Best posts made by eye8urcake

I'm with the 'no PB' Luddites.

I used to find one that matched after making/describing my PCs but I always kind of resented having to. Right now I'm on a roster PC so I had no part in making the wiki/selecting the photos even though I apparently can change them if I'd like, but I'd prefer to be stuck in the Stone Ages of getting all my information from the finger command.

I don't even like that there are wikis, although I understand that they create depth and visual stimulation/inspiration/motivation/whateveration for the game to try to attract new blood with and thus understand that they're probably here to stay, but meh. I'd rather just use my imagination.

All these Pixar movies I've never seen before are killing me. I feel like the soft skin over my eyeballs and eyesockets is permanently sunburned from the crying and the rubbing.

I love the fact that after some relatively crushing RP for my PC of late, she has friends that don't just help her smooth her ruffled feathers but who look for ways to draw said PC into ruffling other feathers as proactive therapy.

You read this, and you know who you are, and while I won't out you, much luff.

@Arkandel said in RL things I love:

Up's first five minutes are er, up there with any romantic movie ever made. Change my mind.

I can't. I am in utter and complete agreement. You basically go through the whole romantic movie of the entirety of their lives together, that quick, that clean, and with it making as much, if not more, impact than any/most other romantically inclined movies I've ever seen. That just set me up like slightly soggy house of cards for like... the entire rest of the movie.

Lockdown keeping you from bathing in SJW blood, @Arkandel? Losing your youth? You need to chum the water this blatantly? Good luck with that. Oh, my kingdom for a way to block you.

Nice to see the others actually caring about the comfort of their compatriots and colleagues, though, and sharing good advice and examples in response. I hope it continues in that vein.

I don't have much to offer, I guess, outside of encouraging anybody and everybody, regardless of pre-determined permissions and whatnot to check in with your gaming partners and participants often if you're veering into anything that could cause stress beyond the norm. I'm another one firmly in the corner of constant affirmative two-way communication, although I'm skeptical of the ability of some of the people in these hobbies to even be able to reasonably judge their own content as triggering or offending their players.

Much easier in a TT situation where you can likely /see/ someone's distress if it comes up than in online text games where this is absent.

@RightMeow said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@eye8urcake

If she is born before 12:01 on the 1st, it counts towards 2019 even if it is 11:59pm.

I hope that everything is going well with her and that all things go good. I will keep them in my thoughts.

@RightMeow Thank you, I was hoping. It's the difference between $5k and $15k for them at this point. Thank you for best wishes, too.

We're working on getting everybody setup down the hill so they can be closer to the hospital and avoid being snowed in up here and so hubs and I can get back to our place. Our son's going to check on things but I still worry.

Thank you for best wishes. They're very appreciated rn. Or any now, really, but rn especially.

@Sunny said in What do you eat?:

@Kestrel

As politely as possible, it is not a misconception that it is privileged. That video in no way changes the reality of inner city living, or even, say, the assumption that people can stream YouTube videos. It requires special attention to diet that requires an education about nutrients that the body needs to avoid getting sick from malnutrition and all.of that shit. There is way way way way way way way more to it than 'you can buy enough not meat to eat for a week for cheap SOMEWHERE'. Irresponsible.

Or RURAL living, weirdly enough. You can't even special order a lot of the things you need to have an animal-free diet where I live. Buying by Internet is not something my budget can sustain, so yeah, have to second @Sunny here in that it really does matter where you are and how much you can spend, because good fucking luck getting the more specialized stuff when your stores don't even manage to keep BROCCOLI on the shelves with any consistency.

@Wretched I call this 'sharking' the kitchen. I don't generally lower those snackspectations 'til the third or fourth pass and when I do, it's with a sigh.

@Groth said in Depression Meals:

My strategy is to try to pre-cook a large amount of meals once a week so that whenever I feel like I absolutely can't cook anything, I just have to throw something into the microwave. Things like Lasagna, Chili Con Carne and Chorizo in tomato sauce all work really well.

I TELL myself this before every shopping trip (the pre-cooking thing) but I never, ever, ever follow through. Respect.

I've been watching 'The Man in the High Castle' based on the recommendation of a friend. I expected to not like it particularly much despite my liking for the source novel. I'm not really sure why, I guess I just didn't expect it to lend itself well to some television interpretation, but I'm blown away at how much I'm enjoying this series.

It's totally the characters. I've really been drawn in by how well-written and ably-portrayed they are.

I hope his kids aren't dead, and I'm not glad he's dead but the wave of 'OMG LIFE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME' shit I'm seeing from people I know are rabid about not letting people buy their way out of criminal cases, specifically sex crimes, is nausea-inducing to me.

