Posts made by Auspice

@mietze said in RL Anger:

Thanks, guys. He ended up showing signs of distress so i took him in to the emergency vet, we were able to make him comfortable and I was able to hold him as he died. I feel kind of numb, but it was the right decision I think.

I'm very sorry. But I'm glad you were able to help him be comfortable in the end. I believe that's always the right choice, yes.

@Arkandel

While I would be AWESOME at that (just gimme a clipboard, yo!), I'll be working with the Theme guy to develop metaplot, managing the STs, etc.

Woke up to one of the worst migraines I've had in years. The imitrex is not helping. I was able to reschedule at least my last three hours of work to tomorrow, but I still have about 2 hours to go.

I'm meant to be RP Admin, but I've been a bit eaten by RL lately (and, well, not much for me to do while it's all code and building :D). I'm PST, but I work from home and can at least be around to talk OOCly most of the day.

@Arkandel said in Random links:

@Coin said in Random links:

@Arkandel said in Random links:

Which brings us to Independence Day: Resurgence-level kind of woes. Wtf cares what's gonna happen to Thor's little brother?

Anyone who's ever read American Gods.

Btw, am I wrong or did I hear they're making a TV series out of that?

They are indeed!

@Insomnia said in Cheap or Free Games!:

I'm Moiren in Town of Salem if anyone wants to do the friend thing and play with / against each other.

I'm Auspice because wtfever on names.

@Insomnia said in Cheap or Free Games!:

You can actually play Town of Salem for free, but it's a good game to throw money at and support.

Yeah, I found that out later and... I do not regret the money I've spent on it. I've even bought one of their packages while it was on sale.

I've been playing Town of Salem, which is only $5 even when not on sale... I love it.

If you like Mafia/Werewolf, check it out.

2016 has been the craptastic year for me. But I keep refusing to let it. Nope. No. Will not happen.

Also, family members not delivering news of pets dying in good ways SUCKS. When I was a kid, my cat was my best friend (yeah I was one of those ;.;) and after spending 3 weeks at my grandmother's, my parents pick me up at the airport and the VERY FIRST THING they did (before hugging me, greeting me, etc.) was tell me '<cat> died.'

I get that for some people, it's nbd, but for those of us who form deep ties with our pets and greatly appreciate and sometimes need their companionship, it's hard. I feel for all of you that have lost fuzzies recently.

@Admiral said in Retail "Horror" Stories:

The guy is complaining about in-game religion... in a game that is basically the digital equivalent of dog or cock-fighting?

Some Christians are crazy.

And apparently he's going to get TIME magazine and Rachel Maddow to feature his complaints so that no one in America will buy the games anymore!

This guy is like, legit crazy, I think. I don't think his religion would even matter at this point.

So. Again, not retail. Support. I do various things in the realm of 'Pokemon.' Today I was running QA (making sure agents are giving proper replies) and... I came across... this gem of a guy. I both want more and want to forever ward him away. His complaints began with an exclusive giveaway only at the tournaments for the card games and that the nearest was 100 miles away, in Canada... and he can't enter Canada legally because of 'a mishap' (oh how I wish he'd shared THAT story).

There are emails and emails and emails of this stuff, but here is a snippet I saved:

'Hi, I just wanted to say that I am very, highly disappointed that pokemon sun and moon forces you to make an offering to some kind of bizarre patron god in this game. I was just watching the E3 summary of Pokemon Sun and Moon (I was really hyped for these games, too, I was going to go pokemon moon all the way and I loved Lunaala.) I do not approve. It goes against my religion, and many Christian's faith, to do such a thing. japan may have a different belief pattern, but these patterns should not be forced on people in the United States. Nintendo of America has failed ever since Majora's Mask for the Nintendo 64, when a ghost makes a comment about his brother selling his soul to the devil. Past this, Nintendo of America has really gone downhill. They used to regulate their games, keep bizarre or demonic or evil or truly violent things out of Nintendo games, and Nintendo used to be a family console as well as a blessing. It's really a shame that such things are being snuck into nintendo games, and with the remix of Majora's Mask, Nintendo had the chance to take these comments out of Majora's Mask! I do not know who's side Nintendo is on anymore, but unless that comment is taken out of the game, or there is an option to not play that festival, I will not be playing Pokemon Sun or Pokemon Moon'

This thread has just become a big heap of tl;dr.

