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    Best posts made by Derp

    • RE: The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves)

      @wretched big mood

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: RL Sads

      @misadventure said in RL Sads:

      I read something saying that some folks don't have the same sense of decay of the value or intensity of a friendship over time. That's how I feel, whether it's mixed, negative or positive.

      I am definitely one of those people.

      High school friend that I haven't talked to in twenty years? Doesn't matter. We're still buds and I will act as such.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: RL Sads

      @eye8urcake

      ❤

      I'm sorry that you're going through that. 😞

      We're still here if you ever need us for anything at all.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Critters!

      @ganymede said in Critters!:

      @silverfox

      This is what all mothers want.

      Everyone wants naptime.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.

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

      Well, that is that, my trusty laptop is officially dead. Thought it was maybe the battery, so I replaced it and tried all the fixes I could find when it wouldn't power on, but no luck. Something vital is most likely fried.

      I am so frustrated but at the same time so resigned to it that I just sat there for like five minutes after closing everything back up.

      Can't afford a new laptop right now, so I just straight up don't have a computer. Thus, can't take the coding courses I was hoping to take, can't study, etc etc etc.

      It's just one more shitty thing this year on a pile of them so I can't even work up the energy to be truly upset about it.

      So. I've been in this situation before. And it really, truly sucks.

      What I can say, though, is that laptops can come extraordinarily cheaply.

      I have this little guy that I take with me to work. It's by no means a powerhouse or anything, but I've never experienced any kind of serious performance issue with it unless I have a billion browser tabs open. I can use it to listen to spotify or something while running Atom, which is a memory beast, and modifying Ares stuff with a MU client in the background.

      And, best of all, since it's through Walmart.com, you can use teh Paypal option and try to qualify for the Pay-In-4, where they split it up over your next 4 paychecks.

      I know that it's not a great option when you're feeling strapped for cash, and it's certainly no gaming notebook or whatever. But just for work and school, I've found that it meets all of my needs and still lets me stream just fine right out of the box.

      Might be worth looking into. Sorry that I can't be of more help than that right now, but I know that the gamers in this community, no matter how much we might be at each others' throats all the time, have each other's backs. Maybe you could set up a GoFundMe or something for donations toward something new? Even if just a temporary fix.

      ETA: It will run Atom and Discord at the same time while doing those other things, which on my HP notebook will absolutely crash it, but it's a dinosaur.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Pandemic Era Issues

      @faraday

      This is why we need to teach peer review way, way before college. All of the Big Leap Forward science stories I remember being taught in school, many of which are complete bullshit anyway, just talk about someone making a discovery like some rogue mad scientist and the world just kind of adjusting to accommodate.

      We need to start teaching it as methodology, not divine inspiration, pretty much as soon as we start teaching it.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Pandemic Era Issues

      @silverfox said in Pandemic Era Issues:

      @derp

      And FUNDING doing the follow-up studies to prove the first one was actually legit, rather than only funding 'novel' research.

      Yes.

      It has to be testable and repeatable.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Pandemic Era Issues

      @testament said in Pandemic Era Issues:

      I'm not even angry about it anymore. I simply don't care. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

      These people wanting to spout "muh freedoms" don't seem to understand how vaccines have always been mandatory in some situations.

      In school or college you had to be up to date on all your vaccines or you couldn't go to school.

      Having be up to date on all your vaccines was a requirement to work in a medical setting or position

      Officers in the military tending their resignation over the vaccine forget that on fucking Day 3 of BMT, you're filed down a line of nurses who jab you about four times in each arm and you didn't question it then

      So fuck them. Every last one of them. They have nobody but themselves to blame for dying on this stupid hill of ignorance.

      Hell of a hill to die on, but at least you're dead.

      Preach.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Pandemic Era Issues

      @faraday

      While it's certainly true that echo chambers exist, at some point you have to draw a line between 'poor mislead soul' and 'willfully obtuse fool'.

      The scam networks can spout whatever they want. We're literally fighting disinformation on this subject at every front. People are surrounded by legitimate, accurate information. It's not like they're not hearing it. At some point, they've simply chosen to ignore the vast amount of legitimate information in favor of the one that supports their biases, which they were going to believe anyway.

