@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.
Watching POS games full of POS players melt the fuck down when all the main POSes split up and start POSing at each other.
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.
Chance meetings that have my PC and another PC bashing into each other over, for example, my constant inability to master mechanics in the games I play, that then turn into OMGYES level RP tangents.
Also, the fact that the latest one of these I've been fortunate enough to get to dig my teeth into has set long-standing biases I have about certain 'types' of PC on their ears. I've always hated the way most timeswept are played, along with most kidchars and this scene absolutely ended up making me step back from those opinions to give them another look.
All you people out there who put crazy time and effort into these intricate, layered backgrounds and making sure they gel with the theme and setting of the game you're on, and are patient with people like me who take hours of RP to suss them all out?
Stay fucking gold, Ponyboy. You are loved.
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.
Story/event runners who not only welcome the input that they're hitting a hard boundary for you that the info that brought you to join the event didn't even hint at or warn of and who then changes their path rather than just send you home, so you get to see it through.
That was a first, and definitely a welcome one, for me.
@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.
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.
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.
@Derp said in Depression Meals:
@SG said in Depression Meals:
I've been getting into Instant Pot stir fries. It's a gross looking mess when it comes out, but holy shit is it tasty as fuck. And it takes about 5 minutes of work.
oooh. Link?
Second this link request.
@Derp said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
@eye8urcake said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
The baby (Isla) has 2 bad genes, so cystic fibrosis. They told my daughter and her husband, at their very first newborn 'well-baby' appointment that their child wouldn't live past 40 so that was fun.
It seems incredibly weird that they would say this. As someone who has been in a long-term relationship with a CFer that still has basically full lung function and almost no organ issues, along with his various family members that have it, and the people in the CF wing that have it in the rare event he gets a sniffle and they want to pump him full of kidney-killing drugs for two weeks -- this seems inaccurate. Especially if it's Delta F508, which it's statistically likely to be, since they have some kickass new drugs for that.
That seems like a doom and gloom prognostication since I know plenty of CFers over 40 and doing decent.
Right? Also, it wasn't until today, four days later, when they went in to do the sweat test that they even explained to them that the main aggravating factor for inducing the damage is getting sick, and gave them all this information, literature, people to call, etc. to help lay the groundwork for her not getting sick, for her eating right before her pancreas has problems, and other things.
I'm going to blame it on that first appointment being the old doctor, and this appointment being in the CF center of the hospital with the people who, like... actually know their shit. I just got off the phone with her and they sound SO MUCH LESS DOOMED, it's unreal.
It also helps that my daughter, who has a condition called D-MER, has really been struggling with breastfeeding and has felt really attacked by the old doctor and nurses regarding her issues with it, but today's appointment had Isla at proper weight maintenance with eating 2.5 times as much as they expected. They really gave her a pat on the back for the effort, and now the baby's on enzymes and vitamins that are supposed to help with that even more.
As with everything, some good, some bad but I'm going to go ahead and share your post with her so she can see what you've said about how life might be for her. Thank you, @Derp.
I have this little cat named Pazuzu. She's black, roughly oval balloon-shaped, with short, stubby little legs and tail and long black fur. She's always been kind of a weird cat, and this summer she went off her food for a couple of days and got all spiney and sucked up until I manhandled her and forced her to eat/take fluids.
Ever since then she's made a nest on the top of the couch back cushion I sit at the most and she always rolls over to stick her legs out so she pushes her feet (gently and without claws) against my back, not quite sponging but still kneading, kind of right between my shoulder blades.
I'm so grateful for these 'cat massages', it's unreal.
So, today it was confirmed. The baby (Isla) has 2 bad genes, so cystic fibrosis. They told my daughter and her husband, at their very first newborn 'well-baby' appointment that their child wouldn't live past 40 so that was fun.
The flip side is their hospital is part of the Children's Miracle Network and has an actual CF center as part of it, and she's already got three pediatricians, a dietician, a pulmonologist, a respiratory therapist and a social worker so at least everything will be being done the best it can be done for her from the beginning.
Still. Fuck.
@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.
I've been watching Pandemic with the same horrified fascination that is proverbially associated with "trainwrecks".
(JFC,pleasevaccinateyourkids. 0_o)
Me, too!
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.
@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.
@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
5'3".
I climb onto counters.My 6'3" ex-husband would fuss over how dangerous it was until I'd remind him that he'd always complain about people asking him to get things / flat out refuse.
... I really just need to invest in a step stool.
This is me, unless it's something not too heavy I can nudge to the front edge of a shelf or whatever with - IDK, tongs, a wooden spoon, whatever is long that's handy. If something's on the top shelf, I forget it even exists, period. Meanwhile, my six and a half foot tall husband just snrks at me.
I think, right now, I just love the fact that MU* exists so I can pretend to be a beautiful badass swordmaiden out of Heavy Metal instead of raging (impotently) against the dying of the light in my life right now.
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.
