Posts made by HelloRaptor

@Cobaltasaurus said:

@HelloRaptor I am talking about this thread and the way people are being all SUPER SERIOUS in it. C'mon, I want funny TV-Mocking.

Yes, that's what I was getting at. ^_^

@Cobaltasaurus said:

God, you people kill all joy and fun.

This is how I felt when I realized how they'd put the crazy fun of owod through a Super Serious Introspective Bullshit filter to come up with nwod.

I suggest people watch schlocky, trashy TV series as if they were a MU. You get to rewatch things and make hilarious comparisons.

People who've been MU*ing for a large chunk of their lives don't already do this? >_>

We totally do this.

And all because the world ends if somebody hasn't logged in in a month.

If only the universe weren't so cruel.

Seems like pointless nonsense. There are a number of positions on any given game that don't require direct access to staff by players. Coders, job monkeys, etc. And as has been noted, even those who do directly interact with players (sphere staff, mostly) can be on to do staff things without interruption. On-and-working is not the same as on-and-accessible, and an off duty flag doesn't really preclude getting pages, even if it's just folks peeking in to see if you're really off duty or if you just forgot to set yourself otherwise, and then you're either ignoring them or wasting time explaining, or whatever.

If staffers whose duties do require they be accessible to players to some degree are using the dark flag to avoid doing so, that's a problem with those staffers, not the dark flag or folks who use it. Trying to use code to fix a symptom as if it'll fix the problem is poor form.

@RDC said:

@HelloRaptor said:

@RDC

If it's not worth making a rule against, it's not worth discouraging, in my opinion.

...it's been a while since I read anything just really, really stupid, so I've been waiting for the dam to burst. Thanks for leaping on the grenade, RDC, you're a real mensch.

Hey, welcome to the Hog Pit. Oh wait.

You can probably guess which one you are here, Bitch Wonder.

In case you're still not picking up on the nuanced subtlety here, my point is that sometimes we want to discourage behaviors, but don't feel it's either necessary or desirable to make actual rules about it. There's no 'DO NOT FART IN THE ELEVATOR OR YOU WILL BE FINED.' rules, but farting in the elevator is something most people would probably like to discourage. Sometimes you can't help yourself, but much of the time you can, and should.

@RDC

If it's not worth making a rule against, it's not worth discouraging, in my opinion.

...it's been a while since I read anything just really, really stupid, so I've been waiting for the dam to burst. Thanks for leaping on the grenade, RDC, you're a real mensch.

I hate skinny jeans with burning, fiery passion.

....agreed.

@Ganymede said:

@HelloRaptor,

I'm always surprised by how stupid you are, given the volume that you've written. Then again, I learned long ago that those who write a lot often have less to say.

That said, I'll define what I mean by "fantasy-escapists." These are the sort of role-players, to me, that create a PC to serve as an avatar into which they can withdraw to escape their own lives. That can be contrasted with a player that creates a PC to play in a game.

I wasn't disagreeing with you, just mocking the idea that most MU*ers aren't more the former than the latter.

@Ganymede

they role-play more like fantasy-escapists

As opposed to everyone else, who role-play more like...

Ahahaha, no, I can't even.

How is that different from how most folks play most everything else?

(Hint: It's not.)

@Ganymede said:

Help me. What's a fatkini?

I'm assuming it's one of those 'bikinis' that have enough material to cover the lower belly as well? Apparently it's some social media shit as well, but I'm too wary to go look.

@Insomnia said:

@ThatOneDude That's fine, as long as it stops assuming my laptop screen is a touchpad. I could have gotten one like that, but I already have a tablet.

I want to put things on my desktop, dammit.
I want to turn off the swooping thing when I use the touchpad.

I do like that it's easy to make a backup, though I didn't like that I had to buy a USB drive to do it, rather than get disks. They're cheap, sure. But argh!

Download Classic Shell, install, hit the 'Dekstop' on the stupid start menu thing and then click on the Start button there and it'll take you through the options. You can do with the automatic ones it sets up, or you can poke through it and check for things you want to tweak. The default is to revert you to essentially 98% Windows 7 setup.

