"You've cancelled a couple of appointments."
"Yeah, sorry. I got called in to work, and my schedule got messed up when I had to cover someone stuck in quarantine. And I've got some problems with keeping track of schedules. I'm, y'know, seeing someone about it."
I work in mall retail. It's pretty much a combination of anxiety that I have to work with the public weighted against anxiety that I won't have work if we go back into lockdown or the store closes.
I've also done so much less than I keep thinking I will with the free time I've wound up with. I haven't even gotten into things I really want to do. It's brought out the worst of my "oh, I won't put on a movie because I'm going to Productive, I'll just do this ten-minute distraction first." Do you know how much time you can sink into a series of ten-minute distractions on the internet?
So yeah, uh, I guess the answer would be "badly."
@derp said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
And when I got to Faith, in Season 1, there is a certain song playing at a certain moment that very much sets the tone. Those who know the show know what I'm talking about.
Except in the Netflix version it's an entirely different song and I have no idea what the fuck that is supposed to even be.
AIUI, this is usually (like 99%) because the rights contract in production that let them use the song when it aired didn't include rights for digital streaming, often because digital streaming wasn't a thing when the contract was signed.
I feel like Duskwall (the Blades in the Dark setting) could make an awesome MU*, even though BitD is probably one of the systems least workable in an MU* format.
@VulgarKitten said in Favorite/Most Memorable Childhood Books:
Did no one else read Shel Silverstein or Roald Dahl??? Paper Bag Princess ftw. Also, back then 'Sick' (by Silverstein) was just funny but now I truly get it.
Oh shit, how could I have not said?
Yeah, Silverstein never really clicked for me--something about it just... rubbed me wrong. To the point that I felt vaguely uncomfortable when the books were being read aloud to the class in elementary school. I have no idea why; they're hilarious, but I just really disliked them. ("Ways in which @insomniac7809 was a weird kid: 5729/???")
I loved Dahl, though. Although looking back, out of the two, he was significantly more disturbing.
Oh, and I'll own up to it: the Weiss & Hickman Dragonlance series, and (to a lesser extent) the Salvatore Drizzt novels.
@Auspice said in Favorite/Most Memorable Childhood Books:
Tobias was my first fictional crush.
Didn't matter he was a hawk.
Oh, incidentally: Marco talking about Jake in the "introduce everyone at the start of the book" reads really differently to me now than they did back in the day.
"Rachel is a girl who is pretty. Ax is an alien, who can morph into a human; the girls say he is good-looking when he does but I am a guy so I have no way of knowing. Jake is my best friend; he has a strong jaw and the sort of presence that always makes him seem bigger than he is and somehow makes you sure that the decisions he's making are the right ones. I'd never tell him this, but I trust him absolutely and there is nothing I wouldn't do for him. Cassie was also there."
Like, this could be an accidental inverse of r/menwritingwomen but I think it might be on purpose.
Depending on how early childhood we're talking (in addition to the ones @Aria mentioned above, which we'd been talking about...)
I read The Hobbit really, really young, and I feel like that may have left some impact. I tried to get into LotR after, but I bounced off and it took a long time before I launched myself back in wholeheartedly--I was either near or in my teens. (The difference there is stark.)
One of the series that was very dear to me as a kid was the Animorphs books. They came out on an assembly line (monthly, I think) and I ate them up as fast as they made them. Applegate dropped the whole series at the start of quarentine; I've seen a few people look back at them, and checked out a couple as they go.
One of the comments someone made on a "read and comment" thing was "these books are for children; I'm sure there isn't going to be any disembowelment." I'm not sure if they were joking or genuinely unprepared. Holy hell this children's book series about tweens fighting space aliens was dark.
(Tobias was always my favorite; never quite forgave Ax for getting half his books. Looking back, I'm kinda surprised it wasn't Marco, but nope: sadboy hawk was My Guy.)
@Ghost said in Emotional bleed:
Why is this behavior less associated with playing Among Us and when it happens when people play "Call of Duty" it's approached like an unhealthy attachment, but when it happens in MU the inmates push to treat it like a normalized behavior that shouldn't be approached as abnormal?
If I don't feel things when I play a video game, it isn't a video game I'm going to be interested in.
Same with books, movies, all sorts of narrative media. Feeling feelings about imaginary people's feelings is kind of what drama is for. If my response to a narrative work is "that certainly was a series of events happening in chronological order" this isn't high praise.
So I can agree that people should, y'know, manage their shit and deal with IC IC, but I don't feel like "the fictional emotions of fictional characters have effected my emotional state" is a problem that needs working on.
The "zombie" thing is really, really overstated in general as far as psychiatric medication goes; the field isn't as old as you'd think, and the general understanding of "on medication" as meaning "zonked-out and numb" is kind of a legacy of the really early approaches. It's not entirely out of date, but it's not going to be something to worry about if you're on ADHD meds.
If you do get side effects, it's more likely to be the exact opposite.
