Posts made by GreenFlashlight

Bitch, how are you gonna sleep through your shift, then get mad at me because I did all your work? "Why didn't you wake me up" my ass. If I have to wake you up, then I have to accept responsibility for your work getting done, and if I have to accept responsibility for your work getting done, then I accept full responsibility for your work getting done!

I hope this video doesn't link at a time stamp. Doesn't look like it from the URL. Anyway, it's a video in which a therapist uses the Will Ferrell comedy Elf to discuss ADD/ADHD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj6RDTMknPo

Chucklefucks who've never done an ounce of research into any of the myriad scientific and medical disciplines surrounding transgender reality but who do vaguely remember Mrs. Terwilliger mentioning X and Y chromosomes back in seventh grade so they're pretty damn sure they understand the situation better than actual doctors and scientists.

@rucket said in TTRPG's You've Wanted to MU* (But Probably Won't):

FATAL.

(/s before anyone wants to stab me)

Too late. I have already rolled 4d100/2-1 for my attack roll and managed a crit. My knife has impaled your Achilles' tendon and medulla oblongata. Fortunately for you, as per the rules, none of those things are necessary for you to continue fighting.

@l-b-heuschkel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Random disgruntlement: Instagram has been telling me my account is suspended 'for suspicious activity' (whatever the hell that means, all I do is look at posts) but they will verify it in 24 hours for 4 days now.

Weird. Do you use a VPN or anything?

When the person giving you report says, "And I took all the trash out because I don't leave halls like that." Yeah, that's a normal thing you to say unprompted. "And then I came straight home from work without cheating on you because I don't believe in adultery!"

I'm not even three minutes in and I'm cringing. It feels so weird that he'd respond to accusations made against him by slipping into character, never mind slipping into character to exhort his followers to buy his game to strike back at non-specific enemies for their non-specific crimes.

Yes, please.

@Runescryer said in TTRPG's You've Wanted to MU* (But Probably Won't):

Just my 2 cents on how to approach Rifts/Palladium...

-Establish a 'Tier' system for characters based on sources. Limit the amount of characters from outside the 'base' area of the game.
EX: A setting in the Colorado Baronies...
-Tier 0: Rifts Core Book, Rifts Ultimate Edition, Juicer Uprising, New West, Spirit West, Lone Star, D-Bees of North America, and select other sourcebooks.
-Tier 1: Northern Gun 1 & 2, Atlantis, Secrets of the Atlanteans, Canada, Free Quebec, Dinosaur Swamp, Psyscape, Federation of Magic, other books that are reasonably close to the area
-Tier 2: South America 1 & 2, Madhaven, Shemarian Nation, Underseas; a bit further away, but still the same hemisphere
-Tier 3: Triax/NGR, England, Africa, Russia, Japan, Australia, Phase World, Wormwood (maybe), Palladium Fantasy, Beyond the Supernatural, Chaos Earth; the rest of Rifts Earth, the 'historic' past, and frequently visited dimensions.
-Tier 4: Skraypers, Heroes Unlimited, All other Palladium settings/sources

I know piracy is a thing, but it kinda bothers me your tier is limited by your ability to afford the books.

After two weeks of floating around the building for no good reason, I get stationed on my unit again tonight. My unit has become the short-stay rehab unit over the last few months because the short-stay rehab unit has been converted to the quarantine unit, but the last COVID patient was moved off the hall Monday; a woman with dementia who wandered everywhere while clutching dirty tissues in her hands and touching everything for support as she walks, so you tell me to my face that they got that unit deep cleaned in the sixteen hours before turning it back into the short-stay rehab unit. Look me in the eye and say that. But whatever. I'm going back to my home unit! Chin up!

When I get there tonight, I'm informed one of the patients on my side was sent to the hospital for a fall on evenings. I can hear someone at the end of the hall screaming once every second or so, like every exhalation has to be yelled out, so I go back and inspect it. It's a short-stay rehab patient, naturally, and one who came over while I was elsewhere so I don't know who they are. Well, whatever. I find the evening aide to get report, and am told I'll have to take vitals on the new patient because the evening aide can't get a reading, what with how the patient is shaking with their yelling and writhing.

I take their vitals while the evening aide watches, and tell her to get the nurse quick. The patient has a high fever, 02 sat in the low eighties on five liters, and a blood pressure I generally associate with dead people. The night nurse, I discover over the course of the next hour, is already alarmed before she gets this info because she found an expedited X-ray result the evening nurse neglected due to that fall I mentioned, and the X-ray shows among other things fluid infiltration heavily suggestive of pneumonia. We call the family, call the on-call doctor, and ultimately the paramedics. By the time they get here, the patient's BP is somewhat better and the O2 sat has raised to high eighties on ten liters, but the fever has gone up almost a degree. We ship the patient out.

The night nurse, now well into her shift with the evening nurse gone home, starts combing through paperwork and emails about the patient, whom neither she nor I have ever met before. We find out the patient has been receiving physical therapy from one of our employees who is now off work with COVID after going to a family Thanksgiving from which sixteen people also tested COVID-positive.

I was going to throw in some off-topic complaining about how my unit is a complete catastrofuck because the floaters they've had over here haven't been keeping up with necessary duties to maintain the place, but who even cares in the face of all that? I hate everything, is the point.

@Testament I can't even imagine. Please focus on your health right now.

the ending of spider-man miles morales can eat a cold wet butthole

***=NSFW content***

Miles I swear to the all-holy Christ if you don't call Phin on her phone and talk to her instead of using your spider-powers to spy on her

@Macha I'm sorry, Macha. It's definitely a crappy year for holiday/seasonal depression.

@Runescryer said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

@Rucket, @Cobaltasaurus 7th Sea First Edition would be great, but the big problem is a centralized locale where a wide variety of nationalities could congregate. My thoughts would be either Freiburg or Numa.

I'd suggest a homebrew area; some newly discovered island the whole Thean continent is rushing to stake a claim to/develop for financial opportunities/escape the continent to/explore for Syrne ruins/whatever. Preferably an uninhabitated chain of isladnds so we could avoid the touchy subject of colonization.

I read several Dahl books as a child, but never really glommed onto them. They didn't feel as relatable to me as, I dunno, No Flying in the House or whatever.

@Aria said in Favorite/Most Memorable Childhood Books:

I also really, really loved The Farthest-Away Mountain when I was little, which no one has ever heard of even though it's the same author who wrote The Indian in the Cupboard series.

Oh shit I forgot all about Lynne Reid Banks! I gave all my Cupboard books to my niece when she was seven or eight, because she liked them so much.

@SilentHills said in Favorite/Most Memorable Childhood Books:

You're all saying 'childhood' and posting a bunch of deep bullshit.

It depends on what we call childhood, I suppose. If we go way back, I remember Curious George very fondly, and Encyclopedia Brown, and Bunnicula. These might not count, but I also remember getting into comics by reading these pocket-sized digest comic versions of horror novels like Dracula and Frankenstein (I really wish I could remember those more clearly because I'd love to buy them if I could just find them).

@Sunny said in RL things I love:

Tim's Cascade chips has a flavor called "Sasquatch Surprise".

I originally read that as "Time's Cascade chips" and was like whoa that's pretty high concept for potato chips, going back to the past when sasquatches still walked the earth

The Ramona and Beezus series. The characters seemed so relatable even though the world was so strange because the writer used words from way before my time; I still remember trying to guess from context what a davenport is, and tentatively deciding it must be some kind of cabinet.