Posts made by Ganymede

@yourmamasayswhat said in RL Anger:

I will stop sharing my happy with you then, it makes you feel inadequate and makes me feel like shit.

Oh, what a difference a little indifference makes.

@shangdi said in Crimson Dynasties -- A Vampire: The Requiem 2e MUSH set in modern Beijing:

Game shuttered due to inactivity. I may make another attempt at a CofD 2e game in MUSH form in the future. In the meantime, I am taking constructive criticism as to what I did wrong, and what could have made this more successful.

I think the setting may have been a little too "foreign" for the average WoD MUSH player.

@silverfox said in The Work Thread:

I do not understand.

I don't know if you work in the public or private system where you are, and I'm not sure what the relationship between the public teachers' union, if any, is with the local school district. If you were in Ohio, however, I could tell you that the principal and other administration work for the local school district, and the district hires teachers from the union under a CBA. Under that scenario, it may be seen as inappropriate for the administration to recommend any one teacher without recommending all of them.

Maybe parents might provide a reference? I would think in a teaching situation that a parent or student counselors might be a good bridge.

But, frankly, I don't really see a point not recommending an excellent teacher to higher employment. If an associate of mine were to ask for a recommendation to work as G.C. at a bank or other corporation, for example, I would heartily recommend them (if they were to be recommended) because, hey, friends in high places, yeah?

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

Most Chinese people are probably fine, but when we criticize China, we are really using that as a shorthand for the CCP and other tangential parties, not all billion Chinese people.

Maybe not you, but I can assure you that many people criticizing "China" seem to be referring to "people who look Chinese, even if ramen and pho joints are very much not Chinese."

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

I was pointing out that I did not read that as being authored in anyway by her and you were saying it was.

I see what you're saying, but if someone were posting up excepts from Mein Kampf, The Goebbels Diaries, and Gotterdammerung I may think they are a Nazi, and I think that's reasonable.

@ominous said in Crafting Thread Part ?:

Then she became self-aware and branched off into law.

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

We know he stalks former female students through Facebook and my sister wants to maybe create a fake profile to try and trap him somehow but I have no idea what the legality of that is.

It is not entrapment if a "sting" is pulled off by a private citizen.

As a resident lawyer, all I can tell you is that you neither have to forgive or forget him, but there is something to be said about hitting the "ignore" button on him. Write him out completely and pretend he never existed. Dissociate yourself from even wondering.

May save yourself the headache.

But, I mean, if you want one of us to hunt him down --

@testament

@crawfish

How is that not Preston?

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

My boss has offered uys a 'Pizza Party' if we sell more of our promotional signup bs.

How about giving everyone a specific bonus for meeting or exceeding quota?

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

I now want to see that movie.

Viola Davis won that year for a reason. Goddamn woman out-Denzel-ed Denzel.

I have seen Fences on stage. It is wonderful and painful. On stage, it is grim and nightmarish on a stark black set. And let me tell you, when the audience is packed with people -- black Americans -- who grew up with fathers like that, you damn well feel their pain and anguish.

Grown men in tears; grown women pointing and yelling.

No one can damn well watch any of that without telling me Denzel got fucking robbed. (Watch the video at around the 1:50 mark to see the man's thoughts on losing to Casey Affleck.)

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

I think that's very different from guilt tripping your kids into thinking they owe you something for raising them.

Well, sure. I'm Catholic.

But, as I said elsewhere, context is important. I tell my kids how lucky they are and I also tell them that if any of their friends don't come to school with a lunch that they are allowed to share theirs and if they do they will get double dessert at home. I tell them how they should share with others because they are so fortunate.

Of course, I also tell them that I can and will take it all away if they end up being little shits.

As far as I'm concerned, I would never guilt-trip my kids. Why the fuck would I do that? It is my job to raise them to be independent, productive members of society. And once they are out of the house and on their own, then I can enter another phase of my life. Guilt-tripping requires connection, and connection requires contact.

On a side note, on parenting, Denzel got robbed.

@macha

Given the economy right now, telling a child that they are lucky for having a stable home and amenities is not far from the truth.

@insomniac7809

To me, it is a watershed show against which other shows will be compared.

@derp

Makes sense.

You know where I'm at. And like any good Midwesterner, I carry.

@derp

When you say "went and split a house," do you mean "bought a house with my mother so that there would be a place for my nieces to live relatively safely and grow up with in a moderately-healthy environment"?

@too-old-for-this

At a more basic level, I'm an attorney with spare time due to winning a couple of matters on summary judgment.

Bored attorneys are awful ones to deal with.

My health plan just rejected my daughter's speech therapist's request for services as "not medically necessary" due to an alleged absence of progress.

My daughter has been seeing the same speech therapy company since she was 3. She is now 7. She is on an IEP with the school district for her speech delay. So, someone's screwed up.

And they will feel my wrath.

@ominous

Did I mention somewhere that I thought it a good idea to base taxation on land value rather than income?

Anyhow, yeah, just a thought. You can't hide a house (well).

@lordbelh

I just think it is a fascinating history. I'd love to see them do something about Britain ca. 56 to 1066 A.D.