Posts made by Ganymede

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

There are millions of parents in this same boat. To say nothing of the other millions of people with chronic fatigue, depression, mobility issues, or a whole host other physical and mental challenges that might turn "push the shopping cart an extra 5 yards" into a monumental challenge.

Anything involving children sounds like a "dire emergency" to me, to say nothing of the situations above which all scream of "people are differently abled."

But this does not stop me from kicking the shin of my friend for not returning her cart because I know that bitch doesn't have an excuse.

@packrat

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

My husband was bitten by a brown recluse spider right next to his dick.

Look, no means no, a'ight?

(More seriously, sorry to hear this, but, c'mon, you gotta expect some lulz.)

@rucket

The problem is that nodeBB, to my knowledge, isn't portable. At all. We've been up for a long time, and we may lose a lot of information if we try to 'port over, if that's even possible.

As for my problem, I need someone who knows nodeBB, period, for good or ill.

Hey, folks.

Anyone here fairly familiar with nodeBB? If so, please hit me up, would you?

Thanks.

@coin

"This is a Space Marine game, but you can't play a Space Marine because they are way OP."

I'm with you on this.

@cobaltasaurus

I honestly asked because I didn’t know.

Now that I know, I wish I hadn’t asked.

I am very, very sorry.

If there’s anything I can do, you know where and how to find me.

Being asked by friends to read The Best Man for a recorded performance. Even though I never looked at the script until today.

And it was spectacular.

@cobaltasaurus

Why do you have to re-home the puppers?

@sparks said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

But it turns out that being part of what basically boils down to the engineering equivalent of a mercenary company is amazing for ADHD; people run into difficult tech situations their own company can't solve, and come to us to make a working Thing X for them.

This is the practice of law.

Except, y'know, we don't actually solve shit.

@too-old-for-this

Concur completely.

Maybe explain why others might not be okay with it: maybe they are uncomfortable with seeing naked bodies.

I really like how you suggest drawing in a safe place. I might add that if they wanted to show you, that it would be fine if it were done in a safe place. I'd want to know if they were drawing bodies which were inappropriate, like those depicting graphic violence in addition to the nudity. And I would explain why a drawing like that might hurt someone.

@sunny said in How are you coping with COVID (and other 2020 fun)?:

Gotta be careful with the ones still around, amirite? Sigh. Getting old sucks a lot.

Well, like, you matter to me.

I mean, we've never been friends friends. But we touch base, yeah? And I'm pretty sure when I was starting out in this hobby OVER TWENTY YEARS AGO, you were one of the first people I consistently page-talked with during awkward years.

I remember A2A. I remember TCbT. I remember you on Denver by Night. I remember you inviting me to KD. These are all important experiences in my life which probably helped shape who I am. I can't and won't forget that, even if it isn't something I talk about with my partner or my kids.

It's just one of the quiet things no one ever knows, and I'm okay with that.

@emda

Kipo has been recommended to me, and I will probably sit and watch it.

But I just finished Earthrise, and I'm like fuck you netflix wtf you doin leavin all the good storylines behind make these seasons longer.

@sunny said in How are you coping with COVID (and other 2020 fun)?:

If this was due to one stupid comment that was not even that bad, not 10 minutes after I said I was really struggling with shit...it makes zero sense. But if there were other cues or I should have picked up on something... I mean, I didn’t. It’s possible, but I can’t even begin to imagine why.

And that's okay.

So, the girl I first fell in love with was recently diagnosed with severe bipolar disorder. Meds and therapy help, but she has good and bad days. She's so anxious about it that she won't even let me call her. Or FaceTime her. And she's probably one of the most important people in my life.

On those bad days when shit's down and she gets snippy by text, I take a deep breath and handle it. I know she doesn't mean to say certain things, but even if she did, hey, I'm glad she's being honest with me. How me leaving our hometown hurt her. How being so far away is torture. It hurts me too. It makes me sad.

But I would never, ever, ever consider letting her just go. Never. I just tell her, over and over:

@rinel

If you want to delve into another area, maybe I can help you get into that field from afar.

Personal injury law can be lucrative and isn’t difficult to monetize.

@auspice

I am jelly about BTAS streaming. But I also have them all on DVD.

That’s right: DVD.

@ominous

"We oppose this zoning change to the area around the airport. We did not read the change, which will actually restrain development. We are just worried that more planes will fly overhead. We knew we were moving next to an airport. Think of our children and grandchildren!"

Yeah, fuuuuuuck you, no. You wanted the beautiful house in the woods built next to the airport, so don't give me no fucking sob story when the airport decides to be a fucking airport.

Dipshits.

(We had to read their 20 page e-mail because, y'know, notice and opportunity.)

@derp

motherfucking 1.5 hours talking about an airport re-zoning like wtf why?

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

It only took 1.5 hours for a zoning change?

This is for the vote only. All the work has been done. This is just the ol' public hearing and vote bullshit and I just so love people talking about property values as if I or anyone else who practices in real property law give a shit what you think about your property values.

Going over the same damn plans with the same damn vacant-headed motherfuckers every damn month.

Fucking read the staff report and maps, motherfuckers. Fucking read it. Stop listening to people who don't know shit.

It should not take 1.5 hours to consider a fucking application for a zoning change, what the fuck.

This is why reasonable professionals do not get involved in this shit, I guess.

What a fucking waste of time; I'm drinking now, thank you remote meeting.

(Edit: I'm two bourbons in now.)

@sunny said in How are you coping with COVID (and other 2020 fun)?:

-- apparently somehow nuked a friendship today by being snarky on accident.

I hope your friend understands the stress that you're under and just needs a short break.

Because my opinion is that friendships do not get nuked by accident; someone ends it by calculation.