@Shiggy said in RL Anger:
You even admit that you have a drinking game when you get blown the fuck out with this conversation.
Admit? Admit!? ADMIT!?!?!?!
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAA!
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HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Good one dude! You had me going there for a sec... Wait, what do you mean he's serious?
OMFG, are you really this fucking clued-out? Man, back in the day trolls used to do a modicum of research on their targets!
Oh, it's so cute when it puffs up its feathers like it's a big, mean, ol' bird. Can we keep it Mom!?
@surreality said in RL Anger:
@Shiggy Psssssst. @WTFE has lived in China for years and years and years.
Probably longer than Rick has been alive, I'm guessing. 
Aw, it's so cute when it makes assumptions. Look at that adorable confused face now!
@Shiggy said in RL Anger:
We practically
definedobliterated world culture since the end of the Second World War, fam. Just... saying.
FTFY.
@Shiggy Wanna be called civilized? Join civilization. It's a great club! We've got culture! And state-funded health care! And ponies!
And it's progress that won't match even the worst of the civilized countries' medical systems (Canada) in my lifetime. It's that fucking slow.
I have always loved fountain pens, from childhood on. They're so much nicer to write with: no pressure, just slide them across the paper and leave a trail of crap writing behind. Ballpoints need pressure which eventually hurts your hand, and leave a trail of crap writing and dented paper behind.
Living in Canada, though, it was almost impossible to get decent fountain pens. At the affordable end were disposable (!) Parkers that were utter shit at every level. At the mid-range were overpriced Parkers and a few other smaller players that were utter shit, but at least weren't disposable. And at the high end you had stupidly expensive, gaudily decorated tubes that ... still wrote like shit. (Montblanc, I'm looking at you here!)
So I stopped using them.
Then I moved to China.
In China (for a variety of reasons, including one that's so funny you'd swear I was making it up if I told you so I won't) fountains are still the dominant writing instrument. Ballpoints are available and used, but most people reach for a fountain when doing anything serious. (Indeed you're NOT ALLOWED to use a ballpoint on some official documents for reasons which escape me!) As a result, I've gotten back into using fountain pens.
There's a problem, though, and that is nibs. A lot of times new pens' nibs are scratchy and hard to work with. They take some of the joy of a good fountain pen away. I had no idea how to deal with this beyond just gritting my teeth and writing with the pen until the nib is worn down to my writing position.
Then I found out I'm an idiot.
Because there's totally a way to get rid of those burrs and mis-matched tines without buying a hundred nibs and finding the ones that are perfect. It's really simple too. You get yourself one of these:
That is an ultra-fine grit Whetstone. The red side is sintered ruby and is 5000 grit. The mottled green side is jade and is 10,000 grit. A couple of minutes' work (and I mean that: about two minutes) and even the worst nib is turned into a smooth masterpiece that's a joy to write with. (It also clears up a few ink flow problems I had with one nib; not sure what the mechanism was there.)
So yes, that's ruby and jade, two gem stones, being used to fix up some cheap (by western standards) pens. 10cm×2.5cm×1cm. Meaning 12.5cm³ of ruby and 12.5cm³ of jade. As a whetstone.
Of course you pay for what you get. This little motherfucker set me back about…
…THREE FUCKING BUCKS U.S.!
What a world!
(The sintered diamond whetstone at 12,000 grit was too expensive for my tastes. At ten bucks.)
@Shiggy said in RL Anger:
@WTFE Well, legally, it's not a duty at all. I just want to make my country a livable place, which does entail a concept of "civic duty" that is applied in real life. The reality is that nations are made-up of the people who live in them, which in turn means that if you're a piece of shit, and this is the norm, then your country is going to be a piece of shit to live in. Hence, voting, among other things. Shoveling the snow on the street that you live on (municipal funds for that dried up last year), and so on.
See, I'm down for the snow shoveling as a civic "duty" (legal or moral), but voting? I don't see how choosing from two candidates who both deeply repel me helps society in any meaningful way. And, indeed, I think voting for the one that is microscopically less offensive DAMAGES society in that it normalizes the process of offering only candidates that are palatable to the lunatics because sane people feel they "have to vote".
@Shiggy said in RL Anger:
I'm not sure I would have actively voted Trump were I unlucky enough to be an American. I'd have inactively voted Trump by not voting at all. (I don't believe in the whole "you have to vote" bullshit because it puts forth a false dilemma whereas I believe I should have a "none of the above fuckers" option.)
Civic duty, my man.
If they want to call it a "duty" then give a viable option, even if that viable option is a "none of the above motherfuckers" with actual legal teeth. (In my dream elections, if "none of the above" gets the plurality, ALL parties have to field DIFFERENT candidates and hit the polls again.)
If you don't give me a viable option, it's a duty only in the same sense as it's a duty for me to hand over my wallet when someone has a gun pointed at my head.
