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I sort of miss Arx, but my big issue with it wasn't issues like Custodius being around, sadly...

My issue was everything moved way, way too fast for me. And with my migraines now compounding my availability even more, I just... sadly still don't see it being a good fit for me.

@HelloProject said in A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like:

@Auspice said in A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like:

I remember seeing a tweet once from a black guy in Britain. It went 'I am sick of being called African American. I'm British. #FML.'

Belatedly, I think it's dumb as shit when people try to be so overly PC that they call British people and Jamaicans and shit, "African-American". I use African-American when I don't want there to be any mistake about which culture of black people I mean, I use black when being so specific isn't as important. But that's just my particular way that I use the words.

I just recall a period of time when 'black' was offensive. It didn't last long, but there was a stretch where it was, so people were sort of floundering for ways to identify those who were... and 'African American' was all they could generally land on.

It's sort of nuts at times, I guess. I mean there are def. offensive terms, no one's gonna disagree. But 'people of color' is hella broad. African American sorta cuts out, well, a massive chunk of the world, yo. So yeah, black works? But that tweet has always sort of made me laugh and it's an example of humor that identifies race without being racist.

This falls squarely into the 'peeve' category:

The Hulu app should let me download episodes to view offline just like Netflix does.

@HelloProject said in A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like:

@Auspice I like African-American for specifically referring to my own culture separately from other black cultures. But I like black as a casual term. So I think there's a place for both. I don't really necessarily lump myself in with British black people, or Jamaicans, or Nigerians. We're all distinctly different cultures who have our own shit going on.

But yeah, there are black people who will 100% take offense if you don't use African-American. I mean, I somewhat understand? But eh, it's whatever to me.

Culturally, for sure. And I think we need a place for both? Because yeah, I can't go to England and refer to someone as African American because... they... aren't American. Hell they might not be British. They might be visiting from Africa or Jamaica or even elsewhere (Canada!).

It's sort of landmine-y, but I appreciate people like you who are willing to discuss it because I want to be able to find terms that are acceptable. Because as a writer, esp. one who writes articles from time to time, it's important to know these things.

Did anyone share this yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-onk-Qm7ATw

because it's amazing.

@HelloProject said in A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like:

Tonight I was out with a white friend of mine, he treated me to Pho. But like, he kept walking up to people's houses in the middle of the night, picking plants and shit. I was like, "Dude are you nuts we shouldn't be walking up to someone's house in the middle of the night?" and he was like "Nah it's fine".

That sort of blows my mind. o.o I mean, I'm white, so I get the 'yeah I could get away with it,' but I grew up in a heavily mixed population area (outside of DC), so it just... wasn't really A Thing so much.

There's a lot of "white" behavior that baffles me just as much as there's a lot of African American or Asian American etc culture that I don't comprehend.

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

Not sure if this counts as a peeve, and it's not RL in as much as it is... a here-based peeve.

If the post is over six months old, don't upvote it. It's creepy.

You too?

I sort of panicked briefly when I logged in and saw how many notifications I had.

@HelloProject said in Wikidot Designer Wanted:

While I have too many projects to really take this on, my primary warning about Wikidot is to be careful with how much content you add at once to a new wiki. I've had my entire wiki get removed wholesale (which also fucked my karma), because they marked me for spam even though it wasn't. That's why I don't use Wikidot anymore, otherwise I love Wikidot.

Not something I've encountered before! Well, considering this is meant to be a 'take it slow and easy' deal, hopefully that won't happen.

I've had someone step up and offer to help, so hopefully this is covered, but thank you.

@Kanye-Qwest said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

Yeah ADHD people often have trouble disconnecting and going to sleep, and then we don't always get good sleep while we ARE asleep - not to mention the mental fatigue that comes from constantly trying to refocus attention and castigating yourself and being anxious about all the things you are letting slip. IDK all the science behind it, but it is definitely a symptom.

I was explaining to someone recently that I sort of have to use my phone at night to be able to sleep. Because if I just lie there... my brain will never shut off. So I have to just queue up a bunch of mindless YouTube videos to keep my mind occupied enough that I can start falling asleep during them.

Then hope that in the space between putting my phone down and settling in, my brain doesn't kick into a 'Oh hey remember that thing...'

I also wouldn't be surprised if super weird dreams are a thing with ADD/ADHD. Because mine are never mundane and I wake up sometimes just exhausted from my dreams. But I know very few people who experience a similar level of 'fucked up'ness in their dreams.

As my other post re: wiki may have hinted, I am slowly starting to make this happen. I am picking away at things as I have inspiration. There's obviously no set timeframe.

