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@surreality said in Good TV:

...am I the only one watching Emergence? It is non-awful thus far. A bit fluff, but it's damned good to see a heroine who is not a cover model and not skinny and is competent as hell, and there's a lot more positives in that vein where that comes from. For that alone I'd give it all the thumbs up, but it's pretty neat. Not over the top sci-fi. Worth a binge if it ever turns up somewhere for such purposes; I was quite pleasantly surprised.

I've enjoyed it for the casting. I really love Jo, for your reasons and more and I've always been a Clancy Brown fan, even when he's not the main event. The story is definitely interesting in an 'entertainment junkfood' sort of way. Curious to see if they can keep the story interesting.

@RavenGirl said in PB 'realism':

@mietze said in PB 'realism':

I prefer drawn art PBs rather than photographic/live ones, but I feel even worse about using someone's art without permission in a way that I strangely do not feel when using movie stills or photo editorial shots.

As an artist myself, I can say that I (and most of my artist friends) don’t mind this at all. Under one condition. Do not crop out our watermarks / web addresss / signatures. If you absolutely have to crop then put the artists name in a caption under it. You get extra bonus points if you leave a little active link to our websites too.

Also, if you can patron artists they can usually really use it.

Especially the ones who are softy suckers and draw for their friends for free. Or help encourage people's kids to keep practicing their art. Or act as the sounding board for tentative would-be artists to bounce ideas, stories, sketches off of.

Rare birds, those.

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

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

I don't understand when I played on an AresMUSH it prompted me if I wanted to connect a character to an AresCentral handle. If you don't do that than isn't there no privacy concern? Isn't the point of the AresCentral feature to share characters across games and allow msging and stuff?

Right, handles are completely optional. You can even have more than one if privacy is your concern. There are technical and usability reasons why handles are public, which I alluded to in the conversation I shared. Maybe I'll elaborate on that at some point for those who actually care, but right now I'm kinda exhausted.

If he can't be bothered to figure that out before turning into this, then perhaps he shouldn't be a MU* admin.

@greenflashlight said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

Matt Gaetz is a professional Jimmy Neutron cosplayer who wandered into Congress one day and through a series of comically implausible misunderstandings was declared a legislator in the federal government despite his obvious incompetence and moral turpitude.

I've always said the guy looks like the reporter's kid from Family Guy.

I mean, it's too bad for his family and friends and whatnot that he's dead (and my daughter is saying his 13 yo daughter, with him?) but his 'heroic' stature is more than tarnished to me by his 'but she wanted to fuck me' defense in the rape trial he bought his way out of.

@Arkandel So you can ooze your admiration for the guy all over the place unrebuffed in the thread, but I can't chafe at that and rebut? Got it.

Exploding goblins as a halfling wizard with 'Psychoholic Slag' blasting through my house.

I'm super annoyed that my SO, whom I spend pretty much 24/7/365 with, seems pathologically inclined to mostly ignore me when I'm bored and doing nothing but to zero in and NEED ATTENTION BADLY whenever I try to focus on something in any meaningful or productive way... like the Python class I'm taking right now with a few friends who also want to learn it.

Every fucking time I manage to hone my focus in on it, he rocks up and MUST TALK ABOUT SHIT NOW. I don't even get it, and i don't know how to bring it up without being snotty about it so I just let it break my focus and then get fucking annoyed and kind of more down on myself than usual when I can't get it back when he's done (usually in a laughably short time, honestly).

Needless to say, my progress is slower than I like but thank goodness I have friends doing it with me because that is making it far easier to re-anchor into the material instead of just giving up.

I've had kind of a shitty morning so I downloaded a new (to me, old to the world at large) f2p mmo through Steam and connected to play a bit. When I went to logout, it turned out the game has one of those 'sit there for 20 seconds to logout' mechanics so okay, whatever, the game didn't suck and I glanced at the chat window for the first time and had to laugh.

Instead of the usual toxic fuckery, or characters my PC can't decipher, it was literally four or five parents arguing over who had the best gamer kids. Not in a shitty mean way, but a lulzy cute way, with someone even being all, 'HA! My daughter would CREAM your son!' I don't know why I found it so fucking cute but I really, really did. It was like kindergarteners telling each other, 'My dad can kick your dad's butt!'

I think I'm going to chuckle about this every time it pops into my head forever and a day.

@greenflashlight Both and it's such a good video.

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

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

Do they not know how hard it is for a woman to get taken seriously by a doctor?

I wonder if that's why I don't bother going to the doctor.

@Wretched I need this RIGHT NOW.

@Jaded

@Jaded said in Good TV:

Does anyone have any thoughts on Jessica Jones S3? I'm debating if it is worth my time watching it or not.

I really, really enjoyed it and was far more satisfied with the ending than I expected them to be able to pull off. FWIW, I loved S1 and was lukewarm enough on S2 that I just barely watched S3 two or three days ago.

