Posts made by Lisse24

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As a follow-up, orders finally came through yesterday, so now I can stop being frustrated at a slow-moving PCP and start worrying that I will go and pay hundreds of dollars for blood tests that will all come out perfectly fine and show nothing.

@macha said in RL Anger:

@lisse24 Call your doctor. Harrass them (politely) until they give you the order.

I have. Hence the increasing amounts of frustration.

I've been in an increasing amount of pain over the past year. By the time it got to the I should talk to someone point, I already had my yearly physical scheduled. So, I went to the physical and told my Dr. I dunno what I said, but my Dr. took it all very seriously, much more than I had to that point, and began to talk about autoimmune disorders and told me about a number of blood tests she was going to order. That was nearly 2 weeks ago.

However, several weeks later, my Dr. hasn't actually put in the paperwork to order the blood tests, meaning that I can't go get them. Waiting for results of tests is always frustrating, but I feel like this is even worse, because I haven't even been able to go get the blood drawn yet.

@lithium said in The Makeup Thread:

@surreality said in The Makeup Thread:

@ixokai We don't have the face-shaving thing to worry about. And that's daily fuss.

PCOS says Hello!

Yeah, as a disease, it sucks.

It's a bit surreal when it happens someplace you live...and it's the second shooting of the weekend, too. There was a shooting after a HS football game on Friday

A not insignificant number of coworkers do not know how to use the 'review' tab in Microsoft Word to make edits.

Instead, they will do things like change the font color when adding a new word or change the font to strikethrough to mark that it should be deleted. Not only is this a pain to go through and change, it messes up the formatting when I go to change things into HTML for our webpage.

@kay said in New Project?:

I'll give you an outlier. How about this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Augustine,_Florida

Living 30 min drive from St. Augustine, I can vote for this. It has an interesting vibe. There's a small, high-end historical district. There's a touristy-beach area. There's wealthy areas to the north and south of the city along the beach, and there's a lot of really sketchy areas. It's one of the few places in the state where you can find affordable housing close to the beach. I mean, I wouldn't trust the safety of those houses, but still.

Bonus points if you emit the Holly Jolly Trolley rolling by the historical district with cheesy Christmas songs every 5 minutes in the holiday season.

ETA - I'm tired of massive games. More single sphere please.

@insomniac7809 said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

I just don't really buy the whole "community will regulate bigoted shit-flinging" deal, especially on the intertubes.

That works as long as the community has a strong core of non-shitbags who are, for whatever reason, dedicated to sticking out and shouting down shitbaggery. As opposed to non-shitbags just picking up sticks and going somewhere with a less unpleasant shitbag/non- ratio, which itself skews the ratio shitbag-wise, making it less appealing to non-shitbags, and on and on and now you have 4chan.

If people have not listened to the Reply All Incel episode, now's probably a pretty good time to do it. Because it illustrates this point pretty well.

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

I'm going to be as short as possible in my response that I will probably be forced to regret.

I feel that it has been made abundantly clear on this forum, unless one is left leaning in nature, they should keep their mouths shut. Regardless of topic. If you try to speak otherwise, the dogpile will come.That if you are a moderate, or right leaning, you're simply not welcome here.

That. Is exactly how this place has made me feel.

I'm a conservative. I speak on conservative issues in the appropriate spaces on this forum pretty often. I'm not dogpiled on or run out. There's a reason that I have a different experience than other conservatives.

That being said, dogpiling does happen on this forum, a lot. And I am sure there are people who keep thoughts and opinions to themselves not because saying them is inappropriate, but because they don't feel like dealing with a shitstorm if it blows up in their face.

There are also the people who intentionally try to start a shitstorm or round up people to start a dogpile and those behaviors are pretty worrisome to me.

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

I believe that speech should always be unmoderated and that social admonishment will take care of course correction, if necessary.

Coming from a place with actual limitations to what they call freedom of expression, down to and including the very necessary element for freedom of speech called anonymity, I find that calls to moderate and squelch 'undesired speech' in any way is like adding a ball and chain to one's own ankles.

Because the goalpost of what's acceptable will keep moving, the more you call for said moderation, until it's 1984 (see my forum avatar) and Big Brother is watching you for signs of Oldspeak.

I think there's a vast difference in moderating the ideas allowed in speech and moderating the type of speech that is allowed. I would never, ever be for the former. No matter how idiotic the idea, I think everyone benefits from having it aired. I think society is increasingly suffering from it's refusal to do the latter.

I think in order for discourse to be really free, in order for everyone to have the same chance of getting their ideas heard (although not agreed with), then you have to limit personal attacks, the spreading of false information, and the use of purposefully inflammatory language. How this applies to MSB, I don't know, but I do know that people need to free themselves of the illusion that unmoderated speech equals free speech.

Additionally, I'm not for blacklisting certain words. As another said, words are words. They in and of themselves are (mainly) neutral. However, I do think it's reasonable to moderate the way in which words are used and when someone asks me to not use a certain word as a negative descriptor, it seems only basic decency to comply.

Added Natalie, my mortal over at SFMux. She's rich, paranoid, and probably knows too much. It'll be a great combination, really!

So, that was the episode of West World that I've been waiting for since starting to watch this series. Amazingly good, heart-felt, compelling storytelling.

Completely makes up for having gone to see First Reformed yesterday.

@roz said in Earning stuff:

The problem is that bad social RP can end up without any purpose, without any point. You never manage to find something interesting in it anywhere. And when people have limited time to RP, they may not want to risk ending up in a total dud of a scene, even if there's also the possibility that they'll get something brilliant.

