Best posts made by Auspice

@ghost said in RL Anger:

It really bothers me on a human level the number of Hollywood insiders who knew about these behaviors and tendencies for years,

At the same time, you have Courtney Love and JJ Abrams both who spent years trying to bring light to Weinstein and people just ignored them.

I am about done with Hyperion, by Dan Simmons and am ordering book 2 so I can dive right into it.

It was a slow start, but that may very well be because I got it on audio book and I have issues with audio books. However, as I got into it... oh man did I get into it. Like, 'conceptualizing how I'd write a script for it' into it. Kind of wanting to write a pilot script to make it a mini series or something.

It's some good sci-fi. Lots of great setting mythology, religious references (for the folks on the boards who like that sorta thing: one of the main characters is Jewish), and really strong character development.

DIE HARD CHRISTMAS BOOK

Maybe we need an 'amusing RL shit' thread.

Got to the bus stop and a man offered me his seat on the bench. I took it because I'm still getting over being sick and felt unsteady on my feet. I quickly found out why he was willing to offer... when the other guy on the bench began regaling me with his bowel movements, various STDs he's experienced, and that he was kicked out of AA.

I got on my bus and hallelujah, he didn't budge. Sit down, breath a sigh of relief, look up...

...guy across from me is obviously wasted. He's got a grocery bag packed with wine coolers. He asks me: 'Is this the 320?' 'No, it's the 1.' 'I need the 320.' Another lady tells him he can get the 320 at the transit center. Guy proceeds to spill gatorade all over himself.

He did not get off at the transit center. He was still too busy trying to tie his sweater around his head like some kind of new wave turban.

Then, he proceeds to go around the bus offering everyone snacks from his mystery grocery bag. "No one?!" he proclaims, "but this is the dankest shit! It's better than northern lights and rainbow!" So he's high, too...

Moments later he's on the floor, dumping out his bag and digging through it. There's more wine coolers (some empty, some full), two bottles of champagne.

A little old lady asks what he's looking for. He describes a box then, mumbling before: "... or some bitch's ass-" he looks at the old lady, "...some lady's booty is gonna get beat."

He got off the bus after that, but please man: tell me your life that you are that wasted on a bus at 1pm on a Tuesday.

Walking is not helping me lose weight. Not visually, at least. Most days I still feel fat as ever (though I do not own a scale, so who knows).

What it has done, however, is make me stronger. Overall, I feel stronger. I'm regaining a lot of the dexterity and reflexes I used to have.

See, I played a lot of soccer as a teenager. I was incredibly active. Soccer, swim or dive teams, out biking through the woods multiple days a week. Then (thanks soccer!) I injured my knee bad enough to require surgery. It was a really long and not very thorough recovery (for reasons related to an asshole father). Then the fibro kicked in a few years later and I just... stopped, for the most part. When a single day of light activity could leave me in bed, in pain... it became 'why bother?'

Then over the last few years, my leg/ankle/foot developed the issue where overuse would fuck up my foot.

But this has been necessity. 2.2 miles a day, 5 days a week. My knee hurts less. My foot is still fucked up, but an epsom salt bath 1-2 days a week has been helping avoid anything worse than swelling and sharp pain.

It hasn't helped my hip, sadly, but I'll take improvement in one of my two arthritic joints.

The big thing has been the return of my reflexes. I'm really happy with that.

Umbrella Academy. Netflix. Ellen Page starring.

Trailer for Gotham by Gaslight movie.

I'm not a big DC fan to begin with and I'm honestly sick of Batman and Superman both. However, I've seen some of the animated films over the past few years and they've been knocking them out of the park.

(...but now I really want a Jack the Ripper era MU* to play on...)

Fuck people that don't bathe and then ride the bus.

Lady I used to hang out around punk rockers and none of them ever smelled this bad.

Thank God there was another seat open.

Where my migraine bros/ladies at?

Just a reminder that this releases tomorrow!

@shelbeast said in The Kitten Army (GIF Heavy):

Poor Max.

How is he ever going to get the college education he needs to provide for his family if he's not allowed into the library to study? He can't be a gentleman and a scholar under these conditions.

He's trying so hard.

