Posts made by gryphter

https://www.inc.com/suzanne-lucas/10-simple-ways-to-get-an-employee-to-quit.html

I found this to be a very interesting read, mostly because I can attribute at least 8/10 of these behaviors to my current manager.

Time to find a new thang.

@Alamias said in Good TV:

@gryphter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqC6SBOJjVg - Gronk has done wrestling.

Well damn. Now I'm torn.Certainly the quarterback friend clue would make a lot more sense with him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46-z5nHLLCs

@Auspice said in Good TV:

@gryphter said in Good TV:

White Tiger: John Cena.

I'm sorry, no.
It's Gronk.

This is the prevailing theory, but I don't buy it. The clue package suggests a pro wrestler. Cena has that deep vocal fry, can't sing for shit, and loves to dance like a goofy idiot in movies.

Anybody else love The Masked Singer? I can't wait for tonight's episode to meet some new furries.

ETA: My theories so far. Turtle: Vanilla Ice -- fite me. White Tiger: John Cena. It just is. And Kangaroo: Tatyana Ali for some reason.

@Auspice said in Image Attribution & Creative Commons:

Those famed violet eyes of House L'Envers paired to honey gold skin of House Mereliot place a visible stamp on her heritage. A shade under six feet tall, she blazes with all the energy of the famed lighthouse overlooking Marsilikos' harbour, had it taken on mortal form. Her lithe figure complements her height, bearing neither tattoos or scars to differentiate her youthful complexion. All the seething radiance glittering in her brilliant eyes and animating her lively expression bestows a natural warmth and candor. Her fingers are notably beringed and calloused, indicative of a committed performer. Clear features bear an unquestionable d'Angeline stamp, leaving her a black opal among priceless gems, for the dichotomy of her dark, arching brows and thick lashes against her dusky gold colouration is a stark one. Typically she wears the masses of her dark hair pulled back into an elaborate braid that would vex a spider, threaded by a circlet of small gems on gossamer strands as another trademark.

TL;DR Has spiders in her hair.

I've put about an hour into The Outer Worlds so far. I came up for air to run the new Windows 10 patch and I thought I'd report my findings thus far before I dive back in.

So far so good! I'm enjoying the novelty of this game that doesn't really feel like anything else I've played. I like the irreverent wit of the writing and the game's visuals are absolutely gorgeous on my mid-range gaming laptop -- I'm able to amp all the settings to 11 for this game and run it just fine.

Thanks again to @Ganymede and @Auspice for the good advice!

@Auspice said in The Work Thread:

(p.s. Australia is more than just koalas.)

Citation needed.

Now there's only left to wait for my crappy rural internet to download the thing. 15% so far.

I appreciate the honest and thorough recommendations here. I'm going to go with Outer Worlds; it seems like the most fresh and interesting option. Initially I was mad at it for not being "Fallout in Space", but after everything I've read and your advice here, I'm prepared to accept it as something unique.

@Ganymede GDI I forgot about Outer Worlds.

That feeling when you decide to treat yourself to a full-price game, and then realize that means you have to pick one.

I'm looking at Red Dead 2, Divinity 2, and Civ 6. You'll recognize perhaps that these are top-level experiences in very different areas, and that makes this choice about damn impossible. What kind of awesome game do I want?

Usually for me it's something like 'this character has lots of meaningful relationships and connections, I bet I can find all sorts of important and interesting stuff to do.' Then I hit the ground and can't find RP outside of a bar. To be fair I'm not super masterful at taking the initiative and reaching out, so I'll own my half (whole?) of it.

@Auspice said in The Work Thread:

Mood af

@Sunny Later and later, as it turns out, as I sit here and procrastinate going to bed so as to stave off tomorrow. It's still tomorrow now, though, so it's not really working.

I do project management, vendor management, and some business analysis. It's a lot of hitting 'reply all' and writing 'Thanks <insert name>!' then mashing send -- things are set up dumb so almost everything is going through email. I'm working on it.

Anybody willing to go to work for me tomorrow? Damn but I do not want to go.

ETA: Please?

I'm currently Raven! It's experimental; I've rarely played women. I'm enjoying it so far, though it is harder to put myself out there with this character. She's a gothic metal badass and I have to find out where her story is going.

ETA: Experiment terminated.

@faraday Power upvote because I can't agree enough: too much policy might as well be no policy at all, because nobody's going to read it. Balance is important.

There's an 'excellent' point here. To one group of players, being 'excellent' could mean avoiding the use of certain language they find distasteful or harmful. To another group it might mean letting one another express themselves in precisely that way if that's what they want to do.

It's a matter of differing values, and leaving it up to the individuals' discretion to decide what's appropriate informed by nothing but their own gut check is asking for trouble. Some of those bellies are rotten to the core, but they'll still blink those doe eyes at you and wonder what in the world they ever could have done when they know they haven't violated any written policy.

Policies cover everybody's asses.

No, this isn't a post about furries; it's about Animal Upon Animal, the animal stacking game by Haba.

I bought this for my mini for Christmas this year, in keeping with our theme of fewer shitty plastic toys and more quality stuff to do, alone or as a family. She's pretty good at stacking the animals, but not so good at focusing on what we're supposed to be doing instead of romping around on the table with her provision animals and knocking everything over. She has a blast the whole time.

This became a hit with the whole family, and the grownups sit here stacking animals like it's the most serious and important work currently being done on the planet long after the kids go to bed.

It's a stunningly simple premise -- get animals, stack animals. The rule set in the book comes pretty slim and requires some interpretation to flesh out; my kid wanted to turn the animals out of profile and stack them on the crocodile that way, and while nothing in the rules explicitly forbids this, we had to decide it was against the spirit of play. There are some supplemental rules included in the book for 'advanced stackers'.

This game is fun for the whole family and comes with my highest recommendation. We ordered a second set and we can't wait for it to arrive so we can play the Frankenstein's monster we've already planned out with both base crocodiles, both dice, and all 56 well-made wooden animals.

I'm already pushing to order and incorporate the Crest Climbers edition for even more crazy stacking fun.