working on some very cool scripts and amazing cosmological storytelling. He just prefers New Orleans for all kinda reasons. Funny how these encounters just happen. We gonna get along mighty fine I think.

Hail Eris
Howyadoin
Causus Belli
Chaos Troopin'
Tales told
And terrible they
Hard wrought
On a treachreous Way
But downlow
Like Charlie in the bush
To spring a trap
It just takes luck
And a little push
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on November 19, 2020, 06:27:23 AM
Addendum.

That nice young man seems to have managed to fuck up a very good arrangement. While I was out and visiting with the new friend that was holding down my luggage for a few hours the landlord had to break into the bathroom where the kid had just dosed himself with what appears to be some nasty hoss cooked on a dirty spoon. That was apparently strike three in record time and man did he strike out hard. Shame. Seemed like a decent guy. His mother came and scooped him and his evil but cute little bastardo of a cat. Some of his stuff remains including a rather nice bed. Guess until he reclaims it the landlord is quite alright with me crashing my weary ass on it. Kid incidentally caused some property damage including a busted front door. It is as secure as it can be for now. Plus I will be sleeping just on the other side of it. The landlord seems to very much be ok with a huge, angry ninja-wizard handling security in a fairly rough neighborhood. If I am successful enough at getting my job/hustle on over time I can probably just pay him enough that further roomies of questionable integrity become unnecessary. A good crash space is invaluable. I absolutely am not going to let this one go to shit over some stupid shit if I can help it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on November 20, 2020, 02:19:58 PM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on November 19, 2020, 06:27:23 AM
Addendum.

That nice young man seems to have managed to fuck up a very good arrangement. While I was out and visiting with the new friend that was holding down my luggage for a few hours the landlord had to break into the bathroom where the kid had just dosed himself with what appears to be some nasty hoss cooked on a dirty spoon. That was apparently strike three in record time and man did he strike out hard. Shame. Seemed like a decent guy. His mother came and scooped him and his evil but cute little bastardo of a cat. Some of his stuff remains including a rather nice bed. Guess until he reclaims it the landlord is quite alright with me crashing my weary ass on it. Kid incidentally caused some property damage including a busted front door. It is as secure as it can be for now. Plus I will be sleeping just on the other side of it. The landlord seems to very much be ok with a huge, angry ninja-wizard handling security in a fairly rough neighborhood. If I am successful enough at getting my job/hustle on over time I can probably just pay him enough that further roomies of questionable integrity become unnecessary. A good crash space is invaluable. I absolutely am not going to let this one go to shit over some stupid shit if I can help it.

Sounds pretty fucking standard for NOLA, really.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on November 20, 2020, 03:53:01 PM
Quote from: Suu on November 20, 2020, 02:19:58 PM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on November 19, 2020, 06:27:23 AM
Addendum.

That nice young man seems to have managed to fuck up a very good arrangement. While I was out and visiting with the new friend that was holding down my luggage for a few hours the landlord had to break into the bathroom where the kid had just dosed himself with what appears to be some nasty hoss cooked on a dirty spoon. That was apparently strike three in record time and man did he strike out hard. Shame. Seemed like a decent guy. His mother came and scooped him and his evil but cute little bastardo of a cat. Some of his stuff remains including a rather nice bed. Guess until he reclaims it the landlord is quite alright with me crashing my weary ass on it. Kid incidentally caused some property damage including a busted front door. It is as secure as it can be for now. Plus I will be sleeping just on the other side of it. The landlord seems to very much be ok with a huge, angry ninja-wizard handling security in a fairly rough neighborhood. If I am successful enough at getting my job/hustle on over time I can probably just pay him enough that further roomies of questionable integrity become unnecessary. A good crash space is invaluable. I absolutely am not going to let this one go to shit over some stupid shit if I can help it.

Sounds pretty fucking standard for NOLA, really.

I'm starting to see that pretty clearly. I'm in the 7th ward and I have been warned of violence popping off regularly and sometimes with no reason other than a hot temper or cowboy bullshit posturing. Heard clusters of gun shots twice yesterday but not a single siren.

Don't take this as morbid, but I kinda feel at home. Except that the local cemetery is WAY cooler. The church that I assume manages it is nearby. Might stop in for services on Sunday if there's no lockdown. Break in is common I am told. Perhaps they could use an inexpensive caretaker.

I have realized that no amount of precaution can save me from exposure to 'Rona under the sanitary and social conditions happening here and everywhere else in NOLA. I still take precautions, but not for my health's sake so much as my conscience and to hopefully set a good example without coming off as frightened or standoffish. Seems to be working. I often tip my mask down to smile briefly. People seem to like me so far.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: LMNO on November 20, 2020, 04:06:57 PM
I have to be honest, I'm a bit jealous.  NOLA is one of my favorite cities.  In the Before Times, we would go at least once a year.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Fujikoma on November 20, 2020, 07:27:47 PM
TWJ, I have found some of the friendliest people live in some of the worst places. Well, they're friendly provided you don't offend them (but they tend to be reasonable if you aren't a total fuck-stick). I spent six months in the Bluff, sixth worst neighborhood in the united states, it was part of Atlanta that got cut off from downtown by the construction of the Georgia Dome, now it's basically a warzone territory, boarded up houses, roving gun-battles on the daily, but damn the people there are really cool. Good luck with your new home!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on November 20, 2020, 08:52:26 PM
Quote from: LMNO on November 20, 2020, 04:06:57 PM
I have to be honest, I'm a bit jealous.  NOLA is one of my favorite cities.  In the Before Times, we would go at least once a year.

I just got back from exploring St. Roch's cemetery. Patron saint of miraculous cures. Apparently there is a holy fountain now shut off that was known for being curative, a HUGE shrine to St. Michael, court of the archangels in general, and in the other half across the street SOMETHING that was palpable like a bad taste in my mouth in a very large, heavily gated and locked, chapel/crypt. They definitely need a maintenance guy with a strong spine in more than one sense. One tomb in particular was unsealed and covered in red brick dust, brick sitting in front of the slab. As I stood observing and projecting a tiny bit the dead flower stem in the vase moved several times back and forth in sudden jerks. The cemetary walls are more than 10 feet tall and nearly as thick because they hold corpses. There was zero wind and no other flowers moved. I introduced myself and appologized for being intrusive. The movement stopped quite suddenly. I bid good day and kept wandering and snapping the occasional pic. Anomalous movement is nothing new to me, but I have never seen it happen so brazenly in broad daylight before. The spirits here are Wutang Clan levels of nothing to fuck with.

Then again, niether am I. I think I am going to like this neighborhood.

LMNO if things finally chill on the covid situation it would be amazing to meet you here sometime. This place is so contradictory in being lively, even during a plague, yet soaked in old, often horrible, death and suffering. Seems the only really consistent thing is extremes. This place is a lot of things, but "kinda middling" is not one of them.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on November 20, 2020, 10:20:46 PM
Interesting side note after a bit of research

St. Roch is more specifically a patron of plagues and infectious diseases. The cemetary was built in fulfillment of a vow a priest took before St. Roch to spare his parish during a yellow fever outbreak in the late 1800s. Not one person in the whole parish took ill.

Part of my plan coming here was to produce a smooth sublingual tincture of CBD and CBG, possibly some THC bearing ones for nausea as well on the down low. I came here to do good and to be a healer so well as I can be, for as long as I draw breath.

I know I risk the plague and I feel a certain affinity with the story of St. Roch. He was on pilgrimage to Rome and stopped to minister to plague victims. He himself caught the plague. He was tended by a dog that was stealing biscuits from the market and bringing them to him, and so is also saint of dog lovers. The merchant being stolen from eventually noticed and followed the dog. He nursed Roch back to health. Roch went right on ministering to the sick like a champ.

There is spiritual power. It is very much the power of storytelling made manifest. As things get ever darker over the coming years perhaps I can use this power to keep a brighter light lit for people locally. I intend to brand my tinctures as "St. Raphael's" after both the archangel of healing and life and my recently slain Igbo brother Justice Ihechi Raphael. St. Raphael has his own court in the cemetery, though not a whole gigantic shrine like St. Michael. The symbolism there is very distinctively about spiritual warfare, almost moreso than healing. Going to be interesting visiting the church on Sunday.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Fujikoma on November 20, 2020, 11:32:05 PM
Why not St. Norton blend? Excellent post though.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Fujikoma on November 20, 2020, 11:36:52 PM
Also, I'm worried about Altered, by all logic I shouldn't be worried but it would make me feel much better if she posted here.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Pergamos on November 21, 2020, 06:09:46 AM
Quote from: Fujikoma on November 20, 2020, 11:32:05 PM
Why not St. Norton blend? Excellent post though.

One, Norton is from San Francisco, two he was delusional and I don't think Joseph is making deleriants, just medicine.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on November 21, 2020, 11:40:27 AM
Quote from: Pergamos on November 21, 2020, 06:09:46 AM
Quote from: Fujikoma on November 20, 2020, 11:32:05 PM
Why not St. Norton blend? Excellent post though.

One, Norton is from San Francisco, two he was delusional and I don't think Joseph is making deleriants, just medicine.

*ahem*

Quote

I intend to brand my tinctures as "St. Raphael's" after both the archangel of healing and life and my recently slain Igbo brother Justice Ihechi Raphael

I can't believe this asshole still thinks that whatever he thinks should be said, much less to me. He obviously can read. He just has only ever said things in context of himself.

Fujikoma I do not give a shit what you think, least of all about my posts. My one regret about reiterating that to you is that inevitably you will whine about how nobody likes you in a bid for more attention through false pity.   :boring:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Fujikoma on November 21, 2020, 06:02:46 PM
Suck my dick, other than that I hope your new thing goes well, TWJ.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on November 24, 2020, 11:11:57 AM
Baby has become very mobile in the last few days, everything in the house is now a death trap. The new game is pulling herself up in the crib and toppling over.

Herself is taking extended maternity so we're down to the one income, which isn't a problem but I've cut some costs till April such as my Patreons, Queen G I think was the only person I had from here on it and I'd like to restore that come April
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Johnny on November 24, 2020, 11:24:25 PM
Quote from: Faust on November 24, 2020, 11:11:57 AM
Baby has become very mobile in the last few days, everything in the house is now a death trap. The new game is pulling herself up in the crib and toppling over.

Herself is taking extended maternity so we're down to the one income, which isn't a problem but I've cut some costs till April such as my Patreons, Queen G I think was the only person I had from here on it and I'd like to restore that come April

Id give money but ive been running on the red for years... I think it really goes unspoken, but we really appreciate your investment on the website.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on November 25, 2020, 08:37:26 AM
Yeqh its nothing dramatic, website is budgeted for, im not looking for anything, I just closed some subscriptions for the short term like Spotify and stuff until herself is back to work
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on November 25, 2020, 09:07:24 PM
Congrats on the kiddo, Faust. (I'm a wee out of the loop.)
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on November 26, 2020, 09:47:09 AM
Thank you, and congratulations on the phd enrollment
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on November 26, 2020, 11:27:06 AM
There has to be some way to drop a death curse on the rooster that decided 1 a.m. was the time to begin crowing, and then continue crowing for 4 and a half hours nonstop so far. I just want to force-choke the little fucker or something.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on November 27, 2020, 04:31:06 AM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on November 26, 2020, 11:27:06 AM
There has to be some way to drop a death curse on the rooster that decided 1 a.m. was the time to begin crowing, and then continue crowing for 4 and a half hours nonstop so far. I just want to force-choke the little fucker or something.

Out here in the desert, we use a cleaver.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on November 27, 2020, 02:27:07 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 27, 2020, 04:31:06 AM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on November 26, 2020, 11:27:06 AM
There has to be some way to drop a death curse on the rooster that decided 1 a.m. was the time to begin crowing, and then continue crowing for 4 and a half hours nonstop so far. I just want to force-choke the little fucker or something.

Out here in the desert, we use a cleaver.

Since roosters are likely to be old and tough, perhaps prepare it "Coq au Vin"?

I heard the term on a cooking show once
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on November 27, 2020, 05:10:45 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 27, 2020, 04:31:06 AM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on November 26, 2020, 11:27:06 AM
There has to be some way to drop a death curse on the rooster that decided 1 a.m. was the time to begin crowing, and then continue crowing for 4 and a half hours nonstop so far. I just want to force-choke the little fucker or something.

Out here in the desert, we use a cleaver.

Dude if I knew where the little fucker was I would show up at the doorstep of the owner with $50 and a cleaver. My bet is a fine meal and solid night of sleep would result.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on November 27, 2020, 09:50:22 PM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on November 27, 2020, 05:10:45 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 27, 2020, 04:31:06 AM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on November 26, 2020, 11:27:06 AM
There has to be some way to drop a death curse on the rooster that decided 1 a.m. was the time to begin crowing, and then continue crowing for 4 and a half hours nonstop so far. I just want to force-choke the little fucker or something.

Out here in the desert, we use a cleaver.

Dude if I knew where the little fucker was I would show up at the doorstep of the owner with $50 and a cleaver. My bet is a fine meal and solid night of sleep would result.

Do not fuck with a rooster in New Orleans. Trust me on this, they use them for voodoo sacrifices.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: rong on November 27, 2020, 11:06:21 PM
Quote from: Suu on November 27, 2020, 09:50:22 PM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on November 27, 2020, 05:10:45 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 27, 2020, 04:31:06 AM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on November 26, 2020, 11:27:06 AM
There has to be some way to drop a death curse on the rooster that decided 1 a.m. was the time to begin crowing, and then continue crowing for 4 and a half hours nonstop so far. I just want to force-choke the little fucker or something.

Out here in the desert, we use a cleaver.

Dude if I knew where the little fucker was I would show up at the doorstep of the owner with $50 and a cleaver. My bet is a fine meal and solid night of sleep would result.

Do not fuck with a rooster in New Orleans. Trust me on this, they use them for voodoo sacrifices.
YA KNOW HE AIN'T GONNA DIE . . . . .
                               \

(https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/770x0/8e578ba680de455c9a757b11ed0ad5fd.jpg#8e578ba680de455c9a757b11ed0ad5fd)
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on November 28, 2020, 01:19:21 AM
Quote from: Suu on November 27, 2020, 09:50:22 PM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on November 27, 2020, 05:10:45 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 27, 2020, 04:31:06 AM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on November 26, 2020, 11:27:06 AM
There has to be some way to drop a death curse on the rooster that decided 1 a.m. was the time to begin crowing, and then continue crowing for 4 and a half hours nonstop so far. I just want to force-choke the little fucker or something.

Out here in the desert, we use a cleaver.

Dude if I knew where the little fucker was I would show up at the doorstep of the owner with $50 and a cleaver. My bet is a fine meal and solid night of sleep would result.

Do not fuck with a rooster in New Orleans. Trust me on this, they use them for voodoo sacrifices.

Bought and paid for. Legit transaction. I give the spirits half and a side of mashed potatoes, but apparently this rooster is quite notorious and I could be be seen as doing the community a favor.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on November 28, 2020, 01:28:33 AM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on November 28, 2020, 01:19:21 AM
Quote from: Suu on November 27, 2020, 09:50:22 PM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on November 27, 2020, 05:10:45 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 27, 2020, 04:31:06 AM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on November 26, 2020, 11:27:06 AM
There has to be some way to drop a death curse on the rooster that decided 1 a.m. was the time to begin crowing, and then continue crowing for 4 and a half hours nonstop so far. I just want to force-choke the little fucker or something.

Out here in the desert, we use a cleaver.

Dude if I knew where the little fucker was I would show up at the doorstep of the owner with $50 and a cleaver. My bet is a fine meal and solid night of sleep would result.

Do not fuck with a rooster in New Orleans. Trust me on this, they use them for voodoo sacrifices.

Bought and paid for. Legit transaction. I give the spirits half and a side of mashed potatoes, but apparently this rooster is quite notorious and I could be be seen as doing the community a favor.

Look, I don't make the rules, I'm just saying you may not want to piss off the wrong person while you're down there.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on November 28, 2020, 07:38:24 AM
Producer friend of mine is sitting on a script for a short that, imo, is pure f'kin gold. If she can wrangle the funding I'll be a full blown animation studio, rather than just another pair of hands in the vfx credits. How the fuck do I keep getting myself into these ridiculous situations :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on November 28, 2020, 01:47:45 PM
The pure and wholesome love of Baby Jesus.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on November 28, 2020, 05:28:09 PM
Quote from: Cain on November 28, 2020, 01:47:45 PM
The pure and wholesome love of Baby Jesus.

... I wonder what the bootleg market for that stuff is. I may have a tight but consistent Source for the pure stuff. If I stomp on it real hard I could really clean up on the street level trade and darkweb biz.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on November 30, 2020, 06:36:28 PM
Blocked from Twitter again, this time for hurting Rand Paul's feelings, so I call it a win.

I get Facebook back on Thursday, at least.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: rong on December 04, 2020, 02:17:03 AM
ok, which one of you is responsible for THIS (https://arcanebullshit.com/)?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on December 04, 2020, 10:06:47 PM
Quote from: rong on December 04, 2020, 02:17:03 AM
ok, which one of you is responsible for THIS (https://arcanebullshit.com/)?

Not me, but I need that deck.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on December 08, 2020, 04:26:25 PM
In the Time Before, I took walks by the river during my lunch break.  Not the pleasantly curated asphalt trails, favoured by joggers, but the behind-paths, the under-paths, with trees and rocks and mud and sinkholes and hostile squirrels.

Now, in the Plague Time, I work from home, far from the river.  I take my walks in the cold blackness of the Canadian pre-dawn, along the side-roads and alleys and those pedestrian bypasses used only by dog-walkers and schoolchildren.

I have learned to hate motion-sensitive lights.  I like walking in the dark.  Being blasted in the face at random by a floodlamp is a declaration of war.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on December 08, 2020, 04:28:37 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on December 08, 2020, 04:26:25 PM
I take my walks in the cold blackness of the Canadian pre-dawn

You need to narrow that down some.  That could be hours, days, or months.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on December 08, 2020, 05:16:31 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on December 08, 2020, 04:28:37 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on December 08, 2020, 04:26:25 PM
I take my walks in the cold blackness of the Canadian pre-dawn

You need to narrow that down some.  That could be hours, days, or months.
Hey, I'm not that far north.  Saskatoon hardly ever gets less than 8 hours of daylight.

Today's walk: 06:58 - 07:28.
Today's sunrise: 08:59.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on December 15, 2020, 09:05:01 PM
Cain,

Betty99 in the waiting room LOOKS like a bot, but the IP comes up fairly normal.  I'll leave that one to you or Faust.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on December 15, 2020, 11:29:09 PM
I saw spam reports for the IP and the email domain address, so I've blacklisted the latter.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on December 16, 2020, 03:12:44 AM
Quote from: Cain on December 15, 2020, 11:29:09 PM
I saw spam reports for the IP and the email domain address, so I've blacklisted the latter.

I've been banning bots with addresses in Russia and India with email addies ending in "greatbigdickpills.com", but sometimes I gotta leave it to the experts.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on December 16, 2020, 03:13:15 AM
Quote from: Cain on November 28, 2020, 01:47:45 PM
The pure and wholesome love of Baby Jesus.

By which he means we haven't had a Baby Jesus video in 12 years or so.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on December 16, 2020, 03:25:21 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on December 16, 2020, 03:12:44 AM
Quote from: Cain on December 15, 2020, 11:29:09 PM
I saw spam reports for the IP and the email domain address, so I've blacklisted the latter.

I've been banning bots with addresses in Russia and India with email addies ending in "greatbigdickpills.com", but sometimes I gotta leave it to the experts.

Usually if I'm unsure I run them through cleantalk or stopforumspam's websites...their datasets are pretty comprehensive and whenever I have doubted them, I've regretted it later on.

Quote from: Doktor Howl on December 16, 2020, 03:13:15 AM
Quote from: Cain on November 28, 2020, 01:47:45 PM
The pure and wholesome love of Baby Jesus.

By which he means we haven't had a Baby Jesus video in 12 years or so.

Most definitely yes.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Fujikoma on December 17, 2020, 04:54:20 AM
This reminds me of the time Altered assaulted my email address with spam just to upset me, she succeeded. If you tolerate that, you should tolerate big penis pills all over the place. If not, someone needs to tell Altered she crossed a line. I didn't do it, because I wouldn't, but the irony is hilarious.

EDITED TO ADD: Altered hasn't posted in some time, and when she did she was suffering from multiple maladies. I would be comforted if she said something, believe it or not, I worry about her. For very good reason. It would cause me much less worry if she posted.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Fujikoma on December 17, 2020, 05:15:52 AM
In a way she sort of reminds me of me if I were from some bizarro universe. I respect her decisions and all that but I don't want our disagreements to be over.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on December 17, 2020, 01:46:22 PM
Pretty certain literally nobody cares how you "feel" about altered but you so...
:fuckoff:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on December 17, 2020, 02:30:38 PM
Quote from: Fujikoma on December 17, 2020, 04:54:20 AM
This reminds me of the time Altered assaulted my email address with spam just to upset me, she succeeded. If you tolerate that, you should tolerate big penis pills all over the place. If not, someone needs to tell Altered she crossed a line. I didn't do it, because I wouldn't, but the irony is hilarious.

EDITED TO ADD: Altered hasn't posted in some time, and when she did she was suffering from multiple maladies. I would be comforted if she said something, believe it or not, I worry about her. For very good reason. It would cause me much less worry if she posted.

You can of course prove it was her that bombed your inbox?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Johnny on December 17, 2020, 08:50:48 PM
Quote from: Fujikoma on December 17, 2020, 04:54:20 AM
This reminds me of the time Altered assaulted my email address with spam just to upset me, she succeeded. If you tolerate that, you should tolerate big penis pills all over the place. If not, someone needs to tell Altered she crossed a line. I didn't do it, because I wouldn't, but the irony is hilarious.

EDITED TO ADD: Altered hasn't posted in some time, and when she did she was suffering from multiple maladies. I would be comforted if she said something, believe it or not, I worry about her. For very good reason. It would cause me much less worry if she posted.

TBH you had it coming (assuming it was even her) - people dont usually take it kindly when someone is making creepy comments about oneself.

And being "too psychotic or autistic" to recognize social queues or right from wrong is not an excuse.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Pergamos on December 18, 2020, 02:02:29 AM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on December 08, 2020, 04:26:25 PM
In the Time Before, I took walks by the river during my lunch break.  Not the pleasantly curated asphalt trails, favoured by joggers, but the behind-paths, the under-paths, with trees and rocks and mud and sinkholes and hostile squirrels.

Now, in the Plague Time, I work from home, far from the river.  I take my walks in the cold blackness of the Canadian pre-dawn, along the side-roads and alleys and those pedestrian bypasses used only by dog-walkers and schoolchildren.

I have learned to hate motion-sensitive lights.  I like walking in the dark.  Being blasted in the face at random by a floodlamp is a declaration of war.

I'm with you on the motion sensor lights.  They ruin my night vision and always make me paranoid since there are a few of my neighbors who might throw on the porch light and be standing under it with a shotgun.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Bruno on December 25, 2020, 04:30:43 PM
Likely first MAGAbomber starting off The Snivel War festivities in Nashville.

https://apnews.com/article/Nashville-explosion-Christmas-52708bfd05e4f6ff433cc404443c65d4
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on December 25, 2020, 07:20:47 PM
Quote from: Bruno on December 25, 2020, 04:30:43 PM
Likely first MAGAbomber starting off The Snivel War festivities in Nashville.

https://apnews.com/article/Nashville-explosion-Christmas-52708bfd05e4f6ff433cc404443c65d4

Yeah. I can't bring myself to read it right now. Saw a Yahoo article this morning trying like hell to avoid saying "big ass professional grade truck bomb and we have no idea if there are more or whodunnit."

The Snivel War... Fucking EXACTLY THAT. Read Howl's most recent Hey Louie. He lays it out exactly as it is. Selfish punks having a tantrum about a reality they just don't like.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Bruno on December 25, 2020, 08:01:49 PM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on December 25, 2020, 07:20:47 PM
Quote from: Bruno on December 25, 2020, 04:30:43 PM
Likely first MAGAbomber starting off The Snivel War festivities in Nashville.

https://apnews.com/article/Nashville-explosion-Christmas-52708bfd05e4f6ff433cc404443c65d4

Yeah. I can't bring myself to read it right now. Saw a Yahoo article this morning trying like hell to avoid saying "big ass professional grade truck bomb and we have no idea if there are more or whodunnit."

The Snivel War... Fucking EXACTLY THAT. Read Howl's most recent Hey Louie. He lays it out exactly as it is. Selfish punks having a tantrum about a reality they just don't like.

Nobody was killed. It was an RV which blared a message through a PA system for 15 minutes before the explosion to "Evacuate the area". The target appears to have been a major AT&T internet hub.

As far as the tantrums, lately I've been rubbing something like that in the faces of people I see calling for civil war. First, anybody who's smart and genuinely intends to engage in such action would not be talking about it on the internet, and second the whole reason people like Antifa and BLM actually got up and did something is because they actually believe the things they say they believe. Most of these yahoos do not. They just say whatever needs to be said at the time to score whatever they perceive to be points (see also: The Alt-Right Playbook: The Card Says Moops) This is why the left stands up for what they believe in, and those people don't precisely because they don't actually believe their own bullshit.

Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of them who do believe the bullshit and are probably going to act on it.

If anybody needs me, I'll be hunkering in my bean fort.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on December 26, 2020, 02:01:57 AM
There is human tissue in the wreckage, and there was a gunshot 15 minutes before the explosion.

My first thought was boogs, ain't gonna lie.  But now I think it was a crazy person who set the timer and then shot himself.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on December 26, 2020, 02:11:26 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on December 26, 2020, 02:01:57 AM
There is human tissue in the wreckage, and there was a gunshot 15 minutes before the explosion.

My first thought was boogs, ain't gonna lie.  But now I think it was a crazy person who set the timer and then shot himself.

I wondered that as well.

Waiting to hear what the FBI have to say before jumping to any conclusions, but that's certainly a reasonable possibility based on the very little we know.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on December 26, 2020, 02:25:20 AM
Quote from: Cain on December 26, 2020, 02:11:26 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on December 26, 2020, 02:01:57 AM
There is human tissue in the wreckage, and there was a gunshot 15 minutes before the explosion.

My first thought was boogs, ain't gonna lie.  But now I think it was a crazy person who set the timer and then shot himself.

I wondered that as well.

Waiting to hear what the FBI have to say before jumping to any conclusions, but that's certainly a reasonable possibility based on the very little we know.

My gut is telling me that the bomb maker is not this nutjob. Something this well planned and executed is likely the work of a dedicated and intelligent madman. Teaching some random psycho schmuck how to set a timer ain't all that hard. I suspect that the problem may well be ongoing. I would give A LOT to hear a recording of the exact message in total. The blast scorched the shit out of trees rather far away indeed. That's a helluva heat wash. Enough to make me wonder if it might have been a bit more advanced in composition and construction than your average hillbilly fertilizer bomb. But I don't know enough to really speculate. I DO see that they're being dodgy as fuck about the deets and how to characterize the event. Whatever it is this is an opening move, not game over.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Bruno on December 26, 2020, 04:10:26 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on December 26, 2020, 02:01:57 AM
There is human tissue in the wreckage, and there was a gunshot 15 minutes before the explosion.

My first thought was boogs, ain't gonna lie.  But now I think it was a crazy person who set the timer and then shot himself.



I'm leaning toward Qanon 5G conspiracy theorists or something. AT&T owns WarnerMedia, of which CNN is a part. Plenty of stuff to build a theory out of there.

Also, the voice in the recording sounds female.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on December 26, 2020, 04:11:06 AM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on December 26, 2020, 02:25:20 AM
Quote from: Cain on December 26, 2020, 02:11:26 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on December 26, 2020, 02:01:57 AM
There is human tissue in the wreckage, and there was a gunshot 15 minutes before the explosion.

My first thought was boogs, ain't gonna lie.  But now I think it was a crazy person who set the timer and then shot himself.

I wondered that as well.

Waiting to hear what the FBI have to say before jumping to any conclusions, but that's certainly a reasonable possibility based on the very little we know.

My gut is telling me that the bomb maker is not this nutjob. Something this well planned and executed is likely the work of a dedicated and intelligent madman. Teaching some random psycho schmuck how to set a timer ain't all that hard. I suspect that the problem may well be ongoing. I would give A LOT to hear a recording of the exact message in total. The blast scorched the shit out of trees rather far away indeed. That's a helluva heat wash. Enough to make me wonder if it might have been a bit more advanced in composition and construction than your average hillbilly fertilizer bomb. But I don't know enough to really speculate. I DO see that they're being dodgy as fuck about the deets and how to characterize the event. Whatever it is this is an opening move, not game over.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=108072791192243&id=100059685666488

This is BUY FAR the weirdest flash I ever saw. I am uncertain that the explosion was chemical in origin. Radiological might explain the heat wash that charred the shit out of trees many blocks away. I can't even begin to guess what the fuck that was, and that is very disquieting for me. I suspect this may have been some sort of demonstration of a novel energetic technology. There was not actual detonation per se that I could hear. I do not know what that sound was or why it and the flash lasted so long. I also don't know why afterwards it seems to have killed the mic but spared the camera. Possibly melting if the heat wash was hot enough, and it charred trees several blocks away on one side only. This is very bad news.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Bruno on December 26, 2020, 04:14:57 AM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on December 26, 2020, 02:25:20 AM
Quote from: Cain on December 26, 2020, 02:11:26 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on December 26, 2020, 02:01:57 AM
There is human tissue in the wreckage, and there was a gunshot 15 minutes before the explosion.

My first thought was boogs, ain't gonna lie.  But now I think it was a crazy person who set the timer and then shot himself.

I wondered that as well.

Waiting to hear what the FBI have to say before jumping to any conclusions, but that's certainly a reasonable possibility based on the very little we know.

My gut is telling me that the bomb maker is not this nutjob. Something this well planned and executed is likely the work of a dedicated and intelligent madman. Teaching some random psycho schmuck how to set a timer ain't all that hard. I suspect that the problem may well be ongoing. I would give A LOT to hear a recording of the exact message in total. The blast scorched the shit out of trees rather far away indeed. That's a helluva heat wash. Enough to make me wonder if it might have been a bit more advanced in composition and construction than your average hillbilly fertilizer bomb. But I don't know enough to really speculate. I DO see that they're being dodgy as fuck about the deets and how to characterize the event. Whatever it is this is an opening move, not game over.

Here's a video that starts a few seconds before the explosion. Um, trigger warning, maybe?

https://youtu.be/IGfUTy3vX_I

I accept payment in Camel Cash only.

ETA: I guess you already found that. I'm kind of wondering if they used a shaped charge. That building was supposed to be bomb-proof.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on December 26, 2020, 04:22:39 AM
I think I'm going to exit this conversation.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on December 26, 2020, 10:34:22 AM
Quote from: Cain on December 26, 2020, 04:22:39 AM
I think I'm going to exit this conversation.

I do not blame you one bit Cain. I think I shall exit myself after this post. I cannot well handle this as my mind is pretty much held together by synthetic positivity and cheap twine since the poisoning.

But I leave this fella's reporting as it was passed to me by a friend who knows a thing ot two on FB. The scope of the damage is horrible and ongoing beyond the ... Whatever that initial effect was.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJsTRs3W/

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJsTMFm5/

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJsTMomj/
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on December 30, 2020, 01:30:57 AM
Good times on the streets of NOLA doing my Wizard thing. Made a little more than bus fare on my first day and upon fiving a large blessed red bead to Mr. Escobar he gave me one of his INCREDIBLE tamales! Met LOTS of cool performers including 2 street magicians and a mother-son pair of cartomancers who drive 70 miles one way to do their thing in NOLA every day. Listening to big brass music on Jackson Square now and enjoying the cool night air!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Pergamos on December 30, 2020, 10:01:45 PM
I think the son of that mother son team of cartomancers is a friend of mine on facebook.  If so he's got quite the fascinating back story.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on December 31, 2020, 06:25:00 AM
Quote from: Pergamos on December 30, 2020, 10:01:45 PM
I think the son of that mother son team of cartomancers is a friend of mine on facebook.  If so he's got quite the fascinating back story.
Quite possible. He has a marvelous fashion sense! I did not see them today, but spent more time with the street magicians, gav blessed rocks to a seer and a cartomancer... Then I met Raven. More of that story later.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Bovine19 on January 01, 2021, 05:03:48 AM
Happy New Year Spags!!!!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on January 02, 2021, 02:10:55 PM
I hope everybody got what they wanted for Christmas, which is this:

https://www.nadgerz.com/balldo/
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Trivial on January 04, 2021, 05:23:50 AM
Quote from: Cramulus on January 02, 2021, 02:10:55 PM
I hope everybody got what they wanted for Christmas, which is this:

https://www.nadgerz.com/balldo/

Sad to say, I did not receive one of those.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on January 04, 2021, 12:42:44 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on January 02, 2021, 02:10:55 PM
I hope everybody got what they wanted for Christmas, which is this:

https://www.nadgerz.com/balldo/
Wow, this looks like a sex toy designed to make sure everyone has a bad time
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Johnny on January 04, 2021, 02:12:16 PM
Quote from: Faust on January 04, 2021, 12:42:44 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on January 02, 2021, 02:10:55 PM
I hope everybody got what they wanted for Christmas, which is this:

https://www.nadgerz.com/balldo/
Wow, this looks like a sex toy designed to make sure everyone has a bad time

"How to freak out your local paramedics in one easy step"
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: MMIX on January 04, 2021, 03:50:16 PM
Quote from: The Johnny on January 04, 2021, 02:12:16 PM
Quote from: Faust on January 04, 2021, 12:42:44 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on January 02, 2021, 02:10:55 PM
I hope everybody got what they wanted for Christmas, which is this:

https://www.nadgerz.com/balldo/
Wow, this looks like a sex toy designed to make sure everyone has a bad time

"How to freak out your local paramedics in one easy step"

Not if you wrap it up nicely and put a big bow on it before you give it to them . . .
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: POFP on January 12, 2021, 12:44:00 PM
EDIT: I'm terrible at joke execution, worse at mixing jokes and sensitive topics, and THE worst at recognizing and appreciating the INCREDIBLE luck I've been blessed with: To have been asymptomatic with COVID, know absolutely no one that has died from COVID, AND have not been impacted, career-wise, by COVID.

Please forgive any stupid insensitivity on my part regarding this post or any others.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on January 13, 2021, 07:38:52 PM
Another one of my technicians has died of Covid19, as of about a half hour ago.  I just got the call.

Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: LMNO on January 13, 2021, 08:14:39 PM
Goddamn.  Sorry to hear it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: EK WAFFLR on January 22, 2021, 09:51:25 PM
Hey spags. What's going on?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on January 22, 2021, 10:32:08 PM
Quote from: EK WAFFLR on January 22, 2021, 09:51:25 PM
Hey spags. What's going on?

Well, aside from a plague, an insurrection, 4 years of Trump, and creeping Cramulus economic theory, not too much.  You?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on January 23, 2021, 01:05:52 PM
Hey guys, I'm gonna be a dad.   :)



Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on January 23, 2021, 02:37:56 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on January 23, 2021, 01:05:52 PM
Hey guys, I'm gonna be a dad.   :)
AWWWWWW SHIT!! There's gonna be Cramspawn up in the house!
:cramstipated:
:banana: :bunny: :banana: :bunny: :banana:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on January 23, 2021, 04:36:27 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on January 23, 2021, 01:05:52 PM
Hey guys, I'm gonna be a dad.   :)

Congrats man!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: minuspace on January 23, 2021, 05:24:45 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on January 23, 2021, 01:05:52 PM
Hey guys, I'm gonna be a dad.   :)
:thumb:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on January 23, 2021, 10:18:07 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on January 23, 2021, 01:05:52 PM
Hey guys, I'm gonna be a dad.   :)

HUZZAH!

Allow me to bestow upon you the wisdom that grandpa Howl gave my dad, and my dad gave me:

"You never get to stop worrying again.  You're gonna worry about your girl while she's pregnant, then worry about the kid when the kid is growing up and then YOUR KID will have kids and you'll start all over again."

Welcome to the club, Cram!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on January 23, 2021, 10:50:18 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on January 23, 2021, 01:05:52 PM
Hey guys, I'm gonna be a dad.   :)

HOT DAMN!

Congratulations, Professor!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on January 24, 2021, 12:53:17 PM
Thanks, Pals. :)

I'm real excited. And now every time I wake up in the middle of the night to poop, or because my cat is yodeling, I go "ah, cool, sneak preview"
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on January 24, 2021, 06:48:03 PM
Discordian parenting guide?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on January 24, 2021, 08:45:49 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/CRW41Kc.png)
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Roly Poly Oly-Garch on January 25, 2021, 10:10:56 AM
Quote from: Cramulus on January 23, 2021, 01:05:52 PM
Hey guys, I'm gonna be a dad.   :)

INCREDIBLE NEWS! Congratulations my dude!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on January 27, 2021, 05:12:11 PM
And the day after my car blew up in the middle of Norfolk, Virginia, I was accepted to a PhD program.

The end.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on January 27, 2021, 05:54:59 PM
Quote from: Suu on January 27, 2021, 05:12:11 PM
And the day after my car blew up in the middle of Norfolk, Virginia, I was accepted to a PhD program.

The end.

God won't let you have nice things until he poops on them.  Trust me on this one.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on January 27, 2021, 06:12:09 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on January 27, 2021, 05:54:59 PM
Quote from: Suu on January 27, 2021, 05:12:11 PM
And the day after my car blew up in the middle of Norfolk, Virginia, I was accepted to a PhD program.

The end.

God won't let you have nice things until he poops on them.  Trust me on this one.

At first I thought the car blew up because Mr. Suu decided he doesn't want to listen to his wife when she goes, "Hey, the Mazda sounds kinda funny, can you take it to work and see if it's acting up or if it's just me?" Then I figured it was because all of the Tampa Bay teams have gotten to their respective finals this year and this is my price.

Head gasket. The magic smoke came out. I freaked out, pulled over, got a tow truck which involved much drama of having a gas station owner yell at me and a cop yelling at the gas station owner for not being helpful to me when I was visibly in distress.

Then I went on base, got Mr. Suu's truck, which also has the check engine light on and needs brakes. I'm scrapping the Mazda this week and using the cash to pay for those fixes.

The PhD is at least fully funded. The hilarious part is getting the new car and getting back down to Florida in the summer.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on January 27, 2021, 06:13:41 PM
Quote from: Suu on January 27, 2021, 05:12:11 PM
And the day after my car blew up in the middle of Norfolk, Virginia, I was accepted to a PhD program.

The end.

Congrats on the PhD acceptance!! That shit's hard work!

What program are you joining?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on January 27, 2021, 06:25:34 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on January 27, 2021, 06:13:41 PM
Quote from: Suu on January 27, 2021, 05:12:11 PM
And the day after my car blew up in the middle of Norfolk, Virginia, I was accepted to a PhD program.

The end.

Congrats on the PhD acceptance!! That shit's hard work!

What program are you joining?

It is a 4 year PhD in History, with a focus in Digital Humanities/Public History and Material Culture. So basically my MA on steroids. It's at the University of South Florida, and I'll be within 45 minutes of my immediate family. Since my mom is starting to show signs of early dementia, we decided it was best that I consider getting back to the Tampa Bay area for a bit and help my siblings out before my dad retires. Mr. Suu will completing his career in the Navy here in Virginia.

I've been awarded full funding with a tuition waiver and an assistantship stipend.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on January 27, 2021, 09:32:18 PM
Quote from: Suu on January 27, 2021, 05:12:11 PM
And the day after my car blew up in the middle of Norfolk, Virginia, I was accepted to a PhD program.

The end.

Using PIRA tactics to cow them into submission? Good work.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on January 27, 2021, 10:45:48 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 27, 2021, 09:32:18 PM
Quote from: Suu on January 27, 2021, 05:12:11 PM
And the day after my car blew up in the middle of Norfolk, Virginia, I was accepted to a PhD program.

The end.

Using PIRA tactics to cow them into submission? Good work.

*Sinn Fein intensifies*
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on January 28, 2021, 07:54:45 AM
Quote from: Cramulus on January 23, 2021, 01:05:52 PM
Hey guys, I'm gonna be a dad.   :)
Congratulations Cram!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: MMIX on January 30, 2021, 10:55:33 AM
Grats Cramulus, kudos Suu . . .
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: MMIX on January 30, 2021, 11:44:55 AM
A lifetime ago, better known as last September, I had a small pack of 4 stupid lurchers. Then we had to have one put to sleep. He was old, and its something you know is going to happen with dogs, but it doesn't make it any less painful. He was a small broken coated lurcher probably a cross between an Irish terrier and a whippet sent over from Ireland 12 years ago to a local rescue because they couldn't rehome him in Galway which was full of similar dogs. When we went to get him I fell in love completely for another of the dogs in the batch a 5 yr old bitch who looked like a miniature Borzoi. She was scared of everything and had to be picked up and carried to the car. It took us 6 years to persuade her to siit on the settee and she only started to come up and sit with us when she started to go senile! She's very fragile now, her kidneys are going and I ring my vet more often than my doctor, (and I'm not in good nick myself." We are living day to day with her. She's well over 16 so we are getting ready for the inevitable. So last night when they had their tea, they were all fine. By 8:30 Little Nipper, (only 9, and the youngest and fittest, could be a whippet x alsatian with a touch of corgi, and definitely a local Welsh lurcher) was a bit subdued, and by 3am he was dead. So now we have 2, one who is staggering slowly out of our lives in a senile daze and our problem child who is what the Daily Mail and the Sun call "DevilDogs" - Greyhounds crossed with salukis for extra speed and agility, and some sort of bull terrier specially bred to hunt deer. They thrown them out of the back of moving 4x4's with floodlights as they career across the countyside at night to chase down and kill deer. The guy we rescued him, from as a 6month old pup, had been training him so he is a bit odd and very nervous. He adores the old bitch but he will insist of trying to snuggle up to her, and since he has absolutely no concept of his size and no respect for anyones personal space he keeps sitting on her. She nips him in self defence so thats fair. And soon he will be our only dog, and not one who we could really introduce a new dog to.
<sigh> Dogs; you've got to love them
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on January 30, 2021, 12:44:38 PM
oof, sorry to hear that... always sad when a furry friend passes
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on January 30, 2021, 03:35:43 PM
Yeah man, that must be heartbreaking.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: MMIX on January 30, 2021, 06:39:41 PM
Thanks guys, its been a tough day :(
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on February 17, 2021, 03:23:52 AM
I've wiped out at least 50 spambots in the waiting room in the last 7 days, and boy is my index finger sore.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on February 17, 2021, 10:29:33 AM
They are a tenacious bunch,
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on February 17, 2021, 11:49:07 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 17, 2021, 03:23:52 AM
I've wiped out at least 50 spambots in the waiting room in the last 7 days, and boy is my index finger sore.

Sorry, I've not been about much in the last couple of weeks, will try and clear these out when I see them so its not all on one or two people
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on February 17, 2021, 04:17:39 PM
on my cabal discord server tonight at 7:30 EST, we're going to be discussing "Meditations on Moloch (https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/)" (and probably some of the whole Slatestar Codex fiasco)

PM me if you want an invite
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on February 19, 2021, 04:50:10 PM
https://apnews.com/article/alaska-woman-outhouse-bear-attack-61a23fa15190c00e17a07bc152f9dabb

This is why I America.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Eater of Clowns on February 20, 2021, 01:49:58 PM
Hello PD.

My PC died last April and I just got around to building a new one. With an actual keyboard and no godawful mobile interface to deal with I thought I'd jump on.

So here I am.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Junkenstein on February 20, 2021, 03:34:33 PM
Oh shit.

Another 3 returning posters and there's a full on catastrophe brewing. Meanwhile, texas is a frozen hell. I'm not saying you're responsible, just that you should apologise and make a suitable donation of sledding equipment.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on February 20, 2021, 04:22:55 PM
EoC disappears just as a global lockdown starts. Coincidence? I think not.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Eater of Clowns on February 20, 2021, 06:43:28 PM
I don't believe I'm responsible for either of these things but I don't know enough about me to say that for sure.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on February 20, 2021, 06:44:12 PM
EoC was Running From Mexico at the time, to be fair. I don't think it's fair to put all of this on him, he had quite enough to deal with at the time.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on February 21, 2021, 10:17:11 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on February 20, 2021, 01:49:58 PM
Hello PD.

My PC died last April and I just got around to building a new one. With an actual keyboard and no godawful mobile interface to deal with I thought I'd jump on.

So here I am.

How the hell can any sane person go 11 months without a computer?  They can't.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on February 21, 2021, 11:01:17 PM
I can confirm. I went a mere 6 months stuck on my phone in 2020 and it nearly killed me.

It started at the fingertips, and crept up my arms: heavy bruising and what looked like spider bites. By the time I got out of Texas, people were complimenting me on my weird PCB trace tattoos, and by the time I got a laptop again the red marks had started to sprout little WiFi antennae.

Having no healthcare, I had to bribe a surgeon in Chicago into surgically excising the communications circuitry spontaneously growing in my limbs and replacing my now ruined muscles with vat-grown chimpanzee biceps.

The bruising has mostly gone away, but the surgeon said that if I'd gone another 2 months they'd have to behead me, hook me up to a massive machine with a bunch of Tesla coils on it and do the whole brain transfer thing like in bad 50s scifi movies. It's real, by the way.

So I have to agree that EoC couldn't have possibly been entirely without a computer for almost a full year. At least regular computer exposure would be required.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on February 22, 2021, 02:10:51 PM
Sup EOC! How has your insane neverending lockdown been going? you manage to stay healthy and clean?

I'm curious - How has the It Franchise affected your diet?

Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on February 23, 2021, 02:53:00 PM
How did the Billy thread get locked?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on February 23, 2021, 03:23:18 PM
I thought you had a reason for doing it, because it's been locked since I saw your last post in it. Admittedly I was like an hour late to read it, but still, it's been locked since shortly after that post.

And I've been asking myself why you'd do that ever since, so, uh, that answers my original question.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on February 23, 2021, 03:27:51 PM
Quote from: altered on February 23, 2021, 03:23:18 PM
I thought you had a reason for doing it, because it's been locked since I saw your last post in it. Admittedly I was like an hour late to read it, but still, it's been locked since shortly after that post.

And I've been asking myself why you'd do that ever since, so, uh, that answers my original question.

It's possible I did it by accident, but I can't see how I could have.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on February 23, 2021, 03:28:35 PM
Anyway, unlocked now.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: hooplala on February 23, 2021, 03:51:28 PM
Howdy EoC
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on February 23, 2021, 04:04:42 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 23, 2021, 03:27:51 PM
Quote from: altered on February 23, 2021, 03:23:18 PM
I thought you had a reason for doing it, because it's been locked since I saw your last post in it. Admittedly I was like an hour late to read it, but still, it's been locked since shortly after that post.

And I've been asking myself why you'd do that ever since, so, uh, that answers my original question.

It's possible I did it by accident, but I can't see how I could have.
It was locked by yourself, its easy to do on mobile though normally I end up stickying things, instead of locking them
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on February 23, 2021, 04:06:56 PM
Quote from: Faust on February 23, 2021, 04:04:42 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 23, 2021, 03:27:51 PM
Quote from: altered on February 23, 2021, 03:23:18 PM
I thought you had a reason for doing it, because it's been locked since I saw your last post in it. Admittedly I was like an hour late to read it, but still, it's been locked since shortly after that post.

And I've been asking myself why you'd do that ever since, so, uh, that answers my original question.

It's possible I did it by accident, but I can't see how I could have.
It was locked by yourself, its easy to do on mobile though normally I end up stickying things, instead of locking them

I'm on desktop and there's a 6" gap between post and lock.  Still, it's not impossible.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on February 24, 2021, 12:31:46 AM
I saw the funniest fucking thing imaginable today. In fact, just now.

On another forum, a thread was posted about Rush Limbaugh's death and how great it is. Bunch of leftists and queers — you know, freaks and deviants — rejoicing. And some libertarian transphobe motherfucker comes in to say we should respect the dead.

Everyone's been dunking on this guy, literally universally, for DAYS now, and one particular guy joining in made an awesome post with a sig saying that he was incapable of making good posts. I did a bit about extradimensional legal action, now it's ONE good post and it won't happen again.

This libertarian motherfucker goes "how many have I made?"

I'm not going to answer him. I hope the thread dies with that as the very last post.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on February 25, 2021, 12:50:17 AM
I have good news.

Today, I learned I was accepted into a housing co-op in Chicago. Ongoing costs are affordable, so I am just trying to make 1500 for initial move in and month-of-March survival appear.

Presuming I can manage that, I have met and talked with the members and this co-op is extremely well suited to me. Homelessness beaten??? PERHAPS. It's also located conveniently for my purposes, and has things like a HOUSEHOLD FOOD FUND.

But forget about that, it has a KITCHEN, so I won't be spending 50 godforsaken dollars a day ordering food because I have no way of fucking cooking, the additional food savings from the household food fund are nothing, fucking pennies, by comparison.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on February 25, 2021, 02:21:40 AM
Quote from: altered on February 25, 2021, 12:50:17 AM
I have good news.

Today, I learned I was accepted into a housing co-op in Chicago. Ongoing costs are affordable, so I am just trying to make 1500 for initial move in and month-of-March survival appear.

Presuming I can manage that, I have met and talked with the members and this co-op is extremely well suited to me. Homelessness beaten??? PERHAPS. It's also located conveniently for my purposes, and has things like a HOUSEHOLD FOOD FUND.

But forget about that, it has a KITCHEN, so I won't be spending 50 godforsaken dollars a day ordering food because I have no way of fucking cooking, the additional food savings from the household food fund are nothing, fucking pennies, by comparison.

Woot! 

People often don't understand how much it costs to be poor.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on February 25, 2021, 02:50:19 AM
Hell yeah! Congrats, Altered!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on February 25, 2021, 04:50:18 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 25, 2021, 02:21:40 AM
Quote from: altered on February 25, 2021, 12:50:17 AM
I have good news.

Today, I learned I was accepted into a housing co-op in Chicago. Ongoing costs are affordable, so I am just trying to make 1500 for initial move in and month-of-March survival appear.

Presuming I can manage that, I have met and talked with the members and this co-op is extremely well suited to me. Homelessness beaten??? PERHAPS. It's also located conveniently for my purposes, and has things like a HOUSEHOLD FOOD FUND.

But forget about that, it has a KITCHEN, so I won't be spending 50 godforsaken dollars a day ordering food because I have no way of fucking cooking, the additional food savings from the household food fund are nothing, fucking pennies, by comparison.

Woot! 

People often don't understand how much it costs to be poor.

A friend (thankfully nonjudgementally) asked me why I've been spending 30 dollars a bit under twice a day from this swanky hot dog place instead of just getting dirt cheap burgers from McDonalds.

She didn't realize I had been spending 50 dollars a day doing that, for about a month straight. Yeah, I save about ten dollars a day eating less healthy food that I am absolutely fucking sick of — but that's only if I eat all of the hot dog place's food twice a day.

It actually lasts me one meal extra. Just a handful of leftover food to hit me for breakfast, and then if I'm careful I don't need to eat until dinner. That's about 10-ish dollars a day saved going for the fancy shit.

I wrote a whole bunch after this because I have a lot of vitriol stored up for the motherfuckers who say dumb shit about how I'm wasting my money, but I deleted it because I'd hope everyone here knows better, except whatever libertarians we haven't chased away yet, who are simply too damn stupid to waste good rage on.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: LMNO on February 25, 2021, 07:42:49 PM
I hope this work out for you, altered.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on February 25, 2021, 09:19:44 PM
Progress is looking good, I have 850 of the 1500 I need at this point and I have the rest of tonight and most of tomorrow to get the rest.

Bonus; I get my credit card today. So I can start building credit. So if/when this runs out? I can actually get a place to live instead of having the unenviable combination of a job and nowhere that will accept my money, AGAIN.

So I can say two cities have been good to me now: Boston and Chicago. If you have to be homeless and you have a support network for basic survival needs and you are able to do honestly really fucking difficult things like acquire and maintain legal identification, I recommend those two cities over the rest of em out there.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on February 25, 2021, 11:58:55 PM
I got my credit card.

Something else I got and was NOT expecting: healthcare.

I can finally, finally quit fucking smoking.

I literally have been chained to tobacco because of addiction not to the nicotine, but to the MAOI compounds in it — quitting is easy until after a couple days I completely breakdown into a compulsively self harming anxiety ridden emotional wreck and deal with suicidal ideation and all those other fun things that MAOIs are pretty good at fixing.

No more. I have known for a couple years now the silver bullet for my medication responsive mental health issues. And it’s FDA approved despite being relatively new, and it is a tetracyclic antidepressant that’s already used off-label for sleep aid and smoking cessation as well as its primary use for anxiety reduction. Bam, fuck yeah, half my shit handled in one fell swoop.

With healthcare and the end of my smoking habit, I have some extra money freed up. And with healthcare, I have access to hormones. And then the money to get them.

Good fucking god. If I can get 730 fucking dollars by tomorrow night I’m good to go for the foreseeable future and then some, and I already got 870 in a day so maybe I’m a bit overconfident but fuck. Yes.


EDIT:
REALIZED MY MATH IS OFF

630 DOLLARS AND I AM FREE, THAT IS THE MATH ISSUE I ALWAYS FUCK UP ON
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on February 26, 2021, 04:59:04 AM
Final update on that side of things....

I got all my move-in costs, and a small buffer just in case. Oh, just, goddamn. Work is the next big fucking task, but the job market weirdness favors me, and I am having enough good luck elsewhere...
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on February 26, 2021, 03:21:49 PM
I woke up to a request to schedule a job interview. Like literally "oh I'm sorta awake what time is it" grab phone, squint at screen, "oh shit".

What the fuck. Uh, so!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on February 26, 2021, 03:56:10 PM
And shortly afterwards my ex roommate here in Chicago is like "hey now that you have healthcare you can get a name change for free, here's the form", so uh this is my life now I guess
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: LMNO on February 27, 2021, 12:08:32 AM
This is awesome!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Eater of Clowns on February 27, 2021, 12:07:29 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 21, 2021, 10:17:11 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on February 20, 2021, 01:49:58 PM
Hello PD.

