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@Derp said in RL Anger:

@WTFE said in RL Anger:

@Auspice said in RL Anger:

Pro tip:

If you're on an online dating app/site, don't tell the chick that actually stuck through your 'I'm feeling suicidal' episode (out of legitimate concern) that 'women are fucking bitches who won't talk to me.'

Correct response:

Here's a gift for you!

Yeah, don't do that. If they actually kill themselves you could be charged with criminal solicitation or manslaughter. There are Supreme Court cases about this. Don't do it.

I didn't. I couldn't have it on my conscience even if all I did was walk away. I talked to him. For hours. I even offered to hang out with him sometime.

I began suggesting things for him to do. We began talking because he's also an aspiring screenwriter. So I was like 'Well, I'm gonna volunteer with the Austin Film Festival, maybe you should too.'

Stuff like that.

And then he went into the 'all women are fucking bitches who won't talk to me' spiel and that's when I walked. Because motherfucker I just wasted six hours of my life talking to you and you're gonna pull that?

I'd given him, btw, one of my throwaway email addresses because I was gonna help him go over some of his writing to help him decide what stuff is good for submission to publications, give feedback, etc... And yes, he's already emailed it throwing tantrums and having fits at me for being 'just like all the rest.'

I think I'd rather be a lonely, crazy cat lady than deal with people like him (or the other common type I get on dating sites: the 'you're bi so you'll be a third for our threesome fantasy right?').

Gentle Storm

Pro tip:

If you're on an online dating app/site, don't tell the chick that actually stuck through your 'I'm feeling suicidal' episode (out of legitimate concern) that 'women are fucking bitches who won't talk to me.'

My company sometimes gives us $25 gift certificates to the company 'zazzle' store.

that's our 'special bonus'

@deadculture said in RL Anger:

@Auspice said in RL Anger:

@WTFE said in RL Anger:

If you arrange free food and you arrange something someone can't eat, they just ... don't eat it.

This is just how I was raised and how I've always been. Just don't eat the thing. If you get asked, that's one thing. If it's offered, for free, as a general course of things... just don't partake. Wtfever.

But I swear to god, people who are just picky eaters who want free food catered to their preferences drive me up a wall. Esp. the 'I only eat like a five year old' types.

I'm sorry. Grow up. Learn to try new foods. I was never more offended than the time my roommate wanted to introduce us to his girlfriend, we invited her to dinner, I cooked a big meal, she showed up... and snubbed the whole thing and refused to even try any because 'I only eat pizza, nuggets, and burgers.'

Wow, what good health she must have.

Hint: she didn't. Could have! With, y'know, a halfway decent diet. But didn't.

Which, whole other rant. People who could have great health with minimal effort and throw it all away. Like damnit, I envy you. I want that.

@WTFE said in RL Anger:

If you arrange free food and you arrange something someone can't eat, they just ... don't eat it.

This is just how I was raised and how I've always been. Just don't eat the thing. If you get asked, that's one thing. If it's offered, for free, as a general course of things... just don't partake. Wtfever.

But I swear to god, people who are just picky eaters who want free food catered to their preferences drive me up a wall. Esp. the 'I only eat like a five year old' types.

I'm sorry. Grow up. Learn to try new foods. I was never more offended than the time my roommate wanted to introduce us to his girlfriend, we invited her to dinner, I cooked a big meal, she showed up... and snubbed the whole thing and refused to even try any because 'I only eat pizza, nuggets, and burgers.'

@Ganymede said in RL Anger:

@WTFE said in RL Anger:

The problem wasn't that there were dietary restrictions or preferences. The problem was that they were increasingly specific. "I can only eat wheat-free (gluten-free wasn't a thing back then), dairy-free, tomato-free, but not vegan -- I like my meat." "I can only eat vegan, tomato-free, but not wheat-free because wheat-free crusts are of the Devil." "I can only eat <insert laundry list of increasingly bizarre requirements>."

It's fucking free food, not civil rights.

I'm allergic to fucking nuts and legumes, but you don't see me being a bitch about motherfuckers who insist on bringing hummus and pecan pie in.

