@A-B said in Tips for not wearing out your welcome:
These things are basically my entire social life.
Seriously, don't do that. These things are social, sure, but they cannot replace actual spaces designed specifically for social interaction. They're not that. Make friends, sure, but don't devote your entire life to these things. They are temporary, and your time on them might be even more so.
@surreality Addendum 2: If you're typing paragraphs to a channel, over and over, and everyone else is giving you a line? Shush.
@A-B said in Tips for not wearing out your welcome:
@Tinuviel - We've moved on from that, I'm not talking to the Spirit Lake mods, I'm trying to get advice from people about whether there's any way to make it less likely to happen over and over again in other things. Admittedly the original incident keeps coming up as an example.
Oh, that's easy. If your own name appears more often than anyone else's in your backscroll, you're talking too much.
ETA: That is the combined 'anyone else'. If your name is on twenty out of twenty-five lines? Too much.
@A-B said in Spirit Lake - Discussion:
Tinuviel - Elucidate?
You just keep going and going and going... You've been told "no" by @Tat... and yet you're still fuckin' going.
If this is what it was like having you on a game, I'd probably ban you too.
@Kestrel said in RL things I love:
@Tinuviel said in RL things I love:
@GreenFlashlight said in RL things I love:
@Kestrel said in RL things I love:
My depression has basically disappeared completely and I'm both shocked and perplexed as to how tf this happened.
Obviously you went for a walk and drank some water.
And had some kale.
I've been chugging kale and SSRIs for years now, so clearly there's something to this.
Now, I know what you mean. But I'm imagining the most amazing smoothie.
@GreenFlashlight said in RL things I love:
@Kestrel said in RL things I love:
My depression has basically disappeared completely and I'm both shocked and perplexed as to how tf this happened.
Obviously you went for a walk and drank some water.
And had some kale.
@kk said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Where is the line between hording and being sensibly prepared?
The kind of hoarding we're talking about typically happens during a crisis, preparation happens beforehand. It's not, to my mind, the amount that one stores (so long as it's not like something you'd see on Hoarders) but how one goes about getting things.
@kk said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
What are good options to replace meat? I went with rice and beans.
Mushrooms, eggplant/aubergines, thicker stocks.
@kk said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Should we be gardening and raising egg laying chickens and stuff
If you're genuinely worried about food running out (it won't), then yes.
@Aria said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I was physically uncomfortable and looked all tarted up.
Sounds like marriage to me.
It's still rather odd to me that anyone can fit neatly on any kind of left-right line, even when you add the other two dimensions. People are complicated, beliefs even more so.
And I think this is getting sufficiently political that it should move into that section of the forum.
@GreenFlashlight It's also important to remember that terminology always has, and always will, mean different things to different groups. It's especially prevalent in academia, run-of-the-mill terms mean very specific things in very specific circumstances. So there never has been a one-size-fits-all definition for many terms.
@Ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
As for far-left extremists, they aren't the ones holding up "ARBEIT MACHT FREI" signs at protests.
Not any more. Let's not pretend that far-left extremists haven't done some godawful things in the past, though.
@Ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Why should I be concerned that a bunch of idiots are misusing a term when I decide to use such term in an accurate, acceptable way?
That's not how language works. If the idiots are loud enough, influential enough, or simply large enough their meaning overtakes that which is 'accurate'. Republican already doesn't mean what it originally meant.
@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
It's definitely a thing that if you go 'too far' in a certain direction, you get to a scary place.
It's the same with everything. Too much of anything and it ends in death. Too much oxygen, too much water...
@Admiral All groups have tribal mentalities, with the fringes ironically being more insular and tribal than the core.
Though I'm profoundly against the idea that being on the "left" equals "correct." Especially when comparing the western European idea of the 'left' to the American one.
@surreality Agreed. The fight for education isn't just a fight against ignorance, it also fights against malicious and negligent miseducation.
@Ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
why does it matter that unreasonable people will attempt to subvert its meaning?
Because reasonable people aren't usually the ones we're arguing against.
Not including legal or academic arguments. We argue with anyone at any time.
@Auspice
From talvo:
Hey - I'm the developer of Potato, someone has just pointed me to your post. Development is (more than) a little lagging at the moment, as istarian mentioned, alas... But I'm still moderately active, if not actively updating and releasing atm.
The reason for the behaviour you're seeing is a missing library. On Windows, it's due to a missing .dll from the MSVC++ Redistributable that's needed (I used to know exactly which, but unfortunately lost that during a computer change; if I ever get it nailed down again, I'll distribute it, or at least make it available for download directly...). On *nix there's a small C file included with Potato that it'll try and compile at runtime, but this has some dependancies, which are documented on the wiki/in helpfiles.
When the library is missing, it falls back on a behaviour that used to, in many cases, flash the window, but in all modern cases seems to just maximise the window/bring it to the front; ideally I need to remove this as a fallback, now, as it's more disruptive than helpful...
@Aria John Oliver's in with the assist with the All Canine Supreme Court.
