Posts made by Auspice

motherfucking bullshit leg pain keeping me awake.

I'd like to sleep now not lie here wide awake because my legs hurt.

People don't talk to me. Largely this suits me just fine because the people that do talk to me are of the weird sort. And not the nerd geek our crowd weird

I mean like my neighbor who stood outside my car door until I got out so he could ramble at me at length about hooligans and the atmosphere lowering at night forcing pollution into his apartment to make him sick.

It's never a hot guy or girl wandering over to my table in the Cafe to ask what I'm reading (even if I've set the book down as I eat). The movies lied to me.

@Ominous said in Dating in the 2020's:

I usually sit at the bar, since it's quicker service and it's not too weird to strike up a conversation with others at the bar, unlike talking to the table across from you.

I don't often sit at the bar because it feels too crowded and I've got touch issues. So I'm that bitch taking up a table that could seat four while I sit there reading my book.

@TheOnceler said in Bad TV:

@Auspice said in Bad TV:

@Quinn said in Bad TV:

he lady characters aren't there just to give the guy characters something to do/avenge.

no, just there to be fake-bisexual.

Can you expand on this?

They wavered between whether Sara Lance (between her time on Arrow and LoT) was straight or lesbian or bi so much it really left a bad taste in my mouth.

@Quinn said in Bad TV:

he lady characters aren't there just to give the guy characters something to do/avenge.

no, just there to be fake-bisexual.

@Macha said in Dating in the 2020's:

@RightMeow My question is - who is cooking? I mean, I make some good stuff, but only if the stuff is there to make. lol

so it's more 'who is buying groceries' then. or we take turns to cook.

It got stuck on me being in a dream.
I'd wake up and I'd still be in the dream.
Over and over.
Until it was like you wake up and everything is normal.
You go to work and everything is normal.
It was ..... creepy.

@RightMeow said in Dating in the 2020's:

And for the life of me, I cannot go to a restaurant on my own. I'm sort of working on that. Sorta.

I've gotten to where I can enjoy going to a restaurant by myself. Tonight I ate at El Arroyo! (Yes, the restaurant of the signs, ala: )

(It was on the same block as the bar I met my old coworkers at for our weekly hang.)

I miss the domestic life for shared chores, shared bills, and just having someone to chill with while watching trashy TV.
Also the sex. I miss sex.

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

and hook my own belt loops on the door handle

this is me.

Supernatural should have ended where it was written to end. Season 5. They wrapped up the story nice and neat. Then it became the dead horse that kept being beaten for views.

I have two cats and they have to approve of anyone I date.

Ok. One does. The other is an idiot and would approve of a damp sock if it contained treats.

@Kestrel said in Dating in the 2020's:

One thing I appreciate about online dating culture is the feeling that it’s helped destigmatise polyamory.

Yes and no.
It's destigmatized it without educating about it.

I know some people who are and have been poly (safely so in both physical and mental health) who are very, very unhappy with the turn it has taken in the last number of years (at least in the US; maybe in the UK it's a different story). It's basically become a 'get out of jail free' card for a lot of people. A way to sleep around without taking responsibility. 'Oh yeah I slept with her. It's not my fault: I'm poly.'

Instead of what poly is (engaging in multiple healthy, honest, engaging relationships), they're just using it as a way to sleep around and cheat on each other. And it's caused, in some areas (the CDC has some reports on this), a rise in STIs.

So it's destigmatized it, but not in a great way sadly.

@Admiral said in AI Dungeon:

The game ignores my inputs and seems to be pushing forward a story without anything I say mattering.

It helps to use the /remember command.
'/remember Ral is your friend'
'/remember you are going to the Academy'

It is still an AI and it seems to be using Markov as its basis, so it is imperfect.

The customs seem to be the most fun, IME. I had one go completely off the rails in an absolutely unexpected way and I wish I'd saved it. Like holy crap. It ended on a sort of 'What's happening?' 'It doesn't matter because you're already dead'

DUN DUN DUN

In fact, I think before I go into my Python studies for the day, I'm gonna spin up a story.

Not sure if it's a good or bad idea to tell y'all that they have an iOS and Android app (free!) also.

@Ominous said in Dating in the 2020's:

If I mow the lawn, rake the leaves, clean out the gutters, etc, can we be a polycule?

Yes.
But everyone folds their own laundry. I'll run the laundry, but I ain't folding it.

@RightMeow said in Dating in the 2020's:

@Auspice Yes. I hate dishes though.

perfect, I don't mind dishes.
sold.

@RightMeow said in Dating in the 2020's:

That's it. I'm done dating now. Facebook dating. All these dating sites.

Who wants to get married? I'll entertain all offers. Think of the tax break for next year.

do you do bathrooms

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

@Auspice

I also remember that one number someone said to me aloud in person, one someone said on the phone, and another one I copied from somewhere else. It's like I'm the star of my own mystery!

It's really common for me to need to find something and go 'I remember I put it somewhere that made sense at the time.'

Dear functional Auspice of last week: thank you for baking chicken and making tzatziki. Putting it on arugula and adding cherry tomatoes and pine nuts is super healthy, but also something I'm capable of right now.