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NOTHING but VENTS -- Vent all You Want Without Replies.

Posted by Shannara
Shannara
moderator, 3035 posts
Thu 21 Jun 2012
at 13:00

NOTHING but VENTS -- Vent all You Want Without Replies

The old thread was a couple of years old, so it's about time for a fresh new thread in which to VENT!.

I'll start it out.

<vent>
I have nothing to vent about this morning yet!  Obviously there's nowhere else for the day to go but down!
</vent>

Note: As with previous Vent threads, please do not respond to vents posted by other people.  This is not the place for flaming/good advice/commiserations/or conversations regarding the things that annoy other users.  It is for venting, pure and simple - blow off a little steam, and move on.
This message was last edited by the user at 22:47, Wed 07 June 2017.
Serrational
member, 121 posts
Ponies! Trees! Hooray!
Blue Exorcist fan.
Thu 21 Jun 2012
at 15:15
  • msg #2

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Darn, all my previous ranting shall fall into the void of the end page. My fond memories of expressing unhappiness are now moot.

Curses!

[/vent]
Newgirl2010
member, 208 posts
Dragon Age freak here!
Thu 21 Jun 2012
at 16:21
  • msg #3

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

No posts in my games!
[/vent]
ginny
member, 59 posts
Thu 21 Jun 2012
at 16:24
  • msg #4

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Having to spend the money on a dress that I will wear maybe once in my lifetime for someone elses wedding.
Brygun
member, 1329 posts
RPG since 1982
Thu 21 Jun 2012
at 16:51
  • msg #5

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

35 C, 91 F in my Canadian room.

*polar bear keels over in globabl warming*
truemane
member, 1583 posts
Firing magic missles at
the darkness!
Thu 21 Jun 2012
at 16:56
  • msg #6

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Have a date with my True Love tomorrow. But got called in to work. Can't miss work. She will understand. She's good that way. But all the same.... DAMMIT.
facemaker329
member, 4953 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Fri 22 Jun 2012
at 07:20
  • msg #7

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Found out a friend of mine has her life in chaos, yet again...her marriage, which happened after years of counseling to deal with the aftermath of two abusive boyfriends, is on the rocks.  Again.  They already almost called it quits once and decided to make another go at it...doesn't sound like they're ready to go for Round Three.

Stories like that make me glad I'm still a bachelor...and the fact that I'm glad about it, itself, kind of makes me a little sad, too...
temperance
member, 14 posts
Fri 22 Jun 2012
at 11:19
  • msg #8

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Though the bride has been kind enough to let members of the party choose our own dresses, I'm not a dress/formal shindig person. And I'm a grad student so I haz no money. I have to spend a month's pay on a dress I'll never wear again.
This message was last edited by a moderator, as it was in need of a minor tweak, at 18:03, Fri 22 June 2012.
Darbbackwards
member, 160 posts
My name is Brad, which is
darb spelled backwards
Fri 22 Jun 2012
at 12:19
  • msg #9

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

I go through the whole day and everything seems fine. Talk to boss, nothing seems off. I get a call three hours after closing from the HR person that I don't need to come in again. Why couldn't you just man up and tell me before I left? Would it really have been that hard?
Gremlin
member, 70 posts
Fri 22 Jun 2012
at 14:57
  • msg #10

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

This could sound proper miserable, but spending a fortune going to a wedding where I only know the head bridesmaid (my gf) isn't my idea of a good weekend.
Bad Bunny
member, 67 posts
Fri 22 Jun 2012
at 16:03
  • msg #11

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

After repeatedly telling us that our account was safe (we had some issues with money when I lost my job), the bank decided to shut it down...as soon as we got back on our feet.
ginny
member, 60 posts
Fri 22 Jun 2012
at 17:43
  • msg #12

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

I just spent the last 3 hours in the hot freakin' sun and weather shopping for that dress.  Nothing anywhere in my size.  Plenty of dresses in the colors they want, but not in my size.  I couldnt even find anything in the kids section that would fit, too big for me.  Ughh....looks like its going to be a skirt and tube top for me tomorrow.  Nice for the Maid of Honor, huh?  *rolls eyes in exasperation*
This message was last edited by a moderator, as it was in need of a minor tweak, at 18:05, Fri 22 June 2012.
jazzman831
member, 639 posts
Fri 22 Jun 2012
at 23:50
  • msg #13

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

If people behaved on the internet like the do in real life, a whole lot more people would get punched in the face.
Bigun Eagle
member, 34 posts
Sat 23 Jun 2012
at 00:16
  • msg #14

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

I get so Fruiting ticked off at my little sisters stealing my stuff out of my room, and not being able to do a fruiting thing about it because they are mentally handicapped
meisa
member, 37 posts
I wish to somehow stop
This endless fight.
Sat 23 Jun 2012
at 03:07
  • msg #15

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

I'm a medical mystery - they say it is humanly impossible to be allergic to Iron, yet somehow I am;
- If I take it orally I get sick and throw up blood.
- If they pump it straight into my blood stream I break out in hives and my lungs swell up to the point where I can't breath.
- They have tried over 30 different variations of Iron, and they all have the same effect.
- My body won't naturally reproduce blood without the help of the Iron I'm allergic to.

Because of this, I end up in the hospital a lot, needing emergency blood transfusions. I've already been to the point 3 times now where I would have died within a couple days if I hadn't gotten the transfusions.

Last month I turned 19 years old and lost my medical coverage.

Now the doctors want nothing to do with me, and refuse to treat me.

They even told me that I will be LUCKY if I live another month or two, and still refuse to help me.

So because I am Fruiting poor as dirt and have a disability that prevents me from working...(and the state won't provide anything for me because they don't care)....No one will help me and I have no choice but to sit by quietly as I wait to die.

I am 19 years old, and I go to sleep every night not knowing if I will wake up when morning comes.
Shei-kun
member, 733 posts
A Giant Shei draws near!
Fight-Magic-Item-Flee
Sat 23 Jun 2012
at 20:57
  • msg #16

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

As for my rant...

The mods are still having to play Multiple Account Whack-A-Mole on a regular basis.  Please, people, stop being such fruiting idiots, read the RPoL ToU and FAQs, and stop making multiple accounts.  It doesn't work, nobody gets away with it, and it just makes the mods annoyed that they have to waste time cracking down on things instead of enjoying RPoL.  If you're doing it to annoy the mods, just leave the site and stop being a troll.  Everyone else gets along just fine with a single account.  You can, too.
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Alexei Yaruk-Mundhenk
member, 809 posts
Sat 23 Jun 2012
at 21:14
  • [deleted]
  • msg #17

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

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soulsight
member, 150 posts
An older man, much like a
fine wine, will improve.
Sun 24 Jun 2012
at 19:02
  • msg #18

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Why do I have to spend such a beautiful summer day washing all the heavy bedclothes and hanging them on the line to save money (no need to run the dryer) when it's way too hot to use the dang things.
nuric
member, 1563 posts
Love D&D,superhero games
Not very computer savvy
Sun 24 Jun 2012
at 19:18
  • msg #19

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

We've got a camping trip coming up for our medieval recreation group, and the tent rental place still isn't returning our calls.   We have had good luck in the past, and want to be loyal custoners, but if we don't hear back soon it'll be to late to get anything.
ashberg
member, 104 posts
Learning hat; check.
Glass of whisky; check.
Tue 26 Jun 2012
at 11:53
  • msg #20

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

That awkward moment when you see you have an rMail and get really excited, when it's just a notification saying one of your posts has been moderated.
praguepride
member, 509 posts
Asker of Questions
Finder of Answers
Tue 26 Jun 2012
at 19:21
  • msg #21

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

My vents are dirty and need to be vaccuumed. That makes me angry.
Serrational
member, 124 posts
Ponies! Trees! Hooray!
Blue Exorcist fan.
Tue 26 Jun 2012
at 20:20
  • msg #22

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

A board got dropped on the edge of my toe while at a martial-arts class. The fact that it now hurts in a pins-and-needles way when I try and move it pertubes me.
praguepride
member, 511 posts
Tue 26 Jun 2012
at 20:50
  • [deleted]
  • msg #23

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

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Puppy-Kun
member, 22 posts
Tue 26 Jun 2012
at 21:13
  • msg #24

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

I work in a grocery store... nuff said.
Gremlin
member, 71 posts
Wed 27 Jun 2012
at 02:06
  • [deleted]
  • msg #25

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was against the forum rules, at 02:24, Wed 27 June 2012.
facemaker329
member, 4956 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Wed 27 Jun 2012
at 05:33
  • msg #26

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

There are times when having a reputation for making ridiculous stuff happen overnight is really inconvenient...

A friend of mine runs a production company, and is doing the entertainment for a multi-day corporate event in the area.  The whole thing kicks off tomorrow night.  And, she called me earlier tonight...they had one of their performers (a not-so-little 9-year-old girl) try on her costume and it's not even remotely close to fitting her.

So, after six hours of work on props and costumes, I'm home, where I will be fixing yet another costume...

It's a good thing I like doing this stuff...and like the person asking me to do it.  I can think of a few other people I've worked with that I would have laughed at if they'd told me they needed this done in less than 24 hours (it won't take anywhere near that long, there's just a few other inconvenient things in the way, like needing to get my car's exhaust fixed and sleep...just trivial stuff, you know...)
shady joker
member, 1411 posts
Wed 27 Jun 2012
at 14:02
  • msg #27

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

My back has va nassive scab on it from my skin peeling. My skin peeled cause I got a bad sunburn on my back. I got a sunburn because like a Moron I refused sunblock. >.<
swanbone
member, 12 posts
Wed 27 Jun 2012
at 21:01
  • msg #28

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

My cat is sick. Again. He's only three, but in the past couple of months he's been to the vet's so often that they know us, and after a couple weeks of 'good behavior' (after a couple weeks of refusing to eat after surgery and needing to go in for injections all the time and blah) he's just ... sick again. I'm really afraid he's going to die, and I hate having him locked into the bathroom, but he keeps trying to vacate his bowels/throw-up. The thing is, he's such a happy/friendly cat otherwise, always purring and trying to cuddle/stay near his people. The vet wants us to get him an ultrasound at a specialist ... which sounds expensive. Sigh. Why won't he just get better and stay better?
adrasteia1
member, 743 posts
Wed 27 Jun 2012
at 22:35
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  • msg #29

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

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Shei-kun
member, 734 posts
A Giant Shei draws near!
Fight-Magic-Item-Flee
Thu 28 Jun 2012
at 10:43
  • msg #30

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

My cat has been missing the past few days.  The cat door is fully functional.  I've looked for him inside and outside.  I've checked the barn (and the loft).  There's no way I can check all ten acres of land.  I know he's missing because not only have I not heard any of his many, many meows, but his food bowl remains untouched - so he is clearly not simply avoiding me or anything.  We live near the woods, so there are coyotes in the area, and... I fear the worst.

I don't know if he's alive, dead, missing, exploring, or what, and I finally broke down crying tonight because of it.  I really don't need this worry.  Especially not right now, when I'm taking summer courses which are cramming ten to twelve weeks of coursework into six.  I didn't get my first assignment for my accounting course done because I've been so distraught over this... and I'm not sure if I want to pull myself out of classes or try to continue - or if I even have the option of withdrawing right now with a refund.

All because my cat is missing.  Why does him being missing hurt so much, and why did it have to happen when my parents left for two weeks and I'm the only one watching the house, thus making me feel entirely responsible for his being missing despite it not being my fault at all?
truemane
member, 1584 posts
Firing magic missles at
the darkness!
Thu 28 Jun 2012
at 12:39
  • msg #31

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Moving day at work. All the stress of moving plus all the stress of work.

Ugh.
Wyrm
member, 142 posts
Thu 28 Jun 2012
at 13:09
  • [deleted]
  • msg #32

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

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temperance
member, 16 posts
Thu 28 Jun 2012
at 13:26
  • msg #33

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Bureaucratic freaking runaround.

Enough. Said.

Plus, if I write the vent I want to write, it sure as the sky is blue won't be PG. ;)
Jhael
moderator, 2319 posts
generation X-wing
Thu 28 Jun 2012
at 13:27

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Sallyann
member, 1492 posts
go away and don't come
back til a tree hugs you
Thu 28 Jun 2012
at 13:33
  • msg #35

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

trying to find a place to live 3 states away, before we've sold this house, which is a pain in and of itself, with what sounds like not very competent help, although I'm not there and I might just be overreacting.  And they want us to do lots of stuff to this house, just to sell it, not to get the money invested back, so we still might not make the mortgage.  I hope this realtor is good.  Because I wouldn't have wanted this house with this new landscapting.
Flarelord
member, 196 posts
Thu 28 Jun 2012
at 13:40
  • msg #36

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

*kicks*

This cranberry-eating lawnmower is so picky. It only starts about 30% of the time, and my grass is up to my neck! Help~!
wyldchild
member, 299 posts
While I breathe, I hope
Thu 28 Jun 2012
at 18:06
  • msg #37

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

'growls' I have had it with people telling me what is going to happen with my child.  Arranged for and took him to the clinic for an appointment with psychiatrist to help him learn to deal with and get past multiple years worth of bullying (as opposed to just shoving it down and having it come back later.)  Shrink sent him to a 'specialist' because I mentioned that there'd been a young school shrink that had decided he was PDD back in first grade.  Wasn't happy about them sending him to the specialist but I went ahead and took him.  She turns around and tells me that she thinks he needs to see a psychiatrist and thinks group therapy would be good to get him out of the house during summer break.  I politely told her that while I'd let him go to the psychiatrist, since we're back to what I was trying to see him helped with, but that group sessions weren't the best outing right now to 'improve' his summer..  Stupid woman actually contacted me back and informed me that she'd set him up for the appointments with her, for the first with the shrink and had enrolled him in the 'group', because that's what she felt was best.

Waited, mulled, calmed down (somewhat) for nine hours, and then when it became apparent I wasn't going to sleep until it was done ... got up at 2:30 a.m. and sent her a reply ... firing her and explaining I'd take the extra money (possibly 240 dollars if they hit me for a copay every time) and make sure he went to the pool and movies with his friend (you know, the normal stuff kids do to get out of the house.)  Still mad though, primarily for her implication that I don't know my son.  I'm the one that sits and listens to his game ideas for twenty plus minutes at a time, and the person who is always listen and stops him at whatever he's doing to find out what's up if I hear frustration or anger in his tone, and work with him to see the problem more rationally.  The fact that she actually went through and made all those appointments was not only unprofessional (since I said no to some), but it also tells me she hasn't been listening to him ... which makes me even angrier, given she had the gall to suggest that I don't know him.

The last twelve years have been filled with people telling me what to do with him, who supposedly have his best interest in mind ... and ninety percent of it has actually harmed vs. helped him.  Now I get to sit here and be mad, for days likely, because all that 'this is what's best' actually helped in holding him back, helped in making him feel like an outcast, and made him finally decide to just ignore the majority of people (and thus not care what their reactions are.)  There are too many well meaning peopole in this world who need to quit thinking and talking, and just listen ... if those in the beginning could have done that, I suspect I wouldn't be ranting because he'd have gotten the help he needed to catch up and not become an 'outcast' for being put in a 'special class' that was designed to let kids with difficulties slide by.
ginny
member, 62 posts
Thu 28 Jun 2012
at 18:10
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  • msg #38

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was against the forum rules, at 18:14, Thu 28 June 2012.
Jhael
moderator, 2320 posts
generation X-wing
Fri 29 Jun 2012
at 03:02

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

I hate your failure to do the right thing by my mother. Not is it only morally and ethically wrong to bully a confident middle aged woman until you have her not only dropped several levels in pay, but then moved out of the organisation altogether - she takes a job as a receptionist because she no longer has the confidence to work with what she's really good at - but then you don't pay her severance properly.

I hate that this will make her even more stressed, which will make her ill, which will make her more stressed and ...

I hate you for your stupid petty cowardice that means you won't stop bullying in your team, but instead pander to the bully, just shifting the victims out into other roles, or out altogether rather than deal with the problem. I hate it that my mother was confident and happy until she started working for you.

I hate it that I will have to pick up the financial bill for your pathetic incompetence, because I will be lending her all my own money so she gets through the next two weeks because you didn't pay her right. I hate it that I have so little money to spare now that I'm not working, and that I can't just give her enough that she won't have to count every cent.

I hate it that your organisation wins awards for being a "good employer" and that you sent her to training on corporate culture and bullying two weeks before she left. Where you pretend that you actually give a damn as an organisation, but instead you just pat yourselves on the back, while your employees know you're only ticking a box, and the victims won't get supported, and the bullies won't get called out.

I hate you, and I hate the injustice that lets people like you sit in managerial positions and perpetuate the waste of your organisation's resources continuing this kind of behaviour, when people like my mother are the lifeblood of good customer service. She gets cards from the customers thanking her for her help, for goodness sake. But keeping her as an employee is too hard, and keeping the bullies in your team is too easy.

I hate you for making your weaknesses someone else's problem.
Mika
member, 72 posts
Fri 29 Jun 2012
at 04:25
  • msg #40

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

In one day liver will be a banned food and I won't be able to eat it anymore.

The ban is because of the rish of ecoli. I understand the risk when I eat it, BUT there are many other foods that has that risk, I hope they won't ban those as well.

Well what the goverment says we have to abide by...still I am going to miss eating liver...

/vent
MagickalMelody
member, 4592 posts
THE GUMMIE BEAR OVERLORDS
WILL RULE US ALL!
Fri 29 Jun 2012
at 06:33
  • msg #41

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

colors instead of quotation marks unfortunately still makes really promising games unplayable for me. *sigh*
Ryees
member, 576 posts
Enough youth; how about a
fountain of "smart?"
Fri 29 Jun 2012
at 16:37
  • msg #42

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

*Face full of rage* Your problems are not my problems. You are not my problem. Deal with it yourself, damn it.
This message was last edited by a moderator, as it was in need of a minor tweak, at 17:09, Fri 29 June 2012.
Metal Fatigue
member, 18 posts
sic biscuitus
disintegratum
Sun 1 Jul 2012
at 03:15
  • msg #43

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

My grandfather is 92 and in the throes of Alzheimer's. My step-grandmother was 72. She died rather suddenly and unexpectedly last week. There's not enough equity in the house or money in the bank to place him anywhere half-decent, he can't take care of himself, and none of the family can take care of him.

It was nice to see some of the more remote members of my family at the memorial service. It was not nice to watch my father feuding with one of his cousins at the intimate family gathering following the memorial service. I understand this is stressful for him; it's not exactly a walk in the part for the rest of us either. Especially for my aunt, who bore most of the burden of organizing the burial, memorial, etc., and is taking more than half the load of caring for my grandfather day-to-day. She didn't need to be dragged in to mediate the situation.

It's all complete horsechestnuts. Ten thousand tons of it.
SomewhatOperational
member, 28 posts
60% of the time
I work every time
Mon 2 Jul 2012
at 08:51
  • msg #44

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Friend : Skyrim is great!

Me : Elder Scrolls used to be digital dice rpgs for pen and paper gamers. What you are playing is not a rpg.

Friend : I can be whoever I want though!

Me : Yes, that's part of the problem. You can be the leader of opposing guilds, you can ruin someone's life but make them like you by doing a single quest for them. Thanks to their obsession with duality (Empire vs. Stormcloak, Dawnguard vs. Vampires) there is less attention to detail. If I ever did that to my TT players they would skin me alive or have me clubbed to death .Not to mention the bugs. How many times did you cry to me about game-breakers?

Friend : Can't you just enjoy the game?

Me : When I pop open a coca-cola and take a sip, I expect it to taste like coke. Their "cola" tastes like sprite.

/vent
Silverlock
member, 33 posts
Mon 2 Jul 2012
at 20:35
  • msg #45

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Idiot driver plows into wife's car, injuring wife, damaging car.  Now, explain to me how the wad of cash we pay per year for insurance somehow translates into nothing gets paid BY the insurance, wife is injured BY action of other driver, we make all kinds of effort to get all kinds of contact with repair shop, rental agency, doctors, etc, and it's practically impossible to get anywhere without someone wanting MONEY ?  THIS is why people sue each other, for the mad desperation brought on by the system in place.
TinselCat
member, 5 posts
Wed 4 Jul 2012
at 12:48
  • msg #46

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Spent more than half of my anticipated weekend in Berlin babysitting someone several years older than me, who couldn't manage her way around a map to locate anything (be it tram, hostel or bank), or even successfully arrange her own way home. Never again will I agree to travel with someone based on a third-party recommendation. You can’t not notice such a high-maintenance personality.
Newgirl2010
member, 213 posts
Dragon Age freak here!
Wed 4 Jul 2012
at 14:51
  • msg #47

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

My post in the Independence Day thread.
[/vent]
Brygun
member, 1358 posts
RPG since 1982
Author, Developer
Thu 5 Jul 2012
at 00:02
  • msg #48

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Dern holiday, so few posts in the game and those being OOC chatter. doh!
temperance
member, 17 posts
Thu 5 Jul 2012
at 01:25
  • msg #49

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

When the only one commenting on the OOC is the one the whole game has been waiting two days on.

And you're still waiting on the IC post. Wharglblargl.
This message was last edited by a moderator, as it was in need of a minor tweak, at 05:58, Thu 05 July 2012.
Visceri22
member, 242 posts
Hobbies include killing
players and laughing
Thu 5 Jul 2012
at 01:38
  • msg #50

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

I lost 3 GMs in the space of 24 hours. Two have gone MIA and now closed down their games and the other was banned for multiple accounts. This wouldn't be too devastating if the one that got banned hand't been running one of the 2 games I've found since I joined 7 months ago that actually posted frequently and had real promise for turning into a long term game >_<
This message was last edited by a moderator, as it was in need of a minor tweak, at 06:01, Thu 05 July 2012.
Gremlin
member, 73 posts
Fri 6 Jul 2012
at 19:24
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Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

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Piestar
member, 130 posts
Sun 8 Jul 2012
at 03:06
  • msg #52

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Moderators. Nuff said.
MelJill
member, 17 posts
Sun 8 Jul 2012
at 03:28
  • msg #53

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Idiot people.

Let me explain--I'm living in a part of the US that has had temps over 100 for the past 10 days (except for one "cool" day when the high was a mere 98).  I went to the grocery, and there's a small moving van (the sort you use when moving yourself) and while I was walking in, I saw a couple with a dog on a leash walking around the van.

Reasonable people would've done the 'one person goes in, the other walks the dog' routine.  Not these people.  After I'd gone inside, apparently they locked the dog up in the back end of the van and both went inside because while I was in checkouts (a half hour later), there was a PA announcement telling the people to get outside to the van because the dog was in distress.

It's ridiculous hot.  How many times do people have to hear those public service announcements?
meisa
member, 39 posts
I wish to somehow stop
This endless fight.
Sun 8 Jul 2012
at 05:51
  • msg #54

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

About 2 months ago we got kicked out of our house because my dad lost his job and we couldn't pay the rent anymore.

We were lucky enough to get a little Camper from my mom's friend, and a slightly bigger trailer from a family member. My mom's best friend lives in a Community Run area by a lake, and she let us put the trailers on her property so that we could have a place to live, since we can't afford to put them in a trailer park.

Well, apparently there is a rule in this community that you cannot have two trailers on one piece of land.

One of the people in charge found out we were staying here, and after explaining our situation and telling them the fact that my mother is disabled and can't work, same with myself, and we have a 13 year old girl and nowhere else to go, all they said was, "We sympathize with your situation, but we just can't ignore the rules."

Now at their meetings they are voting on whether they are going to kick us out or not, and so far most are leaning towards kicking us out.

If we get kicked out we have absolutely nowhere to go.
Dottie_V
member, 3 posts
Be proud of your scars, ~
they are your war medals.
Sun 8 Jul 2012
at 08:36
  • msg #55

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

No, I don't appreciate the fact that you're making OOC notes in live EVENT THREADS to prove that you're smarter than the other.

And what's worse, you're both in the same House!!1 You're supposed to play  smart characters!!! What you're really doing is showing yourselves up as nits and shaming one of my favorite houses. SHUT UP ALREADY!! Fight in the chatterbox or PMs. BETTER YET!! Don't fight at all!

RAWR!! /vent
Silverlock
member, 36 posts
Mon 9 Jul 2012
at 00:11
  • msg #56

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

/vent/
Bad luck since late May.  Must be cursed these last 6 weeks.

Automobile needs 300$ to run.  Spouse's automobile needs 300$ to run.  Auto accident, pain and suffering, insurance picks up repairs on car but not on human. Air conditioner breaks, repairs want 6000$.  Paid another cheat 300$, air conditioner worked one day.  Paid another 300$ for emergency window units as can't take high heat.  Spouse injures hip on holiday and thus to hospital emergency room, bill not in for that BUT what a fantastic holiday - taken up with doctor's appointments, hospital, car repair shop, and NOW automobile breaks again for 700$.  Cannot afford mortgage and already got nasty letter from bank about overdraft AGAIN.  Need removal of curse, tired of being the gods favourite toy.

/vent/
facemaker329
member, 4991 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Mon 9 Jul 2012
at 03:27
  • msg #57

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

It sucks when you've got a plan all figured out for how to do a costume, you know exactly the materials you need and have a good ballpark figure of how much of which stuff you'll have to get...

And then find out that you no longer have the little stockpile of the stuff that you thought you had.  What sucks even more is that the local outlets from whence I purchased the material most needed (an awesome faux leather with a pebbled finish...which they've had in stock consistenly for about six or seven years, now) have discontinued the stuff.

Time to figure out a Plan B...(well, Plan C, since Plan B was 'go to the store and buy more stuff...')  At least I've got a long time before my deadline...
This message was last edited by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 03:32, Mon 09 July 2012.
Metal Fatigue
member, 29 posts
sic biscuitus
disintegratum
Mon 9 Jul 2012
at 04:46
  • msg #58

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

How long have I been on this site? A month or less. And I've gotten addicted to hitting "refresh" on the sticky list 'cause I can't wait 15 minutes.

It's called "intermittent reinforcement." Most of the time there aren't any updates to my games, or if there are, they're not on threads I'm following. Sometimes, though—sometimes I get a jolt to the pleasure center of my brain.

Doing this sort of thing to rats is against the rules of scientific ethics.
habsin4
member, 533 posts
Putting old paper in new
boxes since 2005
Thu 12 Jul 2012
at 16:10
  • msg #59

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Second trip to the DMV, finally have the right combo of documents, got my number called to go to the second waiting room, finally got the lady to look up from minesweeper long enough to ask if she can help me, hand my docs over, everything going fine......

And they have a building evacuation.  After 15-20 minutes across the street, they let people back in.  Only all 300+ have to go back through the one security gate.  Finally get back in and they want everyone to take a number again.  Thankfully, that didn't happen, I found a security guard who listened to reason.

The kicker is, I found out from madame minesweeper that it was just a regularly scheduled drill.
flakk
member, 441 posts
Dark Heresy!
Warhammer Fantasy RPG (2)
Thu 12 Jul 2012
at 16:19
  • msg #60

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

An oil change and motor vehicle inspection just turned into a $800 trip.  I had to leave my car behind and when I went home for lunch to walk my dog I realized the mechanic has my keys.  I can break into my own house, but it involves climbing and yesterday I broke/badly sprained one of my toes causing me to walk funny which caused my back to go all gimpy, so no climbing for me.  Luckily the dog decided to check out what I was doing outside and I was able to trick him into coming out the window.  Since I could not eat lunch at home I stopped at Wendy's and grabbed some take out only to have my order messed up.

I want a refund on today please!
doomedfate
member, 481 posts
I want to be a dragon
when I grow up!
Fri 13 Jul 2012
at 20:37
  • msg #61

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Definately not as bad as some of these, financial troubles suck, my aunt and cousins are having that, even more so now.

However, I hate how most of you Humes all believe all use furs are messed up. A guy almost didn't even join a game because my Anthrofox Sorcerer was in it! Why... why must you all be so cruel? It's not OUR fault that the loud minority is messed up, you Humes! *Sobs into paw pads and runs off*
Wyrm
member, 148 posts
Age 31
Fri 13 Jul 2012
at 21:00
  • msg #62

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Legal Immigration. That is all.
The Stray
member, 63 posts
When the Cat's a Stray
the Mice will Pray
Sat 14 Jul 2012
at 21:16
  • msg #63

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

An old friend of mine recently had surgery for a brain tumor. His condition is deteriorating. He's having trouble walking, and can't form coherent sentences anymore. It's so very, very hard watching him slowly fade like this.
doomedfate
member, 485 posts
I want to be a dragon
when I grow up!
Mon 16 Jul 2012
at 03:16
  • msg #64

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Why. Does. Japan. Get. All. The. Good. Games. To. Itself?!
Not saying the ones we get are bad, but I'm saying most of the Japanese titles I see and think "that looks good" (Read: all Gundam games, we got the hack-n-slash DW:Gundams 1,2,&3 and the terrible SD Gundam Force) Why?! How is this fair?! I must get people to help get Japan's attention.
rogar308
member, 35 posts
Tue 17 Jul 2012
at 03:58
  • msg #65

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

I'm a simple man. I'm not picky about what I eat and I'll eat almost anything I don't have to chase with a fork. That said, is it too much to ask to get served a dinner that doesn't set off multiple fire alarms or that I have to put the flames out before eating? And no, I'm not talking about anything flambay(sp?). I mean, sure, the 80's rock video smoke pouring into the family room is kinda kewl until I can't see my laptop or well, breath. Going out to eat isn't an option either so dinner time has become about as enjoyable as repeatedly stabbing myself in the eye with a pencil (pointy end mind you). Alas, such is life. I knew there was a good reason I have the fire department on speed dial.
Paixao
member, 22 posts
It's always the quiet one
Tue 17 Jul 2012
at 04:12
  • msg #66

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

So, I pay you $1200 to fix my air conditioning and two months later it's blowing cold air in 90+ heat. When you have me come in to check on it, don't ignore me for 25 min while on a phone call, pretend you don't see me or acknowledge me and then have the damned nerve to tell me there's not enough TIME to check it and I need to come back tomorrow. I know UNDERSTAND what going postal is. You're SOOOOOO lucky there was no pen on that counter.......................
Mika
member, 97 posts
Tue 17 Jul 2012
at 04:12
  • [deleted]
  • msg #67

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 12:27, Wed 18 July 2012.
TheDemonIslington
member, 173 posts
RPoL's UN
Peace keeping you to Hell
Tue 17 Jul 2012
at 04:40
  • msg #68

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Redundancies at work mean I get more work, which means I get to be busy. This is a good thing, don't get me wrong. I like being busy at work.

What I don't like it having to pack up a good friend's desk when he's been made redundant, and then sit there with him and another manager and go through his computer to mark things as 'Personal', 'Private' and 'Confidential', and have to sit there and watch the other manager be a complete applesauce about the entire thing.
"Yes, you can take your work camera on holiday, we understand that you're having a tough time financially at home. It's all good. Don't mention it."

"No, you cannot have any of the pictures, personal or not, from the camera you borrowed from us to take on holiday. We let you borrow it. You've had it for six months, isn't that enough?"

Seriously...
</rage>
</vent>
doomedfate
member, 490 posts
Wed 18 Jul 2012
at 12:23
  • [deleted]
  • msg #69

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 12:28, Wed 18 July 2012.
deadmanshand
member, 1154 posts
Thu 19 Jul 2012
at 22:52
  • msg #70

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

People who - for no discernible reason - decide that you are a liar or a moron and start ranting at you with the most pretentious bs you have ever heard. This has happened to me three times in two days. Three random people who decided that they knew a subject better than I did for no reason. Two of them related to hobbies and one related to something that I have verifiable, online evidence of my knowledge and experience in. That doesn't matter though because they are keyboard warriors karate chopping away the keys as if proving me wrong will make a girl touch them funny.

Some days I hate people.
rogar308
member, 43 posts
Fri 20 Jul 2012
at 00:51
  • msg #71

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

My friend told me he hated people. I told him maybe customer support wasn't the best job choice. Just sayin'...
Galadri
member, 53 posts
Fri 20 Jul 2012
at 01:10
  • msg #72

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

The home page keeps telling me there's an rmail waiting. There's nothing there! I swear I feel like Picard. There. Are. Four. Lights!
Mika
member, 117 posts
Fri 20 Jul 2012
at 03:22
  • msg #73

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

I hate when people pick on you especially from behind the scenes thinking you don't notice. When you call them out for it they act like they are angels.

You wonder why people CHOOSE no not socialize. Makes me think my WII is better than people.

Summer vacation can't come soon enough!!!

<end vent>
This message was last edited by the user at 04:03, Fri 20 July 2012.
Brygun
member, 1398 posts
RPG since 1982
Author, Developer
Sat 21 Jul 2012
at 22:33
  • msg #74

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Lots of outdoor fun today.

Forgot why I wear long sleeves or need buckets of suntan lotion.

Farmer's Burn! Damn!
Malakhon
member, 1911 posts
Sun 22 Jul 2012
at 02:15
  • msg #75

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread


Finally meeting a very devious girl and her saying "These are all the handcuffs you have??"
Hondo
member, 87 posts
+3 Defense vs. Girls
and Mods
Sun 22 Jul 2012
at 04:29
  • msg #76

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

<tanget>And I know rmail doesn't always work, so I posted in a public thread to let the original poster know I tried to send an rmail, and the mod deleted the dang post :/ But I wouldn't have to resort to that sort of thing if the rmails worked all the time...
This message was last edited by a moderator, as it was moot, at 04:35, Sun 22 July 2012.
SomewhatOperational
member, 47 posts
60% of the time
I work every time
Sun 22 Jul 2012
at 05:05
  • msg #77

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Double Vent!

Vent A :

I ran out if space on my flash drive. It's full of screen caps of people trying to seem cooler than they really are thanks to cyber anonymity.

Vent B :

Me : I'd love a game where I can play a monster race, but not in a monstrous party. Five other people : If you find a GM I want to play an [insert monster race]. Me : Y u no read!?
temperance
member, 21 posts
Tue 24 Jul 2012
at 10:05
  • msg #78

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Family member: [Person] will be staying there for a few days later this summer.
Me: Okay, when?
FM: I'm not sure.
Me: Well, that kind of makes it hard to plan.
FM: Well, sometime in [two month time frame]
Me: *sigh* That doesn't narrow it down much. Can you give me a week's notice when you know for sure so I can plan?
FM: Sure thing.

A month and a half later, at 11PM:

FM: [Person] will be there tomorrow midday.
Me: Well, thanks. I had plans this week, but I guess I can drop them and risk my job to be here when this person arrives, even though I have a shift scheduled. No sweat. */sarcasm*
FM: You had warning! I told you back in May!
Me: And I asked for a week's notice so I could get stuff ready! They'll be here sometime in a two-month window isn't exactly useful notice, FM!
FM: Well, you don't have to be such a ***** about it. They're coming, so quit whining and deal with it.

I should just say 'no' one of these times and let them flounder when the Hotel Temperance is not open. This "I'mma have a friend crash at your place with no notice, no money for food they eat, and without even asking, just announcing it to you with <24h notice, and when you get put out at the cavalier imposition on your time and resources, Imma going to curse at you!" attitude is really peaching me off. It's not the first time they've pulled it and I'm sure it won't be the last, either.

If it weren't for the fact that I'm still somewhat financially dependent on them, I would tell them exactly where to go and what to do when they pull stuff like this, that literally upends my plans for an entire week and risks my job because I have to cancel a shift on no notice. Unfortunately, I am somewhat financially dependent until I can graduate and get a real grown-up job. They know this and blackmail me with it whenever I get too vocal with my irritation. Two months until my defense. I. Am. Counting. The. Days.
This message was last edited by a moderator, as it was against the forum rules, at 10:47, Tue 24 July 2012.
rogar308
member, 47 posts
Tue 24 Jul 2012
at 11:42
  • [deleted]
  • msg #79

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 11:53, Tue 24 July 2012.
Darklighter
member, 16 posts
Wed 25 Jul 2012
at 02:50
  • msg #80

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Here's my vent. Reading an advertisement for a game recruiting players for a game. Sending the RTJ the same day as the advertisement, with all of the particulars requested. Then receiving no reply. At all. One week later checking the board, to see other players have been added to the game and the status of recruiting players has changed. Still haven't received a reply, either yea or nay.

GM couldn't even let me know they picked someone else? No reply? Where did courtesy go?!?!
MagickalMelody
member, 4636 posts
THE GUMMIE BEAR OVERLORDS
WILL RULE US ALL!
Wed 25 Jul 2012
at 19:59
  • msg #81

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

<vent>
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

WHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHY WOULD YOU MAKE YOUR ENTIRE POST IN COLOR!?

ARGH! I want to slap someone now. Seriously; I have a hard enough time reading posts where it's just the dialogue, and now an ENTIRE POST!? Not only do I have to completely take your post OUT of RPoL into a notepad document to read (to tell if it's something that I even have to respond to), I can't have ANY level of immersion in the characters when you're involved in the posting circle now? For goodness's SAKE.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

</vent>
This message was last edited by the user at 20:01, Wed 25 July 2012.
Heath
member, 2061 posts
Wed 25 Jul 2012
at 20:16
  • [deleted]
  • msg #82

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 20:30, Wed 25 July 2012.
wyldchild
member, 302 posts
While I breathe, I hope
Fri 27 Jul 2012
at 01:34
  • msg #83

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Every day there's a bill, be it for food, clothing, gas, or other amenities that are necessary to raise four children (or help those that are almost adults or just recently become adults have a future.)  But ... it is entirely frustrating to sign my life away for the next four years for dental work.  Yeah, I get a discount because my credit is inching towards near perfect, since the place we're using doesn't do finance charges but rather drops prices if you sign up for their plan and your credit is good, and we can pay for it.  But wisdom tooth extractions, a root canal, fillings (how many I've lost count on), and now two sets of braces are going to eat money that could have gone towards a house payment and the power bill that went with it.  And the worst part ... in the long run I will pay less using this method than if I'd signed up for a 'dental insurance plan' with some big company, and I need to wait four years before I can even begin to think about having my teeth worked on.  *sigh* last wouldn't be so bad, but I've already been waiting for ten years, because when we did have that 'dental insurance plan' the costs were too high.  Oh, the joy of living in America, where crap you don't need is cheap and the stuff you do is guaranteed to put you in debt.
Newgirl2010
member, 227 posts
Dragon Age freak here!
Sun 29 Jul 2012
at 20:35
  • msg #84

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

When people make a show that's a continuation of an older show at a more advanced time frame without a backstory!
<vent>
Safrianna
member, 119 posts
Ic willa bycġan
āne cū!
Sun 29 Jul 2012
at 20:48
  • msg #85

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

I had to have a tooth extracted because the root canal was $1000 up front. I later got dental insurance from my job, so that on the next two teeth I still couldn't afford to save the extractions only cost me $90 instead of $200.

Luckily for me, I'm in Britain now, and my next root canal will only be £48.50...or about $76. And I originally moved here because this was the cheapest option for my postgraduate programme..even after accommodation. Thanks, America! :D

...seriously. What a flipping rip off. I'm 23, I shouldn't be missing teeth.
This message was last edited by a moderator, as it was in need of a minor tweak, at 20:50, Sun 29 July 2012.
adrasteia1
member, 768 posts
Casting the dice
of an uncertain future
Sun 29 Jul 2012
at 22:01
  • msg #86

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

As for.. well, my continued vent, I'm job hunting right now. My OH took a job in this part of the country so I moved over and there seems to be no work at all doing what I want to do. There doesn't even seem to be much out there that's suitable but NOT what I want. I'm feeling that the Masters I got isn't so useful at present.. but then this is a small city and just about every job out here seems to be in IT. I'm sure I'll find something eventually.
This message was last edited by a moderator, as it was moot, at 22:32, Sun 29 July 2012.
Serrational
member, 129 posts
Ponies! Trees! Hooray!
Hee hee hee. Smile!
Mon 30 Jul 2012
at 23:18
  • msg #87

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Weeaboos. Weeaboos all over a forum I frequent. That is all.
Santo-Ghidorah
member, 91 posts
Tue 31 Jul 2012
at 16:44
  • msg #88

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

If you're playing in an online rpg, and two ships are supposed to meet up to do a joint mission, it would help if one ship didn't do all the golddug work before the other fleansing ship showed up, leaving the second ship to do nothing but cleanup work. Seriously? You call the ship in for its expertise, and then your enlisted security person comes up with the scientific explanation? Before the ship you actually said needed to be there even fudging arrives?

Also, while I'm on a rant, if you're playing a character designed to serve a role, serve that goddished role. I'm sick to the tit of security officers that are also engineers and doctors with command and demolition experience and also Vulcan but who embrace their emotions. If it's a solo adventure, go for it. If there's more than one player character, frack you, you fracking frell.

The end.
This message was last edited by the user at 16:45, Tue 31 July 2012.
Safrianna
member, 121 posts
Ic willa bycġan
āne cū!
Tue 31 Jul 2012
at 17:26
  • msg #89

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

My mother applied for her visa, and the Border Agency lost her passport, sent back her application, asked for another processing fee and more information because they said she didn't include her passport. At this rate, she's most likely going to miss my wedding because of it.
MagickalMelody
member, 4639 posts
THE GUMMIE BEAR OVERLORDS
WILL RULE US ALL!
Tue 31 Jul 2012
at 17:35
  • msg #90

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

<Another Healthcare Vent>

I hate trying to schedule doctors' visits. I'm lucky, what with the whole being-able-to-be-on-my-mother's-insurance-still change, but not very lucky in that the allergist (who I go to for a pretty severe auto-immune condition) is tremendously busy.

Look, I'm not saying "don't be busy" or "don't make as much money as you can" here, but what I'm GOING to say is: don't have three offices when you could literally fill your days with patients at one. I happen to know he lives near the office closest to my house, and has two others over an hour away... and he has a ridiculous amount of patients.

And I DO MEAN ridiculous. Between his few offices it's a few hundred. The only reason I didn't get slapped onto the wait-list at the office I'm at is because my problems are potentially fatal more often (AKA I'm worth more money).

The reason why I absolutely must go to him? He's one of the two doctors within an hour's drive of my home that are actually covered by insurance. One of them I tried out but couldn't stand him, just not a good fit, and the other I'm beginning to think I may need to try in hopes he has more flexibility in scheduling.

'Cause look, I'm unemployed right now. Yes, I'm going to graduate school in the fall but I'm ALSO looking for a job, so I *do not* know what my life will be like three months in advance to plan something like a doctor's visit. I have a job interview this Friday... when I scheduled (three months ago) a doctor's appointment. I tried to re-schedule the appointment and... the closest they could do is over a month away. HUH!?

I can't wait for the day where I can go to any doctor because either insurance companies are required to accept any physician or there's no such thing as insurance and healthcare is nationalized. I know it will happen, eventually. Then I could go to the guy who specializes in my issues and works out of one office: the hospital at the end of my street.
</Another Healthcare Vent>
This message was last edited by a moderator, as it was against the forum rules, at 21:57, Tue 31 July 2012.
Brygun
member, 1428 posts
RPG since 1982
Author, Developer
Fri 3 Aug 2012
at 14:01
  • msg #91

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Last night only a few dribbles of milk so couldn't have some cereal to settle down to sleep.

Woke up this morning, did my RPOL posting. Now I'm hungry.

Just remembered... no milk for cereal.

*Grumble*

*puts pants on over pajamas to walk to the store*
facemaker329
member, 5020 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Fri 3 Aug 2012
at 16:14
  • msg #92

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Learned the hard way that the area retailers that carried one of my favorite costuming fabrics (the stuff has a fantastic faux-leather finish to it, is actually one of the most convincing fakes I've seen anywhere) has stopped carrying it, altogether.  I've been able to find this stuff on a moment's whim for most of the last decade...and now I'm stuck portioning out the last few yards of it that I stockpiled for some other project that's probably never going to happen.

Seriously, guys?  You were the ONLY people who had this stuff.  Why get rid of your unique (and immensely useful) product, only to turn around and expand your collection of quilting fabrics?  Everybody and their dog around here carries quilting fabrics...
SomewhatOperational
member, 64 posts
60% of the time
I work every time
Sun 5 Aug 2012
at 02:23
  • msg #93

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Simple rules being skirted around by sarcastic, bored people. That is all.
Dottie_V
member, 6 posts
Mon 6 Aug 2012
at 22:41
  • msg #94

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

<vent>

You're fickle, arrogant, pathetic, and treacherous. YOU TWIT!! Dx

</vent>
facemaker329
member, 5027 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Tue 7 Aug 2012
at 06:20
  • msg #95

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Somewhere at work today, in the process of changing between my regular glasses and my sunglasses, one of the lenses dropped out of my regular glasses.  I was halfway across a relatively busy amusement park from where I think it happened when I discovered the problem...and backtracking turned up nothing.  Neither did two trips to the lost and found.  So, I'm wearing my old (14 years old) glasses, complete with hideously scratched lenses that make everything a little hazy and don't quite let me focus properly...but they're better than nothing.

Hoping the lens got turned in after I left work.  If not, I have to deal with these things for another few weeks (gotta wait til I can afford to order a replacement, and then wait until they actually make one and deliver it...)

That, and my sunburn has turned the corner (mostly) from the 'constantly burning' stage to the 'itching like crazy' stage...that's good, because it means the skin is healing...but there were things I could do for relief from the burning sensation.  Everything I try for the itch is fleeting relief, at best.
Malakhon
member, 1978 posts
Wed 8 Aug 2012
at 05:09
  • msg #96

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

<VENT>

When people say

"LOOK, IT'S A BIRD!!" and point in the sky and you know it's actually superman.

Then you wonder, why is this guy so excited about a Bird?

</vent>
This message was last edited by the user at 05:09, Wed 08 Aug 2012.
Gremlin
member, 74 posts
Thu 9 Aug 2012
at 00:28
  • msg #97

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Raaaaagh!!!! Stupid mass game death! Half of my games are now dead, and just to add a kick in the pills to it, its my favorite half.
angel_wings
member, 242 posts
Thu 9 Aug 2012
at 02:10
  • msg #98

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

<Vent> Tired cranky and bitchy because hubby is out golfing and I am taking care of our daughter. It would be nice if I had some *Fruiting* help! </Vent>
Malakhon
member, 1979 posts
Thu 9 Aug 2012
at 20:18
  • msg #99

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

<VENT>

We spent 2.5 Billion to go to Mars, and so far no alien lifeforms have seized the robot and turned it into a killing machine, no Tardis appeared in mysterious photos sent back, no strange devouring worms ate it..

Are you going to tell me we did all that, and we've not got to see anything COOL?

</VENT>
This message was last edited by the user at 20:18, Thu 09 Aug 2012.
facemaker329
member, 5033 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Sat 11 Aug 2012
at 07:46
  • msg #100

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Second night of a four-night performance run for the show, and we got rained out. It had looked somewhat ominous when I showed up at the theater at 5 pm to help set up sound gear.  It kept getting moreso.  About the time they started selling tickets, the bottom dropped out of the clouds and it dumped on us--HARD.  We need the rain, sure...but it would have been nice if it had waited four hours or so...we'd have been all cleaned up for the night!

It let up about 15 minutes before we were going to start...but the clouds were still heavy and we could see plenty more just like what had dumped on us, stacked up and waiting to pass overhead--so they called the show.  We got most stuff put away before it started raining again...but an hour and a half after we would have started, it was still raining.

Hopefully, it's rained itself out for a little bit, at least in this part of the state...I've got friends scheduled to come see the show the remaining two nights!
st_nougat
member, 47 posts
Sat 11 Aug 2012
at 15:25
  • msg #101

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

<Vent>

Holy Fraggin' poop

Trying to work with an manipulate large assemblies using my companies completely archaic Solidworks 2006 on an even more archaic computer with a measly 3 GHz of processing power and 1 GB of ram.

My bloody telephone in my POCKET has more processing power than that and its not even a 'smartphone'

Do you have ANY frickin clue how much resources solidworks takes to run?!?!!?!?

That and spending an hour and a half updating a subassembly just to have the flippin' thing crash on me.  of course I would save more often but every time I try to save the assembly i have to wait 5-10 minutes.

</vent>
Brygun
member, 1446 posts
RPG since 1982
Author, Developer
Sat 11 Aug 2012
at 20:52
  • msg #102

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

<vent>

A GM who actually says that if the victim of bullying leaves the game they'll consider the problem solved.

That is sooooo dumb.

</vent>
Tileira
member, 190 posts
Sat 11 Aug 2012
at 21:15
  • [deleted]
  • msg #103

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 21:18, Sat 11 Aug 2012.
facemaker329
member, 5036 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Sun 12 Aug 2012
at 05:21
  • msg #104

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Lived through my own personal real-life actor's nightmare tonight.  Thought I had more time than I did to preset something for the end of the show, and forgot to grab a prop I needed before I went to do it.  Next thing I know, I hear my cue to be on stage, and bolt for the entrance...and find myself going on stage without a prop that is pivotal to the resolution of the story.

I managed to kind of salvage it...made mention of the prop in question and reference to the person I was doing the scene with retrieving it at a later time...but I felt like the north end of a south-bound mule.  The show worked, it was, in the scheme of things, a hiccup...but I'm NEVER forgetting that prop again!
pitademon
member, 665 posts
hi all
Wed 15 Aug 2012
at 07:28
  • msg #105

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

What the heck is wrong with people these days???
I am an animal lover.  not a crazy cat lady, but I like animals dogs, cats, hamsters, etc.  not a big bird fan, but I do appreciate them.  this week I read 2 stories that about broke my heart, both involving cats...kittens actually.  Small newborn kittens.  One someone in Texas dumped 2 kittens covered in paint into the trash.  one died, the other lost sight in one eye and has to have meds now for the rest of its life.  the other story in Maine some one tossed 4 kittens just 2-3 days old into a dumpster, luckily someone with heart found them.
I read these and all I can think of is ..did noone teach these the whole fruit basket jerks how wrong that is?  There are shelters they could have just taken them to.  No they deliberately wanted these innocent little creatures to suffer.
I hope Karma will pay them back.  Pray God will deliver a just punishment for thier cruelty.  And if I find them I want to have the physical strength to beat the stupidity out of them.
Visceri22
member, 285 posts
Hobbies include killing
players and laughing
Thu 16 Aug 2012
at 01:26
  • msg #106

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

GM is super crappy and when I say I would like to leave, get banned from game cause of the butthurt. Gotta love it T__T
facemaker329
member, 5040 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Thu 16 Aug 2012
at 05:03
  • msg #107

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

I guess I can relax, now...I've had my annual catastrophic incident that always seems to occur on my watch as Manager On Duty for my department...one year, a performer fell off the stage and dislocated her thumb.  Last year, the power went out, on the WHOLE park.

Tonight, a pair of the performers screwed up a lift and one of them landed on her head.  Thankfully, no major injuries...but it's the most serious incident we've had all year.  And it was on my watch...so I got to deal with all the headaches of dealing with the aftermath (there wasn't much I could have done beforehand, aside from giving everyone the annual 'this is the time of year when people get injured because they've stopped thinking about what they're doing on stage' speech.  Guess what I'm doing for the other show's cast tomorrow?)
Shae_Dravenmore
member, 378 posts
Desk Jocky Extraordinaire
Keeper of the Cool
Thu 16 Aug 2012
at 05:03
  • msg #108

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

As Samuel L. Jackson would say,

"GET THOSE MOTHERLOVING ANTS OUT OF MY MOTHERLOVING HOUSE!"

Bunch of ants on the property.  Whatever.

A few ants get inside and try to get the cat food now and again.  KILL THEM WITH BLEACH! >:D

Open the dishwasher to find a small company of them eating the crumbs.

*rage face*

*turn on dishwasher*

"NOT IN MY HOUSE!"

*consult the intertubes for home-made ant poison, because exterminators are ohgodexpensive. $___$*
w byrd
member, 1826 posts
Thu 16 Aug 2012
at 05:26
  • [deleted]
  • msg #109

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 08:59, Thu 16 Aug 2012.
Wyrm
member, 178 posts
Age 31
Sun 19 Aug 2012
at 20:14
  • msg #110

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

I come into work as manager on duty, all three bathrooms working fine. An hour before I'm off, some one broke the men's bathroom lock (blissfully not telling anyone) preventing anyone from going in and out. And then thirty minutes later, some one breaks the women's bathroom toilet.

This is the reason why no one let's you pleebs use the bathroom!

edit: and turns out hte maintenance man had quit on Friday with no notice. Hooray.
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tieflingpaladin
member, 30 posts
Sun 19 Aug 2012
at 23:11
  • msg #111

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

I'm sorry (name which I shall not mention), but there are several other classes in Pathfinder that can use the stealth skill just as effectively as the rogue. Better, sometimes. This isn't AD&D 1 anymore!!! An it's a tabletop game, we don't have infinite time! The magus, ranger, cleric, and the I-forget-what-that-character-is can easily break into their own guildhall in the middle of the night, search it for papers linking them to the assassin organization, an burn the place to the ground! There is nothing making rogues any better at breaking in than anyone else!!!
shady joker
member, 1433 posts
Sun 19 Aug 2012
at 23:55
  • msg #112

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Due to massi8ve blundering RPGnow screwed me out of $26 dollars. AARRRRRRRRRR
Santo-Ghidorah
member, 97 posts
Mon 20 Aug 2012
at 15:39
  • msg #113

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Please stop using words if you don't know what they mean.

Thanks.
DarkwindStriker
member, 487 posts
Better known in many
places as Gatewalker.
Mon 20 Aug 2012
at 21:53
  • msg #114

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

I have facebook send me emails when my dad posts to his wall because that's where he usually puts his health updates. He's got some bad conditions that I'd like to keep myself updated on. Also family news gets posted there.

Of course, his health updates are rare(which is good, no news really IS good news in this case) and family news equally so. So most of what I get from him....is ENDLESS ignorant and aggressive political crap. All in rabid support of a viewpoint that is nearly the polar opposite of my own, of course.

Can't remove the updates, because, well, I need to get the health and family news updates when they happen.

But oh man does this irritate the carp out of me.
nuric
member, 1657 posts
Love D&D,superhero games
Not very computer savvy
Tue 21 Aug 2012
at 00:12
  • msg #115

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

This is minor compared to other rants, but one of the things that drives me crazy is when I try to share something I like, perhaps a tv show or a favorite song, and the version I choose to share with someone turns out to be a very subpar version or episode.

I guess I know why this happens.   I watch entire seasons of a show, and know that there are good points and bad points, so any random episode isn't going to be the "best of" that I want it to be.
But it's very frustrating when I say "Here's this thing that I love so much", and have someone I care about look at it and shrug, unimpressed.   I feel like the show or song I love has betrayed me somehow, like showing off a new car and having it break down five minutes later.    Very annoying.
facemaker329
member, 5058 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Wed 29 Aug 2012
at 07:15
  • msg #116

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Ugh...how much would it cost to just have my sinuses removed, completely?  (I know, aside from it being impossible, in terms of practicality, it would also have severe repercussions for the rest of my body functions...)  I'm shaking off one of those stupid summertime colds...and it's decided that my sinus cavity is where it's going to make its final stand (I hope it's the final stand, I'm sick of it moving up and down from my head to my chest).

Had so much sinus drainage going on, all day long, that I spent most of the evening on the verge of an upset stomach (I won't explain the connection to you...if you get it, you know it's gross...and if you don't, be thankful...)  I just wanna go back to being able to breathe normally, without reliance on decongestants and expectorants to prevent me from suffocating on my own phlegm...
doomedfate
member, 541 posts
I'm a Furry, and
dang it, I'm proud!
Wed 29 Aug 2012
at 09:14
  • msg #117

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Football. I play on the freshman team, and yesterday we played our school rivals. Now, guess what the chain gang did? The play was short by, like, 5 inches, I know, because I was standing right next to the line, and they scooted the marker down the 5 inches to get a 1st down! That's the second time this has happened in two years, as last year, it was off by a whole yard or two and they just scooted down so the home team got a first down! Although, the next set of downs they got stopped. Still, chain gang corruption!
This message was last edited by a moderator, as it was moot, at 09:22, Wed 29 Aug 2012.
habsin4
member, 554 posts
Putting old paper in new
boxes since 2005
Wed 29 Aug 2012
at 19:46
  • msg #118

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

I work on a college campus.  The college kids are back.
Paixao
member, 23 posts
It's always the quiet one
Wed 29 Aug 2012
at 20:57
  • msg #119

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Do tell when did dragging your teen out of the house by her hair, slamming her head into a car door repeatedly and choking her into submission before trying to force her into said car become 'within your parental rights'?

That is what the cop said when he let the father take the terrified bleeding girl back home. (hit in the mouth when she fought back and managed to escape to make it to her neighbor's house...mine)
bobbofeet
member, 20 posts
Fri 31 Aug 2012
at 16:54
  • msg #120

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Stupid school districts that have the para-educators best interests at heart above the students.

Edit:  And also SPED programs that don't do what they promised.

I have never contacted an attorney before, but have called two already this morning.  G'ah!
This message was last edited by the user at 18:14, Fri 31 Aug 2012.
Cheeze
member, 23 posts
Early birds get worms...
Late mice get cheese...
Sat 1 Sep 2012
at 00:29
  • msg #121

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

People that question and argue about stupid things online that won't get changed just to try to make themselves feel smart or righteous or like they're fighting "the man". Seriously, people, just shut up! (Not directed at the people in this thread)
Neko_gal
member, 155 posts
Sat 1 Sep 2012
at 08:09
  • msg #122

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread


<vent>Being stuck in an emotional tug-of-war between doing what is right and safe by my son and family vs my elderly grandmother who is visiting from out of province and has a bone broken in her hand and a cast on.  I just want to do right by everyone but the physical and emotional damage to everyone is starting to take its toll.</vent>
nuric
member, 1686 posts
Sat 1 Sep 2012
at 12:24
  • [deleted]
  • msg #123

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 12:33, Sat 01 Sept 2012.
agent17
member, 96 posts
Sun 2 Sep 2012
at 06:43
  • [deleted]
  • msg #124

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 06:52, Sun 02 Sept 2012.
PushBarToOpen
member, 611 posts
Mon 3 Sep 2012
at 10:12
  • msg #125

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

this is more depressing than anything else but i just spent 5 minuites looking for the anti-vents thread without sucsess

are people really that depressed that they can find nothining good to shout about even the little things?
wyrmpuff
member, 40 posts
Tue 4 Sep 2012
at 01:28
  • msg #126

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Sigh. Things moving slowly for me on rpol at the moment.
Shei-kun
member, 744 posts
A Giant Shei draws near!
Fight-Magic-Item-Flee
Tue 4 Sep 2012
at 03:35
  • msg #127

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Someone stole my phone at Kumoricon.  That phone had all of my con photos from Kumoricon and Sakuracon, as well as several other photos, that I had not yet transferred to my computer.

What kind of rotten blueberry steals a phone from someone who offers to share their charger, gives them food, and states that everyone at the con is like family seconds before they steal it once the person turns their back for a brief moment?!
facemaker329
member, 5069 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Tue 4 Sep 2012
at 06:23
  • msg #128

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Ugh...Spend a week not eating at the employee cafeteria at work, and my body apparently loses the ability to process the food they serve in there without tying itself in knots.  I'd worry that it was something else, except that this has a distressing tendency to happen.  Convenient, at the time I need to eat...

But oh-so-inconvenient when I start looking at what I'm getting for the money (terribly unhealthy stuff), and when I get my paycheck and realize just how much I actually spend when I don't have to take cash out of my pocket to pay for meals (they just deduct it from your paycheck...)

And massively inconvenient when I've let my body get used to digesting something vaguely resembling GOOD food and then go back to the greasy masses of indigestion they laughably refer to as 'food'.  Somebody pass me an antacid, please...
temperance
member, 22 posts
Thu 6 Sep 2012
at 11:16
  • msg #129

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Accidentally aspirated tea last night.

Most people accidentally inhale a liquid, and they cough and splutter a bit and are fine in 10 minutes.

Not so with me. I'm asthmatic, so of course it triggered a flare (breaking my wonderful 6 month no flare streak - best streak I've had in 6 years and didn't want to ruin it) and thus my training and activities are messed up for the next however-long-it-takes-me-to-recover.

Rawrg. Can I have normal lungs, please?
ThorgarTheBlooded
member, 14 posts
Death for the death lord.
Blood for the blood god.
Fri 7 Sep 2012
at 06:56
  • msg #130

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

My first game was a day or so from starting, waiting on two character sheets. What happens!? The two players I am waiting on drop out. Now I have to wait to bump the advert to fill the void. Next time I am filling the team up with a few extra players. Oh well, better than them dropping mid-campaign during serious events.
Hoshana
member, 826 posts
War's a blueberry.
Wear a helmet.
Sun 9 Sep 2012
at 00:54
  • msg #131

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

My three tween to teen daughters have seven of their friends staying over tonight. I'm drowning!
Neko_gal
member, 156 posts
Sun 9 Sep 2012
at 05:22
  • msg #132

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread


<vent>Having my 79 year old grandma staying with my husband and I our small apartment with her dog for 3 weeks, while my 2 year old son continues to show no fear of the dog when he should.  Being the one person that everyone goes to for …everything (jars do not open themselves even if I'm changing a diaper), to include venting their frustrations and anger.  My sanity is slowly slipping away along with my tolerance to keep my own feelings in check.</vent>
facemaker329
member, 5079 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Mon 10 Sep 2012
at 07:15
  • msg #133

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Guys, really...are you EVER going to do anything with the script?  I mean, actually, honest-to-goodness, "Let's cast this thing and start shooting the movie" stuff?  Because it's been five years since you asked me to design costumes, and almost that long since you invited me to help with the re-writes...and it's been almost two years since I heard anything about it, other than, "We're still revising the story..."

I think we had the story in a pretty good place, actually, if the rest of the writing team could decide whether they were writing a comedy or an action/drama (because your secondary character, amusing as he was, was NOT helping the plot with his highly-contrived-vocabulary-as-character-distinction-tactics.)

And if you're NOT going to shoot this thing, then I'd like my reward for helping fix some of your biggest plot flaws (like trying to do this in the same flavor as the 'Scary Movie' and 'Not Another Teen Movie' franchises) to be permission to do a novelization.  Yeah, I realize that you might come back to it and you don't want a novel out there to dictate what you're going to do with your story...but I don't think you realize that you're gutting your story.
ThorgarTheBlooded
member, 19 posts
Death for the death lord.
Blood for the blood god.
Mon 10 Sep 2012
at 16:52
  • msg #134

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Random person : "Hey, can I join your game?"

Empty rtj, just an interest in the game.

Random person : "Oh, you roll dice? I prefer point buy, you should do point buy."

Now I'm annoyed, but I see there is a reply.

Random person : "Random bonus tables? Can't I just pick what I want? Dice are lame."

RAGEFACE. Optimizers bother me, just play the game. I know flaws are scary, but that's half the fun of roleplaying. If you want the perfect character, mod/dev console a PC game and make your guy perfect. Perfection is boring.

/rant.
praguepride
member, 693 posts
Asker of Questions
Finder of Answers
Mon 10 Sep 2012
at 18:43
  • msg #135

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

My dryer is no long drying clothes. What's worse, we like to run the dryer overnight so the damp clothes just sit in there and get all moldy smelling.

This has happened often enough and the dryer is becoming unreliable enough that now the whole dryer just smells musty, whether there are musty clothes in it or not.


To add a dose of dark humor to it, I suspect the problem may lie in the dryer vent :D
Neko_gal
member, 157 posts
Mon 10 Sep 2012
at 21:39
  • [deleted]
  • msg #136

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 03:25, Tue 11 Sept 2012.
praguepride
member, 710 posts
Asker of Questions
Finder of Answers
Fri 14 Sep 2012
at 21:56
  • msg #137

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

I HATE it when I'm trying to change lanes while driving and I respectfully put on my blinker. This apparently sends an insane message to the person driving behind me in the lane next to me to immediately push the gas pedal to the floor and race me just so I won't pull in front of him.

I want to drive them off the road and punch them repeatedly in the face for not being respectful and more over choosing a pointless and dangerous option as opposed to slow down for 1 second and let me over.

Those people who drive like that should be shot in both kneecaps for making the roads more stressful and more dangerous. BE RESPECTFUL AND LET PEOPLE CHANGE LANES IN @!%*!@$^& PEACE!!!!
Kai927
member, 86 posts
Sun 23 Sep 2012
at 02:14
  • msg #138

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

I normally don't celebrate my birthday, though I am not opposed to it. So it came as a pleasant surprise when some of my new-found friend wanted to do something to celebrate it. Thus plans were made to do things on my birthday.

The day of the event(today) rolls around and no one can be contacted, and nothing is heard from them. Feeling more than a little frustrated over it all.
jazzman831
member, 707 posts
Tue 25 Sep 2012
at 21:07
  • msg #139

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

I was *going* to post on the warm and fuzzy thread about how Sunday's second date might finally be the one to break the Second Date Curse, and how I was looking forward to a third this weekend.

But since I'm posting on the vent thread instead...
doomedfate
member, 576 posts
I'm a Furry, and
dang it, I'm proud!
Thu 27 Sep 2012
at 02:24
  • msg #140

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Square Enix is being very mean to it's fans. First it releases FFXIII multi-platform, so we're all thinking, "hey, they're finally going multiplatform." Which made me SO happy, seeing as I'm a huge Kingdom Hearts fan who went to the 360 'cause I liked the Halo games, and at the time the PS3 was a bit much, but now they're pulling the one-platform again, with KH 1.5 and even pulling FF versus from the first info release of PS3 and 360, which I was elated, as it used my favorite KH command menu, but then... they did it... as I said, both, PS3 only. I understand earlier in consoles, but REALLY?! I think that KH should come to the 360, and kinda as trade, mabey PS3 gets a few 360 games that were exclusives. Let them try out Halo, and we get to try out Uncharted, cross more games, and overall make gameing more fun, all this exclusives, telling me I have to have a PS3 to play the new console releases of my favorite sieries? That's just mean! What I really fear, if if KH3 is PS3 only... *shudders* I am NOT wanting to have to save up to get a whole new system just to finish out a sieries I've faithfully followed for many, many years.
facemaker329
member, 5091 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Thu 27 Sep 2012
at 21:52
  • msg #141

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Can I have my other dental hygienist back, please?  She worked on me several times and never had a stream of my own drool running down my cheek.  She noticed when I flinched as she was working and took more care with those areas of my mouth that were more tender.  And she was faster.

I definitely consider this one a downgrade.  She's competent...but the other one was GOOD.
ShadeTheFallen
member, 162 posts
Live in the Light of Hope
Not in the Shadow of Fear
Fri 28 Sep 2012
at 00:01
  • msg #142

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

[vent]
First off, I've been stuck away from here for an extended period of time (going on three years now). Very frustrating. And I find that all games I had are gone. I suppose I can't really be shocked, but I had so much material in just those few games -.-

Second, I'm tired of nineteen hour work days Monday through Friday! I can't enjoy a weekend anymore because I have to spend the entirety of it sleeping to recover from the week! *sigh*
[/vent]
habsin4
member, 572 posts
Putting old paper in new
boxes since 2005
Fri 28 Sep 2012
at 14:58
  • msg #143

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Washington DC weather.  Ugh.
Loneeagle42
member, 97 posts
Fri 28 Sep 2012
at 17:04
  • msg #144

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

[vent]
I hate it when I forget that I have the storm call shout equipped and get attacked  by vampires in a town.
[/vent]
Silverlock
member, 39 posts
Fri 28 Sep 2012
at 17:33
  • msg #145

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

</vent>

To learn that my better half hates the job situation as much as I do, as both of our jobs are ruining our mental and physical health.  And to fear that we can't ever afford to retire - that we will have to work ourselves to death just to have a very basic existence - where even the purchase of a fast-food meal is weighed carefully for its affordability in our budget.   Yet all these government agencies are handing out free rent, free medical care, free food, free cell phones, free education, free assistance for SO many things...but we do not qualify.

<vent>
wyrmpuff
member, 73 posts
Sat 29 Sep 2012
at 06:57
  • msg #146

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

That's it. Not participating in rpol community forums anymore.
slartybadfast
member, 66 posts
Have towel, will travel!
Mon 1 Oct 2012
at 01:02
  • msg #147

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

<annoyed>Please stop asking me if I'm somebody I'm not. I've never heard of the guy. Really I haven't. If he has the same interests as me that's just coincidence. When you started this it was kinda funny. Now I'm starting to get paranoid that I have some mad stalking doppleganger following me!</annoyed>
Queenmandikat46
member, 290 posts
another one who met her
love through RPOL
Tue 2 Oct 2012
at 01:15
  • msg #148

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

<vent>

Trying to get back in to rping put in a character I had created for a game type for a game that never made it off the ground thinking I found her a home only to wind up in what feels like a job interview with to co gms who Im hearing info about from others about they try to kill you if you dont get along with their characters.  Also having to prove myself to a person that is a cogm with no experience in the setting and getting told by him that I have to get along to a certain level and not cause problems or my character will be killed. with no reason explanation ect.  and then being asked how i view this that and 17 other pointless things when told they wanted to pick my brain I really get the sinking filling of getting grilled down trussed up an paraded for there amusement!!!!

</vent>

On the other hand HI!!!! and I find myself going why am I comin back to this?
Brygun
member, 1559 posts
RPG since 1982
Author, Developer
Tue 2 Oct 2012
at 05:41
  • msg #149

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

<vent>

When you seriously think someone is trying to get in through our apartment door after a robbery nearby last week...

...don't keep shouting in my ear over and over that its scary! I'm trying to figure out what is going on! If it is an attack I need my attention on the fight not you! The moment my head is turned to look at you could be the moment a knife is stuck into me.

I could use focus if I am about to fight for the lives our family. Thank you very much!
</vent>

All turned out okay. Person coming to help people move in down the hall got the number mixed up. All calmed down and joked about it later.
facemaker329
member, 5101 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Tue 2 Oct 2012
at 16:13
  • msg #150

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

And, just like that, half the games I was playing in have folded up in the space of about two weeks.  I'm debating whether or not to replace them, as the ones that I'm still in aren't currently all that busy, either...but, really, I'm better off with fewer distractions.

Still...the timing sucks.  Having them all close out so close to each other...well, it's kinda depressing.  Time to learn to redirect that time and energy into other, more productive pursuits, I guess.
Queenmandikat46
member, 294 posts
another one who met her
love through RPOL
Tue 2 Oct 2012
at 18:28
  • msg #151

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

<vent>

*screams*

Having to argue with my net provider not just one day but for 5 days to get things fixed, get lies fixed and then get the net that was never suppose to be interrupted gets done so for 2 days, find out they shouldn have done half of what they did to change it then trying to see what they are going to do to make up for there mistake and get hung up on, redirected, promised to call back and then they act like I should just be dealing with them all day long and have no other life.  (thanks AT&T)

</vent>
Evil Empryss
member, 178 posts
Tue 2 Oct 2012
at 18:39
  • [deleted]
  • msg #152

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was a troll, at 18:48, Tue 02 Oct 2012.
Pyrate
member, 124 posts
Tue 2 Oct 2012
at 18:40
  • [deleted]
  • msg #153

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 18:49, Tue 02 Oct 2012.
doomedfate
member, 583 posts
I'm a Furry, and
dang it, I'm proud!
Wed 3 Oct 2012
at 00:51
  • msg #154

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Our Coaches are being idiots. In the B-team game, they're suppost to get as many people in, but I only got 4 plays, while a guy who just joined, we're halfway done, and got pads YESTERDAY, who isn't that great, and is only first year, got to play the whole game! Also, in practice, when I face off against the Starting Tight End for A-team, I regularly beat him, but no changes occur. The only way he even slowed me was by grabbing my arm after I got past him, and punching me in the back, right where the pads aren't. In fact, there are a bunch of B-team players who are much better than A-team, but no changes. In practice, the B-team was even beating the A-team, yet how many changes? That's right, none!
Wyrm
member, 229 posts
Age 31
Wed 3 Oct 2012
at 18:37
  • msg #155

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

"You looked a bit stunned when I told you what I pulled you over for"
Well, yeah! You pulled me over for not stopping at a stop sign before I turned right, when I did. Even your little cam shows my rear bumpear going up, indicating my stop. Then you proceed to argue for it even after I explained that you probably thought you saw me roll through it an I was not going to argue with you there (The place to argue is court).
This message was last edited by the user at 23:33, Wed 03 Oct 2012.
patamon3
member, 23 posts
RPG Rocks!!!!!
Bombardment
Wed 3 Oct 2012
at 23:23
  • msg #156

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Finnaly got my homework in and can post in rpol!!!
ThorgarTheBlooded
member, 30 posts
Death for the death lord.
Blood for the blood god.
Wed 3 Oct 2012
at 23:46
  • msg #157

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Gave Resident Evil 6 a spin today, unfortunately.

First 15 minutes are QTEs, Interactive Cutscenes and a bit of combat (kicking is more effective than shooting the zombies. 3 kicks > 6-8 bullets). Leon crashed a helicopter into a train, kept flying it and then crashed it through two buildings. He emerged unscathed.

Why? Resident Evil is not an action mov- Oh wait. That's why. Thanks, Capcom, for making this game more like the movies and not the other way around. Good thing I took my fiance's advice and Redbox'd this game instead of pre-ordering it.
Shae_Dravenmore
member, 390 posts
Desk Jocky Extraordinaire
Theoretical Writer
Sun 7 Oct 2012
at 07:47
  • msg #158

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Not so much a vent, but a "Karma, thou art a completely fair biscuit."

Several months ago, get trainwreck drunk.  Friends take care of me.  All is well by the next morning.

Tonight, have a dinner party at my place.  Some people have way too much to drink.  Get to be the one of the (mostly) sober people taking care of the weepy drunks.

Don't complain a bit because I WAS JUST THERE.  *sigh...*
TheBaron
member, 10 posts
Tue 9 Oct 2012
at 00:18
  • [deleted]
  • msg #159

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 03:35, Tue 09 Oct 2012.
ThorgarTheBlooded
member, 33 posts
Death for the death lord.
Blood for the blood god.
Tue 9 Oct 2012
at 00:45
  • msg #160

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Unrelated: I just denied a player access to a game due to their utter lack of understanding of all things grammar. I then get told off by said player. Not a single punctuation in their rant about how I'm in the wrong. >______________<
This message was last edited by a moderator, as it was moot, at 03:38, Tue 09 Oct 2012.
adrasteia1
member, 853 posts
Time you enjoy
wasting isn't wasted
Tue 9 Oct 2012
at 06:32
  • msg #161

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

*Covers her eyes*

I hate early mornings.
ShadeTheFallen
member, 171 posts
Live in the Light of Hope
Not in the Shadow of Fear
Tue 9 Oct 2012
at 06:34
  • msg #162

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Insomnia.
adrasteia1
member, 854 posts
Tue 9 Oct 2012
at 06:41
  • [deleted]
  • msg #163

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 12:21, Tue 09 Oct 2012.
facemaker329
member, 5115 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Wed 10 Oct 2012
at 06:18
  • msg #164

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Look...I appreciate the fact that you think this is a good story that you want to tell.  But if you're going to ask my opinion of your script...and then argue with me over the majority of the points where I said, 'Okay...this is a problem and the people you're trying to sell this script to will have issues with it,' then I can't help but wonder why you wanted my feedback in the first place.

I'm not invested in this story AT ALL.  If they say yes, great.  I'm happy for you.  If they say no, I'm not out anything.  The extent of my personal involvement in this was saying, "Okay...don't bother pitching your idea to this person, he has no say in the matter.  This guy would be a better choice...but if you can get HER to sign off on it, you're set, because the company president isn't going to argue that much with his daughter."  Well, that, and having read through your script.

The problem is, it's like every other show I've seen you do.  It's got the potential to be something really awesome...if you would take some time and polish it a bit.  I realize you want to make a big impression on people and convince them that you can do these awesome shows...you're better off doing a REALLY GOOD small show several times, and working your way up, than you are doing a really slipshod large-scale production where only about half of your stuff works reliably.

But, what do I know?  I've only been working in entertainment for half your lifetime.  What possible insight could I have into how it works?
Jw2809
member, 38 posts
Wed 10 Oct 2012
at 21:41
  • msg #165

Player

Vent:

He rolled off a FISHIN TASER TO THE BACK IN MY GAME! A FISHIN TASER!

HE GOT PRONGED IN THE BACK! I had volts run thtough him:

I feel the searing pain, but stand up, then examine the drinks the bar is selling.

WHAT THE FISH?

End vent
Paixao
member, 27 posts
It's always the quiet one
Wed 10 Oct 2012
at 22:22
  • msg #166

Re: Player

I work back to back 10 hour shifts, do my best to convince my boss we need MORE people or our state ratios are beyond off.

What happens? I get sent home with 28 hours already to save the OT till later in the week and the rest of the teachers are left with nearly double their load.

What was the point?
Silverlock
member, 40 posts
Thu 11 Oct 2012
at 07:51
  • msg #167

Re: Job from the Great Dark Pit of Despair

I really hate my job.  No, it goes beyond hate into deep loathing.  Apparently we must suffer any inconvenience such as inhaling chemicals because to complain results in being told all our jobs will be taken away.  We must work a horrendous schedule and our pay is cut (apparently all legally, too, thanks a lot government for looking out for the taxpayer/human being).   There's a fatal accident on the toll road I am forced to take (to save an hour's travel time) EVERY DAY.  I know I'll be killed or disabled by this job, but the need to eat and live under a roof compels me to stay.

And the future just looks like an ice floe with my name on it if I should survive to retire.
matthewfenn
member, 266 posts
www.nj-pbem.com
Northern Journey PBeM DM
Thu 11 Oct 2012
at 11:00
  • msg #168

Re: Job from the Great Dark Pit of Despair

God, I just hate bad speeling!

its almost as bad as poor punctuation and inaccurate use of Capitals

Their almost as bad as there counterparts, wear same sounding words are used incorrectly.
The Stray
member, 66 posts
When the Cat's a Stray
the Mice will Pray
Thu 11 Oct 2012
at 17:48
  • msg #169

Re: Job from the Great Dark Pit of Despair

I have a job that's highly sensitive to weather. All this week, it's been windy as fruit, and it's only supposed to get worse. GAR! I NEED HOURS! *shakes fist at unseasonable wind and rain*
HzSoul
member, 60 posts
Fri 12 Oct 2012
at 22:51
  • msg #170

Re: Job from the Great Dark Pit of Despair

A minor vent, but...