      At some point, we have to move away from "you poor thing" into "bless your heart" territory.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff

      @too-old-for-this said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

      @ominous said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

      @too-old-for-this

      alt text

      https://c.tenor.com/-wX505WqymYAAAAM/karen-walker.gif

      karen momma needs her medicine

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Bad TV

      @ominous said in Bad TV:

      @silverfox

      I was tired of zombies in 2010. Can we finally, finally move past zombies?

      Look, you have the Cycle of the Uncanny Valley.

      First, you get zombies.

      Then you get demons/fairies/anthro monsters.

      Then you get clowns.

      Then back to zombies.

      We just got done wtih clowns again. Now you get more zombies.

      This is the way.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Bad TV

      @solstice said in Bad TV:

      (No, I'm not one of those Last of Us 2 detractors (Big Yikes, No Thanks), I just found I preferred the conflict and ambiguity offered by the first game's narrative.)

      See, I like both of them. I loved 2.

      But I'm all about that slow descent into the dark and twisty parts as layer upon layer of horror comes to light as you, the player, just tag along for the ride.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Good TV

      @too-old-for-this said in Good TV:

      Frodo is largely a walking husk throughout the movie

      Merry and Pippin are the true stars of that series.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: RL Anger

      I was gonna put this in peeves, but -- I'm angry. Like, really super angry, the more I think about it.

      My bank kind of fucked me. Most banks, if you have overnight transactions, will process deposits before debits. Because that tends to be the natural thing to do.

      Apparently, not my bank. I scheduled some bills to get paid today. And they did. Four of them. But the bank processed these before they processed my paycheck.

      And now, due to the order in which they processed this shit, I have almost two hundred dollars in overdraft fees. Which the bank refuses to cover, even though they are due in their entirety to the order of processing. That the bank decided on.

      I can normally eat an overdraft fee. It'll hurt. But I usually have some flexibility there.

      But I work for the government in a 'fiscally conservative' red state. Which means that I get paid significantly less than my private-sector counterparts. To the tune of five figures. I can't just absorb $200 in fucking fees like it's nothing, especially after putting stuff off for almost two weeks in an effort to avoid overdraft fees in the first place.

      So now, I get to play the fun adult game of 'do I have enough food to last for two weeks if I skip groceries, and can I absorb yet another overdraft fee for the fucking rent that this bank has eaten into the funds for, and can the brake pads I was planning on changing this week make it another two weeks? Do I ask my friends for help when my life is completely unpredictable and I cannot promise I can repay it on a set schedule? Do I reach out to family and hope against all hope that they don't try the same manipulative psychological bullshit that caused me to shut them out in the first place?'

      I hate this feeling.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: RL Anger

      @ganymede

      It's very much on my agenda, yes. There are some benefits to this particular bank. Namely that they have ATM's like -- everywhere. Everywhere. Which is occasionally useful. The other banks I have as current options require a bit more forethought and planning to avoid other fees.

      But when I talked to the banker lady, she said that I wasn't eligible to have any of the fees covered because I did have to legitimately overdraft at the beginning of the year when I had to move out of my old place in a hurry, which ate all the savings I had and then some, because I didn't feel comfortable in a house with a dude that pulled a gun on me, quelle surprise.

      So she's all 'because we only charged you fifty dollars instead of a hundred and fifty dollars back in April you are not eligible to have us fix our own fuckup until the end of November, sorry'.

      Finding another bank is definitely on the agenda.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: RL Anger

      @reimesu said in RL Anger:

      Pomplamoose

      Look, introducing people to the glory of Pomplamoose is just basic human decency, and don't you let anyone ever tell you otherwise. ❤

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: RL Anger

      Alright. I did the thing.

      After doing the math and figuring out how much this is actually setting me back and how incredibly painful this can be for the next few weeks -- I took the plunge and made a GoFundMe, with a realistic amount based on the new fees and expenses that will come from this one.

      https://gofund.me/d4b1da0f

      Apparently I wrote a novel in the blurb part just -- explaining how this has been a shit year and how much it has sucked trying to get caught up. GFM requires you to click 'Read More' like eight times. So if you want the whole thing all at once, here goes:

      ***=Long and Stuff***

      click to show

      Hi! I'm Daz. Most of the people reading this probably know me a little better as Derp, or Ryker, from various online communities.

      And it's been a rough year.

