Posts made by RnMissionRun

@auspice said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

Something in the air (spring pollen I assume) keeps causing me to break out in hives.

SUCH FUN.

As if I needed more of an excuse to hide indoors all the time.

Aww, what a shame.

It was a beautiful day, well, at least it was here, The sun was out for the first time in almost a week and it got up to almost 70 degrees. I spent most of the afternoon out in the gazebo with the laptop, alternating between watching reruns of Blue Planet and Dr Who on DirectTV Now and working on my game. Which reminds me, I must get a tea pot to keep outside so I don't have to keep running in and out of the house.

Hooray Miami, home of the Golden Girls

*NIX uses a lot of control key combos and so some ssh/telnet apps require you to use control-shift-c/control-shift-v for cut and paste instead.

I don't see why that should be the case, assuming they are able to find enough people to help out. The hard part is usually code, but the fact they'll be writing that code in Python rather than MUSHcode should speed up the process considerably.

Oh, and I'm also willing to help with codey stuff.

I'm pretty sure you can get CBD stuff pretty much everywhere now, regardless of whether your state has legalized marijuana. I know that's the case here in MD anyway as I'm seeing more and more of it in the local smoke shops.

I havn't bought anything locally though as DC is only a 45 min drive north, and I prefer to get my stuff (by which I mean, the real stuff) from the legal dispensaries there.

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

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

People who don't mute their phones in public. No one wants to hear your clicky typey sounds and your dinging.

I keep begging my coworker to turn his off.

ALL. DAY.
Ding.
Ding.
Ding.
Ding.

He claims the vibration is more annoying.

FUCKING HOW YOU INSENSITIVE MOTHERFUCKER?

This pisses me off, too. Fortunately my company does allow us to use our phones while we are on the clock. They're to be turned off/muted and left in the office until breaktime/end of shift. To disobey this policy is a potential firing offense.

Sometimes it's annoying not to have access to my phone while I am at work, but other times I am grateful for the policy because I honestly don't think that I could deal with the constant DING DING DING of FB notifications all day long.

I'm with @D-bone here. I've never actually played Fading Suns but I do love sci-fi and I own most of the source material thanks to a super cheap deal from Bag of Holding a few months ago. I havn't read much of it yet but it does look interesting.

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

The fun of being cold called by insurance scam idiots 'We have heard that you were in a car accident'.

1. I do not own or drive a car
2. They could not then answer when I asked what my name was. Just how did they supposedly 'hear' this?

I deal with this this type of thing all the time at work.

Last Friday, someone with a heavy accent called me at work, claiming to be from the local electric coop. He demanded that I pay $1500 in past due electric bills (which is approx. 7 months worth of normal usage for us) and threatened to cut off our power if we did not do so immediately. I asked him why he was calling me instead of the corporate office, you know, the place that had been paying all of the bills for as long as we had been a company. He then demanded the number of our corporate office. I told him "Sure, I'll give you the number, as soon as you explain to me how it is that you don't have that information when we've been doing business with you guys for more than twenty years." That led to a bunch of threats of what would happen if I did not pay the bill immediately, so I hung up on him. Naturally I called corporate afterwards just to make sure that there wasn't a genuine problem.

Some of these scammers are real pros. Even when you call them out, they'll continue to try to get your money until you hang up on them. I can truly understand why so many people fall victim to their BS.

@apu said in Coming soon: Lawless Space MUSH:

@rnmissionrun

That's kind of a shit thing to say. Why not be encouraging? Why not wish them luck? But you just had to be Debbie fucking Downer, huh? And don't say you're just being realistic or whatever, because that'd be the biggest crock of bullshit.

Seriously, I was trying to be encouraging there, but a little realistic also.

The combination of original sci-fi + FATE is probably the double kiss of death, but it might still be be a fun game as long as you don't have to put a whole lot of work into it and you're Ok with not having a whole lot of players.

I made a character and everything but between my hectic work schedule and the place not being terribly active, I never actually played. I might give it another go after the holiday season, when I have more free time.

@lithium You do realize that Penn's comsys can be configured to work like MUX channels now?

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

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

@rnmissionrun The husband uses one of those silicon skins over his keyboard to help keep it clean.

He had me try one, because I go through keyboards like kleenex. (With all the long-winded bullshit I type, I realize this probably shocks no one.)

I am so brutal on keyboards that it lasted less than three months before I had worn right through it. I mean, I have stupidly acidic skin on my hands (has eaten through fine leather gloves inside a day before), but... uh, just keep that caution in mind in case you are similarly hard on keyboards.

If you're not, though, one of those might help, and they're reasonably cheap.

I was using those, but I went through them fast, too. And they just seemed to impede my typing.

