Posts made by Selira

Seeing a plot I've been waiting for for a long time start to kick off. I'm so unbelievably excited for this!

paging @Dreampipe, paging @Dreampipe, your dream thread has arrived.

I've been a little slower in scenes lately and more easily distracted. Sorry, not sorry.

This is Himiko. Her owner was hit by a car last week and is in recovery, so she's come to live with me for a bit. Am convinced she is not actually a cat but a soot sprite.

But she's damn cute, absolutely loves to be pet, does the most delicate murder pounces, whirrs instead of meows, chirps, and has a habit of jumping onto everything.

Other cat is very much not thrilled and has told her to take the gun, but leave the cannoli. He can deal.

Oh my god, why is complaining about this still a thing? Literally every generation says this about the one after it, it's never as bad as it's made out to be, and humans still live on. Kids are dumb and they do dumb things inspired by the dumb people around them. This isn't any new quality of children in the modern era, this is literally a thing that has been happening and complained about forever.

These exact same things were said about you and your friends when you were young.

We are experimental, experiential, thrillseeking innovative creatures with a poor understanding of our own mortality and incredibly susceptible to social pressures among our peers. This is nothing more than a quirk of our evolution, and these are always a few extreme cases that just get way too much publicity.

Haven't heard the one you're referencing, but if asked, these are my suggestions!

The History of Rome
Revolutions
No Sleep
Tea With Alice
The Bugle
The Moth

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

We got notice at my apartment complex that they would be doing work on the railing in the staircase far from me, would take about a week. Cool, I guess, though I've had to deal with a lot of construction noise this year from the last place I lived, including roofers and so on so I'm pretty sick of it already.

A month later they finally finish.

Then today they start on the other staircase without any warning. The one literally against my wall.

Fuck. Everything.

They broke my wall. This is how ridiculously hard they were hammering on the other side.

***photo of a broken wall***

What in the hell do I even do about this? What is reasonable? Now I assume they're going to have to redo my sheetrock and repaint and - ugh, it's just such a huge, unasked for hassle.

This is such BS.

We got notice at my apartment complex that they would be doing work on the railing in the staircase far from me, would take about a week. Cool, I guess, though I've had to deal with a lot of construction noise this year from the last place I lived, including roofers and so on so I'm pretty sick of it already.

A month later they finally finish.

Then today they start on the other staircase without any warning. The one literally against my wall.

Fuck. Everything.

I got Detroit: Become Human from the Black Friday sale.

Hold on, just a little while longer...

This game is going to stick with me for a long, long time.

@kanye-qwest said in Good Music:

I can echo (from a year ago) St vincent and pomplamoose, and I think anyone in the world should listen to Gogol Bordello - Start Wearing Purple, Dogs were Barking, American Wedding, Illumination, I Just Realized...also the best live show I have ever been to, even in a small DC club.

Let's not forget Wanderlust King if we're going for their songs that get you absolutely pumped.

Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate, use a lacrosse ball or something similar to roll the knot out, and expect it to be sore for a few days. I hate these so much.

Let's also not forget that this woman just had what is almost assuredly the most awful night of her life, is likely still reeling from the trauma (and who knows what sort of long-term effects there might be), is having her story used in racist ways even her family is calling bullshit on, has had her consent and bodily autonomy and life ripped away from her by eight (not seven, eight) extremely cruel men -

And the response to that is "Guess you shouldn't have done drugs!"?!?!

Get. Fucking. Real.

@tinuviel said in RL Anger:

@derp said in RL Anger:

IT IS NOT A BAD THING TO ASK PEOPLE TO TAKE STEPS TO PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM DANGEROUS SITUATIONS, FULL STOP.

IT IS WHEN LITERALLY ANY SITUATION COULD LEAD TO BEING RAPED IF YOU ARE A WOMAN AND A MAN IS STRONGER THAN YOU ARE.

And often, steps to protect can make them angry and make it more violent if it's going to go bad.

This is very much a damned if you do, damned if you don't type situation and that is not the fault of women.

@arkandel said in RL Anger:

Good news everyone!

https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/11/after-migrant-gang-rape-german-police-chief-warns-women-not-to-drink-alcohol/

While if that's true, it's obviously terrible advice, can we ... can we not link reactionary, racist tabloids here?

Here, a more nuanced reporting of the same event: https://www.thelocal.de/20181031/why-freiburg-has-been-rocked-by-protests-after-shocking-crime

I wanted to like kale, but no, that's not happening. Thankfully, I love almost every other cabbage cultivar (I'm about to roast some Brussels sprouts) so I can get away with it.

Why kale, when there's broccoli?

Boop. Decided to put Haven characters on here since old ghosts seem to know who I am, anyway.

@arkandel said in Bloopers:

@2mspris "... that said, welcome to the game!"

Mine: Late 90's, a WoT MUD I staffed on was using a 'democratic system' to make decisions. That meant there wasn't really anyone in charge per se, anything was voted on by a committee, and the politics were pretty intense.

It had led to these long meetings - we're talking 4-5 hours each - to determine everything, which were spammy and boring as hell. Anyway, one of my RP partners at the time and I were TSing over pages while waiting for the next vote.

... And she maved, posing it into the room instead of sending it in a page to me. Did I mention her RL husband was the meeting's chairman?

There was a long silence afterwards, like 30 seconds of it while people read what was on their screens to make sure they saw it right... and then everything devolved into pure chaos.

Yeah.

... I've heard this story somewhere.

Where have I heard this before? I definitely wasn't on that game, but I think I know someone else who was in that meeting.

Diablo: Immortal is a brilliant idea, tapping into a huge market that Blizzard hasn't touched - and they went about it entirely wrong.

If they had announced this alongside information for Diablo 4 I don't think there would have been a single peep in the room, but of course this wasn't what fans wanted.

I made the mistake of finally deciding that I would play a Disgaea game through.

95 hours in and still going strong though the post-game of Disgaea 5, my stats on my sage are at about 16 million each. The screams of bear demons haunt my dreams at night, I've captured so many. There is still so much further to go. I can't even hurt Baal yet, much less the Carnage version.

I tell myself "just one more map". Ten maps later, I tell myself "just one more map".

@anon said in Breaking the Silence: Issac/Thrace:

@selira said in Breaking the Silence: Issac/Thrace:

Incidentally, this is this fucking guy.

Well then let @apos post ALL the actual data that lead them to that. Nuzzling. Yeah. Sexual harrasment. Totally. Last one. I'm not wasting my time.

(Arx can never ban me even if they tried. But I gave my word. You won't ever see me in there again. Unlike your pall cullen.)

Probably has something to do with the fact that you're a creepy stalking asshole who chases women across multiple characters of both theirs and yours and is willing to put someone's private, personal information, including name and images, up on a public forum. Neither of these behaviors is ever acceptable. Nor is asking one character for their phone number thirty times and then whining to them OOC about why they won't give it to you, which you've done multiple times to multiple different people, very recently.

That's also sexual harrassment, FYI. As is rubbing up on people.

I repeat:

No one wants you here.

Go away.

(also FYI changing your name to anon did nothing, Abyssal Walker)

Incidentally, this is this fucking guy.