My PC died last April and I just got around to building a new one. With an actual keyboard and no godawful mobile interface to deal with I thought I'd jump on.

So here I am.

How the hell can any sane person go 11 months without a computer?  They can't.

I have tendonitis in both my hands from using only my phone for that long. Also because I'm like kinda getting old now?

Some cat on the r/discord posted a new Intermittens and said it'd been 10 years since the first one. Ten years! I remember the debate about naming the god damn rag.

Also I'm really glad things are going well for Altered but, buddy who is Altered?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Eater of Clowns on February 27, 2021, 12:09:02 PM
This is a lot of posts to catch up on I think I'm gonna mark all read
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on February 27, 2021, 06:57:43 PM
YOURE FUCKED FOREVER

Also I used to go by Nullified last time you were here, then before that a dozen names. I've been off and on homeless for ... years now. Joined originally in like 09, disappeared due to homelessness in 2010-ish? Maybe 2012-ish I was here I don't have clear memory of that time, then I rejoined when the Nazi shitfuck in chief happened, been here intermittently ever since — more this time than my last stint of homelessness since I have a real smartphone and not a flip phone or a 20 dollar android thing.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Eater of Clowns on February 27, 2021, 07:14:48 PM
Quote from: altered on February 27, 2021, 06:57:43 PM
YOURE FUCKED FOREVER

Also I used to go by Nullified last time you were here, then before that a dozen names. I've been off and on homeless for ... years now. Joined originally in like 09, disappeared due to homelessness in 2010-ish? Maybe 2012-ish I was here I don't have clear memory of that time, then I rejoined when the Nazi shitfuck in chief happened, been here intermittently ever since — more this time than my last stint of homelessness since I have a real smartphone and not a flip phone or a 20 dollar android thing.

Oh right, I remember you as Nullified. Good to see you again!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on February 27, 2021, 09:34:28 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on February 27, 2021, 12:09:02 PM
This is a lot of posts to catch up on I think I'm gonna mark all read

You should PM The MGT about too many posts.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on February 28, 2021, 01:33:58 AM
At destination. Back on laptop instead of horrible nightmare mobile device. Pursued by sentient flies the size of cats, more later.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Drake75 on March 01, 2021, 12:54:46 PM
I've fucked up. Turns out the guy I gave rights to my story to might've lost their teaching job because of me?

I gave him the first few chapter written by me and the general plot from there, but then things go sideways and by CH33 he's killing my self-insert character. The story was, for me, a lot of introspection and expression of real world events that happened to me, although not as bad for-real. By the combined powers of my undiagnosed autism and care though I basically wrote the rest of the almost 80 chapters in under a month and sent him links to call the result his own. Stupid dumb awesome teachers, recognizing my inner uncertainty in my own writing...

Anyways I'm currently brainstorming how exactly to break it to my fans that they've been deceived about who the real author is and why ""Somber"" has been so unflinchingly resolute on keeping true to the story I wanted to tell myself. Damn me, I've hurt them all. Semi-news for you all but Fallout Equestria: Project Horizons was written by a fellow Discordian. Me. Secrets, I love them begrudgingly. I see them like fossils to dig up.

It's taken me this long to do something because I actually, at the time at least, felt the meta-narrative made it a good idea to mindfuck/gaslight myself into thinking I didn't actually write most of it. If I had actually read it after my initial writing I'd've known it sooner. Too many self-insert-references that are specific to my own life and actually hurt the story by existing. In the final chapters, for instance, I have Aeris as a flamethrower wielder. The way she's written into the story is like a redcoat from Star Trek, which is a notorious meme for being bad writing. I wrote Eris into it, sort of. Boo is much closer to how I would like Eris to see my perception of her irl ofc... Not that you know what I'm actually talking about here.

Anyways, any suggestions as to how to apologize to a teacher that lost their job for defending your story that includes pedophilia because pedophilia, being more of a victim irl, has a lot to do with your mental trauma? Yeah yeah, big mess of fuck. I need help if you have it. Also, think of me like a force of Aftermath that has reality conveniently bend around it unintentionally. Trump much? I predicted Card-pun, my MC for the story is called Blackjack, would win the past election. We all know where reality sits now.

Help? No help is ok too ofc. I'll just keep being here as I am, without you.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Drake75 on March 01, 2021, 12:56:57 PM
https://youtu.be/cZQzUziy1jY

A brief summary for those who don't want to hear.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on March 01, 2021, 02:17:33 PM
Quote from: altered on February 26, 2021, 04:59:04 AM
I got all my move-in costs, and a small buffer just in case. Oh, just, goddamn. Work is the next big fucking task, but the job market weirdness favors me, and I am having enough good luck elsewhere...

That is good.


Quote from: altered on February 28, 2021, 01:33:58 AM
Pursued by sentient flies the size of cats, more later.

That is bad.  Up here, we use crossbows (broadhead bolts, of course) to deal with mosquitoes, so I imagine they would work against flies.  Throwing knives can work, too, if you're handy with them.  Small-calibre firearms (like a .22) are not effective, for obvious reasons.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on March 01, 2021, 02:32:07 PM
Quote from: Drake75 on March 01, 2021, 12:54:46 PM


Anyways, any suggestions as to how to apologize to a teacher that lost their job for defending your story that includes pedophilia because pedophilia, being more of a victim irl, has a lot to do with your mental trauma? Yeah yeah, big mess of fuck. I need help if you have it. Also, think of me like a force of Aftermath that has reality conveniently bend around it unintentionally. Trump much? I predicted Card-pun, my MC for the story is called Blackjack, would win the past election. We all know where reality sits now.


It sounds as if "helping you" is an existential threat.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on March 01, 2021, 02:38:20 PM
Also, I'm not sure why the fuck you'd write pedo porn.  Second, I am even less sure why you'd jeopardize a teacher's job and reputation by running it past them.

This has gone totally Babylon Horuv and will most assuredly end well.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on March 01, 2021, 02:54:10 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 01, 2021, 02:38:20 PM
Also, I'm not sure why the fuck you'd write pedo porn.  Second, I am even less sure why you'd jeopardize a teacher's job and reputation by running it past them.

This has gone totally Babylon Horuv and will most assuredly end well.
Gimmick fake account, probably because of the time I said Brony = Pedophile.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on March 01, 2021, 02:59:49 PM
Quote from: Faust on March 01, 2021, 02:54:10 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 01, 2021, 02:38:20 PM
Also, I'm not sure why the fuck you'd write pedo porn.  Second, I am even less sure why you'd jeopardize a teacher's job and reputation by running it past them.

This has gone totally Babylon Horuv and will most assuredly end well.
Gimmick fake account, probably because of the time I said Brony = Pedophile.

So put him out the airlock.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Drake75 on March 01, 2021, 08:22:04 PM
Ok, so I had this dream while I was gone. I was alone, in an old family hose in bed after what was apparently an accident as alluded to by my nearby little sister. Obviously I was actually physically fine, but was paralyzed and stuck to the bed for some reason. Until I started to move, only to find I had family pets laying with me that I wound up hurting during my wild thrashings to get out of bed. It was also followed by some insipid remark from my stepmom that I'm grateful I didn't hear. It's not that I don't like her you see, but I never felt she really cared that much for me either. Sure sure, she met my needs but I would've been a little happier with her had it been a bit more, y'know. Anyways, a few more upset house pets later I sit up in a dream only to feel myself stuck to the sheets and bed due to a layer of don't-think-about-it that had dried at some point.

Woke up in my irl bed after that, same makeshift pillow made from a blanket.
Suffice enough I have head demons. Dangerous ones, been trying to work them out and maybe the key meant to unlock my memories from my subconscious should've been a little easier to get to than re-reading my work but whatever. Over now.

Also, I swear that if you start with those still elusive fruitcake references, and might be connected to this rando here, I'm gonna have a lighthearted conniption at you because I'm being sincere at the moment. Tbh tho, I didn't know what to expect with you guys having me come back after being spooked off by what seemed like psychic power to me at the time. I wrote a story for you guys to read, if you'd like. All the edge, all the intrigue, all the drama and references as well as shadows of traumas I have in my real life. Frankly I expect you to have enough before finishing it if you even do read. Anyways, it looks like it should still be easy enough to peruse my few historical comments on here to get a better idea. There certainly are few of them after all.
(https://previews.dropbox.com/p/thumb/ABG1fYjJgCnI7HIk0BusL097_1LRBL4Re4XKl7SeyE9z29eIz9RASiOCeT0uJ_V2BfDFRCDfffjx0_cU0ftchcpuYwmynEwG3ja-Oe5bLP6ODaaDBYfAam21rr0r13Fwu71UpV_NOlLv4EnVKZI2-prXgJ3cjoW3A2zw299rXZKLTW5JyD9ki9pbXVpkN4ArmNyr-JVXGEyrn1ZxqIRw1PmmailXB0o3RI-TS5KZbNl7Q0jzRomsZqArtANikNrv71y0dAkGzZZb5EZ20bfxwj6IPA28XAC9UVMdQkPNIbmaLjfCmJpKChFtlxmbltPl3dFueCf4FjU1vvSNVLCCGTQ1bOztUKfJDsu8cb9vUgptdA/p.png)

Might be enough spaghetti dropping for today. Just know I'd like to call you all cool by proxy now. Not that you weren't before ofc.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on March 01, 2021, 11:14:08 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on March 01, 2021, 02:17:33 PM
Quote from: altered on February 26, 2021, 04:59:04 AM
I got all my move-in costs, and a small buffer just in case. Oh, just, goddamn. Work is the next big fucking task, but the job market weirdness favors me, and I am having enough good luck elsewhere...

That is good.


Quote from: altered on February 28, 2021, 01:33:58 AM
Pursued by sentient flies the size of cats, more later.

That is bad.  Up here, we use crossbows (broadhead bolts, of course) to deal with mosquitoes, so I imagine they would work against flies.  Throwing knives can work, too, if you're handy with them.  Small-calibre firearms (like a .22) are not effective, for obvious reasons.

It turns out javelins work too. The household has meat to spare now that we have brought low the giant alien bugs. Hopefully we won't become subject to an ancient curse of deathlessness and delusion or anything.



In other news, guess who has a JOB INTERVIEW on the 4th and a phone interview for NAME CHANGE SHIT FOR FREE on the 8th?

Yeah. It's me.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: LMNO on March 02, 2021, 09:41:53 PM
Yes, this belongs in Bring and Brag, but none y'all ever go there.  So:

I wrote and recorded 11 songs in 28 days.  It's rough, but it was fun.

I decided to take on the RPM challenge, which is to write and record ten new songs in February.  Much like NaNoWriMo, the point is to finish them, not necessarily to have them in perfect shape.  Creativity is the goal, rough edges accepted.

Please enjoy my... um... highly specific guitar soloing technique.  I also used that Thatcher speech, too.

https://earfatigueproductions.bandcamp.com/album/the-year-that-wasnt-there-an-earfatigue-productions-compilation
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on March 02, 2021, 10:13:54 PM
Quote from: LMNO on March 02, 2021, 09:41:53 PM
Yes, this belongs in Bring and Brag, but none y'all ever go there.  So:

I wrote and recorded 11 songs in 28 days.  It's rough, but it was fun.

I decided to take on the RPM challenge, which is to write and record ten new songs in February.  Much like NaNoWriMo, the point is to finish them, not necessarily to have them in perfect shape.  Creativity is the goal, rough edges accepted.

Please enjoy my... um... highly specific guitar soloing technique.  I also used that Thatcher speech, too.

https://earfatigueproductions.bandcamp.com/album/the-year-that-wasnt-there-an-earfatigue-productions-compilation

Whoop.  Will listen to this tomorrow morning as prep for the meeting I have tomorrow afternoon.

Also, I feel you on the nobody looking at other forums thing.

I am 3/4 of the way through writing something that makes me feel filthy, and it's just sat there.  A few google spiders have looked at it, but meh.  And it's not really a facebook thing.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on March 02, 2021, 11:04:34 PM
Someone want to holler on FB that I caught another 90 day megaban?

:lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on March 02, 2021, 11:09:54 PM
Disregard.  The appeal thing worked.  Wonders never cease.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Rev. St. Syn, KSC (Ret.) on March 03, 2021, 12:15:47 AM
And with your record, too!  :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on March 03, 2021, 01:13:19 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 02, 2021, 10:13:54 PM
Quote from: LMNO on March 02, 2021, 09:41:53 PM
Yes, this belongs in Bring and Brag, but none y'all ever go there.  So:

I wrote and recorded 11 songs in 28 days.  It's rough, but it was fun.

I decided to take on the RPM challenge, which is to write and record ten new songs in February.  Much like NaNoWriMo, the point is to finish them, not necessarily to have them in perfect shape.  Creativity is the goal, rough edges accepted.

Please enjoy my... um... highly specific guitar soloing technique.  I also used that Thatcher speech, too.

https://earfatigueproductions.bandcamp.com/album/the-year-that-wasnt-there-an-earfatigue-productions-compilation

Whoop.  Will listen to this tomorrow morning as prep for the meeting I have tomorrow afternoon.

Also, I feel you on the nobody looking at other forums thing.

I am 3/4 of the way through writing something that makes me feel filthy, and it's just sat there.  A few google spiders have looked at it, but meh.  And it's not really a facebook thing.

I have been reading it, just so you know! I'm waiting for the complete product -- I first saw it after you'd done two parts of it, and you successfully addressed some of my concerns with the first part in the second (and now the second in the third) so I'm waiting for you to finish it up before I make any posts in there.

It's an awesome read, for the record, and anyone who HASN'T seen it should go and see it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on March 04, 2021, 04:24:48 PM
Job interview today

Meanwhile I am supposed to be tending a dumpster fire but I told the participants "if you desperately need me well gee that fuckin sucks sorry"
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on March 04, 2021, 04:26:13 PM
I just want to know who is using Syn's account.

He was killed in 2008 during a freak guinea pig attack.  It is known.

So who is posting in his name?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on March 04, 2021, 04:30:13 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MciNinPhtp8&ab_channel=TheDailyShowwithTrevorNoah
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on March 04, 2021, 05:41:43 PM
Quote from: altered on March 03, 2021, 01:13:19 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 02, 2021, 10:13:54 PM
Quote from: LMNO on March 02, 2021, 09:41:53 PM
Yes, this belongs in Bring and Brag, but none y'all ever go there.  So:

I wrote and recorded 11 songs in 28 days.  It's rough, but it was fun.

I decided to take on the RPM challenge, which is to write and record ten new songs in February.  Much like NaNoWriMo, the point is to finish them, not necessarily to have them in perfect shape.  Creativity is the goal, rough edges accepted.

Please enjoy my... um... highly specific guitar soloing technique.  I also used that Thatcher speech, too.

https://earfatigueproductions.bandcamp.com/album/the-year-that-wasnt-there-an-earfatigue-productions-compilation

Whoop.  Will listen to this tomorrow morning as prep for the meeting I have tomorrow afternoon.

Also, I feel you on the nobody looking at other forums thing.

I am 3/4 of the way through writing something that makes me feel filthy, and it's just sat there.  A few google spiders have looked at it, but meh.  And it's not really a facebook thing.

I have been reading it, just so you know! I'm waiting for the complete product -- I first saw it after you'd done two parts of it, and you successfully addressed some of my concerns with the first part in the second (and now the second in the third) so I'm waiting for you to finish it up before I make any posts in there.

It's an awesome read, for the record, and anyone who HASN'T seen it should go and see it.

Finished it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on March 04, 2021, 06:08:36 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 04, 2021, 04:26:13 PM
I just want to know who is using Syn's account.

He was killed in 2008 during a freak guinea pig attack.  It is known.

So who is posting in his name?

Reverse Syn, aka Nys. We've all seen Tenet by now, we know how that shit works.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Rev. St. Syn, KSC (Ret.) on March 05, 2021, 07:58:31 AM
I guess we'll never really know.  :horrormirth:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on March 06, 2021, 01:32:13 AM
Ever have one of those weeks where the boss talks over you for 5 consecutive days with wrongheaded shit while you're trying to explain a complex process, and then you get home for the weekend and you go on your Zoom thing and a couple of people talk right over you and then giggle when you look upset and so you bail the fuck out and stop caring?

I get those once in a while.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: CorbeauEtRenard on March 07, 2021, 11:15:44 PM
It pleases me greatly that my decision to return to forums as the superior form of online interaction has found at least a few of the old haunts even more active than when I migrated to Facebook (spits) and Twitter (hawks up a loogie and spits).
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on March 08, 2021, 03:29:32 AM
Quote from: CorbeauEtRenard on March 07, 2021, 11:15:44 PM
It pleases me greatly that my decision to return to forums as the superior form of online interaction has found at least a few of the old haunts even more active than when I migrated to Facebook (spits) and Twitter (hawks up a loogie and spits).

Long time no see, dude.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: CorbeauEtRenard on March 09, 2021, 01:25:07 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 08, 2021, 03:29:32 AM
Long time no see, dude.

Yeah, it was fun watching you mess with people on FB until I got sick of Zuck and just didn't log in for six months.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on March 09, 2021, 11:52:44 AM
Understandable, the newest update really is trash. I love how I have to manually reload things constantly and how it acts as a huge resource hog on desktop for absolutely no reason.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on March 09, 2021, 10:57:41 PM
Quote from: Cain on March 09, 2021, 11:52:44 AM
Understandable, the newest update really is trash. I love how I have to manually reload things constantly and how it acts as a huge resource hog on desktop for absolutely no reason.

Also, notifications in no particular order.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on March 09, 2021, 11:08:22 PM
That's so they can see what notifications you prioritise first, and use it to build a more specific profile of whom you interact with and in what order of preference.

"It's all about selling micro-targeted data profiles?"
"Always has been."
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Rev. St. Syn, KSC (Ret.) on March 11, 2021, 09:57:21 AM
 I'm trying to stay out of Facebook, some of the groups I'm in are useful tho.
:roll: I almost deleted my account, but almost isn't really good enough.  :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: CorbeauEtRenard on March 11, 2021, 07:29:52 PM
I do want to apologize to Cram for friending him like literally right before bed the night before I dropped facebook, and then half a year later saw him asking for clarification for who from here I was.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on March 11, 2021, 08:24:28 PM
hah! all good -- I get a bunch of friend requests from random people, and I generally delete them if I don't know who they are and they haven't reached out.

Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on March 11, 2021, 11:08:00 PM
Quote from: Rev. St. Syn, KSC (Ret.) on March 11, 2021, 09:57:21 AM
I'm trying to stay out of Facebook, some of the groups I'm in are useful tho.
:roll: I almost deleted my account, but almost isn't really good enough.  :lulz:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlXkTKxg4e4
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on March 11, 2021, 11:09:43 PM
Non-bots whose account I'm not approving, #1

PunchWmen
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Drake75 on March 12, 2021, 08:12:18 AM
The illusion of separation between work and home is cursing modernity.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Rev. St. Syn, KSC (Ret.) on March 12, 2021, 02:56:18 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 11, 2021, 11:08:00 PM
Quote from: Rev. St. Syn, KSC (Ret.) on March 11, 2021, 09:57:21 AM
I'm trying to stay out of Facebook, some of the groups I'm in are useful tho.
:roll: I almost deleted my account, but almost isn't really good enough.  :lulz:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlXkTKxg4e4
Oh, I fucking love that guy.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on March 12, 2021, 03:17:29 PM
Quote from: Rev. St. Syn, KSC (Ret.) on March 12, 2021, 02:56:18 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 11, 2021, 11:08:00 PM
Quote from: Rev. St. Syn, KSC (Ret.) on March 11, 2021, 09:57:21 AM
I'm trying to stay out of Facebook, some of the groups I'm in are useful tho.
:roll: I almost deleted my account, but almost isn't really good enough.  :lulz:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlXkTKxg4e4
Oh, I fucking love that guy.
It's like someone mixed Payne and P3NT into one person and then taught them to speak English.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Rev. St. Syn, KSC (Ret.) on March 12, 2021, 09:45:55 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 12, 2021, 03:17:29 PM
It's like someone mixed Payne and P3NT into one person and then taught them to speak English.
:lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: trix on March 13, 2021, 06:18:35 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 11, 2021, 11:09:43 PM
Non-bots whose account I'm not approving, #1

PunchWmen

Maybe it's meant as "Punch White Men"
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Drake75 on March 13, 2021, 07:44:02 PM
For Cammulus, because I do actually have powers I don't want to believe in.
https://www.crunchyroll.com/dr-ramune-mysterious-disease-specialist-/episode-10-torus-deeply-mysterious-story-part-one-801638

ANYWAYS, ERIS FOUND ME, if you're going to be so particular.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on March 18, 2021, 10:10:33 PM
Got my first shot today.  2nd one on the 15th of next month.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on March 18, 2021, 10:29:06 PM
I'm still not eligible  :sad:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on March 18, 2021, 11:01:56 PM
Quote from: Cain on March 18, 2021, 10:29:06 PM
I'm still not eligible  :sad:
Me neither.

My mother is getting her first shot on Sunday.

The current cutoff age for eligibility is 67 (they started at 85, and have been progressively dropping it).  At this rate, I'm guessing I'll be getting my shot in early May, assuming Trudeau doesn't cause an international embarrassment and get our vaccine supply cut off.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: CorbeauEtRenard on March 19, 2021, 06:20:39 AM
Roommate got his first one today, unfortunately myself and the fiance got bumped down from 1B to 2A because the state didn't want to admit they hadn't gotten enough doses to cover all the over-50s in 1B in a timely fashion.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Pergamos on March 21, 2021, 01:54:25 AM
I got spam from my medical clinic telling me to check if I was eligible for a free shot.  I know I'm not eligible and assumed it was a scam.  I called the clinic and it turned out it was not a scam, covid shots in WA are all free and someone at corporate was being stupid about publicity.  I am relieved since my assumption was that my medical records had been stolen.  I'm still not eligible, but I have gotten pretty used to hermiting out, I can handle a couple more months.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on March 21, 2021, 06:44:58 PM
My brain is catastrophic right now. The executive dysfunction is cranked up to 11 and it's a struggle to do anything more complicated than counting shampoos. Fortunately, the thing I do that does the most good right now is at that level.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on March 21, 2021, 11:08:11 PM
Getting mine tomorrow. Vodafone contract cancelled. I can use my bloodstream as a 5G hotspot, right?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Rev. St. Syn, KSC (Ret.) on March 22, 2021, 01:18:49 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on March 21, 2021, 11:08:11 PM
Getting mine tomorrow. Vodafone contract cancelled. I can use my bloodstream as a 5G hotspot, right?
Yep, I'm even picking up comms from the lizard people on the moon. No need to pay Virgin Media for Interwebz, now!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on March 22, 2021, 04:27:54 PM
So today was fun. Turned up an hour late cos I had a brainfart first thing and was only looking at the minute hand for when it was time to head out. I get there, check in and the next thing needle woman is fawning over the definition I have on my deltoids. I'm like enjoying the ego stroke and flirting a bit back, suddenly she lets out a squeal like Lambert in Alien and I turn round and she's got my blood over her face. Turn out I'm a squirter, who knew! Dunno what the fuck she hit but was was epic lulz. Whole college gym full of punters all like WTF whiplash when she yelped. Army dudes all stinkeyeing me like I've pulled out a detonator or something. Meanwhile the queue of punters still waiting on theirs are starting to look they're having second thoughts about the whole deal. Best laugh I've had since lockdown started. Highly recommended, would totally do it again! :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on March 23, 2021, 06:54:55 PM
Good stuff, posting here for use elsewhere.

https://medium.com/curiouserinstitute/a-game-designers-analysis-of-qanon-580972548be5
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on March 24, 2021, 02:28:27 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 23, 2021, 06:54:55 PM
Good stuff, posting here for use elsewhere.

https://medium.com/curiouserinstitute/a-game-designers-analysis-of-qanon-580972548be5

Been thinking about this one all day. The more I unpack it, the more I realise it doesn't apply to just q-anon. It's subjective reality and the underlying primate psychology that gives rise to it almost in it's entirety.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on March 30, 2021, 03:32:44 AM
Yesterday morning, the weather service issued a warning.  By mid-afternoon, the temperature was +18 C, the few patches of remaining snow were shrinking, and the neighbour's kids were playing in their backyard.

Somewhat unusual weather, but not the reason for the alert.

This morning, the wind started to blow.  Hard.  There was rain, then snow, then more snow.  Now, the worst of the storm has passed, the wind has slowed to 40 km/h, it's -9 C and falling, the world has turned white again, and I'm regarding a tray full of eight-day-old tomato seedlings, wondering if maybe I should have waited another week before starting them.

Some parts of the world are ill-suited for human habitation.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on March 31, 2021, 06:53:17 PM
The weather here has ranged from a high of 60F one day to 93F the next and then back again.

Of course all of us suffered fatal sinus explosions.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on April 06, 2021, 02:30:32 AM
Half the spam bots I banned today had the same IP address.

It's like they're just mailing it in.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on April 06, 2021, 03:24:09 AM
Emailing it in
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Rev. St. Syn, KSC (Ret.) on April 06, 2021, 09:21:49 AM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on March 22, 2021, 04:27:54 PMTurn out I'm a squirter, who knew!
BAAHAAHAA!  :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on April 07, 2021, 03:05:49 PM
It's another morning, and I'm still stuck on a planet jammed full of humans.  :rogpipe:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on April 07, 2021, 04:39:58 PM
I just found out there's a Hyundai Tucson.

Which is just asking for it, Frankly.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on April 07, 2021, 06:16:13 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on April 07, 2021, 04:39:58 PM
I just found out there's a Hyundai Tucson.

Which is just asking for it, Frankly.

Would have been safer to name it the Hiroshima Aleppo
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on April 07, 2021, 11:04:51 PM
Hey, Faust, is there anything we can do to hobble some of the spambots at registration?  I'm zapping 20+ a day right now.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Drake75 on April 10, 2021, 07:58:07 PM
Fuck all of you, fuck everything, I'm going to become an omniglot and you won't hear from me again, at least here.
Your asses will all be mine.

I will conquer The Tower of Babel and reach my throne by age 77 and nobody will stop me, not even myself. My endtimes have come and I was the one who wrote my own end. I won.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on April 11, 2021, 08:20:45 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on April 07, 2021, 11:04:51 PM
Hey, Faust, is there anything we can do to hobble some of the spambots at registration?  I'm zapping 20+ a day right now.

Sorry about this, I've been looking to integrate stopforumspam for like 2 years, I thought I had little free time before the baby, now things like showers are a luxury. She's gorgeous but she keeps us on our toes.
When I get time to work on stuff it will be one of the first things I do.
This will catch them at source
In the meantime it's possible to create a ban on their registration which can stop them registering any more because we tend to see groups from the same machines over and over.
Select Ban on IP,  and seperately if the email is something@site.spamhost.com they tend to register multiple times with variations of where that site. Part is so a wildcard ban of *.Spamhost.com  catches a lot of them.

Otherwise, I'll try do more of them myself because it shouldn't just be you doing it
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on April 11, 2021, 07:11:55 PM
Quote from: Faust on April 11, 2021, 08:20:45 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on April 07, 2021, 11:04:51 PM
Hey, Faust, is there anything we can do to hobble some of the spambots at registration?  I'm zapping 20+ a day right now.

Sorry about this, I've been looking to integrate stopforumspam for like 2 years, I thought I had little free time before the baby, now things like showers are a luxury. She's gorgeous but she keeps us on our toes.
When I get time to work on stuff it will be one of the first things I do.
This will catch them at source
In the meantime it's possible to create a ban on their registration which can stop them registering any more because we tend to see groups from the same machines over and over.
Select Ban on IP,  and seperately if the email is something@site.spamhost.com they tend to register multiple times with variations of where that site. Part is so a wildcard ban of *.Spamhost.com  catches a lot of them.

Otherwise, I'll try do more of them myself because it shouldn't just be you doing it

Well, no rush.  Obviously being a new dad means you get no sleep, let alone this crap.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on April 11, 2021, 07:13:57 PM
Quote from: Drake75 on April 10, 2021, 07:58:07 PM
Fuck all of you, fuck everything, I'm going to become an omniglot and you won't hear from me again, at least here.
Your asses will all be mine.

I will conquer The Tower of Babel and reach my throne by age 77 and nobody will stop me, not even myself. My endtimes have come and I was the one who wrote my own end. I won.

Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on April 12, 2021, 10:39:29 AM
Quote from: Drake75 on April 10, 2021, 07:58:07 PM
Fuck all of you, fuck everything, I'm going to become an omniglot and you won't hear from me again, at least here.
Your asses will all be mine.

I will conquer The Tower of Babel and reach my throne by age 77 and nobody will stop me, not even myself. My endtimes have come and I was the one who wrote my own end. I won.

What?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on April 12, 2021, 05:44:55 PM
I FOUND IT

background's not transparent but WHATEVER

(https://imgur.com/1fgtnwB.gif)
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on April 12, 2021, 09:48:16 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on April 12, 2021, 05:44:55 PM
I FOUND IT

background's not transparent but WHATEVER

(https://imgur.com/1fgtnwB.gif)

Wow, what depths of tartarus did you need to search over these last few months to dredge that up?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on April 13, 2021, 01:17:33 PM
randomly showed up in a comment on a facebook memory

the internet never forgets!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on April 29, 2021, 04:26:11 PM
Sometimes I think to myself, that somewhere out there is is an epidemiologist--possibly several of them--who has spent the last year in a state of ecstasy because of the vast quantity of data they now have available.
And I'm okay with this, because that's how I would feel, too.


I became eligible for vaccination yesterday, but my appointment is still two weeks out.  Canada is still having vaccine supply issues.  Meanwhile, south of the border, the Americans seem to be handing them out like candy (cross-border Canadian truckers apparently can get vaccinated in North Dakota, now).

The time for finger pointing has come!  Quick! Someone tell me who I'm supposed to blame for this!  I don't want to think for myself!  Can I blame Trudeau?  I don't like Trudeau!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on April 30, 2021, 01:33:52 AM
Is blaming Trudeau ever really wrong?

I'm also still waiting for a vaccination, if it makes you feel any better. Of course the government's attitude to anyone under 60 is that we should fuck off and die, so I'm not too surprised at this being the case. Denying us the ability to get vaccinated, while making snide remarks and hectoring us to go and get vaccinated when it's finally available is entirely in keeping with their approach to...well, everything.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on April 30, 2021, 08:56:10 AM
I got it (moderna) yesterday because of an underlying respiratory issue,  no symptoms but I've heard it's pot luck on that.
I'm looking forward to all the things I was missing out on with social distancing: the arm wrestling competitions, the kissing people on each cheek european style, and let's not forget the orgies.
Jokes aside it will nice to be able to see a film in the cinema again
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: MMIX on April 30, 2021, 09:31:41 AM
Quote from: Cain on April 30, 2021, 01:33:52 AM
Is blaming Trudeau ever really wrong?

I'm also still waiting for a vaccination, if it makes you feel any better. Of course the government's attitude to anyone under 60 is that we should fuck off and die, so I'm not too surprised at this being the case. Denying us the ability to get vaccinated, while making snide remarks and hectoring us to go and get vaccinated when it's finally available is entirely in keeping with their approach to...well, everything.

LOL speaking as an over 60 I challenge your claim about governmentally approved fucking off and dying . . . the bastards want us all to die. ALSO my 2 pennorth on Astra Zeneca - I was fine for 5 days and then there were 3 days when I couldn't move and which I can't remember clearly. Still, its gotta be better than Covid. Right?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on April 30, 2021, 03:14:09 PM
Quote from: Cain on April 30, 2021, 01:33:52 AM
Is blaming Trudeau ever really wrong?
It's one of the luxuries of a governmental system that is essentially a term dictatorship.  It makes it easy to blame everything on one person.

Quote
I'm also still waiting for a vaccination, if it makes you feel any better. Of course the government's attitude to anyone under 60 is that we should fuck off and die, so I'm not too surprised at this being the case. Denying us the ability to get vaccinated, while making snide remarks and hectoring us to go and get vaccinated when it's finally available is entirely in keeping with their approach to...well, everything.

Yikes.  Our government at least pretends to care, they're just disorganized and condescending.

Are your people trying to improve initial coverage by increasing the inter-dose interval from three weeks to four months, or is that just us?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on April 30, 2021, 05:55:19 PM
I got the Moderna, and my left arm was useless for roughly 38 hours. When they say "your arm will probably be sore" they aren't talking about normal injection soreness. You won't even feel the needle, in fact. You'll feel a cloud of ghostly bees land on you in a half hour -- and then (roughly four hours later) you'll feel your arm's muscles ascend to a higher plane of existence and God start punching you in the shoulder if you move anything above the elbow.

That said, I had lots of energy and was thinking only mildly foggy. That's both upside and downside, though -- I kept on forgetting I only had one arm to use while the other was tucked up against me like a T-rex nubbin, trying to reach for things, and falling over in a wave of pain. Also dropping my laptop from a height of roughly 1.5 to 2 inches, constantly, as muscle memory betrays me.

As these things go, it's the worst vaccine I've ever had and better than literally any illness I can remember having.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on April 30, 2021, 06:29:01 PM
Quote from: MMIX on April 30, 2021, 09:31:41 AM
LOL speaking as an over 60 I challenge your claim about governmentally approved fucking off and dying . . . the bastards want us all to die. ALSO my 2 pennorth on Astra Zeneca - I was fine for 5 days and then there were 3 days when I couldn't move and which I can't remember clearly. Still, its gotta be better than Covid. Right?

Well true, though at least they are vaccinating the over 50s. And yeah, I hear there's some nasty after effects, so I've mentally prepared myself for that, when I get injected in two years time.

Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on April 30, 2021, 03:14:09 PM
Yikes.  Our government at least pretends to care, they're just disorganized and condescending.

Are your people trying to improve initial coverage by increasing the inter-dose interval from three weeks to four months, or is that just us?

I'm not entirely certain, truth be told, but I don't think so. A lot of the over 60 crowd have already gotten their second dose, so I'm leaning towards it not being the case, but I couldn't say for certain.

Quote from: Faust on April 30, 2021, 08:56:10 AM
I'm looking forward to all the things I was missing out on with social distancing: the arm wrestling competitions, the kissing people on each cheek european style, and let's not forget the orgies.

Licking random public doorknobs is where it's going to be at.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Pope Pixie Pickle on May 06, 2021, 03:03:41 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on January 02, 2021, 02:10:55 PM
I hope everybody got what they wanted for Christmas, which is this:

https://www.nadgerz.com/balldo/

WHAT IN HELL DID I JUST WATCH CRAM YOU DAMULUS!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Pope Pixie Pickle on May 06, 2021, 03:05:02 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on January 23, 2021, 01:05:52 PM
Hey guys, I'm gonna be a dad.   :)

ooooooh congrats!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Pope Pixie Pickle on May 06, 2021, 03:16:36 PM
Quote from: Rev. St. Syn, KSC (Ret.) on March 03, 2021, 12:15:47 AM
And with your record, too!  :lulz:

:waves:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on May 07, 2021, 09:01:54 AM
Quote from: Pope Pixie Pickle on May 06, 2021, 03:16:36 PM
Quote from: Rev. St. Syn, KSC (Ret.) on March 03, 2021, 12:15:47 AM
And with your record, too!  :lulz:

:waves:

Holy fuck I missed this! Grats Cram. The thought of your genome continuing fills me with a weird mix of complacency and horrormirth :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: TheAudience on May 19, 2021, 06:41:15 PM
Management just sent out the email. Masks are no longer universally enforced. But only if you are vaccinated (No Lying  :wink:). I'm surrounded by Trumpists, (today, one literally printed off a "Liberal tears" graphic on the printer next to my desk so he can tape it to his new mug) and can guess that a few of them haven't gotten vaccinated. Almost all the masks are gone. More than one person has assumed that I haven't gotten the vaccine yet because I've still got my mask on. I got the J&J almost 2 months ago :lulz: (thank you govt contractor "essential worker" status). I enjoy the look on their faces when I tell them I'm vaxed. I don't get to witness that moment of confusion every day (I clearly don't try hard enough). Call me paranoid, that's fine, I'm gonna wait at least a few weeks to see if infections/ deaths spike back up and see how the different new variants shake out. Let everyone else beta-test the environment. After that, I'll make a decision about whether I feel comfortable shedding my mask.

P.S. I switched to a new department after the masks were enforced. I've not seen the faces of several of these people before today. Some of them are uglier than I'd imagined  :lulz: I imagine some of them will think the same about me.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: LMNO on May 20, 2021, 07:59:40 PM
I guess I should update people.

On Mardi Gras day last February, I overcame the curse that bound me to the Dark Gods of Actuarial Finance, and they released their hold over my soul.  Something about, "Maximizing efficient capacity resources viz reduction of meat-based sentience". Then they handed me a small gold-plated parachute (honestly, it was spray painted metallic yellow) and cast me into the void.

It's been an interesting few months.  Now that I had my soul back, I wasn't going to readily jump back into that occult morass.  I've been volunteering in a kitchen that provides meals for the housebound and infirm (it began back in the 90s as a way to get food to AIDS patients who were too ill to leave the house).  I know I'll eventually have to do something capitalistic, but for now I'm really enjoying simply helping people who need it.  So much so that I'm seriously considering going into non-profit work. 

I also laid down some drum tracks for a bar rock kind of band called "American Traditional"... when it gets posted, I'll share a link.

Anyway, that's what's going on with me.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on May 20, 2021, 09:20:34 PM
Aw man, you were working the numbers for them and then they made you a number. Working a meals on wheels job sounds incredibly fulfilling and there's got to be a lot of interesting people to meet doing it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: LMNO on May 20, 2021, 09:28:15 PM
It's been a real challenge to my apparent hidden agism, to be honest.  Most of the volunteers are retirees, and those folx can do some serious food prep work.  I've also been able to lean into my "meditation by way of mise en place" pretty hard.  Three hours of mirepoix prep can change one's brain.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on May 20, 2021, 09:38:50 PM
dang dude, you've had that job forever

congrats on the new growth
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on May 20, 2021, 11:42:59 PM
Quote from: LMNO on May 20, 2021, 07:59:40 PM
I guess I should update people.

On Mardi Gras day last February, I overcame the curse that bound me to the Dark Gods of Actuarial Finance, and they released their hold over my soul.  Something about, "Maximizing efficient capacity resources viz reduction of meat-based sentience". Then they handed me a small gold-plated parachute (honestly, it was spray painted metallic yellow) and cast me into the void.

It's been an interesting few months.  Now that I had my soul back, I wasn't going to readily jump back into that occult morass.  I've been volunteering in a kitchen that provides meals for the housebound and infirm (it began back in the 90s as a way to get food to AIDS patients who were too ill to leave the house).  I know I'll eventually have to do something capitalistic, but for now I'm really enjoying simply helping people who need it.  So much so that I'm seriously considering going into non-profit work. 

I also laid down some drum tracks for a bar rock kind of band called "American Traditional"... when it gets posted, I'll share a link.

Anyway, that's what's going on with me.

Yeah, I know those feels.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Rev. St. Syn, KSC (Ret.) on May 22, 2021, 10:19:10 AM
Quote from: altered on April 30, 2021, 05:55:19 PM
I got the Moderna, and my left arm was useless for roughly 38 hours. When they say "your arm will probably be sore" ...and God start punching you in the shoulder
My second Pfizer is that. God punched me in the arm with the Holy Brass Knucks. I felt like I went sideways into another dimension, tbh.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on May 23, 2021, 02:56:16 PM
Guess it's time to hop back on it here @ PD. New Orleans is treating me very well. Nothing like a steady day job yet but odd jobs and a bit of hustling cannabis food and products here and there has kept me doing fairly well though. Of far greater value than any money could be has been the friends and contacts I have made and several object lessons learned. I have A LOT to unpack after about half a year here and will either open or repurpose a thread to do so soon. No real way I can get easily caught up, but I am here reading and posting again for the forseeable future. Very glad to be back and look forward to catching up!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on May 24, 2021, 04:54:11 AM
Okay, so recap:

1.  Lex isn't doing money things anymore, which is probably why the money is going sideways.

2.  TWJ is dealing legal drugs to survive, which is absurd and obviously due to #1, and

3.  Cram 2.0
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on May 24, 2021, 08:56:16 PM
4. Roger's nipples now have four different textures of hair. That's course, curly, fine, and something we've been calling "Kramer"
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: POFP on May 24, 2021, 09:38:33 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on May 24, 2021, 08:56:16 PM
4. Roger's nipples now have four different textures of hair. That's course, curly, fine, and something we've been calling "Kramer"
:spittake:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on May 24, 2021, 10:35:49 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on May 24, 2021, 08:56:16 PM
4. Roger's nipples now have four different textures of hair. That's course, curly, fine, and something we've been calling "Kramer"

This has been true since 1989 and I fail to see how anyone can be blamed for it.  Especially me.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on May 25, 2021, 05:16:20 AM
I've been blaming Cram for it
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on May 25, 2021, 03:00:20 PM
Quote from: altered on May 25, 2021, 05:16:20 AM
I've been blaming Cram for it

So have I.  Even though I didn't run into him until 2006.  I just knew that some awful malevolent intelligence, cool and unsympathetic, was looking at my hair and making its plans.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on May 25, 2021, 03:59:49 PM
Quote from: altered on May 25, 2021, 05:16:20 AM
I've been blaming Cram for it

This makes sense. Kramer, Cram-er. It all fits together.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: LMNO on May 25, 2021, 08:11:52 PM
Quote from: Cain on May 25, 2021, 03:59:49 PM
Quote from: altered on May 25, 2021, 05:16:20 AM
I've been blaming Cram for it

This makes sense. Kramer, Cram-er. It all fits together.

WAKE UP, SHEEPLE!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on May 26, 2021, 08:49:49 AM
After relatively mild side effects from Moderna I, Moderna II kicks like a mule: hot and cold fever, headache, arm fully unusable and just general tiredness. Worst of it gone within 24 hours but not completely.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on May 26, 2021, 02:24:26 PM
Quote from: LMNO on May 25, 2021, 08:11:52 PM
Quote from: Cain on May 25, 2021, 03:59:49 PM
Quote from: altered on May 25, 2021, 05:16:20 AM
I've been blaming Cram for it

This makes sense. Kramer, Cram-er. It all fits together.

WAKE UP, SHEEPLE!
:tinfoilhat: :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: POFP on May 27, 2021, 06:08:04 PM
My Home Town (Lebanon, Ohio) has decided to pass an ordinance not only banning, but criminalizing all abortion. The Council Meeting consisted mainly of the Council talking about how they use the Bible to make all of their decisions in local government, and friends of mine calling them on their shit.

The Protest of the decision was met with a Counter-Protest of Right-Wingers with big guns that was about quadruple the size. This is the same town where known Nazis in the area assaulted protesters on camera in the streets during past protests. It's likely going to get pretty ugly here soon, and we'll be moving into Lebanon likely within the next few months to get out of this piece of shit house.

Hopefully, I can get some SRA buddies together over the next few months to join at future Protests to discourage future threats and intimidation.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: TheAudience on May 28, 2021, 01:56:55 PM
Quote from: PoFP on May 27, 2021, 06:08:04 PM
My Home Town (Lebanon, Ohio) has decided to pass an ordinance not only banning, but criminalizing all abortion. The Council Meeting consisted mainly of the Council talking about how they use the Bible to make all of their decisions in local government, and friends of mine calling them on their shit.

The Protest of the decision was met with a Counter-Protest of Right-Wingers with big guns that was about quadruple the size. This is the same town where known Nazis in the area assaulted protesters on camera in the streets during past protests. It's likely going to get pretty ugly here soon, and we'll be moving into Lebanon likely within the next few months to get out of this piece of shit house.

Hopefully, I can get some SRA buddies together over the next few months to join at future Protests to discourage future threats and intimidation.

That sucks. It sounds like Ohio is quite the battleground in more ways than one. I just read how a lot of Ohio Republican legislators are trying to push for a bill that would prevent basically any organization from encouraging or enforcing mask wearing or vaccinations. I know that there are lots of people who would cheer on these actions in pursuit of the cause of "personal liberty". I am not one of them. I'll admit I don't have a position that is free of contradiction. But I feel like it should be my individual right as a laborer to not have to service an individual or work closely with someone if I feel doing so would put my health or safety at risk. In the same way I am currently informed that I can consult my manager and implement additional safety measures if a procedure exposes me to a level of risk I am not comfortable with.

Are you going to be alright moving into Lebanon?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on May 28, 2021, 03:54:39 PM
I'm looking for a piece of Subgenius writing which encouraged people to burn a twenty dollar bill. Something about it being a form of Subgenius initiation  .. to experience the resistance to the destruction of your own slack, to feel the slack burn away into the air. Sound familiar to any of you naked old losers?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on May 28, 2021, 06:40:12 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on May 28, 2021, 03:54:39 PM
I'm looking for a piece of Subgenius writing which encouraged people to burn a twenty dollar bill. Something about it being a form of Subgenius initiation  .. to experience the resistance to the destruction of your own slack, to feel the slack burn away into the air. Sound familiar to any of you naked old losers?

Nope.  You're supposed to send your $$$ to "Bob".  Everything else leaves you unclean
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: POFP on June 06, 2021, 03:07:16 AM
Quote from: TheAudience on May 28, 2021, 01:56:55 PM
Quote from: PoFP on May 27, 2021, 06:08:04 PM
My Home Town (Lebanon, Ohio) has decided to pass an ordinance not only banning, but criminalizing all abortion. The Council Meeting consisted mainly of the Council talking about how they use the Bible to make all of their decisions in local government, and friends of mine calling them on their shit.

The Protest of the decision was met with a Counter-Protest of Right-Wingers with big guns that was about quadruple the size. This is the same town where known Nazis in the area assaulted protesters on camera in the streets during past protests. It's likely going to get pretty ugly here soon, and we'll be moving into Lebanon likely within the next few months to get out of this piece of shit house.

Hopefully, I can get some SRA buddies together over the next few months to join at future Protests to discourage future threats and intimidation.

That sucks. It sounds like Ohio is quite the battleground in more ways than one. I just read how a lot of Ohio Republican legislators are trying to push for a bill that would prevent basically any organization from encouraging or enforcing mask wearing or vaccinations. I know that there are lots of people who would cheer on these actions in pursuit of the cause of "personal liberty". I am not one of them. I'll admit I don't have a position that is free of contradiction. But I feel like it should be my individual right as a laborer to not have to service an individual or work closely with someone if I feel doing so would put my health or safety at risk. In the same way I am currently informed that I can consult my manager and implement additional safety measures if a procedure exposes me to a level of risk I am not comfortable with.

Are you going to be alright moving into Lebanon?

Dewine is actually one of the few Pro-Mask + Vax Republicans, but he's just as Conservative as the people who criminalized abortion. Ohio is run by Conservative Elites who've been in Ohio Politics for generations, except for the major cities like Cincinnati.

And as for Masks and Freedom, I find that Fascist/Predatory politics is based around pushing "Freedoms To" without adequate and corresponding "Freedoms From". Do I think you should be able to force someone to wear a Mask in their own home? Fuck no. But in a Public place of business, people should have Freedom From reckless endangerment during a certified global pandemic.

We've actually started moving into a place a couple cities over that's a little less dependent on the Growth Coalitions and Right Wing Extremism. It was a deal we couldn't pass up. We'll be further from family but ultimately better off.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on June 14, 2021, 07:34:45 PM
Faust, Cain:  We have an Italian dude in the waiting room, and I can't tell if it's a bot or not.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on June 15, 2021, 11:21:05 PM
All cleaned up. Had a couple of people stuck in the "awaiting activation" section too
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on June 23, 2021, 02:40:49 AM
I was attacked by a crow today.

I was walking along one of those nameless side-streets, that start nowhere, and loop back to nowhere.  There were four crows waiting at the corner, one on a street-light, three on the ground.  As I approached, there was a caw, and the three leapt into the air, all at once, as birds do.

As I rounded the corner, one alighted in a tree above me.  I looked up, hoped it wouldn't decide to poop on me, and continued, oblivious.  Naive.

The blow was to the back of my head; there was no warning.  The next thing I saw was a crow flying away from me, a little above head-height; then it banked right and landed atop a street-light, looking down at me, safe from any possible counterattack.

I was slightly stunned, but uninjured; my hat was undamaged.

I vastly exceed that crow in sheer mass and destructive potential, yet it landed a hit, and I didn't.  The disparity in power was outdone by a disparity in range and mobility.

This is why battleships became obsolete the day someone looked at an airplane and said, "I bet you can drop a bomb from that thing."
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on June 23, 2021, 05:24:31 AM
Birds cannot be trusted.  They are not on our side.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Maedalaane on June 23, 2021, 03:05:36 PM
Quote from: Omnipoetence (PoFP Puppet but too lazy to create an Alt) on May 27, 2021, 06:08:04 PM
My Home Town (Lebanon, Ohio) has decided to pass an ordinance not only banning, but criminalizing all abortion. The Council Meeting consisted mainly of the Council talking about how they use the Bible to make all of their decisions in local government, and friends of mine calling them on their shit.

The Protest of the decision was met with a Counter-Protest of Right-Wingers with big guns that was about quadruple the size. This is the same town where known Nazis in the area assaulted protesters on camera in the streets during past protests. It's likely going to get pretty ugly here soon, and we'll be moving into Lebanon likely within the next few months to get out of this piece of shit house.

Hopefully, I can get some SRA buddies together over the next few months to join at future Protests to discourage future threats and intimidation.
Small world. I'm only about 15 miles away from Lebanon. Depending on the direction, I know you know that means I could be in one of the even worse SW Ohio towns. Though I only know what I have to deal with personally because I'm not a responsible citizen and have never been involved with local government. I should be responsible, though, so holler at me if you need an extra person to help protest stupid shit. Mind you, I'm just a random and this is only my second post in three years... :thinking:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on June 27, 2021, 10:08:43 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on June 23, 2021, 05:24:31 AM
Birds cannot be trusted.  They are not on our side.

I warned everyone.

In my own world, gearing up to rebuild a co-op that was poised to collapse 3 DAMN MONTHS after I joined it is tiring, and I have a horrible disease of some sort at a key moment.

I'm waiting to lose my smell beyond the sinus fuckery, because although I am fully vaccinated, it's extremely on brand for me to catch COVID, which I had a pretty hefty fear of, only as a breakthrough case... without leaving my house.

(In seriousness, I feel it's unlikely — or else there's a new variant in this co-op that is totally unaffected by vaccines. Cluster of 4 fully vaccinated people who all had different vaccines caught this horrible mess all at once with identical severity.)
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Maedalaane on June 27, 2021, 09:48:49 PM
Quote from: altered on June 27, 2021, 10:08:43 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on June 23, 2021, 05:24:31 AM
Birds cannot be trusted.  They are not on our side.

I warned everyone.

In my own world, gearing up to rebuild a co-op that was poised to collapse 3 DAMN MONTHS after I joined it is tiring, and I have a horrible disease of some sort at a key moment.

I'm waiting to lose my smell beyond the sinus fuckery, because although I am fully vaccinated, it's extremely on brand for me to catch COVID, which I had a pretty hefty fear of, only as a breakthrough case... without leaving my house.

(In seriousness, I feel it's unlikely — or else there's a new variant in this co-op that is totally unaffected by vaccines. Cluster of 4 fully vaccinated people who all had different vaccines caught this horrible mess all at once with identical severity.)

I'm curious. What's the overall state of your health otherwise? If you don't mind, sharing the kinds of things you eat, how often you eat, your level of exercise. Things like that. I had COVID last year and it was only a month of olfactory system defectiveness -- and the runny nose only lasted a week at that. I was even heavy exercise capable during that week.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on June 28, 2021, 12:32:48 PM
No luck, friend.

My "diet" is frozen meals and box meals and, if I'm real lucky and I saved up and Eris loves me extra that day, maybe Taco Bell. I'm poorer than "diet" can accommodate; I eat what I get.

My health in every other respect is abysmal: I'm a smoker, I've been homeless a decade off and on, I haven't seen a doctor who took me seriously once my entire life, and I can't exercise meaningfully due to chronic fatigue, depression, and a host of undiagnosed digestive fun that combines with my non-diet to leave me alternating perpetually between food coma and hypoglycemia. If I caught a mild case of COVID, I'd probably die instantly.

But your unlucky day doesn't end there: I have managed to momentarily unclog my sinuses multiple times throughout this ordeal and my taste and smell are unchanged entirely so long as there isn't a solid wall of ooze sludging my head up like a fatberg in London.

And, finally, today, I seem to be starting to recover. In particular, I have had my sense of smell and taste in full since late last night and I still have it this morning, because my sinuses, while still flowing like the blood of my enemies, are no longer stuffed wall-to-wall with malevolent slime monsters.

I don't have a breakthrough case of COVID, I have a really vile head cold. Worst one I've ever had, and I've had some doozies, but it's not in line with COVID — the phlegm and sinus clogging are by far the largest symptoms.

In fact, they're the largest symptoms to the point where if it weren't for the fever and the fact I caught it from others, I'd be forced to assume it was a brand new magical allergy, presumably to the infinite mold that endless late June rain brings to Chicagoland. The concrete is growing fuzz, I shit you not. The fire pit has turned green, and there's no copper in its construction. It's a Resident Evil 7 nightmare.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on June 29, 2021, 04:30:41 PM
For people following the Warren Ellis drama:

https://www.comicsbeat.com/the-short-lived-damnation-of-warren-ellis-and-the-danger-it-creates/
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on June 29, 2021, 06:06:36 PM
As per the edit at the end, this article isn't entirely fair, he did put out an email, it was part fishing for forgiveness, commitment to grow as a person etc but importantly it was: "please dont hit the artist writing the comic coming out because I am attached" followed by clarifying he reached out to the group from last year. I dont think he wanted to come out of his hole yet.

I'm looking forward to him writing again: go forth writer and be a better person in the process, spider would have beaten you with the chairleg for what you did, but life goes on.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on June 29, 2021, 07:25:24 PM
I will be buying Fell when it continues.

I am done canceling artists for being assholes.  It occurred to me that we'd have to throw away 75% of humanity's cultural heritage (first thing that would have to go would be all of Dante's work, along with almost every single age of enlightenment artist, sculptor, or writer), and frankly I don't have any interest in Warren Ellis as anything other than a writer.

