Posts made by Ganymede

I adore rabbit-holing, which MUSHing gives me an excuse to do.

Right now, I am learning of the number of beautiful old manses in Latvia that are up for sale.

I like to search Amazon for Transformer toys and watch YouTube videos by Sideways.

@herja

This almost precisely describes my daughter.

Are you my spouse?

She’s trying. She really is. But I keep the rules sacred for the reason that it is all she really follows.

@il-volpe said in Autism and The MU* Community:

You may discover later that she actually does give quite a large and golden shit about other people's feelings, but feels beat down about it and has adopted defensive faux indifference.

Her educators and therapists have come to a different conclusion. Part of her particular brand is the inability to empathize, even if she is attuned to her own emotions strongly.

@roz said in RL Anger:

Holy shit how can people be so monstrous

I blame the lack of Witchers going about killing monsters.

@boneghazi

I don’t have any issues with your posting or others discussing it. Just because I live now in a backward ass country when it comes to marijuana laws doesn’t mean it isn’t a lawful plant elsewhere.

@greenflashlight said in Autism and The MU* Community:

I've noticed that if someone disrespects me, then I automatically internalize it as being something I deserve (because if I didn't deserve it, why would they do it, right?), and I'm wondering if that sounds familiar to anyone's experience or if it's just me.

I'm not sure if it is just you. All I can tell you is that my daughter doesn't give a shit what anyone thinks, but don't you dare hurt her feelings because how dare you.

@macha

I don’t mean to fuck. I mean to suggest replies that will get them to leave you alone.

Nothing freaks out bosses like the possibility of attorneys getting involved.

@macha said in The Work Thread:

They expect me to be able to tell them exactly what I was doing at an exact point of time in the day, a week or more ago.

Here's a fun thing to tell them:

"I can't recall what I was doing last week at the moment. I talked to an attorney, though, and they recommended I keep a diary of our communications in case we have to use it as evidence or something. Anyhow, they have that diary right now, so when I get it back I'll let you know what I was up to."

And if they ask for a copy of the diary, tell them:

"I asked my attorney about that, and they send something about it being a work product? Something about a document prepared in anticipation of litigation. I don't exactly recall what they said, but they told me not to give you a copy."

And if they ask you if you plan to file a lawsuit, tell them:

"I really don't know at this point. It's all really confusing to me. You tell me one thing, and they tell me another, but my attorney has been very good at explaining things so far, and I trust their judgment."

And if they ask to speak with your attorney, tell them:

"I talked to my attorney, and they said that they have no interest in talking to you, but when they do they will reach out in writing. They could not tell me when, but that's what they told me."

No, seriously, this will be really fun.

I will always remember how you quietly saved my sanity and life during a difficult period.

I remember when we discovered you were living in my hometown.

I hope everything goes so very well going forward. Come stop by every now and again to let us know how things are?

@greenflashlight

If you want, I can bring it back.

I mean, just because I have reservations about methodology and application doesn't mean I object to its link to this board. But for the reasons Sunny stated, I am a little suspicious as to the timing and the conclusions made.

Anecdotally, I can tell you that the use of Zoom in the practice of law has been invaluable and welcome.

@arkandel said in The Work Thread:

Sadly it only serves to validate them at the cost of ruining some other person's day.

People who have never suffered true persecution often manufacture their own.

@aria said in The Work Thread:

... this guy spent the whole 90 minutes sitting there with his polemic all ready to go, just waiting for the survey to open so that he could shit all over two months of work pulled off by four (primarily two) people on behalf 1096 others.

@greenflashlight

I have a lot of problems with the methodology and question its application across industries.

The Witcher Season 2 is being released the same day as Spider-Man: No Way Home.

@solstice said in The Work Thread:

We were always a little uncomfortable with you there, to begin with.

I am leaving the rat race.

I will be joining a local university's legal team as an assistant general counsel. I am ecstatic.

But I have to make sure my clients are taken care of after I go. I am frantic.

If I act weird, please allow this to serve as my explanation.

@aria

This one, in my opinion, deserves your attention.

Maybe not your money, mind, so watch it on Disney+, if you have that.

But it's really good.

@ghost said in Testing the Waters for Battletech Interest:

The modern MUer seems to prefer roleplay that doesn't involve technical systems, doesn't include risky pass/fail combat, and always seems to default to relationship/TS roleplay involving coffee or bar roleplay. Combat and PVP are avoided and the whole point behind Battletech is combat and pvp.

I concur to a point.

I grew up with Battletech, quite literally. I genuinely love it and its setting. I like the tactical aspect of it, but I like it generally.

Good games are not so easily defined as you suggest.

@sunny said in RL Sads:

My partner passed away on Saturday.

I really am sorry to hear about this.

You know this, but you are probably one of the people I've known the longest in the hobby. You probably know me better than most. I'm sorry we have not been as close as we could be.

But, as others have said, I am always open to listening.