Posts made by Cobalt

I'm a little too far south, I think. Also I have two cats. One of which has only interacted with a dog once and that was to try and attack it through the sliding glass door, and to be EXTREMELY pissed off that there was a dog around at all.

@Arkandel said in MU Things I Love:

@Cobaltasaurus said in MU Things I Love:

I love the process of making a new character. >.> I love making wiki pages. I love choosing music, and played bys, and fiddling, and yes. That. All of it.

You know, I like making a new character from scratch on a game I'm excited about and even PBs (and conversations leading up to picking one) can be fun, I've even even been known to hunt through my notes and the googlez for appropriate book quotes that fit the concept... but music? I can't find and wouldn't even know how to start looking for a soundtrack if I tried.

I generally have two things that put me in the mood to write/working on a character. One) A played by, Two) music. When it comes to just writing, it's usually music that does it for me. I have a really hard time working on my non-RP writing without music. I also somewhat have a hard time RPing with music, but not as bad.

Writing and music is pretty linked for me.

I love the process of making a new character. >.> I love making wiki pages. I love choosing music, and played bys, and fiddling, and yes. That. All of it.

@Ganymede said in Retail "Horror" Stories:

@Cobaltasaurus said in Retail "Horror" Stories:

I hate being an administrative assistant.

You can be mine, if you want. I'm thinking of getting a replacement.

All I ask is that you be there during business hours, and tell me when I need to take the fall for you.

unless i can telecommute everyday thats ano go.

It's been foooorrrreeevver. But you were absolutely amazing (and hilarious) to RP with. Are you out there somewhere? Your favorite necromancer (Mourning) would love to RP with you again somewhere.

@cirim13 Hey! I'm working on an game based off of the Nalini Singh GuildHunter novels. It'll be using the Fate Accelerated Edition rules. We're not quite ready yet, it's just a matter of tweaking code and getting it all installed-- and theme files and stuff (and grid). But, we'll get there-- it might be something that'd interest you.

@Tinuviel I'll never go back to a school office again. Ever.

Well. I'd have to be in very dire straits to do it. I HATE working in offices, but there's something about working in a school office that is just the worst. Oh god. I hate being an administrative assistant.

For the love of god, empty out your hand basket onto the conveyor belt! Especially when its so full its overflowing! You wouldn't expect me to unload your cart, why do you expect me to do it with your handbasket?!

Awesome!

Also re: "Special Vampires", I know @ixokai had an interest in them. I've decided to go ahead and allow them. 1) their special property'll be listed on the wiki, 2) people can't overlap unless it's a group app, or otherwise worked out that there are more than one of that kind, and 3) it'll cost 1 refresh at chargen to chargen as a special vampire.

And I'm done with school for a few weeks. So I'm going to working on this! I'm online now poking at chargen, and tinkering with this.

Man, this sounds fun... except for the use of FCs. I wish you guys the best of luck.

@Chime

So, let's talk about what things are needed:

• For game owners

The bare minimum I believe:

• The ability to decide whether the wiki is open-to-join or requires account creation by staffers.
• The ability to decide whether the wiki is open to see or only members can see it.
• The ability to create accounts.

• For a game's power users and/or staffers
  For Staff:

• Create accounts.
• Lock certain pages.

For Users:

• Create pages based on games wikipolicy.
• Upload images based on games wikipolicy.

• For a typical game player wiki user
  See above.
• For hosting providers like me
  The ability to say "this monstrosity is too big, cut down your image size". ... I'm not sure since I don't really know what hosting concerns there are other than 'size'.

• For game owner-and-hoster-types
  See above.

Well, alright. If @Chime is brave enough to do it, I'll be brave enough as well! It won't have anything to do with mushing though. So if this needs to moved to 'Tastes Less Game-y' that's cool.:]

Some of you know, but the vast majority do not-- I write when I'm not drowning in school work. I have two work self published through amazon. I've set up a patreon account for that purpose. Though I'll also likely put links to my streaming stuff there as I do it. But this is mainly for my writing. Which I will warn-- the published stuff is very steamy. Though I do have some young adult material that is not.

https://www.patreon.com/cobaltasaurus?ty=h

I'll start supporting in a couple of weeks on my next paycheck. You are wonderful.

@WTFE said in Retail "Horror" Stories:

OK, this has been bugging me for a while.

WTF is a "WIC"?

Yeah, it's a program that lists -specific- items that it'll pay for, for pregnant women or new mothers, or women with young children (such as those who adopted, or are fostering children). It'll pay for like ... 32 oz of "whole grains"-- which can be cereal or bread. And 16oz of fruit juice. A gallon of 1% milk. That sort of thing.

It's like specialized foodstamps but it also pays for things like formula. I'm not ... positive bout diapers? It might be. Not positive.

After said lady from above was gone the AM who had just gotten off shift and I were talking. And I mentioned the "poop in self service" story from @Miss-Demeanor. He said, "Oh we've had that here. Just you wait."

And then he told me a story were one day he was told there was screaming / shouting coming from the men's rest room. So he thinking, "Well, I'm Mr. Manager and all that. Let me pull up my breeches and go in there." He rounds the corner and there is a man bent over, with hands on both of his ass cheeks -- spreading them and exposing his butt hole.

