RL Things I Love:
I don't care how 'bad' or 'mean' this makes me sound... I love that both of my kids have been out of the house for the last week. Its been so quiet and nice, so easygoing... I'm going to miss it when they come back, even though I miss both of them.
Tangent Peeve:
To the asshole that thought reading a Kindle book was more important than driving...
FUCK YOU. You nearly hit three cars before running a red light and missed slamming into a fourth only by the graces of the other driver's reflexes! PUT YOUR GODDAMN PHONE DOWN.
I can be slow to pose sometimes. Not because I'm choosing to do something else, but because I have two kids that love to drag their every little problem to me for solving. Also all requests are apparently to be sent my way. And a mother who loves to wait until I'm doing something to remind me that X, Y, and Z still need to be done. Then comes the lovely conversation of 'yes, I know, I will do it when I'm done with this' and its related skepticism. I try to let people know when I'm going to be dragged away, but sometimes it seems like a quick little thing that gets dragged out 20 minutes. I will, however, always apologize, and if it gets to be recurring, offer to reschedule so I can deal with RL.
I -love- and cherish my days off simply because hanging around the house means I can give no fucks and go braless. Should I be? Probably not. Fucks Given: 0 And yes, all underwire, all the time. Even my sports bra has underwire. The support is necessary!
@TNP said:
@Misadventure said:
Could someone explain why its necessary to know at all times where or who other players are with, save to know where ones faction RP might be? Anything more directed at a specific character I would assume can be arranged via a quick page.
Edited to add "at all times" because @Templari pointed out the obvious sometimes use Thank you T). I am picking at the logic that Unfindable is always bad, or based on bad apple logic.
There's another reason not to have unfindable. If I log on as a guest to a new game and see no one on the grid? I log off. WHO is not advertising activity. +where does.
Given the number of people that will idle on a grid, I wouldn't call +where an accurate portrayal of activity.
Subject of Unfindable: While the following comparison would be more accurate if Unfindable could be applied to specific bits rather than blanket... here goes nothing!
I see the Unfindable flag acting as something like a restraining order. Person A is being harassed and/or stalked across a game by Person B. Yes, Person A -should- toss up a quick job about Person B's harassment. Get it on record, it may not be enough NOW, but with enough instances, action could be taken. THAT SAID. It is absolutely fine for someone to then ALSO set themselves Unfindable to avoid dealing with further harassment.
To use Sunny's example... lets say you call the cops cause someone came in and stole your stuff. Are you still going to leave your door unlocked afterwards? The police (staff, in this case) cannot/will not always take immediate action. So you're just going to leave your door unlocked for the same jackass to finish taking your stuff while you're waiting for the police to build their case?
@Silver said:
@Mnemosyne said:
Yeah, Rose and Matt aren't working on Mage or Changeling, so I don't think one can blame Beast or Demon for the slow progress there.
I can, since it's one organization with finite resources. Even if different people are heading up production of a given line, they are taking up resources which go to the whole project and there is an inevitable matter of managing those resources by priority. I'm unimpressed with their priorities.
Mind you I care about as much as being stuck in traffic. It's inconvenient but it's not like these games matter more to me than a passtime, and meanwhile I will do other things.
I can agree with this... to a point. If someone doesn't like or care about the game they're producing, its going to be a lesser product anyways. If you pulled the head person behind Beast and told them to go collaborate with the Vampire person, there's a number of issues that could crop up regardless. Everything from difference of opinion on what something should be or represent to resentfulness at not heading their own project.
Too many cooks in one kitchen, essentially. It seems like what they could USE would be some more 'extra' folk that are helping to streamline, edit, and otherwise do the 'grunt work' associated with these lines.
Boob money is better than junk money. As someone who's worked a gas station in Florida (where men can totally come in wearing a goddamn speedo and flipflops)... boob money is SO MUCH BETTER.
@Insomnia That's what I figured. Also, damned hard to find a good 5 blade women's razor that isn't surrounded by 'moisturizing soap strips' or whatever the fuck garbage they're pushing these days.
