@Thenomain said in Tales of Cobalt-Colored Woe:
To those who have helped, you have my undying gratitude. I've been thinking of what I could do for those insanely amazing people who have donated $100 (and higher, holy shit!), but short of baking cookies or code services, I can't think of anything.
I intend to donate again once I get my next paycheck in 6 days. And if I had my tax refund in, yeah, I'd do what I can too.
Because I need code help. 
@Admiral said in Need a Job/Place to Live?:
The only downside is that they still haven't gotten rid of all the lawyers.
So, now you know why I'm not going.
But, it's a serious question, and it has little to do with the city itself. Why would anyone want to move down there? It's a legitimate question.
My feeling is that many of us on this board are settled where we are in terms of friends and family, if not for employment. It is a difficult sell to move to a new place.
@Admiral said in RL Anger:
I get so many 'almost sneezes' a day now and its like sex without orgasms.
Dude, sex without orgasms is great. You know what sex without orgasms is called?
SEX. And if you're not orgasming, YOU CAN HAVE FUCKING MORE SEX.
Sex without orgasms is like a high without an end.
@surreality said in RL Anger:
I really, really wanted to believe it was getting better, and that what I'd been told was, well, true.
Come. Let me show you the Way of the Robot.
We have (alcoholic) pie (substitute).
I'm sorry. Seriously, that sounds like it fucking sucks. I hope you feel better soon.
Thanks.
Like, I don't care if I hurt myself. Well, I do. I just hate it when I'm hurt and I don't know how the fuck it happened. Granted, I tore this tendon back a year and a half ago when I was doing pushups barefoot.
I don't mean to be political, but this really did tickle me the right way.
@Auspice said in RL things I love:
To balance out the 'still having migraines,' I found out at the Dr's that I passed my last weight plateau. Been stuck at a specific spot for a few months now and weighed in at 5lbs under that previous.
If you cut off your head, you could solve both problems!
I'm kidding. Don't cut your head off.
Maybe I should look into a nose job or xanax.
If your lack of sleep is affecting your ability to lose weight, you may be able to get a doctor to sign off on a sleep study. This may be an important step in figuring out what's causing you to not sleep well, even if you're super-anxious.
Lack of sleep will mean elevated cortisol levels, and a whole lot of other bad shit. So, your first step to weight loss may be getting that sleep study. If your doctor won't send you that way, you should find another doctor.
To be fair, his penmanship is atrocious and unreadable, but it's all something that needs to be solved with OT and additional help in the classroom, which I don't think he gets much of, outside of grip tools for the pencils. That said, when I was a kid we did a ton of penmanship drills, rather than just being shoved towards writing essays at age 7.
So, he's going to be a lawyer or a doctor. Have you seen the shit we write?
My brother is a doctor; I'm a lawyer. And people think we're literate in Chinese, that's how bad our handwriting is.
@Lisse24 said in Mental Health and Grown Up Stuff:
This very morning, as I explained the situation with my niece, a friend said, "Well, she'll be home soon!" No. No, she won't and it sucks. We're tired and grumpy and telling us to look on the bright side delegitimizes the struggle that we're going through right now.
They are saying this to comfort themselves. Folks don't want to admit how easy it is to fall on hard times. They still want to believe that everything will be fine if you pick yourself up by the bootstraps.
@Catsmeow said in Mental Health and Grown Up Stuff:
Actually, I'll probably drink while you two sing.
That's not how this works.
If we gonna be Destiny's Child, you gotta sing.
@Auspice said in Mental Health and Grown Up Stuff:
Do you realize how much liquor you have to get into me? No one wants that bar tab.
I'm rich, biotch.
Being sad is finding someone that has never met you diagnose your problem succinctly.
"[C]omedians seem to have two competing personality traits: introverted anhedonia (inability to feel pleasure) and extroverted impulsiveness. Although they are similar to actors, who remain extroverted, open and interested in understanding the world around them, comedians have introverted traits that make them asocial and a little emotionally flat. Some also suffer from clinical depression."
"Would you like a doughnut?" And then the murders began.
@Three-Eyed-Crow said in RL Anger:
Maybe there was no way to port it well if they were being faithful.
This is my take on it.
I mean, when you start to poke at canon material too much, you get The Man of Steel.
I'm almost 100% certain that's not something I want to google.
She said 'labral', not 'labial'.
Trump won because he channeled populist resentment toward
political correctnessreasonable accommodations for people that have no interest in raping you or making you gay, even though you probably are gay but have repressed that side of you because it offends your sense of what some God thinks you ought to be.
Fixed that for you.
Civic nationalism is a stupid thing to rally behind where there are two polar views on how the country ought to be, and nothing to direct the ignorant hostility towards.
Realize that when the Republicans cite "freedom to choose" as important, they want you to forget that you don't actually have a meaningful choice. "Freedom to choose" only exists where there are few risks as a result of a choice. And this is why universal public health care is the only reasonable, logical, economically conservative choice for the nation.
Realize that when Democrats insist that we need to pass laws to prevent companies from dodging taxes, they want you to forget that we all end up paying those taxes through higher costs and that higher corporate taxes will likely drive small businesses into the ground.
Realize that many talking heads have too little education or are too far removed from reality to form an authoritative opinion on how to fix the nation's problems.
Realize that the solutions really aren't as far-fetched or far-away as we believe. Look local.
@Monogram said in Mass Effect: Andromeda: The Thread:
Funny the only person that I'd like to be able to romance, isn't(awesome Asari doctor).
That's because she's Natalie Dorman.
@Insomnia said in Mass Effect: Andromeda: The Thread:
I get it it sucks if you don't like the look but if you are a female and have no interest in hot, alien girl on girl action, you only have 1 romance option.)
If you have no interest in hot, alien girl-on-girl action, then what the fuck are you doing playing Mass Effect?
Logan: Rookies.
