Posts made by Silver

@thebird said:

@SG
Omg, I hate work dreams. Those are a whole different kind of nightmare.

TBH my work dreams ARE nightmares.

@WTFE Niiiiiiiice. That looks incredible.

@thebird These are the worst.

@Arkandel said:

Huh. http://www.vulture.com/2015/07/yes-ben-affleck-will-direct-a-new-batman-movie.html?mid=imdb

If Batman v Superman tanks at the box office I bet this changes.

@BigDaddyAmin said:

I have noticed that a few of us around here are foodies, gourmets, gourmands, and lovers of fine wines, spirits, cigars, and other goodies. I love to cook and like the next, fat, white American male, I enjoy a good whisky.

You trying to say I'm fat because I like whiskey too??

@Shebakoby said:

The moral of the story is people fall through the cracks in both systems. Way more in the other one because of the whole money thing (not to mention a MUCH larger population), but still. Improvements could be made to prevent this.

There is an element of political rah-rah in the US (I'm sure it exists everywhere really) that begins its day by making assumptions about what you mean when you say anything disagreeing with them. They also think that the Real News that they listen to is superior to the Fake News other people hear, or even sometimes to the Real Life you live. Sometimes that particular fight happens with the battle cry "anecdotes are not evidence!" or "show me notarized documents" or some variant thereof.

Don't worry about it too much.

@Arkandel Clearly 90% of the reviewers in Toronto do not even exist.

@surreality said:

Fresh peeve: Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyy does everything seem to break at once?

Sorry. I was practicing cursing on you.

@thebird That is even worse. You're right.

@thebird said:

RL anger:
When people assume I'm being a snarky bitch, or lying about my sincerity, when really I'm doing neither of those things.
Happened multiple times today about varying topics. Maybe I have more of a case of resting bitchface/attitude than I thought? But damn. Chill out people. I'm chilled, I swear.

Ugh I hate that. When people tell me "smile!" like they're being cute or cheery, I go from probably content and okay to instant actual anger. Nothing brings on the hate quite like "calm down".

@mietze I know what it is in my family. I have an aunt whom I refer to as "the vulture". I call her this because every time someone dies, no matter how distantly related, she shows up looking to take as much of their worldly possessions home with her as she can. Because the members of my family who would stand up to conduct like this are by now dead (the non-confrontational ones seem to live longer) she gets away with it. Nobody wants to call her on it. Instead they whisper about it disapprovingly where they think she cannot hear.

Thanks to this she has progressed to taking over my grandmother's house from her and packing it full of the many things she has collected over the years, to the point that it really does look like something off of Hoarders. My grandmother is miserable. She is also stubborn, and will not move out of her own home nor muster the willpower it takes to kick the vulture out. Instead she insists on staying there, and I am sure she will stay there until her time comes too and the vulture just collects all her things.

Most families seem to have at least one vulture. They ruin everything around them. They are profoundly unhappy and think that collecting things will fix that, but it's just a disease. It is an infectious disease too, and unless one puts up hard barriers against it or simply removes oneself from the situation, one will succumb as well.

@Sunny said:

And yeah, I kjnow it's none of anybody's business. I really shouldn't have aired this in public and I know it but there was going to be a meltdown if I didn't vent somehow.

It's okay to share if that's what you want.

Sounds to me like S-i-L is kind of...I have unkind words. But yeah. I don't know. I am sorry that it's going on.

@Sunny None of my business, or any of our businesses really, but I'm going to ask anyway: What part does sister-in-law have to play in this?

Because it sounds suspiciously similar to a few events in my own family.

@Roz said:

Pancakes. I just fucking love pancakes and I really want some right now.

Click click bloody click pancakes!

@Coin I will replace my dead character with a neurotic South American guy whose only friends are words on a screen.

@Coin I hope Eldritch gets super massive because I kind of liked it when you were losing your mind. It was awesome.

@Coin Always with your excuses. All I hear is about how you think that one single ton of plot is adequate. Back in my day we ran five tons each and we liked it.

@HelloRaptor said:

@tragedyjones

Superboy

Oh the cosplay.

I really approve the hell out of this cosplay.

@Spawnblade I can recommend that Eldritch seems to have a good, responsive staff and operates under regard for more or less current rules being released in the game system. Those are your pros.

Cons are that opportunity to play a supernatural something is limited. One may potentially play a Vampire, Demon, or Werewolf, but there are limited slots made available for these things. Additionally the word from staff is that they will never allow Mage, so if you ever want to play that I guess go somewhere else.

Onyx Path is extremely slow to release new things that open up new games, since they appear to prefer working on supplement material for already released games and throwback Old WoD material instead. That isn't the fault of Eldritch, but it does affect the timeframe of things to come on the game.

@tragedyjones Yeah all of these things have happened multiple times. The only successful "replacements" really are more continuing legacy than replacement. In those cases I think of the aforementioned Robin and the Flash but also Blue Beetle, Dr. Fate, and the myriad Green Lanterns to name a few.

Notably DC does this better than Marvel, but I think it's because DC responds to the passage of time more than Marvel does. After all Peter Parker should be pushing 70 by now except that Marvel kind of ignores the fact that it's been decades since they started writing Spider-Man stories.