Netflix options Sabrina the Teenage Witch

y'all.

y'all.

I didn't even know I needed this.

Quote:
"The general description of what the show will focus on is this:

The new project reimagines the origin and adventures of Sabrina the Teenage Witch as a dark coming-of-age story that traffics in horror, the occult and, of course, witchcraft. Tonally in the vein of Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist,this adaptation finds Sabrina wrestling to reconcile her dual nature — half-witch, half-mortal — while standing against the evil forces that threaten her, her family and the daylight world humans inhabit."

(From the new comic "Chilling Adventures of Sabrina")

@jaded said in Good TV:

@auspice Its not really a problem for me. It's just a trend that I've noticed and it confuses me as to why this is a trend.

It's kind of a shitty way to phrase it. 'edgelord emo dark'? Really?

Is Stranger Things 'edgelord emo dark'?

The Magicians, the SYFY show, was based on a book series. And no, it wasn't just 'edgelord emodark' (thanks for that, way to put down something just because it's not your cup of tea).

It's darker, yes. It's not 'happy fun magic tiems yaaaaaay!'

I like horror. I love horror. I'm thrilled that we may get a take on Sabrina that focuses more on the horror done by the network that did Stranger Things which made my horror-loving self very, very happy.

The article even says it's unknown whether it'll be in the same universe as the CW's Riverdale (which I haven't watched yet). Now I watch some CW shows. I enjoy the ones I watch, but I have a lot of issues with some of the tropes the CW loves to use (their whole 'NO MOAR LIES!!!!!1111' needs to die).

But it is definitely not an 'emo edgelord' trend unless it's just a thing you don't like and you want to poopoo on everyone else's fun by throwing everything you don't like into a single bucket. The Magicians show had its issues, I'll give it that, but it was based on a book series that was very intense, very brutal in places and the show did have some of that in ways that was very much not just 'emo.' The same goes for many other shows. And something horror/occult/etc. does not automagically make it so.

@Bobotron

Thanks. I don't want to explicitly steal how someone else has theirs done, but with permission I may very well use yours as a base framework to launch from.

You may like Simon Green's Nightside books.

@faraday said in Alternative Formats to MU:

@surreality said in Alternative Formats to MU:

@shelbeast I think that's more or less what @faraday is doing with Ares. I think.

Not exactly, but that's mostly because the overwhelming majority of MUSHers have indicated that they'd abjectly refuse to play on a game that was entirely web-based. Heck, a non-trivial number of them refuse to play on a game with a mandatory web presence at all.

Ares has tons of stuff available on the web - chargen, bbs, events, mail, combat, help, character profiles, logged and auto-cleaned scenes, admin jobs and config, and more. But the game is still principally played in a MU client. Not because it needs to be for any technical reason, but because I actually want people to play it.

So it's not just an 'age' thing.

It's a distraction level thing.

We're in an era where we have so many distractions that there are more apps coming out helping people to pare down and get shit done with fewer distractions. Email clients that take up your entire screen and focus on just the salient details so you can zero inbox. Focus writers (Q10 is my fave) so writers can get shit done without finding themselves going hither and yon and 'oh no how did I only write 200 words today?' So on and so forth.

For many people, studies are finding that multitasking is actually a bad thing. And how many of us already gripe on the regular about our RP partners taking 20, 30 minutes to pose?

Expanding into the browser, with its dozens of tabs (aka distractions) is only risking making that worse. A client, however, allows us to focus entirely on the scene. Look at the 'How Much Code is Too Much?' thread: people are saying exactly this. 'I go to the browser and it takes me out of the scene.'

It's not 'age,' it's not people being cruel or rude. It's a lot of us realizing the same thing that many companies, writers (hi!), designers, etc. are realizing. Multitasking, spreading yourself out, etc., actually detracts from the quality of output.

I'm in the 'cheerleader' boat (I'm writing/polishing a spec script this month; not conducive to NaNo). Austin's NaNo crowd is great!

Far better than Seattle's, tbh. I didn't participate last year because of school, but the year before I didn't because the Seattle NaNo group was so unwelcoming.

But I graduate in the spring, so next year I'll be back to fully participating (I began around 2000/2001 and even ML'd in SC for 6 years).