Best posts made by Derp

I still vote for a gritty, real Dark Sun where the stakes are high and people don't try to whitewash the parts of it that are meant to demonstrate how savage and desperate the world is.

@greenflashlight

You're a person who's attracted to a person. That's a very people thing to do. All the other qualifiers are pretty much irrelevant.

I'm fairly sure that every person on this board has at least one story about being attracted to someone outside of their usual preferences.

Nothing to feel wrong about. That's as human as it gets.

@Wretched said in Avatar / Korra game considerations:

Pro Earthbeder - The Under-quaker

Aero Saul!

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

When at a drive thru during a busy time don't get up to the speaker and ask the person taking the orders "what would you recommend that isn't coffee"

It's Dunkin' Donuts and the line is out to the street. Just pick something and movd along.

There's an app for that, dudes. Jesus. Browse the menu before hitting the store.

I don't know. I've been a longtime fan of player relations staffers, personally.

Like, I have a select group of people that I would be completely comfortable empowering to do that. You just tell players:

I am human, and while I might think that my solutions are brilliant and elegant and without flaw as a divine entity, I also realize that I can be biased and closed-minded and susceptible to all the other perils of this weak mortal meat.

Therefore, I empower @Devrex to call me on all my bullshit. If you think I'm being a total jerkass, tell Devrex, and if Devrex agrees we'll work it out.

ETA: Which of course necessitates you being willing to, you know. Actually do that and not just dig your heels in.

@macha said in The Dog Thread:

@derp But dat faaaaaaaace

Old man gets whatever he wants.

@aria said in RL Anger:

(But also legit fuck your bank still.)

The first thing I did this morning was go set up an account with another bank.

I'm 100% on board with 'fuck those guys' at this point.

@solstice

Your current desk comes complete with Doggo and is therefore the best desk.

@ganymede said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

(I mean, Derp is, sort of, if we're talking about scent.)
(He's from Indiana; they smell.)

True story.

@arkandel said in Good TV:

@wizz I haven't watched it yet but as a more general question.

Did it feel like they are trying (possibly too hard) to create 'the next Game of Thrones'? That's kind of my main concern about the series, that its producers would try to make it into something it's not to recapture the magic of a different blockbuster series.

Not really, no.

They've modernized some of the things in the books, and brought a few of them in line with what we would assume about teenagers in the contemporary era, rather than when it was written, as well as how people just relate to each other in general. But I didn't get any kind of Game of Thrones vibe from it. Except for one big major change right in the beginning, it felt fairly consistent with the source material, and didn't try to riff off of anything else, from what I saw.

@ganymede said in Movie / TV / Streaming Peeves or Whatever:

I hated Seinfeld.

Quoting for solidarity.

@silverfox

A public health crisis is kind of a different animal from what shoes you're wearing or what church you go to.

A virus isn't a matter of opinion or personal preference. Kids not wearing masks should probably expect that people don't want to be around them as 2000 people a day die of a virus whose spread can help be prevented by simple things like putting a piece of cloth over your blowhole.

@alamias said in The Work Thread:

@kk said in The Work Thread:

I was actually bummed that MSB was done, because in the real life section, this is almost a safe space to rant and I needed to rant!

Yeah. I don't need to rant or anything most the time...but when MSB was down I felt something was missing. I didn't realize how much I rely on it for news and such during the day.

@arkandel

I mean -- it's 2022 and I'm still not allowed to donate blood unless I decide to not have sex with my partner for three months just because we're both men.

So.

There are worse reasons.

Picard just continues to be absolutely amazing. Chef's freaking kiss to this season.

@silverfox

I don't think I play with you anywhere but if it's 30 minutes for something important? Whatever. Everyone has my blanket permission to do this always.

@ganymede

Upvoting purely for that gif. That is glorious.