@auspice MAC may also. They were able to match me, and I'm the same kind of impossible. I got 'we normally only sell this to Asian women who are very very very pale'. It lasted FOREVER. Not cheap, but it lasted long enough to make it more than worth it. I need to eventually get around to replacing that thing, I just have to do it when I haven't been out in the sun constantly, or it throws everything way off with the 'instantly tan forever because I went outside for five minutes'.
@aria I gave the floufcat our 'apply to achey bits' ice pack, seriously. She's flopped over next to it like it's made of sunbeam and keeps headbonking it. It's kinda amazing.
@Aria Thankfully, the folks know this is 'crisis mode', so they're handling it, as they technically own this house as well. I think. I'm getting groused at about it -- like I had some control over a 16 year old unit finally dying -- but... yeah, we could get the coil replaced in 2 weeks for $1k less, but it is 16 years old. It's overdue as it is for its swan song, apparently. If it wasn't practically an antique, I would be giving this way more side-eye.
If it gets truly impossible, I can flee next door to crash in my old bedroom. (Their cats' room, now. Their cats would be so confused!)
So much appreciated, though. 
(He is also naturally off at work in NJ until late late tomorrow night. Of course, right?)
...when the a/c dies on the hottest days of the year. And you have an elderly long-haired cat. And you melt in heat like Dorothy just threw a bucket of water on you.
If anybody has a spare $5k just hanging around that they need to be rid of to end some crazy curse from a one-eyed old hag or something, send a PM. 
I can offer only lots of good karma and seashells.
(Kidding, obviously. But if that is the case, really, send a PM! )
I cannot even begin to count the cliches, but I still snerked. Life, continuing to be stranger than fiction. And often funnier.
Annoyingly, either of those would look like this on me. I cannot do red. Even 'brick' (brown reds) come out like this on me.
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...just louder and more painfully.
The Burt's Bees 'tint of color' type -- I forget what they're officially called -- are a good option, too. And they're nice on the moisturizing and whatnot.
Main downside is a dearth of color options. I tend more toward rusts and neutrals, since any neutral red or blue toned red looks NEON HOT PINK MAGENTA WOW HI BARBIE HOW YA DOIN' on me. Super not flattering. (Nail polish, too, grar... ) Intentional deep/dark wines or shimmery dark magenta at least works with the green hair. It very much did not even the littlest bit with the red.
@ashen-shugar said in A new platform?:
Some learning of new things is expected. So how about we lay that expectation on others and not trying to dumb it down so much it becomes repulsive to everyone else?
I agree with this. As the person who mentioned it, however, I think there are reasonable limits to that, too.
People having an expectation that someone will go learn three or more programming languages to make one aspect of a project or they're lazy is as absurd and obnoxious as 'I don't want to have to learn anything'.
I wanted a skin for mediawiki that does specific things. This meant tinkering with javascript, LESS (while similar to CSS, different in non-trivial ways), and PHP -- none of which I'd ever touched or even looked at before. It also meant knowing how to trawl through the guts of mediawiki to find obscure system messages and determine what was doing what, what could go, what was essential, and so on. Mediawiki can be a giant clusterfuck, being a project with thousands of authors, all with their own ways of doing things. They're attempting to standardize a few things, but they're doing it in a piecemeal way that means you need to know the old way and their new way because things are only half converted at this time, and the new way isn't terribly well-documented. ("X is deprecated in favor of Y." "Y: <blank space, cricket noises, sometimes a polite note that documentation is coming that was left over a year ago...>" <-- this is really a thing, and it's not uncommon.)
While frustrating, I didn't really have an issue with that. I had to kitbash a lot of crap to make it do things the way I wanted in ways that I'm sure someone else would scratch their head over, too, but, hey, it worked and only needed a few tweaks to get it where I wanted it when I threw in the towel on dev. It wasn't a small amount of work. Maybe it would have been for someone who knows what they're doing, but I promise you, that person is not me, because I had to be an adult (read: google all the things ever) and figure everything out one tiny piece at a time.
If a player came to me with the expectation that I should be obligated to do that because that's how they wanted it, I would probably have told them to go fuck themselves. Similarly, if I have code requests, I try to break them down to the barest bones of 'this is what I need to do X' that I can later tweak as needed, if needed.
@auspice That is where it always is. Which 'it'? It does not matter.
@admiral I keep wanting to do something like that. I just can't even with WoD any more.
I've actually only ever used spawns to corral the +jobs spam when staffing on TR. Otherwise, I completely forget everything people normally put on spawns exists, and everyone gets pissed at me for not answering their pages. (No, really. Out of sight ends up being not just out of the way, but completely out of mind for me. Oops.)
@arkandel Early days of a high protein, low carb die+t tend to be blazing fast. It tends to settle out to 2lbs/week after a month or two, but that first month or two are like a bolt from the blue.
It is not a joke that I could eat a half pound of bacon daily and lose 5lbs/week. I mean, that's just plain insane and a little terrifying on many levels. (Before you ask, my cholesterol is ideal and was when I was on that die+t, too. Even at 'damned near dead', the docs were simply baffled by how perfect all my numbers were, 'cept for blood pressure, which sometimes was a little higher than average on the high end -- I wonder why! 