@Shiggy said in RL Anger:
@WTFE I mean, to be fair, the two major candidates we had on offer were pretty bad for different reasons. And while I'm all for gay wedding cakes and tranny bathrooms, I'm not all for telling me that I'm not allowed to say "tranny" anymore by pain of totally ruining my life. This might sound nuts, but I'm really quite reluctant to discard the Western liberal enlightenment in the interest of cheaper birth control for women or not offending Muslims.
I'm not down for that whole hypersensitivity-followed-by-dogpile thing either. It's the GOALS of the modern left I agree with and emphatically not the techniques.
So, yeah. I voted for Trump, because this election to me came off (in part, anyway) as being about having to choose between letting Trump say outrageous shit and letting Rachel Maddow et al dictate to me which opinions won't get me fired. I'm just plain not on board with living in a country where remarks like "maybe you should just pay for your own birth control" (a statement I don't even agree with btw) can provoke a large-scale public meltdown/riot followed by someone's permanent exclusion from polite society.
I'm not sure I would have actively voted Trump were I unlucky enough to be an American. I'd have inactively voted Trump by not voting at all. (I don't believe in the whole "you have to vote" bullshit because it puts forth a false dilemma whereas I believe I should have a "none of the above fuckers" option.)
@surreality said in RL Anger:
Thanks, assholes. Now I'm going to die without seeing the USA join the civilized world and have socialized medicine. Fuck you very much. Fuck you in the ear with a rusty chainsaw.
Speaking as someone who would have actually died about three months back without what little we do have, as much as I love ya, hearing you rant about how we all suck so badly at getting the rest of it done that you won't get to see it happen, wow, man. Wow.
What you got will likely be disassembled by President Rump Roast, or at least so badly damaged that it will set back a civilized medical system by at least two decades.
Given that I figure I've got about two decades left…
Well, go ahead and do that math.
@Shiggy said in RL Anger:
Because shouting at impoverished Midwesterners to check their white male privilege and vote for Hillary in spite of being told to pound sand sure did work out well for her, amirite?
This is what grinds my bicuspids to powder with the current age of leftists.
I'm a leftist from waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay the fuck back. Name any thing a modern leftist activist believes in and I'm there. Racial and sexual equality? Fuck yeah! LGBT rights? I'm down with it! Single-payer, state-funded medicine? Preach it brother! Welfare? Bring it on!
But HOLY FUCKING SHIT are they incompetent at this game! The election of Trump should have been a major fucking wake-up call that their "tactic" (for want of a better word) of shrill, accusatory screeching is an unmitigated, disastrous FAILURE.
So what's their response?
Obviously they need to double down on the shrill, accusatory screeching because people didn't hear them the first time.
No, whackjobs. People heard you just fine. They voted the way they did to spite you because you fucking suck. And in the process you set your (and, ultimately my) goals back a decade or two (or more). And you want to make it even fucking WORSE!?!?!?
Thanks, assholes. Now I'm going to die without seeing the USA join the civilized world and have socialized medicine. Fuck you very much. Fuck you in the ear with a rusty chainsaw.
Ugh. We are not going to turn in to the old WORA here let's go post autopsy photos and be incredible vile and hateful on people's real life media because the link to their site was shared are we?
Never been my style.
I'd just go onto dude's feed and start feeding him with the information needed to stop being an asshat. At length. With pictures and circles and arrows and an explanation on the back saying what each thing was. Until he learned to stop being a shithead on social media when coming from a position of self-righteous ignorance.
@Auspice Give me the social media links. I'll make this guy regret he ever even heard the phrase "social media"…
@Catsmeow said in Hobby Glossary:
IIRC - Maverick's RL name was Jerry. As well, I have heard it was for his infamous paging of other people. However, this is also how urban legends start sooo...
Maverick was Hello Raptor later in life? Wow!
(Yes, indeed, this is how urban legends spread... :D)
At the end of February I supported my third crowd-funding thing. While the first two were wargames, and were done by people I directly or indirectly knew, this third one was music and I'd never encountered the pair of musicians involved ever in any capacity. Their pitch video had enough intriguing strands of music that I suspected they'd put their most commercial foot forward for it and that their real music was something I wanted to listen to.
So I took a gamble and put in the highest tier of individual support.
Later I found some of their earlier work. I love it when my instincts are proved right.
On a more serious note: give the prof what she asks for. Consider it valuable experience in the world of "keeping up with fucked-up client demands". Because your clients will demand more and worse things that will make you grind your bicuspids to powder.
Dont' USE the prof's version as your portfolio. Keep a proper, professional one. Just hand a fake one done the prof's way to the prof.
Got the feedback on my 'work so far' today and one of the things my instructor wants me to do is to replace my intro with 'Welcome to my slice of the web.'
Don't forget the animated construction gif at the bottom with the visitor counter!
Also, isn't that a mixed metaphor? You don't slice webs. Shouldn't it be something like "my strand of the web" or something?