Posts made by MisterBoring

@ominous

Big Purple uses xenforo and SA uses vBulletin.

How hard would it be to keep the URL and the name, and just start with a fresh instance of a newer, more robust forum software?

(Yes, I know someone probably already asked that, but my brain is mush and I likely missed it. :P)

@aria

Are multiple kinds of acceptable cheese at once acceptable?

Like, can I do provolone and whiz at the same time?

@Aria I have to ask since it seems you are a Philadelphian:

Is it acceptable to put peppers of any kind on a cheesesteak? Better yet, what are the acceptable optional toppings for a cheesesteak?

Oooh. My turn.

Here is the tale of "Why You Shouldn't Do A Shitload of Meth Before You Attempt To Shoplift".

As a younger internet miscreant, back in the days when some areas of the country were still having to make long distance phone calls to get dial-up internet, I worked at a store that was a sort of a weird combination of Blockbuster Video and a Tower Records, but without any sort of corporate oversight.

At the front of said store, in our meager music section, we had a music demo kiosk, where we had the new releases we were pushing as well as a few albums selected by the employees as a poor attempt to humanize the store. You could walk up, put on headphones, and waste time listening to a full album without paying for it. The empty cases for the CDs being displayed were there as well as copies to buy.

One evening, about an hour before closing, around the time we lock one of the two double doors to sort of indicate we're about to close (this fact is important later on), a guy and his girlfriend entered the store doing their best impressions of this famous Monty Python sketch:

The entire time they were doing this, their eyes were glazed and they would lose their balance every thirty seconds or so and have to catch themselves on whatever was nearby, be it the candy rack, a rack of rental movies, or the magazine rack. Each time, they'd knock stuff in the floor, making a mess for us to clean up, and immediately look at the nearest person and laugh when they righted themselves.

Eventually they worked their way all the way around the store and ended back at the CD preview kiosk thing at the front of the store, where they tried to look cute by listening to CDs together, by holding the headphones between them. As they were looking at the CDs, they kept looking back at the cash register area, and laughing. Eventually they silly walked over to the cash register, and set a bunch of the empty CD cases from the kiosk on the counter, as though they were going to buy them.

I look down at the cases, and as I'm about to say something, the girl laughs obnoxiously, grabs the empty cases, and both run for the door. The guy makes it through the unlocked door without issue, but the girl slips, and smashes her face into the pushbar on the door, crashing into the floor. As she picks herself up and pushes herself out the unlocked door, he's made it through the outer door of the store, and realizes that she's not keeping up with him. He turns around and because he doesn't have good control of his own equilibrium from whatever drugs he was likely on, he continues wobbling off the sidewalk and into the parking lot, just in time to get hit by a Volkswagen Beetle. The older kind, that was basically made of old APC metal and never dented. He gets knocked down and skids about 10 feet away as she gets out the door and screams bloody murder before picking him up and they both just laugh and continue running off into the night.

The entire time I'm just standing there watching this in bewilderment, because well, it was store policy to let the shoplifters run off to avoid possible violence, and also because the store manager was there and said to just let it go because it was empty demo cases.

TLDR: Two meth heads attempt to steal empty boxes and then perform a Buster Keaton routine attempting to flee the scene.

@il-volpe said in Autism and The MU* Community:

Much of my life has been spend banging my head against the fact that other people will not apply this principle to me.

I've had several situations in my experience where someone attempted to do what they felt was respectful toward my feelings on an issue, only for their actions to exacerbate the situation. This was solely because they didn't do it the way I wanted them to (I'm very much a my way or the highway person in some situations), and not because they were ignoring my feelings in the matter.

I had to work to realize that if someone does something to repair the bridge in a way other than how I would, it doesn't necessarily mean they think my feelings don't matter, it just means that they communicate that differently.

It may be possible that you've been in similar situations yourself.

I hope that makes sense. If not, just disregard me.

@23quarius If I had the money, I'd commission some art. Maybe something involving a monster truck jumping a river.

@il-volpe

In my experience, if I have issue with another player on a game, I go straight to staff with that issue because I feel like keeping staff in the loop helps to minimize the potential harm of any blowups that may occur. If nothing else having a somewhat impartial third party helping me work out what the issue really is can be a great boon, at least for me.

Also, honesty can often feel like hostility to some people, so they may be avoiding what they feel like is a direct attack from them onto you just from what they've dealt with when people have been honest with them in the past.