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Supernatural should have ended where it was written to end. Season 5. They wrapped up the story nice and neat. Then it became the dead horse that kept being beaten for views.

Stayed up late to finish it because I was so close and finally. The rest of the 'border' for the SAL should be easy now that the castle and train are done:

@Ominous said in Dating in the 2020's:

Not really. Most of her message was basically a reply pointing out she is currently seeing someone and is only interested in friends. That's fantastic! A reply that says 'Thanks but no thanks' is unheard of, so it is greatly appreciated!

The thing is she met this person after I messaged her. She says she has been seeing him for a year now. Yeah, you weren't interested only in friends when I sent the original message.

Oof. I was gonna say 'maybe she deleted OkCupid, opened it back up, and is going through old messages' (I did that this past summer briefly) buuuuuuuuuuuuuuut.

Buuuuuuuuuuuuut if you're using it for the 'just friends' route mmmmmmmmmaybe don't touch the old messages from when you were still trying to date.

@JinShei said in The Crafting Thread:

@Auspice Gorgeous but... what is the egg and bacon?!

It's a needle minder. It's magnetic so it holds my needle for me. I have a few but that one was a gift from a friend this past weekend and I love it.

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

Record-breaking fires to record-breaking rains and floods.
Could whichever one of you coders is fucking with the weather system, please test your code before putting it in production.

And no, Australia is not the test server.

You sure?
I thought that's how Australia started. 'Let's send all our degens down there to test it out first.'

(that aside, stay safe.)

Ike does not like me to leave the apartment. She wants me home with her all the time forever. She has abandonment issues (which is why we have AJ- I don't always like him, but the two of them adore each other).

She knows when I'm prepping to go out. I lay clothes out on the bed. So she lays on them. Yesterday......yesterday she pretended to be asleep. Curled up. 'Snoring.' Except she had her eyes open, watching me. Yes. My cat pretended.to.snore. She's too smart for her own good, I swear to god.

@silverfox said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

I have a fever.

Dear lady messaging me a week and a half after hunting me down on social media: your boyfriend/husband/fiance (if he's even any of these since you've called him all three in your floods of messages) did not cheat on you with me. I didn't even remember his name until you told me. Shit, you should've gotten the hint when you had to send me photos after I WTF'd at you to even know who he was.

I told you we were in photos together from the concert because we were in physical proximity to each other because it was a fucking concert.

If, after a week and a half, you are still convinced he cheated on you, do him a favor and break up with him. He deserves better.

Better yet, tell him maybe he should look me up. He was a goddamn gentleman when he shoved the guy who tried pinning me to the stage back into the crowd and told him to back off.

Of late, the RL group I'm in has made me reflect warmly on this board and how kind y'all can be. Over the past couple weeks in said group:

• one girl has lashed out at people who have been friendly to a guy she's 'claimed' (he's gay and married btw). And by friendly I mean 'have simply spoken to'. Some of us escape this treatment (but I'm not sure how she picks who she's ok with him being friends with vs who she isn't).
• the group owner got really mad at me for referencing aforementioned gay member's gayness (super tame joke; I spoke to him after and he was OK with it) as it 'outed' him (despite the fact that he talks about his husband frequently) and chewed me out. The following day, this guy made the 'attack helicopter' joke (which is known to be transphobic) AT a genderfluid member and......nothing was said (except by the person it was said to....who got kinda waved off by others).
• group owner talks often about wanting to promote a safe place for people to discuss mental health, to feel welcome, to de stigmatize........but it seems to only go for her and her friends. Everyone else gets silence at best, complained at for being 'negative' at worst.
• at a suggestion from myself and another member to setup a ko-fi account to help fund prizes, reserving meetup spaces, etc (since she complained about such things), the group owner did so and then....promptly bought herself some business cards.

Outside the woman running this and a couple others, everyone in the group is really nice. But there's a growing number of people who are pretty much disengaging from public online interactions...

And every time I've seen her behavior be brought up, it gets answered with the dreaded 'but I have anxiety'.

Taking Gany off the Christmas list.

I've always considered it a good thing I've never had to describe someone to a sketch artist.

They'd come out looking like One Punch Man.

But I can imagine places I've been easily. Or even just heard described. People just become blank blobs.

