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Eldest just received official confirmation of his acceptance into his first choice college. :)

@silverfox said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.: Last weekend I spent hours looking at alternate careers for teachers because I'm burning out badly right now. (I don't think I'll ever really leave - I'm terrified of losing the stability that comes with teaching. It would take a lot for me to lose this job, but my husband has gone through the private sector fire-hire roller coaster enough for me to want to engage in it.) This is why the UCU (University and College Union) over here went on strike last year, and it looks like we're back on strike again end of February. These workloads are not sustainable. It's not good for us, and it's definitely not good for our students. How can we give our best to them when we're working 60, 70, 80 hour weeks on a regular basis? Fuck your 'wellbeing' and tai-chi and painting a fucking rock for self help.

@Jaded I loved the first one. I do not want them to make a second if it is not comparable in quality. So I am biding my time here.

@Derp said in General Video Game Thread: @Auspice I liked the first Final Fantasy 13. The second one was alright. The third one got -- messianic salvation of the world's souls before the end of the world and I just can't even. I never got past FF13's 20 hour tutorial.

@sockmonkey today was my friday!

So I finally got around to actually watch Rise of Skywalker and I think my impression of the movie can be best summed up as 'A series of very dramatic scenes that at no point attempt to create a coherent whole'. Since every individual scene is very dramatic, the process of watching the movie is enjoyable enough and it's a fine popcorn flick. However as a casual fan of Star Wars I'm not sure I'm comfortable calling it a Star Wars movie because the movie at no point seems to particularly care about maintaining a coherent universe. ***=NSFW content***click to show Who and Why would someone make a dagger that points to a specific location in the ruins of the death star? Through which means exactly did Palpatine 2.0 build an entire fleet of star destroyers? Where did the manpower come from? How and why did he lift them out of the fucking ground with his force powers? At no point in the entire trilogy does Rey act like a Jedi, yet she somehow overpowers the Emperor by representing 'all of the jedi' Speaking of Rey and acting like a jedi, she just kind of accidentally blows up the transport ship she thinks her friend is in with her force powers. What? What happened to traveling through space taking time? Apparently you can now travel between the core worlds and the unknown regions in 5 minutes flat. Am I actually meant to buy the idea that a droid technician that's skilled enough to bypass C-3PO's programming doesn't know how to take a data backup? I think ultimately I'm just going to pretend this trilogy never happened. A bit like it's such a shame Matrix never got any sequels.

I've been getting by at work with my pain, etc. I crash when I get home a lot, for at least an hour, but.. I manage. It's not really living, but you do what you have to , to pay the bills. Then there's today - frigid outside, spent hours in the car yesterday without any sort of rest stops to stretch (That weren't located in stupid whiteout spots), so my body is like Fuuuuuuuuuuck youuuuuuuu Macha. You're not going anywhere today. Boss tells me to call him when I make it in. Uh... Good thing he got that medical accommodation letter from my doctor yesterday, telling him sometimes the pain is just too big to function around.

@hedgehog Rose McDowall - Cut With the Cake Knife Psychedelic Furs/Brecht/Weill - Mack the Knife

@Tinuviel It's funny because it's true.

@Jeshin Hey. I don't know if this got lost in the shuffle (shuffle, noise, vitriol), but I never minded the idea of anyone saying, "Hey, this thing is awesome and we want to feature it." I think it's a great community-building idea, and I hope you keep doing it. Even if people disagree, they will know what you think is good. The big explosion over ideas was because of the prerequisites. That is all.

Walking into a scene with high hopes but a little nervousness because it's gonna be with strangers aside from the fuckin' AWESOME person who organized the whole thing (<3!!!), and then having those hopes exceeded in every way possible. Just like, CRAZY great RP that happens in a very novel way, shocking revelations that somehow fit your character and the other characters perfectly and leave so much to dig into, the realization that you just made new instant game buddies... What a great night, I am going to be gushing for weeks :D

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@Cupcake said in The 100: The Mush: @Booriley Was this meant for the Apology thread? The apology thread has a 50% chance of just turning into a shooting gallery for bitter cunts.

@Bobotron said in The State of the Chronicles of Darkness: @tragedyjones Right. I skimmed that and honestly didn't think of Hunter or Mummy. :/ Sorry for forgetting someone's favorite game lines. I only know because it was pointed out on the onyx path forum, honestly.

@Coin said: Maybe it was a good run, maybe it wasn't, but we tried. Good enough for me. Fair nuff.

In contrast, I care where what behavior goes. It's a utility thing.

Altered Carbon, as a major inspiration for Eclipse Phase, has re-ignited THE ITCH.