      Normally I try to avoid asking for help. I'm pretty good at finding clever ways to re-arrange things, make sure that things smooth themselves out over time. But at the beginning of the year, I was face with an unexpected, very necessary long-distance move. It wasn't really optional. It was a matter of personal safety, both physically and psychologically. But it completely wiped out what savings I had managed to build up to that point.

      The next few months were spent managing the realities of trying to build a life in a far more expensive city while living paycheck to paycheck. I managed to stay ahead of most of the expenses, or at least very carefully juggled which ones I could afford to let get behind a bit. The Calculus of Being a Single Human Adult Renter.

      And for the most part, I was starting to get caught back up a bit. I was less than $200 behind, after being almost $1500 in debt after the move. After this check, everything was starting to look up! I even had enough to take the dog to the vet for a sudden eye infection without taking the bank account into the negative! (It might have had less than ten dollars, but still not in the negative!)

      And I deferred payment on a few bills for about a week and a half, just waiting on my next paycheck to hit, because I figured that the $25 or so it would cost me in late fees was a cost that I could safely absorb.

      Imagine my surprise when I wake up to find out that the bank paid all of those bills on the day I got paid -- except that they paid them before they processed my paycheck, and charged an overdraft fee on each and every one of them. Five transactions in all. Five overdraft fees. Almost two hundred dollars in unexpected charges that my bank, being the mega-corporation that they are, refuses to reimburse. Because they know they're basically ubiquitous, so it doesn't matter if they lose one customer. They have millions of others, and tons of small banks are basically owned by them anyway.

      So now I'm back to the part where I have rent coming up, and not enough money to cover it due to these unexpected extra expenses, plus the extra $75 that it's going to tack onto the rent (because it'll be late) and the additional extra overdraft fee that the bank will surely charge for not having enough to cover the expenses.

      And that's before gas, or food, or laundry, or any other adult expenditure.

      I, like many of you, hate asking for help. But the logical part of me knows that, at this point, we're getting into territory where getting caught up is going to take a lot of effort, and a lot of sacrifices, and a lot of tempting fate that could end up making things even worse. Especially as I've largely been tempting fate for the better part of a year to just get caught up to where I am.

      So. I'm asking for help. Because I've been doing this awhile now, and I've made sacrifices, and honestly -- I'm tired. And feeling a little defeated, at this point. Unexpected things are going to keep happening, and there's no way to tell ahead of time if they're going to be the kind of things that I can bounce back from easily, or if they're going to knock me further down the slope I just climbed, ever so slowly.

      I don't expect anyone to contribute anything they don't have, or don't feel comfortable sacrificing. PLEASE take care of your own needs first, and only contribute if you really, truly are in a place that you can do so. But if you have anything that you could spare, the fundraiser amount puts me exactly even after rent is paid, groceries are purchased (budgeted for about $50), I get enough gas in the truck to get to work for the next two weeks, and the last few of the remaining bills are caught up, which puts me in a position to actually be able to start saving money again. And that would be a huge stress burden off of me.

      Thank you in advance for any assistance you can provide. I really believe that we choose our own families, and the people reading this are almost assuredly part of the family I've chosen for myself. One of these days, I'll be in a position to help one of you, too. And you bet that I'll have your back when you need it, like you always have mine, no matter how rough life gets.

      For those skipping that part -- the TL;DR is that not only do I have to account for the 200, I have to account for the 75 that will get added onto the rent for it, as well as all the other basic adulting charges, and realistically -- I could use some help. 😞 Even if I hate that I need help, and hate asking for it more. There's just too much that can go wrong to keep gambling on me being able to catch up before the next majorly expensive thing.

      Any help you can offer is appreciated.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Good TV

      @aria

      Oh god, now i'm remembering it and tearing up too. It's a good day to cry, sure, why not.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: RL Anger

      @tinuviel said in RL Anger:

      THERE. I PAID YOU MONEY. NOW YOU MUST BE NICE TO ME.

      I DO?

      ...can I return it? 😕

      (Kidding. <3. Thank you!)

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: RL Anger

      @reimesu said in RL Anger:

      @derp

      Thank you for letting us do this. And thank you again for the Pomplamoose. You're almost there!

      You guys are just the best! ❤ I'm getting all choked up!

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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