Posts made by Auspice

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

Both my sisters went and got their hair done. One cut it shorter than it's been in... like 2 decades. The other went super blonde. They both look fantastic.

I want my hair trimmed up. I'm terrified of bleaching it at home, and want it done so I can dye it purple.

Personally, I find basic dye jobs (like all-over color) to be easy; incl. the bleach process. HOWEVER. I've been doing it for myself for about 20 years. I'd suggest watching Brad Mondo's videos on youtube. He does a really good job of teaching people how to do stuff for themselves (plus he is one of the most lovely uplifting people <3).

I was really hoping to gift myself with a haircut for Christmas after going all year without. I cut my hair myself at one point, but that means it's now even more of a mess as it's grown out.

I hate it. I want my bisexual bob back

@too-old-for-this said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

Thank you all for the response. This thread has really helped me realize that alot of the baggage I carried through the years was undeserved and unearned.

100%.
Also: you aren't alone.

I know it doesn't help solve it, but it helps to know (at least for me) 'hey I'm not some weirdo freak that's irreversibly broken: this is a Thing brains can do and unfortunately mine does, but there is a community out there'

@too-old-for-this said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

I have bounced from job to job to job to decades because the repetition KILLS ME. I get so bored doing the same thing over and over and over again. And I'm afraid, because my current job is nothing but repetition, and I've just passed the one year mark, and I'm feeling antsy.

Most of your post is me, but this definitely is.

It's why I'm glad I finally found work as a writer. I could have potentially (unlikely since they all paid less than my unemployment was paying me and that's saying something) found a job in IT sooner, but I hate doing IT. I hate it I hate it I hate it. It's boring. It's repetitive. It's a fucking cog in a machine where you're punished for creative thinking.

But writing... I love words. I love crafting them. I love weaving them together. And I love technical writing (which is ... not a common mindset to be sure) because it takes that love of words, my technical aptitude, and combines it into a puzzle: learn this, learn it better than the person who will be performing it, now present it to them in text (and sometimes visuals if I'm lucky enough to do those, too!) so that they, too, can understand.

I've been so frustrated lately because I keep hyperfocusing at the wrong times on the wrong things. It's like midnight rolls around, people start winding off to go to bed, and I go 'I'll work a bit on <insert craft project here> to wind down before bed'

Next thing I know it's 6am and I'm still caught up in 'Just one more row' 'Just one more section'

Years ago I decided I'd pick 1-2 people a year to gift. I can't afford to do more nor do I have the time since I often do a lot of handmade stuff.

I do struggle with wanting to gift other people but I feel better long-run being able to put the time and effort into these great gifts than a bunch of smaller ones.

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

@faraday I thought there was just something /wrong/ with me.

I may be crying. I mean, I have enough power to make sure all the needs are met before wants, but..

I am 100% the same.

One of my courses in college discussed how it's important for creatives if/when they make it big to get an entertainment lawyer and an accountant both because we are traditionally bad with money.

And finding out it was like....a common thing with people like me made me feel a lot better.

I'll be real with you: when I called my bank yesterday and asked if they could..forgive some overdraft charges (I forgot my car payment was set to go through and it caused a cascade) and the lady was like 'of course. This is just a tough time. You've been responsible with your account.'

I've never heard those words before. It made me feel really good.
So I get it I really really do

@jennkryst said in General Video Game Thread:

@auspice Hella sturdier and designed FOR space sims, but also hella more expensive and intensive.

A single stick and base will probably cost more than the whole x56 set... to say nothing of how you decide to mount it, and possibly need to take apart and do sorcery with the springs.

But also also, SO FAR AS I AM AWARE, Virpil is the only place designing actual left-handed sticks (though Thrustmaster does have a semi-ambidex set with their t-1600, it has some engineering issues).

Virpil also makes their stuff out of aircraft-grade metal because some hobbyists want their shit super authentic, so you could use it as a club and it would probably still work the next day.

Oof. The x56 is already in my plans as a 'save up with new job and get for my birthday in May'. Something too much more is not in the cards.

But then I have space concerns without setting up a whole new desk and shit. And I don't need it to be left handed.

@warma-sheen said in Interest check: Early Rebellion SW game:

@theznar said in Interest check: Early Rebellion SW game:

So. D6 is working like a charm, I finally got pennmush running after banging my head against a really dumb wall for a few weeks. I'm hoping to have a functional game in early January, if I can wrap my head around a wiki, since that seems to be something all the kids want these days.

Get someone else to handle the wiki if its not your thing. It seems to be a popular thing that people volunteer for. More people can wiki than to code, it seems.

wikidot is pretty easy to setup. mediawiki is harder. (wikidot is also free, has its own platform, yadda yadda).

Just please for the love of god do not use fandom.com.

@sixregrets said in RL things I love:

@auspice Sort of related to Jaffa cakes, I discovered that there are now Terry's cookie bars. They're basically a Terry's chocolate orange, but in bar form, and they have a rice 'crunch' layer at the bottom like a Crunch bar. They're pretty amazing.

that sounds amazing and I will have to look for them.