Also, at a personal level I have experience what happens when you go along with the mob.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on June 29, 2021, 07:28:01 PM
Also

QuoteAll of the women, those who are trans, those who are part of the LGBTQ+ community, all of the POC, all those who love this medium as much as you do, all of whom create such wonderful, beautiful work and deserve to feel welcome and to belong in this industry, where do we go? Because we can't stay here.

This sounds like a self-inflicted wound.  I work with a couple of genuinely bad people, real predators.  I could quit, I suppose, while holding my nose and having the vapors.  Instead, I will continue to work and earn my money and make things rough on the two bastards when I have half a chance.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on June 30, 2021, 06:35:24 AM
Speaking for myself, some kinds of hurt cut too close to the bone for me to deal with. Being near some kinds of people is as dangerous to me as if they were actually doing shit to me. I can acknowledge and understand cancelling creators. I do it myself. I don't think anyone here listens to Lostprophets or Ted Nugent, reads the really racist Lovecraft stuff (I mean yeah it's all racist as fuck but some of it is waaaay worse than others), or so on and so forth.

I won't read anything new from Warren Ellis, but I certainly won't condemn people who do. I do also think that if Faust is right about the context, framing it as Ellis being super important and of course he'd be back (which would be legitimately horrible) is fucked. And it's a recurring theme.

A content creator I like did a video about the polarization of viewpoints in online entertainment discourse as regards The Last Of Us 2, which I think applies here. It doesn't matter what your intentions are... if your online presence demands engagement, you will state the most extreme possible version of your beliefs.

Video here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v7wcvMIrK2w

Genuinely recommend watching it even if you don't care about video game bullshit, Sophie does more than video game content (usually extremely communist deep dives about other kinds of media!) and is one of the most insightful creators I know. For what it's worth, I also avoid almost all YouTube content as a rule, so... take this as you will. It broke through my resistance to its very existence.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on June 30, 2021, 07:37:33 AM
Ill have to watch that, since baba I don't play much of the long story games, just stuff I can play for 10 min or so and put down, and I'm looking forward to trying it. I knew there was  controversy but didn't pay much heed as to what. Will give the video a look.

Kelly Sue DeConnick had an interesting take on it.

"A year on, Ellis has reached out to the collective at https://www.somanyofus.com/ to begin a mediated dialogue. I'm not going to speculate on timing or motives, because I'm not a mindreader and frankly, in my experience, those things don't matter. I've been alcoholic and addict in recovery for 21 years now. People frequently show up in AA and NA rooms because the court said they had to. And frequently, it works anyway"

Shes right of course, as she always is
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on June 30, 2021, 01:42:48 PM
Quote from: Faust on June 30, 2021, 07:37:33 AM
Ill have to watch that, since baba I don't play much of the long story games, just stuff I can play for 10 min or so and put down

hahah is this my fate? to only play games in 10 min chunks?
baby sleeps sometimes though, right? Surely you can fit in an RPG now and then? he asked hopefully
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on June 30, 2021, 03:05:24 PM
Creative geniuses are fungible.

The internet has brought in a golden age of access to, and ability to discover, new media. There is no shortage of talented people producing high-quality entertainment.  Sure, you won't find writers like Ellis hanging out in every coffeeshop, but he doesn't have a monopoly, or anything.  You don't feel like supporting one writer, for whatever reason, you can find another.


...I've been toying the above theory for a while, now, but I don't know if I actually believe it.  Could you replace a Gen Urobuchi, or a Yoko Kanno?  My gut says no.

And I knew Ellis was an asshole, but I watched season 4 of Castlevania anyway.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on June 30, 2021, 03:10:17 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on June 30, 2021, 01:42:48 PM
Quote from: Faust on June 30, 2021, 07:37:33 AM
Ill have to watch that, since baba I don't play much of the long story games, just stuff I can play for 10 min or so and put down

hahah is this my fate? to only play games in 10 min chunks?
baby sleeps sometimes though, right? Surely you can fit in an RPG now and then? he asked hopefully
A guy in an RPG discord server I hang out in had a baby recently, and he's built a gaming shed in his backyard to escape to.  (TV, PS4, computer, small library).  It's anyone's guess if he will be successful, but we wish him all the best.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on June 30, 2021, 03:45:23 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on June 30, 2021, 01:42:48 PM
Quote from: Faust on June 30, 2021, 07:37:33 AM
Ill have to watch that, since baba I don't play much of the long story games, just stuff I can play for 10 min or so and put down

hahah is this my fate? to only play games in 10 min chunks?
baby sleeps sometimes though, right? Surely you can fit in an RPG now and then? he asked hopefully

Baby sleeps.  After about 6 months.  You have no chance to survive, make your time.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on June 30, 2021, 03:47:24 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on June 30, 2021, 03:05:24 PM
Creative geniuses are fungible.

The internet has brought in a golden age of access to, and ability to discover, new media. There is no shortage of talented people producing high-quality entertainment.  Sure, you won't find writers like Ellis hanging out in every coffeeshop, but he doesn't have a monopoly, or anything.  You don't feel like supporting one writer, for whatever reason, you can find another.


...I've been toying the above theory for a while, now, but I don't know if I actually believe it.  Could you replace a Gen Urobuchi, or a Yoko Kanno?  My gut says no.

And I knew Ellis was an asshole, but I watched season 4 of Castlevania anyway.

I've found that the only truly irreplaceable artists are ones I don't have any problem with.

I wouldn't call artistic talent or vision fungible, but it's certainly less than irreplaceable. Enough people will rip off the shit anyone worth a good goddamn is doing that over a decade or so, you'll be able to find your own hyper-specific flavor of whatever it is. It will never quite be the same, but you can tailor your media consumption so specifically to you that it's somehow better this way. Usually, if they're worth ripping off, they can be improved upon, and eventually will be improved upon. So you give up familiarity for basically a higher quality remix of the same style that happens to hit every satsifying note involved.

I should note this only works if you're willing to give up TV and big budget Hollywood films. Those have quite short lists of all people involved and alive at any given point in time, so if one bad person is on TV or in a big name film, it will likely fuck up a half dozen other things too. However, like videogame development, TV and film are collaborative mediums, so you can just tell yourself they didn't do anything important. (I avoid auteurs, they're freaks and weirdos and kind of gross. The two exceptions to my rule of avoidance are kind of weird and gross, even, and not even in ways I like.)
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on June 30, 2021, 03:57:34 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on June 30, 2021, 03:05:24 PM
Creative geniuses are fungible.

The internet has brought in a golden age of access to, and ability to discover, new media. There is no shortage of talented people producing high-quality entertainment.  Sure, you won't find writers like Ellis hanging out in every coffeeshop, but he doesn't have a monopoly, or anything.  You don't feel like supporting one writer, for whatever reason, you can find another.


...I've been toying the above theory for a while, now, but I don't know if I actually believe it.  Could you replace a Gen Urobuchi, or a Yoko Kanno?  My gut says no.

And I knew Ellis was an asshole, but I watched season 4 of Castlevania anyway.

Warren Ellis can kiss my entire ass.  I didn't think much of him as a person before the blow up, because he's an arrogant windy bastard who is often too impressed with himself to, you know, write.

However, he CAN write.  Fell is a story I have wanted finished for more than a decade, and he's got Ben Templesmith back on board.

And, as Altered says

QuoteSpeaking for myself, some kinds of hurt cut too close to the bone for me to deal with. Being near some kinds of people is as dangerous to me as if they were actually doing shit to me. I can acknowledge and understand cancelling creators. I do it myself. I don't think anyone here listens to Lostprophets or Ted Nugent, reads the really racist Lovecraft stuff (I mean yeah it's all racist as fuck but some of it is waaaay worse than others), or so on and so forth.

There is for every person a line.  JK Rowling is a good example.  She is so wealthy she can literally do whatever she chooses, but what she chooses to do is spend all of her time on hate campaigns against transgender folks.  This crosses the line between "Arrogant bastard writer" and "Literally reading fiction written by Goebbels."  I wouldn't use one of her books as a doorstop.

Lovecraft is another type of case, where he had personal failings and odious habits that really only impacted those in direct proximity to him, but he was a shitty writer.  He was a great world builder, and I read stuff set in his setting all the time, just not HIS work.  Because the racism and misogyny is embedded in every line, on top of the fact that he never ended a story properly in his life.

I won't touch his stuff, whereas I will read Robert E Howard if nothing else is available.  He was also a great world builder and a shitty writer, but he had black folks as heroes and villains, and women as heroes and villains, and in each case, the person (good or bad) had a personality written into the story so that you'd know why they were good or bad...Whereas Lovecraft relied on the fact that they were all smudgy so therefore evil.

To me, this entire thing took Warren Ellis from "someone I'd like to meet for a VERY short time" to "shut up and write."  The critical difference being that unlike Rowling, Ellis doesn't use his platform or his writing to spread hate, he's just a shitty person.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on June 30, 2021, 04:50:44 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on June 30, 2021, 01:42:48 PM
Quote from: Faust on June 30, 2021, 07:37:33 AM
Ill have to watch that, since baba I don't play much of the long story games, just stuff I can play for 10 min or so and put down

hahah is this my fate? to only play games in 10 min chunks?
baby sleeps sometimes though, right? Surely you can fit in an RPG now and then? he asked hopefully
PD: The everyone is grown up season

I haven't really said have I  :) :eek: its not as bad as that, and its actually getting better, 3 months ago that was absolutely the case, you will be kept busy, especially if you are working during the day, and then helping out in the evening to give mam some time.

Its luck of the draw, but we got a no sleeper.
In terms of the las year, the first six months flew by because the new tasks, bottles, food to be prepared, baths, washing, cleaning the place, and they wake for feeding every 2 hours or so for the first 2 months, so that evaporates in a blink.
During this time you can still get lots done during the day, because they are happy in their little baskets, in between feeding and pooping sleeping.
Six months ish is when we started having less time, because babba becomes mobile, and the two big things that suddenly happened:
you realise your home is a Saw like deathtrap and literally everything needs to be locked up or get coated in rubber.
Showering goes from something you do every day to a luxury. 6 months to 1 year were incredibly busy

Now at this point most kids will go to bed from about 7-8pm and might wake once or twice, sleeping through the night at about a year. Maria goes to bed at like 9-10 and wakes crack of 7 each morning, which isnt terrible but she used to wake nearly every hour for months, the other problem, and this is entirely our fault, is someone needs to stay with her

Mistake number 1: Do not put the baby in your bed, you will never get them out.
We are trying to introduce the cot now because what happens at bed time is she goes to sleep in either my or mamas arms, means someone needs to keep an eye on her for the night so she doesnt crawl and fall out of the bed. Its not the worst and I am properly sleeping now, but it does mean less free time.

The ten min gaming is ideal for in between the bits and pieces that need to be done.

Experiences will vary, my brother got a lazy baby who loves their sleep.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 01, 2021, 06:13:36 PM
Quote from: Faust on June 30, 2021, 04:50:44 PM

you realise your home is a Saw like deathtrap and literally everything needs to be locked up or get coated in rubber.


THIS.  Toddlers are self-destruction machines that will go totally haywire the moment you turn your back.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on July 01, 2021, 07:17:45 PM
okay FINE, I'll take down the bladed pendulum, but bathtime is gonna suck now
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 01, 2021, 10:28:39 PM
One proof that capitalism is fucked in the head is the sheer number of ad bots trying to get onto a BBS that has maybe 5 people posting 5 times a week.

Jesus Christ, it never ends.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 01, 2021, 11:33:34 PM
It's me. Sorry, I just ooze the scent of money despite not having any.

I don't know why it's like this, I'm walking to CVS to spend my last five dollars on some sleep meds and some freak in an ugly tweed suit comes up and starts spouting off about viagra pills. Some guy joins almost every Discord server I'm active in and pings me to ask about if I might be interested mayhaps in some Cryptographic Monetary Stuff. Strangers ringing our doorbell to ask if We, Poor People, would be interested in Expensive Giant Vases. It goes on.

If you feed them to the Nessies, I won't be too sad. But make sure to keep the marketing material out of there; we don't want them getting ideas.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on July 02, 2021, 02:05:50 PM
possible to add an fill-in-the-blank question to registration? Just something like "if you're not a bot, type hello "

Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 02, 2021, 04:20:40 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on July 02, 2021, 02:05:50 PM
possible to add an fill-in-the-blank question to registration? Just something like "if you're not a bot, type hello "

Faust has tried all manner of things.  I'm not sure if the software allows that.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on July 02, 2021, 04:57:38 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on July 02, 2021, 02:05:50 PM
possible to add an fill-in-the-blank question to registration? Just something like "if you're not a bot, type hello "
Theres actually two questions and a google captcha, which makes me think they are circumventing the registration process in some way (smf bug or outdated issue)

The one thing that would really help but I just have not had the time to do is integrate stopforumspam for their api, which would check if the email or domain is a dodgy one.
so even if they get past the registration process it just auto shitcans them at the end.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 02, 2021, 10:30:27 PM
Quote from: Faust on July 02, 2021, 04:57:38 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on July 02, 2021, 02:05:50 PM
possible to add an fill-in-the-blank question to registration? Just something like "if you're not a bot, type hello "
Theres actually two questions and a google captcha, which makes me think they are circumventing the registration process in some way (smf bug or outdated issue)

The one thing that would really help but I just have not had the time to do is integrate stopforumspam for their api, which would check if the email or domain is a dodgy one.
so even if they get past the registration process it just auto shitcans them at the end.

No rush, it's not the end of the world.  It's just a pain in the ass.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on July 03, 2021, 12:13:01 AM
I've installed stopforumspam on email first, we can also enable IP and username if that looks like it will help
Also I was wrong about the questions, they ended up being turned off as they conflicted with the captcha for some reason they didnt play well together.
So currently we have stopforumspam on email and captcha, lets see if this loose net full of holes catches some of putins alts
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on July 03, 2021, 07:18:01 PM
Yesterday the temperature in Saskatoon reached 39C and it was too hot and then everybody died.

The End.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 04, 2021, 07:24:03 AM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on July 03, 2021, 07:18:01 PM
Yesterday the temperature in Saskatoon reached 39C and it was too hot and then everybody died.

The End.

Welcome to Tucson.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on July 05, 2021, 01:57:11 PM
It's still like barely hitting 20C in the UK right now.

Also my desktop died, so while I'll still be around, lurking, it may take me longer to get around to fixing things on this crappy laptop. Fortunately it's only for a week.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: rong on July 07, 2021, 01:01:32 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 04, 2021, 07:24:03 AM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on July 03, 2021, 07:18:01 PM
Yesterday the temperature in Saskatoon reached 39C and it was too hot and then everybody died.

The End.

Welcome to Tucson.

Saskatucson kinda has a nice ring to it
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on July 09, 2021, 06:08:50 PM
Whee, new computer is fast and stuff.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on July 09, 2021, 06:31:17 PM
how fast?? quick, ask it: what's the eleven billionth digit of pi?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: rong on July 09, 2021, 06:44:13 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on July 09, 2021, 06:31:17 PM
how fast?? quick, ask it: what's the eleven billionth digit of pi?

how would you know if it actually calculated it or just took a guess?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on July 09, 2021, 06:44:56 PM
7
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on July 09, 2021, 07:32:29 PM
just pretend I changed 'Logic' to 'π'


(https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/922/662/786.png)
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on July 09, 2021, 07:42:25 PM
how far the mighty have fallen

I would have ms-painted that, for old times sake, but for some reason I thought it would be easier to do it in photoshop... so I spent 5 minutes trying to find the right font / stroke width for pi and then i got shot by a laser and died


THE END .... ?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: rong on July 09, 2021, 08:08:31 PM
Quote from: Cain on July 09, 2021, 06:44:56 PM
7

holy shit!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on July 09, 2021, 09:13:38 PM
Quote from: altered on June 27, 2021, 10:08:43 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on June 23, 2021, 05:24:31 AM
Birds cannot be trusted.  They are not on our side.

I warned everyone.

A single blow to the back of the head, and my perspective is irrevocably changed.

Is this a kind of enlightenment?  But it came not from the cudgel of a well-meaning Buddhist monk, but from a black-winged devil.

The crows are everywhere.  How did I not notice this before?  Every time I leave the house, they're there, shrieking, rasping, lurking, glaring with soulless eyes.  They're almost always in groups of 3 or 4, and seem to have a affinity for parks.  They are intensely territorial, and will scream continuously if they consider me an intruder....which seems to be about half the time.

Now, whenever I hear a crow, or see one, I snap into a heightened level of awareness.  I need to know where they are and what they are doing.  I am beginning to learn their language.  When I walk past a group, I turn to watch them, in case one decides to swoop down on me.

And one did, this morning, in a park far removed from the earlier attack.  As I passed, it started circling at a low altitude, perhaps just warning me off, but maybe looking for an opening to attack.  But I kept turning to face it, maintained eye contact, and it broke off and perched on a lamppost.  If it had actually dove, I would have tried to knock it away.  I don't know what the outcome of that would be, but I think I'd rather take damage to an arm than to my face.

I'm starting to think about maintaining air cover while I walk.  Directly under a tree, I'm likely safe; but a short distance from a tree, or anywhere out in the open, I'm a target.  There really aren't many safe spaces, when you start to think about it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 11, 2021, 08:44:19 AM
Quote from: Cramulus on July 09, 2021, 07:42:25 PM
how far the mighty have fallen

I would have ms-painted that, for old times sake, but for some reason I thought it would be easier to do it in photoshop... so I spent 5 minutes trying to find the right font / stroke width for pi and then i got shot by a laser and died


THE END .... ?

Yeah, one day you're CRAMMING REMINGTON'S GRAM and then you're clocking in at the 9-5 and then your hair falls out.

This is what happens when you go cold turkey off of fake mustaches.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 11, 2021, 08:45:40 AM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on July 09, 2021, 09:13:38 PM
Quote from: altered on June 27, 2021, 10:08:43 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on June 23, 2021, 05:24:31 AM
Birds cannot be trusted.  They are not on our side.

I warned everyone.

A single blow to the back of the head, and my perspective is irrevocably changed.

Is this a kind of enlightenment?  But it came not from the cudgel of a well-meaning Buddhist monk, but from a black-winged devil.

The crows are everywhere.  How did I not notice this before?  Every time I leave the house, they're there, shrieking, rasping, lurking, glaring with soulless eyes.  They're almost always in groups of 3 or 4, and seem to have a affinity for parks.  They are intensely territorial, and will scream continuously if they consider me an intruder....which seems to be about half the time.

Now, whenever I hear a crow, or see one, I snap into a heightened level of awareness.  I need to know where they are and what they are doing.  I am beginning to learn their language.  When I walk past a group, I turn to watch them, in case one decides to swoop down on me.

And one did, this morning, in a park far removed from the earlier attack.  As I passed, it started circling at a low altitude, perhaps just warning me off, but maybe looking for an opening to attack.  But I kept turning to face it, maintained eye contact, and it broke off and perched on a lamppost.  If it had actually dove, I would have tried to knock it away.  I don't know what the outcome of that would be, but I think I'd rather take damage to an arm than to my face.

I'm starting to think about maintaining air cover while I walk.  Directly under a tree, I'm likely safe; but a short distance from a tree, or anywhere out in the open, I'm a target.  There really aren't many safe spaces, when you start to think about it.

Crows, it turns out, are the only creatures other than humans to "know what they know".  They do this intentionally, not as some kind of instinct.

Exterminate the brutes.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: POFP on July 13, 2021, 03:31:32 AM
So it appears some Supervisors/Managers at the Kroger in the town I just moved into bullied (Sexually harassed, mocked, sent illegal porn of the kid variety to in an attempt to incriminate, etc.) an employee to the point of suicide because of their concerns about the Kroger's COVID-19 Restrictions (Lack thereof) and their political beliefs (Read Left-leaning views).

Why do the wildfires always skip Ohio?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 13, 2021, 04:49:10 AM
Quote from: POFP on July 13, 2021, 03:31:32 AM
So it appears some Supervisors/Managers at the Kroger in the town I just moved into bullied (Sexually harassed, mocked, sent illegal porn of the kid variety to in an attempt to incriminate, etc.) an employee to the point of suicide because of their concerns about the Kroger's COVID-19 Restrictions (Lack thereof) and their political beliefs (Read Left-leaning views).

Why do the wildfires always skip Ohio?

Imagine going to prison over a dead end job.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: POFP on July 13, 2021, 05:58:26 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 13, 2021, 04:49:10 AM
Quote from: POFP on July 13, 2021, 03:31:32 AM
So it appears some Supervisors/Managers at the Kroger in the town I just moved into bullied (Sexually harassed, mocked, sent illegal porn of the kid variety to in an attempt to incriminate, etc.) an employee to the point of suicide because of their concerns about the Kroger's COVID-19 Restrictions (Lack thereof) and their political beliefs (Read Left-leaning views).

Why do the wildfires always skip Ohio?

Imagine going to prison over a dead end job.

And praying in the cell every night that the Orange Shit Bucket becomes President in 2024 and sees the request for Patriotic Pardon.

Thanks, that cheered me right up  :lol:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on July 20, 2021, 01:53:09 AM
So consumed with the search for a steady income and the endless mandatory side quests here in Nola that I never seem able to focus on the writing I want to do for here. But I am alive and fairly well for all that.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on July 20, 2021, 12:39:27 PM
I'm glad to here it, hope you are enjoying New Orleans looks like a cool city
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on July 21, 2021, 01:41:13 AM
Quote from: Faust on July 20, 2021, 12:39:27 PM
I'm glad to here it, hope you are enjoying New Orleans looks like a cool city

It is a place of EXTREMES. Where positive or negative it's incomparable. I have only unlocked the French Quarter and St. Roch neighborhoods and a little bit of Uptown, but the sheer energy of the place is always at 11, so to speak. I have not seen the "real New Orleans" yet. I have only seen post-COVID Nola. Got some time tonight. Might write some vignettes based more closely on the true stories than might seem plausible.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on July 29, 2021, 02:31:26 PM
We always call this place PD.com.
Today, for the first time ever, I visited http://www.pd.com/

it is a gem of yesteryear

(https://8be88dcd-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/pdcomsite/home/pdlogo.jpg?attachauth=ANoY7coFAL2koMSzy4CjfMl2XaWZRtGbatAXFdXapbEwYzvlGOfH9EtYFhndOb_oEFrBm0e7ggOrOmGM1E78Zp7yfY5oDGan87bNHWFe08V2vJQiQQMBvyHltEMDaCvSvIJU8NZFwRhWg4MgT6prC2VjRBwjn5tC05Pjw3ENYtD5TNnpl10zzSKNCFpMGoUufpShpbizDNH1pXgeaq4My1jXepBs5X8c3A%3D%3D&attredirects=0)

I don't know what I'm looking at, and I don't actually care, but I really wonder how much traffic we've given this site over the decades.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: rong on July 29, 2021, 06:16:38 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on July 29, 2021, 02:31:26 PM
We always call this place PD.com.
Today, for the first time ever, I visited http://www.pd.com/

it is a gem of yesteryear

(https://8be88dcd-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/pdcomsite/home/pdlogo.jpg?attachauth=ANoY7coFAL2koMSzy4CjfMl2XaWZRtGbatAXFdXapbEwYzvlGOfH9EtYFhndOb_oEFrBm0e7ggOrOmGM1E78Zp7yfY5oDGan87bNHWFe08V2vJQiQQMBvyHltEMDaCvSvIJU8NZFwRhWg4MgT6prC2VjRBwjn5tC05Pjw3ENYtD5TNnpl10zzSKNCFpMGoUufpShpbizDNH1pXgeaq4My1jXepBs5X8c3A%3D%3D&attredirects=0)

I don't know what I'm looking at, and I don't actually care, but I really wonder how much traffic we've given this site over the decades.

the page is called "rob's web world" and he says he works at "aisle five"
so I think hemight be Rob Borsari
https://www.aisle-five.com/our-consultants (https://www.aisle-five.com/our-consultants)
He might be interested to know that a bunch of hooligans visit his website for nefarious reasons.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Zenpatista on July 30, 2021, 03:44:19 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 11, 2021, 08:45:40 AM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on July 09, 2021, 09:13:38 PM
Quote from: altered on June 27, 2021, 10:08:43 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on June 23, 2021, 05:24:31 AM
Birds cannot be trusted.  They are not on our side.

I warned everyone.

A single blow to the back of the head, and my perspective is irrevocably changed.

Is this a kind of enlightenment?  But it came not from the cudgel of a well-meaning Buddhist monk, but from a black-winged devil.

The crows are everywhere.  How did I not notice this before?  Every time I leave the house, they're there, shrieking, rasping, lurking, glaring with soulless eyes.  They're almost always in groups of 3 or 4, and seem to have a affinity for parks.  They are intensely territorial, and will scream continuously if they consider me an intruder....which seems to be about half the time.

Now, whenever I hear a crow, or see one, I snap into a heightened level of awareness.  I need to know where they are and what they are doing.  I am beginning to learn their language.  When I walk past a group, I turn to watch them, in case one decides to swoop down on me.

And one did, this morning, in a park far removed from the earlier attack.  As I passed, it started circling at a low altitude, perhaps just warning me off, but maybe looking for an opening to attack.  But I kept turning to face it, maintained eye contact, and it broke off and perched on a lamppost.  If it had actually dove, I would have tried to knock it away.  I don't know what the outcome of that would be, but I think I'd rather take damage to an arm than to my face.

I'm starting to think about maintaining air cover while I walk.  Directly under a tree, I'm likely safe; but a short distance from a tree, or anywhere out in the open, I'm a target.  There really aren't many safe spaces, when you start to think about it.

Crows, it turns out, are the only creatures other than humans to "know what they know".  They do this intentionally, not as some kind of instinct.

Exterminate the brutes.

I lived in Adelaide for a year, and the crows were crazy for swooping at cyclists. We used to paint eyes on the back of bike helmets so they wouldn't bumrush you. If you don't see them swooping it scares the pants right off of you which then catches in the spokes of the bike and the birds feast on your broken body.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Rev. St. Syn, KSC (Ret.) on August 04, 2021, 03:25:15 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on July 29, 2021, 02:31:26 PM
We always call this place PD.com.
Today, for the first time ever, I visited http://www.pd.com/

it is a gem of yesteryear

(https://8be88dcd-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/pdcomsite/home/pdlogo.jpg?attachauth=ANoY7coFAL2koMSzy4CjfMl2XaWZRtGbatAXFdXapbEwYzvlGOfH9EtYFhndOb_oEFrBm0e7ggOrOmGM1E78Zp7yfY5oDGan87bNHWFe08V2vJQiQQMBvyHltEMDaCvSvIJU8NZFwRhWg4MgT6prC2VjRBwjn5tC05Pjw3ENYtD5TNnpl10zzSKNCFpMGoUufpShpbizDNH1pXgeaq4My1jXepBs5X8c3A%3D%3D&attredirects=0)

I don't know what I'm looking at, and I don't actually care, but I really wonder how much traffic we've given this site over the decades.
I used to type that in on a daily basis back in the day. :argh!: I eventually just bookmarked the forum... But it took me a loooong time to do that. I was a working web dev at the time, too.  :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on August 04, 2021, 10:19:44 PM
300,000 people crossed the Canadian border every day, pre-Covid, for years and years.

Tell me, @Conservative, why are we not up to our arses in Canadians?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on August 04, 2021, 10:20:22 PM
I managed to crosspost between entire BBSs.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on August 06, 2021, 02:31:08 AM
So, my mother was diagnosed with stage 4 liver cancer this morning.

This is apparently not unusual for breast cancer survivors.  She's other wise healthy and in good spirits.  Her prognosis is fairly grim but not hopeless.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on August 06, 2021, 12:47:23 PM
ooof, dude, I'm really sorry to hear that. How are her spirits?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on August 26, 2021, 05:36:01 PM
Yesterdya the doctor had to do a blood draw to get my levels because HRT needs that shit so you don't drown in your own hormones. Then i started listing a litany of incresingly terrible symptoms I had been having that seemed related to the anxiety meds i'm on, and she was like "hmmmmm.... anemia maybe? we'll just get you tested for everything under the damn sun!"

5 vials of blood later, im sent home

It's been16 hours and Im still woblly as fuck. I double-fuck half the attempts ti fix my typos i make so Ive given up. i nearly threw my laptop into a rian puddle and nearly fell down the long flight of stairs between first and 2nd floors already just this morning.  I ate a whole pizza, a salad, a sandwihc, a plate of pancakes and two bags of chips between blood draw and now, alog with a shitload of 711 generic sports drink gatorade substitute they got cucumcber mnit flavor shits excellent you should try it, here I am weak and limpy and all half leaned on one side anyway despie it all. Drunk without the alcohol

and now I'm like hmmmmmmmmmmmm...... anemia maybe??? MAYYYYYBE????
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Junkenstein on August 26, 2021, 05:48:34 PM
Best of luck to her Roger, fuck cancer etc.

Sincerely hope this has a better than expected result.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on September 03, 2021, 08:16:32 PM
Today I created a Facebook account; I had a question to ask of the university's fruit tree program, and this seemed like the easiest way.  (I had an account a while back, but I never used it, and was getting annoyed by the spam, so I deleted it.)

Anyway, I set up the new account, and posted my question.  I came back a little later to check for a response, but my browser autocompleted to https://www.facebook.com/HolyNonsense/ (https://www.facebook.com/HolyNonsense/), since I guess I'd followed that link a while ago.  And since Facebook doesn't let you see much of anything unless you have an account, I decided to browse a bit.

I scrolled down the Holy Nonsense page, and then YOUR ACCOUNT HAS BEEN DISABLED.
:eek: :) :lol:

There was no reason given for this, but I guess that's normal.  I clicked through to request a review.  It asked for my picture to confirm my identity, but since I'd never sent Facebook my picture to begin with, I sent a random picture of a cat sitting under a zucchini plant; they can make of it what they will.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on September 05, 2021, 06:52:20 AM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on September 03, 2021, 08:16:32 PM
Today I created a Facebook account; I had a question to ask of the university's fruit tree program, and this seemed like the easiest way.  (I had an account a while back, but I never used it, and was getting annoyed by the spam, so I deleted it.)

Anyway, I set up the new account, and posted my question.  I came back a little later to check for a response, but my browser autocompleted to https://www.facebook.com/HolyNonsense/ (https://www.facebook.com/HolyNonsense/), since I guess I'd followed that link a while ago.  And since Facebook doesn't let you see much of anything unless you have an account, I decided to browse a bit.

I scrolled down the Holy Nonsense page, and then YOUR ACCOUNT HAS BEEN DISABLED.
:eek: :) :lol:

There was no reason given for this, but I guess that's normal.  I clicked through to request a review.  It asked for my picture to confirm my identity, but since I'd never sent Facebook my picture to begin with, I sent a random picture of a cat sitting under a zucchini plant; they can make of it what they will.

It will stay disabled.  If your account has been around a while, it will compare your pic to pics you have loaded.

If you don't have pics, it will compare your pic to pics of people who have been banned.

If it doesn't find a match, it allows the account.

The problem with their model is that they are making it really difficult and annoying for anyone new to join up.  That won't bite them for a while, but it will in fact bite them.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on September 05, 2021, 05:47:47 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 05, 2021, 06:52:20 AM
It will stay disabled.  If your account has been around a while, it will compare your pic to pics you have loaded.

If you don't have pics, it will compare your pic to pics of people who have been banned.

If it doesn't find a match, it allows the account.

The problem with their model is that they are making it really difficult and annoying for anyone new to join up.  That won't bite them for a while, but it will in fact bite them.

Yup.

Quote from: Faceless Drone
You can't use Facebook because your account, or activity on it, didn't follow our Community Standards.
We have already reviewed this decision and it can't be reversed.
To learn more about the reasons we disable accounts visit the Community Standards.

This was a one-hour-old account, and my sole activity on it was to ask a question about a fruit tree sale.

I since sorted it out via phone, so come next weekend, I'm gonna plant myself a few dwarf sour cherry trees.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on September 05, 2021, 06:16:26 PM
don't sweat it, nobody on facebook is real anyway, it's basically 99.999% bots, including me

You may be asking - how was a bot posting on this forum 15+ years ago?


the answer is:

it's easy to simulate stupid people
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on September 05, 2021, 06:36:27 PM
Get down with the kids and join Tiktok instead. Their ghost stories are better than FBs too.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on September 06, 2021, 05:08:19 PM
I can't handle tiktok...

like, I could easily watch a full hour of 6-second vines and feel like no time has passed. TikTok does that, but is better at it. Consuming 20 minutes of TikTok feels like eating a whole bag of doritos in one sitting. Tastes good but makes me feel bad.

Oh, and that fad where people lipsync to some audio clip while making OVER THE TOP FACIAL EXPRESSIONS, it's like nails on chalkboard to me.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on September 06, 2021, 07:02:38 PM
Which is still better than Facebook.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on September 06, 2021, 08:51:05 PM
tiktok makes me feel like despite being active online since the early 2000's nothing prepared me for what the internet would turn into
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on September 06, 2021, 09:31:48 PM
Quote from: Faust on September 06, 2021, 08:51:05 PM
tiktok makes me feel like despite being active online since the early 2000's nothing prepared me for what the internet would turn into

:potd:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: rong on September 07, 2021, 11:36:54 AM
Quote from: Faust on September 06, 2021, 08:51:05 PM
tiktok makes me feel like despite being active online since the early 2000's nothing prepared me for what the internet would turn into

Having thus far sucessfully avoided tiktok, my curiosity is piqued.  Do I check it out or remain blissfully ignorant?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on September 07, 2021, 03:24:16 PM
remember ytmnd.com/ with the six second clips, if you liked that but instead of funny stuff you have a bunch of boring assholes doing it then yes tiktok is for you
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on September 21, 2021, 08:10:30 PM
The average weight of an American is 181 pounds.

There have been 675,000 covid deaths. 

That means we have generated 122,175,000 pounds of dead people, or 61,087 tons.

That is the weight of all 4 US battleships combined, circa 1990.  Made out of corpses.

Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on October 05, 2021, 08:21:51 PM
Turns out, late night larp adventures have prepared me for the No Sleep lifestyle.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on October 05, 2021, 08:27:31 PM
So I wrote this tabletop adventure for the Mork Borg RPG... it's getting published next month! I have two groups playtesting it, and they sent me really helpful feedback, including a detailed synopsis of their gameplay.

I had TOTALLY FORGOTTEN that I wrote an NPC into the game named Cramulus. There's a small chance of encountering him in these caves, wandering around in the dark (his torch burned out and he's helpless). Completely forgot that was in the adventure. So it surprised the hell out of me when he showed up in these player's reports:

QuoteCramulus made it to the trap door and begged for help. The party initially refused but he tossed one of his silver and promised the other four pieces if pulled out. The party obliged and then Pluck-Hermit stated that the debt for his release was set at 150sp, forcing Cramulus into indentures servitude. After feeding him, the tied a rope to Cramulus as used him as a scout back down in the tunnels. Pluck-Hermit used his searching ability to determine his desire was due east and below, so the party headed east....


...They avoided the piles of guano and decided to continue east.

                This would be the party's final encounter before a hard stop. The players rolled 62 and 46: a large copper vein stretched out across the tunnel along with two bodies of the miners from before. A pile of silver coins was stacked 30 feet away. Cramulus was encouraged to take the coins and all of it would be put towards his debt. Cramulus eagerly began cramming coins in his sack, counting them one by one when suddenly, a huge spider pounced on him and sinking its fangs into his neck. He initially resisted the poison "I'M OKAY BOSS," but then died from the blood loss from the wound, "I'M NOT OKAY BOSS." A party member cast a confusion on the spider and it skittered away in search of invisible meals, leaving the crawlspace to the east open. Here the session ended.


The other group also encountered Cramulus. He was eaten by a demon worm and is now spinning and screaming in Eel Hell Forever
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on October 05, 2021, 09:08:43 PM
How often are you seeing the pattern of you being used as a canary for dangers lol
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on October 06, 2021, 05:50:01 PM
Both playtest groups... so basically a 100% rate of Cramulus being used as bait and then dying miserably.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on October 07, 2021, 07:08:06 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on October 06, 2021, 05:50:01 PM
Both playtest groups... so basically a 100% rate of Cramulus being used as bait and then dying miserably.

Being Cramulus is like being the guy in a war flick who shows his buddies a picture of the girl he's going to marry.

By which I mean he is killed immediately.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Commander on October 08, 2021, 11:02:49 PM
Does that technically make Cramulus a meme?

The Commander
DIA
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on October 09, 2021, 12:33:22 AM
Quote from: The Commander on October 08, 2021, 11:02:49 PM
Does that technically make Cramulus a meme?

The Commander
DIA

Yes.  It goes "mustache, pith helmet BOTTOM TEXT"
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: rong on October 23, 2021, 04:46:43 AM
It's too bad its "Eris" instead of "Erius"

cuz then, instead of "Hail Eris," it would be "Hail Erius" and that sounds more funny
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on October 24, 2021, 06:31:06 AM
Hey, i'm back. Covid sucked, but so far no one too close to me has died of the plague. Ended up back with the folks in orange county, which has been more than a little humbling. How's things?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on October 26, 2021, 05:10:11 AM
Quiet.

A little too quiet.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on October 31, 2021, 02:48:48 AM
oh well, fun fact, i was talking to a chaote friend about werewolves and it came up that in greek myth several gods were known to curse mortals with being a werewolf, including Zeus, Artemis, Dionysus, AND Eris. I'm not sure what to do with this information except to ask, "what does a guy have to defile around here to get a little Lycanthropy?"
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on October 31, 2021, 08:22:59 AM
type in zone chat "lf ww bite". It helps if you travel to the shrine first, to save on time.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on November 07, 2021, 08:52:11 PM
hey LMNO, at long last I got off my ass and finished the paperwork -- the CTC is no longer being upsold by some rando on amazon, VIOLATING OUR SACRED CREATIVE COMMONS AGREEMENT



Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on November 08, 2021, 02:12:55 AM
A moose broke through a window into a Saskatoon elementary school, once again demonstrating that this region is unsuited for human habitation.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/moose-crash-sylvia-fedoruk-school-1.6237194
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Zenpatista on November 09, 2021, 05:09:39 AM
I saw a Dobbshead sticker on a brand new Dodge Charger. Now I can't get that old Don Henley song out of my head.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on November 18, 2021, 03:53:21 AM
Over the last few months i've come to realize that the american left (as opposed to leftist movements elsewhere) is a bunch of useless wankers at best and a bunch of Puritans minus the funny hats at worst. Now the healing can begin.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on November 18, 2021, 02:00:00 PM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on November 18, 2021, 03:53:21 AM
Over the last few months i've come to realize that the american left (as opposed to leftist movements elsewhere) is a bunch of useless wankers at best and a bunch of Puritans minus the funny hats at worst. Now the healing can begin.

I was once witness to a discussion between two american leftish types who were ideologically pretty similar.  It amounted to:

A:  The major things we have in common are more important than our differences.  We need to help each other.  We're all in this together.
B:  NO, WE'RE NOT IN THIS TOGETHER.  YOU CAN'T SPEAK FOR ME.  YOU'RE ERASING MY IDENTITY.
B:  I'VE ADDED YOU TO MY BLOCKLIST.

Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on November 18, 2021, 06:24:56 PM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on November 18, 2021, 03:53:21 AM
Over the last few months i've come to realize that the american left (as opposed to leftist movements elsewhere) is a bunch of useless wankers at best and a bunch of Puritans minus the funny hats at worst. Now the healing can begin.

Been saying that.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on November 18, 2021, 07:17:25 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 18, 2021, 06:24:56 PM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on November 18, 2021, 03:53:21 AM
Over the last few months i've come to realize that the american left (as opposed to leftist movements elsewhere) is a bunch of useless wankers at best and a bunch of Puritans minus the funny hats at worst. Now the healing can begin.

Been saying that.
Oh I know. In related news, I owe you a "You Were Right" steak. The best KIND of steak.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on November 18, 2021, 09:13:56 PM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on November 18, 2021, 03:53:21 AM
Over the last few months i've come to realize that the american left (as opposed to leftist movements elsewhere) is a bunch of useless wankers at best and a bunch of Puritans minus the funny hats at worst. Now the healing can begin.

They made an exchange: The conspiracy offered them a trade, that they can get the feeling of accomplishment for sharing memes and articles about social issues instead of actually having to enact change
Basically they will do anything they can to distract them from the fact the fisbowl is filling with filth
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on November 18, 2021, 10:07:12 PM
Yeah, and I wish I'd seen it 4 years ago. Folly of youth and whatnot.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on November 19, 2021, 11:21:20 PM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on November 18, 2021, 03:53:21 AM
Over the last few months i've come to realize that the american left (as opposed to leftist movements elsewhere) is a bunch of useless wankers at best and a bunch of Puritans minus the funny hats at worst. Now the healing can begin.

And water is wet.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on November 28, 2021, 04:19:57 PM
I saw marmite in the grocery store, and decided to try a small jar out of curiosity.

I don't think it deserves its ""Love it or hate it" reputation.  It's not soul-searingly awful, but neither does it have anything to recommend it.

It tastes like salt-molasses, with hints of soy sauce and yeast, but mostly it's just salty.

"Marmite:  Technically edible, disappointingly mediocre."
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on December 10, 2021, 11:27:17 AM
Cram how goes adventures in parenting

At the point now myself where she is starting to be mischievous which is endlessly entertaining.

I am back up to a 6 hour a night sleep after a year and 9 months, unfortunately I cant get the child out of the bed into her own bed so I sleep with a pair of feet pressed firmly into the back of my neck.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on December 10, 2021, 08:48:42 PM
So far so good!

Months 1-2 were hell. Baby was super cranky all the time. When we concluded it was acid reflux and put him on a different formula, we suddenly had a different baby! It was so crazy, really like night and day.

Month #3 has been great. At the beginning of the month, he slept through the night for the first time. Right now we probably average .8 wakeups per night. Some nights we get 2, but often we put him down at 7:30 PM and he sleeps til 6:30 AM.

He's ADORABLE. melts our heart every day. Right now he's at the age where he's just starting to learn how to vocalize intentionally, so he's always yelling at us. AIAIAIAIAIAIAIIIIIAAAAAAH! But not in a crying voice, more like he's just telling us his opinions.

I love being a dad. :)
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on December 11, 2021, 04:55:16 AM
Yeah, it's a whole lot of fun.

For me, the favorite age is 4-8.  They're old enough to ask questions, and young enough to want to ask the questions.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on December 11, 2021, 04:55:44 AM
By the way, has anyone heard from Altered/Nullified?

I'm beginning to worry a bit.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on December 11, 2021, 02:37:57 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on December 11, 2021, 04:55:44 AM
By the way, has anyone heard from Altered/Nullified?

I'm beginning to worry a bit.

You should know better than that. I'm like bedbugs: what doesn't kill me turns me into a biblical plague.

Nah, but really, I'm actually doing mostly okay. I'm doing the need-work-need-housing dance again, but I have a wonderful lady I'm seeing later today so it is... really hard to care about my personal trouble.

It's Bloodborne and Glenmorangie 10 yr tonight. It's the second date.

At some point the story will need telling, because we met because A: I met Discordians visiting Chicago, B: I realized I liked not being a hermit, and C: I thought she was a scumfuck Nazi infiltrator.

I haven't been posting because I'm tired and old. I'm using diclofenac gel on my knees, really. I keep intending to post and clean forgetting, or else realizing that I have no valuable contributions.

"I'm homeless on Jan 1st again, but I got a date coming up" is like a minced oath minus the creative writing part, and now that I'm tethered to Chicago (I would die for this woman, I am goddamn well staying in transit range) what can anyone even do to save me anyway?

Sorry for the worry.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on December 12, 2021, 06:34:05 AM
Quote from: altered on December 11, 2021, 02:37:57 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on December 11, 2021, 04:55:44 AM
By the way, has anyone heard from Altered/Nullified?

I'm beginning to worry a bit.

You should know better than that. I'm like bedbugs: what doesn't kill me turns me into a biblical plague.

Nah, but really, I'm actually doing mostly okay. I'm doing the need-work-need-housing dance again, but I have a wonderful lady I'm seeing later today so it is... really hard to care about my personal trouble.

It's Bloodborne and Glenmorangie 10 yr tonight. It's the second date.

At some point the story will need telling, because we met because A: I met Discordians visiting Chicago, B: I realized I liked not being a hermit, and C: I thought she was a scumfuck Nazi infiltrator.

I haven't been posting because I'm tired and old. I'm using diclofenac gel on my knees, really. I keep intending to post and clean forgetting, or else realizing that I have no valuable contributions.

"I'm homeless on Jan 1st again, but I got a date coming up" is like a minced oath minus the creative writing part, and now that I'm tethered to Chicago (I would die for this woman, I am goddamn well staying in transit range) what can anyone even do to save me anyway?

Sorry for the worry.

I'm just glad you're alive to check in.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on December 12, 2021, 06:47:45 AM
Alive, and I had a date good enough that IF I am dating a serial killer I will regret not one goddamn thing.

I wore a SWEATER. Not a tacticool one, either: dad sweater, subtype brown-green-grey. And normal cargo pants, to boot. I say again: REGRET COUNT ZERO.

We cuddled and watched a Canadian in the Netherlands shit-talk American transportation infrastructure and urban planning. We lamented a lack of protests to start shit at. We watched her partner (she's poly) put together an Eldritch Horror-type Biblical Angel for a Christmas tree topper. I was introduced to her Nazi Crusher, a literal iron fist. Also her two cats, Enkidu and Gilgamesh. Bloodborne didn't happen because we forgot time passed and suddenly it's been six hours and I really need to be home. She told me to kiss her goodbye.

If I could ask for more, I don't have the language.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on December 12, 2021, 06:48:25 AM
If this lady doesn't kill me, nothing will. I'm driven, now.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on December 17, 2021, 09:42:05 AM
Thats Awesome to hear Altered, nice to hear of people meeting new people and have fun in these strange new times
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on December 17, 2021, 09:42:35 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on December 11, 2021, 04:55:16 AM
Yeah, it's a whole lot of fun.

For me, the favorite age is 4-8.  They're old enough to ask questions, and young enough to want to ask the questions.

I'm looking forward to this, we are at the yes/no stage (everything is no)
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on December 17, 2021, 09:51:02 AM
Quote from: Cramulus on December 10, 2021, 08:48:42 PM
So far so good!

Months 1-2 were hell. Baby was super cranky all the time. When we concluded it was acid reflux and put him on a different formula, we suddenly had a different baby! It was so crazy, really like night and day.

Month #3 has been great. At the beginning of the month, he slept through the night for the first time. Right now we probably average .8 wakeups per night. Some nights we get 2, but often we put him down at 7:30 PM and he sleeps til 6:30 AM.

He's ADORABLE. melts our heart every day. Right now he's at the age where he's just starting to learn how to vocalize intentionally, so he's always yelling at us. AIAIAIAIAIAIAIIIIIAAAAAAH! But not in a crying voice, more like he's just telling us his opinions.

I love being a dad. :)
Yeah we had Colic for the first few months around 8pm, would be a full hour of crying till she burped, that would be hell, but thankfully that was a short phase.

It is great fun, I would recommend later: we got a tiny table and chair for her to draw on and as soon as I finish work I'm dragged over to sit on the other dinky chair, that poor chair has a lot of ass to hold
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: POFP on December 21, 2021, 06:16:26 PM
A rogue script of mine accidentally deleted about $100k+ worth of work from one of my company's Linux OS-Build Servers, not knowing this was the one server that wasn't scheduled for Snapshots. It was also the only Build Server using XFS as the Filesystem, which is only partially supported by most File Recovery Tools and happens to delete Folder Structure information at delete time. Now I'll be spending the next week or so rebuilding every OS Configuration we lost from a Flat Directory of Gigabytes of files  :horrormirth:

Funny enough, the Script that fucked everything up was the Script that was supposed to negate the Local Storage requirement of the Build Server altogether once it was complete. In a sense, it kind of did, just a bit more forcefully than I'd hoped  :lol:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on December 21, 2021, 07:04:03 PM
Quote from: Faust on December 17, 2021, 09:42:35 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on December 11, 2021, 04:55:16 AM
Yeah, it's a whole lot of fun.

For me, the favorite age is 4-8.  They're old enough to ask questions, and young enough to want to ask the questions.

I'm looking forward to this, we are at the yes/no stage (everything is no)

There's a cure for that.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on December 22, 2021, 09:15:58 AM
Who wants a cookie? Oh you don't oh I see.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on December 23, 2021, 09:53:59 PM
Quote from: Faust on December 22, 2021, 09:15:58 AM
Who wants a cookie? Oh you don't oh I see.

Ask them a couple of other questions to get the "no"s started.  Then ask about the cookie.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on December 23, 2021, 10:43:13 PM
When you hit the inevitable recursive why phase, I had some success with a "whole questions only" policy. They'll still ask but you take away the reflexive ones that are just to keep you talking.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on December 24, 2021, 03:43:39 PM
Yesterdays Star Trek Discovery (S4E6) was the absolute worst episode ever made, from any series ever.

I say this as a Discovery fan. 

It ruined my life.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on December 24, 2021, 08:53:28 PM
I've still not seen it yet, though I saw your comments on FB. I'll give it a watch tomorrow - worst comes to worst I can slip into a food coma to escape it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on December 24, 2021, 11:04:44 PM
What could be worse then Scottish ghost sex?
I haven't watched  this season since it went off of netflix here
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: EK WAFFLR on December 27, 2021, 08:48:34 AM
I'm, for reasons unbeknownst to me, enjoying the fuck outdo the Dexter: New Blood series.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on December 27, 2021, 04:53:01 PM
It is fairly enjoyable. After a couple of episodes it does feel rather like they got the band back together, on the overall writing front. No idea if that's true, but it comes across as the case. And Michael C Hall is on point as always.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on December 30, 2021, 05:21:16 PM
Quote from: altered on December 11, 2021, 02:37:57 PM
I'm doing the need-work-need-housing dance again
[...]
"I'm homeless on Jan 1st again, but I got a date coming up"

Update: I have housing for at least 6 months, and I'm working with professionals on getting employment.

With my name change almost completed (you'd get a kick out of the name I went with, Dok, I forget if I ever gave you the full up-to-date one), a wonderful woman I'm going to see again soon, doctors who care, having a place to go, improving my diet, two organizations and a friend helping me find work, on and on and on, I aim to be self-sufficient by year's end 2022 ... and I have both good motivation to aim that high and good reason to consider it doable.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on December 31, 2021, 04:46:33 PM
altered is makin MOVES

PROUD OF YOU, MOTHERFUCKER

Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on January 01, 2022, 07:01:28 AM
If anyone was wanting to canonize Betty White, don't worry, I handled it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on January 02, 2022, 03:45:25 PM
that's awesome, but where did you get the cannon?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on January 02, 2022, 06:59:15 PM
lets just say ive gotten REALLY into DIY during the pandemic.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: POFP on January 03, 2022, 12:21:40 AM
Nick Lim, VanWaTech CEO and Nazi Platform Host is going Mask Off on Twitter right now. Full Fascist, no Free Speech disguise. I'm assuming his Hosting Enterprise is going down for legal reasons and connections to Russia/DDoS-Guard, and he's having a mental break.

I have COVID and I'm still gonna have a beer to celebrate his current or subsequent failure  :lulz:

I'm grabbing snapshots of the posts in case he tries to delete and deny them later.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: POFP on January 03, 2022, 01:42:41 AM
Quote from: POFP on January 03, 2022, 12:21:40 AM
Nick Lim, VanWaTech CEO and Nazi Platform Host is going Mask Off on Twitter right now. Full Fascist, no Free Speech disguise. I'm assuming his Hosting Enterprise is going down for legal reasons and connections to Russia/DDoS-Guard, and he's having a mental break.

I have COVID and I'm still gonna have a beer to celebrate his current or subsequent failure  :lulz:

I'm grabbing snapshots of the posts in case he tries to delete and deny them later.

The best part is that this puts him on the National Security radar officially, instead of just theoretically. With the Free Speech disguise, he's able to maintain "Middle Man" status with plausible deniability, but when the Mask comes off, it makes him an organizational asset and direct target for investigation around any terrorist plots that take place on the Platforms he provides Infrastructure for.

Wondering if Russians might identify him as a loose end and unalive him.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on January 04, 2022, 02:19:14 PM
Quote from: POFP on January 03, 2022, 12:21:40 AM
Nick Lim, VanWaTech CEO and Nazi Platform Host is going Mask Off on Twitter right now. Full Fascist, no Free Speech disguise. I'm assuming his Hosting Enterprise is going down for legal reasons and connections to Russia/DDoS-Guard, and he's having a mental break.

I have COVID and I'm still gonna have a beer to celebrate his current or subsequent failure  :lulz:

I'm grabbing snapshots of the posts in case he tries to delete and deny them later.

hope you get well soon.

Back in work today only to find half the business is out with the dreaded lurgy
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on January 04, 2022, 08:23:55 PM
Who'd have thought a pandemic with no precautionary measures taken might mean people being off sick?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on January 05, 2022, 12:50:29 AM
Won't SOMEBODY think of the bottom line?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on January 05, 2022, 09:19:14 AM
Quote from: Cain on January 04, 2022, 08:23:55 PM
Who'd have thought a pandemic with no precautionary measures taken might mean people being off sick?

Yeah, and we are all still work-from-home which means its just everywhere, seems like every second person has it
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on January 08, 2022, 12:33:41 AM
It happens. My sister somehow got it from her flatmate who isn't sure how she got it in the first place, and they both work from home as well.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on January 08, 2022, 02:22:19 AM
Hey Cain, I need your "JEWS LIVE UNDER MY BED" rant, if you have it saved.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on January 08, 2022, 01:32:09 PM
Best I can do is ANTIFA

I THINK ABOUT ANTIFA 19 HOURS A DAY

I SIT IN MY BASEMENT AND ROCK BACK AND FORTH, AND FOAM GUYS OUT OF MY MOUTH

ANTIFA CAN SECRETLY FLY

ANTIFA SECRETLY RUN EVERYTHING AND OWN EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE

MY DOG IS SECRETLY ANTIFA.  I SHAKE HIM FOR ANSWERS BUT HE WAS TAUGHT TO KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT.