@Rinel said in A Lack of Imagination:

I'm only a few stops down the line from eidetic memory. I can usually recall exactly where in a paragraph or on a page something I read was

See, I can do this, but only sometimes. Mostly with text. And it's enforced by things I write down. If I write something down, I remember it, which is why I still handwrite so many things.

But I'm that person who, when I was married and my stepson would be in the house, we'd be getting ready to leave and my ex and the kid would be going around trying to find stuff and I'd just be there: 'Your shoes are there. You left your wallet there. Your...'

It's got a timeframe tho. After a few weeks/months it drops out so that thing I put in the very important very safe place? Fuck if I know what it was other than very important and very safe place.

My ability to imagine places based on their description depends on two things:
the length of the description and the person who wrote it. If it is a very long, meandering, prose-y description, I am gonna get lost in the words and have nfc what is being described. If the writer bounces back and forth and to and fro and starts describing one thing and then goes to describing something else and then comes back to that thing? I'm probably gonna have no clue what they're describing in the end. But if it's 5-8 sentences that hit the points in a neat, organized manner without going all grandiose about the language? I can probably get a pretty clear picture of what's being described.

@L-B-Heuschkel said in A Lack of Imagination:

@Auspice Story of my life as well, that. I tag people with some tagline on Ares pages so I can keep them apart. In real life? Same, but on the cell phone. It's not that I don't care. I just literally can't tell people's names and faces apart, and I get them mixed up most embarrassingly.

Oh yeah, it'd be almost embarrassing to show someone my phone and have them open the contacts. People are tagged with weird nicknames sometimes if they have the same first names because just using their last name wouldn't help in some cases.

@Rinel said in A Lack of Imagination:

@Roz said in A Lack of Imagination:

I don't have the voice in my head, though. Like, the idea of that is honestly HUGELY WEIRD for me to consider. WHY DO YOU HAVE AN INTERNAL NARRATOR?! My thought process all feels a lot more abstract. Like, feelings and impressions and such.

I don't have an internal narrator. I am the internal narrator.

This.
The idea of it not being there is what's weird to me!

@Tashly said in RL things I love:

@JinShei @Kestrel I feel like I'd be more likely to buy Corona beer at the moment, because I'm an awful person that loves puns and even though I haven't thought of a good pun to be made about it the possibility of it existing is enough for me to want to drink it.

But I'm a terrible human being, so... YMMV?

(to be clear I am not a fan of Corona, the beer or the virus)

A few days after the coronavirus was in the news, I was at a bar with a handful of people and someone got up to go to the bar and get the next round. One guy at the table did go: 'I'll have a coronavirus.' So yes, it's absolutely been done. >.>

@Sunny

You're right, I'm sorry.
Everything is about you specifically.
Every single time this conversation has occurred, every single time I have seen it referenced, every single time I have heard it IRL, seen it on Twitter, seen it referenced on blogs or in articles, it has been about you and only you.
You are the only person that matters and I apologize for forgetting that.

I'm in a new D&D campaign. I haven't played D&D in over a decade.

That my party has embraced my warforged's obsession with her chicken (more OOC embracing than IC since SOME PEOPLE wanna eat the chicken) pleases me greatly.

The chicken is a vital member of the party*

*ignore the fact that we're 2 sessions in, I bought the chicken this session, it died, and they replaced it before she knew.

My peeve is I'm sick and have been sick for a few weeks (feverish/congested/etc for a couple days, then fine for a couple days, etc) but I can't afford to do anything about it. Heck even if I could afford Nyquil and such it's doubtful there's any on the shelves.

@L-B-Heuschkel said in Resources for Self-Isolating People:

@HelloProject 25 years for me. Getting a little tired of so-called friends going on about how their lives aren't worth living now that they can't go out three nights a week. This is any day ending in -y for me. But hey, message noted.

I mentioned earlier today to people that when my unemployment began on Feb 1st and I happily settled into a routine of only leaving my apartment once a week, if that... people thought I was insane. That it was weird. Why/how would anyone do that. etc.

I've always been hermit-y.

I love Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist.

My only complaint is I wish I hadn't started watching right away because the wait each week sucks. It's such a happy, lovely, upbeat show and I love Mo (the 'in on the secret' friend who is genderfluid) and I love Zoey's mom. And I love Lauren Graham.

But the last two weeks have both had stopping points that have me SO FRUSTRATED BECAUSE I WANT MORE.