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@Cadi said in Auspice's Playlist:

@Auspice HA! You and me both! I am well acquainted with the hermit lifestyle thanks to online grocery shopping...

InstaCart ftw. Why yes I will pay you $15/mo for grocery delivery within 2 hours of purchase.

@kitteh said in An Apology to BSO and BSU.:

What characters are we talking about? It's been a bit since I stopped on BSGU but some of this sounds kinda familiar-ish.

Let me see if I can remember...

Kazimir, Beckham, Jonas, Tucker, Mason... am I missing any?

Priya!

I'm Niemec.

@insomniac7809

@wolfs said in An Apology to BSO and BSU.:

I also think it's in bad form to take a private conversation over MSB chat and copy/paste it here without permission from the other side when it's done in an attempt to seemingly save face

In this case, @tek did reference the conversation before he shared it. I do, however, see your point.

@Arkandel said in The Apology Thread:

Man, on MSB we can't even apologize without debating about it.

I take offense to this viewpoint. I am not discussing, I am educating. Geez, can't you ever get it straight?!

(Ok, let's see... I refuted the accusation of a debate with a counter-argument. I asserted my intellectual dominance. I tossed out a not-so-subtle insult. What am I missing...)

Oh, wait, I got it!
@Arkandel I'm sorry you thought we were debating.

<.<

I loved Thorne on Fallcoast. She was my Detective who ultimately joined TFV.
She began as a Mortal who knew nothing about the supernatural (despite having a Ghost Ally; always fun having Sin Eaters around :D).

One of my favorite nWoD scenes, to this day, was her first encounter with anything supernat. Case leads her, another cop, and a CSI to this shack. They encounter a man-sized cockroach. This thing tries to get freaky with her CSI. Thorne decides, well... to kick it in the head.

Now I knew my dice for that roll would be back, but it's what Thorne would do. So I rolled it. I didn't just fail. I drama failed. So Thorne tried to curb stomp this thing while shouting "NO MEANS NO" and fell through the fucking floor into a whole swarm of cockroaches.

Best moment ever.

I mean, she had a lot of them.

She basically had perma face, even once she fully accepted the supernatural as a thing. But she was that person who would have your back, no matter what. And my shit dice meant it would generally be pretty hilariously ridiculous through the course of it. She was fun to play and the people I was playing with in Law at the time (Brodie, Tucker, Mike, Dash, Kate...) made it awesome, too.

@WTFE said in The Apology Thread:

@Auspice said in The Apology Thread:

Can we mention apologies we want?

I want an apology from the guy who, many years ago, tried to lecture me on proper use of it's/its and did so incorrectly. He was a snotty bastard about his improper use of grammar.

(Yes, I am being utterly facetious here. :P)

Aw, shit man! I SAID I was sorry dozens of times since. Now you have to make it public!?

I need you to prostrate before the whole of the (MU*ing) world!

@arkandel said in Good TV:

Say what you will. The first season of Star Trek: Discovery kicked some serious ass.

I'm finally catching up on the 2nd half of season 1 and I keep having some serious holy shit moments.

As a writer, especially as one who has been going to school for this, who has had to write a TV episode (under a raging asshole of a teacher who put us through the goddamn wringer)... These writers deserve props.

Not only is each episode crafted beautifully as an arc, the whole season is a wonderful arc from act one, two, three. Each character is well-written. They have threads from earlier episodes that aren't just dropped, but woven through in ways that when they come up again, you have those ah-ha! moments.

I haven't been this impressed by television writing in a really long time.

@saosmash said in Period Piece Face vs Modern Face:

@kanye-qwest okay but what if I just irrationally hate a face whether it is modern or period? Because Matthew McConaighey I just can't stand.

Edit: or spell, apparently.

I do kind of want to punch his face.

@Kanye-Qwest said in The Apology Thread:

I agree with some people!

While any subset is going to be full of those who don't apologize well (or ever), I think in this hobby the reluctance to forgive is way more toxic. Outliers aside, "someone screwed my character over IC 10 years ago" is not a reason to hold a grudge. "A staffer was rude when they handled my job", likewise. "Someone was shitty to me", probably yeah maybe move on and let it go? Everyone has moments they are a shitty person. Everyone.

It's not just an issue in this hobby, that reluctance to forgive. I see it throughout the real world, too. So many people see refusal to forgive as a way to continue punishing the other person (my ex-husband was guilty of this), rather than an important step in healing and moving on.

It's easy to hold a grudge, but it's also toxic. For you. For social circles. And yes, for them. It's never going to make you feel better to poison other people towards someone. It's just a cycle of negativity.