Downright ooky. Just wired for it, like a proper carnivore. Gnaw-nom-nom-nom.)
@arkandel said in A new platform?:
@mail faraday=Hello -Hey! @mail/proof @mail/sendis harder to figure out than clicking on "Faraday", picking "Mail", then clicking on "Send".
Yes. Yes, it is.
Making something that does what you describe, however, is not in the skillset of the majority of people who want to make a game.
This is very relevant.
@ganymede Wayyy back, far enough to qualify as a 'first' on a variety of things on one side or the other, I dated a guy whose mother wrote romance novels.
Genuinely awesome guy, completely and totally. But wow on that head-wiring.
@admiral I can totally empathize with the whole 'I am not having the sex/romatic/intimate life I want to be having' feeling. We have all been there at some point or another, some of us may be there right now, etc. It's the 'I'm entitled to that' and the 'what other people want doesn't matter' that's twenty tons of fucked right up.
It's also just frustrating. Typically these folks have these ideas of what the reality of sex/romance/intimacy is that's hopelessly skewed. This bit in particular isn't necessarily gendered, either. As in, a lot of guys may expect a relationship that looks like their favorite porno, but that's not much different than the women who expect a relationship that's like their favorite romance novel. Both are not standard reality or a reasonable expectation to have from day to day life. Some folks have moments of those things here and there, but it's not usually the every day, day to day, even then.
So it's like... well, duh, if that's what you're looking for, of course you're going to be frustrated, because that shit's fiction.
@friarzen said in A new platform?:
Absolutely not as scary as the ninja thing at all, confirmed. Also likely much less of a shock when the text window then appears, which is also helpful.
Kid purportedly goes on rampage because girl repeatedly rejected him; girl was one of the victims
Yep, I'm pissed. On every possible level.
It isn't the first time we've seen this, either. The case out in California a handful of years ago was similar, with the whole gross proto-incel manifesto.
@arkandel The hurdles you're describing aren't small, though.
Bluntly, I could probably figure out a way to do most things off a wiki if it had a good extension for chat. (Some exist, but they're not practical or appropriate for our needs.)
I could arguably learn enough to write one -- or determine if it is even possible to have one that suits our needs -- but the odds of that are absurdly slim; I don't have programmer brain, I predominantly have artist/designer brain with a smidge of technical-shit-I-had-to-learn on the side, like garnish.
This would require far more SQL-fu than I have, and a lot more programming in a variety of other languages to make the necessary 'play on the website' extension.
None of which I know.
Then there are the privacy tweaks it'd require so people who don't feel like having their kinky sexytimes scenes readable by everyone and their brother. I don't personally care if they are visible for those comfortable having them visible, but I wouldn't want my writing in those moments to be visible, and know I'm not the only one who feels this way. This is not insignificant, unfortunately. There will always be kinky sexytimes scenes people want to play, and there will always be people who aren't cool with the whole world reading them; there's no policy way around that one.
I could try to convince someone one or more of the above efforts is worthwhile and try to work with them, but, frankly, the bits of help I have managed to get are already huge, and I can't imagine asking someone to work on something like that if they aren't as into the idea as I am. (Absolutely no one is.) If I could pay someone buckets of cash to do it, sure, I could probably find someone who could manage it -- but that's not happening without a lucky Powerball ticket.
@ganymede Pretty much. Ye olden days were gross. "I don't care what happens to my people because I'm into Jesus, not you," is also pretty gross. Dudes who kill thousands of people, also gross. I'd have to ask her on the specifics, supposedly it was some 'unite the territories' alliance more than bang-factor, as was ye olden days way in Roman times.
It may be gross that women didn't get a say back when, but we didn't get a say back when, and that exacerbates the level of 'wait, you're going to let everybody die because you're not going to do what everyone else is expected to do because Jesus and isn't that inspiring?' I'd be way more behind this if it was, "Excuse me, I am also a person with a say," but it's not, nor did it have anything to do with that. (We could have used more of that in the back-when; maybe we'd be better off now.)
There's pretty much zero lack of faces to punch in the story, really. Which makes it sorta the inverse of 'isn't that sweet and lovely?'
(Maybe it's super anti-feminist of me, but if I was responsible for 1000 people and some dick said, "Marry me or your people die," I'd marry the idiot to save the people. Not because I'm a martyr -- but because I have a talent for making people miserable with my company, and, ultimately, poison is totally a thing.)
Not familiar with the Santa Fe reference, link? It sounds like something to get pissed off about on some level.
This one is a peeve: No, Mom. There are no finished rocks yet. I told you this process takes 2-3 months. It's been two weeks! Believe me, I wish it was that quick way more than you do.
This is karmic payback for all the road trips when I was a little kid and every utterance of 'are we there yet' in my life, I'm sure of it.
Yes, Mom, I put some of the boringest plain white rocks you love for no reason I could possibly understand into the noisy machines, too.
Sigh.