Why must Coke machines hate me? I never have problems with Pepsi machines, unless they're plain empty, but Coke machines hate me. And, unfortunately, that's all the local store has sitting outside. So, I was looking at the prices earlier and realised it was cheaper, and colder really, so another plus, in the machine. 1.69 inside, 1.50 outside, obvious choice. So, I put in my dollar bill, and dig out a couple quarters and put those in. But it doesn't read the quarters. Try to get my money back, that doesn't work either. So, my Coke cost 2.00, and I was feeling quite a bit of frustration...which I couldn't really vent at the time, because there were children present, and I try to avoid that.

Thank you, RPoL, for having this nice thread in which to complain about random life events. It's great stress relief.
Brontes
member, 1 post
Sat 13 Oct 2012
at 14:48
  • msg #171

Re: Job from the Great Dark Pit of Despair

I have that, my job it a pit of despair. Hire some people or just find someone who can make it to work ON TIME. ON A REGULAR BASIS. I like overtime once in awhile. NOT EVERY DAMNED DAY.
rogar308
member, 135 posts
Gaming is good!
Got RPOL in my soul
Sat 13 Oct 2012
at 16:07
  • msg #172

Re: Job from the Great Dark Pit of Despair

I really hate plumbing. That and the person who built the vanity in the bathroom with a door that can't open because they put the baseboard heating directly in front of it.  Who does that!? Nice job genius. On the upside, I did unclog 2 drains which probably saved me about $300.
Alexei Yaruk-Mundhenk
member, 980 posts
Ad Majorem
Dea Gloriam
Sun 14 Oct 2012
at 00:48
  • msg #173

Re: Job from the Great Dark Pit of Despair

On my days off the whole site is a ghost town.
MILLANDSON
member, 1295 posts
Tally-ho! What what!
God Save The Queen!
Tue 23 Oct 2012
at 01:16
  • msg #174

Re: Job from the Great Dark Pit of Despair

Just spent 4 hours writing up a report, ensuring that I covered everything required, the deadline was Monday night (US time), it's 2am in the UK (where I am), and I hit save. I then go to send the e-mail with the report in...

No document file anywhere. Checked the auto-backups, checked the Temp files, nada, it never existed, according to my computer.

Fruit you computer, you git. Now I won't even get a decent night's sleep because I'll have this mulling around in my head, since I'll have to rewrite the entire thing (and I know it won't be nearly as good this time) after work tomorrow evening.
Pyrate
member, 136 posts
Excellent! Now I can
attack in all directions.
Tue 23 Oct 2012
at 04:59
  • msg #175

Re: Job from the Great Dark Pit of Despair

Just woke from a nightmare.
Someone please tell me my boyfriend is not secretly a Bieber-fan and I'm still allowed to eat spicy foods...
Evil Empryss
member, 191 posts
Happier than a Witch
in a Broom Factory
Tue 23 Oct 2012
at 05:09
  • msg #176

Can't this election be over already?

<vent>
Political robocalls from numbers that say "Cellphone" at 8:53 pm.

It's late, my kids are sleeping, I'm tired, and I already voted!  Leave me the fruit alone already!

And have the chestnuts to at least identify yourself correctly on caller ID.  I don't care what you stand for, if you hide your campaign behind fake IDs I don't trust you and I'm not voting for you!
</vent>
Evil Empryss
member, 192 posts
Silently critiquing your
spelling and grammar.
Wed 24 Oct 2012
at 01:19
  • msg #177

Re: Can't this election be over already?

<sad vent and PSA>
The only mechanic who I ever felt wasn't trying to BS me about car repairs just to pad his bottom line died in a freak accident.  Self-employed for over thirty years and in his seventies with the fire to keep going for years yet, he took up biking to improve his health.  He fell off and hit his head on a chunk of concrete in a ditch.

Wear your bike helmets, everyone.
</sad vent and PSA>
rogar308
member, 146 posts
Gaming is good!
Got RPOL in my soul
Wed 24 Oct 2012
at 13:57
  • msg #178

Re: Can't this election be over already?

Wife's car broke down last night and in the dark I couldn't fine the blasted battery. Turns out it's under a plastic flap that has to be removed. AAA came and replaced the battery but I had to sit and talk with the wife for over an hour waiting for them. Oh the horrors! I asked if she wanted to make out but she kept clambering something about security cameras in the parking lot. Gosh, I miss the younger days.
deadmanshand
member, 1285 posts
Wed 24 Oct 2012
at 19:27
  • msg #179

Re: Can't this election be over already?

Yesterday I went to an exercise forum, laid out all of my physical problems, the kind of equipment I have, and my weight  to try and get some help forming a training regimen I can stick to without hurting myself.

You know what I got? 30 plus posts and 5 private messages telling me that I'm too fat and not to waste my fruiting time. One notable professional trainer made the enlightened comment of "I bet you can't even see your own little soldier. If I was there I would just bitch you till your were crying too hard to eat."

I. Hate. Fruiting. People.
cero1
member, 127 posts
Wed 24 Oct 2012
at 22:11
  • msg #180

Re: Can't this election be over already?

I'm in so much pain...

Ever since I hit 21 I've had back pain. It wasn't much at first, but now at the age of 28, it hurts... so bad. Now my knees are shot too. I'm not overweight and I am not skinny. My BMI is average. I went to have an x-ray done as my Doctor has said my Thoracic Spine is tender and it juts out in places. There is nothing wrong with my bones and my knees are bad because of muscle loss and damage. I expect thats what is happening to my back. I walk each day for at least 45 minutes and I have a healthy diet, why is this happening? The pain is accelerating daily now and I can't cope anymore. I feel sick alot now too. I limp when I walk, when I will myself to actually do it and I have had it with everything.

And thats what is physically wrong with me, let alone when personal problems kick in.
ladysharlyne
member, 2027 posts
you have to risk the
dark to see the light
Fri 26 Oct 2012
at 17:59
  • msg #181

The plague of a PGM

does anyone remember, I am old, the old Heehaw show and the woe, despair and agony on me songs.  LOL

I am always learning as a game creator and a wise sage here on rpol told me if in doubt leave them out.  Well a player submits and right off I am put off by the way the age statement for adult was given including the little kittens in their apartment.  They started out a bit of trouble but thinking they were new to the style of playing on rpol I simply pointed out their godmoding, their powergaming, their pushing players for posts or manipulating them in a direction they were not ready to go.  noooo I let this player join all my games. (again the sage advice of one of our dear moderators rang in my ears)  they were great writer!  I tolerated the breaking of rules to a point until the player posted a post about child abuse.  I deleted the post and told the player in a PM that was against RPOL rules and mine.  This player then rmails me to ask me :-) show them where it was for they had read all the rules and didn't find it.  I quoted the exact words and link.  then I banned the player.

Now said player I find did not just join every game of mine to play but they 'trolled' and contacted almost every single player and my coGMs and have said they don't understand why I banned them for just asking a question!!!  When I told them in rmail it was because of ALL the rules they kept breaking they said I was just trying to make them feel bad about them self and it was not going to work.  I lost around 11 players and three coGMS due to it.  All wonderful players and people.

Why are we PGM/GMs always the bad guys when we have to do something like that.  Shhheeeshhh I just needed to vent about the situation because all is well and I move on but it hurt alot to have players believe I would ban someone for just asking a question... ggggrrrr arrrrgggh
Wine Guy
member, 320 posts
Fri 26 Oct 2012
at 20:24
  • [deleted]
  • msg #182

Re: The plague of a PGM

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 20:42, Fri 26 Oct 2012.
Gremlin
member, 85 posts
Fri 26 Oct 2012
at 21:33
  • msg #183

Reforms my hairy backside

Thanks to recent "reforms" (read: government shaftings) in my job, my days off this week are all cancelled except one. Never mind the fact I haven't seen my brother in almost a year and this was the first time our shifts matched up. What's more, I'm currently on a night shift while the hypocrites that cancelled my days off are tucked up nice and warm with their families, safe in the knowledge that their days off are safe. Unless of course they fancy allocating themselves some cushy double pay overtime.

I hate politicians and senior officers!
This message was last edited by the user at 21:34, Fri 26 Oct 2012.
TheWarriorPoet519
member, 1312 posts
Resident porch-squatting
stick-shaker
Sat 27 Oct 2012
at 02:18
  • msg #184

Re: Reforms my hairy backside

Chronic pain makes me want to get in a fist fight with everything.

At least I do my best work when I'm angry.
MILLANDSON
member, 1298 posts
Sat 27 Oct 2012
at 02:55
  • [deleted]
  • msg #185

Re: Reforms my hairy backside

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 05:56, Sat 27 Oct 2012.
Pyrate
member, 139 posts
Excellent! Now I can
attack in all directions.
Sat 27 Oct 2012
at 03:01
  • msg #186

Re: Reforms my hairy backside

I hate being in love! :(

Makes me accept second rate behaviour, makes me clingy, emotional and frustrated.
Luckily it only happened thrice in the last twenty years and it spelled catastrophy every single time. I just want to be happy on my own and yet I am not only given the short end of the stick I'm getting properly caned with the rest of it.
Evil Empryss
member, 206 posts
Silently critiquing your
spelling and grammar.
Wed 31 Oct 2012
at 23:09
  • msg #187

Re: Reforms my hairy backside

<vent>
Bought two bags of 350 pieces of candy because last year we were absolutely swamped with kids.

It's been dark for an hour but because it's "cold" out we've had exactly TWO groups of three and ONE single kid come to the door.

Northern Tier kids are tougher than Southern kids.  They'd go trick or treating in five feet of snow and below freezing weather.  Sure, it looked like a parade of little flashers as they came up to the door all bundled in their coats, whipped them open long enough to yell "Trick or Treat!" and then close them up again, but at least they went out.

What kid turns down free candy?!?
</vent>
ginny
member, 67 posts
Thu 1 Nov 2012
at 01:13
  • msg #188

Re: Reforms my hairy backside

My vent:  My oldest daughter is not old enough to take her little sister out trick or treating without us yet.
This message was last edited by a moderator, as it was in need of a minor tweak, at 05:01, Thu 01 Nov 2012.
ashberg
member, 193 posts
Beware the Groove.
Groooooove.
Thu 1 Nov 2012
at 01:19
  • msg #189

Re: Reforms my hairy backside

Website developers who charge AU$18,000, including testing, who DON'T do multi-browser testing and have NO QUALITY CONTROL who hire project managers who are full of SUGAR and never take ownership of mistakes!

RAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
pitademon
member, 673 posts
Thu 1 Nov 2012
at 01:29
  • [deleted]
  • msg #190

Re: Reforms my hairy backside

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 05:00, Thu 01 Nov 2012.
Evil Empryss
member, 210 posts
Silently critiquing your
spelling and grammar.
Fri 2 Nov 2012
at 20:52
  • msg #191

Re: Reforms my hairy backside

<vent>
Texting while using the bathroom, okay, at least all I hear is clickity clickity in the next stall.

Talking on the cellphone while using the bathroom?  Ick. Can't you wait five minutes and go somewhere else?  I really don't want to hear you tell your friend how bad you have to {poop} with the sound effects in the background.

But Skyping?!?!?  Really?!?!  Is there no place private anymore?  Has decency gone the way of the dodo (and the doodoo)?  Who are you so close to that you think it's okay to video chat with them while on the toilet?!?  I might have thought you were just on speaker phone, but you came out of the stall and set the phone down to wash your hands and I could see the person you were talking to!!
</vent>
facemaker329
member, 5121 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Sat 3 Nov 2012
at 03:25
  • msg #192

Re: Reforms my hairy backside

So my boss asked me to think about some ideas to 'update the look' for one of our Halloween shows, now that Halloween is over and we'll have time to sit down and work our way through stuff at a reasonable pace.  The problem?

Well, said show has become practically the centerpiece of the entertainment during our Halloween season.  What started out a decade ago as a notion for a 'curtain-warmer act' has become iconic enough that the merchandising department on the park has even had t-shirts made...marketing is using the characters from the show in advertising, and the park's Facebook page has them prominently featured.  So, 'updating' their look is kinda like being asked to redesign Frankenstein...no matter what you do or how cool you make it look, people are going to expect it to harken back to Boris Karloff's version of the Monster (I mean, they did an awesome job on Robert DeNiro's makeup...but there are very few people who think of that particular version when you say 'Frankenstein'...)

The show has, in its own way, become a classic.  Leave well enough alone, I say...I realize you want to make things look new and shiny...but sometimes that look just isn't as effective.  Let them look a like wild and weathered.  Not only is it not broke, but it's working incredibly effectively.  Don't fix it.
Queenmandikat46
member, 299 posts
another one who met her
love through RPOL
Sat 3 Nov 2012
at 04:06
  • msg #193

Re: Reforms my hairy backside

<vent>

That idiot criminals repeat the same fruitin routine in the same area again and again and again and not only seem stupid when they do it but manage to catch people with it.  I'm from Arkansas and we had an issue with a guy they called the blue light rapist cause who doesnt stop for a cop right?  they caught that guy and ever since then there have been 72 fruitin copy cats.  A new one just pooped up and of course this makes life hell.  I'm sure most of you in the states have seen the video of the cop who jerked the woman from the car for not pullin over the reason she was from Arkansas we dont stop for single blue lights because of this guy its what we are taught from a young age as females for a reason.  Now there is a new guy doing the same act (in a white crown vic of all things) I just found out about this from a friend and its really upsetting that it keeps happening.  I've seen reports in other states but it just feels like they keep hitting my state.  get a new flipping stick!!!!

</vent>
This message was last edited by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 07:04, Sat 03 Nov 2012.
sciencemile
member, 1788 posts
Sunshine, lollipops and
rainbows, la la la, la
Mon 5 Nov 2012
at 02:45
  • msg #194

Re: Reforms my hairy backside

The movie "based" on World War Z, which was a great book that featured slow zombies + slow onset of infection......will supposedly have fast zombies and 28 days later-esque infection times.

...well, there goes my hopes to see a new, great classic-zombie movie.
Evil Empryss
member, 216 posts
Silently critiquing your
spelling and grammar.
Mon 5 Nov 2012
at 05:32
  • msg #195

Re: Reforms my hairy backside

<vent>
Fruiting dissertation committees who tell you something has to be written one specific way and won't let the paper go for higher-up review until it's written that way.  Then, when it goes the higher reviewers, they kick it back telling you that you were wrong to have done it that way!!!

And how many fruiting times do I have to say that THERE IS NO ACADEMIC CITATION AVAILABLE FOR A PARTICULAR TOPIC?!?!  NONE.  ZIP.  ZERO.  ZILCH.  I am the first one to study this particular phenomenon from this particular angle, and no one has written anything on it before that wasn't a layman writing for profit and therefore not acceptable By The University's Standards to be used as a citation?  I said it five different times in three different chapters.  I did that on the advice of my committee members after insisting that they attempt to find something to prove me wrong.

Stop asking for the blasted citations!!!  Let me do my research and get my bloody degree already!

I'm convinced at this point they're messing with me to make me have to take (and pay for) another semester.  There's no reason a single instance of the typo "belief are" instead of "beliefs are" should delay my oral defense!
</vent>
Ramidel
member, 1267 posts
Err on the side
of awesome.
Wed 7 Nov 2012
at 03:47
  • msg #196

Re: Reforms my hairy backside

<irritating new versions of old games>

Okay, let me make this clear. The Sims was best when it was Sims 2. Sims 3 is nice and all, but I'm sticking with a game that lacks all the misfeatures of the new version.

So I want to buy Sims 2 expansion packs via Steam, Gamestop or similar places, but EA never put it up there.

There is at least one person who'll buy the old versions but not the new. That person is me. Fruit it.
</irritating new versions of old games>
facemaker329
member, 5134 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Wed 7 Nov 2012
at 04:41
  • msg #197

Time marches on...

Just found out my aunt is out of the hospital, back in hospice care, heavily medicated...and not expected to live to see the weekend.  She's lived to a ripe old age...and I don't doubt that it will be a relief to her when she goes.  But it still sucks to see her go.
PushBarToOpen
member, 699 posts
Fri 9 Nov 2012
at 20:03
  • msg #198

Re: Time marches on...

OMG why are people so ignorant. Hust had a verbal warning at work for leaving empty drinks bottles on my deak. I mean seriosly just ask me to clear them up a little more often thats not har. But going above my head to upper managemnt with a photo of 4 empty bottles complaining about rats is a little exsessive!
Mika
member, 172 posts
Sat 10 Nov 2012
at 01:37
  • msg #199

Re: Time marches on...

Is wondering if I am a people person or not. I wish that people would try to understand things! When I try thats nice but when they act like they know everything and treat you badly it makes me sick to my stomach!

I can see why people like animals more than humans at times. Less snarky!!!
DarkwindStriker
member, 497 posts
Better known in many
places as Gatewalker.
Sat 10 Nov 2012
at 15:57
  • msg #200

Re: Time marches on...

Stayed up late to try and talk a near suicidally depressed internet freind into being less so. Have no idea whether or not it actually helped at all, and since he's an internet freind there's nothing else I can really do besides talk to him. Trying to convince him to see a councilor, but apparently in his neck of the world that's like the ultimate sign of weakness and even thinking that he's "so bad he has to get therapy" is making him MORE depressed.

I really, really, really, would like to choke slam whoever in history got the ball rolling on that whole mindset of "men don't need help to solve thier problems".
adrasteia1
member, 908 posts
Time you enjoy
wasting isn't wasted
Mon 12 Nov 2012
at 00:01
  • msg #201

Re: Time marches on...

I've come down with a cold this weekend. I was feeling wretched last night and this morning but better this afternoon. I'm really hoping I can get rid of it some more by tomorrow.
facemaker329
member, 5149 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Tue 13 Nov 2012
at 03:14
  • msg #202

Re: Time marches on...

I wish I knew what it was that was causing the ache on the right side of my face.  It's almost like a toothache, in that it seems to be centered on my teeth...but I can't localize it to one tooth.  I thought I had it figured out last night (I've got a wisdom tooth with a cavity in it, which is just waiting until I get my end-of-year bonus check to come out)...but when I tried treating the suspected area with an oral anesthetic, it did no good.  At various times throughout the day, I've felt like it was centered on that tooth, the tooth in front of it, the tooth in front of THAT, and the back molar in my lower jaw (which had a root canal back in March, so I KNOW I'm not getting a toothache there...)

It also kinda feels, sometimes, like I've been clenching my jaw so hard that I'm suffering TMJ...except that the pain never remains consistent there, it always drops back down to somewhere along my upper jaw.

And on top of all that, something in my sinuses is apparently dessicated, because every time I take a deep breath, I feel like someone's sticking a needle in the back of my sinus cavity.  I can take ibuprofen for the pain in my jaw, and it seems to work fairly well...not so much for the sinus thing.  This sucks...
Pyrate
member, 151 posts
Supercalifragialistic
expialidocious.
Tue 13 Nov 2012
at 22:22
  • msg #203

Re: Time marches on...

I have had enough of today!
No hot water. no internet half of the day. Fought for 90 minutes with my mother on the phone. My ex found my number (meaning I'll have to change it AGAIN!). Have a writers block on my assignment. Had some drunkard try to be Don Cool and pick me up in the supermarket (only two good things I could say is that he has great taste in women and an admirable self-confidence). Just found out that the abortion my best friend had was due to my exboyfriend and another of my friends is hiding something from me.

I don't know if there is a god, but someone is definitely out to get me!
And he has a lousy sense of humour...
Utsukushi
member, 1128 posts
I should really stay out
of this, I know...but...
Thu 15 Nov 2012
at 18:13
  • msg #204

Re: Time marches on...

Blah.  Am behind in everything and still need lunch, but I spend twenty minutes on a post about GURPS.  I barely even follow GURPS!

I think I need to drop Community Chat again for a little while.

Happily, I do not have to re-title this message, because the current one is just right.  So that saves some time, right?  Except that I'm now spending longer talking about it than I would have if I had done it...hm.  Maybe I should just
Pyrate
member, 155 posts
Supercalifragialistic
expialidocious.
Mon 19 Nov 2012
at 09:48
  • msg #205

Re: Time marches on...

I am seriously tired of my family right now.
They are fruiting papayaing me off.
It's absolutely impossible to talk with them without being emotionally blackmailed into some zero-sum game with no better potential than a standstill.
Now I have to cancel all social occations, my schedule and potentially a trip abroad in order for that elderberry emotional vampire of an applehat mother to pineapple feel important and reprioritise my Tangerine needs.
I am now put in a chilli chilli chilli position where my blackberry options are pomegranate getting extorted into doing my starfruit mothers durian will or start a lime fight and have other parts of my dragonfruit family start calling me up to watermelon reconcile and mango forgive her.

In other words: Spend time and energyfighting a battle uphill for a temporary truce or allow total and utter dominance over my spare time and priories.
Blueberry peachy.
adrasteia1
member, 918 posts
Time you enjoy
wasting isn't wasted
Mon 19 Nov 2012
at 19:18
  • msg #206

Re: Time marches on...

It's the 3rd anniversary of my dad's death in a couple of days. For mostly that reason I haven't really been in good form. I've got a cold too, which isn't really helping.

Hopefully in a few days I'll feel better, less stressed, etc.
KaiWriter
member, 15 posts
Tue 20 Nov 2012
at 21:16
  • msg #207

Re: Time marches on...

I really, really hate when she does this.

I'm in a decent mood, all ready to come home for Thanksgiving later tonight.  I call home to make sure that my ride is on its way.  My mom keeps hemming and hawwing about something- it turns out that she'd been allowing one of my pet cats out in the garage, among the old boxes, bins, and old bottles of chemicals that we have for some *fruiting* reason.  I kept telling her not to do it, but apparently she kept on doing it.

Two weeks ago, something happened out there to my little Spider- he got bit by something, he got poisoned, or something- I don't know what- but he apparently went downhill so rapidly that he died a week ago today.  He was acting erratically near the end, so I suspect he ended up knocking over a bottle of chemical and poisoned himself.

To say that I am unhappy with my mother right now is an understatement.  I was looking forward to seeing all three of my kitties, and now I will only see two.  I told her for months not to let my cats out into the garage, and this happens.  There will be a fight tonight, and it will not be pretty.
patamon3
member, 39 posts
RPG Rocks!!!!!
Bombardment
Thu 22 Nov 2012
at 04:16
  • msg #208

Re: Time marches on...

I have to hate it when all of a sudden people start using fruting new things that you haven't even heard about it is Grapefruit annoying
This message was last edited by the user at 04:17, Thu 22 Nov 2012.
Pyrate
member, 157 posts
Supercalifragialistic
expialidocious.
Thu 22 Nov 2012
at 13:50
  • msg #209

Re: Time marches on...

Grah!
I have a deadline for assignment tomorrow, my laptop just decided to throw all last weeks work out the window because it couldn't agree with dropbox for where to store it and has just spent my last five hours booting and rebooting, cancelling updates and wasting my time.
NOTHING I hate more than being forced to wait when I'm in a hurry.
So much for sleep tonight.
Evil Empryss
member, 330 posts
Silently critiquing your
spelling and grammar.
Fri 23 Nov 2012
at 02:17
  • msg #210

Grrr... Black Friday Vouchers

Greedy fruiting bastiches who get in line early so they can grab a voucher for every single door buster... and then walk through the line offering to sell the vouchers to other people or brag about how they don't want the item and are just going to sell it on Craigslist!!!  Some of us can't afford to pay full price for this stuff, and you're being a major jack hole.

Used to be if you wanted multiple items you had to either bring people to help you or prioritize what you want. Either way, it gave other people a fair chance to get something for themselves.

I actually had someone try to sell me a voucher for an $88 tv for $50! That would make the tv full price. Jerk.
persondude
member, 256 posts
I collect hobbies.
Fri 23 Nov 2012
at 03:26
  • msg #211

Re: Grrr... Black Friday Vouchers

I'm a merchandiser in Walmarts.  I'm working tomorrow.  Wtf.
deadmanshand
member, 1356 posts
Fri 23 Nov 2012
at 08:31
  • msg #212

Re: Grrr... Black Friday Vouchers

As a retail worker I would like to say this to all Black Friday shoppers.

Please burn.
Zephydel
member, 648 posts
Creative Ideas
Real-Life Solutions
Fri 23 Nov 2012
at 08:41
  • msg #213

You Lose... Thanks Immorality...

Idiot: Hello Zephydel...

Zephydel: Hello there...

Idiot: I need a moment of your time...

Zephydel: Let me finish my game first. If I win this battle I can increase my rank and get this rare item.

Idiot: (Shakes Zephydel) I need to talk to you now!

Zephydel: Hey! Cut it out! Oh crap!

Game: You Lose! Rank Down!

Zephydel: Great! There goes my one-week winning streak... There goes my rare item...

Idiot: Now will you listen?

Zephydel: Fine... What is it? (Drinks coffee)

Idiot: I am going to start dating her... I do not care if she is underage... I do not care if she is my first cousin...

Zephydel: (Almost chokes on his coffee) What the hell?! You ruined my winning streak just to tell me that?

Idiot: This is more important than your winning streak...

Zephydel: Yes... It is serious... I should start calling the cops...
This message was last edited by the user at 08:49, Fri 23 Nov 2012.
patamon3
member, 40 posts
RPG Rocks!!!!!
Bombardment
Fri 23 Nov 2012
at 18:51
  • msg #214

Re: You Lose... Thanks Immorality...

They don't have Black Ops 2 for the Wii
The Agony
Masamunekaigen
member, 1137 posts
Welcome to the jungle.
We've got fun and games!
Sat 24 Nov 2012
at 08:52
  • msg #215

Shattered Dreams

*sigh* There comes a time in every man's life when he sets out on fulfilling a dream and then finds out that someone with more money, experience, and help already beat him to it.

*sigh* I just discovered Monte Cook is writing (and almost finished with) a system that seems on the surface incredibly similar to the core design of a system I was writing on my own. I mean, I still have unique elements and his setting is sci-fi fantasy while mine is just sci-fi (which is both a good and bad thing for me). *sigh* However, it's close enough though for people to look at mine and go "Oh this is just a cyberpunk, less smooth version of Monte's thing with a few more options and a larger scale and less of a sense of wonder built into the setting."

*sigh*

Monte, y u be better at your job than me?
facemaker329
member, 5182 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Sat 24 Nov 2012
at 18:24
  • msg #216

Re: Shattered Dreams

So...apparently, somebody, last night, decided to have a little target practice...I'm spending the weekend at a friend's place.  We were watching something on Netflix (well, THEY were watching...I was editing some music on my laptop for another project we're working on) when there was a loud THUD outside.  At first we thought someone had driven past the house and thrown something, but there was nothing near the house that was out of order...

So, they started looking a little further.  My car, parked just off the street in front of their place, had a trash can wedged in under its bumper, and one of the passenger-side windows was shattered.  We thought, initially, that it was the neighbor's trash can...called the cops, they came out and took some pictures and so on...but the neighbor called just a little while ago, to ask about the mysterious trash can that had materialized in front of their place (after the cops were done, we put the can back where we thought it came from).

So, now it's looking like somebody GRABBED a trash can down the road, drove down the street at high speed, and threw it at my car...what a lovely holiday surprise, huh?
soulsight
member, 230 posts
An older man, much like a
fine wine, will improve.
Wed 28 Nov 2012
at 05:09
  • msg #217

Re: Shattered Dreams

I hate the cold, and it doesn't like me back.
Dottie_V
member, 9 posts
Thu 29 Nov 2012
at 18:50
  • msg #218

Re:

Dx Why don't you just drop the miserable test if we don't have time for it instead of cramming THREE exams the week before Finals week? I mean really, is it that hard? We can deal with two! T-T AND THIS IS ALL BECAUSE YOU RAMBLE DURING LECTURES!! ARGH!

/rant.
jsalt87
member, 216 posts
Thu 29 Nov 2012
at 19:59
  • msg #219

Re:

So I had to change a lightbulb today. Easy task, yes? Not in this house.

Whoever lived here before us bought and used some really cheap incandescent bulbs. So cheap, that when the time came to change these bulbs the metal thread at the base of the bulb came detached from the bulb. While still in the socket.

Well, I had managed to slowly work one out before, and so when this one did the same thing today I thought it wouldn't be a big deal.

Except for one thing. No matter how hard I tried, the stupid thing wouldn't turn. At all. And in my attempts to get this stupid, broken half of a lightbulb out of the socket so I could put a new one in, the entire socket cracked in half. Good news is the thread fell out. Bad news is it will never be able to be used again, as no lightbulb will fit in the ruined socket. Not that putting one in there would do anything but start an electrical fire.

And this the day after the vacuum cleaner broke down so that it would only run for rought 15 seconds at a time, while putting out next to no suction. Among all the other things in and about this house that are broken, breaking, or otherwise useless. And the vermin problem. I HATE this house. And I doubt any sane person would consider buying it from us so we can move to a house that functions as a house.
Masamunekaigen
member, 1139 posts
Welcome to the jungle.
We've got fun and games!
Fri 30 Nov 2012
at 06:03
  • msg #220

Re:

It's a bit of a minor thing, but what in the name of heaven possessed youtube to change their interface to emulate the appearance of Windows 8's windows interfaces when nobody likes Windows 8?

I mean heck they even emulated the needing two clicks to get to the main function of the thing. Literally I have to click two things from youtube.com just to get to what used to be on the main page from just plain going to the site.

I changed my bookmark to go to the subpage so now my "main page" works the same as the old sensible version! Yay! Only it's twice as bland and ugly looking and doesn't work with my screen resolution properly, placing everything crammed to the left! WOO!
pitademon
member, 684 posts
hi all
Sat 1 Dec 2012
at 04:45
  • msg #221

In to the Ice Age we go!!!!

Sigh...LORDY what a day!!!
first off it is FRUITIN'!!!!!! cold here.  -2F right now on my porch
woke up and needed to go do some running around (pay my last few bills, shop, drop off some things, etc.) only free workday I have.
weeeeeellllll....after plugging my truck in all night and flicking it on at 8am like I am supposed to (for a 3 hour charge..over night can fry the battery) I go to start my truck...'click cik click cik', fruitin' battery is dead.  okay, figgure maybe just a few more hours plugged in would do it.  try again 'clickity click clik-click'.  DEAD BATTERY!!!! again!!! it did this on Thanksgiving too.  finally got my brother-in-law to come over and jump my battery.  now its 4:15.  I have 45 minutes to be in 4 places.  I made 3.  so I made an alternate shop stop.  I went to the battery place and they checked my battery and alternator for free.  alternator was good...battery was holding less than half a charge.  shucked out about 100 bucks and had them put a new one in.  I'll see how it is doing tomorrow if it kicks over or I take a cab at 5am to work.
Shae_Dravenmore
member, 406 posts
Desk Jocky Extraordinaire
Theoretical Writer
Sat 1 Dec 2012
at 06:13
  • msg #222

Re: In to the Ice Age we go!!!!

Man.  I just...ugh.

Partylite orders from a party I hosted finally arrived yesterday.  UPS left it at the door at 1:45.  I get a call from my roommate at 4:45 saying she just spoke to a cop who found the empty box in an alley.  Fruiting holiday thieves.

Friend is having a birthday party down at the local arcade tonight.  Get excited to go and blow off some steam and hang out with fun people.  Remember just as I'm getting ready to go that I have an early blood donation appointment in the morning, which means no drinking, and I have to go to bed early.  Stupid obligations and being responsible.  *grump*
Flarelord
member, 210 posts
Sat 1 Dec 2012
at 19:04
  • msg #223

Re: In to the Ice Age we go!!!!

Very beginning of a high level new D&D3.5 game on this site.
I roll Sense Motive for a few things to discern info about the shifty folks int he kings court (With a +32 bonus)

THREE OUT OF FOUR ROLLS: CRITICAL FAILURE

This is why I loathe an 'always fail' result on a one. It's just bad design. I also hjate when I'm basically forced to go incompetent at what I'm supposed to be good at.. especially starting an adventure off. Nothing ruins an image of a character for me so much as abject failure out of the gate. You should get a chance to be awesome and come to grips with your abilities before you start failing this badly.
TheNerdyGuido
member, 15 posts
Mon 3 Dec 2012
at 06:04
  • [deleted]
  • msg #224

Re: In to the Ice Age we go!!!!

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was against the forum rules, at 13:27, Mon 03 Dec 2012.
Jw2809
member, 119 posts
Mon 3 Dec 2012
at 21:50
  • msg #225

NONE POSTING GMS

/vent

I have been waiting about 3 FRUITING WEEKS FOR A GAME TO START. The guy had all build ooh ooh lets do this SANDBOX EVERYTHING IS GONNA BE REAAAAAAALLLLY GOOOOOOD!

2 Weeks later.....

WHAT THE FRUTING CHESTNUTS IS THIS Posts=2

1 Week Later....

FRUTIN POST!

Today....

FRUIT IT, I'M NOT GONNA WAIT THIS FRUITING LONG FOR A FRUITING GAME.

GMS POST FOR FRUITIN ONCE

/end vent/fin
The_Blob
member, 11 posts
Sat 8 Dec 2012
at 17:35
  • msg #226

Re: NON POSTING FRUITING PLAYERS

How about the poor slob that takes over games so they won't die, because the players are SO fruiting interested in playing/posting. The game(s) is defined as "player-driven" group storytelling with no-to-light mechanics. Pages of flavor-text for locations and situations to get all of the players characters "on the same page", because they are SOOOO INTERESTED...

week 1 - crickets

week 2 - more crickets

week 3 - cricket descendants

week 4 - grasshoppers who unearth the remains of a once-great cricket civilzation

week 5 - SPLAT! nobody, not even crickets returning messages or rmails, couldn't purge/delete the game, but I could delete EVERY post in it and turn off the 'looking for players' tag

week 6 - see preamble to week 1 with a different game

MERRY FRUITING CHRISTMAS

you gotta be pretty FRUITING LAZY to not at least post "I'm leaving or IRL issues havwe forced me away"... disrespectful, entitlement minded, instant gratification seeking, intellectually stunted PLAYERS are why games die, NOT the GMs!
This message was last edited by the user at 17:38, Sat 08 Dec 2012.
Dottie_V
member, 10 posts
Sun 9 Dec 2012
at 07:02
  • msg #227

Re: Home FRUTING Depot

/vent

To the Home Depot employee working the Christmas deco departement,

Thank you for laughing in my face when I asked a perfectly legitimate question about your Christmas Lights inventory and thank you for continuing to laugh loudly with your co-workers after I walked away into another aisle. Also, let's not forget your hilarious joke to my dad when you looked him in the eye and told him that a box of musical LED lights cost $50 when it really cost $15. Thanks a bunch, you really know how to spread the holiday cheer.

Sincerly,
Me.

P.S.: YOU'RE A FRUTING RASPBERRY AND I HOPE YOU GET FIRED.

I HATE PEOPLE. ARRGH!!!

/vent
Andrew Wilson
member, 38 posts
A cunning Rogue
HP 6/14
Sun 9 Dec 2012
at 07:17
  • msg #228

Re: VENTS!!!

/vent
I spent my entire weekend cleaning VENTS my chimney was plugged and it was getting smokey so i had to take it all apart and clean it out and then clean all my VENTS i was so filthy and sore and smelly when i was done. my god I hate vents
/vent
The_Blob
member, 12 posts
Sun 9 Dec 2012
at 14:20
  • msg #229

Re: VENTS!!!

fruiting 'freeform' games with players that have supposedly 'heroic' characters that act more despicable than the villains, deny it as 'cultural/moral relativism', then get pineappled when confronted by any semblance of law enforcement.

Same immature players (not by age, unless LYING) like to 'dino-hide' when attacked, I have to blame absentee GMs for allowing such god-modding in a 'no god-modding' game... WHY have the rule, if you won't enforce it???

gaaaraaarghhhh, it has made me incoherent

while I'm at it, how about an 'adult' game that DOESN'T turn into a smut-fest???
Mustard Tiger
member, 201 posts
Fri 14 Dec 2012
at 21:37
  • [deleted]
  • msg #230

Re: VENTS!!!

This message was deleted by the user at 21:38, Fri 14 Dec 2012.
Flarelord
member, 212 posts
Sun 16 Dec 2012
at 00:43
  • msg #231

Re: VENTS!!!

*seething anger*

Ugh... I hate having to be the go-between between an argumentative person, and overly-sensitive one. It's one thing when you want to discuss Sensitive Topics and  everyone in the room says '; no thank you', then you storm out. It's another entirely to thin go and complain to the world on your publicTumblr about us and post a three page rant about how people who don't like to debate sensitive topics are being 'irresponsible'.

X_x; *back to emotional damage control*
habsin4
member, 587 posts
Putting old paper in new
boxes since 2005
Mon 17 Dec 2012
at 14:23
  • msg #232

Re: VENTS!!!

Dislikes: People who yell at store clerks who aren't doing their job fast enough.
Shae_Dravenmore
member, 409 posts
Desk Jocky Extraordinaire
Theoretical Writer
Mon 17 Dec 2012
at 22:03
  • msg #233

Re: VENTS!!!

Vent:  Get a box of candles stolen from my porch.

Joy!: Company replaces entire shipment at no cost, because they are AWESOME.

Lesson Learned: Send everything to my office.  Call senders of other shipments in route to adjust delivery locations.

VENT:  Go through all that trouble to make sure nothing gets stolen from my porch, AND THE (EXPLETIVES) BREAK INTO MY (EXPLETIVE) HOUSE.  ><

Yeah.  Merry (Expletive) Christmas to you too, (expletive).
Silverlock
member, 42 posts
Tue 18 Dec 2012
at 11:25
  • msg #234

Re: VENTS!!!

<vent> The lurking head cold has finally made its decision to go into full horror.</vent>

Plus side, I can call out of work and thereby earn some much needed mental health, too.

Minus side, I will be sniped at for calling out of work.  But then, I was getting sniped at for showing up and not being able to do what two other more experienced workers were not able to do either...sigh.  And what is it about me that inspires management to constantly assign me janitorial duties ?  Am I the only one who knows how to mop ?

Christmas want:  A job that isn't the one from the deep dark pit with Satan as my boss.
TheNerdyGuido
member, 33 posts
Roll the dice, they said.
It'll be fun, they said.
Wed 19 Dec 2012
at 00:40
  • msg #235

Re: VENTS!!!

Me: I'm going to request a game! Maybe I can play an exotic race I've yet to try?

Me, later: Yay! Found a GM and they approved the race.

Me, even later: There's nobody in the party that can fix me if I get hurt... >_>

Me, now: Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to re-roll I go.
Zephydel
member, 650 posts
Creative Ideas
Real-Life Solutions
Wed 19 Dec 2012
at 16:10
  • msg #236

If you want us to stop cheating, give us more money...

I just noticed that, in this online game I playing right now, the computer controlled opponents in PVP are starting to cheat. To make matters worse, this online game is flashing the "buy more in-game items with your real money" window every time I lose.
ZedZed77
member, 216 posts
Thu 20 Dec 2012
at 00:10
  • [deleted]
  • msg #237

Re: Shattered Dreams

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 00:47, Thu 20 Dec 2012.
facemaker329
member, 5233 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Fri 28 Dec 2012
at 07:13
  • msg #238

Re: Shattered Dreams

So, we got our white Christmas...storm blew in just in time for me to have to drive through it, going the hour and a half north to the friends I was going to be staying with.  As a result, when I arrived home, three days later, I find not only 9" of snow piled up on my front lawn--I also find that my oh-so-wonderful neighbors dug out their snowblowers and went up and down the street, clearing walks and driveways for everyone...EXCEPT MY FOURPLEX.

Literally, they cleared right up to the property line, maybe a couple of feet beyond it...and then stopped.  That left about 100' of sidewalk buried in snow that people had to stomp through.  Someone else came over and cleared a walkway from the apartment next to mine out to the street (pretty sure I know who was behind it, as the next-door apartment is occupied by an elderly woman whose son lives in the neighborhood...)--but despite the fact that two of the three other apartments are occupied by people whose physical condition is not conducive to snow shoveling, there was no hint of trying to do any snow removal for them.

And here I am, with an injured shoulder...I don't know if it's bursitis, arthritis, or a torn/otherwise damaged rotator cuff...and I spent three+ hours shoveling snow tonight, before the pain got to the point where I couldn't swing a shovel anymore.  I even tried going to the store and buying a snowblower...the only one that was remotely close to being big enough to do the job, while still being in my price range, turned out to have been assembled wrong, somewhere along the line, because you could pick the whole thing up by the starter pull-cord...the motor would NOT turn beyond that point.  And because I bought it on a debit card, and they refunded my purchase as a credit card, those funds won't be back in my account for a day or three, which means I can't go to another store with a similar machine and buy it, because there's not enough money in my bank account.

I've lived here almost a decade.  This is the first time, in that entire time, where I've been unable, physically, to finish clearing the snow.  It's not even a case of being too tired...I had plenty of energy left.  I just literally felt like my shoulder kept slipping half-way out of socket, and it finally got to the point where I couldn't lift the shovel anymore.  I haven't felt this...defeated, I guess, is the best description for it...in a long time, if ever.
Alexei Yaruk-Mundhenk
member, 1155 posts
Ad Majorem
Dea Gloriam
Sat 29 Dec 2012
at 00:54
  • msg #239

Re: Shattered Dreams

I began the process of filing for divorce and custody today.
facemaker329
member, 5234 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Sat 29 Dec 2012
at 06:08
  • msg #240

More disillusionment...

I consider myself reasonably handy.  I can take care of most basic home repairs on my own, which has been a secret boon for my landlord because I only ever call them when it's big stuff that really needs to be done by someone who's extensively trained, like replacing a water heater.  So, when the fill valve on my toilet started not-filling a day or two ago, I figured it was no big deal.  I mean, it's an old toilet, parts wear out...I've replaced those before (a LOT of those...I used to work housing maintenance for campus housing...)  I can do this...

So, I did it.  Replaced the whole works, because there were a couple of other things in the tank that were having issues, as well.  Got done, got everything gathered up, turned the water back on, and...

Nothing.  While the fill valve may have been faulty, it is apparently not the only reason the tank's been slow to fill.  I even disconnected the supply line from the toilet and tried turning the water on again, just to be sure.  There was exactly no change whatsoever between the tiny trickle that came out when the valve was supposedly completely closed, and the tiny trickle that came out when the valve was theoretically wide open.

It's a weekend.  And a holiday.  And my landlord already whines like a baby when you call a plumber during normal business hours.  So, I've gotta decide whether I would rather listen to the landlord kvetch about an emergency call to the plumber, or if I'd prefer to work around it and manually refill the tank after each flush.  I was having a really awesome holiday, up until I got back home yesterday.  It's spiralling downhill very quickly, however...
Zephydel
member, 651 posts
Creative Ideas
Real-Life Solutions
Mon 31 Dec 2012
at 13:19
  • msg #241

Who needs skills? Pay to win. Cheat to win.

Idiot: Nice. You combined two low-level skills and used them in a certain way? I never realized that you can do so and give me such a hard time.

Zephydel: Thanks. I was not sure if the combination would actually work.

Idiot: But I am not going let your poorly-equipped, low-level character beat my well-equipped, high-level character.

Game: Idiot bought Power Satanic Scroll from the Real-Cash Store. Idiot bought Score Breaker Scroll from Real-Cash Store.

Idiot: Eat this!

Zephydel: Hey! We agreed that we will not buy items in the Real-Cash Store during our match.

Idiot: Too late! How do you like my character now!

Game: Zephydel Defeated, Zephydel Rank Down.

Idiot: Another epic win for me! You should not have challenged an elite player like me.

Zephydel: You even used Score Breaker Scroll on me... That's low dude...

Idiot: Low? Ha! You should look at the level and equips of your character.

Zephydel: I hope you feel good about yourself... What a waste of money...
This message was last edited by the user at 13:31, Mon 31 Dec 2012.
facemaker329
member, 5243 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Thu 3 Jan 2013
at 02:45
  • msg #242

More annoyed grumblings...

Okay, two quick things...

--The apartment manager was supposed to stop by today, with an appraiser...they're refinancing the complex, they need an appraisal.  And they're also supposed to verify, twice a year, that the smoke alarms are functional and have batteries in them.  They were, originally, supposed to check that back when we changed over from Daylight Savings time...but they never showed.

So, early afternoon (like, an hour before the manager told me to expect them), the doorbell rings.  It's the appraiser...without the manager.  I've been cleaning (thank goodness, I at least got the bird's feathers vacuumed up before he got here...but hadn't had a chance to start in on the bathroom yet).  The appraisal was quick and relatively painless...but included photos of my bathroom (a total mess), my kitchen (still needing a lot of work, but not a complete disaster), my bedroom (with my bed covered with boxes that I'm shuffling from storage place to storage place), and front room (cluttered, but not horrendous).  I'm just waiting for the landlord to see the pictures (hopefully, they won't, or they'll have a conniption about the state of the place, but they might).  Been waiting all afternoon for the manager to show up and finish the smoke alarm inspection (which is needless...I keep good batteries in them...but fer cryin' out, if you're REQUIRED by your insurance to check the alarms, and you've scheduled a time to check them--especially when you apologized for not making it the FIRST time you scheduled something--then show up...or at least make a phone call.

--Second issue:  I'm making some prosthetic pieces for a video shoot some friends are doing this weekend.  I've got the prosthetic molded, ready to cast...and I can't find the remaining quantity of plaster that I KNOW I had left over from my last round.  Okay...not a huge crisis...I wanted to go to a store tonight and pick up some stuff, anyway...but, unfortunately, the only store I can find that carries the substitute stuff I like to use when I can't get 'prosthetic-grade' plaster does NOT carry the other stuff I needed.  And the stores that carry the other stuff do not carry the plaster.  So, after I finish venting my spleen over this particular setback, I have to spend an hour or so running errands, when I'd already be done with the casting work if I'd just been able to find the ultracal (plaster) in the first place...

Yeah, I know.  Neither one of them are critical, life-or-death issues.  Still doesn't keep me from being annoyed about them!
adrasteia1
member, 977 posts
Even a small star
shines in the darkness
Tue 8 Jan 2013
at 19:40
  • msg #243

Re: More annoyed grumblings...

I now might be on 'cold, round 3'. I came down sick and managed to get rid of it. Cold returned. I just seemed to be getting rid of the last of it again a day or two ago. This morning I woke up with what I hoped might be allergies, but I started feeling ill. An allergy tablet didn't help and by lunchtime it was a battle to keep from sneezing repeatedly. My nose was pink by then, now it's raw. I asked to leave early at lunchtime, then I just went to sleep.

Woke up at 5pm feeling moderately better, but I really need to try and prevent this cold from returning fully again. *sips hot coffee*
Andrew Wilson
member, 91 posts
A cunning Rogue
HP 6/14
Tue 8 Jan 2013
at 19:51
  • msg #244

Re: More annoyed grumblings...

I bust my berries working out to look good for my girlfriend this spring and summer and lose 20 pounds and I toned up considerably. was looking great and getting compliments that got me in trouble with said gf on my fb.

Appearently I really wanted to gain 30 lbs for xmas now i look bigger then ever :( I got the muscle with fat over it...
Silverlock
member, 43 posts
Tue 8 Jan 2013
at 21:00
  • msg #245

Re: More annoyed grumblings...

<vent>The head cold that won't go away.  Have temporary lapses of illness in which I feel almost human, but highly cranky - and unable to think.  Then it's back with the sore throat, the sneeze, the hacking.....uuurghhhh.  And I get to go back to work tomorrow and get told I can't take any more of my earned sick time.  Blah.</vent>
sadiztiktorture
member, 8 posts
Tue 8 Jan 2013
at 21:33
  • [deleted]
  • msg #246

Re: More annoyed grumblings...

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 21:44, Tue 08 Jan 2013.
Eternal Dalek
member, 9 posts
YOU ARE THE DOCTOR!
YOU WILL BE EXTERMINATED!
Thu 10 Jan 2013
at 01:49
  • msg #247

Re: More annoyed grumblings...

I was gone for a few days because of work, and today I log back in to make an IC post. My DM deletes me for stalling the game by not completing my character, never mind that I submitted a complete character sheet with background to him before I ever made my first in game post. Goodness, I hate impatient people who make me waste my time.
Noxatrum
member, 77 posts
Thu 10 Jan 2013
at 02:56
  • msg #248

Re: More annoyed grumblings...

Had to remove a staff member from my personal website for abusing power, bullying people who were too afraid of her to tell me [until recently], and for trying to take the site over and change it into something other than what the rest of us know and love.

She, of course, goes to tumblr and elsewhere to play victim. I might have felt bad at first, but a lot of things are coming to the light about her now that she's gone that tick me off.

The whole thing caused a ton of stress that I'm still trying to recover from. Only good thing? Having her off my site took away the uncomfortable and toxic atmosphere that had been overtaking it and everyone's chatty and fine again.

Still hate that it happened and that it came down to making someone leave.
FallenLord
member, 30 posts
Thu 10 Jan 2013
at 05:36
  • msg #249

Re: More annoyed grumblings...

Honestly, I feel the need to vent to someone, so might as well here:

I just am annoyed that I can't seem to find a good game here, with people I can integrate with.

It started with one game where I would message the GMs with literally pages of plots and story ideas for my character in particular. I knew they were busy, so all I needed was their sign off and some suggestions as to where it could be toned down a bit (I wasn't married to any of my ideas, but my imagination can get away with me sometimes). This ended up where I got called repeatedly a god gamer, and where the rest of the game turned against me IC and OOC.

Ever since that point, things have seemed to go downhill. Any game I tried to join, I ended up feeling like one of the extras that just walks by, not doing much. Or I felt as if I had little material to work off of.

That one game I mentioned earlier? Still in it, but more for nostalgia's sake than anything. My old characters have no real place in the game anymore, and the GMs are cool people, and asked if I wanted to make another character. Making another character who would by definition have to make nice with the people that turned against me en masse earlier, which sent me into a very dark place (have both depression and anxiety issues). So, that's a no go for me, for as much as I want it to be.

I'm just doing less and less RPing here. I lurk in the one old game, play in one that's more a series of mini stories, and am working on one with my sole writing partner from the X Men game. One of the few people in game who didn't turn on me, and who I do genuinely enjoy writing with.

I just find it more comfortable to RP other places now. Where I can more easily find other people who seem to be able to get along with me just fine, and who appreciate the fact that I have pages of ideas and suggestions. I come up with them seemingly on cue.

Which is funny, because this is the place where I started RPing. Started in my senior year of high school (when I was 18). It's not so much outgrown me, but left a sour taste in my mouth after all's said and done, and all the experiences I've had here are tallied and chronicled.

The only reason I'm here at all is because of the one game, and my writing partner, one who I met through the above mentioned game, and who I've had the pleasure of knowing for a while. I don't want to disappear on her.

Is it weird that I wish I didn't feel that way? I suppose I don't really know what to do, but I feel better for having told someone, even if it is a random forum on the internet.

Thanks for listening (or reading) [or whatever other form of media you choose to consume this as]
Eternal Dalek
member, 10 posts
Thu 10 Jan 2013
at 23:25
  • [deleted]
  • msg #250

Re: More annoyed grumblings...

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 23:40, Thu 10 Jan 2013.
KaiWriter
member, 18 posts
Fri 11 Jan 2013
at 05:16
  • msg #251

Re: More annoyed grumblings...

No, you stupid appletart, the fact that you switched the stickers around on the items and caused me to miss my bus home, stranding me for an hour at the mall, because you thought if you whined enough about the customer always being right that FYE would relent and give you the complete series on DVD that you wanted for $29.99 when it was ringing up as $149.99 is why my eyes are burning lasers of flaming death into the back of your head and sighing at what an immature little peanut you are.  It is not due to what you implied it to be in front of a store full of customers.

If it was, you would have gotten more than several snide remarks.
Amythesta
member, 63 posts
Fri 11 Jan 2013
at 06:42
  • msg #252

Re: More annoyed grumblings...

Alright, sorry but I had to come here for a vent. Why in the hell can't people freaking listen? I GM a game, granted probably not the best one out there but still rather good. I have repeatedly told one player to be more thorough when travelling between the threads. You don't just go from point A to point B instantly, unless said areas would be only a few feet apart. I have one thread that you must go through the jungle to get to. So what does he do? He posts in his desired thread with a notation that he travelled through the jungle to get there. Um, no! Doesn't work like that. He said it was to avoid other character's interactions within the thread he would have to pass through. It doesn't matter. I am GM, I have told you more than once you cannot get there that fast.....GRRRRRRR!!!
Zephydel
member, 652 posts
Creative Ideas
Real-Life Solutions
Fri 11 Jan 2013
at 13:15
  • msg #253

Getting greedy? Prepare for brand destruction!

Game: Zephydel Victorious, Zephydel Rank Up

Game: Network Error...

Game: Zephydel Defeated, Zephydel Rank Down

Game: Buy more items at the Real-Cash Store
adrasteia1
member, 983 posts
Even a small star
shines in the darkness
Fri 11 Jan 2013
at 23:50
  • msg #254

Not feeling so well

I'm not really in very good form at the moment. I had a cold return for a third round and managed to fend it off, though I'm going to need to keep my resistance up to ensure I can keep it away.

What's bothering me more is back/leg pain. I injured my back badly when I was moving house a couple of years ago. I don't know if it's related to that, but the pain is worse than usual at the moment and it hurts to even move.

I have a lot to celebrate at the moment, but it doesn't help that I don't feel so well. It's my intent to stay home over the weekend and move as little as possible in the hope that my back will feel better.
cero1
member, 209 posts
Sat 12 Jan 2013
at 02:32
  • msg #255

Re: More annoyed grumblings...

I get annoyed at the level customers go to in order to get money off something. I did some seasonal retail work last month... oh yeah... <_<

Anyways, one time a lady asked me how much some xmas lights were. I looked at the barcode (as she had the last one in her hands) and matched it to the POS. Job done. Then she disagrees with me and says she found it in the space next to that where the item (different lights) was a buck cheaper...

*sigh*

If she thought they were that price, why didn't she just take them and get proven wrong at the till? Or if she did know they were that price and said she found them on the other shelf... her argument only stands if the POS had a big chunky sale price covering it and then we'd need to sell it to her for that price... But no, both items were clearly marked.

--
I also to voluntary at a charity shop for the hospice that took my terminally ill mother in when she needed it. If I see another person take an item into a corner, peel off the price sticker and try to get some quid off an item 'with no price on it' after I have seen them take the sticker off by asking how much it is...

It's why I answer that question with double what the thing is worth to screw their day. I don't get paid to be there and some jerk wants to get a charity collecting for a hospice for the terminally ill out of pocket. I only have to reprice the thing when they faff off out of the shop. Heaven forbid the day a family member of theirs needs taking in the hospice.
This message was last edited by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 07:30, Sat 12 Jan 2013.
The_Blob
member, 27 posts
Sun 13 Jan 2013
at 18:40
  • [deleted]
  • msg #256

Re: More annoyed grumblings...

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 19:59, Sun 13 Jan 2013.
Jw2809
member, 126 posts
Sun 13 Jan 2013
at 21:46
  • [deleted]
  • msg #257

Delivery Prick Douchebags at Computer Cock Lickers (DPD&CCL)

This message was deleted by the user at 21:49, Sun 13 Jan 2013.
Jw2809
member, 127 posts
Sun 13 Jan 2013
at 21:46
  • [deleted]
  • msg #258

Delivery Prick Douchebags at Computer Cock Lickers (DPD&CCL)

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was against the forum rules, at 21:51, Sun 13 Jan 2013.
WolfInCheapClothing
member, 74 posts
Mon 14 Jan 2013
at 19:20
  • msg #259

Pet peeve

Look, unless you want to colour your cheeks red, it's not rouge it's rogue!
This message was last edited by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 19:30, Mon 14 Jan 2013.
facemaker329
member, 5268 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Mon 14 Jan 2013
at 19:38
  • msg #260

Re: Pet peeve

Gotta say, it makes me laugh a little bit when I hear people complain about how much they hate driving in the snow.  It's the immediate aftermath of the snow that scares me...sunshine hits what pavement is exposed, snow on the edge of the road melts, you wind up with black ice on the roads...

And if it gets cold enough, fast enough, you get ice build-up in your wheel wells, to the point where the ice is rubbing on your tires.  Talk about killing your fuel efficiency...it's like trying to drive while someone is pushing the brakes.  I kicked the ice out of my wheel wells at a friend's birthday party on Saturday night...by the time I made it back home, there was a pretty major build-up back in place again.  I think I'd rather have the snow falling, thanks (especially once I get the snowblower a friend offered to me, so I don't have to shovel it.)

So done with January right now...
DaleN
member, 58 posts
Mon 14 Jan 2013
at 23:31
  • [deleted]
  • msg #261

Re: Pet peeve

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 00:05, Tue 15 Jan 2013.
facemaker329
member, 5269 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Tue 15 Jan 2013
at 06:31
  • msg #262

Re: Pet peeve

Just found out my brother has to serve the next ten weekends in jail, for a contempt of court charge that stemmed from the divorce judge giving him a directive that he could not, physically, comply with (involving sale of or refinancing the house to get his wife's name off the title so she's no longer responsible for any of the bills in any way.  Unfortunately, because of other elements of the divorce decree, he can't complete all the paperwork the bank wants to refinance the house...so...)

So, not only am I done with January weather, I'm also, at this point, feeling done with anybody who works in the legal profession.  It's nothing personal...just, you guys work with some real danishes, and this is just the latest in a string of friends and family who've gotten the raw end of the deal because some legal eagle decided THIS was the case to use to make an example.  It could be worse...it's only twenty days.  My friends' son is in prison in California for a gun crime he didn't commit, convicted on the testimony of a witness who gave at least two massively conflicting accounts of the events.  They have no idea how soon he'll be out of prison...sometime in the next decade, if he's lucky.
Pyrate
member, 170 posts
Tue 15 Jan 2013
at 09:34
  • [deleted]
  • msg #263

Re: Pet peeve

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 12:56, Tue 15 Jan 2013.
Amythesta
member, 77 posts
Tue 15 Jan 2013
at 13:18
  • msg #264

Re: Pet peeve

Learn how to spell and use the words right people! Geeze... I don't know how many games I've seen with people using 'thin' for the word 'then'. Really? You don't know that 'thin' referrs to how wide something is? Are you a child in elementary school? Come on people, you should all know how to properly use the words in the English language. If English is not your first language, I'm sure they have programs out there to help you with that. And punctuation! Sorry folks, but commas are not used to end sentences. Periods are not used to make a break in a line, and capitalize the first letter in a new sentence. Is it really that hard? I don't think so. I wasn't even using a damn keyboard on here for the longest time and I could still write properly, so there's no excuse for not doing it!
The_Blob
member, 28 posts
Wed 16 Jan 2013
at 04:19
  • msg #265

Re: Pet peeve

absentee GMs that are GM/players, that post infrequently, commonly leaving players hanging because instead of NPCs that act in a support role, they make em' central fruiting characters. Then after hiatus, apparently doesn't like what direction the PCs have taken the 'player-driven' game in, steps in with their superstud character, does the work of 10 characters, solves the crisis immediately, with excessive amounts of just-too-cool-for-words perfection, eliminating the need for any other adventurers. Even sidekicks get to do something... once in a while.

>_<

The other TEN players aren't even sidekicks, maybe we're worshippers... we probably should be
ginny
member, 74 posts
Wed 16 Jan 2013
at 18:22
  • msg #266

Re: Pet peeve

Ive been looking for over a month now for a place to move to.  We have searched all the websites we could find for places in our area.  I finally found one; 2br/2bath everything included for $600 a month.  AWESOME!!

Just found out after some research it is a scam.  UGHHHH!!!  Back to square one again.  It really was too good to be true.  I hope they get caught soon.
facemaker329
member, 5275 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Thu 17 Jan 2013
at 07:44
  • msg #267

Re: Pet peeve

Sticking with my pattern of doing this in threes...I hate it when directors decide they MUST do a show exactly like how it was done on Broadway.  Especially when they're directing for a theatre company that's trying to save itself from economic oblivion.  "Yeah, I know they say they need that in the script...but can you find some way to NOT need it without compromising the whole story?"  It's even better when the producers inform me, AFTER I've said yes to designing the show, that my budget is pretty much all spent just getting the props for one scene (they're used through the whole show, yes, but all but three of them turn up in the opening scene...and they're not 'do the show without it' kinds of things...they HAVE to be there...)  Was told my props budget is $500...the rental for the guns (the show is Sondheim's 'Assassins', so you've got to have several VERY specific guns) would be more than that, if I got blank-firing versions of everything.  I've talked the director out of that much, but I'm still not certain just how much it will end up being, yet, because I can't get a solid answer on whether or not I need two weapons offered for the rental package but not really mentioned in the script (one is mentioned, but we only see it in passing).

I shoulda known this would happen.  I've done scenic art for these guys before, and it's always a communications nightmare, trying to get information from the set designer so I know what I'm painting.  At least they seem to be consistent...getting the same treatment as a props designer...I'm foreseeing a lot of really busy periods in my future, when (if) they call to ask me to do it again...
Silverlock
member, 45 posts
Thu 17 Jan 2013
at 10:52
  • msg #268

Yes, it is the job from Hades

Another person dropped dead from working where I work....and I have spent the night being stressed about my job, so no sleep.  Add a bad commute and a huge list of chores to do on my ONLY day off this week....Just delightful.  I need to find out how to get out of this job before it kills me too.  I won't live to retire, that's pretty much a given, unless I can find a nice refridgerator box near a steam grate somewhere, within walking distance of the soup kitchen.
Paixao
member, 29 posts
It's always the quiet one
Thu 17 Jan 2013
at 12:51
  • msg #269

Re: Yes, it is the job from Hades

Been working my apple off for inspections that took forever to get done, the one day I get my room fine toothed my boss puts a pair of morons in line to help and everything went south, making myself and co-teacher look like a couple of idiots. And if that's not bad enough, they keep giving advice every time the inspectors are out of earshot.

You should have shut up and left us alone, we had the routine down and perfected till you twits gave a poorly thought out assist.
This message was last edited by a moderator, as it was against the forum rules, at 13:21, Thu 17 Jan 2013.
The_Blob
member, 29 posts
Thu 17 Jan 2013
at 17:52
  • msg #270

rpol pet peeve... and other crap

when I look through the 'rules' of a game that seems like it might not suck and see that the GM can't follow HALF of them just in the group zero threads...

<eye roll>

oh, and Lance Armstrong, STFU already, NOBODY cares.

and to all you idiots out there making 80's big hair band refs: NOBODY loves the 80's, nobody.

overly sensitive people enforcing moronic policies like suspending 6-yr-olds for playing cops&robbers with finger-guns... I want my tax $$$ back
The Stray
member, 72 posts
When the Cat's a Stray
the Mice will Pray
Thu 17 Jan 2013
at 22:10
  • msg #271

Re: rpol pet peeve... and other crap

Today I was woken up by a guy with a summons. Fun. Then I fell in the bathtub. Then my car stalled out while I was trying to get to an appointment to meet with people to deal with the summons.

I hate you, January. I hate you and wish you would die.
The_Blob
member, 30 posts
Fri 18 Jan 2013
at 02:21
  • msg #272

Re: rpol pet peeve... and other crap

got a flu shot Monday

GUESS what I woke up with this morning?

the fruiting flu!

been peeing out of my apple all day


fuuuuuuuuuuuuuun... NOT!
pitademon
member, 693 posts
Fri 18 Jan 2013
at 03:36
  • [deleted]
  • msg #273

Re: rpol pet peeve... and other crap

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 08:05, Fri 18 Jan 2013.
Amythesta
member, 84 posts
Fri 18 Jan 2013
at 05:04
  • msg #274

Re: rpol pet peeve... and other crap

Well, thanks to my PS3 I have recently found out I can't access the chat on here. Thank you so freaking much Sony network, you suck!
adrasteia1
member, 990 posts
Even a small star
shines in the darkness
Sun 20 Jan 2013
at 22:56
  • msg #275

Other stuff

Today is one of those days when I'd like to vent, but for a whole slew of reasons I shouldn't (at least, about what I want to). My RL and online personas are somewhat linked at this point, so I've got to watch it.

Suffice to say, life has had its ups and downs and some situations seem at times like they don't have any answers. Maybe they do, but not necessarily answers I want to see.
DarkwindStriker
member, 502 posts
Better known in many
places as Gatewalker.
Mon 21 Jan 2013
at 08:34
  • msg #276

Re: Other stuff

Insomnia. It is a thing. It is a thing I do not care for.
Eggy
member, 19 posts
Mon 21 Jan 2013
at 23:50
  • msg #277

Re: Other stuff

Got a mosquito bite on my butt. :(
graeme
member, 1 post
Tue 22 Jan 2013
at 00:49
  • msg #278

Re: Other stuff

I dropped a brick on my toe.  Three weeks after it happened and constant throbbing surpassing the useless medication I'd been given to handle the pain I checked myself back into the hospital, and they finally decided to do an x-ray to see what’s up.  The good news is it's not broken the not so good news is it’s pulverized.
soulsight
member, 239 posts
Reality is 10% perception
and 90% interpretation.
Tue 22 Jan 2013
at 04:08
  • msg #279

Re: Other stuff

My fingers were numb from the cold, but I figured they would warm right up in the hot dish water. All but one did, and that one remained a pasty white.
At least it doesn't hurt.
Dottie_V
member, 13 posts
Tue 22 Jan 2013
at 07:50
  • msg #280

Re: Other stuff

I caught the flu. TT^TT CURSE YOU, YOU DISGUSTING WHO-EVER-YOU-ARE FOR SPREADING YOUR VILE VIRUS ONTO ME!!!
Eggy
member, 20 posts
Tue 22 Jan 2013
at 14:02
  • msg #281

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Me: Hey. What's your character look like?
P1: It's all there in the bio.
Me: Yeah, you keep saying his eyes are purple but in the bio one's blue and one's green. Did he change them right now? Was my character supposed to notice?
P1: Oh yeah. Sorry. That's an old bio. They're purple.
Me: Cool.


Me: Hey. What's your character look like? I can't tell if she's tall or short.
P2: Just like the pic.
Me: Okay, so long blue hair, pale skin, green eyes. Got it. My character's XX tall. Is yours taller or shorter?
P2: Blue hair? No, she's got short blonde hair with black streaks and she's perfectly tan.
Me: So... not like the pic?
P2: No! Just like the pic but with short blonde hair with black streaks. And blue eyes. And a tan. But without the elf ears. She's got the same shape face. And a little tall.


Me: Hey. What's your character look like? There's no bio or pics.
P3: You're not talking to my main PC. You're talking to my main PC's girlfriend.
Me: Sorry for that. What's she look like?
P3: A Native American.


My head hurts.
st_nougat
member, 110 posts
Wed 23 Jan 2013
at 23:03
  • msg #282

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Project manager coming to me 5 minutes before I am scheduled to leave:

"Hey I need you to take a look at some things before I get in tomorrow..."
DaleN
member, 59 posts
"We aren't slavers...
just ask the Wookie."
Thu 24 Jan 2013
at 04:14
  • msg #283

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Come on, lady.  If you are a "professional fundraiser," you should at least get the name of the organization you are representing correct.  It is "National Rifle Association" -- not "Rifles".
The_Blob
member, 33 posts
Thu 24 Jan 2013
at 12:00
  • msg #284

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

one line posts ... ... ... yes, I'm aware of the current irony
Silverlock
member, 46 posts
Fri 25 Jan 2013
at 01:36
  • msg #285

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Yes, it is official, my boss is trying to discredit me, belittle my work, and get rid of me, or at least make it socially/politically acceptable to promote a person with 1/10 my experience, 1/2 my education, but -  who also has 10x the kiss-bosses-posterior skills. And I thought it was just a coincidence that I was being given the dirtiest jobs around while the little darling did some light filing and talk about her new shoes.
KaiWriter
member, 19 posts
Fri 25 Jan 2013
at 03:58
  • msg #286

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

You know that I have a really bad habit of beating myself up when I feel guilty or ashamed of things that I've forgotten about.  That doesn't entitle you to drop a guilt trip on me whenever you want to come up and spend time with me, or if you want to bully me out of playing what I want to at the local convention just because you can't bear to see me doing something without you if we're in the same three-mile radius.  I'm really fruiting sick of you doing this.  No, I'm not interested in steampunk. No, I'm not interested in live-action mafia, I play plenty of it online. I am going to plunk my rear down for seven straight slots of Pathfinder and to see if I can't reconnect with my old Society group, and if you don't like that, well, too fruitcup bad.  Go do your live-action stuff and try not to drool over the women in corsets...

This will likely be the only chance I have in the entire year for me to play Pathfinder. I'm not going to agree to play the same stupid game demos with you just so you can show me off, that you can prove to the rest of your friends that you bagged a "gamer girl" and then hint that I'm planning on dressing up as Ivy from Soul Calibur for Halloween if you get me drunk enough.
Bifford
member, 83 posts
Semington RPG Group (UK)
LARP, RPG & Photography
Fri 25 Jan 2013
at 12:37
  • msg #287

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Argh! Why does getting a mortgage and buying a house take so frelling long!!!????.
Amythesta
member, 103 posts
Sun 27 Jan 2013
at 18:19
  • msg #288

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

How many times do I have to tell you people where we were going on the dang ship! The Carribean, people.... And are all of you really incapable of creating some of the story yourselves? Really? If I'm going to come up with every single little detail in the whole game, why the heck do I need players in it? I'd rather just write a darn book! Good lords above, what happened to the imagination in people today? What happened to paying attention and knowing what the heck is going on around you? Telling everyone the same exact thing within a one hour period of time should not have to be explained again!
This message was last edited by the user at 19:52, Sun 27 Jan 2013.
facemaker329
member, 5283 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Sun 27 Jan 2013
at 18:36
  • msg #289

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Missed my friend's stand-up comedy show last night.  For some inexplicable reason, management at the club decided they were only going to have him do one show, instead of the normal two (one show a night during the summer makes sense, the crowds are pretty much always smaller then...but during the winter?  ESPECIALLY after the holidays, when people don't have fifteen or twenty other places to be?  C'mon...)

As a result, when I got there twenty-five minutes before showtime (they normally start seating half an hour before), they were just starting to announce that they'd sold out for the night.  Twenty minute drive there, just to turn around and drive back home.  Thanks, guys...
Wine Guy
member, 337 posts
So many reds...
So little time.
Sun 27 Jan 2013
at 23:20
  • msg #290

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Flu season is raging like a wildfire around here and I'm up to my knees in snot and sick people.  Flu shots are widely available for the first time in years and no one seems to get them.  Why don't the people MOST AT RISK GET THEIR POMEGRANATE vaccines?
Dottie_V
member, 15 posts
Wed 30 Jan 2013
at 03:46
  • msg #291

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

If I don't answer my phone the first time, what makes you think I will answer the next three consecutive calls?! YOU are a grown woman and you can figure out how to manage a class yourself, thank you very much! I am not your little pamphlet on how to score good with the Nursing profs. Ya annoying creampuff.
rogar308
member, 229 posts
Gaming is good!
Got RPOL in my soul
Wed 30 Jan 2013
at 14:01
  • msg #292

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

What are the known outstanding issues we should be aware of?
->The new server will introduce new issues; this is all we know at this point.

Got to love working with an outside client. Mind you we are suppose to release the software application tomorrow and received this nifty note yesterday. Joy.
jazzman831
member, 711 posts
Thu 31 Jan 2013
at 03:01
  • msg #293

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Really cool game concept in GPIA. Express interest, but don't hear anything. Go back a couple weeks later to find that the GM created a game (but forgot to tell me)! Game is still accepting players! Huzzah! Create RTJ, read SRD, get really excited about new game, then nothing. Then nothing. Then why does my main page look different? Oh, because the game was deleted :-/
mofo99
member, 318 posts
Thu 31 Jan 2013
at 05:19
  • [deleted]
  • msg #294

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 07:25, Thu 31 Jan 2013.
st_nougat
member, 113 posts
Fri 1 Feb 2013
at 03:19
  • msg #295

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

found out tonight that BOTH of the really good indian restaurants near me have closed up shop...

never did get my curry
Andrew Wilson
member, 116 posts
A cunning Rogue
HP 6/14
Fri 1 Feb 2013
at 05:04
  • msg #296

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

My girlfriend is an un-medicated bipolar and I hate her mean side but I love her sweet side to death and theres nothing I can do about the frustration D:
Pyrate
member, 173 posts
Supercalifragialistic
expialidocious.
Fri 1 Feb 2013
at 06:06
  • msg #297

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Stuck in Tel Aviv because the fruitcake I went to visit forgot to mention that he already was in a relationship.
This message was last edited by a moderator, as it was inflammatory, at 06:20, Fri 01 Feb 2013.
Flarelord
member, 214 posts
Fri 1 Feb 2013
at 12:14
  • msg #298

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

*sulk* Getting screwed over by the dice roller in three games in one night really makes one bitter :(
Dottie_V
member, 16 posts
Sat 2 Feb 2013
at 04:17
  • msg #299

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Gah! Lost important rp material and not able to recover it! >< STUPID ME. Always make a backup, always!!
liblarva
member, 238 posts
Sat 2 Feb 2013
at 06:55
  • msg #300

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Hey, game designer. Instead of telling us to change things that don't make sense, how about you design them to make sense in the first place?
KraznyOctobr
member, 2 posts
Sun 3 Feb 2013
at 05:40
  • msg #301

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Legal and ethical questions should never coexist though they often seem to.
Masamunekaigen
member, 1178 posts
In Soviet Russia, quests
pay you to go on NPCs.
Tue 5 Feb 2013
at 06:20
  • msg #302

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

1. Get ready to launch new wave of playtests for system I'm designing.
2. Announce it.
3. ????
4. PC dies.
facemaker329
member, 5297 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Tue 5 Feb 2013
at 08:19
  • msg #303

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

I've done it to myself again...overbooked and getting stressed.  Go into tech rehearsals for one show this weekend.  I can't be there the first day of tech because we're doing call-back auditions for the musicians for our summer show that day, and since it's the end of the fiscal year and our boss is tight-fisted, we have absolutely no hours available for any of our non-salaried personnel to help, so it's all up to the three of us who are on salary to handle it all (at least it isn't an open-call audition...these guys all have appointments.  That simplifies things, A LOT!!!)

However, I also have to have a bunch of costumes finished for ANOTHER show by this weekend, as well, because one of the performers is going out of town and Saturday will be the ONLY time the group gets to rehearse with him before the final dress rehearsal.  I need to look at the newly-revised rehearsal schedule and see if that means all the other costumes I've got and will be getting also have to be done by then, or if it's just the stuff for that number.

AND I have a production meeting for NEXT MONTH's show on Wednesday night.  I should really not be sitting here on the computer, I should be doing something about getting all this stuff done...but at the moment, I feel so mentally overwhelmed at everything that has to happen this week that I can't concentrate on the project I'm supposed to be doing.

Hopefully, this will be kinda like primal-scream therapy and release enough tension that I can focus (or at least go to bed and sleep, so I can be more productive tomorrow...)

AND, to make me feel even happier about the situation, my shoulder had been kind of improving, until the last couple of weeks when we kept getting several inches of snow each day for several days straight.  All that shoveling did a number on me.  Even though I don't feel like I can spare the time to go see a doctor about it, it's getting to the point where I'm starting to feel like toughing it out for another couple of weeks is really going to screw something up (if it hasn't already, at this point).

Too many irons in the fire...and someone used one of them on my shoulder.  It's gonna be a long week.
st_nougat
member, 116 posts
Tue 5 Feb 2013
at 14:45
  • msg #304

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

My wife is pissed off at me again....or still I dont know which it is


or what I did
bobbofeet
member, 48 posts
Tue 5 Feb 2013
at 16:27
  • msg #305

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Nothing like doing the budget at work and seeing what you are really worth to your boss... :(
This message was last edited by the user at 16:53, Tue 05 Feb 2013.
Amythesta
member, 119 posts
I may be bad but I'm
Perfectly good at it...
Tue 5 Feb 2013
at 16:47
  • msg #306

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Weather called for another four to eight inches of snow on top of the two and half feet we already have... What happened? It freaking rained.. So now the snow is a wet nasty collaboration of mud and just plain nastyness. Oh yeah, and the packed stuff on the roads are now ice... Thank you weather man, you really know what you're doing huh?
GreenSerpent
member, 140 posts
Casting darkness at the
Magic Missiles!
Tue 5 Feb 2013
at 17:15
  • msg #307

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

I might have the novovirus.
Jw2809
member, 143 posts
Tue 5 Feb 2013
at 22:50
  • [deleted]
  • msg #308

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was against the forum rules, at 23:02, Tue 05 Feb 2013.
KaiWriter
member, 20 posts
Thu 7 Feb 2013
at 02:03
  • msg #309

Why do I put up with you still?

Damn it, I knew this was too good to be true...

I guess I must have bruised his little ego by being happy about something, because suddenly I get a call from him about forty-five minutes ago.  Apparently, a bunch of friends that he hasn't seen in a year- people who he's told me he doesn't know if he even wants to see- are getting together tomorrow night in a large city three hours away.  Somehow, this changes things, and now, instead of getting ready for the convention like we've been planning for three fruiting weeks, he wants to spend the night having fun with his friends and overnighting in a hotel.

Normally, I have no problem going on an overnight adventure.  But the problem is we have a hard time waking up already, and I see a late checkout as almost a certainly, with us not leaving until about one-thirty after lunch.  I have been looking forward to this con for the entire year.  THE. ENTIRE. YEAR. And now I see what you really think is important- you laying a guilt trip on me about it by asking me "how spontaneous do you feel"?  and then telling me we're going to go and see your friend that you're not even sure wants to fruiting see you, because a bunch of your other friends are going to surprise him.  There is a proper time and place for you to tell me we're driving three hours just to screw around with your friends.  The night before the thing I've been waiting for all school year is not the place or time.

No, I don't want to go, because once we're there, you'll start looking for reasons to keep dinking around and I'll miss my con because you'd rather spend time messing around in a large city and would rather spend the weekend doing what you want.

I'm just tired of you placing everything you want before everything I want.  If you want to go, go without me.  Don't lay another guilt trip on me because I'm "hesitating like I don't want to go" and then try to keep pushing me.  Best case scenario has us home by two-thirty, meaning I have to grab my con stuff and hope to anything I don't miss first slot.

Why did I expect anything different from you?  The sad truth is, though, that I'll end up caving and we'll spend the weekend in the city because I can't resist a guilt trip- I'll always be thinking about if I gave you the correct answer or not, and I HATE THAT ABOUT MYSELF!
Dottie_V
member, 18 posts
Thu 7 Feb 2013
at 06:24
  • msg #310

Re: Why do I put up with you still?

