Best posts made by Herja

@ganymede I am a real property auditor and this is what I do everyday in my real life. Comparing economic principles to accounting principles is inaccurate as they aren’t the same things or even really in the same category of study. One is the framework for how financial information is recorded. The other is theory based on how people behave with money. I am not disputing that people in general seek to maximize gain and minimize loss with very little future consequence thinking involved. Accounting concepts seek to determine what guidelines keep short term greed from doing long term economic damage. See WorldCom, see Exxon.

ETA: The issue isn’t that real estate speculation is increasing the price of real estate. The problem is what is going on in the accounting to make that happen. Take a look at Zillow’s most recent 10-K. It is enlightening and I expect the SEC is going to step in eventually.

@VulgarKitten Where the Sidewalk Ends was my jam.

@bananerz

@Lotherio I am so sorry that you and your kid are having to deal with that. It's exhausting on so many levels. I'm pretty sure that my school system is very aware of me in a not great way because I've been a vocal pain in the ass for the past five years. Even then, even being Mama Bear af, it wasn't until she was having screaming meltdowns in class that her doctor agreed to do the testing.

I've been involved in IRC roleplay since I was about 16 years old. I spent years playing on play by email games and forum games as well. I started RPing because I love to tell stories. I have since I first started playing with Barbies and acting out elaborate fantasy scenarios with them. I guess I never really grew out of playing pretend, but until I discovered the internet, it was all just inside my head or written down in these notebooks that I would FILL with world-building notes.

Then I discovered people telling stories on IRC and the rest is history. It's been twenty years now. I've taken breaks here and there for sometimes years at a time, but I always come back because there are always stories that I want to tell, characters that I want to explore.

I found MUs thanks to my best friend who knew I needed an outlet and thought this could be a good one. And it absolutely has been, no matter what has happened. I've met some wonderful people. I met my partner. I've told some stories that have been just beautiful. While some might find it terrifying to think of moving into a MU without any friends, I find that exciting. New people mean new stories to tell. That's all that this is about for me.

@Quinn No, he was not.

The plot twist in the last Watchmen episode.

@zobi I RPed briefly on Wyrmrest Accord. It was pretty wild!

@Meg The scenes between Myrinda and Ianthe were hilarious. So much exasperation! Haha.

@saosmash said in The Work Thread:

Organization and calendaring were ALREADY a problem for me

I have a months worth of audits to do in 2 weeks (thanks seasonal depression!) and just trying to get all the paperwork organized and the actual audits scheduled makes me wanna crawl back in bed and hide some more.

@zobi I was Horde side. I did some light RP for a couple of months and then ran into a scene with a bunch of blood elves, of which about 75% were actually robots and noped out of it. Maybe there was some really in depth story behind this that I wasn't privy to, but from someone who was just dipping their toe into the RP scene, I immediately felt like I was missing something major and it wasn't for me.

@caryatid I always had fun with you and wish you the absolute best.

I love being able to create situations and stories in which players can develop characters. I love crafting a narrative and then seeing how even MY expectation of what that story might be changes once players start interacting with the hooks that I put out there. I love watching that development and getting to engage in those emotional highs and lows with a player. For real, if I have ever GMed for you and you laughing or cried over something in our scene, I can guarantee that I was sobbing and cracking up on the other side of the screen with you.

@ganymede My daughter is on the spectrum and operates in a similar way. She can be a really kind kid in that she does a lot to help out with her little brother and she loves animals but she is also the sort that will burst out laughing if someone else is crying or having a meltdown. She says things that are incredibly hurtful and is confused when I explain to her why that was super messed up. She doesn't respect authority in the form of a person at all, but she does respect "the rules". if you tell her a rule, she follows it without deviation even when deviation from the rules makes more sense socially. She is exceedingly, brutally honest, even when it would be better for her if she lied.

@Auspice You haven't even TSed me yet, tho.

Goodwill is what you pay OVER the valuation of a business. If a business is worth 2 million, but you pay 3 million, then the excess is considered goodwill and amortized since it refers to the intangible property that you are purchasing, such as branding and intellectual property, etc. If the business is valued at over 2 million, but you are only paying 1 million for it, then the excess valuation is going to be taxed as a gift per the IRS. I would be very careful and make sure all your documentation is in order.

@Meg You are special, bb. Everyone else gets NOTHING. NOTHING!

@macha Probably Indiana, lol. We don’t have any inspections here and it shows.

@roz