Posts made by Auspice

@Ninjakitten
Love that song

Sin Shake Sin - Can't Go To Hell

@Ninjakitten
The Dead South - In Hell I'll Be In Good Company

I have notes.

Like, location, setting (timeline), plot...

I just never found people who were willing to follow my rule of 'If you Staff, you run plot' because Ares is perfect for it and I didn't need Staffers who just wanted to be Staff.

So if someone wants to take that over, I can try to dig up what I had.

@Ninjakitten
VNV Nation - Space & Time

@Coin
I've been making myself stay exact. It's more a challenge that way!

Mobile - Out of My Head

@Roz said in Where Can I Play When I work Nights?:

It sounded like maybe the new Discworld game has a strong European contingent? Including staffers.

@JinShei at least! She is EU and runs it.
(I haven't yet checked the place out due to busy, but can confirm they def. have EU folks.)

I made alfredo sauce from scratch tonight. No recipe. Just the knowledge that 'okay, bechamel is the base for most sauces so I start with a roux and a block of grated Parmesan and....'

holy shit this is so good and I am amazing

@Macha
Robin Loxley & Jay Hawke - God Will Cut You Down
(my personal favorite cover)

@hedgehog

Tokyo Police Club - Hot Tonight

Roughly half of my documentation work is getting its live trial this month. It's being used in our scrimmage (live testing of the software) and getting feedback from the users.

Yesterday, an executive went through it for the first time. Now, the users have been in workshops. The software is just a newer, better-er version of what they do daily. But... executive being executive, his feedback was:
'I'm confused. I want step-by-step instructions for everything.'

.......and he meant everything.....

So I got my boss panicking at me that what I've spent months on wasn't good enough. And it was just.......... crushing. Like, I was upset, yes, because it was sort of a 'what the hell, man? trust your people????' but it also hit hard because of all the work and getting chewed out and....

But it improved later in the day when we were in a meeting with my boss and with aforementioned exec when the rest of the tech team had my back. They all were on the same page with me: the users have been in these workshops, the material should be at the level the users need, and part of this exercise is to find out if they need more detail.

But today was even... better in that front because this guy kept pressuring that he wants even our instructions on the 'week's work' to be more prescriptive. Like to the level of 'how to login to the tool.' Aka: 'Giving them the link and their username isn't enough' was the feedback.

on the upside, I guess I'm getting practice for some of what I'll likely deal with once I get into teaching.
And I do feel a lot better that my team is on my side. Like, a lot better. They like my work. They think it's solid.

@insomniac7809 said in General Video Game Thread:

I picked up Cultist Simulator on Hallowe'en, and I'm... mild to moderately obsessed.

The format is super simple, one of those skinner box 'just one more thing before bed' designs (almost like one of those mobile games), which is a feature that really works in a game where the protagonist is consumed by a destructive obsession.

I picked it up at launch and I play it every now and then because I'm still uncovering... how to play it. Every time I play a few games, I pick up just a little bit more. It's a really great game to have going on your second screen during slow scenes.

@Selira said in General Video Game Thread:

On a side note, does anyone else's body temperature rise when playing really action intense games?

Horror games make me tense. Like, every muscle just steadily tenses up the more I play until my whole body hurts.

So I can really only enjoy those games through LPs. I love horror games, but because of my health issues, it's no good for me to play them.

Receptionist: "Was it the gnome?"
Security Guard: "Don't know, they were gone by the time we got there."

What

@Coin said in RL Anger:

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@magee101 said in RL Anger:

@Admiral said in RL Anger:

@Auspice If it makes you feel better I don't recall you ever telling me anything about your sex life or anyone else ever telling me any such information either.

I think more people know about @Auspice having a sex life from her bitching about someone talking about it than people actually talking about it

... damn, dude. Tape a filter over your mouth, maybe that'll help.

Magee couldn't find their mouth with two hands, a mirror, and clearly written instructions.

Maybe if someone TSed him about it enough.

I'll just FTB, since that concept is utterly baffling.

He won't even scene with you, though, since foreplay without the actual sex after isn't worth it.

Sometimes I love you guys. Needed a laugh today. Work is brutal this week.

@Pandora said in TS - Danger zone:

@Ghost said in TS - Danger zone:

@Pandora said in TS - Danger zone:

ETA: @Ghost It's okay if sometimes you don't have anything useful to say; not-chiming-in has never in and of itself killed anyone.

Nanneh
Nanneh
Boo
Boo

It's na na na na boo boo, pleb.

@Macha
Johnny Cash - I Walk the Line

@Macha said in RL Anger:

@Auspice That's just abusive levels of control, right there. I broke my hymen YEARS before I ever had sex.

Most women do.

@Tinuviel said in RL Anger:

@Auspice That link naming makes it more of a wtf. I read it as "Rapper TI accompanies his teen gynecologist..."

Honestly I'd be less mad about that.

@Macha
Fall Out Boy - American Beauty / American Psycho

@Macha
Ava Max - Sweet But Psycho
(getting us back on track)