The old woman again bitching about WIC couple ahead of her, came in again today. She comes in and says, "I called this morning and put something aside. I put something aside!" Another cashier goes to get it. I'm minding my own business and she's like, "Where is Barbara? Where is Barbara?"

I'm like ... "What?"

"WHERE IS BARBARA?" Her.

"She isn't here." Me.

"Well I CALLED her this morning and she SAID she put it aside for me." Her.

"I'm sure she did." Me.

"Please wait for assistance." Intones the self check out, which I am attending.

So I leave to go take care of it and she starts pushing her cart over, almost into the people I am helping, demanding, "Oh you found it?"

And I'm like, lady ... I know you aren't that fucking daft. Of course I haven't.

"No." I say, trying to hold onto my patience, "I have to attend the self check out, I can't leave it."

"WHAT?"

"I. have. to. stay. here." Patience beginning to run very, very thin.

"Well where is my stuff? I put it aside this morning." She's still demanding my attention, while I'm trying to help people having trouble with the self check out.

"My coworker went to go get it."

"Well where did he go? Where did he go?"

"He went over to customer service." I tell her. "You can go wait over there for him."

"WHERE IS CUSTOMER SERVICE?" She demands, like she hasn't been into the store A MILLION GODDAMNED TIMES.

"Over there-- Oh, there he is." I say, and turn the hell away from her.

One of my CSM walks by and is like, "Oh my god that woman she's so scary, I'm going to go do gobacks now." And took off into the store.

And then the woman wheels her cart around self check out for a minute, and then pushes it over toward me and informs me, "I have to use the restroom."

"Okay, the restrooms are back there." I helpfully point to her.

"I KNOW where the restrooms are."

Oh, you do. But you apparently don't know where customer service is. You old cunt.

This woman puts my teeth on edge just seeing her. She's rude, demanding, and acts like everyone around her is an inconvenience or not as important as she is. If she gets into your line and you have someone ahead of her who has a lot of groceries or takes more than a few minutes to process then she starts freaking out, "Come on, come on! What is taking so long? Oh my god, I'm stuck here."

I'm just like: Take your fucking shit and go to another line. Or go to self check out.

ETA: I just know that one day I'm going to get an open-door talking to because I'm going to tell her exactly that: "Ma'am, if this line is too slow for you you're welcome to put your items back in your cart and go to another line, or to self service."

GRR.

My walmart, as far as I know, doesn't do cake orders.

But this reminds me of my favorite not-quite-retail-but-close story. I used to work in the office a K to 8 character school. The office had three to four people who worked in it. Toward the end of the year we're pretty sick of parents. Like really. Super sick of parents and their shit. Anywise, luckily I wasn't the receptionist.

But we're all gathered around the reception, when this woman comes in. She needs to pay for aftercare or an afterschool program, or a late fee for something. She has to pay /something/. But she hasn't brought the correct amount.

"Well you just get me change." She says to the receptionist.

"I'm sorry but we can't give you change." says the Receptionist.

"Well why not? Why can't you just give me change." The mother is insisting.

And by this point the receptionist is already getting aggravated. She's pretty tired of parents coming in and demanding we give them change for the things they need to pay. We're the front desk of a school after all, we don't really deal with money.

So she isn't budging, "We don't have change."

"Look, why can't you just break this hundred for me? Just do it." The woman is getting more agitated and rude and angry.

Finally the receptionist says, "I'm not a bank!"

And the woman flips her lid and starts saying how /you're so rude/.... not even to the receptionist but to another member of the front office staff who was sitting behind the receptionist, leaning against the desk.

She then told the story to our aftercare staff, still insisting it was the other woman not our receptionist that was rude to her.

Be it apparel, grocery, electronics, whatever... What are you best/worst stories of working as a cashier, a stocker, or whatever.

Mine from today is a woman asked me to put her two gallons of milk into a bag. Okay, strange but whatever. I open up the bag and the smell of cat piss just explodes out of it. Like bad. I look down into the bag and the white inside is all discolored and yellow-- and worse has brown and /darker/ yellow spots where it looks like a cat had diarrhea in it. I was like, "You want them in this bag...? Not a different one?"

"Yeah, that bag is fine."

"Okay..."

I stick the milk in, hand her her bags and she acts like she can't smell it or see it at all. I was practically gagging.

Aaaand, so this is a story one of my coworkers told me as he was leaving and I was coming back from lunch:

"I thought I had seen everything but now I know I have! I was unpacking her bags, and I reached inside for a black thing, thinking it was another bag... It was a pair of dirty panties! I couldn't reach for the hand sanitizer fast enough!"

Okay, you don't want to use self check out. Okay, cool. But there's no need to be shitty to me when I tell you that they're open. A simple "no thanks" is enough. You don't need to snap at me, "If I wanted to go over there I'd be over there."

Well okay, sir. I was going to offer to run the machine for you so my CSM wouldn't have five fucking people backed up in her line with all four self check out open, but fuck you very much instead.