@wizz said in General Video Game Thread:

@auspice said in General Video Game Thread:

Welcome to the internet where you have to let people like things but you also aren't allowed to like things they don't like.

Yeah, I said I hated the game and everyone who enjoyed it was objectively wrong. Sure. Couldn't be I was just rolling my eyes at someone who claimed negative reviews were an overreaction like the vast majority of inexplicable CD Project Red bootlickers out there right now.

Again, I enjoyed the story a lot. But downplaying how unacceptably buggy the release was is pretty dumb.

The thing is, dude, when someone doesn't agree with you / you dislike something they like: you get incredibly rude and condescending. It absolutely comes across as 'how dare you not change your entire opinion to agree with me, the clearly superior intellect.'

Maybe you don't intend it that way, but that is how it comes across. It doesn't come across as a discussion, as sharing your viewpoint. It comes across as 'anyone who disagrees with me is an idiot' (or even sometimes a racist, a sexist, or other -ist - you shove a LOT onto people).

@warma-sheen said in General Video Game Thread:

@wizz said in General Video Game Thread:

@warma-sheen said in General Video Game Thread:

Are there bugs? Sure. But overall, they are minor. I think some people and reviewers I've read are overly harsh about the problems in the game, especially on day one releases.

Sure generous of you to dismiss other people's experiences like that given your complete lack of evidence to the contrary as you aren't even playing on the same platform.

You're welcome, even though I wasn't talking about you. That would be why my experience doesn't seem to take into account your personal situation. You seem to think it applied though, so more power to you. Feel free to use that power to call out a 30 year old source book as being very dated.

I was referring to "professional" reviewers from online publications who run systems as good or better than mine who initially wrote glowing reviews then tried to backtrack as other people had problems by calling out minor bugs and other non-technical issues that were old news, without any mention of game issues on the last gen consoles. Many reviewers seemed to be more angry about having been 'tricked' into giving the game good reviews than the actual gameplay itself. That was what I was referring to.

Also, its just an opinion. Not some personal attack. But I am sorry to hear your experience wasn't great because I'm having a ton of fun with it and that's what I would want for everyone else, as unrealistic as that may be.

Welcome to the internet where you have to let people like things but you also aren't allowed to like things they don't like.

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

impulsive shopping = sweet sweet dopamine

Found that HEB has jaffa cakes. And they were on sale.

@jennkryst said in General Video Game Thread:

Virpil HOTASAS

How are those compared to, say, the x56 Rhino?

@jennkryst said in General Video Game Thread:

POTENTIALLY TANGENTIAL TO EXCESSIVE CODING CRUNCH... Elite Dangerous is adding space legs, and I'm >< close to starting a fresh save when it does, for the lulz, if anyone is interested in brainstorming shenanigans.

I've been meaning to play it again, but re-mapping ASTRA (my AI) takes a couple hours and I've been sooooooooo lazy.

But! Maybe with new job! I can get a HOTAS and PLAY IT RIGHT.

I think there are two big reasons it had bugs and it all comes down to 'people are shitty'.

CDPR employees were receiving death threats, regularly, after the game was delayed. Lots of them. Some of them with very specific details of home addresses and the like.

I imagine their management was very afraid to delay a second time. I forgive the bugs on that alone.

And I am sorry to anyone who only has an xbox1 or ps4 (because I've been there before) but the game never should have been released on those consoles. If I was playing on a 7-year-old PC, it wouldn't run at all. They shouldn't have given in to the expectation of providing it on as many platforms as possible and just stuck to 'It's a next gen game'. Numerous games have done this in past years.

Those two reasons I believe are why the game is the way it is. But the first reason is why I forgive cdpr.

@macha said in How are you coping with COVID (and other 2020 fun)?:

I saw a fellow tenant last night, and she was carrying a baby carrier, and the last time I saw her, she was still in medium bump stage.

"You had the baby! Yay!"
"Yeah, he's five months old!"

"Jesus my understanding of time passing is so, so screwed up."
"Mine too!"

I feel like I've been in a never ending winter.

On the one hand I can't believe it's December.
On the other hand I'm thrilled it's December because it means I haven't been caught up in my classic depression where time seems to slow to a crawl.

At least if I'm going to be in rolling anxiety attacks and shit, time is passing at a good clip.

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

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

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

I have an RL peeve.

When did I become old enough that my detachment from pop culture is expected, rather than something worth commenting on?

When have you ever been attached to pop culture?

That's almost exactly the point my post made. It's now not noteworthy, it's expected that I'm out of touch because I'm old.

I suppose it depends on which pop culture. If you don't know about whatever tiktok video was popular for 10 minutes last Thursday; that's pretty much the wheelhouse of a very narrow group of people.

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

I have an RL peeve.

When did I become old enough that my detachment from pop culture is expected, rather than something worth commenting on?

When have you ever been attached to pop culture?