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@lisse24 said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

A not insignificant number of coworkers do not know how to use the 'review' tab in Microsoft Word to make edits.

Instead, they will do things like change the font color when adding a new word or change the font to strikethrough to mark that it should be deleted. Not only is this a pain to go through and change, it messes up the formatting when I go to change things into HTML for our webpage.

TRACK CHANGES.
MARKUP.

LEARN THESE THINGS.

There are YouTube videos.

I feel your pain, @Lisse24. I really do.
Since graduating, I've begun doing a bit of freelance editing, so obvs I use these when I do the editing. So they can see what I've done, any comments made. I just drop YouTube videos in the email along with links to Microsoft's HowTos. I try to word it politely as a 'In case you are unaware...' sort of thing, but I also just sort of assume ain't none of these fools know how.

I mean ffs most of my classmates still didn't understand and we were walked through how it worked.

Hey party people! There's a Weyland-Yutani scene going down tonight!

If you have a W-Y character, be around tonight at 5pm PST / 8pm EST.

If you don't, well.... The Coward (http://horrormu.com/index.php/Coward2/Bates) is still open! You've got 3 hours to get through CG (CG is super easy!) and dive right in!

@darinelle said in RL things I love:

Bath bombs. I don't even care if that makes me the Beckiest Becky who ever Becky'd. DON'T CARE.

Lush bath bombs, specifically.

Don't judge.

Or do. My skin feels great and I am chill and relaxed. So you're just jealous if you judge.

I am actually super sad sometimes that I can't afford more LUSH bath bombs. I had a few last year and loved 'em.

There are now EIGHT -- count 'em, 8! -- open Archetypes:

http://horrormu.com/index.php/Archetypes

Last night we had the Weyland-Yutani scene which ended in a timestop (because the other groups get to have their scenes over the next few days) which will begin to lead into the HORROR. And the classic script has already begun.

Missed the scene? Wanna check it out?

http://horrormu.com/index.php/Log:This_is_Life

(The fun of this game is even when you're IN THE SCENE, you almost wish you were on the Obs Deck so you can see what the commentary on the scene by the other players is. >.>)

@insomnia said in RL Anger:

This dumbass.

If you're gonna commit suicide, maybe don't do it in a way that kills other people in the process.

Fuck him.

@arkandel said in How to: make your poses less repetitive:

Now and then I re-read a pose I just sent out and sigh because I repeated a certain word too much.

I will say, everyone latches onto certain words sometimes. Even established authors.

Read Piers Anthony's Wielding a Red Sword (published 1986) sometime. I swear that man had just learned the word occidental right before writing that book. It showed up so often that when I read it as a teenager I wanted to meet him just so I could ask WHY.

But that's the other thing you'll see if you read a lot. That authors have certain words and turns of phrase they favor, too.

You can also always run your poses through this tool: http://www.hemingwayapp.com/
It'll help identify things like legibility, passive voice, how many adverbs you've used (don't abuse those too much).

Having a really hard time not walking out of work today.

They keep pressuring me on this bullshit 'What can we help you with so you work better' front that keeps coming off increasingly more patronizing to the point I'm about to start leaving around EEOC paperwork.

Then today:

Me: 'Hey, these particular cases that take me so long? Part of the issue is I have to reach out to the office contact because the guys aren't doing it on the initial casework like they're supposed to. Can we get a reminder out to the team to do that step?'
Boss: 'Well, how does <coworker> handle those cases? Just work it like he does.'
Me: 'He doesn't do the reach out, but he's supposed to per the original training. Look, this would expedite the process and get these cases done quicker. You asked for ways to help me close cases faster. This is one. <Boss on clientside> has complained that these cases are taking too long and this is why. I have to do this step that's getting missed and it's adding days onto the case time. If they reach out like they should, when I get the case, I'll have everything I need.'
Boss: 'Well, let's look at other solutions. Does this step really need to be done with the initial work or is it just something being misunderstood?'

Cut the shit you goddamn piece of shit motherfucker.

Khaibit = good balance to Dragolescu and their terrible ghost enslaving ways. (Plus a great martial Mekhet bloodline)

@PuppyBreath and I have talked about our kitties some (we both have black kitties). I'll donate once I get paid and have some spare bucks.

