I also really love comedian podcasts, and they fill a lot of hours during my workday.
I think I rotate through four currently.
The Joe Rogan Podcast
Your Mom's House - Which is Tom Segura and his wife Christina Pazsitzky(probably my favorite of the four)
Bertcast - Bert Kreischer
This Past Weekend - Theo Von
Happy Jacks RPG Podcast
The F Plus
Sawbones
Science VS
Philsophize This
Adam Ruins Everything
You Are Not So Smart
Your Mom's House
@ribbon said in MU Things I Love:
So, there's a lot of assholes in this hobby. A lot of creeps. A lot of ridiculously hostile and probably mentally unwell people, too.
That's particularly why it's so nice to find a good friend to play with. Someone you can have IC conflict with and just know that at the end of the day, you and the person on the other side of the screen will be cool. Someone who is easy to talk to. Someone who will message you when they feel upset on an OOC level (even if their feelings might not make sense), because they know that you two can fix things, and go back to having fun in game.
They're practically unicorns, but they're there.
And I fucking love them.
Dozens might be a stretch, but you get what I'm saying.
Honestly? Don't be afraid of burning bridges. Weird thing to say, but if someone can't at least respect your boundaries, then they aren't someone who really values your opinions as valid. Whether they are 'friends' or not may give a little more leeway, a little more discussion, maybe there was miscommunication, could be a lot of things.
But if it's someone you don't know? I dunno, I've told people to go kick rocks for less. I'm too old and too impatient to play that game anymore.
It's not even December yet and I'm already tired of christmas music.
Feels so small to say but all I want right now is the new The Expanse book coming out in Dec. Tiamats Wrath, I need to read it.
I was woken up in the middle of the night(or day for the rest of you normal sleeping hours people)with a cramp in my calf so bad that it woke me up and forced me to jump out of my bed and stretch my leg out.
Nothing like waking up after being in a dead sleep with crippling pain. Because I'm limping around my apartment going 'ow ow ow ow'.
I have not been impressed with either protagonist of Odyssey. I would call Shepard the boilerplate of boilerplate default protag, and I say that as someone who absolutely loves Mass Effect(yes, even Andromeda for all it's odd faults), but either protag of Odyssey were just as bland, vanilla, and milquetoast was a touch eye rolly for me.
At least with Ezio, and that's really the last AC I played was the Ezio trilogy, you had a protag with substance, character, a background and goddamn style.
Ubisoft has tied to be BioWare during a time when BioWare can't even be BioWare. And I appreciate the attempt, but they have a bit further to go before they get there.
@misadventure said in Meg's Playlist:
@meg said in Meg's Playlist:
And, I am back-back!
NooooOOOOoooooOOOOOooooo I had hoped you had escaped.
There is no hope anymore.
Perhaps not, but there's enough people that frequent this site that I get insight into it. Even if that that number is a microcosm of the whole.
I've personally tempered my expectations.
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.
After reading the Apology to Darinelle thread over a couple of times, it had brought up a point I've mentioned here at various other times. Partially because it's the hill I'm likely forever going to die on, and partly because it's apart of my interest when it comes from how we operate in our daily lives as human beings beyond the confines of a computer and then within it. Makes me think I should been a sociologist, but then again, I doubt there's a lot of money in it.
So while I've re-read that thread over and over, I keep coming back to the same issue I think this hobby really has. Or has had and will continue to have. And maybe this is just indicative to anything on the internet where people generally overall have less of a filter than they would were it otherwise. While I'm loathe to quote anything Anonymous has said or done, their tagline of 'we do not forgive, and we do not forget' seems to ring so true and so hard for this hobby that I can't help but wonder if this is just apart of the standard daily life of your average, run of the mill mush player or something else. I'm not a psychologist or sociologist to give a more educated opinion on it. But it is something I've wanted to have a conversation about.
What is it about mushing, or RPing online that makes it so easy for us to screw up? Sometimes badly. And when it does, why does it often seem like those people find themselves blacklisted from the hobby? To note, I'm not defending the actions of anyone, nor am I saying whatever someone did was so bad or so horrible, but when I observe how we interact with each other in these instances, it's not very often we're able to move past them. Or if we do, it's simply easier to ignore someone's existence. And it's not just mushing that I see this in. Playing anything in a collaborative fashion online you see it. Thought perhaps you see it less on actual video games because you don't see those same people day in and day out. It always seems a touch more personal in mushing.
So I try to sort parts of it out. Is it because mushing tends to attract people who are socially damaged or stunted? Possible, but I feel like that's doing a disservice to the people who are perfectly functioning human beings who don't have any mental or emotional baggage. Is it simply the anonymity that the internet brings that brings out the worst in us? The list goes on, and the factors involved could be many.
But maybe I see a lot of the negatives because of how this site functions. Because while we all know what the Hogpit is for, there are times I take a step back and wonder, "Holy hell, we are a bunch of hateful and spiteful people, aren't we?" I wonder how much of it is truly honest, how much it is chest thumping, and how much is back-patting. This isn't so much a plea to be better to each other, because most of us are at the age where that kind of thing goes without saying.
What I'm asking, after that long-winded opening is: have you forgiven someone in this hobby? You don't have to be great friends with them now, but at least to the point where there's no animosity. Indifference, perhaps. You don't even have to list stories or names or anything.
Or are you just not the type? There's nothing wrong in that, inherently. Once you're screwed, fuck that person, no matter how much they may change. They did you dirty once, so screw them and the horse they rode in on.
Or have someone did a friend of yours wrong, and mob mentality takes effect?
Or were you the person that did the screwing up and how hard has it been for you recover from that? Did you have to hide who you were? Play a different game with a different user name or email?
There are so many different possibilities that I won't bother listing them all down, but I'm curious to see the responses and how they vary. If they vary.
I would file this more in RL Agony.
Thinking you put the right amount of wasabi on your piece of sushi and only realizing after you started chewing that it was A LOT more than you had expected. Like you were sure that it was only enough wasabi to enhance the flavor, not OVERPOWER it.
And suddenly your eyes are watering.
Goddamn. The guy always cool the times I had spoken to him during my brief stints on The 100 and Marvel 1963. We never chatted super at length but we had always gotten along and I had always a positive opinion of the man, though I admit I never knew him better than that.
That's a damn shame. He will be missed.
Double post. Had my internet installed today. Which is great.
But now I have shitty cable management. The back of my desk will never be organized.
When you're sitting in your new apartment wondering what to do when you have no internet and a handful of local channels that are showing your long ads on how to reduce back pain.
So boot up the Xbox. Only I can't play any of my saves because it says I don't have the dlc for it. Check the xbox's hard drive. Well it's all there just like you thought. But because you're not online its going to tell the game you don't have it which means your saves are all but useless. Which also means the only thing available to play is skyrim. But you've played skyrim to death.
To utter death.
The morning cannot come soon enough. T
Spectrum better be here with bells on.
You know, I do remember a time in my life where I could perfectly fine without internet. I call those times the dark ages. At least when it comes to gaming in any form.
This is Zucchini but I call her Zooey. She's cute but a small terror.