It's not retail, but it is customer support:
If I tell you your system is too old to run the game, based on the very clearly defined minimum requirements... Do not send all caps curse-ridden emails demanding we 'fix the bug.' It's not a bug. You just need to stop trying to punish your decade old Dell laptop.
Echoing others... I know for a fact what Roz said above. Heck, I left a game once because female players of gay male characters were harassing me for playing a straight male character (I'm female and bi, IRL).
If the place allowed female chars, I'd potentially check it out. But yeah, the whole of it just feels like it's meant to fetishize, not be a haven.
Having a day where my meds are doing what they should (yay). And getting to talk to my therapist and getting the positive feedback I've been needing. That yes, things are getting better and it is OK that I don't hate myself so much anymore.
I've been reading the Rivers of London books (https://www.amazon.com/Midnight-Riot-Peter-Grant-Book-ebook/dp/B004C43F70/). They're a lot of fun. The primary quote used to describe them names them a sort of Harry Potter meets CSI.
I've been getting LootCrate for about a year and a half. I really do dig it.
As someone above said, it's only a couple times a year that I'm really not that into what I get. Or I'll like all but one item in a box.
For those situations, I have a separate box I store the items in. Just because I'm not into Dr. Who, DC comics, etc... doesn't mean I don't have friends who are. This way I have handy gifts for birthday, Christmas, to cheer someone up, etc. I figure that's worth the $20~ a month. I get a fun little surprise and sometimes awesome stuff (the Labyrinth shirt really is ballin') each month and I have a stash of on-hand gifts for my geeky friends.
@Marshmallow - I keep considering the Ladies Accessories sub, but for a while it looked like it was 95% Dr. Who items. 
Oh, I absolutely get it. I'm just saying it's likely not on purpose. You still have the right to be annoyed about it, obviously.
It's one of those situations where... I know I put effort into keeping up with such promises. Or if something comes up, I drop a note: 'Hey, I know I said I'd get together with you tonight, but I totally spaced on something else I had already committed to. We will get together soon!'
I guess some days, I want that same level of dedication/consideration, damnit!
Yeah, I know the feeling.
I also know sometimes I am the source of that feeling in others.
It's a strange dichotomy that I am not always very proud of.
Not being a hermit is hard sometimes. It's part of why (along with trust issues >.>) that I keep a fairly narrow circle of friends.
Oh, I absolutely get it. I'm just saying it's likely not on purpose. You still have the right to be annoyed about it, obviously.
It's one of those situations where... I know I put effort into keeping up with such promises. Or if something comes up, I drop a note: 'Hey, I know I said I'd get together with you tonight, but I totally spaced on something else I had already committed to. We will get together soon!'
I guess some days, I want that same level of dedication/consideration, damnit!
@Coin
I more mean in the cases where it's the same person. Over and over. When you've spoken to them about it: 'Hey, if you don't think you can keep up with this, don't promise it.'
It gets frustrating after a while. And it's never a 'I'll try to...' it's always this guarantee they want you to trust.
I get that people forget. That things come up. Totally understand. But I don't appreciate the person who gets bent out of shape when they say 2 hours, then after that window has passed, I'm asleep, busy with other things, etc.
It's the expectation that my life is on hold for theirs that gets me.
Some people don't realize how the small lies stack up. Maybe they're not meant as lies, but after a while...
You know the ones. Like, "I'll talk to you tonight." and then you never hear from them and they never even have an excuse.
People love to berate each other to "pay attention to what you say" when it comes to words being taken the wrong way and coming across as hurtful... But a refusal to even put enough forethought into your planning, to an extent that I'm left hanging on a regular basis?
That hurts, too.
Wish I could, but I have roommates and there's a dog already in the house. I wish your friend luck!
I'm on a new medication and the adaptation period is being rough. Like, 'brain on fire' rough. I've been told it takes roughly three weeks. I've made it through one.
I wish I could sleep through the next two.
Realizing you fucked something up, and, in addition to already piling onto your stress about something, may have cost you a friend.
This could have been written by me.
@Thenomain said in RL Anger:
The heat and two cats that can't get along. I can't wait until it rains this weekend. This shit feels like I'm back home.
Fuckin' seriously. I moved to the PNW last fall, from South Carolina. I wanted overcast! Rain! Temperatures below 85!
Have I yet mentioned Columbus? Only three times in the last week? Mm, overcast and 70. Rain is what we do for a living. It's like Seattle without all of the sea and good food and big name sports and diverse and nearby landscape, because who wants all of that?
... Goddammit.
Lived in Cincinnati for a while. I've had enough Ohio for a lifetime.
The heat and two cats that can't get along. I can't wait until it rains this weekend. This shit feels like I'm back home.
Fuckin' seriously. I moved to the PNW last fall, from South Carolina. I wanted overcast! Rain! Temperatures below 85!
The PNW should not be this hot. Not at all. No. Plz stop. I don't enjoy heat exhaustion.
@VulgarKitten said in The Shame Game:
@Arkandel You can get a reputation as a prude (shamed for it, even) for wanting to FTB on the TS, depending on the game/players on the game. Calling them morons doesn't make it less true, even though it's true they're morons. How is it different?
Or worse: you have a character who doesn't have sex for IC reasons. This was the case when I tried playing on Kushiel's Debut. My character was sister to the Cruarch and thus, her first born son would be the next... and not being Terre d'Ange meant that she didn't get the luck of not having kids until she prayed to a goddess (btw, loved the books, but always thought that was a bit silly).
In the time I was there, it became next to impossible to find RP. It's like people found out my char wouldn't be up for sexytiem, so I was just written off as someone to never RP with. Which sucked since, yo, Alban Diplomat. Should've been able to get in all kinds of plot and intrigue and politics, but noooo.
I'm perhaps an odd duck in that my first handful of years MU*ing were on wholly consent games. No rules system at all. Then I spent a while on rules-heavy games. Now I like something somewhere in the middle. It's why I'm a fan of FS3. I like a system that supplements my play, rather than dictates it.
@Three-Eyed-Crow said in The 100: The Mush:
@Auspice said in The 100: The Mush:
@Three-Eyed-Crow
I think I know the game you're talking about. I've known people involved and I know a lot of them wanted it to work (I was currently Not-MUSHing when it was going on).Yeah, it certainly wasn't for lack of trying. Very much the wrong time, but I've come to the conclusion it probably wasn't a workable theme for a public game long-term anyway. At least, not in the way I'd like that theme to exist. There are compromises you could make with how the pairs function to make it more workable but, meh.
It's really along the same lines as to why something like Sense8, Orphan Black, and other settings that are very focused on core people don't work. It's basically either play a pairing (and hope your partner doesn't disappear on you) or just be 'supporter #1939.' Playing support chars is good, but everyone should also have a chance to have a 'hero' char, too.
@Three-Eyed-Crow
I think I know the game you're talking about. I've known people involved and I know a lot of them wanted it to work (I was currently Not-MUSHing when it was going on).
My personal unicorn as far as 'themes I wish would work, but don't seem to' is Stargate. Apparently it's been tried before and failed fantastically... but a part of me still wants to try someday.
@Coin said in The 100: The Mush:
Or maybe it's not a setting or a game for everyone.
This is true, too, but really: that's nitpicking my phrasing, too. 
My personal reason for not playing there is I just don't enjoy playing characters that young anymore. Too many HP games, I guess.
But there -are- settings that don't lend well to a MU, but are nonetheless very cool. Sense8? Super cool concept. It'd be good for a small RP group to do privately, but as a MU it'd be terrible.