ADHD meds are speed. They're designing some different approaches, and setting them as slow-release so you get more through the day instead of dosing all at once, but most all medication for ADHD is some kind of amphetamine. I haven't noticed anything much in the way of side effects, but you're more looking for reduced appetite, insomnia, general "you are taking stimulants" effects.
I've found that it helps with adulting in terms of... generally letting me keep track of what I'm doing and at least get started on a task. Or at least stick to it once I get over the insurmountable "start doing a thing instead of flitting between five things I should be doing" hurdle.
Full disclosure, first time around I thought it wasn't doing anything and was dumb so I stopped. It was the people around me who noticed that I'd gone off and needed to start again. (Only took like... three years?)
Right now, Ex3 only has Solars, Dragon-Blooded, and Lunars as viable PCs.
I'm gonna go against the grain here and say "DB game!" Partly because DB rule, partly because there's enough of a social structure around them that you don't run into the problem that the narrative and mechanical role of the Celestials is "break the world over my knee and remake it in my image."
So, the Boys are back (the boys are back the boys are back and...)
Really liking the way they changed up Stormfront from the books, the way they handled the fallout from the S1 end... a lot of it very real even when it's an invulnerable man in primary colors.
Kinda wonder if they're gonna do more with The Deep than watch his off-the-rails spiraling irrelevance to everyone else's storylines. Like, I'm enjoying his plotline so far, but while everyone else has a whole interrelation of plot and character elements, he's just doing his own thing in Sandusky, Ohio. (But I presume they are building up to something.)
Still as relentlessly dark and gory as ever, but like with S1, they're restrained with their excesses in a way Ennis never was, which lets the commentary and emotional impacts hit the mark much more directly.
...also oh my god the fucking diaper babies in the Amazon reviews giving it a 1-star for doing half the show in weekly releases instead of a bingable dump.
@Tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I'll go out on a limb and say that... at least 70% of people don't know where it comes from.
Although if we ask ourselves "this thing is popular with The Youngs of America, where did it come from?" at any point in the last century or so, lacking evidence to the contrary, we're usually safe to assume the answer is "black people."
@Ifrit said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
This is actually one of my biggest problems with this idea of 'cancel culture'. Really, as far as I can tell, it's just capitalism in operation. If I don't like an author, I don't buy their books. If enough people do that, they become unprofitable
(Well, that's technically market economics, which isn't the same thing as capitalism, but that's a whole different can of worms...)
So there is a tendency I've seen in some online spaces, where the ability of the public to reach quasi-public figures over social media or other online spaces can be an issue. Especially when claims can be manufactured or faked easily (it is really simple to make a fake tweet), and when the outrage can spread from someone who did a thing, to people in some way affiliated with someone who did a thing, to people associated with people affiliated with someone who did a thing.
I do see a difference between "I am not going to buy the thing," and from there "I am going to not buy the thing and encourage people to also not buy the thing," with people brigading someone's mentions because they're Kevin Bacon-associated with someone who did a thing or because they heard an unsourced claim that their target did something wrong. This is the sort of "cancel culture" I can see as a problem, and not one I know how to work at fixing.
I don't see "cancel culture" as related to the Star Trek thing, though. Big properties tend to avoid bringing in plot elements that seem to hit too close to a sensitive spot.
In 2001, for instance, the Twin Towers were edited out of everything from Raimi's first Spider-Man film to the Sex & the City intro, the entire finale of Lilo & Stitch was reanimated to swap out the 747 for a space alien ship, and the Simpsons New York episode was pulled from reruns for a decade. The whole subgenre of Emmerich-style ID4-wannabe "buildings go boom" action films was retired until '05 War of the Worlds (where the presentation was, ah, different) and didn't really make a comeback until 2009 with 2012.
Some sensitivity to what audiences will, en masse, be comfortable with and what constitutes "too soon" us as you say, just business sense.
Finally got to see a scrip monkey doctor to get me back on meds after three years.
Just love how part of the process is "figure out if the psychiatrist your're seeing believes the DSM about adult ADD being a real thing."
@GreenFlashlight said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):
You know what I don't understand? People who make food from what they have in the house rather than going shopping with a specific plan to make a specific thing. I occasionally hear someone say, "Well, the celery in the fridge is about to go, I better make something of it," and I'm just like... what? How do you just make something out of it?
Google the ingredients you have. Pick the first/highest-reviewed thing that pops up. Cook it.
Can we be sure things exist when I'm not looking at them?
@Tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
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@Aria said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
super hippie Presbyterian church
... how in the fuck does that happen?
PCUSA was the first major denomination to have gay marriage in the US. Not hard at all.
Those two things are totally not the same thing, at all.
handwobble?
At least Stateside, "hippie church" can mean UU or Quaker-style informality, but it can also mean female ministers and LGBT acceptance. This might belong in the Politics board, but with Christian conservatism being the sociopolitical stronghold of "gender roles" and "family values," a gay rights church is pretty "hippie."