I've gained a new appreciation for the ex-boyfriends that stop talking to you right after you break up with them, especially now that I have to deal with an annoying, chatty, and whiny one this time around.

LEAVE ME ALONE!
facemaker329
member, 5300 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Thu 7 Feb 2013
at 08:43
  • msg #311

Well, THAT wasn't what I had in mind...

So, almost managed to light my stove on fire tonight...making some sugar-glass breakaway stuff for theatrical purposes, which is something I've never done before.  No problem, there's instructions all over the internet, right?

Well, instructions say 'heat the mixture slowly, or you'll discolor it (I want it as clear as I can get it, and most of the examples I've seen have been yellow-ish or brown).  So, I took it VERY slow.  Spent the better part of two hours getting it almost to where I needed it to be.  And at each step along the way, there'd been several minutes before there was a noticeable change in the temperature of the actual mixture.  So, I figured I had plenty of time to step in and check something else on my computer real quick (yeah, I multi-task a lot like that).

Next thing I know, I smell burnt sugar and my kitchen is getting smoky.  I'm not sure exactly where the temperature of the mix was, because the thermometer is only marked up to about 400 degrees (I needed it at 300), and what had been an almost-clear, boiling mass in the pot when I walked out was now dark, burnt brown, seething over the sides of the pot and all over my stovetop.  Luckily, my kitchen is really small, and I literally only needed to pick up the pot and turn around to have it over the sink...where it continued to boil over for several minutes.

The good news is, the stuff that splashed across the floor chipped right up without damaging the flooring, and shattered just the way I wanted it to.  The bad news is, that was two hours that I really couldn't afford to have washed down the drain (plus the hour of clean-up time so I could make another go at it.)  This 4-hours-sleep-a-night stuff is catching up with me, not to mention the stress of trying to get two shows ready to open on the same weekend...
temperance
member, 25 posts
Thu 7 Feb 2013
at 12:15
  • msg #312

Re: Well, THAT wasn't what I had in mind...

Week of Murphy's law: Broke a filling a week ago - I hate needles and dentists, Friday call around for dentists, Saturday pulled a muscle, Sunday headache, Monday exhaustedly go to bed 3 hours before normal, Tuesday wake up with a sinus cold so bad I stay home from work and also smash my toe off a door bad enough that I felt it pop out and back in. Wednesday up at 1AM with sinus pain and spend an hour walking around the house waiting for my tylenol to kick in before going back to bed, then drag myself to work despite feeling miserable and going to the dentist, wake up today feeling like shit and like the cold is going to my chest.

Heck with work. I'm staying home and watching people punch other people in the face all day since I'm feeling too crappy to go to martial arts and do it myself.
truemane
member, 1655 posts
Firing magic missles at
the darkness!
Thu 7 Feb 2013
at 14:40
  • msg #313

Re: Well, THAT wasn't what I had in mind...

This weekend I bought a new video game for myself the first time in about ten years New as in not used, as in just came out, as in not in the discount bin. I was pretty excited about it. Took it home. Popped it in.

15 minutes later? PS3 fails. Red light of doom. All hope is lost.

I know, I know, first world problems.

But still.

Sigh.
habsin4
member, 595 posts
Putting old paper in new
boxes since 2005
Fri 8 Feb 2013
at 17:05
  • msg #314

Re: Losing it!!!

Loud, industrial drilling above the "quiet" Reading Room.  I may go insane.
Brianna
member, 1638 posts
Fri 8 Feb 2013
at 19:09
  • msg #315

Re: Losing it!!!

*sigh*  It's snowing, it's been snowing since yesterday.  Even in Canada, this counts as a snow storm, darn it!  Could be worse, but I'm still not going out, and I really need to do laundry and shop, and I was looking forward to visiting the cats where my kids are housesitting (when they are in the country).  *sighs again*
Amythesta
member, 120 posts
I may be bad but I'm
Perfectly good at it...
Fri 8 Feb 2013
at 19:33
  • msg #316

Re: Losing it!!!

Well, hubby came home today after his rotation at work... As he walks through the door from being gone all week, leaving me and our three children by ourselves, he proceeds to start griping about the house... I do not have a social life, people here see me more often than people at the store do... I come here to socialize simply because I am home with my children all day every day.... So, as he's complaining about how the house looks, he tells me he is going to take the PS3 with him when he leaves... "That way you'll get more done when I'm gone" he said... Excuse me?? I don't get to go anywhere, see anyone or have any kind of fun other than on here. We don't have a comp, so the ps3 is the only connection I have other than our landline phone to the outside world.. Yeah, you go out and party with your buddies while you're home, then leave for work again and take my only social life with you... Don't worry about letting me go out for a night and have fun... You just make sure I'm always stuck at home alone.....
Masamunekaigen
member, 1184 posts
In Soviet Russia, quests
pay you to go on NPCs.
Fri 8 Feb 2013
at 19:55
  • msg #317

Re: Losing it!!!

Though minor compared to a lot of the gripes on here, I am constantly pissed off at Google search engine results. It's not Google's fault though that so many sites post keywords totally unrelated to what is on their page, but dangit hen I'm looking for something I don't want links to databases that don't have the information I need!
Amythesta
member, 121 posts
Fri 8 Feb 2013
at 20:02
  • [deleted]
  • msg #318

Re: Losing it!!!

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 20:09, Fri 08 Feb 2013.
Gremlin
member, 95 posts
Sat 9 Feb 2013
at 02:21
  • msg #319

Re: Losing it!!!

Wtf!!!!?

How can a scumbag who walked into a police station saying he was wanted for murder and just "done two cops, but was sorry they weren't men" then plead not guilty at court. I know he's innocent until proven guilty but come on, he's admitted it and made plans for his last night of freedom before the killings.

Arrrrgh! Hanging is too damn good, country's gone to crap!
adrasteia1
member, 1001 posts
Even a small star
shines in the darkness
Sat 9 Feb 2013
at 13:44
  • msg #320

Endings and new beginnings

I finished my course yesterday, which is a good thing, but kind of sad too as I made some really great friends there. I'll miss having breakfast and lunch with them every weekday. I still have to go back for a Photoshop exam next week, so I might have lunch with some of them afterwards. Still, I'm really not sure what the future holds right now. I would've liked to have kept things the way they were for a bit longer.
This message was last edited by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 14:10, Sat 09 Feb 2013.
Silverlock
member, 47 posts
Sun 10 Feb 2013
at 09:47
  • msg #321

Re: why I hate snow

Snowstorm, shovelling, old back injury reinjured, agony...........
KaiWriter
member, 21 posts
Tue 12 Feb 2013
at 00:59
  • msg #322

Re: why I hate snow

Got to go to the convention... and ended up having an incident on Sunday that still has me steaming mad.

I have a character in the Pathfinder Society.  I wanted to play seven straight slots of it, and level up my character so she can finally start tapping some of her sorcerer powers.  I didn't know that for the entire con, I'd have a sulking, grumpy S.O. for a familiar.  I told him that he could go play whatever he wanted, and if he wanted to play something with me, I'd make the time to go play Ultimate Munchkin or something with him for a slot.  He refuses on the first day, instead electing to play the First Steps adventures for Pathfinder to try it out.

The second day, he plays one slot of Pathfinder and then starts pitching a fit in the middle of the con because there's nothing worth playing for the second Saturday slot except Pathfinder and some other board games. He ends up at a Vampire LARP that's struggling for players and ends up in a conversation with the GM and his wife, who have an "open relationship".  I wondered why he was asking me if I wanted to go travel an hour next month to play Vampire in a nearby town... more on this guy later.

Sunday, he claims to have a migrane and stays back at my apartment while I go to the last day of the con. I go and play one slot of Pathfinder (reaching Lv. 9), and then see that I don't have any suitable characters for the last slot.  I dink around, play in the Battletech pods (I'm murder in a Mad Cat Mk. II!) and try a Star Trek game that makes me wish that the facility was closer to my apartment (it's four hours away... *cries*).  I spend a few hours talking with some others, and get warned by the DM of another White Wolf game going on.  Apparently, the reason yesterday's Vampire game wasn't getting as many players?  The fact that the DM and his wife have an open relationship is well-known... as is the fact that he uses his games to troll for girlfriends.  Yeah.

So when I get back to the apartment, well... we end up in a huge screaming match.  He accuses me of wanting to play games more than spend time with him, and I accuse him of trying to get me into something for his benefit, and that he's being selfish because we could have played something on Friday or Sunday together- but that's not enough for him.  I was apparently supposed to ask him what we were playing.  Oh, yeah.  That went over well.

End result?  After the fight, I told him to get out of my apartment or I'd sic campus security on him. We're "taking a break", but anyone with a brain cell knows that it's over, and I'm just recovering from last night's crapfest for a few days.  I wasn't in any shape to even go to a job interview that I had today... had to claim family emergency and pretty much lose my chance at a job that would have soled a problem of being close to campus and decent hours.

I'm staying single until I can find a nice person who doesn't think I need to be on a leash and can accept that convention weekends are not the best time to have "OMG she loves games more than me!" issues.
Andrew Wilson
member, 119 posts
A cunning Rogue
HP 6/14
Tue 12 Feb 2013
at 01:31
  • msg #323

Re: why I hate snow

Wish I could find a fellow roleplayer to dive into a fruiticious relationship with. My past experiences tend to be just the opposite, my hobbies and gawky friends drive them away, as does my interest to involve them. Heaven forbid they atleast try to enjoy themselves or even admit it.
This message was last edited by a moderator, as it was moot, at 06:21, Tue 12 Feb 2013.
arshes_luna
member, 3 posts
Tue 12 Feb 2013
at 05:02
  • msg #324

My day was great... until....

...about 4:45 today.

I go in around 9:15.  It was supposed to be nine, but my schedule's flexible, so that's actually not that big a deal.  Besides, I've got plenty to do, so I do it, and the day goes swimmingly.... until fifteen minutes before I was supposed to leave.

A little background:  I have a ton of clerical experience and some years of experience in the medical field.  I currently work for an agency which helps parents in need and their children find resources of all kinds, from medical to educational to housing, etc.  My department concentrates on mothers with infants and toddlers.  We are thus required to operate under the provisions of HIPAA, or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, which governs the privacy of client/patient information.  In short: medical records need to be kept in a locked location.

Okay.  Now on to the vent, in two parts.  The first is clerical and the second is medical.  Hence the background.

I find out from my supervisor C. at 4:45 today that the agenda for a meeting which is to take place **tomorrow morning at 11:30** hasn't been sent to anyone attending the meeting.  This task was delegated to a co-worker, D., who was asked to send it three times last week.  We had to work on it until 5:45 -- simply because the agenda indicated neither the time nor the location of the meeting.  That alone set us both off, never mind the additional concerns I had to mention at the time which resulted in a distinct change in my job description.  (In other words, I made more work for myself, but I'd rather be the one to do it than D., as I see it is NOT getting done.)

At least one person who received the agenda today is out of the office until tomorrow morning, time unknown.  This is a community meeting, and Ph.D level practitioners will be in attendance.  Essentially, this makes us look bad at a community level... and to people who have all kinds of letters after their names.  C. is not only embarrassed, but angry.  I don't blame her, and in fact have other concerns which I bring up at the time, and of course I too am angry about this not being done because I could have and would have done it had I realized it had been so neglected.  I told her just to let me do it next time.

That's the clerical bit.  Now for the medical, which explains my mention of HIPAA.

The same co-worker took files home today in order to put them in alphabetical order for filing tomorrow.  She's staff, so I didn't really think too much of it until some hours later, when I realized the significance of the fact that the files themselves were not in a locked container for transport.  As far as I understand the provisions of HIPAA, that constitutes a violation of the act, so I sent a message to my supervisor relating the fact.  I'm not just working there, but am also a certified paralegal, and if something comes up later because of this I don't want to lose my paralegal status.  I don't know if it would happen, but the fact is that it could.  I'd rather have myself covered.  JUST in case.

This whole thing at work as gotten to the point where I'm pretty sure D. is just going to walk off the job, and that soon.  I get the distinct impression that there is going to be some serious ... well, you know.... hitting the fan tomorrow morning and I am NOT looking forward to being there when it does.  I don't know if I'm going to be pulled into "that meeting" when C. confronts D.  I hope not.
This message was last edited by the user at 06:57, Tue 12 Feb 2013.
DarkwindStriker
member, 508 posts
Better known in many
places as Gatewalker.
Wed 13 Feb 2013
at 00:46
  • msg #325

Re: My day was great... until....

Tripped and fell while out on my walk today. Busted up my palms(fingers fine at least, so I can type without too much difficulty) and one knee. Had to walk half a mile home with a bleeding knee.

The worst part is how apparently external physical damage like this is capable of causing my stomach to suddenly be sick as hell and completely sap all of my energy. Blarg.

Also my glasses fell off and got scraped up bad enough that I'll need to replace them. Thankfully we have good vision insurance, at least.
Amyante
member, 29 posts
Nobody ever considers
the feelings of a weapon
Wed 13 Feb 2013
at 11:26
  • msg #326

Re: My day was great... until....

Right. I'm currently working for someone in that i'm helping them sell their books online. The gist of what i wanted to vent about goes like this:

Boss: "How come you're working that slow?"
Me: "Because i need to find descriptions and reviews for the books you told me to put up."
Boss: "Nah, it's a specific public, they know the titles looking them up anyway. And besides, there's a picture of the back of the book which has the description anyway."
Me: "So do you want me to leave it out, and just put author, title, code and 'see pic for description'?"
Boss: "Yeah."

(MONTHS later)

Boss (on phone): "Hey, why do none of the books you uploaded have descriptions?"

Seriously, this is so facepalm worthy it hurts... And i'm the one that gets to fix this, of course.

*sighs*
This message was last edited by the user at 11:27, Wed 13 Feb 2013.
The_Blob
member, 36 posts
Wed 13 Feb 2013
at 13:37
  • msg #327

Re: My day was great... until....

WHY DO WE KEEP ELECTING MORONS???
adrasteia1
member, 1007 posts
Even a small star
shines in the darkness
Thu 14 Feb 2013
at 10:21
  • msg #328

Re: My day was great... until....

My pet rabbit's having some health problems and it's got me worried. She's shedding heavily at the moment (fur everywhere) and while I'm not sure if that's a factor, she's had a partial blockage (food isn't going through her properly). I took her to the vet yesterday, and I've been giving her more vegetables since (including lettuce, which isn't good for them, but I was told a small amount wouldn't hurt her. It's useful since it has a high water content).

While she's eating like a horse and she's quite active (and cranky), it's fairly apparent that she's not drinking much. She normally drinks out of a bottle and has hardly touched it, so I decided to give her a small bowl of water. For lack of a better bowl, I took the big lid off an as-yet unopened pack of spaghetti hoops in the fridge, washed it well and gave it to her. She doesn't seem willing to drink out of it though.

I've had it grabbed by bunny teeth and thrown about the cage more than a few times in a row, and she's kicked it out of my hands with her front legs. My hands are now kind of sore. Is it really that hard to get a rabbit to drink water?! At the moment she's 'under observation' (by me) so I may have to take her back to the vet today. I was hoping to avoid it. The only other option I can see is 1) leave her a bit and see if she drinks on her own, or 2) get a syringe and feed her water that way. That said, she has improved a fair bit, but becoming dehydrated is only going to make it worse.
habsin4
member, 598 posts
Putting old paper in new
boxes since 2005
Fri 15 Feb 2013
at 22:02
  • msg #329

Re: My day was great... until....

My co-op board's vice president had some funky purchases with co-op money that we can't trace, and very nearly got us sued under Fair Housing guidelines by telling a single woman applying for a unit she couldn't move in "if she was just gonna get pregnant and want move right out again."  Obviously, he had to be taken off the board.

But he was also maintaining the boiler for the building.  His keys were taken away, and now the maintenance guy had no clue how to maintain the boiler, and the building has no heat.  My apartment is already freezing and I have a 7 month old baby.  And its supposed to get colder this weekend.

Can't we let the guy maintain the boiler without letting him sit on the board?
Jessi
member, 5 posts
By the rules!
No PvP!
Sat 16 Feb 2013
at 10:15
  • msg #330

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

In reply to Shannara (msg # 1):

I've applied to three games, and it's obvious I haven't been accepted because the post count has sky-rocketed.  No one contacted me with a rejection, so I just had to figure it out on my own.

No one will GM the game I really want to play, even after multiple posts in Wanted-GMs.

We have a guy in the game that I can actually play who lives in Australia so that we can only play twice a day for about two hours instead of having it be a semi-constant game like the other four players can manage.

I hate my life, my apartment, my situation.  I've got a knee the doctor's won't fix, I've got bi-polar that the medicine isn't helping with, I've got a husband who never approaches me for sex - I have to chase it down each and every single time.  I've got three kids who drive me crazy.  I can't find a job because between the knee and the bi-polar I can't really do anything.

I'm really good at math and I can't afford to go to school to get qualifications enough to do something like research or science or accounting which would pay a lot of money and be something I could reliably do.

I'm a really good, constant player and nobody will teach me the rules to their game so I can play anything.

There's more, but I'm crying now so I'll stop.
Dottie_V
member, 20 posts
Sun 17 Feb 2013
at 01:58
  • msg #331

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

My school's offices are so fruiting inefficient! Dx The grade change form my Professor requested a MONTH ago still hasn't arrived! Stupid school! RAWR!
Zephydel
member, 653 posts
Creative Ideas
Real-Life Solutions
Sun 17 Feb 2013
at 20:30
  • msg #332

Seriously? Low-level characters spamming high-level spells?

A group of level 12 characters enter a PVP room for level 50-60 characters. They then [start] spamming level 75 spells using scrolls, all bought from the Real-Cash Store during battle. They then tell the other players in the PVP room (including me, since I use a level 51 character) that they [should] be banned forever because they are noobs who cannot afford to buy more items in the Real-Cash Store.
This message was last edited by the user at 03:28, Mon 18 Feb 2013.
Amyante
member, 33 posts
Sun 17 Feb 2013
at 20:37
  • [deleted]
  • msg #333

Re: Seriously? Low-level characters spamming high-level spells?

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 20:38, Sun 17 Feb 2013.
facemaker329
member, 5322 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Sun 17 Feb 2013
at 21:36
  • msg #334

Re: Seriously? Low-level characters spamming high-level spells?

I sure hope the doctor can figure out what's wrong with my shoulder.  At this point, I'd even be okay with knowing it's something they can't fix, I'm just sick of it being sore for no discernible reason.  Seriously...got out of the hot tub at my friends' place last night, wrapped a towel around my waist...and almost couldn't tuck the ends in to make it stay there, because something about the angle at which I was exerting leverage with my arm sent a shooting pain through my shoulder.  I've had shoulder problems before...with the other shoulder.  But never this severe, and they ALWAYS cleared up faster than this.  I've been dealing with this crepe suzette since before Halloween, though it's only been in the last couple of months that it's been really bad (thanks for the snow, Mother Nature...)

Wednesday.  I should get some answers Wednesday, even if they may only be, "Well, we know it's not this, and I think we can rule this out, but we'll have to do further testing to find out about the other options."  I can't even pull the sheets over myself at night with that arm anymore, or pick stuff up off the nightstand.  And much as I want it to just go away, at this point I'd be at least somewhat satisfied just knowing WHY...
facemaker329
member, 5325 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Mon 18 Feb 2013
at 09:18
  • msg #335

That's the best argument you've got?

Learned something last night.  Karaoke DJ's are not generally amused when someone says, "You've gotta make me next.  I'm so drunk I might not even be able to stand up when my turn comes!"  (I know this, because I was the DJ.)  It's even less amusing when it's someone that I used to consider a pretty good friend, whose increasingly self-centered life-style is destroying her second marriage.  The whole place was full of drunk people...I was one of the maybe five sober people in the whole place.  None of them were hounding me to make them next before they passed out...when they got to the point where they felt like they were falling-down drunk, they just stopped asking for songs.

And what bugs me even more about it is the knowledge that she made that demand fully expecting me to just roll over and play dead.  She got rather heated when I told her no.  I'm not sure, but I think she realized just how close I was to handing her the list and saying, "You run the fruiting machine, I'm doing your husband a favor by taking a turn at it so he can really enjoy the evening for a change but I'm not gonna put up with this strudel."  And part of me kinda wishes I had.  I'm glad I didn't, because it would have made the rest of the night really awkward for a lot of people and I'm the sort that doesn't want to screw up the party for everyone else because one person is being a pain.

But, yeah...last night kinda drew the line for me.  I have stayed neutral about her marriage (I know her husband, too, and have become pretty good friends with him in his own right), but I was one of the ones that had kind of been hoping they could smooth things out and get back together.  I can see, now, that's not likely to ever happen, because she's so caught up in what she wants that she can't see anyone else's side of things.  And I know it's not just the alcohol, because she's like that when she's sober...she's just more diplomatic about how she tries to get her way.

Buckle up, kids...it's gonna be a rough road ahead.  Wish this was the first time I'd been down this path, but I've had married friends part ways before.  I see a lot of ugly situations on the horizon...
Sotalia
member, 174 posts
Fri 22 Feb 2013
at 05:01
  • msg #336

And here I thought 2012 was over

Last year brought me a S.O. diagnosed with COPD and him subsequently stopping his psych meds; a person offering me my dream job only to prove himself to be an unreliable meth addict; death by suicide of a friend; death of my 15-year old cat (a day after my friend died); the loss of my job when our company decided to close their retail division and put over 500 people out of work in two countries; the loss of our lux 900 sf apartment and the gain of a not-so-lux 400 sf apartment and a landlord who has no qualms about taking advantage of his tenants; the gain of a lovely friend next door who is battling terminal cancer; the gain of a wonderful job only to have my hours cut for 6 months and not being able to pay credit card bills; having to go to the E.R. myself two days after my medical insurance ended and ending up with a $7,000 E.R. bill; and finally, having my S.O. completely lose his mind and go psycho to the point he checked himself into a psych hospital.

2013 brought promise- hours returned this month, $1/hr raise kicks in next paycheck, new medical insurance, less stress and a promise of peace in the house.  But, of course, 2012 still lingers and within the last week, I have been in a car accident that totaled my car, gave me a concussion and a wrecked back, broke up with the S.O., and have been evicted from the crap apartment because psycho S.O. got into a fight with the neighbor who is on payroll to the jerk landlord.

So, this moment, I face being homeless, alone with two cats, no vehicle and pain out the wazoo.  Oh.  And it snowed in my city which hasn't seen snow in 20 years.

</VENT>
Andrew Wilson
member, 129 posts
A cunning Rogue
HP 6/14
Fri 22 Feb 2013
at 05:57
  • msg #337

February isnt short enough

Well to begin my rant, I live in norther new york and im in my early 20s with no work experience because all the places around here are either run by a conservative 65+ year old degenerate who will not hire someone unless they have work experience, or by a feminist who runs a not so obscure no males allowed workforce policy (our mcdonalds is currently employing 17 women and 4 40+ male janitorials and they say they get talked down to at work), I cant drive because noone I know will lend me there car to learn how to drive and my mom ruined my credit so I cant take out a loan to buy a practice car.... I live with my grandmother because my Dad is a skitzo and my mom tried to kill me when I was 7 and the trauma from that has left me with PTSD and im unfit to serve in the military because of it and work at certain places and im legally homeless at the moment. Exhales

I found out I might have testicular cancer and that I am for sure sterile because of the "might haves". I am a pro humanity human being, I believe that if it doesnt help progress society or the human race than it shouldn't exist. Knowing im sterile has me feeling rather disgusted and angry at well everything and I dont know where to begin my rant other then here. My rant is against the ignorant person who said "Bad things happen to bad people" "Karma" and "Just desserts" because if that person knew me they would have no explanation for this crap and its not fair...

I feel that life is just a game, a game where I do not pay to play and never win or get anything nice, and I log in every morning and find my base raided and all my resources gone. But I find that one of my villagers wasnt killed and rebuild my town center every morning and try again.

If you know what I mean.
This message was last edited by the user at 06:02, Fri 22 Feb 2013.
Pyrate
member, 176 posts
Supercalifragialistic
expialidocious.
Fri 22 Feb 2013
at 08:27
  • msg #338

Re: February isnt short enough

How come every time I usher "From now on this year can only get better!" I have an additional catastrophe announce its precence?
The_Blob
member, 41 posts
Fri 22 Feb 2013
at 14:53
  • msg #339

Re: February isnt short enough

WHY do SO MANY people on rPol make game-antithetical-specific characters and then claim there are no 'role.playing' opportunities?

must be Tycho's Greater Internet Fruit-wad Theory in action.
truemane
member, 1658 posts
Firing magic missles at
the darkness!
Fri 22 Feb 2013
at 15:15
  • msg #340

Re: February isnt short enough

One step forward, two steps back. All the things that were supposed to be easy turned out to be hard. And all the things that were supposed to be hard are also hard. I know I shouldn't complain. I have a place to live, fridge full of food, gainfully employed, all that.

But still. Domestic distress. Tired. So tired. Feels like all I do is work and sleep and still I'm tired.
facemaker329
member, 5343 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Sat 23 Feb 2013
at 06:53
  • msg #341

Re: February isnt short enough

Okay, this is REALLY trivial in comparison to what's been posted on here recently, but it's bugging me, so I'm gonna sound off...

I found out the hard way that the rod that goes through the center of the cylinder on the revolver I was cleaning is a two-piece item, that threads together in the middle of the cylinder.  I've got the cylinder, and the back of the rod and the spring...no idea where the front of the rod flew off to, but I need to find it before next week, because they've got a pick-up rehearsal for the show on Tuesday night!
adrasteia1
member, 1050 posts
Even a small star
shines in the darkness
Thu 28 Feb 2013
at 20:50
  • msg #342

Web difficulties

I'm having some troubles with a website of mine and not having much luck solving it (at least so far).

It uses a framework called CMS Made Simple. It's been working fine until at least 2 days ago. The pages are still showing up in the CMS but the PHP files are missing. They're still listed on the CMS as pages, and when I go into them the content is there, so I can only imagine they're somewhere.

When the browser loads now it's defaulting back to the html version of the page I created first, but never erased. It's not recognising the PHP pages as being there at all.

It was absolutely fine until at least a day or two ago. I've got multiple sites on my hosting account and I tacked a Wordpress gallery on to my portfolio page the night before last, and I can only image it screwed something up somewhere.

I'm not sure how to get it back. It's kind of important too because I'm applying for jobs where using it as a bit of a reference, only it's not there right now.
jsalt87
member, 253 posts
Thu 7 Mar 2013
at 05:49
  • msg #343

Bureau-crazy

So after some time where I hadn't the ability to work on getting my driver's license, I recently went to the local DDS office to renew my learner's permit. Which at my age is somewhat unusual. Most people would have gotten to a driver's license at least five years ago. Most people have family members available and willing to help to get the necessary experience, and access to cars that don't break down right as you have the time and family member available.

My first hurdle appeared during my first attempt about a week ago. I knew that I needed some documents, but had only been told half of what I needed. I had no proof of residency. And the only documents they'd accept were things I didn't get due to unemployment. And although I live with my sister, I can't use any documentation from her because she's not a parent. So due to legal constraints, I still legally live with my retired parents. Joy.

Today I finally manage to collect the necessary papers and return to take the test. And fail. Not because I didn't know the answers. I failed BECAUSE I knew the answers. Of the six questions I missed (with a fail being more than five failed answers), I failed them because of: the defensive driving course I took teaching me the wrong terminology (turns out pedestrians don't 'always have the right of way' according to the law. Not that you can just run them over, of course); Pedantic splitting of hairs over how you describe an action; the meaning of a light signal that I answered the same way earlier and got correct; a question that when I checked the drivers manual of my state I answered correctly and the computer told me I got wrong; and a niche case I'd never heard of and almost never happens (at least out in the rural area I live in. Not that many one way streets intersecting out here).

So the only question I can't remember is the only one I feel I got wrong legitimately, and at least two seem to be definitely an error in the computer's programming. Meaning I wasted a good chunk of time and money (to an unemployed person, the small charge for renewing a license is pretty big!) only to fail because of a combination of stupid programers, pedantic legalize, and misinformation from the people who should know better. And I'm still no closer to getting mobile so I can find/get a job! And I'm going to have to do it all again soon, because I can't appeal the test because 'computers don't lie' or some such rot.
st_nougat
member, 130 posts
Thu 7 Mar 2013
at 18:46
  • msg #344

yay bosses

So what I want to know is how is it my fault that I order a motor for I project that I am working on that has a standard bore in it, and then when my boss takes over the project and orders a metric shaft to go it.

motor was ordered in november, he took it over in January.  and its my fault that they dont match.
adrasteia1
member, 1092 posts
Even a small star
shines in the darkness
Sat 9 Mar 2013
at 23:52
  • msg #345

Re: yay bosses

Just spent a couple of hrs of my Saturday night working on a css file, only to discover it was the wrong one. At least I know now why it wasn't working. :/
Silverlock
member, 50 posts
Mon 11 Mar 2013
at 09:54
  • msg #346

Re: yay bosses

It's my fault that the QC tests required to be run in January were not started until March and now we're under scrutiny by the controllling powers-that-be for this reason.  But it's perfectly OK that management didn't assign any of this work to anyone until March - and DID assign me to be janitor of the building more than a few times this year.  And the bosses earn 6 figures with a lot of paid time off, I certainly don't, nor will I get anything but fresh fruitcake for the duration.  They'll probably get overtime pay.  Delightful.
Brianna
member, 1652 posts
Mon 11 Mar 2013
at 18:08
  • msg #347

Re: yay bosses

One stupid investment company from Mom's estate!  They apparently need a notarized (commissioner won't do) form returned to them before they will pay out, despite already having a copy of the will, the death certificate, our birth certificates and drivers' licences, etc.  Not only were those documents enough for everyone else, they had to have them BEFORE they could send us the form (so that we could deal with it before we (thought we were) finished with the lawyer.  And they didn't even prepare a form with our names on it (why else the timing?!?), just with two lines for us to sign.  *sigh*

Note for those not familiar with this procedure - a commissioner would cost us $10, the lawyer?  Well, we'll see but at least add a zero, I'm sure.  Even though all either has to do is witness our signatures, after checking that we are who we say we are.
Amyante
member, 75 posts
Nobody ever considers
the feelings of a weapon
Mon 11 Mar 2013
at 22:18
  • msg #348

Re: yay bosses

For the record, i like the neighborhood i live in, but my neighbor, ugh!

She blows her entire salary on crap on Day One, then every couple of days she comes over to borrow stuff from me, complain that she's hungry and stuff.

Well gee, maybe next time you should, i dunno, not spend it all on scratchcards?

Oh no, who am i kidding? It happened last month, it happened this month and it'll happen again next month. This is a woman who prioritizes a pack of cigarettes over food after all.

*walks off ranting*
ginny
member, 80 posts
Fri 15 Mar 2013
at 15:12
  • msg #349

Re: yay bosses

Thank you to the cop yesterday that just had to do a U-turn in the middle of the street to pull me over for a stupid fruitin' expired inspection sticker.  Like anybody these days can afford a $300 ticket.  Im sure you could have spent that time more wisely by, say I dont know, pulling over a speeding car or a drunk driver.  No you had to pull me over.  Jack ass.  Now I cant drive my car until its inspected.  Im glad I helped you make your quota.  :P

Then to start my morning off today, I couldnt find my winter boots so I could take the kids to the bus stop.  Get home, my dryer wouldnt work after I had just finished washing a load of my husbands work clothes that he needs today.
This message was last edited by a moderator, as it was against the forum rules, at 15:14, Fri 15 Mar 2013.
Silverlock
member, 52 posts
Sat 16 Mar 2013
at 01:15
  • msg #350

Re: yay bosses

It is astonishing the amount of misery one person can generate when they are given a position of authority.
ginny
member, 81 posts
Wed 20 Mar 2013
at 01:55
  • msg #351

Re: yay bosses

To the idiot who lives across the street:

SNOW BLOW YOUR DRIVEWAY IN THE MORNING!  ITS 10 PM AND PEOPLE ARE SLEEPING!
temperance
member, 26 posts
Wed 20 Mar 2013
at 12:29
  • msg #352

Vents

I live in the part of Canada that just got 30cm of snow.

I just finish shovelling my driveway - about an hour and fifteen minutes of work.

No sooner do I get inside for some water than the plow goes by and leaves a wall about 3/4 m high across my driveway of hard-packed snow and ice.

ARGH.

Back out I go.
facemaker329
member, 5387 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Thu 21 Mar 2013
at 07:18
  • msg #353

Re: Vents

Man, I thought I was done with these mystery toothaches.  Not yet, apparently, because there's one on the right side of my mouth that seems to wander back and forth between four different teeth.  That would be bad enough in its own right, but it's also causing a reflexive tensing of the muscles on that side of my face, especially my jaw, which is causing me a doozy of a headache that's been going on for almost 30 hours, now.  Even that, I could live with, except it's interfering with my ability to sleep and it gets worse when I lay down.

I may end up reversing my decision to wait on getting that tooth worked on until after my birthday, and just get it over and done with, even if it screws up birthday plans.
AtomicGamer
member, 50 posts
Sat 23 Mar 2013
at 16:45
  • [deleted]
  • msg #354

Re: Vents

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was against the forum rules, at 23:14, Sat 23 Mar 2013.
AtomicGamer
member, 51 posts
Sat 23 Mar 2013
at 18:30
  • [deleted]
  • msg #355

Re: Vents

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was against the forum rules, at 18:35, Sat 23 Mar 2013.
arkrim
member, 725 posts
Professional Wiseguy
greyscalemail.com
Mon 25 Mar 2013
at 14:03
  • msg #356

Re: Vents

Anyone notice that most GMs that claim they want a "SANDBOX" game are really just saying that they are too lazy or incompetent to come up with an adventure arc? Does that not irk everyone else? Especially those of us who are actually ADEQUATE GMs and can write up a story and scenario description for players to work with instead of just sitting on our butts waiting for someone else to come up with an idea? This new breeds of "sandbox" GMs annoy me. The idea of sandboxing was supposed to give players more freedom within a game teeming with adventure possibilities, not lack adventure altogether while the GM does absolutely nothing to entice players.
This message was last edited by the user at 14:05, Mon 25 Mar 2013.
ZedZed77
member, 226 posts
Mon 25 Mar 2013
at 18:22
  • msg #357

Re: Vents

Bioshock Infinite has been out for like 12 whole hours and no one has posted a video of the ending as far as I can tell. Now I might have to buy it and play all the way through.
Silverlock
member, 53 posts
Tue 26 Mar 2013
at 03:05
  • msg #358

Re: Vents

birthdays.

How can a parent forget the birthday of their only surviving child yet have the chutzpah to ask for a favour a day later that requires a great deal of personal time and effort from that same child ?  0H, not to mention this is the second year in a row this has happened.  And forget about apologising for forgetting the birthday...I didn't want anything but a simple "Happy birthday," btw.
Snowmantle
member, 393 posts
Tue 26 Mar 2013
at 03:32
  • msg #359

Re: Vents

With the addition of a number of 4-way stop intersections around my town, I've been increasingly annoyed by people who don't know what to do at one.  I don't feel like I need to look this one up to know that if someone adjacent to you at the intersection stops and either flashes their lights or waves for you to go first... THEN GO.  Don't sit there like an ass and wave back for them to go first.

And if you intend to let someone else go before you do... TELL THEM SO... perhaps by flashing your lights or waving them on.  Sitting motionless at the corner staring at them DOES NOT tell them of you're waiting on them, so don't get annoyed when they don't dare move out in front of you because they DON'T KNOW YOUR INTENTION.
arkrim
member, 726 posts
Professional Wiseguy
greyscalemail.com
Tue 26 Mar 2013
at 03:49
  • msg #360

Re: Vents

I hate people who aren't grateful when they receive free gifts and assistance. Even when I DON'T want help, I still thank people for their time and politely ask them to leave. But taking free food, free gifts, free help and then COMPLAINING that someone didn't give you enough or the exact right thing that you wanted is just beyond childish.

I sincerely hope there is such a thing as Hell, because I know for a fact people like that would end up permanent residents there (along with rapists, murderers, pedophiles and people who talk in the theater).
flakk
member, 463 posts
Dark Heresy!
Warhammer Fantasy RPG (2)
Tue 26 Mar 2013
at 15:34
  • msg #361

Re: Vents

My mother has decided to have a 40th anniversary party this summer and my wife and I were invited along with all my family.  I have not had a chance to see many of my family members in a few years and was really looking forward to this and had planned on trying to get my daughter for the weekend so she can go as well.  I just found out that my mother has also invited my daughter's mother as well.  They hang out together, shop together, go on trips together etc. and I can't stand it!  I can bring my daughter to see her grandparents whenever they want so why does her apple sauce mother need to get an invite to this particular event?  My wife vowed to never interact with my daughter's mother when she had a lawyer threaten me for things she only needed to ask for so she's not going.  Now I don't want to go and participate in yet another example of how my wishes are ignored and my wife is ignored in favour of someone constantly bent on doing me harm.  The fruit salad has already used the good relationship with my mother to gain more leverage thanks to her grapefruit lawyer and I'm sure this will be another example she can use to get even more.  So I either anger my mother who already thinks I am the scum of the earth even more or go without my wife and be physically and mentally stressed out while condoning 10+ years of being marginalized in favour of mom's pet/best buddy.  Either way I am up strawberry creek without a paddle and I am sure this is gong to turn out badly either way it pans out.
Kyra25
member, 1281 posts
Tattooed Jesus Freak
From Indiana
Tue 26 Mar 2013
at 15:58
  • msg #362

Re: Vents

Ok....seriously...

When you ask my 15 year old daughter to go on a Florida trip with you (I live in IN) and you take on the responsibility of her and 4 other girls...I expect you to treat her well and to take care of her.

What I don't expect---

When she and your daughter get into a verbal argument, that you immediately take one side and not even listen to the other.  When you look at my daughter and call her immature and ungrateful.....I don't expect you to look at her and tell her she is ruining your vacation and your daughter's 16th birthday.  I don't expect you to tell her that you wished she hadn't come.  I do NOT expect you to threaten her saying you are going to call the police and have her escorted off the property.  I don't expect you to snoop through her things and know she has $350 for the week then tell her you know she has enough money for bus ticket or air fair.  I don't expect you to tell her you will gladly "dump" her off at the bus station so she can get home because she is no longer welcome there after being there merely TWO days.  I don't expect you to continue to be mean to her when she is crying and upset.  I don't expect you to tell her she is 'getting on your nerves' because her asthma is flared up and she can't stop coughing.  I don't expect you to wake her up long enough to tell her you are leaving then you ALL leave to go to the zoo, leaving her alone at the townhouse.   YES - all of this happened in the course of yesterday.

Seriously wish I had the money to go get her but I don't have $600 lying around like some people.  I am so upset and furious.  It breaks my heart to hear her crying over the phone because ADULTS are treating her like crap.  YOU asked her to come and took on the responsibility.  I thought I could trust you would treat her right and with respect.  I would NEVER do that.  I would have made the girls sit and talk it out and said get along or not but it's going to stop.  No...instead the beat my daughter down verbally.

I.Am.Going.To.Snap.
Dottie_V
member, 33 posts
A compilation of neuroses
And a bad temper too. ;D
Wed 27 Mar 2013
at 19:21
  • msg #363

Re: Vents

Today, I’m going to blueberry and not just because I’m naturally inclined to do so. No today I will blueberry because I am thoroughly angry. “Why?“ You ask, because I had to spend my day at the most inefficient government facility I have ever had the misfortune of setting foot in, the Mexican Consulate. You’d think that serving the 9th, NINTH mulberry fritter largest city in the US with a considerably large Hispanic population, this place would know how to run. WRONG. Good God, get your strawberries together!!! Dx
Twitcherly
member, 16 posts
Counter-Intellectual
Reformed Hedonist
Thu 28 Mar 2013
at 20:47
  • msg #364

Re: Vents

I'm currently enrolled in a mandatory graduate course on 'Emerging Web Technologies'. The fact I'm taking a class about how Twitter, Pinterest and TumblR are the future of the internet is frustrating in and of itself. The icing on the cake, however, is that the professor demonstrates virtually no knowledge about any of these technologies herself. Somehow this professor has lied into a position administering a course where she knows almost nothing about the subject matter. I pay for this class out of pocket and its extremely expensive. I feel robbed and there's nothing I can do about it besides file a complaint about it after the fact.

I'm sick of this trend in higher education. Even in undergrad, most of the professors have virtually stopped teaching. Instead they focus on lengthy assignments, student presentations and a constant bombardment of student content facilitated by web-based programs. When they do talk, its like they haven't prepared anything and just spend their time on these tangents. I thought that I would have escaped this in Graduate school, but nope. The teachers that work extremely hard don't seem to get any more recognition than the lazy professors who have decided to stop teaching almost entirely. Its disgusting to see this first hand and have to pay for the privilege.
TheWarriorPoet519
member, 1343 posts
Resident porch-squatting
stick-shaker
Sun 31 Mar 2013
at 17:06
  • msg #365

Re: Vents

A note to extraverts everywhere: if you see me quietly reading in a public place away from the crowd, it does not mean I am lonely and want someone to talk to. It means I am reading. Please, I'm fine, really. Leave me be.
Seanberry
member, 34 posts
Mon 1 Apr 2013
at 00:24
  • msg #366

Re: Vents

GRRRAAAAHHHHHH.  For some unknown reason my FRAGGING phone has decided today to update my id pic when text from being my blank information to for SOME reason to another of my contacts.  I can find sweet FRAG all nothing on my phone manufactorers website to help, so after 2 hours of looking I emailed them and get it'll be 24 hours.  Yes it's minor, but its REALLY annoying for me and I want my phone back the way it was.
habsin4
member, 612 posts
Putting old paper in new
boxes since 2005
Tue 2 Apr 2013
at 15:34
  • msg #367

Re: Vents

Leaving one of the office suites in my workplace, and a woman pushing a cart is ahead of me.  I work in a university library, and I guess she is a student by age and dress.  She holds the door for me, and as I walk out I say "Thanks.  I feel like I should have held the door for you....because you're pushing a cart."

Except "you're pushing a cart" is drowned out by her saying loudly "Times are a-changing, huh?"

Now, its all awkward and instead of say "No, no, I didn't mean that in a sexist, you're-a-woman way, I meant that you're pushing a cart" I just give a forced laugh and say "Yeah."

Now some student out there thinks one of the librarians is a sexist pig.  Great.
cero1
member, 304 posts
Wed 3 Apr 2013
at 02:25
  • msg #368

Re: Vents

So as I see the GMs of half the games I am in disappear, I'd like a game in the Players - Wanted forum to use a system I enjoy playing in and not another bloody D&D/Pathfinder game... or not be an Adult-Rated Sandbox University game for once.

Or a game where the GM has checked there would be interest before making a game for their niche idea so I'm not the only player.

And screw home-brew.

T_T'

Is that too much to ask of a game?
facemaker329
member, 5418 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Wed 3 Apr 2013
at 05:26
  • msg #369

Re: Vents

Man, I don't know whether it's worse enduring the tooth-ache now, or if I'd be more miserable sitting through orientation at work in a couple of days after having a wisdom tooth taken out.  I already rescheduled the dentist appointment for next week...I just hope I can hold out that long.

And it's not JUST the toothache.  I reflexively clench my jaw in response to pain...which creates pressure on the nerves running up the side of my head to my temples, so THOSE muscles tense up and I get a headache.  And the pressured nerves also react as though receiving pain stimuli from my mouth...so the toothache goes from being in the one tooth that I KNOW has a problem to all along my upper jaw, to the tooth in my lower jaw that I got the crown on last year, to half the teeth in my lower jaw, and then back to the joint...

I'm having a long, LONG evening tonight, can you tell?
Dottie_V
member, 34 posts
A compilation of neuroses
And a bad temper too. ;D
Wed 3 Apr 2013
at 06:04
  • msg #370

Re: Vents

Ear infections make me weep.
facemaker329
member, 5423 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Thu 4 Apr 2013
at 07:50
  • msg #371

Re: Vents

As if the toothache wasn't enough...I don't know for sure what it is, but I think something I ate over the weekend has really disagreed with me.  I'll spare the more gruesome details, but the most uncomfortable one has been the continuous slight pressure in my abdomen...it's like someone's pushing on my solar plexus from the inside, not hard enough to be painful, just uncomfortable.  And nothing I've tried has done anything about it.

If I was an appliance, I'd swear I'd just passed the end of my warranty period...still having problems with tendonitis and bursitis, the toothache is causing a chronic headache, and now something is giving me pain in my mid-section (which would concern me more if it was accompanied by any other symptoms of note, especially a lack of appetite.  Nope...been hungry as usual all day...)

Can I please get back to a relatively pain-free state again?  (Okay, now I'm just whining.  The stomachache and toothache have only been a few days...I should really save that kind of grousing for when it's been weeks with no relief and no hope for relief.  Because I know people who have to live with that.)
Mustard Tiger
member, 428 posts
Thu 4 Apr 2013
at 19:15
  • msg #372

Re: Vents

I hate the following:

Wife beaters.

Drug dealers.

Drug users.

People who think suicide is the only way out.

People like me, who didn't do enough to help.
ginny
member, 90 posts
Thu 4 Apr 2013
at 20:33
  • msg #373

Re: Vents

Trying to help my 10 year old with her algebra homework :P
adrasteia1
member, 1190 posts
Even a small star
shines in the darkness
Fri 5 Apr 2013
at 15:45
  • msg #374

Re: Vents

*Grumbles*

I was just looking at some jobs available over here and found an online marketing job that sounded rather cool. That was until I learned it was an unpaid internship, but only applicants with a degree in marketing and experience with html and search engines need apply.

There are far too many internships over here where companies are looking for interns to work full time for nothing or for a small amount on top of benefits. A lot of these sorts of positions were once jobs in their own right. It's not just higher level jobs, either. There are internships for reception, shop jobs, IT jobs, etc. I even saw one advertised for an intern to work in a bakery.

It's just frustrating that just about every job I want to apply for is now classified as an internship.
KaiWriter
member, 30 posts
Fri 5 Apr 2013
at 16:47
  • msg #375

Re: Vents

Dear stupid blueberry in the apartment below me,

When you have a wild party on a Thursday night and have a bunch of screaming and shouting half-drunk people, please do not be surprised when I call the campus police on you. Just because you do not have anything to do tomorrow doesn't mean we all have the day off.
The_Blob
member, 72 posts
Sun 7 Apr 2013
at 01:50
  • msg #376

Re: Vents

I now have fruiting drug resistant pneumonia, one lung is operating at 30%, the other at 50%, on intravenous anti-bac plus other drug cocktails, taking blood every 6 hours, ugh.
Necat
member, 497 posts
remember
bat girl is a librarian
Sun 7 Apr 2013
at 21:37
  • msg #377

Re: Vents

If you send an rtj, and the GM replies, have you read the rules?  Then stating that you must have missed something really isn't an impressive response.  Better might be to go read the thread to see what you missed. Since, yes, obviously you did miss something and the GM is trying to be nice to you.  And when it's confirmed, yes, you have missed something and you say okay bye, that pretty much assures you'll never play in one of that GM's games in the future.  Oh, and saying thank you before you leave, really just makes you look worse.
st_nougat
member, 145 posts
Mon 8 Apr 2013
at 19:04
  • msg #378

Re: Vents

This Stupid Fraggin' job that I am stuck in.  I am given a project last thursday or friday, told it is hot and that I need to have a concept done by tuesday.  Ok no problem except for the fact that a whole bunch of other stuff keeps getting put in front of it.  The concept is really due in less than 8 working hours, I literally have next to nothing done on it, and I am working on something else that got pushed ahead of it.
Yaztromo
member, 59 posts
Mon 8 Apr 2013
at 21:24
  • msg #379

Re: Vents

My boss' boss gave a public strategy presentation (completely crazy) and then said: "If somebody would do things differently, please let me know".
I explained to my boss why his boss was completely crazy (and he agreed in principle) and I told him what we should do (and he agreed in principle).
Then he told me that our challenge is to manage the (wrong) strategy in order to make it a success anyway!!!
ginny
member, 91 posts
Tue 9 Apr 2013
at 00:34
  • msg #380

Re: Vents

Dear mechanic with my car,

If you are going to tell someone on Monday you will have their car done by that Saturday, have it done by Saturday.  I understand sometimes things come up and work gets delayed.  NOT FOR THREE FRUITING WEEKS THOUGH!! And not for the same reason every single day.
Dottie_V
member, 37 posts
A compilation of neuroses
And a bad temper too. ;D
Tue 9 Apr 2013
at 01:44
  • msg #381

Re: Vents

B# is the note of my anxiety. This is what happens when someone makes a game without a clear story arc. >_<
Mustard Tiger
member, 431 posts
Tue 9 Apr 2013
at 15:51
  • msg #382

Re: Vents

Local taxes.

Really: local government? You want me to shell out 5% of my income to you? To pay for what, exactly? Congested, pot-holed roads that screw up my tires (causing me to shell out more money to pay for repairs)? A corrupt police department that suffers from weekly scandals? Or how about your excellent public education system that is consistently ranked as one of the worst in the country?

That's what you want to steal my money to pay for? Okay. Just so we're clear.
LadyMer
member, 14 posts
Tue 9 Apr 2013
at 19:21
  • msg #383

Re: Vents

April snowstorms. Between Saturday and Monday, we've had another foot of snow, and we might be getting more tonight.
adrasteia1
member, 1209 posts
Wed 10 Apr 2013
at 14:02
  • [deleted]
  • msg #384

Re: Vents

This message was deleted by the user at 14:35, Wed 10 Apr 2013.
st_nougat
member, 153 posts
Wed 10 Apr 2013
at 21:05
  • msg #385

Re: Vents

If the stupid Fraggin' 'Project manager' would give the bloody engineers the information the need to do a project at the beginning then maybe the damn engineers wouldn't have to rework the project 3 frickin' times.

We called the customer today trying to get information and was told that the information was sent to the project mis-manager last week.

And guess what, now I am changing the layout around for the third time.

I need a new job.  Anyone wanna hiring a solidworks jockey? rmail me
Silverlock
member, 54 posts
Thu 11 Apr 2013
at 09:50
  • msg #386

Re: I am the ball in play

Too many bosses.  One boss says, 'don't do this til I check the numbers'; next boss says, 'you should have done this anyway, regardless of what first boss says' - so who do I listen to ?  Where does the blame fall ?  Yep, smack on me, bosses are in the clear, having shoved me right between them so the only loser is me.  Why do I have so many bosses ?  And all of rhem supposed to do their jobs, which is apparently merely making sure I am tormented by them into doing my job.
CrazyIvan777
member, 79 posts
Thu 11 Apr 2013
at 16:13
  • msg #387

Re: I am the ball in play

Small vent, but...

You're a modern doctor's office. You've won awards. Recently. For being so good. You have a great staff. They seem on the ball.
You have no email.

Seriously? No email. For anyone in the office. None. Not even for my doctor to send records to?

Seriously?

Okay, now I need to -find- a fax...
The_Blob
member, 77 posts
Sat 13 Apr 2013
at 18:56
  • msg #388

Re: I am the ball in play

One of the better writers/players I've encountered here on rpol, has to leave here as part of a strategy to make his offline life not suck, I'm happy for him, I really am. But I'm also a selfish person and want my friend back.
Dottie_V
member, 41 posts
A compilation of neuroses
And a bad temper too. ;D
Sun 14 Apr 2013
at 16:30
  • msg #389

Re: I am the ball in play

You wont let me watch the newest episode of my favorite tv show because you don't want to miss out and you want to go to bed early. Kay, that's fine, but then you go and watch it without me the next day and then you SPOIL the strawberries out of it. You're a moron and if some of your recordings are erased early from the DVR all I'm going to say, "Oh, I thought you already watched it like I did." NIT WIT!
KaiWriter
member, 31 posts
Mon 15 Apr 2013
at 17:49
  • msg #390

Re: I am the ball in play

Yesterday, I was sitting down to finally get out some much needed replies and I was surprised to find my aunt visiting for the day and, lo and behold, she's brought along her babysitting brood.  Apparently my spoiled brat of a nephew wants to see where I live.

So they push their way up through the doors and into my apartment, and before long they're swarming all over my kitchen.  Like a horde of pokemon-shirted locusts, they are...

Now I have to go to the store, but no worries, my aunt says- I can ride with them!  Only, instead of going to the market first, we head to the bookstore.

What occurs is the single worst game of hide-and-seek that I've ever played in.  They seemed to think it was funny to race around and hide from me.  What was a fifteen-minute stop for a video game guide became a latte break for my aunt and a crash course in babysitting for me.

It couldn't get worse after that, could it?  Oh, yes.  Yes it can.

Where would you take a horde of sugar-rushed, over-caffinated grade-schoolers?

Chuck. E. Cheese.

After a half-hour, I'm hiding in the bathroom to get some much-needed peace and quiet.   After an hour, I'm looking for an excuse to go next door to the used game store and asking if I can hide out in their vault for an hour just to relish the quiet.

After all that, I was slipped ten dollars and dropped off back at my apartment.   No store, no nothing.  I feel like my aunt owes me for this...
Tlaloc
member, 465 posts
From the island of Nunya
Mon 15 Apr 2013
at 18:26
  • msg #391

Re: I am the ball in play

Tax Day.

That is all.
Silverlock
member, 55 posts
Tue 16 Apr 2013
at 10:04
  • msg #392

Re: I am the ball in play

Tax day, bombs in another city in which we have relatives (they are okay), a sleepless night and a long rest of the week in which I will be working with equipment that can maim or kill me if I mishandle it.  Oh, did I mention the coworker who tried to trip me yesterday while I was carrying a large tray of expensive glassware and irreplaceable samples ?  The one who got promoted for some reason, which could not have been intelligence, education, or wisdom ?  And I cannot call out sick - I have used up all my 'sick' days for the year.
GreenSerpent
member, 143 posts
Casting darkness at the
Magic Missiles!
Wed 17 Apr 2013
at 09:32
  • msg #393

Re: I am the ball in play

People who leave their game ads up for ten, fifteen minutes and then post saying "The position has been filled."
Sallyann
member, 1518 posts
go away and don't come
back til a tree hugs you
Wed 17 Apr 2013
at 10:12
  • msg #394

Re: I am the ball in play



Jury duty (not that I mind it), but if I get to take a night off work, I want it to be the next night.  They couldn't have called me for one day later?
truemane
member, 1694 posts
Firing magic missles at
the darkness!
Wed 17 Apr 2013
at 13:29
  • msg #395

Re: I am the ball in play

About this time last week I logged to Rpol and started typing out a message in the Anti-vent thread. I was going to talk about how things on all fronts looked like they were easing up, from domestic stress to financial. I never got around to posting it. And in the week since everything's just fallen to pieces such that it's far, far worse than it was before they started to get 'better.'

Sigh. I know, I know, first world problems. But still.
Dottie_V
member, 44 posts
Thu 18 Apr 2013
at 03:07
  • [deleted]
  • msg #396

Mom

This message was deleted by the user at 05:44, Thu 18 Apr 2013.
The_Blob
member, 89 posts
Fri 19 Apr 2013
at 11:41
  • msg #397

Re: Mom

My GF just pretty much dumped me because I haven't spent time with her (on phone with for HOURS very day) for the last two weeks, you know, the SAME two weeks I've been taking care of my parents and/or almost DYING because I was admitted to the hospital but then had to leave, Against Medical Advice, while still having pneumonia, so I could take care of my parents...

FML
Pyrate
member, 215 posts
Supercalifragialistic
expialidocious.
Fri 19 Apr 2013
at 21:23
  • msg #398

Re: Mom

Fruitpie. Seriously.
I finally get into a habit of getting up early enough to go to the gym before work and I get some sort of stomach infection making sure getting my pulse up is a bad idea.
Result: parents think I have bulimia and want me to see a shrink.

As if that wasn't bad enough my laptop decided to completely wolligog off and erase everything I wrote on my assignment over the last week. Deadline is on Tuesday and my nerd doesn't have time before Wednesday.
So much for recreation this weekend.

Just can't catch a break these days.
adrasteia1
member, 1247 posts
Even a small star
shines in the darkness
Sat 20 Apr 2013
at 14:54
  • msg #399

Re: Mom

I found out why I've had so many problems with light bulbs burning out and exploding (I've swept up broken glass off my kitchen floor several times). According to the electrician, the voltage here is 245 volts instead of 230. He also found water in one of the light fittings.

I've just reported the voltage and I'm told someone will be out to check it today. I'm surprised (and pleased) that the electricity company is responding so quickly on a Saturday.

Hopefully this hasn't had any adverse effect on our computer gear.
st_nougat
member, 163 posts
Wed 24 Apr 2013
at 15:22
  • msg #400

Re: Boss

Thank you my Boss for decided when you are checking a project that I am working on to change the speed on the motor that WE speced out.  And thank you so very much for not informing me or updating the model that we used so that when I made the assembly drawings I used the wrong motor.  And thank you so much for making me look like the moron when manufacturing came in to say WTF?
AfrokingJ
member, 194 posts
Sun 28 Apr 2013
at 05:59
  • [deleted]
  • msg #401

Wife Swap

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was against the ToU, at 06:46, Sun 28 Apr 2013.
nuric
member, 2176 posts
Love D&D,superhero games
Not very computer savvy
Sun 28 Apr 2013
at 06:09
  • msg #402

Re: Wife Swap

Reality shows in general deserve their own rant.   What should have been a way to learn about other people unlike ourselves has turned into a "Village idiot of the week" where we laugh at people, rather than learn about them.

I'm not totally touchy feely about people, and will be the first to be judgemental and laugh at stupid behavior, but it's sad that we only want to see horrible people yell at each other so we can feel better about ourselves.

I just saw a promo for "Gyspy Sisters".    Now, I know it was pretty stupid of me to think, even for a second "Well, perhaps we'll get a glimpse into this culture", but I was horrified so see what were probably the four worst sterotypes among then entire gypsy population.

Then again, all 'normal' people have better things to do than parade their neuroses on television, so I'm not sure why I'm surprised.
Pyrate
member, 228 posts
Supercalifragialistic
expialidocious.
Mon 29 Apr 2013
at 11:13
  • msg #403

Re: Wife Swap

Baaaaaaaad day...
st_nougat
member, 164 posts
Mon 29 Apr 2013
at 17:03
  • msg #404

Fraggin' work

I was just told to not try to help the customers at work.
facemaker329
member, 5493 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Fri 3 May 2013
at 06:09
  • msg #405

Again?!!!

I already had my headcold for the season...c'mon!  And this one seems determined to work its way down into my chest and leave me gasping for air.  Cut my work day short by an hour (after going in a half-hour late) because I was so winded and spent that the folks I was working with were afraid I was going to keel over.

This is the point at which I either have a miraculous overnight recovery or I plunge deeply into serious illness...think positive thoughts for me.  I don't have time to be bedridden for a week trying to shake off whatever it is...
Bigun Eagle
member, 65 posts
Fri 3 May 2013
at 17:23
  • msg #406

Re: Again?!!!

I despise how high the test are weighted in my accounting class, now to make an A in the class I HAVE to make an A on the test, oh, and the Test is only 20 questions.
ginny
member, 99 posts
Sat 4 May 2013
at 01:15
  • msg #407

Re: Again?!!!

Dont touch my coffee
cero1
member, 348 posts
Sat 4 May 2013
at 10:58
  • msg #408

Re: Hate

Bloody carers helping my nan so I don't have to do things like bathe her taking credit for things I have done to help, so my Uncle yells at me for doing nothing when I'm on the verge of a breakdown from trying to keep my nan comfortable and I haven't slept for five days, just so they can get paid.

Also turning up late, rushing through bathing my nan, being rough and then saying you've been round for an hour and done everything on your timesheet (which I can clearly see and read at any time) is not cool. At all.

I know it's hard work, but consider the family that are there for the other 23.5 hours you're not there and have to do what you're not doing.

Then I have one message to all the cold callers targeting vulnerable old people - you should kill yourselves.

I don't care if that sounds harsh, conning old people who don't better out of their savings and pension is disgusting.
Mika
member, 244 posts
Tue 7 May 2013
at 21:38
  • msg #409

Re: Hate

Being singled out. The funny thing is this person thinks they are hurting me when in fact it hurts them to retaliate over NOTHING

Some people piss me off being small minded but karma will get them

It just grinds my gears when they are passive aggressive jerks but its more satisfying knowing that they will fail. Mean, yes. Do I feel bad no? I want to see them crash and burn and it won't be my fault.

Some people really just have NO LIVES!
st_nougat
member, 174 posts
Thu 9 May 2013
at 21:57
  • msg #410

Re: family

Brothers who only get ahold of you when they want something.

Yup my brother sent me an email today.

yup he wants me to design some camp kitchen storage box thingy so that HE can take it when HE goes camping.
Bigun Eagle
member, 66 posts
Sat 11 May 2013
at 01:25
  • msg #411

Re: Two Faced

I really wish that some of my so called friends had the biscuits to tell me what they think to my face instead of me hearing about it from someone else.
Lancebreaker
member, 62 posts
Sat 11 May 2013
at 22:42
  • msg #412

Re: Two Faced

The indignant woman in the theater seat behind me talking through the ENTIRE movie, who doesn't even have the decency to shut up after I politely asked her to stop talking.  Apparently, I was ruining her experience by turning around and confronting her.  Some people...
deadmanshand
member, 1596 posts
Sun 12 May 2013
at 01:59
  • msg #413

Re: Two Faced

I'm not sure which is worse. Having the chest bug or it not killing me?
Brianna
member, 1675 posts
Sun 12 May 2013
at 05:31
  • msg #414

Re: Two Faced

*sigh*  I know I said I didn't want to go out for my birthday/Mother's Day, but neither did I want to get sick and not be able to go shopping for desperately needed shoes.
This message was last edited by a moderator, as it was moot, at 06:32, Sun 12 May 2013.
Seanberry
member, 43 posts
Tue 14 May 2013
at 19:37
  • msg #415

Re: Two Faced

Frag my luck....first 2 weeks ago i have to have a impacted wisdom tooth removed, now i have a cold, a urinary tract infection and ANOTHER fragging toothache.  All this while unemployeed so no help on the dental.  Gah!!!
Eur512
member, 506 posts
Tue 14 May 2013
at 20:11
  • msg #416

Re: Two Faced

Co-worker must send me project photos.

Co-worker downloads photos.
Prints them.
Scans the prints to make PDF's.
Emails me the PDF's.

What????
Sallyann
member, 1520 posts
go away and don't come
back til a tree hugs you
Tue 14 May 2013
at 20:45
  • msg #417

Re: Two Faced

work.  The boss doesn't understand that the night shift is feeling picked on cause she keeps leaving public nasty notes.  Of course she doesn't want to be there at 11 pm to talk to us, but could she at least give the notes to the night nurses and have us pass it down.  We don't see her dress down the other shifts and they don't need to see her dress down us, particularly when she doesn't actually investigate the complaints made.  Besides, now everyone else is automatically an expert on what night shift is supposed to be doing, and '"it;s you didn't do this and you didn;t do that"  and dammit, there's only three aides and they can only do so much in an hour.


AUGGGHHH
This message was last edited by a moderator, as it was moot, at 21:04, Tue 14 May 2013.
facemaker329
member, 5514 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Fri 17 May 2013
at 17:41
  • msg #418

Makin' me crazy...!!!!!

Thank you, SO MUCH, Ms. Costume Designer, for giving us absolutely nothing constructive to do in preparation for the week of dress rehearsals that are supposed to begin on Monday.  Out of a 5-piece band (with four alternates to cover for people on days off) and four singers (plus their back-ups), doing two different shows, we thus far have two pairs of pants figured out.  Not for everyone...a single pair of pants for two of the singers, for one of the two shows.  We were supposed to get everyone figured out last night, and she decided part-way through the day that she couldn't make it because she had to go to her son's school activity.

I applaud the familial spirit and all...but we gave you measurements for this particular group of performers back in MARCH.  They've been rehearsing since the last week of April.  In all that time, you couldn't find a couple of nights to come up and get this stuff straightened out BEFORE dress rehearsals?  (And our other show isn't in much better shape in that regard...)

While we're at it...Mr. Artistic Director--SHE DOES THIS CRAP EVERY SINGLE YEAR.  Not to this extent, but there hasn't been one year that she's designed for us where we've had all the costumes PRESENT the first night of dress rehearsals, much less completed.  I realize you two are friends and all...but get a backbone and tell her if she can't keep up with the demands of the job, we'll find someone else who can.  It's not like there's a shortage of costume designers around here...I know you like her design and all, but this kind of stuff is creating a crisis of confidence for the performers.  They're supposed to spend next week getting used to ALL the show elements, not spend the first half of next week getting a show element (costumes) figured out.  Not to mention the half-appled image it creates for the department as a whole when performers ask me a costume question and the only honest answer I can give them is, "I've got NO idea...you've heard as much about that costume as I have."
arshes_luna
member, 54 posts
Sat 18 May 2013
at 01:57
  • msg #419

Rent.

I just have to wonder how close I am to homeless right now.  If it weren't for friends... and I AM grateful for them, and I love them... If it weren't for them.

That is all.
facemaker329
member, 5517 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Sun 19 May 2013
at 04:21
  • msg #420

Craziness revisited...

Again, with the Costume Desiger...

Tonight, I missed seeing my friend's final performance in 'Jeckyll and Hyde' at one of the regional theaters...because the designer decided that today was a good day to come try and do the job she should have done a week and a half ago.  I spent seven hours helping her haul stuff out of costume storage, answering questions about who was doing what part in the show because she forgot to bring her notes, opening the door to the building for her kids because she couldn't find a babysitter or someone else to play on the park with them...

I did get a chance to work on a project of my own...but because of the interruptions with her and the kids, it took me seven hours to do four hours worth of work.

I LOVE IT when my plans get screwed because someone else was too 'busy' to do their job when it was supposed to be done.  My one consolation on the day?  At least when we get to dress rehearsal on Monday, there will actually be outfits for all the performers to put on.  We'll have no idea if they'll fit or not, because she was 'too busy' to show up on the night they arranged to have the band and the singers together at the same time SPECIFICALLY so she could do costume fittings.  But they'll have costumes.  (And we'll have two days' worth of notes to take care of after they all get fitted into the costumes, I'm sure...)
gillisle02
member, 248 posts
Occassionally a little
randomness can be fun
Tue 21 May 2013
at 00:34
  • msg #421

Tornadoes and Spiders

So I am freaked by spiders, I know, stereotypical for a girl, but they are hotbeds of germs and bite for no reason, and do creepy things as well as just look.....ahhhh.

My SO comes over one day and tells me there was a brown recluse in my kitchen, ever since that day I have been freaking out, not even stopping at nightmares.

So then today I see the thing, I call my SO in a panic, coincidentally start having a panic attack.  Manage to come down from the panic attack, thankfully.  Come down only to hear my phone alert go off for a tornado in the area, I live in a cheap crap appartment on the first floor of a basement free building, with little insulation and lots of windows.  And thus the panic attack resumes....

I am left freaking out....again....
PushBarToOpen
member, 789 posts
Tue 21 May 2013
at 11:14
  • msg #422

Re: Tornadoes and Spiders

So my girlfriend leaves me then two days later its anounced that my busness is cutting 25% of all jobs. how can this get worse. I know by being in one of the departments that will be the most hit by the cuts even though its the only department that actually is nessicary to the company.

I mean in an engineering Company why do you want to get rid of the small engineering department.
habsin4
member, 620 posts
Putting old paper in new
boxes since 2005
Wed 22 May 2013
at 14:21
  • msg #423

Everything and everyone is against me

Petty dictators who abuse process to bully people.

Daycares in DC who close twice a month for "staff development" days and screw the working parents who have to find ways to take off.
Brianna
member, 1677 posts
Wed 22 May 2013
at 18:37
  • msg #424

Re: Everything and everyone is against me

Then there's petty idiots who don't even bother with due process, but manage to get others to at least let them run, if not back them up.  *sigh*
adrasteia1
member, 1325 posts
Even a small star
shines in the darkness
Wed 22 May 2013
at 23:55
  • msg #425

So very tired

Returning to full-time study and getting everything else done that I need to is seriously kicking my butt right now. I'm discovering new (or at least forgotten) levels of exhausted.

That said, everything IS actually working out well.
Mustard Tiger
member, 460 posts
Thu 23 May 2013
at 00:11
  • msg #426

Re: So very tired

I normally try not to road-rage too much whenever there is lots of traffic, especially in the city. Especially since congestion can be caused by accidents or breakdowns.

But today I waited patiently in traffic for over an hour and a half, to travel roughly a mile. I expecting an accident, or a poor soul with a flat tire or a busted engine. But no. It was just idiots. That was all. Idiots. Idiot drivers, idiot planners and idiot civil engineers.
Dottie_V
member, 59 posts
The fifth in a series of
odd things you saw today.
Thu 23 May 2013
at 05:25
  • msg #427

Re: So very tired

Self-important people give me headaches.
Mustard Tiger
member, 462 posts
Fri 24 May 2013
at 01:47
  • msg #428

Re: So very tired

The one person in literally the entire world who can fix this software issue I'm having isn't answering his phone or his emails. And yet I've confirmed with his coworkers that he is in fact in the office.

Thanks to his lack of response, I now have a total of a 4 hour commute each day. Thanks.
This message was last edited by the user at 01:47, Fri 24 May 2013.
DreamQuestin
member, 161 posts
Fri 24 May 2013
at 02:03
  • msg #429

Re: So very tired

Thanks to city street upgrades, the drive home was much longer than usual.  Normally I wouldn't care an iota (Good stereo in my car and music solves everything) but some blooming idiot was in such a hurry he rocketed through his red light right in front of me.  I hit the brakes so hard on instinct that I stopped easily before hitting him but now my knee is sore :(.  Hope the heating pad helps...
The_Blob
member, 179 posts
Fri 24 May 2013
at 19:19
  • msg #430

Re: So very tired

I am so SICK of 'gamers' that only will play a system if it is 'free' for DL and/or asking where to find it constantly... you cheap-apple fruits get a G-D JOB! Spend some of your G-D MONEY! Support the hobby you supposedly 'love so much' but are more than willing to STEAL from the creators of said games. YOU MAKE ME SICK! For the cost of ONE P.O.S. console game that probably will only take 12-15 hours to complete, you can buy the core rule books to just about any game system, which will provide so much more entertainment value for the money!
cero1
member, 430 posts
Fri 24 May 2013
at 19:21
  • msg #431

Re: So very tired

I wanted to vent about something, but I forgot, so I'm venting that I forgot what annoyed me, which is annoying me! >_<
flakk
member, 467 posts
Dark Heresy!
Warhammer Fantasy RPG (2)
Fri 24 May 2013
at 19:37
  • msg #432

Leak

It has been raining since last Saturday and it seems that the leaky door I had fixed was only "fixed".
Gremlin
member, 102 posts
Tue 28 May 2013
at 03:14
  • msg #433

Re: Leak

My gf set fire to the kitchen cooking something while she was in a god damn bubble bath. Only the dog going nuts so much so that she came downstairs to see what the fuss was about saved my house from burning to the ground.

Please, someone remind me why I work every freaking hour there is when she sits on her ass and trashes my pad?
Sallyann
member, 1524 posts
go away and don't come
back til a tree hugs you
Tue 28 May 2013
at 13:59
  • msg #434

Re: Leak

my daughter's birthday present?  a lady runs over her foot.     At least she didn;t get hurt further.


corrected to add a negative.
This message was last edited by the user at 19:41, Tue 28 May 2013.
Bigun Eagle
member, 67 posts
Tue 28 May 2013
at 19:21
  • msg #435

Re: All Dogs...

Not really a vent per se, but sad enough anyway...

The dog that I've had for almost 15 years, almost two thirds of my life, died today.
facemaker329
member, 5529 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Wed 29 May 2013
at 08:23
  • msg #436

Re: All Dogs...

Can't sleep tonight.  Thinking about all the projects I'm juggling at the moment...and how I've missed deadlines already on at least two of them because I'm so focused on a couple of the others.  I never used to have that problem...in fact, it used to be a point of pride for me that I could keep tabs on five or six projects and keep the ball rolling forward on all of them.

Granted, it's not all my fault.  I'm highly distracted by the same costume designer I mentioned earlier...who has apparently advanced all the way to the notion that 'first dress rehearsal' is code, in her world, for 'time for an actual costume fitting'.  And we STILL don't have all the costumes yet (she says she's waiting on them to be shipped in, but she's had the measurements for this cast since the first week of March...I think that's plenty of time to custom order dresses and get them shipped to you...)  Last week was a success, thanks largely to my awesome crew, but because of Memorial Day, we had one day less this week for dress rehearsals...in a show with far more costumes and multiple costumes per performer.  At least she's been doing a good job of ordering/buying stuff that actually fits, rather than just buying whatever looked good to her despite the fact that the only size that was available was XL and our girls were all M or S...but we're now down to TWO DAYS before the preview performance, and we have yet to have people even run numbers in their costumes (because we still don't have a lot of them, including many of the guys' costumes...)

Add that to the festival costumes I need to have built by this weekend, the facial hair I need to have bought and shipped for this weekend, the freelance article I was supposed to have written this past weekend, the video project that I'm supposed to be helping with that I haven't had a chance to do anything on for about a month, now...(yeah, I realize the irony of griping about having too many projects and not being able to figure out time for them, while being online, rather than working on any of the projects...I can't focus, mentally, which is why I'm venting.  Trying to purge all those stray thoughts that keep getting caught in the spinning gears in my head...) and the production of Robin Hood whose props I forgot about while making this list.  And I only JUST barely remembered the game on here I'm supposed to be running...(at least I've been in touch with my players about my lack of activity...)

If I can just stay on top of things for a few more days...*crosses fingers*

But if you hear me talking about taking on another new project any time in the next month or so, smack me.  Hard.
Pyrate
member, 249 posts
Supercalifragialistic
expialidocious.
Wed 29 May 2013
at 08:28
  • msg #437

Re: All Dogs...

Finally heard from a proofreader for my assignment.
Four contacted and only one replied. He waited until the day before I have to hand in to tell me I ought to rearrange everything and streamline/increase flow.
That is one week of anxiety I could have spend being productive.

At least I know I will sleep well tomorrow. :/
auraxiannc
member, 16 posts
Wed 29 May 2013
at 22:33
  • [deleted]
  • msg #438

Re: All Dogs...

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was against the forum rules, at 23:15, Wed 29 May 2013.
Pyrate
member, 254 posts
Supercalifragialistic
expialidocious.
Thu 30 May 2013
at 06:34
  • msg #439

Technical challenges

I have a deadline to Lunch today to hand in my exam-paper.

Why-Oh-Why is it that the corrections I made last night aren't present when I wake and when I start to redo them the program shuts itself down spontaneously?

I do not like this.
Not one bit.

Edit: I love my nerd friends. ^_^
Managed to recreate the corrections and submit with minutes to spare.
Thanks for caring all.
This message was last edited by the user at 17:16, Thu 30 May 2013.
patamon3
member, 63 posts
RPG Rocks!!!!!
Out of all Randomness!!!!
Thu 30 May 2013
at 23:16
  • msg #440

Re: Technical challenges

Origami is a Pineapple project to do for a geometry class.
Sallyann
member, 1525 posts
go away and don't come
back til a tree hugs you
Fri 31 May 2013
at 15:01
  • msg #441

Re: Technical challenges

I hate the 500 hall computer.  It shuts down in the middle of charting and ate my last incident report 3 times.  I hate the corner computer because it has stealth ancient rosters on it.  I hate the 300 hall computer cause K insists on putting her preferred rosters on the desktop rather than in the shared web.  I was ok with the 200 hall computer until it ate the assessment.

Work needs new computers.

And I think I need to check a pineapple math project grade.
Robotron
member, 21 posts
Fri 31 May 2013
at 16:30
  • [deleted]
  • msg #442

Re: Leak

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 16:36, Fri 31 May 2013.
ginny
member, 101 posts
Fri 31 May 2013
at 16:40
  • msg #443

Re: Leak

Seriously?  If you want to talk to the guy next to you at the library, great.  Take the earbuds out of your head and turn down the volume so you're not yelling and disturbing the rest of us.  :P
Dottie_V
member, 62 posts
The fifth in a series of
odd things you saw today.
Sat 1 Jun 2013
at 17:58
  • msg #444

Re: Leak

RP burnout. I'm having a hard time keeping stories straight in my head. @_@
Dottie_V
member, 63 posts
The fifth in a series of
odd things you saw today.
Sun 2 Jun 2013
at 22:26
  • msg #445

Re: Leak

To the man who called my friend gay for knitting:

I didn’t know that a person’s ability to create fabric with two sticks and one giant apple tart piece of string indicated anything about their sexuality. If anything that shows an intelligence YOU only wish you could have.

Like fritter, what are you going to do one day when the actual zombie apocalypse comes along and you need a fritter-ing fishing net to catch food and EAT so you don’t get eaten and all you have is a loooong piece of string and two sticks? “Strudel! I’m going to starve because I DON’T KNOW HOW TO CAST ON AND WHAT THE KIWI TUNROVER IS A PURL AND KNIT STITCH?!?!1”

And even if he were gay, there's NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT.

Ya fruit roll-up.

/rant
st_nougat
member, 195 posts
Mon 3 Jun 2013
at 16:59
  • msg #446

Re: Leak

Not really a rant but...

I mentioned H.P. Lovecraft at work today and all of my coworkers said, "Who?"

Even though I find this to be sad, I don't really know why.  I personally don't even like to read his stories (though admittedly I do like the content, just not dragging myself through the actual reading of them).
Silverlock
member, 57 posts
Tue 4 Jun 2013
at 02:39
  • msg #447

Re: Goodbye Holiday....

Yep, another major appliance has decided to give trouble; this means we'll be likely losing our rather mild holiday.  I'm already doomed into fixing the shed, fixing the fence and chopping up the garden, and did I mention my back has gone out ?  Perfect timing, as usual.  Oh, and the retirement age has just been raised at my workplace, so I'll be dying in the traces now.  At least I won't have the bother of deciding to buy cat food for my dinner or seeing what I can find in the bins to eat during retirement.  Oh, and did I mention the other cut in my pay ?   Not the cut LAST month, the one THIS month.  If this keeps up I'll be paying my five bosses just to walk through the door.
adrasteia1
member, 1339 posts
Even a small star
shines in the darkness
Tue 4 Jun 2013
at 07:05
  • msg #448

Re: Goodbye Holiday....

