@Tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Irrelevant. If you want to pass the course, you do as you're told.
And here I thought that academic writing was about free, accurate thought.
My bad.
(Note: I recognize that the first thing to do is what you're told, which is why I passed my courses consistently; in this case, though, the English professor is r-o-n-g wrong in insisting as he or she has.)
@Tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
They aren't if the professor wants them.
It’s Black’s Law Dictionary.
When’s the last time someone asked for author identification for the OED? Or the DSM-IV?
You know it, or you don’t.
Next thing, the professor’ll ask for author credentials for Blackstone.
I hadn’t considered that, actually, but now I may.
@Too-Old-For-This said in Heroes & Villains MUX:
Also you can ask the people on the game if you're feeling stumped! People are super helpful with suggestions, and staff is usually around to help answer questions!
This is probably true, but the toxically masculine part of me won’t ask for directions. I looked at the examples, but it just didn’t click in my head.
Auspice has pointed me in the right direction.
@Auspice said in Heroes & Villains MUX:
I have a copy of the core book I can share.
Please.
I just need some examples to work with, is all. That's how I learn best/fastest.
@Cupcake said in When To Stop Listening To Those Voices:
Our game culture abhors attention-seekers and rightfully so. That kind of play style is selfish.
I don't think these are accurate statements.
I think our game culture abhors attention-seekers who hog the spotlight to the detriment of others. I think our game culture craves attention-seekers who use the attention to facilitate the RP of others.
Players tend to gravitate towards the players who can spontaneously-generate RP through their own characters because, for the most part, it's easier to be receptive than creative. But it's very hard for me not to see creative-scions, who are the hub of RP, as being anything but attention-seeking.
Our game culture hates assholes and degenerates. It venerates creatives and humorists. And, in my opinion, these are all "attention-seekers" in one way or another.
By saying this, I mean to encourage the sort of attention-grabbing creativity, rather than cause these creatives to stop and reconsider whether they are creating too much.
Yeah, that was my stumbling block. I like having books in front of me, and the system was unfamiliar to me.
@Arkandel said in Best (PnP) RPGs of 2018?:
A villain is defined by performing villainous acts.
The best villains are defined by how strongly we believed they were the hero.
@Tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I still prefer painkillers and bourbon to actually going in to get things done most of the time.
This is how I feel every morning before I get out of bed to get ready for work.
@Killer-Klown said in Best (PnP) RPGs of 2018?:
It really was undeserved; given that a lot of what was presented was milder than ... I'd have to say most of the original books. People can make the 'times have changed' argument and all that, but really they were just giving people more of what they had in the early editions (As opposed to the CoD stuff rewriting everything)
How dare you, sir. There is nothing at all objectionable about vagina-face.
Transformers the Movie.
And the fact that my kids love it. It’s what they want to watch all the damn time.
At least they are growing up with good, character-building media.
@Auspice said in Good or New Movies Review:
Like maybe look at one of the other fantasy series that wasn't done right on the screen (or hasn't been done at all yet???).
I like the sassy nature of Eddings' series.
I have to say that, of the things that are being hyped right now, this is the least interesting.
@Tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
And why do they ask for your resume and then also ask you a bunch of questions you can get the answers just fine from the resume.
The difference is that I am a lawyer that takes her ethical duties seriously. If my paralegals don’t get things timely filed, it’s my license and malpractice insurance.
Hence, I don’t rely on them that often.
And I cut them when they take discovery binders out of my office without consent.
Bitch, if you move my discovery binders I will cut you.
@Kanye-Qwest said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
the pranking or being mean to people? We have a very laid back office because 'stress' and also because 'tech monkies and their social skills"
The pranking.
You can be very laid back and not fuck with people's shit.
You can be very laid back and sensitive to the social peculiarities of others.
The instant someone screws with another's work station is the moment they get fired.
Like, seriously.
Kids.
Cats have better manners than that.
@Kanye-Qwest said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
i mean my coworkers are mildly terrified of me. One time I left my pc unlocked and they did the chicanery that happens to everyone else (screwing with mouse sensitivity, changing my bg to david hasselhoff) and i was so mean to all of them they all know better, now. I'm sorry you can't get away with that.
Doing this gets you fired very quickly where I work.
@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I'm on a 'performance plan' currently for poor teamwork because 'some of [my] coworkers feel nervous working with me because I get angry if my desk is changed around.' Now, I've spoken to who I can (again, she and I largely are never on the same shift: happens maybe once a month) since I was put on this action plan.
My co-workers should be nervous working with me if they move shit around on my desk. After all, I listen to Dragonforce regularly at work.