"My battery is low, and it's getting dark." -Last words of the Mars Rover Opportunity. It was only supposed to work 90 days, was up there for 15 years. Geez, I used it's first selfie as an avatar on... whatever iteration of the board was around then.

@Kanye-Qwest Regardless of how actions taken 74 years ago now are viewed in today's light, it's still an iconic picture and an important part of human history.

NASA's last word TO Opportunity were Billie Holiday's "I'll Be Seeing You."

I'll find you in the morning sun
And when the night is new
I'll be looking at the moon
But I'll be seeing you

I'm not crying, you're crying. I also got some dust in my eyes and fell into a pile of raw onions.

Not really anger, more WTF:

As much as I love Halloween, I think August is a bit early to get the candy out. That Christmas commercial I saw the other day can fuck right off too.

@surreality said in RL Anger:

That is not a hero. That is a selfish, exploitative monster, desperately grasping for high ground after knowing they've done horrible wrongs.

They are also not your friend. Friends do not cut down friends that way. Cut them out of your life. And yes, it hurts, but it will hurt a lot less in the end. Relationships are a two way street, both people need to want it and work at it, that's just as true with friends as it is with lovers. And this person is not your friend. Don't waste any more time on this person, and you do you, and you do art. If art makes you happy, do it. Do it for you, your family, and for people who actually care about you. Don't do it for this person who is not your friend.

Okay, having read through all of this, here's my $0.02 (which aren't worth anything except online anymore, since Canada got rid of pennies.)

I miss the simple warning we had at the top of the last WORA. You're an adult, sink or Swim. Moderators kicked trolls, you don't post personal info, and they deleted pictures of dead bodies. I've always hated that the Hog Pit became opt in and contained.

A forum, as much as everyone would like it to be is not a democracy, it's a dictatorship. EM handed the keys over to @Arkandel and now it's his to do with as he pleases. It's his to ask who he wants to help out with it. Don't like how he's doing things? Go make your own forum. Seriously. We are a very small hobby and it's just getting smaller and smaller. We need more diverse places to discuss... whatever. SWOFA and IGU did it, for different reasons, and sure they didn't last, but I think we were better for it as a community when there was more than one place around to bitch about, but also constructively talk about this hobby of ours. If everything offends you, go make a place where those offensive things aren't allowed. I'm not saying go away, there's nothing saying people can't browse multiple forums, just go somewhere where your being offended can make a change.

I've been in this hobby.... way too dame long. I think a lot of us have. We have jobs, and kids, and lives now we didn't have 20 years ago. When I play a game, or talk about the hobby I do it for fun, in my free time. As soon as something becomes work, or I don't enjoy it, it's purged from my life. I don't have time for it.

TL;DR we're all too old for this shit.

@Arkandel Don't try to please everyone, all the time. It isn't going to happen, and you will end up making yourself crazy for trying. If you want light moderation - do that, make it clear. Don't post personal info. Don't post disturbing images. Don't be a dick. You are all adults, use common sense. Whatever. Don't worry about what goes where, who is butthurt, and just deal with the issues as they come up, if they come up. Jut like running a campaign in anything, really, you can come up with 10 things the players might do, and they will come up with an eleventh. You can't plan for everything that might go wrong, especially with how easily people become offended with things now, so don't try. That too is the way to crazyness. And you seem to be a pretty okay guy. Wouldn't want you turning into Rasheem over all this.

I would suggest setting up a Paetreon with different tiers. That way, if someone wants to tip you randomly for all the awesome work you've done over the years, they can.

@thenomain Apparently I'm single now?

I just got a message from a friend who said he thought we should break up and just go back to being friends, and I was understandably confused, and asked if he was drunk or confused. I thought maybe I led him on or something and started to feel bad and then realized he "broke up" with me on Christmas Eve so he's an ass, and...bullet dodged, I guess?

@deadculture said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

@saosmash I've been called a cheeky cunt by angry Brits during a Planetside 2 army operation. Does that count?

This right here is why policing language on a forum on the internet is pointless. Words are tied to culture, and this is not a US centric forum, and going along with the intent of a word; a Brit calling a person a cunt will be much less scathing than an American using it.

FWIW people can call me an Americanized Cunt any time they like... in the Hog Pit though, please.

I planned on doing this once for a stream. Just needed people to read it with me.

BTW I'm streaming >OBSERVER_ right now, going to try for full playthrough.

Have I been Pwned is a good place to check, regardless of howsafe you are, too.

I got this. I can do this. I will not panic. I will get the first level 200 on @TwitchSings I will not chicken out. It's all fine. It's all good. https://www.twitch.tv/moiren I am fine.

Friday @ 4pm EST I will be starting a 24 hour marathon to celebrate getting 100,000 views on Twitch. Come say hi!

"Hey why did my pet run away?"
"You have to feed them now."
"WTF?"

Conversation I saw at least 6 times during the beta they had.

Oh and hunters, you need to buy arrows again too! Have fun!
Soulshard farming. Farming MC for that damn bag and the mages always getting the ring. You know who should have got it? THE ONLY WARLOCK WITH YOU ON GARR THAT'S WHO!

Yeah not looking forward to it at all, tbh. But I do want to go back to the old quest places from before Cataclysm.

All this May I will be raising money for St. Jude's whenever I stream.

@Rowan Yep. I my defense I am constantly having to be reminded it's May of 2019. Like... the 70's were 30 years ago, right? Even if I saw the date it wouldn't have registered.

Sir Roger Moore.

Not a celebrity, but Notre Dame is on fire and has been for several hours.