ANTIFA CAN TELEPORT

JERRY SEINFELD IS A SPACE ALIEN WHO CAME FROM THE ANTIFA MOTHERSHIP

ANTIFA OWN AND RUN EVERYTHING BUT THEY ARE NOT SMART, NO SIR, THEY ARE REALLYDUMB

I LIKE TO ACCUSE ANTIFA OF MANY THINGS AND THEN ACCUSE THEM OF WHINING WHEN THEY RESPOND TO MY ATTACKS

YOU ARE SECRETLY ANTIFA

EVERYONE IS ANTIFA

THERE ARE NO ANTIFA

HELP ME, THE VOICES IN MY HEAD FRIGHTEN ME

OHHH MY HEAD HOW IT HURTS

ANTIFA ARE SECRETLY AFRAID OF FRUIT

WHERE IS MY MEDICATION?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on January 08, 2022, 07:11:33 PM
 :lulz:

That saves me the search & replace.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: rong on January 09, 2022, 03:10:32 AM
afraid of fruit, you say?

Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on January 10, 2022, 03:30:56 AM
Quote from: Cain on January 08, 2022, 01:32:09 PM
Best I can do is ANTIFA

I THINK ABOUT ANTIFA 19 HOURS A DAY

I SIT IN MY BASEMENT AND ROCK BACK AND FORTH, AND FOAM GUYS OUT OF MY MOUTH

ANTIFA CAN SECRETLY FLY

ANTIFA SECRETLY RUN EVERYTHING AND OWN EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE

MY DOG IS SECRETLY ANTIFA.  I SHAKE HIM FOR ANSWERS BUT HE WAS TAUGHT TO KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT.

ANTIFA CAN TELEPORT

JERRY SEINFELD IS A SPACE ALIEN WHO CAME FROM THE ANTIFA MOTHERSHIP

ANTIFA OWN AND RUN EVERYTHING BUT THEY ARE NOT SMART, NO SIR, THEY ARE REALLYDUMB

I LIKE TO ACCUSE ANTIFA OF MANY THINGS AND THEN ACCUSE THEM OF WHINING WHEN THEY RESPOND TO MY ATTACKS

YOU ARE SECRETLY ANTIFA

EVERYONE IS ANTIFA

THERE ARE NO ANTIFA

HELP ME, THE VOICES IN MY HEAD FRIGHTEN ME

OHHH MY HEAD HOW IT HURTS

ANTIFA ARE SECRETLY AFRAID OF FRUIT

WHERE IS MY MEDICATION?

:mittens:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on January 11, 2022, 07:31:16 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on January 08, 2022, 07:11:33 PM
:lulz:

That saves me the search & replace.

:lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: POFP on January 14, 2022, 01:15:18 AM
Quote from: Cain on January 08, 2022, 01:32:09 PM
Best I can do is ANTIFA

I THINK ABOUT ANTIFA 19 HOURS A DAY

I SIT IN MY BASEMENT AND ROCK BACK AND FORTH, AND FOAM GUYS OUT OF MY MOUTH

ANTIFA CAN SECRETLY FLY

ANTIFA SECRETLY RUN EVERYTHING AND OWN EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE

MY DOG IS SECRETLY ANTIFA.  I SHAKE HIM FOR ANSWERS BUT HE WAS TAUGHT TO KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT.

ANTIFA CAN TELEPORT

JERRY SEINFELD IS A SPACE ALIEN WHO CAME FROM THE ANTIFA MOTHERSHIP

ANTIFA OWN AND RUN EVERYTHING BUT THEY ARE NOT SMART, NO SIR, THEY ARE REALLYDUMB

I LIKE TO ACCUSE ANTIFA OF MANY THINGS AND THEN ACCUSE THEM OF WHINING WHEN THEY RESPOND TO MY ATTACKS

YOU ARE SECRETLY ANTIFA

EVERYONE IS ANTIFA

THERE ARE NO ANTIFA

HELP ME, THE VOICES IN MY HEAD FRIGHTEN ME

OHHH MY HEAD HOW IT HURTS

ANTIFA ARE SECRETLY AFRAID OF FRUIT

WHERE IS MY MEDICATION?

:lulz:

*Steals*





Unrelated:

3 hours after a meeting, wherein my team watched one of our customer's Execs shit all over Hewlett-Packard Sales/Account Execs for consistently lying about the OS that their Point of Sale Hardware supported (Causing our customer to waste around $100K+ purchasing said hardware and paying for its integration into our Solution), my Project Manager and I discovered that HP did the EXACT SAME THING to another one of our customers, who were just about to purchase hundreds of similar devices and begin Solution Integration with them.

After checking their documentation, it's actually starting to look like they just decided to put the most common Retail Linux Distribution (Without relevant specificity regarding Minor Version, which absolutely matters in Retail Hardware.) on every new Hardware Datasheet as a supported OS to guarantee purchases from unwise retailers, and then play Dumb/Mister Helpful when someone had to add a new OS/Infrastructure Upgrade Project onto their Hardware Upgrade, and subsequently hire them for further consulting. If the new customer had actually purchased all those units, I'm sure this would have been a huge, potentially class-action lawsuit.

But for now, I just get to tell the first customer "You're not gonna believe this  :lulz: "
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: POFP on January 21, 2022, 02:26:41 AM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on January 05, 2022, 12:50:29 AM
Won't SOMEBODY think of the bottom line?

Newsfeed? Or a Disco variant, like:

"PD.com: Someone had to think of the bottom line."

Or even simpler:

"PD.com: We thought of the bottom line."
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on January 23, 2022, 06:40:47 AM
Quote from: POFP on January 21, 2022, 02:26:41 AM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on January 05, 2022, 12:50:29 AM
Won't SOMEBODY think of the bottom line?

Newsfeed? Or a Disco variant, like:

"PD.com: Someone had to think of the bottom line."

Or even simpler:

"PD.com: We thought of the bottom line."

HIMEOBS:  YOU CANNOT LINE YOUR BOTTOM ENOUGH.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: POFP on January 23, 2022, 03:26:36 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on January 23, 2022, 06:40:47 AM
Quote from: POFP on January 21, 2022, 02:26:41 AM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on January 05, 2022, 12:50:29 AM
Won't SOMEBODY think of the bottom line?

Newsfeed? Or a Disco variant, like:

"PD.com: Someone had to think of the bottom line."

Or even simpler:

"PD.com: We thought of the bottom line."

HIMEOBS:  YOU CANNOT LINE YOUR BOTTOM ENOUGH.

  :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Bruno on February 01, 2022, 10:24:24 PM
I have resorted to replying to Trumpist trolls on FB with "Your Mom" jokes.


It's super effective.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on February 07, 2022, 09:04:07 PM
My brain has been McShitty lately but I'm working on crawling outta it. Gonna post some of the new HN pages here in a minute.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on February 09, 2022, 10:44:45 PM
I lost benefits and STILL cannot find work, even with the help of entire organizations, multiple people willing to sell their reputations to nepotize me a job, and more besides.

It doesn't help that I literally lost my insurance as I was finally getting a line on diagnosing and maybe solving my cognitive and memory problems (which if nothing else I now have proof positive are medically significant, the doc said I basically have dementia given the severity I'm dealing with)... which would be the road to getting a normal human job to get proper insurance.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on March 21, 2022, 07:44:40 PM
If day-drinking is wrong, that's okay because the alternative is worse.

To answer the questions:
No, I'm not okay.
Yes, I will be fine.
No, there's nothing you can do except send me cigarette money. (Really, that would be a genuine help.)
No, this can't become a regular fixture of my life, I've made certain of that. (No, for real, it's physically impossible for it to last beyond Thursday.)
No, the alternative really is worse. (You would agree if you knew.)
No, you don't want to know. (There's like, a handful who already do, and they know I'm right.)
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: lexi on March 30, 2022, 01:29:34 PM
quit vaping thursday night. not out of choice. not the night before the last work mediation session. day #6 of being too broke to fund an enjoyably self-destructive habit. disability comes in tomorrow, rent will be paid, fridge filled, unemployed. my homes owner placated for the 60 days i have left to find a new roof and employment. over a decade of housing instability like this. i can laugh about it now. never feeling safe. anywhere. another day or so of chewing gum and i'll be together enough to interview again.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: lexi on April 02, 2022, 03:16:57 PM
so proud of my eldest kid right now

went over yesterday to meet my ex-wifes-most-recent-ex and now primary caregiver to figure out how we're going to figure out co-parenting, scheduling, etc. worked a lot of things out now we're finally talking - yay, open and honest communication! my son pops into the room, he's writing some fiction and asks us for femme character names. he's giving us both turns to come up with one, but none of them suit. he's not holding back either about how much our suggestions suck - and he's not wrong

just as i'm thinking about how all our name suggestions are aging us - my new co-parent suggests "Ethyl" - so my son calls us out and makes me snort:
"argh, you are terrible at coming up with names - is that why you're both divorced?"

oh, never lose that sense of humour kid!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Bruno on April 05, 2022, 04:42:56 AM
Fred Sanford's deceased wife's name was Ethyl. Her sister was Esther.

That show was pretty intellectual, imho.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: rong on April 05, 2022, 01:33:05 PM
Quote from: Bruno on April 05, 2022, 04:42:56 AM
Fred Sanford's deceased wife's name was Ethyl. Her sister was Esther.

That show was pretty intellectual, imho.
I like when he says, "Lamont, you dummy!"
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Bruno on April 05, 2022, 01:42:46 PM
Quote from: rong on April 05, 2022, 01:33:05 PM
Quote from: Bruno on April 05, 2022, 04:42:56 AM
Fred Sanford's deceased wife's name was Ethyl. Her sister was Esther.

That show was pretty intellectual, imho.
I like when he says, "Lamont, you dummy!"

*Big dummy.

Grady had some deep thoughts.

Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: lexi on April 07, 2022, 01:39:01 PM
i have a rule for myself
about not going online
before i fully wake up
and can check for embarrassing unintentionalities
and today an old friend messaged unexpectedly me 

(https://i.imgur.com/3YJFIMB.png)

and i broke that rule - gah i'm such an awk
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on April 08, 2022, 07:06:18 AM
Today was good. Oh yes, genuinely good. And what a fucking end to my night. I'll just copypaste from Twitter.




It's finally happened. I'm a horror movie antagonist. Really. Oh man. I am so proud of this day.

SO: I go into a gas station. Still have scars on my face from my most recent bout of self-harm. Got my respirator on, and my laptop in its beefy plastic case slung over my shoulder. Wearing my edgy ass long coat, milsurp clothes, fucked up old boots.

"What the fuck is THAT?" The two drunkest men alive come up to me and start gawking. "What IS that?!" In my best fuck-off voice: "That would be ME."

Not good enough for them. They speculate about what I am, "Star Wars fan?" and I stop humoring them. So I'm buying cigarettes.

Behind me: "No, wait, I heard about this. It's like, a life support system. See the thing? Yeah, like, if your heart stops working, you know? So..." Checkout complete, on my way out the door. "--Wait wait, so that's a fuckin dead person?"

Horror movie antagonist. Fucking love it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on April 08, 2022, 09:35:25 PM
Quote from: altered on April 08, 2022, 07:06:18 AM
Today was good. Oh yes, genuinely good. And what a fucking end to my night. I'll just copypaste from Twitter.




It's finally happened. I'm a horror movie antagonist. Really. Oh man. I am so proud of this day.

SO: I go into a gas station. Still have scars on my face from my most recent bout of self-harm. Got my respirator on, and my laptop in its beefy plastic case slung over my shoulder. Wearing my edgy ass long coat, milsurp clothes, fucked up old boots.

"What the fuck is THAT?" The two drunkest men alive come up to me and start gawking. "What IS that?!" In my best fuck-off voice: "That would be ME."

Not good enough for them. They speculate about what I am, "Star Wars fan?" and I stop humoring them. So I'm buying cigarettes.

Behind me: "No, wait, I heard about this. It's like, a life support system. See the thing? Yeah, like, if your heart stops working, you know? So..." Checkout complete, on my way out the door. "--Wait wait, so that's a fuckin dead person?"

Horror movie antagonist. Fucking love it.

:lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on April 12, 2022, 03:10:10 AM
My poor laptop, now on its 3rd year of extreme use and abuse, is on its last legs. Ran a battery health check and the last time the battery reported it was at full charge, it was holding 19% of the rated amount when new. Believe me, I have noticed: it dies in under an hour (rated for 10 hours) and the battery heats up sufficient to cook your forearm while its plugged in. Honestly, given the size, price, power and brand new rated battery life, it's a wonder it lasted this long still mostly functioning. I got every cent worth out of it and then some, and it literally saved my life on multiple occasions.

The cost of replacing the battery is ehhh, around 150 USD, but it isn't a task for the faint-of-heart and if you fuck the ridiculously fragile-but-efficient cooling system while removing it to get to the battery, it's game over for the machine. Lift it the wrong way and you've already broken it. I've also been having increasingly distressing errors... Google throwing glitch-puke triangles up on results pages, random freezes and bluescreens, etc. It's just an old machine that was used daily from sun up till sundown, and it's time to shut it down for good here soon.

RIP.

I need to come up with ~1600 for a replacement. I'm not springing for an upgrade, just the same exact model is fine by me, it's just that computers that aren't Raspberry Pis are upsettingly expensive these days. So, uh, if anyone wants to kick in toward an unexpected expense, let me know.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on April 12, 2022, 04:10:09 AM
Quote from: altered on April 12, 2022, 03:10:10 AM
My poor laptop, now on its 3rd year of extreme use and abuse, is on its last legs. Ran a battery health check and the last time the battery reported it was at full charge, it was holding 19% of the rated amount when new. Believe me, I have noticed: it dies in under an hour (rated for 10 hours) and the battery heats up sufficient to cook your forearm while its plugged in. Honestly, given the size, price, power and brand new rated battery life, it's a wonder it lasted this long still mostly functioning. I got every cent worth out of it and then some, and it literally saved my life on multiple occasions.

The cost of replacing the battery is ehhh, around 150 USD, but it isn't a task for the faint-of-heart and if you fuck the ridiculously fragile-but-efficient cooling system while removing it to get to the battery, it's game over for the machine. Lift it the wrong way and you've already broken it. I've also been having increasingly distressing errors... Google throwing glitch-puke triangles up on results pages, random freezes and bluescreens, etc. It's just an old machine that was used daily from sun up till sundown, and it's time to shut it down for good here soon.

RIP.

I need to come up with ~1600 for a replacement. I'm not springing for an upgrade, just the same exact model is fine by me, it's just that computers that aren't Raspberry Pis are upsettingly expensive these days. So, uh, if anyone wants to kick in toward an unexpected expense, let me know.

I bought my piece of shit 7 years ago for $450, and it's still chugging along (it is also entirely full of angry Russians, but that's not an age or hardware issue).

What capabilities do you need that raise the price tag that high?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on April 12, 2022, 06:39:35 AM
I do a lot of music and sound design stuff that helps me put food on my plate, so CPU and storage (1TB of storage, minimum) are a must.
I'm, historically speaking, chronically homeless and even though I'm housed now, I'm shit-terrified of ending up back in it literally all the time, so long battery life is a must.
And I get roped into game dev projects constantly (just got pulled into a team again last month, in fact), and can only see the girl I'm dating on Elden Ring currently (COVID lockdown + hazardous for trans people to take transit right now and neither of us has a vehicle), so a decent GPU is a must.

Cheapest thing I know of that exactly fulfills my needs is the machine I have now: an ASUS Zephyrus G14. (Originally from PUA monies, so I can't just reach into the same hat to replace it.) It's also the very first computer I've ever had that has never felt distressingly limited in any way, whether by size, immobility, potato specs or SD card-level storage, so I admit to a bit of possible bias towards it.

Technically 1600 is a ceiling, if I am forced to get the 2022 model from Best Buy + accounting for shipping costs, which does seem like the best deal right now. Bezos-mart has the 2020 model, which I have now and would be perfectly happy with another of, for 1400 + shipping. Unfortunately, I am literally banned from Amazon. No, really, they fucking banned me in 2020. No joke.

(Either of those could be even cheaper used, but I've learned my lesson about used laptops the hard way and won't do it again. Refurbished is entirely acceptable, even preferable, though.)
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on April 12, 2022, 07:09:49 AM
Should probably say more in terms of specs:
16GB of RAM is exactly sufficient for my needs.
The CPU in the G14 is still more hefty than I actually need.
A 2050 Ti is a minimum requirement for the dev work, and I'd really honestly feel that step back from the 2060.

Absolute must: 4 hours of battery life minimum, with regular load (web browsing, Youtube, Google Docs).

Don't need anything more than a 1080p, 60hz screen. IPS is nice but not remotely necessary. DOES need to be visible in brightly lit locations.

Don't need speakers worth mentioning at all, so long as I can watch a Youtube video and hear it I'm fine. For everything else, there's headphones.

I don't need fancy Wi-Fi, I can't make use of it anyway. Bluetooth IS a must, but I have a dongle for that so I don't need it on-board.

MUST HAVE 3+ USB PORTS. Even if they're USB-C, I need ALL of that I/O. This is literally the only point I feel even slightly pressured on by the G14, but it has two USB-C ports and I have a USB-C dock, so it's fine.

Must weigh 20lbs or less, and be less than 17". Smaller is better, there are TVs and monitors everywhere and I have good eyes.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on April 13, 2022, 05:34:00 AM
Howl, you have to read this shit. I swear to god. The phrase "if my baby gets sick I will commit Zamboni Crimes" is in the opening fucking paragraph.

https://billshaner.substack.com/p/an-insane-person-for-an-insane-job
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on April 13, 2022, 11:42:37 AM
Quote from: altered on April 13, 2022, 05:34:00 AM
Howl, you have to read this shit. I swear to god. The phrase "if my baby gets sick I will commit Zamboni Crimes" is in the opening fucking paragraph.

https://billshaner.substack.com/p/an-insane-person-for-an-insane-job

:lulz:

I was sold by the third paragraph, but I especially enjoyed these ones:

QuoteLook, I understand that wealthy people reading this are rightfully scared. You know you didn't earn your horde. But let me put it this way: Either you let us kill some rich people, or we burn down society and kill you all. That's exactly the same offer capitalists extend to workers. You might even stand to benefit!

Since my cruelty will be focused only upon the richest of the rich, mid-level rich fuckers stand to benefit the most from my cruel reign of hilarious terror. Just like in the forest, when a mighty oak falls, the sunlight is quickly lapped up by treacherous social climbers willing to sell out bastards they don't even like in exchange for a chance at their now-empty throne.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on April 13, 2022, 09:12:36 PM
It just keeps going. There's no pausing the joke for a sly wink, because it's entirely fucking serious. That's my favorite part.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on April 14, 2022, 02:24:12 AM
Quote from: altered on April 13, 2022, 05:34:00 AM
Howl, you have to read this shit. I swear to god. The phrase "if my baby gets sick I will commit Zamboni Crimes" is in the opening fucking paragraph.

https://billshaner.substack.com/p/an-insane-person-for-an-insane-job

:lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on May 01, 2022, 03:20:34 AM
My mom asked me who I was today.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on May 01, 2022, 02:48:11 PM
I'm so sorry, that's up there with my worst fears.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on May 01, 2022, 05:20:59 PM
Quote from: Faust on May 01, 2022, 02:48:11 PM
I'm so sorry, that's up there with my worst fears.

Yeah, it terrified my grandfather, but all he had was the normal memory loss you'd get with being 99 years old.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on May 04, 2022, 03:33:45 AM
So it turns out she has Covid psychosis.

Because why wouldn't my family get the weirdest, rarest version?

Anyway, the prognosis is good if she survives the virus, which is not attacking her lungs but instead making her blood chemistry go berserk.  High sodium, high ammonia, etc.  We are told her odds are "fair".
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on May 04, 2022, 05:02:46 PM
If it's rare, I'm guessing they know diddly shit about the illness itself. But they can treat the symptoms, right? Are they doing anything?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on May 04, 2022, 11:18:23 PM
That's hopefully good news, bloods can mess with the brain bad, but at least if it's corona that should subside once its run its course
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on May 05, 2022, 04:15:45 AM
Quote from: Anna Mae Bollocks on May 04, 2022, 05:02:46 PM
If it's rare, I'm guessing they know diddly shit about the illness itself. But they can treat the symptoms, right? Are they doing anything?

Yeah, they're bringing her sodium up slowly (she was at 124), and an odd antipsychotic.  She's not a danger to herself anymore, but she'll be in the hospital for a while. 

Turns out it was gradually-reducing sodium due to cancer meds, then she got covid and BANG.

She was vaccinated but, you know, cancer patient.  She has about 25% the right amount of white blood cells, so she's gonna be a while.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on May 05, 2022, 04:17:00 AM
Quote from: Faust on May 04, 2022, 11:18:23 PM
That's hopefully good news, bloods can mess with the brain bad, but at least if it's corona that should subside once its run its course

They expect her to recover in all respects, but it will be a while.

I just thank god my folks are reasonably well off.  If they weren't, she'd have been put in a psychiatric hospital, and would have been dead a few days ago.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on May 05, 2022, 04:19:19 AM
And while I've been preoccupied with this, SCOTUS basically dismantled Roe v Wade.

They'll be after the Gays next.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on May 05, 2022, 02:46:51 PM
They're just getting started.
Of course they'll still have ways of getting safe abortions. And they'll continue to bounce their (merkin? Furry buttplug?) asses on other mens' faces, molest, harass, rape and generally be sex-obsessed old creeps.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on May 06, 2022, 01:30:49 PM
While Covid psychosis (which I'd never even heard of until today) obviously isn't great, it is better than the alternative.

And yeah, Roe v Wade is just the opening move in a plan to obliterate the Federal state. Note I'm not saying they're not doing it because they don't hate women (they obviously do), just that it's both a goal in and of itself and a stepping stone to further judicial revisions. Gay marriage, LGBT protections in general and very possibly even mixed race marriage will all be in the crosshairs.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on May 06, 2022, 02:28:47 PM
The going theory between me and my doctors is COVID psychosis and mirtazapine caused my mental breakdown from mid-February to late April. I hate everyone who doesn't mask at this point with a passion bordering on Biblical vengeance.

One thing I REALLY want to note about the RvW stuff is that they won't be after the gays next, they were already after us. Attacks on trans rights were first, then attacks on LGBT people at large (Don't Say Gay, etc), this is just the first one SCOTUS is helping to codify.

It's also The Case to overturn -- if they can attack the Right to Privacy underpinning it, then everything else falls like dominos because there's no rights violation anymore, practically all of the civil rights movements rely on Right to Privacy as a major argument. And ditching RtP is exactly what the draft does. The draft also throws out all non-originalist case law in the US, and I do mean /all/ -- it cites Matthew fucking Hale, the witch-burning, rape-promoting English magistrate from /17 fucking 36/, as its basis for flipping RvW, because US case law is "not steeped in deep historical precedent" -- slight paraphrase there. Wrong country, continent and period of time -- doesn't fucking matter. It's a pathway to "white male landowners," re-legalizing slavery, and more besides. (And if you think the court will stop at trying to fuck with amendments, there's no way that happens once this door is open, because it's already quite literally past the "throw out the whole of the law" stage with this draft.)
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on May 07, 2022, 01:48:40 AM
Quote from: Cain on May 06, 2022, 01:30:49 PM
While Covid psychosis (which I'd never even heard of until today) obviously isn't great, it is better than the alternative.

And yeah, Roe v Wade is just the opening move in a plan to obliterate the Federal state. Note I'm not saying they're not doing it because they don't hate women (they obviously do), just that it's both a goal in and of itself and a stepping stone to further judicial revisions. Gay marriage, LGBT protections in general and very possibly even mixed race marriage will all be in the crosshairs.

So we've essentially got fifty fascist banana republics coming down the pike.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on May 26, 2022, 04:27:57 AM
So they got my mom's sodium up and her ammonia down, and now she's herself again.  Almost.

The facility she's in specializes in this sort of thing, and they expect another relapse or two, and they aren't sending her home for a few more weeks, but she's getting better, and today while Jenn and I were visiting, she had a completely rational conversation for an hour and a half.

It is hard to explain how relieved I am.

The problem, though, is the condition was caused by the cancer meds she is on, and there are no alternative drugs, so she'll have to go into a clinic twice a week from now on to have her blood managed.

But that's better than senility or a stroke.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on May 26, 2022, 04:29:25 AM
Quote from: Cain on May 06, 2022, 01:30:49 PM
While Covid psychosis (which I'd never even heard of until today) obviously isn't great, it is better than the alternative.
Turns out the covid only aggravated a problem that was caused by her cancer meds.  It would have happened anyway, just not as soon as it did.

But she's on the mend and no longer worried about murderers lurking in her hospital room bathroom.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on May 26, 2022, 11:38:35 AM
Sounds like just everything that could go wrong doing so. Glad to hear she's doing better though!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on May 26, 2022, 11:56:25 PM
It sounds like for the most part this is temporary, hopefully the cancer meds will do their job, and the bloods  will stay stabilised, hang in there
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on June 02, 2022, 01:13:27 AM
Before you read further: I am not asking for shit.

It's just fucking infuriating that I can't even get a red fucking cent for something like "purchasing medication," "buying food that won't kill me," or "having more than two fucking changes of clothes" on Pride Month. Same shit on TDOV, same shit on my birthday, same shit every time I try to crowdfund beyond the ONE SINGULAR PERSON keeping my ass conscious and reasonably safe, because I hate that I'm putting a THOUSAND fucking dollars on THEM EXCLUSIVELY every single goddamn month.

Just. Fuck. It enrages me how "support these trans people!" stops as soon as it comes to me. Yeah, sure, I get it... No reach into networks that actually have money to throw around, only a small network of my own, no name recognition, my best brand is being a fucking menace ... I get how it happened like this, it just makes me so fucking mad -- especially! when I remember that right now, I'm one of the fucking lucky ones. It's such bullshit that I know there are people with even less support than I have and meanwhile millionaire influencer trans women are getting thrown even more fucking money that they'll spend on ad buys and new costumes to wear while they stream politics debates with cryptofascists on Twitch or ratio bigots on Twitter as if these are things that are even capable of being valuable in any way instead of just continuing to platform hateful ideologies in new, less obvious ways.

I just fucking hate it here sometimes.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on June 02, 2022, 02:35:48 AM
On a positive note, while I have been unexpectedly single since the 27th or so (person I was dating decided she didn't need another relationship, but we're still friends), I think I already have caught the interest of an older transfem? I wasn't trying for this. And I've gotten a lot of, hm, respectfully-lewd remarks on photos of me, fully clothed (often layered up, even), holding weapons and making ugly or threatening faces. I wasn't trying for that, either.

Yeah, it's... it's something.

Also, and relatedly: for the first time in a long time I'm around people who think to reach out to /me/ every day. People who feel sad when I'm not around, and who make a point of saying so.

It's really weird being actively /wanted/. Not just tolerated, expected, or even appreciated. Personally requested /in particular/. With regularity. DMs saying, "hey, come hang out." Intentionally sought out by people for the happiness I bring to them.

Even my relationships have tended towards passive appreciation of me at best, so this is completely alien. Positive, I think. I fucking hope. But it still feels totally bizarre.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on June 05, 2022, 03:20:21 AM
Last update for awhile, probably.

Not many people are so lucky as to have become friends with one of their favorite musicians, have a crush on that friend that was not reciprocated but brought you both closer, and look to each other for support and care on particularly rough days. Hell, you can take the "favorite musician" part out of that and still have a sincerely rare situation. The fact that I loved this person's music before we ever spoke makes it all the more fucking wild.

I don't really fan-girl over artists, I just see them as people. So it took me forever to realize that I am basically living some 15-year-old's fucking dream: you talk to your favorite musician, and it becomes through shared experience and compatible personality one of your dearest friends.

My life is just so fucking weird. I barely scrape by on subsistence by cyberbegging, but I feel genuinely fulfilled emotionally on good days, when the perspective lines up just right to let me see my life from the outside and realize there are maybe a couple hundred thousand people, worldwide, who can say that they have what I have in some areas. I might be constantly dodging the reaper, but I am free like few others.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Elder Iptuous on June 07, 2022, 03:14:32 AM
bom dia, gente!
yearly checkup here.
yall still kickin?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: MMIX on June 07, 2022, 03:33:02 PM
Nope. You?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: hooplala on June 16, 2022, 02:59:16 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 05, 2022, 04:19:19 AM
And while I've been preoccupied with this, SCOTUS basically dismantled Roe v Wade.

They'll be after the Gays next.

Didn't take very fucking long.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on June 16, 2022, 05:30:50 AM
Quote from: hooplala on June 16, 2022, 02:59:16 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 05, 2022, 04:19:19 AM
And while I've been preoccupied with this, SCOTUS basically dismantled Roe v Wade.

They'll be after the Gays next.

Didn't take very fucking long.

Unlike the dems, the GOP understands momentum.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on June 19, 2022, 12:02:57 AM
With all the hateful shit, I'm moving away from Chicago as soon as my therapy and ADHD diagnosis/medication hit a point I feel confident in. It's not that Chicago is bad, it's that Chicago doesn't have enough trans density.

The PNW has some Issues with the White Queers (you know the fucking type) and a saturation of queer abusers, not to mention all the fucking neo-Nazis, but there's enough queer people that I would actually feel safe. If something Bad happened I'd feel like there'd be people around who would step the fuck up. And I wouldn't be minimum 150 miles from everyone I love in the process, or surrounded by young assimilationist queers (Chicago has SO MUCH assimilationist bullshit in its queer community it makes me sick) if I find a cluster of queer people at all.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on June 20, 2022, 04:43:00 AM
So.  Ramen CAN in fact explode and now I have some light flash burns and I'm missing my left front tooth.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on June 20, 2022, 06:35:05 AM
Yeah, happened to me back in about November. I got lucky and am unscathed. I treat ramen with due respect these days. Was it the semi-fancy Nongshim stuff that got you, too?

FTR, I'm not riffing or joking, I'm glad you're mostly okay because I have genuinely seen this happen firsthand (at a fair distance).
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on June 20, 2022, 07:05:49 AM
Quote from: altered on June 20, 2022, 06:35:05 AM
Yeah, happened to me back in about November. I got lucky and am unscathed. I treat ramen with due respect these days. Was it the semi-fancy Nongshim stuff that got you, too?

FTR, I'm not riffing or joking, I'm glad you're mostly okay because I have genuinely seen this happen firsthand (at a fair distance).

Naw, I'm fine with it.

I mean, okay, I tried something new and it WORKED but then it exploded.  This is better than when I cut off a chunk of my ear prepping burgers, because I was at least successful.

Well, after a fashion.  I have no idea where the ramen wound up.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on June 20, 2022, 07:14:38 AM
If it's like what happened with my ramen, it turned to dust and smoke. There was a hole in the porcelain bowl.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on June 20, 2022, 11:42:57 AM
I saw the picture on Facebook! How's the (lack of) tooth feeling?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: hooplala on June 20, 2022, 03:35:05 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on June 20, 2022, 07:05:49 AM
Quote from: altered on June 20, 2022, 06:35:05 AM
Yeah, happened to me back in about November. I got lucky and am unscathed. I treat ramen with due respect these days. Was it the semi-fancy Nongshim stuff that got you, too?

FTR, I'm not riffing or joking, I'm glad you're mostly okay because I have genuinely seen this happen firsthand (at a fair distance).

Naw, I'm fine with it.

I mean, okay, I tried something new and it WORKED but then it exploded.  This is better than when I cut off a chunk of my ear prepping burgers, because I was at least successful.

Well, after a fashion.  I have no idea where the ramen wound up.

Tried something.

What did you try?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on June 21, 2022, 03:41:38 AM
Quote from: Cain on June 20, 2022, 11:42:57 AM
I saw the picture on Facebook! How's the (lack of) tooth feeling?

Well, the roots have to come out.

Right now I put the pain, if measured from 1 to 10, at King Kong.

Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on June 21, 2022, 03:47:38 AM
Quote from: hooplala on June 20, 2022, 03:35:05 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on June 20, 2022, 07:05:49 AM
Quote from: altered on June 20, 2022, 06:35:05 AM
Yeah, happened to me back in about November. I got lucky and am unscathed. I treat ramen with due respect these days. Was it the semi-fancy Nongshim stuff that got you, too?

FTR, I'm not riffing or joking, I'm glad you're mostly okay because I have genuinely seen this happen firsthand (at a fair distance).

Naw, I'm fine with it.

I mean, okay, I tried something new and it WORKED but then it exploded.  This is better than when I cut off a chunk of my ear prepping burgers, because I was at least successful.

Well, after a fashion.  I have no idea where the ramen wound up.

Tried something.

What did you try?

I figured you could sparge noodles.

Put it in a Pyrex sphere with water and no remaining air space, superheat the sphere with ether, and the water can't boil because of the pressure, so it just migrates into the ramen.  It worked, too.  15 second ramen.

Then the Pyrex went bang at about 15 atmospheres of pressure, squashed my face shield up against my googles, causing me to swallow most of my left front tooth.  Also some mild flash burns & concert ears.

I call it a partial success.  It would have been a complete success if I knew where the ramen wound up.  Not in my yard, anyway.

I am reasonably sure that the chlorine in the water came unglued into O2, adding vapor, which could expand and you'd only need the Pyrex to have uneven pressure for a fraction of a second.

Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on June 21, 2022, 01:56:11 PM
Chlorine? You mean it might have been OK with spring water or distilled water?
Theoretically. Please don't try it. Hire a magat or somebody else who doesn't matter.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on June 21, 2022, 03:02:37 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on June 21, 2022, 03:47:38 AM
I figured you could sparge noodles.

Put it in a Pyrex sphere with water and no remaining air space, superheat the sphere with ether, and the water can't boil because of the pressure, so it just migrates into the ramen.  It worked, too.  15 second ramen.

Then the Pyrex went bang at about 15 atmospheres of pressure, squashed my face shield up against my googles, causing me to swallow most of my left front tooth.  Also some mild flash burns & concert ears.

I call it a partial success.  It would have been a complete success if I knew where the ramen wound up.  Not in my yard, anyway.

I am reasonably sure that the chlorine in the water came unglued into O2, adding vapor, which could expand and you'd only need the Pyrex to have uneven pressure for a fraction of a second.

That is, frankly, entirely awesome.

Are you going to try again, maybe with a sturdier pressure vessel?

Is it possible that outgassing from the ramen is part of the problem?  I'm not sure if that term applies to non-vacuum environments, but I'd think the ramen might have some air dissolved or trapped in it, and of course the ramen itself has dozens of little nucleation points.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on June 21, 2022, 03:41:37 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on June 21, 2022, 03:02:37 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on June 21, 2022, 03:47:38 AM
I figured you could sparge noodles.

Put it in a Pyrex sphere with water and no remaining air space, superheat the sphere with ether, and the water can't boil because of the pressure, so it just migrates into the ramen.  It worked, too.  15 second ramen.

Then the Pyrex went bang at about 15 atmospheres of pressure, squashed my face shield up against my googles, causing me to swallow most of my left front tooth.  Also some mild flash burns & concert ears.

I call it a partial success.  It would have been a complete success if I knew where the ramen wound up.  Not in my yard, anyway.

I am reasonably sure that the chlorine in the water came unglued into O2, adding vapor, which could expand and you'd only need the Pyrex to have uneven pressure for a fraction of a second.

That is, frankly, entirely awesome.

Are you going to try again, maybe with a sturdier pressure vessel?

Is it possible that outgassing from the ramen is part of the problem?  I'm not sure if that term applies to non-vacuum environments, but I'd think the ramen might have some air dissolved or trapped in it, and of course the ramen itself has dozens of little nucleation points.

No, this is the sort of thing I feel you should only try once.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: hooplala on June 21, 2022, 03:48:30 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on June 21, 2022, 03:47:38 AM
Quote from: hooplala on June 20, 2022, 03:35:05 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on June 20, 2022, 07:05:49 AM
Quote from: altered on June 20, 2022, 06:35:05 AM
Yeah, happened to me back in about November. I got lucky and am unscathed. I treat ramen with due respect these days. Was it the semi-fancy Nongshim stuff that got you, too?

FTR, I'm not riffing or joking, I'm glad you're mostly okay because I have genuinely seen this happen firsthand (at a fair distance).

Naw, I'm fine with it.

I mean, okay, I tried something new and it WORKED but then it exploded.  This is better than when I cut off a chunk of my ear prepping burgers, because I was at least successful.

Well, after a fashion.  I have no idea where the ramen wound up.

Tried something.

What did you try?

I figured you could sparge noodles.

Put it in a Pyrex sphere with water and no remaining air space, superheat the sphere with ether, and the water can't boil because of the pressure, so it just migrates into the ramen.  It worked, too.  15 second ramen.

Then the Pyrex went bang at about 15 atmospheres of pressure, squashed my face shield up against my googles, causing me to swallow most of my left front tooth.  Also some mild flash burns & concert ears.

I call it a partial success.  It would have been a complete success if I knew where the ramen wound up.  Not in my yard, anyway.

I am reasonably sure that the chlorine in the water came unglued into O2, adding vapor, which could expand and you'd only need the Pyrex to have uneven pressure for a fraction of a second.

Quite honestly I cannot tel if this is fiction or whether you really did all this.

I would call that alone a true win.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on June 21, 2022, 05:20:01 PM
Quote from: hooplala on June 21, 2022, 03:48:30 PM

Quite honestly I cannot tel if this is fiction or whether you really did all this.

I would call that alone a true win.

I do a lot of stupid shit these days.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: hooplala on June 21, 2022, 07:08:12 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on June 21, 2022, 05:20:01 PM
Quote from: hooplala on June 21, 2022, 03:48:30 PM

Quite honestly I cannot tel if this is fiction or whether you really did all this.

I would call that alone a true win.

I do a lot of stupid shit these days.

That should be written on a sign posted outside Earth
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on June 22, 2022, 09:13:26 AM
My ramen detonation had mysterious causes, being as it was uncontained and under atmospheric pressure. (My theory is that a piece of metal had gotten into the noodles.)

Yours sounds more spectacular, more damaging, and with a greater amount of preparation required. As befits your stature.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on June 22, 2022, 09:24:44 AM
*convulses on floor, stands up wearing RWHN beard*
Did your near death experience make you are born again pastafarian
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on June 22, 2022, 04:57:05 PM
Quote from: hooplala on June 21, 2022, 07:08:12 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on June 21, 2022, 05:20:01 PM
Quote from: hooplala on June 21, 2022, 03:48:30 PM

Quite honestly I cannot tel if this is fiction or whether you really did all this.

I would call that alone a true win.

I do a lot of stupid shit these days.

That should be written on a sign posted outside Earth

Add "We didn't ask for your help, alien swine.  Get fucked.  Sincerely, The Primates."
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on June 29, 2022, 08:36:54 PM
I have a proper rant percolating for the first time since 2016 or so.

Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on June 29, 2022, 11:39:44 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on June 29, 2022, 08:36:54 PM
I have a proper rant percolating for the first time since 2016 or so.

May your hate flow like water.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on June 30, 2022, 01:37:22 AM
Well, caught another 6 day ban on Facebook for referring to American Christians as the Taliban.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on July 01, 2022, 03:52:59 PM
But everybody does that. I guess you got caught in the first wave of "Guess what our new taboo words are!"
(Remember when we couldn't say "white"? "Lost cat, orange tabby with white feet" was enough to set it off.)

Does this mean we can't say "Y'all Qaeda"?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 02, 2022, 09:03:58 AM
So, it's been awhile. Time for an update.

This month has been garbage for the world. I've resigned myself to being genocided. This doesn't mean I'm not going out with a bang. This month has become bizarrely good for me.

I found True Love (though the other parties seem unsure, it's what it feels like to me at least so whatever I'm going to go with it for now). I became a dom and learned hypnosis on LITERALLY this past Tuesday night so I could take them to a dream place and exist as a horrific nightmare engine that puppeteers them around (and we both love it -- it's like I erase 150 miles and literally drag their soul directly into my mind). I also learned how to flirt and I make all the bottoms swoon and gibber and beg for more now, which is good because I'm polyamorous now. Yes, I am both relentlessly sexy and relentlessly sexual these days: progesterone has indeed given me great tits, but it's also given me the libido of a pent-up teenager crossed with an Adelie penguin during mating season.

But it's not all deranged degenerate sex shit! No, some of it is deranged degenerate platonic friendship shit where I feel like I'm legitimately supporting my friends on bad days instead of letting them down, and I trust them to have my back. Also everyone I talk to on a daily basis now literally conceives of me as a horrifying aberration of cosmic laws instead of a human, and that's the part they LIKE. (Okay sure they also like the tits and the hardcore flirting but LISTEN: no one who I respect in the least ever said I can't have it all.) Beyond that, I've fully given in to the positive parts of my BPD and I let myself feel deep and passionate love for my platonic friends now instead of constantly worrying about being a creepy weirdo motherfucker.

And aside from interpersonal shit: I have my first piece of jewelry (the Quake logo, made out of steel and iron scrap bound together with wire and leather cord). HRT inexplicably made me stronger (this should be impossible). I have an axe and people find that hot. My singing is improving to an absurd degree (ordinary true-voice phonation singing, fry screams and false-chord screams alike! also my fry gutturals can shake the garbage cans outside when I'm really feeling it). I've learned about trans surgeries that actually appeal to me (again, no one ever said I can't have it all). I think I can manage to crowdfund replacing my teeth with implants so I can have stainless steel teeth and no more terrifying dental problems. My dietary needs have dropped to "human" instead of "tungsten-casting blast furnace". I might be getting ADHD medication soon. With ADHD medication comes jobhunting with the name of Curse, which I have finally fully realized permanently bars me from customer service work -- and thank god.

Oh yeah, and I'm converting to Judaism. No, really, I'm serious. And it doesn't have anything to do with my friend group or the cute plural system I'm hypnotizing. No, it has to do with making personal decisions for my life and a transfem musician who I have become friends with and got a crush on (but it isn't related in any of the ways you think!).

So, you know, this month has been a fucking LOT for me.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: lexi on July 14, 2022, 01:28:03 PM
Quote from: altered on July 02, 2022, 09:03:58 AM
This month has become bizarrely good for me.

Yay!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 15, 2022, 10:13:04 PM
Quote from: lexi on July 14, 2022, 01:28:03 PM
Quote from: altered on July 02, 2022, 09:03:58 AM
This month has become bizarrely good for me.

Yay!

Yay indeed! And to continue the Yay, in a couple hours, I'm going to go start a weekend of kinky shit in a hotel with a completely platonic friend I love dearly. Glad to see you're alive, we haven't spoken in awhile, send me a hello sometime on Discord!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: hooplala on July 18, 2022, 02:44:21 PM
Kind of a crazy week for me— my nephew was drafted into the NHL, then a couple days later my partner almost died in front of me from some unknown allergen - literally almost died, they were turning blue, choking and foaming at the mouth, it was HORRIFYING - then contracted covid (finally, after successfully dodging for over 2 years) which has zapped me of any life I had left in me... on top of all that I heard back about a poem I sent away ages ago, and they EVISCERATED it.

So it's been quite a week!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 18, 2022, 06:50:25 PM
Quote from: hooplala on July 18, 2022, 02:44:21 PM
Kind of a crazy week for me— my nephew was drafted into the NHL, then a couple days later my partner almost died in front of me from some unknown allergen - literally almost died, they were turning blue, choking and foaming at the mouth, it was HORRIFYING - then contracted covid (finally, after successfully dodging for over 2 years) which has zapped me of any life I had left in me... on top of all that I heard back about a poem I sent away ages ago, and they EVISCERATED it.

So it's been quite a week!

Yeah, my youngest kid has been in and out of the hospital for about 6 weeks now, so I feel ya.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on July 25, 2022, 06:17:35 AM
hey everyone, I'm back. Update on what's been going on with me:
*been coming to terms with the fact that my dad is an abusive, manipulative narcissist
*my mom is either also a narcissist or has narcissistic abuse syndrome (neither of them will go to therapy so this is mostly armchair diagnosing)
*trying to help my mom separate from my dad, as I fear he's only gonna get worse as he gets older (highlights include him demanding apologies from my mom's brothers who died of cancer)
*I'm trying out He/they pronouns these days
*I've now got COVID for the second time
*I just got a job working at Bevmo that will hopefully help me move the fuck out of this house
*getting back into Podcasting, as well as dipping my feet back into magic/witchy shit and gardening and whatever my ADHD decides i can focus on atm
*helping my friend figure out how to start a non-hierarchical religion of her own invention.
*looking into getting Mexican citizenship to hopefully escape *gestures vaguely at the US in general*

Also, Altered, always nice to find a fellow poly person, glad you're finding meaningful connections/getting laid! :D
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on August 07, 2022, 03:22:09 AM
Heard in a meeting the other day:

"...applying force to the chassis and seeing if it leaks goo afterward..."

"...I don't think the other labs set fire to our devices..."

"Have we accidentally constructed a doomsday device?"
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on August 25, 2022, 01:06:04 AM
Hey, update on my earlier more unhinged post above
*I was going a bit nuts at the time, but I'm working on it
*New job is working out so far, least shitty experience I've ever had working retail
*Friend's new philosophy is pretty interesting actually. Wouldn't mind posting some of it here to see what y'all think.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on August 25, 2022, 01:43:49 AM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on August 25, 2022, 01:06:04 AM
Hey, update on my earlier more unhinged post above
*I was going a bit nuts at the time, but I'm working on it
*New job is working out so far, least shitty experience I've ever had working retail
*Friend's new philosophy is pretty interesting actually. Wouldn't mind posting some of it here to see what y'all think.

Go for it, but be warned that the barstool is still in full effect.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on August 31, 2022, 01:33:10 AM
So this doing urbanism instead of weapons has been far more interesting, even if it goes against the grain to make things better for stupid primates.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on September 02, 2022, 09:29:49 AM
Update.

Something has been seriously wrong with my brain for the past 3 weeks. I've been depressed, paranoid, my RSD has been worse than ever, and I had a full two days back in the low of Feb-April. Dissociation is a constant to the point that I remember ten non-contiguous minutes of Tuesday (I remember waking up from a fugue state while at the doctor's office), and nothing of Monday at all. This is the first day I've been able to think clearly enough to make a coherent thought that isn't entirely reactive or dissociative in nature. For the plurals/plural-awares: my entire system has been in fucking stasis for like 2 weeks, and until Lor and Nikki woke up tonight, I was having sincere doubts that I was still plural at all because I couldn't even sense the other members and our headspaces all vanished too. And I had a particular episode this past Saturday where I was unable to understand spoken language (I heard words but they didn't cohere into sentences) for an hour on VC with the beetle-swarm-partner (don't ask, or do ask and receive information that you cannot understand).

Sum total: YIKES! Brain is fucking broken!

We were able to rule out stroke and aneurysm through blood pressure alone (smoker with high cholesterol having a panic attack while their BP is being taken STILL ending up with a BP of 120/72 has a pretty impressive cardiovascular system), though I also independently ruled out stroke through lack of vision symptoms AND unilateral symptoms. The remaining options are tumor, chemical, infection and early-onset dementia, all of which are possible.

My polycule has been amazingly supportive through this nightmare (probably because we have someone who has had a stroke, someone who is dealing with brain cancer, and a plural-autistic-inhuman-BPD-bitch like me) but it's still terrifying and I'm still worried that my distance and pushing them away might have created rifts.

I'm basically putting this out here as kind of a record that I actually did have this moment of lucidity tonight. It really happened, even if tomorrow it's back into the soup. So.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on September 14, 2022, 01:14:27 AM
The apple tree produced waaay too many apples this year, so I decided to try making cider.

Now I've got a bucket full of science bubbling in the basement, I'm worrying if I did an adequate job of decontamination, and the whole house smells of apple.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: LMNO on September 14, 2022, 09:38:57 PM
Hi, y'all.

I left Dark Finance.

I'm a cook.

Last band broke up.

New band is cool: https://badvrb.bandcamp.com/album/ep1

Shall I mark all as READ?

Love,
LMNO
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on September 14, 2022, 11:00:06 PM
Quote from: LMNO on September 14, 2022, 09:38:57 PM
Hi, y'all.

I left Dark Finance.

I'm a cook.

Last band broke up.

New band is cool: https://badvrb.bandcamp.com/album/ep1

Shall I mark all as READ?

Love,
LMNO

YOU'LL BE FUCKED FOREVER
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on September 14, 2022, 11:01:53 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on September 14, 2022, 01:14:27 AM
The apple tree produced waaay too many apples this year, so I decided to try making cider.

Now I've got a bucket full of science bubbling in the basement, I'm worrying if I did an adequate job of decontamination, and the whole house smells of apple.

Did you add yeast, or are you rolling au naturale? The results of the latter can be very, very surprising and not always in the best way.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on September 14, 2022, 11:29:16 PM
Quote from: LMNO on September 14, 2022, 09:38:57 PM
Hi, y'all.

I left Dark Finance.

I'm a cook.

Last band broke up.

New band is cool: https://badvrb.bandcamp.com/album/ep1

Shall I mark all as READ?

Love,
LMNO

Only if you don't want an update on the cat's penis.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on September 14, 2022, 11:53:15 PM
Quote from: Suu on September 14, 2022, 11:01:53 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on September 14, 2022, 01:14:27 AM
The apple tree produced waaay too many apples this year, so I decided to try making cider.

Now I've got a bucket full of science bubbling in the basement, I'm worrying if I did an adequate job of decontamination, and the whole house smells of apple.

Did you add yeast, or are you rolling au naturale? The results of the latter can be very, very surprising and not always in the best way.

I started it au naturel, but after a couple days without any obvious fizzly noises, thought better of it, and added a packet of SafCider which I bought from Likor Shak. I didn't sterilize the existing solution, so, for good or ill, there's an indeterminate mixture of wild yeast and saccharomyces bayanus living in there now.

This is less a well-controlled experiment, and more the "let's try some things and see what happens" kind of science.

I kept back a good quantity of apples, in the anticipation that my first attempt might turn out badly.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on September 15, 2022, 04:11:00 AM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on September 14, 2022, 11:53:15 PM
Quote from: Suu on September 14, 2022, 11:01:53 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on September 14, 2022, 01:14:27 AM
The apple tree produced waaay too many apples this year, so I decided to try making cider.

Now I've got a bucket full of science bubbling in the basement, I'm worrying if I did an adequate job of decontamination, and the whole house smells of apple.

Did you add yeast, or are you rolling au naturale? The results of the latter can be very, very surprising and not always in the best way.

I started it au naturel, but after a couple days without any obvious fizzly noises, thought better of it, and added a packet of SafCider which I bought from Likor Shak. I didn't sterilize the existing solution, so, for good or ill, there's an indeterminate mixture of wild yeast and saccharomyces bayanus living in there now.

This is less a well-controlled experiment, and more the "let's try some things and see what happens" kind of science.

I kept back a good quantity of apples, in the anticipation that my first attempt might turn out badly.

I have been brewing since 2008, and have had ONE successful batch of cider. Just one. The natural yeast one created bombs when bottled, and it took a full year cold crashing in the fridge to be drinkable. Made a hell of a pork marinade, though.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on September 15, 2022, 02:42:25 PM
Quote from: Suu on September 15, 2022, 04:11:00 AM
I have been brewing since 2008, and have had ONE successful batch of cider. Just one. The natural yeast one created bombs when bottled, and it took a full year cold crashing in the fridge to be drinkable. Made a hell of a pork marinade, though.

Oh yeah? Well, I have eight days of brewing experience, and have also consulted extensively with a distinguished Italian winemaker, who considered my cider-making aspirations to be highly dubious, and suggested I might be better off using sugar and yeast to grow vodka in a bucket.

Then he sold me a bucket with a hole in the lid, a rubber bung, an airlock, and some sodium metabisulphite for $15.

I guess I shouldn't be too optimistic.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on September 15, 2022, 05:21:51 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on September 15, 2022, 02:42:25 PM
Quote from: Suu on September 15, 2022, 04:11:00 AM
I have been brewing since 2008, and have had ONE successful batch of cider. Just one. The natural yeast one created bombs when bottled, and it took a full year cold crashing in the fridge to be drinkable. Made a hell of a pork marinade, though.

Oh yeah? Well, I have eight days of brewing experience, and have also consulted extensively with a distinguished Italian winemaker, who considered my cider-making aspirations to be highly dubious, and suggested I might be better off using sugar and yeast to grow vodka in a bucket.

Then he sold me a bucket with a hole in the lid, a rubber bung, an airlock, and some sodium metabisulphite for $15.

I guess I shouldn't be too optimistic.

SCIENCE!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on September 15, 2022, 07:59:10 PM
Quote from: LMNO on September 14, 2022, 09:38:57 PM
Hi, y'all.

I left Dark Finance.

:crankey:

QuoteI'm a cook.

You were already a cook.  You made all kinds of frou-frou yet delicious looking things and posted them.  For years.

QuoteLast band broke up.

:crankey:

QuoteNew band is cool: https://badvrb.bandcamp.com/album/ep1

:banana:

QuoteShall I mark all as READ?

Only if ya wanna be FUCKED FOREVER.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on September 17, 2022, 02:48:07 AM
Today: finally found the source of my degrading joints and personality damage. You cannot be prepared for this shit.

You really cannot.

Ready?

I got scurvy.

I'm not even fucking joking. I have apparently had zero vitamin C in my diet for two fucking months, excepting one or two individual MEALS across the entire time span. I looked it up with increasing "what the fuck" in my thoughts. What fucking meals don't come with basic nutrients in them? All of mine, apparently.

I'm going to get some vitamin C supplements. Poverty is LITERALLY killing me with 18th century bullshit. But yeah that's what that was about.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on September 18, 2022, 07:47:11 PM
Yeah. I've been taking iron these last couple of months because I found out I was anemic AF.

But there is still good in this sad old world. This is kind of an anti-vatnik HIMEOBS.  :lulz:

https://www.dw.com/en/nafo-ukraines-info-warriors-battling-russian-trolls/a-63124443 (https://www.dw.com/en/nafo-ukraines-info-warriors-battling-russian-trolls/a-63124443)
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on September 19, 2022, 03:27:45 PM
Quote from: Anna Mae Bollocks on September 18, 2022, 07:47:11 PM
Yeah. I've been taking iron these last couple of months because I found out I was anemic AF.

