Posts made by hedgehog

@Wretched

Now I'm curious as to how they got it early, since it dropped on the 4th, and even that was a little earlier than planned. And I say this as the person who got to hear the divisive 'Amadeus' cover way back last fall and was sworn to secrecy about it.

I listened to this thing. If you like old electro and EBM and also like modern dark techno, you should listen to this thing, too.

https://sonicgroove.bandcamp.com/album/corruption-of-form

Mark Hollis from Talk Talk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQH1i_zZ-_M

Get handed nine pages worth of liner notes booklet for an upcoming release (keeping in mind I haven't worked for said label for 21 years) and am told not to actually really edit anything in the copy aside from spelling and punctuation.

Said document is turgid and bloated and the author puts mention of his own band into it for some reason, but I cannot edit any of it out.

Find a part where I am being given a possibly incorrect authorship for a 23 year old online document that doesn't even show up in the Wayback Machine so I can't check whether it's legit. Just because I don't remember doing it doesn't mean I didn't contribute. But still.

The sad part? This is still more editing/proofreading than I got to do on documents when I actually worked there.

I shudder to think what the actual cover art is going to look like.

• I'm a lady.

• I'm a married lady with a kid.

• I have lived in: Milwaukee, Hollywood, Chicago and Evanston.

• I know how to run an EBS test/the real deal.

• Chances are pretty good that if you bought something from Cleopatra Records in the mid-90s I either wrote the sales one-sheet or edited the liner notes (if they bothered to give me anything to edit, which they often did not). Unfortunately, the old model music business is no longer, and I'm basically unemployable.

• Hot showers all the way.

• Favorite food is either butter chicken or chicken tikka masala, after decades of hating curries.

• Clearly the goth/industrial wearing black thing was NOT a phase, 30 years on.

• Cats and dogs are equally awesome in my world.

• My friends seem to fall into three categories: other parents from the neighborhood, college professors, and Fame 2 (goth-industrial subculture) people. I've had friends in one category get mentioned in books by friends in another.

• I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

• I loathe onions and cilantro. I'm sure all the Mexican restaurants I get food from laugh at me behind my back when I place orders.

• I've got some of those 'invisible' illnesses, too. I do my best to not use them as an excuse to be a shitlord to other people on games or in real life.

• I like documentaries.

• I like books on subcultures. Especially revelatory ones that de-lionize major figures (Genesis P-Orridge was/is a mentally and physically abusive asshole?! TELL ME MORE, COSEY!).

• I am incredibly judgmental. Given my freakish sensitivity, it's hypocritical. It's also totally a defense mechanism.

@wretched

Try this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mji35dlfrMQ

Pete Shelley of Buzzcocks.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/dec/06/pete-shelley-lead-singer-of-buzzcocks-dies-at-63

@mietze

Is redshirting not an option?

@ganymede

It's definitely a YMMV thing. We went through similar issues with our son at our shul-run preschool that both you and @mietze have experienced in public preschool. We would watch our son be sweet and socially ept and navigating the different groups of kids at our local park, but then get told how horribly unsocialized he was by his preschool teachers, who insisted we go and have him evaluated at the Erikson Institute (like, insisted so hard that it was like they were getting a cut of the fees from them or something). Why was he so unsocialized, according to them? He played by himself and 'allowed himself' to be bullied by a group of boys (who, not so coincidentally were all the children of members of the shul (synagogue) - we were not). How was he 'allowing himself' to be bullied? He stopped and counted to ten before returning the aggro those kids were dealing. Yes, his cooldown technique was 'a delay'. Why they didn't, I don't know, punish the bullying kids is beyond me.

Suffice to say, we were baffled by their assessment (they also basically danced around calling him out as being on the spectrum, because, of course, if they opined as such they could open themselves up to lawsuits as they aren't psychologists or truly qualified to assess as such), but we went ahead and spent thousands of dollars to have him assessed by Erikson. Guess what their final conclusion was?

