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@Rinel said in Why We Don't Make New Friends Anymore (Or Creepers Do Creepy Things):

@Auspice

It sounds like Fred was...

naughty

@Rinel said in Why We Don't Make New Friends Anymore (Or Creepers Do Creepy Things):

@Auspice

I did that in college with a reasonably large and very fake tree who quickly became known as Daphne (I lived in a house full of classics and archaeology undergrads). Daphne would move from people's doors to various stair landings to, in one particularly memorable incident, the inside of a shower.

Whereupon she promptly fell on top of the person who went in bleary-eyed in the morning for his daily ablutions.

He was not amused.

The worst was when Fred was in my shower, yes.
I screamed.

Fred went off the balcony that night.

Never leave faux-people, mannequins, cardboard cut-outs, etc. in your roommate's shower.

@Tinuviel said in Why We Don't Make New Friends Anymore (Or Creepers Do Creepy Things):

@Auspice The best friend I ever had was my roommate just after university. I worked days, he worked nights. We saw each other for maybe ten minutes a day for two years. That is my ideal living situation.

I had a roommate like that for a little while

that asshole created Fred

Fred was a broom given a face and arms that he left around the apartment for me to find (I worked third shift) when I came in in the dark at 5am

Fred scared the everliving shit out of me a lot

@Tinuviel said in Recruitment Posts:

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@Ganymede said in Recruitment Posts:

@Auspice

u already h8 me

Anyone who gives homework is evil.

Fuck you too.

You are tho.

I love/hate graphic work for technical documentation.

I'm good at it.
But I'm slow at it.

Ugh.

@mietze When the 3rd of the people I listed above (Alex) was living with us (my ex-husband and I) it was basically a gamer geek household. We had a ton of nights where we'd make dinner then just hang out and play video games on our respective computers- often multiplayer games (lord there were weekends we'd spend 12 hours on a Terraria server, just ordering pizza).

But it was great. Like, we also kept the house in order, shared chores, turned our backyard into a vegetable garden.

It's about being responsible, finding other responsible people, and making sure you all get along.

Unfortunately, when the person 'at the helm' is not these things (aka responsible or willing to get along in a healthy way)... the rot runs through the whole. And that's how these communities go bad.

I would, absolutely, go into a roommate situation with people I get along with in that way again (minor temptation rn to email Alex and be like HEY WANNA MOVE TO TX RIGHT NOW?!). As I look at moving next month, I wish I COULD. I wanna save money, I wanna cook for other people, I wanna have people to hang out on weekends to play board games. But the timing is really shitty rn.

@silverfox said in MU Things I Love:

My IC Family.

Norwood's got some super solid players/characters around him (including all of the people who call him 'uncle' which is seriously the best.)

And Kenna's married-in-family is awesome, as is so much of her Whitehawk/Mercier, even if some of their players flux a lot at times.

In my eyes IC family trumps having traditional relationship RP.

I am abso-fucking-lutely thrilled because the new Gaston is someone super super awesome that is solid.
We had a family scene last night and I finally felt, for the first time in mooooonths, at ease in Blackram again.

It's the best when you have good family RP

@hedgehog said in Why We Don't Make New Friends Anymore (Or Creepers Do Creepy Things):

@Auspice

What in the actual fuck were they doing to justify that egregious an overcost on rent? Was it in Mansionland? Did everyone have private en suite rooms? I'm also assuming that the food that they would supply would then be of the ramen/turkey dogs/lentils/rice/potato buds variety, too, not anything actually worth eating.

Because so few of them knew any better.

I was 23, had been living on my own a handful of years already.
Most of these were people around 18-25 who had never lived on their own and had no idea what the market was like. They were being preyed on, plain and simple. Being preyed on isn't always in a sexual manner, sadly.

So you take some kid who is 18-20, has never lived away from their parents, and is impressionable. This kid wants to be popular in his friend group (LARP). His parents tell him it's time to move out. He's got his first job at one of the Popular Places to Work for the nerd crowd (in SC this was the bowling alley run by one of the LARP STs, Teletech, a UPS call center, or LevelOne, an apartments.com call center). He's got money, he's working with his buddies, and he can finally afford to live alone.

