Posts made by WTFE

@mietze said in RL Anger:

@sunny said in RL Anger:

I work for a tribe in which fish is a really big deal. We get LOTS of people that microwave fish. And have smoked fish stinking up the office. And...

sigh

Time to crack open a can of surstromming!

I cleared a building once with just a sandwich. No nuke required. I just opened the container while sitting coincidentally near to a ventilation intake.

Anybody from the Hessen area of Germany will nod in understanding when I mention the sandwich was Handkäse (mit Musik!) and will wonder what the Hell was going through my head taking that to work in North America. Or anywhere outside of the Frankfurt area in general.

So, the package sent on the 27th of August finally arrived.

I am now sporting this on my noggin:

Then they're fucked if they get harassed, I guess.

The rest of us can log without being "compromised" in any meaningful way.

@Arkandel: One of the advantages to Mythic is that its core mechanism is literally one table. If players know only that table and a three-step method, they know the game enough to play it.

@Auspice: PM me and I'll hook you up.

I'll add a vote for Magician, and for system I'd suggest Word Mill's Mythic.

The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel

You like to cook, @Ganymede, and I like to eat. We should hang!

Three consecutive lost databases makes me ... well, I'll keep a local copy anyway.

I'll keep the rules for the official drinking game.

And I'll have an off-site backup for when the admin flakes out and loses the entire database again so we can just start up from where we left off.

@seraphim73 Aural, not oral. Unless you're into some really weird kinks playing by ear is not generally found in pornography.

So was I.

@insomnia said in Introducing... <Spoilers>!:

@auspice said in Introducing... <Spoilers>!:

We have something new! It's a spoiler tag!
I see this getting the most use in threads like 'Good TV,' but it may come in handy elsewhere.

***Click here for spoilers!***

click to show

The spoiler is it either does or doesn't work because it's a brand new plugin and nodebb likes to explode.

You'll see a little eyeball symbol up in the editing options. That's your shortcut to awesome.

ETA:
Ok, so the 'title' part of it doesn't work quite right, but! The rest seems to.

What happens when you quote someone?

***=No surprise...***

@ganymede said in Make MSB great again!:

The toxic part of this place is this place.

If you asked me to come to your business and tell you how it could be better and I told you to burn it to the ground and start over, I am pretty sure you would not listen to me, and would, in fact, probably stop listening to me.

You're not helping.

You're mis-characterizing my response.

I'm not telling you to burn it down and start over. I'm telling you what your business really is and to stop pretending it's something else.

An abattoir owner calls me over and asks me to suggest how they could make their business better. I go take a look and find that, for some reason, he's trying to make his abattoir a fine dining lounge. I look around at the horrified diners trying to eat their food while all around them there's blood and entrails flying along with a stench of death in the air.

Telling said abattoir owner to stop trying to sell the place as a fine dining lounge and just, you know, run it as an abattoir is not "burn this all down and start over". Saying that the abattoir can't be converted into a fine dining lounge and that's best left as a separate business entirely is also not saying "burn it all down".

I'm not saying WORA should be burned down. I'm saying it should just fucking accept what it is instead of pretending it's something else.

@salty-secrets said in Make MSB great again!:

If you can see the hog pit - the toxic part of this place - you made a conscious choice to see it.

The toxic part of this place is this place. The latest round of bullshit that gave me my epiphany that this is WORA, and not a grown-up version of it, was in the reviews section which is not in the hog pit. There's not a lot of difference between the hog pit and the non hog pit portions of the site; perhaps a slight shift of proportions between shitty and non-shitty behaviour.

The hog pit? It's all around us. Everywhere.

This is WORA. No more, no less.

If you don't like what you see, you can leave the hog pit group and never have to care again.

As long as you don't read the ads section. Or the various playlist threads. Or …

@wizz said in Make MSB great again!:

@wtfe said in Make MSB great again!:

There was maybe once a small window in which a site could have been built that was WORA for adults. That ship has long since sailed

If that genuinely turns out to be the consensus and the majority here feels like they are not obligated to ever change and grow up...LOL, good luck with that. It's been a trip MSB, but I'm too old for this shit.

Obligated? I think everybody here barring a few dissidents wishes things were otherwise.

Things aren't otherwise, however. This is WORA with a fancier, hipster piece of software instead of dull, plodding, old, reliable software. Nothing has changed. The DNA of the very first WORA still runs all through this place.

Is there room somewhere for a grown-ups version of WORA? Sure. MSB just isn't it and I'm pretty sure will never be it.

Late to the party, but in the spirit of the title I'm going to say that nothing needs to structurally change at MSB. What change is needed is cultural: people just have to own up to the fact that MSB is merely WORA under another name. Drop the pretense of higher aspirations. Delusion isn't becoming.

There was maybe once a small window in which a site could have been built that was WORA for adults. That ship has long since sailed, however, and this is really just another in the line of WORAs. With this thread you've not only let the animals escape to run out into the night, you've gone and set the barn on fire and are closing the door on the gutted, skeletal remains of it.

MSB, like the WORAs and SWOFA before it, is a bitch board for the MUSHing community: no more, no less. This is not (necessarily) a bad thing. It merely is. The bad part is pretending that it is otherwise and, now that the venom has flowed through all the veins here, that it could be anything else. The bad part is trying to fit something that is simply not natural to the community as a mold around the same.

Keep MSB as it is. Just start being honest about it.

I love my wife dearly. Mother of my child. Partner of my life.

Doesn't mean I can't occasionally frequently get the urge to shake her by the throat.

One of those frequent times I get that urge is when the topic of presents comes up. She wants gifts. She likes gifts. She appreciates gifts. BUT SHE IS MOTHERFUCKING IMPOSSIBLE TO BUY GIFTS FOR! This is because she doesn't like to ask for things. Where "ask for" includes "leaving any kind of a clue of any sort as to what she really wants".

So year after year in our marriage I've had to struggle, sweat, and strain to just buy her a fucking birthday present, often getting that bland "that's nice" smile for my efforts. (Note: she doesn't come out and complain about any of the presents I buy she doesn't really like. It's just obvious in short order that the present was not something she was interested in.)

Enter this year. Where I have a spy. My son is old enough and (barely) smart enough to act as my agent, see. So I told him to watch what mommy's gaze lingers on when she takes him shopping and report back to me. Last week I struck paydirt: my wife took my son out to look at things and along the way got distracted by a jade exposition. And very nearly purchased something.

My son nearly had a joygasm at being useful (for a change) and could hardly wait to tell me about it. We then took a stealth trip out to the exposition so I could see the specific things my wife was looking at. The prices at the exposition were stupidly high, but I saw the general kinds of things my wife was looking at and started searching for options.

Meet my wife's new birthday present:

Bok choy bottles, as requested.

@saosmash said in RL things I love:

My noodles were so hot at lunch that I still have that spicy burn feeling around my mouth after driving back to the office. Yet no garlic or ginger flavors were sacrificed in my food in pursuit of lighting my mouth on fire. A+.

See the pictures of my lunch above that I was taunting @Ganymede with? Note the weird bowl separated into two broths, one red, one white? The red broth had so many Sichuan peppercorns in it that my lips were tingling two hours after I left the restaurant.

Hi, @saosmash, pleasure to meet someone else who appreciates a good burn!