Posts made by Tinuviel

Jeremy Hardy

Probably not really well-known to the US-based folks, but Hardy was the voice of my BBC Radio-based adolescence.

Hog Pit.

The major "pro" with the reports is that people can read through shorter synopses of what are essentially RP logs, to quickly get up to speed with what's going on, why it's going on, who's involved, and so forth.

So if your report "system" isn't enabling that, it's not a good system. The key ideas being short, quick, and easy to read.

@skew said in AnomJobs - Trouble With Installation:

I do lament that no one ever put together a good base package to start from.

You mean like MUXcore?

@Pandora said in Do You Do A Writing?:

That's sound advice, except I tend to release my longer fics one chapter at a time - so skipping ahead wouldn't make much sense, chronologically.

You don't have to release it, just write it.

@Cobaltasaurus Skipping ahead is good too. Skip way ahead, though. So same story, but doesn't necessarily rely on the events right up to the part where you stopped and/or got stuck. So you can go back and re-write to fill in details later.

@Pandora said in Do You Do A Writing?:

anyone have any tips for trying to get back into a story you just don't feel connected to anymore?

Don't. Stories are like farts. Forcing it will make it shit.
If you feel the inspiration after re-reading what you've done, then proceed. Otherwise, let it die the death.

@goodstarbuck said in Anomaly TrekMUX:

I think it bogged down things as much as it helped generate RP.

Like many systems, it isn't the system itself at fault. It's how it was implemented and enforced.

@Killer-Klown Huh. That's actually really clever. Squaring the circle is rarely so elegant.

There are theories, IIRC, that the universe is torus-shaped. It could be from whence the confusion has come.

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

I assume they're doing drugs, because they're NOT having a shit.

Don't look up 'cottaging'.

@killer-klown said in I know it's an old topic but to this day....:

There was this thing back in the 1800s where people finally got overwhelmed with the evidence that the earth was not, in fact, flat; so they said fine, it's not flat. It's torus shaped

Source?

@killer-klown said in I know it's an old topic but to this day....:

Because apparantly it was easier to believe the earth's a giant donut than a sphere

It's not a sphere, it's an oblate spheroid.

@chibichibi said in Mage 2e game - The Golden Road:

I know people hate me or whatever

Definitely not the best way to start off... whatever this thread is intended to be.

@goldfish said in How to use Potato MU Client:

I've read nothing in this thread. I can't get past the fact that the blinking cursor doesn't keep up with my typing. So...what do?

Type slower.

@alamias said in How to use Potato MU Client:

I tried Potato today. I couldn’t get past the way it ‘scrolled’ long blocks of text when you did a look or whatever. It just seemed slow and bugged me. Just not for me.

No look, only type.

More seriously: I've read a fair amount of people having similar issues. Either I don't have them or I've managed to ignore them, so I can't help. You may want to go to the Potato GitHub Page and report these issues.

Might be thinking of MUXcore, instead of SGP.

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

Distress is not the same as disability or a debilitating illness.

Distress was covered in the above definition.

Mild disorders are a thing, I've not denied that. They are still, by definition, debilitating in some way. And as you've said, mildly from a clinical standpoint is not the same as mild in everyday parlance. If they're challenging to deal with, that sounds to me like a debilitation.

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

You can prefer it all you want

I prefer it because that's how words work. We can't have a discussion about disorders if we can't agree on what disorders are. The DSM is the standard classification of mental disorders according to the American Psychiatric Association. So I'm going with their definition, even if it's constantly evolving to the point where next month I'll be wrong.

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

@tinuviel

The DSM-IV also admits that there is no precise definition of a mental disorder, and encourages the user to keep an open mind about it.

It does indeed. Though I've found that to mean 'the definition is evolving as we learn more' not 'just ignore what we just said.'
It's the best definition we have now, and I'd appreciate that such terms are used as accurately as we have presently defined them.

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

The impediment to your function does not need to be serious to qualify as OCD.

Depending on how one defines seriousness. If it impacts your life in a negative way that is not easily disregarded or routed around, that's a serious impediment.

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

I'm just saying that it is possible to have a mild, non-debilitating form of these disorders.

To be a disorder, it has to be debilitating in some way.

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

check out Psychology Today

Psychology Today is a 'popular psychology' magazine, it's not a peer-reviewed journal. And I certainly wouldn't simply take the word of someone that just so happens to be advertising his book on a related subject. ETA: Especially when the author in question is "a Professor of Communication Studies, presenter, private coach, and author," and not a psychiatrist.

I will, however, draw from the DSM-IV (I haven't managed to justify getting the fifth edition just yet):

"DSM-IV Definition of Mental Disorder

Features
A
a clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome or pattern that occurs in an individual
B
is associated with present distress (e.g., a painful symptom) or disability (i.e., impairment in one or more important areas of functioning) or with a significantly increased risk of suffering death, pain, disability, or an important loss of freedom"

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

'I was made redundant once and I was so depressed for a few weeks!' or 'I was so depressed when my mother died!'

One must remember that 'simply' being depressed and having depression are very different. When bad or unfortunate things happen, people become depressed, without suffering from a depression disorder. So, they're right.

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

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

I mean. That sort of is the definition of a disorder. Debilitating, like the disorders themselves, is a spectrum. You still have a broken leg, regardless as to whether you can hobble around on crutches or are stuck in a wheelchair.

Yes, which is why I was quibbling with the assertion that someone with just a mild "OC" didn't have a disorder.

Except that's literally not what you said, as I quoted:

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

but something doesn't have to be debilitating to be a legitimate, diagnosable disorder.

Keeping your pens neat on your desk, or organising things a certain way, is a compulsion. It might even be regarded as obsessive. Unless you have some serious impediment to your function, it's not a disorder.

Now, is it possible for such things to be a disorder? Most certainly. It's possible. As in not always. "I need to keep my shit organised" is not OCD, "I need to keep my shit organised or I'm fairly sure the entire country will be plunged into war and my family will burn alive" is OCD.

OCD isn't really about the compulsions, it's about the reason behind the compulsions.