I dunno. There's no real fucking reason to bully someone. But I guess 'don't be an asshole' is too tough for some folks and this makes the whole 'don't expect me to cater to your feefees. I'M BEING AN ASSHOLE UNDER THE GUISE OF HONESTY.' Plus, telling a kid they don't matter is pretty fucked up. But that sort of thing is a rant for another day (seriously, it's okay to have and express emotions, including offense, hurt or whatever). I think @Sundown has the right of it. Why should someone have to be a beaten up callused survivor to hang out here? Eesh.

But I suspect the asshole vs blunt debate has gone on since Ogg told Ug he smelled funny. I am digging the more constructive nature of the place, even if some of the rawr from WORA was hilarious. I just would never want to be entirely on the receiving end.

Also, I did have fun running around with HR in CoH/V when we did that. I really miss the game.

Also. HITLER! BONERS! SEX ICE CREAM MACHINES! FERAL DD ORBS!

Honestly, the biggest issue with harem building/multi IC partner TSers I have is the inevitable drama fall out or that they hole up, and god help you if you aren't one of their TS partners because you aren't getting any plot clues. And staff loves to tell you, OH GO IC AND GET THEM FROM SO AND SO. WELL, THEY'RE AVOIDING ME. So that comes to a dead end.

Or the whole 'I'm gonna ignore anyone I can't bang/attempt to destroy competition' business. That shit's obnoxious.

Because you know, I'm terribly important and interesting. There are many missing characters and gaps here, but I'll do my best.

Rain@HM
Zafirah@HM
Saphir@HM
Gale@HM
Mara@Reach
Raine@Reach
Rain@Reach (Never finished that app, alas)
Mara/Maura on Star Wars games, as a doctor. Sometimes Amara.
Sofia @ TGG (and countless others)
Lunair/Winter/Miruan/Alice/Riluna on D&D games.
I was Zafirah at Soucon and before it split.
I played on a game with - shoot, I forget the name, but I was Despair the staffer. And there were dragons.
I was Winter the doctor on Star Trek: Gamma (i think...).
I was a gurahl and a void engineer with a space van on Depraved Creations (Rain and I think Muriel)
I was Rain the void engineer on City of Hope.

I'm sure there's more.

Credit reports. ARGH.

Then again, setting everything back up, trying to get a job and not starve while starting all over again really sucks.

On the other hand, I can now be Aquaman.

I honestly get tired of dudes constantly rebutting 'but not ALL of us do this to women!' the split second anything related to misogyny comes up. I'm sure not all dudes do, but that doesn't mean your first reaction should be to try to dismiss or mitigate an experience. It's distracting and marginalizing. And it makes the conversation about the dude, not the person being discriminated against.

I had done my part and extra for a project in our AutoCAD class, but the guy who never turned up asked to put his name on my part. I told him no. Suddenly, I'm a bitch for taking credit for my work. But if I don't speak up, slackerdude does nothing and gets a grade as good as mine. I hate that shit. It's not fair. Yet, he had no problem with the guys not having him on their work. I was just expected to share by default. How is that fair? I mean, I normally love sharing but my work is my work. I spent time, energy and effort on that project. He did not.

I think @Ninjakitten is really right.

http://www.dieselsweeties.com/ics/21/

A lot of women would benefit from bespoke or custom made bras. As it sits, off the rack (har har) sizes don't work for a lot of women.

I'd like to point out that we have people in America who starve to death. FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS, LOLOLOLOLOL. SPOILED AMERICANS.

We have Americans who die for want of simple, preventative medicare. Fucking spoiled Americans.

Don't get me wrong, we have it great in a lot of ways. But we also have a lot of problems.

We also have sexy guys named Nitro.

I suspect we were all putzes to varying degrees in our youth.

That awkward feeling when the lady who is working with you on employment so you can get food stamps and medical care insists you just need Jesus and to be positive to fend off depression. She also does this while quietly insisting I not tell anyone.

With all due respect, I need medication and therapy.

I made my first lasagna. Ricotta was involved, as was pesto. It was great! Ugly looking, but not all of us can sacrifice goats to a dark lord for pretty food talent.

At least Texas is throwing its hat into the ring on stopping this shitty daylight savings time business.

It is also really really hard finding an SSI/SSDI lawyer in town.

I miss being able to work, but complex migraines, mild seizures, tremors, depression so dire it landed me in a psych ward for a week and generally being gimpy is the worst. I continue to be useless and also a leech. whoop whoop.

Honestly, I think it's a little crappy to pull the ol 'TS friend in every time zone', and I cringe when I see it. And how do people beg so shamelessly? I feel horrible asking for help when my cat's butt exploded and I landed myself in the ER twice. Yes, I lost my job, but I started up a patreon, do mturks and cheesy data entry tasks.

1. Being in the shittiest psych ward in the state. They almost stole my bag, and did steal my little gamer fidget cube from antsy. Oh, and I loved the half frozen chicken, never being able to leave the main room and we didn't even get to know what time it was or what day. They tranquilized a poor teenage girl (DA FUQ IS SHE DOING WITH US ADULTS? Poor kid) so badly we ended up taking care of her by waking her up for breaks, bathroom, food, etc.

2. Strokelike migraines that increase the risk of actual migraines. APHASIA IS FUN EVERYONE! fuuuuuuuuuck. 2 ER visits, several months with a neurologist and they stuck me on depakote.

3. Awkward/terrible/stupid shit I did popping up in my brain at random. I never did figure out how I wronged Belieri, and I feel horrible about it.

4. When I find a yarn I like and it's discontinued and sold all of fucking nowhere.

5. My betta got diagnosed with TB and died, so I had to bleach and destroy everything because fish TB will cheerfully become human TB or buruli ulcers. Buruli ulcers consume flesh and bone if untreated. Google at your own risk.

6. the fact that I need to hurry with disability because what fucking workplace is gonna take someone who could stroke out at any minute? Yeah.

Sofia is still alive. Good luck with this project, an throw a show if you need help. Also, hi Faraday!

When I can, yup.

Are you shitting on my knitting? WOMAN. THESE ARE FIGHTING WORDS. throws down spare pair of knitting needles

But yeah, I try to be kind to those who play social PCs but may not be able to back it up. I don't play socially focused PCs because I'm an awkward git with a communication/linguistic disorder. It's best I just stick to awkward types.

I still fucking hate working in retail. Today, we had someone knock over most of a wine shelf. Woo.

Hi there. I was Rain, Miruan, et al on Scion, I played Mara on Reach Briefly, and uuh... I was Muriel on Ravenswood. Good to see you about.

I'll try to pop my crunchyroll passes to you. I hope you're okay.

Slinky loves to show his affection with VIKING HEADBUTTS. He is a sweetie, but he is not a very smart cat. Or good at being cat.

But he's cute and friendly, so it evens out.