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Started going back to the gym, making a serious attempt at. I'm coming to realization that, at my age, if I do not do something now for my own health, I will probably be dead by 50. That's not really an exaggeration considering the conversations I've been having with my doctor relating to my cholesterol(ie, still within the normal range, but has been hanging around the high normal range and trending). It's been a concern to her, so after what I'd call a wake up call, and watching enough youtube on exercise, what to do, how to do it, and when to do it. Changed my eating habits, which has probably been the worst part than actually going to said gym.

But, my company has a full gym that's free to me to use, so I should've been doing this last year.

So, yeah. It's good that I'm doing this, but I also know there is going to be a lot of suffering.

@crawfish

I can't help but feel slightly let down that the painting isn't covered in glitter.

@macha X is still gonna give it to ya, but simply beyond our earthly realm.

@il-volpe said in A healthy game culture:

@pyrephox said in A healthy game culture:

I think there's definitely an OOC aspect to a lot of PKs. Sometimes, it's because people are trying to correct an OOC problem through IC means (the 'this guy is ruining the game' issue where the game doesn't have a way to say 'this player is actively making the game unfun for a lot of players, can we uninvite them' but it DOES let you just kill any of their PCs

This. I know there are people who just run about wanting to kill off other player characters for the lols, but I almost never see it. It seems like the majority have been an IC solution to an OOC problem that staff wouldn't take care of. Either some kind of OOC bigotry, or a habit of disrupting scenes when not welcome.

In my experience, this is a lot more notorious on MUDs than they ever have been on on mushers. And that's mostly in part due to the fact that MUDs are designed in such a way to facilitate that kind of PVP. SInce mushes don't really have that kind of automated system built into them, they require far more staff arbitration.

Hell, there were rules against spawn camping on some MUDs, because some players would grief others like that. If it's a shitty thing to do in CoD, where thr standards of play are already low, it'll definitely happen on MUD. So I can see where the stigma comes from.

Not saying this doesn't or can't happen on a mush, but I don't think it's nearly as frequent.

The answer is really quite simple.

Dang, Berenice's floofiness levels are off the charts.

I've had tinnitus the majority of my life. Probably ever since I was in my teens, thinking it was a good idea to have blaring headphones while also mowing the yard. I didn't make good decisions.

Lately it's been getting louder. First around the end of November, but after a couple of weeks, I was able to get used to it. Or at least treat it like I could ignore pretty well.

Two weeks ago, it got louder again, and in both times, it's been on my right side. I"m fairly certain its TMJ related, because that side of my jaw always tends to pop often in that particular hinge. But still it's getting to point where I can't ignore it, where I can feel the ringing in my ear. Nothing else. Pressure point exercises, neck and jaw stretches. Massaging the fascia in my jaw, tapping a various locations on my skull that would trigger nerves point to the auditory center in my brain, nothing.

This is a living hell. Ever day, never ending. The same high-pitched ring. I have to keep an earbud in my right ear with a low frequency tone to drown out the ringing, because I can tolerate a low frequency hum so much more than a high pitched ring.

I don't wish this on anyone. I would just about anything, anything for a moment of pure silence. I don't know what it is anymore. Is it stress from work. Is it one of the medications I'm taking. Is it my diet? Because tinnitus is so strange and even to this point, a lot professionals can't seem to pinpoint the point of original because there's so many of them, they're not often much help.

I can understand so much more fully why suicide rates in people with tinnitus is so much higher than those who don't have it. Hell, the CEO of Texas Roadhouse committed suicide because the tinnitus he had because so bad as a side effect of Covid, death was preferable. I can't imagine how bad it must've been for him.

I'd pay a lot of money if someone could figure out a decent treatment.

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

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.

Uploading with the permission of Eirene's player. She thinks it's the best thing ever.

This is not an Arx Cat. This is my cat. I had asked @Crawfish if she would do a painting of my cat who had passed away on Dec 3rd a few months ago. I could go for hours talking about him. What he meant to me, what he meant to others. The kind of presence he carried or brought into a room. How he was a cat who simply wanted to love and be loved.

Who had gone through so many moves with me, who travelled with me through about six different states over sixteen years. More than a couple relationships, he was the only constant. When my life was shit(and it often was), he was there.

I miss him more than I can to describe in words, and the reality is, as shoddy as my RPing is, so is the quality of writing I wouldn't be able to do him justice.

So thank you to Crawfish for doing this for me, she got his personality down. A old friend, who almost always looked grumpy or annoyed, but never was, that was just, well, his face.

But if he was an Arx character, I like to think he would've been some old Northener. An old scout in the Halfshav line, countless wars and conflicts, who lived to see finally retirement and old age. At least, that's the canon I have in my head.

Thank you again, Crawfish. Truly.

@derp said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@cupcake

To add to that: she also calls out Christians in the midwest, presumably as political actors using religiously-grounded statements of ideology to pass and enforce destructive legislation that the religion ostensibly actually opposes. Making it a hypocritical point.

Not sure that just being anti-Israeli-shenanigans makes one an antisemite.

I don't think this should be relegated to the just the midwest politicians, speaking as someone from the midwest. Which is tangential to the topic being discussed.

Spent the last four hours playing the Outriders demo. It's like Gears of War over the shoulder 3rd person gunplay with Mass Effect 3's biotics turned up to 11. Also being made by the people who made Bulletstorm, so the story and characters is equal parts ridiculous, eye-rolly, and hilarious.

I'll be buying this when opens up on the 1st.

@ganymede There is always a gif.

@crawfish Yes, he always wearing armor. So really, it should be a very blonde, very armored cat.

@ganymede Not young and blonde enough.

Me Yesterday: It's good that I'm getting my second dose of the Covid vaccine. I hope everyone get theirs soon.

Me Today: I'm literally dying. I'm laying on my couch literally dying. screams overdramatically

Volcica's is so far is still the cutest to me.

@crawfish There is absolutely no rush at all, though I admit to a level of eagerness as I know you suddenly blew up(which is good, congrats on that). I'd love a scan of it, thank you.