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@gangofdolls said in Who are you?:

I made it past 1L in law school and fucking quit. I crushed my 1L fall exams (the hardest set of exams in law school or so they claim but I think its mostly because you're properly traumatized after that) and then realized that I hated everything about the idea of being a lawyer and quit.

I have considered going back because I could use this skill set for something else. I can't fucking make a decision about this.

Tough choice. If you did 1L and you're willing to keep working as hard you'll do fine. But law school is just generally a boring, miserable experience. The good news is that it's nothing like the practice of law whatsoever. The bad news is that if you don't really love what you're doing as a lawyer, the practice of law is also a boring, miserable experience.

The law market is still incredibly saturated from the 2008 financial disaster, and getting jobs in lucrative and/or rare positions remains difficult. I think law school should be approached somewhat like grad school. If you love the idea of it, and you think that's what will make you happiest--go for it. You'll have a great time (not during law school, but as a practitioner). But if you're just doing it because you're smart and clever and like to argue, there are tons of fields where those traits are valuable and don't require you slogging through three miserable, expensive years.

Honestly, Crazy Ex Girlfriend summed it up best:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs-UEqJ85KE

I really wanna try out mage, but I'm a bit worried that I'd get everything wrong. But if you are not drowning in apps, I'd put in something for a Mysterium Moros going Uncrowned King (there's so much more stuff you need to say to describe a mage. Yikes).

@faraday said in Has anyone ever set up a server just for a small group of friends?:

nor the "toss out a pose when you can" nature of play-by-forum.

Hmm. Couldn't this be alleviated by using Ares?

...she asked the creator of Ares.

@Auspice

I agree one hundred percent with you. I know this is what upvotes are for, but I don't think upvotes are enough.

@Auspice said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

RELIGIOUS VAMPING

This is a thing?

@Ganymede

Always happy to thrust the Song of Songs into conversations where it might be remotely applicable.

@Coin

Bad. It's bad. The plot is completely off the rails, the only constant to character action is their reliable inconsistency, the choices being made make no sense, dialogue is uniformly terrible, and the entire thing has been slouching toward the finale borne entirely on the capital of goodwill it accrued when the showrunners were adhering remotely closely to the source material.

Martin is a sleazy hack who is way too interested in minors having sex, but he's a sleazy hack who is way too interested in minors having sex and who has at least one creative bone in his body. The show was at its height when the showrunners served as much needed editors for Martin's tendency to ramble and be creepy. Now it's nothing but dick jokes from Tyrion and utter silence from Varys, because the writers aren't good enough to write characters who are geniuses.

@Auspice said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

@Rinel said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

I'm making a LOST BOY.

Character generation is hard when engines don't hold your hand

make @RDC do it

pretty sure they're doing it by proxy

@GreenFlashlight

I'll get out the Song of Songs again stg

@Tyche said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

Why the hell is American insulin being sold at 700% higher than it was 10 years ago?!!
Supply and demand...mmm.. I want to know.

Because corporations have established monopolies and destroyed any reins on them through regulatory capture.

Play true to theme, kids. This is New Orleans. It was a Nutria of Unusual Size.

@RDC said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

I find vampire's theme more compelling because I LIKE "but deep down you have to tackle the darkness inside you that you can never ever get away from".

I like this if and only if the possibility exists for a vampire to constantly fight the evil and not just give in and lose forever. Being a vampire who wants to be good and has all of eternity (or is damned for all of eternity) to keep scrabbling toward the Light in her attempts to get there is very compelling to me.

@saosmash I'm gonna fuggin listen to Aureth's is what I'm gonna do

@Tyche said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@Rinel said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@Tyche said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

Why the hell is American insulin being sold at 700% higher than it was 10 years ago?!!
Supply and demand...mmm.. I want to know.

Because corporations have established monopolies and destroyed any reins on them through regulatory capture.

Well there are 3 American corporations manufacturing insulin. So I'm not going to put it down to just a monopoly and what not. Because generally I'm not anti-corporatist.

I refer you to regulatory capture. And oligopolies are functionally the same as monopolies.

I'm going to just randomly drag someone kicking and screaming into RP at some point soon.

@Three-Eyed-Crow said in Character Playlists!:

These things help me with characterization a lot, and give me stuff to listen to at work!

Yeah, I come up with a lot of good ideas from listening to mine at work.

Also omg @saosmash Aureth is this in my mind forever

@Lotherio You got the geography right but the time period wrong. It was inspired by the Wars of the Roses.

For the record I call dibs on these PBs for my Bright One changeling:

...though I don't imagine a Bright One surrounded by string is likely to be smiling, if I'm using the 1e frailties (which I am, because they are amazing).

@Kestrel said in Well, this sums up why I RP:

Philip Pullman is an atheist who literally wrote an anti-establishment book series for children about killing God and challenging religious dogma and oppression. Before it was cool.

Also, His Dark Materials isn't just pretendy stuff. It's heavily political, for exactly these reasons. It's like saying people are getting mad at China Mieville for writing pretend stuff. Yeah, it's pretend stuff that's hardcore Marxist. Art can be very political!

@surreality

Yeah no worries.

Bonus! If you don't like me, RL business has meant I've resigned from staff.

If you do like me, well, I still have a player bit! Hit up the hopeful lightbulb.