Posts made by Auspice

@Miss-Demeanor said in Pokemon Go:

Until Niantic lets you hit up Pokestops on the go again, I have very little interest in it. I live in the suburbs, there's one Pokestop near me. Everything else would require I either go on an extended hike, or take the bus downtown. Given that I live in Florida and its fucking 82 degrees in December... an extended hike through the hottest part of the day is not going to happen. Which means no Pokestops, which means no Pokeballs.

Unfortunately, there were enough potential lawsuits due to people playing while driving that they had to disable it even with the GoPlus.

Because, no, it's not enough that it's already freakin' illegal to use your phone while driving in most states, no. They had to put it on the company's shoulders.

So people who take the bus everywhere (like me) get screwed over, too.

I used to have way, way too many balls. Now I have... none, ever. I don't go out enough to hit Pokestops and the adjustment to the PGo Plus in that if you're moving over a certain speed, it won't trigger stops...

... which yes, is super lame, I see emails / complaints on it all the time, but TPCi can't do anything about PGo stuff. That's aaaaaall Niantic.

Yarp.

I'm still playing. Level 21, woo.

Looking forward to being in MD for two weeks (18th-2nd)... I was there briefly around Halloween and where I was staying, there was a lake with a ton of Magikarp spawns nearby. I still need like, 180 of those fuckers.

I am kinda frustrated that the new Pokemon are only in eggs. I wish incubators were more common drops.

@Ganymede said in The Apology Thread:

@Kanye-Qwest said in The Apology Thread:

(That last one was me! And I got called a cunt like seven times by the person against whom my biggest transgression was using one of the multiple disses at my character's command to illustrate a part of her personality)

Ah. So, what you mean is: don't be fucking petty with your grudges.

In which case, I agree. People are fucking petty sometimes. Very petty.

I hate it so much that I will fucking hate anyone who is fucking petty.

I don't know; I wish I had more to contribute these days.

Pretty much this, yes.

Forgiveness doesn't mean opening yourself up to be harmed again. Forgiveness doesn't mean going 'I'll pretend it never happened and wipe the slate clean.' It means learning from the experience, but not reliving it over and over again.

I have forgiven my ex-husband, but I have made no attempts to speak with him or let him have any influence over my life again. All it means is that instead of obsessing over what he did to me or could do in the future, I have closed out that chapter, put it on the shelf, and moved forward.

It's like others have said: forgive, move on, and don't be petty. Don't pull the 'omg I once had SoanSo screw me over on another game about a year ago, don't RP with them' or try to actively fuck up their time. There are people, yes, that have consistently proven to be problematic. VASpider, for example, has been given plenty of chances. But there's plenty of people who have made mistakes and it's not who they are, but perhaps a matter of circumstance (while we would all like to say we've got the presence of mind to not be online on a bad day, I'm sure most, if not all of us, have done so on more than one occasion; it's easy to do, you tell yourself it'll be a nice distraction and then whoop, things go sideways and it gets ridiculously worse).

@Kanye-Qwest said in The Apology Thread:

I agree with some people!

While any subset is going to be full of those who don't apologize well (or ever), I think in this hobby the reluctance to forgive is way more toxic. Outliers aside, "someone screwed my character over IC 10 years ago" is not a reason to hold a grudge. "A staffer was rude when they handled my job", likewise. "Someone was shitty to me", probably yeah maybe move on and let it go? Everyone has moments they are a shitty person. Everyone.

It's not just an issue in this hobby, that reluctance to forgive. I see it throughout the real world, too. So many people see refusal to forgive as a way to continue punishing the other person (my ex-husband was guilty of this), rather than an important step in healing and moving on.

It's easy to hold a grudge, but it's also toxic. For you. For social circles. And yes, for them. It's never going to make you feel better to poison other people towards someone. It's just a cycle of negativity.

Sometimes, you have to learn to forgive someone even if they never apologized. Or even if they didn't give an apology that you thought was good enough. Or (and perhaps especially) if they weren't aware that they upset you. Some people have a hard time reading body language or tone. Sometimes we misunderstand someone's intent or meaning in text. If someone said something that upset you and then they 'go on acting like nothing ever happened,' it's very possible (esp. in text-based environments) that they didn't mean anything hurtful by it... not that they're a callous, unfeeling bitch.

I will say, Faraday's (I think its hers) bbreply option (where it replies directly to the bboard post in question) is lovely in that circumstance. You have one post with replies attached rather than 15 'me too' bbposts.

I've been dealing with twice daily asthma attacks for the past few weeks. Up from the 'once every couple days' that I saw my doctor for at the end of October. I've got an inhaler I use twice daily, but I'm still having to use the emergency one. Often I wake up in the middle of the night to use it.

I haven't had this much trouble breathing in about a decade. Gonna have to go in to the doc this week and see about a nebulizer or something.

I hate asthma. I hate that feeling that I suck at the most basic of bodily functions.

I like this idea. Esp. the being able to hit '+wantrp' on its own to see the list of those who have requested RP with you.

As someone whose RL tends to be busy / explode without warning, it's not uncommon for me to have a backlog of people to get with. I also have an utterly shitty memory. If people needing/wanting RP with me could file something like that, I'd have a handy list to keep an eye on.

A tribute to the greatest of Christmas movies...

Downside of my job. I work from home.

I could take time off if I got someone to cover my hours, but as we have not even the most remote semblance of PTO... I try to avoid it since, y'know, got bills to pay.

So I'm bundled up, sipping tea, and chugging along. At least I've got a day off tomorrow!

@Staked said in How to use Potato MU Client:

Anyone managed to get Potato MU running on macOS Sierra? I get a not compatible error when I try to run it.

Not yet. And the 'instructions' (bare as they are) given on the bug report for it by the developer do not work. I've been using Atlantis.

The plague is everywhere.
I've had it since Sunday.

Would v. much like it to go away plz.

John Glenn.

@Tez said in The Cat Thread:

@Roz STOP

Edit: I would like to call to attention the fact that Roz's cats EARS are STUPID and have FRECKLES.

YOUR EARS HAVE FRECKLES

I admit it. I got weepy.

@Faceless

George has a fucking adorable face!

And I'm sorry about Zoe. I had a cat like that before, who would pet themselves using your hand. It's a rather amusing quirk.

I may run PrPs for Hunter in the future... But I can't make any promises. My RL is such that I barely have time to RP, period, it seems.

I have my fuzz! She gets very insistent on attention sometimes, which is fine. We've missed one another. I need to get a couple more toys for her before I fly out for my Christmas trip (she's never been a solo-pet before), but she's settling in fairly well. She really likes the sliding doors out to the porch... Good view and the ducks sometimes come down this way from their pond. I'm thinking I'm going to save up to get a cat tree to put by the door (added bonus: she'll stop trying to claw the couch!).

I don't really have time to help right now, myself.

But I love Dresden and Big Trouble in Little China. I've not really truly tried FATE, but yeah. Am all about giving it a shot.

@Catsmeow said in RL Anger:

As a long time cat owner, I tried not to close my eyes too often around it. In cat world that means it's time to feast.

Years ago, I blacked out randomly. I remember a severe pain in my chest... then waking up on the floor.

I woke up because my cat was licking my face. I like to tell myself that he was concerned about me (this was a cat who would curl up next to my face at night and knead my cheek while purring), but I know the truth... he was preparing for the feast.