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@RDC said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

My original thought was that a Title was a signatory of the Accords, but SOMETHING or SOMEONE killed it last summer, and nobody knows what.

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

In general, the best way to remedy this is to apologize for any hurt your words may have caused and to either rephrase the argument if it is a very important argument or, and personally I am suggesting this course of action in the instant situation, simply withdraw from the argument entirely.

Thank you. This is what I've been struggling to find the words for.

I was hurt. Because the timing of the original post was such that it felt very much like a pointed (I don't want to say attack, but certainly response) note to me. I can acknowledge that perhaps it was simply a matter of timing, but there was nothing in the wording that indicated it was a wholly separate and independent post in and of itself and based on how others have reacted, I don't believe I am the only one who felt that way.

So I don't think I am wrong in feeling hurt. And I don't think I'm wrong, either, in feeling that it would be nice to be apologized to. I am not demanding one. I am not going to put my foot down and say I am owed one. But it would be nice. I was in a very bad place (I am still not in a great one) and someone came along and said something that knocked me down further. Then, when it was pointed out that what they said was very hurtful... they later came back and attempted to paint me and those who pointed out what they said was hurtful as the villains in the thing.

Again, @Warma-Sheen, I acknowledge that it may be a matter of crossed wires: you may have come in with a wholly separate concept and it was simply poor timing (see gif below):

but instead of being like 'lemme help put out this fire' you just sort of..... threw on some gasoline and then ran away.

Anyway, Moore actually has no hand in the HBO version (Gibbon does, tho) and has somewhat infamously been very opposed to adaptations of his work after a sort of scuffle with DC post-Watchmen. He's very adamantly on the side of his books should remain books.

He is sort of a madman.

Having recently been to a talk by Leigh Bardugo in which she discussed the upcoming Six of Crows adaptation on Netflix, this has sort of been on my mind because people, of course, were very concern about how good an adaptation it will be. (I am one of them.) Bardugo is very excited about it. She feels it'll be a good adaptation. The showrunner is a big fan of the books and someone who wants to make them very true to form. She will be trying her hand at writing at least one of the scripts. And she has a say in how things go. (Apparently she also has a cameo in an episode!)

However, ON THE OTHER HAND........ Amazon is already working on adapting her new series, The Ninth House. As in the one that was just released. As in the one that she's still working on book 2 for. As in the one that might hit a Game of Thrones sort of situation. As in the one that deals with a lot of more wiggly stuff. She's not as confident about that one and I could tell, from how she was talking about it, that while she's really excited (as any creator would be) that her work is so popular that it was optioned before the book even hit shelves to be made into a series.... she has a concern about how well it'll be treated.

So I'm very yay about Six of Crows, but I'm very hesitant about Ninth House (even tho as I read it it is a very interesting book).

@Rinel said in Great TV:

@Auspice said in Great TV:

Alan Moore is the best wizard grandpa.

Iirc he's kind of a raging asshole, isn't he?

all mall santas are

Alan Moore is the best wizard grandpa.

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

Likening ADHD treatment to lobotomies is not.

this.

I had just explained how I can't function in day-to-day life anymore. How I'm afraid I'm going to lose what is, in truth, my dream job. I can't even focus on the things I love (hobbies). I'm lucky to take care of myself.

and the first reply I got felt like the equivalent of people who go 'people who take medication are stupid! just go for a walk!' to people with depression.

I've spent years multi-tasking non-stop. it has been my only and primary coping method. Just go go go go go go go go go go go all the time because my brain was go go go go go go go go all the time, but it doesn't work anymore. Everything has crumbled around me and I can't function anymore and I came to the one place I thought people understood and the reply I got was 'fuck doctors, drugs are bad, just speed everything up' which was...... what I used to do

so I felt like I was being told I'm just too broken and a failure

@Thenomain said in Which text editor?:

@Auspice said in Which text editor?:

I've come to love Atom for code.

Ahhem.

Auspice [Today at 2:09 PM]
goddamnit atom why are you being stupid

I feel attacked rn

@Livia said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

@Auspice said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

@Rinel said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

I like this if and only if the possibility exists for a vampire to constantly fight the evil and not just give in and lose forever. Being a vampire who wants to be good and has all of eternity (or is damned for all of eternity) to keep scrabbling toward the Light in her attempts to get there is very compelling to me.

There are certain things in the Lancea / Theban that require a high Humanity but that is part of why it is compelling to ME. You embrace that you are Damned. You embrace (ha ha) that you are an example to humanity as to why they should not sin and why they should walk a righteous path.

My last Lance helped in the Embrace of another Mekhet and while she was thrilled to see him join them, at the same time: she kept warning him away. She kept telling him that being around them was wrong. That he should stop. That he was a good priest and staying a priest was the smart thing and that if he knew what was best for him, he would forget all about the vampires and keep to mortal life.

.....but he didn't and they killed him and then they brought him back and she taught him how to murder.

Meanwhile she shoved my Lisa down holes

Why you're more concerned about being shoved down that hole than bullied into murdering a human alongside all the other baby vamps I'll never know.

@Rinel said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

I like this if and only if the possibility exists for a vampire to constantly fight the evil and not just give in and lose forever. Being a vampire who wants to be good and has all of eternity (or is damned for all of eternity) to keep scrabbling toward the Light in her attempts to get there is very compelling to me.

