Posts made by WTFE

No! It's my brain damage juice!

I'll share this with you instead, OK?

I've come to accept that people in this forum are very specifically targeting my brain cells by forcing me to drink this stuff.

You have a death wish then, do you? (I think one bottle would kill.)

This stuff was my first taste of a whole 'nother style of Chinese hooch. See, there are three main branches of hooch here: the "sauce scented" (醬香) variety most famously known via Maotai, the "strong scented" (瀘香 or 濃香), and the "light scented" (汾香) variety. There are other varieties, naturally. The picture of the red bottles I'm taking back to Canada with me, for example, is the progenitor breed of its own category: "phoenix scented" (凤香), and there's dozens of other kinds. The Big Three, however, are the three I named.

This bottle is of the "strong scented" variety. As with the other stuff (the "phoenix scented" stuff) this stuff is unctuous as all fuck. It has an almost slippery mouthfeel. Unlike the phoenix scented stuff, though, this is all high and sweet notes. It lacks the breadth of flavour of the Shaanxi-originated stuff, but for that the flavour in its range is more intense.

I don't recall exactly what the ABV is, but it's either 50% or 52%. Again, this stuff is going to knock your brain cells into submission before you know what hit you. It's great stuff, especially when reading things like @VulgarKitten taking such pains to explain in great detail exactly how little he cares. At length.

Well, shit.

It was largely because of @Sunny that I was going to give Kushiel's Debut a look, likely over my enforced summer vacation in Canada. Now it looks like the staff and its fellating hangers-on are exactly the wrong fit for me.

Fuck.

One disappointing thing in China is beer. Chinese beer ranges from tolerable (the better ones from Qingdao) to stuff that barely manages to exceed even American beer in flavour. It's because of this that I have to keep scanning Taobao for bargains on imports. Like this:

That's 48 half-liter tins of German beer. It's exported German beer, so pretty much the worst of the breed. Still, worst of breed from Germany exceeds best of breed in China so that's fine by me!

This ice cream is showing potential!

Be silent, Sophia. You're never supposed to bring up "reality" and "consequences" when people wish to live in solipsistic words where only their "opinion" matters.

Risus isn't me, sorry.

@ThatGuyThere said in Attributes or No?:

@WTFE
Off topic but blatant plug, while I don't care for the Mythic system itself. I loves me the mythic GM Emulator, it can be used with any system and I think works wonderfully for solo rpg gaming.

For me too. The main game itself is a little meh, but the GME is brilliant.

@Thenomain said in Attributes or No?:

Even further abstracted, this kind of "ability instead of attribute" game can be played this way: Invent your own abilities, give them numbers, and play. "Fire Magic: 3", "Pew Pew Pew!: 2d6", so forth. God help me that I can't remember the game that @WTFE loves so much in this venue.

Mythic?

Right. It doubled last week alone! (That's when my wife and I joined.)

OK, this has been bugging me for a while.

WTF is a "WIC"?

OW! FUCKING OW!

I'd call this "WTF, Japan!?" but it's actually pretty awesome

@mietze said in The Shame Game:

@surreality

No. Absolutely the whisper campaign is meant for the target to know about. Shunning isn't fun unless it's very clear that that person knows that they are unwelcome; I've never seen it not occur without the PA taunts on channel or in scenes, ect. I have never seen a whisper campaign that ever was hidden. People aren't stupid, everyone knows damn well that anything said in page/semi-public channel/or skype always gets back. That is part of the point.

I was the victim of a shunning campaign at Castle Marrach. The ringleader of the campaign was someone who RPed with me specifically to find out who else I might be RPing with so they could send private messages to said person that boiled down to "Don't play with WTFE! He's a psycho!"

This was definitely kept on the quiet for months. The only reason I found out about it was that she paged that to one of my (very new, so word hadn't spread yet from staff whose alt it was) alts when I, in character, mentioned my main character.

Sometimes the whisper campaigns are meant to be like the so-called "hellbans" of Reddit and Github.

I worked at a 7-11 in my college years, before I realized security graveyard shifts were where it's at for study time. My biggest horror story was the cocaine bust.

There was a private "neighbourhood security" firm that patrolled the neighbourhood next to our store that we liked to refer to as "the demilitarized zone" in Regina, SK. When they weren't patrolling the zone, they were parked in our parking lot. In exchange for a small stream of free coffee we got extra shoplifting control when things got busy. It paid off one day when one of the pair leaned over the counter and murmured to me, "That lady over there just put a tin of stew into her purse." He paired that with a discreet finger pointing at the lady (of the night) in question. So we waited for her to leave, sure enough without coming to the cash, and one of the security dudes stopped her outside and said that we would be detaining her until the cops came.

She blustered, but I was, at the time, built like a brick shithouse and my work partner was a fat old Irish woman who was a spitfire and a half. We were not intimidated and merely prevented her from leaving until the cops arrived. The cops listened to us, to the security dudes, and then asked the lady if she'd mind opening her purse. She practically threw the purse at them. And from the purse came:

• the aforementioned tin of stew
• a bottle of 7-up
• a box of sugar cubes
• approximately $50,000 (1980s money!) of cocaine in brick form

That was exciting enough, but after the cops cleared the place (with two gratis LARGE cups of coffee and two boxes of donuts discreetly placed into their car when they weren't looking) two OTHER regulars came tearing into the place screeching that we had to get the fuck out of Dodge and quick. They were, we suspect, pot dealers. They spent almost every night at the edge of our parking lot coming in every so often to buy our (horrific) sandwiches and assorted munchies like chips or chocolate. And according to their report the "boyfriend" (their words, not ours; I'd have likely called him "pimp"), who'd been patiently sitting on the hood of a car (not his) while this all went down, upon her arrest and being carted out stalked off the parking lot loudly muttering to himself something about "getting a shotgun" and "blowing their fucking heads off".

We called the cops and within a minute the same cops who'd come before arrived back and concealed themselves in the staff room, pistols out of their holster. Then one of them said, "Wait, that guy. We got his statement, right?" "Yeah." "You don't think..." "Nah, nobody could be that stupid." So on the off chance he was that stupid, they called in to dispatch and checked if his statement had an address. It did. They sent a couple of squad cars to said address ... and caught him in the act of exiting his home with an assembled and loaded shotgun.

It turns out uttering death threats and then going home to pick up the tools to carry out said threats is a very serious offence.

Then my crowning glory of achievement as a manly-man. The two of us were on a swing shift, so we ended at 4AM. Our replacement was a (solo) gorgeous chick I'd been eyeing for weeks. She hears about the excitement and practically begs me on her knees not to leave her alone.

Idiot that I was I left anyway. Because I had a D&D session to write up for noon that day.

DAMMIT!

Shit. Pressed the arrow pointing the wrong direction!

It's weird: I've disagreed with some of the biggest names on the board and I don't get hundreds of downvotes. It's almost as if how you disagree is more important than the mere fact of it.

Generally (not always) when I disagree with people I don't come across as a psychotic hunched over my keyboard holding an axe and quietly muttering "blood, blood, blood" to myself. There may be a lesson in here for those who lose over a hundred in a day…

If I could downvote that a hundred times, I would.

Hell, if I could use my reputation of -17 to downvote you 17 times for that I would!

@Thenomain said in New Player Onboarding:

@Thenomain

Dear @GirlCalledBlu : The down vote because why? I do genuinely wonder what people take offense to.

I just downvoted this. Because I can't see who downvotes me and it makes me sad.