As for putting Linux on- been there, done that, don't have the hours to waste on dealing with the bullshit.

If you have the free time to waste, be my guest. I don't. As it is, I don't get enough sleep at night for how busy I am. I use Mac or Windows because I know it'll work. I can work with Unix, I have worked with Unix, but regardless of distro, you're going to sit and spend time finding packages to make shit work.

And then doing it again months later.

And again months later.

and again...

..........and so on.

Some people get their kicks doing that. I don't anymore. You wanna pay me to do it, sure. But not on my free time.

That's not my experience at all but then we're probably not using our PCs for the same things.

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

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

the 't' key on my Macbook keyboard is pretty much dead. I can only get by by keeping a t on copy to paste as I go. I've replaced the whole keycap assembly. My next step is gonna be taking a can of compressed air to it in case some piece of debris is wedged under the contact since eeeeevery so often I get use out of it again (usually just for a few minutes).

But the machine is two years out of warranty and I know getting it fixed through Apple would be $700 and upward of 2 months shipped out. At this rate, I guess my only option is just buying a good portable bluetooth keyboard?

It sucks since this machine is otherwise in amazing shape still.

Just get a ThinkPad and install any Linux distribution on it. :^)

When the back light in my Macbook died over the summer, I dusted off my old Thinkpad T-430 and installed Linux Mint on it. It works great (I can even play LoTRO on it under WINE) but it's so heavy that I never carry it around with me, and I only get 4-5 hours of battery life compared to the 10-12 I used to get on the Mac.

I really want a new Mac but I'm going to hold out for one with a keyboard
that won't be ruined by a single speck of dust.

@arkandel said in Star Trek Discovery (Loosely):

@rnmissionrun said in Star Trek Discovery (Loosely):

I can guarantee you that the number of people willing to RP mundane chain-of-command stuff and RP via +reports, will be very small indeed.

Oh my god, I used to think that too, and as it turns out I was so wrong.

It's true from my perspective but then I tend to favor heavily coded games over pure RP style games.

Historically, TrekMU*s have been combat-heavy affairs for the reason that there simply isn't that much to do on a Star Trek game unless you're high up in the chain of command.

With no combat or space to keep players busy, you'll essentially be little more than a 'Federation Bureaucracy Sim'. I can guarantee you that the number of people willing to RP mundane chain-of-command stuff and RP via +reports, will be very small indeed.

Welcome to America, indeed.

I'm the GM of a retail shop. I make approx $52k after commissions, bonuses and etc are factored in. My partner is a laborer doing drywall, painting and such. He brings in just around $30k a year.

A quarter of our combined income goes to housing (mortgage, insurance, property taxes).

Another quarter goes to medical insurance, and general health care (no subsidies, we pay for everything out of our own pockets).

A third quarter goes to living expenses, car payments, credit card payments, food, clothes, utilities and such.

Out of what's left, we can put away around $8k per year for retirement and general savings (it would be more, but a big chunk goes to my partner's ex-wife as child support). That's not a lot for two people. We've had to dip into our savings several times over the past few years for unexpected medical emergencies and one car emergency (the SO's car got totaled while he was driving for Lyft, and it was his fault. Driving with no sleep is bad, m'kay, and no, there was no one else in the car at the time).

We're still living a fairly comfortable life but it probably wouldn't take that much to wipe us out financially. We figure one major medical emergency that left one of us unable to work for a few months, would be enough to do it.

Always good to hear about Evennia making progress!

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

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

@auspice

Oh, I try to do that, too.

Also doesn't help that Instacart just changed their 'how to contact me' procedures without sending out emails about it or anything, so since I had CALL ME as the option, it defaulted to 'no preference'. If you turn off SMS messages it defaults to 'no preference'. I'm Gen X. I prefer my land line to texting. I should be able to receive a damn phone call, y'know?

I want texts. I don't wanna talk to no one on the phone.

But yeah, I love/hate instacart. I mean, it's been great having no car, but when I have issues... My last big order never made it to me. I dunno if the person just handed it off to the wrong person (!!!!) or absconded with it, but it really sucked to have to wait a day to get my groceries re-delivered.

At least you have it as an option. It isn't available down here in the country

@tnp said in Book Recommendations:

@lithium said in Book Recommendations:

The Thomas Covenant series by Steven R. Donaldson is good too (and one of the many sources that Robert Jordan swiped ideas from)

I happen to like the Thomas Covenant books a lot and read both series (and googling discovers there's a third now). However.

You're either going to like them a lot or absolutely hate them.

You know what's weird, I read the Thomas Covenant books as a teenager and absolutely loved them, but when I tried re-reading them 15 years later as an adult, I couldn't stand them. I hated the writing, the story and I especially hated the titular character. It's funny how your tastes can change over time.