Posts made by Auspice

@jibberthehut said in Good or New Movies Review:

@Rinel You know, that was my complaint too about an otherwise good movie. I was like REALLY, we need to go there? To pointedly have all the females gather in one section and be like "It's cool, we got this, GIRL POWER"

:sighs:

***=Using this since, well, people might be bothered by any tidbit of spoiler!***

@Jennkryst said in General Video Game Thread:

Is WWZ closer to book or movie? Because I have some issues with movie logistics.

It was based on the movie.

I didn't enjoy the movie at all as a movie. In fact, I hated it.

HOWEVER.... as a video game I think the piles-upon-piles-upon-piles of zombies are fucking hilarious when you throw grenades into them.

@Arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:

Endgame.

It was incredible. It was a different movie than I expected as it set its pieces up, then it went from strength to strength.

I don't know how any franchise, including Marvel/Disney's, can top this. We might have just peaked for some time.

Feige really gave us a gift.

More 'weird' than irk:

Working in a windowless, cold (high AC due to all the equipment) room staring at monitors, two of which showed regions that had heavy snow (sorry IL and Ontario) all day did not prepare me for stepping out into 80+ degree weather.

@Cobaltasaurus

No.shit.

That's why I got so fucking annoyed at the crowd outside the theater loudly shouting "No spoilers!"

Everyone departing was talking quietly, bent heads. And mostly in vague terms, like: "It went by so fast!"
"It was such a good send off."
"It was even better than I expected."

Those were the sort of things I managed to overhear. But everyone was being really respectful leaving the theater.....only to still have a crowd screaming in their face.

Which is why I was so fucking tempted to spoil shit for them. Because they were being dicks.

Telling you I enjoyed a movie isn't a fucking spoiler.

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

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

Thinking about this today while on the support chat with Verizon.

Online chat/RP with ADD:

• Read message.
• Start thinking about reply.
• Get distracted.
• Some random amount of time later... "Did I reply to that? Crap."

To quote a common Tumblr response, "I feel called out by this post."

"Well, I'll go flip to this article really quickly and read it while I wait. Oh, there's the timer, I better go change over my laundry. Hrm, while I'm down here, there's that box I meant to sort through, I should take that back upstairs, then maybe I'll go see if that person I wanted a scene with tonight is onl— gah, I was RP'ing! I hope they haven't been waiting too long for a pose!!"

This is one reason I'm glad for living alone and having my desktop (now that it's back in action!) in the central area of my apartment.

I may run around and do a dozen different things, but I'll always pass back by it and see Potato there on the left-hand screen. Because I am so much like this, too. I was once on the phone with a fellow MUer and I had it on speaker (dunno where my headset was at the time; I usually don't do that) and I kept wandering off mid conversation because something would distract me. I think I was standing on the sofa inspecting a curtain when he called me out for being a space cadet.

Something that compounds my ADD and is probably a large part of why it created anxiety in me is I have dyscalculia (dyslexia, with numbers) and one of the symptoms of this is audio processing. I have a delay in processing the things I hear. Especially through speakers.

It's why I hate talking on the phone. Why I insist on watching things with subtitles.

If I'm talking to someone with full headphones (not a single earpiece) and there's limited background noise and they speak clearly, I'm fine. But if there's noise or they mumble... Nope. I'm really grateful for my new coworkers, actually. They've been really cool about being willing to take or make calls (unless, y'know, we're too busy and I have to).

But it makes talking on the phone really, really hard when you have to force yourself to focus on one. single. thing. And then even when you do......the chances of making out what you've heard are really low.

I had to take a call today at work and it was for making a temporary badge and I got the name right except for one letter (f not s!) and I actually had a little celebration for myself.

For some people, talking on the phone while multi-tasking is no big deal. For me it's next to impossible. I can multi-task otherwise really well (when I have to run the SOC solo, that's 8 monitors to watch and handle information on and I love it because my brain runs high speed). But you add in talking to someone on the phone (in person is fine!) and I just become a bundle of nerves.

This is why, I think, I had my major nervous breakdown from working in a call center. It's not 'just' anxiety. It's anxiety born of this processing disability that's compounded by my ADD.