Feeling kinda sad. :(

But I've got to go to class now.
Pyrate
member, 259 posts
Supercalifragialistic
expialidocious.
Tue 4 Jun 2013
at 08:58
  • msg #449

Re: Goodbye Holiday....

They're passing the new Freedom of information act today.
With a lot less Freedom...
:/
Jarodemo
member, 313 posts
Wed 5 Jun 2013
at 14:03
  • [deleted]
  • msg #450

Re: Leak

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 14:08, Wed 05 June 2013.
st_nougat
member, 201 posts
Wed 5 Jun 2013
at 19:37
  • msg #451

Re: Leak

Why is it that on days when work is slow and I can waste a lot of time all of my games are quiet?
facemaker329
member, 5554 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Wed 5 Jun 2013
at 19:49
  • msg #452

Re: Thanks for sticking me with your job...

So...our shows are open.  Our costume designer still doesn't have all the costumes done.  We are waiting on at least two sets of outfits for one show, plus she hasn't put together everything for our swings (understudies, except they cover ALL the parts in the show, not just one role), in both shows.  In fact, in our evening show, one of the girls doesn't even have a costume for one of the sets they perform...and she's supposed to be performing this weekend.

I'd just toss my hands in the air and say, "Sorry...that's not my job.  Nowhere in my job title is the word 'Designer' included," but I suffer from an irrepressible 'the show must go on' work ethic, so I'm going to spend the next couple of days figuring something out, regardless of whether or not it's what the director or designer would have chosen.  Knowing the designer, she'll show up Saturday afternoon with everything she wants to use, and want to do a costume fitting while the band is setting up on stage...when I'll be busy helping the band and won't have time to do alterations.

AND, just to make my week that much better, I found out that the producer of the show I designed props for earlier this year still hasn't paid the company we rented all the weapons from.  I would normally dismiss it as a bad business decision on their part (and goodness knows, they've made a LOT of those), but it's MY NAME on the rental contract.  I realize you feel like you need to pay all the local talent, but finish paying the bills on the last show before you start paying people for the next one.  As it is, you're making one local artist (me) incredibly reluctant to do anything for you, ever again, which is sad, because I've been helping those guys put shows up since they started.  But being left to flap in the breeze and hope the rental company doesn't sue ME because YOU didn't pay the bill for your show is not a good way to inspire continuing loyalty.  You can only play the 'help me out, old friend' card so many times, and you've done it A LOT.  So far, it's just a reminder invoice, not nastygrams or collections notices or anything like that...but it's been three months since we sent these guys their stuff.  THEY DESERVE TO BE PAID, TOO.  At the very least, contact them and tell them that you, as producer, are responsible for the bill and further communication should be with you, and get me out of the loop.
facemaker329
member, 5565 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Thu 6 Jun 2013
at 23:33
  • msg #453

Re: REALLY...?!!!

Okay...I had to let this out somewhere and this is the one place where I'm relatively certain it won't come back to haunt me somehow, but...

Just saw a friend's post on Facebook.  She's starting a new business and is looking for a videographer to help her put some stuff together...and, as she put it, the pay is 'exposure and credit on the project.'  Now, that, in and of itself, should be enough to get me started, because that isn't 'payment'...that's something any camera operator gets with ANY project they work on that actually gets shown somewhere, including the ones where they get paid with real money.

No, what really made me sit back and say, "You've got to be strudeling me!" is the fact that this woman used to head up a performance troupe, and has taught dance classes, and has worked as a freelance performer, and is one of the multitude of friends I have who has posted about the outrage of people expecting an artist (performer, designer, photographer, painter, sculptor, etc) to do what they do for little or no actual pay, and instead offering good word-of-mouth advertising or something like that.  Seriously, lady...?  You think just because these people can afford camera equipment worth a few thousand dollars that they somehow don't need cash to pay rent (or a house payment), utilities, or buy groceries?  If anything, many of them need the cash even MORE, because they're trying to pay off the tools of their trade (in much the same way you posted about still trying to pay off dance classes you'd taken...)

I could excuse that request from a lot of people that I know...but after all the fuss you've made about how you hate the fact that people don't pay you for performances, you've got the gall to turn around and ask someone else to do a job for you for NOTHING?  I mean, offer them a steak dinner or something...a massage, a dance lesson, a performance at their next party...SOMETHING of some kind of value that they can't get from every other job that people are trying to foist on them.  This is why I don't do makeup for you anymore...and I'm incredibly thankful that I never got talked into seriously doing costumes for you, because I can only imagine the kind of farce that would have turned into, come time for me to present an invoice...
This message was last edited by the user at 00:00, Fri 07 June 2013.
Pyrate
member, 263 posts
Supercalifragialistic
expialidocious.
Sun 9 Jun 2013
at 10:07
  • msg #454

Losing faith here

How come people who want to modernise society almost always are interested in getting free access to your economy rather than providing the service they claim they provide?

New standards for my bank and mandatory implementation of the travelcard.
I am not a fan.
adrasteia1
member, 1343 posts
Even a small star
shines in the darkness
Sun 9 Jun 2013
at 11:40
  • msg #455

Re: Losing faith here

I've reached the conclusion that yeah, I've taken on too much. I'm a full-time student again, I've got unpaid projects left, right and centre, and games across 3 sites. My inspiration is running pretty low, and to say I'm disillusioned with certain things right now is an understatement. Something's got to give.

I started up a game not that long ago (a matter of months) and I've been a fairly shite GM in this instance. Normally I'm pretty good and have games running long term, but I recently ended one game because it went off track and the inspiration had faded. What can you do? Sometimes change is needed for the inspiration to return. Sometimes you reach a point where you know you have too many games and things to keep up with and do any kind of justice to all of them.

I'm going to pare down my games, which is to say, leave a number of them. It isn't necessarily lack of time, because if I dove headlong into posting with my spare time I'd likely keep up with everything, but you can't do that all the time. You need quiet time, time for things at home, time to consider things and let ideas develop to fruition. I just don't have that right now and I hate keeping people waiting almost as much as they undoubtedly hate waiting on me.

Some elements of life have me a little on the depressed side as well, so I know that isn't helping things. It's just difficult to keep so many things going at one time.
The_Blob
member, 218 posts
Tue 11 Jun 2013
at 13:56
  • msg #456

Re: Losing faith here

McDonald's new 1/4 pound burgers, basically less meat than the 1/3 pound burgers AT THE SAME PRICE!!!

the part that pineapples me off is their 'explanation'... "due to the recession we (McDonald's Corp.) felt that the 1/3 pound burgers were too expensive (correct) for most consumers, so we are introducing a cheaper (by $0.10) alternative.

oh pull the other leg, it plays Jingle Bells!
Space27
member, 45 posts
Wed 12 Jun 2013
at 21:59
  • msg #457

Re: Losing faith here

Seven words you can't say online: strawberry, pineapple, fudge, crumpet, cocanutsucker, mangofudger and twinkies. I'm on a diet!
facemaker329
member, 5638 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Fri 21 Jun 2013
at 17:52
  • msg #458

Well, thank you very much for that...

This one could come back around to being posted in the anti-vent section, but for now...

Our costume designer has apparently decided that she's done.  Whether that means 'for the season' or 'for good', I don't know yet...but the timing of this revelation sucks just a bit.  Upper management decided they want to change a couple of the numbers in one of our shows (one choice I agree with, one choice I think is kinda ridiculous, although I won't mind seeing that particular costume go away...)

So, we have two new numbers in the show.  And the costumes for the numbers they're replacing do NOT work.  The numbers are supposed to start being performed next Tuesday.  Got a text message from our artistic director a couple of days ago telling me when the whole cast would be rehearsing and offering to let me have some time at the end of rehearsal for costume fittings...to which I had to respond, "I still have no idea what we're doing for costumes for that number...have yet to hear anything from the designer."  (I've had to say that a distressing number of times this year).

So, yesterday (one of my rare days off), I get a call from my assistant, informing me that the director informed her that our designer has 'checked out', and it's up to us to costume the new numbers.  Luckily, we'd already started discussing some contingencies, so we're not caught completely flat-footed by this announcement, but...

REALLY?!!  You're done, huh?  You never finished the job you were originally hired for, you know...I had to put together one outfit that we never got from you, and I've had to replace or modify a couple of others because they just didn't look right on stage.  I realize you wanted to have everyone have a kind of distinctive look to them...but when you've got the entire band up there dressed like a pop/rock band, but you have the back-up guitarist dressed like a beach-comber?  He REALLY stands out (and looks ridiculous).  Thank you oh-so-much for dumping your lack of forethought in my lap.  While we're at it, when are we going to get those outfits that you promised were on order for the numbers that we're no longer doing?

Maybe...just maybe...this will finally be enough for the director to stop calling you each year to do the design and turn to someone else.  Someone who will actually, you know, DESIGN the show, rather than blowing the budget on a bunch of stuff and then playing dress-up with the cast members...
Silverlock
member, 60 posts
Fri 21 Jun 2013
at 21:14
  • msg #459

Re: Appliances....and their foibles

Yep, the fridge had gone; at least the freezer part, and it's farewell to holiday as well now, as the repairs to the shed and garage door are making that less possible.  As was the tiny pay rise we were scheduled to get as our union rep - you know, the one who's supposed to be HELPING the poor idiots who PAY HIS SALARY....decided that the wording of the contract we voted on meant that we didn't get a rise - so when I get pay cut number three next week and number four the next month - I'll be making the same salary as when I started eight years ago.  Oh, and the fees on the toll roads have increased 225% since then.  As if petrol, food and other expenses didn't go up as well.  I'll be applying for assistance soon or buying cat food for meat.....   But I shan't need to worry about retirement as the minimum age has increased again and I'll simply drop dead at work one day.
st_nougat
member, 215 posts
Thu 27 Jun 2013
at 12:34
  • msg #460

Re: Appliances....and their foibles

"Prolly"

this is probably supposed to be probably and every time I see it I probably feel like throttling the person who wrote it.
ashberg
member, 432 posts
Beware the Groove.
Groooooove.
Fri 28 Jun 2013
at 00:14
  • msg #461

Re: Appliances....and their foibles

My new boss starts the day before I take 2 weeks leave.

Chances are he is going to make some major decisions about the future of the CMS and eCommerce platforms we use in the organisation.

Chances are my 18 months of experience won't contribute to this decision.

I hope he doesn't fruit things up.
Pyrate
member, 277 posts
Supercalifragialistic
expialidocious.
Fri 28 Jun 2013
at 18:18
  • msg #462

Re: Appliances....and their foibles

Right. Fruit it!
This exam keeps being swung back in my face with a huge "FAILED" label on it.
Already had to seek dispensation to redo it and they keep failing it.
Last exam before I can write the master thesis and I can't get it passed no matter what I do.
Councillor said I worried too much last time I spoke with her and yet I flunk.
This single exam has already delayed my graduation with a year.
It really feels like a nightmare that will not end.

I'm tired of being poor and setting my entire life on standby for University that can't even give me a clear answer on what they want. Tired of postponing my plans to move abroad.
Tired of feeling insecure and having my future determined a few artificially constructed moments designed to make me trip myself.
This message was last edited by the user at 18:27, Fri 28 June 2013.
rogar308
member, 432 posts
Fri 28 Jun 2013
at 18:40
  • [deleted]
  • msg #463

Re: Exams

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 18:52, Fri 28 June 2013.
rogar308
member, 433 posts
Fri 28 Jun 2013
at 19:12
  • [deleted]
  • msg #464

Re: Moderated

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was against the forum rules, at 22:29, Fri 28 June 2013.
Sallyann
member, 1526 posts
go away and don't come
back til a tree hugs you
Fri 28 Jun 2013
at 20:04
  • msg #465

Re: Moderated

I hate the end of the month at work.  It would be ok if the 3rd nurse of the night shift trio would do his fair shaire of the bleeding paperworkm but he won't.  So I'll end up doing half of her side and all of his side, since while we are all full time, I'm the one who swings back and forth between the halls.  I prefer doing that to always being on one side, but give me a break.  at least for the next 3 months after this, I will have the last night of the month off and he can deal with his side only half done.
Dottie_V
member, 67 posts
The fifth in a series of
odd things you saw today.
Sat 29 Jun 2013
at 02:52
  • msg #466

Re: Moderated

Yeah, you're still responsible for what you say and what you do, no matter your emotional state.

Excluding other players because you want to be the shining detective isn't okay, even less so when I have to deal with the drama and have to do damage control because you keep swallowing your foot every time you speak.
Silverlock
member, 61 posts
Sat 29 Jun 2013
at 11:22
  • msg #467

Re: Pain

Injured at work - not a surprise, as it was only a matter of time before they tried to kill off the oldster. (No one has EVER retired from the job I do - they die, they quit, they are fired, or they move up to a desk job). Now I even less money -- though the commute is gone. Contacting the union on Monday to tell them I will need legal representation to keep my job - oh, wait, they cut that benefit.  Pain won't stop and now the sulky weather making me feel worse still.  I am thinking I'm disabled and it is NOT a good thing to be.
Pyrate
member, 278 posts
Supercalifragialistic
expialidocious.
Sat 29 Jun 2013
at 19:59
  • msg #468

Escaping the apathy...

Setting up a life I don't want to escape from is proving a lot more difficult than anticipated. :(
I was hoping I could be serving chease with the whine by now...
DivineSingularity
member, 8 posts
Sun 30 Jun 2013
at 06:36
  • msg #469

Re: Escaping the apathy...

Hearing "I don't think this is going to work, I want kids."

Sorry,  but,  I'm pretty sure you knew when we got into this that I'm not capable of having kids.  Come up with a decent excuse please.  Also, thanks for ruining the party.
Dottie_V
member, 69 posts
The fifth in a series of
odd things you saw today.
Sun 30 Jun 2013
at 20:52
  • msg #470

Re: Escaping the apathy...

MYST! WHY WON'T YOU RUN ON MY COMPUTER PROPERLY?
Starchaser
member, 212 posts
Mon 1 Jul 2013
at 01:40
  • msg #471

Re: Escaping the apathy...

Feeling far too retrospective for my own good tonight!
facemaker329
member, 5680 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Mon 1 Jul 2013
at 01:45
  • msg #472

Re: Escaping the apathy...

Broke my favorite router bit (carpentry tool, not computer hardware) on the last piece of stuff I needed it for.  Gonna have to take some extra precautions with that particular item, because the part that broke off controlled how deep the bit went into the wood...so there's now a lovely sharp edge down the middle of a section of it that I was trying to round off.

This show's gonna kill me, I swear....
PsychoJester
member, 115 posts
Why so serious?
Mon 1 Jul 2013
at 06:45
  • msg #473

Re: Escaping the apathy...

It drives me crazy that I'm on every day and spend most of my time here waiting for replies. :(
bobbofeet
member, 92 posts
Mon 1 Jul 2013
at 17:36
  • [deleted]
  • msg #474

Re: Escaping the apathy...

This message was deleted by the user at 17:40, Mon 01 July 2013.
Pyrate
member, 282 posts
Supercalifragialistic
expialidocious.
Tue 2 Jul 2013
at 10:48
  • msg #475

Kafka has not lived in vain.

So I get my grading on Friday.
I had failed again. It was an exam I already seeked dispensation for last semester and has taken about as long as the rest of my master studies. I have fourteen days to register a complaint about the grading and naturally the supervisor is not replying her emails so I can get an explanation as to why they flunk me and the studentcouncillor who would otherwise be assisting in writing complaints has gone on holiday already.

They certainly know how to cover their apples.
Now I have to spend my vacation coming up with reasons as to why they should allow me one final go at the same exam and delay my graduation with another half a year or if I should change major and accept that I can be twelve to eighteen months delayed.
st_nougat
member, 218 posts
Wed 3 Jul 2013
at 21:22
  • msg #476

Re: Kafka has not lived in vain.

I have a new monitor at work

now I cant seem to get it set up in a way I like.
Evil Empryss
member, 587 posts
I feel your pain
It makes me giggle
Fri 5 Jul 2013
at 04:07
  • msg #477

Re: Kafka has not lived in vain.

I hate holidays.  No one else ever has time to game on holidays.  :-(
st_nougat
member, 220 posts
Fri 5 Jul 2013
at 12:32
  • [deleted]
  • msg #478

Re: Kafka has not lived in vain.

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 19:35, Mon 08 July 2013.
DivineSingularity
member, 16 posts
Mon 8 Jul 2013
at 19:27
  • msg #479

Re: Kafka has not lived in vain.

Just having one of those mildly emotional days,  sorry if it bothers anyone I play with.
Dottie_V
member, 72 posts
The fifth in a series of
odd things you saw today.
Mon 8 Jul 2013
at 19:56
  • msg #480

Re: Kafka has not lived in vain.

Packing is always a nightmare with my sister... YOU DON'T NEED FOUR DIFFERENT PAIRS OF SHOES!
Pyrate
member, 288 posts
Supercalifragialistic
expialidocious.
Mon 8 Jul 2013
at 21:14
  • msg #481

Re: Kafka has not lived in vain.

Have to deal with a lot of drama tonight.
Honestly I thought I was done with this when I turned 25.
Amyante
member, 167 posts
Mon 8 Jul 2013
at 22:24
  • [deleted]
  • msg #482

Re: Kafka has not lived in vain.

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was against the forum rules, at 22:54, Mon 08 July 2013.
Sallyann
member, 1527 posts
go away and don't come
back til a tree hugs you
Mon 8 Jul 2013
at 23:28
  • msg #483

Re: Kafka has not lived in vain.

sent two  kids off to camp on Sun,  Mon morn get up and see the little sacks of things they forgot.  he's got one pair of socks for a week.  At least the girlscout camp has extra soap.
Andrew Wilson
member, 259 posts
Scary? My mask is to keep
your viscera off my face
Mon 8 Jul 2013
at 23:40
  • msg #484

why try

Finally launch a campaign I had been working on for 2 months.

1 player ruins the mood for everyone else. Noone wants to come over and give it another shot.
Dottie_V
member, 73 posts
The fifth in a series of
odd things you saw today.
Fri 12 Jul 2013
at 05:25
  • msg #485

Re: why try

Dx I was supposed to pack for only two people max, I end up packing for FIVE instead. -____- Disorganized people drive me mad.
pitademon
member, 696 posts
hi all
Fri 12 Jul 2013
at 06:13
  • msg #486

Of course this would happen...

going on vacation in 3 days.  So what happens?  I get a pain in my upper molar.  so bad I cannot chew right.  So make an emergency appt with my dentists office.  Well get met with my dentist no longer works there...he retired.  Well ain't that fruitin' great.  okay make appt with the new guy there.  he goes through the motions then says the 2 magic words.....'Root Canal'.  about screamed.  Well he sends me to another dentists office that specializes in root canals and dental implants, even jaw reconstructions.  okay.  so go there more x-rays blah blah blah.  He tells me the tooth with the problem has a crown on it.  to do the root canal he has to drill through the crown and then tooth.  I explain I am leaving on vacation.  Okay he put a temp white fill in after the root canal is done.  so hope it lasts for my vacation.  made arrangements for my crown to be remade and seated when I get back.  so right now the septacaine is wearing off...the other thing I found out is that Novacaine no longer works on me.  please let this vacation start spending too much prepping for it.
facemaker329
member, 5711 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Tue 16 Jul 2013
at 07:30
  • msg #487

Twisting in the wind...

Got a bill in the mail today...from a props rental company, for a show I did back in March...which the producer was supposed to have paid off a couple of months ago.  Since I'm the one person the rental company has an address for, they keep sending me bills (this is the third one).

Finally sent the producer an email (with a CC to the rental company), stating that I'd received yet another bill from the company, but since I am NOT part of the theater company, and was only a contractor to them, and THEY rented the guns, not me, would he PLEASE contact the company and make arrangements for some kind of payment plan, because my contract with his company expired months ago (when the show wrapped up, as a matter of fact, back in mid-March.)

Not only that, but our costume designer, who still hasn't finished the costume design for the shows we opened a month and a half ago, was supposed to show up with the rest of the costumes and her expense report today, early enough that we could try everything on people and put the new costumes into the show tonight.  She finally showed up halfway through the first of three performances tonight...with a BUNCH of costumes and a hare-brained plan to have the performers 'style themselves' by mixing and matching the elements of three or four different outfits.  Basically, I think she decided that she no longer cared about whether or not the costumes she designed were 'good enough' for the owners, and just threw money at the problem and passed the buck by telling the performers to put their own looks together.

But guess who's most likely to wind up having to shovel all the bovine excrement that will be the fallout from all of this?

Thanks a lot...
Evil Empryss
member, 592 posts
I feel your pain
It makes me giggle
Wed 17 Jul 2013
at 00:48
  • msg #488

Re: Twisting in the wind...

Public Service Announcement:

When one sees a mess of hornets around a pile of lumber, one should suspect that there may be a nest of them in the pile and not blindly start pulling boards out with one's bare hands.

The hornets don't like that, and express their annoyance by stinging.  Repeatedly.  And chase you even when you run away as fast as you can.  It makes it very hard to type when one's hands are swollen from the stings.

Of course, going back armed with two cans of industrial strength bug killer and dousing every one of them with atomized poison can be very gratifying.
PsychoJester
member, 151 posts
Wed 17 Jul 2013
at 00:54
  • [deleted]
  • msg #489

Re: why try

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 05:48, Wed 17 July 2013.
cero1
member, 531 posts
Wed 17 Jul 2013
at 01:10
  • msg #490

Re: why try

*hates when cat spot-on does not seem to register in July at 28 degrees heat... Thank fudge I have spray for the carpets at least...*

>_<
PsychoJester
member, 153 posts
Wed 17 Jul 2013
at 01:12
  • [deleted]
  • msg #491

Re: why try

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 05:49, Wed 17 July 2013.
cero1
member, 532 posts
Wed 17 Jul 2013
at 01:27
  • [deleted]
  • msg #492

Re: why try

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 05:50, Wed 17 July 2013.
DivineSingularity
member, 18 posts
Wed 17 Jul 2013
at 04:04
  • msg #493

Re: why try

You ever make a character and than realize that they're positively useless in the game?
Jordan Task
member, 4945 posts
Wed 17 Jul 2013
at 04:46
  • [deleted]
  • msg #494

Re: Twisting in the wind...

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 05:51, Wed 17 July 2013.
Evil Empryss
member, 596 posts
I feel your pain
It makes me giggle
Wed 17 Jul 2013
at 05:39
  • msg #495

Re: Twisting in the wind...

When selling something on Craigslist, receiving emails saying nothing except "What's the least you'll take?"

Look, apple fritter, I list all of my stuff priced to sell quick because I don't want to be bothered to drag it to the local charity for a donation (not at the price of gas lately). I'm not looking to make tons of cash off the stuff; I know it's used, and I accurately describe the condition. The $120 stereo that is literally three months old and been used twice is listed for $20 and I'm not going to go any lower.  Stop asking.  If you're too cheap to pay $20 for an iPod-charging stereo/CD player with two wireless speakers and a subwoofer... I don't know what else you should do, but stop bugging me.

And that's not the way negotiations work!  Learn to dicker correctly!

You say "Twenty bucks, huh? I'm just a poor schmo working two part time jobs and living in my mom's basement and I can't afford twenty bucks but I really like listening to my jams.  Will you take ten?"

Then I say "Ten bucks?!?  For this sweet sound system?  You're out of your mind.  But you look like a nice - albeit mentally defective - kid.  How 'bout I take pity on you and come down to $18?"

And then we go back and forth until either we reach an agreement or you realize you're too cheap and I won't give you my stuff for free and you go home.  Asking me what my lowest price is is just uncouth.
This message was last edited by a moderator, as it was against the forum rules, at 05:54, Wed 17 July 2013.
Jordan Task
member, 4946 posts
Wed 17 Jul 2013
at 05:49
  • [deleted]
  • msg #496

Re: Twisting in the wind...

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 05:52, Wed 17 July 2013.
The_Blob
member, 260 posts
Wed 17 Jul 2013
at 13:37
  • msg #497

Re: Twisting in the wind...

Dear Kim Kardashian,

Your DAD got O.J. Simpson Acquitted!

so shut it
rogar308
member, 468 posts
Wed 17 Jul 2013
at 13:38
  • [deleted]
  • msg #498

Re: Launching peas into the ether

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 13:42, Wed 17 July 2013.
DivineSingularity
member, 19 posts
Wed 17 Jul 2013
at 17:21
  • msg #499

Re: Launching peas into the ether

I think I pissed someone off who's company I enjoyed...

It's not a good feeling,  I just am kind of sat here wishing that I could try to make it better, but, I'm not even sure how I screwed up.  I've been mulling it in my head for days,  but, I can't seem to come up with anything at all.  I'm upset, frustrated and I can't stop wondering and looking back.  I just wish I could make it better.
facemaker329
member, 5721 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Thu 18 Jul 2013
at 10:13
  • msg #500

Re: Launching peas into the ether

Oh, you're killin' me, lady...

Got a new assignment at work.  I think I'd rather be building drum risers...no, strike that.  I KNOW I'd rather be building drum risers...

Our costume designer FINALLY (a month late) turned in her expense report.  Now, before the season started, our production manager spelled out to her, in VERY painstakingly simple and direct terms, what he needed from her when the report came in, so we could go through and verify that we had actually received all the stuff that she was claiming to have purchased for us (we haven't always had to do that, but he's noticed that the photos that she shoots have an amazing number of items in them that are JUST LIKE what she bought for us...and last year, he decided to go through and itemize all the stuff from the receipts, to verify what it all was...and wound up with a bunch of question-marks, like why do we have receipts for stuff we never got, and why do we have stuff from you with no receipts?)

Well, as she's apparently inclined to do, she utterly ignored all of it.  So, I have a couple of reports from here, with piles of receipts, that I have to make heads-and-tails of.  That wouldn't be so bad, but some of these receipts are little more than the credit-card slip stapled to a business card...so I have lovely little riddles to figure out like, which hats (many of which we ended up not even using) did she get from THIS store, with the generic $200 receipt for hats, and which ones came from THAT store, with the equally generic $75 receipt?  It gets worse, too...$140 for jewelry.  One out of about seven receipts that are just...jewelry.  No description of WHICH jewelry...not even whether it's bracelets or necklaces or earrings...

The most frustrating thing?  WE HAVE SOMEONE ON STAFF WHO WAS DESIGNATED SPECIFICALLY TO HELP HER KEEP TRACK OF ALL THIS GARBAGE.  The only thing she had to do was give this person a heads up of which items went with which receipts (technically, she was supposed to GIVE this person each receipt as she got it, even if it was just a copy, and allow them to make a list of everything from each receipt).  The only reason for these reports to be this chaotic and impossible to figure out is that she just doesn't give a fig about it.  That, or she's actually trying to make it so confusing to figure out that we won't realize that she's been ripping us off (considering that, in the hour or so I spent just starting to look through receipts today, I found several items that I KNOW we never got...because she gave them to her kids...I'm starting to suspect the latter is equally as much a motivation as the former...)

Well...I guess I know what I'm doing at work for the next week or so...crap like this is part of why they put me on salary, so they don't have to panic about how many hours it's taking to straighten the whole thing out.  But I am SOOOOO not looking forward to this.
Starchaser
member, 241 posts
Creator of Dark Tales
and Eldritch Horror
Thu 18 Jul 2013
at 18:48
  • msg #501

Re: Launching peas into the ether

Really wanna hit that rmail button again but don't wanna come across as hastling her.

Guess i left it far too long. Really should forget about it now.
Andrew Wilson
member, 270 posts
Scary? My mask is to keep
your viscera off my face
Thu 18 Jul 2013
at 20:24
  • msg #502

Re: Launching peas into the ether

I bust my posterior for my fellow co workers!!! and I get a dispute claim in the mailQTYWRGNWIO#$%!@)%T^(%U$I^JHGSNKZOERGBHKOJ

I have to take a manditory "COOL DOWN PERIOD" in which I cant come to work and for the rest of my time working there I cant file a complaint or even say anything bad about the particular person who filed it...

This cool down period is screwing me out of the money I needed to survive


The best part is TWO of the FIVE co workers are related to the manager!! conflict of interest!! but im to nice to say anything AND NOW I CANT because that would be RETALIATION!@#$%^&HFMSAK  FBASKJDFGNSLF

e.o that is all
DaleN
member, 75 posts
"We aren't slavers...
just ask the Wookie."
Sun 21 Jul 2013
at 16:15
  • msg #503

Re: Launching peas into the ether

They're doing something their way, over there.  Learn the difference!!
Pyrate
member, 295 posts
Supercalifragialistic
expialidocious.
Sun 21 Jul 2013
at 18:03
  • msg #504

Re: Launching peas into the ether

Honestly.
If the foreman of the boating guild waves his finger in my face one more time, I swear by Asparagus the great Rpol deity, he'll only be able to count to nine...
Zephydel
member, 654 posts
Creative Ideas
Real-Life Solutions
Sun 21 Jul 2013
at 22:02
  • msg #505

Quest Fail

Get a rare item called Platinum Shield by doing the following quest:

Give Grand Master Warrior an item (which can only be purchased in the real-cash store) called Tribal Emblem. Fight Grand Master Warrior for 2 minutes and parry his attacks 50 times.

However, Grand Master Warrior uses attacks that cannot be parried or blocked....
This message was last edited by the user at 22:06, Sun 21 July 2013.
PsychoJester
member, 165 posts
Why so serious?
Wed 24 Jul 2013
at 02:35
  • msg #506

Re: Quest Fail

Ugh. Bored. I run five games and play in 11 and nothing's going on. :(
KaiWriter
member, 41 posts
Wed 24 Jul 2013
at 02:50
  • msg #507

Re: Quest Fail

Bought a new toaster!  Too bad the temp selection lever only appears to be decorative... my toast came out looking like someone had used Flamethrower on it even at the lowest setting.  Looks like I get to babysit my toast and waffles now...
ginny
member, 124 posts
Wed 24 Jul 2013
at 14:23
  • msg #508

Re: Quest Fail

I really miss having a two bathroom home with three girls. *Sigh*
Ayor
member, 29 posts
Wed 24 Jul 2013
at 14:46
  • [deleted]
  • msg #509

Re: Quest Fail

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 16:15, Wed 24 July 2013.
ginny
member, 125 posts
Wed 24 Jul 2013
at 15:05
  • msg #510

Re: Quest Fail

Part 2 of my vent, I am going to stop letting the my girls take showers before me.  I am sick and tired of getting into the shower after one of them and not having any hot water.  YOU ARE SMALLER THAN ME (granted not by much), you shouldnt be using ALL the hot water in one shower.  UGH :p
This message was last edited by a moderator, as it was moot, at 16:17, Wed 24 July 2013.
UnseelieLord
member, 57 posts
Survival of the fittest.
We're all gonna die.
Wed 24 Jul 2013
at 20:35
  • msg #511

Re: Quest Fail

AGH! I can't believe I have never realized until now that there is a thread for me to vent my frustrations! Such a cathartic way to manage my rage, and I never knew it existed! I am so annoyed with the fact that I didn't know there was a place to display my annoyances!

That being said. I hate you retail. I hate you walmart. I hate you customers who are always in my way, at the exact wrong moment. Do you not SEE me stocking the shelves you're currently blocking with your morbidly obese self? Or do you simply not care that I'm trying to do MY JOB. No please, excuse me. I'll just stand here and watch you spend twenty minutes debating whether you want Fruit Punch Gatorade, or Orange. I'm sure this is a major life decision for you, needing deep thought and consideration before the purchase can be made. AND NO! You can't have my shopping cart full of cardboard. Maybe you should have grabbed one of the nine million carts conveniently at the front of the freaking store when you came in, you dolt!

What's that, useless manager who should go and find a fire to die in? You have a problem with the way I do my job? Well maybe you should stop working me with useless stoners who don't know my aisle, and couldn't make a difference to save their life.

Why must I continuously sabotage myself by never reaching to achieve more than this pointless retail existence!? Why is it so hard to believe myself capable of more!?
alicedies
member, 15 posts
Thu 25 Jul 2013
at 06:24
  • msg #512

Had a Hand stuck

Up my character's backside. Sad thing was, it was a well thought out, well done game with a really good premise, etc. And we had a good thing going. Apparently the GM knows many reasons why my character would not do/think/act a specific way. Thus my actions are invalid. (Keep in mind this is not a situation where my character suddenly went psycho or off the wall, just didn't do what the GM thought they should.)

My answer to this, dear sir, is:

If you like writing your own stories, write them yourself. Stay out of my writing if I'm not breaking anything/skirting the rules. I don't tell you how to play your npcs. I don't tell you that your premise is improbable. And I don't tell you that I'm going to punish you for your non-compliant attitude (compliant apparently being completely submissive)

You can take that fruit pie, and shove it to the back of your over until you burn your hands on the heating element, sir.

I will relocate, and so will the rest of your doomed puppets.

RANT END
Starchaser
member, 252 posts
Creator of Dark Tales
and Eldritch Horror
Thu 25 Jul 2013
at 07:38
  • msg #513

Re: Had a Hand stuck

What do you do when you feel like talking to someone but there's no one appropriate to talk to available, and that the only one who would listen to you is the last person you should be talking to?
Herpalerp
member, 3 posts
Thu 25 Jul 2013
at 21:41
  • msg #514

Re: Had a Hand stuck

First game I have joined on here is marked for deletion after I got allowed in...yay
bobbofeet
member, 95 posts
Fri 26 Jul 2013
at 21:00
  • msg #515

Re: Had a Hand stuck

Stupid university deciding that after giving us good financial aid for my daughter last year, they don't need to give us any this year ($700 student loan doesn't cut it at a 4-year state university)...

Poor daughter's in a panic.  And it doesn't help that our state government's quandary dragged things out so that we have three weeks to figure it out or not get anything at all...
DivineSingularity
member, 25 posts
Sat 27 Jul 2013
at 14:51
  • [deleted]
  • msg #516

Re: Had a Hand stuck

This message was deleted by the user at 15:46, Sat 27 July 2013.
Iammara
member, 236 posts
Mon 29 Jul 2013
at 08:23
  • msg #517

Re: Had a Hand stuck

My boss is a bit of a flake. She's a great person but she doesn't feel a lot of responsibility for her team at times, which has been a great annoyance within the team for ages.

When I accepted the promotion for team leader, I knew I'd be cleaning up after her mess often. I didn't mind at the time because I felt it would be good for the team to have someone that could actually be trusted to do what they promised.

And that's still true. Only she planned a job interview in her holiday week. She promised me she'd be there because this would be my first job interview as a team leader, but of course she flaked out. As she did when we had to merge two departments. And as she did during the half-yearly evaluation with the most difficult employee of our company.

I don't know what I hate more, that she just leaves me hanging or that I feel so responsible that I overwork myself to make sure it's done right.
Amyante
member, 170 posts
Nobody ever considers
the feelings of a weapon
Mon 29 Jul 2013
at 21:24
  • msg #518

Re: Had a Hand stuck

This post has been redacted for brevity. After editing out all the foul language and cussing, what remains is something along the lines of the following:

This is to the lone mosquito that's been roaming around my living room for the past three days. If you were not so small i'd take great pleasure in stabbing you repeatedly with a rusty spork, which i would acquire specifically for this very purpose.

And with that, my rant is concluded. Have a good day.
Starchaser
member, 274 posts
GMT+0
Posts Monday-Friday
Wed 31 Jul 2013
at 22:25
  • msg #519

Oracle.

<Brain Melt>ARRGHH! Why does Oracle have to be so fuitpie hard! Why is something as simple as inserting a date string into a field an excersise in using blueberry functions and esoteric string formats. I fruitpie HATE the damn thing!</Brain Melt>

Edit: And whoever invented 'commit' needs to be caught and shot right now!
This message was last edited by the user at 22:29, Wed 31 July 2013.
RPGuru92
member, 70 posts
Wed 31 Jul 2013
at 22:30
  • msg #520

Guilt

Despite the fact that I am armed with Guilt shields, sarcasm torpedoes and mockery phasers I DETEST it when your significant other tries to pull the guilt trip on you. And how is it done? How does she do it? By long moments of silence and strategic 'uhming' expecting me to come to the conclusion that she wants.

Nay, redshirt, not this time!
UnseelieLord
member, 58 posts
Survival of the fittest.
We're all gonna die.
Thu 1 Aug 2013
at 19:25
  • msg #521

Re: Guilt

You know, I like to think I am a pretty open minded person. I don't care what a person's sexual preference is, I don't care what color you happen to be, I don't think men are better than women, or vice versa. I think everyone is entitled to their culture and to a certain pride in where their family comes from.

That being said, it is completely freaking ridiculous to be looking for a new job so I can escape the dismal hell pits that is Wal-mart, and so frequently run across job listings that insist, not prefer, not suggest, not hope, INSIST that you speak Spanish. I realize America does not have a national language. And at this point we've probably lost any chance to establish one, I don't see why 'American English' couldn't have been our national language... would have made things a lot easier, I think. But regardless, this state of affairs where Spanish is becoming a predominant language in this country, and people look at you like you're weird, crazy, or stupid because you don't speak Spanish, is freaking obnoxiously ridiculous.

I don't understand the world I'm living in, and I can't fathom how this country ever got itself backed into such a corner that our pursuit for liberties and freedoms has hamstrung us and undermined our own strengths. I think we need to build some ships, sail to someone else's country, kill and subjugate them, found a new country, spend the next couple hundred years apologizing for our atrocities while not really caring, and try to get this right this time around.

America, you fail at life. I'm moving to Canada.
This message was last edited by the user at 19:26, Thu 01 Aug 2013.
Shiv
member, 89 posts
Thu 1 Aug 2013
at 20:15
  • [deleted]
  • msg #522

Re: Guilt

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 20:18, Thu 01 Aug 2013.
Dottie_V
member, 74 posts
The fifth in a series of
odd things you saw today.
Fri 2 Aug 2013
at 22:35
  • msg #523

Writer's block

Writer's block is rather annoying.
Evil Empryss
member, 617 posts
I feel your pain
It makes me giggle
Sat 3 Aug 2013
at 01:22
  • msg #524

Re: Writer's block

It's my property, so stop using it to store the bikes you're stealing you ignorant little hoodlums.  This is the second lot of bikes I've taken to the police station, worth an estimated $1,000 so far.  Know what?  If the owners don't claim them, I get to keep them and sell them and you still get nothing. Figure it out and use someone else's property for your drop point.

Better yet, STOP STEALING BIKES!!!
PsychoJester
member, 195 posts
Sun 4 Aug 2013
at 08:21
  • [deleted]
  • msg #525

Re: Writer's block

This message was deleted by the user at 08:45, Sun 04 Aug 2013.
PsychoJester
member, 203 posts
Why so serious?
Tue 6 Aug 2013
at 03:02
  • msg #526

Re: Writer's block

For the love of the gods, if your ST provides you with a sheet, USE IT!
facemaker329
member, 5793 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Tue 6 Aug 2013
at 03:16
  • msg #527

Re: Writer's block

It's my day off, lady.  I am not even LOOKING at your phone call any longer than I have to, I'm certainly not answering it.  I endured enough anxiety in the last two weeks dealing with that train-wreck of an expense report you turned in, and I am absolutely positive that the items that I said I cannot find are not somewhere in our possession.

Talk to me on Wednesday, when I'm back at work.  I've already sacrificed a couple of days that I was supposed to be off trying to made heads and tails of your utterly and laughably inadequate attempt at an expense report, and I've probably given you the benefit of the doubt in far more events than should have been done.  Don't push your luck...
GamerHandle
member, 317 posts
Umm.. yep.
So, there's this door...
Tue 6 Aug 2013
at 03:39
  • msg #528

Re: Just... wow...

If I offer you a favor... two months ago, and you tell me to go fudge myself, because it's a dumb idea.  But, then last week you approach me; ask me if I happen to know anything about this particular topic, and then ask me if I can do it for you... What part of you expects me to be excited about doing it?
Starchaser
member, 281 posts
GMT+0
Posts Monday-Friday
Tue 6 Aug 2013
at 10:06
  • msg #529

Oracle, you suck!

Dear Oracle,

When writing your installers at least have the decency to add it to add / remove programs so it can be repaired / removed when the piece of strawberry screws up after installation.

Also, your deinstall script doesn't deinstall if it leaves stubs behind that makes your product installer think there is a default oracle home on the machine when there patently isn't.

Thank you.
DivineSingularity
member, 31 posts
Wed 7 Aug 2013
at 03:37
  • msg #530

Re: Oracle, you suck!

Sometimes my head doesn't work quite as well as it should.  All the chemicals and hormones get all frazzled.  I'm really not in a state that I enjoy.

My family lufe is hectic, there have been issues and I just want to see them again...  But I'm not on their list of favorite people.  I've tried to reach out but they haven't accepted me for so many years.  I just want to cry,   What's more... I think this is affecting so much more.  I'm so emotional now.
TheDemonIslington
member, 347 posts
RPoL's UN
Peace keeping you to Hell
Wed 7 Aug 2013
at 05:28
  • msg #531

Re: Oracle, you suck!

Fool you once, shame on them.

Fool you twice, shame on you.

Fool you thrice, shame on the both of you.

Fool you continuously even when you know it's harmful to you mentally, emotionally, physically and financially, and that they'll never change - You probably deserve whatever you get.

But I'll still stand by and wait, and watch and remind you each and every time that you deserve better.
Gremlin
member, 109 posts
Wed 7 Aug 2013
at 22:36
  • msg #532

Bah! Just bah!

Car death, followed by washing machine death, followed by car death: the return = Me needing to do many many many hours of overtime.

Like the shift pattern I work hasn't already seriously maimed my social life or put huge strain on my relationship. Bah!
facemaker329
member, 5808 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Thu 8 Aug 2013
at 06:46
  • msg #533

Re: Bah! Just bah!

Well, I dropped the ball on that one...

I was supposed to interview a prospective makeup artist this evening.  Problem is, this was also the last day at work for one of our wardrobe people (the department I'm directly in charge of.)  So, between getting back uniforms and keys, and saying goodbyes, I got completely off-track and forgot the interview.  Like, forgot it was even supposed to happen.  No recollection of it until our department manager on duty for the evening asked me how it went--which was followed by a moment of me being very confused about what interview she could possibly mean, followed by one of those delightful, "Oh, STRUDEL!" moments.

However...my boss was still in his office at the time the interview was supposed to happen.  There was still a receptionist on duty.  Had the interviewee showed up, he should have been called, and should therefore have relayed a message to me to get my backside over there for the interview.  Or, at the very least, the receptionist should have contacted our department manager-on-duty to see if someone was available for the interview.  We heard nothing.

So, I'm hoping that it was a case of her not getting the email to set up the interview, or choosing to not show up (one of the few times I'd be happy to have been stood up).  Even if it was...I'm still mad at myself for forgetting it.
Wyrm
member, 267 posts
Thu 8 Aug 2013
at 11:58
  • msg #534

Re: Bah! Just bah!

If you forced me out after three years blaming your incompetence on me, why are you texting me 3 months later at my new job asking me about a question you should have already known the answer to, since we've gone over it a dozen times?
ginny
member, 130 posts
Thu 8 Aug 2013
at 14:17
  • msg #535

Re: Bah! Just bah!

Pinched a nerve in my neck yesterday, dont know how.  In wicked pain today, little sleep last night, and now Im getting a migraine. Can this day get any worse?
Nartantracker
member, 30 posts
Umm......................
.........................
Mon 12 Aug 2013
at 04:58
  • msg #536

Re: Bah! Just bah!

Sunburn. Bad. Ouch. Volunteered for 4 hours to help people move in at college and get assigned to stand by a large trash bin to save any cardboard and foam from being thrown away. Ya know, for recycling purposes. Anyway, I get sent to one across the campus to stand for these 4 hours (noon to 4) in 90 degree (32 Celsius) heat, where I forgot sunscreen and only had maybe 5 people come to where I was, as it was slightly less convenient as some of the others.
Brianna
member, 1704 posts
Mon 12 Aug 2013
at 19:26
  • msg #537

Re: Bah! Just bah!

*sigh*  It's bad enough hanging around waiting for people to come look at our apartment (building is for sale) but can't they at least show up?  And phone or use the doorbell instead of knocking?  We live next to a factory, duh, I pretty much block out knocking/banging sounds, and even if I'm listening at that specific moment, you'd have to bang hard enough to hurt your hand to be heard over the factory/traffic sounds from outside.

And the holdup on the kids' UK place is still not fixed, so I'm stressed by worrying we'll end up with this place sold and the deal still not done on where we are supposed to move to.
facemaker329
member, 5835 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Thu 15 Aug 2013
at 01:44
  • msg #538

Re: Bah! Just bah!

Honestly, people...how many times do I have to explain that, regardless of how well your newer computers with their newer monitors display the star-field effect you've created for your video, the 'stars' are barely visible on my monitor?  I'm thrilled that it looks so cool to all of you, and it's probably very realistic.  But we're copying a technique that was used, professionally, for over a decade...they've already done all the R&D for us, and the 'stars' they used were larger and/or brighter than what you've created thus far.  Stop trying to reinvent the wheel.  Since you keep turning to me for advice on this stuff, stop arguing with me when I suggest a half-hour fix to something that's going to improve the viewing experience for half your audience.  Listen to what I'm writing, when I say 'IT DIDN'T WORK THE WAY YOU WANT IT TO.'  If you're making this video just for you, then great, go for it...but I'm pretty sure you're intending to try and get it out to a wider audience, and my suggestion is intended in that light.  When I have to quote your own reference materials back to you in explaining why the effect didn't work, it should be some kind of hint...something wasn't done right.
Starchaser
member, 303 posts
GMT+0
Posts Monday-Friday
Fri 16 Aug 2013
at 10:23
  • msg #539

Re: Bah! Just bah!

<addicted>Must... ...resist... ...urge to hit refresh. Must... ...do... some work...</addicted>
shady joker
member, 1474 posts
Fri 16 Aug 2013
at 22:20
  • msg #540

Re: Bah! Just bah!

 I just crafted an epic paragraph in an epic post.  Then I hit one wrong button and poof! the paragraph is deleted and I must type it again. Damn computer not obeying my will.*grumble grumble*
bigbadron
moderator, 13903 posts
He's big, he's bad,
but mostly he's Ron.
Mon 19 Aug 2013
at 18:20

Re: Bah! Just bah!

Don't blame me.

Had you found out the requested information about this course two months ago, when I first asked you about it, rather than waiting until now (less than a week before it starts), you wouldn't suddenly be faced with the cancellation of my participation and trying to get your money refunded.

Pro tip: When somebody tells you, "I need to know the daily starting time for this, so that I can check the bus timetable and see if it's actually possible for me to get there at those times.", it might be a good idea to find out for them, before you commit to paying for the course.
PsychoJester
member, 231 posts
Why so serious?
Wed 21 Aug 2013
at 00:22
  • msg #542

Re: Bah! Just bah!

I seriously get aggravated at players who think rolling for stats are unfair or that stats that don't have a single negative mod but don't have a mod greater than +2 are mediocre. Seriously, get out of your min/max mindset and play like a real gamer.
Silverlock
member, 64 posts
Wed 21 Aug 2013
at 02:50
  • msg #543

Re: Will you Please Stop Annoying me ?

Sheesh, people.  If you want me to help you make a website, and you want it to have video clips and photos, I shall NEED to have them BEFORE I design the site.  Seriously.  Some organisation would be helpful, and I'm not going to beg you for it as I have kindly offered my services for free since you are friends of my Spouse.  This offer is about to be retracted as I will be back at work and will have NO time for this foolishness then.

Oh and not one of my supposed 'friends' from my work has emailed, telephoned or sent a pigeon along with anything like 'how are you doing post surgery'.  I shall never again waste any of my hard-earned pay on your birthday/engagement/illness/wedding/wife's illness/whatever gift or party.

And the cicadas, can you kindly stop falling on my head and forcing me to scream like a little girl while I try to paint the porch left-handed (ie, not my dominant hand).  Ditto the mosquitoes, do please go away, I am starting to look like a raisin and feel dizzy from blood loss.
st_nougat
member, 248 posts
Thu 22 Aug 2013
at 15:36
  • msg #544

Re: Will you Please Stop Annoying me ?

Ok look, I understand that you are a parent of a toddler or however old your child is (twoish, is that a toddler still?  I don't know nor do I care), and I know that the girl sitting within talking distance of you is your sister in law and she is the parent of a small child of similar age.  but that doesn't mean that while I am at work that I want to overhear your successes in potty training your childs... complete with sound effects.
PsychoJester
member, 240 posts
Why so serious?
Fri 23 Aug 2013
at 04:20
  • msg #545

Re: Will you Please Stop Annoying me ?

UGH! What is it with DMs who want novels for RTJs? >:(
auraxiannc
member, 47 posts
Fri 23 Aug 2013
at 04:26
  • msg #546

Gaming

Damn Roblox getting me hooked on The Longest Tycoon on Roblox....
Noxatrum
member, 79 posts
Fri 23 Aug 2013
at 04:39
  • msg #547

Re: Gaming

Don't know what I'm more annoyed by. The new dragon game, which I keep dropping cash on to get rare breeds, myself for spending the money, or both.

On another note - I'm tired of migraines. Really wish those glasses would get here sooner rather than later. Need to be able to look at my screen for more than a few minutes without developing the things.
st_nougat
member, 250 posts
Fri 23 Aug 2013
at 13:50
  • msg #548

Re: Gaming

I think I may have just gone through a job interview with my fly down.......
Shannara
moderator, 3319 posts
Welcome to Wal-Mart, get
your (crap) and get out!
Sat 24 Aug 2013
at 12:55

Re: Gaming

<rant>

Dear 'Client Support Specialist':

Please do not address me by my first name like you actually know me or care about me.  You pretty much proved you didn't when you suspended my account because 'somebody' was using my account to send spam emails and then left the support ticket open for 10 hours without any response.  Remember that vaunted response time?  You're about 9.5 hours late.

Oh, and thanks for waiting less than 2 hours for a reply to your 'reply in 24 hours' before suspending my account.  I suppose it would have been too much trouble just to disable the email until I could change my passwords?  In any event, my response to you was a lot quicker than your response to me.

Oh, and while your email tells me one thing about why my account is suspended (spam emails), your client area says it's because I hadn't paid my invoice.  (I had -- no open invoices on the account).

By the way, that support ticket you've had open since March ... the one reporting another outage ... you can close it now.

I also loved how you imply you'd been 100% totally professional and I was unreasonable in cancelling my account because you were only doing the responsible thing.

No, the only thing unreasonable about the whole thing was that I waited so long to cancel the account.   I should've canceled the moment you bought out the company I'd originally purchased hosting from and the disruptions to service started.

But you have a nice day, too.  BTW, when I say 'have a nice day' I mean it in the same sense you mean you have '99.9% uptime.'  In fact, have two nice days.

<end rant>

This kind of crap is why I will ONLY do month to month hosting.
This message was last edited by the user at 13:29, Sat 24 Aug 2013.
facemaker329
member, 5884 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Sun 25 Aug 2013
at 08:03
  • msg #550

Playing games...

Okay...I realize that you think that being a friend means that I should 'have your back'.  Normally, I'm fine with that.

When you try and turn that into a case of me lying to my other friends, because you've been dating their son (without your husband's knowledge), I have to start questioning just whether or not you're a friend I want to bother with.  Infidelity is bad enough, but at least you got things squared away with your husband that same night.

But asking me to lie to my friends, to protect your lies?  No.  That doesn't sit well with me, AT ALL.  Hope you manage to get your head on straight soon, because this is NOT something I can just shrug and dismiss.  Friends...REAL friends...do not put you in that kind of situation.
Dottie_V
member, 78 posts
The fifth in a series of
odd things you saw today.
Tue 27 Aug 2013
at 01:18
  • msg #551

Re: Playing games...

Why are mentors always missing when you need them? >~<
ginny
member, 141 posts
Wed 28 Aug 2013
at 10:40
  • msg #552

Re: Playing games...

YOu cant say 'we decided' when you didnt talk to me or even ask for my opinion.  Now I have to deal with things while you go back to sleep.  :P
Shei-kun
member, 780 posts
A Giant Shei draws near!
Fight-Magic-Item-Flee
Sat 31 Aug 2013
at 02:45
  • msg #553

Re: Playing games...

So Wednesday, I drop my parents and grandmother off at the airport after doing two round trips to get them and the luggage there, taking a good two hours of driving time.  Earlier that week, on the same tank, my car was used to drive to the mountains and back, so even for my happy little Scion xB and its roughly 28mpg average, the tank is running low.

But that's fine, since I was given $50 to pay for gas and time!

Then, Thursday morning, the car wouldn't turn over.  At all.

So, I check to see if jumper cables do the trick, since I've got two other cars sitting at home (my mom's and my dad's).  Yay, it starts up just fine!  But just to be sure, I let it idle for 20 minutes before turning it off and hoping it will work the next day.

Nope!

Cue ten minutes of me scrambling around in the garage to find the battery charger and figure out exactly how it works, since I've never used it before myself.  After triple and quadruple checking the directions and ensuring that it is, in fact, displaying a current going through, I let it charge for an hour and a half.  I was going to let it charge for three hours, but the meter claimed it was done charging, so I unhooked everything and tried to turn on the car.  Took a bit, but it started up.  Then, just to double check, I turned it off, waited a few minutes, then turned it on again.  Instant start-up!  Yay, it's fixed!

...

Now it isn't working again, four hours later.  It's too late to go to the auto parts store and get it checked out.  I don't know if it's the battery or the alternator, and I have literally nobody to drive me around in case I have to leave it somewhere overnight, because they're ALL IN ICELAND, or an hour's drive away.

And of course, my brother, whom I was planning on spending the weekend with, isn't answering his phone.  This happened, by the way, with absolutely no warning.  I've never once had trouble with the car until yesterday morning, when suddenly, it wouldn't start.

I can't drive my dad's car because it's a stick and I don't know how to drive one.  I can't drive my MOM'S car because I'm too tall and to drive it and see I'd have to bend at the SPINE, and I'm not doing that unless I absolutely have to do so.

So, I'm without a car!  Yay!

Fruiting strudel.
Silverlock
member, 66 posts
Sun 1 Sep 2013
at 04:05
  • msg #554

Re:I must have done something horrible in my previous life

I really must have.

WHY is the bank charging me overdraft fees when I know there's a good balance ?  And there's no reason for charging a fee except that they CAN, and I can't do anything about it but whine ?

WHY does one player in the game always ruin it for everyone else that's playing - by any sort of means, including being absent (and the GM slowing the pace until this slowpoke comes back around)?  Not to mention being abusive, metagaming, munchkining, those things.....In every game I'm in.

WHY am I forced to do the heavy lifting as the OLDEST and most injured person on staff ?  I'm a peasant.  I can accept that, I just don't want my face constantly ground into the dirt by management while the precious little young darlings chatter on their cell phones.  If parted with their electronic devices for more than ten minutes, they actually start shaking for their fix.

WHY can't I have a life that doesn't involve a horrible job with a nightmarish commute, with no hope of betterment (or even future employment, as it seems they're trying to get rid of me by destroying me physically) ?

Why has my automobile insurance risen when _I_ was the one who was hit by the idiot with the SUV (and the cellphone) ?  And let's not go into the other rises, like taxes, tolls, fees and cost of living, or notably, the one thing that dropped - MY SALARY.
Dottie_V
member, 80 posts
The fifth in a series of
odd things you saw today.
Mon 2 Sep 2013
at 02:28
  • msg #555

Sodium, sodium every where.

Sodium restrictions suck like a Dirt Devil vacuum. AND YES I AM HANGRY*, I CAN'T HELP IT. THANK YOU FOR POINTING IT OUT FOR THE BILLIONTH TIME SINCE I CAME HOME.

*hangry: anger or crankiness emerging from being hungry.
sefaction
member, 7 posts
Born in furnace of desire
Awesomeness ensued.
Mon 2 Sep 2013
at 21:29
  • msg #556

Re: Sodium, sodium every where.

Steps to a frustrating weekend.

1: Try to fix your car, because it randomly wouldn't start.
2: give up, and then have it magically start working again.
3: worry about it breaking again during your 80 mile commute, and decide to fix your truck.
4: change oil, oil filter, air filter and transmission fluid. Fix brake line and brake master cylinder.
5: Drive to work.
6: Break down in middle of road 30 minutes into drive because your serpentine belt exploded.
7: Cry.
acera
member, 136 posts
Wed 4 Sep 2013
at 04:29
  • msg #557

Re: Sodium, sodium every where.

...next time I travel, it's going to be alone because as grateful as I am for this vacation I may have a meltdown if I end up at another club >:||
facemaker329
member, 5931 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Wed 4 Sep 2013
at 04:46
  • msg #558

That could've gone better...

So, next time I hire makeup artists, I think I want to set up auditions.  I hope it was just what she said it was, that she'd been busy taking care of some stuff with her kids and she wasn't prepared and she didn't have all her brushes and...and...

But, seriously?  We had three hours set aside for makeup.  You had what should have been one of the easiest characters, really, with some pretty detailed pictures to use as a guide...and you couldn't even figure out the eyes?

I made the call based on credentials, because nobody really had any portfolio work to show off...and I ignored my instincts and didn't pick the girl with no theatrical makeup experience but a fantastic 'I can figure it out' attitude because you were more qualified.  I'm gonna be far beyond annoyed if I have to call her up and ask her to please consider hiring on with us because we had to let you go because you just couldn't cut it.  I'll be even more annoyed because I decided to ignore my first impulses because my boss expressed reservations about one of the makeup artists I decided to bring back--if his second-guessing me made me second-guess myself and screwed this up, I'm really going to be annoyed (but this time, just with myself).

However, unlike said boss, I'm not ready to can you after a rough first night.  There's a learning curve, and what we do is NOT standard stuff.  Maybe we'll see if we can get you in for some of the additional practice nights a couple of the other artists want to do.

Hope I'm making the right decision, hope this was just a fluke, hope I'm not going to spend the next two months listening to Elvira kvetch about her makeup artist...
Evil Empryss
member, 697 posts
I feel your pain
It makes me giggle
Thu 5 Sep 2013
at 01:49
  • msg #559

Re: That could've gone better...

*insert fifteen minute, foul-mouthed, full-on pacing rant regarding editors who insist on making "happy-to-glad" changes just to say they did their job and changed something*

Seriously?  I do editing for grad student papers.  I make useful suggestions and if there's nothing that needs changing, I give the writer a pat on the back for their work.  I don't feel the need to make my mark on someone's paper just to prove I read it.  I certainly don't suggest changing something from active to passive voice or defy the rules of the rubric that the writer is supposed to be following!

I spent over a week editing someone's paper following the school's rubric and the school's editor sent it back to the student insisting on changes in direct contradiction to the rubric.  I don't know who the heck this school hires to do the editing (the editors are never identified) but they need to be told to read the standards that they're supposed to be upholding.

Now the student is ticked at me and we're both frustrated as all get out for yet another delay in his paper.
facemaker329
member, 5934 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Thu 5 Sep 2013
at 02:14
  • msg #560

Re: That could've gone better...

So, they've FINALLY gotten in touch with some of us regular players for the big paintball game that I do each year (these days, it's the only time I play paintball).  Too bad it took my older brother emailing all the guys he has organized to say that he couldn't make it because he's still recovering from back surgery to get anyone thinking, "Oh, yeah...we always use these guys as part of the game, maybe someone should say something to them about what's going on."

As it is, I've missed the online registration deadline and my finances are such that I can't afford to play for the entire two-day event...I'll be coming up for one day and then going to a freelance gig the next (because I can't say no to the money, and because the people I'll be with at my gig are more fun than the paintball guys).

Stupid thing is, they're probably going to insist that I buy a whole case of paint (I still have over 3/4 of the case I bought last year, because I'm not one of those 'spray and pray' paintball players and actually practice some degree of fire discipline).  I may just show up and put in an appearance and not bother actually registering to play, if finances are too tight at that point.

GUYS...REALLY...PUBLICIZE YOUR GAME!  and contact the people who've made it work for you for over a dozen years, now.  Posting a random "We're still going to play" statement on Facebook once every other month doesn't count for much.  Opening registration two weeks before your online cutoff date doesn't help you much either, especially when your registration site is down half the time people try to get to it.  The biggest and best years of this game were the years that got a LOT of publicity, direct e-mailing and inviting people to be involved, heavy rotation on peoples' newsfeeds, and a bundle of background information on the game's website.  You're droppin' the ball...
Silverlock
member, 67 posts
Thu 5 Sep 2013
at 12:11
  • msg #561

Re: And the Band Played On

Yes, well, sent back to work - not allowed to rearrange schedule to accommodate physical therapy appointments, of course, and then - reinjured as no changes were made in a job for 'light duty'.  Oddly enough there are precedents for employees being permitted to rearrange their work schedule but no, I am discriminated against - for 'safety' reasons, and 'light duty' is whatever management says it is.  Time to hire that legal help I was hoping I would not require.
Dottie_V
member, 81 posts
The fifth in a series of
odd things you saw today.
Thu 5 Sep 2013
at 20:21
  • msg #562

Re: And the Band Played On

"Do you wear glasses?"

"No, I wear pieces of glass on my face and close to my eyes because I'm such a daredevil that way. Allow me to polish them and stumble about clumsily while I do a balance test for you, primary care physician."

Moron.

And on that note, it shouldn't be this hard to find a place that does Varicella titers. This is ridiculous. -___-
This message was last edited by the user at 20:21, Thu 05 Sept 2013.
ginny
member, 149 posts
Thu 5 Sep 2013
at 21:45
  • msg #563

Re: And the Band Played On

Not 1, not 2, but 3 FRUITING idiots in a row cut me off today.  How in the world do some people get their driver's license?  I mean really!  Oh and BTW, that red and white triangular sign on the side of the interstate as you are merging into traffic, that says YIELD!.   You are supposed to slow down before you get into traffic if you cant get in, NOT IN THE MIDDLE OF TRAFFIC YOU FRUITING APPLE PIE!

If the saying 'If you dont say FRUIT at least once while you are driving, then you are not paying attention', is true, then I must be the most observant FRUITING driver out there!
facemaker329
member, 5942 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Sat 7 Sep 2013
at 18:50
  • msg #564

Re: And the Band Played On

This is a low-grade vent, at best...I'd even go so far as to consider it an ironic commentary, because it's not really something that upsets me at all, more something that has me bemused.  But there's not really a better place to post it, either--

Funny, to me, how each day this week, when I've had some kind of deadline I had to meet and someplace I had to be, that there were streams of people posting stuff in one or the other of the games I'm in, so it felt like I could not stay caught up with what was happening.

Today, when I have no commitments and will probably go to work only because it will simplify the amount of stuff I have to get done next week (but can show up whenever I choose, nobody is expecting me to be there), I get on, post once to catch up...and everybody is done.

I know my schedule is all kinds of screwed up by 'normal' standards...but when you can't seem to sync with people on RPOL?  That's a really messed-up schedule.
Evil Empryss
member, 704 posts
I feel your pain
It makes me giggle
Mon 9 Sep 2013
at 12:47
  • msg #565

Re: And the Band Played On

Fruiting applepies busted into one of my cars last night, pried the cover and gas cap off, and siphoned a tank of gas.  Stole my gas cap, too.  Got to have it towed to make sure nothing was put in the tank.

I don't need this today.  I don't need this ever, but I've got way too much on my plate today to be dealing with having my car out of commission today.
shady joker
member, 1486 posts
Mon 9 Sep 2013
at 16:26
  • [deleted]
  • msg #566

Re: And the Band Played On

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 16:37, Mon 09 Sept 2013.
facemaker329
member, 5954 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Tue 10 Sep 2013
at 05:55
  • msg #567

Re: And the Band Played On

Some jackhole has been purchasing stuff with my debit card information.  Had a call from my bank's fraud prevention office this morning, in which I confirmed that no, I had not, in fact, spent $360-something in Paris, neither had I been to New York recently.

So, my card's defunct now...I hope his next purchase is right in front of a cop who will arrest him.  I have to wait a week or so for a new card, I'm not sure how much longer than that for the fraud resolution to be worked out and all my money restored to my account...

But, hey, looking on the bright side of things, at least my bank's watching out for me, a little bit.
Noxatrum
member, 80 posts
Wed 11 Sep 2013
at 02:00
  • msg #568

Re: And the Band Played On

SO. Some fruiting group of jerks kicked my apartment door in, took about 5k of electronics and other things they could use/pawn.

To make matters worse? The apartment management's idea of fixing the door was to nail the broken beyond repair door frame back together, put on a metal strip on it and call it good. When we wanted to move [cop even agreed we'd been targeted and it wasn't safe], they wanted to charge almost a full month's rent in addition, even though there was an emergency clause in the lease that allowed for a move w/o a fee if it was necessary. Apparently a targeted break in where police feel we weren't safe staying there was't enough of an emergency or a necessary move.

SO. Only good thing out of all of this? Family [only family I get along with] offered to help us start over in Vegas. That's where we are now, and that's where we're probably going to be for the foreseeable future. But uh - another vent? THE WEATHER IS SUPPOSED TO BE BONE DRY AND HOT. NOT HUMID AND HOT. GO AWAY RAIN.
Silverlock
member, 71 posts
Thu 12 Sep 2013
at 04:57
  • msg #569

Re: And what fresh pack of Hades is this

And...........

Defrauded out of our holiday.  Stronger than the storm, my fluffy applepie.

I am injured at work and now my job is threatened.....although other workers have been injured, out of work and that is all right, somehow the same is NOT true for me......AND so it goes.   Little did I know that the trailer park was a dream to aspire to, not the last resort of the service worker ?

AND...the bank that LOVES to give out overdraft fees is YET again doing that even though the maths do NOT add up.......Let me look up 'how to live on trash, in trash and around trash' before I can no longer afford the internet.  I'm too old to manage being homeless.
ginny
member, 152 posts
Fri 13 Sep 2013
at 12:40
  • msg #570

Re: And what fresh pack of Hades is this

Go put your grumpy asphalt back in bed.  I dont want to deal with your attitude anymore than you want to deal with mine.  :P
Dottie_V
member, 83 posts
The fifth in a series of
odd things you saw today.
Mon 16 Sep 2013
at 03:31
  • msg #571

Re: And what fresh pack of Hades is this

Sorry random gentleman caller, your ex-girlfriend no longer has this number. She must've had the same idea I did and changed her number so she wouldn't have to deal with her whiny ex-boyfriends. I'm sorry she left you but please stop calling my phone...especially after I've answered you five times and interrupted The Nightmare Before Christmas because of said calls. -____- I would like to finish my movie, thank you.
FrozenMonkey
member, 4 posts
Mon 16 Sep 2013
at 03:57
  • msg #572

Re: And what fresh pack of Hades is this

Thanks a lot, "supervisor" who cannot even do MY job, let alone yours. It's always nice when you sit about and play at making folders of paperwork for imagined problems that might come up in February, and leave me to deal with the real problems that are here NOW. Leave me to catch seven radios from twelve counties. Leave me to coordinate crash responses. Leave me to deal with the driver that just hit a human being. Make your folders, cut out your pictures, and draw. Then, as if to add insult to injury, you ask ME how to make the computer work properly. You, who have been tasked with teaching how to use the systems you're asking about. No, I'm obviously not busy with this call. I'd be glad to do your job as well as mine.
st_nougat
member, 257 posts
Mon 16 Sep 2013
at 14:46
  • msg #573

Re: And what fresh pack of Hades is this

Lost out on another opportunity for a new job at what appeared to be a good company because of a felony background.

I don't even know how many that is now and I loath the job I have now.
DarkwindStriker
member, 565 posts
Better known in many
places as Gatewalker.
Mon 16 Sep 2013
at 17:10
  • msg #574

Re: And what fresh pack of Hades is this

Everyone in the house getting sick at once. Oh yay. @_@
Wyrm
member, 302 posts
Tue 17 Sep 2013
at 14:53
  • msg #575

Re: And what fresh pack of Hades is this

Make a list, check it twice, drive 2400 miles straight, left power cords for computer at home.
The_Blob
member, 316 posts
Wed 18 Sep 2013
at 07:41
  • msg #576

just shut it

Girlfriends that complain about us playing GTA V... we had to put up with fruiting Twilight, and Fifty Shades of fruiting Grey... so pipe the fruit down and let us play.
Iammara
member, 240 posts
Wed 18 Sep 2013
at 07:53
  • msg #577

Re: just shut it

I work my butt off for my team every day. No matter how busy I am, I make sure that their business is taken care of when they're away and I always help them with anything they need.

Now, I go away for ONE day and they messed up two of the five things I asked them to do, one of which was for an important client. And then my boss tells me I shouldn't get too upset because it was a really chaotic day? Yeah, I know! I had to do the same thing for them last week but I made sure it was done well!
st_nougat
member, 258 posts
Wed 18 Sep 2013
at 13:47
  • msg #578

Re: just shut it

The good news is that my wife gets a nice shiny new refrigerator that we have been wanting to start saving money for.

The bad new is that my ice cream melted (as did everything else in the freezer)

the worse news is that we are going to have to finance all of this.

and now my kegs are sitting on the floor and not in my Keezer (keg freezer) where they belong.
Necromis
member, 75 posts
Wed 18 Sep 2013
at 14:30
  • [deleted]
  • msg #579

Re: just shut it

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 14:31, Wed 18 Sept 2013.
Starchaser
member, 349 posts
GMT+0
Posts Monday-Friday
Fri 20 Sep 2013
at 00:28
  • msg #580

There goes my heart

Just made the biggest mistake of my entire life.
facemaker329
member, 5975 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Fri 20 Sep 2013
at 16:33
  • msg #581

Re: There goes my heart

Oddly enough, even though this has been one of the smoothest times I've had prepping for our Halloween shows, and I'm looking forward to this Halloween season in a way I haven't in years, here we are at opening day and I feel as unenthusiastic about it as I think I ever have.  The lack of enthusiasm is largely due to the inability of management to just get the fruit out of the way and let us do what we were hired to do, especially in the last few days.

Hopefully, I'll be feeling more 'into it' when it's actually time to start makeup this afternoon...we'll see.
facemaker329
member, 5977 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Sat 21 Sep 2013
at 05:52
  • msg #582

Holy No-Shows, Batman!

Wow...hope you weren't serious about getting too heavily into makeup in this area.  I don't consider myself THAT well-connected, but between me and the five other people on the makeup crew?  We've got a circle of friends that touches on most of the makeup opportunities in the northern end of the state.

So, failing to appear for opening day?  Not a particular good move.  Neglecting to contact anyone about why you couldn't be there?  Taking a fast step from bad to worse.  I told my boss that I hoped you had a helluva good story about why you couldn't make it...he looked me in the eye and said I was more forgiving than he was.  So, yeah...

Wheels are rolling, already got an alternate lined up (someone I would have hired in a heartbeat if she'd gotten word to me two days earlier that she was interested).  Don't let the door hit you in the butt on the way out...

Guess I get to rock-paper-scissors with the boss tomorrow over who's stuck calling you to give you the bad news...assuming you bother to answer your phone then.  Since you didn't answer texts or phone calls today, I'm not expecting much of an answer.  (I hope I lose that one.  While I'm fine with making the decision to go with someone else, I do NOT want the task of informing you of the choice.  I hate it enough when I have to tell people I've interviewed that we went with someone else...someone I've actually already hired and trained, at least briefly?  Not excited for that one.)
LadyMer
member, 22 posts
Sun 22 Sep 2013
at 20:13
  • msg #583

Re: Holy No-Shows, Batman!

Husband got the oil changed yesterday. Today, I got in the car to go to my mom's house and the car won't accelerate and the 'check engine' light is on. Looks like I'll have to cancel with Mom.

I HATE CARS!
Shiv
member, 131 posts
Mon 23 Sep 2013
at 03:49
  • [deleted]
  • msg #584

Re: Holy No-Shows, Batman!

This message was deleted by the user at 20:51, Mon 23 Sept 2013.
Zephydel
member, 655 posts
Creative Ideas
Real-Life Solutions
Tue 24 Sep 2013
at 07:33
  • msg #585

Game Balancing Epic Fail....

Online Game Admin: We admit that the game uses cheating AI. However, the game is balanced because it allows you to win from time to time. It is also balanced because you can pay for cheats.
Dottie_V
member, 85 posts
The fifth in a series of
odd things you saw today.
Tue 24 Sep 2013
at 13:44
  • msg #586

Re: Game Balancing Epic Fail....

I swear if there is a patron saint for the patients of obscenely obtuse doctors, I will pray to them now because this is just getting ridiculous.
Paixao
member, 31 posts
It's always the quiet one
Wed 25 Sep 2013
at 01:40
  • msg #587

Re: Game Balancing Epic Fail....

Two hours of typing, a computer locking up and all word files I was working on now don't exist. If I had the energy I'd throw myself in front of a bus because I was twenty minutes away from finishing my homework for the week.
st_nougat
member, 259 posts
Wed 25 Sep 2013
at 17:26
  • msg #588

Re: Game Balancing Epic Fail....

this exchange just happened at work

Him: "hey guys whenever a change is made to a project you have to tell the project manager" <please keep in mind until this round of projects one guy was the project manager, now we have two and nobody told the engineers> "I am going to add the project manager to that sheet of paper"

Me: "Ok, what sheet of paper?"

Him: "the one you don't see."

Seriously?

nuff said?  anyone want to hire me? I need out of this place.
Dottie_V
member, 87 posts
The fifth in a series of
odd things you saw today.
Thu 26 Sep 2013
at 18:15
  • msg #589

Re: Game Balancing Epic Fail....

The website you send applicants to for information is not updated regularly nor does it hold the information the applicants are actually looking for.

In fact, aside from leaving out pertinent information, you give erroneous information.

It is next to impossible to get an email answered by you or anyone in that department and scheduling an appointment with you would have been Hercules's 13th labor.

Your automated phone system abomination is useless and would confuse the Heads of the Department of Nonsense at the IRS.

Yes, I am quite angry.

No, I didn't break your windshield, that was another disappointed and angry applicant turned away by you miserably inefficient figs.
facemaker329
member, 5990 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Fri 27 Sep 2013
at 16:44
  • msg #590

Once more, with increased condescension...

Yes, I understand why you want us to use the online work schedule system.  Explaining it to me, in an email that's addressed only to me but phrased to sound like you're explaining it to the whole department, only succeeds in making you look like a pedantic fruit-tart, and in no way decreases my overwhelming apathy towards using a system that we functioned perfectly well without for more than a decade before you came along.

Sorry if it's inconvenient for you...but I'm frankly focused on making our department actually function, not on making the paperwork look pretty, and contrary to your assertion, it does take time for me to log in, write up the schedule, and post it...and then have to revise it on a daily basis because a project ran long or we left early or something.  Just let me do my job.  If you don't trust us to give you honest reports of our work hours without having to schedule them in advance, then maybe you better reconsider your hiring criteria, as it seems--for the moment at least--like you're more interested in people who will follow your nitpicky scheduling considerations than you are in actually having the shows come off on schedule.  Entertainment doesn't happen on a clean 9-to-5 timetable, and maybe if you'd spend some time actually keeping track of what's happening (and getting involved in it), instead of worrying about WHEN it's happening so much, you might remember back when you used to understand that concept.
Silverlock
member, 72 posts
Sat 28 Sep 2013
at 04:51
  • msg #591

The Return of the Head Cold



Seasons change = I get a rotten head cold.  A messy aching one with extra misery of sinus headaches and other joy.  If it's the zombie apocalypse I'm going to make sure I get myself to work so I can chase management around when I TURN.  They're too lazy to run fast but then there's not much brain to eat, really.
facemaker329
member, 5992 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Sat 28 Sep 2013
at 16:52
  • msg #592

And they're off...

So...with four and a half weeks left in our season, our lighting/tech supervisor decided he'd had enough last night and apparently walked off the job (I wasn't there, I don't know details, and what I heard about it was second hand from someone who heard it from someone whose veracity I have reason to doubt, so I don't think it was as clean a departure as was indicated in the story as told to me).  Wish I could say I was surprised to hear it...but they've just about made his position impossible to maintain because they want him to do everything and be everywhere, but they won't give him hours to do it, they won't put him on salary, and they won't get him the equipment he needs to do his job properly.  More than that, they won't listen when he makes recommendations about equipment...and then when stuff breaks down (the stuff he recommended they replace), they blame him for it.

So, yeah...if he walked, I don't blame him.  I've thought about it myself, a few times...and the notion still isn't completely off the table for me (when they put me on salary, I was getting paid enough to actually get a little ahead of my bills.  Since then, my rent has gone up, my utilities have gone up, and gas prices have gone up...so now, my take-home pay for half the month isn't even enough to cover my rent check anymore).  We are most likely losing my assistant this winter, as well...because they won't give her enough hours for her to pay her rent, let alone the medical bills she's incurred due to being diabetic.  She's awesome, and awesome people get picked up, especially when they're left flapping in the breeze...two of our designers for our Halloween shows have given her job offers...one was only a month-long gig...but it pays close to what I earn in three months.  The other is a semi-seasonal job...but it will use her a LOT and open a lot of doors for her to get other, better jobs.

It's frustrating to me to work for people who are so short-sighted that they can't keep together a very effective production team.  I hope I'm picturing the worst-case scenario...but I'm expecting next year to involve a lot of new faces in very important roles.  And with what they're willing to pay new people, I'm expecting those new faces to be considerably less competent than the ones they're replacing.

Wonder if I'm getting too old for this strudel...
DarkwindStriker
member, 571 posts
Better known in many
places as Gatewalker.
Sat 28 Sep 2013
at 19:55
  • msg #593

Re: And they're off...

I have managed to lose a $50 gift card I was given for my birthday.

I am *really* hoping that complaining about this will miraculously lead to me finding it.
Evil Empryss
member, 757 posts
No one listens
until I make a mistake
Sun 29 Sep 2013
at 13:49
  • msg #594

Re: And they're off...

Started working with an animal rescue at the beginning of the month to adopt a dog.  In the last two weeks I had my car broken into and got really sick and I let the conversation lapse.  I wrote the rescue last night to find out if the dog I wanted was still available, figuring an adorable mutt like her might have been adopted by someone else....

Because of overcrowding, last week they took her to the shelter to be euthanized.

They knew someone was interested and didn't even bother to take a moment to email me to let me know the dog's life was at risk.  I'm a two-hour drive away, but fruit it, I'd have made the time to get out there to save her if I'd known they were going to have her put down!  Some rescue!
DivineSingularity
member, 56 posts
Disconnect and
Self destruct.
Tue 1 Oct 2013
at 18:20
  • msg #595

Re: And they're off...

