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@Auspice said in RL Anger:

@Sparks said in RL Anger:

status migrainosis

What do they call it when you've had the same migraine attack for 1-2 weeks?
Each migraine I get breaks roughly that often. I get a day off for every 1-2 weeks of pain.

That's the part that's worrying me. The 'mini-stroke' symptoms are becoming more frequent.

Honestly, as someone who suffers both migraines and cluster headaches (and is closing in on two weeks of cluster right now), that sounds terribly familiar. If it is a cluster, oxygen treatments might (but not definitely) help.

It still isn't normal migraine, so be very careful.

You have my sympathy, either way. From down in my own pit of pain, I offer a magic space tiara and the key to a hidden room of silent darkness.

@Meg said in RL Anger:

In other RL anger related posts, (sorry for the double post), I woke up with a fucking horrible migraine and I don't want to go to work, but I have used up most of my PTO. So I have no choice.

quietly offers Fiorinal, dark space, and a Cefaly tiara

"Has a Migraine at least 70% of the Time"

(Which would be like... me, Tez, Auspice, and maybe Meg. Complimentary chainsaws for removing the offending head will be provided.)

Edit: Oh, wait, it should have a GIF, shouldn't it.

@Misadventure said in Forum Factions:

I think anyone who deals with the crown of iron nails driven into their brains gets to be a pretty princess automagically.

I do have a magic headache space tiara...

@surreality said in Forum Factions:

We need a 'argue every general concept/game policy/house rule/poweridea/game pitch as if it's WoD by default' faction, but it needs a better name than that.

It would, I think, be quite large.

Woudn't it be easier to make a group of "Doesn't Think Every Game Idea is WoD"? It'd be smaller.

@Auspice said in Forum Factions:

@Lethle said in Forum Factions:

;.; Forever overlooked.

• ex-lurker

It's okay, I only made it in the migraine group myself.

Let's make a "Likes To Pew-Pew In Spaceships" group too. Made up of the entire air wing of BSGU, plus any EVE Online players, Elite: Dangerous players, or Star Citizen players. Then you'll be in a second group.

@scar said in RL Anger:

My last dog Taurus was a red nosed pit and he was an angel / used to help me rescue feral kittens.

My brother's dog Chewie was a red-nosed pit, and the sweetest (if dumbest) dog I've ever met. Chewie didn't have two functioning brain cells to rub together, but he adored everyone.

@scar said in RL Anger:

Now, I’m just shaking thinking all about wtf is going to happen to this poor dog that didn’t ask for any of this. SJHFKJHFIDGIGFIEFUIGFEUHFH%@#5972 !! Grrr.

I think it's out of your hands—the ambulance folks and the hospital will report it, so the whole thing's going to be in the system. You did the right thing, regardless, and whatever happens next isn't on you.

I am also very glad that you're okay.

@thebird said in RL Anger:

Geek Chic went bankrupt. Which means that we won't be getting the custom game table we paid about $8K for. We will be getting our money back from PayPal and Capital One. But damnit. We saved for years to finally get one and we were supposed to get it in October.
Kind of silly to be angry about, but...there it is.

It's not silly. Those tables are basically board/tabletop game geek aspirational heirloom furniture (and beautiful, solid, durable furniture at that). Almost everyone who's gotten one spent years finding just the right spot, saving up, justifying it in their budget, etc. Having that snatched away at the last moment would be infuriating.

I am at a writing conference with friends, which I am enjoying greatly.

However, I have had a migraine for literally a week straight (to be fair, it's actually almost certainly actually a cluster headache, given how long it's gone on and how it reacted for a bit to oxygen treatments, and given that I get both).

Despite even going to the ER last weekend, I still have this migraine.

I am trying to function on migraine meds, but it is casting something of a pall on my enjoyment of my writing conference, and making me a tiny bit grumpy.

To be fair, calling Microsoft Outlook an "email" program, in air quotes, seems fairly accurate to all my experiences with it.

@tinuviel said in RL Anger:

@auspice Now I know why we don't RP together often. Two grumpy old people with fucked up brains.

"You can have your power fantasies and pretty princesses; I'll be over here RP'ing as someone who doesn't have a headache."

@tinuviel I know, I know. It's pushing the bounds of believability a bit beyond "I can fly and breathe in space", but—hear me out!—I think there's a place for a migraine-free character on some MU*s.

