Posts made by Derp

@surreality said in World of Darkness -- Alternative Settings:

@derp That honestly sounds like highly quirky fun.

I still harbor a secret desire to make an intentional parody-ish/campy bad TV version of reality game with modded WoD/CoD rules hybrized with stuff from It Came From the Late, Late, Late Show and insane-as-hell custom powers like 'call a stunt double' to take a hit, or 'call my agent' to request a reroll/etc. I don't think that's what @Ganymede had in mind when creating this thread at all -- pretty sure she meant serious ideas only -- but I still think that would have been highly entertaining.

So a less dirty Dudes of Legend? I'm in.

Ooooh. Hollywood by Night.

@thenomain said in World of Darkness -- Alternative Settings:

My core problem with WoD is the players play the monsters, but rarely monstrously. What in Mars is a threat to Werewolves, Vampires and Mages?

Astral Realms has a whole Mars section. Read that. It is very cool.

@surreality said in World of Darkness -- Alternative Settings:

@thenomain said in World of Darkness -- Alternative Settings:

I will some day make my Changeling game where all the characters work at some kind of Mall Of America, and many of them live there overnight.

Dibs on 'The Katanas and Trenchcoats Store'. That franchise is huge in WoD.

I got dibs on the Stripper Supply and Army Surplus.

@cupcake said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

Why is it so hard to process having a bunch of people telling me I look beautiful/pretty? Like, near panic attack level feelings. It's a compliment. I should enjoy compliments, right?

In my experience, the moment someone drops a compliment, I know the pressure is on. Act properly, maintain standard, etc. It's welcome, usually, but also exhausting.

@insomnia said in Random links:

Don't tell @ShelBeast butt suddenly I'm not as big a fan of chocolate for some reason.

ICWYDT

One of these days, I will learn the rules and terminology of this sportsball.

When on campus, I admit to having an addiction to places that will deliver to whatever room I am in. Which is pretty much all of them.

The market is definitely there.

So, I got a B in Criminal Law.

Normally, I.would accept this, because you know, it's law, and it's hard.

I am less accepting of this, however, because most of the points I was docked came from briefs, and doing them in a way the professor didn't like.

Which I could have corrected had she not waited until after fucking midterms to grade them.

Also: Don't make 20 out of 75 points on a quiz, "Make a list of what sorts of things you need to know when someone comes to you saying a crime has been committed" and give no direction whatsoever on the rubric you're using to grade this question.

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

And now they're gone and on the road and I can bitch and stress and go through a week of having all the shit from the past be dredged up to swill around my mind before I drink it back into oblivion again.
(I really need to find a therapist that takes my insurance so I can process the abuse in a healthy way probably.)

Or. OR, and hear me out here:

You could wrap the bodies in digital camo Duck Tape, ensuring they will never be found.

Options.

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

"We're running late."
"Well, that's fine, so long as you can still give me a ride to work."
"We can't, we have to meet people in Plano."

OH I DON'T KNOW MAYBE TELL THEM YOU'LL BE LATE TO SEE THEM BECAUSE YOU'RE SEEING YOUR DAUGHTER FOR THE LAST TIME FOR FUCK KNOWS HOW LONG? Yeah. This cements it. I'm only allowing this because I want the last of their shit out of my apartment, but I am fucking done. They're prioritizing my father's fucking coworkers over me.

(And same as last week, waited until the last minute to tell me so I couldn't find a better workaround.)

Just make sure you get their signature on the wills that leave everything to you before you cut the brake lines. Be practical.

Speaking of movies and health stuff:

David is coughing so much that we may need to do another hospital stay. Which means Star Wars will be delayed until after Christmas, since he has mandatory two week minimum stays.

Goddamit. Fuck C.F.

@Ganymede

Have I mentioned that both our Legislature and Supreme Court are insane? Because they are.

They are also frequently at loggerheads. (Example: We were 50 out of 50 in implementing IOLTA because the SC thought it went against the takings clause. Legislature finally passed it. SC got all up in arms because the Constitution gives exclusive control over the practice of law to the SC, so the SC invalidates the law, and then trumpets that they have made a rule implementing IOLTA with the exact. Same. Provisions.)

So weird shit goes down here.

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

@derp Isn't that the felony murder rule that we learned about 1L year?

Yeah, but in Indiana it can qualify you for sudden heat, so voluntary manslaughter is possible.

Still not self-defense, even given the unbelievably broad scope we gave to self defense doctrine.

Other law-related peeves, just to get them off my chest before we return you to your regularly scheduled kvetching:

@ Local Prosecutor: When someone kills someone else as part of the commission of a crime, it is absolutely not self defense, pretty much ever. The statutes say so. The courts have said so. What are you, new here?

@ Indiana Supreme Court : We know you get all defensive about your dominion over the practice of law (see: IOLTA fucking debacle), but can you asshats please stop messing with things you aren't really authorized to mess with? Like, the Indiana Constitution, maybe? We put those words in it for a reason. You don't get to craft an opinion that serves as a repeal. Kthxbai.

@arkandel said in [Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.]

This thread is going horribly wrong[...]

@auspice said in [Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.]

...[b]ecause it's gone into lawbot speak[.]

And we're back. Magic.

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

@derp It's a little hazier when we're in dependency law. It's a civil case that they are appointed counsel to protect their constitutional rights to parent. I think TECHNICALLY I can override him re telephonic testimony but it's a little hard to manage a case for a client who won't stop screaming about his confrontation rights and how everything is illegal and unjustified literally every time you call him.

"I think this is the best choice. If you disagree so fundamentally with this decision, you can always request that I withdraw as counsel and pursue the steps to secure new representation, or represent yourself."

That usually gets them to shut up. If not, it might get you off the hook.

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

In my opinion (after sitting on an ethics committee in my jurisdiction for 5 years), an attorney may generally make choices regarding how to practice or execute a task without getting consent, so long as that choice is competent.

Here, clients have choices in only a select handful of things.

• Jury or bench trial?
• You testifying?
• You taking a plea or accepting a settlement?

Past that, every issue of trial strategy is up to the attorney, and the client can stuff it.

@insomnia said in Happy Holidays:

Last years bots tried to copyright claim my singing voice as "Korean Children's songs."

Quoting this one for pure wow factor!

@auspice said in Random links:

https://imgur.com/gallery/2O1Ov

SHE TOLD ME THOSE PHOTOS WERE FOR HER OWN PERSONAL USE! DAMMIT!