But he's still a really anxious kid. He doesn't know what he's doing. So one of these 40-something year old dudes goes: 'Hey man! Why don't you live with us? We'll help you move your shit in, then you can party with us, you'll have a ride (lot of these kids didn't have cars either) to work and game, and spare money for video games still!'

And this kid thinks oh man. I'd be living WITH my friends (maybe one of the STs!), they all have and play the games I like, I'd be one of the IN crowd. If he's underage he gets access to alcohol....

....so he agrees. Because it also plays into the other thing: anxiety. No need to apartment shop. To apply for apartments. To...

Mix in a little of it being the south and rebellion and wanting out from ultra religious mom and dad's thumb and-

voila. That's why people did it. And why the guys running these houses got away with it.

This is why I ended up with Ben, aka Loki, as a roommate for a while. I was renting a 3-bedroom house, $600/mo (you see why those costs were so fucking insane?) right outside downtown. You could walk 1.5mi and be on Main St. Ben was an okay guy. About 22. A little more sane than the others, but rapidly falling into things (see above: calling himself Loki) with the crowd.

But he was living in a LARP house because his parents had kicked him out. And the LARP house was too far away from anywhere for him to find a job. Greenville's bus lines sucked (they stopped at 5pm... can't really find a job on that shit very easily). So these guys had him doing ALL their chores and they took his EBT every month to dictate its use. Plus he only got to sleep on the couch.......unless a friend of theirs was over, then he got told to 'find some space on the floor.'

So I said: come to my house. You'll still have to do the majority of the chores, but your EBT will be yours, at least, and you'll have a whole room to yourself. All I expect is you find a job within 4 months. But I'm walking distance from a shopping center and downtown.

I actually did this a total of three times for people. Ben did get a job (not within the window, but ah well... I had to play MOM FAS and tell him he had a limited amount of time left and then he did get a job), then moved in with some (non-LARP) friends of his that were closer in age to him. J I had to kick out because he kept shorting me on rent once he did have a job. Alex was the best. Alex is someone I STILL want as a roommate. He got a job within a month, paid rent on time, did more than his fair share of chores, was fun to hang out with.... 5/5, best roommate ever.

But yeah, @Ghost saw this stuff around 2000. I saw it around 2009-2012. I'd not be surprised at all if it's still going on.

Honestly, can confirm things like @Ghost 's story happen.
There were a couple 'LARP' houses in Greenville, too.

At one point when I was looking to move, I got offered a place in one and they were like 'It's $500/mo plus an extra $40 if you want the wifi password and you have to chip in X a week on groceries.' (not 'buy your own' but 'One of us goes out and buys food for everyone and you have to pay X amount') and I was like '........lol this is Greenville, I can pay $500/mo total for rent and utilities and split a nice two bedroom with someone, nope.'

But people did it. One guy's mom was so desperate to get him out of her house that she paid his rent.... except he told her his rent was $900/mo so he didn't have to get a job (skeezy ass mofo BRAGGED ABOUT THIS ... I was sorely tempted to find out her phone # so I could tell the poor woman).

I went to a post-LARP party at one of these once and spent the whole night asking my SO if we could leave because the place was just so... ugh. It was gross. I was the only woman there and despite being clearly in-a-relationship I felt insanely uncomfortable.

LARP houses happen.
They are not good.
But people become obsessed with LARP on a really awkward level. It's part of why when we'll be here going 'gosh no one is as bad as MUers we're the worst sort of people that ever existed there's no other sort of hobby that is-'
I introduce LARPers.

Some are fine, totally.
But there are people in LARP who are just..... horrifying.

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

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

get your asses over to my house. I have food I need to clear out of my pantry so I can justify changing my diet over.

i has food, beds, and children

you can have my spare boxes of pasta if you can get here.

I found out I'm pre-diabetic (I blame all the stress-eating this year tbh), so I need to get through everything in my kitchen and start a new, better diet. But I'm poor enough from move-prep and all the doctor visits from being so fucking sick the past couple months that I can't just.... buy a lot of new food right now.

