Best posts made by Testament

@waller Harden is also a huge drama llama so I'm not surprised the dude would be salty.

@silverfox said in Critters!:

@testament

Bless you for adopting an older cat.

He came from a non profit and while they took great care of the cats there, all I could think about was "no pet should spend their last twilight years in a pen like that"

I know I will likely have just a few years with him. But if he gets a good home for those years, I'm quite alright with it.

@arkandel The shit about the 'Cosby Room' is fucking stomach churning. If for nothing else, the part about that is just horrendous.

A stupid thing I'd like to note.

I have 8 million Shuba Inu coins. I've had them since May.

It was around .000000015 of cent on crypto.com. But since last night it's jumped in value by 50%.

It's not smart to invest your future in crypto. But, if this coin takes off to even half a cent value, a have a very large profit to gain.

But it won't, and I know better. Still, it's nice to imagine cashing out and telling the rest of the world to go get kick ricks and go hide with an obscene amount of money(obscene amount for me, anyway).

@aria

@too-old-for-this said in Oh, Humanity:

@roz said in Oh, Humanity:

@aria said in Oh, Humanity:

@roz said in Oh, Humanity:

@aria i've put ranch on cheesesteak in the past and i have no regrets

I mean, you also eat at Sheetz, so.

gtf out of here with your wawa bullshit

Hey now, don't be bangin' on my Wawa!

@arkandel I think that was the right call. I had noticed Old Man acting oddly, and while I had an eye on him, I didn't take when I should've.

He old, I thought he was just doing his thing where he just stares at people. He would do that. But when I picked him up, he just so limp. I didn't realized something was truly wrong until he hissed at me. And he had never hissed at me in his entire life.

Should I have taken him sooner? Probably. Would it of saved him? I honestly don't know.

The fact that you tried speaks volumes. You made the right call to take him.

@ganymede My cousin's daughter thought the same about GoldenEye 64 when she told me was 'really good at old shooters'.

Dear child, you come at the king, you better not miss.

Today is one year anniversary of having to say goodbye to one of my family members, of standing in a vet exam room and being unable to stop my beloved best friend from seizures and then having to make the decision to let him rest than letting him suffer just for my own emotional security. My Old Man was the best cat. And there isn't a day where I don't think about him in some capacity.

I didn't press the plunger, but I killed him all the same, regardless of how much I know now that it was the right decision. Even if there are times where I second-guess it constantly.

If you had taken better care of his teeth

If you had taken him to the vet twice a year instead of once a year

If you had tried to make him eat more wet food than dry

If you had been more concerned with his excessive peeing

If if if if if

I know these thoughts don't help, and they're detrimental, and I'm still grieving over a cat that died a year ago. Maybe I'm being over-dramatic, or maybe this day just hits harder than most as I often find myself back in that vet room.

@ganymede said in RL Sads:

@testament

I choose to believe that so long as we do our best to treat our friends right that we gave them the best life they could want.

That’s we love our pets so much. They don’t want presents. They don’t want to go out on dates. But they do want to be with you, and that’s the purest sort of affection.

A long time ago, in a different life, when my life was much worse than it is now, he was there. When I had nothing, I had him. And that cat who used to sit next to me is perhaps one of the few reasons I'm still here to type this.

He saved me from myself. Even if he did so because without me, how would he get his crunchers?

I joke, but it's probably the only reason I'm holding myself together at work today.

So what started out as a joke, has become more of a serious conversation between my fiance and myself. In that, in probably five years or so, we plan on moving to Costa Rica. The why is tied up in a couple reasons, but it more or less reduces down my lack of faith in my country's government and my honest belief that I don't believe it's going to get better without some kind of larger conflict and or societal upheaval. And frankly speaking, I want no part of that. My fiance spent about half a year living in Costa Rica some years ago and wholly loved it there and after doing a particular amount of research, realized that if we saved for a few years, we could pack up and leave.

We've already looked into what the qualifications are for getting citizenship in Costa Rica and my fiance is looking at how feasible it'll be to still work for her company from a remote position and only having to fly in a couple times a year. And with the rate of exchange, with her income alone, we'd be pretty secured financially. I will have to learn Spanish as I don't think my German will get me very far. And as much as I would rather do this in two to three years, I doubt that'll be possible, so five seems more realistic.

