Posts made by surreality

Creative problem solving with repurposed objects.

There are about a dozen long-winded explanations that would be required for it to make sense. The tl;dr is that I like a certain kind of yarn, because it is neato-keen. I have studied various means of producing it and can do all the ones I've read up on or been taught by my former mentor and came up with a few more variations on those themes as well. None of these methods are without their share of 'that is a lot of hoop-jumping pains in the ass' or 'more money than you could ever afford to spend or would ever make back' on a machine that can only be described as 'you didn't really need a living room, either, did you?' or 'oh, you really think you can get one of those vintage refurbs they only ever made a dozen or so of in the 40s in the first place and there's only one presently known of on earth known to still work?'

Over the past two weeks I have found a way of drastically reducing the amount of ass-pain this causes with a weird little widget ordered from the UK, a cordless powered screwdriver, and a combination ash tray/trash can. It isn't quite on par with the speed or ease as the thing that'd cost as much as a brand new luxury SUV and take up roughly the same amount of space, but it's one hell of a lot closer than it was and it takes up the amount of space as, well, a 12 inch diameter, 3ft tall trash can.

This just might work. Yay.

@Ganymede All over the internet. And in person. And if it's ever mentioned anywhere outside of costumer circles, or BDSM events. And really, when it's the last option, that's not really where I'm going with it, either, so it's equally unhelpful.

@Thenomain said in RL Anger:

@Kanye-Qwest said in RL Anger:

@Thenomain said in RL Anger:

Ties & Jackets > Bras & Heels. I don't know how women handle it.

By not being little bitches, mostly.

I...okay? I don't know how to respond to this.

I don't either, but for entirely different reasons. Namely: not nearly enough vodka.

@Thenomain Sometimes the bras aren't so bad. I mean, I'm not one of them, but there are a lot of bigger girls who find it more comfortable to wear one than not because of the way it helps distribute the weight. It sounds counterintuitive, but it's true of some.

Similarly, I'm stupid comfortable wearing a certain style of corset (under the boobs entirely, not propping them up under my chin or something). Literally more comfortable than I am buck naked in a tub full of bubbles. Anybody who has ever needed a back brace after an accident or to avoid strain at work hauling things around probably gets this one, and I've worn those, too, but frankly, I'm weird-made and a custom-fitted corset was infinitely more comfortable than that, and under clothes, it's not like anybody ever even knew it was there because it wasn't designed to forcibly alter my shape into something it isn't, but was instead made to support my back, because the generic wraps designed for that purpose were designed for a body very, very different than mine.

I suppose my anger is that damn near any time somebody hears this, I get the lecture about how I'm a misbegotten throwback trying to adhere to a damaging beauty standard and oh, mercy, have you seen those x-rays of bodies of women who grew up wearing those things and destroying their inner organs?! because they cannot conceive of any other possible way it might be, and that this attitude is as damaging, limited, and nonsensical as the notion that women all should have to wear such a thing for those very different and not OK reasons of yore.

But, well, anyway. For some people, a bra isn't so bad. Sometimes they're more comfortable. Not for me, but for some. Pointless trivia, it's a thing.

@Auspice said in RL Anger:

And dude, I wish I could just wear men's attire. Worse yet is that I can't even do the men's suit some andro ladies can because my chest is too big. I'm so damn jealous of those that can.

I will help you curb stomp the first person who says 'that just makes it hotter', because that's what friends are for. Also, nngh, all the empathy.

@Thenomain said in RL Anger:

Ties & Jackets > Bras & Heels. I don't know how women handle it.

With a smile. (Or else.)

If you are using chrome, look for the following extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylebot/oiaejidbmkiecgbjeifoejpgmdaleoha?hl=en

It is called 'Stylebot' and it allows you to modify a site's css on a site by site basis.

While on MSB, click on the 'CSS' that will appear on the top of your browser window.

Click 'edit CSS'.

Cut and paste the following into the little window it pops up for you:

.topic .posts .content .img-responsive {
display: none;
border: none;
outline: none;
}

Click 'save'.

That should about cover it. It seems to be working on this thread while testing it, anyway.

Look, some people enjoy them. That's OK. Some people are annoyed by them. That is also OK.

If there's a 'hide images on X website' something somewhere, awesome. If there's a feature for the boards that turns images into links or collapsed stuff instead, awesome.

