RL things I love

Pandora · Mar 23, 2019, 1:49 AM

I'm finally moved into my new house and (mostly) unpacked and my room is far enough away from everyone else's room that I can finally, after almost two years in that apartment, MASTURBATE IN PEACE.

Ghost · Mar 25, 2019, 8:13 PM

Had to share.

Tinuviel · Mar 25, 2019, 8:57 PM

@Ghost I know my next Changing Breeds character...

Ghost · Mar 25, 2019, 8:57 PM

@Tinuviel said in RL things I love:

@Ghost I know my next Changing Breeds character...

I know, right?!?!?! Glorious.

TiredEwok · Mar 26, 2019, 1:50 AM

For as much as I've complained about money, I can finally say we're pretty much caught up on bills. So figured I'll celebrate that fact by commissioning some arty stuff from friends to improve my stream.

silverfox · Mar 26, 2019, 11:14 PM

I can't get my family to understand this but I really love that when I go visit them I get put to work doing whatever household chores need done.

At Christmas I helped lay wood flooring in my mother's house. Currently I'm at my older sister's house and I have done the dishes, located a missing dog, washed walls in preparation for painting, scrubbed vents, taped off walls for painting, and painted. Moreover I've run to the store for last minute food, walked dogs, picked up my nephew's flu meds, etc. They are stupid little things, but I honestly love them.

I enjoy them because I get the feeling of accomplishment as well as knowing I've helped someone not myself. Moreover it means that I'm doing something as we catch up and not just sitting there awkwardly. Most importantly I'm not sitting alone in my house.

Sister keeps apologizing for putting me to work and I try to explain but I don't think she will ever quite get it.

dev · Mar 27, 2019, 12:11 AM

@silverfox It's the difference between being family as opposed to guest in their minds; that's how I find my joy in it. I don't experience this as much with actual family, but I've a couple of friends that may as well be. It isn't the work itself I love, either, but their comfort and familiarity with my existing near them enough that I'm not someone to cater to. It's noice.

Arkandel · Mar 27, 2019, 3:34 PM

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mattfleming/doublesix-dice-generation-two

This is so utterly stupid it's awesome

Auspice · Mar 27, 2019, 12:19 AM

@dev said in RL things I love:

@silverfox It's the difference between being family as opposed to guest in their minds; that's how I find my joy in it. I don't experience this as much with actual family, but I've a couple of friends that may as well be. It isn't the work itself I love, either, but their comfort and familiarity with my existing near them enough that I'm not someone to cater to. It's noice.

I'm like this with friends and running errands.

Errands are so much better with friends.

wahoo · Mar 27, 2019, 5:47 AM

IT'S DONE.

THIS MOVIE THAT WOULD NOT FINISH IS FINISHED.

From script to ProRes file, it took us a year and seven months, 99% of which was post production / CG creation of a monster thing. But it's done. And it looks cool. And I never want to watch it again.

Tinuviel · Mar 27, 2019, 6:25 AM

@wahoo

Testament · Mar 27, 2019, 7:38 AM

The following is a conversation that I mostly overheard at work with only my partial interjection into because I felt like being snarky. It's one of the few times where my sense of humor was able to bring someone to a dead stop, though I credit that mostly with the follow-up my buddy next to me chimed in with.

So, there was a number of us nerdy types all located around one particular section of lab, going through kits. Two people were in a really heated conversation about Harry Potter related material. Most of this conversation was about whether they agreed with Rowlings sudden changes to characters to what they perceived had been cannon for years now.

Eventually another of our group eventually pipes up, having only just pulled his headphones off to chime in.

"Wait, so who's gay now in Harry Potter?"

I saw my chance and I took it.

"The sorting hat apparently eats ass now."

My friend next to me immediately jumps in on that.

"Tastes like...SLYTHERIN."

Very little work got done for the next ten minutes. I almost forgot I was at work for a moment.

dvoraen · Mar 27, 2019, 8:26 AM

I have simple tastes with respect to the thread title:

That feeling of excitement for entertaining stuff coming out despite the fact I know that I will inevitably be tearing my hair out over it (because of other people, and sometimes yours truly). This is also known as an MMO Expansion launch (and raiding).

Sleeping in when I don't have to go to work or any appointments. Wake up, look at clock. Peace out for two more hours or until I feel like it.

My brain. Kind of conceited, but I don't know what I would do with myself if I couldn't have the writing-related thoughts that I have, even though something in there overdoes it a LOT at times. Makes the 30m bike trip to/from work less onerous (esp. when cold, raining and/or wildfire smog). It's the primary reason I broke out of MUDs into MUSHes and the like where the focus was more on who you were and what you did, rather than what you were statistically.

Arkandel · Mar 27, 2019, 8:03 PM

@dvoraen said in RL things I love:

That feeling of excitement for entertaining stuff coming out despite the fact I know that I will inevitably be tearing my hair out over it (because of other people, and sometimes yours truly). This is also known as an MMO Expansion launch (and raiding).

What's launching?

Ghost · Mar 27, 2019, 3:34 PM

@Arkandel said in RL things I love:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mattfleming/doublesix-dice-generation-two

This is so utterly stupid it's awesome

WAIT WHAT?!?! 2D6 IS THE SAME AS A 1D12???

Arkandel · Mar 27, 2019, 3:47 PM

@Ghost You already ordered it, didn't you.

Ghost · Mar 27, 2019, 3:50 PM

@Arkandel I already have plenty 1d2d6s and 1d3d4s.

Testament · Mar 27, 2019, 6:08 PM

So, Book 8 of The Expanse, Tiamat's Wrath was released yesterday and I've been devouring it. I've been waiting for this book since December and I can finally figure how this whole story is going to end in Book 9.

Goddamn, it's so fucking good.

dvoraen · Mar 27, 2019, 8:03 PM

@Arkandel said in RL things I love:

@dvoraen said in RL things I love:

That feeling of excitement for entertaining stuff coming out despite the fact I know that I will inevitably be tearing my hair out over it (because of other people, and sometimes yours truly). This is also known as an MMO Expansion launch (and raiding).

What's launching?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tyuIh12_HU

Sparks · Mar 27, 2019, 9:29 PM

@wahoo said in RL things I love:

And I never want to watch it again.

First, congratulations! Is this The Long Dig or something else? (I am, uh, very behind on Twitter things and social media in general.)

Second, I so remember that feeling from my days in the video game industry. More than once we would finally finish a game, ship it, and then be like "Okay, that's done; let's install it and never start that game up again. (Or at least not for the next year or two, unless we have to patch the darn thing.)" To this day, I have still never played the release build of No One Lives Forever.