Where we'll all be in five years is another story. I simply hope it's enough time.

@vulgarkitten said in Buttercup's Playlist:

Some people are just determined to hate others, I've noticed. There's some real, imagined or unintentional slight, IC or OOC, and then it becomes their goal to /destroy/ you. There's not much you can do about it save try to ignore it.

MUing in a nutshell, right there.

I don't have any real love, or hate, for clues. Not because I think they're bad, but mostly because I'm just so outside any realm of influence, they don't really apply to me. To the people that love them, gathering them like Pokemon and getting a better understanding of the lore and world, go my child, have at it.

While I absolutely love reading lore, and more importantly, creating lore, this isn't my lore, so I doubt I'll ever write a theory simply based upon the fact that this isn't mine. Maybe it's just me, but there is just some kind of mental barrier between taking something that I didn't write and trying to make it my own, and something I wholly created from inside my head. This is for the same reason I don't pick up roster characters, I will never be able to play a character as intended, and the perfectionist in me demands that.

But to those of that are more than willing to share clues? Good on you. For awhile, it seemed like unless you were the most bestest of bosom buddies with someone, or some group or circle or whatever, you weren't getting jack. That attitude seems to of changed and that's for the better.

And FYI, I can count my clues on both my characters with two hands. Not sure if that's either a point of pride or shame.

I love building computers, but you know what I don't love? Dirty ones. But I also enjoy cleaning dirty ones. There is something very cathartic about cleaning dirty as fuck computers.

I posted on game that I had recently got a very new and very fancy new laptop for when I don't feel like sitting at my desk. But my old, something I had gotten in 2017, which was also very expensive at the time I felt still had some life left in it. And we aren't made of money, so I offered to give this one away once I fixed it.

And by fix it, I mean, clean it, replace the batter and NVME drive because I'm fairly certain those were the two things that had slowed the PC down considerably. I may also upgrade the RAM because fuck it.

This is what I had walked into.

Absolute filth. That exhaust fan though.

The backplate was probably worse. Ew.

Batteries really shouldn't be expanding like that.

Clearly, we need to ostracize that person for never being as good as the previous one.

@jeshin Because no one would dare have hurt feelings over something a character said in a game.

People have zero chill, even when fictional characters are throwing shade at their fictional characters.

Seeing shade slung around in the condemns was a highlight of the week on Arx. Because sometimes they were just hilarious to read.

She does real cats. She did mine and I was a big pile of emotions after I saw it.

I'm also being very picky about the frame I want.

I'm personally not a fan of playlists, but I will say that I play Cassandra and Mihaly(who really needs more play).

I appreciate waking up this morning to so many well thought out answers to this question. I plan to read them all likely more than a couple times and then digest my thoughts on them. This is something that I've taken a long hard look at and if it's something that happens more often than not because most times we don't see it happening. That it's far easier to publicly shame this person, and lets be clear, on this site, we have put a lot of people on blast.

Some have deserved it.

Some may not of deserved it.

But how many of these situations happen where we have no idea that it even occurred? That some incident that we only barely hear about, or rather, get some clinging bit of scuttlebutt that perk our interests, with the actual issue being handled privately. We don't hear about it, and thus, the open interpretation is that we, as a community at large would much rather tar and feather those that have screwed up or other just generally made some bad choices. We more often see the negative side of this community, while the good is kept private, for better or for worse.

I can't, not in good conscience anyways, sit here and denounce every person who I've heard has been a complete shit. I've tried in the past not believe everything I see in text, but I'm getting off-track. What is good to see here in writing that more than I thought are much more willing to forgive past transgression is the other party has shown the ability to get better. Not all of them do. Some are repeat offenders. Some will never get better, either because they're unwilling to, or they are simply unable to. And we, as fellow players are not free psychiatrists to unload our mental and emotional baggage on. Unless you're actual friends with each other or whatever, but even then.

I encourage discussion on this, as this is a facet of the mushing community that has always fascinated me. So I do appreciate the responses thus far. Thank you.

@crawfish Considering the amount of work you've been putting it through lately. All them cats, yo.