Posts made by Tinuviel

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

@tinuviel He's been banned on 3 more accounts, including his own Social Media Director's.

No, you. Not him.
Politics away.

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

So, our President is currently being that player you ban who keeps changing IPs to log into your game and grief you.

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

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

As a former child

lies.
you entered this world a crochety old man.

You leave my crotch out of this.

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

A lot of things don't have a simple "that's just the way it is" answer

As a former child, and person responsible for children, that answer is never simple.

@Ganymede Tell them to build trench and baffles, like that airport in Amsterdam.

I'm sick of having to have an opinion on things. I don't need to have an opinion on fuckedupcountry#12119 or have my human card revoked. I have the emotional capacity to care for about a hundred people, anything more and it's abstract.

Yes, fuckedupsituation is very bad and something must be done. I'm a broke history teacher ten thousand miles away, the fuck am I going to do about it?

Why do I need to constantly talk about a thing, or have an opinion on a thing, or dedicate time out of my life to care about a thing I can't change?

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

Been trying to sit down and work on writing, but it's been a pain to really sit down and focus. And nothing is really coming together in my head as easy as it usually does when I'm not actively working on things.

Perhaps I'm feeling a bit more isolated than usual lately, but it's been a couple of frustrating days lately.

My advice would be to write something. Not the thing you're working on, necessarily, but something. A to do list, a short summary of your favourite film/game/novel, an essay on the frailties of life. Whatever. Just something. So sure, you won't have made direct progress on The Thing, but you have written. You have gained skill, and you were productive.

@auspice said in A Regency MU (Conceptual):

Regular events would be things like balls, picnics, hunting, salons, etc.

And how would one work to prevent these events seeming... samey?

@jeshin Use the spoiler tag. It's right there.

***Spoiler***

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

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

I have an RL peeve.

When did I become old enough that my detachment from pop culture is expected, rather than something worth commenting on?

When have you ever been attached to pop culture?

That's almost exactly the point my post made. It's now not noteworthy, it's expected that I'm out of touch because I'm old.

I have an RL peeve.

When did I become old enough that my detachment from pop culture is expected, rather than something worth commenting on?

@too-old-for-this said in RL Anger:

@tinuviel That's my issue. The insistence for same-day response for everything. I get that a lot of people are home right now, or not working. But UGH. I'm still working and I need that to be respected.

Yeah, that's exceedingly stupid. Like... even if you get to the email when you get home from work and fire off a reply... the fuck are they going to do? Do work emails at that time?

I sure as shit wouldn't.

ETA: It might have something to do with their internal system, but I dunno.

@too-old-for-this Mmm, then yeah it looks like... stupidity or incompetence.

I just checked my school's policies for such things and it seems like... well one, we rarely phone/text/email home - unless there's actual punishment involved. But it's email once when the event occurs - has to be same day, and then once three school days after if no confirmation. And since they're emails, we don't expect same-day replies.

Honestly, these people just need to email and turn read receipts on. It's not like there's anything anyone can actually do at this point anyway.

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

Almost a week after back surgery, my tongue is still partially numb.

Just because you can now reach, doesn't mean you should just put anything in your mouth. This is God's punishment.

@too-old-for-this Does the middle of your work day also happen to coincide with their work day?
When else should they get in contact with you, during their (far too few) off hours?

I'll reiterate that we don't make the rules. If the rules say we have to contact you, we have to contact you. Preferences be damned.

At least out here, it's very rare that the school's executive officers, much less the teachers themselves, have much say in overarching policy - which this COVID crap presumably falls under. And magically no matter how much money the school authorities have, it doesn't tend to get spent on us... weird.

With the way the system is designed, it's almost impossible to accommodate everything, even in the best-case scenarios, and this falls way outside of that. Teachers are, for the most part, basically the front counter folks at your local fast-food restaurant or the folks in the call centre you call when your internet goes down, with marginally better hair.

We don't set the rules, so please don't blame us.

@carma Client must be able to maintain the connection even when shoved into the background, logging to an external source (ie Dropbox, Google Drive, etc), with readable text in landscape and portrait mode (some people like portrait, I don't know why).

I don't think it matters about the game itself, usually. Most folk can type on a phone keyboard without much issue - depending on the keyboard they use. There's also a... I don't know about stigma, but I certainly roll my eyes if people start blaming being on their phone for slow typing.

@ganymede Legal writing is just academic writing for nerds.

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

@derp

Honestly, the styles I am referring to are “persuasive,” “analytical,” and “readable.”

In academic writing, I think this is one of those 'pick two' diagrams.