@ZombieGenesis said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Strangers who come up to me while I'm in a store, minding my own business, put their hands on me(on my shoulder) and say "I feel so sorry for you" because I choose to wear a mask in public.
If that is not legal grounds to rabbitpunch the person in the throat, then it bloody well should be.
@chibichibi said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@GreenFlashlight Very unexpected.
I couldn't be sorrier.
@chibichibi So sorry for your loss. It sounds like it was unexpected?
@Wretched said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):
You know what I don't understand? People who make food from what they have in the house rather than going shopping with a specific plan to make a specific thing. I occasionally hear someone say, "Well, the celery in the fridge is about to go, I better make something of it," and I'm just like... what? How do you just make something out of it?
@SixRegrets said in The Work Thread:
Please keep in mind that this is the fault of your employer, not you.
Yeah, and I'm constantly angry about it. Constantly. It shocks and disgusts me that medical professionals who have nearly two hundred residents relying on staff to provide the basic cares and activities of daily life have run a cost analysis to determine the absolute minimum amount of staff they can get away with before they get sued for violating state law by understaffing; this perpetual state of being understaffed both destroys the morale of the people working, and creates undignified and dangerous living conditions for the people under our care.
Also, as I write this, it just occurred to me I've never heard anyone in management refer to them as people; just residents. Fuck me. Anyway.
This greed isn't my fault, but I'm one of the only people serving as a buffer between the dangerous inevitable consequences of that greed and the people who suffer because of it.
@StarChild said in Dead Celebrities 2020:
@Waller Though he's well known for that role, he delivered amazing performances as Jackie Robinson in "42", James Brown in "Get on Up", and one more historical figure I'm forgetting.
Thurgood Marshall, I think.
I just can't get my COVID symptoms under control, but none of them (separately or together) rise to the standard of going to a hospital and risking infecting others or exposing myself to whatever dangers would be in an ER. This is keeping me out of work, which is fine since I'm getting comp while I'm out, but I'm starting to feel bad about how work must suck for my coworkers since we operate on skeleton crews anyway.
For my part, setting is less a big deal than the community. Not trying to merge universes sounds good to me, though.
@SilentHills said in Visit Fallcoast, sponsored by the Fallcoast Chamber of Commerce:
I think the types I'm kinda referring to are the 'I'm so pretty. My powers revolve around how pretty and charismatic I am. I have fifteen boyfriends and girlfriends. My template is very obnoxious. Also I'm very random! Insert GIF here!' I hope that gives you a better example.
Oh. Yeah, that happens. Fallcoast's house rules specifically make it cheaper to be The Sexiest One Of Them All, so it's a little more pronounced here than a lot of places. I have too much sympathy to judge; it's hard to not wish you were one of the beautiful people.
@SilentHills said in Visit Fallcoast, sponsored by the Fallcoast Chamber of Commerce:
I'm going to be honest, I want to play WoD - but every single character page I look at is very special snowflake. Is this normal in WoD?
Can you elaborate, without necessarily providing an example as to avoid starting something?
The soundtracks turn me off. So emo. So nu-metal.
It's a game full of middle-aged people trying to imitate what we imagine college kids think gritty supernatural darkness is like. Some cringe is unavoidable.
Is there actually good RP on WoD?
Sure. The ratio of gold to garbage is no worse on a WoD game than any other.
@RDC said in Suicide Squad: Nation Under Fire:
I don't know the history, but folks were super into anti-fascist action as a game theme when Eubanana was running WWII games, I don't really understand why everyone's pissed about it now.
I don't trust it coming from a guy whose last game advertisement included some antisemitic dogwhistles and a weird aside saying his professors told him he needs to include more of the Nazis' viewpoints in his essays about World War II. It would already be weird to tie Antifa to a government-sanctioned group of condemned murderers who serve on suicidally dangerous missions in an attempt to earn pardons for their crimes, but coming from this guy? Pretend I bothered to find the "that's a big yikes from me, dawg" meme.
Here is a YouTube channel devoted to short (about ten minutes) video essays on horror movies. I enjoy it. Perhaps you will also enjoy it.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdX6lI1cnIaznkmokdxJQ2Q/videos
@L-B-Heuschkel said in RL Sads:
Had to put our dog to sleep this morning. 11 1/2 years. Going to miss the shit out of the old man, but he was done. He just wanted to sleep.
I'm so sorry for your loss, but thank you for being kind to your furbaby in the hardest moment.
@RDC said in NOLA 2: Back in the Vieux:
I'll let y'all decide for yourselves if I was overreacting.
Oh, I didn't mean you were overreacting. I just meant fuckin hell, you know? There was so much yikes in those few words I couldn't even encapsulate it in words.
@RDC said in NOLA 2: Back in the Vieux:
"7'1" of black neanderthal meat with nubian skin and big thick lips and jutting brows, how scary"
I feel like I should make fun of this but I'm utterly stunned
@SixRegrets said in RL things I love:
If I recall correctly, the experts say that you're supposed to punch 'em in the schnoz if you're needing to fight one off.
I've heard that too.
@mietze said in RL things I love:
Hopefully I can keep my shit together and not be a blubberer until I'm in the car driving home after getting him settled!!
Not a parent and never will be, so I'm honestly asking: is this a moment where your kids can be your friends, and share the responsibility of adult relationships with you by supporting your emotional needs?
I just saw someone with a gay pride tattoo on his calf, in the shape of the Mickey Mouse logo. I was so stunned I stopped walking to try to process what I was seeing. I'm still not sure what to think. I'm trying to wrap my mind around someone wanting to express his sexuality or support for others' sexuality by permanently scarring his body with the shape of the corporate mascot of a chain of resort hotels that form sovereign city-states in several parts of America, whose media division occasionally claims to support LGBTQ+ people but refuse to show any of us because that would restrict the amount of money they could make in international markets. Why not just a tattoo of a rainbow flag on a vampire's lapel as it bites your neck? Why would you want to express your innermost beliefs through the medium of corporate symbology, turning your leg into a permanent billboard for the Walt Disney corporation?
I don't get it. Probably never will.
@buttercup Sometimes writing things down cements them in the memory; other times it purges things you've been bottling up. I can never tell which it's going to be when I do it, but you sound like you got something off your chest.
Thanks for trusting us with this story.
I kind of liked her Crow novel, but it was a little hard to get through all the twincest.