@auspice said in NaNoWriMo:

I'm in the 'cheerleader' boat (I'm writing/polishing a spec script this month; not conducive to NaNo). Austin's NaNo crowd is great!

Far better than Seattle's, tbh. I didn't participate last year because of school, but the year before I didn't because the Seattle NaNo group was so unwelcoming.

I remember the Seattle group being pretty good about three or four years ago, but I haven't really involved myself in the bigger NaNo community the past couple of years. I just haven't had the time or the energy for the bigger meetups. I'm sad that you had bad experiences with them.

I'm using NaNo this year as an excuse to try some new writing habits out—writing first thing in the morning before work, etc.—and so far it seems to be working. I'm 17,000 words in by day 7, which is a far better pace than I've ever set before. I don't think it's a maintainable pace—today I've only written like 600 words before work, so probably will write my remaining 1400 (I target 2000 a day) at lunch.

But it's taught me that if I set a goal like "write at least two sentences on your story every day before work, and two sentences at lunch" I will probably be more productive than "try to write something after work every day" (where I get home and I'm tired and just want to futz around online).

@apu said in Dead Celebrities: 2017 Edition:

I might be remembering incorrectly, but didn't he also provide the voice of KITT in Knight Rider?

I thought that was William Daniels. (John Adams from 1776.)

@auspice said in RL Anger:

fuck migraines

Seconded.

@arkandel Having seen it last night, it actually wasn't nearly as bad as I expected. It definitely felt like two disparate movies smashed together, though, and the edges were very visible. But it was still enjoyable, if very flawed in execution.

@arkandel said in RL things I love:

I don't know how RL this is, but there might be an actual table-top RPG group in my near future - yes, it's 5th Ed D&D, but nothing's perfect.

Actually, 5e comes pretty close! It's one of the best balances of crunchy math to story when run right, in my opinion.

(Plus, you only need watch Critical Role to see how good a good GM can make it.)

I hope you enjoy!

Really depends on what you want from a phone. I do mobile development for my day job so I switch between iOS and Android as my daily driver, and each has its strengths and weaknesses.

Android is far more customizable; you can do all kinds of things to really make a handset 'yours'. Custom launchers and lock screens, using things like Tasker to make your phone stay unlocked at home or put you in Do Not Disturb mode when face-down on the table or when attached to a car mount, etc. On the other hand, actually doing that customization can be a headache, and Android's Bluetooth functionality—especially Bluetooth Low Energy—is wildly inconsistent, and not nearly as reliable as iOS. There's also the fact that Android's going the same direction as iOS and getting rid of the headphone jack in favor of eliminating ingress avenues (for better weatherproofing).

iOS is far more locked down—it's very hard to customize in any meaningful way, so if there's a bit of behavior you don't like you are really sort of stuck with it—but it's also much harder to break an iOS device as a result. And if you have anything that uses Bluetooth wireless connectivity, generally the experience will be a lot better on iOS. And of course, no headphone jacks any longer; you'll need an adapter if you don't use wireless headphones.

If you do go with Android, I highly recommend a Pixel device; they're a little pricier, but really the most solid Android experience I've found, especially for the first generation Pixels. (The Pixel 2 has a few quirks, and the lack of headphone jack on the 2 gets some people.)

@Thenomain said:

Mass Effect Andromeda.

Shut up and take my money!

^^ this. Also my reaction to Horizon Zero Dawn and The Last Guardian.

Seriously, though. We just had an E3 where they gave a release date for the Last Guardian, unveiled Kingdom Hearts III, announced Shenmue III, gave us some info on the new Mass Effect game, and threw in a couple total curveballs like Horizon Zero Dawn.

If they had announced Half-Life III, I would've started checking TV listings to see if Firefly was still on the air in this strange, wondrous alternate reality I had apparently fallen into.

@thenomain said in RL things I love:

Once again, Tabletop Simulator with Discord chat is the shit. Hearing people I've Mu*d with laugh and swear at each other (at the same time) has amazing healing properties.

Bravo, you glorious jerks.

I think just "gaming with friends, with voice chat" in general hits this for me. Be it ARK, or Warframe, or Tabletop Simulator, or real tabletop via Roll20 or something, hearing the laughter of your friends is a wonderful thing.

I ran around an island taming dinosaurs tonight with my guild, got eaten by a pack of raptors, and spent a couple of hours shrieking and laughing over it all. Fun times.