There are certain things in the Lancea / Theban that require a high Humanity but that is part of why it is compelling to ME. You embrace that you are Damned. You embrace (ha ha) that you are an example to humanity as to why they should not sin and why they should walk a righteous path.

My last Lance helped in the Embrace of another Mekhet and while she was thrilled to see him join them, at the same time: she kept warning him away. She kept telling him that being around them was wrong. That he should stop. That he was a good priest and staying a priest was the smart thing and that if he knew what was best for him, he would forget all about the vampires and keep to mortal life.

.....but he didn't and they killed him and then they brought him back and she taught him how to murder.

@Ghost said in RL Anger:

You buy a house.

Your new homeowner state becomes public record.

YOU GET ON EVERY FUCKING CALL LIST KNOWN TO MANKIND

@Ganymede said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

@RDC said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

POLL: Do you want A Normal Freehold That's Always Been There But Nobody Really Ever RPed About It or do you want There Was A Scary Thing That Kept Changelings Away But Now It's Gone And That's Its Own Kind of Scary? Caveat: I may ignore what the responses are and do what I want anyway. I may also steal ideas here that are not those two and run with them if they're better than mine.

I like the second option.

and the big scary thing was...........................

a possum.
just one.
out by the dumpster behind Chilis.

@Coin said in RL things I love:

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@Coin said in RL things I love:

@Auspice said in RL things I love:

@Coin said in RL things I love:

@Auspice said in RL things I love:

I just learned that the Colombian national sport involves throwing metal disks at gunpower: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqKzt0XbWQk

........I'm just waiting for this to make its way to the US. I want it now.

"Whenever you explode them, you just yell and drink."
Perfect.

Man, wait until you find out my country's official national sport.

where's the explosions tho

you don't need explosions when you're tossing live ducks around. >.>

but you don't use a duck anymore.

My sister lives waaaaay the fuck in the South and lemme tell you, you probably shouldn't believe everything you read on wikipedia.

I mean, not that I support it, buuuuuut.

i'm not gonna bring the wrath of PETA down on MSB

@Coin said in RL things I love:

@Auspice said in RL things I love:

@Coin said in RL things I love:

@Auspice said in RL things I love:

I just learned that the Colombian national sport involves throwing metal disks at gunpower: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqKzt0XbWQk

........I'm just waiting for this to make its way to the US. I want it now.

"Whenever you explode them, you just yell and drink."
Perfect.

Man, wait until you find out my country's official national sport.

where's the explosions tho

you don't need explosions when you're tossing live ducks around. >.>

but you don't use a duck anymore.
Colombia has explosions and beer.

Like, fuck these axe tossing places showing up all over the place. I wanna make explosions.

@Coin said in RL things I love:

@Auspice said in RL things I love:

I just learned that the Colombian national sport involves throwing metal disks at gunpower: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqKzt0XbWQk

........I'm just waiting for this to make its way to the US. I want it now.

"Whenever you explode them, you just yell and drink."
Perfect.

Man, wait until you find out my country's official national sport.

where's the explosions tho

I just learned that the Colombian national sport involves throwing metal disks at gunpower: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqKzt0XbWQk

........I'm just waiting for this to make its way to the US. I want it now.

"Whenever you explode them, you just yell and drink."
Perfect.

I got my tickets for Star Wars. Unfortunately, between checking at Alamo a couple days ago and them NOT being on sale yet and checking last night, the 'reasonable bedtime' showings sold out so........ I gotta take the 20th off and/or take a half day. Womp womp.

@Darren said in Which text editor?:

IMO, Sublime Text is the best text editor and Visual Studio Code is the best code editor. Both run on all major platforms and are widely supported by third party libraries and tools.

Sublime, yes.
I've come to love Atom for code.

I thought this weekend that maybe this ADHD 'hyper' episode was coming to an end. I didn't feel as.... bad. Bad, but not as bad. I was eating a bit better. I was handling stuff like personal hygiene (ha ha) a bit more. I made it out of the house to a social engagement.

Today at work I feel like my brain is on fire.

I can't focus on other people talking.

I sit down to type out emails or even handle my to-do list and I just......... spazz. I can't even finish thoughts.

I forget where I was even going with this.

I wanna go to a corner and cry.

Staff doesn't always know what they're doing.
Staff doesn't always ... plan for things.

We don't keep things on rails, much as it might look like we are.
And when you're staffing on a team, sometimes the right hand doesn't talk to the left.

What are the moments where things went wildly off the rails? In a good way? In a bad way? In a hilarious way?

For my SGM players:

Pagan shooting at that statue was unplanned. I think it threw @Paradox's plans off the rails. I'm not sure how far off. He didn't tell me.

In the end, it fucked up my own plot. I was the ruination of my own plot, as Staff. I can't say I've ever done that. I had to scramble to plan out something new for a contingency plan.

It's not that Paradox and I don't plan with each other, but we're more 'meet once a week to compare notes' than keep each other on the same page at all times (this way we can play in each other's scenes).

So yes, my own PC's actions set off a chain of events that fucked up my own plot.

Has anyone ever done the same?

Have you ever placed something in a scene that PCs picked up on that set off a chain of events that ruined the plot in the long-term? Because I've absolutely done that, too. (Hello, well. I'm never putting a goddamn well in a scene as flavor again lemme tell you what.)