@Sparks

It was accurate. A poor summation, but it did reveal a major plot point. Like, try taking End Game and summing it up in a single poor sentence. That's what this commentator was doing.

It was super shitty. And yes, clearly blatantly malicious. Probably some kid who thought they were being funny.

As for Gany's question: y'all debate sports at length on the board here. People do it in YT comments on highlight videos.

The comment threads on some of the channels I follow on YT are quite all right. One of my favorite mash up artists usually has some pretty great comments, even. It's really the viral videos that have the super shitty comments. Wherever they'll get the most eyes, ofc.

@Ghost said in General Video Game Thread:

Zombie-wise, anyone pick up World War Z? I hear it's the new Left4Dead, and since fuckin Valve is dodging the zombie cash cow and not releasing L4D3...I've been reading reviews and considering.

I haven't bought it yet, but I know people who have.

The main complaints are: getting into multi-player with people is kind of a pain.
You can't change class during multi-player without fully backing out and going into a match again, which is a pain when playing with people.

But that's all pvp complaints. Like the actual missions look to be really smooth and the team is so far on the ball with fixing things as they come up.

Plus oh man the zombie hordes and the way they just fucking flood in. I wanna play so bad.

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

...there's a reason we went to an 8:30am show this morning, for real.

I am so tired I think I might die.

I worked 7a-3p yesterday, then went to the 6:30pm.

For sanity sake I was gonna wait for my day off Monday, but I wasn't gonna pass up a free ticket!

People who post spoilers all over the place: fuck you.

My coworker was watching basketball game highlights on YouTube and came across End Game spoilers.

So yeah, warning to folks. People are spoiling the movie in random YT comments.

@Coin said in Good or New Movies Review:

@ZombieGenesis said in Good or New Movies Review:

Endgame was really good. Long though. Really long. To the point where, for me, it impacted the enjoyment of the movie a little bit. Even so I don't regret having seen it. They did an amazing job with it.

Uhm.

It flew by for me. Like, I'll probably notice the length of the movie a lot more then second time, but I did not feel its length was an issue the first time around (which I did with Lord of the Rings, years and years ago).

Yeah, I got to say I didn't notice the length. I thought I would. I mean, I wake up at 5:45 am now and I went to a 6:30pm showing. I was afraid of falling asleep during the film (long day of work, cool dark theater, recliner seats...), but I was keyed in through the whole thing.

Now, halfway through driving the person I went with home, exhaustion hit me like a bus but during? Nope. Not at all. They scheduled the beats of the film just right, IMO.

@Jaded said in Good or New Movies Review:

Endgame is amazing. Just dropping that here.

This.

ETA: there were people waiting outside the auditorium for the next showing who began chanting "No spoilers" as we left and I gotta say.... It had the opposite effect. I really came quite close to shouting some spoilers at them (I didn't, mind) for how fucking annoying it was.

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

@saosmash You don't owe anyone your story. It's perfectly okay to just sit there and lurk and know that you're not alone in struggling to be whoever you are.

@Arkandel said in RL things I love:

Sunday evening includes:

• Eating out with friends
• Avengers: Endgame
• Game of Thrones Episode 3

Yeah. YEAH.

Lies.

You don't have friends.

Bummed as I am about the loss, I gotta give props to the social media accounts:

Augustus Sol Invictus?

I'm sorry, that's a Crone right there.

@Wretched said in Mudkraft:

Someone explain.

Last I recall is the theory it was gonna be a WoW MU and the link had a countdown timer, but the link is no longer active so... who knows!

Would anyone be interested in playing Ticket to Ride or Mysterium at some point?

I have those (looking at the Humble Bundle now to maybe pick THOSE up), but have yet to get to play them with people.

I kind of wish my dad was an alcoholic so I could give that to him as an excuse or maybe hope someday he'd, y'know, stop. Not that I wish alcoholism on anyone (my ex-husband was one and it was... misery and I am so much better off without him), it'd just be... nice to think maybe someday it'd stop.

No. He's just an egotistical, religious-driven asshole.