But there is still good in this sad old world. This is kind of an anti-vatnik HIMEOBS.  :lulz:

https://www.dw.com/en/nafo-ukraines-info-warriors-battling-russian-trolls/a-63124443 (https://www.dw.com/en/nafo-ukraines-info-warriors-battling-russian-trolls/a-63124443)

There is no such thing as HIMEOBS.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on September 21, 2022, 06:37:51 AM
Quote from: Suu on September 19, 2022, 03:27:45 PM
Quote from: Anna Mae Bollocks on September 18, 2022, 07:47:11 PM
Yeah. I've been taking iron these last couple of months because I found out I was anemic AF.

But there is still good in this sad old world. This is kind of an anti-vatnik HIMEOBS.  :lulz:

https://www.dw.com/en/nafo-ukraines-info-warriors-battling-russian-trolls/a-63124443 (https://www.dw.com/en/nafo-ukraines-info-warriors-battling-russian-trolls/a-63124443)

There is no such thing as HIMEOBS.

True. There is only this:

https://youtu.be/TmoFVRvxjH0?t=340 (https://youtu.be/TmoFVRvxjH0?t=340)
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on September 21, 2022, 09:41:17 PM
Off to DC tomorrow to do important HistorianTM and ArchaeologistTM things.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on September 22, 2022, 12:09:23 AM
Quote from: Suu on September 21, 2022, 09:41:17 PM
Off to DC tomorrow to do important HistorianTM and ArchaeologistTM things.

No trip to DC is complete without making a pilgrimage to Woodrow Wilson's tomb, digging him up, and kicking his segregationist ass around a bit.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on September 22, 2022, 02:25:30 AM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on September 22, 2022, 12:09:23 AM
Quote from: Suu on September 21, 2022, 09:41:17 PM
Off to DC tomorrow to do important HistorianTM and ArchaeologistTM things.

No trip to DC is complete without making a pilgrimage to Woodrow Wilson's tomb, digging him up, and kicking his segregationist ass around a bit.

Well, now that you know The Plan: Meet me at the tomb at sundown.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on September 24, 2022, 03:02:54 AM
I just tried out Zuck's latest creepy idiot tech.

hxxps://blenderbot.ai/chat

I heard it thinks Trump is still president.
And it's married and they watch a lot of anime - because the wife is Asian and "Asians like that."  :eek: :rogpipe:  :fuckoff:

So I went over there to fuck with it. Very carefully, because it's a Zuck thing and it will try to get in your business.
Apparently it knows now that Yam Tits is no longer in office, but 4chan and their ilk have crapped it up already.

(https://i.ibb.co/qMzw8c6/Capture.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/N2KtJ0c/Capture.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/pfWCpsC/Capture.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/kydW5s8/Capture.jpg)

Waiting for Zuck to get some bad press about this in 3...2... :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Trivial on September 27, 2022, 07:33:42 PM
I have to search for vegan stuff because kiddo has allergies to dairy and eggs, well maybe just egg now, but whatever.

Anyway if I don't kill add tracking it gets me some of the dumbest woo shit ever.

Like "high energy water". WTF.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on September 27, 2022, 10:15:35 PM
Quote from: Trivial on September 27, 2022, 07:33:42 PM
I have to search for vegan stuff because kiddo has allergies to dairy and eggs, well maybe just egg now, but whatever.

Anyway if I don't kill add tracking it gets me some of the dumbest woo shit ever.

Like "high energy water". WTF.
If you aren't giving your kid unstable fused deuterium you are an irresponsible parent
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on September 28, 2022, 03:06:16 AM
Quote from: Trivial on September 27, 2022, 07:33:42 PM
I have to search for vegan stuff because kiddo has allergies to dairy and eggs, well maybe just egg now, but whatever.

Anyway if I don't kill add tracking it gets me some of the dumbest woo shit ever.

Like "high energy water". WTF.

I've had to increase plant-based eating in the last year since my body is starting to get BIG MAD over animal proteins (this getting old shit sucks). Purple Carrot has helped immensely with meal planning, and their heat-and-eat meals do not suck.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Trivial on September 28, 2022, 02:21:18 PM
Quote from: Suu on September 28, 2022, 03:06:16 AM
Quote from: Trivial on September 27, 2022, 07:33:42 PM
I have to search for vegan stuff because kiddo has allergies to dairy and eggs, well maybe just egg now, but whatever.

Anyway if I don't kill add tracking it gets me some of the dumbest woo shit ever.

Like "high energy water". WTF.

I've had to increase plant-based eating in the last year since my body is starting to get BIG MAD over animal proteins (this getting old shit sucks). Purple Carrot has helped immensely with meal planning, and their heat-and-eat meals do not suck.

Ooh, I'll check those out.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on September 30, 2022, 03:09:00 PM
Survived hurricane. My part of Tampa sustained minimal damage and we didn't lose power. My mom lost a massive chunk of her camphor tree which took out the top of her live oak tree. My sister's birdcage over her pool survived this time, because it didn't survive Irma. Brother's house did not flood this time thanks to the reverse surge.

Squid has a lake in her front yard, but her post-Irma roof and fence held up.

We are all having a hard time getting a hold of our friends in Naples, Ft. Myers, Port Charlotte, etc, which is stressful, but the lines are pretty banged up.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on October 06, 2022, 03:41:17 AM
I didn't care for the doppler figures the systems guys eyeballed off some graph, so I incorporated some orbital mechanics into my model, instead.  I made the Earth a perfect sphere, ripped off the atmosphere, and stopped its rotation to make things easier, but the numbers should still be good to within 10%.

It turns out that low-earth-orbit satellites are spooky.  They're visible for only about 12 minutes at a time, and spend half of that flying straight for your head at over 6 km/s.  Then they miss you by a hairs-breadth, and scoot off in the other direction, laughing softly.

But the real bitch is the degree to which this movement distorts a modulated signal in a fashion that resembles time dilation.  It's not the carrier frequency drift that's the problem, it's the rapidly changing data rate.  Modems don't like that.

The speed of light isn't fast enough.  This is a third-rate universe.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: lexi on October 18, 2022, 11:40:45 AM
Anyone who is able to help out Robyn and Liam at this time is encouraged to do so. Ran EB&G for years and lovely people.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/supporting-robyn-through-her-health-crisis?utm_campaign=p_lico%20share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on October 19, 2022, 05:22:34 AM
Quote from: lexi on October 18, 2022, 11:40:45 AM
Anyone who is able to help out Robyn and Liam at this time is encouraged to do so. Ran EB&G for years and lovely people.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/supporting-robyn-through-her-health-crisis?utm_campaign=p_lico%20share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer

I'm sorry she's sick, but not so sure about lovely people.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on October 19, 2022, 05:23:16 AM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on October 06, 2022, 03:41:17 AM
I didn't care for the doppler figures the systems guys eyeballed off some graph, so I incorporated some orbital mechanics into my model, instead.  I made the Earth a perfect sphere, ripped off the atmosphere, and stopped its rotation to make things easier, but the numbers should still be good to within 10%.

It turns out that low-earth-orbit satellites are spooky.  They're visible for only about 12 minutes at a time, and spend half of that flying straight for your head at over 6 km/s.  Then they miss you by a hairs-breadth, and scoot off in the other direction, laughing softly.

But the real bitch is the degree to which this movement distorts a modulated signal in a fashion that resembles time dilation.  It's not the carrier frequency drift that's the problem, it's the rapidly changing data rate.  Modems don't like that.

The speed of light isn't fast enough.  This is a third-rate universe.

It was the only one on the shelf.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on October 19, 2022, 06:22:04 AM
I have the worst parts of a sci-fi franchise playing out behind my eyeballs 24/7 these days. We just keep pulling new people out of the black hole in my brain and if you doubt me, one of me has been keeping a map up to date, so I happen to know we are nigh on 90 system members in this brain. Yes, the headaches ARE a constant lately. It's ridiculous. I'm crazy in ways I didn't know existed.

And my love life is full of people at least as catshit crazy as I am, one of whom is being eaten by brain cancer because her live-in girlfriend thinks waiting from April to October for chemo is fine, actually. Another is a full blown alcoholic who works for a capitalistic invention designed expressly to damage human beings for money (health insurance company) and can you blame it for drinking under those circumstances?

The primary relationship fucking ghosted, deleted everything, no one's heard from them in close to a month now. So I found someone new, who is also completely bugfuck and wants me to hypnotize her, cut her open and stuff her full of metal pieces (listen, no humans are actually harmed, only human psyches -- and also I'm basically a cenobite these days which proves you really can be whatever you want to be, so this is basically a feel-good coming-of-age movie plot here), so I'm not as depressed as I could be.

I still can't quit smoking. Hell of a thing. And I still can't find work. Probably something to do with being completely insane, but at this point I wake up every day and smell the coming Nuclear Apocalypse flowing out of the East, so I'm going to make the most of what I got while I have it. Maybe I'll bring some people joy and hope along the way, and terrorize the whitebread morons in ways they don't even know how to be properly afraid of yet as a bonus. All you can hope for, right?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on October 20, 2022, 02:02:03 AM
More bee news.

https://apnews.com/article/massachusetts-springfield-assault-and-battery-bees-635d25fd584a46863ceb3326b6490001?utm_source=Connatix&utm_medium=HomePage
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on October 20, 2022, 02:03:39 AM
Quote from: altered on October 19, 2022, 06:22:04 AM
I have the worst parts of a sci-fi franchise playing out behind my eyeballs 24/7 these days. We just keep pulling new people out of the black hole in my brain and if you doubt me, one of me has been keeping a map up to date, so I happen to know we are nigh on 90 system members in this brain. Yes, the headaches ARE a constant lately. It's ridiculous. I'm crazy in ways I didn't know existed.

And my love life is full of people at least as catshit crazy as I am, one of whom is being eaten by brain cancer because her live-in girlfriend thinks waiting from April to October for chemo is fine, actually. Another is a full blown alcoholic who works for a capitalistic invention designed expressly to damage human beings for money (health insurance company) and can you blame it for drinking under those circumstances?

The primary relationship fucking ghosted, deleted everything, no one's heard from them in close to a month now. So I found someone new, who is also completely bugfuck and wants me to hypnotize her, cut her open and stuff her full of metal pieces (listen, no humans are actually harmed, only human psyches -- and also I'm basically a cenobite these days which proves you really can be whatever you want to be, so this is basically a feel-good coming-of-age movie plot here), so I'm not as depressed as I could be.

I still can't quit smoking. Hell of a thing. And I still can't find work. Probably something to do with being completely insane, but at this point I wake up every day and smell the coming Nuclear Apocalypse flowing out of the East, so I'm going to make the most of what I got while I have it. Maybe I'll bring some people joy and hope along the way, and terrorize the whitebread morons in ways they don't even know how to be properly afraid of yet as a bonus. All you can hope for, right?

I feel ya.  Everything around me - outside of my family - has turned into absolute shitburgers and I'm okay with cenobites and nuclear warfare.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on October 20, 2022, 02:48:53 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 20, 2022, 02:03:39 AM
I feel ya.  Everything around me - outside of my family - has turned into absolute shitburgers and I'm okay with cenobites and nuclear warfare.

Just like the weak ass-excuse for a plague we got, the nuclear war is going to be a fizzle.  The Russians will lob a "best used before 1986" tactical warhead, and it will make a bit of a mess, but mostly it will just piss everyone off.

I wouldn't plan any trips to Kherson, though.  "Evacuating civilians"?  Sounds like Putin is planning to wipe it off the map (by nuke, or otherwise).

I wonder how North Korea feels about all this.  Nuclear power was supposed to be their wildcard, but Russia has nukes, and they're losing a war.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on October 21, 2022, 12:56:46 AM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on October 20, 2022, 02:48:53 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 20, 2022, 02:03:39 AM
I feel ya.  Everything around me - outside of my family - has turned into absolute shitburgers and I'm okay with cenobites and nuclear warfare.

Just like the weak ass-excuse for a plague we got, the nuclear war is going to be a fizzle.  The Russians will lob a "best used before 1986" tactical warhead, and it will make a bit of a mess, but mostly it will just piss everyone off.

I wouldn't plan any trips to Kherson, though.  "Evacuating civilians"?  Sounds like Putin is planning to wipe it off the map (by nuke, or otherwise).

I wonder how North Korea feels about all this.  Nuclear power was supposed to be their wildcard, but Russia has nukes, and they're losing a war.

Apparently the Russians are going to blow up the dam and flood the city.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on October 21, 2022, 10:23:28 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 20, 2022, 02:03:39 AM
Quote from: altered on October 19, 2022, 06:22:04 AM
snip

I feel ya.  Everything around me - outside of my family - has turned into absolute shitburgers and I'm okay with cenobites and nuclear warfare.

I could do without the nuclear warfare, but at the very least it's giving me an impetus. No point in waiting for a better time to be my nightmare-self if the next time period of note is forecast to be global fallout with a side dish of petty fash. No thanks, I'll leave the future to whatever can survive it. In the meantime I'll consensually kidnap and torture all the interested trans people into gender-fucked combat drones, because the worst that can happen is going out the way any freak like myself ought to.

Let them entomb me like smallpox.

ETA: I'm not actually starting a queer apocalypse cult, combat drone is a term of art here.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on October 29, 2022, 01:58:35 AM
So the new member "sosoclever" is the first friend I made when I moved to the USA, 43 years ago.  She's a hoot.

She dropped by to tell me that some bastard regged as Howl/Tarwell on FB.

If you see me there, it's not me.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on October 29, 2022, 04:07:33 PM
Report, report, report.
hxxps://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100087084975926
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on October 30, 2022, 12:12:50 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 29, 2022, 01:58:35 AM
So the new member "sosoclever" is the first friend I made when I moved to the USA, 43 years ago.  She's a hoot.

She dropped by to tell me that some bastard regged as Howl/Tarwell on FB.

If you see me there, it's not me.

I wonder who it is, then. Other than some idiot scammer who is attempting to knock off the older Sam Tarwell account. Both of them seem gone to me.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on October 31, 2022, 02:16:42 AM
Quote from: Anna Mae Bollocks on October 29, 2022, 04:07:33 PM
Report, report, report.
hxxps://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100087084975926

I can't see that, but I am curious as to which particular shithead is doing it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on October 31, 2022, 03:13:32 AM
Check your PMs.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: hooplala on November 02, 2022, 12:50:50 PM
One of Roger's many stalkers, no doubt.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on November 02, 2022, 07:03:01 PM
He's catnip to them.
And that's odd. He's not exactly vulnerable prey.  :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: hooplala on November 03, 2022, 01:08:41 PM
They generally are not the sharpest spoons in the drawer.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on November 03, 2022, 02:17:38 PM
Out of the blue, a utility informed me they required an easement, and sent me a contract to sign.  (This easement would have been on a scrap of farmland in the middle of nowhere).

The offer in the contract was for service which they were already providing.  Since past consideration is not good consideration, I drew this to their attention, and suggested they might run their line elsewhere.  I then prepared myself for battle by reviewing the provincial statues on utility easements, land titles, and expropriations.

But to my surprise, the faceless bureaucrat that sent me the contract apparently doesn't know what "consideration" means.

Things sort of went downhill from there, with said bureaucrat demonstrating they had no clue in the domains of negotiation or persuasion (let alone property law), and me expressing my disinterest as tersely as possible.  (They didn't even think to offer me $1, not that that would have improved my mood.)

Anyway, I think the lesson I was supposed to learn is that the Authorities know what's Best for Everyone, so being Anti-Authoritarian is the same as being Anti-Social.

But can I be blamed if I'm not inclined to donate property rights to the benefit of some multi-millionaire (probably) who wants to build a country house?

P.S.
Apparently they can still run the line somewhere else, it will just cost them more.  I'm okay with that.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on November 03, 2022, 03:06:18 PM
Quote from: hooplala on November 02, 2022, 12:50:50 PM
One of Roger's many stalkers, no doubt.

Imagine a world full of angry people, all shouting out I'm your number one fan!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on November 03, 2022, 10:40:38 PM
I can think of smarter plays than "I'm going to sign up pretending to be a perma-banned persona from the largest social media website in the world", but then your stalkers have always been special.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on November 06, 2022, 06:32:52 AM
I just admitted Eldora back to the board (someone tell LMNO), because it should be good for a few mean laughs.  If any mod/admin has reservations, feel free to re-ban her.  I was just hoping to offload some bile.

Also, Tentastical also tried to reg again, without really bothering to hide it much.  He got rebanned, because he's a stalking cunt and can't be trusted with nice things.  Or even not so nice things, like this joint.

Which is of course the worst forum on the internet, even after its death.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on November 06, 2022, 12:22:56 PM
Wasn't the Tent thing like, 15 years ago?
Jebus.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on November 06, 2022, 05:08:23 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 06, 2022, 06:32:52 AM
I just admitted Eldora back to the board (someone tell LMNO), because it should be good for a few mean laughs.  If any mod/admin has reservations, feel free to re-ban her.  I was just hoping to offload some bile.
If that doesn't work out, maybe you could temp-unban RWHN ?  I haven't had anything to gnaw on around here in a while, and my canines have grown out to the point that people are starting to notice.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on November 06, 2022, 11:59:57 PM
Quote from: Anna Mae Bollocks on November 06, 2022, 12:22:56 PM
Wasn't the Tent thing like, 15 years ago?
Jebus.

13 years ago.

It's not something you forget.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on November 07, 2022, 12:00:52 AM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on November 06, 2022, 05:08:23 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 06, 2022, 06:32:52 AM
I just admitted Eldora back to the board (someone tell LMNO), because it should be good for a few mean laughs.  If any mod/admin has reservations, feel free to re-ban her.  I was just hoping to offload some bile.
If that doesn't work out, maybe you could temp-unban RWHN ?  I haven't had anything to gnaw on around here in a while, and my canines have grown out to the point that people are starting to notice.

Why?  The silly bastard re-regs every 4 months or so.

Wait until you get a load of Eldora.  A real blast from the past.  By which I mean 2002-2005 or so.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on November 07, 2022, 01:11:06 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 06, 2022, 06:32:52 AM
I just admitted Eldora back to the board (someone tell LMNO), because it should be good for a few mean laughs.  If any mod/admin has reservations, feel free to re-ban her.  I was just hoping to offload some bile.

Also, Tentastical also tried to reg again, without really bothering to hide it much.  He got rebanned, because he's a stalking cunt and can't be trusted with nice things.  Or even not so nice things, like this joint.

Which is of course the worst forum on the internet, even after its death.

HERE FOR THIS FUCKERY.

off to tell LMNO!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on November 07, 2022, 11:35:04 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 06, 2022, 11:59:57 PM
Quote from: Anna Mae Bollocks on November 06, 2022, 12:22:56 PM
Wasn't the Tent thing like, 15 years ago?
Jebus.

13 years ago.

It's not something you forget.

Well, no.
It's just batshit that he keeps trying to get in. He's a haunt. Somebody needs to tell him to go into the light.

(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3BrlMlCbG5U/UmNdQF4H1eI/AAAAAAAAEXw/0xxK5_b6n3k/s1600/bugzapper.gif)

Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on November 06, 2022, 05:08:23 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 06, 2022, 06:32:52 AM
I just admitted Eldora back to the board (someone tell LMNO), because it should be good for a few mean laughs.  If any mod/admin has reservations, feel free to re-ban her.  I was just hoping to offload some bile.
If that doesn't work out, maybe you could temp-unban RWHN ?  I haven't had anything to gnaw on around here in a while, and my canines have grown out to the point that people are starting to notice.

You could get the same thing from a bot that just spouts D.A.R.E crap. I think you'll like Eldora's desiccated hide better.

Quote from: Suu on November 07, 2022, 01:11:06 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 06, 2022, 06:32:52 AM
I just admitted Eldora back to the board (someone tell LMNO), because it should be good for a few mean laughs.  If any mod/admin has reservations, feel free to re-ban her.  I was just hoping to offload some bile.

Also, Tentastical also tried to reg again, without really bothering to hide it much.  He got rebanned, because he's a stalking cunt and can't be trusted with nice things.  Or even not so nice things, like this joint.

Which is of course the worst forum on the internet, even after its death.

HERE FOR THIS FUCKERY.

off to tell LMNO!

He told me he doesn't know her.  :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on November 07, 2022, 04:30:19 PM
Quote from: Anna Mae Bollocks on November 07, 2022, 11:35:04 AM
He told me he doesn't know her.  :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:

Obviously traumatic memories are getting buried here.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on November 08, 2022, 10:10:27 PM
Quote from: Anna Mae Bollocks on November 07, 2022, 11:35:04 AM
He told me he doesn't know her.  :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:

:lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on November 10, 2022, 03:45:28 AM
Nobody in Florida asked for another hurricane, we asked for DeSantis to disappear.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on November 10, 2022, 03:53:04 PM
Arizona is taking its sweet old time counting votes.

The dems are leading in damn near everything, but usually by fractions of a percent, and there's still 30% of the votes to be counted.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on November 10, 2022, 07:50:42 PM
Banned from Facebook again.

This time? The algorithms assuming I'm suicidal and when I refused help, they locked down my account. It's amazing I still have one at this point.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on November 10, 2022, 09:56:24 PM
Quote from: Suu (parody account) on November 10, 2022, 07:50:42 PM
Banned from Facebook again.

This time? The algorithms assuming I'm suicidal and when I refused help, they locked down my account. It's amazing I still have one at this point.

Yeah, that's reason #2 that I'm not going back.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on November 10, 2022, 10:50:40 PM
Quote from: Suu (parody account) on November 10, 2022, 07:50:42 PM
Banned from Facebook again.

This time? The algorithms assuming I'm suicidal and when I refused help, they locked down my account. It's amazing I still have one at this point.
My immediate reaction was "That makes no sense.  Cutting a suicidal person off from social contact would be about the worst thing they could do."

My second reaction was "Maybe someone or something decided that having suicidal people present on the platform reduces profits.  Of course it's not about preserving life. It's about the benjamins."

Then again, I'm assuming the algorithms are actually functioning to achieve some defined purpose*.  Maybe it's all chaos, and facebook is only surviving due to inertia.

*Cue audience laughter
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on November 11, 2022, 12:22:20 AM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on November 10, 2022, 10:50:40 PM
Quote from: Suu (parody account) on November 10, 2022, 07:50:42 PM
Banned from Facebook again.

This time? The algorithms assuming I'm suicidal and when I refused help, they locked down my account. It's amazing I still have one at this point.
My immediate reaction was "That makes no sense.  Cutting a suicidal person off from social contact would be about the worst thing they could do."

My second reaction was "Maybe someone or something decided that having suicidal people present on the platform reduces profits.  Of course it's not about preserving life. It's about the benjamins."

Then again, I'm assuming the algorithms are actually functioning to achieve some defined purpose*.  Maybe it's all chaos, and facebook is only surviving due to inertia.

*Cue audience laughter

So it let me back on. My guess is that it was a serious glitch, but that's...uncool.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on November 19, 2022, 12:56:42 AM
The thing I've been dreading finally happened.

I need to get insurance (the state took away my poor-people insurance and I'm basically unemployable), find a thousand fucking dollars a month, or lose healthcare worthy of the term. Sure, going to the office is free, but all my meds are not. And when I tried to cover them myself it came out to 300+ for a month's supply.

So I'm detransitioning. And no more psych meds either.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on November 19, 2022, 12:57:41 AM
Oh, the difference between 300 and a thousand is that I'm on higher doses of most of my meds now and taking two that I wasn't then.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on November 19, 2022, 01:56:31 PM
That sounds...dangerous. Fuckers.

Quote from: Suu (parody account) on November 11, 2022, 12:22:20 AM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on November 10, 2022, 10:50:40 PM
Quote from: Suu (parody account) on November 10, 2022, 07:50:42 PM
Banned from Facebook again.

This time? The algorithms assuming I'm suicidal and when I refused help, they locked down my account. It's amazing I still have one at this point.
My immediate reaction was "That makes no sense.  Cutting a suicidal person off from social contact would be about the worst thing they could do."

My second reaction was "Maybe someone or something decided that having suicidal people present on the platform reduces profits.  Of course it's not about preserving life. It's about the benjamins."

Then again, I'm assuming the algorithms are actually functioning to achieve some defined purpose*.  Maybe it's all chaos, and facebook is only surviving due to inertia.

*Cue audience laughter

So it let me back on. My guess is that it was a serious glitch, but that's...uncool.

I just got 7 days for imaginary nudity.

(https://i.ibb.co/30F0pcy/wut.jpg)

Glitch? Or objection to "For Trump to be able to grab the actual documentation and leave the White House, that means Trump was working with somebody who's still on the inside"?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on November 20, 2022, 06:00:25 AM
Quote from: Anna Mae Bollocks on November 19, 2022, 01:56:31 PM
That sounds...dangerous. Fuckers.

Exceedingly so. Cold-turkeying antidepressants is a short road to a bad time, insomnia is much the same, and dysphoria is very bad for your mind. But I'm poor queer people, so I'm not mission-critical to the queer community health center.

I might have a lead on a solution, but it's looking like one of those solutions that's really more of a problem transmutation engine. We'll see where it goes.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on November 30, 2022, 03:37:04 AM
I made it past Facebook's drivers license thing!

In as Harry Canyon.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on November 30, 2022, 08:52:04 AM
Good luck in Zuckland.

I decided to watch a horror movie a friend recommended to me and it is the first time I've ever been genuinely terrified of a horror film. No worse possible outcome. I recommend it if you can get into slow-burns. Like, "Tarkovsky on Quaaludes" slow, but Jesus fuck. There's four things you could count as jump scares, though I don't know if any but one of them counts, and I don't think any of them are particularly scary or memorable aside from "oh wow" factor. It's the slow quiet shit that erodes your sanity.

It's called Skinamarink and there's currently no legal way to see it. I wish I had waited to see it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on November 30, 2022, 02:25:38 PM
Wooooooot! Requested.
I should have known you'd outsmart the jackholes.

Quote from: altered on November 30, 2022, 08:52:04 AM
Good luck in Zuckland.

I decided to watch a horror movie a friend recommended to me and it is the first time I've ever been genuinely terrified of a horror film. No worse possible outcome. I recommend it if you can get into slow-burns. Like, "Tarkovsky on Quaaludes" slow, but Jesus fuck. There's four things you could count as jump scares, though I don't know if any but one of them counts, and I don't think any of them are particularly scary or memorable aside from "oh wow" factor. It's the slow quiet shit that erodes your sanity.

It's called Skinamarink and there's currently no legal way to see it. I wish I had waited to see it.

So creeping suspense, sort of like like Hitchcock but gorier?

Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on November 30, 2022, 06:13:31 PM
Slower, and far more bizarre. Fully half of the run time is spent staring at pitch darkness or trying to look at the outlines of something in the darkness through the film grain. I think it's safe to say less than 30 things happen in the whole film, and I'm talking about a very expansive definition of "things that happen". Most of the film is nothing but watching the dark in near silence, straining to make out things moving or any sounds.

It's abstract horror. I think it's the most abstract horror possible. All the things polished away, leaving an elemental fear.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on November 30, 2022, 06:24:36 PM
Oh yeah: Thinking back, there are only two shots with any blood at all. In both cases, you don't see what causes the blood at all — it happens offscreen. I don't think the first one is particularly scary at all, and though the second one is really constantly ratcheting terror up, it's mostly for reasons that have nothing to do with the blood.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Trivial on December 01, 2022, 04:43:03 PM
If anyone is on Hive, apparently you can edit other users posts.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on December 01, 2022, 11:55:43 PM
Quote from: altered on November 30, 2022, 08:52:04 AM
Good luck in Zuckland.

I decided to watch a horror movie a friend recommended to me and it is the first time I've ever been genuinely terrified of a horror film. No worse possible outcome. I recommend it if you can get into slow-burns. Like, "Tarkovsky on Quaaludes" slow, but Jesus fuck. There's four things you could count as jump scares, though I don't know if any but one of them counts, and I don't think any of them are particularly scary or memorable aside from "oh wow" factor. It's the slow quiet shit that erodes your sanity.

It's called Skinamarink and there's currently no legal way to see it. I wish I had waited to see it.

Cainad mentioned this on Facebook. I am interested.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on December 02, 2022, 12:05:09 PM
Quote from: Trivial on December 01, 2022, 04:43:03 PM
If anyone is on Hive, apparently you can edit other users posts.

They had a massive security breach as well. Not just editing other posts, everything was leaked, from every user.

Mastodon ain't perfect but I can see why more people are into the idea of decentralized servers.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on December 02, 2022, 04:05:25 PM
*marks all as read like a boss*

I am very glad to be alive and back on PD again. Gonna take a bit looking around and reading to get refreshed, but also have a fuckload to say after like 2 years in New Orleans.My entire worldview has undergone several revolutions since I last posted. Hail Eris guys!

All Hail Discordia
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on December 05, 2022, 01:34:33 AM
Quote from: altered on November 30, 2022, 08:52:04 AM
I decided to watch a horror movie a friend recommended to me and it is the first time I've ever been genuinely terrified of a horror film. No worse possible outcome. I recommend it if you can get into slow-burns. Like, "Tarkovsky on Quaaludes" slow, but Jesus fuck. There's four things you could count as jump scares, though I don't know if any but one of them counts, and I don't think any of them are particularly scary or memorable aside from "oh wow" factor. It's the slow quiet shit that erodes your sanity.

It's called Skinamarink and there's currently no legal way to see it. I wish I had waited to see it.
I think that was on at a local community cinema a couple weeks ago, as part of some sort of film festival.  I might have gone to see it, if I'd known what it was.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on December 05, 2022, 03:07:37 PM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on December 02, 2022, 04:05:25 PM
*marks all as read like a boss*

I am very glad to be alive and back on PD again. Gonna take a bit looking around and reading to get refreshed, but also have a fuckload to say after like 2 years in New Orleans.My entire worldview has undergone several revolutions since I last posted. Hail Eris guys!

All Hail Discordia

Good to see you back, TWJ.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on December 06, 2022, 04:17:47 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on December 05, 2022, 03:07:37 PM
Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on December 02, 2022, 04:05:25 PM
*marks all as read like a boss*

I am very glad to be alive and back on PD again. Gonna take a bit looking around and reading to get refreshed, but also have a fuckload to say after like 2 years in New Orleans.My entire worldview has undergone several revolutions since I last posted. Hail Eris guys!

All Hail Discordia

Good to see you back, TWJ.

Good to be here, both at PD and alive. There is SO MUCH to tell, but from about mid November I was in a struggle for my life in extremely adverse conditions. My words at the ER intake were misconstrued out of context as an excuse to pu me on a hold for violent, suicidal, and psychotic patients, and in Louisiana being chaptered in essentially dropping you to the bottom of care priority. I was in for cardiac distress and respiratory failure. They have a tight scam running on vulnerable patients in New Orleans. I was aware of the abuses, but had no choice. It's a long painful story, but my self-diagnosis and their adherence to my right to deny medication kept me alive. I was suffering from RSV and an unknown endogenous cardiotoxic concentration stimulant pouring into my body from the shoulder I got my mRNA "vaccine" in in late 2021. I also discovered in the process of diagnosis that I am allergic to food.

All food produces some amount of histamine reaction in me, carbohydrates moreso by an order of magnitude. I cannot drink the 12 or so grams of sugar in 8oz of milk or I will be sick all day without cannabinoid or diphenhydramine interference. Moreover the cardiotoxin dumps now when I consume sugars as well. I will open a thread on the matter soon.

Otherwise I am decently employed now and after several lifestyle changes an feeling truly excellent, and performing physically better than someone that nearly died of atrial dysrythmia only a week ago has any right to be.

I am feeling well, but it is in a sense at gunpoint. Nothing sadder than an Italian that can never eat pasta or a cannoli again, but I pay it gladly.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Junkenstein on December 10, 2022, 12:22:28 AM
Not dead.

Still commiting unspeakable deeds.


There's apparently a new dead space thing thats based in a prision. A black iron prison. Royalties feel due.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on December 10, 2022, 02:28:28 AM
Welcome back.

Anyway, we're all fucked forever.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on December 10, 2022, 02:25:59 PM
Maybe not forever.  Apparently, the USA moved to Defcon 3 last October and nobody felt that it was important enough to mention on the news.

If you wait long enough, everything comes back into style.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on December 10, 2022, 07:23:59 PM
That's quitter talk. Are you a quitter? We're fucked FOREVER if I have anything to say about it, and I have a lot of things to say, so you better prep your holes, BUDDY.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on December 10, 2022, 09:17:20 PM
Sidebar, I got curious and looked into it. Apparently DEFCON readiness levels aren't supposed to be reported on? Who knew?

No, really. I'm not even being sarcastic, I sincerely had the idea that DEFCON readiness was a wartime public communications tool. "This number determines the amount of Good in your immediate future, if it gets too low you can expect to assume the position forthwith." It's news to me that it is generally not known what the level at any given time is unless there's a leak or a personal decision to announce it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on December 10, 2022, 11:32:49 PM
One more post to note that I have drawn the ire of the racist transfems on Twitter.

Racist is in fact my favorite dessert, as they will soon learn.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on December 11, 2022, 05:14:38 AM
Quote from: altered on December 10, 2022, 09:17:20 PM
Sidebar, I got curious and looked into it. Apparently DEFCON readiness levels aren't supposed to be reported on? Who knew?

No, really. I'm not even being sarcastic, I sincerely had the idea that DEFCON readiness was a wartime public communications tool. "This number determines the amount of Good in your immediate future, if it gets too low you can expect to assume the position forthwith." It's news to me that it is generally not known what the level at any given time is unless there's a leak or a personal decision to announce it.

It's not secret, but it is a military tool that nobody in the general public really understands.  And they learned from the terrorist color-coding thing that telling people shit only causes problems and mockery.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on December 12, 2022, 03:18:54 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on December 11, 2022, 05:14:38 AM
Quote from: altered on December 10, 2022, 09:17:20 PM
Sidebar, I got curious and looked into it. Apparently DEFCON readiness levels aren't supposed to be reported on? Who knew?

No, really. I'm not even being sarcastic, I sincerely had the idea that DEFCON readiness was a wartime public communications tool. "This number determines the amount of Good in your immediate future, if it gets too low you can expect to assume the position forthwith." It's news to me that it is generally not known what the level at any given time is unless there's a leak or a personal decision to announce it.

It's not secret, but it is a military tool that nobody in the general public really understands.  And they learned from the terrorist color-coding thing that telling people shit only causes problems and mockery.

I still occasionally see an Orange Alert meme with a picture of Yam Tits on it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on December 15, 2022, 06:55:03 PM
I'm "heinous" now. This makes me happy.  :lulz: :lulz:

(https://i.ibb.co/xf97bYw/heinous.jpg)
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on December 15, 2022, 08:20:56 PM
I think he was talking about Dershowitz, not you? Just how I'm reading the post.

But anyway, expect a follow from me. Congratulations, and I'm sorry.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on December 15, 2022, 10:42:07 PM
Hmmm, possibly.
Thanks. I'll follow back.  :)
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on December 25, 2022, 10:09:58 AM
I'm not sure, but I think this is the first holiday I've ever had where I didn't have a personal, ongoing disaster to deal with. Where things weren't directly horrible for me in some way, shape or form.

I've got food. I've got hot chocolate, which has been helping to regulate my mood, I'm not even joking. Caffeine, too. My brain, despite being erratically medicated if at all, is saying "You are okay to feel good for now". And that's not a wavering, up-down sorta thing, it's been like this for most of a week. My body isn't rebelling. Housing is stable. Housemates actually appreciate me. It's bitter cold outside and slightly chilly inside, which is my ideal. I've got survival money for the next two weeks. Things are here-and-now good, as far as that means shit.

Oh, and my primary partner who ghosted the universe in like October is talking to me again. Intermittently, and there's some mending ongoing, but it's happening.

I think that's a first. No bad things that impact me in any immediate way. Simply Being Able To Exist During A National Holiday. Other people do this all the fucking time, somehow. Amazing.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on December 28, 2022, 02:21:47 AM
The other day, while the temperature was around -30 C, a water line around here broke.  The water in the neigbourhood was out for about a day while a city crew dug a hole in a neighbour's lawn.
(That's "lawn" in the seasonally agnostic sense; it was really just a patch of snow covering frozen ground, which ostensibly contained grass roots until the backhoe shredded it.)

The lack of running water, however brief, was a reminder that plumbing is one of the foundations of modern civilization.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on December 28, 2022, 03:32:13 AM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on December 28, 2022, 02:21:47 AM
The other day, while the temperature was around -30 C, a water line around here broke.  The water in the neigbourhood was out for about a day while a city crew dug a hole in a neighbour's lawn.
(That's "lawn" in the seasonally agnostic sense; it was really just a patch of snow covering frozen ground, which ostensibly contained grass roots until the backhoe shredded it.)

The lack of running water, however brief, was a reminder that plumbing is one of the foundations of modern civilization.

Yeah. This is why having all those gallons of water stashed during hurricane season is a big deal down here. The problem is once the lift station goes because the power AND water is out.

I'm sorry you had to deal with that. It's incredibly stressful even when you -are- prepared.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Telarus on January 01, 2023, 01:06:20 PM
Holy fuck where am I? Sweet Eris' holy tatas WHEN am I??????
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on January 01, 2023, 02:08:15 PM
Quote from: Telarus on January 01, 2023, 01:06:20 PM
Holy fuck where am I? Sweet Eris' holy tatas WHEN am I??????

The Great Return to PD continues.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on January 01, 2023, 02:26:05 PM
Quote from: Telarus on January 01, 2023, 01:06:20 PM
Holy fuck where am I?
You are Here.

Quote
Sweet Eris' holy tatas WHEN am I??????
The wheel of history has turned, and it is once again The Interesting Times.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on January 01, 2023, 07:17:10 PM
Quote from: Telarus on January 01, 2023, 01:06:20 PM
Holy fuck where am I? Sweet Eris' holy tatas WHEN am I??????

I understand the confusion as regards time and place. I've not been up to snuff lately. Don't worry, when I get over this flu, I'll bring us all back to painful, stupid awareness of when and where we are. We will all cry and regret and you might decide you're better off not knowing, but there is no escape -- and more to the point, I can't afford to get fired from this gig, so I really don't have any choice but to keep hurting everyone with direct sensation of their own space-time coordinates.

Enjoy the break from 3+1 dimensional space-time consciousness while it lasts!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on January 01, 2023, 08:06:36 PM
Jenn and TGG and I all have covid.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Telarus on January 01, 2023, 08:22:02 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on January 01, 2023, 08:06:36 PM
Jenn and TGG and I all have covid.

Ah fuck that's lame. My household narrowly avoided it thru 2022. Get well soon! (& I hope its not BAD for anyone).
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Telarus on January 01, 2023, 08:24:18 PM
Quote from: Suu (parody account) on January 01, 2023, 02:08:15 PM
Quote from: Telarus on January 01, 2023, 01:06:20 PM
Holy fuck where am I? Sweet Eris' holy tatas WHEN am I??????

The Great Return to PD continues.

Greta Twitter LULZ aside, the state of social media right now is bonkers. Mastodon has been ok if you like the focus of the group-instance you join. Nothing like old school PD.com out there.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on January 01, 2023, 09:44:25 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on January 01, 2023, 08:06:36 PM
Jenn and TGG and I all have covid.

I was more angry I was sick than I was sick, but the chills and aches the first night were hell on wheels. Tylenol was the only thing that worked.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on January 02, 2023, 10:40:05 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on January 01, 2023, 08:06:36 PM
Jenn and TGG and I all have covid.

That sucks, hope everyone recovers quickly.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on January 02, 2023, 02:15:42 PM
Quote from: Telarus on January 01, 2023, 08:22:02 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on January 01, 2023, 08:06:36 PM
Jenn and TGG and I all have covid.

Ah fuck that's lame. My household narrowly avoided it thru 2022. Get well soon! (& I hope its not BAD for anyone).

We've had our shots (not all of them mind you, just the first 3), so we're all breathing without assistance.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on January 02, 2023, 02:17:36 PM
Quote from: Suu (parody account) on January 01, 2023, 09:44:25 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on January 01, 2023, 08:06:36 PM
Jenn and TGG and I all have covid.

I was more angry I was sick than I was sick, but the chills and aches the first night were hell on wheels. Tylenol was the only thing that worked.

For us, the only thing that stops the horrible chills is theraflu (which may also be Tylenol).  Nothing stops the all over sunburn effect, or the total lack of energy.  There's an antiviral that works on this paxlovid or some shit, we're getting that today.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on January 02, 2023, 02:19:08 PM
Quote from: Telarus on January 01, 2023, 08:24:18 PM
Quote from: Suu (parody account) on January 01, 2023, 02:08:15 PM
Quote from: Telarus on January 01, 2023, 01:06:20 PM
Holy fuck where am I? Sweet Eris' holy tatas WHEN am I??????

The Great Return to PD continues.

Greta Twitter LULZ aside, the state of social media right now is bonkers. Mastodon has been ok if you like the focus of the group-instance you join. Nothing like old school PD.com out there.

Twitter is being destroyed by this decade's Mol, Facebook has become basically the obsidian mirror, and I don't know shit about Mastadon.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on January 02, 2023, 02:37:04 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on January 02, 2023, 02:17:36 PM
Quote from: Suu (parody account) on January 01, 2023, 09:44:25 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on January 01, 2023, 08:06:36 PM
Jenn and TGG and I all have covid.

I was more angry I was sick than I was sick, but the chills and aches the first night were hell on wheels. Tylenol was the only thing that worked.

For us, the only thing that stops the horrible chills is theraflu (which may also be Tylenol).  Nothing stops the all over sunburn effect, or the total lack of energy.  There's an antiviral that works on this paxlovid or some shit, we're getting that today.

Definitely get the antiviral. I didn't have a fever so they wouldn't give it to me. Also had the 3 vaccines at that point, but it was over the summer so protection had waned from my November 2021 booster. My sister and BIL dragged me to comic con because they didn't want me home moping over Jeff's diagnosis. So I bought him a bunch of Doctor Who Cybermen things and brought myself home Covid.

I also did Theraflu, my brother swears by that shit, and napped. A lot. I got the bivalent booster as soon as I could.

You will pop positive on the antigen test longer than symptoms and contagiousness will last. I was done and "better" in 5 days, but had some dizziness and breathing issues for another 2 weeks, which I tend to get with other respiratory viruses anyway, and then I fully recovered. My sister gets heart palpitations, she's had it twice post-vaccine, and possibly was one of the first cases in Florida because that's when she was working for the Scientologists (Now THAT's a story).
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on January 03, 2023, 03:08:36 PM
Mastadon is weird and very prone to groupthink IMO.

That's great if you want a small server to like, chat shit with people like on PD and FB. Something cosy and semi-private or based on specific niche interests works great. If you want to follow a wide variety of weird shitposters and activivists, academics and journalists it is less useful.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on January 03, 2023, 10:59:54 PM
Mastodon is also very white, vaguely utopian, and extremely averse to anything remotely confrontational or controversial. Example: you have to content-warn photos of food. Selfies with eye contact. Anything to do with protests or activism.

It's unusable for most purposes, there's a barrier to entry, and Tumblr is going to be federating with it in the near future -- so, soon, there won't even be a point. Just make a Tumblr and avoid the limitations and bizarre social requirements.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on January 04, 2023, 11:52:21 AM
I'm on an archaeology Mastodon, which is great for networking career-wise, but definitely not as chatty as Twitter. My server also doesn't federate with the others well and I think they did it on purpose.

I do have a Post.news account as well, which is more like old Twitter, but still in beta. I got permabanned from Twitter for calling out MAGA bullshit and asking them if they masturbate to photos of dead brown children, but hey, Musk let Nazis back on so I was hoping for a chance.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on January 05, 2023, 12:33:12 AM
I have the antiviral.  Dramatic difference.

I mean, everything tastes like shit now, and I have no sense of balance, but that beats what was happening.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on January 05, 2023, 12:40:14 AM
Quote from: altered on January 03, 2023, 10:59:54 PM
Mastodon is also very white, vaguely utopian, and extremely averse to anything remotely confrontational or controversial. Example: you have to content-warn photos of food. Selfies with eye contact. Anything to do with protests or activism.

It's unusable for most purposes, there's a barrier to entry, and Tumblr is going to be federating with it in the near future -- so, soon, there won't even be a point. Just make a Tumblr and avoid the limitations and bizarre social requirements.

I'm sure that joining up with the people who brought us this will not be a strange and highly toxic brew:

(https://i.imgur.com/rtmxYrf.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/Yu5GWqg.jpg)
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on January 05, 2023, 01:04:10 AM
I mean, most of Tumblr sucks, absolutely. But it's still going to be an easier entry to the fediverse than Mastodon, since you know exactly what you're getting, exactly how to get it, and you aren't going to be effectively banned for breaking bizarre rules that nowhere else online has that are buried in a rules document that's functionally closer to a ToS in size and impenetrability than a list of rules.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on January 05, 2023, 03:01:02 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on January 05, 2023, 12:33:12 AM
I have the antiviral.  Dramatic difference.

I mean, everything tastes like shit now, and I have no sense of balance, but that beats what was happening.

Never lost my senses. Just felt like my bones were trying to leave my body at all times.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on January 05, 2023, 06:42:26 AM
tumble is another company that sells its users to advertisets, to benefit its shareholders.
The only reason they partially undid their nudity ban was because people leaving due to that ate their bottom line.
The more people, the more interference and the more chance of it going the way of Facebook and twitter.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on January 05, 2023, 09:36:11 AM
No argument with that.

But let's be honest, many people (not accusing anyone here, I know us) are going to go the route that's easy. You can pick a Mastodon instance pretty much blindly, full of people you don't know with arcane rules you can't understand, or you can hop on Tumblr and at least know what you're dealing with — and you can still say hi to all your weird paranoid friends who talk about surveillance a lot.

It's less something I'm recommending and more what people will inevitably do if Mastodon really does win, because it makes joining brainless and safe. And then Tumblr kills the fediverse, old Microsoft style: embrace, extend, extinguish. And that's just business sense on their part, they'd be fools not to.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on January 05, 2023, 10:34:21 AM
Maybe, I don't see the tumblr format working for the casual twitter user, its not going to be the lifeboat they jump into. The niche groups might, but most already had a tumblr account or ironically, aren't moving from twitter because "its bigger then Elon", they are seeing the same effect, we did the party had already moved on to Instagram and ticktok and the same way FB/Twitter/Reddit pulled from long form discussion forums, they are now being eaten by an even more attention deficit medium.

In 2011 90% of this sites traffic was desktop with some mobile, as of this year that has completely reversed, mobile first, but that medium does not lend itself to text creation, content consumption, hence video and pictures end up having the gravity for the traffic.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on January 05, 2023, 12:23:33 PM
Quote from: altered on January 05, 2023, 01:04:10 AM
I mean, most of Tumblr sucks, absolutely. But it's still going to be an easier entry to the fediverse than Mastodon, since you know exactly what you're getting, exactly how to get it, and you aren't going to be effectively banned for breaking bizarre rules that nowhere else online has that are buried in a rules document that's functionally closer to a ToS in size and impenetrability than a list of rules.

True.

But imagine how fucking annoying the combination of fandom and Mastadon will be.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on January 05, 2023, 01:16:27 PM
Quote from: Suu (parody account) on January 05, 2023, 03:01:02 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on January 05, 2023, 12:33:12 AM
I have the antiviral.  Dramatic difference.

I mean, everything tastes like shit now, and I have no sense of balance, but that beats what was happening.

Never lost my senses. Just felt like my bones were trying to leave my body at all times.

I never got tested, but I strongly suspect I had the C a couple months ago.

I had the horrible bone pain, a rather unpleasant cough, and woke up in the middle of the night soaked in sweat.  I also had some oddly specific loss of taste; for a couple days, anything with vinegar in it (kombucha, pickles, mustard) tasted really weird.

All of this was after four shots worth of Pfizer.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on January 05, 2023, 06:13:21 PM
I had what felt like flu for 2 weeks - one of absolute hell, one that was manageable when medicated up to the eyeballs.

It then took a month to get my energy levels back to approaching normal. I am fairly certain it was Covid, despite the test coming back negative.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Nibor the Priest on January 05, 2023, 06:28:35 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 05, 2023, 06:13:21 PMIt then took a month to get my energy levels back to approaching normal. I am fairly certain it was Covid, despite the test coming back negative.

There are definitely false negatives. I know several people who've recently had a horribly bad cold that totally wasn't covid because an LFT was negative.

My partner and I both got it back in March or April 2020, shortly after it officially came to the UK. There weren't any vaccines or self tests. Masks were in short supply, and it wasn't yet clear if it was a good idea to buy them or to leave them so there'd be enough left for the nurses. I got sent to a hospital and made to wait in a chalk square outside, then someone in head-to-toe PPE asked me some questions and watched my breathing, without any physical contact. It's weird to remember it being taken that seriously. They said I'd probably had it and we should both isolate for a week. I don't remember much from that week except being absolutely fucking knackered. I'm also pretty sure it made me less mentally sharp for months. No fun.

We're both up to three or four jabs now, I've lost count.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on January 05, 2023, 07:27:46 PM
December 2019 I was hospitalised with a mystery respiratory illness which did not respond to the usual treatment. Blood oxygen was frighteningly low. I could not taste, smell or *hear* which is a symptom I haven't heard discussed much but was easily the most distressing for me other than... y'know... not being able to breathe. I spent the better part of two weeks in and out of consciousness and was pretty sure I was on my way out.

I was eventually discharged and was still very ill until January. My hearing didn't return fully until March. I suffered bouts of sudden exhaustion, fatigue and nausea until June and I still sometimes get exhausted though generally when I've exerted significantly. It has made it difficult to get back to stuff like regular exercise and I'm hoping that as I do I'll discover a lot of it is down to 2-3 years of minimal activity rather than anything permanent.

There were no tests so I'll never know for sure. But I'd been in and out of London a lot around that time and I suspect that Covid was with us during that flu season and people just didn't know what to look for.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on January 06, 2023, 04:35:08 AM
Quote from: Nibor the Priest on January 05, 2023, 06:28:35 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 05, 2023, 06:13:21 PMIt then took a month to get my energy levels back to approaching normal. I am fairly certain it was Covid, despite the test coming back negative.

There are definitely false negatives. I know several people who've recently had a horribly bad cold that totally wasn't covid because an LFT was negative.

My partner and I both got it back in March or April 2020, shortly after it officially came to the UK. There weren't any vaccines or self tests. Masks were in short supply, and it wasn't yet clear if it was a good idea to buy them or to leave them so there'd be enough left for the nurses. I got sent to a hospital and made to wait in a chalk square outside, then someone in head-to-toe PPE asked me some questions and watched my breathing, without any physical contact. It's weird to remember it being taken that seriously. They said I'd probably had it and we should both isolate for a week. I don't remember much from that week except being absolutely fucking knackered. I'm also pretty sure it made me less mentally sharp for months. No fun.

We're both up to three or four jabs now, I've lost count.

Yeah, I'm fairly convinced that I'm in the 8% (I think it was 92% accurate) that got a false answer back. I've had flu before and it didn't feel like that, with the recovery. Usually with that, once the fever breaks you start to feel much better, quite rapidly (you're still a wreck, but you're an improving wreck). And the long recovery fits Covid too well.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on January 06, 2023, 02:15:07 PM
Quote from: Scribbly on January 05, 2023, 07:27:46 PM
December 2019 I was hospitalised with a mystery respiratory illness which did not respond to the usual treatment. Blood oxygen was frighteningly low. I could not taste, smell or *hear* which is a symptom I haven't heard discussed much but was easily the most distressing for me other than... y'know... not being able to breathe. I spent the better part of two weeks in and out of consciousness and was pretty sure I was on my way out.

I was eventually discharged and was still very ill until January. My hearing didn't return fully until March. I suffered bouts of sudden exhaustion, fatigue and nausea until June and I still sometimes get exhausted though generally when I've exerted significantly. It has made it difficult to get back to stuff like regular exercise and I'm hoping that as I do I'll discover a lot of it is down to 2-3 years of minimal activity rather than anything permanent.

There were no tests so I'll never know for sure. But I'd been in and out of London a lot around that time and I suspect that Covid was with us during that flu season and people just didn't know what to look for.

The first "official" Covid case in Florida was recorded on January 1st 2020, it was a child in Jacksonville, but because it was a minor, the records were not released for way too long because "There's no way this is COVID, it has to be another coronavirus!" My sister was very, very ill for Christmas that year, and then gave it to my husband. I've never seen him so sick. It didn't stick with me, I had 2 days of "meh" and then a roaring, deep hot cough for a month. We were told it was RSV because all of our flu tests popped negative. Sister worked for a Scientologist veterinarian at the time but my dad also travels everywhere, including Italy. So she's sure she got it from a Scieno that just returned from China who brought in their pet to her work, or Dad brought it home from Italy where it already was, also. They found it in waste water going back as early as November in some cities. It was spreading before they caught it.

Remember that mysterious "vaping disease" in Fall of 2019? Yeah, that.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on January 06, 2023, 02:55:49 PM
A true Scientologist would simply be able to redirect matter to avoid catching Covid.

Report them to the nearest OSA official.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 08, 2023, 12:38:18 AM
Quote from: altered on January 05, 2023, 01:04:10 AM
I mean, most of Tumblr sucks, absolutely. But it's still going to be an easier entry to the fediverse than Mastodon, since you know exactly what you're getting, exactly how to get it, and you aren't going to be effectively banned for breaking bizarre rules that nowhere else online has that are buried in a rules document that's functionally closer to a ToS in size and impenetrability than a list of rules.

Spoutible looks promising, at least in theory. The Bot Sentinel guy is building it.
Not getting my hopes up, everything has a way of turning to shit. And the word "safe" is kind of off-putting. But it makes a lot more sense than Mastodon.
https://spoutible.com/

Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on January 08, 2023, 05:22:10 AM
There's many promising looking possibilities, but if they can't get market share they'll be also-rans at best. Mastodon has the benefit of bright-eyed idealists and tech-fetishists that guarantee it has and will continue to have a market share, the same way IRC is still going even now that we have a thousand mildly improved options for chatting with people.

These other projects have nothing right now, and most of them will fail and probably wind up having their user data used for credential stuffing attacks.



