Posts made by Auspice

@kitteh said in An Apology to BSO and BSU.:

What characters are we talking about? It's been a bit since I stopped on BSGU but some of this sounds kinda familiar-ish.

Let me see if I can remember...

Kazimir, Beckham, Jonas, Tucker, Mason... am I missing any?

@apu said in An Apology to BSO and BSU.:

@auspice

Oh fuck. I sadly fell victim to his lies and had even left BSO for a while because of them. Thankfully Dropkick is a sweetheart and let me return once I got hit upside the head by a self-induced clue-by-four and came back.

Marcus was after Zach, yes?

He was. BSO even has a whole policy named after this guy now, since he evaded his ban as Zachary/Auggie to go back as Alastair/Marcus.

A lot of people fell victim to his lies. A lot of us want to trust people. We want to believe people.

And some people take advantage of that.

@apu said in An Apology to BSO and BSU.:

Wait. Skype dates? That kind of sounds familiar. Did this guy also play Zachary on BSO, by chance?

Yeeeep.

@downwithopp said in An Apology to BSO and BSU.:

@auspice Uh. No. You were talking marriage and babies and shit, and I was uncomfortable with what was going on elseMU* (this was the same time as @tek for the record was doing all the weird shit with Clara/Randy, et al), so I made the move to put all my relationships to an end. I should have told you more on that, and I'm sorry. So, yes, I killed off the character, especially since it was a roster pull from a former character who informed me after I pulled the char that he wasn't supposed to be on roster, which made me feel worse. I made that decision. I'll own it.

lol.
You were the one who brought up marriage on the characters. I know it's he said/she said at this point, but most people can tell you I don't do baby RP. My characters might talk about it, but they'll never actually get there (and most end up being infertile in some way).

I mean, it's saying something that I've had other people tell me you made them uncomfortable by trying to go immediately into declarations of love.

I rolled with it because I tend to be laid back and roll with things unless they go wildly outside of my comfort zone ICly. I RP because I like the challenge and to see what happens. But the insinuation that I'm the one who went there is patently false. However, we are all well aware of your status as a liar.

@downwithopp

Curiously, one of those was shortly after you came on to me OOCly shortly after our characters got together and I evaded it (because, well, creepy much?)... I go away IRL for the weekend and suddenly... your character dies in a +event.

On a game in which character death isn't a thing unless a player explicitly wants their character to die.

Your timing was utterly questionable and matches @tek's situation to a T.

Careless?

Once. Sure.

Four or more times?

Come the fuck on.

I will note that the suicide of Marcus was not a single incident. He's done it on other games, too.

He did it on Unification twice and on 5th Kingdom.

So it's not like it was an accident, a mistake, or a 'one off' situation.

A guy I used to work for, his daughter is a sword fighter. German long swords.

She got angry at a boy for being a "sexist asshole."

She challenged him to a duel.

I love that kid.

@pandora said in RL things I love:

@auspice I like his hazing style.

The third floor is actually really cool, IMO (it has these neat little nooks), but no one has a desk up there because everyone else is creeped out by it. I've joked about moving a desk in parts up there and becoming 'the ghost of the 3rd floor.'

I got my training on how to close down the office last minute today (rather than next week) since I'm working overtime and here solo.

As the HR guy was leaving:

"Lastly, if you hear something upstairs, it's either a) the ghost, or b) the homeless guy..." as he's running downstairs: "COULD BE EITHER ONE!"

(We work out of an old, three-story house converted into an office.)

In response to opioid epidemic, some doctors promoting 'pain acceptance'

My response to this? FUCK THAT NOISE.

Story time: 2003, I fell down some stairs. Suffered an AC joint separation in my shoulder. By 2005, I had a v. limited range of motion, couldn't lift more than 5 pounds. I'd sometimes have to pull over on my commute home from work because the pain would be blinding.

A doctor told me, point blank: 'I don't do anything for chronic pain.'

This is what, end of 2007, caused me to move form Ohio to SC. I knew I needed something. I couldn't even work full time anymore because the pain would be so bad some days. I'd gone through two cycles of physical therapy (with the therapist telling the doctor that it was beyond PT). But x-rays, MRIs, showed nothing.

