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

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

@aria

Something about rock climbing, I’d wager.

That's what I would assume, but I don't know what that has to do with being married and poly.

It doesn't, necessarily, it's just another part of the peeve.

80%-90% of all profiles here that aren't weird Trumpsters all revolve around rock climbing/snowboarding/outdoor stuff or being a gym rat and I'm just not into it. (I enjoy hiking and camping occasionally? But it's sort of their entire lifestyle and I wouldn't be interested or able to keep up.)

It just so happens that a ton of them are also poly and like, more power to them but I'm not into that either.

If I see one more dating profile about a married polyamorous woman just seeking a "belaytionship" or a TRUE THIN BLUE LINE patriot who just wants to square dance and sneers about vaccinations and masks I am going to hurl my phone into the sun and surrender to my fate of being a wild mountain hermit.

God, the dating scene is miserable out here.

@ifrit

Even with as much fondness as I have had for Dr. Who, I think the question posed was more likely "what if actually good?" Lol.

Speaking of time travel, Loki is pretty fun so far. Plus, first openly bisexual character in the MCU? I got chills to hear him admit it so casually, it was awesome!

If you're looking for good non-fiction audiobooks as well, Astrophysics For People In A Hurry is actually narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson, and it's very cool. Covers a lot of ground, and he has a way of speaking about the subject matter that is very engaging.

Just found out yesterday that my dad -- incredible dumpster fire, piece of shit human being who I cut off about 8 years ago -- just contracted COVID. He was pushing it as a hoax from the start, refused to wear a mask or get the vaccine, deliberately exposed my siblings even after he knew he'd potentially been exposed...just an all around loathsome dude who couldn't deserve to get it more.

Feeling a lot of unpleasant feelings about it.

@sunny

@sunny
Oof, especially if that's one of your first really bad falls as an adult it is so goddamn unpleasant and humbling in the worst way. I am sorry, much empathy.

Me with the IRS rn:

@testament

Like Solstice sez. But you are missing out on an emotionally and narratively fulfilling show that cashes all the checks it writes in a way Voltron just couldn't, imho.

I am pumped for Masters of the Universe, tho.

@testament said in Good TV:

I was never much into the She-Ra remake on Netflix(The Voltron was better, fight me)

I mean taste is subjective and all that, it's okay to not like things, etc etc but also you're utterly wrong

@macha

Yeah, I appreciate the latter sentiment a lot, and I hope they get the help they need too. Medical debt is the fucking worst.

As for the former I am really not here to try and argue with anyone who is on the fence about it because they think addicts deserve to suffer and/or die. I disagree pretty strongly but it's your nickel.

I have some friends who are running a Gofundme for their dad's medical expenses. He's suffering through the consequences of a life of alcoholism and some people take a pretty hard line stance against helping out with that out here where I live, which is frankly just shitty imho, so I figured going a little further afield might help.

Anything would be appreciated to help alleviate some of the burden on a pretty rad fam!

@squirreltalk

I posted about wanting to do a swords-and-sorcery place on the older game ideas thread a while back using Masters of Umdaar? But that never went anywhere, no.

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

This back to normal shit is happening too fast.
I can't just flip a switch and suddenly be okay in a sea of coworkers, vaccinated or no.

I've been doing Doordash off and on and let me just say how fun it is to see literally every business in the town I live in interpreting the changes just a little bit differently. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, walking into a diner where the tables are still distanced and everyone is masked up, a bank where no one is masked or distancing and I feel like I stepped back in time or onto a movie set or something, a bakery with a zany mix and people working the counter with their noses exposed like they just barely started learning how to wear the fucking masks, etc.

It's also pretty aggravating and stressful to feel judged for choosing to continue to wear mine, despite being fully vaccinated. I've been smirked at literally every time I'm in public and I just want to shake them. They don't know me, or my medical history. Ugh, people.

Speaking of!

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

I just feel very alone. And it's disturbing to consider the idea that this might be all I have to look forward to for the foreseeable future. And no amount of pills or talking to my therapist seems to make it better. It worries me.

I feel you on this a lot. It's kind of funny, having a pretty small and tight-knit circle of friends was sort of a weird point of pride in my twenties, but damn if that isn't bleak as hell in my thirties when most of them are in different stages of life from me and we've all drifted apart. The pandemic absolutely did not help with that.

But hey, at least you've got us!!!

...that should be encouraging and not depressing and/or mildly horrifying ok

A game somewhere between Jonathan Strange And Mister Norrel and Fullmetal Alchemist centering around a country where mages are drafted into the military and police, and formal pacts have been drafted with Hell and Faerie to bolster their forces, but they are being manipulated to mysterious ends by these and other inhuman powers. And there's dragonriders in the royal air force because HELL YEAH.

This has been living in this fairly amorphous shape in my mind rent free for a while now and I pick at it sometimes when I entertain the fantasy of making a game, haha.

@chibichibi said in Brainstorming oWoD Games:

As you can see, I wanted something totally different from City by Night settings where people just wait in coffee shops looking for something to do until they find their regular TS partner Would love thoughts as I continue to brainstorm.

This all might be pretty plain to you already, and is not intended at all to be critical, but if you're looking for feedback from passerby what strikes me is that this as presented honestly sounds like a project that works better as an OTT for friends you already know will really dig it, so you can focus on drilling down and telling the story you want to tell.

I can see some inherent appeal in a place for diehard fans of a game who are super into the lore where you are not expected to hold hands, but in terms of draw for MU*ers at large where the population is already fairly small and seem to vastly prefer more generic places that are easier to grok, I dunno how many people you're going to pull off the street. Like @arkandel mentioned I can see what you really want this to be about, but not what you'd expect people to do in this medium if you take away the coffee shops and bars and social aspect and expect everyone to focus on the plot.

TL;DR a really niche setting and a strict focus on ST sessions instead of casual RP works great for a tabletop campaign (online or otherwise), but doesn't seem to translate all that well into a MU* you want to open to the public.

@chibichibi

Is it open? I googled it and found a pretty bare-bones site, but there wasn't any address there and it made it seem like it wasn't finished.

I am enjoying The Bad Batch so far. I don't think Disney has gotten the memo yet that an animated show is not obligated to include child characters/pander to a hypothetical young audience, so the tone is sometimes kind of bizarrely inconsistent -- it's supposed to be a pretty dark and gritty take on the early days of the Empire but then has painfully campy moments that jar me out of the setting and my suspension of disbelief, but...again, Disney, whatchagonnado.

Overall it is pretty fun!

@arkandel

Story of my last six months at that job, but the technical debt was all internal. We were mandated by a CEO who sold the company and left not even halfway through his batshit implementation to use an alpha web interface for a software that itself hadn't even finished testing before being pushed out onto the floor. It was a constant nightmare, people's lives literally depended on our job and we were expected to troubleshoot this Frankenstein monstrosity while live scheduling like, dialysis and chemo appointments. LOL BUT ALSO ACTUALLY DESPAIR

ETA: Oh and the best part? A fucking exquisite scheduling software already existed for this purpose, and we'd used it when I started there years prior, but it was licensed. Dude was just cheap as hell and kind of a prideful dumbass.