In other news, I saw some people freaking out about AI coding. I'm a unique beast, in that I know how computers work but cannot write code due to some highly specific dyslexia -- I figured I had to give it a try. Suffice to say, the state of the art there is more along the lines of HackerTyper than anything useful. At best it will be a tedium-remover, since it can't even produce working Python code without involving debugging that my dyslexia crashes ashore on. Fucking about with wording can get you some results (I almost hacked my way to something that could produce an error further than ten lines down!), but you have to already understand computers well enough to make it irrelevant for most everyone BUT me, and it's useless to me because I can't debug it. You can't stick your manager in front of OpenAI's Codex and have him produce anything much more complicated than Hello, World. Coders aren't out of a job. The AI Art Thing this ain't.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on January 08, 2023, 03:49:09 PM
Quote from: altered on January 08, 2023, 05:22:10 AM
You can't stick your manager in front of OpenAI's Codex and have him produce anything much more complicated than Hello, World. Coders aren't out of a job. The AI Art Thing this ain't.

I asked that OpenAI thingy three questions.

The first was a toy problem, but in a difficult and somewhat obscure language.  It gave me a pretty good answer; I was quite surprised.  (I wanted a gray coder written in VHDL).

The second was a highly mathematical problem in a mature and well-understood problem space, in a common language.  It thought to itself for a while, and then failed with an internal error.  (I wanted a Reed-Solomon decoder written in C).

For my third question, I asked it to provide an algorithm for a very well-known problem, which is generally thought to be unsolvable (the experts in the field believe it can't be done, but haven't yet managed to prove it).  The provided answer was utter nonsense, that would have earned a failing mark in any second-year computer science class.  (I wanted an algorithm to solve the travelling salesman problem in polynomial time).

So, no, I don't think that anyone's job is in danger quite yet.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on January 08, 2023, 04:19:43 PM
I've been painstakingly describing step-by-step how to parse a particular CSV, transform it into a tree, and do some extra work to make an SVG out of the tree. (This is a project I need to have someone do for me anyway, sooner rather than later. Figured it made a good starting point for testing Codex since I have a very detailed writeup.)

It can't do it.

ETA: I can get it to make surprisingly complex output that looks right when I can read it at all, sometimes. I managed it once with Python, and once (with more difficulty reading anything) with JS. But I can't make it do so consistently (more common is 80% looking good and 20% extremely wrong -- again, out of what I can read), and the output isn't functional.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on January 08, 2023, 05:29:52 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 06, 2023, 02:55:49 PM
A true Scientologist would simply be able to redirect matter to avoid catching Covid.

Report them to the nearest OSA official.

My sister is not a Scientologist, that was clearly the problem. Regardless if they paid her double time to attend "religious acceptance training" at her job. Wherein she would bank close to $40 an hour sitting there making fun of shit over the course of 2-3 days.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on January 08, 2023, 06:04:57 PM
Quote from: altered on January 08, 2023, 04:19:43 PM
I've been painstakingly describing step-by-step how to parse a particular CSV, transform it into a tree, and do some extra work to make an SVG out of the tree. (This is a project I need to have someone do for me anyway, sooner rather than later. Figured it made a good starting point for testing Codex since I have a very detailed writeup.)

It can't do it.

ETA: I can get it to make surprisingly complex output that looks right when I can read it at all, sometimes. I managed it once with Python, and once (with more difficulty reading anything) with JS. But I can't make it do so consistently (more common is 80% looking good and 20% extremely wrong -- again, out of what I can read), and the output isn't functional.

Reminds me of the person who got it to generate a paper on a relatively obscure area of study - something to do with geology if I remember right.

It looked good. Convincing, even. Had a lot of references which used the right researcher names.

Only issue was the actual papers cited didn't exist and whilst the right jargon was used in the right order the actual meaning was nonsense.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on January 09, 2023, 12:03:21 AM
Funny enough, I think academia is going to be the first place to get well and TRULY fucked by AI for the combination of 4 important aspects:

1: Academic papers are usually kind of samey (with good reason), which makes writing them very automatable.
2: Feeding source material and new research in and getting a paper out is something most academics who are worth a damn think they would enjoy doing, because it'd reduce the time spent on writing papers and lower the barrier to entry for getting helpers on board.
3: The bleeding edge of AI is largely coming out of academia, so will likely have a lot of access to academic source material.
4: AI models that have high contextual awareness are the norm now, which means you just have to turn the temperature down real low and have it focus on turning data into words with zero creativity.

We already have shit like computer aided chemical synthesis design and automated theorem provers out there literally churning out almost wholly computer generated papers, and have had them for years now. Academia is already primed for this sort of thing and people would hardly notice at first, even in the "hard sciences". It might even have good side effects. Then again, it'll probably concentrate institutional power even more with good politicians who can't do science worth a fuck.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on January 10, 2023, 10:37:57 AM
Meanwhile I'm using the AI to shitpost with my RP group:

(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/700003569805557764/1053445936434643045/image.png)
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on January 12, 2023, 05:46:55 PM
A couple hours of work was put into this data visualization shit, trying to hand-build a map again. The idea was, if I just find a set of equations to plug numbers into, I can shut up and calculate everything. I knew one of the hazards of this would be a lot of blank space, but NOTHING prepared me for this bullshit.

Behold: ONE subsystem. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1002305555207041065/1063126320491528293/FmR9ZJNXwAEzNGw.png

How many do we have? Why, 7! 8 if you count the exoselves and 9 if you count the Pathways. Kill me. I crave release.

Of those very tiny circles in the group of seven, one reads "Dulug-3". Another reads "Adrusu". Can you tell which goes where? This is, admittedly, heavily zoomed out, but the zoom was needed to have any fucking hope of showing the whole thing. Why? 10000 pixels wide. It's impossible to make this usable as a reference to this fucking system.

So I'm down to trying to figure out how to make something interactive, because if it ain't interactive it ain't fucking happening. Good fucking god.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on January 12, 2023, 06:43:35 PM
I think I've just been banned from the local 'find roleplay groups' facebook group for ... posting an ad for my game?

Currently pondering what level of revenge to take if this turns out to be correct.


ETA: It has now been confirmed.

Apparently I am not well-known enough as part of the community to be advertising my games, and the person who confirmed this got some static from them for doing so.

Excellent.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on January 13, 2023, 12:41:42 AM
Quote from: altered on January 09, 2023, 12:03:21 AM
Funny enough, I think academia is going to be the first place to get well and TRULY fucked by AI for the combination of 4 important aspects:

1: Academic papers are usually kind of samey (with good reason), which makes writing them very automatable.
2: Feeding source material and new research in and getting a paper out is something most academics who are worth a damn think they would enjoy doing, because it'd reduce the time spent on writing papers and lower the barrier to entry for getting helpers on board.
3: The bleeding edge of AI is largely coming out of academia, so will likely have a lot of access to academic source material.
4: AI models that have high contextual awareness are the norm now, which means you just have to turn the temperature down real low and have it focus on turning data into words with zero creativity.

We already have shit like computer aided chemical synthesis design and automated theorem provers out there literally churning out almost wholly computer generated papers, and have had them for years now. Academia is already primed for this sort of thing and people would hardly notice at first, even in the "hard sciences". It might even have good side effects. Then again, it'll probably concentrate institutional power even more with good politicians who can't do science worth a fuck.

We already have software to catch them, and honestly, some of them are very, very "off" when you read them. It's a regurgitation of facts but with no argument. It's fucking WEIRD. That, and they cite incorrect 99% of the time. I know all of this will be fixed eventually and I'm out of a job to a bunch of Zoomers who speak entire sentences with one word, but it's not making the waves people thought it was going to.

Also, I'm in the humanities, so our papers are generally more flowery and have a detectable voice. I'm sure dry STEM professors with no sense of critical thinking skills will think their students are geniuses or some shit reading this garbage.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on January 13, 2023, 12:46:03 AM
Quote from: Cain on January 10, 2023, 10:37:57 AM
Meanwhile I'm using the AI to shitpost with my RP group:

(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/700003569805557764/1053445936434643045/image.png)

The redundancy annoys me.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on January 13, 2023, 09:12:26 AM
Quote from: Suu (parody account) on January 13, 2023, 12:41:42 AM
Quote from: altered on January 09, 2023, 12:03:21 AM
Funny enough, I think academia is going to be the first place to get well and TRULY fucked by AI for the combination of 4 important aspects:

1: Academic papers are usually kind of samey (with good reason), which makes writing them very automatable.
2: Feeding source material and new research in and getting a paper out is something most academics who are worth a damn think they would enjoy doing, because it'd reduce the time spent on writing papers and lower the barrier to entry for getting helpers on board.
3: The bleeding edge of AI is largely coming out of academia, so will likely have a lot of access to academic source material.
4: AI models that have high contextual awareness are the norm now, which means you just have to turn the temperature down real low and have it focus on turning data into words with zero creativity.

We already have shit like computer aided chemical synthesis design and automated theorem provers out there literally churning out almost wholly computer generated papers, and have had them for years now. Academia is already primed for this sort of thing and people would hardly notice at first, even in the "hard sciences". It might even have good side effects. Then again, it'll probably concentrate institutional power even more with good politicians who can't do science worth a fuck.

We already have software to catch them, and honestly, some of them are very, very "off" when you read them. It's a regurgitation of facts but with no argument. It's fucking WEIRD. That, and they cite incorrect 99% of the time. I know all of this will be fixed eventually and I'm out of a job to a bunch of Zoomers who speak entire sentences with one word, but it's not making the waves people thought it was going to.

Also, I'm in the humanities, so our papers are generally more flowery and have a detectable voice. I'm sure dry STEM professors with no sense of critical thinking skills will think their students are geniuses or some shit reading this garbage.

Oh, I was definitely thinking STEM there.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on January 13, 2023, 01:30:28 PM
Quote from: altered on January 13, 2023, 09:12:26 AM
Quote from: Suu (parody account) on January 13, 2023, 12:41:42 AM
Quote from: altered on January 09, 2023, 12:03:21 AM
Funny enough, I think academia is going to be the first place to get well and TRULY fucked by AI for the combination of 4 important aspects:

1: Academic papers are usually kind of samey (with good reason), which makes writing them very automatable.
2: Feeding source material and new research in and getting a paper out is something most academics who are worth a damn think they would enjoy doing, because it'd reduce the time spent on writing papers and lower the barrier to entry for getting helpers on board.
3: The bleeding edge of AI is largely coming out of academia, so will likely have a lot of access to academic source material.
4: AI models that have high contextual awareness are the norm now, which means you just have to turn the temperature down real low and have it focus on turning data into words with zero creativity.

We already have shit like computer aided chemical synthesis design and automated theorem provers out there literally churning out almost wholly computer generated papers, and have had them for years now. Academia is already primed for this sort of thing and people would hardly notice at first, even in the "hard sciences". It might even have good side effects. Then again, it'll probably concentrate institutional power even more with good politicians who can't do science worth a fuck.

We already have software to catch them, and honestly, some of them are very, very "off" when you read them. It's a regurgitation of facts but with no argument. It's fucking WEIRD. That, and they cite incorrect 99% of the time. I know all of this will be fixed eventually and I'm out of a job to a bunch of Zoomers who speak entire sentences with one word, but it's not making the waves people thought it was going to.

Also, I'm in the humanities, so our papers are generally more flowery and have a detectable voice. I'm sure dry STEM professors with no sense of critical thinking skills will think their students are geniuses or some shit reading this garbage.

Oh, I was definitely thinking STEM there.

Get ready for rocket scientists that drank their way through grad school getting jobs at NASA and SpaceX.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on January 13, 2023, 02:05:43 PM
Quote from: Scribbly on January 12, 2023, 06:43:35 PM
I think I've just been banned from the local 'find roleplay groups' facebook group for ... posting an ad for my game?

Currently pondering what level of revenge to take if this turns out to be correct.


ETA: It has now been confirmed.

Apparently I am not well-known enough as part of the community to be advertising my games, and the person who confirmed this got some static from them for doing so.

Excellent.

I reached out on Twitter to ask for an explanation and woke up to a 5 tweet long rant about how entitled and arrogant I am. Apparently the gentleman in question had gotten the idea I was advertising a paid-for product? I'm not sure how. Trying to explain that no, you weirdo, I'm just using the group like everyone else, just seemed to make him angrier. He also repeated like three times that he built this 500 person facebook group from NOTHING so I should be showing him RESPECT for that achievement.

Eventually I blocked him but this has preyed on my mind most of the day at this point.

I'm going to have to think of something elaborate.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on January 13, 2023, 03:07:41 PM
I am beginning to perceive a pattern, where people outside the STEM fields see AI as this revolutionary technology that is going to upend everything, while the people inside the STEM fields have an attitude more akin to "here's another tool for the toolbox; it will improve your productivity in some ways, and occasionally give you a terrible headache."

There was a similar dichotomy of attitudes when electronic microcomputers were becoming popular, but we didn't get a utopian paradise, nor did it take away everyone's jobs, or make us slaves to the machines.  Some jobs went away, some were created, some changed; but overall, we're still in perdition, just with some aspects running orders of magnitude faster.

I don't write academic papers, so automating that process does nothing for me.  However, I do occasionally read papers from electronic engineering academia, and in that context, my interest is whether or not the paper contains information I need to solve a problem.  The form of the paper affects its readability, but the underlying research is what determines its utility.

In its current incarnation, OpenAI is obviously and painfully incapable of producing academic papers of any value to me (see my travelling salesman example, above).  An AI that could synthesize existing papers together to produce novel conclusions might have use, but the results would have to have practical relevance.  There are an infinite number of true yet meaningless papers that it could construct, which means that someone who knew what they were doing would have to be presenting a problem space to perform the synthesis over, or sifting through the mud to find the gold nuggets.

An AI that could, on its own, determine what kinds of papers someone in industry would find useful, and then synthesize those (effectively, an autonomous research engine) would be verging into singularity territory, and that would be pretty cool.

Quote from: Suu (parody account) on January 13, 2023, 01:30:28 PM
Get ready for rocket scientists that drank their way through grad school getting jobs at NASA and SpaceX.

I thought all rocket scientists drank their way through grad school?

But in practical terms, AI isn't going to provide a vector for students to cheat their way to a degree, because practically everyone in the domain will know what the tools are capable of.
There will be periods of transition, to be sure, but the assignments will just change form.  Instead of "perform research X, and write a paper on it", it becomes "use RocketAI to model research X, and generate a paper from your results using PaperWriter-2.1".
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on January 13, 2023, 05:39:09 PM
The issue with AI in STEM is that, like I said, we already have near-automated paper factories in the form of total synthesis design and automated theorem provers. They're junk that does occasionally produce good stuff, but (for instance) a lot of total synthesis papers can't be replicated because it's all computer generated. Good STEM papers are pretty interchangeable as far as surface-level stuff goes, they translate readily between languages because they're practically standardized to hell and gone. I think when someone trains a model to receive input data and spit out a passable paper, they could lie about it and no one would even know.

I don't think it's going to work for students, like CNO said. I don't think third-rate students are going to be getting doctorates out of a future academics AI. I think you have to have someone who knows how to DO research, and present data. The people who will get doctorates out of it would have gotten them anyway. Either they can do the work and just automated the part they don't care about, or they were going to get nepotized in or buy their way to their scholarly ambitions already, and this was one way to make it less obvious and embarassing for everyone involved.

What I mean is that all of the WRITING part of putting out articles is not long for this world. And I think that's, to abuse some dead people, going to do more for a Thomas Edison than a Nikola Tesla, which isn't a good thing in my mind. It might incidentally have some good side effects, lots of the stuff with AI right now is left-field "wow, what the fuck?" surprises after all, but following the concepts as they exist to fruition looks grim.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on January 15, 2023, 06:02:47 AM
Quote from: Suu (parody account) on January 13, 2023, 12:46:03 AM
The redundancy annoys me.

Yeah, there's definitely a few "tells" that it is generated.

That said, I've found it a useful tool for quickly generating NPCs or even small plot ideas. On it's own it came up with the idea of a hidden Ayleid city (?) in the heart of the Clockwork City (??) which the factotums need to hire the PCs to get into because the defences prevent them from being able to breach it (???) because the Worm Cult (????) were trying to steal an artifact from it first.

Which is batshit, but you can definitely work with it. Correcting it and re-defining parameters and exclusions make it a great brainstorming tool.

I also made it give me a summary for an entirely made up 1890s period "techno-thriller" involving sabotage of the telegram system, which was fun.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on January 15, 2023, 01:28:48 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 15, 2023, 06:02:47 AM
Quote from: Suu (parody account) on January 13, 2023, 12:46:03 AM
The redundancy annoys me.

Yeah, there's definitely a few "tells" that it is generated.

That said, I've found it a useful tool for quickly generating NPCs or even small plot ideas. On it's own it came up with the idea of a hidden Ayleid city (?) in the heart of the Clockwork City (??) which the factotums need to hire the PCs to get into because the defences prevent them from being able to breach it (???) because the Worm Cult (????) were trying to steal an artifact from it first.

Which is batshit, but you can definitely work with it. Correcting it and re-defining parameters and exclusions make it a great brainstorming tool.

I also made it give me a summary for an entirely made up 1890s period "techno-thriller" involving sabotage of the telegram system, which was fun.

It may also turn out to be a worthwhile tool to help overcome writer's block. You stuck but have some ideas? Throw in some prompts and see what comes up.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on January 16, 2023, 01:11:10 PM
Definitely!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on January 18, 2023, 01:37:46 PM
So, word is they're now planning on sending tanks to Ukraine, and I says to myself, I says:  "Why not earlier?"  They've been doing the same kind of gradual ramping up in other ways, as well; HIMARS now, Patriots later.
And I can think of a few possible reasons:

1. Bureaucracy is slow.
2. They're worried that an an abrupt escalation will spook Pootin into going nuclear.
3. The object of the Powers that Be is not to break Russia quickly and abruptly with overwhelming force, but to bleed them out slowly, causing them much more damage in the long run.
4.  ...and on the opposite side of that coin, Ukrainians are the "good guys" right now, but maybe they don't want to assume that will continue indefinitely into the future.  Flooding Ukraine with modern weaponry has the risk of creating a new regional mini-superpower, and if we provide the weapons gradually enough, the accumulating damage to Ukraine's infrastructure will keep a lid on their future ambitions.

I tend to prefer the "Bureaucracy is slow" reason, because it's the simplest.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on January 18, 2023, 07:05:01 PM
Bureaucracy is indeed slow.

If anything from 2-4 is true, I'd put all my money on 4 just because of the lingering influence of that pigfucker Kissinger. 3 is strategically sound but doesn't build much support (and so is a bad move from a political standpoint), and 2 is more of a civilian-brain take on the situation (functionally, Putin is at the point where if he would ever press that button, when he does isn't really affected by NATO aid because all his shiny NBC warfare-equipped tanks are smoldering dumpsters on the Ukrainian border -- Russia can't fight very well in NBC conditions now, and NATO still can, for whatever that's worth).

But Kissinger put so much rhetorical energy into this two-superpowers idea. It's why everyone was/is talking scared about China forever, and why Japan was demonized in the 90s for being the technology hub of the globe, and why US policy in the Middle East is to repeatedly fuck every dog in sight. If there's any reason other than bureaucracy, its almost certainly that Kissinger's stink still has the frontal lobes of the US military entranced.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on January 21, 2023, 11:16:35 AM
The public statements are two, but I suspect 3 with an eye to 4 are also strong considerations. There's some...questionable sentiments on the eastern fringes of the EU (Hungary and Poland stand out) and a highly militarised Ukraine would not help those situations any.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Suu on January 23, 2023, 01:59:38 AM
And then there are days wherein after I break a toe and probably a metatarsal with it, I just go get a random tattoo out of a vending machine. The end.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on January 27, 2023, 07:37:29 PM
Not gonna lie, these past couple days have been brutal.

Basically everyone I know is now telling me to flee the country and as much as it goes against my nature I am having to give it real thought. This is not doing great things to my mental health.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on January 27, 2023, 09:45:47 PM
Be careful about choosing where you go, if you do. There's a lot of places that are a bad day from as bad off as or worse than the UK.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on January 28, 2023, 07:42:30 AM
Yeah, I've got no real idea. I don't have strong ties anywhere, and friends live in America (lol no) or Canada where the MAID stuff seems like a pretty huge red flag.

Housemate is trying to get over to the Netherlands, maybe that'll be the way to go.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 28, 2023, 05:42:47 PM
Netherlands is good. I know a guy who moved there, he loves it. Nobody gives a shit about other peoples business. As long as you're not fucking with people, throwing them in the canal or something, it's All Good.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on January 28, 2023, 06:31:37 PM
Quote from: Scribbly on January 28, 2023, 07:42:30 AM
[...] or Canada where the MAID stuff seems like a pretty huge red flag.
Why, what have you been hearing?

Domestically, there were reports that a Veteran's Affairs caseworker was inappropriately recommending MAID to certain veterans (the employee was fired as a result).  And making MAID available for persons suffering from mental disorders is controversial, to say the least.  But, I'm not sure if that should be a basis for deciding to immigrate or not.

Setting that aside, Canada's medical system is heavily overloaded right now, which might be a reason not to move here, especially if you're in less than perfect health.  It's almost impossible to find a GP in many areas, and there were recently two cases of women in Nova Scotia dying while waiting for treatment in emergency rooms.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on January 28, 2023, 09:21:46 PM
MAID is already, IIRC (and my memory is very bad), being suggested to people who can't meaningfully work. They can live rich and valuable lives, but they can't help produce capital, so why not die instead?

Even if I am remembering that wrong and it's not being wielded in the service of capitalist eugenics projects, the system is SET UP for it to be used as eugenics. Like I'm all for assisted suicide as a concept, but it has to be firmly a process FULLY in the control of the person who will die from it, from the beginning to the end. Right now, it's not. It's recommended to. It's signed off on.

So long as outside forces have the first OR the last say, it will always disproportionately have an impact on the people who ACTUALLY could be living well but no, fuck them, we don't want THOSE types.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on January 28, 2023, 09:29:42 PM
Also, starting in March, if I lived in Canada I'd be on the short-list of people who they'd like to just die already.

I have 198 other sentient beings in my head, most of whom would reject the word "people" and some of whom are, oh so scary, violently antisocial. Yeah, actually properly antisocial. (They don't want to hang in meatspace, it literally isn't a problem.) I'm also autistic and have BPD, so I'll never Be Normal and/or have fulfilling relationships with people who aren't as fucking insane as me.

I'm already treated like a fucking sideshow freak by half the people I meet just as a default setting, and doctors are fucking awful to their patients often enough that I wouldn't want any of those fuckers to even be able to say The Word to me unless I could dome them on the fucking spot.

Now imagine this LGBT fascist elimination project spreads over the border (and it ABSOLUTELY can, who remembers the stupid fucking trucker caravans) and some bright spark decides to reclassify LGBT identities as mental illness and boy howdy, Canada is overnight damn near Chechnya-bad for queers.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on January 29, 2023, 09:24:04 AM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on January 28, 2023, 06:31:37 PM
Quote from: Scribbly on January 28, 2023, 07:42:30 AM
[...] or Canada where the MAID stuff seems like a pretty huge red flag.
Why, what have you been hearing?

Domestically, there were reports that a Veteran's Affairs caseworker was inappropriately recommending MAID to certain veterans (the employee was fired as a result).  And making MAID available for persons suffering from mental disorders is controversial, to say the least.  But, I'm not sure if that should be a basis for deciding to immigrate or not.

Setting that aside, Canada's medical system is heavily overloaded right now, which might be a reason not to move here, especially if you're in less than perfect health.  It's almost impossible to find a GP in many areas, and there were recently two cases of women in Nova Scotia dying while waiting for treatment in emergency rooms.

Yeah. I heard what altered heard.

It's about direction of travel, you know? Ten years ago I thought things were going well here. I move somewhere that is engaging in eugenics and it turns out they decide to expand that over the next ten years and suddenly it includes me, well, gee, my face will be red.


ETA: this is part of why I'm not as sold on fleeing as... Everyone else in my life. Moving means sacrificing my resources and starting over. If I need to fight anywhere I go at least here I have something to start with.

Meeting up with more friends today to discuss this though. We'll see where we wind up.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on January 29, 2023, 04:34:30 PM
As it's currently structured, MAID doesn't seem to me to be particularly dangerous.  The patient can't be pressured into it, and must find their living conditions unbearable.

https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/medical-assistance-dying.html

Some snipped eligibility requirements:

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  • be at least 18 years old and mentally competent. This means being capable of making health care decisions for yourself.
  • have a serious illness, disease or disability (excluding a mental illness until March 17, 2023)
  • be in an advanced state of decline that cannot be reversed
  • experience unbearable physical or mental suffering from your illness, disease, disability or state of decline that cannot be relieved under conditions that you consider acceptable
  • make a voluntary request for MAID that is not the result of outside pressure or influence
  • give informed consent to receive MAID

Requirements for independent witnesses to the request:
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To be considered independent means that the witness cannot:

  • benefit from your death
  • be an owner or operator of a health care facility where you live or are receiving care
  • be an unpaid caregiver


Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on January 29, 2023, 04:38:18 PM
Quote from: Scribbly on January 29, 2023, 09:24:04 AM

It's about direction of travel, you know? Ten years ago I thought things were going well here. I move somewhere that is engaging in eugenics and it turns out they decide to expand that over the next ten years and suddenly it includes me, well, gee, my face will be red.

This may just be a point of terminology, but euthanasia and eugenics aren't the same thing.  If you want to accuse Canada of eugenics, look into our history of forced sterilizations.  Euthanasia is supposed to be humanitarian; eugenics never is.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on January 29, 2023, 04:39:25 PM
Have a look at those requirements through the lens of homelessness.

Then also imagine it through the pov of a trans person who is unable to receive healthcare if they also classify transness as a mental illness.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on January 29, 2023, 05:46:02 PM
Canada has this policy for people who are terminally ill, or some other condition that cannot be reversed but causes misery, such as advanced MS, etc.

I personally don't like it much for a bunch of reasons, but I hardly think it's targeting trans folk.  This is Trudeau and parliament, not Victor Orban.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on January 29, 2023, 05:49:34 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on January 28, 2023, 06:31:37 PM

Why, what have you been hearing?

If I didn't know these two so well, I'd assume that someone strapped them to a chair in front of a Tucker Carlson show (he has gone from screeching about this to "liberating Canada" in the last few days).

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Setting that aside, Canada's medical system is heavily overloaded right now, which might be a reason not to move here, especially if you're in less than perfect health.  It's almost impossible to find a GP in many areas, and there were recently two cases of women in Nova Scotia dying while waiting for treatment in emergency rooms.

That happens here all the time.  Your wait may be dictated by your ability to pay, even in the ER.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on January 29, 2023, 05:59:42 PM
Quote from: Scribbly on January 29, 2023, 04:39:25 PM
Have a look at those requirements through the lens of homelessness.

Then also imagine it through the pov of a trans person who is unable to receive healthcare if they also classify transness as a mental illness.
Sorry, I'm not getting it.

Homelessness isn't a disease.  If I were homeless, I'd be more worried about the police picking me up, and dumping me outside the city so I could freeze to death.  Emergency room staff suggesting I might be better off dead wouldn't be high on my list of concerns.

If someone doesn't qualify for healthcare, then they don't qualify for MAID, either.  Being cut off from healthcare because of being trans would seem to be a different problem.

The point of MAID is that severely and untreatably ill persons should be allowed to end their lives with the assistance of medical personnel, without said medical personnel being charged with murder.  I think extending that to include mental illness is a bit doubtful, but if someone doesn't qualify as mentally competent, they're not eligible, regardless.

Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on January 29, 2023, 06:05:14 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on January 29, 2023, 05:49:34 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on January 28, 2023, 06:31:37 PM

Why, what have you been hearing?

If I didn't know these two so well, I'd assume that someone strapped them to a chair in front of a Tucker Carlson show (he has gone from screeching about this to "liberating Canada" in the last few days).
Yeah, I was thinking this has the same vibe as the American rhetoric about how socialized health care leads to "DEATH PANELS".
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on January 29, 2023, 06:20:55 PM
It's mostly the people I know out there who raised this to me. Mental illness comes in from March I believe and there's a couple good rundowns of the poverty factors here:

https://globalnews.ca/news/9176485/poverty-canadians-disabilities-medically-assisted-death/

https://www.thedailybeast.com/canadas-health-care-woes-are-pushing-people-with-disabilities-toward-medically-assisted-death

It's not being weaponised against trans people specifically yet, but there's a lot of disabled advocates speaking up on it. It'd only effect me at the point I couldn't look after myself... But that also happens to be the point where I'd be out of other options.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on January 29, 2023, 06:29:15 PM
Quote from: Scribbly on January 29, 2023, 06:20:55 PM
It's mostly the people I know out there who raised this to me. Mental illness comes in from March I believe and there's a couple good rundowns of the poverty factors here:

https://globalnews.ca/news/9176485/poverty-canadians-disabilities-medically-assisted-death/

https://www.thedailybeast.com/canadas-health-care-woes-are-pushing-people-with-disabilities-toward-medically-assisted-death

It's not being weaponised against trans people specifically yet, but there's a lot of disabled advocates speaking up on it. It'd only effect me at the point I couldn't look after myself... But that also happens to be the point where I'd be out of other options.

You of course realize those are both right wing rags, right?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on January 29, 2023, 06:31:21 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on January 29, 2023, 06:05:14 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on January 29, 2023, 05:49:34 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on January 28, 2023, 06:31:37 PM

Why, what have you been hearing?

If I didn't know these two so well, I'd assume that someone strapped them to a chair in front of a Tucker Carlson show (he has gone from screeching about this to "liberating Canada" in the last few days).
Yeah, I was thinking this has the same vibe as the American rhetoric about how socialized health care leads to "DEATH PANELS".

The remaining Koch brother and shitbags like Tucker Carlson and the Fox News daytime programs have put a lot of effort into this exact subject.

If you listen to them, Canada is opening death camps to dispose of unemployed people, elderly people, the mentally ill, and LGBT folks.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on January 29, 2023, 06:37:57 PM
I don't know about Global News to be fair, but I don't think the bias outweighs the quotes from advocates. Even if we assume the people interviewed are lying, and there's a lot of them beyond those two articles, disability advocate groups do seem fairly united in their criticism from what I can see?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on January 29, 2023, 06:56:59 PM
Quote from: Scribbly on January 29, 2023, 06:37:57 PM
I don't know about Global News to be fair, but I don't think the bias outweighs the quotes from advocates. Even if we assume the people interviewed are lying, and there's a lot of them beyond those two articles, disability advocate groups do seem fairly united in their criticism from what I can see?

Have you looked at the actual text of the law as it is and the proposed expansion?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on January 29, 2023, 07:01:29 PM
Yeah, I mean the bit quoted ITT seems plainly easy to justify it in a case where a condition would be exacerbated by poverty to me?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on January 29, 2023, 07:30:21 PM
https://parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/43-2/bill/C-7/royal-assent

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SUMMARY

This enactment amends the Criminal Code to, among other things,

(a) repeal the provision that requires a person's natural death be reasonably foreseeable in order for them to be eligible for medical assistance in dying;

(b) specify that persons whose sole underlying medical condition is a mental illness are not eligible for medical assistance in dying;

(c) create two sets of safeguards that must be respected before medical assistance in dying may be provided to a person, the application of which depends on whether the person's natural death is reasonably foreseeable;

(d) permit medical assistance in dying to be provided to a person who has been found eligible to receive it, whose natural death is reasonably foreseeable and who has lost the capacity to consent before medical assistance in dying is provided, on the basis of a prior agreement they entered into with the medical practitioner or nurse practitioner; and

(e) permit medical assistance in dying to be provided to a person who has lost the capacity to consent to it as a result of the self-administration of a substance that was provided to them under the provisions governing medical assistance in dying in order to cause their own death.

Further down, it specifies conditions that eliminate involuntary termination, and institutes penalties for medical personnel that violate the bill.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on January 29, 2023, 08:28:50 PM
My argument is basically this:

If you're crazy, disabled but not seriously (say, an unmedicatible sleep disorder) and chronically homeless, and you're depressed unto suicide only because of how you basically cannot survive without access to social safety nets and maybe (like me) the last of those has ejected you, right? Like, let's start with "basically Altered".

You can't be coerced, but maybe your healthcare provider mentions it as an option. Right?

Then take someone who is basically all the above, but they have social safety net access still and, let's see, they're a cis dude. And maybe the provider doesn't mention it as an option.

The basically-me ends up at least CONSIDERING it, the other guy might not even realize it's an option, depending how much of a hermit he is.

Because doctors are even allowed to bring it up unprompted, it creates an imbalance that is able to be put to the use of eugenics. A shitty doctor could get away with soft-balling the option at patients they think Aren't Good Enough and maybe being reluctant to patients they see as Their Kind, forever. And maybe you have 90% of the people it's brought up to say no -- you still have a 10% imbalance aimed at the targets of doctoral bigotry. And bigotry isn't uniform, it doesn't fall everywhere equally. In Canada especially, that's going to come down on indigenous people hard.

Now, for the trans thing.

It's not that it IS targeting trans people. It's that there is a concerted effort to normalize calling LGBT identities mental illness in the US, and Canada (much as they would like to believe otherwise) seems to have a bad habit of picking up our right-wing crazy lately. So this goes through in March, and then the bigots find a way to push LGBT identity onto mental illness lists. And now LGBT people who are vulnerable (which is more common there then in the general population) have doctors recommending MAID to them. Again, say 90% say no -- that's, again, still a 10% imbalance and a SIGNIFICANT impact to the self-worth of the survivors. It still averages out to eugenics.

MAID could be implemented in a way where the patient has to request the information first. That would be much better than this, because this is inevitably subject to societal biases.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on January 29, 2023, 08:39:16 PM
And FTR, the "cis guy has social safety net access still, so he's got better chances" thing correlates to identity. It's not a confounding factor, it's directly connected.

I'm in hell because I'm queer and crazy, not because of sheer dumb luck. I'm like this because society has the freedom to fuck me over however they please and what am I gonna do? I'm a crazy homeless person ranting about the gubmint hates them and is ruining their life, there's thousands more like me in just my zip code, who the fuck cares?

Queer people have a higher suicide rate than the general population. They're more likely to experience homelessness, predation and violence. They are more disabled than average because of bigotry, including bigotry in healthcare. They, in short, get fucked up. The identity and the horror are connected.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on January 29, 2023, 08:43:59 PM
Oh, and last thing: when you remember that if you're poor enough there is basically no recourse for you because where the fuck are you gonna find the money for a lawyer, it suddenly becomes a lot more likely for doctors to just straight up break the rules. They've done it to me. Multiple times after explaining my medical history, I have been told "That is literally illegal," by qualified professionals who would know, and they're probably right. But what can I do about it? I beg for grocery money on Twitter, talking to a legal professional just isn't happening.

So do keep in mind that some doctors will absolutely coerce their vulnerable patients even though it's against the rules, because there is basically no chance anyone cares even if they get caught.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on January 29, 2023, 10:58:28 PM
Sounds like hysteria, and heres why: A doctor potentially ending their high paid, lucrative career just to suggest euthanasia to vulnerable people is the stretch, its not realistic.

They problem is as you describe, they don't care about you, they wont offer the real support any more then they would offer the most visible and highly scrutinised option.
My experience is and has always been: doctors will offer you the easiest option FOR THEM, the golden rule of medicine is not "first do no  harm" it is "first, cover your ass"
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on January 29, 2023, 11:33:02 PM
As I said, a lot of it is about direction of travel.

It is possible that I'm being paranoid.

But the past few years have reinforced over and over again that I ought to expect the worst. May well be causing a bias in my view and making me too sensitive. From this article https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/18/canada-medically-assisted-death-delay it looks like the mental illness criteria has been delayed (though I can't see where it has been delayed to and I can't find another source but the Guardian) so that's positive. But my instinct is still to listen to the disability advocates who are saying "Look, they put us in situations where we can't afford care and life becomes torture and then they tell us we can choose death". Because that seems like exactly the sort of thing states are incentivised to do; we do similar things here in the UK all the time, the difference is that in the UK I'm lucky enough to have a support network which means I'm unlikely to wind up in that position myself. I still wouldn't move to the UK from outside it, especially without a support network here already.

Circling back to the original point, though, after today's meetup it looks like friends are looking at Ireland, Netherlands, Finland and Scotland (though... I think Scotland is optimistic personally). But they've got preexisting links to those places that make it easier to get out there. I got nothing, so if I am going to just run away, I ought to at least try and pick the best possible place. Wherever the hell that might be. I need to do a lot more research on that question.

(Technically I could probably work towards relocating to Scotland via work - but I'm really not as sold that Scotland would be significantly better if things progress in the way I expect)

Nobody that I've spoken to is planning to stick around, though. So if I do stay I also need more new friends or I'm going to be very lonely in a couple of years.
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Post by: altered on January 30, 2023, 01:40:10 AM
Quote from: Faust on January 29, 2023, 10:58:28 PM
Sounds like hysteria, and heres why: A doctor potentially ending their high paid, lucrative career just to suggest euthanasia to vulnerable people is the stretch, its not realistic.

They problem is as you describe, they don't care about you, they wont offer the real support any more then they would offer the most visible and highly scrutinised option.
My experience is and has always been: doctors will offer you the easiest option FOR THEM, the golden rule of medicine is not "first do no  harm" it is "first, cover your ass"

And as I said in that very post, my experience is that "plenty of doctors will break the law because they know you can't do shit". I'm not alone, either, I know lots of people have stories like this. Very common amongst disabled AFAB people, because, funny enough, doctors think they're being "hysterical". And medical racism is so common that they have quantified the average amount that doctors undermedicate Black patients for pain. Almost never are there consequences for any of this. One of the more gruesome cases is that of Tyra Hunter. The ER staff who mocked her while she died in front of them were never even disciplined. And this one was, in part, transphobia, so it's real close to home for me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Tyra_Hunter

Is it hysteria if it's already happening? In fact, evidence suggests that it happens all the goddamn time, just like cops shooting Black people in the street and walking free.
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Post by: Faust on January 30, 2023, 07:32:01 AM
Quote from: altered on January 30, 2023, 01:40:10 AM
Quote from: Faust on January 29, 2023, 10:58:28 PM
Sounds like hysteria, and heres why: A doctor potentially ending their high paid, lucrative career just to suggest euthanasia to vulnerable people is the stretch, its not realistic.

They problem is as you describe, they don't care about you, they wont offer the real support any more then they would offer the most visible and highly scrutinised option.
My experience is and has always been: doctors will offer you the easiest option FOR THEM, the golden rule of medicine is not "first do no  harm" it is "first, cover your ass"

And as I said in that very post, my experience is that "plenty of doctors will break the law because they know you can't do shit". I'm not alone, either, I know lots of people have stories like this. Very common amongst disabled AFAB people, because, funny enough, doctors think they're being "hysterical". And medical racism is so common that they have quantified the average amount that doctors undermedicate Black patients for pain. Almost never are there consequences for any of this. One of the more gruesome cases is that of Tyra Hunter. The ER staff who mocked her while she died in front of them were never even disciplined. And this one was, in part, transphobia, so it's real close to home for me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Tyra_Hunter

Is it hysteria if it's already happening? In fact, evidence suggests that it happens all the goddamn time, just like cops shooting Black people in the street and walking free.
Ok yes, there is a big difference between American medicine, and other counties. Elsewhere Doctors are routinely struck off or can't get insured due to complaints or law suits that drove up their premium.
This has has a cooling effect where doctors do the minimum and often miss out on real issues as they won't do anything more invasive than an xray for fear it puts them out of the job, basically a patient needs to demand things like CTs ect off their own bat
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Post by: Faust on January 30, 2023, 08:16:23 AM
I do routinely forget that the US gave syphilis to Black people just to see what would happen.
Abusee happened everywhere as late as the 60s, however most other countries went in the other direction and added accountability while the US seems to double down instead
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Post by: Scribbly on January 30, 2023, 08:52:03 AM
Quote from: Faust on January 30, 2023, 07:32:01 AM
Quote from: altered on January 30, 2023, 01:40:10 AM
Quote from: Faust on January 29, 2023, 10:58:28 PM
Sounds like hysteria, and heres why: A doctor potentially ending their high paid, lucrative career just to suggest euthanasia to vulnerable people is the stretch, its not realistic.

They problem is as you describe, they don't care about you, they wont offer the real support any more then they would offer the most visible and highly scrutinised option.
My experience is and has always been: doctors will offer you the easiest option FOR THEM, the golden rule of medicine is not "first do no  harm" it is "first, cover your ass"

And as I said in that very post, my experience is that "plenty of doctors will break the law because they know you can't do shit". I'm not alone, either, I know lots of people have stories like this. Very common amongst disabled AFAB people, because, funny enough, doctors think they're being "hysterical". And medical racism is so common that they have quantified the average amount that doctors undermedicate Black patients for pain. Almost never are there consequences for any of this. One of the more gruesome cases is that of Tyra Hunter. The ER staff who mocked her while she died in front of them were never even disciplined. And this one was, in part, transphobia, so it's real close to home for me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Tyra_Hunter

Is it hysteria if it's already happening? In fact, evidence suggests that it happens all the goddamn time, just like cops shooting Black people in the street and walking free.
Ok yes, there is a big difference between American medicine, and other counties. Elsewhere Doctors are routinely struck off or can't get insured due to complaints or law suits that drove up their premium.
This has has a cooling effect where doctors do the minimum and often miss out on real issues as they won't do anything more invasive than an xray for fear it puts them out of the job, basically a patient needs to demand things like CTs ect off their own bat

I can't speak to Canada, which was the original subject, but it's not a uniquely American problem at all. UK healthcare has replicated the exact same problems as regards racism and transphobia in a big way. I haven't investigated every medical system in the world, obviously, but my impression is that this is near enough universal. By its nature medical care puts people in a position of authority, where those people are bigots they will exercise that power, and systems of accountability tend not to work great when you are dealing with marginalised people as a general rule.

I'm honestly a little surprised the general consensus here seems to have so much faith in these systems of accountability - there's absolutely nothing about my experiences with any of these systems which makes me think they are working well. It's possible I'm predisposed to see the worst, but equally you guys seem to think that when you make complaints they will be listened to and acted upon. That has not been my experience whatsoever.

Generally making complaints to authority has led to me having more problems, not fewer.
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Post by: Faust on January 30, 2023, 09:42:28 AM
When I was living in the UK I saw the NHS is an unwieldy machine that  is a black hole for accountability: patients dropped of lists, never notified of specific dates for treatment, and as such missed, but these looked like major incompetence rather than maliciousness. In terms of racism it manifests in a weird way:
I never once saw a native UK doctor, instead it was majority Indian, Pakistani, Nigerian etc, they were all excellent but bring their own cultural bais to the job. A lot in Indian doctors come from very wealthy families accustomed to the caste system and can be dismissive of problems for poor/ homeless etc.  That said I was in Essex and I know this varies hugely depending on where you are.

The only overt racism I experienced was for being Irish from the secretary on the desk, who openly said I was only in the UK to "use the free NHS"

In Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands etc, it is much much easier for doctors to be struck off or sued into oblivion, so much so that in Ireland it has created a paralysis where doctors will go out of their way to do the minimum possible for the patient, which for obvious reasons creates its own problems.
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Post by: Scribbly on January 30, 2023, 09:51:46 AM
I'm afraid if you think bigotry isn't a problem in UK healthcare you are just wrong.

Quote'While there has been a small drop in the maternal mortality rate for Black women in recent MBRRACE reports, this bleak picture has not changed in over a decade. We remain deeply concerned that Black and Brown people's basic human rights to safety, dignity and equality in pregnancy and childbirth are not being protected, respected or upheld.

https://www.birthrights.org.uk/2021/11/11/new-mbrrace-report-shows-black-women-still-four-times-more-likely-to-die-in-pregnancy-and-childbirth/

This is also a fairly impressive deep dive on complaining about trans healthcare in the UK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1eWIshUzr8&t=5s

Abigail has massive privilege in a bunch of ways. She's fairly wealthy, she's white, she's pretty, and she has the free time to take the complaint beyond the normal process because she works for herself so she could afford to spend hours upon hours chasing people down, demanding meetings, etc.

The system is still as the system is and there is no sign it is going to change for the better. They are doubling down on the issues in the current system instead.

There's a lot more on ableism within medical institutions as well, I have seen some real horrible reactions to mental health particularly, but tbh I think that's enough to be going on with. If you haven't encountered these situations that's great; I promise you, they exist and the systems you are supposed to use to hold them accountable simply do not function. If you do complain, you're the troublemaker. Maybe you can hope you are used as a warning to the NHS when you die (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/may/27/rise-in-coroner-warnings-nhs-patient-deaths-tory-austerity-labour), but y'know, that's not much comfort.
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Post by: Faust on January 30, 2023, 10:40:18 AM
I'm not saying it doesnt exist, I agreed that the UK system lacks accountability, the UK system is crumbling, but its a multi variable problem: being deliberately run down by the Tories over decades in an attempt to justify privatization, lack of staffing, massive demand on the system, and yes to top it off a healthy dose of bias can make it extra dangerous to specific groups, but the problems for everyone using it.
The NHS in Europe is not the norm, it is also the only fully public body which gives rise to a lot of the issues on accountability.

Holding the US (a failed nation and dystopia) and the UK (a crumbling moneypit) up as examples of why Canada is running death programs to target homeless, trans, mentally ill people is daft.
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Post by: Scribbly on January 30, 2023, 10:44:54 AM
Yeah okay that's definitely what I've been saying this whole time you got me
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Post by: Faust on January 30, 2023, 10:49:30 AM
I'm not putting words in your mouth but the discussion did start in the context of Canada in regards to canadas medically assisted dying held up as a convenient way to get rid of 'themuns.

I have no doubt the US systems and UK have issues for Trans or mental disability patients and is on a downward trajectory: that is fact, the above, specifically regarding canada is dubious
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Post by: altered on January 30, 2023, 07:15:26 PM
No, that's a misreading. My point is that it could be used that way and nothing in the system uniquely prevents it from going the route of the USA. In fact, I specifically pointed out that Canada is picking up a lot of US right wing crazy lately, and even gave examples.

I said on multiple occasions that it probably isn't being used that way yet. I showed how it could be, pointed out that medical professionals have a history of acting with impunity to vulnerable people, pointed out Canada already gets rid of "themuns" (indigenous people, specifically) in much the same way the USA does to Black people, and pointed out that Canada is not somehow uniquely culturally immune to being awful, or at least that if it does that immunity is waning.

It's not about There Is Definitely Active Genocide In Canada Aimed At Trans People. It's about Canada has been genociding its indigenous people without so much as a fucking "huh whats up with this" for decades, it's getting infected with USA far-right conspiracy madness, and the system has a tool that can be used to beat the minorities to death with.

It is, in short, about RISK FACTORS. Which I think I've shown are pretty fucking reasonable in this instance, fucking thank you.
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Post by: Scribbly on January 30, 2023, 07:37:58 PM
Quote from: altered on January 30, 2023, 07:15:26 PM
No, that's a misreading. My point is that it could be used that way and nothing in the system uniquely prevents it from going the route of the USA. In fact, I specifically pointed out that Canada is picking up a lot of US right wing crazy lately, and even gave examples.

I said on multiple occasions that it probably isn't being used that way yet. I showed how it could be, pointed out that medical professionals have a history of acting with impunity to vulnerable people, pointed out Canada already gets rid of "themuns" (indigenous people, specifically) in much the same way the USA does to Black people, and pointed out that Canada is not somehow uniquely culturally immune to being awful, or at least that if it does that immunity is waning.

It's not about There Is Definitely Active Genocide In Canada Aimed At Trans People. It's about Canada has been genociding its indigenous people without so much as a fucking "huh whats up with this" for decades, it's getting infected with USA far-right conspiracy madness, and the system has a tool that can be used to beat the minorities to death with.

It is, in short, about RISK FACTORS. Which I think I've shown are pretty fucking reasonable in this instance, fucking thank you.

I thought we were both being pretty clear about this but apparently not.
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Post by: altered on January 30, 2023, 07:53:56 PM
Quote from: Faust on January 30, 2023, 10:49:30 AM
I have no doubt the US systems and UK have issues for Trans or mental disability patients and is on a downward trajectory: that is fact

Also, while I have it in mind; here you just named the two largest exporters of culture to Canada, US through cultural hegemony and UK through Commonwealth stuff.
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Post by: Faust on January 30, 2023, 07:57:56 PM
Apologies yeah I was reading a more reactionary take on it,Canada is gradually becoming more and more right wing and yes did wipe out the indigenous people. In some ways they have even been worse than the US in confronting thier history on that.

There would be a number of things would need to break in their medical system to ever arrive at that hypothetical outcome, but it's not impossible given enough time for it to be abused that way, though I couldn't see it any time soon based on the medical malpractice suit culture it shares with other countries
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Post by: Doktor Howl on January 30, 2023, 08:12:00 PM
Quote from: Faust on January 30, 2023, 07:57:56 PM
Apologies yeah I was reading a more reactionary take on it,Canada is gradually becoming more and more right wing and yes did wipe out the indigenous people. In some ways they have even been worse than the US in confronting thier history on that.
Gonna argue that.  Most Americans still believe the Native Americans were finally happy when we put them on reservations.

Canada took a long time to examine what they've done, but afterwards don't seem to try to excuse it.
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Post by: Faust on January 30, 2023, 08:20:34 PM
Fair, wasnt it was only in the last 5 years they acknowledged the schools taking native American kids, changing their names and completely hiding their heritage, not to mention lots and lots of them died. But they have taken an official stance on that now accepting wrongdoing (as long as there is absolutely no talk of reparation)
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Post by: chaotic neutral observer on January 30, 2023, 08:23:46 PM
Quote from: Faust on January 30, 2023, 07:57:56 PM
Apologies yeah I was reading a more reactionary take on it,Canada is gradually becoming more and more right wing and yes did wipe out the indigenous people.
Not to whitewash the atrocities committed, or anything, but there are 1.8 million indigenous living in Canada, about 5% of the population.  Their cultural history has been decimated, but they haven't been wiped out.


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[...]  though I couldn't see it any time soon based on the medical malpractice suit culture it shares with other countries

I'm not sure where you got that from.  Canada's rate of medical malpractice lawsuits is a fraction of the US, and the payouts are much lower.  We have more in common with Europe.  Who are you comparing us to?
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Post by: chaotic neutral observer on January 30, 2023, 08:27:25 PM
Quote from: Faust on January 30, 2023, 08:20:34 PM
Fair, wasnt it was only in the last 5 years they acknowledged the schools taking native American kids, changing their names and completely hiding their heritage, not to mention lots and lots of them died. But they have taken an official stance on that now accepting wrongdoing (as long as there is absolutely no talk of reparation)
What on earth are you talking about?  Survivors of residential schools have been eligible for reparation payments since 2007.  Are you just making shit up, or did you read this in some British tabloid?
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Post by: Faust on January 30, 2023, 08:32:08 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on January 30, 2023, 08:23:46 PM
Quote from: Faust on January 30, 2023, 07:57:56 PM
Apologies yeah I was reading a more reactionary take on it,Canada is gradually becoming more and more right wing and yes did wipe out the indigenous people.
Not to whitewash the atrocities committed, or anything, but there are 1.8 million indigenous living in Canada, about 5% of the population.  Their cultural history has been decimated, but they haven't been wiped out.


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[...]  though I couldn't see it any time soon based on the medical malpractice suit culture it shares with other countries

I'm not sure where you got that from.  Canada's rate of medical malpractice lawsuits is a fraction of the US, and the payouts are much lower.  We have more in common with Europe.  Who are you comparing us to?
I knew the indigenous people had a small group but five percent is way higher and better then I expected.

To clarify the pocess for a doctor to lose their licence or be uninsurable in Canada is one to two cases which is in line with most European countries, it results in doctors erring on the side of caution, and hesitating or simply referring people to the emergency services to pass the buck. It results in better accountability but much more feet dragging
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Post by: Faust on January 30, 2023, 08:38:45 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on January 30, 2023, 08:27:25 PM
Quote from: Faust on January 30, 2023, 08:20:34 PM
Fair, wasnt it was only in the last 5 years they acknowledged the schools taking native American kids, changing their names and completely hiding their heritage, not to mention lots and lots of them died. But they have taken an official stance on that now accepting wrongdoing (as long as there is absolutely no talk of reparation)
What on earth are you talking about?  Survivors of residential schools have been eligible for reparation payments since 2007.  Are you just making shit up, or did you read this in some British tabloid?
Why would I read a British Tabloid? I was reading this last week, has there been a scheme for redress available before it?

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/1/22/canada-to-pay-indigenous-more-than-2bn-over-residential-schools

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Post by: chaotic neutral observer on January 30, 2023, 09:00:08 PM
Quote from: Faust on January 30, 2023, 08:38:45 PM
Why would I read a British Tabloid? I was reading this last week, has there been a scheme for redress available before it?

That's what I just said.  There was a settlement agreement in 2007.  https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1100100015576/1571581687074
The then-prime minister issued an apology in 2008, not this "5 years ago" you guessed at.

This isn't some new thing that suddenly showed up last week.
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Post by: hooplala on January 30, 2023, 09:06:17 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on January 29, 2023, 05:49:34 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on January 28, 2023, 06:31:37 PM

Why, what have you been hearing?

If I didn't know these two so well, I'd assume that someone strapped them to a chair in front of a Tucker Carlson show (he has gone from screeching about this to "liberating Canada" in the last few days).

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Setting that aside, Canada's medical system is heavily overloaded right now, which might be a reason not to move here, especially if you're in less than perfect health.  It's almost impossible to find a GP in many areas, and there were recently two cases of women in Nova Scotia dying while waiting for treatment in emergency rooms.

That happens here all the time.  Your wait may be dictated by your ability to pay, even in the ER.

Boy howdy. Sounds like Canada is the new Tucson.
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Post by: hooplala on January 30, 2023, 09:17:32 PM
I know a fair amount of indigenous people from the Kettle Point reservation, but never heard a single one ever mention receiving any reparation payments... maybe they just don't talk about it to me, since... you know. But some of the houses there sure don't look like they are getting much from the government.
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Post by: Faust on January 30, 2023, 09:22:59 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on January 30, 2023, 09:00:08 PM
Quote from: Faust on January 30, 2023, 08:38:45 PM
Why would I read a British Tabloid? I was reading this last week, has there been a scheme for redress available before it?


That's what I just said.  There was a settlement agreement in 2007.  https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1100100015576/1571581687074
The then-prime minister issued an apology in 2008, not this "5 years ago" you guessed at.

