Posts made by Auspice

I'm preparing to submit another story for publication. However, only one person has read it and given me any thoughts so far. Everyone else I've sent it to hasn't gotten around to it (I'm assuming this rather than the 'ohgodtheyhateditandaretooafraidtosayso' route).

It got a perfect grade and glowing review from my prof. last month, but I just want to be sure.

So if anyone out there is willing to read it and get back to me in the next couple of days (I don't want to miss the deadline), please let me know and I'll send the link.

For incentive: it's a short story (1900~ words) set in my sci-fi setting.

This is being discussed for the Aliens game (called Hudsons) and we discussed it at length in that thread (my RL needs to chill the fuck out so I can step back into helping out with that project).

One of the big bonuses, in my mind, to such a PC is that it increases the impact of death. It's hard to care about a 'there for flavor' NPC, but easier when someone was actively involved and playing them.

The other perk, for me at least, would be getting to try out character types I might not otherwise. I have a lot of ideas I pass on because I'm not sure I'd enjoy them long-term. It'd give me a place to test drive them.

@tnp said in RL Anger:

Umm, ladies? Don't you watch what they're doing in the mirror? Then you can stop them when the scissor moves from shoulder to ear.

For me, almost all the fuckups happen in the back.
I can't see what's happening back there.

Ahh, the first time I saw something of mine stolen. Another game lifted my entire policy and submission structure / guidelines for plots. And was going around bragging on it (which is how it was found out).

I went to them and was like 'Alright. I don't care that you're using it; it means it's probably a good system and it works. But you could have asked. You could have attributed it to me.'

...the twat continued to insist it was theirs, despite being word-for-word what was on the game I designed it for (we later found they'd copied our entire grid, too).

I've never understood it, really. In this hobby, most of us are totally fine sharing so long as someone asks or at least gives proper attribution. Hell, just use it and if someone asks later, admit where it came from.

@taika said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@surreality Do you have a website? I want to see the awesome things :3 But also need some inspiration motivation to get my shit up on my shopify. In two months I have managed to get seven things out of over a hundred posted and I just dread it. I hate taking pictures, I hate writing the descriptions. I just want to make things and have them magically disappear and leave money in their place >.<

Maybe buying super fun photography stuff would help? https://photojojo.com/
I have a friend who, for a while, made and sold jewelry on etsy and she got almost more excited about the photos once she got a small lightbox setup.

@cupcake

I was wanting to ask... will any of the all-black capsule collection be in your sale? (I post here because knowing there may be ALL BLACK LLR might influence some folks ;))

@aria The trials and tribulations of finding a good stylist.

My favorite was one I found (sadly) just months before I left SC. She not only grokked (and did) exactly what I wanted, but she began with: 'Do you mind if we don't chat? I like to just get into the groove.'

It was like the hallelujah chorus. The small talk is the worst part of the engagement (also the stylist I'd tried before her had spent the entire time fussing at me for wanting short hair and 'Men hate short hair you know.').

I need a hair cut, but I'm anxious for this exact reason, like you and @Cupcake have described. Asking for one thing and getting the entirely wrong outcome. You can't put hair back.

Not sure what to buy the person who has everything this holiday season? Why not a keg of ranch dressing?

Africa?

[No photo because come on]

Diptheria?

HOLY SHIT.

Another classmate got back to me re: my 'Hey, how did your feedback / call with our instructor go?'

(Edited to remove personal info:)

I'd love to discuss this at length should you find the time. I'd greatly prefer we have this conversation either by telephone or through an alternate email address.

The best email address for me is [redacted].

My phone number is [redacted].

A text or email from you prior to a call with your initials and the area code means I'd pick-up if I were able.

If you wish to dialogue further, I'd like your de facto "NDA" anything we discuss remain confidential.

I can say this isn't the first such request I've received in this class; the others have been from students with self-esteem and a strong sense of right and wrong.

Caldera?

I will be too broke still to take advantage, but one of my favorite project bag makers is doing a flash sale tomorrow for cat patterns:

https://www.slippedstitchstudios.com/collections/pic-your-pus

I have two of her project bags (Sock and Two Skein) and one of the Go Crafty Travel Cases. They're awesome and well-made.

She does tons of releases for nerdy stuff. My project bags are Star Wars patterns and the Travel Case is Firefly. Along with the cat ones, she's releasing (tomorrow?) an Outlander (her 2nd) series.

Red Sonja movie in the works

Hera?

@arkandel

Don't tell me you've been designing computer virii and worms all this time!

Maybe we need an 'amusing RL shit' thread.

Got to the bus stop and a man offered me his seat on the bench. I took it because I'm still getting over being sick and felt unsteady on my feet. I quickly found out why he was willing to offer... when the other guy on the bench began regaling me with his bowel movements, various STDs he's experienced, and that he was kicked out of AA.

I got on my bus and hallelujah, he didn't budge. Sit down, breath a sigh of relief, look up...

...guy across from me is obviously wasted. He's got a grocery bag packed with wine coolers. He asks me: 'Is this the 320?' 'No, it's the 1.' 'I need the 320.' Another lady tells him he can get the 320 at the transit center. Guy proceeds to spill gatorade all over himself.

He did not get off at the transit center. He was still too busy trying to tie his sweater around his head like some kind of new wave turban.

Then, he proceeds to go around the bus offering everyone snacks from his mystery grocery bag. "No one?!" he proclaims, "but this is the dankest shit! It's better than northern lights and rainbow!" So he's high, too...

Moments later he's on the floor, dumping out his bag and digging through it. There's more wine coolers (some empty, some full), two bottles of champagne.

A little old lady asks what he's looking for. He describes a box then, mumbling before: "... or some bitch's ass-" he looks at the old lady, "...some lady's booty is gonna get beat."

He got off the bus after that, but please man: tell me your life that you are that wasted on a bus at 1pm on a Tuesday.

Stoya?

Jeeeeenga

So, I've been Tier 2 / Tech Lead on a small project for almost three years now. And about a year and a half ago, we got a new Tier 1. She has never been able to pick things up and she's adamantly refused to do simple parts of the job (like filling out the tag/detail fields on a ticket before escalating it to me). I've been, all this time later, answering the same questions for her.

She'll manage maybe 12 tickets in 4 hours. The others and myself can do 20+ in 2 hours.

I was constantly having to report her to the PM.

Today he let me know he let her go from the project. It's not even going to affect our workload because she did so little and fucked up so often.

I can't even feel bad for someone losing the hours. It's not a hard project for Tier 1. 95% of Tier 1 is just reading comprehension ('what is the user asking?') and responding with macros / defined processes, or filling out the data fields and escalating to me.

The only other time I've had an active hand in someone getting fired was the guy who kept skipping out on his Friday / Saturday shifts and once, after I had to fill in yet again on short notice, told me: 'Thanks! I just don't want to work when my friends are going out, you know?' Yeah, I sent that straight to management.