However, I had a spark of inspiration and got my initial metaplot outlined today. I'm pretty excited about it.

@Lotherio said in Good or New Movies Review:

@Auspice Heh, I can make up crazy comic theories all day.

***=I've no clue if there will be spoilers or not in crazy talk, playing it safe.***

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So Killmonger is like an anomaly. T'Challa didn't want to kill him at the very end, they sort of had an understanding at the end too. So before Steve time travels, they talk about changing this alternative timeline past thing (like Steve living out days with Agent Carter without changing the actual past or whatever). So this Killmonger that gets to live becomes the new anomaly in the machine which leads to ... Morphius (assuming the prequel makes it to actual movie, where Michael B Jordan plays young Morphius - which crazy aside, would be a cool movie, more spy stuff like the beginning of Matrix).

Though, in honest, I wouldn't be surprsied if he returns as Killmonger, along with a few others due to time hyjinx and breaking their own code about changing the past a little.

(I'm guessing you forget Michael B Jordan was Johnny Storm?)

@Lithium said in Magicians Game:

@Auspice What code base are you using? I can help with some code possibly to help make this happen.

Gonna go with AresMUSH once @faraday is ready for me to play with her baby.

I had a stroke of luck and though I got to the theater late (my dinner took longer than expected and there was an accident on the road there), I was able to get a seat in the screening still (they always 'overbook' those things). They had one seat left and I was the only person in the crowd that wasn't part of a group.

HA HA FOR ONCE BEING LONELY AF WORKED IN MY FAVOR.

Anyway.

The movie is def. more geared towards people who are adults-that-grew-up-with-Pokemon. That's not to say it's an adult movie, but between the pacing, story style, and even jokes... the kids sitting around me seemed more latched onto just seeing the Pokemon on screen than anything else in the movie.

I enjoyed it. As someone who saw the first Pokemon movie in theaters, it was kind of like a bit of a homecoming. I'm not a HUGE POKEMON NERD, but I get the games every so often and I can probably recognize (name) about half of them.

The pacing kinda struggled at parts. I feel like Ryan Reynolds voicing Pikachu was more novelty than anything. It could've been anyone tbh.

...and lemme just say: the Mr. Mime scene from the trailer? It gets better.

I prefer voice chatting to phone because it's binaural. I have trouble processing what is being said when it's just coming to one ear.

https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/4/29/18522863/watch-high-school-alien-production-adaptation-sigourney-weaver-ridley-scott

My recommendation would be the Sig P365, but it's probably out of price range at $500.

Next best would be an M&P Shield, which usually runs around $400 but it's been on sale for around $250 pretty often lately.

Those are the two I've been looking at for personal protection. They're smaller, have been rated highly by women for ease-of-use, and still work well for personal defense.

This is where the OCD is mildly beneficial. I mean, it sucks when I have shit to do and get caught, say, scrubbing cabinet faces for an hour.

But for the most part, I can keep everything tidy. My place isn't immaculate (there's dust on the bookshelves and the baseboards could use a good scrubbing), but it's clean. Everything stays put away (because I can't stand an unorganized surface/area), I sweep regularly, etc....

Like, thankfully, that is one area I do all right. But I have slipped into the depression clutter as @Wretched puts it before. I had that while I was between jobs in March. It's no fun and I feel for anyone who deals with it regularly. I'll take my irregular OCD fits over that, admittedly.

@Wretched said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

@Auspice My grandmother and my mother are both INCREDIBLY OCD, my Grandparents house is a fucking MUSEUM, my mothers was like that but it turned to hoarding later in my life...

Suffering through other peoples OCD as a kid (endless chores with impossible standards) made me come to the conclusion that a little bit of a mess isnt the end of the world, and generally I live a life of mild clutter, but when the depression gets bad, its gets bad too.

ETA: But if someone wants to come over and use their OCD to clean my house for me I will pay you in food and weed.

I wonder if it's a triggerable thing. I grew up in a messy house. I was the only person who ever cleaned, growing up. Which was depressing and exhausting. My mom (stay at home mother) had untreated depression and just... wouldn't. My siblings were terrors until they were 18+ each in regards to keeping things clean and if they were told to clean a room, but didn't do it... I was expected to do it myself before our father got home (so, you can easily guess how things went since they knew the only repercussions would fall on me). Juggling school, part-time jobs, and having to tend to the family (because I sometimes had to figure out dinner, too, when my mother's state was worse) was just... too much.

So I think it's partly this ingrained nervous tic. Cleaning up after myself, organizing, etc.