Posts made by Auspice

I'm not going to put up with 'I'll behave until someone is mean to me again!' style threats while continuing to bait the rest of the forum.

The rules are there for a reason. He'd been given a couple warnings over the past handful of weeks.

@ganymede said in RL things I love:

Have there?

If you have my phone number, name, address, etc... in your device and you install the Messenger program... I have not given permission for those details to be stored, utilized, etc. by Facebook.

Yet that is what Facebook was doing. They were using my (or people like me in this scenario) details. Selling them to ad agencies, using them for other purposes (there is one specific scenario in which Zuckerberg is known to have used Facebook to collect intel on two lawyers he had to deal with back in the early days of the site), etc..

That, IMO, is a clear violation. You (nebulous you) gave permission for your data, but you don't have the right to give permission for mine.

@arkandel said in RL Anger:

@coin It can go the other way too. Having de facto allies on your side who will always be there no matter what counts for something.

But for the people who never actually get that in life?

It fucking blows.

You guys are aware that there are people who have never once had a Facebook account and yet Facebook...... has their information? All because someone installed/used Facebook messenger and despite not approving it to do so, it went in and scrubbed their phone to grab information?

That is what this whole thing is about. Situations like that.

Not the people who manually checked into locations. Volunteered info, sure.

But it's been found those times you said 'No, FB, you cannot have this' ... FB ignored that setting and took/stored the info anyway. And that there have been times when Zuckerberg personally has utilized the details his site has stored of people against them.

There have been incredibly clear violations of privacy.

@ixokai said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@auspice said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@sparks said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@auspice said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@sparks said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@auspice I feel you on the migraine complaint today. So much.

The HVAC and florescent lights make me want to cry today.

Florescent lights are the fucking worst.
How have we not gotten rid of the things?

Why do we have lights that make noise?

Most... most people don't hear them.

those lucky assholes.

Wait, are you serious? This isn't a joke? I always thought everyone suffered under TortureLights.

Nope.

Most people don't hear 'em at all. That's part of why companies get all douchebaggy and fussy about making you get a doctor's note when you want to disable the one over your desk because it's a migraine trigger (Verizon made it so hard on me when I worked there that I eventually gave up). All 'you'll be inconveniencing the people around you by making their work environment darker and no one else has any complaints or issues with the so-called 'sound' emitted by the lights. I can't hear a thing right now!' by management, HR, etc.

@nemesis

Personal attacks are not welcome outside of the Hog Pit. As you present yourself as someone with a higher degree of learning, I feel you are more than aware of this fact. Please remove the above post and refrain from behaving in this fashion moving forward.

There is absolutely no need for this juvenile behavior.

OBS is awesome. I've only dabbled in streaming and it made things super easy.

@roz said in General Video Game Thread:

@packrat When I started streaming a little, I had to turn down the game volume in my stream software a goooooood deal (and keep my mic volume at 100). Your voice is still pretty hard to hear.

Yeah, game volume prob. needs to be at least a third lower than what it is currently.

@packrat said in General Video Game Thread:

Think Space Darkest Dungeon but still in early access.

You have my interest.

I know this one might be tricky, but hey.

If anyone knows how to get in touch with Dahan, please let me know.

@arkandel said in Real life versus online behaviors:

@nemesis said in Real life versus online behaviors:

It doesn't actually detail any bad behavior on MSB's part

I don't know either. I wasn't even bothering banning him again even though his accounts were very obvious because I didn't really care, until Auschwitz. Then I cared again.

I dunno. I mean. The AuspiceBitch, AuspiceBitchNazi, et al accounts weren't very creative but they were flattering. But Auspwitz. That one took some creative thinking. I had to applaud him on that one.

FX Networks has ordered a pilot for a series based on beloved and Eisner-winning comic book series Y: The Last Man

@jaded said in Good or New Movies Review:

@Auspice
I felt that way when they cast Ehrenreich. I think that Scott Eastwood might have been a better choice among the final few that were being chosen from the final auditions.

Eastwood was higher on my list, too.

I mean you can watch the trailers and in Glover, you can see Lando. He's got the smirk, the mannerisms. He mirrors the way Billy Dee Williams played Lando. And it works. I feel like Ehrenreich didn't even try. He's just playing 'random 'cool kid from the wrong side of the tracks' #15.'