Sometimes, you have to learn to forgive someone even if they never apologized. Or even if they didn't give an apology that you thought was good enough. Or (and perhaps especially) if they weren't aware that they upset you. Some people have a hard time reading body language or tone. Sometimes we misunderstand someone's intent or meaning in text. If someone said something that upset you and then they 'go on acting like nothing ever happened,' it's very possible (esp. in text-based environments) that they didn't mean anything hurtful by it... not that they're a callous, unfeeling bitch.

@sockmonkey

I don't know if you live in a state with that legal weed stuff, but if you do... CBD gel is amazing for knees. Like, omg it's been life changing for me. I wish weed worked as well on the rest of me.

When my knees have those days where they're so inflamed they feel like they're packed with cotton? That stuff works better than anything else I've touched. It's worth at least trying if you get a chance. I know it doesn't work for everyone, but knee problems suuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

(I know other states have CBD oil/gel options, but it's never as good as the states with legal MJ.)

@kanye-qwest said in Period Piece Face vs Modern Face:

This is why I can't play these games. I thought this was Robin Wright.

Face blindness is a real problem y'all. I can't just imagine person as thing.
Except in certain cases. I know Matthew McConahahahahaha has a punchable face. I remember that. I couldn't describe him for a sketch artist, but I know whenever I see him that I want to deck him.

@Ganymede said in The Apology Thread:

@Kanye-Qwest said in The Apology Thread:

(That last one was me! And I got called a cunt like seven times by the person against whom my biggest transgression was using one of the multiple disses at my character's command to illustrate a part of her personality)

Ah. So, what you mean is: don't be fucking petty with your grudges.

In which case, I agree. People are fucking petty sometimes. Very petty.

I hate it so much that I will fucking hate anyone who is fucking petty.

I don't know; I wish I had more to contribute these days.

Pretty much this, yes.

Forgiveness doesn't mean opening yourself up to be harmed again. Forgiveness doesn't mean going 'I'll pretend it never happened and wipe the slate clean.' It means learning from the experience, but not reliving it over and over again.

I have forgiven my ex-husband, but I have made no attempts to speak with him or let him have any influence over my life again. All it means is that instead of obsessing over what he did to me or could do in the future, I have closed out that chapter, put it on the shelf, and moved forward.

It's like others have said: forgive, move on, and don't be petty. Don't pull the 'omg I once had SoanSo screw me over on another game about a year ago, don't RP with them' or try to actively fuck up their time. There are people, yes, that have consistently proven to be problematic. VASpider, for example, has been given plenty of chances. But there's plenty of people who have made mistakes and it's not who they are, but perhaps a matter of circumstance (while we would all like to say we've got the presence of mind to not be online on a bad day, I'm sure most, if not all of us, have done so on more than one occasion; it's easy to do, you tell yourself it'll be a nice distraction and then whoop, things go sideways and it gets ridiculously worse).

@sockmonkey said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Auspice Oh! I will look into this! My husband mentioned CBD oil as something to look into for my migraines. I didn't know there was CBD gel. Because at this point, in addition to the Bengay, I am using a prescription anti-inflammatory, icing, swearing under my breath a lot and sometimes leaning on Percocet just to get some sleep at night (the knee pain is so bad that I wake up periodically in the night because I just HURT) which I don't like doing because .. PERCOCET.

And I'm in CA so yeah, legal weed stuff!

http://fairwindscannabis.com/product/flow-cbd-gel/
This is the one I used when I was in WA (I bought a spare jar just before moving >.>). It seriously gets rid of that packed-with-cotton feeling within 5-10 minutes. No pill (even prescription-strength) has ever been able to do that. It makes my hands itchy, but that may just be me (and it only does it to my hands; so I just wear food prep gloves or wash it off right after). But there are nights where my knees are so bad I can't sleep unless I use it, so I totally understand.

ETA: Looks like that brand is WA-only, but! It gives you an idea what to ask for at a shop. When I found it I just asked the girl at the store about what's good for joints and it's what she pointed me at.

@kanye-qwest said in Period Piece Face vs Modern Face:

Here's one I can't decide: Jeffrey Dean Morgan

After looking him up, I'd go with Modern.

@Faceless said in Faceless' Playlist:

@Auspice said in Faceless' Playlist:

Oh, hey. We briefly played together on Eldritch. I was Annika.

Hi! Annika was Mr. Bowman's Jack Smith Cover's neighbor or something, wasn't she? Coroner? Tech? Or something of that nature associated with the Law group?

Forensics tech, yep. And it was Jack Smith she knew, yeah.

I recall being quite pleased when you actually rolled in a crime scene to see whether he held his cookies (he did not). It helped me feel better for having gotten the feat Tolerance for Biology (most people just... play as if they do, even if they don't).