Someone dropped my PS3 down the stairs,  I'm nice, I let my flatmates borrow my stuff.  The things is now that it's been busted they offered me 90 bucks.  That's NOT enough for replacement.  I just ask if you use my strawberries that you take care of it.   I don't splurge often on myself.
This message was last edited by a moderator, as it was against the forum rules, at 18:31, Tue 01 Oct 2013.
Wyrm
member, 328 posts
Fri 4 Oct 2013
at 18:38
  • msg #596

Re: And they're off...

The fact that it would have been cheaper for me to go to the store, buy a bag of milk with 4 liter bags inside and have you pour a glass of milk for everyone at the table than had I ordered a single 8oz glass of milk.
facemaker329
member, 6006 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Wed 9 Oct 2013
at 05:03
  • msg #597

Re: And they're off...

Heh...the day I find out that my assistant of the last four years will likely NOT be sticking around for a fifth because upper management is too stingy to give her enough hours to pay her bills is NOT a good day for me to get an invitation to the annual company 'health fair'...a flu shot clinic?  Maybe a good idea (I still wouldn't go...the years that my dad got sick while I was growing up were always the years he got his flu shot, I'd rather take my chances and trust my immune system).

But massages?  REALLY?  You can't afford to pay people to do stuff that's necessary to maintaining smooth operations, but you're going to pay people to come in and make all the senior management nice and relaxed?

Not gonna be there.  Even if I could live with being part of the hypocrisy, if I'm going to be at work that early in the day, I'm going to be WORKING.  Thanks to management's handling of our tech crews, I'm likely to be the only senior technician there when it's time to take down the shows.  That means I'm gonna have to tell people where the lights need to go, what to do with the light board, where to put the sound board (unless the sound department comes to get it), what to do with all the scenery...I'd be too stressed about what to do about all this crap to be able to relax for a massage, thanks.
Brianna
member, 1751 posts
Wed 9 Oct 2013
at 20:57
  • [deleted]
  • msg #598

Re: And they're off...

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 21:07, Wed 09 Oct 2013.
MisterBook
member, 192 posts
Just some guy
More of that guy.
Wed 9 Oct 2013
at 21:34
  • msg #599

Re: And they're off...

Ah, it's my system, is it? The same system that hasn't had an update from my team in six months, and has been ticking smoothly along this entire time? The Golden Child?

The system that broke during your first, second, and third push of beta software?

By the way, don't you have your own lab? Why are you pushing your software to mine? What's the bloody point, since I'm not going to let you test on it, and all it seems to do is break it?

Lets go over the facts. My system works fine. You "update" it, and it breaks. I revert, and it works fine. You "update" again, and it breaks.

MY software's buggy?
I need to contact MY developer?
Even though YOUR software hasn't made it out of a beta in two quarters, no matter whose network you're running it on?
Ah. Ah ha.


... Get your fingers out of my network, son.
This message was last edited by the user at 21:35, Wed 09 Oct 2013.
Zephydel
member, 656 posts
Creative Ideas
Real-Life Solutions
Thu 10 Oct 2013
at 06:21
  • msg #600

Game Debugging Epic Fail....

Concerned Player A: I would like to report a bug in the game. I noticed that the game crashes every time I get hit by players who use Power Satanic Scroll and Demonic Fury Spear.

....

Concerned Player H: I am also reporting the same bug.

Online Game Admin: You should all stop complaining about players who use Power Satanic Scroll and Demonic Fury Spear. You should instead buy those items in the Real Cash Store.
This message was last edited by the user at 06:33, Thu 10 Oct 2013.
The Stray
member, 83 posts
When the Cat's a Stray
the Mice will Pray
Thu 10 Oct 2013
at 06:33
  • msg #601

Re: Game Debugging Epic Fail....

Dice roller, why do you hate my players so much? Seriously. I'm not trying to pick on this guy...but the dice roller has it in for him. He ALWAYS seems to get his with the most hideous amounts of damage. Every. Fruiting. Time. His soak rolls are blown. Every. Fruiting. Time. Why this particular player, Dice roller? WHY?
Wyrm
member, 352 posts
Wed 16 Oct 2013
at 23:28
  • msg #602

Re: Game Debugging Epic Fail....

This whole anti-bully refuse has not done anything to stop it. If anything, it just made it harder to combat and blurred the lines of right and wrong.
bobbofeet
member, 122 posts
Mon 21 Oct 2013
at 18:01
  • msg #603

Re: Game Debugging Epic Fail....

When I ask for repercussions on selling assets tied to our checking account, stating that there will be none, tells me that there will be NONE!

Telling me a week later that cash in our checking account is now no longer available to us because of said sale is a stupid repercussion!  That's why I asked!
Mustard Tiger
member, 551 posts
Mon 21 Oct 2013
at 18:11
  • msg #604

Re: Game Debugging Epic Fail....

So why exactly, do I have to drive over an hour and a half to a separate office to go to a 45 minute meeting with some high executive D-bag who doesn't even know who I am?

Why do I care?

Why should I care?

And thanks for making me also drive an hour and a half to work the second week of November, for two days of "Team building" BS. Never mind the fact that everyone in my department is essentially independent and autonomous, with no need for "teamwork" or anything else. Never mind the fact that two days of being unable to complete my regular workload is going to cause a pain-in-the-a** backlog, when we're already about to get backlogged since the government shutdown is over.

You're a low-level team leader: your only responsibilities are to approve my timesheet, conduct my performance appraisal once a quarter, approve my vacation, and fire me if I do something terrible. Why are you all of a sudden trying to act like a real manager?
Magic Pegasus
member, 27 posts
Better your best...
Practice make Improvement
Mon 21 Oct 2013
at 21:02
  • msg #605

Re: I hate life sometimes...

Not too long ago, at the end of the day, once class was over,

I had checked my bag for my purse so I can buy me something to eat...sadly...it was nowhere to be found. I tried remembering where I had it last, and ran back to the spot, only to see that it was gone. I became upset, and a bit angry, and then went to the lost and found office to see if anyone had returned a purse with the description I gave them, but they said no.

I continued coming back everyday, asking them over and over, until I decided to just give up, I knew then that I would never get it back, and to this day I still don't have it...Whatever I had in there was precious to me, but I have lost it...makes me sad since that was my most favorite purse I ever got.
bigbadron
moderator, 14032 posts
He's big, he's bad,
but mostly he's Ron.
Wed 6 Nov 2013
at 17:30

Re: I hate life sometimes...

Bah, people who lie about things, and other people who immediately condemn somebody having only heard one side of the story (and that side a lie).
Silverlock
member, 73 posts
Thu 7 Nov 2013
at 20:05
  • msg #607

Re: I hate life sometimes...

The head cold that WON'T go away.....
Newgirl2010
member, 279 posts
Thu 7 Nov 2013
at 21:24
  • msg #608

Re: I hate life sometimes...

In reply to Silverlock (msg # 607):

What is it with chatterboxes and A) always having their butts in my face, and B) doorways?
cero1
member, 664 posts
Thu 7 Nov 2013
at 22:44
  • msg #609

Re: I hate life sometimes...

Why can't laptops live longer than 3 years without having to completely change their innards and therefore having the proverbial 'same brush, with a brand new head and brand new handle...'??

Oh, thats right... Profits :/ Like I have £400 to do this every few years...
Wyrm
member, 367 posts
Sun 10 Nov 2013
at 15:09
  • msg #610

Re: I hate life sometimes...

Why can't Ikea use proper tools that everyone has, or can rig?
facemaker329
member, 6048 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Sun 10 Nov 2013
at 17:39
  • msg #611

Re: I hate life sometimes...

I thought it was just a sinus headache, earlier this week.  Now, a few days later, when my sinuses aren't totally congested?  Nope.  It's the tooth that I was hoping I'd be able to wait until the second half of the month to worry about.  At least it's one of my upper wisdom teeth...with any luck, it'll come out as easily as its twin on the other side of my head did.  But that's still gonna be a day or two away from work that my boss is gonna ride me about.
Bigun Eagle
member, 69 posts
Thu 14 Nov 2013
at 01:33
  • msg #612

Re: I hate life sometimes...

Getting a cold during my two busiest days of the week, not only am I miserable, but I'm getting way behind at work.
facemaker329
member, 6068 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Tue 19 Nov 2013
at 05:21
  • msg #613

Re: I hate life sometimes...

I got a lot of great things from my dad...but I wish he hadn't passed along his post-nasal drip.  While I'm over the worst of my cold, my sinuses are still not yet shifted out of overdrive...and all that gunk is draining down my throat and into my stomach.  Been queasy all day long because of it...almost lost my lunch on the way to go buy it.  Finally decided to try some of the 'you have to sign for it at the pharmacy counter because it can be cooked down to make meth' cold medicine in hopes that IT will slow the flow and let me get back to relatively normal again.
Evil Empryss
member, 821 posts
Tue 19 Nov 2013
at 05:38
  • [deleted]
  • msg #614

Re: I hate life sometimes...

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 07:58, Tue 19 Nov 2013.
Dottie_V
member, 90 posts
The fifth in a series of
odd things you saw today.
Tue 19 Nov 2013
at 08:54
  • msg #615

Re: I hate life sometimes...

I shouldn't be this relieved about ending a game. I shouldn't be this happy to see certain players leave the table.

Blueberries.

I think GM-ing ruined rpgs for me and this makes me quite sad.
charlotteen
member, 4 posts
Wed 20 Nov 2013
at 14:58
  • msg #616

Re: I hate life sometimes...

sprained my wrist, it hurts and its my writing hand
Zephydel
member, 658 posts
Creative Ideas
Real-Life Solutions
Thu 21 Nov 2013
at 10:27
  • msg #617

I want brain damage?

Friend: You lost again. I think you should use another character.
Zephydel: I am really having a hard time beating your Zangief.
Friend: Yang is not really a good character against Zangief.

Thud!

Zephydel: Was that your son?
Friend: He is supposed to be sleeping right now.

Spin! Thud!

Zephydel: Is he giving himself a spinning pile driver on the couch?

Friend: Hey! Stop that! You might hurt yourself.
Son: I want spinning pile driver!
Friend: No. You might hurt your head.
Son: I am Kick Buttowski! I cannot get hurt!
Friend: No. You are not Kick Buttowski.
Son: I want spinning pile driver!
Friend: No. You might get brain damage!
Son: I want brain damage!
Friend: No. You might become a vegetable!
Son: I am not a vegetable! I want spinning pile driver, now!

Zephydel: Sigh...
Friend: Stupid Disney Channel....
This message was last edited by the user at 10:36, Thu 21 Nov 2013.
Silverlock
member, 74 posts
Thu 21 Nov 2013
at 10:49
  • msg #618

Re: Insomnia

Caused by work stress, injury pain, and a sick dog who has gobbled up all manner of treats given to said dog by spouse - same treats causing illness.  Spouse of course sleeps through all the bouts of dog being ill at both ends and subsequent multiple shampooing of carpets/washing of laundry.  Acts upset that I have disposed of treats causing the problem and imposed 'cruel' limits on what the dog eats until dog's digestive system recovers from illness.  Then spouse is shocked that I do not wish to go out for evening's entertainment when I've worked 19 hours the past two days on 5 hours worth of sleep.  Oh yes, on less than this divorces have been made.  Oh, and I can't call out on my shift today as I would be formally reprimanded, possibly suspended without pay, so add another 8-10 hours of work.
facemaker329
member, 6077 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Mon 25 Nov 2013
at 04:10
  • msg #619

Re: Insomnia

Well, this is a combination of vent and good stuff...

When I moved into this place...a decade ago...my landlord took off my storm windows and put up screens at the end of the first winter.  He never got around to putting the windows back up again after that.  The property's changed ownership two or three times since then...

The current landlord left part of the storage shed unlocked, and in poking around a little bit tonight, I discovered a pile of storm windows and screens.  This made me very happy, because I've really missed having storm windows in the wintertime (the insulation here is pretty pathetic as it is, only having a relatively cheap exterior door with screens on the other side does NOT help any).

Problem is, it's a fourplex.  That's EIGHT doors.  And two windows per door (though they're different sizes).  And the doors are not all perfectly uniform--as I found out tonight, after trying three different storm windows on my front door, none of which quite fit the door.

So, both my front and back doors now have one storm window and one screen...both the screens are pulling out of the frames.  And my experience with calling the property managers has been less than stellar...when the manager was living in the unit next door?  Things were great, stuff got taken care of, and I felt like bringing up problems would get a timely response.  The rest of the time?  Well, there's still a list of about ten or twelve things that the original owner was going to fix after I moved in, which have never had a second look (except from the one manager who lived next door...who said he'd be happy to come fix it if I could wait a couple of days, but since I'd been living with it for years, I told him there was no rush...and before he got around to those problems, he'd moved out and was replaced.)

Sick of the drafty doors...if I can't find storm windows that fit for the last two screens, I may just pull those frames out and put plastic over them.
Wyrm
member, 389 posts
Sun 1 Dec 2013
at 05:59
  • msg #620

Re: Insomnia

Lightweight Vent:
I worry about the Province (and possibly country) that feels it has to lock up it's stores of Ibuprofen at 8pm...
Zephydel
member, 659 posts
Creative Ideas
Real-Life Solutions
Mon 2 Dec 2013
at 10:05
  • msg #621

Dumb Reasons.... False Benefits....

Idiot: Can you babysit tonight? I need to go to a party tonight.
Neighbor: Again? Sorry, I cannot. I need to study for my final exam tomorrow.
Idiot: Do you like studying for that final exam?
Neighbor: Not really....
Idiot: Well... You can thank me later, girlfriend.
Neighbor: Why?
Idiot: I am giving you a good reason not to study for that final exam. It is a win-win deal.
Neighbor: I really need to study for that final exam.
Idiot: Which is more important, that final exam or the safety of my child?
Neighbor: Which is more important, that party or the safety of your child?
Idiot: What the...? Hey! I am the one asking questions here!
Neighbor: Honestly, I do not like the idea of babysitting your child while you go out partying.
Idiot: Are you calling me an irresponsible mother?
Neighbor: Honestly... Yeah... I am no longer interested in seeing my grades slip while enabling your being irresponsible.

Idiot: Zephydel can you....?
Zephydel: Nope.... I think you need to grow a spine and do it yourself....
Idiot: How dare you...!
Zephydel: Do you want me to call child protective services?
This message was last edited by the user at 10:33, Mon 02 Dec 2013.
Silverlock
member, 76 posts
Tue 3 Dec 2013
at 10:51
  • msg #622

Re:  The joys of a bad economy

Ah, yes, going to work again while being ill.  Why ?  Can't afford to lose my job.  There's no job to replace it at my age and my lack of good health, so I plan on working til I drop.  Seems to be the new healthcare plan in my current country anyway...
facemaker329
member, 6089 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Fri 13 Dec 2013
at 02:05
  • msg #623

Re:  The joys of a bad economy

Winter weather has finally begun to take its toll on my skin...at least on my hands.  Got home from work, noticed the skin on the back of one hand was coarse and almost flaky, so I put some lotion on.

That resulted in about five minutes of extreme discomfort as the nerve endings in all the areas where the skin was about ready to split flared up in pain.  It's back to normal again...but I'm gonna have to keep an eye on it.  Actually had spots on one hand that split and started bleeding, last winter...I do NOT want to go through that again...
Zephydel
member, 660 posts
Creative Ideas
Real-Life Solutions
Fri 13 Dec 2013
at 11:14
  • msg #624

False Activists

False Activist (posting some political article on Face Book): I really hate corrupt politicians.

Later, on the same day....

Zephydel: I will not help you create and design an online marketing campaign for a free-to-play game that secretly teaches children how to gamble.
False Activist: I think you should. Do you know who I am? I have political contacts that can shut down your company. I am one of the elite.
Zephydel: I think your so-called political contacts do not exist, unless they are a bunch of stupid pikers. I think they will turn against you, sooner or later. I think they will do so, after seeing how useless you are.
This message was last edited by the user at 11:36, Fri 13 Dec 2013.
ginny
member, 184 posts
Sat 14 Dec 2013
at 23:04
  • msg #625

Re: False Activists

Near blizzard like conditions and 10-18 inches of snow heading our way tonight.  :P  I really hate winter in the North East. *sigh* :(
tulgurth
member, 49 posts
Sun 15 Dec 2013
at 17:44
  • [deleted]
  • msg #626

PORN ON RPOL

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was against the forum rules, at 20:07, Sun 15 Dec 2013.
The_Blob
member, 348 posts
Mon 16 Dec 2013
at 00:06
  • msg #627

meh

self-proclaimed 'arbiters of morality' that get up on their soap-box...

that is all
facemaker329
member, 6102 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Wed 18 Dec 2013
at 09:40
  • msg #628

Re: meh

Holy crabapple jelly...I'm not even a GM in the game, and I've been inundated with people second-guessing the plotline that I'm currently sorta-steering (it's my idea, and it's a freeform game so the GM is letting me run with it...but it's not one of those 'anything goes' freeform games, everything I'm doing has been discussed at some length with the GM).

And it's not like this just came out of the blue.  I've been talking about this with other characters in the game, IC, in most of the posts I've made in the last three weeks.  There's a reason things are happening the way they're happening, and while I'm not promising that all will turn out well in the end, there's a whole lotta story left to go before this story arc, brief as it is, is resolved.  Stop whining about how your character has been 'humiliated' and learn a little from the story. (And, really...are you expecting a Marine Sergeant Major to NOT humiliate green troops?  Granted, I don't have any practical Marine Corps experience...but the very notion flies in the face of every story I've heard from friends who have been or are now in the Corps, not to mention pretty much every popular culture depiction of a Marine Corps sergeant.  They're not known for being kind and considerate.  Condescending, perhaps...but I'm not doing that.)

Or, y'know...we could just go ahead and say 'Enough's enough,' and the GM could go ahead and run your group into the planned situation, with just enough training to remember which end of the gun bullets come out of...against hardened troops who've been fighting for decades, and have their backs against the wall and are literally fighting for their very lives.  Then your character wouldn't be humiliated.

He'd be dead.
facemaker329
member, 6107 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Thu 19 Dec 2013
at 22:30
  • msg #629

More snow woes...

Got our second big winter storm of the season last night ('big' being a relative term...compared to what hit New England over the last week, this is trivial stuff).  If it had JUST snowed, I'd be fine.  But, no...it rained for a few hours before it cooled off enough to turn to snow.  So, now, I'm trying to clear three or four inches of heavy, wet snow, ON TOP OF an inch or so of slush.  My snowblower is worse than useless in this stuff...I'm stuck shoveling.

I'm one of the lucky ones.  A lot of people in this area got freezing rain, instead of just rain, so their snow is on top of a glassy sheet of ice...that's a sure-fire recipe for slips and falls.

So, Round One of snow removal is a draw.  I got the front and back walks shoveled completely (though it's still snowing so they're getting covered again), cleared a walkway down the driveway to the parking area (it's a fourplex...I'm the only resident able-bodied enough to shovel snow and the landlord can't be bothered to do it) and along the sidewalk out front.  I also got increasingly uncomfortable back spasms.  While I still have steam to keep shoveling, my body (my back, in particular) has declared it's done for a while.

Round Two, coming up in another hour or so, once some lunch and some ibuprofen have time to soak in.  We'll see how far I get on that one.
Silverlock
member, 77 posts
Fri 20 Dec 2013
at 10:55
  • msg #630

Re: Why I hate banks.

We used to have a nice local bank, had maybe five branches in the state.  It's been bought out by a mega bank and now....fined left and right for 'overdraft' when I have direct Blueberry deposit and I KNOW the money is there.  On the back of the holidays and two car repairs I don't have a slush fund at the mo, you devils in polyester, cut the working fool some slack !
swanbone
member, 15 posts
Sat 21 Dec 2013
at 01:23
  • msg #631

Re: Why I hate banks.

I feel grumpy about everything right now. This is my last day off until 2014 as far as I know, and it has not been relaxing.

Stressful issues with Fed Ex supposedly delivering an extremely expensive package at 6:06 (and getting a signature for it) yesterday. Of course, this did not happen. How do I know? The tree is right next to the front door and from 5-7:30 I was decorating it. Right there. Next to the front door. And a family member literally went on the porch every half an hour to check and see whether or not this package had arrived yet.

Irritated at somebody I play with for asking me to run them a SL-related scene, and theeeeen when we invite another player into the SL scene, first player deciding to snark and question some of my difficulty level decisions, as relates to the other player's rolls. My typical caveat for running those kinds of things is 'trust me, I won't always go by the book, I'll go by what makes sense to me, if you have a problem with this I won't be offended if we don't do this.' Both of them v. familiar with this. Both of them also play together a lot, so I took it as favoritism from the first player of a grump-inducing kind.

Also irritated at somebody else I play with for taking our characters' mutual backstory and adding a mega-ton of detail that I would NOT have been okay with. Of course, no head's up. I hear about all this stuff that happened in mutual backstory - IC. When another character is questioning mine about it. Whoops. Amnesia? Ugh.

Management at work has gone COMPLETELY insane and selfish and unbearable. 'Nuff said about that.

FAMILY is driving me insane.

I miss my best friend.

I have writer's block (perhaps because I'm stressed) and a deadline to meet in two days.

My phone is broken.

I miss my best friend. Argh.

And there is almost no food in the house, the car's tail lights are out and the side mirror fell off, so I can choose to walk to get food or I can eat some questionable-looking yogurt and cucumber slices.
charlotteen
member, 5 posts
Sat 21 Dec 2013
at 10:39
  • msg #632

Re: Why I hate banks.

I strongly dislike December
Brygun
member, 1844 posts
RPG since 1982
Author, Developer
Mon 23 Dec 2013
at 00:38
  • msg #633

Re: Why I hate banks.

Toronto power outage

Using auto power booster to charge cellphone to post this
Wyrm
member, 400 posts
Mon 23 Dec 2013
at 01:15
  • msg #634

Re: Why I hate banks.

Lower Ontario POwer outage. Boarding an annoying friend family to share what little heat and food available. Turning phone off to conserve power. Goodbye internet.
dark_angel
member, 252 posts
Mon 23 Dec 2013
at 01:56
  • msg #635

Re: Why I hate banks.

Here's hoping that karma will crap on the person who hit our van and then fled the scene. :D I hope they get their asses kicked good. Its 2 days before Christmas.
eternaldarkness
member, 564 posts
And the world shall fall
into eternal darkness....
Mon 23 Dec 2013
at 15:59
  • msg #636

Re: Why I hate banks.

Who fires someone two days before Christmas? I hope those bastards choke on a festive holiday fruitcake.
The_Blob
member, 358 posts
Mon 23 Dec 2013
at 16:11
  • msg #637

Re: Why I hate banks.

The December 23rd Obamacare Enrollment date...

...

what a clusterfruit
Mortixx
member, 214 posts
Mon 23 Dec 2013
at 22:39
  • msg #638

Re: Why I hate banks.

I got a mystery game popping up in my sticky list that i am also banned in. And now i got to wait till Jase has figured out the mystery and my OCD isnt coping with the bold red new post counter till it is resolved and there are holidays coming.

*twich twitch* ;-)
Heath
member, 2571 posts
If my opinion changes,
The answer is still 42.
Tue 24 Dec 2013
at 00:17
  • msg #639

Re: Why I hate banks.

Salary freezes for all our offices across the nation thanks to the increased health care premiums and costs created by Obamacare -- my secretary doesn't even get a raise.
Dottie_V
member, 91 posts
The fifth in a series of
odd things you saw today.
Tue 24 Dec 2013
at 02:07
  • msg #640

Re: Why I hate banks.

Pneumonia just before Christmas.

Ow.
The Stray
member, 84 posts
When the Cat's a Stray
the Mice will Pray
Wed 25 Dec 2013
at 03:39
  • msg #641

Re: Why I hate banks.

FML.

My car dies a fatal death two weeks ago. I pass a kidney stone that Friday, while also learning I have another just waiting to drop. Then, just tonight, the car I was borrowing from a friend stalls out, and it turns out to ALSO have been a fatal death. So now I have no car, and no car to borrow, and no prospects for getting a new car for work, and this month isn't even over yet.


AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
FrozenMonkey
member, 7 posts
Wed 25 Dec 2013
at 10:04
  • msg #642

Just another standard day, I guess...

Covering an overnight shift for multiple Troops so partners can have Christmas with their kids...and just as the shift starts, I get a near-blinding headache, chills, fever, and body aches.

Seven hours down now, three to go until I get relieved. Christmas Eve flu seems a tradition around here, but it has spared me until this year. Yay me.
Wyrm
member, 403 posts
Fri 27 Dec 2013
at 15:40
  • msg #643

Re: Just another standard day, I guess...

I do not like having to go back on my belief, just because some one is a very bad parent.
Silverlock
member, 78 posts
Sat 28 Dec 2013
at 08:50
  • msg #644

Re: the Holiday Money Haemorrhage...

Both cars need work not once but twice.  Bank changes hands and looks for creative new ways to charge me overdraft fees so now must change banks.  New bank calls old bank/new owner and decides I'm high risk thanks to old bank/new owner so now stuck there.  Spouse's parents lose favourite pet and are left with horrible vet bill we can't even give a penny to help with.  Work management cannot comprehend that light duty does not mean I am to be given MORE work than able bodied people.  Oh, and a pay fall next month as Obamacare again sucks more money out of my cheque.  And the telephone charities have us on their Please Pester Hourly list.  Commute from work now a horrifying ordeal as construction has destroyed the roadway, so add an hour to the drive.  And find out that coworker is scamming the government for rent money, child care money, food money, you name it, because she CAN.  What DID I do in a previous life, slaughter nuns ?
acera
member, 137 posts
Sun 29 Dec 2013
at 07:33
  • msg #645

Re: the Holiday Money Haemorrhage...

I hate cutting hours, especially during the holidays :(

I also hate people who think they're too good to stand in line like everyone else >:|
belovedshadows
member, 25 posts
Sun 29 Dec 2013
at 18:04
  • msg #646

Re: the Holiday Money Haemorrhage...

Worked Christmas Eve, got called in to work Christmas, and now I am working New Years wth.
Brygun
member, 1851 posts
RPG since 1982
Author, Developer
Sun 29 Dec 2013
at 18:12
  • msg #647

Re: the Holiday Money Haemorrhage...

Vent, its in the bathroom. Lets the stinky air out.

(nothing but vents, vents... thread :-P )
Evil Empryss
member, 884 posts
Potato is my favorite
color of the alphabet
Sun 29 Dec 2013
at 19:09
  • msg #648

Re: the Holiday Money Haemorrhage...

Husband was out of work and out of state looking for a job, daughter was in the hospital, sewage was flooding the first floor of the house, and because I forgot to send my Mother-in-Law a fruiting Christmas card I am now the most horrible, thoughtless person ever born.  Didn't I know that she was sitting there, all alone on Christmas, just waiting for that card?!?!  Doesn't matter that she was supposed to be at her other son's home for the holidays, or that I maybe had a little bit of trouble to deal with here, or that I am the ONLY daughter-in-law (out of EIGHT!) who EVER gave her any attention and always makes time to help her when she needs someone, now I have ripped the frozen, withered heart from her chest and stomped it in the cold Florida mud.

This is why I hate family.  A husband and kids are hard enough to deal with at times, but extended family can be unbearable.
Werehunter
member, 502 posts
Sun 29 Dec 2013
at 19:38
  • msg #649

Re: the Holiday Money Haemorrhage...

I hate it when a turn in the weather completely ruins every plan you had for a day.  Once again, I have nothing to do today, which while relaxing is also very boring.
ginny
member, 189 posts
Sun 29 Dec 2013
at 21:03
  • msg #650

Re: the Holiday Money Haemorrhage...

Right.  Because we really need another 6-12 inches of snow :P

I hate winter.
ShadoPrism
member, 315 posts
Insane and loving it
Sun 29 Dec 2013
at 21:13
  • msg #651

Re: the Holiday Money Haemorrhage...

Nasty cold rain in SC - 2 inches in under 4 hours of hard rain.
PrettyBirdie1
member, 192 posts
Bird-brained
bird lover.
Mon 30 Dec 2013
at 04:49
  • msg #652

I was dreaming of a white Christmas...

Alas, no snow this year... for the third year in a row. Texas, I love you but I wish you'd let me see snow once in a while.
nuric
member, 2479 posts
Mon 30 Dec 2013
at 05:00
  • [deleted]
  • msg #653

Re: I was dreaming of a white Christmas...

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 05:15, Mon 30 Dec 2013.
Ihira
member, 38 posts
Mon 30 Dec 2013
at 05:01
  • [deleted]
  • msg #654

Re: I was dreaming of a white Christmas...

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 05:14, Mon 30 Dec 2013.
Wyrm
member, 404 posts
Mon 30 Dec 2013
at 11:08
  • msg #655

Re: I was dreaming of a white Christmas...

Second ice related accident. Wish i was back in Texas.
facemaker329
member, 6146 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Fri 3 Jan 2014
at 09:40
  • msg #656

Re: I was dreaming of a white Christmas...

So...I might be pet-less again soon, and not by choice.  My bird's come down with something that doesn't match any of the diseases common to his variety, and not being able to identify the illness makes it difficult to treat it properly.  I left him with a friend of mine, because she's much better at animal care than I am...but he's just not recovering.

The most frustrating thing is not knowing what it is.  The diseases with symptoms that match what he's doing should have killed him shortly after Christmas (like, a day or two), if not on or before Christmas.

I hope he pulls through.  I've been home for a week without him, almost, and the place feels weird...every time I walk past his cage, I expect him to start fussing at me.  Every time I walk in the door, I expect to hear him fluttering his wings against the side of the cage (which drives me a little crazy, because of all the dander it kicks into the air, but I miss it, all the same).  I miss my roommate, noisy and dirty as he is...
HornetCorset
member, 62 posts
Mon 6 Jan 2014
at 01:24
  • msg #657

I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

I hate it when old feels dredge up like this. Why can't I look at school supplies without missing her carefree demeanor and undying compassion? She's just not who she used to be. I wish I could just accept that and move on.
facemaker329
member, 6154 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Mon 6 Jan 2014
at 09:10
  • msg #658

Re: I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

Migraines suck.  Sinus headaches that turn into migraines suck even more.  Time to eat something while I still have any appetite at all, take another big dose of ibuprofen, and pass out with an ice pack on my head.
pitademon
member, 737 posts
Mon 6 Jan 2014
at 18:17
  • [deleted]
  • msg #659

Re: I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

This message was deleted by the user at 18:17, Mon 06 Jan 2014.
Eggy
member, 67 posts
Fri 10 Jan 2014
at 04:29
  • msg #660

Re: I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

Hiccups and wracking coughs at once!
The_Blob
member, 388 posts
Fri 17 Jan 2014
at 22:01
  • [deleted]
  • msg #661

Re: I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was insulting, at 22:40, Fri 17 Jan 2014.
DarkwindStriker
member, 594 posts
Better known in many
places as Gatewalker.
Sat 18 Jan 2014
at 20:00
  • msg #662

Re: I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

Friend of mine killed himself yesterday. Guy who GMed a pathfinder game here for over a year, invited me into his longstanding group of friends, made sure nobody treated me like an outsider, had reasonable and open discussions about what we thought was good/bad in a game, received feedback gracefully even when it wasn't good, and was all around the most accommodating guy I knew. Mixed with occasionally being the most arrogant jerk that I knew, which was kinda funny that he managed to be both of these at once. Just...left his roommate/best bro to clean up after this and left messages for all of us that amount to "thanks for putting up with me for so long". To the end he never believed any of us actually liked him, just tolerated him. Wish I'd known he was feeling more than "frustrated at his job" was all the venting he did around me, maybe I could have done something. But there were folks closer to him then me he didn't let in enough to help, so what could I have done.

Venting about that in this thread instead of the other one to not have a page of condolences for folks to sift through, suffice to say I understand and thanks. For those who know me, or those who don't and are the types to worry about random internet dudes anyway, I'll be fine. I'm not the dead guy or his roommate that he left to clean up the mess, after all.

EDIT: By here I mean local, not on RPoL.
This message was last edited by the user at 20:01, Sat 18 Jan 2014.
facemaker329
member, 6200 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Thu 30 Jan 2014
at 04:52
  • msg #663

Re: I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

So...the bird that I rescued (found in my driveway, with a broken wing) eight years ago...who's been the single most regular thing in my life since then...is all-but-dead and not expected to make it through the night.  No idea what happened to him...just, back around Christmas, he started getting really listless, lost all semblance of coordination, lost a scary amount of weight...I have a friend who used to be a vet tech, for several years, she figured out a dosage of antibiotics to give him to treat the most common culprits in pigeon deaths, and for a few weeks, he seemed to be rallying, started getting more active, putting on some weight, and a little over a week ago, I almost brought him back home (she lives an hour and a half away, and I didn't really have a three-hour timeslot open for a drive to get him, plus I was concerned that the shock of relocating him again might give him a setback.)

Well, she called about an hour ago.  He's not dead yet...but he hasn't moved all day, hasn't eaten anything...he's getting cold...just sitting there in the bottom of his cage, doing nothing but breathing.  She honestly hadn't expected him to make it through the day, when she left to go to work...but she's pretty certain that, barring the most miraculous turnaround in condition she's ever seen, he's not bouncing back from this.

Eight years is a long time to have something be a daily part of your life.  After that much time, I finally felt like I was starting to understand his behaviors a bit...like the fact that his tendency to nip at my hand when I fed him was not territoriality.  The only way he can grab something and try to pull it further into the cage is with his beak, and when I started letting him pull my hand around, so many other aspects of his behavior changed...

Gonna miss you, Ed.  You've been a good roommate.  A little messy, yes, and sometimes demanding and noisy and even a little cantankerous, but also highly entertaining (I never knew a chain of safety pins could provide so much entertainment for a bird...and I still grin to myself when I think about the number of times you narrowly missed my head and crashed into my computer screen...)  I console myself with the thought that, in the life to come, you'll once again be able to fly high and far, unburdened with the limitations of that once-broken wing.
Silverlock
member, 81 posts
Mon 3 Feb 2014
at 02:08
  • msg #664

Re: Yep, finally lost it.

Had a panic attack at work in the face of pain from my work-related injury, suddenly getting a pile of work dumped on me that clearly violated my light duty restrictions, and the kicker - being told that I was of value as a human being employed there with all evidence to the contrary.  Oh, did I mention the bullying attempt by our resident bully ?  And the fact that we have no heat or water in the building ?  In Winter ?  We're relying on portable heaters and water jugs and watching to see what pipes burst next.  Always a delight, and snow is forecast again for tonight, so my boss will have a paid snow day off whilst I am struggling to get to work in a car with a bad engine problem....
JxJxA
member, 16 posts
Wed 5 Feb 2014
at 00:15
  • msg #665

Fortune, she is fickle

My first big vacation in a long time is coming up, and I was really excited despite having a nasty tumble off of my bike last week (thanks bus that wasn't looking) where I smashed my nose and face into the pavement, sprained both of my wrists, and tore up my arm. It didn't matter that it was a ski/snowboard trip, because I figured there were other things I could do in the snow. I'm from San Diego, and the trip is to Hokkaido, so me + snow = childlike wonder. Plus, there are hot springs, snow festival statues, and other cool stuff.

Of course, today I wake up feeling like a horde of greater snot demons has taken up residence in my brain, throat, and lungs. It's Wednesday where I am, and I fly out Friday. I'm hoping I feel better soon, but the last time I was sick here it lingered for two weeks. Based on how I feel, I don't know if I even want to go anymore. x_x
Bigun Eagle
member, 72 posts
Tue 18 Feb 2014
at 00:34
  • msg #666

Re: Fortune, she is fickle

To the [Expletive] that came up with the idea to sell shrinkwrapped, tissue thin loose leaf paper as college textbooks... I sincerely hope that as punishment you are forced to endure your own idiotic idea for the rest of your natural life.

Oh... you have to get your own [Expletive] binder as well. And may all of the holes punched in YOUR books also be so far into the page that they bind in the center of the books.

Hanging you would be far too good for you.
st_nougat
member, 291 posts
Fri 21 Feb 2014
at 17:40
  • msg #667

Re: Fortune, she is fickle

Seriously?  This project was DONE.  Done, ready for review.

Bill of material: Done!
Detail prints: All Done!
Review and approval: All Fraggin' Done

Today: I want you to make this change, and that change and do this and that to it.

Ok I understand changing the sensor because we are going with the new standard and that's easy.  but everything else: WHY THE HECK DIDN'T YOU SAY YOU WANTED IT THIS WAY 2 DAYS AGO WHEN I COULD HAVE DONE IT IN THE FIRST PLACE INSTEAD OF HAVING TO DO IT AND MAKE SURE THE BOM AND DETIAL PRINTS ARE UPDATED AND CORRECT.

seriously?
snajones
member, 10 posts
Fri 21 Feb 2014
at 18:12
  • msg #668

Re: Fortune, she is fickle

Don't forget - we sent a memo about the new cover sheet for the TPS reports.
st_nougat
member, 300 posts
Fri 28 Feb 2014
at 17:44
  • msg #669

Re: Fortune, she is fickle

please for the love of all that is good:

I do NOT want to hear about your child's POOP

can potty training not be work appropriate conversation?

please?
Silverlock
member, 82 posts
Sun 2 Mar 2014
at 21:28
  • msg #670

Re: More Delightful News

Is being unemployed better than a job that costs you an arm, your hair, your health and your sanity ?  When the job keeps you from becoming homeless...well, I'd like my job back.

And can we stop having elder relatives with health problems requiring us to travel....I can't fix their problems and the costs of travel are crippling.
Eggy
member, 110 posts
Mon 3 Mar 2014
at 20:31
  • msg #671

Re: More Delightful News

Got my transcription test results today. I want to kick myself. I wrote the same word twice on one of the paragraphs. Why did I do that? :(
Senbazuru
member, 36 posts
Mon 3 Mar 2014
at 20:43
  • msg #672

Re: More Delightful News

More ice and snow nnnoooo. People here always get so ridiculous and drive so badly at the slightest bit of snow, like they've never seen it before. Frozen water makin' people act a fool. :I
ShadoPrism
member, 417 posts
Mon 3 Mar 2014
at 22:02
  • msg #673

Re: More Delightful News

dropping temperatures and sleet all over my deck - makes me want to cry, the deck exit is the only straight path to the parking areas and its to slippery to walk on.
It's March, it's not supposed to get this cold in the south.
pitademon
member, 756 posts
Tue 4 Mar 2014
at 06:27
  • [deleted]
  • msg #674

Re: More Delightful News

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 08:00, Tue 04 Mar 2014.
JxJxA
member, 24 posts
Tue 4 Mar 2014
at 07:03
  • msg #675

Re: More Delightful News

You wouldn't think having a real-life Hyacinth Bucket as a friend would be that bad of a thing, but somehow it is...

I can't say anything to my friends because I don't want to hurt her feelings.

However...

SHUT THE FALAFEL UP!!!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098837/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Eggy
member, 111 posts
Tue 4 Mar 2014
at 08:47
  • msg #676

Re: More Delightful News

I think my roommate stopped the washer.

I went to the laundry room and saw the washer in use. I returned an hour and a half later. The washer was empty and the dryer was in use. I got my laundry, popped it in and turned it on. I use a kitchen timer when I do my laundry because I can't hear when the machine stops from my end of the house. When I got back to the washer, it was stopped on the wash cycle and the clothes were soaking in cold water. The dryer was empty.

I am annoyed, but I don't want to ask him about it now. I think he's asleep.
pitademon
member, 757 posts
Tue 4 Mar 2014
at 16:12
  • [deleted]
  • msg #677

Re: More Delightful News

This message was deleted by the user at 16:13, Tue 04 Mar 2014.
facemaker329
member, 6299 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Thu 6 Mar 2014
at 07:55
  • msg #678

Re: More Delightful News

I knew it was coming, but I'm still annoyed about it...

Trying to get enough of a midnight snack to be able to sleep through the night without going to the trouble of making a full meal...bit down on something, felt an unexpectedly hard chunk of something in the middle of what I was chewing.

Turns out it was the one filling that I've had for most of my adult life (it's recently gotten quite a bit of company, but twenty years with no insurance and not enough income to pay dental bills will do that to you...)  I have an appointment later this month, already, and I was going to have them take a look at that tooth because it had chipped behind the filling...now debating if I can wait three weeks to get it fixed or if I should set up an earlier appointment (not like I have a lot of time for it right now, anyway...)
facemaker329
member, 6325 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Mon 24 Mar 2014
at 20:12
  • msg #679

Re: More Delightful News

Huh...ironic, this one follows directly on the last one...

Just got home from the dentist...regular six-month check-up.  Since I'm still dealing with periodontal issues, that involves a periodontal check-up, along with the cleaning.  AND I had to get an X-ray for the tooth with the missing filling.  AND it had another cavity in it.

So, after forty-five minutes of alternating periods of watching Kung Fu Panda 2 (with no sound) while listening to the 'soothing strains' of whatever easy-listening channel they'd found (better than what the dentist we had when I was a kid would listen to, but still nowhere close to my favorite musical styles) and the sounds of the other patients, I've arrived home with two fillings in the same tooth...and for some odd reason, I feel numb in places I don't ever remember being numb when I came home from the dentist before.

Like, my ear.  Which itches, but because I can't feel it, I can't scratch the itch.

To top all that off, I found out I have a bunch of NEW cavities (yes, I know, I really should stop drinking soda).  Seems like every time I'm almost to the point where I can start to stabilize my finances, I have some kind of emergency...my car breaks down, I have dental work done, my horse needs veterinary care (no longer a problem, as I don't have a horse anymore, sadly).  It'd be nice to get ahead for at least a couple of months...
shady joker
member, 1517 posts
Tue 25 Mar 2014
at 01:09
  • msg #680

Re: More Delightful News

Walmart never has regular chocolate Pocky sticks. They only hae the groddy Strawberry Pocky sticks. The chocolate is always sold out before I get there. This has happened 9 times in a row. Raaaaaahhhh!! Shady smash!
Dottie_V
member, 98 posts
The fifth in a series of
odd things you saw today.
Tue 25 Mar 2014
at 01:44
  • msg #681

Re: More Delightful News

If you cat call at my adolescent sisters in my presence, yes, I will threaten to slash your tires you piece of strudel. Maybe next time you'll remember to show a bit decency to strangers, regardless of their gender, when you're on the street.
Eco Cola
member, 167 posts
Tue 25 Mar 2014
at 22:28
  • msg #682

Hooray for short term memory!

Lost my wireless mouse at school, since i am a forgetful mother fruiter, hooray! i'm just glad my mouse redundancy runs thrice, so i get to use some old optical hp mouse, at least i have one though i suppose.
Hunter
member, 1239 posts
Tue 25 Mar 2014
at 22:36
  • [deleted]
  • msg #683

Re: More Delightful News

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 23:00, Tue 25 Mar 2014.
DarkwindStriker
member, 602 posts
Better known in many
places as Gatewalker.
Sat 29 Mar 2014
at 04:50
  • msg #684

Re: More Delightful News

His ashes were scattered today, since they weren't ready by the time we had the service. So his closest friends opted to wait until his birthday. Today.

This was ripping a scab off of a wound...but the wound underneath isn't bleeding anymore. It's healing, slowly but surely, and I can tell a time will come that this won't affect me anymore.

Putting this here because it's the topic I put his suicide in. I can't tell if this is a vent or a good thing or...just something else entirely.
st_nougat
member, 310 posts
Fri 4 Apr 2014
at 14:12
  • msg #685

Re: More Delightful News

you know what?

you really, really, shouldn't have 2 different revisions of the same part in the same assembly
facemaker329
member, 6337 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Fri 4 Apr 2014
at 16:20
  • msg #686

Re: More Delightful News

Well...replaced the clutch in my car.  We weren't sure that was the problem...took it apart and found out it was.  Or, at least, we thought it was (it was a problem, the old clutch was all but completely gone).  But when we put everything back together, it was still doing the same thing it was doing before.

And I won't have time to work on it until next week.  And my friend needs his garage back VERY soon because he's gotta fix something on his show-car before he hauls it to Vegas in a couple of weekends.  I hope the rest of the repairs can be done in a night, because I hate feeling like I'm the one people are waiting on.
shady joker
member, 1531 posts
Fri 4 Apr 2014
at 18:22
  • msg #687

Re: More Delightful News

Some FRUITING secretary went on lunch before I checked into the doctor's office. This made me check in 20 Minutes late and the doctor made me reschedule my visit.
brother_1
member, 133 posts
Knowing is 1/2 the battle
the other 1/2 is violence
Sun 6 Apr 2014
at 06:43
  • msg #688

Re: More Delightful News

Went gaming at a friend's house this evening and when I got ready to leave I discovered that all 4 tires on my vehicle had been slashed.

I didn't think my GMing was that bad.
kouk
member, 369 posts
Sun 6 Apr 2014
at 07:04
  • [deleted]
  • msg #689

Re: More Delightful News

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 07:16, Sun 06 Apr 2014.
Silverlock
member, 84 posts
Sun 6 Apr 2014
at 22:12
  • msg #690

Re: More Delightful News

Ah, yes, when a coworker -who has nothing to gain- stabs you in the back and costs you several days pay....it's just so special.  When the same coworker gets caught by you NOT doing their job properly....it's not important to management at all, is it ?  Double standards, what fun.  Whatever did I do in a previous life to deserve this kind of bad luck ?
Zephydel
member, 661 posts
Creative Ideas
Real-Life Solutions
Sun 6 Apr 2014
at 23:04
  • msg #691

The idiot puts the lotion on your bread basket....

Zephydel: I need to return the bagels I bought a few minutes ago. They smell and taste funny.
Baker: I see. You are the ninth customer who told me that.
Customer: I also need to return these bagels. They smell like lotion.
Baker: Lotion? Oh crap!
Zephydel: What is wrong?
Baker: I hired a new baker a few weeks ago. I caught that baker putting lotion on his hands before kneading some dough.
Customer: That is serious. You should fire him. Someone might get food poisoning.
Baker: I will. He is starting to ruin my business.
eternaldarkness
member, 673 posts
And the world shall fall
into eternal darkness....
Thu 10 Apr 2014
at 23:11
  • msg #692

/Facepalm

That RPoL player who says they won't join a game they've been explicitly invited to because they don't know the system....then requests a GM for the exact same system the next day.

/Facepalm
This message was last updated by the user at 23:12, Thu 10 Apr 2014.
CuteSue
member, 125 posts
Morsmordre
Thu 10 Apr 2014
at 23:59
  • msg #693

Re: /Facepalm

In September of last year my work went into bankruptcy, by December I was without a job, I decided to move to another country to look for work in January, because a lot of stores, chains and firms either went into bankruptcy or downsized in my old country. Anyway, New country new opportunities right

First thing that happened, chipped a tooth, it doesn't hurt, but I have to be careful when I chew, I cannot afford to get it fixed, been applying to many many jobs, not gotten any.

Now it's April, suddenly my old country decides that I have a job (I do not) so they won't pay without work support. I still have no job, today I realized my bank-account is empty, it's so empty it doesn't even have dust in it.

*Bangs head in wall repeatedly*

Credit card still has a few euroes on it, but not enough to get myself home

I am to blame, I took a risk, doesn't seem to pan out, but I still get to curse at whomever has been messing with my future, who the fruiting banana decided I needed to be without a job to go to? I need to banana split someone with a rusty rake soon, because I can't take it, the soul-crushing frustration of knowing it all wen't straight to banana
eternaldarkness
member, 674 posts
And the world shall fall
into eternal darkness....
Sat 12 Apr 2014
at 03:37
  • msg #694

Re: /Facepalm

Some people are just needlessly jerky on RPoL. You can't just say you don't like a concept in an RTJ, you have to throw personal insults out too.

The funny part is, your unnecessary jerkishness lost you a really good player(not me). I just wish RPoL rules didn't forbid me from putting you on blast publicly for being such a.... well, you know.
This message was last edited by the user at 03:37, Sat 12 Apr 2014.
facemaker329
member, 6354 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Sun 13 Apr 2014
at 18:25
  • msg #695

Re: /Facepalm

Look, if you're going to try and recruit local help with your big project at the convention, you REALLY need to actually communicate with them in a timely fashion...

I sent the pics you asked for...to the email address you gave me four times on the phone AND texted to me that night.  And I haven't heard a thing from you since then...no acknowledgment of receipt, and now that it's two days after you said you were going to make decisions and I STILL haven't heard anything from you, I'm finding myself questioning whether you've got the level of professionalism that you're trying to sell to people.  I realize you're probably crazy-busy with getting ready and organizing stuff and all...but the rest of us also have schedules we have to plan and we can't just up and change things at the last minute in many cases.

I'm willing to wait one more day...and then if you contact me after that, I'm just gonna say, "Sorry, I assumed, since you said you were deciding Friday and I hadn't heard anything by Monday--and I have to be ready to go by Thursday, that you'd ruled me out of consideration...I'm not available anymore."  That's a lot of money to walk away from...but if this is any indicator of how you treat the people you work with, the money's not worth it.
Shei-kun
member, 803 posts
A Giant Shei draws near!
Fight-Magic-Item-Flee
Wed 16 Apr 2014
at 01:13
  • msg #696

Fruiting Sorbet

I lost my limited edition Fire Emblem: Awakening 3DS Saturday.  I can't find it anywhere in my house or my car.  I called the movie theater and nobody turned it in.

It's just gone.
Silverlock
member, 85 posts
Wed 16 Apr 2014
at 08:02
  • msg #697

There is such a thing as Common Sense.....

A secondary job with minimal income potential had better not be two hours driving distance for a 45 minute task....  Surely the friend who requested my help would look up the locations on a map, or google it or something, before accepting a task that pays less than the fuel required to transport us to the location ?
jait
member, 305 posts
Thu 17 Apr 2014
at 08:53
  • msg #698

Your RTJ with a dash of Fatalistic Impatience

I know it's difficult to believe... but some people here on RPOL don't sit at the keyboard refreshing their game every five minutes just waiting RTJ applications.  Some of us--I know it's hard to believe--have to go away to work.  I know!  Shocker!

Hey!  I'm pleased you submitted a RTJ!  Applying to a game is cool!   Following it up less than ten-hours later with a message chiding me for not responding... Not cool.

At least give it a day before you get all impatient.  And, hey! A polite inquiry almost always works better than a passive-aggressive poor-me inference.
Dottie_V
member, 103 posts
The fifth in a series of
odd things you saw today.
Thu 24 Apr 2014
at 20:19
  • msg #699

?

Had to put my dog to sleep today and people still want me to smile and cheer up.

Go fall in a ditch, you prune.
OceanLake
member, 778 posts
Fri 25 Apr 2014
at 00:13
  • [deleted]
  • msg #700

Re: ?

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 13:07, Fri 25 Apr 2014.
Silverlock
member, 87 posts
Sun 11 May 2014
at 21:36
  • msg #701

Re: Life and Death

All right, I know I work in a satellite office of Hades.  I know what to expect there.  So, after the death of one relative, followed by the hospice entrance of another, effectively cutting my family in half, not to mention my own health issues, I get from my boss, "My, you're handling this well."  and then assigns me to mop the floor, can't say I was shocked.

And the little darling 20-something sits there and plays with his smart phone, watching me mop the floor.  He had nothing to do so he did...nothing.  I expect him to be promoted into a supervisory position soon.

Oh, and according to management, family leave stops once the person dies, never mind anything you might have to do such as go to courts, lawyers, etc, etc.  I am told there is Karma...what good deeds did these daemons do, to get to be MY bosses, and what did -I- do in a previous life to get THIS ?
facemaker329
member, 6377 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Mon 12 May 2014
at 07:28
  • msg #702

Re: Life and Death

Man, that was some kinda bug...not sure what it was, exactly, or where I caught it, but it really snuck up on me.  I thought I was just having really bad allergies, couldn't get my sinuses to stay unstuffed long enough to get a good deep breath, etc...

Got to the last couple of days of the week and found myself down with a 101 degree fever.  Spent the last three and a half days in bed, unconscious or only partly conscious for most of the time...first time since mid-week I've been online.  Glad to say I feel massively better.

Still trying to decide just how I feel about the game that dumped me for failure to post often enough.  Yeah, I'm one of those who generally says, "How hard could it be to make time to get on and at least post 'Hey, I'm not well'..."  However, I'm also one who doesn't get sick very often...when I do, it tends to come on hard and fast and it hits me hard.

I understand the GM's perspective.  Still trying to decide just how I feel about getting the boot, because I was certainly less than thrilled with what the GM had managed to set in motion for me in the game.
Eggy
member, 161 posts
Sun 18 May 2014
at 04:23
  • msg #703

Re: Life and Death

Typed game notes on Scratchpad. Accidentally clicked Back just before I was finished.
trabian
member, 81 posts
Sun 18 May 2014
at 11:28
  • msg #704

Re: Life and Death

Positions of teamleader open up. I'm told that only people with the necessary skills are eligible. One of which is bilingual, in our native language and french.
The only things necessary are a few personality tests. Purely a formality I'm told. Still, I ask around with the existing teamleaders. They tell me not to worry and just be truthful.

I'm not selected for the position. Not too bad, because atleast the other one that was as capable as me was selected for the position. I congratulate him, shrug and continue work. Later on the day, I'm told that there are 4 people selected.
One speaks a passable french, but his knowledge of our procedures sucks and he's really old. Basically he pulled the sympathy card and told a few people he knew well in HR, 'If I'm not selected, I quit." and seeing as they felt sorry for him he got in.

The other two are native french speakers. No worries, I think, but then it becomes clear that one literally only knows 3 words of our language. That and he's rather new and tends be a pineapple to customers and can barely start up a pc on his own. After two days they put him back as a normal worker.

the last one simply refuses to utter a word in our native language, and tends to ignore half of the workers, when they need assistance.

Usually I'm someone who lets things that can't be helped just be, and grind my teeth and move on. However literally 20 people and about 4 of the already existed teamleaders ask me why I wasn't selected.
I had no clue, so I went and asked, slightly pressured by the constant questions.

About the third of the tests were about conflict resolution. They told me not to think too hard on the questions and just follow. Seeing as I didn't really have a professional history of conflict resolution, except of calming down customers, I tend to rate myself rather low on questions like "are you experienced at resolving disputes?"
In the other questions I responded that I like to take a calm and objective look at the situations. This outlook has worked well with both my collagues and customers so far.

For some reason they deduced that I was a spineless guy who liked to evade conflicts, because I didn't want to involve myself in conflicts.

after talking with someone of HR over, she basically said "well, you really sold yourself short on that test. We know that the questions aren't always clear, but it costs to much to get new ones."

anger at myself and the situation was kind of high. I still surprised myself I didn't fly in a rage. But due to my big fruity mistake, I'm still a normal worker. When inquiring why those others were selected, I basically got the answer that they had sponsor willing to vouch for them. Nobody vouched for me because those apples didn't think it was necessary, and thus they needed to take the test results into accounts.

Sorry for the long rant.
Wyrm
member, 465 posts
Fri 30 May 2014
at 21:14
  • msg #705

Re: Life and Death

I do not like people i don't know invited to my house by someone i don't like without my permission.
shady joker
member, 1578 posts
Fri 30 May 2014
at 22:04
  • msg #706

Re: Life and Death

I hate having to read subtitles all the time for Japanese shows because it strains my eyes.
Noxatrum
member, 81 posts
Sun 1 Jun 2014
at 00:51
  • msg #707

Re: Life and Death

I dislike artists who can't keep things professional when you've paid them for a service. Especially ones who are also friends but can't keep the two separate.

I especially dislike ones who think they own you simply because you've commissioned them in the past. Particularly if they think they can tell you who you can spend money on for commissions. I'm sorry, I thought it was MY money. Not yours.

This anger has been brought on by a recent issue where they came into a stream with another mutual artist friend and saw I'd purchased something, threw a huge hissy fit, and flounced out. THEN decided to stream but blatantly stated that they wouldn't be streaming my paid for commissions even though it was the agreed upon date because I am, apparently, a horrible person and a traitor.

Yes, keep that up pal. It won't be long before I report you to paypal and get the payment reversed if I keep seeing others get their art who paid after I did.
cero1
member, 1092 posts
Sun 1 Jun 2014
at 01:57
  • msg #708

Re: Life and Death

I really fruiting hate hypocrites... Big ol' hypocrites.

You, anonymous hypocrite, calling people out in the manner you did with me is going to make more people turn against what you're all about than support you. I am now fine to say I am idealogically opposed to you by how you outed what kind of person you are in your completely hypocritical language and manner. I do not want to be on the same page as you on any matter and you deserve to fall in a deep hole.

Good day... *flips over table on the way out*
shady joker
member, 1579 posts
Sun 1 Jun 2014
at 17:51
  • msg #709

Re: Life and Death

I hate Bing Rewards. This is the 3rd time I redeemed a reward offer and did not get my gift card.
Eggy
member, 186 posts
Sun 1 Jun 2014
at 18:16
  • msg #710

Re: Life and Death

Trivial Vent: My favourite candy shop has stopped selling Cinnamon Bears. They've been replaced by Cherry Bears.

Nothing gold can stay.
Wyrm
member, 467 posts
Tue 3 Jun 2014
at 16:51
  • msg #711

Re: Life and Death

It sucks when the bar is always moved. Rules come and go with the only logic is someone is irrirated.
SWolfe
member, 15 posts
Tue 3 Jun 2014
at 19:20
  • msg #712

Re: Life and Death

I'm in serious need of distractions at work today, and nobody is posting in any of my games!!!!!
Dottie_V
member, 107 posts
The fifth in a series of
odd things you saw today.
Tue 3 Jun 2014
at 21:41
  • msg #713

Re: Life and Death

I get attached too quickly and it's probably going to kill me as the days go by.
JxJxA
member, 42 posts
Tue 10 Jun 2014
at 08:32
  • msg #714

Re: Life and Death

Having to say goodbye to the person who makes your soul sing when you're with her, and not being sure of you'll ever see her again.
This message was last edited by the user at 08:33, Tue 10 June 2014.
Silverlock
member, 88 posts
Mon 16 Jun 2014
at 03:59
  • msg #715

Re: Frenemy

All right, Frenemy, you lied to me and told me you needed me to help you out this Saturday, when you had five other friends to help you with your little craft show, carrying your stuff about, the amount of which was FAR more than you led me to believe.  I explained I couldn't help you out at the exact time you requested (sometime in the middle of the day) as I was busy helping my spouse pack up the inlaws' estate.  You played the blame game and told me how I had sacrificed time spent with YOU and instead selfishly helped my spouse.......the only sacrifice I can now see is me spending one more minute talking to you, ever.  And no mystery why two of your other abused friends failed to show up to help - only mystery is why ANYONE came to help you at all.  To top it off was the 'required' uniform to be your assistant mule....and your deep indignation that I dared say 'no' to you. And now you are claiming all sorts of slander upon me....something is terribly wrong with you.
Merevel
member, 350 posts
Gaming :-)
Very unlucky
Mon 16 Jun 2014
at 04:14
  • msg #716

Re: Frenemy

The feeling that, no matter what I do, no matter what I try. I get kicked back 1.9 spaces for every 2 I go forward.
Sir_Chivalry
member, 134 posts
Mon 16 Jun 2014
at 04:20
  • [deleted]
  • msg #717

Re: Frenemy

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 04:23, Mon 16 June 2014.
cero1
member, 1119 posts
Mon 16 Jun 2014
at 07:27
  • msg #718

Re: Frenemy

A 'friend' of mine was apparently assigned the role of getting in touch with me when my group of friends went to the cinema and to avoid seeing me they purposely did not... :|

What a coconut move of them...
Merevel
member, 351 posts
Mon 16 Jun 2014
at 13:54
  • [deleted]
  • msg #719

Re: Frenemy

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 14:28, Mon 16 June 2014.
HornetCorset
member, 167 posts
Wed 18 Jun 2014
at 01:20
  • msg #720

Hard facts

So, I just found out that my favorite ability that this one character of mine has cannot be used by that particular character. The GM said that I could keep it and gave perfectly good lore reasons related to my character why, but I'm not sure I'll ever be able to glean the same level of enjoyment out of it as I have in the past. That makes me sad.
Wyrm
member, 482 posts
Tue 24 Jun 2014
at 20:56
  • msg #721

Re: Hard facts

Starring a countdown timer for when it is legal to punch the roomates kid in the face.
Noxatrum
member, 82 posts
Thu 26 Jun 2014
at 04:45
  • msg #722

Re: Hard facts

Health issues. Tons of them, all at once.

Having to do some screening and tests to see if I've got something really bad that I don't even want to put into words, or if it's something more mild and just annoyingly similar in symptoms.

Also dropping weight off in far too short a time. 2 pant sizes in a week is frightening and I hope we can figure out what is wrong because I feel like death.
facemaker329
member, 6402 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Thu 26 Jun 2014
at 06:13
  • msg #723

Just stick to the plan, guys...

FINALLY...two and a half months after it was supposed to happen...the floor has been redone at work.  All started because I felt it was ridiculous that the floor should be in that condition in the first place...so I bought some wood filler and started filling in all the holes where the finish had peeled up and taken out slivers and shards of wood, or where people had thumped stuff on the floor so hard they'd made dents in it.

That all needed to be sealed, somehow, of course...so I sent a request up the chain of command about what needed to happen to do that.  The initial plan was, maintenance would get us the equipment, we'd have to do the labor.  Fine, no problem...I've never finished a floor before but I'm pretty generally handy and if I know the theory behind something, I can usually figure out how to make it happen.

Then they decided they were renting equipment to do a floor somewhere else, so they'd do ours at the same time.  No problem...we got the floor ready for them to work on before the decided date, and waited.

No-show.  Call to find out.  The other floor wasn't ready yet, so they hadn't rented the device.  Fine...when will it be ready?  We'll let you know.  Okay, well, the floor needs to be done by this date, so we can rehearse on it.  No problem...

That date comes...and goes...no-show.  Another call.  Other floor's still not ready.  Rehearsals are happening, will it be ready by this weekend?  Should be...

We clear all their gear after the last rehearsal, get everything ready again.  And another no-show, with another call...they have the machine, they just couldn't get a crew (prior to this time, they always had a crew, they just didn't have the machine...)  Another week of rehearsals, all the stuff gets taken down again...

This time, they show up...and do about a third of the floor.  Apparently, they weren't expecting to have to strip the old finish off the floor and it was gumming up their machine, so they quit partway through.  But they'll be back in a few days with a stripping compound...in the meantime, can I sand all the places where I put down the filler?  The job will go faster that way...so I immediately drop everything and take care of that.

Two weeks later, they come in to start working on the floor...without the stripping compound.  Apparently, they've found something that doesn't require taking the old finish all the way down to bare wood, so they just need to scuff the floor to make it stick (floor's plenty scuffed already, but whatever).  Now the OTHER show is rehearsing on it, dancing for four hours each day...so they can't finish it.  We'll call them when rehearsals are done, they'll leave everything there, and that way, they can come in and get it all done right away.

Rehearsals were over three weeks ago.  Nobody was doing anything.  I've used floor buffers before, so I said 'screw it' and buffed the floor.  Found the floor stripper that had gotten dropped off sometime, put that down, and buffed the floor again.  Told my boss to pin down the guy in charge of the project for maintenance, because we needed an applicator to put the finish down (I called him last week, he said he'd drop one off...still not there...)  My boss informs me that the guy in question is out of town.

At that point, my patience is shot.  I go to Home Depot and buy an applicator and come back and put down the new finish.  It's not a perfect job, but it's leaps and massive bounds beyond what we had before.  If they'd just left all the stuff there, in the first place, like was the original plan, it would have been done by the middle of April.

Thanks guys...good to know exactly where we stand on your priority list...(and people wonder why I've gotten in the habit of just going ahead and tackling projects for our department without contacting the 'proper' departments to do them for us...)
Mystic-Scholar
member, 8 posts
Sat 28 Jun 2014
at 00:45
  • msg #724

Re: Just stick to the plan, guys...

I hate it when Players show up, go through the act of creating their character, post two, or three times . . . and then up and disappear.

Why do they bother?
ShadoPrism
member, 555 posts
OCGD-Obsessive-Compulsive
Gamer-Disorder
Sat 28 Jun 2014
at 01:50
  • msg #725

Re: Just stick to the plan, guys...

I hate it when a GM ok's my character (sometimes after a few changes) then comes back later, after I am already in the game and tells me 'you can't have this ability any more, change it to this instead' then later when I can use the ability they insisted I take, they tell me I can't use it. (has happened a couple of times with different GMs over the past couple years).
Or tells me to roll up a new character along a set limit then boots me out cause the character does not meet what they want (not that they ever tell you what they want or even return your PMs to tell you that - just Ignores you.)
PsychoJester
member, 290 posts
Why so serious?
Thu 3 Jul 2014
at 03:48
  • msg #726

Re: Just stick to the plan, guys...

Sometimes the rules of this place make me want to bang my head against a wall. I post for advice in in the advice forum, but then it gets moved because of the mention of source material. >_< Makes me wonder how am I supposed to get advice on a game without talking about the game? The names here can be so misleading. Oh well.
st_nougat
member, 370 posts
Wed 16 Jul 2014
at 20:47
  • msg #727

Re: Just stick to the plan, guys...

more boss vents

and both within the past hour.

I had to rework a part fixture and I told the boss "Hey these 2 parts aren't the same but if we put something here instead of there it will work"

Well he tell me to leave it how it is and to offset the parts in the fixture so that we can use it as it is (please note they aren't designed yet, this is all taking place on a computer).  so I do that.

Then when reviewing the changes with the boss above him my boss says "Hey if we put something here instead of there it will work."

I wanted to throttle him.

now, because its cool out, we have the windows open for some fresh air.  it got warm enough for the AC to kick on.  I point it out to him, "Hey windows open, AC on."  and he says the AC is shut off.  which if the AC didn't make so much noise  you couldn't hear yourself think then i would dismiss it but it makes so much noise a deaf person can hear it.
Merevel
member, 444 posts
Gaming :-)
Very unlucky
Wed 16 Jul 2014
at 22:06
  • msg #728

Re: Just stick to the plan, guys...

At least some can vent about specifics. So I will keep it general.

Multiple managers. One way the rules say to do it. One way corporate says to do it. One way per manager to do it. One way per supervisor to do it. And even One way per employee to do it... And sadly in some cases the EMPLOYEE overrides even corporate @.@

This is every company though...

EDIT to conform to thread rules.
This message was last edited by the user at 11:50, Fri 18 July 2014.
JxJxA
member, 46 posts
Fri 18 Jul 2014
at 03:07
  • msg #729

&*(_#&*R^#!!!

Headaches brought about by stress, humidity, pressure change, dehydration, or whatever is causing the recent onslaught of them. I'm usually disciplined enough to will them away and work through the pain, but this is starting to get ridiculous and painful.
facemaker329
member, 6414 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Fri 18 Jul 2014
at 04:05
  • msg #730

Re: &*(_#&*R^#!!!

Guys?  If you say, in your advertising, "We finance anyone!" it's supposed to mean that YOU finance them, not that you're willing to ask the bank on anybody's behalf.  On top of that, I said when I first contacted you that I was looking for a loan to buy a car...a SPECIFIC car, that a friend had offered to me.  I know you had that information, because when you were getting my details for the loan application, I could see, right there on the screen, a list of notes about when I'd been contacted and for what purpose, and my statement was RIGHT THERE, the first thing on the list.

So I resent having to explain to EACH AND EVERY individual that I had to deal with, on the phone or in person, that I was there because you said you'd finance anybody's car purchase, even if it wasn't from you.  And 'resent' doesn't even cover how I felt about it when your salesman told me that the loan amount I requested was too small and banks just don't offer loans that size for cars...but he'd be happy to see if there was something on the lot that was in a price range that WOULD interest a bank.

Please...give me a follow-up call.  I want to tell you what I think of your advertising, now that I'm not in public and can feel free to really express my feelings on the matter.
KraznyOctobr
member, 10 posts
Fri 18 Jul 2014
at 14:58
  • msg #731

Re: &*(_#&*R^#!!!

Saw my assignment sheet for tonight.  Pretty certain someone doesn't like me and is trying to kill me at work.
Eggy
member, 312 posts
Sat 19 Jul 2014
at 14:52
  • msg #732

Re: &*(_#&*R^#!!!

SPLIT ENDS!

ARRRGG!
Merevel
member, 470 posts
Gaming :-)
Very unlucky
Sat 19 Jul 2014
at 15:12
  • msg #733

Re: &*(_#&*R^#!!!

Being mistaken for a girl... Thank god that only happens when I have long hair!
Wyrm
member, 498 posts
Wed 30 Jul 2014
at 00:13
  • msg #734

Re: &*(_#&*R^#!!!

I hate being hit by the stupid bug. Not that I am doing something stupid, but just that feeling that no matter what you do and look at in your posts, it's just stupid. It would feel better if I didn't know i was stupid.
fireflights
member, 129 posts
Wed 30 Jul 2014
at 00:19
  • [deleted]
  • msg #735

Re: &*(_#&*R^#!!!

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 06:06, Wed 30 July 2014.
DarkwindStriker
member, 609 posts
Better known in many
places as Gatewalker.
Wed 30 Jul 2014
at 22:13
  • msg #736

Re: &*(_#&*R^#!!!

Two friends of mine that can't stand each other having internet drama. What a thing to lose my entire morning to. >_______<
Retias
member, 109 posts
Thu 31 Jul 2014
at 20:17
  • msg #737

Re: &*(_#&*R^#!!!

Still no Magic Breaks release on UK kindles. :(
chaosninja
member, 65 posts
Thu 31 Jul 2014
at 20:57
  • msg #738

Re: &*(_#&*R^#!!!

Im a cosplayer, and despite wearing sunscreen(spf 30) for the fundraiser last weekend, I have mad sunburn all on my nose. The big con starts tomorrow and I and rushing to learn how to cover/mask it without it looking odd.
bigbadron
moderator, 14578 posts
He's big, he's bad,
but mostly he's Ron.
Tue 5 Aug 2014
at 09:44

Re: &*(_#&*R^#!!!

What, pray tell, is the point of a prescription pain killer whose very common side-effects (better than 1 chance in 10 of getting them) include severe muscle and joint pain?

You know... the exact same fruiting symptoms that the medication is supposed to treat.  I guess the drug manufacturer just didn't feel confident putting, "Warning: This medication does not actually work." on the packaging.

Might as well take M&M's for pain relief.  Would be much cheaper.  Especially considering all of the other side effects that are listed for the pills.
ShadoPrism
member, 597 posts
Tue 5 Aug 2014
at 14:27
  • [deleted]
  • msg #740

Re: &*(_#&*R^#!!!

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 14:31, Tue 05 Aug 2014.
facemaker329
member, 6429 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Wed 6 Aug 2014
at 07:58
  • msg #741

Re: &*(_#&*R^#!!!

Found out I'm going to a funeral later this week.  My niece had a baby a few days ago...poor kid was born with severe kidney dysfunction that got to the point where it was interfering with his lung development.  When he was born, they actually had to resuscitate him in the delivery room.  After a few days of continued declines in his health, my niece and her husband decided to take him off life support.

Reminded of the line from the film version of The Two Towers...'Fathers should not live to bury their sons.'  I can't even begin to imagine what the two of them went through in making that decision...but at least their baby isn't in pain anymore.

I've never been to a funeral for an infant.  That's a very shocking, bracing reminder of the fleeting quality of life, of just how extremely mortal we really are.  Gonna be a lot of introspection going on this week...
Misty Reynolds
member, 176 posts
Life is deadly. So am I,
but only when crossed.
Wed 6 Aug 2014
at 19:42
  • msg #742

Re: &*(_#&*R^#!!!

There was this survival game where the referee wanted normal characters.  I made up a gym teacher who loved the outdoors and spent a lot of time traveling doing outdoorsy activities like climbing, hiking, etc.  There was this epic lightning storm, so my character grabbed her backpack and her go bag, then headed out to the basement of her apartment building to wait out the never before seen storm.

Lightning storm plot device teleported me into deep water.  Her hiking backpack with her tent, sleeping bag, and food was sinking, but she saved the removable daypack of survival gear, a waterproof floating bag of clothes, and her survival knife.  She swam her way to an 20x20 foot sandbar in the middle of nowhere.  The PC dug into the sand in the middle of the sandbar to get some relatively salt-free water to purify to drink.  At this point, the referee decided she didn't fit his character concept for his game and I was out.  And now for the vents...

1.  Why would grabbing emergency gear to take with you in a very bad storm be unrealistic to a referee?  Even the Federal Government wants you to have supplies.  http://www.ready.gov/build-a-kit

2.  Why would anyone think that a character who basically lives outdoors during her time off wouldn't have a bag of survival tools and supplies?

3.  Why would anyone think that a character who basically lives outdoors during her time off and has a bag of survival tools and supplies not be considered to know how to use those tools?

4.  Hey Ref!!!  If you ever read this and you want your starting players to begin with no real world skills and nothing but pocket lint for equipment, say so in your RTJ.  That way a gear-head like me will avoid your game like the plague.
JxJxA
member, 51 posts
Sat 9 Aug 2014
at 11:10
  • msg #743

Re: &*(_#&*R^#!!!

Getting the courage worked up to finally go out to some parties to meet new people, only to have the weather and a freak cold to come stomp out those plans. Oh, and I get to enjoy the cold when I go work on Sunday through Tuesday with 16 hour days. x_x
Shard Blackwing
member, 83 posts
Sat 9 Aug 2014
at 11:20
  • msg #744

Re: &*(_#&*R^#!!!

Every time my computer crashes for no reason and Firefox loses all of my tabs...EVERY GOOSEBERRY FRIES TIME
Wyrm
member, 501 posts
Sun 10 Aug 2014
at 04:33
  • msg #745

Re: &*(_#&*R^#!!!

Dog had so much fun with her squeak toy, an actual baby skunk, from two weeks ago that she forgot how bad the resultant bath was. She found it again tonight ( i am also going to victim blame the skunk baby). Unfortunately, I had no assistance to clean her off and think I did a worse job.
st_nougat
member, 393 posts
Thu 21 Aug 2014
at 20:36
  • msg #746

Re: &*(_#&*R^#!!!

Let me tell you, there is nothing quite like that feeling that EVERYTHING you do at work is wrong.  When you do something exactly how the president of the company wants it done and then he looks at it several months later and tell you, "You made it worse"
Merevel
member, 720 posts
Gaming :-)
Very unlucky
Thu 21 Aug 2014
at 20:40
  • msg #747

Re: &*(_#&*R^#!!!

Sleeep, no matter how much I get, I always seem tired. The only difference between 2 hours and 8 is how much I nod off.
bobbofeet
member, 177 posts
Fri 22 Aug 2014
at 16:21
  • msg #748

Re: &*(_#&*R^#!!!

You stupid twit.  Two weeks in a row, two completely different grant requests, and you give me 24 hours notice to drop everything to get you numbers.  You've known the grant application dates for quite some time - it's your fruitin' job!

Common courtesy. Really.
Eggy
member, 382 posts
Sat 23 Aug 2014
at 18:43
  • msg #749

Re: &*(_#&*R^#!!!

Fell asleep studying while sitting in a chair. Woke up slumped over and looking for my glasses. When I got up to look for them, my dictionary slid off my lap and landed right on them. I have a spare, but this is a bummer.
JxJxA
member, 58 posts
Wed 27 Aug 2014
at 04:06
  • msg #750

Re: &*(_#&*R^#!!!

That feeling when you truly care about someone who does not feel that way about you, no matter how often you were there for them, and deciding enough is enough. That feeling when you know that regret will coalesce about you for the next few moments, hours, days, or weeks. That feeling when you know the question of whether cutting them out of your life was the right thing to do will haunt you, even though deep down you know that it is the best thing for your mental, emotional, and physical well-being.
PsychoJester
member, 395 posts
Why so serious?
Gaymer
Mon 1 Sep 2014
at 18:04
  • msg #751

Re: &*(_#&*R^#!!!

If you're going to run a game, be willing to accept some people are going to have a different view than yours and not everyone who expresses a different view thinks yours is bad.
facemaker329
member, 6444 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Wed 3 Sep 2014
at 07:08
  • msg #752

Re: &*(_#&*R^#!!!

Spent several hours over the last several days working on getting some costume armor pieces finished for a friend of a friend, in time for the SLC ComicCon.  Found out today, when I contacted said friend-of-friend to tell him I had his stuff finished and negotiate the remaining balance due on the project, that he's been out of work for a month and a half and has no money for costume projects at the moment.

So, I currently have a set of armor pieces for Yasuo (from League of Legends), instead of the $300-$400 that was remaining due on the project.  Really glad I insisted on $100 up front for supplies, because I have my doubts about whether or not I'll ever see the rest of the money.

Luckily, I wasn't really banking on having that money...it would have been a nice bonus, but I'll survive easily enough without it.  But it would have been a lot easier if, in one of the various 'how's my armor coming' messages he's sent me over the past couple of weeks, he'd just said, "Hey, I lost my job and can't afford to pay anything more on the armor right now..."  Then I wouldn't have felt panicked about trying to get it done in time...wouldn't have stayed up until almost 4 am last night trying to finish it.

But I could've really used that extra money...
Jayde
member, 1 post
Wed 3 Sep 2014
at 22:46
  • [deleted]
  • msg #753

Re: &*(_#&*R^#!!!

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 05:14, Thu 04 Sept 2014.
Eggy
member, 391 posts
Fri 5 Sep 2014
at 02:22
  • msg #754

Re: &*(_#&*R^#!!!

Lost my ipod today at the gym.
Dragonzeanse
member, 2 posts
Fri 5 Sep 2014
at 04:38
  • msg #755

Re: &*(_#&*R^#!!!

Had to yell at a neighbor who accused my family of theft. Needless to say, it was wrong. All he did was yell "leave me alone" repeatedly when he couldn't provide any more proof to back himself up. Had the text messages of him doing it. You want your twice-a-day packages from Amazon delivered safe, install a camera. Don't base your accusations on who you dislike the most.
ginny
member, 256 posts
Tue 9 Sep 2014
at 17:42
  • msg #756

Re: &*(_#&*R^#!!!

You know, when someone is trying to help you find a place to live the polite thing to do is LISTEN to them and say 'Thank you'.  You should also get off your APPLE PIE and try looking as well, not just relying on a place that MIGHT come available.
Silverlock
member, 89 posts
Wed 10 Sep 2014
at 01:00
  • msg #757

Re: Moving.