The ortho in SC finally went: 'I hate doing exploratory surgery, but there's clearly something wrong here.'

Turns out the injury in 2003 (it was 2008 by this point) had left me with a shoulder socket full of bone spurs. If that doctor in 2005 hadn't brushed me off with a 'I don't do anything for chronic pain,' I might not have suffered for years.

...and here we have a growing trend of doctors wanting to do just this to their patients.

Fuck. That. Noise.

I went with the Under Armor Contender for price and recommendations here.

Got it today. I took a Lyft to work because I'm having a really bad fibro day, but I'll be bussing it home, so we'll see how it does then for back support/pain.

@roz said in RL Anger:

@dontpanda Usually I'm all aboard the METRIC TRAIN as far as thinking the US should convert, but honest to god, Fahrenheit is one that I cling to a bit. Because its standard is what feels hot to a HUMAN. 0 is REALLY COLD and 100 is REALLY HOT and that's the scale. WHO CARES ABOUT WHEN WATER FREEZES OR BOILS WHEN I'M TALKING ABOUT WHETHER I NEED A JACKET. FU WATER.

Plus, I mean, look at the UK. Some Brits will use Fahrenheit to 'properly represent how hot it is in the summer.'

(I learned this while watching Black Books a couple years ago.)

Deadline for the final of my script for this hell class is tomorrow at 10:59p local time.
Wait all week for the feedback from my asshole professor.
Get grade for last week's script.

'I provided extensive story and formatting notes during our telephone story conference; however, a graded copy of the "3rd Story Segment" has been uploaded for your records.'

Nothing was attached/uploaded.
We did not have a phone conference.

COMMENCE RAGE.

I sent a scathing email in which I also pointed out that I am being given roughly 30 hours to complete this goddamn assignment at this point.

His reply?

'Recheck the platform.'

Not even a fucking apology.

I hate this man so much.

The office thermostat was set to 78' today. I promptly turned it down to 72'.

Glad to have you on T8S!

(I tried Tenebrae about a year ago. I just couldn't get into it. )

@thenomain said in How do you construct your characters?:

Mind you: No migraines.

Character who begs to become a vampire to escape migraines?
(It'd be tempting af IRL.)

@thenomain said in TheOnceler’s Playlist:

Nowhere on your list is Dark Metal. It's not even under your "clusterfucks I missed" section which means either entirely skipped your radar (tho mentioning Masq, Elysium, and Tartarus I'm wondering how that could happen), or it was so bad that you blocked it out of your memory (you mentioned CrackMUX and Start Your Engines, so I'm wondering how that could be, too).

I was kind of surprised at this. I mean, other than a by Night game I forget, DM was the only oWoD game I ever set foot on (...and is why I was afraid to touch any other for such a long time).

The other day, a coworker walked in and asked 'Are you guys hot or cold?'
I was in the midst of eating my lunch and before I could say 'Yes, I'm so warm' everyone else agreed that they were, indeed, cold (and to my dismay, turned off the AC and turned on the heat).

I am still so very acclimated to the PNW and my body is assuring me that it should not be 80 degrees right now.

It's very strange because one of my fibro symptoms is that I generally get cold very easily. Instead, I am currently on the other side of the coin in being the person who is always warm.

a) My boss messaged me with 'Have a few minutes to chat? (it's good stuff)'

THANK YOU for the qualifier. Yes.

b) Finally secured the promotion they tossed at me a few weeks back. It's only a 50c an hour raise and requires I work Sat/Sun and until 8 (vs 7) during the week since I'm being transitioned into an office lead role... but I'll take it.

... I will def. need a car soon tho since I'll still be starting work at 9am.
(I work 9a-12p from home, then come into the office... And that schedule will stay the same, so I'll technically be working 6 days a week... But Tues it'll be just 3 hours and Sun it'll be just 5)

@arkandel said in RL Anger:

@auspice BECAUSE IT'S COLD

In the winter, you set thermostats lower so the HVAC doesn't have to work so hard!

77 is madness.
It's 84 out. I got into work sweating. I don't want to continue to sweat.

But I work with coworkers who get cold easy. There's a reason, I suppose, no one has ever tried to take my desk (the vent blows directly on it).