Posts made by Auspice

eggs, flour, and sugar.
These were all completely out of stock when I did my shopping today.

people don't cook. Why they buying up the ingredients. BUY PREMADE STUFF SO I CAN HAVE MY FOOD NEEDS.

It only has a few episodes so far since it's a new show, but Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist is super heartwarming.

I was considering suggesting that those of us with Tabletop Simulator could start doing virtual game nights.

I'm in a new D&D campaign. I haven't played D&D in over a decade.

That my party has embraced my warforged's obsession with her chicken (more OOC embracing than IC since SOME PEOPLE wanna eat the chicken) pleases me greatly.

The chicken is a vital member of the party*

*ignore the fact that we're 2 sessions in, I bought the chicken this session, it died, and they replaced it before she knew.

It's not half-bad RPing with @Tinuviel again.

Y'know, he's tolerable some of the time after all.

For the past week and a half or so I've had this on-again-off-again cold. I'll wake up one day feeling fine and then the next it's back to fever and migraine and general blahs.

Makes the job hunt a bitch.

In Altered Carbon, adapting to a new sleeve is... hell. The Envoys (and presumably others) have special tactics and training to force it, but even then it's not easy. The consciousness struggles with it.

IRL, people who lose limbs still feel them. There's the whole 'phantom limb' thing for a reason.

There are a lot of reasons that getting cybernetics (esp. full limb and similar) would have a negative impact on the psyche. And you have to consider the audience it was written to. Going into the nuances, providing special roll charts/tables for 'to what extent' it impacts someone is not the roleplay experience most people are looking for. They just want to know 'x + y = z' and 'hey this is gonna fuck your shit up' gives a spectrum to RP within, rather than a) saying it has zero effect (which is disregarding real issues in its own cruel way) or b) saying 'you must RP this in this way and this way only' (which disregards the spectrum in which someone might embrace or not or respond or not).

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1236049453741740033

They're cancelling SxSW due to coronavirus concerns. GOOD.

There were tens of thousands of signatures on a petition for this move. Austin doesn't need people coming in from all over the world rn.

@Sunny

You're right, I'm sorry.
Everything is about you specifically.
Every single time this conversation has occurred, every single time I have seen it referenced, every single time I have heard it IRL, seen it on Twitter, seen it referenced on blogs or in articles, it has been about you and only you.
You are the only person that matters and I apologize for forgetting that.

While I think it's a really poor way of phrasing it, I think it's being said to try to stop these people who are wiping out CostCo and drug stores of cold/flu supplies for themselves and their kids (aka the not-at-risk groups), thus putting the at-risk groups further at-risk.

@nyctophiliac said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

@WildBaboons I homeschooled myself sooooo I guess technically... me! \o/ Goooooooooo ME!

oh hey, same.

I'm pretty much falling apart.

I know my worth isn't defined by a job, but it gives me purpose. It also gives me enough money to, y'know, make it by.

I'm sleeping most of the day right now because I'll wake up and then just... not want to deal with life so I go back to sleep. The cats love it, but it's probably not so great for me.

I just can't find it in me to do anything. Chores. Writing. Hobbies. Even personal interactions. That game night took me most of the week t work my way up to, so it'll probably be another 3 weeks before I go out and socialize again.

And I have like, 3 people I talk to with any regularity.

I've had ABBA's Take a Chance on Me stuck in my head for nearly a week straight.

It's affecting my ability to function at this point.

Through the Lady Geeks of Austin, I met a gal and her husband and get along with them great (I've mentioned them here before). One reason why I enjoy hanging out with them is that the husband has fibro and his symptoms are very similar to mine. Which means that their house is a bit warmer than average (he actually prefers things warmer than I do, but they cool it down a bit from what they keep it at when it's just them for company) and if I need to take things slow/easy, they have a total understanding.

Heck, she had a major surgery that means she has an understanding of the abdominal issues I have (not an exact understanding, but enough of one). It's just nice. It's nice to not only have made friends who I have so much in common with (from board games to hobbies to movies), but ones that get the limitations.

Last night I went to a game night at their house and it was, other than a grocery run, the first time I've left my apartment in three weeks. (yay agoraphobia flare ups!) I had a really great time, their friends (I'd met all but one previously which helped, mind!) are lovely, and I look forward to the next time. I've already mentally picked out a few of my games (that I verified they don't have) to bring along.

@Ninjakitten said in RL things I love:

@Auspice ...okay but @Tashly said a good pun.

except there's no such thing

@Tashly said in RL things I love:

@JinShei @Kestrel I feel like I'd be more likely to buy Corona beer at the moment, because I'm an awful person that loves puns and even though I haven't thought of a good pun to be made about it the possibility of it existing is enough for me to want to drink it.

But I'm a terrible human being, so... YMMV?

(to be clear I am not a fan of Corona, the beer or the virus)

A few days after the coronavirus was in the news, I was at a bar with a handful of people and someone got up to go to the bar and get the next round. One guy at the table did go: 'I'll have a coronavirus.' So yes, it's absolutely been done. >.>

@GreenFlashlight said in A bit of trouble on Firefly:

Like, can you imagine being such a loser that dodging bans on a make-pretend game is how you feel powerful?

Oh yeah, I mean, that's the entire thing.

The whole scale of it is just so small and pathetic. There are people who cause serious, real problems for people. This guy? Is like a wasp in your house. Yes, unchecked, it could be a problem, but it's a single wasp and it's obvious, so you just open a window and shoo it out and it'll buzz and bump against the window angrily all 'hey hey, hey, look, hey, let me in, look, hey, let me in' and you can just go about your business.

He's causing more work and more effort for himself to keep going back onto places and that's what's so funny-sad about it all. He's so goddamn desperate to be a part of everything and yet instead of just not being a sack of shit... he's putting extra effort into being a sack of shit.

It's really easy to get along and he just literally cannot.

tbh he reminds me of the 12-year-olds on XBox that think they're big boys because they know how to pair a 'your mom' with a few swears.

ETA: they're the kids who think you leave the match because you're 'triggered,' but it's because they've spent half the match standing in place as they mash out an insult on the keypad. The same thing happens in Rocket League: the worst player in the match is the one who spends the whole time insulting everyone. You don't opt out of another match because you're triggered, you opt out because you want to play someone who is actually worth the effort.

He's like
'I KNOW HER REAL NAME CUZ I'M A HACKER'
except she posts it on the Ares website so he's a hacker like