Posts made by Darinelle

Excellent question. If you were playing Arx, I imagine I'd be willing to run something.

@Pondscum Hola! Nice to see you again. Are you Arx-ing?

As a sidenote - there were a lot of staff who cared about the players and were consistently hamstrung by insanity and bullshit. That's more or less how we lost the bulk of good staff over the years. But I did care about the players, it's true! I just was not alone in my caring, I promise.

@Faceless said in Darinelle's Playlist:

Also, stop stalking me across games. k?

Dude. It's what I do. Everyone knows this. DUH.

@Faceless I really only posted this so you'd stop asking me who I played in which games, and then acting like it was the first time we'd ever discussed it.

I'm so glad you're doing better, at least!

Because I don't know who's playing whom and can't find people, if you're looking for me look no further?

Former:
Firan - Portia, Maegrae, Diana, Puffin
The Reach - Alice, Caoimhe
Arx - Grady, Evaine, Micaela

Current:
Arx - Leona, Puffin (staff), Orazio (not OG-Razi), Justus, Sapphire, Venteri (and all the Marin'alfar) and a few others, all NPCs
Gray Harbor - Caoimhe

That moment when you RP with someone and love their character, and then realize well after the fact that it's a player you really like from elsewhere. That has happened to me 3x this week so far. Life is glorious.

@Auspice - Dilaudid is the best hour of "is this what it feels like to not be in pain" ever. EVER.

@Arkandel - Regardless of game I always ask. Even if it's a public space. But if I need plot-specific development things to happen, I usually try to find a quiet, non-public place.

@Arkandel - I wasn't JUST farming votes! I SWARE.

I want to upvote this whole thread. All of it. Not to sound patronizing, because I do have my own mental health issues with which I struggle (which remain mostly undiagnosed so I don't usually talk about them) - but because it's nice to see people in a shared community coming together to listen and be, well - a community. There's a lot of cesspools and personal hells on the internet (and everywhere else) so it's nice to see people being cool and using it to actually connect and help each other. And it's pretty great to see people in any sort of community recognizing they need help and getting the help they need without shame, because there's not a one of us who hasn't needed help at one point or another. So anyway. Upvotes all around and thanks for being a bright spot in my day.

@Admiral - It happens. Also, working 6 days a week sucks, so I wish you luck finding better employment. Or at least less hours.

@Admiral - having done this a time or two myself, I'll say people will drift into your life if you're looking. But setting aside the part that is maybe finding a roommate, you can also go and volunteer or work with people to help them get their lives on track in other ways. Sometimes paying it forward isn't an exact payment, but more the spirit of the thing.

This is literally the best thing I've read on the internet in days. It makes me happy, but I want to say something here as a cautionary tale (learn from my mistakes):

Pick a deadline. If you go through with this - and I have done this and hated myself, and I have done this and gained amazing and wonderful friends from it so I totally think it's worth it - you will be highly invested in someone you hardly know. Pick a date by which they should either be kicking back some money to you, or moved out. Or say - we'll re-evaluate the situation monthly, and if we decide it isn't working out, you'll have one month to find a new situation or right the one we have.

Boundaries are important. I'm not going to lecture you on helping other people (bless you) so much as suggest ways to avoid feeling bad in the long run, or alternately feeling like you're being taken advantage of, or even just mad at yourself for not standing up for yourself as much as you needed or hating yourself for having to have tough conversations you hope you'll never have to have.

Did I say you're awesome? You totally are.

@Arkandel - it wasn't really that way last expac except with Resto druids (for no reasons I could determine, since resto druids were arguably the weakest healers), but this expac seems like everyone wants to play a druid. I suspect this has to do with us being the perfect class, since we can fill any role, but whatever. With the new loot system the way it is, I don't mind having more leather-wearing classes around, to be sure.

That being said, stealth (and in the case of Night Elves, shadowmeld) makes for broken and wonderful World Questing. How I'm going to deal with it on my alts is anyone's guess.

@Arkandel - that is, well - Awesome. I missed that series and haven't been back yet to catch up on it, but I'm definitely going to be sure to make time for it because aaaahaahahahahaha.

I basically do everything in resto and there are only a couple of things I can't do on my own. Withered training gets done in Guardian though, I won't lie. Further into the expac now, I'm still enjoying everything but the debacle they've made the tradeskills and, as someone who spends time stocking our guildbank for raids, I'm frustrated at the material requirements for EVERYTHING, the way you get recipes, the ranking system, and what they've done with gathering.

I still think it's a pretty small pet peeve, and that once we get past this initial push into raiding, things will smooth out and I won't spend QUITE so much time farming, but who knows.

Also freebie satchels are nice, except I hate PUGing now with a vengeance and stick to guild groups. I have other things to do that aren't WOW, so if I'm not raiding, or farming mats for raid consumables, I'm being dragged all over everywhere for mythics and mythic+ with guildies now - so I miss the random heroics more often than not.

@Arkandel - I'm not really sure about that. Our holy pally isn't having any trouble in mythic groups. They have to move and cast and move and cast, but at least their heals move the health bar. So far, I'm tentatively in favor of the resto druid changes, more or less, provided you have a stable healing crew and a solid tank healer that isn't you. In mythics things get dicey if people in general stand in all the shit, which is why I LOATHE pug-healing. With a good group it's a little ouchy but doable.

Also that second gold trait on G'Hanir is AMAZEBALLS.

Also also, I love jumping around like a madwoman while casting Rejuv. And bouncing some more. Because reasons.

I'm madmadmadmadSOMADALLTHEMAD about what they did with Balance druids though, so now I'm feral in my offspec and it still doesn't matter because I'm mostly just resto, hanging out for the 20th, preaching the end of the world.

Always upvote a fellow resto druid.

My biggest case for a +meetme command is actually because it makes it SO nice for newcomers. Once I'm in a MU and I know how to get around it's no big deal, but honestly when I'm new and just want to RP with someone, sometimes that initial "but where am I and how do I get to where the fun is happening" is intensely frustrating. A +meetme lets me hit the grid and start RPing immediately, which I really dig.

It's also helpful in scenes when you're running it already and someone logs on late and still wants to come - cuts down the between here-and-there running you do. I get that you don't want people to exclusively use meetme and ignore the grid entirely, but some implementation of the command proper would be super helpful, IMO.

Deadlift day. I fucking LOVE deadlift day.

Also puppies. Mine has grown!