@nemesis said in Life... in outer space!:
I was asked a similar question by a "student newspaper reporter" doing a survey in high school. My answer has not changed in the 20 years since.
Q: "Is there intelligent extraterrestrial life out there somewhere?"
A: "I sure hope so, because there isn't any on Earth."
When I got to work yesterday, my coworker looks at me: 'Hey, do you like hawaiian pizza?'
while offering me her Dominos box.
Are one of you her?!
I don't exactly advertise myself, but I'm also not afraid of it, either.
Being an author, I know my identity is out there. However, I've balanced it outside of games. I have my "public persona." There's that which you can Google. My pen name, as you will, is part of my real name. I keep it active, I keep it polished, and you can't get more than my city/State off of it. You can't get intimate details, my home address, etc etc.
But once I'm ready to approach agents to try to get published, I need to be able to go 'here, I have the groundwork done for a fanbase for marketing' and I'm working on that. I've got my active Twitter account, my author page on FB, etc.
However, I have enough of a background in IT that it's easier for me to juggle multiple accounts on platforms, I guess? Or maybe I just have fewer fucks to give in general. I dunno.
The following characters have opened:
Blue Devil
Black Bat
Martian Manhunter
Talia al Ghul
Red Hood
Ragman
Poison Ivy
Wonder Girl
Additionally, I just wrapped Chapter 1 of my plot last night. I'm taking a couple weeks to develop Chapter 2 (and also to finish a rather arduous project for school) before launching it. It's geared towards Titans PCs, but I'll try to find ways to fit others in!
@thatguythere said in Pineapple on Pizza:
You mean there are people that actually like chain pizza? I get preferring one as a cheap lazy option when good pizza would be too much effort or expense but liking it.... who knew?
I think once you've lived in enough areas where there aren't non-chain options / aren't non-chain options that deliver / aren't non-chain options that aren't wildly expensive... you end up liking them.
I've lived where it was either:
And when you're generally poor and/or work 2nd shift? Yeah. You go for the chain places.
@surreality said in Random Internet Quizzes:
@auspice It's funny you say that, because we are totally going to go for a Flash Gordon theme if we ever do, complete with 'Do you swear to not launch her into space? ...er, until such time as you become bored with her?' and the 'All citizens of Mongo shall make merry! Under pain of death!' banners.
Which is definitely not on the list.
(For good reason, no doubt.)
But, like. Friends of ours own that actual minister's costume, and one of our friends is a minister...
There WAS a 'Movie/TV theme' option, surr! GOSH.
@surreality said in Random Internet Quizzes:
@auspice Mauled by Black Friday shoppers
I knew I was right to always stay in on Black Fridays!!!
...sadly very few of the options really worked for what we aim to do if we ever have like, a wedding wedding. And there was no option for 'fuck it, we're going to the justice of the peace, is everyone wearing pants? OK, good, let's go.'
Well, it is dream wedding. I mean, if your dream is to make sure everyone is at least wearing pants...
c'mon, surr. Go for the stars.
Not the White Castle down the road.
Because we all have to procrastinate.
Plan Your Dream Wedding and Learn How You'll Die!
My result: Drowning in acid.
I can dig it.
@surreality said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
If that's your reaction to antibiotics, definitely do it. Usually, antibiotics make everyone I know exhausted as fuck and feels crappy and breaks out like a teenager while their body fights off whatever they're given the antibiotics for. (Thankfully, I never got the 'bonus' yeast infection, but that's super common, too.)
See? I thought it was normal! Antibiotics make me feel like I can do ALL THE THINGS.
Whenever I'm sick and go to the doctor, it's like 'please gimme antibiotics please please oh man the z-pack would be super awesome I'll be so productive this week my house will be spotless and I'll get caught up on everything and...'
I never have to be told 'make sure to finish them all' because I WANT to finish the whole pack. I am sad when they are gone because it means a return to feeling blah.
@rnmissionrun said in Pineapple on Pizza:
@auspice said in Pineapple on Pizza:
@rnmissionrun said in Pineapple on Pizza:
All this pizza talk has reminded me that I have 32 Papa Points just sitting there waiting for me to claim them for a free, large specialty pizza.