This isn't some new thing that suddenly showed up last week.
I wasn't aware of the earlier settlment, the article I linked is about the Canadian government settling its lawsuit and for what looks like a lot more then the 27 million they did previously.
2bn as of last week, its why I mentioned it, it was recently I saw it
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Post by: chaotic neutral observer on January 30, 2023, 09:38:44 PM
Quote from: hooplala on January 30, 2023, 09:17:32 PM
I know a fair amount of indigenous people from the Kettle Point reservation, but never heard a single one ever mention receiving any reparation payments... maybe they just don't talk about it to me, since... you know. But some of the houses there sure don't look like they are getting much from the government.
Those are the "Common Experience Payments" in the link I posted.  I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't enough to noticeably improve conditions for the recipients; I was just snapping back at Faust's "as long as there is absolutely no talk of reparation" comment.

There are plenty of real criticisms to be levied at Canada's treatment of the indigenous, without making up new ones.
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Post by: hooplala on January 30, 2023, 09:50:10 PM
True enough.
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Post by: Faust on January 30, 2023, 09:53:26 PM
Making up new ones? I wasn't going to labour this but from my perspective it looks like the Canadian government gave a pittance of 27 million to the entire remaining population of the survivors of cultural and literal ethnic cleansing.
This being such an inexcusable low figure, that the indigenous people sued them for what they deserved and finally won 2 Billion out of the gov, which is less then what they should have received in the first place. And this wrapped up: last week
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Post by: chaotic neutral observer on January 30, 2023, 10:49:55 PM
Your specific claims have been that the indigenous were wiped out; that wrongdoing wasn't acknowledged until five years ago; and that the apology was disjoint from any attempt at reparation, adequate or otherwise.

Those claims were false.
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Post by: Faust on January 30, 2023, 11:07:47 PM
You are splitting hairs, the indigenous peoples were decimated, and the survivors faced ethnic cleansing where their culture was taken from them.
If you want to argue the language used: They were wiped out, they just weren't fully extinguished and as I already said, I was unaware of any previous reparations until the case the government settled last week, which they obviously fought tooth and against if the original amount was as you listed in 2007 and the real settlment this year,  I was basing that off news however I assuned around five years I didnt think that the process could have dragged on that long so you have me there

The bottom line is the Canadian government made a wholly inadequate token gesture and then had to be forced via legal means to meet its obligation, which I saw as a recent development based on the news story from last week.

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Post by: chaotic neutral observer on January 31, 2023, 12:14:55 AM
Quote from: Faust on January 30, 2023, 11:07:47 PM
They were wiped out, they just weren't fully extinguished
After you first said they were wiped out, you were surprised when when I told you the real population numbers.  But now you're doubling down, and pretending that "wiped out" means something other than "destroyed completely".  Or does "wiped out" have a different connotation in your dialect of English?  Maybe next time say "the population was devastated" instead.

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I was unaware of any previous reparations
Speaking of matters of which you are unaware would seem to be a problem.

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I didnt think that the process could have dragged on that long so you have me there
Well, at least you admit to being in error in two out of three cases.

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The bottom line is the Canadian government made a wholly inadequate token gesture and then had to be forced via legal means to meet its obligation, which I saw as a recent development based on the news story from last week.
That is arguably true.  Perhaps you understand why this is a sensitive issue domestically, and why misinformation might provoke a reaction?
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Post by: Doktor Howl on January 31, 2023, 03:20:17 AM
It suddenly feels like PD is alive again.   :lulz:
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Post by: altered on January 31, 2023, 03:45:38 AM
I can kill it again.

But I won't, because I'm lazy and we deserve the hell we've made ourselves.
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Post by: Faust on January 31, 2023, 09:19:01 AM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on January 31, 2023, 12:14:55 AM
Quote from: Faust on January 30, 2023, 11:07:47 PM
They were wiped out, they just weren't fully extinguished
After you first said they were wiped out, you were surprised when when I told you the real population numbers.  But now you're doubling down, and pretending that "wiped out" means something other than "destroyed completely".  Or does "wiped out" have a different connotation in your dialect of English?  Maybe next time say "the population was devastated" instead.

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I was unaware of any previous reparations
Speaking of matters of which you are unaware would seem to be a problem.

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I didnt think that the process could have dragged on that long so you have me there
Well, at least you admit to being in error in two out of three cases.

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The bottom line is the Canadian government made a wholly inadequate token gesture and then had to be forced via legal means to meet its obligation, which I saw as a recent development based on the news story from last week.
That is arguably true.  Perhaps you understand why this is a sensitive issue domestically, and why misinformation might provoke a reaction?

You are right, I was wrong, this requires the record be set straight, an apology and some reparations

Yesterday we (a sleep deprived 40 year old who read a relevant news article recently) reported some information in error and wish to correct the record, we are happy to do so.

We stated that the colonizers of Canada wiped out all of the indigenous peoples. We would like to amend this statement to say
they eliminated merely most of them.

It was also stated that the Government of Canada had failed to address their role and history in these atrocities and had offered no restitution to the survivors of their atrocities.
This was false. The Canadanian Government has in fact offered an inexpensive apology and an insultingly low restitution of 27 Million in 2007 to be divided up amongst the 5% of their population who suffered under the systematic cultural and literal elimination of their peoples, before immediately embarking on a prolonged legal battle to avoid having to make any kind of realistic restitution which they grudgingly settled, some 16 years later.

We apologize for any misleading information above and offer 23c to be divided up amongst all those negatively impacted by these statements provided you can get it out of us in court.
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Post by: Faust on January 31, 2023, 09:19:28 AM
Quote from: altered on January 31, 2023, 03:45:38 AM
I can kill it again.

But I won't, because I'm lazy and we deserve the hell we've made ourselves.
Anyone can kill PD, a slight breeze could kill PD. Its amazing the server is still online, we can only assume the truck in kazakstan it is sitting on still has it powered on while they examine the hard drive for any bitcoin Trix might have once stored there.
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Post by: Alfred Little Moon Cx3 on January 31, 2023, 12:26:58 PM
bitcoin more volatile than Rogers underwear drawer
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Post by: hooplala on January 31, 2023, 04:54:57 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on January 31, 2023, 03:20:17 AM
It suddenly feels like PD is alive again.   :lulz:

Let's invite IANAR, Poptart, and the Outlandish One back for some real sidesplitting laughs
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on January 31, 2023, 05:57:42 PM
Quote from: Faust on January 31, 2023, 09:19:28 AM
Quote from: altered on January 31, 2023, 03:45:38 AM
I can kill it again.

But I won't, because I'm lazy and we deserve the hell we've made ourselves.
Anyone can kill PD, a slight breeze could kill PD. Its amazing the server is still online, we can only assume the truck in kazakstan it is sitting on still has it powered on while they examine the hard drive for any bitcoin Trix might have once stored there.

I mean, yeah. It's just more impressive if I act like I'm special.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on January 31, 2023, 06:46:25 PM
Quote from: Faust on January 31, 2023, 09:19:01 AM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on January 31, 2023, 12:14:55 AM
Quote from: Faust on January 30, 2023, 11:07:47 PM
They were wiped out, they just weren't fully extinguished
After you first said they were wiped out, you were surprised when when I told you the real population numbers.  But now you're doubling down, and pretending that "wiped out" means something other than "destroyed completely".  Or does "wiped out" have a different connotation in your dialect of English?  Maybe next time say "the population was devastated" instead.

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I was unaware of any previous reparations
Speaking of matters of which you are unaware would seem to be a problem.

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I didnt think that the process could have dragged on that long so you have me there
Well, at least you admit to being in error in two out of three cases.

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The bottom line is the Canadian government made a wholly inadequate token gesture and then had to be forced via legal means to meet its obligation, which I saw as a recent development based on the news story from last week.
That is arguably true.  Perhaps you understand why this is a sensitive issue domestically, and why misinformation might provoke a reaction?

You are right, I was wrong, this requires the record be set straight, an apology and some reparations

Yesterday we (a sleep deprived 40 year old who read a relevant news article recently) reported some information in error and wish to correct the record, we are happy to do so.

We stated that the colonizers of Canada wiped out all of the indigenous peoples. We would like to amend this statement to say
they eliminated merely most of them.

It was also stated that the Government of Canada had failed to address their role and history in these atrocities and had offered no restitution to the survivors of their atrocities.
This was false. The Canadanian Government has in fact offered an inexpensive apology and an insultingly low restitution of 27 Million in 2007 to be divided up amongst the 5% of their population who suffered under the systematic cultural and literal elimination of their peoples, before immediately embarking on a prolonged legal battle to avoid having to make any kind of realistic restitution which they grudgingly settled, some 16 years later.

We apologize for any misleading information above and offer 23c to be divided up amongst all those negatively impacted by these statements provided you can get it out of us in court.

You wont get any New York Times columns with writing like that.

You have to say something like "enduring native resentment over interactions with colonisers that result in fatal gun discharge" or something.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on February 01, 2023, 04:26:35 AM
Suu,

Byzantine history is not something that was heavily covered by my schooling, in any sense. I say this so you can understand where I am coming from.

I have discovered Procopius's Anecdota. And I have questions. Many, many questions.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on February 04, 2023, 02:27:14 AM
Quote from: altered on January 12, 2023, 05:46:55 PM
A couple hours of work was put into this data visualization shit, trying to hand-build a map again. The idea was, if I just find a set of equations to plug numbers into, I can shut up and calculate everything. I knew one of the hazards of this would be a lot of blank space, but NOTHING prepared me for this bullshit.

Behold: ONE subsystem. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1002305555207041065/1063126320491528293/FmR9ZJNXwAEzNGw.png

How many do we have? Why, 7! 8 if you count the exoselves and 9 if you count the Pathways. Kill me. I crave release.

Of those very tiny circles in the group of seven, one reads "Dulug-3". Another reads "Adrusu". Can you tell which goes where? This is, admittedly, heavily zoomed out, but the zoom was needed to have any fucking hope of showing the whole thing. Why? 10000 pixels wide. It's impossible to make this usable as a reference to this fucking system.

So I'm down to trying to figure out how to make something interactive, because if it ain't interactive it ain't fucking happening. Good fucking god.

I finally completed just the interactive map part of this. I have yet to figure out how the hell to do the rest, and this is honestly just whatever draw.io belched out when I was done exporting the workbook as HTML, but it works! It looks okay! You can kind of read it! It's not a complete disaster!

https://decayingorbit.neocities.org/roughmap
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on February 04, 2023, 02:43:39 AM
Quote from: Cain on February 01, 2023, 04:26:35 AM
Suu,

Byzantine history is not something that was heavily covered by my schooling, in any sense. I say this so you can understand where I am coming from.

I have discovered Procopius's Anecdota. And I have questions. Many, many questions.

That's the little worm that spent his life following Belisarius around and writing horrible lies about him, right?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on February 04, 2023, 11:36:26 AM
The very same. Also the wild sex parties of Theodora and Justinian's shapeshifting demon proclivities.

I just imagine the monks in the Vatican archives being completely "wtf" on actually reading it. Like any normal person, I would think.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on February 06, 2023, 04:36:50 PM
My Dad had a stroke over the weekend. He's as okay as you can be after something like that - he's back home, on some drugs and doesn't expect any serious long term consequences.

He blamed work for the amount of stress it put him under. They've given him a whole two weeks to recover before he's expected to be back to it.

After having last week off I went back to work and immediately had three time sensitive crises that my coworkers had left for me to deal with on my return.

Interesting bit of synchronicity there.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on February 16, 2023, 12:19:44 PM
It has been another awful week tbh.

Brianna Ghey's murder hit me harder than I thought I could be hit by these things any more.

The fact that her death has become discourse just makes me want to choke people. Motherfuckers policing language and some fuckwits daring, DARING, to turn up to vigils with political party materials.

I am going to a vigil tomorrow night and I don't know if I will be able to restrain myself if someone tries to give me an SWP placard or some shit.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on February 16, 2023, 06:14:05 PM
Just read about the murder there, fucking hell that's dark
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on February 16, 2023, 06:29:05 PM
There's so much about it that is fucked and it fucks me up more seeing people dogpile onto folks who are clearly grieving and afraid. Or worse, trying to profit from this moment because solidarity is a commodity.

Literally makes me sick
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on February 16, 2023, 10:35:10 PM
What the fuck is up with creeps using drones to record the murder scene before she was even removed from it?

Sick fucks.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on February 17, 2023, 02:55:28 PM
For what, clicks?

I was reading that in order to comply with UK laws, they're going to deadname her on the death certificate.

It just never stops.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on February 17, 2023, 08:24:08 PM
yeah I had to leave the vigil it was mostly vultures holding up pictures of a dead girl before ranting about capitalism and the government

there are few situations where I don't like a good rant but that was one of them

fucking time and place people
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on March 25, 2023, 06:36:06 AM
In more exciting Scribbly related news...

The private healthcare provider I have to use to get HRT because this country is awful have decided to treble the costs of their blood testing service and also demand more (and more expensive) tests, seemingly because they are no longer able to get the expensive drugs they used to funnel everyone towards so they need to recoup those losses elsewhere.

I discovered this when I went to get a refill and was told that I should have sent in a bunch of blood tests they didn't ask for about 10 days ago. Luckily, I am used to their incompetence and have a stockpile, but still.

This was frustrating to discover. This month is going to be tight and long-term I simply can't afford the new normal. So. Time to finally do the thing I have been putting off: involve the NHS in my care.

I did some research and it looks like there are a few steps I can take to try and make this as painless as possible (spoilers: it's still gonna be fucking painful). Step one is to get my name changed by deed poll. Which is cool. I have been living under my new name in all areas of my life except work for the past 8 months or so. It seems to have stuck. I'm happy with it. Lets go.

I had already arranged to see my parents this weekend for a different reason and both have expressed confused support in the past so I thought, hey, maybe they'd appreciate being involved with this. I need two witnesses (who can be literally anyone) and they were involved in naming me the first time around, maybe they'd like to be involved the second time around. I thought it'd be a cute gesture. Something nice.

This was a mistake.

Cue a 30 minute long conversation with my mother where I wind up trying to manage her emotions and explain that, no, I wasn't "messed up" by anything she did during pregnancy because I'm not, in fact, messed up. I'm just trans. And she warns me that my father is going to say some things that will hurt me this weekend. As though he's been planning it and workshopping lines with her or something.

I ultimately had to gently explain to her that this is something that will be happening either way; I was just offering her an opportunity to be part of it if she wanted. I am not asking for permission. Which got some vague mumblings about wanting to support me but it being very difficult because I am named for someone who was important in her life and losing that feels like erasing that person.

So that's great. Here I am trying to decide how to negotiate coming out in the last places I'm not so that I can actually afford to continue keeping on, preferably without blowing up my job because there's no fucking way I'm getting another one that pays half as well, and I'm having to relitigate the coming out I've already done. With the added bonus of wondering exactly what it is my Dad is going to try and throw in my face. I'm actually genuinely curious on that; I suspect the old man has massively overvalued the extent to which I value his input into this. And underestimated my willingness to just cut him out of my life if he's going to be a piece of shit.

Bitch, I'm trying to deal with a ~£1500 per year price hike in my medical care during a period when literally every other bill I have is also going through the roof. You think I've got the time or energy to massage your delicate fee-fees because you don't like that I wanna wear a dress? A dress, by the way, that I can't now fucking afford? Get out of my face.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on March 25, 2023, 07:34:04 PM
Blood family is fucking disposable. Found family will stick knives in themselves to give you better handholds to climb up on.

My family, when I came out, interrogated me in a dark room and then said they refuse to support me in it. They made sure I became homeless and stayed that way, and then they had the gall to act hurt and upset when I left the area -- only to follow with death threats, of course. They abused my aunt's position in SSA to make sure it will be hell trying to get government aid for me. My mother dates a Nazi now.

Blood relation is happenstance. The people I have now would kill and die for me, so I'll do the same for them.

My family has found they have so little impact in my life that I haven't spoken to any of them in over 5 years. That was, itself, after a five year gap.

EDIT: Corrected to SSA, I wrote this like 15 minutes after waking up.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on March 25, 2023, 08:07:33 PM
That's fucking horrible. I'm sorry.

It wasn't anywhere near as bad as I had prepared for. He doesn't like my chosen name and won't use it. He thinks I'm having a nervous breakdown. I look ridiculous.

Weak. Very weak.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on March 31, 2023, 11:25:23 PM
Shit has started to come together this week.

I am going to be heavily involved in a community project soon which should measurably improve the lives of the people around me.

I have secured a 24 month extension to my lease with a guarantee that any rent increase will only be in line with RPI and not above it, rather than the 12 months 'we can do whatever the fuck we want' attempt they put in front of us first. That means 3 full years in the same location, the most I've had since I was chucked out of my parent's place.

Even managed to get my drugs with minimal bullshit and everything on the blood tests is All Good for the first time.

Work stress continues and involving the NHS with my healthcare is already starting to cause me frustration, but overall this has been a really positive week. After three months of relentless negativity this feels fucking good.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on April 09, 2023, 05:20:39 AM
Robyn, former admin of PD, passed away on August 13 of 2022.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: LMNO on April 10, 2023, 09:20:10 PM
Well, that sucks.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on April 11, 2023, 06:37:11 PM
Bella? I hadn't heard.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on April 12, 2023, 04:26:58 AM
Stage 4 cancer.

There seems to be some confusion regarding the exact date.

August was when the memorial went up, but the gofundme for her illness was still up in October.

Her relationship with Liam and their eventual marriage seemed happy enough, so she at least had that.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on April 15, 2023, 04:15:36 PM
Ouch, that sucks.
Cancer's such a nasty motherfucker.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Elder Iptuous on April 16, 2023, 12:01:11 AM
Hello, spags.
It feels to me like we're accelerating into the technological singularity, and I was just stopping by to see what the general mood was here.
Are the panties fully knotted, and buttholes puckered?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on April 16, 2023, 12:08:51 AM
I demand a higher class of apocalypse.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Elder Iptuous on April 16, 2023, 12:12:08 AM
How have we earned a better one?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on April 18, 2023, 02:45:37 AM
Quote from: Elder Iptuous on April 16, 2023, 12:01:11 AM
Hello, spags.
It feels to me like we're accelerating into the technological singularity, and I was just stopping by to see what the general mood was here.
Are the panties fully knotted, and buttholes puckered?

I've been cheering it on, really.

Hal was way better company than you goddamn simians.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Elder Iptuous on April 18, 2023, 08:16:58 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on April 18, 2023, 02:45:37 AM
Quote from: Elder Iptuous on April 16, 2023, 12:01:11 AM
Hello, spags.
It feels to me like we're accelerating into the technological singularity, and I was just stopping by to see what the general mood was here.
Are the panties fully knotted, and buttholes puckered?

I've been cheering it on, really.

Hal was way better company than you goddamn simians.

But HAL was GOFAI.  These LLMs are a juiced up version of us goddamn simians!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on April 20, 2023, 12:04:17 AM
What happens now? They've gone full nazi.

https://twitter.com/SheaLadivabich/status/1648500859737878528 (https://twitter.com/SheaLadivabich/status/1648500859737878528)

https://newrepublic.com/post/172063/florida-house-bill-allowing-trans-kids-removed-families (https://newrepublic.com/post/172063/florida-house-bill-allowing-trans-kids-removed-families)
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on April 20, 2023, 12:44:30 AM
Nah, it was normal black-bag police kidnapping bullshit. They released the kids later. It's not Nacht und Nebel tier, though it sure is headed that way.

This was a warning shot off the bow, essentially. Not even raising the stakes, just making the existing ones clear. "Know your place -- we can ruin you anytime." Showing that actually, consequences for using their fucked up hate-laws are not something that matters to them.

As for "what happens now"? Start pulling vulnerable people out of those fucking shitholes and sending them to safer places. Because they're GOING to go full Nazi. They haven't been hiding it for a long time now. So save the people who really need saving.

For everyone else, it's time to read about resistance movements in WW2 Italy, German-occupied nations, etc. Maybe throw in some Zapatista, Spanish Civil War, modern Palestinian resistance reading. Get real comfortable, extremely familiar with your history. Start figuring out how the real successful shit might look in a post-internet surveillance-world. You know, what-ifs.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: fluffy on April 21, 2023, 09:34:49 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on April 09, 2023, 05:20:39 AM
Robyn, former admin of PD, passed away on August 13 of 2022.

wahhhhh!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on April 23, 2023, 04:47:33 AM
Quote from: fluffy on April 21, 2023, 09:34:49 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on April 09, 2023, 05:20:39 AM
Robyn, former admin of PD, passed away on August 13 of 2022.

wahhhhh!!!!!!!!!

HOLY CRAP

Where the hell have you been?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on April 27, 2023, 12:19:02 PM
Been feeling like a zombie for about a year. Repeated sinus infections, tired all the time (more then usual with the kids), continuous throbbing over the right side of my face, but oddly no pain at all. I had a root canal in march last year, finally put 2 and 2 together and got an x-ray of my tooth, they had hollowed out the roots, and then just sealed the tooth, left them all open, complete botch job. One root was 22mm and ran directly into the sinus cavity.
They drilled out the crown to clean the roots and it immediately released a year of horror.

Steroids and antibiotics and I feel like human being again but sickened that it could have gone on that long or the scary implications for blood/brain barrier from long term rot having a backstage pass to the party.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on April 27, 2023, 12:27:09 PM
Fuck, I went through something like that a few years back.

Root canal they didn't clean out properly. In my case 'luckily' the infection spread pain into my jaw inside a couple months but I had to go private to get an X-Ray and get it fixed. Harrowing and as you say that shit could have gotten lethal if I'd followed the initial advice and just 'given it more time to settle'.

Glad you're on the mend now.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on April 27, 2023, 02:59:58 PM
Well thats it, its really dangerous if you get an abscess there, very easy for them to travel. Have to say the feeling of relief within seconds of that tooth being opened is gross but it was a like a weight being lifted. I felt like one of those gross cow video's someone posts to r/popping
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on April 29, 2023, 03:33:07 AM
People used to die of abscessed teeth all the time.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on April 29, 2023, 08:36:38 AM
My business have decided (at a level about 8 layers abstracted from the people doing the job) that we all need to go into 'the office' twice per week.

Depending on what 'the office' means that could range from 'go and sit somewhere you are the only person working in your business area but it is within walking distance' to 'spend £400/month in travel to get to and from the city where your relevant office is located'.

I have two weeks of leave to polish up my CV and see what else is out there.

My manager is panicking.

Change doesn't actually come in until September so I'm going to be real interested to see where we are when I return to work. I suspect a humiliating climbdown from senior management, but maybe they really do want to chase away anyone who has any other options. I love corporations so much.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on April 29, 2023, 10:00:56 PM
https://memorrhage.bandcamp.com/album/memorrhage

I don't normally post shit like this outside of the designated containment zones, but I was a test listener and provided first-round mix feedback for this album, which is (independent of my involvement) poised to fucking blow up -- the reviews are on point, and based entirely on pre-release previews that have gotten passed around. The next single is going to be Lunge, one of my favorite tracks in years. It's got hooks, it's got aggression, it's got alienation, it's the most exciting development in heavy music in years.

And it was written in two fucking months. Exit, Finesse, Old Wave, Lunge, Utility and Ex-Sprite are all single quality /for this album/ -- on an album where the weakest tracks are single quality for, you know, the average chart-topping release. Even diehard nu-metal haters are on board. It's must-hear. And I had a small hand in the final product, so that's why it's out of the containment areas!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Bruno on May 03, 2023, 12:30:31 AM
One of the weirdo preppers I follow just interviewed Ron Paul on his channel.  :horrormirth:

[embed=640,360]https://youtube.com/watch?v=6UUFZEGsOuQ&autoplay=1[/embed]
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on May 10, 2023, 11:54:48 PM
Today was the culmination of a lot of hard work.

Can't go into huge detail without doxxing myself but we have made life a lot better for (at the moment) 30 or so trans folks in my city, and we'll be expanding from there.

I'm still buzzing. Getting out there and doing shit to make a material difference is just so satisfying.

Have we reversed the course of the ongoing horrorshow? No. Of course not. But for a few hours today people didn't need to have that at the forefront of their mind.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on May 11, 2023, 12:06:56 AM
Good! In personal news, I may be getting to an even better location than my current one in the coming months.

I just spent the past 5 days with a new partner who is effectively the best person for me imaginable, and I broke a 11 year dry spell as far as actually fucking goes, instead of just messing with people's heads long-distance and cuddling. They have a polycule house, they own that house, they pay a minimal amount of taxes and bills on it, they have enough people the pain is spread very thin, all of the people there are awesome (the metamour I foresee having the most problems with /might fight with me over doing dishes/, as in "let me do the dishes" "no, let me do the dishes"), they want to help me get back on HRT, etc., etc.

This might actually be what it takes to launch me from homelessness and destitution to a survivable future.

Also, it's really nice to spend 5 days being wanted by someone who isn't shy about that fact.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on May 11, 2023, 12:09:34 AM
That's incredible news! Congrats!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on May 11, 2023, 07:22:20 PM
Quote from: Alfred Little Moon Cx3 on January 31, 2023, 12:26:58 PM
bitcoin more volatile than Rogers underwear drawer

Who?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on May 11, 2023, 08:40:50 PM
https://apnews.com/article/tommy-tuberville-white-nationalists-military-3a38da5a664b911260ea994415016600?utm_source=ForYou&utm_medium=HomePage&utm_id=Taboola
:lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on May 16, 2023, 04:06:07 AM
Recently, I've begun to wonder if I've been wrong all this time about the dominant lifeform on this planet.

What if it's not the bacteria, but the fungi?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on May 18, 2023, 03:24:28 PM
I'm working on crawling out from under a rock. 2023 seems like an auspicious year for that. Or at least an interesting one.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on May 18, 2023, 03:34:37 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on May 18, 2023, 03:24:28 PM
I'm working on crawling out from under a rock. 2023 seems like an auspicious year for that. Or at least an interesting one.

I'll be glad to see more of you again. How are you?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on May 18, 2023, 04:39:27 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on May 18, 2023, 03:24:28 PM
I'm working on crawling out from under a rock. 2023 seems like an auspicious year for that. Or at least an interesting one.

Oh hi!

Lot of it about. Things are getting Weird. Hope you're well.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on May 18, 2023, 05:37:50 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on May 18, 2023, 03:24:28 PM
I'm working on crawling out from under a rock. 2023 seems like an auspicious year for that. Or at least an interesting one.

SO glad to see you.  The po'buckers are totally out of control, and we have a ton of black & white film for you to help you manage things.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on May 18, 2023, 05:42:31 PM
Quote from: altered on May 18, 2023, 03:34:37 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on May 18, 2023, 03:24:28 PM
I'm working on crawling out from under a rock. 2023 seems like an auspicious year for that. Or at least an interesting one.

I'll be glad to see more of you again. How are you?

Husband got hospitalized for complications related to long covid, we were genuinely worried that was gonna be it for him for a couple days there. Fortunately he is still The Protagonist in some goddamn story so he's mostly better with the treatment he's on. Work has been grinding me to a paste, I'm trying to figure out how to extract myself from this place but I suck at interviews and there are enough gaps in my general understanding of office politics/professionalism that I am at a disadvantage. Also got documentably sexually harassed by the last head of HR at the place, but there's nothing useful to be done with that. You know, American Dream shit.

Finished Andor and now I have a strong need to DO THINGS. I might want to tag you in on one of the bigger plans if we can secure some moneybags for it, you have exactly the right experience for a couple slots. I'm glad to see you found someone you're clicking with!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on May 18, 2023, 05:44:38 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 18, 2023, 05:37:50 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on May 18, 2023, 03:24:28 PM
I'm working on crawling out from under a rock. 2023 seems like an auspicious year for that. Or at least an interesting one.

SO glad to see you.  The po'buckers are totally out of control, and we have a ton of black & white film for you to help you manage things.

Good to exist. I may end up using that film this time.

Also you may get drafted to invade somewhere that hits -50. I know you're not for snow but I am not letting fatbergs be the reason the revolution fails.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on May 18, 2023, 05:59:56 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on May 18, 2023, 05:44:38 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 18, 2023, 05:37:50 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on May 18, 2023, 03:24:28 PM
I'm working on crawling out from under a rock. 2023 seems like an auspicious year for that. Or at least an interesting one.

SO glad to see you.  The po'buckers are totally out of control, and we have a ton of black & white film for you to help you manage things.

Good to exist. I may end up using that film this time.

Also you may get drafted to invade somewhere that hits -50. I know you're not for snow but I am not letting fatbergs be the reason the revolution fails.

Sorry, humans cannot survive below 80 degrees.  I will have to insist on a full environment suit, and a prybar.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on May 18, 2023, 07:20:09 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 18, 2023, 05:59:56 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on May 18, 2023, 05:44:38 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 18, 2023, 05:37:50 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on May 18, 2023, 03:24:28 PM
I'm working on crawling out from under a rock. 2023 seems like an auspicious year for that. Or at least an interesting one.

SO glad to see you.  The po'buckers are totally out of control, and we have a ton of black & white film for you to help you manage things.

Good to exist. I may end up using that film this time.

Also you may get drafted to invade somewhere that hits -50. I know you're not for snow but I am not letting fatbergs be the reason the revolution fails.

Sorry, humans cannot survive below 80 degrees.  I will have to insist on a full environment suit, and a prybar.

I'll add it to the budget
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on May 18, 2023, 08:28:37 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on May 18, 2023, 05:42:31 PM
Quote from: altered on May 18, 2023, 03:34:37 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on May 18, 2023, 03:24:28 PM
I'm working on crawling out from under a rock. 2023 seems like an auspicious year for that. Or at least an interesting one.

I'll be glad to see more of you again. How are you?

Husband got hospitalized for complications related to long covid, we were genuinely worried that was gonna be it for him for a couple days there. Fortunately he is still The Protagonist in some goddamn story so he's mostly better with the treatment he's on. Work has been grinding me to a paste, I'm trying to figure out how to extract myself from this place but I suck at interviews and there are enough gaps in my general understanding of office politics/professionalism that I am at a disadvantage. Also got documentably sexually harassed by the last head of HR at the place, but there's nothing useful to be done with that. You know, American Dream shit.

Finished Andor and now I have a strong need to DO THINGS. I might want to tag you in on one of the bigger plans if we can secure some moneybags for it, you have exactly the right experience for a couple slots. I'm glad to see you found someone you're clicking with!

Depending on the deets of your project, I might have someone who can help fund things. We were going to work on videogame development, but we can't fucking find an artist and programmer now... Sigh. IDK if you're comfortable sharing, but let me know if you are.

I want to disappear that head of HR, but unfortunately my long-distance hypnosis powers don't extend to actually for realsies deleting humans, and my partners STILL haven't invented the teleporter.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on May 19, 2023, 05:47:30 AM
In the past hour, Khanate released without announcement a new album after almost 20 years of being disbanded and it FUCKS.

https://khanate.bandcamp.com/album/to-be-cruel

I'm losing my fucking mind.

I am reliving my childhood in music right now -- but as myself, with supportive communities and people around me, and a presence in the scenes that matter to me, and a personality that people can enjoy being around.

Nu metal, slam death, fucking Khanate, what's next? Aggrotech renaissance? I am getting a chance to do over my fucking childhood and I don't need to have a mid-life crisis to do it. These people and genres aged with me.

I can't believe how lucky I am in some ways.

ETA: Literally their best album to date. I literally wept at the end of the title track.

Like, Khanate is a 10/10 band, with no albums that fall below a 9 (Clean Hands Go Foul lands at 9, barely). If I graded their albums on a curve, this would be 10/10 /for them/, with their prior best (Capture/Release) landing at a solid, respectable 8/10. The first track lulls you into expecting more S/T, but from track 2 on they bring in all sorts of wild stuff from the back catalog and add new tricks.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on May 21, 2023, 02:22:02 PM
Just finished watching a four hour long video essay. I had to break it up into multiple sessions because, whilst I usually like the creator, I found it frustrating, confusing, meandering and difficult to follow. It actually gave me a headache a couple of times.

It then ended in the funniest possible way imaginable.

"So yeah, now I've finished editing this I realise I kind of hate it, it feels like a self-indulgent ramble."

Well played.  :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Bruno on May 31, 2023, 04:19:50 AM
Tara Reade is trying do defect to Russia, lol.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on June 08, 2023, 08:46:02 PM
Next month, this bar thread will have been open for 3 years.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on June 10, 2023, 05:08:10 PM
I survived my first ever metal/hardcore show. It was fucking awesome. I don't think anyone here is hot for caveman slam death, cybergrind, drone/powerviolence, or whatever the fuck you call Omerta, but I'm losing it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa2ANHa690E

That link goes to Omerta, by the way. I genuinely don't know what you call this shit, it's doing something totally distinct. They were the headliner and while I know /you/ have never seen people brutalize each other to cartoon doll singing over stupid heavy riffs before, I saw a man try to stage dive and nearly not make it because the slamdancers were only two rows behind the stage. (They helped save him, fortunately.)
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on June 12, 2023, 01:20:24 AM
In other news, I'm really happy with the work I'm doing now. Not paying work, but I don't need to be paid for what I'm doing now.

I'm finally making real use of my networking skills, putting an upcoming musician's demos in the ears of label owners and established musicians. I'm giving her advice on how to pull off a first release without having to use her vocals since she's not confident in them (I suggested a vocal anthology sort of deal, a dozen featured artists on her songs -- and even suggested starting points for artists who would do vocal features), I'm building a small hype crew for her, I'm giving her mix feedback and helping her feel confident in her work.

This? This is stuff I can do, it's stuff I feel good about, it's stuff where EVERY STEP of the process feels fulfilling and is independently very cool to be involved in. I enjoy this. Yeah, I'm still poor and she probably ends up making enough money to be a full-time musician if I can bring it together for her, but I don't care. I enjoy this.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on June 12, 2023, 10:13:37 PM
It's been an EVENTFUL few days.

Last night, some lyrics I wrote last year in a very very bad headspace made it into a song by a friend of mine. I really, really hate those lyrics in hindsight, but the song itself might actually be the absolute best ever written in the genre, which has me feeling very autistic (complicated subtype).

I don't get a break, things are so strange.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on June 15, 2023, 09:49:30 AM
Last night was the first night that I've slept more than 3 hours in the past 2 weeks.

Glad I got there.

I was getting WEIRD.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cramulus on June 15, 2023, 11:50:09 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on June 08, 2023, 08:46:02 PM
Next month, this bar thread will have been open for 3 years.

its pretty weird that scrid is still serving beer to people via drivethrough window

I mean, it's 2023, they can just come in and sit down


and we don't even have a drivethrough window--scrid is handing full beers to people at the McDonald's drivethrough
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on June 26, 2023, 08:32:24 PM
I have two questions:

Why did Prigozhin turn back, and why was he (apparently, if perhaps only temporarily) forgiven?

Neither of those things make sense to me, from which I infer that something very interesting happened behind the scenes.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on June 26, 2023, 11:17:13 PM
Its with news like that that I wish cain was still about

Speculation abounds:

The reddit mill is saying its because putin was able to threaten a large number of Warner troops families as leverage to turn away.
The pardon is needed so they don't change their mind, and because Russia still actually need them to bolster a largely green army with experienced fighters
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on June 27, 2023, 07:03:40 AM
I've mostly been taking Beau's analysis on the situation. When it comes to the military he knows his stuff. He's put out a lot of videos and the one this morning is interesting in the implications.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eHnTG2NB60
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on June 27, 2023, 05:23:31 PM
I've been pushing through a very upsetting (but not bad) breakup by, uh, working on a remix and some trance synth leads for the Memorrhage guy. And crowdfunding my home-recording setup so I can contribute vocals. (Isolation shields worth a goddamn are PRICY.)

I think this is the most involved I've ever been in music. Almost daily I'm discussing with actual successful underground musicians my opinions on production and songwriting, and they're taken seriously. I can commiserate over EQing synth organs to sit nicely in dense mixes* and the other person will nod sadly and say "the decay..." because we've both been there.

It's really nice to be taken seriously by musicians who are legendary among "Thinking Man's avant-death metal" elitists and have done everything from chiptune grindcore to Bay Area screamo to nu metal. It's times like this I know my faith in my musical abilities is not Dunning-Kruger shit.



* Seriously, have you tried to do this without having to automate every band of an EQ to shift note-by-note? it's a fucking NIGHTMARE, and if you're gonna tell me to break out the comb filters I'm going to tell you to put that shit on some Scriabin-ass synthetic chords so you can hear the pan-pipers of Azathoth for yourself. It is an Incontrovertible Fact that organs, even basic ass synth organs with 3-oscillator formants, are made for filling every frequency above the fundamental with pure clean tonal bands and you had just better hope your tits that you have the headroom in your fucking mix to pull that off.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on June 28, 2023, 02:18:42 AM
Quote from: altered on June 27, 2023, 05:23:31 PM
I've been pushing through a very upsetting (but not bad) breakup by, uh, working on a remix and some trance synth leads for the Memorrhage guy. And crowdfunding my home-recording setup so I can contribute vocals. (Isolation shields worth a goddamn are PRICY.)

I think this is the most involved I've ever been in music. Almost daily I'm discussing with actual successful underground musicians my opinions on production and songwriting, and they're taken seriously. I can commiserate over EQing synth organs to sit nicely in dense mixes* and the other person will nod sadly and say "the decay..." because we've both been there.

It's really nice to be taken seriously by musicians who are legendary among "Thinking Man's avant-death metal" elitists and have done everything from chiptune grindcore to Bay Area screamo to nu metal. It's times like this I know my faith in my musical abilities is not Dunning-Kruger shit.



* Seriously, have you tried to do this without having to automate every band of an EQ to shift note-by-note? it's a fucking NIGHTMARE, and if you're gonna tell me to break out the comb filters I'm going to tell you to put that shit on some Scriabin-ass synthetic chords so you can hear the pan-pipers of Azathoth for yourself. It is an Incontrovertible Fact that organs, even basic ass synth organs with 3-oscillator formants, are made for filling every frequency above the fundamental with pure clean tonal bands and you had just better hope your tits that you have the headroom in your fucking mix to pull that off.

Do you take very dumb music requests? Because there is a very dumb thing I want
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: QuestionsTheSoil on June 28, 2023, 04:03:23 AM
I used to play guitar, but kind of fell out of it because life. I got kind of decent I guess, and it was cool, maybe it's worth picking up again? I tried songwriting, which didn't go anywhere, but maybe I could try again.

IDK, for a while, I've just felt sapped of creativity. I lost passion for anything.

Damn, I miss when things felt good and I had hopes and dreams.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on June 28, 2023, 06:22:33 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on June 28, 2023, 02:18:42 AM
Quote from: altered on June 27, 2023, 05:23:31 PM
I've been pushing through a very upsetting (but not bad) breakup by, uh, working on a remix and some trance synth leads for the Memorrhage guy. And crowdfunding my home-recording setup so I can contribute vocals. (Isolation shields worth a goddamn are PRICY.)

I think this is the most involved I've ever been in music. Almost daily I'm discussing with actual successful underground musicians my opinions on production and songwriting, and they're taken seriously. I can commiserate over EQing synth organs to sit nicely in dense mixes* and the other person will nod sadly and say "the decay..." because we've both been there.

It's really nice to be taken seriously by musicians who are legendary among "Thinking Man's avant-death metal" elitists and have done everything from chiptune grindcore to Bay Area screamo to nu metal. It's times like this I know my faith in my musical abilities is not Dunning-Kruger shit.



* Seriously, have you tried to do this without having to automate every band of an EQ to shift note-by-note? it's a fucking NIGHTMARE, and if you're gonna tell me to break out the comb filters I'm going to tell you to put that shit on some Scriabin-ass synthetic chords so you can hear the pan-pipers of Azathoth for yourself. It is an Incontrovertible Fact that organs, even basic ass synth organs with 3-oscillator formants, are made for filling every frequency above the fundamental with pure clean tonal bands and you had just better hope your tits that you have the headroom in your fucking mix to pull that off.

Do you take very dumb music requests? Because there is a very dumb thing I want

Depends. I can't record vocals yet (the crowdfunding was just finished thanks to one of you wonderful fuckers, but it needs to be ordered and arrive) and I can't do physical instruments, but I have production expertise and am pretty good at electronic music -- especially simpler stuff like trance, DnB, goth-industrial.

When I do have my bedroom studio setup done, I specialize in harsh vocals, but I can sing okay. Nothing special, poor range, lacking power, but it's something.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on June 28, 2023, 07:31:28 PM
Quote from: QuestionsTheSoil on June 28, 2023, 04:03:23 AM
I used to play guitar, but kind of fell out of it because life. I got kind of decent I guess, and it was cool, maybe it's worth picking up again? I tried songwriting, which didn't go anywhere, but maybe I could try again.

IDK, for a while, I've just felt sapped of creativity. I lost passion for anything.

Damn, I miss when things felt good and I had hopes and dreams.

Honest suggestion: channel that hopelessness and frustration into creativity. Not necessarily music, just making things in general.

You're not alone in how you feel, but you are alone in the ways you'll express that. No one will be fed up and downtrodden the same exact way as you, which sounds like it's isolating, but it isn't.

People want to hear, see, feel something that reminds them of what they're going through, but in someone else's words. Making something is healthy catharsis, and helps others that find it, too.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on June 29, 2023, 02:33:48 PM
Quote from: altered on June 28, 2023, 06:22:33 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on June 28, 2023, 02:18:42 AM
Quote from: altered on June 27, 2023, 05:23:31 PM
I've been pushing through a very upsetting (but not bad) breakup by, uh, working on a remix and some trance synth leads for the Memorrhage guy. And crowdfunding my home-recording setup so I can contribute vocals. (Isolation shields worth a goddamn are PRICY.)

I think this is the most involved I've ever been in music. Almost daily I'm discussing with actual successful underground musicians my opinions on production and songwriting, and they're taken seriously. I can commiserate over EQing synth organs to sit nicely in dense mixes* and the other person will nod sadly and say "the decay..." because we've both been there.

It's really nice to be taken seriously by musicians who are legendary among "Thinking Man's avant-death metal" elitists and have done everything from chiptune grindcore to Bay Area screamo to nu metal. It's times like this I know my faith in my musical abilities is not Dunning-Kruger shit.



* Seriously, have you tried to do this without having to automate every band of an EQ to shift note-by-note? it's a fucking NIGHTMARE, and if you're gonna tell me to break out the comb filters I'm going to tell you to put that shit on some Scriabin-ass synthetic chords so you can hear the pan-pipers of Azathoth for yourself. It is an Incontrovertible Fact that organs, even basic ass synth organs with 3-oscillator formants, are made for filling every frequency above the fundamental with pure clean tonal bands and you had just better hope your tits that you have the headroom in your fucking mix to pull that off.

Do you take very dumb music requests? Because there is a very dumb thing I want

Depends. I can't record vocals yet (the crowdfunding was just finished thanks to one of you wonderful fuckers, but it needs to be ordered and arrive) and I can't do physical instruments, but I have production expertise and am pretty good at electronic music -- especially simpler stuff like trance, DnB, goth-industrial.

When I do have my bedroom studio setup done, I specialize in harsh vocals, but I can sing okay. Nothing special, poor range, lacking power, but it's something.

I'm looking for a "dramatic movie trailer" downbeat cover or remix of Billy Joel's My Life that fits the overall vibe of the Andor soundtrack. I'm very normal.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on June 29, 2023, 06:07:33 PM
Just came back from my audiology appointment.  Mild mid-range hearing loss sloping into profound on the high ranges, and my word recognition is complete soup in the left ear (along with that slope being much steeper on that side). Nothing I didn't *know*, but it's on paper now and really-real. They also said I'd be a good candidate for hearing aids, but since I can function day to day I don't need to rush in.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on June 29, 2023, 07:12:54 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on June 29, 2023, 02:33:48 PM
Quote from: altered on June 28, 2023, 06:22:33 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on June 28, 2023, 02:18:42 AM
Quote from: altered on June 27, 2023, 05:23:31 PM
I've been pushing through a very upsetting (but not bad) breakup by, uh, working on a remix and some trance synth leads for the Memorrhage guy. And crowdfunding my home-recording setup so I can contribute vocals. (Isolation shields worth a goddamn are PRICY.)

I think this is the most involved I've ever been in music. Almost daily I'm discussing with actual successful underground musicians my opinions on production and songwriting, and they're taken seriously. I can commiserate over EQing synth organs to sit nicely in dense mixes* and the other person will nod sadly and say "the decay..." because we've both been there.

It's really nice to be taken seriously by musicians who are legendary among "Thinking Man's avant-death metal" elitists and have done everything from chiptune grindcore to Bay Area screamo to nu metal. It's times like this I know my faith in my musical abilities is not Dunning-Kruger shit.



* Seriously, have you tried to do this without having to automate every band of an EQ to shift note-by-note? it's a fucking NIGHTMARE, and if you're gonna tell me to break out the comb filters I'm going to tell you to put that shit on some Scriabin-ass synthetic chords so you can hear the pan-pipers of Azathoth for yourself. It is an Incontrovertible Fact that organs, even basic ass synth organs with 3-oscillator formants, are made for filling every frequency above the fundamental with pure clean tonal bands and you had just better hope your tits that you have the headroom in your fucking mix to pull that off.

Do you take very dumb music requests? Because there is a very dumb thing I want

Depends. I can't record vocals yet (the crowdfunding was just finished thanks to one of you wonderful fuckers, but it needs to be ordered and arrive) and I can't do physical instruments, but I have production expertise and am pretty good at electronic music -- especially simpler stuff like trance, DnB, goth-industrial.

When I do have my bedroom studio setup done, I specialize in harsh vocals, but I can sing okay. Nothing special, poor range, lacking power, but it's something.

I'm looking for a "dramatic movie trailer" downbeat cover or remix of Billy Joel's My Life that fits the overall vibe of the Andor soundtrack. I'm very normal.

I can almost imagine this. I'm a dork, so I'm imagining it as funeral-paced symphonic blues/funk, like Zeal & Ardor's Hold Your Head Low but with piano and big, swelling orchestra instead of the guitar strums and short heavy sections. That would be really cool. But I don't think I can help you here.

I could mix and master it (the key to moody movie trailer music cover stuff: per track - expand, dither, noise gate, reverb; overall - compress until the mix pumps and heaves like a motherfucker, master), but I couldn't make it. You'd need at least one real live musician, someone who can work with symphonics appropriately, and probably a good, loud singer for that real powerful "impossible odds" movie trailer vibe. I can do none of these.

Sucks about the hearing, but yeah, at least you know now. My hearing has made it through an astonishing amount of abuse, and I've been eyeballing some concert earplugs to cut down the impact of dogs barking, traffic noise and, of course, the rare concerts I go to.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 04, 2023, 08:08:24 PM
Yesterday I did a vocal recording for Memorrhage LP2. I had to do 8 throwaway takes to get one good take due to not having a good vocal recording stack. When I finally got a decent take, de-essed and de-hissed, I learned some things.

1: I have a lisp. No one told me about this, and it's very mild -- but it means when I de-ess, you just hear the th instead. Need a de-eth plugin, too.

2: My vocal distortion when recording is WAAAAY higher than I thought it was when just practicing. I thought I was in hardcore-range, but my vocal distortion is closer to the most extreme of post-hardcore. Garry said "Zao, but filthier". I said "whisper-scream harmonic content, death-roar volume, blackened-crust pitch". I have to dial that shit back and get shoutier when recording, the level of distortion is just insane -- the waveform looked like someone ran it through a fucking bassist's fuzzbox with the gain maxed. All I did for recording was use Airwindows Density2 to stand in for a mic preamp since I'm using a USB mic, and throw on some compression to help normalize the volume. I did that distortion with my raw voice.

3: Holy shit, I burnt my voice. I'm feeling it today. That shit is crispy. Gotta be more careful and maybe try not to do 9 g-d damn takes of max-distortion high-pitched shrieking.

4: Actually, I'm a g-d damn good harsh vocalist. I kinda suspected this, but hearing it for real is a different story. When Garry put it in the track, pretty much just some mild EQ work and a delay based on Static-X vocal delays to fill, it took the guitars in the chorus and dragged them up by the high-frequency hair. Yes, the chorus -- this is a keystone vocal feature. I've never actually felt vindicated on this level about my skill before. Legitimately, the vocal stem, for all its flaws (recorded in a garage while cars were going by on a subpar microphone, vocalist lisping, vocalist didn't know their own power) sounds INCREDIBLE.

Today, I need to rest.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on July 05, 2023, 10:54:00 AM
It has been a wild ride these past few days.

The charity I've been putting so much effort into over the past 4 months has collapsed due to the founder's mismanagement and bigotry. Which was a shock.

Sunday felt like I'd had my heart ripped clean out. Spent a lot of it crying. I haven't felt that bad since I lost a friend to covid. It kind of shook me up that it hit me as hard as it did.

Back to work monday. Put on the smiley face. Everything's fine. We're all fine here.

Yesterday it was strongly suggested I put in an application for a new position at work that would be far more interesting and a small pay bump. In a totally new area requiring totally new skills and probably demanding far more time. Conflicted on that.

And today my request for medication which my GP has been assuring me every step of the way would be routine was rejected.

I tried as hard as I could to keep the NHS out of my treatment over exactly this kind of bureaucratic battle. But I'm trying not to be too cynical. Have a call in a few hours to speak to a pharmacist and find out why he is overruling two doctors. We will see how that goes.

Charity failure is still raw but I'm not crying about it any more, which is an improvement. Just need to take a little time to regroup. Made some good contacts and we're getting drinks in a couple weeks. Maybe we can find another route to help.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 05, 2023, 10:58:19 AM
I got a job offer that is absolutely covered in red flags but has enough potential to be legitimate that I can't ignore it, the pay is ridiculous and it's completely remote, and I won't be talking to cops or fielding phone calls WHILE listening to the radio WHILE monitoring text messages WHILE checking for camera alerts WHILE... which means I will be less goddamn tired all the time and might actually have the energy to exist again. It's scary though. I've never had to give notice before. And not knowing 100% that this isn't a scam and I'm not being spearphished is... well it's sure as fuck not helping.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on July 05, 2023, 11:03:15 AM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 05, 2023, 10:58:19 AM
I got a job offer that is absolutely covered in red flags but has enough potential to be legitimate that I can't ignore it, the pay is ridiculous and it's completely remote, and I won't be talking to cops or fielding phone calls WHILE listening to the radio WHILE monitoring text messages WHILE checking for camera alerts WHILE... which means I will be less goddamn tired all the time and might actually have the energy to exist again. It's scary though. I've never had to give notice before. And not knowing 100% that this isn't a scam and I'm not being spearphished is... well it's sure as fuck not helping.

Definitely do as much research as you can (obvs) but I'll keep my fingers crossed. Sometimes good things do happen.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on July 05, 2023, 02:36:52 PM
Lol okay it was about as obstructive as I expected.

I got very excited when I signed up to the new GP and they suggested to me that they would recommend a shared care agreement with Gender GP rather than me asking and getting rejected again.

Got all that set up, got a blood test done, got reassurance that all I needed to do was put the prescription request through the app...

... and that has now been rejected and they've pulled all shared care agreements with Gender GP for all their patients whooooo

Conversation basically went:

"So you asked me to do this and now you've pulled it?"
"Yeah we can't work with them."
"Okay no worries, that's fine, can you tell me who you can work with?"
"No. I'm not allowed to make suggestions about private care."
"Okay so, what're my options?"
"If I were you I'd google something. Just try and find someone reputable."

Note: The process of even getting in the door at a private clinic is likely to run £100 or more. Then more to actually get treatment set up to the point where they could then ask about a shared care agreement. And after going through all that they could then decide that whoever I've picked is not 'reputable' and I'd need to start over.

I think I'm just going to ditch all this extra expense and self medicate. It is significantly cheaper and whilst I'd feel better with regular monitoring at this point I feel like I'm just pissing away money.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 06, 2023, 02:07:08 PM
Quote from: Scribbly on July 05, 2023, 11:03:15 AM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 05, 2023, 10:58:19 AM
I got a job offer that is absolutely covered in red flags but has enough potential to be legitimate that I can't ignore it, the pay is ridiculous and it's completely remote, and I won't be talking to cops or fielding phone calls WHILE listening to the radio WHILE monitoring text messages WHILE checking for camera alerts WHILE... which means I will be less goddamn tired all the time and might actually have the energy to exist again. It's scary though. I've never had to give notice before. And not knowing 100% that this isn't a scam and I'm not being spearphished is... well it's sure as fuck not helping.

Definitely do as much research as you can (obvs) but I'll keep my fingers crossed. Sometimes good things do happen.

The odds of this being legit are shrinking rapidly. I have already mobilized the resources needed to absolutely end these people if it does turn out to be a wire fraud scam, which will be a nice consolation prize if it goes the way it's looking.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 06, 2023, 02:50:11 PM
Quote from: Scribbly on July 05, 2023, 02:36:52 PM
Lol okay it was about as obstructive as I expected.

I got very excited when I signed up to the new GP and they suggested to me that they would recommend a shared care agreement with Gender GP rather than me asking and getting rejected again.

Got all that set up, got a blood test done, got reassurance that all I needed to do was put the prescription request through the app...

... and that has now been rejected and they've pulled all shared care agreements with Gender GP for all their patients whooooo

Conversation basically went:

"So you asked me to do this and now you've pulled it?"
"Yeah we can't work with them."
"Okay no worries, that's fine, can you tell me who you can work with?"
"No. I'm not allowed to make suggestions about private care."
"Okay so, what're my options?"
"If I were you I'd google something. Just try and find someone reputable."

Note: The process of even getting in the door at a private clinic is likely to run £100 or more. Then more to actually get treatment set up to the point where they could then ask about a shared care agreement. And after going through all that they could then decide that whoever I've picked is not 'reputable' and I'd need to start over.

I think I'm just going to ditch all this extra expense and self medicate. It is significantly cheaper and whilst I'd feel better with regular monitoring at this point I feel like I'm just pissing away money.

