Posts made by surreality

@Lotherio All signs point to... yes/both/maybe/I'm still awake oh gods someone club me with a mallet or something so I'm not awake any more?

@Ghost I maintain you should be obligated to staff purely by virtue of the perfection of the loophole gif, but since I think this is one of those games that should entail a game-wide ongoing drinking game (let's be honest, it'd help), I feel that fucking the bar in this gif should be taken as a sign of your agreement to take on the task due to eagerness to fuck the actual shit out of a bar.

@Ghost ...you keep saying you won't play.

YOU NEVER SAID YOU WOULDN'T STAFF.

Looooooooooooooophole.

@Auspice YUP. I feel you. I so feel you. There will be some little trick here or there I see on something and actually manage to do (like the slip stitch edges) and then BY GODS I WILL DO IT IN EVERYTHING FOREVER if I liked it at the time. Never mind if it totally doesn't work for the thing, I will rework the thing until it does, or throw it on the 'fuck you, yarn' pile.

@Auspice I would be willing to tell people to knock that shit off if someone is needed for that. I actually have a policy written for almost exactly that, which is now so much funnier to me than it used to be. (It was a lot of words that summed to: tl;dr: staff does not fucking care, act like adults or GTFO.)

Staffly things probably should never need to be more than the equiv of forum modding I'd... hope? In this particular case, things not being super srs bizness.

If Ares has the equivalent of a 'you take a week off plz' kick function it would probably solve 99% of the problems it would ever have. (Aside from the usual 'some asshole just logged in on channel and started spouting hate speech and gets banned as normal, obvs.)

@Auspice I sorta cheat. I do all backward-forward while it's all front-facing and do my knit stitches 'backward' instead of doing purl rows with the purl side facing me, and won't let myself do a square more than 8 stitches wide. I do the 'slip (I forget off hand if it's first or last it's so automatic now) stitch on either side' when going back and forth, and then when it's time to double-check, I can count the number of loops down the side and if it's 8 (or whatever), I know I have the right amount, since the edges are going to be the 'half the number of stitches as the body'. Also makes picking them up along the edge super easy by comparison. Next time I do one (they're great for tiny waiting room swatchy projects) I'll try to get some pictures of it, since it's easier to see than explain.

@Auspice It's like the first time you do entrelac. You read the directions, and it's like what moonspeak is this shit. (I totally 'do it wrong' and have my own cheat for it now, because fuuuuuuuuuuck thaaaaat.)

This is the 'I love modular but goddamn this woman is a mad genius' challenge link page of doom. I have a pile of patterns from her and naturally never finish any of them, and... so many more new ones now... oh gods, broke soon. (The nice thing is, she has a bunch that are one or two balls for a scarf or snood, which means at least they're not $$$$$$$$$$$$ to actually make.)

@Auspice I... yeah. Yeah. Uh, I would help wiki. Staff? Uh. Uhm. I dunno.

Admittedly, I think if this was actually any sort of system, it's, uh, 'everything's consent-based, roll if you want and everyone agrees to it for the lulz' as the best option. Because just... yeah.

We should make Ghost staff.

BECAUSE TECHNICALLY THAT ISN'T PLAYING ON A MUX.

Lllllllllloooooooooooooooooooooooooophoooooooooooooooole!

@Auspice I did something almost that bonkers once. Not the same kind of thing but I know I got up to rows that were something like 4k stitches a row or something at a certain point? I would be all proud of I got through more than a row front and back on that fucker in a day. (On size 000 needles. I... should not be permitted to knit.)

@Auspice said in King of Sex Mountain:

@Wretched said in King of Sex Mountain:

Sex mountain in my head looks like,, a pair of rounded peaks, perhaps with a rock, almost engorged spire between em. Maybe listing to one side a bit.

Wanna design the connect screen?

FINALLY A USE OF ASCII ART I APPROVE OF.

It had to happen eventually.

@Auspice Yeah, that's... siiiiiiiiiiiigh. I could even make an actual single gradient thing long enough to do a whole blanket. I know how. I can do it. I can. IT IS JUST A NIGHTMARE AND AUGH.

@Auspice OMFG.

GODDAMMIT I need to stop seeing things that make me think, 'I would want to dye something special to make that... '

@Aria said in RL Anger:

I have also noticed the little note of panic that appears in your voice whenever you're reminded that you may have to do all of tasks that weren't supposed to be a part of my duties but which you were Way Too Busy with Super Important Things to handle.

There's no compliment like hearing that tone of voice that comes with a blaring subtext of 'I just peed myself a little in terror' in these situations, truth. Savor it!

The inevitability of a parody adult game is... well. Gamers. That it took over 25 years of MU existing for this conversation to occur surprises me, like, a lot.

Weird post is weird, deal with it.

#1: Thank you, MSB, for providing hilarious distractions from the shit-show I'm dealing with otherwise, as described below. OrgyMUX, I'm lookin' at you.

#2: Thank you, HorrorMU, for putting up with my flaky 'I don't know if I can deal with this or not'-ism for the past few weeks forever.

#3: Thank you, friend I will not name lest you get dragged into drama, for being a voice of chill yesterday here.

