Posts made by surreality

...is there any way to kill this one? It's the lingering 'you have unread chats' bubble from what I gather is Cirno's ban or something related to it.

Crossing my fingers on this one, as I actually use the chat rather a lot.

...I need to take notes on all of those things. I already Atlantis so much more than Savitar (which I had used for many years, and I'm slow to change what I'm used to using), things that make it even more handy I'm always eager to learn.

I wouldn't have even tried to set up the limited spawn use I did if I didn't have Atlantis; it was completely opaque if if was even possible in Savitar.

@Cobaltasaurus It does, yeah-- I've done that with frozen and canned to mix them and reduce them, too, for cake toppings and such. It works out well, just takes forever since you want to use fairly low heat. You can do the same with fresh fruit, too, in season.

@Cobaltasaurus You may want to cook the fruit a little to reduce the liquid. Even if it seems to lose too much, it will leech it back from the milk, I'd think?

@Jennkryst That's just it--that ain't no laptop in his pocket. Those were res4/5 items around then.

I went with the closest to what I do, which is for high volume staff windows only, usually. Mostly because I'm lazy about setting it up. But you can bet job spam got spawned off on the TR staff window, that's for dang sure, along with monitor clutter.

I think if it sticks to things people volunteer to meet a grisly, less than glorious, or otherwise unhappy end, it should be fairly safe. The volunteer part I think would help weed out the overly attached, save for in those cases in which someone is all, "Wahhhhhh, I didn't get my way, so I am going to kill this char off horribly!" -- though, really, that type tends to be easy to spot.

@tragedyjones you make me so sad sometimes.

would be more apt. She finally got that devotion I always wanted...

Edit: "You ruined a brand new pair of Jimmy Choos and I'm the monster? Grrrrrrrrrar..."

@Coin said:

Another thing that was fun on the Reach was the CraigsList page.

...I am so stealing that.

I would absolutely volunteer Zoe. Bitch was scary! And funny. I mean, 'socialite that turns into The Thing', possibly over something as random as a stain on her impeccable couture? Oh, all the yes. With my every blessing.

<hammers the downvote button>

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XIZVcRccCx0

There's a good reason for this!

Edit: also 80s music. Because.

Nope. One of the main advantages of the setting: google doesn't solve every mystery, and communications are trickier.

@tragedyjones I don't know whether to cut you or hug you.

...still, though. Hollywood, man. NNNNNGH.

Not gonna lie, I pine for a late 80s/early 90s WoD game some day, too.

Rare is the morning you wake up to a phone call to inform you that a friend of yours has been murdered in a particularly heartbreaking way.

Rarer, I suspect, is the day that gets steadily worse from there, with a steady stream of 'Really?' and 'Well, that happened,' and all the rest.

Seriously, this day can fuck itself.

@Arkandel said:

@Ganymede That fucking movie.

This.

Excellent movie.

It really is.

If you don't mind being essentially deafened by it.

(I have a really hyperactive flinch response to the 'hard-wired into our brains by evolution, you hear a child scream, you react' thing. This movie was physically almost torture.)

Fuck. This means I have to agree to stick around or I can't use this?

Oh, well. I guess I'll stay.

@Ganymede I can understand that perspective -- and it is actually well-put.

I also agree the earlier point that it's potentially a discussion worth having, even if I think it's likely to come down to the usual 'people are going to be morons, and we can only hope for the best' answer we usually do.

It's just rather impossible to have that discussion if people are arguing right past whatever is being said, and arguing with what everyone thinks is being said, instead.

@Ganymede
@surreality said:

@Lithium I don't disagree that it's a possibility, so I'll ask you to quote what you're getting that impression from -- as right now you're arguing against something I've not said.

And I'm seeing a whole lot of that sort of thing. There's quite a bit of dramatic 'reading into' going on that is gloriously unproductive. When people respond to things I haven't said as though it's relevant to the argument? Yes, finding out where in the blue hells that response came from is helpful, since the response is actually to something that's being assumed or read into, rather than something that has been stated and actually read.

Right now, it's reading as, "You disagree with me, so you must be uneducated and hostile toward education!" which is pompous crazy-talk.