Curse those frogs for winning the Anomaly!

Having that sort of depression that can only be helped by not being at home... But not having the money to really do anything.

I people watch'd myself out at the mall before finally giving up and getting a Lyft home.

For most of the positions, my job does first-come-first-serve for scheduling. It's terrible. I was so so so glad when I got to a level where I have a set schedule every month. I had a month where I had barely any hours because I had surgery the day the schedules went out and the next day? There were maybe 20 hours for the entire month left.

They do it because it's easier on management, but it's terrible on the employee end.

@silentsophia

Those things have made people fucking nuts. Now, I like some Funko, but goddamn the scalpers.

I went to ECCC this year. 2nd day. Got there super early so I could be early on in the vendor hall lines. Have a friend who collects and there were a couple exclusives she wanted. I got in to find that every single (they sold X amount of exclusives each day) exclusive sold out BEFORE they opened the doors to attendees because of the vendors buying them all up.

Spoke to a guy later in the day who had a VIP pass, which let him in earlier than the standard attendees. He said even he wasn't able to get any... because of the vendors.

I put some of the blame on Funko for how they do this, but a lot of it on the resellers.

I'm like many of the others. I believe there are things we don't yet have the capacity to explain. Things that could be very real that are written off as something supernatural just because we don't have the reason for it yet... or the ability to comprehend it (woo string theory).

I was actually part of a ghost hunting group about a decade ago. Most of the time it was just sort of a fun activity for me that involved exploring old, creepy places, with a group of people who got us permission to be there. Sah-weet!

But we actually had one case where a professor of a university called us in to help a family. Shit happened that night that I cannot explain. Shit that makes me uncomfortable to this day. Does it mean I'm fully on the "oh yeah the paranormal is totes real" train? No. But it does mean I definitely think there are things we don't yet have the capacity to understand, but we also cannot deny. So for the time being, yes, some might call it supernatural.

Like, OK. I mean, it's not a supernatural thing... But people didn't know whether or not a horse's hooves fully (all 4) left the ground during a gallop until we had photography (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eadweard_Muybridge). The human eye couldn't track it, so it was apparently a big point of debate at the time. Then a photographer comes along, manages to get some photos, and proves: yes, during a gallop, there are stages where all four hooves are off the ground.

So what we call supernatural may just be something we don't have the capacity to explain with science. Which, again, puts me with the others above in their reference to the caveat. I don't blindly believe in the supernatural, but I think there are things we place under that umbrella until we can explain them properly.

Customer email today.

"I bought this book on Google Play, but I want it on your service."

Sorry, we only have an older edition. The publisher may be releasing the current one, but we only provide the service.

"Just give me the older edition."

You purchased the new edition through a totally different site. I cannot just give you the book. You can contact the publisher to find out if they'll be putting the edition on our service.

"Why won't you just give me the book I paid for?"

Because you purchased it through someone else and we don't even technically have it. We have a different edition. Now, if you purchase it through us, yes, definitely, you can have it.

And on and on in circles, with panicky 'WHY AREN'T YOU REPLYING' emails if I didn't get back to him within 5 minutes.

OP knows I play.

Hit level 8 just recently. Smurf, fo sho.
Saturday will be my first Anomaly, as a remote recharger.

@Apu said in LootCrate Experiences:

As for liking everything in a box, I look at it this way. I might not like everything in the box but even if I don't I can save what I don't like for gifts. I'd be spending money on something to give someone as a present anyhow, plus I'd have to run out to the mall or wherever and all that. So in my mind it kind of all balances out for me.

That's how I treat it. I tend to like 50-75% of what's in each month. I've had it over a year and there's only been about 3 that I felt 'meh' about overall. But in each of those cases, the crate had items that I know friends of mine would be into. So I held onto them for gifts.