#4: Thank you, Ark and Gany, for taking the bullshit from the person who won't leave me alone seriously.

All of you are awesome. When people talk about people in this hobby being a positive support network, look at yourselves, even if you're not specifically named above (and there are many awesome people here NOT specifically named above), and give yourselves a genuinely well-earned pat on the back. You have been helpful this week, knowingly or not, and that's awesome of you. Sometimes the best folks never realize they've done good, because it's subtle, and nobody says anything. So I'm saying something. No bullshit, thank you.

...now the angst:

We keep fussing over when to actually schedule this surgery because it's genuinely terrifying. Dental anything is my #1 phobia. People think this is a joke, just no big deal. At its previous worst, at the clinic that did more harm than good, they were so awful they'd have to gas me. That meant hooking up all the blood pressure/heart rate/etc. monitors. Well, the clinic staff sure believed me after the first time, when, as the dentist brought the needle near my face, my heart rate and blood pressure spiked from 'normal' to 'holy shit this patient is about to have a heart attack' on the machine and actually sent out an alarm they had to cancel for an ER team. (Silly machines, right?)

This coming week, we have to schedule this. Wisdom teeth? I opted for twilight sleep. Would have been fine with that -- zone right the fuck out to the easy listening station playing crap music and float among the clouds of Phil Collins and soul-numbing jazz sax and 80s pop with none fucks given. This guy? Nope, "we don't do anything like that". Not even gas. "We can give you a xanax before the procedure if you feel you need it." Yeah, thanks, boss, I take that already, usually daily, so that's not gonna do jack nor shit.

Fffffffffffffuck. We can't wait much longer on this and need to schedule for some time in the next week or two.

The financial mess is what it is. The tl;dr: we are so completely and totally fucked it isn't funny.

Me, being typical me, and trusting all the wrong people in spite of endless red flags flying in my face for years... yeah. Some 'friend'. Mocking all of this just to be vile. Fuck that person. I was better off without them before this, as they had zero respect for boundaries, the most twisted take on all manner of things, the morals/loyalty/ethics of a cat in heat any time there was something with a cock present, and they would have needed way more than two faces to spew the shit they spewed on the regular while pretending to be the loviest person ever. I should have been rid of them before I ever allowed them to go as far as they did. THAT is totally on me.

Annnnnnnnnnnnd I go into all of this knowing I may end up getting to call the local police, the police in a neighboring state, and the motherfucking FBI if the persistent problem person decides to resurface. I say 'if', but I know the reality is 'when'. (Thankfully, we have sorted out our home defense option; I am not going to disclose it here, publicly or privately. Many thanks to those who offered suggestions and assistance; y'all are awesome.)

Meanwhile, in my head, I'm like... "Motherfucker, if I have to call the fucking cops when my mouth looks like this (DO NOT CLICK IF YOU DO NOT WANT NIGHTMARES Y'ALL, NOT KIDDING) and I have to blargle through a fucking police report three goddamned times over, I hope they lock your ass up for-fucking-ever."

...and I'm not just being a pessimist or whiny fatalist when I say: we all know that shit is totally going to happen because of course it fucking is.

@Ghost Yeah, this dude claimed to not have malicious intentions, but... no. Not only is that bullshit, people who do that shit without identifying themselves in some fashion (he did not) know exactly what they're doing.

(That was volley one in the recent round of nonsense that, thankfully, Ark and Gany are being champs at keeping from spilling onto the forum, despite the fact that the person in question keeps chasing me here. Srsly, that was just the opening shot... )

@Roz said in How to Escape the OOC Game:

I am pretty damn particular with my email/RL name because I am literally the only person with it. Both first and last name are very uncommon, so the combination is entirely unique. The idea of sharing that casually is totally unnerving to me just because of that.

This. Very much this. Same boat completely.

There is a reason that when a guest on a game paged me with my real first and last name from out of nowhere, I had one hell of a panic attack.

@Ghost ....I lose more keyboards to this forum, I swear.

I have two increasingly crappy keyboards in rotation now, just so one can dry out and I can use the other.

I am not even kidding, you bastards.

@cocopuffs said in King of Sex Mountain:

Why are we doing this. This sounds like an MU parody porn.

3 parts Twisted Sense of Humor
1 part We'll Probably Never Actually Do This
1 part ...And Yet It's Fun to Joke About
1 part OMG GUYS WE NEED A TENSION BREAKER UP IN HERE STAT
1 part Secretly, We All Have an Inner 13-Year-Old That Makes Lame Sex Jokes Whether We Admit It Or Not
1 part Self-Foiling Orgies are Probably The Most True To Life Thing Any of Us Will Ever RP, Hands Down, aka 'IT IS FOR THE ARTISTIC REALISM'

@Wretched said in Poll: Do I enjoy this hobby more than I don't?:

My other hobbies rarely allow for this level of creative story outlet and interactivity.

@Ominous said in Poll: Do I enjoy this hobby more than I don't?:

You can't evaluate how you spend your time in a vacuum. You have to weigh its pros and cons with the pros and cons of the possible alternatives. I work not because my job is interesting and enjoyable.

Both of these things are very applicable to me also.