Best posts made by Luna

@Insomnia YOU'RE THE WORST

Can I just be over everything right now? I'm so over it I don't even want the cake I saved calories for.

What @Shebakoby said was my first thought.

Family can get crazy and wives can make husbands do insane things.

Vent all you need! I'm sure there's plenty of sympathy and empathy around. I know there's a lot for you from me.

A lot of this is apples to oranges in general. My experiences living in a major metro area are not the same as someone else's in even the same state in a rural area which aren't the same as people living in other states. Within America alone there's a huge disparity.

The Medicaid and Medicare systems are insane. You are forced into them. Even if someone wanted to buy private insurance they won't sell it to you if you qualify for the programs based on age/income. I purposefully made less money to go to school so I qualified for Medicaid. I didn't want Medicaid. I made a financial choice and could afford insurance but I was told that if you qualify for Medicaid it's a done deal and was signed up through the system.

That same system canceled me and wouldn't let me have ANY insurance. No reason. I just got a phone call that said they made a mistake. Our bad, it said. Sorry you haven't had insurance this year, system error. It's July. I have asthma. Thankfully it hasn't been much of a problem since I've gotten much healthier. I could afford my meds and finally kicked my long term controller med anyhow...which was 'only' $400 a month.

My major issue with this is why should I be forced into a system that's there to help people when they are down? Let someone else have my Medicaid dollars. When I was married and on Tricare, my doctor took it out of charity to the military and their families. It didn't pay shit. Why should someone who devotes so much of their life caring for others be relegated to chump change? I've done taxes for doctors. What they end up making after student loans and malpractice is not as much as people seem to think and then you compare it to the hours, the dealing with people and insurance companies and the good ones spend time advocating for their patients, the constant need to keep learning and the time not spent with families and yikes.

No system is perfect. You can't look at England and Canada and then the U.S. And say 'well we should do what they do' because we're all so different.

The government helps and hurts in turns. Look at rescue inhalers for asthmatics. Cheap generics were around. Then they decided we were killing the environment with our CFCs so they made them illegal. The new inhalers aren't generic (yay patents) and they suck. It'll be years before were paying less that $50+ for these to breathe and they don't work as well.

The best thing we can all do is become educated and be our healthiest selves. Smokers pay in with taxes and cost healthcare billions a year. At least there's a sort of offset there but quitting would help that drain. Obesity costs somewhere around 200 billion a year if I'm correct. It's bankrupting the nhs in England. That's one lesson we can all take to heart no matter where you are. Diabeties is expensive and in many cases preventable. These are two choices at the individual level we can all do to help the 'system'.

@thebird How exciting!! I'm going to Vegas in October to see a kpop band. I've never been west so yay! Vacations are wonderful!

@Three-Eyed-Crow Agreed. It takes a LONG time. I still see myself as REALLY fat even after losing almost 100 pounds. I'm less than 20 pounds overweight now but in my mind I'm still a giant cow. I literally can't see it. It's also much harder now to get the same amount of weight loss I was once seeing because my TDEE and BMR is so much lower now than it once was.

@Arkandel Its a thing, as you can see. I don't get it much on say ESO, other than the occasional accusation of being a pre pubescent boy by sound. I do get a lot of 'hold up, Dave is a girl?!' But on mu*? I think most girls have been accused of being a dude. I like boobs. I played in the early 90s when it wasn't a super girl hobby to rp and we didn't have skype to prove otherwise. Also I like to say bitches a lot. I'm super mature.

If I ever was to be a burlesque dancer I'd steal @Miss-Demeanor as a name. It's a really good one. Luna is a decent crazy stripper name. I'm too old for that though. They'd make me work lunch shift with the other old fat strippers.

@Miss-Demeanor That would be awesome actually!

@wildbaboons said in Wheel of Time MU(SH|X):

Flow Charts!

You rang? Flow charts? Do you want a gantt for the project? Is there some sort of spreadsheet I can do?

I don't even really know the topic, I just magically heard the word flow chart though the universe.

Add me into the camp that misses the old randomness days. After I quit my log term Reach characters I tried to make new ones, there and elsewhere, even got them approved, but there are at least 2 that I never even did one scene with. Finding RP became a chore in and of itself. When I get on I largely am on to rp, but people treat the games like big chat rooms. I wandered off and haven't felt the drive to wander back.

With the holidays coming up I'm busy making treats that I won't and can't even eat and then forcing them on others.

EAT THESE COOKIES AND TELL ME HOW GOOD THEY ARE! It's the little things.

I am now also Portia on Eldrich.

@Cirno Oh no, black people have by and large never been hostile to me. Not even the crack dealers I used to run with. (And I mean this very literally, my stupid ass used to have very sketchy friends, whom I did things to like call them Pikachu and would cry when they were mean to their pitbulls)

Black women whom I interact with frequently have especially always been good to me, nicer on levels than white women. It's crazy white internet bitches who made me afraid and when I gave up trying to be the 'good white girl according to Internet rules laid out by fat white women' my daily interactions with black people became less stiff and way more easy and fluid.

I've learned that if you're not a fucking racist, just being yourself goes a long way. I'm sure it also helps that I'm the least intimidating person ever. I'm short and fat and not stunning by any stretch.

I got slut shamed. I was bewildered as to why this didn't create more rp for me. My TS is totally stuff done right.

Then learn to keep up with your things or you don't deserve them!

He literally had a Patrick cheer he would do during group Skype calls. Like, not really a Patrick cheer, but his player had a cheer for himself, though I'm not sure if he could really draw a clear line between him and his character so...maybe it was a cheer for both of them?

It was not, but was similar to 'Patrick Marine Corp ooo-rah rooting' tootin' awesome sauce punch you in the face...blah blah yay!' but was twice as long as that.

I am not making this up. It is unmakeupable.

ETA - He had the cheer memorized, because it was always the same.

@silentsophia You're a bit of a hot mess but you're an adorable one. You're just fine!

I absolutely had players stall scenes like crazy! I've even been witness to them but wasn't involved so I checked the fuck out. Four and a half hours. For a scene in which I'm sure my character was dead meat. JUST KILL ME JESUS. I actually cried at some point because I was tired. I should have just disconnected and been like fuck y'all.

Good lord. Who's that bad that you want to ignore them? Damn yall.

I'm very confused by all of this. Hosting is like $5 a month shared? Something like that? It's stupid cheap. I have a virtual server, I think it's maybe $50 a month? I only have that because I have client files I have to be responsible for and hosted QuickBooks. I also have a reseller account for whatever's that's half that. Wtf. Host. Your. Shit. If anything around $10 a month breaks you, quit fucking mushing and fix your life.

Unpopular opinion time...some revealing clothing should just not be worn by some people. And furthermore, we're back to don't be trashy. Revealing clothing isn't always trashy but some sure as hell is.