@tinuviel said in RL things I love:

Adam Driver, on the other hand, seems like a genuinely wonderful person.

Adam Driver: My journey from Marine to actor | TED Talk

Oh, yes, Adam Driver is p. great.
Kylo Ren, on the other hand.....

@arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:

Man, I'm not feelin' it.

The official Solo trailer.

The first trailer I saw, I was like OK... Glover as Lando? I can totally dig it. And every clip WITHOUT Ehrenreich was pretty baller...

But Ehrenreich? Is not Solo. And I'm not just talking looks. He doesn't have the swagger, the cadence of voice, none of it. That's why I'm just not feeling it.

You can get away with an actor who doesn't look 'quite right' so long as they can pull off the rest. So long as they can get the mannerisms, the speaking style... But he doesn't have any of Solo's tics. Not a single one. Nothing in that trailer said Solo to me.

Of the new SW stuff, this is the one I feel the least interested in and it upsets me so much because it comes out just a couple days after my damn birthday.

So I got contacted a few weeks back by a recruiter for a job with Waymo. They're the company Google had scooped up for it's self-driving car program. I was being considered for a couple of positions and the one I thooooooought they'd wanted to interview me for (since it's the one the recruiter talked to me most about!) was the support position. Basically providing assistance for actual owners/drivers of the vehicles.

3rd shift. Falls in line with what I've been doing with my career for almost 15 years. Sure, easy enough. Pays a lot better than where I'm at, plus: with Google and with freakin' self-driving cars. Why the hell not?

Had conference call today for interview-prep. Oh no. This is for the operator position. Like... training the cars.
As in, 'your job is to operate the vehicles and train them.'

Okay, that's actually kind of extra cool. I'd become intimately familiar with how these things work if I get this job. Awesome.

Except half of the interview is evaluating my driving ability.

I haven't actually driven since my drive from Seattle to Austin 8 months ago.

And on Friday I have to spend about half an hour driving... while being interviewed.

Pardon me while I spend the next four days in a series of panic attacks.

@arkandel said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

Dude, until last week 80% of your diet came in McDonalds and Tim Horton's bags. Do we seriously need to have that conversation? Stay the course for a couple of months, see if it works, and then decide. Or don't!

I always love those people.

I eat fast food all the time, but isn't this other thing unhealthy?!

... I mean, sure, if you were going from salads and fresh veggies 99.9% of the time, probably. But for you it's probably a huge step up on the healthy food scale, sooooooo~

@roz said in RL things I love:

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@mr-johnson said in RL things I love:

9/10 straight women agree: Happy boners best boner. Angry boners come in at number two, and way at the bottom of the pack, nobodies favorite: Sad boners. Poor, poor sad boners. No body wins with a sad boner. T-T

A sad boner shouldn't even be in this thread. Monsters.

Better take out that Kylo Ren gif, then.

I can't speak to the disposition of his boner. Sadly. SADLY!

The entire personhood of Kylo Ren is a sad boner.

He is like the personification of 15 year old boys in their bedroom playing WoW on a Saturday night.
If that isn't a sad boner, I don't know what is.

You're actually just a receptionist.

Sorry, guys. They forgot to tell you.

They repurposed receptionist as a security guard to make people feel better in this post-9/11 world.

I'm actually shaking a bit right now.

That class where I was writing/developing an IF game (for most of March) was one of -- if not the -- the hardest classes of my degree program. Most nights I got home from work and worked on classwork until I began falling asleep on my couch. My days off were a mix of housework and homework.

I was fucking exhausted. Add to that work having been insane because SxSW meant executives in town and it just was not an easy month.

I just got my final grades back. I've been waiting anxiously for these because the last few assignments I was waiting to be graded comprised 50% of my grade. I was sitting at a 100 for the class, but that means little when half your grade is still on the line. I didn't expect a 100 - I'd turned in one of my assignments (worth 20%) a day late and that knocks 5pts off automatically.

He waived that due to the amount of work I'd put in.

No, I got a 100 on everything. I came out of the single most difficult class of my degree with a 100. The amount of time and effort I put in... is actually reflected.