Posts made by Auspice

@Kestrel said in RL things I love:

Discovering godawful drunk selfies on my phone months after I took them and laughing at my own cringe-worthiness.

The best photos I've ever taken of my cats were taken while I was wasted drunk.

Taking Gany off the Christmas list.

Who wants to date me for the weekend to take care of me while I'm flu-y

I promise to share the blanket I'm crocheting while I watch TV

@reimesu said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Auspice Clearly, what she wants is for everyone to beg her to keep control. Be aware that if someone recommends that A should run it instead, she is going to throw a shitfit.

Oh, I'm sure. I am absolutely sure.

During steotch, another gal made it clear that next year, she was gonna run her own team. I've come to understand why.

@mietze said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

The problem with one person having the funds in their name is that it's so very easy for even well intentioned people to slip "I need to get this little 5 dollar thing, but I will pay it back right away." "Well maybe I should ask people first but they'll probably be okay with it!". And before you know it things are more and more serious. That can still happen with incorporated orgs and that is often how embezzlement starts from volunteer orgs and PTAs too, especially with lots of cash handling.

What's funny-sad is she initially resisted because she claimed she didn't want people to give her money for exactly that (she didn't want people to feel like there might be something improper). I had brought a piggy bank to a few meetups. I did that back when I was an ML for NaNoWriMo and at the end of the event, I'd take all the cash from it and make a bulk donation to the OLL (the non-profit org that oversees NaNo). She made a sort of snotty comment at me for it and I shrugged and stopped doing it. The plan was to give the cash to her and/or buy a few prizes to give away to people (instead, I bought some and I give things away at meetups -I- organize).

But then she went and made an account anyway and.....the very first thing she did was what she insisted she wasn't gonna do. And what she kept advertising she wanted money for was prizes / location reservations. But she got business cards. And told everyone she got them.

It's.....yeah.

I'm kind of debating getting a petition together to send around to 'recommend' that the person she has as her second be given control of the group instead. And lean into the suggestion as 'Hey, you keep making very negative comments lately that you aren't enjoying this, that you don't like doing this, that you want other people to do all the work so you can just sit back. So maybe A should run it instead.'

I need some of y'all's luck to rub off on me plzkthx

@Derp said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

at a suggestion from myself and another member to setup a ko-fi account to help fund prizes, reserving meetup spaces, etc (since she complained about such things), the group owner did so and then....promptly bought herself some business cards

Woooooof. There are some potentially very bad things happening there.

Yeeeeeeah. The other person who had made the suggestion was messaging me this morning very upset about it. The fact that she had to share Facebook screenshots of the announcement of the purchase (and it wasn't shared in Discord since a couple of us are Discord-only and others aren't very active in FB / it was a COMMENT on the original ko-fi post vs a new post) means the woman likely knew she did wrong and was trying to keep it on the DL.

Of late, the RL group I'm in has made me reflect warmly on this board and how kind y'all can be. Over the past couple weeks in said group:

• one girl has lashed out at people who have been friendly to a guy she's 'claimed' (he's gay and married btw). And by friendly I mean 'have simply spoken to'. Some of us escape this treatment (but I'm not sure how she picks who she's ok with him being friends with vs who she isn't).
• the group owner got really mad at me for referencing aforementioned gay member's gayness (super tame joke; I spoke to him after and he was OK with it) as it 'outed' him (despite the fact that he talks about his husband frequently) and chewed me out. The following day, this guy made the 'attack helicopter' joke (which is known to be transphobic) AT a genderfluid member and......nothing was said (except by the person it was said to....who got kinda waved off by others).
• group owner talks often about wanting to promote a safe place for people to discuss mental health, to feel welcome, to de stigmatize........but it seems to only go for her and her friends. Everyone else gets silence at best, complained at for being 'negative' at worst.
• at a suggestion from myself and another member to setup a ko-fi account to help fund prizes, reserving meetup spaces, etc (since she complained about such things), the group owner did so and then....promptly bought herself some business cards.

Outside the woman running this and a couple others, everyone in the group is really nice. But there's a growing number of people who are pretty much disengaging from public online interactions...

And every time I've seen her behavior be brought up, it gets answered with the dreaded 'but I have anxiety'.

Seeing actual improvement in my ability to play Rocket League.

It's a small thing but dangit I need small wins right now.

@Runescryer said in Good TV:

@Auspice Will Arnett is just amazingly awesome as the host. Yeah, it's all pre-recorded, but his bon-motts and remarks are great.

Also, the Builders mess with him at times. First episode, the challenge is to build a Theme Park, and one of the teams used the 'official' Will minifig and stuck him inside the Ferris Wheel that they built, saying that Will was shooting an action-comedy film at the scene.

Soooo, I watched the first episode. Will Arnett is fun.
But I gotta say, I feel like some of these teams were chosen less for ability and more for, uhh.... quirkiness? factor?

(.... or in the case of that one lady, nightmare fuel.)

