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@Darren said in What do you call fizzy, non-alcoholic drinks?:

@Auspice said in What do you call fizzy, non-alcoholic drinks?:

since I moved away before that fad.

You are a very wise woman. Or incredibly lucky. Or both.

I mean, I do now live in Austin where they are obsessed with Topo Chico.
Which is worse than LaCroix. It doesn't even pretend to have flavor. It's just like 'yo, cheap carbonated water here.'

@Ganymede said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@surreality said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

"Honey, does that product name sound, uhm... "
"I swear, it's just a protein shake."
"It sounds like it has-"
"Stop!" Sigh. "...I know, I know."

brb ded of cute

I've been on the verge of a panic attack all day and I don't know why.
It's just this aimless, antsy, little rabbit of a bundle fluttering in my chest non-stop.

I don't know why. I have nothing specifically to be anxious about. But I feel like the instant I'm somewhere quiet alone I'm gonna shatter.

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

@Auspice This is so much a thing. All my life people have told me to 'make a list' and 'use a calendar' ignoring the fact that i will forget to check/use/remember that they exist.

I use calendars. Emphasis on multiple. Google Calendar is always open with alerts on. It backs up to iCal. And I have a physical planner.

I still double-book myself with disturbing frequency.

And I love lists. I obsess over lists. That... is probably one of my focus zones. If I gotta make a list, I will dive in and tweak and tweak and tweak until perfection.

It's the 'keep track of X' that I can't do and it falls into a whole other category.

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

@Sunny @Auspice It resonated with me because it actually touches on the structure of society/work/etc being built around neurotypical, and how that just doesn't work for us, and forcing atypical to be typical does not work (stares at family). But I am mildly obsessed wityh the topic because I am seeing people for it now, and as Sunny mentions, the language is major, and as Auspice says... timelines?! You mean SORCERY?!

I admit I am super baffled how anyone could track their focus for a month.
if you're in the zone, you're not thinking to write it down
and when you're out of the zone......would you even remember?

I've tried tracking things before (food, migraines, etc...). it works for a day or two at best before I forget for a few weeks and then have an 'ah ha' try again for a few days....... usually the next time I remember after that I just give up entirely.

I'm reading.

And oh, I feel the part about task organization (page 10). At work they want me to give a timeline for completion on something. They want to know what parts will be done when and......... how? how am I supposed to do that? I don't have elements I need from other people/departments. I'm not working on it in a linear fashion. I work on piece f until I'm drifting so I work on piece q until it reminds me of piece c until....

how do I give a timeline for that?

@The-Sands said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Ghost The correct response is:

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

Awkward should be defined as...

When your boss (who hasn't been productive) gets removed from being your boss the day before her birthday (and is assigned to a penalty box position), and your boss's boss tells 2 teammates (but not all). Now your ex-boss sits right next to you and the reporting structure that would announce that she is no longer your boss is out of office...so everyone is just sitting around and not addressing the elephant in the room.

So would you say she's probably feeling.... boxed in?

I Love Kittens - wholesome rap for kids.

I'm dead.

If UNO were an anime...

@Doom-Guy said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I find it really annoying when people act as though talking about memes IRL, or using them in casual conversation, is somehow out of line.

@Tinuviel Then login and play! GOD.

@silverfox said in Getting Young Blood Into MU*'ing:

In all the Ares talk of their web scenes and stuff that is one thing I have wondered. How do they keep that zest going when it can be a while between poses? Or is that just a me problem?

Well, the browser has alerts so if you're actively around you'll see that there's activity in the scene. Otherwise, it is a culture shift.

I'm used to it because I've played with a lot of people with vastly different schedules or busy RLs for whom a scene has to take days if it's going to have any meat to it. But it began with needing to 'pause' a scene on a game and going 'hey, why don't we use gdoc to finish this?' so that we didn't need to timestop ourselves. So I eased in to the idea.

@silverfox said in Getting Young Blood Into MU*'ing:

@Auspice said in Getting Young Blood Into MU*'ing:

Back on Livejournal, I'd see people 'scene set

raises a nice glass of milk to Milliways Bar

I had a friend try to get me to join that soooooo many times. I think I DID briefly and it just... didn't jive with me.

@Tinuviel said in What do you call fizzy, non-alcoholic drinks?:

@Auspice We aren't allowed guns.

That's why you just get a bigger knife, right?

@Tinuviel You know, the majority of that (except the aquatic shit) counts for Texas, too.

@Tinuviel said in What do you call fizzy, non-alcoholic drinks?:

In my part of Australia it is "fizzy drink" or "soft drink."
Fizzy because... it's fizzy. Soft because, by default, drink means booze.

@mietze said in Getting Young Blood Into MU*'ing:

I think the folks who seem to think that there is some magical marketing technique or some interface that will radically make it so that mushing is hot amongst those 20 something that are interested in online RP--i think that's engaging in some denial right there.

Precisely this.

I could pay for ads on Google and similar all I want, but the chances of gaining any new long-term players is still slim. I'd probably get some early bites and then people would wander off.

We have to consider the culture and style heavily. There's a lot of different kinds of text-based roleplay, too. Back on Livejournal, I'd see people 'scene set' in a post and then everyone would RP through the comments. When I moderated a forum of tweens & teens for work, I saw TONS of roleplay, but people were constantly cycling through and trying new characters or the same character in different places/situations/times/etc. There was a lot of RP, but almost none of it (even ignoring the 'interface') like ours. GTAV has a mod/servers to roleplay, but it's a mix of avatar action, /me emotes, and voice chat. I'm sure PBEM still exists.

I've tried or witnessed all of these and the core approach is wildly different to us. We sit down, as @Ghost said, for hours at a stretch. And while things like Ares alleviate that with the portal scenes: look at peoples' reactions to my discussion on asynchronous plots. A lot of us have no interest in doing things play-by-post (which, again, is what a lot of kids these days do in their RP!). That's a huge divide right there.

It's not a fancy web interface. It's not marketing. (I'm part of a huge group of nerdy women here in Austin. I've spoken of MUing to the ones that like 'roleplay:' none are interested in the format. And they range in age from 18 to their 50s.) It's just that we're a different culture and style. People will find us, but... there's no magical 'solution.'