Posts made by Auspice

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

@Derp

These are good, first spicy chip that was spicy without me adding on anything.

why would you do this to yourself

I like spicy but I don't want it in my snack foods!

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

Is it just me or are 'curry hot' and 'chilli hot' different sensations?

I call it East vs West spice.
I also find Asian spices tend to have a richer profile; enhancing the dish as opposed to obscuring it.

@Rinel said in RL things I love:

@Auspice said in RL things I love:

I've been having a rough couple weeks and today I woke up with that sick-depression feeling (where you're not sick-sick, but so depressed you feel ill?). It led into a super ADD day that was just... frustrating (frustrated at myself for being so damn unproductive, basically).....

....so I really, really appreciated all the compliments I got on my awesome rainbow socks. They were exactly what I needed.

Two things.

One, I know exactly what you mean. When you're so run-down mentally you start flagging physically. I'm so sorry you feel that way, but you deserve congratulations for getting through the day.

Two: those socks are amazing. I don't go for bright colors, so the muted/autumn take is SO pretty.

Isn't it?! I love those socks, I just don't wear them often because I don't own sock glue or garters so I spend all day fixing them in place.

But I was wearing a black dress w/a red belt today so they were fitting. I do also own a pair of bright rainbow socks. And these amazing Vans (bought to replace the grey ones I walked through...).

But yes: thank you. That sort of mental exhaustion is..... ugh. because you need sleep but at night you can't sleep and you wake up just wanting to bury yourself in bed all day and.... and.... I'll be glad when I can (within the week! thank god!) afford my meds again.
And a trip to the doctor to GROVEL FOR ADD MEDS FFS.

I've been having a rough couple weeks and today I woke up with that sick-depression feeling (where you're not sick-sick, but so depressed you feel ill?). It led into a super ADD day that was just... frustrating (frustrated at myself for being so damn unproductive, basically).....

....so I really, really appreciated all the compliments I got on my awesome rainbow socks. They were exactly what I needed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS4X1JfX6_Q

Video about digital communication and how typing methodology is used to convey tone. I quite like this.

New coworkers are already comfortable enough joking around with me. For my terribly awkward ass, this is a good feeling.

....downside is that thanks to my being neuroatypical, I struggle sometimes to know if something is a joke or literal.

(Such as: me asking if I can be included in a meeting and guy going 'No, no you can't be in that one' but while laughing? Like I'm assuming he was already planning to put me on the invite list and thought it silly I'd ask but! I just don't really know!)

ETA: Also, I couldn't live without OneNote.

@Wretched said in Dead Celebrities 2019:

RIP Chedder

@AeriaNyx

I had an ex cheat on me with someone who looks very similar to me and also was a writer.
(Later found out it was because she didn't want kids, but I did, so he swapped for the model with preferable features I guess.)

She's not a wildly successful author, but she did get a publisher in the UK to publish her books and I know she's in a niche. But because we're both in writer/author circles on Twitter, I see her tweets from time to time. Every time I do, even though it's been over a decade, I still feel this wave of (misdirected, I know; it was his fault, not hers) anger.

It's balls when someone who has this big emotional impact on us crops up in ways we cannot help.

@RDC said in A fully OC supers MU:

Gotta say, one of the reasons I only play OC-only games is that I definitely DO NOT want to be playing a character and have someone app a canonical love interest and be like: YOU NOW MUST LOVE ME.

I still enjoy Canon chars but yes. This is an issue.

Apped onto a game with a friend once. He apped Nightwing and from day 1 the Starfire was obsessed. (And holy shit the shade I got when it was clear we were apping in together...)

https://medium.com/google-design/will-ai-take-my-writing-job-bb4400fdfdd0

I had never before considered the use of machine learning / AI to supplement writing in this way. As I’m here trying to dive right in to write technical documentation in a wholly new industry (and a company who does things A Very Particular Way), the idea of a tool that could provide common tidbits for me (‘oh what was that business rule we defined.....’) with simple prompting is an excellent idea.

I really hope to see ML get to this point. I imagine it’d be handy for developers as well (‘oh right, that’s the calculation I defined earlier!’).

I guess it’s sort of ‘the Clippy we always wanted but never actually got.’

@Sparks said in Alternate Universes, OR, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Fanfic:

(As for fanfic, I honestly don't think it's that harmful. If the canon content isn't arriving fast enough, I will read it. Sometimes I will write it. And if I ever publish one of my various fictional worlds publicly, I don't care if others come and play in it. Please don't show me your playtime, for a whole slew of reasons—I've had two published friends have really disturbing fanfics of their characters sent directly to them—but definitely go have fun writing it.)

I think this is why I’m so opposed to it. I’ve often said, when asked about fanfic, that part of my terror in ever getting published is having someone come up to me all ‘I THINK <Char A> and <Char B> ARE TOTALLY IN LOVE HERE’S MY FANFIC OF THEM FUCKING’

...and this isn’t just because I’ve seen such horrifying fanfic, but because I’ve personally run into those people with their tales of ‘I hope I can meet <creator> at the Con so I can give them a copy of my fanfic!’

@Rinel said in Alternate Universes, OR, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Fanfic:

@Auspice

Does the idea of "[setting] three hundred years down the road" bother you as much, where it's just a sort of silly prediction of what sort of things will have happened or what sort of tech will be present?

No, that doesn’t. Not as a thought exercise for sure.

Now if someone copped Arx’s theme and just went ‘it’s Arx, but 300 years in the future!’ I’d prob be pretty bothered on behalf of the people who made it.

the era of GOMO games bothered me a lot, too (the ‘ha ha we snuck in and nabbed the DB and now it’s the same game but with a new name and us in charge!’).

Fuck allergies.

I have a deep hatred of fanfic (as an author, the ones I've seen that pervert the author's characters make me angry) so it's hard to approach this.

But. I don't mind stories set in a world so long as the FCs aren't present. (Comic chars are an exception but with so many writers....my feel is so long as they stay to the spirit of the original, I'm good.)

Which is what this sounds like? Sort of. It feels like a blend of the...two concepts? Like: let's take all the same characters and plop them over here.......which again would give me weird feelings for being done to someone else's character.

Ugh. The more I think about this the more awkward it feels. I'm gonna give myself hives.

LSS: I'm against using other people's characters (which is why it took me so long to adapt to the idea of rosters: the constant terror of 'I'm doing it wrong!!!') but I'm cool with worlds/settings being used.

......but then if you're altering someone else's setting too much does that not fall into the same issues as characters?

....yeah this concept may not be for me.