@silverfox said in Dead Celebrities 2021 Edition:

@lifebird
This one got me this morning. My dad loved Jazz and he had a CD with 4 songs. I would play that thing over and over.

The first (and only) flute solo in my high school's jazz band was me picking it up for his song 'Spain' bc none of our sax players could double and introduced me to a new genre to love. He will be missed.

@misadventure said in RL things I love:

@eye8urcake 300!!!?

Yeah, and that's honestly a generous accounting. It's a mining town, so a hefty chunk of them are actually part-timers who stay for their two-week shifts then split for their four days off then come back. The town itself is one mile square, and for a few miles out either way there are quite a few hardscrabblers who live off-grid entirely.

The entire county is only 1200 people over 4100 square miles, though most of them live in the county seat which is 96 miles away (one way) in summer, and 139 miles away any time dirt roads are a bad idea. We have I think seven total deputies in the whole county, two in this town and if it's after like six p.m. you have to drive over to the trailers they reside in when they're assigned here (I think they rotate) for non-emergencies.

We have an all volunteer fire department but we lost our volunteer EMS/ambulance service a few years back to a really grisly suicide that just wrecked them all, and now rely on helicopter lifts for medical emergencies.

Also, our last elected sheriff was in an armed standoff against B.L.M. on the side of a native rancher family, with the standoff ending when one of the brothers self-immolated (he lived, somehow). I think we're the only registered Democrats in the county but because I've done pro bono advocacy for a lot of people in town, they don't ride us out on a rail tarred and feathered.

It's kind of a trippy place, especially for someone who grew up in the OC most of her life and I've even had a friend request I make the town into a MUD setting.

TL;DR - I babble too much when I'm content and have the itis.

@mietze said in Sexuality: IC and OOC:

Usually when I have heard pansexual being used by people actually think of themselves as that, it means that they are open attracted to all forms of gender identity (not just male/female) and genitalia.

I think a significant number of people who prefer the term bi for themselves would fall into that category, but not all. (Not everyone is attracted to nonbinary or trans people, who is attracted to cis men and women).

This is absolutely fair. I haven't had any kind of panic button engage when I've met and been attracted to trans people or people who might present one way one day or another another. My daughter said this is what gender fluidity is, I think, when I hit her up after Reno Pride last year.

That said, I apparently got super stupid hammered when three of my four were in high school and when I got to the 'I love you, man' phase of said drunken evening, had a heart-to-heart talk with the kids wherein I told them I didn't care if it was a rock they fell in love with, as long as they loved and were loved their families would be part of our overall larger family.

It seems like people sussing out a more liberal take in a PC's sexuality (bisexual, pansexual, anything other than ramrod straight or asexual, I suppose) assume that correlates with a more promiscuous take on relationships. This is absolutely not always the case, and I'm kind of mystified by that assumption, which I've seen enough (not always aimed my way, mind you) in games (and out, to be honest) to know it really is a 'thing'.

Wow, @Griatch I'm really really liking this.

Great work, this is really thinking outside the box with the game engine. You totally get my vote.

@Tyche He looks like he's shitting that homework right back out.

"Here, take them this. It counts as 'evidence'."

I never thought I'd be in one of these threads saying this, but here I am.

I'd totally be down with this.

@Griatch You've got a great mind for puzzles. That's the longest I've been able to focus in what feels like forever and I really felt like I'd accomplished something in solving this even though I had to eat through some of the pie for it to catch up to where I was stuck.

I am just super impressed and your locked room made my night. Three whole hours of it.

THANK YOU! And goodnight!

@saosmash said in Depression Meals:

Noodles and cottage cheese. As I eat this for lunch I think it is probably depression food.

This should close the thread, really.

@Sunny said in Personal Agency for Personal Boundaries:

@surreality said in Personal Agency for Personal Boundaries:

The form of abuse you are most concerned about is not the same as the kind of abuse people in this thread are most concerned about.

There is no happening on a game that is worth traumatizing a real human being, full stop.

So @surreality had a lot to say here, but I really want to call this out. THIS IS THE POINT.

Yes, there are people that absolutely can abuse this sort of system, but what are they going to accomplish with that abuse?

Being irritating.

This sort of system is not being discussed to address irritation, it is being discussed to address harm.

ETA: The reason I have not addressed the topic of being concerned that the hobby is going in this way is that I have no way to express my objections to 'we care about harm to human beings now' being a problem in a fashion that is appropriate outside of the hog pit.

ETA2: Who seriously cares if someone uses +nothanks to get out of a rape scene if they aren't actually traumatized? WHY IS THIS A PROBLEM?

BC players are promised opportunities to RP rape on the fucking tin, yo.

ETA: This is sarcasm, just in case that's not clear.