Posts made by silentsophia

I really wish I had done more to stop Juerg when I had one of the few mages who could pull influence to stop him. I still feel bad about that. Him, and King on BSG Cerb. I really need a spine...

... I kinda wanna try a demon in 2e. They seemed neat but I had a hard time figuring one out.

It makes me think of a cereal or spaghettios.

I usually hold my nose or breath and chug those sons of bitches down with sprite or tea. SWALLOW FAST, AND GODSPEED.

To be fair, no one got out of that cave.

No one had lube, I guess.

@lordbelh Yeah... my asthma came back. No enlistment for me.

... indigent health care is full of assholes. I really should just borrow someone's kid so I can get some fucking health care.

... his headgear. SO FESTIVE.

... somehow, I'm okay with not really doing much with twitter. I wish I could be shocked that she sounds like an awful person.

@Chime Wow, he sounds like a real winner. I'm sorry.

Poor Chime. I can understand being frustrated at the loss, but if you run a game, isn't it just a good idea to keep a flatfile or back up? Maybe I'm dumb...

I didn't want to hijack the recommendation thread, but I did want to say that Octopus! is a fantastic read and there is a lot of cephalopodian awesomeness, from the dinner table to the military lab.

Also, I need more knitting books. I might be picking up some tiny owl knits books, Knits for nerds or Vampire Knits. Tudor Roses has some gorgeous patterns, but those look headspinningly difficult.

Yeah, playing a Technocrat was fun, but sometimes people just wanted to PK you for no apparent reason (didn't meet that PC, etc) or just avoided you for fear of some twink.

I am not. My void engineer was awesome.

I think they milked FF7 spinoffs a little hard...

You are welcome. I would put up a list, but it's a pretty big chunk of games and I suspect that would enter spamalicious territory.

That kind of pseudoscience bullshit really burns my biscuits, especially with the whole anti-education backlash in it.

@The-Tree-of-Woe Yeah. I was kind of 'wtf' at it, too.

And my magic, ritual and religions professor was great. I swear he did half the hallucinogens he lectured about. It was a glorious foray into the human experience. Oh, and a lot of other animals get high and drunk. Anthropology is pretty hefty on the scientific rigor depending on one's discipline. I really loved getting to do forensic anthro with Dr. Melbye, for one example.

I think a lot schools require basic reading, communication and writing courses because good lord, a lot of STEM people are fucking awful at expressing anything in writing and some just can't communicate in general which is really, really bad in a job environment (gods only know I have a metric assload of communication issues). There are reasons technical and scientific writers will be in demand and that includes having to explain to the very people that fund you what you are doing and why it's important beyond 'it's SCIENCE, plebes'.

But I kind of like a balanced favor, and I think @BetterJudgment has a lot of good points, too.

@The-Tree-of-Woe I like biology and I like art. But some people don't consider biology a hard science, but fuck those guys. I'll slap 'em with a cactus if they start talking shit. Life is a beautiful, cruel and fascinating work of art.

I also hate it when STEM people act like douches in humanities class, like one chick in a German class I took was like, "UGH I AM AN ENGINEERING MAJOR. I DO NOT HAVE TIME FOR THIS HUMANITIES BULLSHIT." Well, gosh. Take a different, easier language then? God forbid someone learn how to communicate, read critically or take up another language. And don't be an asshole in someone's class. You can think that all you want, but saying it in the middle of class and being a completely useless group work partner is asinine.

I imagine that could be due to risk of suicide and/or the psychosis (or psychotic breaks). It's tough to do stuff when you're uh, out on a break, as it were. This is alongside the longterm stuff like heart damage.