I'd like to tell all those folks I'd like to hire to do work for me that it would be nice if they'd show up so I could give them money to work for me.....especially since I lost a day of work to do this...

And if you want to move, you might, I dunno, PACK some things you need daily instead of expecting your spouse to remember all of that for you, hence a lot of late night last minute to-and-fro.....

And I'm ever so happy to be forced to do a lot of home repair on two different houses because of the first two reasons, including running to-and-fro to the local hardware stores.  Perhaps I missed my calling, I'd be the handyman who actually showed up and got paid, what a concept !

So if I'm being snarky, well, I'm feeling justified in a bit of huffiness right now.
Eggy
member, 398 posts
Wed 10 Sep 2014
at 01:11
  • msg #758

Re: Moving.

2nd Semester classes started before 1st Semester finals were over. Loving my classes, but hating the pace.
Wyrm
member, 513 posts
Tue 23 Sep 2014
at 13:02
  • msg #759

Re: Moving.

Is it really so difficult to put the cat in a different room right next to the backdoor when you let the dogs or yourself out? OR to even shoot me a text when you are too stupid, and let him get out so I can be sure to listen to him since there is no easy way back into our yard for him?
I'd have thought an OCD oppressor would be able to pay attention to these kind of details...
ginny
member, 258 posts
Fri 26 Sep 2014
at 12:39
  • msg #760

Re: Moving.

The house guest from Hell.  Cant/wont do anything to help himself, other than getting a job, to get his own place.  Every apartment listing I have found he has turned down because he is waiting for the one place that MIGHT come available above his work place.

He finds out days ago that this one place he's been waiting for is now unavailable.  So instead of telling us that, he's just let it go.  GET OUT OF MY HOUSE ALREADY!!

I swear this is the last time I let family come stay with us beyond a week.  I am not going to take care of another 'child' that wont help themselves.  Your month is up next week, place to live or not. :P
Wyrm
member, 519 posts
Wed 22 Oct 2014
at 12:43
  • msg #761

Re: Moving.

When you can't "correct" your child this early in the morning when he calls you a name when you are forcing him to put a second sock and underwear on, because you know it will make his day that much harder.
shadow huntress
member, 1 post
Fri 31 Oct 2014
at 10:55
  • msg #762

Re: Moving.

hello
Merevel
member, 839 posts
Gaming :-)
Very unlucky
Fri 31 Oct 2014
at 11:26
  • msg #763

Re: Moving.

Work, need I say more? Inspections suck.
This message was last edited by the user at 11:26, Fri 31 Oct 2014.
facemaker329
member, 6469 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Sat 1 Nov 2014
at 10:22
  • msg #764

Whatever happened to common courtesy?

Okay, I understand, the photographer backed out.  It's Halloween, probably a busy time for him, certainly a busy time for you...but it's also a busy time for me.  Sending me a Facebook message to tell me about the cancellation was a nice token gesture...but considering that I told you--repeatedly--that I don't have Facebook on my phone and if you needed to get in touch with me during the day, you should call or text me, I really feel like you don't value my time much at all.

Yes, I did end up getting a lot more done at work because I didn't have to leave in the middle of the afternoon to do two hours of makeup...but I'd pretty much built my entire day's schedule--and, to some extent, my entire weekend, as well--around that appointment, and spending four hours waiting for some call or text or anything at all from you to inform me that you were home from work and ready...or that we weren't doing this thing today, after all...did NOT do good things for my mood.  Going to dinner and my friend's party brightened things up a lot, but coming back to my laptop after all of that was over and finding a seventeen-hour-old message in the same discussion thread where I sent you my phone number with a 'call/text me during the day, I can't access FB when I'm at work' explanation (only a few messages above the cancellation!) really kind put the edge back on the annoyance.
facemaker329
member, 6478 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Wed 19 Nov 2014
at 06:00
  • msg #765

Re: Whatever happened to common courtesy?

Not my favorite way to start the holiday season...

Found out that the mother of one of my best friends...a woman I've known for over 20 years who's been like an aunt to me...had a severe stroke Sunday night or early Monday morning (she was fine when she went to bed, her husband couldn't wake her up on Monday).

Basically, the left side of her brain is dead...no measurable brain activity detected.  The doctors give her 3-5 days to live.

The good news is, she doesn't seem to be in any pain.  Of course, I'm not even sure she's lucid enough to let anyone know, if she was.
Brosuke
member, 260 posts
Wed 19 Nov 2014
at 09:28
  • [deleted]
  • msg #766

Re: Whatever happened to common courtesy?

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 13:34, Wed 19 Nov 2014.
Morty
member, 245 posts
The Doctor.
Fri 21 Nov 2014
at 12:36
  • msg #767

ehh.

Lost my stethoscope. It's been with me for 10 years. Feels like a part of me is missing. :(
Evil Empryss
member, 1237 posts
Because knowing
is half the battle!
Fri 21 Nov 2014
at 21:00
  • msg #768

Re: ehh.

I have discovered that boredom makes pain just that much less tolerable.
facemaker329
member, 6498 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Sat 13 Dec 2014
at 06:19
  • msg #769

So much for happy holidays...

Got a text from my brother this afternoon.  His stepson committed suicide today.  One of my best friends lost her mother (a woman I've known for close to 25 years) to a stroke at Thanksgiving.

1997 was a bad year...my dad died right before Father's Day.  2014 is working really hard at replacing it as 'darkest year of my life'...
dark_angel
member, 266 posts
Fri 19 Dec 2014
at 19:16
  • msg #770

Re: So much for happy holidays...

Soooo frustrated as my husband is working 14-15 hour shifts because his idiot boss told three of his co-workers that they could go work for a different company temporarily....which made it so that Dh and the only other guy who remained to pick up the slack. So he is doing his job and the job of the rest of the crew that left....his boss is a idiot! He was supposed to only have a 2 hour shift today and then work a 10- hour shift tonight, but he just sent me a txt saying he has to work longer and does not know when he will be home now. I knew it!!! I even told him before he left that his boss was going to pull this strudel but he swore that it wouldn't happen. Ugh! Sooooo stressed!!!! and the kicker is that even if he works all these extra hours he won't get paid more because he is salary and even with being salary isn't making much.
This message was last edited by a moderator, as it was against the forum rules, at 21:11, Fri 19 Dec 2014.
Wyrm
member, 531 posts
Sat 31 Jan 2015
at 18:45
  • msg #771

Re: So much for happy holidays...

It sucks being stuck in an Eagles song, even if it is a good one.
Little_Devil
member, 133 posts
Tue 3 Feb 2015
at 20:43
  • msg #772

Re: So much for happy holidays...

Its rather funny but also annoying to be asked to be removed from such an inactive game, politely just because I thought the game was inactive. Next thing I know I come back on to see a rude comment, childish if that from the GM in the OOC. Just rude GMs do give me a headache, but that's my opinion and it infuriates me nonetheless.

Oh well, life must go on :)
ginny
member, 269 posts
Wed 4 Feb 2015
at 23:33
  • msg #773

Re: So much for happy holidays...

I am so sick and tired of winter.  As if the 43+ inches of snow in the last two weeks wasn't bad enough, now we're going to get another 6 inches by tomorrow morning, and another storm this weekend.  Ugh!  This stuff will be around until June at this rate :P
Holobunny
member, 60 posts
Trust no one.
Keep your laser handy.
Thu 5 Feb 2015
at 08:44
  • msg #774

Re: So much for happy holidays...

I am losing confidence in one of my GMs too run my favorite setting in any but its most base form.  The setting deserves to be taken far more seriously than it gets credit for, almost always.

Among a myriad of other issues I'm having, I really lost confidence when he made an OOC post celebrating his mockery of a total noob at a local store.

PARANOIA players all over, please realize that not inviting folks to participate, and making them feel like appleholes for not understanding the nuances of a system that you can't reasonably expect them to understand on 0 experience with it doesn't make you clever. If you like said system you should be a good ambassador for it. Allen says be inviting. Don't be a figstick.

---------------------------------
"I brought potato chips!" ZAPZAPZAP! (IC character death)

"So I roll against habitat engineering, is that right?" ZAPZAPZAP! (IC Character death followed by rounds of mocking laughter)

[Any reasonable new player question?] "IMPERFECTLY PHRASED!" ZAPZAPZAP! (IC character death)
---------------------------------

Little wonder noone wants to play with us and our game is mostly a joke to others. Let's change that and be good representatives of our system. ZAPZAPZAP has its place, (has 10,000+ places in fact) but the first time someone asks "What's B3?" in genuine earnestness is not one of those times. The guy genuinely doesn't know. This is supposed to be a fun and poignant diversion, not an an exercise in dorktastic exclusivism. Just tell him what it is, for Pete's sake! If he asks again 3 sessions from now? That's the time for ZAPZAPZAP.
This message was last edited by the user at 11:15, Thu 05 Feb 2015.
Wyrm
member, 538 posts
Sat 7 Feb 2015
at 22:44
  • msg #775

Re: So much for happy holidays...

The cat got into the fish dinner tonight.
shady joker
member, 1601 posts
Sat 7 Feb 2015
at 23:14
  • msg #776

Re: So much for happy holidays...

Kissanme's link for episode 22 of space battleship Yamato is broken.
dark_angel
member, 267 posts
Tue 10 Feb 2015
at 23:16
  • msg #777

Re: So much for happy holidays...

So frustrated, just re-installed my laptops new hard drive and then I installed the new operating system which won't work....ugh!!!! I am ready to chuck the stupid thing out a window at this point. I haven't been able to use it since before christmas and HP is a joke as far as I am concerned since I can never reach any actual person to talk to....Argh! Hate hate hate hate hate stupid computers.
Eggy
member, 526 posts
Fri 13 Feb 2015
at 20:44
  • msg #778

Re: So much for happy holidays...

Ordered The Land Before Time.

Got The Land Before Time X.

Seller's response: What's the difference?
nuric
member, 2816 posts
Sat 14 Feb 2015
at 04:09
  • [deleted]
  • msg #779

Re: So much for happy holidays...

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 04:16, Sat 14 Feb 2015.
Wyrm
member, 543 posts
Sun 15 Feb 2015
at 01:31
  • msg #780

Re: So much for happy holidays...

Th8nk this is the most i have regretted moving to Canada since I got here.
girl in green
member, 40 posts
Sun 15 Feb 2015
at 05:45
  • msg #781

Re: So much for happy holidays...

I'm getting my first taste of group projects in college. It sure is fun doing an assignment intended for eight people with two instead because everyone else is a bunch of no-shows and/or procrastinators. C'mon, guys. Is it that hard to show a token amount of respect for your group members and at least PRETEND to care about our final grade? :c
facemaker329
member, 6588 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Wed 18 Feb 2015
at 07:42
  • msg #782

Re: So much for happy holidays...

Acid reflux.

'Nuff said...
bobbofeet
member, 211 posts
Wed 18 Feb 2015
at 17:13
  • msg #783

Re: So much for happy holidays...

Shingles.  In my 40s.
kneverwinterknight
member, 122 posts
Wed 18 Feb 2015
at 17:47
  • [deleted]
  • msg #784

Re: So much for happy holidays...

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 18:12, Wed 18 Feb 2015.
facemaker329
member, 6589 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Thu 19 Feb 2015
at 09:11
  • msg #785

Re: So much for happy holidays...

While I'm here and thinking about it...

I've asked three girls out in the past two weeks.  One, I've seen once in, like, the last decade and a half, the other two, I see relatively often but generally end up conversing with more on Facebook than anywhere else.

The one I haven't seen in ages said no...but explained why (she's working on three shows this semester, AND in school full-time, AND working close to full-time, plus she's got a daughter at home that she likes to spend as much time with as possible).  I can appreciate that...

The other two?  The ones that I am more acquainted with?  Haven't even bothered responding to the invitation (since I converse with them most of the time on Facebook, that's where I asked them out...)  One of them lost her phone a while ago, and I'm not even sure if she still has the same number now that she got the replacement (I would assume so, but who knows?)  And, on top of that, she was also going to help me with the makeup for a show I've got coming up in a couple of weeks...so I asked her if she was still on board for that.  She hasn't answered that, either.  The other one, I sent a follow-up text to, since the first thing I'd asked her out to had come and gone already...the only response I got from the text was a very curt 'Who is this?' (She should have my number, we've called and texted each other in the past when I helped her out with a couple of projects...)  When I answered (because, who knows, she may have lost her phone, as well, and didn't get all her contacts back when she replaced it...that seems to happen to several of my friends on a semi-regular basis), I got a resounding silence in reply.

This would bug me enough, on its own, but it's a reminder of a painful chapter in my past...where I dated a girl for a few weeks, and then seemingly became completely non-existent in her world for a few more weeks (she never returned phone calls or messages, the one time I stopped by on my way to campus she wasn't home--according to her roommates--and the time I bumped into her in town, she looked right past me like I wasn't even there.)  When she DID finally deign to acknowledge the fact that I did exist, it was to show me her new engagement ring...apparently, she dated me just long enough to panic her ex-boyfriend into getting over his fear of commitment and proposing to her, I learned later.

And people wonder why I'm still single...experiences like this do not create much faith in the dating process.
dark_angel
member, 268 posts
Sun 22 Feb 2015
at 17:32
  • msg #786

Re: So much for happy holidays...

Dh worked last night so he would be able to take today off for our son's birthday....he just got a phone call saying they need him to come in....SERIOUSLY!!!!! I am going to freak out if he is late as he worked all night last night to make sure that he wasn't called in but his IDIOT co-worker didn't get the message and now he is gone for a hour to go pick something up for work and I am ready to kill something if he is late for his son's birthday. I have booked a room at the aquatic center and he took the car with the car seats and I don't have my license. We will just get there in time to get everything.
facemaker329
member, 6600 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Thu 5 Mar 2015
at 08:38
  • msg #787

Re: So much for happy holidays...

Totally trivial vent, especially given the fact that I caught it this early, but...

I work at a movie theater...I'm the guy that downloads all the digital content onto our servers and programs the showtimes into the automation schedule.  And I hate it when I put in Friday's schedule, copy it for Saturday, and then forget to change to Saturday when I alter everything for the matinee showtimes.

Now I've gotta undo Friday and do Saturday, all over again...
Wyrm
member, 551 posts
Tue 31 Mar 2015
at 23:12
  • msg #788

Re: So much for happy holidays...

Forced awake at 4am, couldn't quite get back to sleep despite over an hour or two of trying. Got up, started routine. Dog escapes. Cat escapes. Have to ignore dog to get cat. Dog takes several victory laps around the block during rush-hour/going to school time. both dog and cat are being obnoxious after being caught and put back inside. Ended getting less pay than I hope to make up for an emergency glasses replacement. Pants are irrevocably damaged, making it my last pair in a country I am just a visitor in. Dinner turned out badly and more stuff making this one of the worst days I've had in a long time.

So for those who know me, if you haven't seen me in the last few days or I have been short and seemingly not acting my norm: know that I am in a really dire mood.
This message was last edited by the user at 23:13, Tue 31 Mar 2015.
borderline_dnd
member, 331 posts
Tue 31 Mar 2015
at 23:28
  • msg #789

Let's Fight

So I initiated with my 7 year old son... "Let's Fight"
He thinks this is so cool. I block his first two punches and I go for a tickle attack. I get him on the floor.

Round two: He steps back and snaps a kick. Which I decided to block with my index finger.

TIME OUT for Dad.
ClydeSebastian
member, 15 posts
Wed 1 Apr 2015
at 02:03
  • [deleted]
  • msg #790

Re: So much for happy holidays...

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 02:23, Wed 01 Apr 2015.
facemaker329
member, 6637 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Thu 23 Apr 2015
at 07:01
  • msg #791

I want my brain back...

It's allergy season.  And for some bizarre reason, it's worse this year than I ever remember.  I thought it was, perhaps, an allergy that turned into a cold (and it may be, I don't know for sure), but in the past when that's happened, there were certain allergy symptoms that stopped bothering me once the cold settled in.  Not so, this year.

Between the allergy meds and the rocky sleep I get as a result of having to sleep in odd positions to keep my sinuses from drowning me overnight, my mental focus is drifting.  I remembered a 7:30 meeting tonight at 9:30 (I was asleep on my couch at 7:30).

I'll certainly be happy when whatever's finished pollinating for the spring and things drop back to a manageable level again...
V_V
member, 474 posts
You can call me V, just V
Life; a journey made once
Sat 23 May 2015
at 06:27
  • msg #792

Re: I want my brain back...

I'm angry, and I don't know why. Bad stuff happens and I deal with that, but that usually doesn't anger me, it scares me, makes me anxious or or annoys me. No, I'm just angry, very often, and it's very deep seeded anger that roots in part from not feeling accomplished. It makes me argumentative and confrontational, and when the few times I avoid confrontation, like on RPOL I receive terse backlash for not arguing and just removing myself from the situation.

Really that's not it though, the culprit is feeling ineffective and overwhelmed, it makes me feel small and insignificant. I see so many people so accomplished and better at in activities I really try hard at, or lackadaisical about things I try to be good at and still comparable to me. It makes me feel lost and disparaged, which makes me feel either sad, and not productive, or angry and aggressive.

Because life doesn't stop when I have a bad day, or for anyone for that matter, I end up being angry to get through the day. It makes me off-putting and offensive, and I can understand that, but that makes me feel sad.

It's gotten to the point though, that I've exhausted a lot of great potential for new friends because I've been an ass. Just too stubborn on that day to say "I'm sorry. The truth is, I made a mistake. I don't know what I'm doing and tried to pretend I did. I spent a lot time trying to make this work, but I need help."

The fact I'm angry makes (most) people not like me, the fact they don't like me makes me worried, and sometimes, if it's someone I've actually got to know and messed it up with, sad. Life goes on and things need to happen, and I try, and often fal, which makes me frustrated...and then angry.

Failing is my worst fear, and so it's a very tangled vicious cycle. It is both a self fulfilling prophecy and a conduit for repeating occurrence One that can only be broken by intensely deliberate thought process. I don't have to be good, I just have to be good enough. People will like me if I'm not so moany and gripey, and if they don't then it's matter of them not liking my actual attitude and not this toxic bravado. If that's the case then it's just better that way. Because it just means we're not compatible, and that's okay, that's not failing.

It's just going to take quite awhile before I can shake that attitude of being defensive in the face of ridicule. It hits at the very nerve that affects me most. I have lofty aspirations, and that is true on RPOL games I GM here too, but I feel like if I aim for the sky, an illusory place I can never quite get, I find myself taking off and going farther than I ever would have had I only intend to get my feet off the ground. I hate falling, and especially when people mock or ridicule the notion of trying to fly, but when I find those rare events where I can, where I do something great in spite of all the limitations and feel like I'm floating, that's what makes me happy. That and sharing people's company.

I think that was one of the few things (and hopefully this doesn't tread again site RoA, it's more anecdotal) that I held onto from days in a warped religious lifestyle. I remember the stories of Jesus being with friends and valuing that over having a clean home, doing superficial work, or maintaining the "Jonah is the ONLY sign!" philosophy. I'd rather go without eating (and have) or miss a day of work than miss a good time with a friend. That makes me happy too. Because nothing can by back that time, and I would (and do) miss that most.

Sharing the company, even over the internet, with kind and fun people is enriching. I need to admit I really need help with things I should know, and ask for forgiveness when I say or do something disrespectful, rather than trying to justify a mistake.

Eh, I already know all this, and it serves very little purpose to post it for everyone to read rather than just write it down and discard it, but it helps in the process of trying to fix a problem. Bein g willing to admit I often feel inept and overwhelmed, and that that makes me angry, I hope will be a step in the direction of not being so. "It doesn't matter what people think. " well, yeah it does, to me at least. They may not be right, but it at least paints a more accurate and objective picture of who I am. Everything is subjective. If it doesn't matter what people think, than I might as well be doing this (whatever) alone.

Anyway, this was a LONG vent, but I needed to make it, and this is the place to do it. And I do feel (somewhat) better. </it now>
Blazeofglory
member, 10 posts
Part-Time Game Master
Badass Normal
Wed 27 May 2015
at 15:20
  • msg #793

Personally,

It pisses me off how people never try to get to know the loner kid who sits alone at lunch and eats silently over his laptop. Why not? You can make it JUST LIKE A MOVIE, WHY AREN'T YOU!?!?
[/vent]
HornetCorset
member, 247 posts
Wed 3 Jun 2015
at 02:57
  • [deleted]
  • msg #794

Re: I want my brain back...

This message was deleted by the user at 02:58, Wed 03 June 2015.
HornetCorset
member, 249 posts
Wed 17 Jun 2015
at 23:38
  • msg #795

Tal'ma'te.

Tak mal arik tiak.
facemaker329
member, 6654 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Thu 18 Jun 2015
at 05:48
  • msg #796

Feelings...

Other peoples', that is.  As in, I had to go sit down with my boss and the company HR manager to discuss a sexual harrassment complaint filed over what I thought were rather innocuous statements.

Funny thing about sexual harrassment...it's one of those things where your motives can have no impact whatsoever, it's all about how your words or actions are interpreted.  There's one person at work in front of whom I'll be speaking very little, unless it's directly about the show...
V_V
member, 475 posts
You can call me V, just V
Life; a journey made once
Fri 19 Jun 2015
at 18:54
  • msg #797

Re: Feelings...

I sometimes sit and think, like today, about mistakes I've made and those I didn't. Mistakes can change your life, but some are necessary to learn your true potential. I sometimes think I made the wrong ones, caught a lot of fish but never really learned how I caught them. I think about friends I had, friends I deeply cared for. Things happened, be it a petty dispute, distance between us, or even just a person disappearing as if they never existed, with no known trace of family or contacts reference just one day after a couple weeks of not talking they don't answer their door. They don't answer their phone calls. I keep trying but then think "well, maybe she's just n vacation", but then someone else I don't know answers the door whom has no idea who I am am or my friend for that matter, and when I try my friend's number it's no longer in service. Just questions, just mystery, and no closure.

I don't often dwell, but like today, I do sometimes. People say "oh you'll make new friends" but that seems to dwindle in truth with the passing years. I have friends I've known for many years or I have awkward acquaintances with people whom I only see once in a blue moon.

I feel happy today, because I made a new friend. Not someone I never met before, but someone I gamed with that today I felt like I got to know as a person and not just coherent text on a screen. I also feel sad, because that connection is so fragile, even more likely to just disappear like soap bubble as if it never existed. If it hadn't happened before I wouldn't be afraid, but it has.

It's just a friend, I know, but that's the best thing I could ask for. It's always been the thing I value most.

It's not going to keep me from enjoying life, but it is going to make me pause, take note of the feelings I have, the relief, the excitement, the curiosity and the enjoyment of their company. I have no expectations except to keep in touch, at least in the imminent future, but I just want to inhale this moment into my mind and remember it on days when I am alone again, when my best friend has died of cancer, when I can't pay the bills and so have no internet, no home, no car and no one who understand my tics. When an infection goes to my eyes and makes me blind. I want to remember days like this, so I can hope for them to come again.

Having such memories is how I survived to this point, and I know that test of willpower is not over. People say be happy for what you have and I am, I really am. Just sharing someone elses' company, having a conversation, even purely written and knowing the bad parts of me are already exposed, makes me feel safe. It's a light I can pull out when darkness comes once more and though the darkness remains it gives me reprieve from it. It gives me peace of mind not having to resist the tics to type something obscene or compulsion to be argumentative.

Anyway, it also makes me scared. That won't stop me from being happy. It's just a lot harder when you lose something/someone you actually cared about and valued their time as unique and therefor priceless. Everything comes to an end, especially good things. That fear helps me enjoy it, like a starving man in a finite room of food. It doesn't have to be the best food I've ever tasted, and certainly not nthe only food, it just has to be food I like but I've never tasted before and never will again, and to a person that seldom has enough to eat.

Anyway. Being happy can hurt after having so much anguish and pretending even to myself I was alright, because I had to take another step, had to be strong for others, had to tell myself I was fine because if I didn't I would just stop moving.

Today is a good day, a really good day, and not just for that reason. Also because I get to talk about my late Uncle with my mother, his sister. I get one last chance to ask questions to the next best person than my Uncle himself. I get to game with RL friends who have stuck with me and each other for years. I get to play in exciting games and share emotions on an imaginary stage.

It's a vent, even though I'm not angry or depressed right now. I'm still near to that and looking back looking back onto the valley I crossed as I crest the summit. I see looming darkness, inevitable trials ahead of me, still I feel the bitter cold that's around me in the current climate. I see the precariousness of celebrating, how that could be what makes me fall. I see that no matter how warm the fire is, it will only make me colder when it goes out and that's why it hurts.
Eggy
member, 573 posts
Sun 12 Jul 2015
at 07:48
  • msg #798

Re: Feelings...

I bought a printer at a store. I opened the box and it's full of spiders hatching. They won't take it back.

I put the printer outside and I'm hoping the spiderlings balloon away. I'll wait a day, then I'll blast it with the air hose.
JxJxA
member, 126 posts
Sun 26 Jul 2015
at 01:58
  • msg #799

Re: Feelings...

Players who join a game, post a few times, and then immediately stop posting while still checking in, slowing down your game in the process. Those players who also ignore your requests to post until you send a PM asking them to do so. Those same players who respond that they didn't feel the need to respond.

It's called a role-playing game because you're acting it out, not just rolling dice. Know your role and play it, for flan's sake.
Wyrm
member, 570 posts
Tue 28 Jul 2015
at 01:59
  • msg #800

Re: Feelings...

Nothing like snapping your ankle to make you realize your floor needs a cleaning.
facemaker329
member, 6666 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Tue 4 Aug 2015
at 06:12
  • msg #801

Re: Feelings...

Look...just because you're cheesed off because the manager called you out for screwing around onstage does NOT give you excuse to not only keep screwing around, but actually sabotage parts of the show for some of the other people in it.  Get your ego in line...you aren't THAT talented.
Wyrm
member, 578 posts
Sat 8 Aug 2015
at 13:24
  • msg #802

Re: Feelings...

Too much umbrage involved in replacing a broken shower. Found out that not only was it done once before, but they did a shoddy job. Did not remove the previous tile, installation properly and the drywall needs to be replaced (they didn't even anchor the shower head pipe). In order to even do a proper job, they have to tear up the kitchen to get to it. So...more shoddy job (not to mention they never bothered to measure the Height for clearance before ordering the new shower.

plus: seriously dog, you can't come in while they're working. Trust me, they are not there for you to befriend.
This message was last edited by the user at 10:22, Thu 13 Aug 2015.
PsychoJester
member, 461 posts
Sat 8 Aug 2015
at 17:17
  • [deleted]
  • msg #803

Re: Feelings...

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was against the ToU, at 17:26, Sat 08 Aug 2015.
OceanLake
member, 925 posts
Thu 1 Oct 2015
at 23:41
  • msg #804

Re: Feelings...

I live 70 miles from Roseburg, Oregon: 10 people dead and at lest seven injured in another mass shooting. I'm saddened, angry, appalled, and frustrated.

Discussion of this and similar matters belongs in a "game" discussion board, not in Community Chat.
This message was last edited by the user at 05:37, Fri 02 Oct 2015.
Silverlock
member, 95 posts
Sun 4 Oct 2015
at 22:06
  • msg #805

Re: A Bad Attack of RL

I have work that's managed by the fiends of Hades; I have hobbies I have had to
abandon due to the health issues of old age, and now it looks like I'm in a
further downward spiral.  So I shall take a while to ponder my next steps, and I have to wonder if my cane will take me there.  Cheery bye.
Isida KepTukari
member, 89 posts
Elegant! Arrogant! Smart!
Tue 6 Oct 2015
at 14:40
  • msg #806

Just show me the money...

Could someone please just buy my house?  We have our new one picked out, our offer accepted, half our stuff packed, now we just need someone to buy our house so we can finance.  We've got overseas house guests coming in November, and I dread trying to put them up in my current home, with only one bathroom, for two weeks, not with me still working night shift and us still trying to keep our house in show condition for house-sellings.

Please.  Someone?  :(
Wiglaf
member, 772 posts
Sat 10 Oct 2015
at 17:08
  • msg #807

Just show me the money...

I'm renting a room in a house.  I can't afford anything better despite working over 40 hours a week at two different jobs.  Getting sleep isn't easy.  I may have the option of taking a full time night shift position.  This would be great because id get to go to school during the day and get a masters so I can get a better job to pay off a mountain of debt.  However, my landlord/housemate and his wife keep two large dogs who love to wrestle and bark at all hours of the day.  I had the chance to sleep in today, but was woken up by growling and barking at 7am instead.

Note, I'm going to apply for the position and school anyway.  Just frustrated that I have this difficulty to look forward to.

Edited at 9:15pm to add:  And the day kinda sucked all around.  Angry customers who actually shouted at us both over the phone and in person.  I get home to be pounced on my the dogs, while the cat escapes.  Sit down at my computer to watch a movie with a glass of wine, which I almost never do, and the wireless adapter breaks off, nearly leaving the USB plug inside of my tower's port.  So, I only have internet on my phone for another week or more while I save enough to replace the gaming quality adapter.

And, it keeps on going since I have to do laundry in order to have work clothes for my shift early tomorrow morning.  Not the worst day on record, by far, but I do wish I could bury myself in that bottle of red.  :P
This message was last edited by the user at 04:19, Sun 11 Oct 2015.
ginny
member, 279 posts
Sat 17 Oct 2015
at 02:33
  • msg #808

Just show me the money...

There's a spider hanging over my bed waiting for me to fall asleep, and Im home alone tonight. Fat chances of me sleeping anytime soon :P
Wiglaf
member, 779 posts
Fri 30 Oct 2015
at 01:08
  • msg #809

Just show me the money...

Crazy day at work.  I'm the main person running the front registers for several hours.  Getting a manager, or supervisor, to enter their codes for special circumstances was a pain.  Getting a second person to open up another register when we had big grumpy lines was like pulling a tooth.  Both contributed to even longer lines and grumpier customers.  I'm covering breaks and listening to others taking off for lunch, but I never got my break.  Nobody was available to take over the main register.  I'm not even trained for it.  My primary training is with a different department altogether, which also had huge lines because nobody was covering it.

And, since I'm the most visible of the employees, unique appearance plus I actually wear my uniform and name badge.  So, I get all of the customer feedback about long waits.  Oh, and I'm also expected to be answering the main phone lines and calling customers back, while there is a constant line.  I got 'reminded' that its one of my responsibilities while working the register.

Ok people, we just hired more staff.  Please use them!  This situation shouldn't be happening in a store our size.  I shouldn't have to go without a 15, or bathroom break, when there are that many people on staff.

Blarg!  Who needs a drink?  :P
Mrrshann618
member, 64 posts
Fri 30 Oct 2015
at 03:04
  • msg #810

Re: Just show me the money...

I'm department manager covering the registers. I need to get a few people on lunch and breaks. Mind you I have not had anything at this point and my shift ends in 3 hours (full day) I send one of my wing tills out to lunch and call a second department who had 3 workers in (everyone else is skeleton staffed at this point). I get a "we are kinda busy, but I'll send "bob" up in a bit to cover "phils" break". An hour later "Bob" wanders down to the wing where I'm still at the till "amy" just said that you needed someone to cover a break? I dang near explode as he goes on to say that he was merely facing shelves the whole hour. (confirmed by the lumber guys to can see down the drive isle). Fruiting "amy" is all about store unity and helping each other out unless you bother her department. She will take from the entire store to help her area out but NEVER let loose one of her workers. She would rather sit and argue with you about who else can drive a lift to get product for a customer instead of taking 3 minuets to drop the dang pallet!
This message was last edited by a moderator, as it was moot, at 03:27, Fri 30 Oct 2015.
Wyrm
member, 588 posts
Sun 1 Nov 2015
at 22:50
  • msg #811

Re: Just show me the money...

Kind of weird that I am in a resturaunt where 2/3 of the people here need an another adult to tell them how to live.
OceanLake
member, 930 posts
Mon 2 Nov 2015
at 07:08
  • msg #812

Re: Just show me the money...

Such a nice number; I spoiled it.
pitademon
member, 804 posts
hi all
Mon 9 Nov 2015
at 06:05
  • msg #813

Re: Just show me the money...

<Pulls out hair>
Okay why is it that my new boss (came from out of state from the so called 'corporate office') finally gets a cue to hire new people yet cannot fathom why most quite within a month?  He's hired these flaky people who even if lumped together can be outwitted by ambient air lint, or have absolutely no sense of direction (not kidding here, one actually asked me how to get to the other side of the office that if he turned 180 degrees he could see it. that was this past Wednesday), or are so physically weak that picking up a ream of standard recycled copier paper gets them winded.  Me, I had to work with my foot nearly in a cast because no one else wanted to do even try and work.
Also had to deal with an asst. director this week.  In my job I need certain things to happen at certain times (this is at a hospital) so I can do my job properly, this dork was 'subbing' (if you can call it that) for a coworker on vacation.  His idea of doing that job was shluffing it to already over worked people in the off.  Any how I asked him for a specific piece of info.  his answer was 'when I know you'll know'.  That does not when I need it in 15 minutes.  I asked again he says 'we' have 3 hours, I try to tell him 'we' don't.  He literally stuck his fingers in his ears.  I cannot mention what info I needed by HIPPA, but if I don't get the info I need it puts me behind in other areas.  I can't wait til the last minute to do it.  It would be like everyone is a racer in the Indy 500, flag goes down to go and everyone goes but me.  I am waiting for tires so ask my pit crew and being told that when they get tires I'll get tires and that they have until lap 499 to get them to me....too late.  I need tires..now before the first lap passes and I get rear ended because I cannot even move off the track because I have no tires.
finally nearly in tears from stress I get the Director his boss and mine) that I need the info...NOW!.  finally get it pried out of him and I have to rush to get it in.  The asst. director is irked at me the rest of the day.  I finally tell him to back off he was in the wrong.  If he is not happy with what I did he is more than welcome to do that task I had to do the rest of the given days.
And my Director is a real gem (said sarcastically).  Besides not being able to hire a higher life form worth a dang he calls me in (under guise of no one who can do my job) 2 days after I have foot surgery.
Wyrm
member, 595 posts
Tue 10 Nov 2015
at 09:40
  • msg #814

Re: Just show me the money...

I long for the day my jerk of a cat is too fat to do stupid things that require a ladder to save him.
The Stray
member, 91 posts
When the Cat's a Stray
the Mice will Pray
Tue 10 Nov 2015
at 19:38
  • msg #815

Re: Just show me the money...

Thank you, friend of mine, for stabbing me in the back. I trusted you. I helped you out of many a jam. And now? You tried to steal from my mother. My mother, for god's sake! She's 67 years old, she's helped you out too...and then you pull this crap.

And the worst thing about it? The very worst thing? I cannot say I am surprised. Horrified, yes. Angered beyond all reason, yes. But surprised? Sadly, no. And it hurts so much to admit that I gave you trust you didn't deserve.
V_V
member, 498 posts
Fri 13 Nov 2015
at 14:04
  • [deleted]
  • msg #816

Re: Just show me the money...

This message was deleted by the user at 23:46, Fri 13 Nov 2015.
~Jaguar
member, 3270 posts
The Hiding Amaranth...
http://midnightquills.net
Sat 14 Nov 2015
at 06:06
  • msg #817

Re: Just show me the money...

Calling customer service lines just automatically blows my blood pressure through the roof. If it's not the ridiculous "tell me what your call is about," automated service, then it's the bad English accent of the underpaid Call Centre operator in some far off land who has no idea how to actually communicate outside of the script they've been given, and if it's not that either, then it's the fact that that person can't actually do anything to freaking help you anyway!

Somewhere in my lifetime, the idea of Customer Service has been changed to this concept of "let's just make it as bat-strudel difficult to get help as possible, then the customers will just get sick of trying and give up."
Silverlock
member, 96 posts
Thu 19 Nov 2015
at 22:09
  • msg #818

Re: surgery recovery

Try to find a Dr to tell you the truth about recovery time - and give you enough painkillers to actually numb the pain without your begging to not be given the ones that make you nauseous....arguments had after surgery and still half-out from the knock-out juice!  I DID try to have this chat BEFORE surgery too. Fruitbat molesting bing cherries.
Sittingbull
member, 59 posts
Thu 19 Nov 2015
at 23:36
  • msg #819

Re: surgery recovery

Try having migraines (where 9 times out of 10 you don't or can't eat) and they medicine they give you requires you to eat before taking it...
Townsend
member, 10 posts
Fri 20 Nov 2015
at 15:10
  • msg #820

Gee, thanks....

Thanks for the catered lunch, Admin, that came with a nasty bout of food poisoning, which required I take a day off work recovering.

Note to self: Never, ever, ever again eat chicken-anything unless I've watched them actually remove it from the oven.
Wyrm
member, 597 posts
Sun 22 Nov 2015
at 02:07
  • msg #821

Language is a second language.

Ticket to Ride: Europe Edition. Or the "That's not how you say the name of the city." "It's on the fruiting board. It's the old way" "You mean Istanbul?" "I can't find sfgsfgsrrg-pol" game.
V_V
member, 500 posts
You can call me V, just V
Life; a journey made once
Tue 24 Nov 2015
at 04:00
  • msg #822

Language is a second language.

This will be the first year I'll be eating Thankgiving away from an abusive family. This year will come to a near close away from the family I was born with and forced to endure. I have some much guilt for mistakes I made because I was angry and only angry because I was scared.

I dread the phone call or knock at my door. Asking me to come, and then when I say no, them telling me I have to. And then them dragging me down with emotional blackmail. I really hope I just don't answer the phone, and my voicemail doesn't work. I really hope I'm not home and they don't come back. I have said "no" so many times to them I just can't force the words out anymore.

That's my holiday wish from them, the gift they can give me in place of turmoil and compulsory "love". I just don't want to be a part of something sick anymore. If they can just leave me alone, it will be the greatest give they could ever give me. A silence after a catastrophic disaster. That silence is something I really need to enjoy the quiet things so sublime, the gentle pleasures that so oft drowned out by madness.

I don't expect that though. I expect a pair of socks, a shirt that isn't my size and reminders to write thank you notes for the next seven months. My hand aches just thinking of that.
GammaBear
member, 521 posts
Gaymer
Mon 7 Dec 2015
at 19:32
  • msg #823

Language is a second language.

Before you make a post passive-aggressively slamming people for being articulate, please make sure your own post is grammatically correct. lol
Wyrm
member, 609 posts
Sat 23 Jan 2016
at 00:53
  • msg #824

Language is a second language.

I see games I would like to play in. I don't feel like applying because I don't want to get worked up over an exciting looking game to not get selected.
Merevel
member, 1012 posts
Gaming :-)
Very unlucky
Sat 23 Jan 2016
at 15:13
  • msg #825

Language is a second language.

We will have gotten 18-32 inches of snow, and of course I still have to go to work today. Oh boy, the fun part will be making it to the road!
Mrrshann618
member, 71 posts
Wed 27 Jan 2016
at 00:29
  • msg #826

Language is a second language.

Was pulled into the office by my boss informing me about how things simply went into the garbage pile this weekend thanks to one of my Head Cashiers calling in. Skeleton crew with no replacements for key spots. The entire talk felt like he was trying to pin this on me.

This was my scheduled weekend off.

I have no control of who calls in
I have no control over who is called in by the other department managers to cover the call-ins when I'm not there. (which was no one)
I have no control over the Assistant Store Managers (one tier above me) who do nothing to correct the situation in store.
I'm for sure as giant fruit basket not in control of anything, or able to fix it, IF NO ONE CALLS ME TO LET MET HAVE A CHANCE TO FIX IT.


But obviously, it is my fault.

My only satisfaction is that I was able to use the same above rant back at him to deflect it back on the upper management who failed thanks to lack of communication.

Now I'm waiting to be later called into either HR or "the big boss's" office for getting "uppity".
AtomicGamer
member, 70 posts
Sun 31 Jan 2016
at 15:48
  • msg #827

Language is a second language.

Rejection from Mutants and Masterminds games sucks more than most, as there are relatively few of them around, and the character creation process is relatively long and involved.

Also, because there are so few of them, there are a lot of applicants to each, making rejection more likely.
V_V
member, 522 posts
You can call me V, just V
Life; a journey made once
Wed 3 Feb 2016
at 19:30
  • msg #828

Language is a second language.

There's nothing like waking up from restless sleep by having a brass lamp fall on your forehead. 3 stitches, but hell of a pain. It looks gnarly too. Lovely. Every time I close my eyes I see purple and green. Even more lovely.
Tyr Hawk
member, 146 posts
You know that one guy?
Yeah, that's me.
Thu 11 Feb 2016
at 00:49
  • msg #829

Broken Promises

Hello RPoL. Some of you may be wondering why I'm posting here instead of over there, and I'll tell you why. It's because I don't want to start a conversation about this, as I'm on what has always been the unpopular side of this... situation, we'll call it. I know I don't need to explain myself, but I thought I would anyways.

To put it nicely, I'm a teetotaler. I don't drink. I haven't ever had a drink in my life and if I make it the rest of my life without consuming any alcohol, I'll be happy. I'm so far to the one side, in fact, that I try to avoid any food I know has been cooked with any sort of alcohol (even though I know the cooking process destroys the alcohol in 99.99% of cases). There's actually a lot more to it, in fact, but I'll stop there. There are a plethora of reasons I think and act this way, but suffice it to say that it's who I am, and I have little-to-no problem with anyone who doesn't agree.

I have friends who drink. My family, dear to me as they are, will occasionally tip one back on holidays or at very special occasions. So long as no one tries to convince me to do it, I have learned to accept that other people drink. Simple as that. I don't like to be around people who are actively drinking, but I can manage it, again, so long as no one is trying to convince me to not stay sober.

That all being said, I hate it with the burning passion of a thousand white-hot suns when people promise me they'll stop drinking. The idea is nice. It's respectable, and it means a lot to me that someone would consider not drinking anymore, whether it's for me, or for themselves. But no one has ever kept that promise. Like a thousand other promises of varying degrees over my life, people have broken more than they've kept. I don't know if I'm alone in this, or if I've just got bad luck, or what, but promises have an increasingly bitter edge to me the more important they would be to me. I don't like people making promises they'll break later, and as much as so many people mean it in the moment... time is my enemy.

Today, a friend of mine who promised to stop drinking after a particularly foul drinking experience a few months ago had a shot. She told me shortly thereafter, but it still doesn't keep it from hurting. It's like this stab in my chest because when she told me she didn't remember the part about her bad experience. She didn't say "I know after last time I shouldn't have" or "I thought it might be better this time." She just said "I promised not to because you don't like it," and then she broke that promise.

She broke a promise she remembers only being to me, for me, and because of me. It just... it makes me feel like the least important thing in the world. The promise was only really important because of who I am, because of what I am, and neither was good enough for her. I wouldn't care if she hadn't made the promise. But she did, and so it just hurts so much. It hurts... and I just needed somewhere to let that out.

Thank you for your time.
This message was last edited by the user at 06:42, Thu 11 Feb 2016.
Serai1@aol.com
member, 135 posts
Fri 12 Feb 2016
at 21:57
  • msg #830

this is petty but it's been a long day.

OMG.

Please stop explaining my character to me.  Stop suggesting that my character can't do things.  Literally, you are trying to tell me how my character perceives and interacts with the world around her.

I don't want your help.

I didn't ask for your help.

If you want to play this character class, then play your own version.

Stop telling me how to play my character.

And don't think I haven't noticed that I'm playing the only female character and you offer me so much 'help'.

It is completely arrogant and obnoxious.

STOP.  /vent
PhatJackal
member, 31 posts
Fri 12 Feb 2016
at 23:28
  • [deleted]
  • msg #831

Lost out again...

This message was deleted by the user at 16:22, Sat 13 Feb 2016.
Wyrm
member, 610 posts
Sat 13 Feb 2016
at 23:25
  • msg #832

Lost out again...

It was one of the stupidest answers you could have said.
Space27
member, 51 posts
Sun 14 Feb 2016
at 23:12
  • [deleted]
  • msg #833

Game-Related Vents thread is Closed!

This message was deleted by the user at 02:30, Mon 15 Feb 2016.
Space27
member, 74 posts
Tue 16 Feb 2016
at 03:51
  • msg #834

A vent about game-related vents....

....and fenders, and bumpers, mufflers, sidewalls and hubcaps. And game-related mudflaps.
Townsend
member, 31 posts
Fri 19 Feb 2016
at 18:17
  • msg #835

Grrrr

To our current crop of District computer techs: :P'''''''''''''''''''''

If all you're going to do is sit on your butts, ignoring requests for help because a teacher hasn't filed one of your precious tickets --

Go back to District and park your pompous hineys there.

Our campus obviously won't be any worse off for it, and at least we won't be expecting you to do your jobs from there. Less stress all around.
This message was last updated by the user at 18:17, Fri 19 Feb 2016.
W0LF0S
member, 80 posts
Tue 23 Feb 2016
at 20:17
  • msg #836

Grrrr

To all my fellow players with the unsolicited advice on how to play my character better:

Screw off.
ShadoPrism
member, 895 posts
OCGD-Obsessive-Compulsive
Gamer-Disorder
Tue 23 Feb 2016
at 22:00
  • msg #837

Grrrr

I hate squirrels - one got in to the walls of my house and at 3am started to burrow in to the space between my bathroom ceiling and the floor above that. Loudly, kept me up till time to get up. I am all but brain dead today and I Can't go to sleep early or I will mess up my sleep schedule even more than it already is...
EightBitEighties
member, 23 posts
A Blast From
The Past!
Tue 23 Feb 2016
at 22:52
  • msg #838

Grrrr

So after three months of unemployment with no Unemployment Insurance (prior job really pulled a fast one on me), my sister finally convinced me to apply for a job working where she does - a restaurant. Now, I've always had this guideline to not working in the food industry because I know there are things going on "behind the scenes" that I would not be real thrilled to know about, especially if it's somewhere I have eaten before, but desperate times call for desperate measures.

So I applied, knocked the interview out of the park and got hired. Started working there last Monday and since I was "in training", I didn't have any real "hands-on" work to do. I mainly just grabbed piles of clean dishes and ran them out to where they needed to go in the cooking/prep/server areas. Thursday night comes and I'm now, officially, turned loose on my own in the "dish pit". It's honest money and not terribly hard, so I'm getting some of my pride and self-confidence back. I get Friday off, so instead of crashing at my sister's house, I head on back home (an hour+ away). I noticed that I was itching really badly in several spots, but thought nothing of it. Figured it was just one of those things. Wake up Saturday morning to get ready to drive back and go to work and my left arm, left leg, and down my side are eaten up by these weird rashes. My skin looks like it's been splashed with acid, so I swing by my sister's to show her and my brother in law the patches. The only thing we can figure it being is that I'm having a reaction to the shellfish that they serve. [I have a lethal and aggressive allergy to shellfish].

Since this was a steakhouse, plus I was JUST washing the dishes, not a single one of us thought that my allergy would be an issue. I go in, show my managers, and ask what we can do. One of them gives me these great big gloves that stretch all the way to my elbow and tell me to try them out. They seem to work okay and I get through the night. Sunday morning, I wake up and there is a new patch blistering up, so my sister insists that I call them and see if they can make some kind of arrangement to get me out of the dish pit and into a job where I wouldn't be exposed to shellfish, since she maintains that they have made arrangements for other people to change jobs for medically necessary reasons. I call the General Manager and tell him that I didn't think the gloves were effective and I wasn't sure if I could keep on working in the dish area due to my allergy. Before I could even start asking about other jobs, he has a meltdown and says, "I was going to start training you in prep, but that won't work because everything back there touches shellfish. Thanks for this. I have to go now and find a dishwasher for tonight." and then he actually hangs up in my face!

Naturally, I assume this means that I've been let go, so I tell my sister and BIL, pack my stuff up and come home with a new burden of shame and disappointment. Well today, my sister goes into work and they're telling her that I outright quit and that [Manager] didn't actually fire me.

I told the GM at the interview that I've been in management plenty of times and I'd never quit a job without notice because that fruiting sucks on everybody's part and that if I didn't think I could do a job that I would talk it out and see what else I could do and he appreciated that, saying that was what he was looking for - someone who could be depended on and not just run off. I did what I was supposed to. I tried, found out there was a problem, and told them about it only to get hung up on. I would have gladly tried something else because it wasn't a bad place to work, from what I could tell, the money was awesome, and it gave me the opportunity to spend a little quality time with my family - something that my other jobs have been lacking in.

My sister just messaged me back after I asked her for clarification and they told her that I quit, but she said that she could hear my side of the conversation (I was outside their house, standing under their bedroom window when I called) and that I was clearly trying to work with them. Now, she's saying if I wanted to, I could call to try and sort the mess out, but I was pretty hurt by the Manager hanging up in my face like a child and I don't really want to go back to a situation like that. If anybody has ever dealt with a situation like this, I'm all ears. Inbox me.
GammaBear
member, 583 posts
Gaymer
Thu 25 Feb 2016
at 05:30
  • msg #839

Grrrr

I really don't understand two of my fudging roommates. They've been on me for a week about $20 I owe them*. Every time they ask me about it, I tell them that I need to go to Walmart to get the money. Every time, that's been the end of the conversation. They just asked me again tonight. I told them the same thing. I hear them leave. Guess where I found out they're going. Walmart! Guess who they didn't ask to go with them. ME! WHY!? *headdesks*

*BTW, me owing them $20 wasn't even my idea. They bought me a box of chocolate covered coconut patties and told me I had to pay them back. WITHOUT EVER ASKING ME FIRST!
GammaBear
member, 586 posts
Gaymer
Sun 28 Feb 2016
at 01:02
  • msg #840

Grrrr

Look, don't look at me like I'm stupid when you walk in to my hotel and I ask "How can I help you?" Yes, I know the vast majority of people coming in are either checking in or renting a room. However, there are still people that come in to get information.

Also, don't argue with me when I tell you the owners don't rent to locals. That's the policy. They can make that decision. No about of you complaining about it or telling me "That's fudged up." is going to get me to risk my job by renting you a room. Furthermore, I'm not going to tell you why because I don't know. That was the policy when I started so that's the policy I'm going to enforce. Get over it.
Manticore
member, 380 posts
Sun 28 Feb 2016
at 01:04
  • [deleted]
  • msg #841

Re: Grrrr

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 06:49, Sun 28 Feb 2016.
Isida KepTukari
member, 100 posts
Elegant! Arrogant! Smart!
Sun 28 Feb 2016
at 15:47
  • msg #842

Re: Grrrr

I had to cut my sleep period short by nearly an hour when someone wanted to view our house (which we are trying to sell).  When we got back after a sufficient amount of time, all of the lights in the house were still on, an oddity.  I get an e-mail from my realtor saying the agents showing the house claimed she couldn't get in because the door was "locked from the inside."

No.  No it wasn't.  It was locked the exact same way that over a dozen other agents have managed to successfully unlock that same door.  Unlock the lock, turn the knob, give the door a decent shove, it opens.  Now she wants to reschedule for next week, which means yet more shorted sleep time for me (I sleep during the day) or having to find some other place to sleep.  All because someone couldn't figure out how to open an {expletive deleted} door!
NeuroJester
member, 781 posts
Got Beer? Got Chainsaws?
Got Fire?  Lets Party!
Sat 5 Mar 2016
at 01:06
  • msg #843

Re: Grrrr

This is my vent. All the people praising Gygax for creating the roleplaying game D&D, and who don't even realize that Gygax created rules for miniatures combat, like Warhammer, just not as cool and that it was Dave Arneson who created the RolePlaying half of the game. They have both passed on, so the money doesn't mean anything at this point, but Dave has a legacy that was taken from him.
Mrrshann618
member, 82 posts
Wed 16 Mar 2016
at 00:44
  • msg #844

Re: Grrrr

I just have to get this off my chest.

I work in retail (yes, I know, I asked for it)
I work in a store that is opening it's garden center soon.
Well I schedule my department with overlaps and redundancy due to many of my employees being notorious for calling in "sick". I attempt to use this extra help to cross train my people, however, if I have more than a single person call in sick that redundancy vanishes like smoke in the wind.

The other day I get to the store early as I need to cross train myself on certain reports and I want to make sure the person who normally processes these did not already do them. I get hijacked, not even 20 steps in the store, with the care of a  return employee. Ok no problem I'll get them situated and to the daily business reports. I'm in the store long enough to escort the return employee to their station and introduce them to the new workers there when I get a call from the store manager.

Why isn't the garden center open?

There is a whole list of things I want to say, most of them would get me fired on the spot, so I simply tell him that I'm in early to do business reports and just arrived.

Not good enough! What is my plan to get it open.
I tell him that I'm getting a return employee settled to their new workstation and have not even had time to look at the work roster.

Not good enough, Why isn't it open.
I ask him if he has talked to my Head Cashier who has been there all morning and know what is going on, I toss him a name of someone who I know is in at work and can easily open garden center.

NOT GOOD ENOUGH! what is my plan to get it open.
"Well everyone else who is trained at this time is already covering key areas and I can not pull them until I have a chance to review the roster." I remind him that I am in early and just walked in the door, not having a chance to look at anything including the call in list or roster. I assure him that I have several of the new people in training BUT they are not ready due to the nature of the department. They have not completed all their training.

Not good enough! Do you expect me to not open the area?
NO sir. I expect you to follow the guideline set forth by corporate training and loss prevention stating that I can not place people into those positions until they have successfully completed all the training required of them. I then repeat the name of the person I gave him earlier stating that he is available to go out there.

This entire time I've been on my mobile checking out the roster and gathering information about the situation, finding out that I've had 2 people call in. Both in key positions.
Getting frustrated and snarky at this point I tell him, as he should know, that I have had 2 call in's the only person that is available is the person I've repeated to him 3 times now. I need my HC's for training and coverage, especially since he wants people trained to go out there.

I so wanted to beat him senseless. YES I have problems with authority, especially when they are acting unreasonable, and I do what I can to shield my own workers from much of the fallout. That being said I can easily say I'm in 2nd place for most liked Manager. #1 is a big teddy bear that just has an infectious and genuine personality.

Today I sit here, after finding out one of my HC's just got into a major car accident and will not be in to work for some time. I feel so sick and disgusted at having to face that unreasonable person once again that for the first time in my work career I'm considering just calling in sick myself. Being who I am however I know I can not as there is just to much that NEEDS to be done tomorrow and there is no one to do is as the other people who can are all out on vacation.
This message was last edited by the user at 00:47, Wed 16 Mar 2016.
Wyrm
member, 612 posts
Wed 16 Mar 2016
at 01:05
  • msg #845

Re: Grrrr

I hate Biology. Especially practical Biology. Especially my practical biology. It is an enigma, wrapped in a mystery wrapped in OH MY GOD THE PAIN.
RPGuru92
member, 105 posts
Wed 16 Mar 2016
at 22:52
  • [deleted]
  • msg #846

Selfish Anti-Rant

This message was deleted by the user at 22:53, Wed 16 Mar 2016.
V_V
member, 528 posts
You can call me V, just V
Life; a journey made once
Fri 25 Mar 2016
at 05:57
  • msg #847

Selfish Anti-Rant

I'm wishing I had someone to play cards with, or play videos games with.

When I went through a very bad period of PTSD, a friend of mine had said "call me if you need to" when I did it was in an episode. He avoided me for the next three months, and since after then only makes texts like "I saw you texted me. I thought I'd do you the favor of replying to it." and that's it. When I see him at the gaming store, he just ignores me and walks away.

Playing cards with him was fun, and I've since found myself collecting cards of the game we used to play, just to keep myself from feeling as lonely.

I used to play video games with my brother-in-law. He was the closest family I had. When my sister divorced him, that fissured our tie. I miss him, and though I've talked to him once on the phone, and occasionally on facebook, he will never be a part of my life like he was.

It feels like I gravitate toward activities I used to do with people I like, and whom once liked me. I can't keep up with the times, and often struggle to stay relevant in what people enjoy doing.

Heck, even RPOL was something my old BIL got me into.

I just wish I had something to do with someone that is a dedicated activity I can rely on.
facemaker329
member, 6767 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Sat 2 Apr 2016
at 06:41
  • msg #848

...and The Agony of Defeat

I should have been more cautious about how good things went at work yesterday.  I mean, I work on theater, in a part of the ciuntry where unions aren't very common, which means that I've got a lot of experience doing whatever needs to be done, inclucing set construction.  I've also helped friends with some general construction and renovations, so I'm no stranger to power tools and framing walls and the like.  So I wasn't totally surprised when the plans I'd drawn out for yesterday's project translated pretty smoothly into reality...a couple of small hiccups, but it actually went pretty smoothly, especially considering I was figuring it all out on paper based on having only two accurate measurements out of the dozens I should have had, ideally.

So, today, same basic project.  I actually had one more measurement for that one than I did for yesterday's...

And nothing about it worked right.  All the measurements that I had worked out in EXACTLY the same way as yesterday's project didn't work at all.  One end was too tall, the other end was too short, and in the process of trying to compensate, everything in between got screwed up.  I got a little patch of skin pinched right off the tip of my finger between two sheets of plywood.  Pretty much everything that I did for six hours is going to have to be redone.

I'm pretty sure I've figured out why the key issues arose...it's that whole thing about 'good judgment coming from experience which usually comes from bad judgment'...stupid little mistakes that I didn't catch because I don't do things like this very often.  But it's also frustrating because I'm trying to show my boss that we CAN do this stuff for ourselves, and having it go so wrong when time is a major factor isn't going to help the cause.

Nothing to do for it but go back in Monday and make it right.  The fact that the first one worked so smoothly will hopefully buy a little forgiveness.
facemaker329
member, 6788 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Fri 27 May 2016
at 06:55
  • msg #849

...and The Agony of Defeat

Is it a bad omen that I find myself daydreaming about how relieved I would be to get fired?  I'm too stubborn to quit, at least not when there's a job that someone's relying on me to do...

But I'm pretty sure if I showed up to work tomorrow and they said, 'Collect your stuff and get out,' I'd celebrate.  At least for a weekend.  Then, maybe, I'd worry about how to pay my next rent check...
Wyrm
member, 621 posts
Tue 7 Jun 2016
at 04:20
  • msg #850

...and The Agony of Defeat

Yeah...I am right there.
V_V
member, 542 posts
You can call me V, just V
Life; a journey made once
Wed 8 Jun 2016
at 04:04
  • msg #851

...and The Agony of Defeat

After months of a (face to face) game being dead the GM contacts me to join. I decline. He asks to "talk it out". I listen, he gets lukewarm response, but hey if he's willing to change his stance on a the zero point flaw, then maybe I will give him another chance. Sometimes GMs just need that extra chance to work out kinks.

Well, after four more hours of making my character, on a phone I only have seven hours each month, he gets to the flaws. I said "let's do that first" "No, no, we need to see how many points you need" "Mike!" "Seriously it will be fine" and then that phrase "trust me".  So we get to flaws. Holy crap! Why am I not surprised. Having a love interest as a dependent NPC is worth 0 points. "Why?" I ask "Oh because your arch nemesis is going to start chapter 2 with her already captured." "Why the fruit is 0 points then!" "Oh...Oh! because I don't think that flaw really comes into play all that much" "WTF! You're PLANNING on having it come into play!" I lost my cool at that point and just hung up.

He called back and I let it go to voicemail. Three times. So finally I just pass the duty off to my friend to explain to him I have a zero point flaw for his game. My interest in it. You wanna know why it's zero points, Mike? Because I have zero interest.

*UGGG8HHH!*

I'm not so much pissed at his GM style. That's BS, but okay, that's his game. That's his prerogative. It's the fact he wasted my minutes, used three of my voicemail slots, and then had the audacity to pull the same "zero point flaw" thing which started the train wreck the first time. I didn't even want to play, and I said this much very succinctly. I shouldn't have thrown him a bone and heard his long-winded plea out.

*sigh*

*frowns*
I don't even have time for my favorite games I'm supposed to be a player in and I WANT to be there for....this just ruins any chance for real time chat. Oh well...maybe next month.
Piestar
member, 685 posts
once upon a time...
...there was a little pie
Wed 8 Jun 2016
at 05:03
  • msg #852

...and The Agony of Defeat

Just a general inter-generational rant, but I am so unhappy with the direction the game systems have taken, especially the D&D ones.

When I was playing back in the late seventies early eighties, role-play was in general more popular, and mix-max power-gamers were pretty much laughed at, scoffed at, and driven out of any good game if they didn't catch on.

Each iteration of the rules becomes more and more about that style of gaming though, 3 and 3.5 was the start of the era where more effort went into designing the character than ever seemed to go into playing it. I tried fourth edition and it was disgusting, first level and I had flash and fluff and powers like a superhero! Not interested in batman versus the Orcs.

Trying fifth ed., which I have heard is an improvement, but Rangers get spells at SECOND LEVEL, which you reach after only THREE HUNDRED experience points?

It's really like the party is starting at seventh level, which in many 1st and 2nd ed games is about the time I lose interest anyway.

Sigh.

Clearly that is what sells I guess, and the game I am in, the other players are all gloating about how they have 'broken' the system with their incredible characters, and shocked whenever a monster even comes close to hitting them back.

How would you even go about designing an interesting system that was about building up role-play options though? Can't think of many.

Sigh... but the 1st ed games are getting rarer and rarer.

Rant, vent, snort...
Novocrane
member, 248 posts
Wed 8 Jun 2016
at 05:31
  • [deleted]
  • msg #853

...and The Agony of Defeat

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 13:54, Wed 08 June 2016.
facemaker329
member, 6802 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Fri 17 Jun 2016
at 06:47
  • msg #854

Painful reminders

Losing a loved one right before a holiday makes for an annual jab in that empty spot they left behind.  Losing your father, right before Father's Day, adds an extra dose of bitterness to the experience.

Nineteen years, Dad.  I hope you'd be proud of the man I've become.  I know you wouldn't agree with all the choices I've made...I don't even agree with all the choices I've made.  But I think I've done a pretty good job of becoming the good man you would have wanted me to be, overall.

I miss you...
dalbus63
member, 2 posts
Fri 17 Jun 2016
at 23:19
  • msg #855

Bitter Almost-Love

How in the world are you going to call off a date just because I'm "inexperienced"? Since when is being inexperienced a bad thing. The only thing that means is that I won't try anything crazy or out of the ordinary unless you tell me to. I'm honestly not a bad guy. Yes, I work two jobs, which leaves with little sleep and even less time available to spend doing what I want to, but frankly, the money is nice (which by the way, I didn't hear you complaining about that extra money when we went to Great America and a really nice restaurant). You should've given me a chance. I would have made it well worth your while.
Lord_Johnny
member, 97 posts
Mon 11 Jul 2016
at 02:55
  • msg #856

Banging a head against a wall

Why the ever loving french fry is it so hard for people to understand the concepts of getting in character? I mean seriously, if your going to say something is the setting, with this and the other thing as the setting, then why, for the love of God why?! , is it so hard to get people to be in character? I mean, it's not that hard. It's not even that obscure, as most people already get the concepts of the setting. So hAve people be in character! It's your job GM, so just do it. Don't belly ache, don't whine, don't make excuses, don't say "well it's not exactly the same"! Just get your players to understand that some concepts apply universally, and have them get in character.

Not...that...French frying...hard!
Wyrm
member, 624 posts
Sat 16 Jul 2016
at 04:48
  • msg #857

Banging a head against a wall

Nothing like wasting a vacation day for the close on your house to get the keys and start moving, only for them to he done after you wouldbhave gone home from work.
The paper work was done, monies were exchanged and signatures sogned before today. Were we just waiting for the Ghostbusters movie?
V_V
member, 545 posts
Mon 18 Jul 2016
at 05:16
  • [deleted]
  • msg #858

A journey made once, and with no two steps retread.

This message was deleted by the user at 06:39, Mon 18 July 2016.
Isida KepTukari
member, 108 posts
Elegant! Arrogant! Smart!
Mon 18 Jul 2016
at 14:59
  • msg #859

A journey made once, and with no two steps retread.

Got home from vacation, met with our contractor to do some work on our new house, and then as soon as he left, our cat starts to poop everywhere.  And not solid poops, oh no, liquid poops.  Husband and I are basically chasing the cat around the house with paper towels and cleaner, trying to catch him before he ruins something else.  We had to lock him in the bathroom with his litter box just so we could get some sleep and not wake up to find more liquid feces on everything...

He's going to the vet in an hour.  I really hope this is just moving stress for the poor lad.
ginny
member, 285 posts
Thu 28 Jul 2016
at 00:16
  • msg #860

A journey made once, and with no two steps retread.

You have got to be a special kind of apple hole to invite yourself along on somebody's FAMILY vacation!

Once a year we go on vacation as a family, just us and the kids.  This year the girls are old enough to actually remember a fun vacation.  We're taking them to an amusement and water slide park a few hours away, and camping for the weekend.

Sounds like a great time.  And then our neighbor decides he's going too with his family, and asked the campground for a tent site right next to ours.  WTH?!  He's not even a close enough friend I'd call family.

REALLY?!  WHO INVITES THEMSELVES TO SOMEONE ELSE'S FAMILY VACATION??
PhatJackal
member, 39 posts
Thu 28 Jul 2016
at 02:49
  • msg #861

A journey made once, and with no two steps retread.

That feeling when it's discovered you have Surprise!BrainCancer and you suddenly find yourself away from home and your fur-babies for over two months with only a brief week-long visit with them between the major brain surgery and the radiation/chemo, and what you really wanted/needed was your favourite game (which has always been therapeutic even when life was good) but the GM puts it on hold with the possibility of deleting it. And you can't get angry with the GM at all because you know that they, like everyone, have their own strudel to deal with and you respect that, but you're still desperate to play that character and you don't really have the energy to try to find a whole new game, go through all the joining discussion, hope you mesh with the other players, etc. And then when you try to vent about this elsewhere, nobody really seems to get it or understand how important it is to you and so you can't even get any genuine sympathy because "it's just a game."
This message was last edited by the user at 03:01, Thu 28 July 2016.
facemaker329
member, 6853 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Tue 6 Sep 2016
at 17:58
  • msg #862

A journey made once, and with no two steps retread.

Got a vent and a not-vent, so I'll get the negative out of the way first (you can go to the appropriate thread and see what I'm not-venting about there...)

Missed out on two makeup jobs over the weekend, because while I was on my way to the first one, my car blew its timing belt...in the middle of the freeway at 80-something MPH.  Busiest weekend I've had in months, coming at me...less than three months after I'd had the clutch rebuilt...days before I was going to replace the water pump (and the timing belt, since that particular model runs the timing belt off the water pump...)

Now I'm back in the market for a car.  Got through the weekend thanks to the generosity of friends, but after spending nearly $1000 on my car already this year, having to turn around and buy another car is NOT a welcome challenge.
Merevel
member, 1115 posts
Gaming :-)
Very unlucky
Thu 8 Sep 2016
at 18:16
  • msg #863

A journey made once, and with no two steps retread.

Today feels like it is taking forever. Speed up bloody heck. I keep looking at the clock waiting thinking it must be later. Blarg. I'm bored.
Kaela
member, 1 post
Sun 18 Sep 2016
at 17:22
  • msg #864

...

Geez. I just got a profile on this website, but I'm still not used to it. I'm also on mobile, so its extremely difficult to see text and links. AAGGHHHH!!!
raygun_gothic
member, 38 posts
Sun 18 Sep 2016
at 22:07
  • msg #865

...

i really hate when players go MIA. in this instance, i think it's passive aggressive player, being a baby.
fireflights
member, 293 posts
playing with Fire
always burns
Tue 27 Sep 2016
at 20:27
  • msg #866

PM frustration

Really frustrating when you're trying to run a game and the PM system goes down in that game and all you can do is play the waiting game while trying to keep your frustrated players from complaining that they can't do things in the pm system....ugh I would really just like things to be normal now.....
Eggy
member, 718 posts
Tue 27 Sep 2016
at 21:54
  • [deleted]
  • msg #867

PM frustration

This message was deleted by the user at 21:55, Tue 27 Sept 2016.
V_V
member, 562 posts
You can call me V, just V
Life; a journey made once
Wed 2 Nov 2016
at 22:20
  • msg #868

PM frustration

I feel anxious and sad. I had a falling out with a friend almost precisely a year ago. In that year I haven't been able to shake the desire to hang-out and play a card game (something we both loved and no one else seemed to) with him.

He seems to give me the cold shoulder, and after a year I'm pretty sure he has no interest in ever hanging-out of playing cards with me. Yet he won't give a definitive reply. He's at the same hang out locations (the game shops) and it has been awkward to ignore him or interact with him only for him to ignore me.

My mother, who's not the best role-model, nonetheless said some words of wisdom. "You don't want to be with someone who doesn't want to be with you." and I understand that to be true.

I just wish there was some closure. If I knew where he stood, I could follow suit. I guess I just have to make the choice that I don't want to stay in between this state of do cordiality and and friendship. I can't be his friend if he doesn't want me to be, and it's damaging to my morale and self esteem to keep hanging on to that hope he'll turn around.

I hate losing friends. It happens so much more frequently in person than online. Yet the face to face connection, or at least hearing someone voice, is what I enjoy most.

Anyway, I don't want to dwell on it. I have some people on RPOL who've offered to be a sounding board and chat when I have the desire. I should focus on that.

I just...look at these cards, these dozens of decks I made to play with him, and it makes me wish he could see past my PTSD. But if he can't, he's not as good a friend as I'd hoped. It just makes me sad.

I see him tomorrow, as a mutual friend is taking me the shop and this guy has said he'll be there. That makes me anxious.

Oh well...
This message was last edited by the user at 22:21, Wed 02 Nov 2016.
JxJxA
member, 174 posts
Wed 9 Nov 2016
at 22:58
  • msg #869

Shellshocked

Just wow, and now I get to go to work hungover...
ashberg
member, 628 posts
Wed 9 Nov 2016
at 23:07
  • [deleted]
  • msg #870

Shellshocked

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was against the forum rules, at 23:37, Wed 09 Nov 2016.
spectre
member, 842 posts
Thu 10 Nov 2016
at 02:10
  • [deleted]
  • msg #871

Shellshocked

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 03:19, Thu 10 Nov 2016.
taggart
member, 39 posts
Sat 12 Nov 2016
at 13:37
  • [deleted]
  • msg #872

Shellshocked

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was against the forum rules, at 14:27, Sat 12 Nov 2016.
Merevel
member, 1161 posts
The Unlucky Gamer
Sun 13 Nov 2016
at 17:44
  • msg #873

Life

I wish people would leave me alone about getting a girlfriend. I know I would be happier. I just do not want to repeat history. What is wrong with breaking a cycle of being cheated on and lied to? People who say not all women are like that, make me want to swing a fist. Not all women are like that, but it seems like all women I end up being attracted to.

Are taken, or are like that.

So I gladly stay single, because even when I try to aim for a new goal. History repeats itself.
Eggy
member, 739 posts
Tue 22 Nov 2016
at 00:46
  • msg #874

Could have done better myself!

Minor Gripe: I've just had a pretty crappy blood drive experience. Usually, it's not much trouble. My blood pressure is usually a little low, but my veins are not hard to find at all. Plump and full of O Negative goodness ready to be tapped. So I hopped in the chair and held out my good arm, as instructed, but the tech just frowned at my arm and just stared at my best spot.

Blood Drive Tech: Does it always look like that? I mean, do you ever have trouble with your veins rolling?
Eggy: No, Miss.

She was a younger lady, but she still pulled out a pair of glasses and fiddled over my arm. Then she called over another tech to "take a look." Second Tech told her that I was great. But the first tech just huffed and rubbed my arm "to warm it up" for a good two minutes. Then, she asked me to squeeze a ball for another couple of minutes. After all that, she missed twice. The third try felt like she was skimming along, scraping my vein and digging. By the time she got it in, it was placed so awkwardly, that I could feel the weight of the collection tipping the needle upwards. I could not wait to get out of that chair. When it was over, she disconnected wrong and got blood on the leg of my pants.

Then she told me to make sure that I drink water before coming to the next blood drive.

BDT: Staying hydrated makes the process much easier.

Unbelievable!

My forearm looks like an eggplant.
MythZarya
member, 19 posts
Wed 23 Nov 2016
at 01:49
  • msg #875

Dear Dyslexic Driver...


...When you put on your right blinker and expect me to let you into the left lane as you drive 40 mph in a 65 mph zone, and then you flash your brights at me when I pass you by...

There's this thing called "Driver's Education". Look into it. That'd be awesome.

Thanks.
wyrmpuff
member, 97 posts
Sat 10 Dec 2016
at 12:29
  • msg #876

Sigh...

Why is it so hard to find players who are able to sustain interest in a pbp? I am looking at my games and the games I play in and things move so slowly. Is it just in my head?
drewalt
member, 47 posts
Tue 13 Dec 2016
at 19:14
  • msg #877

Sigh...

Diablo is 20 years old.

When did I get to be so old?
Lord_Johnny
member, 176 posts
Sun 18 Dec 2016
at 18:32
  • msg #878

Freaking Really?

Why is it people get so pissy? I mean for crying out loud, if you're acting all snotty to someone, then you don't have a leg to stand on when they call you on it. You're not any kind of victim, you're the instigator. And, when your consist snottiness finally gets them to give you a verbal smack down about you being a jerk, it's STILL not you being the victim. If you had started off being a decent individual, then it wouldn't have happened. It's on you, not them, that you got put in your place. Grow up and get over it.
This message was last edited by the user at 20:23, Sun 18 Dec 2016.
wyrmpuff
member, 123 posts
I need a name change.
I want more games.
Thu 29 Dec 2016
at 22:42
  • msg #879

Freaking Really?

...sigh...

All these moderation notices... makes me want to just quit posting on public forums all together.
This message was last edited by the user at 22:43, Thu 29 Dec 2016.
Wyrm
member, 627 posts
Fri 30 Dec 2016
at 01:23
  • [deleted]
  • msg #880

Freaking Really?

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 05:15, Fri 30 Dec 2016.
Utsukushi
member, 1397 posts
I should really stay out
of this, I know...but...
Fri 30 Dec 2016
at 02:56
  • msg #881

Freaking Really?

I don't really care that much about the celebrity deaths.  I mean, sort of, but it's just...

It's not why I hate 2016.

Very literally the worst year of my life.

Except 2017 isn't looking to be any better.

sigh

I hate life.
tsukoyomi
member, 79 posts
Wed 5 Apr 2017
at 23:38
  • msg #882

Freaking Really?

Player: "my character is a justice-seeking vigilante"
Me: "ok, that works"

- - -
Me: "the child runs away from you screaming because you're covered in blood".
Player: "I break into his home, eat all the food, then loot everything".

*sigh*
facemaker329
member, 6910 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Fri 7 Apr 2017
at 06:54
  • msg #883

Freaking Really?

I'm not sure if we're actually a couple of weeks behind schedule, or if I was just never properly informed of what the schedule is...but up to my eyeballs in a project at work that, normally, I would have nothing to do with.  Not complaining about that...it's given me the opportunity to showcase some skills that I know I have, but nobody else at work ever seems to acknowledge (and might be some fuel for asking for a pay raise, since I've done about six or seven things on this project that are NOT anywhere in my job description, even if you overlook the fact that the project is not even for my department...)

But I don't like being behind schedule on stuff.  I don't like the fact at it looks like I'm still going to be wading through garbage for this project when the stuff I'm SUPPOSED to be doing as a normal part of my job starts to become a priority.  I really don't like the fact that I've had to set aside one particular item on my list for this project for two weeks now because I had to wait for the contractors to finish part of THEIR list first (I was under the assumption that this whole project was supposed to be done two weeks ago...the contractors are still building stuff, we have to move a bunch of decorative stuff in, and then they have to set all the lighting and automation...so, yeah, conservatively, I'd say we're at least two weeks out, maybe even three...)

None of this would bug me anywhere near as much if anyone was bothering to keep me up-to-date on anything beyond which jobs within the project keep getting shuffled over to me (and even that is being generous...I was supposed to be emailed an updated list the end of last week.  I'm still knocking stuff off my old list, not knowing how many new things have been added yet.)  And, yeah...technically, there's no reason I need to know any of this other stuff.  But having once been in a position where I was getting updated weekly, if not more often, on EVERYTHING that was happening in the department, adjusting to different management style has been a trial...especially when they start talking about how much trouble they're having with some item or other, and I'm like, "I had time three weeks ago to take care of that...shoulda told me then...", or I end up helping someone else in my department with their project at the last minute because nobody said anything about it being a problem earlier (again, usually, when I had time earlier, as well...)
Dchsknight
member, 181 posts
Mon 24 Apr 2017
at 18:30
  • [deleted]
  • msg #884

Freaking Really?

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was against the ToU, at 19:39, Mon 24 Apr 2017.
byzantinex
member, 103 posts
Wed 3 May 2017
at 23:11
  • msg #885

Can I complain about RPOL?

Am I allowed to complain about games falling apart in this thread? I didn't want to start a new one, I just wanted to complain about people starting things then disappearing. :-(

I've only been here a few months and literally I've had like a dozen games start and die in that time. That's absurd!!!

Are all PBP forums like this?

It would be nice if there was some kind of point system that you lost if you disappear without some reasonable explanation or something. :-\ But I guess people could/would just create new accounts or something.

ARGH! So frustrating!!!
This message was last edited by the user at 02:50, Thu 04 May 2017.
Wyrm
member, 632 posts
Fri 12 May 2017
at 11:01
  • msg #886

Can I complain about RPOL?

I feel like trying to jump ahead today is going to screw with me. I am not looking forward to my first day taking supervisor escalations. I think I am going to have to pull out the rum tonight. Maybe it was a good idea to make it on a weekend and just get it out of the way now, but the butterflies have turned to bees.
facemaker329
member, 6930 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Thu 18 May 2017
at 03:38
  • msg #887

Waiting for...what was his name again?

I love it when I'm stuck doing nothing on a project that urgently needs to be done, because someone else hasn't completed the preliminary work I need to do my job...even better when someone before me did their job in a haphazard fashion and I need to clean up what they did before I can do what I'm supposed to do...

We are supposed to open a show at the end of next week.  I was supposed to be hanging lights Monday and Tuesday.  Well...as of when I left work today, the lighting designer still hasn't given us a light plot...can't hang lights if you don't know where they're supposed to hang...