There have been awesome threads with pictures in them where the point of the actual thread was pictures -- there's a pets one, a creative projects one, there's been PB shopping stuff here and there, some that are literally just random gif/image wars that are all easily avoided but are fun for those who wish to participate in them, and bluntly, they're something I consider a net positive to the board. It isn't just the gifstorm (which is pretty common all over the internet) that's a thing here.

@Nein Everything you describe having happened here, I have seen it happen, too, and oh sweet mother of pearl, buckets of sympathy. Nothing ever got me to throw up my hands with a, "Fuck this, fuck that, fuck everything, I'm out!" faster than this breed of insanely entitled madness.

@Ominous I'm just going to say we definitely share a brain on this one, 100%. I refer to the 'elevator pitch' front page as a 'mission statement' -- and I wish like hell more games would do this. (I point to Reno1 still as one of the better examples of this I've seen.)

@Arkandel said in The Metaplot:

@surreality Now I want TJ to admit he stole it from me and we just got ourselves a full-on inception.

That'd be hysterical. But it does go to show how the 'game of telephone' principle can sometimes get some pretty neat results when applied to ideas evolving along the line vs. what it's usually used for (confusion and/or gossip) in the hobby!

@Kanye-Qwest said in The Metaplot:

Man, if I had $100 for every time I got accused of favoring/handing something to my "friend", when it was someone I (A. did not know at all or (B. actually OOCly disliked, I would...well, I'd be on vacation right now.

When you get the 'you must be TSing that person!' one, I say let it count for double. Triple if you haven't actually TSed anybody in years... (So. Much. Eyerolly. Sigh.) That's the quick route to the first class airfare, if nothing else.

@Arkandel The 'season plot' thing was @tragedyjones. I just shamelessly stole it and planned to run with it a little further.

@il-volpe I know, right? In a weird way, 'growing up' on that place, it's sorta hard to be shocked by much since.

Scarier to this day was the constant insistence that things behind the scenes on Cybersphere in the same era/at that time were massively worse. I find that seriously hard to imagine.

This is not a rumbling of any sort of return; quite the opposite, really.

A friend asked me today if I was someone going by Sevi on FC, and no, that is not me.

I could immediately see why he asked, since I was making a character named Seva Severine to partner up with him on TR before the idea stalled out, with the same amazingly obscure PB. Normally I'd've just called him a paranoid nutter, but, well, yeah, that's whoa nelly levels of hilarious coincidence, so can't blame him for asking about it under those circumstances.

So just in case anybody else is wondering, no, not me.

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Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/gif-block/

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App for IOS that has an option to block images: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/icab-mobile-web-browser/id308111628?mt=8

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@skew Yes, that would have been a lot better!

There was absolutely nothing passive about that aggression. It's mighty absurd and doubly offensive when someone is asking for their preference to be respected in the form of blatant disrespect.

So you can pot/kettle this one all you like for dishing what you were serving right back to you, but I'm not the one who stuck my metaphorical dick in such an easily avoided bear trap while trying to present my view as somehow superior and put down others who simply have a different opinion on a legitimately neutral preference.

@skew Or maybe, y'know, when proposing a change regarding something that people obviously have a broad range of opinions on and preferences about, we not dub anybody not falling entirely in line with our preference as posting 'garbage' when we want people to respect our different personal preference.

Because shaming is a super classy way to get your way, right? Right! ...on some other planet than the one we live on, maybe.

Just tends to be an approach that comes in handy once in a while, particularly when making an appeal of this nature. YMMV, but I fucking doubt it.

Again, just want to restate -- presentation of information is step two.

This is about step one: what information do you think you need or find necessary or useful -- not what format it's presented in, not a preference for how many words or what style it's written in, how easy it is to find, who is available to answer questions about it, and so on.

That is a completely different subject.
That's data structure, 'how is data presented?'
This is 'what data is required?'

@icanbeyourmuse I'm with @Roz here that often people will mention having read it if they had; I always tried to hybridize the answer, though.

"The info we have on that is <here>, what were your questions?" It covers the person if they just hadn't found it, and keeps the line of communication open for discussion whether they had previously found it or not for any clarifications that are potentially needed.

@Lithium I just look at that and envision an un-stompable spider and predict the end of our species within a decade as we all burn the world down screaming when we drop a phonebook on Charlotte and she just catches the motherfucker and tosses it right back at us.