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Changeling: the Dreaming is on the Bundle of Holding for about another day if you've ever wanted it.

@rightmeow said in Tell me what you want -- work edition:

What would have motivated you or helped you have fun?

Don't do this. Companies that try to "have fun" are so hollow and annoying. It's work. I know it's work. You know it's work. We're not fooling anyone. If it was fun, it'd be a hobby and you wouldn't have to pay me to do it. About the most fun I like out of a place I work is an informal happy hour get together with my coworkers after hours. However, the emphasis is on the "informal." The more people attend, particularly higher-ups, the more it starts to feel like it's something I have to take part in for office politics reasons, and now it's back to being a company that likes to "have fun."

The thing that makes me like my job is having a workplace that is organized and competently run. I'm banging my head against that right now, as my current employer is pants-on head idiotic with how they run some things and communication between areas is terrible. So keeps things organized and run it competently, and you'll be a winner in my book and probably the books of most of your subordinates.

GLORY TO LAWYER CATBOTOPIA!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbBB1j5qAFs

So MSB is the promised Lawyer Catbotopia that was discussed months ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rsb60g4KxiU&list=FLr31JuYbvhfu431pnJGF4GA&index=93

Who doesn't want a dog that is actually a lizard that does deathrolls? Honestly, I'm almost sold.

@testament

We should collect the camera data from all stores, determine who the repeat shopping cart offenders are, and begin the purge.

@testament

Yeah, there were quite a few threads in the MU development sections that had some great ideas.

@jinshei

Ooooh...

That sounds intriguing.

@ganymede In another thread @Cobaltasaurus said she was coughing up blood and worse, so the focus is on getting better before focusing on puppers.

There's a fan-made WoD game sort of like this.

@ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

This is for the vote only. All the work has been done. This is just the ol' public hearing and vote bullshit and I just so love people talking about property values as if I or anyone else who practices in real property law give a shit what you think about your property values.

I am so tired of hearing people file complaints about their neighbor doing something and how "We normally don't do this. We really don't care. We don't want this to become a big deal. We're only just letting you know. BUT OUR PROPERTY VALUES!" Their neighbor could be a Cthulhu cultist sacrificing children to dark gods on a nightly basis and they wouldn't care as long as it was in the muffled basement so when they sell their house the value isn't affected.

@ganymede

It only took 1.5 hours for a zoning change? Damn. Here that's dozens of hours of prep time with a Planner and a public hearing or two. Then it's probably going to get appealed by one of the neighbors, so more hearings.

Get yourself an empty soda can (I usually use one of the smaller kinds), then stick like five or six pennies in it and tape the opening up well. Shake firmly once when the pupper is misbehaving. The pupper will immediately stop and probably be quite startled and unhappy. For some reason that noise really bothers dogs.

Most people use a shake can to train a dog not to bark, but it worked to curb other behaviors as well for my dog.

@cobaltasaurus

D'awww!

Boop his little snoot and give him a good scratch behind the ears for me!

https://youtu.be/lkBObiwQddc

@Cobaltasaurus

I need more pupper photos. My landlord does not allow pets, so I must live vicariously through you to get my pupper fix.

@rizbunz

What is Gotham - Flashpoint?

@bear_necessities

I'm not really a fan of "By Night" games. If I'm going to do urban fantasy, it's going to be some X-Files-esque global focus thing, instead of the comings and goings of people/vampires/mages/changelings/aliens in a specific locale. I just thought I would offer an alternative that I have not seen so far.

I am slowly reaching the conclusion that the town I now live in would be perfect for a MU* - Santa Barbara. Technically, I would use the whole County of Santa Barbara. The county has about 500,000 people in it with the Santa Barbara city area (Santa Barbara, Goleta, Montecito, unincorporated urban areas in and around them) being around 150,000, Santa Maria city area (Santa Maria, Orcutt, Guadalupe) being 130,000, Lompoc sits around 42,000 and you have a scattering other towns and cities (Ventucopa has a population of 90 in the middle of nowhere). However, there is quite a diverse mix.

Montecito has Oprah, Prince Harry and Duchess Megan, Steve Martin, and a bunch of other celebrities and other rich people living there. It's a bunch of gated estates and a couple of small-town feeling "villages" with boutique shops. Santa Barbara is your older, slightly snooty city with beaches and wealthy people with trendy shops and an actual downtown (the former Google CEO bought a mansion in the south of the city for $40 million). Goleta has more of a middle and working class vibe with some definite 80's influences to the architecture. Then you have Isla Vista which is basically a town that became all student housing next to the UC Santa Barbara, so it has the usual college town party scene. Santa Maria is your somewhat wealthier working class city. Lompoc is your not-so-wealthy working class city. Guadalupe is your Spanish speaking working class city. Summerland has the feel of a former resort town that is now filled with retirees (and Kevin Costner). Carpinteria feels like a city on the cusp of booming as cannabis and health care industries move in.

Then there's Vandenburg Air Force base for your military storylines and alien invasions. Solvang is a Danish town in the middle of California with its unique architecture and shops. Surrounding it are Buellton, Los Olivos, and Santa Ynez and the Santa Barbara wine country with vineyards and ranches. The Los Padres National Forest covers most of the mountains (which had snow this weekend causing Camino Cielo road to be closed for snow and ice, so you can still get your snowy weather stories). The Channel Islands are right off shore which are nature preserve, but you could pretend Catalina Island off of LA is also up here and have your island resort town too if you want it.

Honestly, there's a lot of variety in the county. Today for my job I went from a middle class-ish home in Summerland near the beach to a gated villa in Montecito to driving past snow-topped mountains to get to a home of a Trump supporter with an old 70s Mustang, who I am kind of surprised didn't pull a shotgun on me and tell me to get off his land with a thick Texas accent.

So if you wanted to tell a story about your character hob-nobbing with celebrities and tech millionaires in a vacation home or at the Ritz Carlton, while someone else is playing a vampire preying on partying college kids about 6 miles away, while someone else is playing a cartel member in a car chase with police 30 miles away, driving next to the most recent SpaceX launch from Vandenburg, while ALL of that is happening in an area that honestly feels like a bunch of small towns instead of New York, Chicago, or LA, that is entirely possible here.

There's even a strip club in Santa Barbara - a Spearmint Rhino - and a casino on the Chumash reservation in Santa Ynez, so you can find your vices too.