@gryphter said in Good TV:

White Tiger: John Cena.

I'm sorry, no.
It's Gronk.

@Derp said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@SinCerely said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Trying to price the things I make. Knowing there's got to be a balance between the sheer joy of someone wearing my work and charging enough money for each piece, and having it completely escape me and hating that I'm some how devaluing my art and making my craft completely unsustainable at this rate. Hate everything today. I love myself more than this but not making it work today.

I've always found that it's best to set a sort of general, nebulous pricing. Like, calculate the cost of the materials, and sell it at 110-125% of materials cost. That usually keeps the prices fairly reasonable.

ETA: Depending on how low the cost of the materials is, you might be able to do more. Like, 2-3x the cost of the materials involved. The more expensive the materials involved, the less you can mark them up really,

When I've sold stuff I do cost of materials + how many hours it took * what I want to be paid per hour.

I have never understood those who eat all the cookies and then leave the empty package.

Who are you.
What sort of monster are you.

I'd be interested to see if this works out. I don't have the headspace for another game, but I once had an idea similar to this (tho it was sci-fi) and a lot of people went 'ehhhhhhhhh' because they didn't like the idea of 'repeating' things on their characters. The feedback was that they'd feel like they were 'losing' (even if things were gained when some big headway were made in the story).

It might work now! This was a handful of years ago. And I'm obvs very into the concept, so I'm rooting for you.

Dear lady messaging me a week and a half after hunting me down on social media: your boyfriend/husband/fiance (if he's even any of these since you've called him all three in your floods of messages) did not cheat on you with me. I didn't even remember his name until you told me. Shit, you should've gotten the hint when you had to send me photos after I WTF'd at you to even know who he was.

I told you we were in photos together from the concert because we were in physical proximity to each other because it was a fucking concert.

If, after a week and a half, you are still convinced he cheated on you, do him a favor and break up with him. He deserves better.

Better yet, tell him maybe he should look me up. He was a goddamn gentleman when he shoved the guy who tried pinning me to the stage back into the crowd and told him to back off.

Welp.

I do not, in fact, have a new job.

The firm doesn't have the budget. I guess Thursday, the person who interviewed me said yes! We want to hire her! Which is why the recruiter called me to give the verbal offer. But then the accounting team came in and went errrrrrrrrrrr we didn't get the budget to hire more people so no.

So they want to bring me on, but they can't bring me on. He said it might change in a couple weeks and I wasn't gonna start until March 2nd anyway, but.

I guess I'll keep applying any/everywhere I can, but damn. I should've known it was too good to be true.

@Runescryer said in Good TV:

LEGO Masters is a fun, quirky LEGO dream made reality. Although the second episode where they had to design builds that would be deliberately destroyed was kind of painful to watch due to the destruction.

I keep debating watching it but then also every commercial for it I see seems like some sort of weird fever dream and I'm still not sure it's even real I mean it's hosted by Will Arnett ffs

I'm also in the camp of 'professional' here. Not only in that I get paid to write, but have been published for creative works.

And the sort of writing that I get paid for is different than the creative stuff. (Someday though, ah, someday.)

I did end up going to school to study this stuff. I think, for someone who has a real interest in making a career of it, that school has a good purpose. I learned things like techniques and methods in different industries (such as TV script writing) and I learned skills outside of writing. I can both give and receive critique to a far better level than before. I actively feel a sort of discomfort now when I hand in something professionally and get told they like it 'as is.'

Anyway.

I'm also in that camp that MUing and prose, while both creative writing, are not remotely the same. There's so many reasons they aren't. One reason is actually the critique. Sure, you get feedback. But there's a huge difference between someone not enjoying a PRP because you didn't include enough monsters for their personal taste and whether or not it was well and engagingly written. Also, never write to cater to just the single loudest voice. Big oof. Few people on MUs are ever going to give you true constructive feedback. Their feedback is going to be personal. 'I don't like female characters with red hair. There's too many of those already.' Or'Why did you let Bob lead the party when my PC is more suited to it?' I've never had someone give me feedback on my actual writing.

To me MUs are socializing I can do while doing other stuff. And they're a way to test out ideas.

I will note, having done some research, that it seems Impossible is the only one where the iron levels just about match what you can get in actual meat.

Meat has heme iron, (most) plants have non-heme iron. The body absorbs heme iron more easily. It's why even on an iron-rich vegetarian diet, someone who is anemic can struggle (I did and it's why I had to go back to eating meat; I was really sick and weak and just did really, really badly on it). However! Impossible uses heme iron as one of the ways they get the color/flavor just right. So I might be giving them a try for some of my meat here in the future.

@Aria said in RL things I love:

I'm not sure which I find funnier and/or more terrifying -- them thinking that's actually how any of it works or that a bunch of people looked at these assholes and went, "By golly, they really seem to have things together. We should elect them to Be In Charge."

You forgot option 3: that someone actually married them.