This. This is the problem that needs to be solved. I agree with everyone that agrees that social RP is important - nay it's essential. It's a key element of all good writing, book, movie, tv show, or otherwise, but too often, when we try to add it into games, we spend multiple scenes trying to figure out what we should be talking about or how our characters should relate.
I think we need to do a better job of finding ways to make random/social RP focused and meaningful from the outset.

For the past year and a half, I have been doing my job, plus covering a couple of other positions while my work was going through a transition. I have done this cheerfully and without complaint. According to my boss, I have been more efficient, more conscientious and all around 'better' than the people who left these positions.

Now, after a year and a half, we've hired someone for one of the positions and my boss is refusing to allow me to train them in what I've been doing. I don't understand this. I really, really don't. I'm the one who has been doing the work. I know the way that I've been doing it, the new processes I've come up with to keep on top of things, etc. etc. etc.

There are multiple major Things my boss has to deal with this summer, so even if he had all the knowledge that I did, he doesn't have the time to train someone. I don't understand how this isn't an automatic 'yes, you take care of this.'

This person starts in a week, and I don't even know which tasks they'll be taking on and which tasks I'll be keeping on my plate. I am so amazingly frustrated.

@arkandel said in #WIDWW pt 2 - ST, Player, or staff?:

@taika said in #WIDWW pt 2 - ST, Player, or staff?:

The magic of Supernatural is that it doesn't take itself seriously. There's room to have fun and be goofy and go to those crazy, wacky places with it. But then you also have these amazing NPC's, like Pestilence, Death, and Loki. Death's entrance to the series is just... Amazing.

What I like about it is that there are no if's or but's about how the supernatural corrupts all who meddle in it, and not in adorable "sure, I'm wearing the Dire Doom Necklace so I'm kinda grumpy but I just use it to kill bad guys better" but rather in "*I'm going to end up trying to murder everyone I love within the next couple of days" kind of ways.

Also Hunters are badasses and they know shit... but they are facing things way more powerful than they are, and they don't know nearly as much as they need to, other than when they are fighting the most typical monsters. Sometimes they get lucky, else they need to hit the books and hope they find something they can use as a weapon somehow, else they are toast.

This. This is what I view as a dark situation - being outnumbered and outgunned and having too little knowledge and having to scramble to keep ahead. I'd play that to death, but there's just not much opportunity to . I'm still waiting for the limited XP game to come along, but it seems like all the new games are going for the tier system, which I don't understand because stuff like:

That's not because of the settings though, it's because of how we as players have traditionally set up our games. Characters are very often as or even more powerful than the antagonists they face, and they expect to know a lot (in fact, nearly everything) about what's happening through rolls. So what in a plot could have been a full arc of fact finding it's either handled in a random +job (which with Academics 3 and Intellect 3 mean you get 2 successes on average so it's basically a given), and then you just outnumber and outgun the critter to put it down.

TL;DR: It's how we implement games that's been failing us thematically, not the original systems and settings themselves.

is just not fun to me, and I don't understand people who want to play the gazillion XP vampirewerewolfmage and win with no cost. I agree with the other person who says they don't really see many dark WoD games out there, because if you're going to explore dark themes, then there has to be cost and consequences and in most cases, that just doesn't exist.

I'm poking around this game. If anyone wants a hanger on or anything like that, lemme know.

Prefer non-changeling since I'm already doing Fate's Harvest.

It's frog season here in Florida, and there's currently a frog climbing up my sliding glass door. My cat really wants to eat that frog and keeps trying to attack it - despite the fact that several sheets of glass are between her and it. She's stubborn though! She'll get it soon enough! She's even tried licking the glass to see if she can taste it.

I love cats.

@three-eyed-crow I once had someone do this to me and their tragic back story included all sorts of sexual torture, which they described, in detail. I was like nope. Nopenopenope. Done with that character.

@surreality I agree. One is an engaging drop of a backstory the other is ...too much.

Anyway, I didn't mean to imply that all my characters have lengthy or tragic backstories. On RfK both Kara and Mackenzie lived relatively normal lives. Kara embraced her family and lives and sought to make the world better, while Mack was a bit of a rebel. In fact, when I made the first iteration of Cerise way back on TR, her background was very sketchy and it developed over time. She changed from small town girl who didn't quite make good to poor rich girl. My point is more that I have to understand what drives the character, who they are, and their mindset in any circumstance. I have to empathize with them. I struggle to empathize with vampires, even when I have a concept I think is cool.

@arkandel I hear there's some really strong language in it though, which is a shame, because my nephew just picked up karate and would probably get a kick out of a karate show. (See what I did there???)

More important than anything else, if I'm going to stick with a character for a long time, they have to feel real and solid to me.

So, I tend to make characters that are subtle or layered. If they have a tragic backstory, it's unlikely to come out in RP all at once, you might pick up hints of it in some RP, but my character will likely never drop the full story. For example: Cerise on Fate's Harvest has been abandoned/left/betrayed by nearly everyone she ever cared about, but that happened years ago now, and so she's trying to pick her life back up and move on. So, she's not overwhelmingly sad, she's not twisted and tortured, she's doing what humans do ... dealing, and it's how she's dealing that plays into how she approaches the world. Bad relationship with rich, big city parents? Find a town on the edge of nowhere and waste that Harvard education working in a book shop.

It also plays into why I shy away from Superhero games. I mean, maybe I could be lured to one if someone promised me grittiness, real, substantive costs, and limited abilities, but I get the feeling most games aren't that. I also have trouble on WoD games playing the major spheres. I can't ever quite get into the headspace of those characters and empathize with them. I think I've decided I need to do a becoming or two on screen to help with that.

News stations that use emojis in their news alert headlines.

Seriously, it's not helping me take you seriously as a news source.