"Oh, but I'm vegan, so if you don't provide me with an option, I'll feel left out."

You fucking left out meat and dairy products voluntarily, so go fuck that noise. You don't fit in at a Burger King, but I don't see you whining to them.

SO MUCH AGGRAVATION.

...so funny enough Burger King does have Morningstar burgers, so vegetarians can eat at Burger King of all places.

Photos from the Good Omens mini-series table read.

I think things like this are why some companies are so lax in dress code now, too, vs just 'casual Fridays.' I remember one job where we entirely lost our casual Friday because of people taking it too far. It was very clearly outlined what it was and what it wasn't, but you still had the girls showing up to the (rather conservative office, since we were in the financial industry and often had executives and visiting partners/clients coming through) office in club wear.

Not the 'You can wear jeans and sneakers and appropriate tshirts' that was outlined, but the miniskirts and damn-near-latex dresses they'd wear out to the club. And before someone gets mad at me for slut-shaming... Look, there's stuff appropriate for professional work attire and there's stuff appropriate for going out with your friends.

And the ass-prints I'd see left on desks are the reason I don't want people wearing club wear to work okay. that shit ain't sanitary.

but errrrrbody lost casual Friday because instead of following the rules, they just got louder and louder in throwing fits about it being 'unfair' to them (somehow, who knows). Personally, I just liked my one day a week of sneakers and jeans damnit.

@Meg said in RL Anger:

I have to admit I get snarky as shit about free food at work. Not about what they serve, but just about it in general. But that is what happens when your company pays you 20k less than your regional/career average and then trots out free food as a 'look at all we do for you'!

That's nice.

Well, that's a different line of snark. That's 'you're being shitheads about so-called benefits.'

Verizon would make us work on Thanksgiving and then give us high school cafeteria quality (barely) 'dinner' and pat themselves on the back for how 'well' they treated their employees!!!1

My snark then wasn't about the food. It was about making people work on Thanksgiving, giving them a really poor meal, and then bragging about themselves for doing so.

Whole different ballgame than 'Someone paid for food out of their own pocket and other people bitched about it'

@Ganymede said in RL Anger:

@Cupcake said in RL Anger:

Today at lunch another co-worker decided to say to me, "I don't know who was responsible for the breakfast the week the usual guy wasn't here, but they really did the shitty job!"

This is the first asshole. The only reason to say this to anyone is to either hurt someone or garner support so that you can feel better about hurting someone.

You're not the second.

Yeah. Like, I wouldn't have said it to her, but only because she didn't need to hear it. Not as an asshole move, but because what she did was a nice thing and she didn't need to feel bad... if that makes sense? Like go to bat for her, hell yeah, but it doesn't make you a bad person to have told her.

Like if you feel bad, you feel bad because of empathy for her sake. Not because you're a bad person.

@Cupcake

I wouldn't have told her. I'd have just told Douchebag 'Maybe you should buy them instead.'

I dunno why people bitch about free food.
I fuckin' love free food. Free food is the best food.

Delicious recipe for the people on the board who aren't wrong about everything in life.

@Ganymede said in RL Anger:

@Auspice said in RL Anger:

I am wishing you all death through the power of the internet.

If you wish to cause the death of others, please press Number Two.

I am wishing you all death through the power of the internet.

I hate you all.

Trains and Bullshit

I really wish the apartment complex would just fix my toilet. ;.;

@faraday said in Adapting FATE for MU*s:

@Auspice said in Adapting FATE for MU*s:

The last time I sat down and tried to puzzle out a good way to do it, I got a headache.

Yeah, I mean... the mechanics are easy enough to adapt. But what makes Fate cool are the freeform epic aspects/stunts and the collaborative chargen / resolutions. Those are exactly the things that make the idea of using Fate on a game with dozens of strangers sound like a nightmare. You could strip them out or tone them down, but then you're getting away from what made Fate neat in the first place.

I've run into a lot of people with similar experiences. It's one of those systems that works great in tabletop, so we want to see it in MU*, but it's just... not going to scale well, I don't think.

Your best bet is probably going to be using something extant, to be honest.