@Ghost said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@Auspice I could start a gofundme for "The other Ghost hanging around in Texas" tour.
Taco Bell.
Dave & Busters.
Taco Bell.
When there's like, a bajillion other better taco options?
wtf is your malfunction.
Ghost doing a mf'ing arena tour this Fall and no stops in TX.
@BetterJudgment said in Sexuality: IC and OOC:
@Wretched Corn starch baby powder. Really. A sprinkle a day helps keep itching away.
I have been told to never, ever mistakenly use cornflour tho.
(Had a guy friend do this one day: he'd heard the cornstarch thing and didn't have any, but he DID have cornflour and assumed 'sure, it's pretty much the same thing!' Hint: it's not. at all. even remotely.)
Considering all the other vehicles likely to have converters to pull...
Fuck 'im.
His truck is prone to fits of this every few weeks. Sometimes in the middle of the night. He used to park it directly outside my window until I began leaving notes on it daily and even called the cops on him once. Because being woken up at 5am by an alarm going off is really. damn. annoying.
Your alarm does not need to be so sensitive that every single car going by on the road sets it off. That's just goddamn overkill. 
I'm about to go slash some motherfuckin' tires.
The truck is back. And his alarm has been going off non-stop for the past hour. Oh, sure, he presses the button to turn it off every few minutes.
Then it goes off again.
On a Ford that has to be from the mid-90s and is rusted all to hell.
TAKE THE MALFUNCTIONING AFTER-MARKET ALARM OFF YOUR BUNKASS JALOPY YOU GODDAMN ASSHOLE.
After 3 weeks without AC (look, Texas; I need it), I finally have working AC again.
It only took finally sending a certified letter to the leasing office threatening them under the TX Renters Rights that if they didn't get it fixed by X date, I would consider the lease broken, no longer be paying rent, and I'd move out two weeks after that date with no repercussions. (Along with a list of each time I'd called them and been brushed off -twice- and each time I'd submitted a maintenance request -eight- with no response).
I might finally get a good night's rest tonight.
This is a little 'RL Things I Love' and a little vidya games:
https://kotaku.com/skyrim-grandma-will-be-an-npc-in-the-elder-scrolls-vi-1833678841
@Salty said in Sexuality: IC and OOC:
Tend to play pansexual female characters who are primarily attracted to men. My minority of male pcs and majority of female pcs tend to be attracted to men, based on physical traits, and more rarely women, but more often emotional or personality traits in women.
I find this kind of interesting, but only because IRL I am the opposite in a sense.
I am primarily attracted to women physically, but emotionally attracted to men... But I suppose I am considered demisexual because I can't feel a sexual attraction to someone unless there's an emotional component (I can find someone physically appealing without feeling a sexual draw: women are a goddamn work of art, all right?). It's why my long-term relationships are often with men, but in my late teens and early twenties I had some dates and a lot of flirting and brief sparks of things with women. ...I tend to end up sighing over a lot of straight girls. >.>
But it's fun seeing someone who is (at least in an RP sense???) the mirror to that!
@Ghost said in General Video Game Thread:
@Arkandel said in General Video Game Thread:
https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/03/25/the-lord-of-the-rings-gollum-announced-for-release-in-2021
That feels like an April Fool's joke.
At least it's not a movie.
@PuppyBreath said in RL Anger:
So if you know someone is leaving in a couple of months you could decide you're not getting enough out of them to be worth it, especially if you have more applicants in the pipeline who might be just as good and they're not planning on leaving.
I get this to some extent when it applies from a business perspective. But, for reference, I'm a dog groomer with over a decade of experience in an industry that has a hard time getting and keeping decent, experienced people because it's not difficult (theoretically) for them to either open their own business or find someone else to hire them.
I was their only groomer, and their only employee. By firing me, they're losing their grooming business until they can find another groomer who, as I said, can be difficult to find.
I hate this industry so much.
Unfortunately, like many industries now, people tend to get it in their head of 'how hard can it be; we can just hire some kid to do it.'
That's what I encounter re: writing. I once spoke with a guy who runs a business filming commercials (local stuff) and he commiserated that he just. fucking. wishes. companies would hire professionals to write their commercial scripts rather than some rando executive penning off something last minute because 'oh it's just writing, how hard can it be?'. He told me horror stories of some of the cringe he had to work with.