I didn't answer the poll because there's no 'sorta' field.

I read what I need for what I'm doing. And then I absorb more as I go along. If I read it all up front, I don't actually grok what I'm reading and none of it makes sense, so I retain nothing. But if I read what I need for CG, then hit the grid and take in more as I go, applying it situationally... that's how I learn best.

SABRINA TRAILER

After reading the Pern books I was online and stumbled across PBEM. Thought hey, this is cool.

PBEM was weird for me and slow AF. I didn't really jive with it. But then I found a MU. Tried it out. Really, really enjoyed it.

Been stuck since.

Made a lot of friends over the years. A few have stuck. A few no longer play and are still friends. A few are no longer friends. I stick with the hobby because to me, it's part social and part writing exercise. I can try out character ideas. I can try out writing methods, styles, etc. I can get instant feedback on things. What works. What doesn't. I can see myself evolve in real time.

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

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

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

If you work in an office and don't silence your phone

I probably hate you at least a little.

There's no way to silence my phone entirely. I can only lower it to a certain volume and it's not low enough god dammit.

I just realized you probably meant cell phone. I always have my cell phone on vibrate. What's a ringtone and why would you ever?

I DON'T KNOW.

New coworker keeps his phone on and sometimes he will receive multiple texts in a row.

DING
DING
DING
DING

And I want to just grab his phone, go to the window, and fling it into the parking lot.

"WHERE'S YOUR GOD NOW MOTHERFUCKER"

It can vary for me depending on the person, on the scene, etc. I'd say I'm in the 'couple hour' range, too, if I'm able to focus.

I knew someone who would try to drag me into making a scene last a few days. She would just keep tacking on "and then"s. She would never let the scene end. It's like she was afraid you'd go off and RP with someone else, as if you'd never come back and RP with her again. Each scene would just drag and drag and drag. I adored her, but it would just sort of make me cry. Every time we'd stop RPing, it was just a pause. And I'd have to be dragged into RPing with her again for a 'new' scene......because I knew it'd be days and days of RP and 'please I need to sleep now.' Honestly she trained me out of staying up half the night RPing faster than anything else.

@arkandel

They missed an opportunity. Could have been 'House off ...'
And 'Grammer nerd's'

Because we all love random apostrophes in signs.

Right?

Riiiiiight?

Fortunately, FS3 combat scenes can go pretty quick! Thank you, @faraday for a system that can manage combat so well so people can focus on posing and story.

It was announced today that Sabrina will have a Christmas special released on December 14th.

I'm in the same camp as Tinuviel.

If I've asked a theme question, for example, it's pretty great if I can be linked to the page in question (please for the love of god never do the 'It's on the website.' reply). Even better is when you can do the 'Here's the link, it's in this subsection' because holy mother some websites have massive pages and it's easy to get lost in paragraph after paragraph after subsection after list after paragraph.

But when I'm in the middle of combat and go 'Erk, I forgot how to do this exact roll, can someone help?' it sucks to be told 'duh it's in the helpfile' because sometimes? It's easy to read over a helpfile in the middle of HELLA SPAM and miss the exact fiddly roll (and sometimes the exact-fiddly-roll is in a secondary or tertiary helpfile).

But my major peeve are the people who reply on Newbie/Help channels with 'it's on the site' AND SAY NOTHING ELSE. I'll sometimes reply: 'It's on the site, gimme a sec and I'll find it!' so the person knows help is on the way and isn't sitting there waiting for a few minutes in silence while I dig up the link wondering if they're being ignored.

@wizz said in RL Anger:

EDIT: Posted this while p. mad, little too much personal info.

Basically, didn't get a position I had been lead to believe I would, someone else got it and I don't think they deserve it, blah blah.

Whatevs.

I'm dealing with that at work right now myself. The guy who got it (and is now our boss ) doesn't even know the job, either. It's a hard place to be in. I'm sorry.

@rnmissionrun said in Ruins of Pern:

@auspice said in Ruins of Pern:

(Screw you white dragon.)

OMG!

the White Dragon was the best book of the series!

I'M SORRY DID YOU READ MASTERHARPER OF PERN?!