'He's perfectly socialized, if maybe a little neurotic.' Yes, they were also dumbfounded as to why the preschool pushed for the assessment. Yes, there are some definite core strength and fine motor skills issues that they caught, and we are putting him through OT for, but the psychological side was completely unnecessary.

Whenever we take the bus past the shul his preschool was at, my son scowls out the window and talks about how terrible it was; how there were so many bullies and the teachers played favorites.

@blondebot

Weird, as I feel like this would be an even better use of taxpayer funds than all the money currently spent in the guise of preventing voter fraud (which more often than not seems to be coming largely from the ranks of the party so determined to prevent it)...

@roz

Exactly. I have no inherent problems reading a @desc. I don't care for having to play a guessing game of who's who in a large scene, and will therefore attempt to use +glance to get at least a general idea. Inevitably, the person refusing to use their name in their emitted poses will also not have a @shortdesc set. Often they won't have a +finger, +info, or a wiki done, either.

These are also often the same players who won't read the desc of the room that they're in and therefore pose inappropriately for the space. Or use tabletalk. Because everything is all about paying attention to them, and their shenanigans. They will also complain that they didn't know about an +event, in spite of there being three separate locations where the information for said +event is listed. They only want you to read their shit, they don't care about having to work at anything themselves.

@twinprince

Yes, but using solely descriptors to indicate yourself in a pose is pointless when people neither check @descs nor set @shortdescs for themselves. And if there are six people in the room I have zero desire to spam myself with all of their giant, florid @descs to figure out who 'the dark-haired man' might be. I never, ever use @emit unless posing a puppet or using sphere-specific posing and haven't gotten any complaints for my old-school PC Name-prefixed poses.

@vulgarkitten

She'd been raised by a Watcher, more or less, learning all the lore and such. Whether that means the Council gave them access to resources, though? Who knows. As we all know, they were shady as fuck and mostly interested in their own creature comforts.

@vulgarkitten

Clearly resources still come from somewhere, though, considering Kendra activated in resource-less Jamaica. Of course, that was pre-Watcher's Council going up in flames.

I do kind of like the idea of there being different cohorts of slayers and Watchers and witches and stuff. Perhaps there's the Scooby Gang sorority handling issues at the U of Dayton, or the law firm staffed solely by lawyerbots (ahem). Just making it high school is limiting in ways. I like the idea of having a 'hood-centric slayers group a la Gunn's backstory, too.

@ganymede

Or at least I'd try to help, anyway. My Daytonaica is decidedly based on just visiting and anecdotes from my mother in law.

It would be amusing if the Dragons actually were draconian, though. And the angry ghost of cancelled Blue Jacket.

@ganymede

None of them were in the Pixies or Breeders.

@ganymede

Okay, the Breakfast Club is admittedly horrible but my husband's grandfather loved it so it has sentimental value (even if we totally avoid it ourselves). Golden Nugget's somewhat better. Sloan-Kettering. That blacklight indoor mini-golf and go-kart place out on the highway. Constant construction on the ramp to Edwin C. Moses Boulevard...I'm pretty sure that that's where the actual Hellmouth is.

And SOMEONE needs to have a job scooping at Graeter's.

Can I play Kim Deal?

Also, hello, Museum of Funk. And the Boonshoft.

https://www.thefunkcenter.org/

https://www.boonshoftmuseum.org/exhibits/discovery-zoo/

@ganymede

So long as you put the Breakfast Club Cafe on the grid, it's all good. Or throw in an homage to my mother-in-law's family and include a Krakov's women's clothing store. And goddamn it don't forget Bill's, even if it's in Centerville.

@ganymede

Likewise Evanston, Illinois. Home of Tinkertoys, prohibition, Northwestern. Has beaches, a single high school and some serious segregation in spite of pretending it's super integrated. Had a large Haitian and Jamaican influx and is relatively close to Great Lakes Naval Base. Lacks a Yellow Springs-ish hippie enclave. It also has commuter rail lines, a giant cemetery between it and Chicago, and is basically Sunnydale Midwest.