@puppybreath said in RL Anger:
At which point she called me Hitlerish because I would have fired someone because I didn't agree with his 'opinion'.
Remember when religious fundamentalists told kids to burn Nirvana CDs because of their music?
Pepperidge Farms remembers.
Did they stop?
@puppybreath said in RL Anger:
Family stuff is so rough sometimes. I always had a pretty okayish relationship with my mom. At one point I considered her my best friend. All of that was kind of shattered in 2016 (YOU KNOW WHY), and I've never been able to look at her the same. I've distanced myself a lot.
I haven't forgiven her for xmas 2020, which I've vented about already, but we had a decent interaction at the beginning of May after I asked for help with moving my horse.
Last week she asked for my help, but I had to decline. She wanted me to meet the farrier and hold her horses while he did their feet because she couldn't be there. The last time I did this for her, though, this farrier started ranting about how covid was a hoax and masks were stupid, blah, blah. So I told her that I wasn't comfortable with that farrier. I also pointed out that I would have found a new one.
At which point she called me Hitlerish because I would have fired someone because I didn't agree with his 'opinion'. Never mind that she also doesn't agree with that 'opinion'.
My middle sister's baby shower was today and I didn't go in large part to avoid my mom. Fortunately my sister is awesome and understanding and I'll hang out with her sometime soon instead.
But jesus fucking christ, I can't wait to cut off my parents entirely.
2016 broke a lot of families. America's Cold (or Lukewarm) Civil War.
@tributary said in Crafting Thread Part ?:
Shared this with my wife, who adores sharks and cats (our car is named Mako), and she made ear-shattering squeeing noises.
This juicer, which says on the bottom that the warranty expires in july of 74.
Meaning it's more than 5 years older than I am =P
@aria said in RL things I love:
@mietze said in RL things I love:
I'm fully vaxed. I wear a mask to put other people at ease and because I still do not want to potentially get it even if I've got some protection against the worst illness and also for the comfort of others. I don't really care about wearing one.
^ This. I've been fully vaccinated since the end of March, since health reasons put me in Group 1B. I also still wear a mask for the sake of other people and not freaking them out/encouraging unvaccinated anti-maskers in their bullshit.
It's proven quite effective in chiming in to support employees in public places who ask people to put one on or wear it properly.
Just got back from the grocery and 3 people weren't wearing masks, and every one of them I walked by, I shouted, "KAREN ALERT" at the top of my lungs.
Shunning, shaming, and ostracizing anti-maskers and anti-vaccers is the only way any progress is going to be made.
@macha said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
@ortallus It's one full time, and one part time. Thankfully, both of them are WFH because I wouldn't be able to do it, otherwise I would have imploded long ago.
Oof. That's still nuts. I'm so tired of arguments against minimum wage hikes.
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@macha said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
I am so very tired, and emotionally about to overload. I'm tired of having to work two jobs to be able to afford a used car, half the rent for a halfway decent 2 bedroom apt, utilities, and a couple credit cards.
I'm working 2 jobs, trying to help a game, trying to find a new apartment to live in, and it's just too much. The chronic pain has been better, but there are still days when I feel like I've been hit by a truck.
And I'm mad at myself right now, because the brain weasels just told me 'people will laugh at you, because you're not really doing that much'. Now I want to go cry again.
Sorry. Needed to get it out somewhere.
Something people don't realize: 2 part time jobs = more than one full time job -regardless of the hours involved-. I don't know your particular case, but a lot more goes into working 2 jobs than just being there. There's travel, there's shifting mental gears, there's sometimes changing outfits which means more laundry. It can be an awful lot!
Re: Jupiter's Legacy
I liked it, fight scenes didn't bother me so much. The story was more interesting. I think the origin story for the Union is good played out but much longer than presented in the comics.
At times the origin dragged a little and maybe part of why the 2nd gen felt a little flat. There's lots of relations they've built as kids growing up in a super society that are all off screen and assumed it seems.
This said, I enjoyed it too, has me wanting to do another OC supers MU* but the last one didn't get any tractions alas (but coral springs is still being played by a few people).
As far as I know, Champions MUSH is still around.
Personally, I REALLY prefer OC super hero stuff, as I never feel like I can do justice to pre-existing heroes. And also, it seems like SuperHero MUSHes tend to degrade into like, who's dating who, and not a lot of 'action' going on aside from that, and they also tend to lack any sort of statted system. So I'd just as soon play something OC, make my own char within a system (like Champions) and go from there.
Personal pref. =P
@derp said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
@aria said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
When I was little and I threw a tantrum in public, it didn't matter where we were or what we were doing, my parents would just pack me up and leave. Halfway through dinner at a restaurant? Doggie bags. Middle of the grocery store? Full cart returned to an employee with apologies while they marched screeching toddler-me out of the store. After about half a dozen goes at it, I decided that I liked going out and doing things more than I liked having fits, so I stopped having tantrums in public.
Didn't even matter if you were someone else's kid. Didn't matter where we were or what property you were on. Drop me off at school and find a pack of kids bullying someone? She'd yell at you to knock it off and get your asses inside before she called your mother. Running around the neighborhood acting all crazy-like? She'd scream at you to get out of the damned street before you got hit by a car.This is precisely the types of things that the people in question are protesting against. If we took any kind of action like that, more punitive than what is already out there, you're just adding jet fuel to the fire.
FREEDOM! is a national religion, and that mostly means that the government can't tell you what to do.
I was once getting kicked by a kid on public transit, and I turned around and said to the kid's mother, "If you don't make them stop, I will." and the mother got all bent out of shape, yelling, "DONT TELL ME HOW TO RAISE MY KID." and I yelled right back, "WELL SOMEONE FUCKING NEEDS TO." and she just shut up.
So, I go in for my second vaccine shot (Moderna) next Monday.
I'm also the one that does most of the cooking and cleaning in my relationship. Left to her own devices, my wife will eat cereal (bless her heart).
Anyone that HAS had side effects (If you didn't, good for you, this isn't about you) that can describe them, so I can prepare for what's coming? Am I going to be too wiped out to do household stuff? Should I buy some frozen pizzas or something?
Thanks!