I see it day-to-day in my jobs, too. Professional emails, etc., that need to go out and I'll offer to do them and some boss who can't even remember to capitalize shit 'It's just writing, I do this all the time' and he turns around and makes the whole damn team look bad with some drivel.
More and more industries are getting that way. Ignoring the people who are trained to do things for a fucking reason because they turn up their nose, personally, at the job itself so much.
Someone, I have no idea who, used me as a referral for JimmyBeansWool... which got me a coupon code for $15 off my next referral.
Since I am still finishing my 'oh god so expensive' (each skein is about $25) blanket and will need to buy 2 more skeins before the end, this is a super awesome thing. 
@dev said in RL things I love:
@silverfox It's the difference between being family as opposed to guest in their minds; that's how I find my joy in it. I don't experience this as much with actual family, but I've a couple of friends that may as well be. It isn't the work itself I love, either, but their comfort and familiarity with my existing near them enough that I'm not someone to cater to. It's noice.
I'm like this with friends and running errands.
Errands are so much better with friends.
Oh, hey, I just put in a job application with them a couple days ago (one of my slew of job apps, mind. I just apply wherever/whatever has openings, LETSBEHONEST. ffs I applied with JUUL for a copywriting position last night).
@Pandora said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@Auspice Spoken as an older sister with a younger sister that flat-out had a better life than I did, but still complains more than anyone I know - little sisters are just shitty people. They mean well, but they're horrid.
That is pretty much where my sister is at.
She is the baby of the family and the family was better off (financially) her whole life. She's been on cruises (3?), out of the country (two vacations to Mexico, one to Scotland). I got to go to Disney World twice (once when I was 4, once when I was 12).
She likes to tell people she's 'never been to Europe' because the Scotland trip was before she was a teenager (she was 9).
There's just sort of a whole slew of shitty behavior from her. And I know part of the Twitter thing is just how people lie on social media, but it doesn't stop the fact that it stings. The last time I saw her (grandmother's funeral), I made sure to spend a lot of time with her, despite the fact that she spend most of it parroting the shitty things our father likes to say about/to me (he's a very far-right conspiracy theorist conservative and since I'm well... NOT, apparently a lot of bullshit in the family about me and my more moderate and even progressive ways gets said to the family that she was more than happy to mockingly parrot to me).
JUST BECAUSE YOU MOCKED ME (and because I was on that side of town and have been meaning to)... I went to the discnation store and checked out some disc golf stuff... >.>
In more "my family fucking sucks:"
Seeing my sister post on Twitter about how she grew up with only brothers and had no other female influence growing up except her mother. And "this is why girls like me are so different than girls who grew up with sisters!" (look she just turned 20 okay)
Punch in the fucking gut. Esp when I liked to tell people how happy it made me to see how much stronger my sister was as a teenager (willing to speak up in defense of herself, speaking out against how toxic our father could be, etc) than I was...despite how our mother never did anything like that for us.
My sister doesn't know I know what her Twitter account is but goddamn if that doesn't make me wanna reveal it. I know she's doing it just for the attention but damn if it doesn't hurt.
@Ghost said in General Video Game Thread:
@Auspice said in General Video Game Thread:
@Ghost said in General Video Game Thread:
@Auspice Yanno, I'm not so convinced the next Elder Scrolls game is going to be a megahit like Skyrim was. Elder Scrolls has a following, but none of the games exploded the way that Skyrim did. Popular? Yes. MEGApopular? Skyrim was.
Will Elder Scrolls' next major release do as well without fighting dragons and Viking badasses? I guess we're gonna find out one way or another.
Don't you dare hurt me this early in the week.
I won't hurt you...
Won't hurt you...
No more.
nng! nng! n-nnn-nng!
Also, frisbee golf sucks.
y u so mean
I was gonna ask if anyone else is having issues. I've reset my password a few times and keep getting the 'password failed' prompt. I only had Morrowind on Xbox.
@Ghost said in General Video Game Thread:
@Auspice Yanno, I'm not so convinced the next Elder Scrolls game is going to be a megahit like Skyrim was. Elder Scrolls has a following, but none of the games exploded the way that Skyrim did. Popular? Yes. MEGApopular? Skyrim was.
Will Elder Scrolls' next major release do as well without fighting dragons and Viking badasses? I guess we're gonna find out one way or another.
Don't you dare hurt me this early in the week.
