Best posts made by Auspice

I have two litter boxes.

The cats refuse to use the second one.

The one they do use is too small for AJ: he's a long boi.

...this means he often ends up shitting outside of the box and then dragging out a good third of the litter to cover it up.

I'm perhaps an odd duck in that my first handful of years MU*ing were on wholly consent games. No rules system at all. Then I spent a while on rules-heavy games. Now I like something somewhere in the middle. It's why I'm a fan of FS3. I like a system that supplements my play, rather than dictates it.

We (lady geeks group I'm in :D) had a crafting meetup at the game store this week (usually it's at a coffee shop, but there was gonna be a bigger group so we needed a bigger venue). Since a bunch of us in the steotch were there, we took photos (pics = possible points in the competition!) and decided to make Deadpool show off our work for us.

@VulgarKitten said in The Shame Game:

@Arkandel You can get a reputation as a prude (shamed for it, even) for wanting to FTB on the TS, depending on the game/players on the game. Calling them morons doesn't make it less true, even though it's true they're morons. How is it different?

Or worse: you have a character who doesn't have sex for IC reasons. This was the case when I tried playing on Kushiel's Debut. My character was sister to the Cruarch and thus, her first born son would be the next... and not being Terre d'Ange meant that she didn't get the luck of not having kids until she prayed to a goddess (btw, loved the books, but always thought that was a bit silly).

In the time I was there, it became next to impossible to find RP. It's like people found out my char wouldn't be up for sexytiem, so I was just written off as someone to never RP with. Which sucked since, yo, Alban Diplomat. Should've been able to get in all kinds of plot and intrigue and politics, but noooo.

Hit a hyperfocus zone right before I was due in a meeting.

Meeting reminder: 15 minutes
Me: OK, cool, I'll head up in 10.
20 minutes later, my Skype dings: 'Hey are you coming to this meeting?'

Siiiiiiiigh.

Potato.

I was a stubborn SimpleMU user until I finally forced myself to switch. It's a similar enough interface to Simple (IMO). The dual-input windows are a dream (don't lose your pose if you have to check a news file or respond to a page!). I like how it handles spawns far, far better than Simple (I hated how Simple did it so much I just never used them). And being able to run multiple logs at once is nice (I have mine set to start a log as soon as I connect to a world, but then I'll start up another to capture a specific scene if I know I need to log it).

I used to use an alarm on my phone where all I needed to do was lift my phone up and set it back down to snooze.

Alexa is my morning alarm now because half the time I can't manage to speak clearly enough to say 'Alexa, stop' or 'Alexa, snooze' and by the time I figure out what even are words I'm awake.

My primary experience with Mages on multi-sphere games are either:
'Let me come in and rule the plot and look how amazing I am.' / (if Staff) 'I am going to flood this +request with so many different ways that I am trying to bend/break the rules and hoping you don't notice so I can solve this plot thing in one fell swoop LIKE A GOD'

or

'IT'S NOT FAIR THAT I CAN'T <insert thing that's rightfully unique to another splat>'

Sure, I've known good Mage players. But so many are just outright dicks that I just don't like it multi-sphere. Tabletop, yeah. Mage-only MU*? Sure. But on multi-sphere... sorry, annoying assholes have ruined it for me.

I love my job but I don't always love my job.

I started in July, coming into a project for a new tool that had been in development for almost two years (there was a lengthy stall in there where it got shelved and then brought back out). I was brought in in July for a product due to launch in January 2020. Okay. That's a good period of time.

Except at the beginning of August, I was told 'We're going into scrimmage first week of October, so documentation needs to be ready by then.'

It took all of July to settle in and grasp the concepts coming at me because it's not just a new industry; it's a new industry that does things their own way.

It took August to learn the tool, write my outline, and get some rough drafts of sections done.

Here I am, week 2 of September, and there's a lot of 'Why isn't the training material ready?'

Maybe, maybe if you'd brought someone in back in, oh, April? maybe? this would be closer to done.

It's two different sides: the people that have been embroiled in this project from the start and people who have to learn it new for January and are anxious about it.

And I can't seem to get them to understand: to be able to document the training material (aka to be able to teach this through text and images), I need to fully understand it myself. That takes time.

ETA: And I am missing a lot of things because other teams haven't finished / delivered them. So the documentation I have completed has a lot of 'process to be inserted here once approved' type notes.

All the games I played on when I began MU*ing lacked meetme (or speedwalk or whatever).

I'm lazy af and use it now, but I also don't mind meandering rooms. However, I wholly admit... I don't read descs while doing so. So I miss out on those lore bits. Ahem.

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

And now I'm noticing a bunch of people at the office signed up for a shirt, but aren't participating.

hooray for 'everybody wins' mentality.

@Arkandel said in Fanbase entitlement:

I don't know if it can get much stupider than this.

Probably the same people who have sent the spouse/partner of actors death threats because they wanted said actor to be gay.

Since, y'know... being gay isn't a choice UNLESS it validates your shitty fanfic.

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

@Ghost This was a good one, usually they waste 12 minutes finding veins and re stabbing me before getting help, this girl just got it in one go.

I went to the ER once for severe abdominal pain (this was about a year before they finally realized my gallbladder was trying to kill me). Had to get a CT with contrast.

Lady comes up on my left side.
Me: 'You're gonna want my right arm.'
Her: 'Oh, it's fine. I'm already setup over here.'
Me: 'No, really.'
Her: 'I know what I'm doing.'
Commence her trying inside my elbow, then below that, then below that... until she can't do that arm anymore. She goes to my right side: boom, first try, no problem.
Me: 'I told you.'
She huffed and scurried off and I was left answering questions at work the next three days because my left arm looked like someone had beat the shit out of me.

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

Also with delivery drivers that don't have to call me to find my apartment in this maze of a complex.

Of my friends who have visited my apartment complex, only one ever made it without having to call me and be guided in.

But every so often, a delivery driver shows up at my door: 'Those were some of the best instructions I've ever had.' And I usually praise them for actually reading/following them.

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

@Auspice I've had to start having things delivered to work because "please don't leave on the doorstep where it can be stolen but put in this thing I have specifically put here for parcels with Parcels written on it" is too complex. They also left our gate open twice to let puppy onto the road. I flipped my shit then...

Ugggh.
My complex now (we didn't when @Ganymede tried sending me things!) has something called an 'Amazon Hub' which is like an Amazon Locker just for the complex. All deliveries (except oversized ones) go to it, not just Amazon.

The problem with my boots is they insisted they were in the locker. They were not. I even had to call Amazon Hub and get them to confirm and relay back to the other team. It was a mess. THANKFULLY only happened the once.

It makes me miss living in a house TBH. The house I had back in SC had a big porch and was set back enough from the road.

I keep Pub off, too.

Grayson chan has been nothing but Awesome.

We have to talk about the ducks

Every so often I just have to go back and watch this.

I think if you have a Storyteller's Storyteller, you may not even need 2 (unless it's a larger game). Another Staffer could easily step in and run for them (running for 1 person vs. running for an entire game is much easier, after all).

And I don't think it'd be out of hand or weird to approach that person and go 'Hey, which character do you want a plot for and what did you have in mind?'

It'd also be relatively easy to code a system in which STs can file preferences, story seeds, etc., that other STs can then view.