Posts made by Derp

@Cobaltasaurus said in Self Promotion: Cobalt Does Horror:

But there is very unlikely to be any smut in these stories.

You should totally make this a milestone goal.

$20, I'll throw in a nipple. At $40...

So I picked up a couple of things at Gencon that have turned out to be super interesting so far. The first on the list, and by far the one I've had the most fun with, is called Three Things:

https://www.gumnut.io/collections/party-games/products/3-things-what-will-it-take-to-survive

This version looks fairly expensive, since I picked it up for $20, but it's made by Shenanigames, and I can't find a better website.

The basic premise of the game is that you and several other players are given a scenario ("Trapped in a mall full of zombies..." "In the ring with a heavyweight boxer..." "Separated from your spaceship..."), and there are a bunch of little cardboard tiles in the bag that indicate different items (Lipstick, underpants, pie, a chainsaw, a fire extinguisher, a flip-flop, etc.). You have to come up with a story about how you used these three things to overcome the situation you found yourself in.

One player acts as the judge. That player determines how many of the items you found a plausible or creative use for, and awards you a ration for each of the items you used well (in their opinion). So you get a little thing with a 1 to 3 on it. Whoever has the most rations at the end of play wins.

You can come up with some crazy things. It's great fun.

Next up is Uno Flip. https://www.amazon.com/Mattel-Games-GDR44-Flip-Card/dp/B07JKB2H59 Which is very much like the Uno that you know and love, but each card has a "Dark Side", revealed through the Flip card (where you flip the deck and everyone flips their hand to the other side), which are much more punishing. Draw 5, Draw until you get a specific Color, Skip Everyone, etc. So much fun.

A last one here is "Sing For Your Supper", which is great fun and completely humiliating if you can't sing. The basic premise is that you're trying to create a whole 'meal', and in order to do so you have to sing a part of a song. But since lyrics are expensive and copyright is an issue, the card you're given contains a clue as to the genre and the decade, and you have to decipher what the song should be and sing that part of the verse.

Example:

"Someone has a firearm."

-or-

Country 2010's:

Infant you are a melody, you induce me to open the windows and drive, on a country road, running stop signs, in the center of the road, each small hamlet with you, in my brand new pickup with a high center, it would be beautiful if you were inside it.

Other players have cards they can play to screw you over though, so don't expect it to be easy!

http://incarnategames.com/supper.html

@surreality said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

IV drip that ran from my upper arm to just beside my heart in the hospital (I forget the name of the thing

PICC line. David always has them. It's creepy as hell but I'm basically used to the idea now.

Upside: Now you can get picc lines because you've been through so much worse!

Downside: That was worse.

Upside: It doesn't get much worse!

Downside: Now you have no more personal body horror goals to aspire to.

Downside: You have no teeth now.

Upside: You can make horrific jewelry and scare people!

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

I love my job, but it doesn't pay nearly enough, so now I'm stressed out about scraping a budget to live on for the next two weeks.

Same. Love mine, even if it pays half the median salary for this profession.

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

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

@JinShei I want to upvote this a thousand times.

Also, if you are going to steal your entire essay, don't write it on my specialist topic and misuse some of my favourite sources! 77% stolen, with a thesaurus used for the other words, changing the meaning of the sentence! ARGH!

Now I want to know more. What was the topic? Give an example sentence!

I read the title of this in my inner spanish accent. Damn you all.

@Ghost said in RL Anger:

...when the person in front of you in line at the coffee house orders 9 different drinks during morning rush.

That person is almost assuredly an intern or a secretary.

@Ganymede

Is troo.

@Ganymede

Can confirm. Need all those things.

Also can confirm lawbot is not staff. Which is probably lucky for you all, or the streets would run red(der).

Preaaaach.

@Auspice

I use it at work. All the time. For everything.

Attorney's call me "where did you put the thing?"

"Have you looked in the notebook?"

"Do you use that a lot?"

"I use it for everything. Literally everything I work on is in there. You can find it at any time."

...oh.

Gencon! Woo!

@surreality

cringe

@Aria said in How to use Potato MU Client:

I managed to fix it. For reference for anyone setting this up in the future, all I did was remove the $ at the end of the line, which seems to have been the issue.

Yeah, Potato pretty much gets that anything you put in that box is going to be a regex, so signifying that it's the beginning and end of a regex isn't entirely necessary and could break stuff, IIRC.

I really want to play Hellblade.

But no stores around here have physical copies.

And I only have my phone as an ISP and it is not suitable to huge downloads (as I found out from the MANY MANY DAYS of Days Gone updates).

I'm clearly gonna have to order this bitch from Amazon or something.

@surreality said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

Dental hell surgery starts in a few hours. 8:10AM. (The ten minute specificity freaks me out more for some reason.)

Naturally, I can't sleep. Of course. <headdesk>

That's what the nini gas is for.

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

Right-wing-ish government setting the book requirements.

Just do a couple of powerpoint presentations:

The Joys of Anal
Same-Sex Shenanigans
What Babies Look Like Coming Out

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

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

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

I am not qualified to teach this subject. Stop putting me in as a stop-gap when I have a free period. I am not qualified.

Just do what the book say, yo!

Teaching sex ed to a bunch of fifteen-year-olds, when the book says I can't specifically mention "alternative lifestyles" because reasons? Fuck that noise.

Oh, yeah. I retract my previous statement then. Fuck that noise.

Also, why the hell not?

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

I am not qualified to teach this subject. Stop putting me in as a stop-gap when I have a free period. I am not qualified.

Just do what the book say, yo!

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

Baking recipes that assume you have a standing mixer but don't MENTION it in the actual tools.

There are many places where a hand mixer does not cut it.

Excuse me as I go back to scraping bits of dough off of every part of me... and changing clothes. An apron was not sufficient for this!

Most dough recipes don't really require a mixer though. It doesn't tend to make it easier without a dough hook. Just work it by hand.