To add busy-work to injury...they hired a couple of guys from a local business to help us hang the lights, since I'm the only remaining person on the crew who's ever done it.  These guys took one look at a couple of the lighting positions we had and said, "Whoa...you hang lights off THAT?" Yeah, and have been doing for two decades or so, but...current management likes to try and get things as professional as possible.  So, late Monday, they got a list of parts/hardware that needed to be ordered to bring our lighting positions up to current standards.  Those arrived yesterday morning...with some communications problems, so some of the hardware that what ordered would NOT work together, which slowed things down until we chased down the right stuff...then had to modify a bunch of other stuff...and got two-thirds of the way done with putting together the new lighting positions and had to come to a screeching halt because we need some conduit bent around the strut we're putting up.  So, yeah...supposed to start hanging lights Monday morning.  Tomorrow is Thursday.  We have yet to even get a list of which lights we need, much less where they are supposed to hang.  We start tech rehearsals on Monday.  We can't have the piece of equipment we need to reach many of the lighting positions on the park after tomorrow night.

And I'm catching a cold.  It's been a GREAT week...
Blazeinferno
member, 100 posts
Wed 31 May 2017
at 20:39
  • msg #888

Waiting for...what was his name again?

Can I just say how depressing it is to see an old, really-long-running game with lots of fun and awesome memories fall into the deletion bin?  I love going back and reading through posts from old games, but eventually, the games die, and get deleted.

It's depressing :(
aguy777
member, 197 posts
Wed 31 May 2017
at 20:52
  • [deleted]
  • msg #889

Waiting for...what was his name again?

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 21:10, Wed 31 May 2017.
GammaBear
member, 767 posts
Gaymer
Thu 1 Jun 2017
at 20:23
  • msg #890

I hate you Netflix

Netflix cancels Sense8.

I hate you Netflix. Hulu is better anyway.
facemaker329
member, 6933 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Fri 2 Jun 2017
at 09:52
  • msg #891

I want a raise...

Yeah, I know...who doesn't?  But here's the thing...

My job title is 'Wardrobe and Scenic Assistant Manager'.  Straightforward, right?  I'm in charge of wardrobe and scenery...

Well, this year, I'm also Master Electrician, Rigger (in the theatrical sense, not the Shadowrun sense), carpenter, painter (not scenic artist...just 'painter'), props master...I've always done more than one person's job, the entire time I've been working there.  One of the reasons they hired me in the first place is because I had such a diverse background that, as they told me, "If you didn't already know how to do the job, you could learn in pretty short order," for any position in our department.

Well, this year, I'm the only returning full-time technician.  So, I'm doing ALL the tech jobs, apparently.  Basically, I'm the department's technical director...except without a staff to assign jobs to (there are technicians...they just have little or no experience to speak of...so I'm not sure which jobs I can give them because I don't know if they can do it, or if I'll end up having to stop what I'm doing to walk them through what I ask them to do--or worse, think it's been done and turn around and have to re-do it because they did it wrong...)

I think I've more than proven I'm worth way more than what I'm getting paid, thanks...
Grimmond
member, 459 posts
Fri 2 Jun 2017
at 15:02
  • [deleted]
  • msg #892

I want a raise...

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 15:06, Fri 02 June 2017.
Lord_Johnny
member, 210 posts
Sun 4 Jun 2017
at 18:55
  • msg #893

I want a raise...

I don't get why people don't think ahead at times. Expecting people to pony up a lot of money for the possibility of maybe doing something that only has the possibility of being enjoyable is ridiculous.
EightBitEighties
member, 48 posts
A Blast From
The Past!
Tue 6 Jun 2017
at 16:21
  • msg #894

I want a raise...

I'm tired of people who are functionally unprepared for anything. Backstory is that we have a Game Night once a week or so for ourselves - me, my boss, and another co-worker. Occasionally, other people show up - former co-workers, spouses, all that. Last night, one of our former co-workers and his girlfriend call me up and ask if we're playing Pathfinder again. I said 'Yes' because we were. They want to play.

Ok, cool, you still got your character sheets from the last campaign y'all played in? You do? Awesome. Yeah, come on. Game starts at 6:30 sharp.

They show up at about 7:15, take forever to get settled in, and raid the fridge while we're sitting there waiting for them. Finally, they sit and we start. Since I designed this campaign to be able to accommodate a revolving door of players, it was fairly easy to take out the one No Show and deposit these two. I was in high spirits because we had gotten rid of a disruptive influence at the table - you know the kind - a guy who always uses meta knowledge, doesn't roleplay, always getting honked off about something immaterial, and just a general pain in the butt and the last few sessions had been enjoyable because the stories were getting told and, more importantly, we were making PROGRESS. Progress as in, we got more than three pages into the story before Mr. Disruptive whizzed all over everything.

So the Gypsy's Wayfarer Gate opens and deposits these two at the location where we left off in our last game and they proceed to just muck everything up. My two regulars are trying to ascertain whether they're friend or foe and they just clam up. No voluntary information. They just seemed lost as to what's going on - which is expected.

We have a standing rule that we put into place because people would just constantly flake on us: "You don't show up, you get left behind."

Instead of just trying to get caught up, they just sit quietly and start copying what my two regulars do. It takes them over an hour to walk down three streets and investigate one guard shack. So, feeling a bit of a bottleneck, I expedite things and move them ahead without delay. "Nothing on this street, nothing on this street," basically ignoring my whole plot line and a bunch of dramatic story element points to get them to their encounter with a patrol since that marks the midway point. They engage the three Soldiers and two Clerics (I added one extra of each because the two revolving door kids are higher level) and after they all roll Initiative, both of the Revolvers look at me and go,

"How do we fight?"

Me: "What?"

Druid (Her): "Like, how do we fight?"

Me: "You've got combat stats on the second page of your character sheet. All your weapons and stuff should be notated there."

Druid (Her): "I don't have any of that written down."

Spiritualist (Him): "Yeah, me neither. We didn't know where to find it."

My Boss: "he gave you the Equipment book when you made your characters. I was standing right next to him when he showed you where to write everything down."

Other Guy: "Yeah, plus it's all on the website, as well."

Druid (Her): "No, I mean, I looked, but I didn't see any of that stuff anywhere."

Me: "Alright." *goes to my Boss' bedroom to retrieve the Equipment book I lent him*

Me: *starts showing them AGAIN where stuff goes and what to put down for damage and such*

After all was said and done, the Druid asks what time it is.

Me: "It's 8:45."

Her: "We should get going anyway. See ya, guys. Same time next week?"

I mean, I realize that these two haven't actually DONE combat before because their characters came in during a big story arc that didn't necessarily have any combat encounters, so yeah, I understand not knowing HOW to fight because they've never seen it before, but not actually WRITING THE STUFF DOWN and THEN trying to pass the buck and leaving freaking sucks hard.
Lord_Johnny
member, 211 posts
Wed 7 Jun 2017
at 00:11
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  • msg #895

I want a raise...

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was against the forum rules, at 00:53, Wed 07 June 2017.
Shannara
moderator, 3725 posts
Keep calm, drink more
COFFEE!!!!
Wed 7 Jun 2017
at 22:58

NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Road construction season making me miss winter.  That's actually quite a feat, given that it's only been Spring for (less than) a month here.
bigbadron
moderator, 15371 posts
He's big, he's bad,
but mostly he's Ron.
Sat 17 Jun 2017
at 07:21

NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Dear Microsoft,

I hate you.  That is all.
facemaker329
member, 6939 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Tue 20 Jun 2017
at 04:37
  • msg #898

NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Y'know...there was a time when I thought I grew up in the model family...the older I get, the more dysfunctional we become.  It all started to come apart a couple of years after Dad died...I'll spare you specifics, but I feel like I live in a freakin' soap opera, sometimes.  I used to listen to friends talk about the plotlines of some of those and shake my head, thinking they were so ridiculously overdone.  I find them a lot more plausible, these days...(I still don't watch them...but the stories don't seen anywhere near as outrageous as they did two decades ago...)
Wyrm
member, 633 posts
Fri 23 Jun 2017
at 22:12
  • msg #899

NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Nothing like aome one with a lack of accountability saying you are the one with a lack of accountability.
Lord_Johnny
member, 224 posts
Tue 1 Aug 2017
at 19:33
  • msg #900

NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

What the heck is wrong with you people at Google Maps? I spent 30 minutes trying to avoid a route that absolutely sucks, and you did nothing, NOTHING, on the alternate routes but try and reroute me BACK to that stinking route. FRUIT YOU Google.
DecoderZoey
member, 339 posts
Choose Your Fate
This War Is Ours
Tue 1 Aug 2017
at 19:49
  • msg #901

NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Ever had friends that hang out without you?

Or you're the last person to know what's going on within your group of friends?

ever felt like they only talk to you because you're the one with the money?

Are you always the one who initiates to hang out, but always get blown off anyways?

Are you the third wheel when talking in a group, being left behind?

Ever needed to vent to them personally and they don't answer for nothing, however you see them posting online via social media almost every minute of the day from their cellular device, but when they need a friend at 2 am, you always answer?

Yeah, that's me. I'm getting quite tired of this rollercoaster of fake friends. It's not that it upsets me, it more so makes me irritated and hate the human race.

End rant.
horus
member, 205 posts
Wed 2 Aug 2017
at 12:10
  • [deleted]
  • msg #902

NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 14:13, Wed 02 Aug 2017.
praguepride
member, 1181 posts
"Hugs for the Hugs God!"
- Warhammer Fluffy-K
Fri 4 Aug 2017
at 04:32
  • msg #903

NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

When there is a huge amount of drama and the mods ban a bunch of people AND I ALWAYS MISS ALL THE FIREWORKS >:(
JESSE RIDGWAY
member, 1 post
Thu 17 Aug 2017
at 00:19
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  • msg #904

NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 04:11, Thu 17 Aug 2017.
Lord_Johnny
member, 233 posts
Wed 30 Aug 2017
at 01:56
  • msg #905

NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Freaking tired of being sick and tired. I've had my surgery, and in some ways that's made things even worse. If I don't take my pain medication, my body aches. just about everywhere. If I do take my pain medication, my brain gets a little fuzzy and I forget to do things, or I when I game my comments don't make sense.

And I'm not okay with no pain medication, so I've been taking the meds, but it's powerful stuff and I really *REALLY* don't want to flirt with an addiction, so even though I'm able to call to get a refill from the doctor, I don't want too, even though I'm out.


Bah fruiting humbug!
CrazyIvan777
member, 206 posts
Wed 30 Aug 2017
at 15:50
  • msg #906

NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

One of my brothers is a petulant jerk who messes with the family because he can (financially) and he likes to play power games. He's recently been able to afford to buy the house next to his and demolish it because he wants more yard space.

My other brother is one of the kindest, patient-est, level-headed guys you'd want to know. His family... I love them more than I love a lot of things.
They're losing their house in the Texas flood.

I feel so damn helpless to do something about it. And it just makes me feel like the **sholes of the world get to go on with great things in their lives, whereas the good get trod upon by the bootheel of random chance.
V_V
member, 607 posts
You can call me V, just V
Life; a journey made once
Wed 30 Aug 2017
at 15:56
  • msg #907

NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Wow! This is problem the least "bad" vent I've ever made on here, and I'm sure it's the common cold of RPOL nobody deems necessary to mention or whine about.

I'm really bored, and physically tired. I worked by butt off the past few weeks and am getting a little home-vacation for the rest of August.

Anyway, onto the actual vent; I really want to start ANOTHER new game! I know! It's hard to resist doing that, but it's only wise to refrain. I can hardly keep up with two games in my worst seasons.

I don't know what I would GM anyway. I'm just the in the GMing mood though, ya know? The games I play in have all sort of slowed or petered out. At least nothing new to read for the past week.

I'm bored though. Don't get me wrong! It's a relief to be bored and not stressed out with things I have to do. Not having money makes it easy to find time at home though.

Dang it! That's not worth going into, but yeah, money is the bums right now. Not going to focus on that though. I am literally doing everything I can right now short of getting myself into trouble.

I guess time to fill in some details about my campaign worlds nobody will probably read, but hey, somebody might.
Mrrshann618
member, 122 posts
Sat 16 Sep 2017
at 22:56
  • msg #908

NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Yes, I know we are short people.
Yes, I know people call in "sick".
But there's no stinking reason why this is the second time I've been on rotation without a secondary management, or even someone with a basic key/ over ride ability on the schedule past 6pm. Morning crew had people, 3 to be exact.

My only saving grace is that I was able to convince someone to come back in, on overtime, to help me close down the store.

Yes I understand that I know the most of all the floor managers. I know the ins and outs of the system just slightly less than the current assistant store manager 1.
THAT DOESN'T MEAN I CAN BE IN TWO PLACES AT ONCE. All this is doing is getting customers upset because they have to wait as I run from one side is the store to the other. As I stand using the only master key in the place as the secure doors are open, all while I'm being called for overrides that no one else can do.

We have a reputation for being a bad store, how do they expect that image to change when this situation is "intentional". I'd be looking for another job but I'm here, ALL THE TIME, to the point where customers are calling me "the night manager". I don't want to be the night manager, I want to see my kids more than 15 minuets a day as they head off to school.

I know change jobs, nothing around here pays remotely close to what I make, wife does not get any kind of benefits so can't count on that for any kind of smooth transition. I know, we can not afford to hire anymore. The lack of people is the base of ALL the issues. You can not make the problem go away without more physical bodies.

End rant, my "lunch" is done because the floor is crying frantically for help.
XxRickiebossxX
member, 2 posts
Sun 17 Sep 2017
at 00:19
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  • msg #909

NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 02:46, Sun 17 Sept 2017.
V_V
member, 618 posts
Fri 22 Sep 2017
at 12:38
  • [deleted]
  • msg #910

NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

This message was deleted by the user at 12:57, Fri 22 Sept 2017.
Yaztromo
member, 89 posts
Thu 28 Sep 2017
at 03:19
  • [deleted]
  • msg #911

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 03:30, Thu 28 Sept 2017.
V_V
member, 622 posts
You can call me V, just V
Life; a journey made once
Sun 1 Oct 2017
at 23:11
  • msg #912

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

I'm having a hard time today. All I want to do is kill stuff and indulge is man's other vice (in game). I have no outlet right now, and I just really feel like I'm tearing myself down trying to cope with the PTSD today. I went out, to the LGS, and it was mistake. It only made me worsen by the jerkish attitude of the people there. I zoned out on the road home, and don't even know how I got home safely.

I feel like stuff. Just rotten and stressed.
V_V
member, 626 posts
You can call me V, just V
Life; a journey made once
Tue 3 Oct 2017
at 09:56
  • msg #913

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

I feel like I just sort of...drift. I don't recognize my home, my things, and even RPoL seems foreign to me at times.
V_V
member, 628 posts
You can call me V, just V
Life; a journey made once
Fri 13 Oct 2017
at 19:58
  • msg #914

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Here I go again, for the third time. I'm beat tired. I just can't sleep. Lay in bed, toss and turn, just can't stop thinking. I have nothing but time to sleep. I just can't.

I'm on medication that is supposed to knock me on my ass, but it only gives me slight relief to sleep most of the time. No doctor is willing to prescribe sleeping pills, but gods I wish they would, for times like now.

It's been four days, and I've slept 16 hours. I know med students and parents sleep less than I do. I also know I won't die of it, at least not nearly yet, but it's hard because I'm worthless, depressed and angry. I can barely write this, and I should be doing more constructive things with my time.

I don't dare log into my games, for fear I'll miss something, or get irritable and post angry and have fiasco. I got burned badly by a GM on here that I played under while sleep deprived. Not doing that again.
GreyGriffin
member, 168 posts
Portal Expat
Game System Polyglot
Tue 17 Oct 2017
at 22:33
  • msg #915

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

I told him that the way he wanted to do it would take like a million years.  I thought up a way to make it go way faster, but he told me that wouldn't work and would break everything.  I realized my mistake, acknowledged it, and told him he was right.

So then, I set up the whole backend and he goes to do his thing, and what does he do?  He tries it the way I thought up, that he told me wouldn't work.  And guess what?  It didn't work, and broke everything.

So now everything is broken.
DarkLightHitomi
member, 1210 posts
Wed 18 Oct 2017
at 04:36
  • [deleted]
  • msg #916

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 05:23, Wed 18 Oct 2017.
MalaeDezeld
member, 34 posts
Tue 14 Nov 2017
at 23:57
  • msg #917

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

I'm a mess right now: my 8 years daughter wrote a letter where she described herself as undesirable, ugly and other bad stuffs that I don't remember.

I hope that the letter and her felling are only linked to the lice story and nothing more...
Starchaser
member, 489 posts
Tue 21 Nov 2017
at 12:10
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  • msg #918

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

This message was deleted by the user at 12:26, Tue 21 Nov 2017.
Starchaser
member, 501 posts
GMT+0
Posts Monday-Friday
Mon 4 Dec 2017
at 05:28
  • msg #919

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

I can't believe I lost sleep last night obsessing over somebody's twisted opinions.

Thak god for (sane) good friends here on RPOL. Wish I had people like that IRL.
horus
member, 333 posts
Mon 4 Dec 2017
at 05:47
  • [deleted]
  • msg #920

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 09:32, Mon 04 Dec 2017.
facemaker329
member, 6974 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Tue 5 Dec 2017
at 06:17
  • msg #921

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Don't ever let yourself get complacent behind the wheel.  I was on my way home from work tonight, thinking about the errand I needed to run instead of focusing on traffic around me...started a left turn into what I thought was an open lane...and saw the oncoming headlights just in time to realize that I was wrong, and there was no way I was going to avoid getting hit.

I'm fine...the other driver was a little banged up (surprising, as I was in a Honda CR-V and he was driving an Escalade)...considering I got the car for $2200, I'm pretty sure it's totalled...cost a lot more than that to fix what happened to it.

And just in time for the holiday season, too.  At least I still have my old car, and can afford the fixes on it to get it registered, so I'm not totally up a creek.
Shannara
moderator, 3766 posts
Keep calm, drink more
COFFEE!!!!
Tue 5 Dec 2017
at 16:08

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Dear Firefox,

I switched to you from Chrome because your extensions allowed me to do what I wanted to do in creating custom icons for my bookmark folders / bookmarks when Chrome decided that such a feature wasn't worth their time.

I found a lot of other extensions to like, and you became my favorite browser.  I hardly gave Chrome or IE a glance, save on the rare occasions that a site didn't grokk well with you.

I stayed with you, despite your tendency to issue an update every other month, then every other week, then about every other day that totally flapjacked up my extensions, because you wanted the people who already invested their time improving your streudel should have to jump through hoops to satisfy often senseless requirements.

Now I can no longer do that one thing that led me to you, thank you very much, and now you look and act pretty much like Microsoft Edge.

You can keep your intrusive updates, and all your 'improvements' that have done nothing but get rid of the real improvements other people make to your browser.

I'm going back to Chrome.  And if I get bored with Chrome, I'll go to Opera.  And if that doesn't work, I'll just use Edge, which should tell you how I feel about you, once-dear Firefox.  You are lower in my esteem than Edge.

I don't even want to think about how bad all those other browsers would have to mess things up before I would even consider using Firefox again.
V_V
member, 651 posts
You can call me V, just V
Life; a journey made once
Wed 13 Dec 2017
at 06:09
  • msg #923

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

I'm very, very antsy, jittery and feel a little nausea. I think it's medication, since I skipped my full dose the other day. I'm not sure though. I feel really tense and want to pull my hair out I'm so tense.

I called my doctor, but by the time she gets back tome I'll be fine, or in the hospital (the latter is unlikely though). I'm getting angry, and just because I don't feel good. I feel like I'm going a mile a minute and everything else is just meandering along slowly, and I'm getting impatient. *UGGGH*

Gawd I'm getting POed! For nothing but feeling bad...
C-h Freese
member, 267 posts
Survive - Love - Live
Fri 22 Dec 2017
at 23:04
  • msg #924

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

AAAaaaaarrrrrrrG......
OKay.. don't point guns at my son's wife.
Yaztromo
member, 134 posts
Fri 22 Dec 2017
at 23:42
  • msg #925

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

It's the end of the year and I feel tired at work.
The last thing I need issomebody asking me to change my reports to add unnecessary information that no reader will understand.
Dottie_V
member, 115 posts
The fifth in a series of
odd things you saw today.
Sat 23 Dec 2017
at 02:31
  • msg #926

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

I'm a little annoyed with Micro Center right now. I took in a $1000 machine to get repaired (still under warranty) and they kept giving me the run around. Now I wouldn't mind that if the gentleman "helping" me wasn't such a condescending jackfruit. Yes, I know what a motherboard is. I know what a USB hub is. I am quite aware of the differences between an SSD and an HDD are. I'm not a complete ditz, good lord.

I don't know what it is about this season, but everyone wants to be rude. I'm sorry you have to deal with longer shifts, I'm sorry that you have to deal with strawberry customers, but whatever the last person did to you that annoyed you, that wasn't my fault. I can do without the patronizing attitude.

On a more positive note, Geeksquad coming in clutch when I need them.
V_V
member, 657 posts
You can call me V, just V
Life; a journey made once
Sat 23 Dec 2017
at 19:09
  • msg #927

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Poopy POOP! No one is going to be here for Christmas (rightfully so) but it's the only year I will be alone, on Christmas, for a large portion of the day, just bored out of my mind, with no gifts and just cringing at listening to Christmas music.

As Chris Rock said once, boring is bad too, but better than freaky straws happening in your life. His bit was about relationships, and stress being good for them, but I'm just sad I'm going to be bored and Christmas is going to be like working for Scrooge a nightguard for his precious paperclips no one will steal anyway. Just long periods of thinking; damn, it's Christmas, but it sure doesn't feel like it.

Well, I might just come back, to this thread, to post another vent tomorrow. Bah Humbug... No, nope. Merry Christmas to everyone (that celebrates it) but dang this gonna be pitiful. :(
This message was last edited by the user at 19:10, Sat 23 Dec 2017.
spectre
member, 871 posts
Myriad paths fell
away from that moment....
Sun 24 Dec 2017
at 05:20
  • msg #928

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Trying to be happy during the christmas season, but sonuva doughnut I need a cigarette and a little less screaming from the little ones...
facemaker329
member, 6981 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Fri 5 Jan 2018
at 07:38
  • msg #929

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

REALLY?!!

Okay...bit of backstory to this.  I work at a movie theater (discount theater, the type that used to be called a 'dollar theater', although admission prices just went up to $3 during the week and $4 on weekends, this past week).  I'm the guy who gets the hard-drives with the movies and downloads them into the servers, and sets everything else up so they can play on schedule.  Part of that process is downloading digital 'keys' for those movies that require them, which enable our equipment to play the movies within the designated time frame (typically anywhere from one week to three months, depending on the movie...one week is the norm).

Someone else books the movies, and does all the communication work with the distributors, which includes getting the hard drives shipped to us, getting the posters for display...and getting the keys, which she then forwards to me so I can unzip the files to install on our servers.

On any given week, I find out what we're going to be showing for the coming weekend and the week following on Monday (this week, it was Tuesday...holiday and all that...)  I will usually start getting keys emailed to me about the same time, although it's rare that I get ALL of them that early.  But, generally speaking, by Thursday, everything is ready to go and programmed and all they need to do each day is just turn on the equipment and it will take care of itself.

This week, our new incoming film came from a different distributor than we normally use...not a big problem for me, as long as the hard drive is here on time.  Well, got here tonight, got the hard drive started downloading, got the rest of the keys that had been emailed to me...and I was still missing keys for the new movie.  Text our booking agent to ask what's up...and she tells me that because it's a new distributor, they don't have the information to program keys to send us...and she needs the model and serial number of all of our projectors and servers to send to them (this is at, like, 10:30 at night, the night before we're supposed to start showing the new movie...all of our equipment is running, there are people watching shows, I can't turn on lights in the projection area, I have NO FREAKIN' IDEA where look for the information...

AND SHE'S HAD THREE DAYS TO TRACK DOWN THIS INFORMATION, or even just to find out that she needs it!  She didn't find out until today, apparently, although I have no idea what time...and if I hadn't pestered her about it, I have no idea when she would have come to get it.  As it is, I found a flashlight, fumbled around as best I could, found the labels on the outside of the projector units to get her THAT part of the information...then I had to rummage around inside the server racks WHILE THEY ARE RUNNING to find the model and serial numbers for the servers (first, I had to figure out which of the six components in the rack was actually the server!)

But I got her the info (she made it sound like it was all she needed, and then the keys would be immediately forthcoming)...and now, two hours later...STILL NO KEYS.

Which means I'll have to make a heavy shift to tomorrow's plans and come here when I should be at my other job, to take five minutes to download and install keys (seriously, it takes longer to boot up the servers...WAY longer...than it does to install the keys...by the time you factor that in, it will be closer to twenty minutes).  That's assuming, of course, that she gets the keys to me in any sort of timely fashion (two weeks ago, I was downloading the movie mere hours before it was supposed to show...)

And we don't have the poster for the movie yet, either (this is the second week the movie beat the poster here in the last month...)

I love the job.  Really, I do.  But it is supposed to be something I can do IN ONE NIGHT, and when I don't have everything by that night, it really screws up the rest of my schedule...like, my hours at my day job (which, luckily, are really flexible this time of year).  And, it's a family-run business, so while everyone is going to be annoyed hearing about it, odds are really good that nobody will do anything about it, because she's family (and because I bust my butt to make sure everything works out as smoothly as possible when garbage like this happens.)

Okay...I feel moderately better now.  Thanks for reading along.
jpetoh
member, 365 posts
Fri 5 Jan 2018
at 15:31
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  • msg #930

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V_V
member, 674 posts
You can call me V, just V
Life; a journey made once
Tue 23 Jan 2018
at 02:54
  • msg #931

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

I'm just having a crash. I'm really trying, but I'm not doing so well on taking care of myself. I had SUCH a good weekend, but I overdid myself, and while I don't regret it, I'm having a crash.

I tried to Rmail a GM, and said too much, wrote too much and now it's largely to waste,and I'm exhausted from it. I want to relax when I come to RPoL and I feel like it's hard work to connect...to anyone in games here. All I can do is try...I'm just so exhausted and want to chill. *sigh*
V_V
member, 677 posts
You can call me V, just V
Life; a journey made once
Thu 25 Jan 2018
at 03:28
  • msg #932

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Yes, I'm queer. Yes, I like combat in my games. Sorry for offending you with the combination! >:'( I really wish I could find a fit for me. I keep trying but it's so difficult to get a comfortable fit.

Everything is fine...and then it goes downhill. It's like dating...I swear! So many GMs I try to connect with get on the offense, abrasive and condescending. It makes me so mad! When all I want to do is be friendly, they want to pick apart why I'm wrong. >:'(
Starchaser
member, 527 posts
GMT+0
Posts Monday-Friday
Wed 31 Jan 2018
at 22:37
  • msg #933

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

From now on Im marking my games 'sole ownership'. Nothing worse than coming back here and no longer feeling at all a part of games you actually created and put your heart into.
drobob
member, 69 posts
Mediocrity's Finest
Fri 2 Feb 2018
at 15:28
  • msg #934

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Found out the hospital my wife gets her PKU formula through didn't get the grant this year to be able to provide them. So now we have to pay out between $500 - $800 a month for this as it's needed or else bad health. Even worse, my insurance won't cover even a single packet of the formula regardless how much the doctors say otherwise.

So now, instead of trying for our second child this year, we might just be trying to keep her in health.

2018 is not playing nice. Can I ask for a different year?
facemaker329
member, 6988 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Fri 2 Feb 2018
at 22:38
  • msg #935

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

I had to go and open my big fat mouth...

I'd been doing remarkably well this winter, health-wise...a few occasional sniffles, but nothing I couldn't handle.  I mentioned that to a friend last weekend, felt a cold coming on all day Sunday, was laid out Monday and Tuesday, able to work half-days Wednesday and Thursday, was thinking my recover was coming along nicely last night when I went to bed...

Woke up so congested I could barely breathe, coughing harder than yesterday and so much gunk in my throat I could barely swallow.  I'm feeling better now...but I forgot to bring any of my cold meds to work with me, so who knows what state I'll be in by the time I go home...

BEING SICK SUCKS.
V_V
member, 691 posts
You can call me V, just V
Life; a journey made once
Mon 12 Feb 2018
at 09:07
  • msg #936

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Dang it! (gonna make this short and sweet, this time). I went and spent two straight hours on RPoL ona non-RPoL night, when I had other things to do.Iposted here while I ate...and didn't eat...-_-.

So yeah, shame on V!

Be back tomorrow *grins* hopefully for not so long. It is an RPoL day, but I need to have that be partially today, to catch up. *shrugs* and *logs out*
V_V
member, 695 posts
You can call me V, just V
Life; a journey made once
Wed 28 Feb 2018
at 03:54
  • msg #937

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Can't believe Section 8 housing assumes mental health isn't medical expenses. The ass supervisor even laughed when he mentioned this, like my mental health was a joke.

So I have to pay $750 on housing, in addition to my medical expenses, which is WHY I qualify for Section 8 housing. C'mon, people, give mental health the dignity it deserves. Gosh dang! You made me wait four months just to tell me. Really? really? really? REALLY? really? really. *Facepalm through all four dimensions of my face* Uggggghhhh. Soooooo. I guess I'll be going to a church after all. Hopefully they'll help us without needing me to be part of the congregation. *sigh* -_-.
V_V
member, 699 posts
You can call me V, just V
Life; a journey made once
Mon 9 Apr 2018
at 22:52
  • msg #938

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

I sometimes wish I could give up, but how? It's not like I'm not going to just sit and wallow in my tics, OCD and PTSD, because why the hell would I?! But my games fail because I hit these patches. These fruiting god darn mother hating patches, where my throat is run raw, so I get one infection, and then it spreads to another. I have these happen so often I'm not advised to KEEP taking antibiotics for the minor ones. But it's painful, and yeah, it makes me bitter. I have next to no human contact, for the bitterness, so I'd like to shield my worse side from the few RPoL players that still play under me....but then I think they think I flake. I sort of do, I mean I could GM, I'm just not going to do it out of pure commitment. I do it for fun too, but I FEEL so bad. All I want to do is escape, but I can't physically, I can't rip out the disorders, the incessesent ticing and the hounding obsessing, and insidious compulsive habits. They WAIT for me to be weak to be at their worst.

*sigh* It seems I'm the only one who's using this thread recently, so I'll stop for awhile and keep my thoughts more private. I just sometimes get disheartened by how basal my joys are, things people take for granted, that I have hard time with. I enjoy eating when I keep my food. I enjoy sleeping when I don't have haunting nightmares of the first 20 years of abuse. I enjoy talking, when I'm not pushing someone away with being honest, or worst yet, arguing.

I...enjoy gaming, on the few times I can string together a coherent post that take all other participants' actions into account.

Most of the time though...it's one fruiting thing, or an- mother hating -other that causes this languishing pain.
Wyrm
member, 648 posts
Wed 11 Apr 2018
at 13:02
  • msg #939

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

It's strange seeing how quickly and easily you are replaced.
ShadoPrism
member, 1186 posts
OCGD-Obsessive-Compulsive
Gamer-Disorder
Wed 11 Apr 2018
at 17:08
  • msg #940

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

I just learned I can't get the Much need dental surgery because I have a bad heart. They say that the risk that I will die is to high. So instead I have to live with broken teeth and can't eat right, which in turn is aggrivating my heart and other things. Talk about a catch 22.
One of the problems with my heart is I am not getting the needed nutrients from my food. This is because I Can't properly chew my food. I need to get 7 teeth removed before I can get a partial so I can once more Eat properly.
And for those who know, I tried Laughing Gas (Nitrous) and found it actually makes me agitated. (Full on panic attack) which is why we turned to full sedation, but I can't be sedate for fear of me having a heart attack. I even went so far to offer a waiver, but the Insurance people won't allow for it even then. *grouse grouse grouse*
This message was last edited by the user at 17:13, Wed 11 Apr 2018.
facemaker329
member, 7005 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Fri 13 Apr 2018
at 02:55
  • msg #941

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Well, that's NOT how I wanted to spend my Thursday evening...

I work at a small-town movie theater, showing second-run movies (what would have been a dollar theater, back when I was younger...inflation being what it is, it's a $3 theater, except on weekend evenings, and then it's a $4 theater...)  Had a tech from our projector vendor come in to update the software on our systems...

Dude wiped the WHOLE SYSTEM CLEAN.  We didn't have any movies, any trailers, none of the cues for the automation...EVERYTHING.  His boss came and got us enough to get up and running, I'm still copying trailers from the last hard-drive we got and rebuilding our program for next week...I've been here for over three hours, I have no idea how long those guys were here before I got here (at least that long, based on how much they got put back into the servers before I got here...)

This ranks way up there on the 'deep kimchi' scale...of the six movies we were supposed to show tonight, we can only show four, because we'd already returned the hard drives for the other two and the closest place that had them was an hour and a half round trip...my boss decided it wasn't worth it for the handful of tickets we'd sell to them.  There's still a handful of things that aren't back to normal, and won't be for a few days...

Part of me is glad this didn't happen tomorrow, because I have plans for tomorrow night.  Part of me wishes it had, because we wouldn't have the issue with missing hard drives and irreplaceable movies.  Mostly, I just wish the dude hadn't scrambled the system in the first place...
Merevel
member, 1223 posts
The Unlucky Gamer
Fri 13 Apr 2018
at 13:08
  • msg #942

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

I teased an admin on a discord server and got warned and threatened with a ban. Great way to show your maturity dude, threatening someone with a ban for saying. "10 years later" and "100 years later"

So I left the server. I will not be in a place with such abusive admins.
facemaker329
member, 7017 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Fri 11 May 2018
at 06:02
  • msg #943

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

I'm pretty sure I've posted something like this before, but...

I just LOVE it when I can't finish my job because someone else is behind on theirs.  We're hanging lights in our theater at work...I can only plug in about half of them, because the electricians haven't finished re-wiring stuff from our tech booth being relocated.  Stuff that needs to run off dimmers?  No problem (except that we have a different lighting designer this year, and almost all of our dimmer-controlled outlets are located a considerable distance from where those lights are being hung...)  But all of our intelligent lights, moving-head fixtures, and LED lighting instruments?  Those have to run on constant power...and that's pretty much all still under renovation.

Thanks, guys...good to know all of our advance planning, trying to get our lights up and ready early this year is going to do us so much good and we're still going to end up having to finish putting everything together at the last minute...
Lord_Johnny
member, 282 posts
Sat 2 Jun 2018
at 02:24
  • msg #944

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Ugh. Gimme a fruitin' break!

My house got to be ground zero for a battle between a pair of skunks, with the winner being the worst Dandelion onion smell of my entire frolicking life. Just in time for the nonprofit organization even that I must, by law, attend, since I am the local group's treasurer, and there will be monetary exchanges. So yeah...I'm taking three or more bathing opportunities per day, since the frolicking skunks sprayed the house. Which means that I get to wait for the stench to dissipate on it's own, as well as continuously do laundry to keep the smell out of the clothes.

And then, it gets even better! My wife, who has had a few days of feeling unwell, goes to the doctor for figuring out what's going on. At midafternoon. We don't hear back until 11pm, and all of a sudden it's an emergency (which it was) about there being 6 times the normal amount of chemicals in the blood for blood clots. So...off we rush to the hospital, to find out that there are some minor blockages in the lungs that have already caused minor lung damage. Yay....


Now, combine that with the fact that I smell of skunk, the medicine makes my wife nauseous, so I can't even stay with her for long before the smell gets to her, and I have to be somewhere else, nearly 100 miles away, by law, to attend an event that is getting less important to me personally. The icing on this fruity shiitake storm is that the other people who ought to know how to do things haven't done them, and so I've got to do their job too...
This message was last edited by a moderator, as it was against the ToU, at 03:25, Sat 02 June 2018.
bigbadron
moderator, 15580 posts
He's big, he's bad,
but mostly he's Ron.
Sun 3 Jun 2018
at 14:26

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Wasted half my Sunday talking to a fruiting idiot.  All for nothing but a stream of abuse and insults.
donsr
member, 1326 posts
Sun 3 Jun 2018
at 16:56
  • [deleted]
  • msg #946

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 17:40, Sun 03 June 2018.
jwneil
member, 37 posts
Wed 6 Jun 2018
at 17:03
  • msg #947

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Panera!  How about you switch things up and get an order correct for once!
Merevel
member, 1226 posts
The Unlucky Gamer
Thu 7 Jun 2018
at 12:56
  • msg #948

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Single again, but at least this one I do not harbor so much anger for that I want her to go missing. I thought she was different, but in too many ways she was just like my exes.

Here's to trying again sometime.
praguepride
member, 1289 posts
"Hugs for the Hugs God!"
- Warhammer Fluffy-K
Mon 11 Jun 2018
at 16:13
  • msg #949

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Fudging Monday's man. Kid has a meltdown and doesn't want to go to school, spouse gets upset because of kid and it triggers a big fight between us. Sky is cloudy, everything is broken at work and there is about a thousand emails in my inbox demanding attention.

Fudge the living fudge out of Monday's, man...
Silverlock
member, 102 posts
Thu 21 Jun 2018
at 00:14
  • msg #950

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Work - you know, if you want your test results by a certain time, maybe you should consider not bringing me the samples an hour and a half late, then hanging about whining how 'it ought to be done by now, are you done yet ?' Last time I checked the laws of physics and space and time still applied to you spoiled invertebrates.
acera
member, 144 posts
Thu 21 Jun 2018
at 00:43
  • msg #951

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

I messed up majorly. You know it’s bad when stepping into 27 degree weather feels cool because you’ve been crying in your car for who knows how long.
ChromaticNewt
member, 7 posts
Thu 21 Jun 2018
at 06:59
  • msg #952

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Cancer sucks. One transplant and a year ago and it all felt like it was getting better. There was a future to look forward to but I'm still not off the immuno-suppressant drugs yet and it just feels like a tunnel at the end of the tunnel. In material terms I know its getting better but it doesn't feel like it sometimes. It's so hard to get sleep at night and some mornings I just want to crawl back in bed and sleep but it doesn't work like that and the sleep never comes and I'm so tired and then body rolls some dice and decides which part of me is going to be in pain today.
facemaker329
member, 7022 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Fri 22 Jun 2018
at 22:00
  • msg #953

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Spent three hours and change working on a delicate prop...a backup to one we have in the show, thank goodness.  As I'm going through and cleaning up some areas I'd glued together...it broke.  It's glass.  While I can glue it to a base, I can't glue it back together.

Three hours of wasted effort...
V_V
member, 754 posts
You can call me V, just V
Life; a journey made once
Sat 30 Jun 2018
at 10:15
  • msg #954

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

My friend asked me to keep Saturday nights into Sunday monrings free for him. Cool, I haven't seen him in months. We play cards and he spends the majority of the game making dirty jokes and stalling he card game. Then gets mad because I'm not laughing. It's just not funny, it's middle school humor. We barely finish the card game, which is what I invited him to do, talking is great, but I want to DO something too.

Then he says to keep Saturdays free, but "no promises". "Okay, so just play it by ear?" I ask "No dude, I know you game on the weekends. Save some time for me. I matter too. My time matters." so I take that as to put priority on Saturdays and Sundays but if he cancels now and then, cool.

So the last MONTH no messages, no calls. I finally get a message "Oh dude, I was at a wedding" For a month? "No, no, but I had to get ready" "OH, so you were best man, of usher?" "Nah, no. Nothing like that" "Okay, well...what do you mean you had to 'get ready'" "You know, I had to dress up" "Oh...kay...what were you doing the week before last week?" "Oh I just went over to Bill's and played Mech Warrior." "Bill got married!" "No, no, different guy. I don't even know the guy at the wedding, he's from work, but I figure 'eh, I got nothing going on' Bill's got a new PC though. So I went over to play Mech-" "This was two weekends ago?" "Yeah, yeah" "Um...you know you asked me to keep my weekends open" "Yeah, yeah, but that's for if I'm bored, I want you to be available. I know you're usually busy on weekends. I wanted to hang."

Jeez I was upset. So this weekend I'm gaming without him. Guy has burned the bridge every time I try to rebuild it. So I'm done, just done. I have better things to do then listen to him make sex jokes and play the world's slowest game of cards. I was worried he was like, hurt or something. Nope, dude's just wanting me to be some sad sack. Fruit that! Fruit that so hard it runs juice.
Wyrm
member, 654 posts
Wed 4 Jul 2018
at 13:30
  • msg #955

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

So, I think I know why my body tries to prevent me from getting a good night's sleep. The last two times I've allowed myself to sleep in and get some REM sleep, my mind decided to set up some fruit you dreams in both of them.
I hate you, subconcious.
bigbadron
moderator, 15594 posts
He's big, he's bad,
but mostly he's Ron.
Wed 4 Jul 2018
at 18:32

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Look... three of your "lovely, peaceful, gentle dogs" are actually murderous little psychotic rat-blueberries who have, on multiple occasions, tried to kill your fourth dog, which is still a puppy.  We are sick of cleaning up her wounds, just because you insist that all four of them need to be kept in the same pen at all times.

We have other work to do besides keeping an eye on your brutes.  Other customer's dogs need exercising, feeding, and generally looking after (much nicer dogs than yours - even the grouchy pitbull).  We clean all the pens daily, in fact we clean the whole building daily.  We keep the outdoor pens and the garden clean and tidy.  We rebuild furniture that certain dogs have wrecked.

We do not have the manpower to baby-sit your precious little snowflakes every second of the day.  You don't pay enough for us to hire more staff specially to keep an eye on your dogs.  We don't have the time to listen to your rants about how you should get even more of a discount because your dogs are so impeccably well behaved.  And no, we don't include fighting, ripping up the furnishings in the pen, and... er... performing their biological functions indoors (having just been outside for an hour) in a list of good behaviour.  Oh, and they have gas... more than enough to provide the energy needs of an industrialised European country.  You seriously need to reconsider their diet.

The fact that we called you because your pup was attacked again (and the person who broke it up got her arm bitten), and you chose to phone our boss and blame us for the pup's injuries, is the reason she told you your dogs are no longer welcome here.  That, and the fact that you lied to her about their behaviour.

Guess you'll need to find someone else to put up with their stench, and their vicious temperaments.  Thank you for your business.  Remember to close the gate on your way out.
V_V
member, 760 posts
You can call me V, just V
Life; a journey made once
Sun 8 Jul 2018
at 23:04
  • msg #957

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

You know you're sleep deprived when...
  • you stare at the food in the refrigerator, having not eaten in hours, and after a good 90 seconds have the question mentally present itself "What do I DO with it?" You eat it dumb ass!
  • You think the above is funny, and think about writing it as a snarky joke. Stand there, zoning for another 40 seconds, and then realize you need to eat. But first you must choose the food and take it to sit down.
  • The immediately above course are "things that are hard to do"!
  • You forgot where you put the food.
  • You also think that's funny.
  • Yet you somehow circle back to the first point, because "the FUD must be the fridge! Dur!"


I thankfully only had nearly two full circuits and found my food and am eating it ravenously, like it's Good Friday.
Dottie_V
member, 122 posts
The fifth in a series of
odd things you saw today.
Thu 12 Jul 2018
at 00:58
  • msg #958

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Somehow my father refusing to mind his diabetes and nearly going blind is somehow my fault entirely.

Somehow the front desk girl fruting up our appointment times with the ophthalmologist is my fault.

That he hasn't made an appointment with his PCP is my fault as well.

SOMEHOW IT'S MY FAULT THAT MY DAD'S INSURANCE PLAN THAT HE PICKED HIMSELF HAS A DEDUCTIBLE OF $6,000+.

SOME BLUEBERRY WAY IT'S ALL MY DANISH FAULT. AT LEAST EVERY DOCTOR AND MA MAKES IT FEEL THAT WAY WHEN THEY START TO LECTURE ME INSTEAD OF HIM.

But sure, I'll become his unpaid case worker now. That's what the eldest kid does for their parents, right?

Fruit, I'm tired today.
MarkK
member, 126 posts
Sun 29 Jul 2018
at 10:49
  • msg #959

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

I'm kind of tired of joining games where I'll ask repeatedly if there are huge power disparities between characters/if I'm making a redundant character/if I'm making a character with interests that won't have anything to do with where the game is going, be assured up and down that I'm not, and then..

I'll make a therapist, and whoops, someone else can basically cure mental trauma as one off magic power uses.

I'll make a combat focused character that can be part of a collaborative effort to take an enemy down, saving basically a person, while someone else can kill an entire group of that enemy, by themselves, in short order, saving an entire village.

I'll make a character where I'll outline the parts of the campaign premise they're interested in, only for those parts to have nothing to do with what then happens in game.

Etc.

It's especially wearying to note having a problem with that sort of thing and not getting much more than some really, really arch, defensively insulting, scare quotes and all response that the only way anyone could have a problem with that sort of thing is if they themselves wanted to be more special than everyone else. Or getting a line about just incapable of understanding how a game should work. Like, as far as being redundant, if you don't enjoy being Superman's sidekick, you are morally deficient somehow as a person/a player of games.

No, I don't want to be more special than everyone else. No, I'm not asking for special storylines where my character "shines" more than anyone else. I just want to feel like I'm contributing in some equal fashion in a group of peers via the stuff my character is good at. That's really all.

It doesn't feel like that should be that unreasonable an ask but I guess it is?

Even something basic like "you've made a character that does X, but bear in mind that there are other characters in the game who can do X so much better than you ever could" would be appreciated when I'm actually making the character.

Or just "those parts of the campaign you're focusing on aren't going to come up anytime soon actually."
Mrrshann618
member, 128 posts
Fri 24 Aug 2018
at 20:40
  • msg #960

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

So I'm going nuts. I'm not a person who suffers from anxiety or anything else, I'm fairly laid back (with the occasional hulk temper)

Roughly 8 months ago I accepted a position with slightly less pay, BUT it was just down the street from where I live and allowed me to actually see my 3 year old son for more than an hour a day. It was announced about a week ago, a single day before my vacation, that the store is closing. So instead of having a nice relaxing vacation I have to cancel several plans so I can talk to the nearby stores as I'm guaranteed a job (any job) by the company due to this situation.

I've been through plant shutdowns before and it never really bothered me. Now however while I'm guaranteed a job it is going to be further away than the job I  left in order to be with my family. I'm looking back, as one sometimes does in this situation, only to see that every time I've done something for the benefit of family life it had turned out bad.

So here I am sitting, waiting, for corporate to talk to me about my offered position. All that is running through my head is why is this crap happening. It isn't like I've done anything wrong, the store closing isn't my fault and normally I'm able to simply let it slide away.
Why haven't I been able to properly eat for the last few days.
Sleep just really isn't happening thanks to my mind just not shutting down.
Why is it bothering me this time and not the several times before.
I've tried to talk to a few people but the only answer I get is "you have to do what is best for yourself" I did and now I'm in this situation so that advice sucks fruitcake.

Doesn't help that tension at work is like an old rubber band stretched to the limit for far to long.
Dottie_V
member, 132 posts
The fifth in a series of
odd things you saw today.
Tue 11 Sep 2018
at 01:36
  • msg #961

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

BLUEBERRIES will literally download an app to get haunted before they download an app for the pharmacy. And to top it all off, they have the AUDACITY to get mad because of a brief hold of 2 minutes when they call to see if their meds are ready. I'm not asking you to be Steve Jobs,  but dumplings, try to put some effort into it! "Is my prescription ready?" No, Tammy, it isn't because I have to keep stopping to answer the phone because 7 other people decided to ask me that question AT THE SAME TIME and 20 more just fell into my production queue. GO CALL YOUR MOM AND LEAVE ME ALONE.
engine
member, 665 posts
Tue 11 Sep 2018
at 15:56
  • msg #962

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Yes, we know what a "sandbox" game is. Yes, we know what you think the advantages are. No, you're not clever or unique for taking that approach. You can all now stop re-explaining it in every thread about GMing.
Shannara
moderator, 3798 posts
Keep calm, drink more
COFFEE!!!!
Mon 29 Oct 2018
at 21:58

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

It's really very sad how much of my job has come to consist of forwarding emails back and forth to people who will NOT talk to each other.

When I don't feel like a den mother, I feel like a child playing mediator between two divorcing parents.

Will you tell your father to pick up eggs on the way home?

Dad, Mom wants you to pick up eggs on the way home.

Tell your mother that I'm going to be working late tonight.  I'll do it, but they won't be there until 8:00pm.

Mom, Dad says he'll pick up eggs, and he'll be home around 8:00.

Tell your father that ..


Oh, for crying out loud ...

Even when I just forward the emails, they'll still only reply to me ... and yet if it's a frazzlefruit chain email sent to 50 people, THAT they'll use 'Reply All' to.
Utsukushi
member, 1461 posts
Mon 29 Oct 2018
at 23:17
  • [deleted]
  • msg #964

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 03:18, Tue 30 Oct 2018.
facemaker329
member, 7053 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Tue 30 Oct 2018
at 06:53
  • msg #965

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

We've got one evening...five shows...left.  And we've got one piece of moving scenery that's decided that, after half of last year's Halloween season, and almost all of this one, it's done working the way it's supposed to.  It's a pair of motorized doors, that are supposed to open on command...

Sometimes, they open exactly as programmed.  Sometimes, they open at the same time...but it's five or six seconds after I hit the cue on the control list for them to open.  Sometimes, one opens and the other stays shut for several seconds, and THEN opens.  Sometimes, one only opens halfway, and the other doesn't even move...

We only really need them to operate as designed at two points in the show...once opening, once closing...everything else, we've got a workaround for.  But it's at the point where every time we come to that first, crucial cue for them to open, both the actor on stage 'opening' them, and me back in the control room hitting the button, are both praying under our breath, "Please, just let them open this time..."

It's not like we can just run out and buy replacements.  These were shipped over from Denmark, a special order.  The reason we only used them for half the season last year is because they took two months to ship.  We have no replacements for them.  Whichever show they decide they're finally DONE, our season is over, because there's no good way to do what we use them for without those motors, and there are two or three crucial elements to the show dependent on them opening on cue (and, to a lesser extent, closing on cue).

And nobody's got any reasonable explanation as to why, suddenly, after being absolutely trouble-free for so long, they have become a total headache.  Not knowing why it's not working properly is almost as frustrating as not knowing if it's going to work at all this time.

Five more shows, guys...just hold it together for five more shows.  After that, I don't care.  The season's done, we've got until next September to figure it out.  Just...get through the last night.  Please.
The Stray
member, 109 posts
Wed 21 Nov 2018
at 20:23
  • [deleted]
  • msg #966

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was against the forum rules, at 14:51, Sat 24 Nov 2018.
V_V
member, 784 posts
You can call me V, just V
Life; a journey made once
Tue 4 Dec 2018
at 09:32
  • msg #967

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

I now have a deep scar on my back because the hospital didn't just drop the ball, they played golf and shot it over an electric fence by a sewage center water deposit. They were supposed to help me get wound care, that accepts Medicare. Those were the only two qualifications. The first took them nearly 20 days, and they gave up "That's all I can do" with the second. Yeah, thanks. Dip shiitake mushroom! in that sewage and eat it on your way to hell, because it's the closest to Awesome Blossom you're getting.

Medicare paid you $5000 to do your job. Idiot..."Well I don't know what to tell you." Really? because it['s been nearly three weeks. I'm guessing when you were in med school you were allowed to turn in your homework late, or had open book tests. Flippin idiots! "Well I'm just telling you what the computer says" Hmmm, why don't you let me read it myself, while you call someone.

I swear, if there's an afterlife, I want to keep this body for the flipping story the scars tell. "Oh yeah, that one? they gave me Morphine for it, and all it did was give me a headache"
This message was last edited by the user at 09:33, Tue 04 Dec 2018.
Mrrshann618
member, 129 posts
Mon 7 Jan 2019
at 03:45
  • msg #968

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Two years ago I was busy making a homebrew fallout/After the bomb/Basic Roleplaying Mashup. I spent a LOT of time getting things set. I wanted to keep the tongue in cheek SPECIAL attributes from the whole fallout series and everything. I Even had a home made G.O.A.T. questionnaire to help people make characters, I was kinda of proud of it.

However life was such that I never had time to Table Top RP. Instead of being able to do more than a basic testing I was forced to shelve it. Now just tonight I had one of the people who was helping me do some basic tweeks gets a hold of me and wants  to see if he could use my system/playtest for a group that wants to do some Fallout RPing, he just happened to remember that I started one that he was at least basically familiar with the core features.

I was all excited to have someone actually be able to "stress test" the system, add in that I had some free time open up and was able to sit in on a few sessions. I happily get home tonight after work and head to where I have it stored. Yup, there is the storage, yup there is the folder,

Wait, what? The whole folder is empty? What the Heck?
I know I have a USB of it around here somewhere. Maybe it is there, nope, not there, not here either. I've found EVERY STINKING USB but the one that I'm sure had it on.

So now. I'm reaching out to the two people who I gave a final copy to, almost 2 years ago. Now I'm here heart sunk and gone hoping to whatever higher power that isn't sadistically evil, that one of those final copies survived. I found v1, but it is SO changed to my final that it is almost useless in recreating what I'm after.
V_V
member, 802 posts
You can call me V, just V
Life; a journey made once
Sat 26 Jan 2019
at 23:32
  • msg #969

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

I feel like a failure as GM. More over, I feel like a failure as a human being. I seldom feel guilt about it, as I consistently try the best I can, and only short of making being a GM, or good housekeeper more important than things like eating, and bathing.

I have PSTD, OCD and Tourettes, those who know me know this quite early in their getting to know me. It's difficult though. Because my maximum is often at other poeple's minimum.

I get a lot of grief from players (not often but in large doses) when I fail, and I can't help but feel for them, I am a flake in that I update my games infrequently, and have no job but homemaker. I should by rights being doing more, but I have tried. Sat for hours, and I mean 13+ hours on a game just doing updates and answering questions. Most of which is the cognitive handling, not writing. I write long posts, but in reality they take very little time in comparison. It seems like I should be posting much more, and have much more successful games. There are GMs whom have my post rate in one year which I had to earn by luck and several years.

I am thankful I have a select few players whom are diehard supporters of me. When I give up on myself, they don't, and it's for them and because of them I get back in the saddle again.

More on the vent is my life. I am disabled and receiving federal disability benefits. I have contemplated suicide on countless occasions, but never attempted it. I have tried, believe it or not, to get mental help in mental hospital citing I don't want to die, but feel I am only a drain, not contributing force to the world. Of the four or five times (if you count the time they never saw me in five hours) I've never been committed, despite asking to be. One doctor even said "Come back, if you are ever serious about killing yourself" which I was aghast at. Serious about?

In the end, I value friendship of my highest priority. I would, will, and have sacrificed sleep, eating, and even other fatigues to be with friends. I just wish I had better luck with people, and could spend the time in better quality.
This message was last edited by the user at 03:32, Sun 27 Jan 2019.
EightBitEighties
member, 50 posts
A Blast From
The Past!
Wed 30 Jan 2019
at 18:30
  • msg #970

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

About six months ago, my wife and I came up with a plan to FINALLY escape the South (US). We talked it over, ironed out any and all wrinkles, and transferring my job to Vermont where we have always dreamed of going. After we had literally all the kinks worked out, we let my sister and brother-in-law know and told them what we were going to do, as we knew both of them were fundamentally unhappy living in the South, too.

About the middle of October, my sister invites us out to dinner and she gives us this whole song and dance about how Maine is like Vermont, only better - especially for her husband who is retired military and exceptionally sick. Although we hedged and hemmed, we relented to change our plans in order to move up to Maine at her urging so that all four of us would have a support network in place. By the next week, their house was sold and in the process of closing and all that stuff (they lived in a pricey city/college town). My wife and I were not ready to go, yet, but we were told by them both that we would be welcome to stay with them, use their vehicle, and all that good stuff until we could get on our feet. We agreed, though with a huge amount of reservation, but we were worried about them, y'know? I'm the elder sibling. It's my job to look after her.

Turns out, Maine is not as..well..accommodating to transplants in the middle of winter. My job refused to transfer to Maine due to the shipping costs of my product line (after I had been assured it wasn't a problem) and it took me until last Tuesday to finally get a job. This caused my Bipolar 2 Disorder to kick in full tilt from the end of December up until..well...it hasn't stopped, yet and if you have, or know someone with this condition, you know it isn't pleasant. It basically robs you of your motivation to even live, let alone manage basic human functions like eating and sleeping. During this two month period, my sister goes out of her way to treat my wife like absolute human garbage and a slave. Then once my wife stopped interacting with her completely, she turned on me - speaking to me in condescending tones, "correcting" my mistakes with adamant disgust, or - as it has been this entire week - cooking literally all the food that we bought "for the house", as per our agreement, and then discarding it afterwards because it "didn't turn out right". I haven't eaten all week (since last Tuesday) because all we've had in the house that she hasn't destroyed yet is Pop Tarts and Ramen Noodles and I turned those over to my wife because I'll NEVER let my wife or our pets go hungry. I'll starve to death before that happens!

Last night, my Crohn's Disease flared up in a bad way after several months of remission and I got about forty-five minutes of sleep. After I walked my wife to work in a foot of snow and subzero temperatures, I came into my room and went to sleep. About two hours later, there came a banging on my door. Dear SIster wanted me to "get off my lazy rear end" and go shovel the driveway. I said I would and she demanded to know why it wasn't already done. I explained to her that, between finally getting my first day of work, walking my wife to work (because we've been denied use of the car at her instruction) and my Crohn's, I wasn't exactly feeling up to shoveling snow at 5 AM. She said that didn't matter because she "might" want to go somewhere later. I said fine, all you had to do was mention that and I would have done what I could to assist her exodus. Might have taken several hours, but it would have been done like the last time. After I finished shoveling, she says to her husband in a voice that I *know* she uses when she's trying to make sure she's heard by the person she's talking about that, "she'll be glad when we're gone" and that "we're leeching off of them".

For the record, we've bought all the groceries, helped clean and repair this 110 year old shack, shovel the snow every day it snows, put gas in the car (that we're forbidden from using), and helping out with whatever little odds and ends that are asked/demanded of us while she stays in bed until 10 AM, then goes downstairs and naps on the couch until 4 or 5 PM.

So after this final blowup this morning, I sat alone in our bedroom and cried for an hour and a half because my sister, my blood, used me and used my wife to fulfill her dream - yes, Maine is not where my BIL wanted to move to. He was fine with Vermont. My sister, the architect of this madness, screwed all of us over for her own selfish desires. I called my mother this morning and begged her to put together about $2000 for us to come back home with because we're flat broke. Then, as I was doing the house's laundry while waiting for the call back from my mom, my sister walks downstairs to the basement and goes, "You, your bumper sticker wife, and your fruiting pets need to be out this weekend." My BIL then came downstairs and said, "I tried to stop her. I don't know what's gotten into her, but I'm sorry."

I'm currently waiting for the call back.
Alediran
member, 61 posts
Mystagogue of Aether
Elven Archmage
Mon 25 Feb 2019
at 19:30
  • msg #971

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

I like my IT job most of the time, I fruiting hate that I was born with anxiety, easily distracted and hipotyroidism which makes me always the runt in the teams because I can't frogging run at the same speed others do with natural ease.
This message was last edited by the user at 19:30, Mon 25 Feb 2019.
facemaker329
member, 7073 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Tue 26 Feb 2019
at 07:34
  • msg #972

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

I'm not sure when 'pest control' got added to my job description (although, in this particular case, I did it to myself...but that's after years of seeing that if I didn't do it, it wouldn't get done)...

But I had to dispose of three dead rats this morning, when I got to work.  Two of them were dead when I got there.  I had to kill the third one.  And I'm pretty sure from the mess he left behind that he disposed of a fourth one before I found him (the empty rat trap and bloody floor nearby were pretty big hints...)

I think that's enough 'Monday morning ick' for the rest of the year, thanks...
facemaker329
member, 7079 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Mon 8 Apr 2019
at 01:26
  • msg #973

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Y'know...if you're going to have your character try and pull rank, it would be prudent to actually investigate and make sure your character has the brass to do it...because when you're wrong, you look really foolish.  Especially when you try to keep arguing the point long after you've been shown a website that displays, quite readily, just how wrong you really were.
Starchaser
member, 602 posts
GMT+0
http://bit.ly/2NvdzWG
Thu 18 Apr 2019
at 15:40
  • msg #974

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

https://www.psychologytoday.co...ortant-feeling-loved

Link says it all really.

And it basically means I'm f%&£#d!
praguepride
member, 1383 posts
"Hugs for the Hugs God!"
- Warhammer Fluffy-K
Thu 18 Apr 2019
at 16:15
  • msg #975

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Fudge anyone who ever puts their morals and decency aside for a paycheck. Fudge anyone who says that the ends justifies the means as an excuse to do evil and corrupt things.

How in the heck can the greater good be good if it is composed entirely of evils!?!?!?


GRRRRRRRRRRRRR (╬ ಠ益ಠ)
Mrrshann618
member, 130 posts
Wed 19 Jun 2019
at 01:21
  • msg #976

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

I'm normally a fairly calm guy.
I'm normally able to fall with the punches -- ok
I can generally take criticism for what "I" do, and what "I" can control just fine.

I'm getting to the point where I've wanted to just physically rip people's head off over the last few weeks.
I'm doing the job of 3 different positions at the moment thanks to staffing.
On top off that I've been given a task to take care of accounts for several other departments because they have not done it.
I have 3 trainees that I'm the only person currently qualified to train at the moment.
It has been over 2 weeks with no day off thanks to various issues.

I'm getting pulled aside because the computer says I'm taking over 4 hours to write a schedule due to the # of alterations I do (each alteration is worth so many minuets). I can write the thing in roughly 45 - 75 min, and I've done it in front of you.

Well Mr. smartypants computer. If you would have scheduled a require bookkeeper on those days I wouldn't be altering anything! That is your fault not mine!
Well Mr Smartypants computer. I do not need 2 people in that department across the noon hour traffic/work load should show that. If it were coded properly I wouldn't be needing to alter it.
Well Mr Smartypants computer I do not have enough staff to grant 1/2 hour lunches so I have to reduce shifts to 4 hour block. If it were coded properly for our store's foot Traffic I wouldn't be making an Alteration.
Well Mr. smartypants computer if you could look into the future and schedule the two employees who work other places to only be on their day off/days they can do a short shift--- you guessed it I wouldn't be making an alteration.
Hey Mr. smartypants computer if you could get my scheduled rotation right, instead of deleting it or getting messed up on the 5 week months, I WOULDN'T BE ALTERING IT grrrrrrrr

And Mr. Store owner, when I tell you that you have 20 minuets because I'M coverage for lunches and breaks don't hold me 45 and bitch at me for not having coverage on the floor!!!!!
I'm not given enough scheduled hours to have people standing around "just in case"
you want 300 hours. I've got them for you IF YOU LET ME DO MY JOB!

AND

If I'm going to be "Talked to" because of another manger acting like a jerk, well talk to them. If it was busy, why didn't they call for help? If it was busy and they were off the clock, Why didn't they call for help AND why were they working off the clock in the first place? Lastly WHY IS IT MY FAULT THEY ARE ACTING LIKE A JERK IN FRONT OF CUSTOMERS? THEY are a manager and should know better. THEY are not part of my department. THE reason why the incident happened in the first place is because I told you that you had 20 min until I had to be down on the floor!!!

It has been over an hour and my face is still burning.
bigbadron
moderator, 15756 posts
He's big, he's bad,
but mostly he's Ron.
Thu 4 Jul 2019
at 14:58

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

You were our friend for eleven years.  An endless source of happiness, comfort and companionship.  Now you are gone, and nothing will ever fill that space.

Hunt well Skugga.
This message was last edited by the user at 15:28, Thu 04 July 2019.
seraphmoon
member, 67 posts
I've Been Touched By
His Noodly Appendage
Fri 5 Jul 2019
at 00:08
  • msg #978

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

The reason I posted was to ask if anyone else had had the same experience. It said so in the post title, and in the first line, and again in the last line. I was not looking for answers. Solidarity, not solutions.

I especially was not looking for, "Do this thing you already said you did in the OP," "Just let your husband do it," or "I don't think that's a problem because it doesn't bother me."

I know I have a female-sounding username. In retrospect, I should have picked something neutral like my last name or ElonIsJesus4949. That does not mean my question is not valid. It does not mean I am incapable of handling it without my husband's assistance. It does not mean your condescending language is permissible. It especially does not mean you're allowed to whine about my politely responding to the sole helpful, non-condescending poster and ignoring the rest of you trolls and your useless, juvenile responses.

I'm also mad at myself. I should have known better to ask a question on forums that have a history of answering "My car won't move when it's in reverse" with "Have you tried putting it in reverse?"

--

On a similar note, I do not appreciate your lecturing me on the inefficiency and environmentally irresponsibility of internal-combustion engines and how electric vehicles are better in every single way when I have JUST STEPPED OUT of my electric vehicle. I already drank the kool-aid, bucko. Now get off my lawn.
12th Doctor
member, 109 posts
Laugh Hard. Run Fast.
Be kind.
Fri 5 Jul 2019
at 15:01
  • msg #979

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Looks like racists are bent because Disney has cast a dark-skinned girl to play Ariel in the upcoming live-action "Little Mermaid." You know, mermaids. Those fictional characters that don't actually exist, so you don't have any actual point of reference as to their melanin content.
praguepride
member, 1446 posts
"Hugs for the Hugs God!"
- Warhammer Fluffy-K
Sat 6 Jul 2019
at 00:28
  • msg #980

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

I just LOVE how every wedding I go to ends up being a chaotic mess and everyone just expects me to save the day because I saved the one before. “Oh you fixed x’s wedding can you help with mine?”

NO I just want to drink and dance not coordinate caterers and DJZS
praguepride
member, 1456 posts
"Hugs for the Hugs God!"
- Warhammer Fluffy-K
Sun 14 Jul 2019
at 01:16
  • msg #981

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Why do drivers think that when I put a turn signal on to change lanes that is a great time to suddenly accelerate and try and pass me on the side I am turning.

Farging iceholes I'm in front of you! I am going faster than you! This isn't a race you bass tartlets. Hanging out in my blindspot as we suddenly drag race down the highway is not the point of driving and if I just follow through and cut over, if my car hits you, you're going to be farging liable because you're behind me.

If someone ahead of you signals to switch lanes and you're not about to pass them that very second you slow the farg down and let them in.

(all credit to Johnny Dangerously for the creative writing)
This message was last edited by a moderator, as it was against the forum rules, at 04:24, Sun 14 July 2019.
facemaker329
member, 7138 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Sat 7 Dec 2019
at 09:59
  • msg #982

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Y'know...I wasn't going to do this tonight...but where it's past 2:30 AM and I'm STILL at the movie theater on a night I don't normally go in at all...

So, backstory, just to get you up to speed.  I work at a discount theater, I'm the guy who downloads all the hard drives into our servers, and takes the schedule they prepare and programs it into the system so everything runs automatically and the managers, hopefully, never need to come upstairs between opening and closing.  For the past...oh, two months and change, we had a weird software glitch pop up, and we couldn't download any new trailers, at all...every time we tried, we'd get an error message that popped up.  It didn't affect any of our movie drives, just the ones with the trailers.  And, being a discount theater, it was no big deal...I mean, we're just starting to show stuff that came out in early October, so not getting the latest movie trailers for a few weeks wasn't a problem for anyone besides me, and for me, it was just an inconvenience.  But I got ahold of the dealer for our projection gear and let them know it was a problem...

And nothing happened.  A couple of weeks went by, and I contacted them again.  "Oh, crap...I forgot you had told us about that.  I should be able to get up there sometime this week and take care of it, I'm pretty sure it's a hardware problem."  Well...nobody showed up, still a problem the next week.  And the week after that.

Got a text this morning that they had been in, the problem should be solved...so I said I'd come in to check on it.  And it turns out, the problem is only KIND OF solved.  Yes, I can now download stuff off the movie trailer drives...but if I try to do more than one trailer at a time, the server freaks out a little bit and starts failing downloads on me (actually rebooted on me earlier this evening.  Luckily, it can do that while movies are running without screwing up the playback...)  So, I'm sitting here, downloading EACH AND EVERY trailer that we've missed for the past two months, one at a time.  And I'd be done, but I've also been trying to do a little props shopping for a show I'm in...so I get sucked down the rabbit hole of eBay or Amazon for a few minutes, and then realize, "Oh, yeah!  Next trailer, come on, stick with the program here!"  I'm going on six hours, which included the trial and error time of finding out that I couldn't just go through and select all the trailers, like normal (because I did it twice and only got a handful of trailers each time...so then I tried just doing five at a time, and only got the first one...)  Plus, I have rehearsal in the morning...

I kinda want to slap the service tech.  I mean, I even left the drive available so he could test it out once he fixed it.  He put it in the machine, made sure it could read the drive, apparently (which it was doing before...)  But he didn't try downloading anything from the drive, or else he would have discovered that there's still a problem.

I LOVE it when my job is complicated by someone else doing shoddy work on their job.  I mean, it's job security...I've been told repeatedly that I could just about burn down the theater and I'd still have a job, simply because nobody else wants to do what I'm doing, but I actually kind of enjoy it, most of the time.  Nights like tonight?  Not so much...I'm running on sheer bull-headedness right now...I'm gonna get these stupid trailers into the system if it keeps me awake all night...
Starchaser
member, 714 posts
Mon 23 Dec 2019
at 08:24
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  • msg #983

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

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facemaker329
member, 7181 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Sat 22 Feb 2020
at 01:29
  • msg #984

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Freakin' scammers...

I spent an hour and a half bouncing messages back and forth with a guy I barely even know who wanted to send me money to go buy him some gift cards from Walmart.  Initially, he said it was urgent...when I told him it would be at LEAST 2 hours before I could get there, he said 'Okay...'  At that point, I started pushing for answers, because his reaction didn't sound very urgent to me...

By the time I got all the details, it had turned into buying $400 worth of eBay gift cards, in $50 denominations, which he was going to send to the "Community Social Help Commission" in New York to pay for the delivery of a prize they said he'd won.  The next half hour was spent trying to explain that said Commission doesn't even exist, according to Google; that legitimate places do NOT ask for eBay gift cards as payment; that, if the offer was legitimate, there is no reason they would charge him a delivery fee when they could simply deduct any expense from his prize; and finally, there was no way in whatever Infernal region you care to reference that I was going to help him flush $400 down the toilet.  And he still sounds like he's determined to do it.

I mean, scamming ANYONE is bad enough...but if you're gonna go that route, develop at least some minuscule modicum of decency and rip off people who can afford it.  This guy's got next to nothing...

UPDATE:  Turns out it was not him that I was bouncing messages with.  Someone apparently got the password to his FB account and hit up a LOT of people with the offer.  So, I despise the scammers even more, but at least I feel better about the guy in question.
This message was last edited by the user at 03:01, Thu 27 Feb 2020.
Silverlock
member, 106 posts
Thu 27 Feb 2020
at 02:43
  • msg #985

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

And....again, I have to explain to people who make three times as much money at their job than me, who have 1/3 my education and nothing near my experience, that WATER, yes, the wet stuff, freezes when it gets cold.  Every year, about this time, where we are located on the planet Earth, water freezes when it is winter.  Yet this is a shock to them, every year.  And to top it off, the same people are 'supervising' me.
Brianna
member, 2210 posts
Sat 29 Feb 2020
at 12:47
  • [deleted]
  • msg #986

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

This message was deleted by the user at 12:48, Sat 29 Feb 2020.
Alphum
member, 1 post
Sat 28 Mar 2020
at 01:59
  • msg #987

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Anyone wanna chat?
Yaztromo
supporter, 334 posts
Sat 28 Mar 2020
at 03:18
  • msg #988

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

I really hate when stupid companies do mean, nasty things just to pinch some cents from their employees just for the very sake of it! The little that they earn this way will never compensate the big self harm they do by upsetting and demotivating their most loyal and value producing employees! This will only help the hateful careers of some despicable corporate climber hidden in some central corporate office, that can claim s/he earnt the company so much money with that mean action...
tibiotarsus
member, 138 posts
Hopepunk with a shovel
Mon 30 Mar 2020
at 02:25
  • msg #989

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Sometimes I feel I am more like a collection of scar tissue than a person.
MalaeDezeld
member, 120 posts
Sat 18 Apr 2020
at 01:30
  • msg #990

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

I can't delete an account because, at some point, they confuse my free plan (that came from before they acquired the initial website) for something that should be treating like an auto-renew billing contract.
chatterbeast
member, 38 posts
Md, USA
GMT -4
Tue 28 Apr 2020
at 07:21
  • msg #991

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Take a break from this site for several years. Ahhh the memories
This message was last edited by a moderator, as it was insulting, at 13:54, Tue 28 Apr 2020.
facemaker329
member, 7222 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Wed 24 Jun 2020
at 05:30
  • msg #992

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

These are definitely First World problems...but man, they're starting to stack up.  Had the water shut off in one of the buildings I work in at my primary job because a drain pipe that runs RIGHT under the center of the stage collapsed, and right now their solution is to keep a sump pump down there running and turn off the water...no timetable for when they're going to fix it.

That happened last week.  Today, the water heater in the other building I work in decided that it had reached the end of its useful life...I walked into the laundry room, turned on the lights...and noticed that half the floor had standing water on it. I nursed it along through two loads of laundry, then shut off the water and the power to it (it's an electric model, not gas) and drained it.  Between what had initially leaked out and what I had to keep mopping up while doing the laundry, I soaked up 15 gallons of water, with a string mop...

I don't want to know what's next.  Hopefully, nothing, because this year's already been weird enough...
Harley Quinn
member, 27 posts
Fri 3 Jul 2020
at 01:10
  • msg #993

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

You know how when you go to delete a game here you have to check off “I have given all my players due notice.“?

There is a certain GM (I won’t publicly shame him) on this site that just deletes without any notification. Didn’t post a message about it, didn’t PM, didn’t rmail, nothing.
Yaztromo
supporter, 371 posts
Mon 27 Jul 2020
at 05:12
  • msg #994

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

THAT company really messed my life!
I had four to choose from and you never know what would happen if I picked another, but I really think they deceived me during interviews! They should have told me what they were like when I asked, interviews are two way exercises and both the candidate and the company are really supposed to tell the truth!
Lauriebear
member, 66 posts
There is no truth. There
is only perception
Thu 30 Jul 2020
at 02:56
  • msg #995

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Had my cousins GF staying with us for a few days...turned into weeks which turned into months!!!  Didn’t chip in for a drawn thing!  Then said I HAD TOO MANY RULES as she left!!!

Good riddance!!!
Silverlock
member, 114 posts
Sun 9 Aug 2020
at 22:39
  • msg #996

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

I'm just trying to hang onto this wretched job for a few more years.  I really didn't think I'd be at a supposedly professional establishment that somehow, despite having three bosses 'in charge' of scheduling, there's no schedule for me or the other nine flunkies.  No rise in pay since 2018 yet plenty of extra work to be done; only every other weekend off and no overtime, ever, no matter what, yet plenty of wailing and gnashing of teeth should work not be completed as the bosses expect.  I'm not living, I'm existing like a beast of burden.  And now, long after the Covid-19 has washed over the area we are in, we are given active-viral tests every two weeks, symptoms or not.  I'm too old to find another job, and too broken to be able to get one anyway, but they seem determined to drive me into the ground.  And then, to top it off, the boss who had been told, in writing, that a piece of equipment was broken three months ago and this boss never ordered replacement parts, this boss decides it must be MY fault...
V_V
member, 924 posts
Farewell. Tom,
nuric, and dear J. -Fin
Mon 10 Aug 2020
at 10:01
  • msg #997

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

I can't express my sadness, loss, and overwhelming shame. I feel like I was asking for a chance to be something more, than I am IRL, to be powerful, able, and important. Instead, through my characters I was made to feel worse. Stupid, impotent and trivial.

I really wish I hadn't started this, but I did. I feel so lost, asking for direction, but only receiving a bitter lesson time and time again. I feel like Samwise in Mordor, only to realize I'm just half way. I still need to find my way home, and I don't...
borderline_dnd
member, 407 posts
Tue 11 Aug 2020
at 03:50
  • msg #998

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

First time that I met a High Maintenance GM. Something you just need to walk away after they remove the entire party from the game.
phoenix9lives
member, 1027 posts
GENE POLICE!  YOU!
GET OUTTA THE POOL!
Tue 11 Aug 2020
at 03:59
  • msg #999

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

My wife's exhusband.  All the stuff he has done, lies he has spread, the gaslighting if their daughter, accusations he has made against me, my sons, my nephews.  He is so lucky I am not ready to go to prison.  Yet.
Brianna
member, 2223 posts
Thu 13 Aug 2020
at 20:49
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  • msg #1000

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

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Karhald
member, 1 post
Fri 21 Aug 2020
at 20:02
  • msg #1001

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Exhausted.

Can't sleep. Always working. Kids never listen to me and are constantly demanding things. They're little, so that part's okay.

I'm new here, so also going to try and play with the forum tags.

<tr>TR</tr>


Spoiler text: (Highlight or hover over the text to view)
Spoiler text goes in here... simple enough, I guess.


Teletype what is this then?
facemaker329
member, 7247 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Thu 3 Sep 2020
at 06:52
  • msg #1002

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

I haven't come home from work this frustrated in years...and it's not necessarily any single thing, more like a series of little things that got massively compounded by a couple of big things tonight...

Without going into too much detail, I come from a background where if you've been told, "This is what we have to work with", you figure out how to do the job within those limitations.  We have a contractor who just never seems to get that.  We're in the middle of a project he's part of...he sent us plans for his part only a couple of days before we were supposed to start working on it.  Some of the equipment he wanted to 7se is no longer in good operational order...so he revised his plans to adjust for that.  I'm one of three guys working on this project...but I was never sent any of the paperwork for it.  He decided that he's borrowing equipment from another area that isn't using it (Covid considerations...), so we're not only having to put together his part of the project, we're having to dismantle another project so we can put his together...

And we figured we were on top of it.  We'd put everything together, his list was finished, we were moving on to the rest of the project...until tonight he announced that he wants to take another nine pieces of hardware from the dismantled project.  At this point, the space we're working in is starting to get stretched a bit thin...with everything else that's there, I'm starting to worry whether we've even got open outlets we can use for his new additions.  On top of that, for the last two days, I've had to borrow a boom lift from another department, drive it to where we need it (and the stupid thing has, basically, two speeds...Dead Slow and Frozen Molasses, so that's a time-consuming endeavor) to have it sit, unused, for several hours before I use it for two to five minutes and then drive it back...the round trip wastes at least half an hour of my day, and much more if Security is busy and can't come unlock gates for me.