So I'm still eating relatively poorly (I'm eating healthy lunches at least since I go through lunch-foods faster) until it's all gone.

This video is going around at work today.

Someone: It has 5,000 dislikes!
Me: And all of those dislikes are clients.

(If you've ever been in any sort of job where you have a client requesting something ridiculous/unreasonable out of you, watch this video.)

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

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

@Derp

Something like 80% of my past week's meals have been soup. The same soup.

I feel guilty for complaining about this because it's a really lovely soup and this is first world problems to the max... but I really don't want any more soup. ;_;

...what kind of soup? Wanna trade for some pasta?

get your asses over to my house. I have food I need to clear out of my pantry so I can justify changing my diet over.

@Rinel said in Why We Don't Make New Friends Anymore (Or Creepers Do Creepy Things):

@Ghost said in Why We Don't Make New Friends Anymore (Or Creepers Do Creepy Things):

In my estimation you can probably trust people at ACTUAL sex/swinger/bdsm clubs more than some of these people.

You almost certainly can. Kink communities tend to take consent very seriously and proactively warn new members about predatory people in the area.

absolutely, 100%.
I was part of a BDSM group in Ohio for a few years.
They did background checks.
They required you to attend the casual dinners out at least twice before you were allowed to join and the organizers had to approve you doing so meaning they could, absolutely, say 'We're sorry, we don't think you're a fit for our group.'

In addition to that, the age range for the group I was in was 18-35. If you aged out, the current membership had to decide yay or nay (vast majority of the time, because we were all so close and became good friends outside of, y'know, BDSM shit, we would say yes please stay around) as to whether people would stay. The age thing was because they wanted younger people joining to not feel like 'oh uhhhhh this is full of weird older people, newp!'

WHICH I ABSOLUTELY APPRECIATE. Because many BDSM groups I've looked into since have mostly been people 50+ and as a woman under 40? I just did not ever have remotely the same level of comfort. There are guys, sure, in that age range who are more respectful but uh, by and far, not so much.

People are gonna be more comfortable and feel safer in their own age range. Just like, at my age now, I'd totally get if someone 18-22 would be like 'Yeah, I'm not cool with this' if I was in a group.

(If anyone is in the Cincinnati/Columbus area and interested... PM me. I will see about looking up their info, see if they're still extant, and let you know. They were probably the best part about when I lived there.)

@Ganymede said in Recruitment Posts:

@Auspice

u already h8 me

Anyone who gives homework is evil.

You know what? We do a ton of 'WHERE IS THIS PERSON' but I'm gonna start a thread for recruiting.

Wanna see a certain character played on a roster game?
Looking for people for a pack or coterie on a WoD game?
Just looking for people to RP with in general?

Post here.

I'mma start:
I am desperately looking for someone to play Tykalos on Ithir. He's one of those 'seems like he may have been fucked up by our dear friend Cullen' roles, but I really, truly don't think he was ruined as a character. He looks like a really fun character and I think he has tons of potential. Two of the past people who played him that I got to RP with were fantastic to play with and the character and mine had started to foster a good friendship. I would love to see this go further (esp. since she just made full priestess in Aereth's priesthood).

I love the Aeren theme, I love the priesthood, and we just found Aereth's Oracle on the game. I think it's a really, really good time to pick up the character. If you're interested, check him out or PM me and I'll gladly chatter at you about it, current plots / stuff to do.

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

@Auspice

I bet they get freaked out when it doesn't stay in the ground. X.x

There's two of them. A bigger one and a smaller one.
They only pull out the bigger one.
And they drop it in the same place every time.

I wish I knew which one of them did it.

There's a 'usual suspect' when it comes to bad kitty behavior, but he's not the one I keep catching chewing on the plant.

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

@Auspice

Spider plants are slightly narcotic for cats.

I had to finally take mine to school and keep them there, and then over the summer I yell at them to LEAVE THEM ALONE.

I'm just like WHY DO YOU YANK IT OUT AND LEAVE IT RIGHT NEXT TO THE POT.

I'd almost feel better if they did run off with it and chew it down to a nub. Then it'd feel less like a slight against me.

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