Posts made by mietze

When spoiled kids are tossing tons of electronics/clothing/ect because they get tired of packing it, you don't even need a niche. Especially when the surrounding areas are pretty low income. Yay everyone wins.

I try to match my length to what's around me, as well as being respectful of intent of the scene. If it's an info dump scene someone is trying to get through, I am not going to give them and everyone else multiple screens of my textual masturbation when what they WANT in is the relevant information. I do have several people I can totally vomit purple prose with--in small/private scenes. It's fun, I enjoy it, but it's rude in many circumstances.

I detest snarky meta. As well as people who constantly have to babble in ooc during a scene if it's in a group. I dislike people who are rude to the ST, and people who can't be assed to even bother to read the basics of others' poses.

But I will RP with anyone at least once, and often multiple times. I do not have to like them as a person to enjoy RP, and there are many people who I don't like their RP that I adore oocly.

But for me, courtesy is tops. If I see someone being discourteous to others habitually (even if it's not me) then I'm not inclined to invest in them in the future.

Paid job history starting at 12:

In High School (all but the field worker and bagger were under the table/cash only):

Babysitter
Tobacco field worker (seasonal) in
Commissary bagger
Summertime full time daycare worker (either for a family or at a center)
Pet sitter
Housecleaner

College:

Wendy's
Corrections officer at a juvenile facility
Night shift intake at an emergency homeless shelter
Paid actor for a summer outdoor theater production
Term paper editing and thesis typing for fellow students
Flea market/swap meet vendor (from all the stuff I dumpster dived for with friends on move out day of the dorms each year. The highest paying gig of all!)

Early to mid 20s/post college:

Manager of a group home for developmentally disabled adults
Outreach worker for homeless youth involved in prostitution
Nanny (highest paid gig here, it was during the 90s when if you were white, young, college educated english speaking female you could demand whatever you wanted pay wise--because the economy was booming and there was a shortage of those people working jobs like child care--I got a part time job paying 30k plus benefits!)
Corrections officer - Night shift
Therapeutic foster care parent
Grocery store clerk
Preschool teacher

Mid 20s to late 30s - Stay at home mom. But probably got more business training and more traditionally "professional" experience via volunteering and running non-profits that most of my jobs/college up until that point.

Late 30s- Went back to school, got a massage license, started and had my own successful massage practice for 3 years
Worked very part time at an indoor playspace where I could bring my kiddo once he hit toddlerdom.

Now - Hell if I know. I have some health issues that make returning to professional massage unlikely, which I'm still grieving. Considering going back back to school for a MSW. I really miss corrections and street work, but that's been vetoed. But! I'd really love to get involved in either a resettlement or a homeless youth caseworker capacity, and these days you do really need a MSW. I have my toe in the door due to volunteer work at several places though.

I think also that there is a tendency for non-villain PCs to hammer the villain/antagonist PCs oocly, or to treat them as if they exist solely to provide non-challenging scenes for the heroes/protagonists. (This can also be a problem in PvP, but on games where PvP is expected/encouraged there is often kind of at least a token effort to see all PCs as having vital goals of their own, not just a bit part in someone else's story).

I have seen more obnoxious protagonists than antagonists, long term. Probably because the people who survive for awhile as protagonists tend to be some of the better RPers out there (so people worth their salt will want them around for a bit because they are fun), and many have to OOCly learn how to communicate well. When people think they're entitled to a win or that they are more important, they tend to just steamroller and behave as if there's not another player involved except to serve their own interests.

Of course there are people who play antagonists very badly, who also have that communication issue. Or they just enjoy being dicks. Just in my personal experience it's the heroes or people who see their characters as heroes that tend to behave the most entitled.

Nngh. Too general for me. I know a lot of shitty players that devoutly log and post stuff.

I guess it also depends on what the expectation is. I did not get the impression that force users had to be plot mavens/hubs or needing to encourage activity on a game. Not sure if one wants to elevate force users to that kind of faction head-ish sort of fashion. I thought they were just PCs.

handing out special abilities/spots to people of a certain "type" tends to artificially elevate those spots if your intent is not to creat tiers of importance.

I still think it's better for staff to just own this. And if it is going to be (in poor judgement IMO) turned into an earned/merit system character type it's better to very explicitly outline what the expectations are. "Contributing to the game" isn't. "No ooc complaints about behavior/runs x number of open scenes for people/logs x amount of activity per <time unit>/etc." are easy to understand and specific criteria.

I'd advise against doing any such thing if this type of character isn't meant to be a higher tier.

