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My dog is awesome. I mean, I'm sure that everyone loves their dog and thinks their dog is awesome, but damn, my dog is awesome.

Everybody hug your dog today, okay?

@Arkandel: I find that Vikings is a pretty good fill-in for my fantasy-historical needs. It's available on Amazon Prime, which also offers The Man in the High Castle.

@tragedyjones said in Good TV:

Season 3 or 4 spoiler, but, Walder Frey and the Freys weren't criminals at the Red Wedding. Socially repellant, but acting at the behest of the crown to punish rebels. Lawful Evil!

Hey, they just want a piece of the pie, you know?

I think someone may have already put this up, but Imma share it again:

Season 6 MVP? Without a doubt, Lyanna Mormont.

Getting treatment for depression has completely changed not just my RL, but my MUSH experience. My reaction to things is more temperate, I'm not so hung up on what people think of me, which oddly makes it easier for me to interact with others. I can't say I'm all the way there, but it makes me realize that my fear of the medication involved is now completely gone. If anything, I'm advocate. The brain is an organ, just like your pancreas. A diabetic takes insulin and no one stigmatizes them for it. Someone with mental health difficulties should not be ashamed to take what they need to be healthy.

Also, HAMILTON.

@Jaded said in Do you believe in paranormal things?:

My dad is a non-believer of all things paranormal. He thinks the ghost hunter shows are kind of dumb and fake.

Because they are.

Here's what he told us:

My dad was 14 when this happened. So that would make it 69. His family lived down in Felicity Ohio and his grandmother had just passed away. She had a farmhouse with a couple acres of land that she had bought in the late 30s and it had quite a few after-construction additions placed onto it. They were moving in to the house that summer and for the first few nights things were fine.

That's when they started to hear the crying sounds. Particularly his sisters who slept in rooms on the southwest facing of the house. The way he described these sounds was the kind of sounds cats make - when catterwalling, and how those can sound like a baby crying. And that's what they thought it was. A cat making noises at night.

The chilling part is that the back porch on the house, he said, was made of concrete. And it had become weather damaged over the decades and his dad decided a couple weeks after moving in to demolish it and build something with treated wood. So they were hammering the concrete down and they discovered encased in the concrete one of those large cast iron cooking pots that is meant to hang over a fire. And when they looked inside they found scraps of clothing and the bones of two babies; this confirmed by a local doctor who came out to the house with the Felicity cop they reported it to.

The cop wasn't at all interested in pursuing something that was clearly decades old and he let my dad's mother and father bury the bones on the edge of the land under a tree and they got a local priest to say some kind words.

After that day the crying sounds stopped.

Granted in text it may not be as creepy but the way my dad told it, it was definitely creepy.

That is an awesome story, true or not.

If you're interested in playing an adult, you now have multiple options, Grounders, Mountain Men, and Arkers. With regard to Arkers, there's also plenty of built in opportunities for hooks with the Delinquents. I know at least one person is interested in having a PC parent if possible and others may be interested as well.

@Ganymede said in Dead Celebrity Thread:

@Vorpal said in Dead Celebrity Thread:

It is horrible... and also so strange. I know the police have said there was no foul play... still, just both horrible and bizarre.

There was a vehicle recall, if my facts are correct.

According to the police, he was only alive for about a minute after he was pinned. Granted, a minute can seem like a long time in certain contexts.

@Ataru This season was beautiful, though I personally spent a lot of time with it in frustration. My favorite episodes are the episodes in which the "family" is together, fighting the evils of the night while struggling to not become part of it. (That said, the stand-off in the finale was fantastic.)

As much as I enjoyed the execution on Jekyll/Hide, Victor's always been problematic for me, but then again I'm pretty sure he's meant to be problematic to just about everyone.

I would TOTALLY watch a spin off series with Lyle at the center, though.

@Arkandel said in Ingress:

@Cupcake Smurf, always.

SMURRRRRRF.

I just recently got to Level 7. I found it's a great activity for when I want to walk my dog and check out new places at the same time.

Does anyone else play it?

Smurf or Toad?

For the curious, Ingress is a global app based game that uses the GPS in your phone or tablet. Two teams basically play "capture the flag" with imaginary portals, and capturing three portals to triangulate them creates a field for your team's color. The portals are centered around publically accessible landmarks, artworks, and historical locations of note.

@Coin said in Good TV:

Catriona Hartigan is the New Cool.

That depends entirely on whether or not there's a Season 4, I think. Which seems...questionable. At best.

Last night was some fierce tv. Game of Thrones? YAAAAS. Penny Dreadful? YAAAAAS. (But also nooooooo.)

I liked it alright. I found that the parts I liked I REALLY, REALLY liked, but there were sections that were kind of ho hum for me. I also love the author's random ability to drop little pop culture bombs here and there through the story.

Bye, Felicia!

I just finished Pierce Brown's Red Rising trilogy, and currently am working on the third book in Ransom Riggs' Peculiar Children series. I'm also slowly going through all of the series that Tamora Pierce wrote centered around Tortall.

TLDR; I really love my Overdrive app.

@Arkandel said in Kushiel's Debut:

@Cupcake Well, on one hand I can't quite agree there was something wrong with a rumor you started OOC yourself being believed by any PCs; after all the fact it became a rumor IC means someone believed it, right? It caught on, by definition and your own hand.

I'm willing to concede on that point, but the aftermath involving a public post by a PC who wasn't present in the scene making an exact point about the situation I was in? Too on the nose, clearly meant to point fingers, and basically gave the presentation of a hostile atmosphere. That being said, it was also years ago, and I'm on to better things.

For one thing, there was enough reliable background and established play to the character that indicated she was extremely loyal to the royal family and would make an effort to avoid tarnishing any reputations. That, and there was ample cause for quite a few people to be jealous of her. There was absolutely no question or consideration as to whether or not a rumor that experience with her as a person should have proven at least questionable.

I realize that the argument can be made that it's IC and I can't control the decisions other people make, but beyond that, there was also clearly a conversation about the scene between the staffer and the PC (or for all I know, the staffer using their PC as a mouthpiece, but I'm not going to make that accusation because I genuinely do not remember) player who decided to make a public post about not arguing with staffers or contradicting them. It was, to me, a very clear and public finger pointing.

@Arkandel I don't remember the specific means, but it was either a +rumor system or a bbpost in which I did a third party conversation blurb (two NPCs speculating) suggesting my character was making some political trouble by being jealous of a visiting high ranked noble.

It was a long time ago, so if my details are too fuzzy to be helpful, I apologize.

In retrospect I can't say whether or not I deserved it. I OOCly started a negative rumor about my character (one feature I've never liked about certain rumor systems is that they're concerned IC only in context) that wasn't true. It was my mistake to expect people to question the rumor rather than take it as gospel. My character ended up getting dressed down by the king, who outright told her he knew it to be true and if she insisted on her innocence she was lying. I OOCly expressed that I thought this was taken to an unfair point (in retrospect, ICA=ICC, I guess?) and the staffer playing the king took umbrage with me for arguing about it. Practically the next day, a post went up from one of the other players that was basically "how dare anybody argue with our wonderful awesome staffers". It was basically a public finger-pointing without naming names, and I left.