Tiny bit OT but I followed that up with Daredevil S3 and loved it, too, after snoozing my way through S2. Definitely far better storylines and writing IMO.

@Roz

@Roz said in Good TV:

I'm pretty sure I watched Dark Crystal when I was little, but I can't really remember it; it wasn't a staple of my childhood. Would I still enjoy it without the childhood love?

I rewatched the original (It's streaming, too), fully expecting age and technology to have ruined it for me but I still loved it. YMMV.

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

The realization that no matter what comes out of their mouth, some people are gonna lie over and over and over again and let you down.

Bleargh.

My annoyance here is with myself in the end, that there are some people I can't stop giving a damn about despite the reality that they did this shit, are doing this shit, and no matter how many times they say it's going to be different, they're going to continue to do this shit, and I am all too aware of this.

This. This. This a million times. This a billion times.

Even when I finally do manage to exit, stage left (this has happened to me far more than once, unfortunately, and is a huge part of why I'm fairly solitary, even on the Internet) righteously angry and indignant and full of enough disgust to finally close the door? Time passes and my resolve weakens because I start forgetting how much being lied to constantly sucks, and how hurtful being gaslit over it is, and instead start missing the good times and traits that drew me into the friendship in the first place.

I'm not glad it's happening to someone else, but it's given me a second of relief to 'hear' someone else raging against this particular machine.

Thank you for sharing this peeve.

@Ghost said in Dead Celebrities 2019:

Kim Shattuck from the Muffs.

Some of you may also know her as the female vocalist on "Lori Myers" from NOFX's "Punk in Drublic" album or some work she did with the Pixies.

NOFX "Lori Myers"

This is gutting. One of my few idols.
:(:(

@Auspice said in I need brain candy reality TV shows:

@eye8urcake said in I need brain candy reality TV shows:

It also inspired me in a binge re-watching of The Mighty Boosh

god I still quote bits of this show to myself all the goddamn time.

'do you think the black bits in bananas are spider eggs?'

NO ONE AROUND ME IRL WOULD EVER GET THESE THINGS SO I JUST HAVE TO WHISPER THEM TO MYSELF.

Goth Juice is the most powerful hairspray known to man, made from the tears of Robert Smith.

@Sunny Right now, no advice short of 'neck yourself and save the trouble' is going to be unhelpful. I'm skimpy on details, location, etc.

We don't. We're so disgustingly rural that the interstate is a twenty mile drive, the nearest town (with like, gas stations and post offices and stores) is another forty, and the nearest 'city' (which includes hospitals, WalMart, fast food) is twenty-four miles past that. There is one hospital within 150 miles, that's actually pretty amazing (husband broke his ribs during one of our vintage mx races, laid around for three days to develop a blood clot and PE before we even realized he had issues and he didn't die, is my frame of reference) that I owe 12k to right now for a 90 minute ER visit from a year ago. The hospital is (surprisingly, if you ask me) unaffiliated with any of the major corporate entities, and while I tried to work with their financial aid department, I am simply unable to provide them with the documentation they require to slot me into any of their programs.

Medicaid would normally be an option but I'm in the red part of Nevada, and one of the bones thrown to these voters is a relatively restrictive process for this that I also lack the documents to even attempt to participate in, not because they don't exist but because I can't afford them and some of them have been lost and needed replacement for so long, the Patriot Act is actually fucking me here and I don't have the money to jump through the hoops.

I know what I need and how to get it, it's just a matter of scraping the money together and I've got to admit that I know that when this passes I'll shuffle doing so right back down to the bottom of the pile because there's just so much stuff for me to field right now.

At any rate, I'm starting to yammer again so let me wrap up by saying I'm going to look into Providence Health - they might have something I just don't know how to connect with, or looking into them might reveal something else that might be an option, so thank you for the suggestion. I do have serious issues being talked to about God, but being sick and in pain tends to blunt my sharp edges about things in general, and I'm not enough of an asshole as to be ungrateful enough to spit at people who are helping me though I thank you for the heads up.

I managed to sleep last night, then got up and made sure to eat something and drink a huge glass of water before even thinking about coffee and so far I'm actually feeling 100%. I'm starting to wonder if it's just something so fucking ridiculous as merely forgetting to eat and drink on top of not sleeping very well because I just don't as a rule. I kind of hope so.

Anyway, thanks a lot, looking into that.

ETA: Sorry, I didn't even realize there was a 'Health and Shit' topic and found it last night, after posting here. Thanks for being cool about it.

@Auspice said in Why We Don't Make New Friends Anymore (Or Creepers Do Creepy Things):

@mietze said in Why We Don't Make New Friends Anymore (Or Creepers Do Creepy Things):

Yeah, sorry for spelling error. I do really love feeding people, but not usually that way.

We know what that copy of To Serve Man really is.

@Kestrel said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

Note to self: Never trust sweet old ladies.

They're all Gingerbread Witches.