Send it my way.
You probably wouldn't like. The toppings are BBQ sauce, bacon, beef, canadian bacon, onions and jalapenos.
That actually sounds fantastic!
@rnmissionrun said in Pineapple on Pizza:
All this pizza talk has reminded me that I have 32 Papa Points just sitting there waiting for me to claim them for a free, large specialty pizza.
Send it my way.
I think I should probably take this whole 'be checked for lyme' thing seriously.
I've done more reading on it and there's a lot of 'gets mistaken for...' and 'has symptoms in common with...' fibromyalgia. So there's that.
There's also a whole big: 'there's a very high risk if you were never actually treated for lyme.'
And I wasn't when I got bitten by the tick. Or well, accurately: had it buried in my arm for 3+ days. When I got sick, my dad did his handwave 'it's normal, it's like having the flu, she'll get better eventually.' So I was never given the run of antibiotics.
I mean, it's not like the whole 'there's no cure' doesn't phase me. There isn't one for fibro, either, but lyme at least has treatment programs. Fibro's is 'exercise works for some people' (every time I've thrown myself into an exercise program, I've gotten immensely worse), 'NSAIDs work for some people' (I'm largely immune to them all), etc.
Mind a lot of lyme's is bouts of antibiotics but. I do wonder if this is why every time I'm given even short runs of antibiotics, I feel fucking amazing for a few days. Like I can have people going 'no, Auspice, you should still be resting, you're still sick' and I'm all 'I WANT TO DO EVERYTHING I FEEL AWESOME THIS IS GREAT' I always assumed that was just a standard side effect of antibiotics and everyone got that way.
So. Either way. It's something to look into at least. I mean. The symptom list (physical and mental) of late stage / post / whatever term you use of lyme is... p much exactly everything I deal with. From fatigue to muscle problems to my legs to my depression and anxiety. If it is what's going on and I can find a treatment program? It'd be worth trying.
Once I've got money to spare to afford rides to/from the specialist and the specialist co-pay, I'mma do it.
@rucket said in Pineapple on Pizza:
@auspice Papa Johns had promotions for whenever the Redskins won a game, so one Monday when I was hungry af, I decided to put in an order. Ended up the promotion was 8 toppings but alas, Papa Johns only allowed a max of two of each topping. So I had 2x bacon, 2x pepperoni, 2x ham, 2x sausage. It was a real dumb pizza lol.
Sometimes you just need a meatitarian pizza.
It is the same guy. Mind, @Nemesis has me blocked, but @Mr-Johnson shared the image from UH with me before he began this project and told me how he'd commissioned the image for 'Two Tone Tales' a long while back, but never got the game off the ground back then.
So the image is his, commissioned, etc.
I remember on one pizza site (it was a local chain) I had a custom one saved called 'the whole hog' that was just every kind of pork topping and no veggies that I'd ordered while high once.
I left it on my profile because it made me crack up laughing every time I loaded up their site from there on out.
@rucket said in Visit Fallcoast, sponsored by the Fallcoast Chamber of Commerce:
@auspice said in Visit Fallcoast, sponsored by the Fallcoast Chamber of Commerce:
@surreality said in Visit Fallcoast, sponsored by the Fallcoast Chamber of Commerce:
I know this won't be an 80s game. But all of this is why I still want one some day.
I think at the rate we're all going, it'll be an 80s game regardless.
It should definitely be an 80s game. And a part of me wants to play Vice City again, lol.
Vice City is amazing.
@surreality said in Visit Fallcoast, sponsored by the Fallcoast Chamber of Commerce:
I know this won't be an 80s game. But all of this is why I still want one some day.
I think at the rate we're all going, it'll be an 80s game regardless.
@three-eyed-crow said in Pineapple on Pizza:
A good white pizza with spinach and garlic is fucking amazing and a frequent go-to of mine on the couple meatless days I do a week (these are never particularly healthy days, and so I enjoy them all the more).
I am all about white pizza with spinach and garlic.
Add chicken and I am totally sold (but am perfectly happy without!).
