Posts made by il-volpe

Did you know that flashing your lights at an oncoming car is a method of warning of any road hazard behind you (and thus ahead of them)?

Reasons I have done this:
Deer in the road.
A mattress in the road.
A car accident partially blocking the road.
A half-naked man chasing a German Shepherd puppy down the centre-line of the road.
Kids playing kickball beside the road.

I've never done it to warn of a speed trap, and I certainly wouldn't have tried to warn a frickin' cop car of a speed trap. Yes, ossifer, it means any road hazard, and there are deer in the road about a quarter-mile or less behind me. You got nice U-turn skillz, though.

@too-old-for-this I think that I'm pretty much like most non-anime viewers in that the only stuff that's familiar to me is Studio Ghibli, where they got them production values high. Or it's 25+ years old, but at that time I kinda liked the jerky thing.

@too-old-for-this This may explain why I often find stills from anime beautiful, but not the show itself.

@solstice I sympathize. I'm not into anime, but I'd much rather hear about how and why something I don't groove on is great and learn about the artists than hear about how it sucks.

@ganymede Huh, I'm late. What's the show with the interesting non-Sheldon autistic character, or was that just a for-instance?

Seems like the last (and maybe only) really good one was Will Graham, in spite of Bryan Fuller denying it.

'GLOW', but is your character the actress playing Zoya, or Zoya?

Tedious fuckers who will not answer "I am free all afternoon every day from Wednesday to Sunday, when can I come by and pick up this item you are selling?" with a TIME, but get cheesed off that I don't have my email open all the time and thus don't answer their non-actionable responses immediately.

I wonder if not answering is worse or better than the appropriate answer of "I just gave you the window of 'when is good for me', now you need to stop asking when is good for me and CHOOSE, or at least tell me when is good for you. Jesus fuck, this is like being married and trying to chose a fucking restaurant."

I hope, I pray, I wish some day people would learn to shut the fuck up about what their college roommate whom I never met's cousin's child is doing and speak the fuck up about information I need, like how I need to order thing X 'cause we're nearly out, and also they decided to rearrange the storage for thing Y and the reason I can't find it is not that we're out but that it's in some other cupboard where it's never been before.

I swear some people refuse to use language for anything but the entertainment of hearing themselves speak and the satisfaction of having my attention. Get a fucking dog, I'm trying to work.

Also, quit looking at me like I'm stupid when I can't find things that you moved without telling anybody.

@sunny said in Idling all day on MU*s:

(private / public weighted votes is a BAD ACTUAL IDEA but a reasonable example of what I mean)

Why?

The Prophets is a heck of a thing.

https://www.greenlightbookstore.com/book/9780593085684

@eye8urcake oh god this. Can't get or keep their attention when you want it, can't get them to stop interrupting you when you don't.

These fuckwits who claim superior understanding of economics and yet also insist that certain jobs are designed for high school students.

MUs without walk-in RP are failed MUs, or OTTs.

@ortallus What they really want is a cataloguing librarian. Which is particularly ghastly, because while not all autistics are cataloging librarians, cataloging librarians are kinda notorious for being autistic more often than not.

https://jobs.netflix.com/jobs/83698948

Ability to take requests and intuitively provide potentially unspecified results.

This is a job qualification, listed on a call for applicants.

I was just talking to a non-gamer about MUSHland and mentioned the horrible incident of VASpider as a houseguest doing massive damage to somebody's house and breezing off.

And also mentioned this time I had MUSHers as houseguests. One was on vacation, doing a road-trip tour of the US. They went and picked up the second MUSHer and spirited them away from an abusive relationship, took them along on part of the trip. They stayed at motels and other players' houses, and left the one who had needed a ride out where they wanted to go before the other flew home.

It's like that, too.

Anarchy means without rulers, not without rules. People like to think it's the other way 'round.

My peeve today is someone who insists on using pronouns without giving any clue what noun they are replacing. He called this afternoon, did he? Who of the 49.2% of humanity who might be referred to as "he" called? You want to know if I plan to use that? What, of all the objects that exist and which I might use are you referring to? Also, quit looking at me as if I'm stupid when I ask you to clarify this shit. I am doing the best I can by not trying to invent a shock-collar that will zap you every time you use a pronoun at all.

https://youtu.be/XluslIGClRA

@redbird Yeah, it is oWoD20 Vampire, Mage, Mortal(+)

Lemme guess, Mage is the other least favourite?

@redbird Modern Nights is prolly your Best and Only Hope.