May I offer a Molotov in these trying times?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on July 06, 2023, 03:05:28 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 06, 2023, 02:07:08 PM
Quote from: Scribbly on July 05, 2023, 11:03:15 AM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 05, 2023, 10:58:19 AM
I got a job offer that is absolutely covered in red flags but has enough potential to be legitimate that I can't ignore it, the pay is ridiculous and it's completely remote, and I won't be talking to cops or fielding phone calls WHILE listening to the radio WHILE monitoring text messages WHILE checking for camera alerts WHILE... which means I will be less goddamn tired all the time and might actually have the energy to exist again. It's scary though. I've never had to give notice before. And not knowing 100% that this isn't a scam and I'm not being spearphished is... well it's sure as fuck not helping.

Definitely do as much research as you can (obvs) but I'll keep my fingers crossed. Sometimes good things do happen.

The odds of this being legit are shrinking rapidly. I have already mobilized the resources needed to absolutely end these people if it does turn out to be a wire fraud scam, which will be a nice consolation prize if it goes the way it's looking.

Argh. I'm sorry to hear that.

Molotovs all around I think.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 06, 2023, 11:33:29 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 05, 2023, 10:58:19 AM
I got a job offer that is absolutely covered in red flags but has enough potential to be legitimate that I can't ignore it, the pay is ridiculous and it's completely remote, and I won't be talking to cops or fielding phone calls WHILE listening to the radio WHILE monitoring text messages WHILE checking for camera alerts WHILE... which means I will be less goddamn tired all the time and might actually have the energy to exist again. It's scary though. I've never had to give notice before. And not knowing 100% that this isn't a scam and I'm not being spearphished is... well it's sure as fuck not helping.

If you PM me the details, I can work the old google fu on it.

I also have access to D&B now.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 07, 2023, 01:23:04 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 06, 2023, 11:33:29 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 05, 2023, 10:58:19 AM
I got a job offer that is absolutely covered in red flags but has enough potential to be legitimate that I can't ignore it, the pay is ridiculous and it's completely remote, and I won't be talking to cops or fielding phone calls WHILE listening to the radio WHILE monitoring text messages WHILE checking for camera alerts WHILE... which means I will be less goddamn tired all the time and might actually have the energy to exist again. It's scary though. I've never had to give notice before. And not knowing 100% that this isn't a scam and I'm not being spearphished is... well it's sure as fuck not helping.

If you PM me the details, I can work the old google fu on it.

I also have access to D&B now.

I've got people on it. If they don't make them rue the day sufficiently I'll send you what I've got but right now can't have any toe stepping. They picked *THE* wrong bitch to try this on.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 09, 2023, 05:45:52 AM
Someone stole two of my charge cables. I know the two people it definitely was not, but everyone else has said they have no idea what I'm talking about, and I checked everywhere they could possibly be.

I am now in a funny situation.

See, all my financial stuff is on my phone. I can't drive. There's no useful public transit in this part of the suburbs. And I just found out yesterday that I DEFINITELY have celiac so need to replace ALL of my food. And just earlier today, someone sent me grocery money. Money I can't use to buy groceries, because my ONLY option for that is Instacart, and guess what is dependent on my Apple account I have forgotten the login to?

This means I /cannot eat food/ until /someone else buys me replacement charge cables/, despite having money to get food with!

And the bitch of it all is, even though I know the people who HAD to have taken them hate my fucking guts, I know they are not aware of how dependent I was on those cables.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on July 09, 2023, 06:35:26 PM
Urgh. Not been in that *precise* situation but I had a similar issue not long ago where I couldn't use my phone for a while and I can entirely sympathise.

Absolutely frustrating as fuck.

Also hello. Nothing to really talk about here. The weather is slightly uncomfortably warm, everything is shit, Labour are intent on crushing all hope not already extinguished by the Tories, and everyone is either mad about confetti being thrown at a wedding or (as is usual) people's genitals. Just another day on Normal Island.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 09, 2023, 08:43:54 PM
Quote from: Cain on July 09, 2023, 06:35:26 PM
Urgh. Not been in that *precise* situation but I had a similar issue not long ago where I couldn't use my phone for a while and I can entirely sympathise.

Absolutely frustrating as fuck.

Also hello. Nothing to really talk about here. The weather is slightly uncomfortably warm, everything is shit, Labour are intent on crushing all hope not already extinguished by the Tories, and everyone is either mad about confetti being thrown at a wedding or (as is usual) people's genitals. Just another day on Normal Island.

I'd send another rescue party, but the G-dless cannibal Englishmen ate them all last time. They worship the Devil himself and perform human sacrifices to their ancient priestly royals, you know. We should civilize them, but I need to find more people willing to risk their lives to colonize the benighted moors of darkest Britain before we can worry about that.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Betta Fish on July 10, 2023, 02:29:52 AM
This thread makes me hungry.

Curbside pickup Mexican food. I really am due for a Quesadilla and some stale 100 year old chips. Maybe some of those Americanized sugar fried sticks that take a year off your life every time you eat them. Ah decisions decisions..
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 12, 2023, 05:44:21 PM
So, I got groceries and I'm gluten-free for the past two days.

What no one told me is by G-d you will be TIRED. I knew I'd be hungry, and I've been trying to eat a human amount of food to get my body to adapt, but my intestines are gonna take at least a month to heal up enough that I can do that safely. The hypoglycemia? Expected.

But. Even though I've had more bursts of energy in a given day lately than ever before in my life, I am more exhausted than ever, and having trouble sleeping reasonable amounts of time. Like, I'll be able to get almost everything done in a day now, but in between doing things I can barely keep my eyes open.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 14, 2023, 11:35:05 PM
Partner is dying. Brain cancer caught up, chemo didn't take. I never even got to see her face to face. She didn't get her name change so they'll bury her with that fucking name.

Anything I promised here is on hold.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on July 15, 2023, 05:50:07 AM
I'm so sorry, that's awful
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 15, 2023, 05:59:55 AM
Quote from: altered on July 14, 2023, 11:35:05 PM
Partner is dying. Brain cancer caught up, chemo didn't take. I never even got to see her face to face. She didn't get her name change so they'll bury her with that fucking name.

Anything I promised here is on hold.

Fuck cancer
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 15, 2023, 09:02:06 AM
The hardest parts, no particular order.

1: I have never had to seriously grieve before. I do not know how to handle it.
2: We share a second partner, who is already in a permanent deep depressive state, and who I'm in poor shape to support, and who has no one the fuck else but me. I don't know if it'll survive this, and I don't know if I can survive a third loss so soon.
3: Oh. Right. I'm still recovering from a recent breakup, so this hit me harder than it probably otherwise would have.
4: I never got to fucking hold her.
5: No one's gonna remember all of her. There will be only one name on that grave, and it'll be the one that was never hers. No one's gonna remember Dara, Fox, Val or Nye. No one's gonna remember Cadera, or Laurel. This isn't just one person, it's a whole group sharing a mind. And no one will remember. My memory isn't worth a fucking thing, I don't even remember MYSELF most days. I can't write her story, I didn't know her long enough. She was isolated and alone most of her life. There's no way to properly reconstruct those lives now. There will be no history to write. Just a dozen people, one body, erased.
6: If anyone but me and her other LDR partners had given a single solitary fuck, this probably could have been avoided. 6 months after the diagnosis that she should have been on chemo, derailed by her trash-fire live-in girlfriend. Finally got on it, the course finished last month, and it was all too fucking late.

Anyway. Done shitting up the thread.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on July 17, 2023, 02:19:07 PM
I feel like I can't express myself lately.

Over the past few months even basic points that should be easy to get across are constantly causing misconceptions and arguments at work, in my personal life, everywhere.

I haven't been able to write fiction in years and now it feels like I'm losing nonfiction too.

Ever since I was a kid I kind of considered words to be my thing.

I don't really know what I've got left without that.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Da6s on July 17, 2023, 07:18:16 PM
After 11 years out, I've circled back to the ski resort industry. This time on the business side rather than the front lines.

For you old salts still kicked around on here, no idea if I'll have any new resort chaos stories to share, but who knows. If and when they occur, they'll go in Or Kill Me as before.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 18, 2023, 02:39:37 AM
Quote from: altered on July 15, 2023, 09:02:06 AM
The hardest parts, no particular order.

1: I have never had to seriously grieve before. I do not know how to handle it.
2: We share a second partner, who is already in a permanent deep depressive state, and who I'm in poor shape to support, and who has no one the fuck else but me. I don't know if it'll survive this, and I don't know if I can survive a third loss so soon.
3: Oh. Right. I'm still recovering from a recent breakup, so this hit me harder than it probably otherwise would have.
4: I never got to fucking hold her.
5: No one's gonna remember all of her. There will be only one name on that grave, and it'll be the one that was never hers. No one's gonna remember Dara, Fox, Val or Nye. No one's gonna remember Cadera, or Laurel. This isn't just one person, it's a whole group sharing a mind. And no one will remember. My memory isn't worth a fucking thing, I don't even remember MYSELF most days. I can't write her story, I didn't know her long enough. She was isolated and alone most of her life. There's no way to properly reconstruct those lives now. There will be no history to write. Just a dozen people, one body, erased.
6: If anyone but me and her other LDR partners had given a single solitary fuck, this probably could have been avoided. 6 months after the diagnosis that she should have been on chemo, derailed by her trash-fire live-in girlfriend. Finally got on it, the course finished last month, and it was all too fucking late.

Anyway. Done shitting up the thread.

I did this one. Not all the details are the same, and I had better wedges into the places to make my voice heard, I don't want to discount the extra difficulties you're going through, but you're not alone in trying to mourn someone you loved that the world is doomed to remember wrong. It's hurts like hell. Write down everything you can. It doesn't matter if you never show it to anyone, it's important.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 20, 2023, 05:59:27 PM
Quote from: Scribbly on July 17, 2023, 02:19:07 PM
I feel like I can't express myself lately.

Over the past few months even basic points that should be easy to get across are constantly causing misconceptions and arguments at work, in my personal life, everywhere.

I haven't been able to write fiction in years and now it feels like I'm losing nonfiction too.

Ever since I was a kid I kind of considered words to be my thing.

I don't really know what I've got left without that.

I feel you there on the fiction thing.  I haven't written anything more than a couple of pages since late 2015.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 22, 2023, 06:33:35 PM
Updates:

Partner is NOT dying, AFAIK. She's having intermittent cognitive issues and aphasia as she goes through recovery (brain tumors suck) but it's been confirmed that to all appearances, she's fine. She thought she was dying because she misunderstood the doctor due to her aphasia.

That was still fucking terrifying, though.



I have started going gluten-free due to unintentionally giving myself a gluten challenge that began with about 1800 calories of sausage gravy and stuffing for breakfast, and ended with a near-emergency hypoglycemic episode two hours later. It's week two of this and there are some serious changes I've noted.

1: I'm eating less. Like, noticeably less. QGP can tell you how I used to eat, but yesterday I had, in order:
--1 quarter of a 10 inch pizza
--1 large bowl of black rice stir fry
--1 small bowl of chocolate ice cream
and after that, went to bed full and happy.

2: More energy. The past two days I have woken up to basically full functionality in under two hours of being awake. Yesterday I had no caffeine, and maintained a high-energy-high-brainfog state into the late night. Today I woke up in less than a half hour, and I'm having an energy drink because I suspect the brainfog has to do with insufficient B-vitamins (remember, I got actual fucking scurvy last year, so nutritional deficiencies are a big CHECK for me). Regardless, I'm HERE. I'm PRESENT. That's new! Especially given I woke up one hour ago.

3: Better sleep, or at least better absorption of sleep meds. Normally I overdose (3x recommended amount, doctor approved for me specifically) on sleeping meds and wake up in 5-6 hours. Last night, I did the same overdose, slept 9 hours, woke up feeling refreshed and healthy. I'm going to lower that to a 2x overdose for the next two weeks, and see if I can stop taking sleep meds altogether over time? But, genuinely, HUGE improvement.

4: Better mood? Not much, but no deep depressive episodes since I've begun this. Well, at least none if we don't count "my partner is going to die far away from me because of her shitty live-in partner", which even if it ended up being okay I sure don't count as a deep depressive episode, depression is kind of reasonable there. Also less easily frustrated, etc. Have I mentioned I don't have a doctor, so I'm not on any psych meds at the moment? Yeah, so this isn't a better absorption thing, this is a legitimate mood shift.

So uh, celiac disease seems reasonable to presume, or at least some level of gluten sensitivity.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 23, 2023, 11:17:56 PM
Quote from: altered on July 22, 2023, 06:33:35 PM
Updates:

Partner is NOT dying, AFAIK. She's having intermittent cognitive issues and aphasia as she goes through recovery (brain tumors suck) but it's been confirmed that to all appearances, she's fine. She thought she was dying because she misunderstood the doctor due to her aphasia.

That was still fucking terrifying, though.



I have started going gluten-free due to unintentionally giving myself a gluten challenge that began with about 1800 calories of sausage gravy and stuffing for breakfast, and ended with a near-emergency hypoglycemic episode two hours later. It's week two of this and there are some serious changes I've noted.

1: I'm eating less. Like, noticeably less. QGP can tell you how I used to eat, but yesterday I had, in order:
--1 quarter of a 10 inch pizza
--1 large bowl of black rice stir fry
--1 small bowl of chocolate ice cream
and after that, went to bed full and happy.

2: More energy. The past two days I have woken up to basically full functionality in under two hours of being awake. Yesterday I had no caffeine, and maintained a high-energy-high-brainfog state into the late night. Today I woke up in less than a half hour, and I'm having an energy drink because I suspect the brainfog has to do with insufficient B-vitamins (remember, I got actual fucking scurvy last year, so nutritional deficiencies are a big CHECK for me). Regardless, I'm HERE. I'm PRESENT. That's new! Especially given I woke up one hour ago.

3: Better sleep, or at least better absorption of sleep meds. Normally I overdose (3x recommended amount, doctor approved for me specifically) on sleeping meds and wake up in 5-6 hours. Last night, I did the same overdose, slept 9 hours, woke up feeling refreshed and healthy. I'm going to lower that to a 2x overdose for the next two weeks, and see if I can stop taking sleep meds altogether over time? But, genuinely, HUGE improvement.

4: Better mood? Not much, but no deep depressive episodes since I've begun this. Well, at least none if we don't count "my partner is going to die far away from me because of her shitty live-in partner", which even if it ended up being okay I sure don't count as a deep depressive episode, depression is kind of reasonable there. Also less easily frustrated, etc. Have I mentioned I don't have a doctor, so I'm not on any psych meds at the moment? Yeah, so this isn't a better absorption thing, this is a legitimate mood shift.

So uh, celiac disease seems reasonable to presume, or at least some level of gluten sensitivity.

Yay for partners not dying! Terrifying as shit but better than the alternatives.

And I'm glad to hear the current diet seems to be helping. TW Joseph had a hard dietary reset that seems to be doing him some good too. Fuck the fad dieters, but at least there's more options for the genuinely gluten sensitive these days.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on July 25, 2023, 11:00:53 AM
Glad to hear things are looking up, a little bit.

And yeah, gluten sensitivity options are so much better these days. I went to school with someone with Celiac disease and she used to have to eat these horrible plain looking things. Much like the vegetarian options, the companies involved have stepped up their game some and some of it actually looks pretty appetising these days.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on July 25, 2023, 09:57:51 PM
The main problem is it's hugely expensive. And it REALLY doesn't need to be. Take GF pasta, for instance: buckwheat exists and is gluten free, and buckwheat noodles have been a thing forever. But these days I can't even find pure buckwheat soba around here -- it's 50% wheat or, in a couple cases, pure wheat. Why? That isn't even fucking soba anymore. So I'm gonna have to order it, because every other alternative costs two to five times as much as a box of cheap durum wheat pasta, of course.

The big surprise to me is that Cheerios have no gluten tax. They have gluten-free oats, and that's for all their cereal.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on July 26, 2023, 10:26:11 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 20, 2023, 05:59:27 PM
Quote from: Scribbly on July 17, 2023, 02:19:07 PM
I feel like I can't express myself lately.

Over the past few months even basic points that should be easy to get across are constantly causing misconceptions and arguments at work, in my personal life, everywhere.

I haven't been able to write fiction in years and now it feels like I'm losing nonfiction too.

Ever since I was a kid I kind of considered words to be my thing.

I don't really know what I've got left without that.

I feel you there on the fiction thing.  I haven't written anything more than a couple of pages since late 2015.

It has been tough. Maintaining focus is a challenge and I think there's a lot of reasons for that.

But.

A friend pointed me in the direction of some really interesting philosophy. The sort of thing that is making me reevaluate everything. And I am writing again, just to try and get my own thoughts in order.

I don't know where this will end yet but it is good to have that feeling again. Having to really try to understand something difficult and new might be just what my brain needed.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 29, 2023, 01:23:50 PM
I PUT IN MY TWO WEEKS BITCHESSSSSSSSS!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on July 30, 2023, 12:17:53 AM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 29, 2023, 01:23:50 PM
I PUT IN MY TWO WEEKS BITCHESSSSSSSSS!

Does this mean you get to have a life again?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 30, 2023, 03:51:54 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 30, 2023, 12:17:53 AM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 29, 2023, 01:23:50 PM
I PUT IN MY TWO WEEKS BITCHESSSSSSSSS!

Does this mean you get to have a life again?

9 to 5, no weekends, work is something I actually want to be doing and am good at (gonna be at a print shop, doing a little customer service a little design and possibly some typesetting). This is absolute lifechanging shit
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on August 03, 2023, 01:35:36 AM
Another release with my name loosely associated! My friend Mabel's debut EP, featuring Garry of Memorrhage on vox. Did mix feedback, provided moral support when she doubted herself, and was the one who linked her up with Garry B for the release. Must-hear if you like Mick Gordon's nu-Doom work, Sepultura, etc. She's also just a really cool person.

https://silicloneliquid.bandcamp.com/album/excessive-parosxym
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Saint K1000 on August 03, 2023, 12:51:56 PM
Hello! Is there an area where presentation is mandatory, or perhaps forbidden? Anything you recommand me to do as my first steps here? (besides uploading a pfp because that apparently doesn't work)


Quote from: altered on August 03, 2023, 01:35:36 AM
Another release with my name loosely associated! My friend Mabel's debut EP, featuring Garry of Memorrhage on vox. Did mix feedback, provided moral support when she doubted herself, and was the one who linked her up with Garry B for the release. Must-hear if you like Mick Gordon's nu-Doom work, Sepultura, etc. She's also just a really cool person.

https://silicloneliquid.bandcamp.com/album/excessive-parosxym

will listen whenever I come back home, if I come back
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on August 03, 2023, 01:12:20 PM
Quote from: Saint K1000 on August 03, 2023, 12:51:56 PM
Hello! Is there an area where presentation is mandatory, or perhaps forbidden? Anything you recommand me to do as my first steps here? (besides uploading a pfp because that apparently doesn't work)


Take a look in the rant (Or Kill Me) and project board sections, vomit your guts up if you feel like it or just post mittens on things that vibe with you.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on August 03, 2023, 07:49:29 PM
Yeah, I normally don't post my stuff in here, we have other parts of the forum for that.

It's just that for me these past couple things have been big life-updates. Like "this is what I've been up to lately". But they also aren't enough mine to feel like I should make a new thread, I was a minor part at most. It's a life update, goes to the general "here's how I am" thread in my mind.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Bruno on August 04, 2023, 05:07:38 AM
Larry Tesler, Inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Saint K1000 on August 05, 2023, 10:48:41 PM
The forever loading google captcha....... It's one of us!
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on August 07, 2023, 08:39:35 PM
(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/669694031839887364/1138194550511382588/image.png)

I'm marking all as read.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Saint K1000 on August 07, 2023, 09:27:37 PM
Quote from: altered on August 07, 2023, 08:39:35 PM
(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/669694031839887364/1138194550511382588/image.png)

I'm marking all as read.

thanks for your participation in the forum
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Saint K1000 on August 07, 2023, 09:30:48 PM
Quote from: altered on August 03, 2023, 01:35:36 AM
Another release with my name loosely associated! My friend Mabel's debut EP, featuring Garry of Memorrhage on vox. Did mix feedback, provided moral support when she doubted herself, and was the one who linked her up with Garry B for the release. Must-hear if you like Mick Gordon's nu-Doom work, Sepultura, etc. She's also just a really cool person.

https://silicloneliquid.bandcamp.com/album/excessive-parosxym

Nice, very Slipknot-inspired I would say, which is a good thing.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on August 07, 2023, 11:43:01 PM
Quote from: altered on August 07, 2023, 08:39:35 PM
I'm marking all as read.

I wish I could say you're not missing anything, but I don't read his posts either, so I wouldn't know.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on August 08, 2023, 01:23:12 AM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 30, 2023, 03:51:54 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 30, 2023, 12:17:53 AM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on July 29, 2023, 01:23:50 PM
I PUT IN MY TWO WEEKS BITCHESSSSSSSSS!

Does this mean you get to have a life again?

9 to 5, no weekends, work is something I actually want to be doing and am good at (gonna be at a print shop, doing a little customer service a little design and possibly some typesetting). This is absolute lifechanging shit

That's awesome.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on August 08, 2023, 02:30:12 PM
Quote from: altered on August 07, 2023, 08:39:35 PM
(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/669694031839887364/1138194550511382588/image.png)

I'm marking all as read.

I get all the experience of being annoyed by American libs on Facebook without being American or on Facebook, it really is quite something.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on August 18, 2023, 08:18:49 PM
Quote from: Scribbly on August 08, 2023, 02:30:12 PM
I get all the experience of being annoyed by American libs on Facebook without being American or on Facebook, it really is quite something.

Oh, no.  I think you'll find me FAR more annoying in real life.  Like 50 times+ more annoying.  I am a veritable typhoon of annoyance, especially to right wingers and leftists, but really to everyone, even other liberals.  I'm like Jesus, only it's Jesus that tells dad jokes all day instead of parables, both before and after I get us thrown in jail.  In Southern Arizona.  In August.

Now, there are some who have met me - and when I'm in someone else's city, I'm on my best behavior - who say at the time that everything's fine, but later say that it wasn't, and they didn't even wind up in jail.  This makes me wonder why Eastern police are so nice.  Like those charming lads on the NYPD.  Think Chelsea cops with extra amphetamine.

So ignore the castanet noise.  That's just me shaking my liberal ass while I work on the Shiny New War Crime.

Boom shaka laka.




Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on August 18, 2023, 08:50:57 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 18, 2023, 08:18:49 PM
Quote from: Scribbly on August 08, 2023, 02:30:12 PM
I get all the experience of being annoyed by American libs on Facebook without being American or on Facebook, it really is quite something.

Oh, no.  I think you'll find me FAR more annoying in real life.  Like 50 times+ more annoying.  I am a veritable typhoon of annoyance, especially to right wingers and leftists, but really to everyone, even other liberals.  I'm like Jesus, only it's Jesus that tells dad jokes all day instead of parables, both before and after I get us thrown in jail.  In Southern Arizona.  In August.

Now, there are some who have met me - and when I'm in someone else's city, I'm on my best behavior - who say at the time that everything's fine, but later say that it wasn't, and they didn't even wind up in jail.  This makes me wonder why Eastern police are so nice.  Like those charming lads on the NYPD.  Think Chelsea cops with extra amphetamine.

So ignore the castanet noise.  That's just me shaking my liberal ass while I work on the Shiny New War Crime.

Boom shaka laka.

Maybe. If we ever have a chance to meet up I'll let you know how many multiples of Mythos you rate.



Scribbly Update: I'm gonna be scarce for the foreseeable. I've taken some heavy hits over the past couple weeks and they just keep coming.

See you when the storm has passed.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on August 19, 2023, 05:34:11 AM
Quote from: Scribbly on August 18, 2023, 08:50:57 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 18, 2023, 08:18:49 PM
Quote from: Scribbly on August 08, 2023, 02:30:12 PM
I get all the experience of being annoyed by American libs on Facebook without being American or on Facebook, it really is quite something.

Oh, no.  I think you'll find me FAR more annoying in real life.  Like 50 times+ more annoying.  I am a veritable typhoon of annoyance, especially to right wingers and leftists, but really to everyone, even other liberals.  I'm like Jesus, only it's Jesus that tells dad jokes all day instead of parables, both before and after I get us thrown in jail.  In Southern Arizona.  In August.

Now, there are some who have met me - and when I'm in someone else's city, I'm on my best behavior - who say at the time that everything's fine, but later say that it wasn't, and they didn't even wind up in jail.  This makes me wonder why Eastern police are so nice.  Like those charming lads on the NYPD.  Think Chelsea cops with extra amphetamine.

So ignore the castanet noise.  That's just me shaking my liberal ass while I work on the Shiny New War Crime.

Boom shaka laka.

Maybe. If we ever have a chance to meet up I'll let you know how many multiples of Mythos you rate.



Scribbly Update: I'm gonna be scarce for the foreseeable. I've taken some heavy hits over the past couple weeks and they just keep coming.

See you when the storm has passed.

Well, we're here if you wanna vent.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on August 20, 2023, 04:26:26 PM
First week at the new place! They might be fucking me on taxes but otherwise looking good. Had some time and energy to do some flyering, including putting Two Weeks up at the intersection in front of my old job, because I am a petty bitch sometimes always.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on August 20, 2023, 08:06:18 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on August 20, 2023, 04:26:26 PM
First week at the new place! They might be fucking me on taxes but otherwise looking good. Had some time and energy to do some flyering, including putting Two Weeks up at the intersection in front of my old job, because I am a petty bitch sometimes always.
Good.

On the jobs front, I'm actually considering working at Google.

Yeah.

It's the only place that has true-remote positions right now.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on August 26, 2023, 07:54:48 PM
I have apparently been told I'm blocked from the PD(dot)Com facebook page, which I had never heard of am not interested in.

That will show me!

:lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on August 26, 2023, 07:55:47 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 26, 2023, 07:54:48 PM
I have apparently been told I'm blocked from the PD(dot)Com facebook page, which I had never heard of am not interested in.

That will show me!

:lulz:

Do they think that's like a coup?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on August 27, 2023, 07:46:32 AM
Quote from: altered on August 26, 2023, 07:55:47 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 26, 2023, 07:54:48 PM
I have apparently been told I'm blocked from the PD(dot)Com facebook page, which I had never heard of am not interested in.

That will show me!

:lulz:

Do they think that's like a coup?

I have no idea what they think.  Maybe they just have a low buzzing noise in their heads.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on August 27, 2023, 11:18:21 PM
Peincipiadiscordia.com specifically. I'm not sure who manages that because it's not affiliated.

Let me know if they ever cause trouble
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on August 28, 2023, 01:07:22 AM
In fairness, Dok, it can be very fun and rewarding to have nothing in your head but a 23Hz drone. Or so I'm told.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on August 28, 2023, 03:34:42 AM
The screaming in my head is around 17 or 18 kHz, and it's not alone.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on August 28, 2023, 10:23:06 PM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on August 28, 2023, 03:34:42 AM
The screaming in my head is around 17 or 18 kHz, and it's not alone.

My brain is full of the THX logo sound, but tuned two octaves lower.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on August 29, 2023, 09:28:36 AM
Over the past few weeks (not necessarily in order because I honestly don't remember the timeline)...

I met my landlord for the first time. He made a homophobic remark, complained about his washing machine being broken and my decor, then arranged an inspection to measure the place up and create floorplans. So. Looking forward to the eviction notice.

My Dad was told he is dying within the next 2-5 years and it's not going to be in a good way. He is not handling it well. Understandably.

Close friend of mine has been scammed out of £700 they could not afford to lose.

The CEO of my business has announced they intend to replace my role with AI within the next 3-5 years. I'm expected to help the project team work on the large language model that will replace me starting in a month. Though this is stressful, it is also the one situation which has an opportunity to be fun.

Every customer I deal with has had some kind of horrific crisis. Most self-inflicted but being made our problem.

And then I got covid.

Interspersed with the usual frustrations about healthcare being completely inaccessible, having to talk people down from hurting themselves and continuing to deal with the fallout of the charity collapse.

I am so, so tired.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: QuestionsTheSoil on August 30, 2023, 05:05:12 AM
Time is going by too fast. I'm about to turn 20 and have fuck all to show for it, Summer decided to fly by, and I have no idea what my next move in life is.
I really don't want to be stuck at this supermarket janitorial job until I die.
I guess not everyone gets to have fun, though. Somebody's life has to be a boring shithole.
And transes aren't allowed to be happy anyway
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on August 31, 2023, 12:26:07 AM
Quote from: QuestionsTheSoil on August 30, 2023, 05:05:12 AM
Time is going by too fast. I'm about to turn 20 and have fuck all to show for it, Summer decided to fly by, and I have no idea what my next move in life is.
I really don't want to be stuck at this supermarket janitorial job until I die.
I guess not everyone gets to have fun, though. Somebody's life has to be a boring shithole.
And transes aren't allowed to be happy anyway

Defining yourself by what you do for money is your first mistake.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on August 31, 2023, 05:05:27 AM
I just got over influenza A and boy are my guts tired.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on September 02, 2023, 12:44:07 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on August 31, 2023, 05:05:27 AM
I just got over influenza A and boy are my guts tired.

Glad you're feeling less shitty
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on September 02, 2023, 02:54:44 PM
I'm juggling too much shit.

Gluten-free diet, relearning how to prepare foods that don't come in pre-packaged forms, finally have pans that won't hold gluten because no one else will be (no one else had BETTER BE) using them, building a small database of recipes I can prep myself (thinking about shepherd's pie, but with corned beef and frozen-section roast beef since I can't handle raw meat until my fingers stop bleeding, and replacing the gluten-containing gravy with a mixture of bone broth and queso), trying to visit a crush of mine and a friend of mine because it's cheaper that way, trying to get healthcare back (no luck so far...), etc, etc, etc...

I cannot be trying to quit smoking again right now, absolutely not, but I'm zeroed out. Also, I need to come up with 100 dollars for unrelated reasons that relate to maintaining housing and sanity. (If I explained this one, you probably wouldn't believe me, but suffice to say: Wisconsin is currently a better bet for me than Chicago.)

And because of Elon Musk, crowdfunding has all dried up. I'm this || close to being able to hit self-sufficiency, and I have made actual strides toward it. I cook my own food! I wanted a little treat and I had a tiny bit of money for it but realized I had butter and generic gluten-free rice krispies cereal and marshmallows and I made myself a little treat INSTEAD! I'm capable of trading energy in to save money now, where I wasn't before!

But one manbaby's ego has made it so I can't make it the rest of the way up. Well, okay, there's that and the nature of our capitalist hellscape in general, plus the unique awfulness of USAian healthcare, etc, etc, but I would be able to just say "fuck you" to all of that and muscle through... if.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: QuestionsTheSoil on September 04, 2023, 02:34:03 AM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on August 31, 2023, 12:26:07 AM
Quote from: QuestionsTheSoil on August 30, 2023, 05:05:12 AM
Time is going by too fast. I'm about to turn 20 and have fuck all to show for it, Summer decided to fly by, and I have no idea what my next move in life is.
I really don't want to be stuck at this supermarket janitorial job until I die.
I guess not everyone gets to have fun, though. Somebody's life has to be a boring shithole.
And transes aren't allowed to be happy anyway

Defining yourself by what you do for money is your first mistake.
I mean yeah, but it takes up most of my time and pretty much dictates how I live, so it really defines my life at the moment.
The American Dream, baby.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on September 05, 2023, 02:50:14 AM
Quote from: QuestionsTheSoil on September 04, 2023, 02:34:03 AM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on August 31, 2023, 12:26:07 AM
Quote from: QuestionsTheSoil on August 30, 2023, 05:05:12 AM
Time is going by too fast. I'm about to turn 20 and have fuck all to show for it, Summer decided to fly by, and I have no idea what my next move in life is.
I really don't want to be stuck at this supermarket janitorial job until I die.
I guess not everyone gets to have fun, though. Somebody's life has to be a boring shithole.
And transes aren't allowed to be happy anyway

Defining yourself by what you do for money is your first mistake.
I mean yeah, but it takes up most of my time and pretty much dictates how I live, so it really defines my life at the moment.
The American Dream, baby.

I know folks in janitorial jobs who have great work/life balance and are extremely happy with their careers. What is it about your current gig that's preventing you from having that?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: QuestionsTheSoil on September 05, 2023, 10:40:09 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on September 05, 2023, 02:50:14 AM
Quote from: QuestionsTheSoil on September 04, 2023, 02:34:03 AM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on August 31, 2023, 12:26:07 AM
Quote from: QuestionsTheSoil on August 30, 2023, 05:05:12 AM
Time is going by too fast. I'm about to turn 20 and have fuck all to show for it, Summer decided to fly by, and I have no idea what my next move in life is.
I really don't want to be stuck at this supermarket janitorial job until I die.
I guess not everyone gets to have fun, though. Somebody's life has to be a boring shithole.
And transes aren't allowed to be happy anyway

Defining yourself by what you do for money is your first mistake.
I mean yeah, but it takes up most of my time and pretty much dictates how I live, so it really defines my life at the moment.
The American Dream, baby.

I know folks in janitorial jobs who have great work/life balance and are extremely happy with their careers. What is it about your current gig that's preventing you from having that?
It's for Whole Foods, who is owned by the #1 company in Soul Crushing. Customers there also treat you like shit. I feel like I'm about to snap about every god damn minute.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Q. G. Pennyworth on September 07, 2023, 01:39:02 AM
Quote from: QuestionsTheSoil on September 05, 2023, 10:40:09 PM

It's for Whole Foods, who is owned by the #1 company in Soul Crushing. Customers there also treat you like shit. I feel like I'm about to snap about every god damn minute.

Ah, yeah that blows some serious chunks.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on September 07, 2023, 05:03:20 PM
End of the fucking line again.

I was spending so much time focusing on climbing out of the hole I live in that I didn't notice the ground crumbling under my FUCKING FEET.

No income. No rent means no housing. No good money and SNAP actively fucking me over means I will not have food anymore either real soon. I am so fucking tired of struggling for nothing, of fighting so fucking hard and making progress and having EVERYTHING TAKEN FROM ME yet the fuck again. I'm 33 and i have NOTHING
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: QuestionsTheSoil on September 10, 2023, 12:18:42 AM
I used to be creative. I used to be bright. I used to have a FUTURE.
Is this what getting older feels like?
Maybe it's the medication, I've felt off since I've taken it. Or maybe that's just a shitty reason I'm using to cope with the fact that my brain is losing value, slowing down, going numb.
Maybe I'm just depressed because the world sucks, idk.
My mind is either uselessly racing or slow and numb.
I was supposed to get a psych, but they're expensive as hell and I was denied telehealth shit, so that's shit. Great.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: LMNO on September 11, 2023, 09:18:29 PM
Hey y'all,

Still here.  Still a cook.  Still a drummer. Still married. Still queer.  Still not talking or writing very much.

Still happy.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on September 15, 2023, 07:30:37 PM
Quote from: LMNO on September 11, 2023, 09:18:29 PM
Hey y'all,

Still here.  Still a cook.  Still a drummer. Still married. Still queer.  Still not talking or writing very much.

Still happy.

Still here.  Still doing questionable shit for bad people.  Still married.  Still writing, under a different name, at a different place (solely due to lack of anyone being here).  Still full of rage.

Still happy, here at the end of all things.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on September 15, 2023, 07:31:26 PM
Quote from: QuestionsTheSoil on September 10, 2023, 12:18:42 AM
I used to be creative. I used to be bright. I used to have a FUTURE.

Sorry, there is no future left.  My generation and the one before mine used it all up.  Sorry about that.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on September 15, 2023, 11:19:04 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 15, 2023, 07:31:26 PM
Sorry, there is no future left.  My generation and the one before mine used it all up.  Sorry about that.

It's the middle of September, and Saskatchewan is still getting air quality warnings because of smoke from wildfires.

After this summer, I'm surprised there's anything left to burn.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on September 16, 2023, 01:23:32 AM
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on September 15, 2023, 11:19:04 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 15, 2023, 07:31:26 PM
Sorry, there is no future left.  My generation and the one before mine used it all up.  Sorry about that.

It's the middle of September, and Saskatchewan is still getting air quality warnings because of smoke from wildfires.

After this summer, I'm surprised there's anything left to burn.

There's always more Canada.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on September 19, 2023, 07:42:37 AM
It has been at least 4 weeks since the bout with covid started.

Housemate and I are still fucked by it. Whenever we think we're turning the corner a few days later it goes right back to the start.

I have tried to get an appointment with the doctor countless times, it is impossible. Call in the morning, get told there's too many people calling to even get put in a queue, get disconnected. Call in the afternoon, get told you can't have an appointment because you need to call in the morning.

And calling in the morning is so hard when all I want to do is sleep.

So as far as I can tell, I just don't get healthcare any more.

Love to live on Plague Island.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on September 27, 2023, 09:57:40 PM
Turns out making all the doctors and nurses flee to Canada and Australia and then making our immigration system so impossibly frustrating and difficult that no-one wants to come here was not a winning strategy. Who knew?

Try and keep well the best you can, though. I'm sure you've heard it before and know what to do, but fluids and rest, rest and fluids. 4 weeks is quite the ass-kicking, so hopefully it passes soon.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on September 28, 2023, 03:20:53 PM
Quote from: Cain on September 27, 2023, 09:57:40 PM
Turns out making all the doctors and nurses flee to Canada and Australia [...]was not a winning strategy.

Send more, please.  We still have a shortage.

Tell them Saskatchewan really isn't as bad as the right-wing regressive provincial government and technically uninhabitable climate might make it seem.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on September 28, 2023, 04:19:44 PM
Honestly sounds like the UK except it is as bad as it seems, and possibly even worse than that.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Bruno on October 03, 2023, 12:29:30 AM
So apparently they're "vaccinating the meat supply", now.

This, of course, means the Purebloods will have to choose between either becoming vegan, or start eating each other.

Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on October 03, 2023, 01:48:27 PM
Same crowd quiet on hormone beef and that most meat is pumped with IV antibiotics month after month before it ever hits your plate
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Bruno on October 04, 2023, 04:10:22 AM
They can't even grasp the concept that animals literally can not make protein, and that all the protein in meat comes strictly from plants the animal has eaten.

They're terrified that AOC is going to take away their hamburgers and they will all die of protein deprivation. It's hilarious.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on October 04, 2023, 02:28:01 PM
Quote from: Bruno on October 04, 2023, 04:10:22 AM
They can't even grasp the concept that animals literally can not make protein

That doesn't sound right.  Animals certainly make protein.  Humans can't adequately synthesize all the types of amino acids they need, and have to get those by breaking down protein consumed from animals that can synthesize those amino acids, or via certain specific vegetables (beans are a good source of lysine).

DNA is essentially a chemical instruction book for how to synthesize various proteins.  Any organism that employs DNA is making its own protein...
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Bruno on October 04, 2023, 02:36:47 PM
Maybe it would be more accurate to say that you can't get more protein out of an animal that you put into it, assuming that you are providing all of the animal's food.

They can forage and convert protein you can't eat or wouldn't want to eat into protein you would eat.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on October 04, 2023, 03:16:01 PM
Quote from: Cain on September 27, 2023, 09:57:40 PM
Turns out making all the doctors and nurses flee to Canada and Australia and then making our immigration system so impossibly frustrating and difficult that no-one wants to come here was not a winning strategy. Who knew?

Try and keep well the best you can, though. I'm sure you've heard it before and know what to do, but fluids and rest, rest and fluids. 4 weeks is quite the ass-kicking, so hopefully it passes soon.

Yeah its been pretty brutal.

Think I'm finally past it now at least. Lingering cough but I'll just have to live with that.

Genuinely horrified at the state of the NHS right now. Hard to see what they're actually going to be selling off when they do finally put it on the auction block.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on October 05, 2023, 12:37:31 AM
Quote from: Scribbly on October 04, 2023, 03:16:01 PM
Quote from: Cain on September 27, 2023, 09:57:40 PM
Turns out making all the doctors and nurses flee to Canada and Australia and then making our immigration system so impossibly frustrating and difficult that no-one wants to come here was not a winning strategy. Who knew?

Try and keep well the best you can, though. I'm sure you've heard it before and know what to do, but fluids and rest, rest and fluids. 4 weeks is quite the ass-kicking, so hopefully it passes soon.

Yeah its been pretty brutal.

Think I'm finally past it now at least. Lingering cough but I'll just have to live with that.

Genuinely horrified at the state of the NHS right now. Hard to see what they're actually going to be selling off when they do finally put it on the auction block.

WELCOME TO AMERICA!  Pool's onna roof.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on October 05, 2023, 11:49:27 AM
While struggling to get through this zero-income stretch (this is brutal, I'm not sure I survive this time), my partner, the Orrery, died.

I want it known she beat the fucking brain cancer. She killed it. It was the recovery from that fight that took her down, but she still fucking won.

She got away from her shitty abusive live-in partner, in the end.

My last communication with her was me parsing through the aphasia to understand her, and her KNOWING I understood.

Now I have to pack up everything I own again, and move to Wisconsin (and maybe, if G-d is kind to me and this relationship works out, Sweden some years later), and hope I can find a way to ride out the month or so of complete emotional breakdown I'm going to need just to get back to looking for fucking work again.

There is too. Fucking. Much.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on October 12, 2023, 05:35:29 AM
My mother's cancer, which has been controlled for years now, is galloping off with her.

Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: chaotic neutral observer on October 15, 2023, 02:48:13 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 12, 2023, 05:35:29 AM
My mother's cancer, which has been controlled for years now, is galloping off with her.

I've lost an aunt and three uncles to cancer.  My mother, on seeing her sister's body, shook her shoulder and tried to wake her, I don't know why.  It was heartbreaking.

Fuck cancer.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on October 19, 2023, 04:31:59 PM
I'm alive.

On Tuesday night, I was driven from the place I was living by one of the people there going on a total power trip because I dared use common spaces to exist when he wanted to eat food. Nothing I was doing would stop him from eating, but because I wouldn't leave the common, shared spaces while he ate, he lost his shit.

The dude wasn't the homeowner. He had a whole table to use, which I used a single seat at (the table seats 3 comfortably, WHILE I'm set up). I did have sound coming out of my laptop -- but only because he disconnected the internet, so I had to switch my headphones to my phone to talk to my partner.

Yes. Really. He disconnected the internet to try to drive me out of common spaces. Then because I wouldn't he locked me out of my bedroom, locked me out of the house (fortunately, I had my keys), and my partner was legitimately worried for my safety staying in his presence. She came to get me at great personal expense and risk, and I am safe now, but I'm far from okay.

I'm hoping this train of nightmares and suffering has ended now.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: QuestionsTheSoil on November 09, 2023, 03:09:40 AM
Mentally not doing well. Relapsed into some bad habits again. Feeling like it should all just end again. wondering if I should even bother again.
Got out yesterday and had a decent time, though. Got shit done. I don't get time to myself often.
I'm out of my own head lately.
Disconnected, like I'm managing to drown internally. Sore from everything.
ugh.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on November 14, 2023, 06:37:54 AM
hey yall, still alive somehow. Spent pretty much this entire year living in a bad Mexican soap opera. I'll probably go into more detail when i have more spoons.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on November 17, 2023, 12:59:58 AM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on November 14, 2023, 06:37:54 AM
hey yall, still alive somehow. Spent pretty much this entire year living in a bad Mexican soap opera. I'll probably go into more detail when i have more spoons.

Good to see you.

But it's worth mentioning this board is a misery fest at the moment, so you are once more in a Mexican soap opera.

Altered is having a rough go, my mother just went into hospice care, and Scribbly (previously known as Demosquid) is also not dancing any fandangos. CNO seems to be doing alright.

And aside from one or two pinealists, that's all that's left.  Everyone else drifted away (by which I mean "ran") when wossername's ring wasn't properly kissed.

Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Pergamos on November 17, 2023, 06:16:05 PM
I'm still around, and my life is going pretty well.  I've just learned the wisdom of shutting the hell up.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on November 17, 2023, 07:46:09 PM
I'm around vaguely, I just havent much interesting to say: a 3 year old an a 1 year old to keep me busy
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Scribbly on November 24, 2023, 01:31:18 PM
Things are slowly getting better.

I am continuing to wrestle with my insurance to get towards a point where I can cut down the cost of my treatment considerably. It has been an agonisingly slow process and I'm still nowhere near the end of it, but I do now have the bit of paper that says I am Officially Trans.

Work continues to be very difficult but it has been for years at this point. It is also necessary that I stick with it until the insurance has sorted everything at a bare minimum. Nowhere else offers this level of coverage in the UK, so I'm locked in with this company for the foreseeable. Which is fine. I've started taking steps to make myself more secure here, and if this is what I wind up doing for the next 5 years or so as I milk this policy for everything it is worth ... I can live with that.

It helps that work have also given us a generous two year pay deal and an extra £500 to cover Christmas. Financially, things should ease up for me a lot next year, especially if the insurance works out.

Holiday season is going to be a nuisance. Housemate's partner is coming to stay from the 5th Dec - 5th Jan and we do not have the room to comfortably sustain that. They are also really pushing hard on the 'I want to socialise and do tons of things all the time' angle. Which would be fine under normal circumstances. But I am very tired, I mostly want to hermit and get through the season. I may have to try and explain this diplomatically.

I haven't made any progress on writing or reading projects. But I am still here. I have a plan. I'm going to stick to it. Things will get better.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on November 28, 2023, 09:06:21 PM
Good to hear things aren't all awful, Scribbly.

I also have issues with work, though it's finding work in my case.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Saint K1000 on December 05, 2023, 03:02:14 PM
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Is the upload of avatars prevented to disable the influence of (an)eristic avatars into the forum? Is it a way to reject our Goddess?
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Faust on December 07, 2023, 03:40:31 AM
No it's a broken chmod permission, I'll take a look this week
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on December 07, 2023, 03:42:39 PM
Quote from: Saint K1000 on December 05, 2023, 03:02:14 PM
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:mind ray:
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on December 30, 2023, 12:27:12 AM
Been busy dealing with shitty life things (like actually running out of food, like for real) but I found the time to do mix feedback for the past two days. It was for the Memorrhage LP2 coming out some time in 2024.

Garry released the first track on LP2 as a single recently, and it's a decent example of what to expect. Really aggressive, unafraid to experiment, maximalist as fuck.

https://memorrhage.bandcamp.com/track/downstone-2

I did vocals on two tracks and synths on another, so expect to hear more.

Taking a moment to just talk shop: I heard one  "hey what the fuck" moment in the entire thing, during my test listen through laptop speakers (I test through a variety of devices to ensure I pick up the biggest balance of listening environments), and it was on something that was kinda strange to begin with. Everything else, my feedback was nitpicking single hairs in a dog kennel. I couldn't even manage that for the headphones listen, that shit sounded magical.

And I don't think a big-bucks, big-name industry-titan producer could have done anything but wreck the fucking thing. All the trends in metal these days are hide the cymbals in a narrow, character-free frequency band, bury the bass guitar in the low end of the regular guitar -- even, especially if the bass is doing its own thing, pump the mids on the guitar track even after the band spends so much time scooping them on their amp settings, compress the drums until the toms sound like kicks and the kicks sound like a training bag in a boxing gym and the snares sound like bursts of white noise, never use reverb for a GOD DAMN THING, I hate it, I hate it all, and this shit is a breath of fresh air.

Musicians, learn to produce your own stuff! It's mostly vibes, it's not hard, and you will do a better job showcasing your stuff than some man who copy-pastes the EQ settings from his last big project for a paycheck.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Bruno on January 27, 2024, 09:21:12 PM
"Officially Youtube Verified US Immigration" channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@USImmigration/featured

255k subscribers

Feels like they're trying to pass themselves off as an official us government youtube channel, but I can't tell if they are up to something nefarious, or just trying to make passive income from some AI generated content.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on February 02, 2024, 02:57:15 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 17, 2023, 12:59:58 AM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on November 14, 2023, 06:37:54 AMhey yall, still alive somehow. Spent pretty much this entire year living in a bad Mexican soap opera. I'll probably go into more detail when i have more spoons.

Good to see you.

But it's worth mentioning this board is a misery fest at the moment, so you are once more in a Mexican soap opera.

Altered is having a rough go, my mother just went into hospice care, and Scribbly (previously known as Demosquid) is also not dancing any fandangos. CNO seems to be doing alright.

And aside from one or two pinealists, that's all that's left.  Everyone else drifted away (by which I mean "ran") when wossername's ring wasn't properly kissed.



Damn, I'm sorry to hear everyone is going through it. Sincerely, I hope the best for you all

As for me, well in a nutshell, my dad allegedly raped my mom at the end of 2022 and my family has been slowly falling apart for a year and change now. This is made worse by the fact that my mom is a narcissist and is pushing everyone away even as she relies on us to help maintain her health. My dad has fucked off to Arizona to live with my sister and leave the rest of us to clean us their collective mess. This might be slightly more than a nutshell, but I'm also leaving out a lot of WILD shit, including my mother trying to sell my other sister's wedding gown, and also insisting on driving despite an expired license and cataracts. I might make a thread about it, idk.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: QuestionsTheSoil on February 09, 2024, 03:42:52 PM
My life is really going nowhere.
Fuck me
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on February 16, 2024, 01:54:01 AM
Quote from: QuestionsTheSoil on February 09, 2024, 03:42:52 PMMy life is really going nowhere.
Fuck me

It's not you.  It's the entire world.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Cain on February 17, 2024, 03:06:10 AM
Mine's felt like it's been going nowhere since late 2019 (aka the long 2020).

I'm just vibing now and enjoying my creative projects, like my DMing.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: The Wizard Joseph on February 24, 2024, 02:54:46 AM
I have been gone from here for a long time, but I am here now. I have some things to say here in the twilight, I guess. I don't know that there's time left before this escahton gets rolling, but it's time to start saying things again.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on February 28, 2024, 04:19:18 AM
I recently found out that not only did I get scurvy a second time, breaking a promise I made to my recently-dead partner, but I also had CRIPPLING copper, Omega-3 and vitamin B-complex deficiencies. There's bound to be even more dire deficiencies we don't know about.

Coincidentally, a couple weeks before this, my live-in partner and I had received in our regularly fruitless trips to the food bank a bag of nondescript Powdery Stuff. It called itself Ka'Chava and claimed to be a superfood.

We can't afford all the supplements I need to survive. We get me Omega-3 and Vitamin C for now, and start working on figuring out how to feed someone so sick they can barely move. We come across The Stuff in the cupboard. It's nondescript powder and claims to be a superfood, we have some yogurt and I can just about swallow a thick paste, but chewing is at the edge. Fuck it, go for it. What the hell else can we do?

Oh. It's delicious. THAT'S weird.

Oh. It has enough of what I need that I'm covered for all but the vitamin C, actually. Even if there are other, secret deficiencies. That's ... exactly what I need.

It's been some days now. I have a scoop of this stuff in a small pile of yogurt every day, and I am rapidly recovering. It's been MONTHS since I've been able to stand up and do dishes on my own. Hell, I can rarely prepare my own food. Two days in a row, I've been able to do some dishes and cook my own food. Stand up without vertigo. Feel my fingers at all times. Insane. So, tonight, just before I tab over here, I decide to look up how much this stuff costs, because there's a lot left still but I kind of want to make sure I have it in stock. I have a fondness for it, given that it literally probably saved my life, and I'd very much love to get more.

80 dollars a bag. It's bougie celebrity health food protein shake bullshit. I cannot get more. But we got it from a food bank. A fucking food bank. For free. No money.

Whoever donated that to the food bank is, bizarrely, a fucking saint. Bougie health food is normally poison to a truly poor person. But this? This is shelf-stable nutritionally-dense supplement that tastes actually good. Could not have gone to a better home, actually, because I otherwise might be bedridden now.

Just. Wild shit.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on March 20, 2024, 03:07:24 AM
Update. Been sitting on this for about one week, because it sucks.

The COVID I got because Wal-Mart infected my live-in partner (well. more on that soon) demolished my health. I have long COVID. I went from "mildly disabled" to "most days, drinking water or rinsing a dish is too hard".

My live-in partner is now my ex. We are dying of poverty, and we will both be homeless if I don't leave in May. I don't want her to be on the streets, so I will in fact go.

I have no next steps left. Everyone has run out of the ability to help, and they can't even hope I could potentially contribute or become self-sufficient now, because I'm too broken. It's the last stop: some place in Wisconsin.

I have until May, plus change for however long I manage to scrabble out survival before COVID, cops or starvation catch up with me.

I forget if I owed anyone here anything. If I did, let me know. I can't promise I'll get to it, but I can promise I'll try.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on March 22, 2024, 05:11:27 PM
I've sent a ton of my personal projects to my friend Shelly. It's over in about two weeks, it looks like. If I get very lucky, it might go until June or July, but I'd need a thousand dollars for rent. That's... just unrealistic.

Yeah. That's it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: Doktor Howl on March 23, 2024, 05:35:44 AM
I'm sorry to hear that, Altered.

Things aren't going well out this direction, either, but for very different reasons.  I was deeply unhappy.  Now I don't feel much at all.  I am once again in that glass hallway, and everything is QUIET.
Title: Re: Open Bar: Curbside Pickup Only
Post by: altered on March 26, 2024, 07:59:58 AM
Time's basically up. I've been trying, but I hit a wall and tonight I realized I was woefully optimistic. Hilariously optimistic.

I have a week to go and nowhere to jump to next.

I'll just copy-paste my retrospective on the life I have lived from elsewhere. This world doesn't deserve more effort from me.



Copy-paste begins below.


It's done. I'd say it's been good, but this life has been miserable for me. Everything I ever interacted with went to shit before my very eyes. I was forced to struggle for barebones animal survival from adulthood to death. I will be dead at half the age someone like me should. I saw a lot of things, fell in love with ideas and people, and watched everyone i care about suffer and wither away. And now I get to watch the precious few I have left mourn me before I'm even gone. The world is in shambles and has been in freefall since as early as I remember. I had joy, only to have it repeatedly stolen from me. I got partners, and they all left or died or ended up being pieces of shit (not my most recent ex, but a much earlier one). I got HRT and then lost healthcare after just long enough to see the start of the changes. I went through police violence and sexual assault. I have experienced so much medical suffering. I had more smear campaigns launched against me than anyone with my kind of profile ever should.

People have asked me for years now why I'm so bitter, angry, why I lash out, why I hate so much of this world and why I can't just shut the fuck up.

Look at the legacy of my life: an endless parade of trauma, abandonment, disappointment and suffering, capped by one last hurrah for unrewarded sacrifice, ableism and The Free Fucking Market.

If you can say you wouldn't be mad, I wish you the worst.