If you want a start button that looks like the win7 one, I can send you the image file with the various button pictures so you can pick the one sized right for your screen.

Also, I think there's an option in there to do it, but you can also just right-click on your taskbar, select Properties, go to Navigation, and remove the 'Corner Navigation' checkboxes to disable the irritating charms/etc menus when using your touchpad.

My windows 8.1 is virtually indistinguishable from Win7 unless you really know what you're looking for. A couple of things took getting used to, like where to find the things now lumped under PC Settings, but I'm pretty much completely free of the features that made Windows 8.1 such a total trainwreck. And a lot of stuff that people think won't install on it will install on it just fine, it just won't run through the Start screen and its ridiculous 'Apps' bullshit.

I recently put it on my laptop, and that shit starts up soooooo much faster/smoother than even a stripped down win7 did.

Windows 10 is going to make most of this shit the default (desktop mode, disabling touch controls unless it detects a touchscreen, and even then you can shut it off, etc).

@surreality said:

An easy compilation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_child_prodigies

It's not really just child prodigies. The lawyer I mentioned, and once I find the writeup on her you'll see what I mean, isn't really a prodigy she just does (or has done) a lot of disparate things, including combinations of shit that people make snide remarks about characters only being able to do because they're MU* characters.

There's a long and storied tradition of turning up your nose and rolling your eyes at people whose characters 'aren't realistic', which more or less means the character probably hit your professional/hobby/etc buttons where you're certain you Know Better.

"You can't have a PHD at 19, that's stupid."

"Martial artist-stripper-extreme sports-lawyer? No, you suck."

Both of those describe actual people, and I'll dig them up later. For now I'll open with:

John Urschel - Bachelors and Masters in Mathematics, 4.0 GPA, offensive guard for the Baltimore Ravens.

Too Young For Doctorate - Here's 10. Take your pick., from Karl Witte at 13 to Akshay Venkatesh at 20.

Still trying to re-find the super hot ex-exotic dancer turned lawyer who took a year off as a partner at her firm to do a year of extreme sports bullshit.

...what the fuck? If you're going to try and make my eyes and ears both bleed at the same time, a little warning.

@BetterJudgment said:

@Arkandel said:

A leaked video of Avengers 2: Age of Ultron is out!

Wow. When SNL turned to crap (which I think was 1980, but I might have missed some good stuff later), they didn't stop, did they? I made it through twenty seconds of this before it became too excruciating to watch.

I guess we can identify the decade during which you lost your sense of humor, then, in case it's important to future generations.

Yeah, seriously. Dislike whoever you want as an actor but trying to bolster that opinion by claiming they're ' a disgusting human being' because of barely more than a half-remembered vague ass claim they might, maybe have once said something homophobic? C'mon.

@Admiral said:

Well, aside from being a bad actor who was in a shitty overblown movie (Hurt Locker), a 'replacement' for Matt Damon in the Bourne movies (Sure, call it a 'spinoff') there's a story going around about someone suggesting he might be gay, and him flipping out and going off on them and making homophobic statements.

Also he's got a rat face. His face? It looks like a rat.

Never saw Hurt Locker, but didn't the Bourne movies more or less follow the books, and they were actually different characters they were playing? o.O

As to the rest, jesus, that's nursing some old ass nonsense. He was in an interview, got asked if he was gay, and got pissed off over the media feeling like they had a right to know what went on in his (or anybody's) bedroom.

Google claims it was in 2012, and the quote was:

"I want my personal life to be personal, and it's not fucking true. And I don't care if you're talking about things that are true, you're still talking about my personal life. How about I go peek in your window, take what underwear you wore last night, whose husband you were f–king, and shove that in the megaphone throughout your neighborhood? How does that feel? It's none of your goddamn business."

There was some internet hand wringing over whether or not he was too vehement in denying being gay there, or just heated on the subject of media invasions of privacy, but that was as far as it went.

Unless you're talking about some other Jeremy Renner related shit, but that one got blown wildly out of proportion by the internet.

She means one per person, you'll be fine.

You just can't play two, because.... waiiit. I think we're on to something here.

Hmm.

Hmmmm.

Hmmmmmmmm.

Nope, nevermind, seems legit.