Yes, it has. Now do you know how long its been considered 'okay' for women to shave? Back while men were using straight razors and safety razors, women were expected to -pluck- hair. Its a safe bet they weren't made with a woman's contours in mind. But if you want to shave your legs with it, feel free. Let me know how that turns out for you.
I'm pretty sure those safety razors were not meant to be used on knees. There's zero give to them at all, and that's generally not a good thing when you're looking to shave a body part where the topography can change completely based on a bend or flex. >.>
Waxing is too painful for me to want do it every 4-6 weeks or whatever. And I'm not sure what the laser hair removal would do to my tattoos, so I stick to shaving. I generally use the 4 blade Venus, but I've actually been looking into trying a guy's razor. I want to see if it works a little better for being meant to be used on faces, because yes, sensitive skin.
Shaving is one of those things that gets easier the more you do it. Also, you CANNOT use shitty $2 razors. You -will- cut yourself all up. Splurge, get the nicer razor, and shave in the shower.
I will totally agree that a LOT of 1E Fairest Kiths were overlapping and stigmatized with an overabundance of emphasis on looks and appearances. For fuck's sake, multiple Kiths were made with the EXACT SAME bonus applied to 2-3 different skills based on what Kith it was. It was rather annoying because I liked the overall scheme of Fairest in 1E.
I'm hesitant to enforce 'you have to be pretty' or 'you have to look like a Frankenstein' on any Seeming based on a first draft of a few Kiths. The Seeming write-ups that I've seen so far say your pattern is wrong. Fairest don't have to be pretty or elegant, just leaders (whether by choice, fate, or whatever). Beasts don't have to be wild, twigs-in-their-hair, mud-splattered people.. they just have to identify with an animal in some way. I would love to see the writeup for Wizened, but I'm going to bet that you don't have to be some lurching, terrifying amalgam of jury-rigged parts. For that one, even the Kiths aren't necessarily calling them 'patchwork', they're noting particular attributes as having mechanical components but a smoothly running machine is every bit as capable of being lovely and elegant as a Fairest. Ogres don't have to be hard-edged, rough-hewn brutes... but they -seem- much bigger than they are. That whole thing of someone swaggering around with an air of being ten feet tall and bulletproof comes to mind. They're noted as being tough more than rough, and capable of great violence (albeit not necessarily physically violent). They aren't delicate by any means, but I could see an Ogre being anything from a somewhat reptilian, scaled being with an acerbic tongue to leather-skinned cowboy sort (Jack Palance comes to mind), to a marble-hard, not-a-hair-out-of-place, stone cold bitch. Actually... thinking of it... Vera would have been amazing as a 2E Ogre (and I'm fairly certain that's something that's been remarked upon earlier).
TLDR; There seems to be a disconnect between the brief suggestions of appearances in Kiths and the more thorough suggestions in Seemings. I would hesitate to apply generalizations and stereotypes (especially ones that hearken back to 1E) to any of the Seemings in 2E.
DAMMIT! I wanted that... now its out of stock. 
I must lurk until it comes back. >.>
I only barely qualify myself. The kids get it simply because they've deemed I don't make enough for a three person household. That wouldn't work for me if I didn't fit into a loophole.
Its not just Texas. 
I live in Florida and had this happen. And here, both my kids AND myself are on the free healthcare.
Its because they're trying to phase out pretty much all free government aid that they possibly can. They've started by making the standards crazy... the next step will be to start removing the 'unnecessary' programs. You know, the ones that no longer have that many people utilizing them. >.>
@silentsophia Hun, as a single mother of two kids, who works less than 30 hours a week... I -still- can't get TANF or cash aid. It just straight up denies my application.
@silentsophia said:
@Derp Yeah, but this is still no excuse for being a dick when you don't need to be.
Agreed. But bluntness is often taken as 'being a dick'. Just because I don't cater to the delicate flowers does not mean I'm being a dick. It means I have bigger things to worry about than if someone can 'handle' their own dumb choices being pointed out to them. Catering to that sort of behavior just encourages more of that sort of behavior.