I support "activity" and "contributing player" being defined, if it's to be used for rewards. Seen way too many problematic game destroying people as well as just selfish ones go on about how much they do for a game as a reason why they should get a coveted spot.

I guess. I'd rather staff just have balls to own the decision instead of leaving it to player and clique popularity.

So you can't make a PC without a player base vote on your concept in competition with others? Or is that just for force apps when/if they open?

And I dunno. I used to play on a ton of SW games and greatly enjoyed it, but never have played force users (or had much contact with known force users).

Also if most of his commentary is on shared links, if you block the news sites that it's shared from they don't tend to show up in your feed. That's cut down on the irritation towards folks who post half and half crap news and family updates.

Unfollow him and then just go click on his page directly every week or so when you're ready to sift through. It's worked wonders for me for the edgelords and obnoxious relatives in my FB friends list.

Stuart McLean.

@Arkandel

Depends on what you like to eat/end up cooking a lot!

It does things like cutting down cooking time (though by how much depends on what it is) for things like dried beans, bone broth or soup stock, or other things that require long simmering. You can cook a whole chicken in about 30 minutes actual cooking time but you still need to brown it in the pot of you like that so it doesn't end up saving too took much time per se.

It will save you cleaning time since unlike a crock pot you can sautee things in it. (Most also have a slow cooker function so that's yet another appliance you can get rid of if you want). It's relatively compact. Our family does a lot of meatless meals and I often forget to soak beans and that's not a problem with pressure cooking most dried beans. We eat a lot of soup, I do a lot of crock pot cooking usually (because hello four kids from 2-15, I am on my feet running around with everyone's activities), but I also end up forgetting a lot these days or losing time in the mornings, and with a pressure cooker it's no problem.

I love it. I think though if you're more into roasting stuff or do mostly quick cooking stovetop meals it's more of a toy, since it won't save you that much time. But for my purposes it's been fantastic, has saved us a bunch of money, and it's easier to clean up than 3 pots and pans, since the insert is dishwasher safe and can go from appliance to table to fridge/dishwasher.

Instant Pot is the bomb. Got mine awhile ago because we eat a lot of meatless dinners and dried beans are way cheaper, and also I wanted an easy way to make stock without monopolizing the rapid heat burner on my stove.

Today I roasted a chicken, then used the carcass plus another frozen carcass to make awesome rich bone broth, and then used the bone broth to make chicken soup from scratch for a sick friend and family--with one pot (not counting straining bowls and shredding meat)--in 5 hours with minimal babysitting.

There are a handful of folks seemingly on any game that get a lot of enjoyment at disrupting others for their own amusement. I don't think it's about attention from other people in the usual sense, just satisfaction about getting to do it, or the sense that they have an audience (that they really don't want interaction from). I have seen it on Shadowrun/WoD/original theme/Battlestar/Fading Suns/you name it.

My cousin lives in Delhi and she and her family got Dengue last year. It sounded pretty miserable, though they were super lucky and nobody got the most severe reaction (no bleeding). Her husband was bedridden for weeks with joint and muscle pain.

Sometimes it takes time and space as well. You're doing fantastic, but it's only been a very short period of time. Sometimes NOT running after people saying "LOOK BETTER NOW LOOK BETTER NOW REALLY REALLY REALLY" and giving them space see if it it 'takes' does much more to repair a relationship than slipping into passive aggressivness or impatience for people to wipe the slate clean. Depends on the degree of damage though. A brief period of peevishness can be kicked to the curb for a restart almost instantly (at least for me). If someone has been personally and persistently destructive though, usually it takes me about the same amount of time they spent being so for me to let my guard down again.

Though I hope nobody's being rude. There's really no excuse to be anything other than polite, really.

Staples suck so bad until they pull em out, but us is the best feeling afterwards! I have had them with my three c-sections. I have never scarred much, by the time I got my last one my old scar was hardly visible! I will admit to being somewhat disappointed at not getting a crazy gnarly scar like my friend who had her knee surgery ages and ages ago!

I found the steri strips post staple removal were far more irritating but at least you can shower with them right away!

@icanbeyourmuse said in Culture Building:

@Ominous But that still gives them gender specific roles. Yes, they serve the same purpose but calling them 'valet' and 'lady's maid' still makes them gender specific roles.

Or is it more like gendered names for the same role. Prince/Princess. Mother/Father. Brother/Sister. Rather than Child of Regent, Parent, Sibling.

Health issues suck. I don't have time for this but who does, really?

@Kanye-Qwest said in Star Wars: Insurgency:

This thread is just reminding me that I still think the SWU has the silliest names in all fiction.

Dammit, maybe I shouldn't make my bounty hunter Sox Tyrdblatt after all.