And then, tonight, he tries to sound magnanimous about it..."I know you're working on a lot of other stuff, I don't want you to worry about this..."  Yeah, well,  WAAAY too late for that, because I'm the guy that's probably going to end up doing most of it, even though you say you want me to focus on the other stuff.  There's three of us there that can do what you're talking about...one of us is a contractor and already has a regular job before he comes to work with us (and he's in Vegas right now because of it), the other two of us have significant lists of projects that have to be done before his project becomes relevant.  I was going to spend today working on one of them and ended up constantly getting pulled into working on other stuff instead...so when am I supposed to get back to your new additions to your project?

You're the one with the big reputation...figure out how to do th he job with the tools on hand!  I can think of a dozen people who could make it happen without having to steal other equipment and massively revise plans...
ShadoPrism
member, 1342 posts
Thu 3 Sep 2020
at 11:49
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  • msg #1003

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

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Eur512
member, 820 posts
Tue 8 Sep 2020
at 20:15
  • msg #1004

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies



Watching a game commit a weird form of self destruction:  resolving the issue tearing the players apart is a simple matter, but they all put Role Playing first and of course actually resolving the issue "isn't in character".  They don't want to end it, they just don't want to bend to keep things going.
Yaztromo
supporter, 384 posts
Tue 8 Sep 2020
at 22:48
  • msg #1005

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

So bad when you find after some time that somebody that you really trusted lied to you!!!
Starchaser
member, 739 posts
Fri 9 Oct 2020
at 09:05
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  • msg #1006

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was against the forum rules, at 16:42, Wed 11 Nov 2020.
rastashana
member, 11 posts
Sun 11 Oct 2020
at 12:29
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  • msg #1007

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was against the forum rules, at 16:37, Wed 11 Nov 2020.
facemaker329
member, 7270 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Wed 11 Nov 2020
at 08:17
  • msg #1008

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Nothing annoys in quite the same way as a software company that advertises free downloads of their product...not only in the site header but even in the copy of the description of the product...and then the first time you try to actually use it for the ONLY purpose for which you would download it, they require you to pay. I mean, if it's pay-to-play software, great, I've got nothing against that...everyone deserves to earn a little something at what they do.

But when the very first line of your self-published how-to on recovering accidentally deleted files says, "Download <productname> free and install..." and then says nothing about pay-to-use until you've scanned for the files and want to recover them...that's just grossly unethical.  I mean, at least your competitor's software had a footnote about not being able to recover located files with the free version...I'm still annoyed that they advertised it on a search for free software, but at least they were upfront about what the free version would do before you started running it.
Starchaser
member, 774 posts
Thu 26 Nov 2020
at 10:05
  • msg #1009

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

検索
決して見つけない
ある日
praguepride
member, 1726 posts
"Hugs for the Hugs God!"
- Warhammer Fluffy-K
Thu 26 Nov 2020
at 17:36
  • msg #1010

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

I wish I listened to my own advice more. I have spent a lot of time learning persuasive techniques and communication workshops but the second someone challenges me I dump all that out the window and just naturally rattle off the top 10 list of worst things to do in an argument to actually change someone's mind.

/sigh.
Heath
member, 2967 posts
If my opinion changes,
The answer is still 42.
Thu 26 Nov 2020
at 23:36
  • msg #1011

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Being American, I really don't like living in a foreign country during Thanksgiving, especially stuck here during the Pandemic. I miss the turkey and family gatherings.
zude111
member, 21 posts
Fri 1 Jan 2021
at 11:49
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  • msg #1012

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

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Starchaser
member, 847 posts
Shoda mo tsumoreba taibok
Sat 30 Jan 2021
at 05:48
  • msg #1013

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Can't sleep and feeling so unhappy, alone and disconnected from people right now.
Piestar
member, 823 posts
once upon a time...
...there was a little pie
Fri 5 Feb 2021
at 07:21
  • msg #1014

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

So grumpy about game masters who can't take the time and make the effort to correct their own spelling. I can understand the occasional mistake, we all make them, but when sentences become nigh unreadable for no reason other than laziness! arg!!!
Gemcluster
member, 8 posts
Mon 8 Feb 2021
at 18:24
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  • msg #1015

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

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facemaker329
member, 7319 posts
Gaming for over 40
years, and counting!
Mon 8 Feb 2021
at 20:17
  • msg #1016

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Mister...you've known about this for a week and a half.  You're telling me in that time you couldn't come up with a crew?  Couldn't arrange things with your guys?  Or at least told me sometime earlier than the day before the shoot that our primary set piece could NOT be relocated to the studio so we could have adapted plans?

I know who I am NOT calling in the future.  Too bad your son was out of town, because he's apparently got the business brains in the family...my friend's good experience working with him is the only reason you got called in the first place.
This message was last edited by the user at 23:50, Mon 08 Feb 2021.
Yaztromo
supporter, 420 posts
Mon 8 Feb 2021
at 20:57
  • msg #1017

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

What a pain when you are forced to work with some colleague that hates his/her work!!! Everything becomes so boring and tiring!
Piestar
member, 825 posts
once upon a time...
...there was a little pie
Tue 9 Feb 2021
at 07:46
  • msg #1018

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

People incapable of having more than one thought in their head at one time. I hate when I post, or send a PM with some questions on it, and the person on the other end can't manage to comprehend or answer more than one point.
Boogs
member, 23 posts
I do boogie consistently.
Consistently boogie I do.
Fri 19 Feb 2021
at 22:13
  • msg #1019

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Pathfinder: a game that allows you to fly, shoot fireballs, have intimate relationships across species, play as talking animals, and summon catastrophe.

But GODS FORBID playing as a non-binary character! That's just atrocious! /s
jait
member, 437 posts
Mon 8 Mar 2021
at 19:12
  • msg #1020

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

That feeling of utter disappointment...

Someone posts a Players Wanted Ad that's for a game you've been yearning to play.  So, you check out their set-up and it sounds exciting.  Only, you've got more an a couple of notes on them in your blacklist, so you know that were you to join their game, it'd be a living hell.    If they pissed you off that much as a player, just imagine how much they'd upset you as a GM!

Excitement?  Curtailed.
Yaztromo
supporter, 426 posts
Mon 8 Mar 2021
at 19:18
  • msg #1021

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

If you know you're not very competent at doing your job, why don't you try to learn something while you do it? Perhaps by asking your colleagues for some suggestion, instead of teaching them something that you know you don't know?
Piestar
member, 847 posts
once upon a time...
...there was a little pie
Tue 9 Mar 2021
at 23:59
  • msg #1022

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Bizarre, across the board slowdowns on RPoL. I know it happens around Christmas time, and again (bizarrely) on weekends, when I would expect people to have more free time, but all of my games have come to a creeping halt this week. Sigh...
facemaker329
member, 7328 posts
Gaming for over 40
years, and counting!
Tue 16 Mar 2021
at 01:48
  • msg #1023

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

I love it when someone hires me to build something...I tell them, when I'm hired, that there is ONE thing I need from them to make it work...

And then they deliver it to me only a few hours before I'm supposed to be finished, even though I told them about needing it almost a week ago...if they'd delivered in a timely fashion, I would have been spared several hours of work, trying to build everything in a way that would let me fit it in, instead of building everything around it like it SHOULD be done...

At least, now that I'm redoing the project because the first go-around turned into a hot mess, things are going together smoothly.
Piestar
member, 852 posts
once upon a time...
...there was a little pie
Fri 26 Mar 2021
at 16:27
  • msg #1024

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

People who run period games, and make no effort to understand the period. This has ruined a few games for me. And who doesn't know that almost EVERY business has a back entrance for deliveries? Basic real-world stuff. Why do they need to fight over every little thing I do, but not make the effort to make the era realistic.
Isida KepTukari
member, 379 posts
Elegant! Arrogant! Smart!
Mon 29 Mar 2021
at 04:28
  • msg #1025

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Some folks need better timing.  Just because I'm awake doesn't mean I'm available. Just because the light is on doesn't mean I am ready for an inundation of information. Just because I'm on the internet doesn't mean I am ready to be interrupted at any time, or repeatedly, just because I'm physically present. I cannot attend to you every minute that you want!
V_V
member, 945 posts
Resting. I hope to find
peace and vigor return.
Wed 19 May 2021
at 10:39
  • msg #1026

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Having a severe anxiety attack for killing a game I said I would GM in reply to a GM wanted ad. I had a rule that stated, "be content with shorter posts" and went onto describe why "They more I have to read, the more GM fatigue will set in". So the very first RTJ, by the poor OP has to be about a full page essay on their character. It was just so much to take in, and reading it over, finally, over the course about a week, it basically tailored them into the module. Which is great!...just not for me, who wanted to run a module as is. This is why I don't run mods, I want to make my own story, not read and run someone else's. This was just another example of why I shouldn't run mods.

Felt bad though, because I said "Yeah, I'll run" and basically stated by limitations. Only to have, right off the bat, one of the limitations broken. I don't resent the creativity, it's cool, it was just way too intense for me. I thought I was getting into a "read the mod. accept players. run the mod" sort of a "Comes ready to eat" setup. It's a mod I already played, twice, and read some after the fact. The person knew more about the mod than I did. I just felt like it wasn't a good compatibility. I wasn't prepared to go off script very much, and I wish I had known that was part of the onset; was tailored character that redefines the mod. I'm sure they might say "I can do something simpler" but at this point, I feel like I'm already overwhelmed with reading all I did. It was tiring, confusing, and intimidating.

I need to stick to homebrew campaigns. Mods don't do me any favors. In this case it also wasted the OP's time. Just bad feels all around. :( Wish I could just let it go. Gonna try. It's just a game, but it's got me so anxious I can't sleep.
V_V
member, 949 posts
Resting. I hope to find
peace and vigor return.
Wed 2 Jun 2021
at 22:10
  • msg #1027

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

I don't like double posting, but oh well. It's been just about two weeks.

*sigh* I'm having trouble getting medical attention for what reads like an addiction. Problem is, the bad behavior is not taking my medicine. I really feel myself addicted to skipping it, not because it's unhelpful, but it makes me drowsy and careless. I was supposed to switch medications this month, but then...well rent was due and electricity is costing us the disparity we "Saved" on rent in this bad apartment. My roommate is bad with money, and I being a bad judge of character got in the sunk cost fallacy and gave her my stimulus check over the month of may. Not knowing she hadn't paid electricity. I'm pissed I didn't check, but I asked her (though seh says I didn't. Maybe I didn't, but I remember asking).

anyway, the medicine that most bothers me is for anxiety. It REALLY helps, but it also hurts. Because I'm not anxious, a side affect is I'm not bothered by stuff as much. Trash piling up? Just move it around. Dishes need to be cleaned? Buy plastic cups and plates and bowls and plasticware. Clothes dirty? Do laundry, but only when everything including what I'm wearing is dirty.

I stay up to feel emotion, mostly joy, but some grieving legitimate tragedy. The medicine is for depression too. I helped through the worst of it, but it's now causing me to miss it to get stuff done, and rubberband where I'm overly revealing and just swing the opposite way. It's a tangle of removing one problem that is solving another, a house of cards that is all I have to call my life. It's the jenga tower that so many pieces have been removed by circumstance, and any bad choices I make are compounded by those problems I had no control over, or if I did, I felt I had no alternative to. I would have moved out from being with my roommate, but I had no lead to live by myself, so it was this or nothing. Section 8 got fruited.

Game is like this thing that makes me feel good, so I do it when I feel good. It's also when I feel bad, so I feel good, that's not good either, because it sours something otherwise good.

I'm a hermit since the pandemic and have severe agoraphobia. Over past years, I had used RPoL as window into the world outside my dungeon. Just about the time I was working to get out into the world, was when things went downhill and I'm still on the downward curve.

I ate out, like really made the stupid decision to not cook, because the kitchen was a mess. It was like ten times, and that triple what I can afford on a good month, May was not. I was just so pissed, that I just took it out on my wallet.

I'm in a new game, one I think will look really promising, but I'm off my meds today, since I screwed that up yesterday, and it takes time to get it back in my system. I don't want to fruit up the game, but I may have already.

A mature game (two actually) had issues when I had to call for a cease because it was entering too close to adult territory. I had to defend against the fact an adult game is really ther only suitable place for adult material and explain that mature games are basically just general games. You get tiny bit of leeway, but as written, they still need to observe the convention of newspapers and public TV. Then I get a somewhat cool reply, because it seems (to me it seems to them) I'm overreacting.

I'm glad I was on today, even though I shouldn't be, for that reason. I might have overlooked that otherwise, and while I'd like to think I wouldn't, I don't know. I'm just glad I addressed it regardless.

I'm hoping that this is just a way to condense my struggle in one place. Just a hard vent of the clusternut I'm trying to juggle. If advice could be given, it'd need to address even more than this post entails. I'm just very frustrated. I want to relax and have fun, and I feel like many circumstances are like potholes in a road that I'd otherwise enjoy the journey of. I have to just cool off when posting, and post when I'm better.

I need to find the words to address that and let go of the guilt for not posting, as it's far better to post when I'm all there. I also need to accept if people are wrong, to just let them be wrong. To just GM the way I feel is following jase's and the mod's rules safest and accept if I'm wrong, and if they looked at the game they'd be like "Nah, it's fine mate"; it's still better follow the rules when I don't need to then mess around with it.

Agh, it's traffic accident of one problem smashing into another. I need to find something to occupy my time, and play video game or something, even if it's inspid. Maybe I'll put on a Harry Potter Movie. Maybe I'll just read a game, and not post. I'm without food, because I was short fo money, and I get paid tomorrow, but that's no food today. Well, not no food, just crappy food. PEanut butter sandwich with what little bread I have left. I had some Eggs today that were bought for brownies awhile ago, that had best by june 1st, and was glad I hadn't made the brownies afterall. I raided my emergency frozen meals yesterday too. So...agh you know what...I think that's where I'll end this. Thinking about food and thinking how good that sounds- I should eat.
CaptainHellrazor
member, 130 posts
Thu 3 Jun 2021
at 05:11
  • msg #1028

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Ghosting!

I hate it!  If you have the time to sign up to a game and then take up the GM's time creating your character, the very least you can do if you decide a game is not for you is to mail the GM and let them know.
Fyrerain
member, 102 posts
Fri 25 Jun 2021
at 00:00
  • msg #1029

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

My friend is down to just two horses, so I suggested instead of her buying a ton of feed (literal; 25 80-pound bags) for them, we could split a ton. It's a dollar less per bag when bought this way, there's less chance of waste due to contamination (mold, rodents), and it won't get stale. She agreed. After the fourth time, her husband got pissed because I didn't unload my half on his schedule (it was unloaded within 24 hours), and says he's not going to split a ton anymore.

Okay, no problem for me. I go through far more feed, anyway. I'll just buy tons myself, as normal.

Fast forward a couple months... I bought a ton before an upcoming surgery, in the hopes that I'd be recovered enough by the time it ran out that I'd be able to lift 80-pound bags again. I'm currently back to lifting 40-pounds with minimal discomfort, so not quite there yet.

This morning my friend calls me because her husband wants us to split a ton, but I'll have to unload my half, because he's 60+ years old and too old to unload a ton all by himself.

Uh, no. I'm not healed enough to unload my own, and it's not worth hiring someone for just half a ton. In 10 days when I need more feed, I'll buy my own ton. And probably hire someone to unload it, since I don't think I'll be where I need to be recovery-wise to do it myself. My friend's husband is on his own -- just like he wanted.
Piestar
member, 914 posts
Fri 25 Jun 2021
at 00:08
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  • msg #1030

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 03:11, Fri 25 June 2021.
Piestar
member, 915 posts
Fri 25 Jun 2021
at 00:09
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  • msg #1031

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

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V_V
member, 950 posts
Resting. I hope to find
peace and vigor return.
Wed 14 Jul 2021
at 20:53
  • msg #1032

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Deep depression, and a looming financial strain make gaming impossible. It makes a lot of things tough, actually.
DBCowboy
member, 68 posts
Played rpgs since about
'81 (D&D Basic ed)
Thu 15 Jul 2021
at 05:30
  • msg #1033

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

My uncle died today.  He'd been sick for a couple years.  Not constant, had good days and bad, but we all knew SOMETHING had changed shortly before Thanksgiving 2 years ago.  We suspect a minor stroke but...all of us tried to get him to go to a doctor, time and time again, but he never would.  He always said, "What could they do?"  I don't know, maybe nothing, it depends on what the problem is, but it's the purpose they've devoted their entire lives to so MAYBE just give it a shot!?!

But now?  ^@!#$(&! Wilkerson hard-headedness

We couldn't do anything.  No way to get him treatment when he refused.  We actually hoped he'd get bad enough that at some point we'd be able to call and ambulance, force him to an ER visit.  But instead his son went by his house today and when he didn't answer he walked around and looked through a window and saw his feet in bed.   Crawled in and found him.  Apparently he passed away in his sleep.

And I want to say that's good.  I mean we're all going to go sometime so going in your sleep isn't bad.  But he wasn't even 70 yet.  He was active.  He was still farming.  There's no reason I know of he couldn't have still had an active, happy life.

All I know is that my wife and I are going to get all the paperwork in place.  Powers of Attorney.  Medical Powers of Attorney.  Updated Wills.  All of it.   I don't want my kids to ever be in the same situation; how would you know you're not thinking straight if you're not thinking straight?  I want help if I'm not making good decisions for myself.  I trust my wife and my kids; if I ever suffer from dementia or Alzheimer's or I'm clearly not taking care of myself then I want one of them to be able to step in.

My uncle was the eldest of our immediate family.  He'd help anyone.  Now...huh, now it's actually my brother-in-law.  I'm next but I'm good if he outlives me.

Whoever reads this; this wasn't my uncle.  He would have wanted help; he would have never wanted to devolve to this point.  Do what you can to make sure if your faculties fail you there's someone there who can get you the help you need.
Aryiea
member, 5 posts
Thu 15 Jul 2021
at 19:14
  • msg #1034

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

People who can't keep their tenses straight. When everyone else is posting around you in present tense...why the fruit do you reply in past tense? T-T it pains me more than it should.
This message was last edited by the user at 19:15, Thu 15 July 2021.
WhiteComic
member, 432 posts
In omnia Paratus
Momento Mori
Fri 16 Jul 2021
at 04:35
  • msg #1035

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

I honestly can say I hate my job. I hate the environment that it gives off. It's toxic and mentally draining. Very low staffed, terrible management, and so much gossip you wouldn't even believe it. It drains you every day and to make matters worse, nobody is allowed to take any vacation. It's been like this for over a year. I have worked my apple off for the past 3 years and its frustrating. Morale around here is pretty bad. If you ain't kissing apples than you'll get nowhere here. I wonder why I'm still at this job but I think it's because nothing speaks out to me still. I can't see myself doing anything else right now, but nobody should be this miserable from work. Constant anxiety, depression, stress, high blood pressure, and absolutely no energy to want to do anything. Only time will tell if things will ever get better or far much worse. If the latter, I'm hoping I moved on to something greater.
Piestar
member, 932 posts
once upon a time...
...there was a little pie
Sun 8 Aug 2021
at 01:38
  • msg #1036

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Stupid people. Gad, they are everywhere.
Piestar
member, 961 posts
once upon a time...
...there was a little pie
Tue 24 Aug 2021
at 23:59
  • msg #1037

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

This isn't something that happened when I was younger, but it has been happening more and more as I get older.

When someone says they are an artist, I always show interest, but when I mention that I dabble myself, there is no reciprocity.
V_V
member, 954 posts
Resting. I hope to find
peace and vigor return.
Sat 28 Aug 2021
at 16:07
  • msg #1038

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

I messed up really bad. Did something stupid that'll have consequences for about a week of hell before it'll start swinging back to normal. Wishing I had better discipline! All the years, and my control of delayed gratification is still weak.
Fyrerain
member, 110 posts
Wed 15 Sep 2021
at 14:00
  • msg #1039

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

If your response to a call from your child's school is A) refuse to answer, B) hang up as soon as the caller has identified themselves as calling from the school, or C) respond to news of your child's misbehavior by saying, "It's not my problem,", the you are a failure as a parent, you have failed your child, and probably your grandchildren as well.
GreenTongue
member, 1011 posts
Game Archaeologist
Wed 15 Sep 2021
at 17:20
  • msg #1040

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

It is never easy to tell your elder parent that you no long trust their driving but I wish I had better "People Skills".
Making them "Go Off" is not the preferred outcome.
This message was last edited by the user at 21:29, Fri 17 Sept 2021.
Piestar
member, 977 posts
once upon a time...
...there was a little pie
Fri 17 Sep 2021
at 20:24
  • msg #1041

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

GM's who think that role-playing means the players should feel honored to read their posts, and maybe interact with one favorite player, but give the rest of the party nothing to do.

If you are a frustrated writer, go write a book. If you want to run a game, engage the players. GMing is a skill, and it requires effort, and it sure as heck isn't for everyone.
CaptainHellrazor
member, 163 posts
Sat 18 Sep 2021
at 03:19
  • msg #1042

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Players who ghost games then brag about how they never quit a game and heap scorn and derision on GM's
facemaker329
member, 7361 posts
Gaming for over 40
years, and counting!
Sat 18 Sep 2021
at 05:34
  • msg #1043

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Lost one cousin to Covid three weeks ago.  Lost another to a stroke last week.

My mom is the last remaining member of that generation of the family (my dad, all his siblings, and all their spouses have passed away, now.)  It's too early for my generation of the family to start playing catch-up...
SunRuanEr
subscriber, 417 posts
Mon 27 Sep 2021
at 17:56
  • msg #1044

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Players that think the game rules don't apply to them. /rage
dparasol
member, 45 posts
looking to uh have fun
and destroy civilization
Wed 29 Sep 2021
at 08:07
  • msg #1045

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

The GM for an IRL game won't ever start the game on time, but gets mad when we carry on a conversation while he's not running the game...
Hunter
member, 1684 posts
Captain Oblivious!
Lurker
Thu 21 Oct 2021
at 18:08
  • msg #1046

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Days like today where I can (literally) feel the Bipolar Depression trying to suck me down into the abyss.   And days like today are the reason I can't seem to stay involved.   And it's not just here that it causes that effect.

Really sucks when you want to be a part of things going on around you.
V_V
member, 973 posts
Fri 22 Oct 2021
at 06:18
  • [deleted]
  • msg #1047

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

This message was deleted by the user at 06:28, Fri 22 Oct 2021.
SunRuanEr
subscriber, 438 posts
Fri 4 Feb 2022
at 12:17
  • msg #1048

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

I do not care about the politics involved, NBC. It is the freakin' OLYMPICS, and if your TV listing says you're showing the Opening Ceremony Live, then you should be showing the actual ceremony. Not your talking heads talking about politics while I can plainly hear music and see that there are lights and activity coming from the stadium in the background behind them, that you aren't showing - and clearly aren't intending to show, since you keep talking about the parade of athletes coming up (and that's nowhere near the first part of the ceremony, ever). Shut up already, and show the fruiting ceremony.

Or at least have the decency to not dupe the viewers into thinking you are by listing 'Beijing 2022 Opening Ceremony' on your listing. What you're doing is tantamount to listing 'Superbowl LVI' on the guide, and then showing nothing but the halftime show. Grr...and of course, they seem to have all the viewing rights in the US, so I can't find the actual ceremony being broadcast by anyone else, either.

I got up early for this, for nothing.
ladysharlyne
subscriber, 3346 posts
Member before Oct 2005
Creative Writing ROCKS!!
Wed 23 Mar 2022
at 16:07
  • msg #1049

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

DO NOT REPLY THIS IS JUST ME VENTING SOMETHING ALL GMS DEAL WITH!!!

Why, WHY, is it there are players that give you a brilliant RTJ character, you happily accept them, they post a few times back and forth with characters then !!POOF!! They ghost the game!  Players use their characters to speak to them, no replies, BUT!!! They look in as you see it in the cast list!!! You the PM them a couple of times, after two months of ghosting and they look in and STILL say nothing.  Oh well, as a GM YOU tried but bye bye to that flaky ghost player!!!!!
CaptainHellrazor
member, 235 posts
Wed 23 Mar 2022
at 17:38
  • msg #1050

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Ghosting seems to be the biggest challenge running games here.  I now have a rule, if players do not post for two weeks without some kind of advance notice they are removed from the game.  If it was a legitimate reason they can always come back but just not posting without any explanation is rude, not just to the GM but the entire playing group.  Who wants players like that in their game?
facemaker329
member, 7390 posts
Gaming for over 40
years, and counting!
Thu 24 Mar 2022
at 06:09
  • msg #1051

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Tendonitis sucks.  I had it in my knee last summer...started late May, and it was sometime in October before it stopped being a regular factor in my life.  I've had bad knees for a long time, so that didn't surprise me.

What did surprise me is getting it in my elbow, for no apparent reason (at least, with my knee, I had suddenly shifted gears at work and was lifting heavy loads, pushing stuff around on stage, running up and down stairs a lot more than usual...the elbow?  Just, one day, "Oh, hey...we don't like it when you grip stuff and extend your arm...")

Between elbow wraps, roll-on lidocaine, and ibuprofen, I'm still functional, but when you spend a day sweeping and moving stage lights, the point of diminishing returns creeps up on you pretty fast...
V_V
member, 992 posts
Read my biography...
Feel free to Rmail me :)
Fri 1 Apr 2022
at 00:42
  • msg #1052

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Homeless, destitute, and county help will only BEGIN in two to three months; one month absolute minimum. Just had doctor's apt before I lost temporary housing. So thankfully I have medicine. I almost froze last night in the car, it was 36 degrees, and raining. I had only one blanket, and couldn't afford to use gas to stay warm. I was ready to go to the ER, but thankfully I didn't have to. I have tried asking for help from family, and that's been degrading, and ultimately gave only "You can buy a grayhound ticket to ..." where my mother lives, and stay in a shelter there. Thing is...that shelter, not here but there...they also have a waiting list. I called them. So I'm disgusted, and angry after she proceeded to be emotionally abusive and dangle this nebulous help (ME buying a grayhound ticket; leaving my car...and going to shelter there...that is full, and will be for the next month.) I haven't tried my father, but he can't be worse, or at least he will be quicker. Sister, understandably, has her own family. I asked, but she said no; and I understand that. Older brother already lives with my father. It sucks being the black sheep.
Hunter
member, 1749 posts
Fri 1 Apr 2022
at 04:18
  • [deleted]
  • msg #1053

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was off-topic, at 04:37, Fri 01 Apr 2022.
Sightless314
member, 25 posts
If there's a will
There's a way
Sun 17 Apr 2022
at 01:25
  • msg #1054

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread


 Some folks on RPOL were talking about Cortex Prime. It sounded interesting. So I picked up the PDF. I discovered that all the dice roll examples are symbols, and images at that.  This is the text searchable PDF.  So, when trying to understand the mechanics, its like having part of a conversation in one language, and every so often the speaker switches language on you.

Seriously.

I've never encountered a PDF, with this problem with it.

Text sometimes getting faded into an image, because its ontop of a complicated image, sure. It happens. Annoying, you bet, but stuff happens. This, this though, normal text, symbol, normal text. Example,  image, text, image.

Cue Arnold's scream from the first predator  movie.
Smoot
member, 158 posts
Tue 19 Apr 2022
at 18:51
  • msg #1055

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

This is just me venting, please don't @. But goddamn, I am sick of otherwise good games becoming "planning sessions" that stall the game entirely. I think I'm in three of them right now. Someone thinks they're Sun Tzu and so we have to stop what we're doing to argue about tactical decisions that, ultimately, won't make a bit of difference once we get rolling because we're fighting a bunch of goblins, not forming a cordon sanitaire.

I would rather lose a game than win a meeting.
1492
member, 18 posts
ADD Grognard
PBP Neophyte
Tue 19 Apr 2022
at 20:38
  • msg #1056

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

In reply to Smoot (msg # 1055):

LOL. Great post. Maybe the DM can help out by having a goblin patrol ambush the party while they're arguing over standard wedge vs inverted wedge vs wedge salad.
Yaztromo
supporter, 469 posts
Tue 19 Apr 2022
at 22:20
  • msg #1057

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Why do the problems like to come at you all together, from all directions, instead of one by one!?!
Shannara
moderator, 3886 posts
When in doubt,
frolic!
Wed 20 Apr 2022
at 01:52

Vents Without Replies

Just a small reminder - this thread is a place for people to vent while requesting that others do not reply.  There's another thread that they can use if they want (or don't mind) commiserations or comments.   Thanks!
1492
member, 19 posts
ADD Grognard
PBP Neophyte
Wed 20 Apr 2022
at 02:37
  • msg #1059

Vents Without Replies

In reply to Shannara (msg # 1058):

My bad. Duly noted, and chastened.
Silverlock
member, 140 posts
Tue 26 Apr 2022
at 13:09
  • msg #1060

Vents Without Replies

Allergies.  I like trees, why do they bother my nose so much ?
ClockworkDreams
member, 4 posts
Wed 4 May 2022
at 00:49
  • msg #1061

Vents Without Replies

I am aggravated.
mangotango
member, 1 post
Thu 5 May 2022
at 02:29
  • msg #1062

Vents Without Replies

i hate myself
ShadoPrism
member, 1408 posts
OCGD-Obsessive-Compulsive
Gamer-Disorder
Thu 5 May 2022
at 06:01
  • msg #1063

Vents Without Replies

So Effing HOT!!! I am Melting...
Hunter
member, 1797 posts
Captain Oblivious!
Lurker
Sun 5 Jun 2022
at 06:09
  • msg #1064

Vents Without Replies

I just can't seem to win of late: if it's not one thing, it's another.    The latest?  My blu-ray player started making grinding noises, which is the first sign of the machine starting to fail.   And it's one more thing that I just can't afford to replace.   I'm already considering a debt consolidation, and I just don't want to go any further into the red.
Shinoskay
member, 117 posts
Sun 5 Jun 2022
at 19:44
  • msg #1065

Vents Without Replies

Its funny when people tell you that you have a reputation and others dont want to play with you, and thats why you arent being allowed in a game.

excuse me for not wanting to cyber people... excuse me for not putting up with bigotry and hate... excuse me for not letting others randomly neg my suggestions on something completely irrelevant to anyone else, something that I took the time to check out and vet before suggesting and the person negging me didnt even bother to look at [they literally said they didnt]... excuse me for standing up for myself...

and excuse me for trying to be creative.

I do have adhd, and sometimes I get neurotic and over complicated, its true... and anyone who tells you they dont want to get the most out of something or who says they dont want the best are just full of shit.
however, just because i get a little convoluted or just because I mess up my math sometimes doesnt mean im a cheater or that im trying to get one over the gm. Just because I use the mechanics available to me doesnt mean im making shit up.

To hell with your opinion of me, and me saying that doesnt make me a bad player.

I'm in games, I get along with people just fine when they dont knee jerk on me.

I'm here to have fun, yes I want to get along... yes I want to play with others, if I wanted to play by myself I could go plenty of other places but I am also here to have fun and not be bullied or sucked into some hedonistic crap.

To hell with your ideas of me and 'my reputation'.
SunRuanEr
subscriber, 442 posts
Sun 5 Jun 2022
at 21:31
  • msg #1066

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

You know what I hate? When people can't seem to read and understand the words on the page. Especially 'literally'.

It makes me want to quote Jules from Pulp Fiction regarding the English language.
This message was last edited by the user at 21:31, Sun 05 June 2022.
Shinoskay
member, 119 posts
Mon 6 Jun 2022
at 09:07
  • msg #1067

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

quote:
I'm sorry, did I break your concentration? I didn't mean to do that. Please, continue, you were saying something about best intentions. What's the matter? Oh, you were finished! Well, allow me to retort.

English, mango-fruit, do you speak it?


Literally
This message was last edited by a moderator at 10:47, Mon 06 June 2022.
Shinoskay
member, 120 posts
Mon 6 Jun 2022
at 10:25
  • [deleted]
  • msg #1068

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 10:50, Mon 06 June 2022.
Jarodemo
member, 970 posts
My hovercraft
is full of eels
Mon 6 Jun 2022
at 14:59
  • msg #1069

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

When you ask a question on a Facebook group, in this instance some suggestions for weapon ideas for my autistic son who has trouble pulling his blows, and a whole bunch of ill-informed knuckle-draggers chuck stupid opinions at you. He shouldn't be on the field if he is dangerous to other players (he's 11yo BTW); Why don't you teach him to fight safely; Maybe he could play a wizard instead; maybe he could be a medic; maybe he could be an archer instead...

But you still have to trawl through all the tedious horse manure to actually get to the one or two responses that actually answered the damn question!!!

As a SEND parent I have to live with this crap every day, as if I'm going to go "you know, I never thought about it." I think about my kids' SEND every minute of every day. I wake up during the night thinking about it. I think about it on the school run, when I should be working, when I'm watching TV. ALL ... THE... TIME. As a SEND parent pretty much every decision is based on what is right for your kids, from little decisions like where to go out for dinner (or shall we stay home cos it's easier) to medium decisions like where to go on holiday (or shall we stay at home cos it's easier) to big decisions like where should we live or should I accept that job offer.

So back to Facebook... if someone posts for advice there are two options: 1) give honest, helpful advice that answers their query, 2) keep on scrolling baby!

Thank you for listening...
This message was last edited by the user at 15:07, Mon 06 June 2022.
Smoot
member, 162 posts
Tue 12 Jul 2022
at 18:37
  • msg #1070

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Okay, so I recently was in a game that stopped. It happens. I liked this game, though, and if I ran across the GM again, I would again say "thank you" to the GM for running it. It had a great premise and was well run.

There are however about four players that I wish I caught the actual player names of, though, because I never want to play in anything with them, again.

If a game is billed as a high-energy action-swashbuckler kind of thing, and opens on an action scene, it is:

1) NOT time to have our characters do that drill from the first day of school where we sit in a circle, give our names and one fact about us. Someone went to the trouble of setting up a high-energy opening. It is NOT an IC RP chatroom! The game started! Game on!

2) NOT appropriate to "tsk" people who made a combat-capable character for a high energy swashbuckling game, and had those characters respond to a combat situation with something besides "Sad."The game was described as something akin to Muppet Treasure Island with a D&D injury rate. We did not sign up for Grousing and Guilt-Trips.

3) NOT cool to then, in the OOC section, describe the players who got off their characters' fictional asses and did something with the game as "having main-character syndrome". I didn't realize that spending a day, real time,  making up characters with fantastical powers was supposed to end with them being shy and remorseful about USING the fantastical powers, or that we were all supposed to join your character's book-group in the back.

The game stopped because of "posting rate" issues, because those four (out of about eight) jackasses thought it was Introspection Time, and dragged the rest of us down, because the GM thought they were doing something wrong. They didn't.
This message was last edited by the user at 18:38, Tue 12 July 2022.
Hunter
member, 1811 posts
Captain Oblivious!
Lurker
Fri 15 Jul 2022
at 19:32
  • msg #1071

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Some days, you feel like you can't write a quality post to save your life.....
V_V
member, 1013 posts
Sat 23 Jul 2022
at 14:16
  • msg #1072

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

I'm still homeless. I have shelter, but not privacy. More recently, two days ago my roommate and the driver of our car went to renew her license, and was told her eyesight was unacceptable. Yesterday she got fired for not having a way to get to work. This was her secondary job (that she hated) but it tightens the vice of being homeless, as now it's going  to be very hard to afford a place with the housing crisis. I just feel horrid. If you feel the need to reply, observe that this thread doesn't allow it. If still really want to, you can rmail me. All I ask is that if you do, that you don't give me the "toughen up" speech. m↑uL that!
This message was last edited by the user at 14:20, Sat 23 July 2022.
Radnoff
member, 93 posts
Tue 2 Aug 2022
at 14:29
  • msg #1073

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

There is no such word as "noone." It's "no one." Two words. No hyphen between the words. TWO WORDS. You're welcome.
InQueli
member, 42 posts
Tue 2 Aug 2022
at 14:34
  • msg #1074

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

I'm so damn busy these days, and I still keep wanting to start my own game, but I know noone would want to play it anyway.
SWolfe
member, 60 posts
Sun 14 Aug 2022
at 23:50
  • msg #1075

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

I don't know if this is a new thing, or if it's an old thing that just suddenly started bothering me, but the combination "also too" feels like nails on a chalkboard to me.

Example:

"That meal was reasonably priced, and also too we enjoyed it immensely."

Ugh!
1492
member, 47 posts
Mon 15 Aug 2022
at 00:18
  • [deleted]
  • msg #1076

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 03:29, Mon 15 Aug 2022.
tmagann
member, 786 posts
Mon 15 Aug 2022
at 02:57
  • [deleted]
  • msg #1077

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 03:30, Mon 15 Aug 2022.
Yaztromo
supporter, 485 posts
Mon 15 Aug 2022
at 07:05
  • msg #1078

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Sometimes the better you treat your co-workers the more they think you are weak and they try taking advantage of you... I'm afraid they will wake up with a surprise,sooner or later.
1492
member, 48 posts
I like monkeys
Mon 15 Aug 2022
at 07:10
  • msg #1079

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

I'm an unapologetic grammar nazi.

The number one mistake I see on a daily basis is the use of the word "loose" to mean lose. "I hope we don't loose the game." Or, "I feel like I'm loosing my mind." Drives me crazy.

Another is "equally as."

"She is equally as talented (as so-and-so)," seems to be the norm these days, and it's just... wrong. She may be "equally talented" or she may be "as talented" but she cannot be "equally as talented."
Yaztromo
supporter, 487 posts
Wed 31 Aug 2022
at 18:48
  • msg #1080

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

I'm tired of people discharging their responsibilities.
Shei-kun
supporter, 841 posts
A Giant Shei draws near!
Fight-Magic-Item-Flee
Wed 31 Aug 2022
at 19:25
  • msg #1081

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Coworkers (and others), please read what I wrote in the fruiting email before responding.

That is all.
Yaztromo
supporter, 489 posts
Thu 1 Sep 2022
at 21:21
  • msg #1082

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Some people expects one-sided team playing from everybody else, but doesn't even try reciprocating that.
Guess what?...
BFink
member, 81 posts
Sat 3 Sep 2022
at 13:10
  • msg #1083

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

As much as I enjoy dealing with stuff online, when it comes to setting up a banking account for a newly created company, I much prefer doing it face to face in a branch. Guess what? The free accounts they offer online cannot be opened in a branch. Sure, we can open you a paid one if you want. No thanks, I'd rather go back home and settle this online - bothering a bank employee anyway, because your system refuses to accept my application throwing an unknown error.

Also, thank you very much for that free accountant services that come along with a business account. The random person on chat proved to be totally useless and I'm back to point 0, searching for the right accountant to do the job for me.

Get your own company, they said. It would be fun, they said. You'll earn more money, they said.

That is yet to be verified.
V_V
member, 1019 posts
Fri 23 Sep 2022
at 18:31
  • msg #1084

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

How to start over? To leave a draining friendship, corrupted by finance; where I pay the bills and am responsible, and they mismanage the parts they have. I bought them a car, so they could get to work. I paid for two years of dental insurance, and they couldn't be bothered to renew it. When we had a fire, they spent 20k (that's 20 grand!) on frivolous things. Now they are spending better, but still incapable of allocating the right amount to the right things. They put words in my mouth that I explicitly said otherwise.

I am so far into the sunk cost fallacy!
V_V
member, 1026 posts
Wed 19 Oct 2022
at 20:04
  • msg #1085

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Had to choose getting food instead of medicine, because the food pantry doesn't fulfill but one week out of the month. I'm down to my last pill. I'm going to have to take a out predatory loan, or pawn my Uncle's coins to buy medicine. Makes me feel small, but...I have to... It's that or sleep on the street.
ladysharlyne
subscriber, 3466 posts
Member before Oct 2005
Creative Writing ROCKS!!
Fri 21 Oct 2022
at 13:31
  • msg #1086

Vents Without Replies

Black Marked, Others talking rubbish about something they have no idea about!  It appears that as a GM of Adult games, my games are being talked about elsewhere and that they are only about sexual adult situations.  NOT TRUE!  I have run freeform games for over 18 years on here, and they are about storylines not sex, sex, sex!  Yes, couples have the choice of fading to black or writing out a tasteful love scene, but that's not what the game's baseline or interlinking stories are about.  No I do not narrate, they are not sandbox nor scripted by Reactive Freeform!  I do not allow any talk or gossip about other GMs and players and their games.  Please don't run down and label a game because of what you THINK it is about.  Not just mine, but any others that choose to run Freeform games.  I even now use a d20 dice roll to settle individual fights and battles.  So does that make me a Systems game owner?  I doubt it, I am always looking for good writers and the Adult tag is for a bit more freedom of speech, fighting actions, and yes, love scenes.  But I am all about the stories, not the sex!  So those of you that have a harsh opinion of me and my games can just *Fluff* right off and pick on someone else!
V_V
member, 1028 posts
Fri 28 Oct 2022
at 02:35
  • msg #1087

Vents Without Replies

Promises of help, and no help provided. Useless advice. Family and public aid were detriment, undee the guise of aid.

Three people on RPoL were very supportive. I can't name them, but one gave me some money, someone who just wanted to help, who didn't even game with me. One has been my dear friend for years, and had given me an eye to write to. One has been very good at distracting me from my plight, as they have more problems than I. Several more people very helpful, even though they weren't major help, they did their part to help rise my spirits.

I have to live in the car again. It's basically over. At this point beyond a bolt of lightning striking down those standing between me and prosperity; I'm going to be quickly decline into poverty. My friend will lose her job, I'll get sick from the elements and poor nutrition. I'm hoping to Gosinn's luck that some of these people in our way will either step up, or drop down.

Anyway, I'm leaving RPoL. Not because I want to. I'll have no internet, even at the library. I have no clean clothes, I have one day of meals, and that's that. I lose bathroom access, and...a bed.

If I make it back on my feet, I'll let those here know. If not, I'll miss this place.
Hunter
member, 1867 posts
Captain Oblivious!
Lurker
Thu 17 Nov 2022
at 21:39
  • msg #1088

Vents Without Replies

Ugh...I hate being bipolar.   There's stories I'd like to write (and other stuff I'd like to do) but my brain tells me: "Nope!  You're going to sit in your lazy-boy and stare at the tv today."

-.-
V_V
member, 1031 posts
Sun 2 Apr 2023
at 01:54
  • msg #1089

Vents Without Replies

Sick, and now two days away from moving into my first home in over a year, I may have to spend the night in the car tonight and tomorrow night. I have the money to stay where I'm at, but the hotel refuses to acknowledge and fix the holds on my digital card, so the card is frozen, and they card company is waiting for me to resolve it. Of all the entities to need to fix this, it shouldn't be me. Yet the card company won't remove the holds, instead choosing to freeze the account, and the hotel won't remove the holds, instead content to get $0 and have a bunch of holds outstanding. Talked to both managers. The Hotel one seems willing to work with us. No way of knowing what will happen since the holds aren't removed yet, and we're due to to post again for two days. Our stay is Sunday to Sunday, and tomorrow is Sunday. All this will be fixed on Monday...but I move into my home on Monday. So at that point I don't care if the holds are there, because I'll just close the card and settle it another way. Right now, it's just a case of two companies doing a piss poor job of the one thing they're out to do as a service.

Edit: Also, I'm sick. I'm ill with some respiratory illness. One that's not testing as Covid, but lingering for weeks.
This message was last edited by the user at 01:55, Sun 02 Apr 2023.
moonbunny
member, 28 posts
GM & Player
always in worlds away
Sun 2 Apr 2023
at 03:58
  • msg #1090

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Photoshop WTH
V_V
member, 1032 posts
Wed 5 Apr 2023
at 08:38
  • msg #1091

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

Devastated. Out of options beyond hoping. For one year I've been homeless. Our move in date was April 1st. That was Saturday here. So the inspection was on Monday. The inspection (by the charitable organization) failed. The landlord, whom was vetted locally, had a corporate douche try to have us (my roommate and I) move in WHILE they were renovating. Expecting us to pay while they did their job. I'm livid. My case manager is livid. I'm deject, depressed, hopeful, but scared. Sad most of all. All I've wanted for years!

I just wanted a home...

I just want to go home...

...Gosinn help me...I just want to go home...
V_V
member, 1033 posts
Thu 6 Apr 2023
at 20:32
  • msg #1092

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

But I don't know how I got here
Lost in the cynical dust
Instead I drift into worry
That I've no one to trust

I'm damaged
But somehow managed
this far
but I don't know that I can find my way back home
I'm damaged
but somehow I've managed
For now
but I don't think I can face this on my own


Assemblage 23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7vgUZ12QGM
jmurrell
member, 92 posts
Wed 12 Apr 2023
at 03:56
  • msg #1093

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

I'm from Louisville. I have a friend whose family member went to work Monday morning and is now in the hospital.

How many times people? How many times...

https://www.facebook.com/scott...e/10154453595789883/
V_V
member, 1054 posts
Event: Arrival
Horizon: May 5th
Sat 29 Apr 2023
at 05:19
  • msg #1094

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

My friend, on RPoL is going through a...an ineffably bad time. He's had his home demolished less than three years ago. He's losing his home again. He's had surgery that took forever to heal. It took forever for him to get disability funding. He was put on medication for depression maybe five months ago or so. His solution is having a home. His solution is having help. I just got a home, literally less than two weeks ago, after being homeless for over a year. He talked to me, and checked in with me. I don't want to make his plight public beyond how concerned I am for him. I put my vent here, because of two major reasons. One, I'm not going to discuss, but simply state my compassion and empathy (having literally been homeless too!) and how all I can do is just give him all the morale he gave me. Two, well...I messed up the one and two and it's blurred. I guess I just don't want to share all this, and all the rest, but he needs support...I wish I had more to give. It's something I really have on my mind and heart, I needed to break a minimum confidence, just to express how sad, how understanding, how yearning I am for him. His depression isn't going to to be fixed by medication. He does need it, to help cope, but it's a a coping tool, and not the solution needed.

If you want to Rmail me, you can. Otherwise, just know anyone that rooted for me, I got where I am in large part to having support. I know he's miserably aching, so I want to wait for reply from him before passing on any support I had, that people want to redirect from me to him.

He cheered me up. I'm afraid my trying to cheer him up, will fail. I am going to try, but I'm not an optimist. I'm not going to sugar coat, because I'd rather give him real understanding than empty words. "cake in a crisis" is not what I'll be giving...but not far from it. I'll be staying in contact, but trying to also give him his space.

On another note, I was in a game that "died" about a year ago. This is not about the game! This about the GM, a person. He had failed an exam, an exam he needed to pass to get a job. He had a newborn at the time. He also had a brain injury shortly prior. One player in that game keeps logging in. She seems to be trying to "keep it alive" and seems completely and utterly callous to the situation that the GM may have permanent brain damage, be in poverty, or...or gone...forever. I have OCD, but even if I didn't, I think a good person, any good person, who cares about people in games and not just games for gaming, would be concerned. He was under a lot of stress, I told you it all. You have the germinal details. I may never know what happened to him. If he comes back, and can communicate with with RPoL, I hope I can know, and tell him how worried, literally concerned and sick with concern. He doesn't owe me any explanation. I just want to know what happened to him. I don't care, I couldn't care less, about the future of his game. Not until I hear from him, about him. If he needed space, god! I get that. That's the hope I hold out on. That makes perfect sense! Newborn, probably working more to make up for lack of better pay, taking care of health. Look I'm single, have no children, but I always take things slow. There's never been a "good" time for the things that come up that delay my games. I...*deep breath*...I just fear, based on the amount and cause of his brain injury...that it would quite, quite...bad. I don't say this in anything but care, I'd love to know he's alright.

Maybe one day he'll be back, and I'll show him this post. Months. Year. Ever. That he didn't leave my mind. We weren't "friends" but he was a person I'd have in my game, and I was in his; and like me, he shared personal stories. He wasn't cold. I got to know him. As a person. I don't know his name, but this is coming from a person who literally goes by V to people face to face or on the phone. What part he shared, what I got to learn of him, it was a gift he was giving to have that cusp of friendship.

That's all. This is a vent. It really is. I needed to get this holding of concern off my chest, as worrying hurts me and does no good for them. For the first friend, who really I've gotten to know quite well. He's called me friend, I have called him friend. I'm going to keep trying to give him morale, and most of all, a place put his words, and face that will read them, and cry or smile with him.

Thank you for not replying here. This is quite a vent. It has been pent up in me. I ache, and it's from both my Empathic Personality and having been there. Hell! I'm just out of that tunnel, and still not in the clear. I know any aching I have...it's worse for them.

*sigh* That's it. It's not, but for here it has to be.
V_V
member, 1057 posts
Event: Arrival
Horizon: May 5th
Thu 11 May 2023
at 01:28
  • msg #1095

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

I feel concern. There is no answer for my friend who faces homelessness and poverty. They face a road most unknown to them. They have not replied, and I hope it is for progress, but fear and deeply believe it is the abstract that is characterized as "the Devil" that that removes them from contact.

I told them I would pray for them, and I once did. Things seemed to go better for them. I told them of late I would pray for them. I didn't. Still yet as I write this I have not. I am not one to pray. It is they alone, my only friend that is religious, that I do not feel insulted by their thoughts and prayers. I now feel if the power of prayer were real, that I have chosen to not call upon it, and now it is too late. For prayer at least. At worst, that is also the most that could possibly have saved them terrible hardship.

I meant to pray. I meant to focus my thoughts and hopes, in communion with the abstract forces characterized as a being of good and force which acts simultaneously throughout time.

Now I say this, bare as bones. Without and poetry. I have worried for my friend. I don't know what I can interact with. It's not in my nature to do what I have said I wouldn't, nor to refrain from something I said I would do...and most poignantly was doing that I wasn't.

I will pray now, to the one force I have found solace in. I prayed. Acknoweldged the help I was given. Admitted I do not want to lose the luck that has been afforded, and that I want to see my recovery from poverty be seen to conclusion. I also chose to ask this character, this totem, to help my friend. That if they cannot, to at least mourn with me. Not to cause them grief, but if grief is felt to be with me as I may, may, find my friend gone.

I cling to hope. I bring not even cake, to the crisis. I come empty handed, with no apology, but with deep regret. I wish I had said more to my friend, immediately after they reported their status.

I hope this does not break confidence, as I will not name them; but I'd like to say what I can, in the event you, or you, or you, any of you reading this, happen to know the user, happen to able to help.

They began to gain my attention, as a person, not just a user, when they had surgery. It was for a hernia. This surgery was not nation class, and certainly not world class. It was painful and did not heal properly. It took them, by my account eight months to just received care for the poor healing, and infection! The infection was...basically treated probably far too late. I was not yet homeless, but I had my own health issues. We shared more than game related chat, we exchanged hopes and he gave prayers. I started to, when I could do it honestly, even if not expecting true results, to at least say what I meant, and ask as if to be given reply, in way of reply being aid to my friend.

I was homeless; but prior to that, they lost their mobile home. They had rented land from someone's property who owned a house on it (IIRC). That owner tried to give due notice, but the new owner was not to give they land to my friend's mobile home. What happened, as I understand it, was they had nowhere, nowhere to move it. What mobile objects could be taken were, and he moved to his grandmother's with his mother. His grandmother had dementia, and my friend was still healing, and poorly. He couldn't work. He hadn't yet gotten financial aid, and this sunk him into rightfully deep depression. His home, his mobile home wasn't moved. There was nowhere to move it. So it was demolished. It pains me to imagine, but I do, and it's vivid. The walls being bent like tin foil. His clothes, cabinets and curios strewn into wanton debris. His life, his home, his things, discarded. Tossed into refuse bins, and ruin to his life unflinchingly exacted.

His transition of "better" was getting two things. Social Security or Unemployment. Either way, it was little enough, and not even enough. He was given medication to make it day to day. His mother and he bickered, his grandmother caused a great deal of worry; she had dementia and would commit disturbing acts; most often at night. This was part of what I surmise was the cause for bickering, his mother thought it was his duty, not her own. Maybe it was, but he was healing. Regardless of anyone being right, it was situation of terrible trauma.

Of recent news, his grandmother passed away. He told me he needed to find a new home. To me, if this were my mother, or my one time friend Anne's mother, we'd each be in line to inherit aid. It seems, for whatever reason, my friend had to move out. I speculate, but there's not enough information to conclude any facts, at all. Maybe his mother didn't want him there. That's sort of how my mother is. She has three dogs, one of life support, and three cats, and yet she wouldn't do much for me. My mother also is petty. I hope my friend's mother isn't. Maybe the grandmother had an financial agreement; essentially the opposite of mortgage. That my friend, and his mother, scions of the owner, could stay there, but only as long as the woman lived; that upon her passing away the bank inherited the property, and my friend and his mother had due notice, but still grieving had to grapple with homelessness. Maybe the grandmother had another heir that did nothing in recent years, but last legally documented, this absentee owned it all. I could keep trying to find an answer, but I won't; not until I hear from my friend.

I never heard them say their surgery, over more than two years, healed. I never heard them say they had a great relief. It was one disaster, hesitating to breath, and holding breath, as another disaster occurred.

Here, in Johnson County Kansas, we (citizens of the County) can go to the library and use it. Even without library card, one can use guest passes. If it's torrential downpour, or heat waves, one can, during operating hours, take refuge and have web access. My friend, Anne, the one I lived with and was homeless with, works at the library, and I still spent a long time in the car, because I was so traumatized by my plight. I had the option though.

While I was homeless, I had user, someone I seldom heard from, give me donation of around $200, US donated digital cash. Of course I won't name them, but they only asked I pass it forward. Were I able, I would give this money, even as I grapple with the current housing I have, to my friend focal to this post. I offered, and have offered to others to give money, not much, but what I had. I had done this for years prior, well before a donation was offered to me, that I took.

I think that's difficult. To accept that a user on the web, even RPoL has only good intentions. The donor, for me, did. I got the money and it was critical. I can see their donation as a domino untoppled that had it not been there, many, literally dozens, or cascading fees, hardships and loss of income would have occurred. They gave me around $2090, but saved me around ten times that in averting. An ounce (forgive imperial) of prevention is worth a pound of remedy. This really was close to literal. My friend never took me up on my offer. Other friends have done the same. I'm glad they didn't, but only if they didn't feel the need. I hope if they did, and especially if my friend I'm most concerned felt the need, that he would have reached out, and not been afraid I had malicious intent, or would exploit his situation. So sad, but true many people can't be trusted.

Anyway. My friend will have my full attention should they contact me. I just...at this point I have to wait. Worrying now does no good. It helps them in no way. I prayed, and though belated, I did it full measure in good and honest intention, heartfelt and unyielding in phrasing.

I'm not asking you do detective work. I'm not asking you, or encouraging you to use RPoL as a charitable site. I am, however, telling my story in regards to my friend. I'm, without unfairly citing them (to unsolicited request), saying a user didn't just offer, but sent me money, and it changed the course toward where I am today. They asked one repayment "pay it forward". I'm going to. Damn it, when I'm given an acceptance or opportunity, I won't need to search. I'm wanting people who may read this to above all else, just keep in mind the person they engage with here. The Harpy Cove, a literal group of users that have rallied for awful purpose, work to tear down the lives of people, and I'm one targeted. I don't know who else they do, but they seem honest they they do it to exact "payback". They still take very small shot, after nearly TWENTY years of my enciting incident. These users are real! I won't name, but they're among this community.

At the end of this post, I am finally winding back to say this is vent. Not a PSA. I needed to get it off my chest. Not compel behavior. My friend's fate, if you will, rests outside my view and well outside my reach. At least for now.

When they ask for help, and that's help I can practically (in practice not intention) give, I will. They have my heart. Their presence, memory and absence is on my mind.

If you strongly feel you know who these people are, keep that to the business you are a part of. I hope you'll be the donor, and if not, I hope that if you need help, and someone offers it, you'll be given the grace of the donor that helped me, and not be given a harpy attack. It seethes me people like the Harpy Cove exist. That they exist primarily upon this vengeful petty and enduring negativity. That they justify what they do, and are so deluded they think it what "anyone in" their "place would do". These people are why less people get help they need.

*sigh* That was alot to write, so I KNOW that was alot to unpack. I know these people's names, every one of them. I also feel confident, if they read this, they'll know I'm walking about them. I also believe those that interract with these people, whether in past, or future, will be able to figure out. Most of you won't, and that's okay. Truly, literally literally, that's not a bad thing. It doesn't matter who these people are, it matters that you know I said they exist and what I told of them, you can be aware of, as I view them. They are not unique. Well..they are unique, but they're plights or attitudes or actions aren't. That's really the thing I end up on, is to use this information I've written, to also go back and read, if only I read it again. To remember to trust, and care, and allow myself to take risks, because I do want to have community that I love, and love is a verb, a verb of active involvement.

Lastly, this is a vent. I needed to put it to page and leave the rest to thought without words. I am in mourning, and the person I mentioned earlier, whom I never knew as much as person...they still haven't returned to RPoL, I mourn for them still.

*sigh* /vent
facemaker329
member, 7450 posts
Gaming for over 40
years, and counting!
Fri 12 May 2023
at 06:05
  • msg #1096

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

This is an old vent, but circumstances reminded me of it and I found it gnawing at my mind again.  So, here's to getting it out of my head and into cyberspace so I can leave it behind for a while...

That one time when I was 'let go' from a freelance writing job, because I used Oxford Commas and double-spaced after periods.  They tried to tell me that it was costing them extra to have someone go back through my work and remove them...and I said, "You aren't paying me anywhere near enough for me to try and teach myself to type differently."

I don't regret that decision.  I mean, the friend who lined me up with the job left the company before I did, although she didn't explain why...but given my experience, I'm guessing poor management.  I mean, I submitted a writing sample to get the job.  If my double-spaces were a 'firing offense', they should have said so when they got the sample, not after I'd already done five or six assignments for them.

You can have my double-spaces and Oxford Commas when you pry them from my cold, dead hands...
V_V
member, 1063 posts
Event: Arrival
Horizon: May 5th
Thu 18 May 2023
at 01:19
  • msg #1097

Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

I'm still unsettled, but plateaued at concerned but not worrying.

First I'm glad I'm not triple posting! I always feel like a heel when I do.

My vent is a gaming vent (yay!) but one that I know has solutions, and common ones at that. Still, I know it's a <i>Common<i>(?) problem, that many GMs face. That is, really being drawn into more game ideas than I can feasibly sustain. Like lifting beyond my weight class, having a few games feels great at first, but after the two month rep, I just total fail.

I saw a game in the GM wanted ad that I'd love to run, but don't have time to. It helps (truly) that they want faster pace.

2nd vent. New roommate is sick. They have Norovirus. Nothing can be done but wait. I JUST moved! JUST moved! They're part time, and so even in comparison to my minuscule social security, they make a few hundred less each month. They had a traffic ticket they paid early this month. They saw the doctor three times (which is how I think they GOT sick this time!). Finally, they hadn't paid the auto insurance for this or last month. Back full circle, they're sick, and so going to miss work. There's no doubt they will have a job. Their work is public sector, and they have support that validates their misses timed. It's still unpaid time off though.

I haven't been able to move out of storage, it's a few hundred to move, and I can't physically move the few big items. At all. These big items are in the flippin' front of the unit; which actually makes sense, loading a truck is done like that. No matter, I can't access my things.

Cultist mother sent me a some wal-mart groceries and microwave; without being asked. That's all good. The bad is separate but still strings attached. She's just trying to bribe me to have a hook to "convert" me though, which involves over an hour of listening to the lines (that I'm enured to) and this is each. and. every. instance. She helps.

Case worker (from the County Mental Health) has flaked on me for almost four weeks. I need food pantry!

My social security card and birth certificate were stolen, right under my watch, by my old friend Anne's family. Long story short, I stayed there for a time, and when I did, I expected to reenter to get my things; when going to live in the car. (I've been homeless for 13-14 months, prior to this April). When mvojg into the car, I wasn't "Allowed" to get my things. They just "gave" them. Well, lucky me, they looked through my documents, and to be petty (father is a literal. Literally literally. Actually Literal psychopath.) witheld my documents. Aforementioned case worker is like "no biggie, just replace them" biggie? yes! It costs something and requires parallel id. I was homeless.

Well, my driver's license needed renewing. I was GOING to, but literally had to float finances with new roommate. WE were in a tight spot, and so I accepted their baggage as they accepted mine. Still, I can't drive. More importantly, I have very little time before the license is <i>canceled<i>. That means I'll have to take the driving test, which I can do, but no one wants to be at that point.

Pretty much my cultist mother, and online friends, are the only voices not saying "No big deal!". Pisses the fruit out of me! My CASE WORKER is saying this. Knowing I have Anxiety, and trying to go longterm perspective. Aggravating me further. Yes, when I'm stable it won't be a big deal. Yes. Right now, right now, I'm covering all this, my own costs, AND other people's unnecessary penalties.

Roommate is going to the grocery, even though she's sick, and when she does I'll have some cups to drink from. almost a month, we've been drinking from paper cups. Got some plastic cups delivered by my mother's donation, but they has a plastic taste, and strong one! So definite NOT...I forget the term...BP free? Basically a fine dust of plastic in them, and that made me sick. Ran them in the dishwasher, and dishwasher leaks, like big time. Fine, at least they're clean. Yes....but melted. Not dishwasher safe. *facepalm* So back to paper cups.

Once I have a cup, I'm taking some serious anxiety medicine. I had started this ona gaming vent, but then like a caked up block of mud all this just "fell out".

I don't think it's worth comparing one stressor to another, but with OCD I find myself doing it anyway. Not sure which is worse, case manager not...managing my case, by getting food pantry items; or the other above mentioned things. OF course it's "no big deal" if I'm floating the bill. I'm 40, my roommate is going on 44. I should not have to let her use the car, that I bought, for her to use for work, and then not be upset she blew $300 on a defaulted ticket. The ticket WAS for $150, but it was compounded. Not to mention....not to mention in this case will be literally true. Suffice to say ticket was when police showed up to hit and run, on MY vehicle, and my roommate hadn't paid the freakin' insurance. So car never got body work, and thus is exposed to elements, never followed up with the police to get the footage of the incident, AND has ticket against my credit. *sigh* Mentioned. So noted. TRied to remove myself, prior to the incident from insurance, but I own the car, and come to find o[ut, just having me as the primary driver AND AND AND...big AND her ON POLICY (which many people erroneously won't do)...it's still cheaper than her on her own policy. Alone.

That's it though. I have a roof over my head. There's plumbing problems, and mold is starting to grow, but I hope that will get fixed ASAP. Have a flushing toilet, gas stove, normal refrigerator, fireplace, central air, gym, and some other perks. I'm glad for those. Again though, not a competetion. Bad is bad. Good is good. Sad though, OCD has no problem disregadring that "competetition". I'm practicing being grateful for what I have. It genuinely, in good times and bad, makes me realize I have agency in my lifestyle. Very few, very few (not no!) people have anything but hard times. I am grateful for having survived through seriosu ordeals. I look at myself in the mirror, and while I'm gnarly looking, I'm proud of myself. Most of the time, I feel like I'm playing the cards I'm dealt. I've been pushed to points I had to choose to live. I make that choice more often than I have since I was was in my abusive home as a youth and young adult. Never in my adult life have I had to be such a lead singer in a small choir for my advocacy to live.

Bit too deep, but I have to get it out, like emotional dry heaving. I called a crisis line and volunteered I wanted to live. That pretty much went from "I hear you I want to help" to "Welp. Sounds like you called the wrong number then. Call us back if that changes." The man's exact words were "I'm so glad you want to live. At the end of the call" which was five minutes into this call he said this "That's all I need to hear. Take care and stay strong" *click* I do understand they are swamped, and I'm not resentful of people that may be helped that are on the verge. These lines are swamped. I just really got a match lit to the fuse that, if I didn't want to live, I wouldn't. Thankfully that spark didn't light the fuse. Felt horrible for days, just solid five days, getting straight up canceled by the crisis line.

Roommate literally, within seconds of writing that, triggered my bank to lock my account. They entered my PIN, rather than as credit, to pay for the damn groceries like cups. So now I have to unlock my fucking bank account! REally...just brimming with Chagrin.

I thought that was it. Literally was going to type "I think that's it" and it would have felt good. Jesus! *sigh*

Edit: (Nothing has been removed) I had karma like experience in a span of...can't see the time stamp of this post, I think an hour. I call a former friend to ask for some money. They're very snitty, and make me feel worse. I regret calling them, but am grateful I distanced myself from them, and am reminded. They call me back, which I think "Wow..." just a moment of considering their turning over a new leaf. They were not driving while I was on the phone with them, they were out with "friends" at a restaurant. They call to ask for a ride. Which I was thinking they were taking a piss with me. No. They got in bad collision, not paying attention to the road. Car is totaled, Mark (ex-friend's name) is fine. Victim is okay (as much as he cared to check in with them). He's waiting for police, but it's dark and he's got not cigarettes. These are his priorities. I'm a bit flat and confused wtf made him think I could help him. So he goes on the offense, full on typical pain that Mark is. That's the kind of person he is. Blames ME for the wreck. I rail him. Just...no...when I was on the receiving end for asking, not demanding, not 20 minutes prior, he was mean, and derroagatory. One of the few times I will say; I was actually proud of myself for chewing him out. I try to distance myself from ever being vindictive, but but he's a narcissist and having the mentality to keep his straight was necessary for my own mental well being. Felt good. Sucks to be him. Probably sucks more for whomever he hit who I have no idea. Unless it makes news, I'll never know. I railed him though. He went for the throat with underhanded hurtful and derrogatory narcisistic tactics and I shut his ass down like a 2 ton hydraulic press. At one point he says "I'm just going to hang up if you can't get your shot straight" so I hang up. HE calls me back and yells "Don't fruiting hang up on me". I'm fuming, but high as can be from the relief he can be predator on me, and just highly amused. Literally could not stifle or even soften the laughter as I just hang up up on him in mid tant rum. He calls me back, and I pick up. I fire off a zinger, and then hang up. He starts texting me, which I think is a very telltale sign he's narcisist, because I can read what he's said. 10 minutes later, or 10 months later and see objectively this what kind of person he is. He blows my phone up, but I don't block him. I'd prefer to have some ammunition in case he tries to sabotage my relationships with other people, to try to be predator on me again. After ten minutes of silence, not more text beeps. The phone rings, it's my mother. She ordered me a microwave. Which is nice, but then Mark calls. So I use that audible silence, as my mother is keenly aware of the muting that occurs in speech when another call comes in. I get off the call with her, and tell Mark to "MAke your words count. I'm blocking you. Now and forever" and he then plays the victim. I put him on hold, and admittedly, that part I feel scummy about, because I pretended like I was thinking about helping him. I get my recording going and continue the conversation. He's cold, he's hungry (he just flippin ate an hour ago!) he really just "needs" a ciagrette and I "ahve nothing better to do" HE says, and this part is verbatim "V, seriously. We both know it. You have nothing better to do. You have no life. I've got to get to work tomorrow. You're unemployed" not true. In my six years of working I did more work than he has his entire life. I'm, disabled. He has disability too, legitimately, but can work part time. He goes on "Last I checked you've got your shot straight, so I'll tell you what. Okay? All is good. When you get the car, come get me, we can get some cigarettes. I'll my insurance. WE can go back to your place. You wanna play cards? We haven't done that in years. We can talk abotu this stuff. You're right. I need to get a lot of stuff off my chest. I wasn't going to say anything, but you've really been burden on this relationship, and I really just want to chill out, smoke and take it easy. I don't need you to apologize. It's not a big deal. I knwo you have your issues. I forgive you man. Brother, I forgive you. You gotta make this right though. Come pick me up. This is like the fourth time I've asked. Nicely. Don't make me ask a fifth time" I told him I'd send him a taxi. I'm not. His friends he went out to eat are just like him. They too have no emotional attachment, and use him, because he wants to use them and their social status. So let him wait an hour, two, ten. I don't care. He can call them. I didn't block him, but I'm done. It felt good to go to the ring and go my five rounds, but I'm calling the match here. I'm not going another five rounds of his crap. When I think about asking him for help, when I feel desperate, I'm going to read the texts, I'll have to. That will remind me that I am better having parted ways, and to never question the legitimacy of that.

I'm never going to be glad thousands of dollars of damage are done, to anyone's property. It's not my problem though. I take solace he's getting payback for being such a louse. Literally less than an hour after berating me, now he needs something. Tough.
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V_V
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Thu 29 Jun 2023
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Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

When an addict becomes ready and able to slough off their vice, and is prepared to repeat this struggle, it's a moment of celebration. Any addict, however, knows this is the beginning, and it takes only relapse to lament.

This morning, I took one small step in drug abuse. I have a prescription for an anti-anxiety medicine. I can take up to 3 in a day. I previously, before my doctor upped it, could take up to 2. She (my doctor) upped it to an occasional 3. It's an "as needed" and some days I need zero. Most days I need 2, often though I can take just one and think I'll need more, but don't.

I did this abuse prior, but effectively it became prescribed, so the behavior has been acted upon before. That's how my doctor (among many other factors) decided to up it to 3. Because a couple times I took 3 even though I knew I wasn't prescribed that.

It's a powerful drug. It's very common as an illicit drug. However, in Japan it can be purchased without a prescription. So "powerful" may be seen like aspirin. Too much aspirin can really mess you up. As we all know, aspirin also shouldn't be given to those going through puberty.

This is the tragedy, what I'm about to say.

My doctor has all but said explicitly, there's almost nothing more she can do for my anxiety. Short of getting admitted to in patient care---which I tried to do, but was deemed unfit--this is about the absolute maximum cocktail (I take four regular medicines for neurological disorders and mental health. So the tragedy is, is I don't curb this habit, and learn some days it's just going to feel crushing...if I don't curb this...I will be so much worse off.

Literally as I was writing the above, I had knock on my door. My literal front door. I have to post in another thread to link this in serendipity. I was pretty much finished with this post, when the knock came. That's all I was going to say. Then the knock came, and it was...it helped. Little things help so much when you're so very easily slipping.
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Hunter
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Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

I looked into some discord based role plays.....wow, do I feel old.  :(
WhiteComic
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Sat 15 Jul 2023
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Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies

I recently began my fitness journey two months ago. I was doing great; changed my diet and even started getting better at keeping my routine. Well, last week, I had a very loud and obvious pop happen during my workout 7 days ago in my knee. I immediately got an x-ray done, ultrasound, and MRI all this week and got the results this morning. I tore my ACL and medial meniscus and will need surgery. I'm just frustrated that I didn't get better news and now my recovery will be pushed much longer than expected, putting me out of work for a good while and off my routine for a very long time.
redkommie
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Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

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redkommie
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Sun 16 Jul 2023
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Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

I guess my character to the gms weren't accepted.  I stated some things, and replied with the reason I had assumed something.  They had said I could ask questions in the ooc, which I was going to do, only to be moved to a group with no access, and seemingly removed from the game without a "Sorry, you aren't A proper fit."

I get it, just venting as I was looking forward to fixing any problems.  must be a me that was the problem.

Oh well
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facemaker329
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Thu 27 Jul 2023
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Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

I don't mind being loaned out to another department at work.  I get it...the project involves expertise that I don't necessarily have, but I've got way more experience at that kind of stuff than just about anyone else (scenic art, for the curious...)

But for the love of all that's even remotely holy, would it kill those guys to get specifics on what they need before they turn me loose on it?  I've been working on it for a week and a half, now...because of other work that's going on in the space, everything I'm doing has to be done after hours, so after working my regular job for several hours, I've been putting in anywhere from three to seven additional hours on this every night that I didn't have other commitments to attend to.

A third of what I've been working on, it turns out, isn't even usable, because the space it was going to occupy MUST be left clear.  That should have been made known right from the off...don't tell me to create some kind of screening piece to hide something from view if there's only a few inches of clearance between the item to be hidden and moving equipment around it!

On top of that, the work I've already done needs to be redone, because what I've installed is too tall, and obscures the view of people who need to be able to see what's happening.  Again, information I should have had back at Square One.  Now, instead of being able to easily attack the problem from any angle I find convenient, I'm having to try and work with very limited access because the material I need to alter has already been secured in place.

I've said it before, and I'm sure I'll say it again, because it seems to be a consistent pattern in my life...I get REALLY annoyed when I end up with extra work due to someone else's failure to do their job correctly...
SunRuanEr
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Sun 30 Jul 2023
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Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Woke up this morning to find the sewer lift station for my residence had ceased working overnight (if you aren't familiar with one of these darned things, feel lucky) - and of course, it's early in the morning on a Sunday. Of course, for added bonus, it's my kids' birthday and the party now has to be cancelled because I can't have a house full of people with no working bathrooms.

/beats head on desk repeatedly
Hunter
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Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Having more good applications for a game than you can reasonable sustain.    Yeah, sometimes I just hate saying no....
Hunter
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Wed 23 Aug 2023
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Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

And so, that'll make three "blockbuster" movies this year that I've seen that are flops.  Of the two most recent, both Michael Bay and James Cameron need to go back to school.   Flashy special effects DO NOT MAKE UP FOR A LACK OF STORY.

There.  Much better.
GreenTongue
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Wed 23 Aug 2023
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Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

HGTV Remodel shows! Need I say more?
V_V
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Wed 23 Aug 2023
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Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Two former friends of mine, independently it seems, have developed cancer. This isn't going where you (rightfully) probably think it is.

The latter, the lesser, the one I am more ambivalent about and whom will take second place to the major source of this vent, but nonetheless be mentioned, is dying of lung cancer. Which sucks, I'm not comforted by this, but at the same time, he smoked ALOT. Took pride in the fact he "knew the costs and was smarter" because he "'only' got addicted because he smoked for a minor acting bit" which, again, I get. What I don't get is he's bitching because no one cared enough to tell him it was bad for him. Dude in 46 years old. Like I didn't drive his ass up and down the KC metro, didn't pick him up for work, didn't sit outside for four god damn hours so he could smoke and "game" (an excuse to get to pick him up to get fags, as he had no wheels). He also blames his diabetes on all who knew him, while he was overweight, working at KFC and gmaing among other 20 somethings. Dude wanted an intervention but didn't get the memo that we also cared about each other enough to not mooch or steal or scam or guilttrip or all that. We, the others of us did in good voice, say it was going to catch up to him. We said it with smile, and respected his choice, but apparently it is now "on" our "head". Guy lied, apparently, for decades about a life he had as a youth. Only came clean when he had his first girlfriend at 38, and got his heartbroke. He'd told the smooth lie he was friends with strippers, so, yeah we figured, THAT was a lie, but surely he'd dated, even if awkwardly. I mean, I have had had three girlfriends and one boyfriend my entire life; counting the littlest to the biggest in the same number. Anyway, he went vegan for the girl. Said it had nothing to do with anything but wearing doublet. Which he said he liked on Dr. Who; and then got upset people knew both what doublet was and why that was "pretty normal" to want to fit into an iconic garment. I never, even now, saw a Dr. Who episode but know the outfit from clips. It's a nice garment, but it's the man who made the garment work. So this is a very attention seeking person, who in 2012 said he was (and I quote) "Going to burn down the world, to end all this fighting, and then when I've seen it all go to ash see whose god is right and wrong" and then liked the his own post on facebook. A couple people liked it too, and that was just "proper" <name>. All this together now though and he's burning down bridges that were decommissioned over ten years ago. I received a facebook text in late February and then again in March for my birthday, and again in April, his birthday and again in June, his sister's birthday, and...I don't use facebook. The e-mail it's connected to is my authentication only e-mail. So I don't even, nor ever did, read "sauch and such updated their" whatever but yeah... he's pissed, and it's mostly due to me. I think because he got mads I didn't even read it, and he overthought that I was somehow readzing it and making it seem unread. No, I just don't use facebook. I went on their to contact a high school church friend and saw the messages.

Segue to the main villain. about eight years ago, my Uncle died. Hit me hard. Still hurts now. Mark, his name (Edit: only one I'm justifying. Mark is a former friend. My Uncle's name is Woodrow. Woodrow plays only a point fo reference the rest is about Mark and people MArk and I both knew.. so "Mark was...was?), was GMing a PF game. I joined. He wanted me to GM.  I figured, sure, I help you GM. He wanted to call all the shots, so I said "why don't I just play" I did, and then the game devolved into him making critical mistakes that led to PC deaths, but then he'd invoke hand of god to undo the deaths. This was fine for a couple deaths, but then it became a farse, to him as well. After about the ninth time it wasn't even funny, we got back to business, but he was like  a 3 year old that enjoyed killing our characters, which was irritating but he worked it out. Finally, we end the module. It's all fine, but then he totally goes off the rails, because he wants to introduce his own custom PC. Not cool, but fine. So I quit. I was asked to GM, the game was fair, we wanted to be the only GM, so I played. Then he wanted to play in his own game. That was it for me. So I wasted that night and the next week on other activities, but then came back. To hang out. I'd quit, but (I thought!) it was just a difference of game preference, not big deal. The game isn't hosted. It's been killed says the player that worked at the LGS. So I chat and he wants to play, so I start my own game, a D&D 3.5 game, same night as MArk's was. Great, now no conflict. Mark comes back and sees my game, he says his game isn't dead./ I congratulate him and ask about it. Then he ona dime turns and says he needed to cool off. I'm assuming it got complicated. No. He ended the game, by his own admission becausew the gods were angry at what my character became. Bit creepy, but sure, it's his game, it was throw away character sure. Well, the other players took the two weeks as notice to vacate. Mark is starting the game back up. I sort of scoff it off. I have no overlap. it's PF and D&D 3.5. I can also just do alternate weeks. No. Mark skips when I do. So screw it. I make mine three times a week. He makes his thre times a week, but half of these poore players time is spent improvising what's happening at my table. So my group moves to the other side of the store. Little by little, his players defect and I say "Hey, look, I get you are put into this like a pit fight, but I'm not up for a nine person game. I will, however, be fine to call you when someone drops" I've been on RPoL for years even then. This is disappointing, like being the last to ;opewn the pizza box, b ut they didn't miss a rocket, it's a small short term 1st to 20th game. It would last five months. It was fine, no one, no one looked back and missed that time one way or the other. No one but Mark.

I play cards with Mark a few times, and he complains about his life. I listen but have little to comfort him. So we play cards. Then he tells me I don't understand, how my life is perfect and...I just stop him there. I correct him that life sucks for a lot of people. He is living, 32 years old, off his parents paying his rent. My mother is in a cult. My father sold my belongings like a junkie would their parents. This was exactly the opposite. His parents were supporting him. My parents were predators on me. Everything I had I worked one way or another to accrue. He kicks me out. I remind him I need my cards. He says "they're mine now" and calls the cops. At least he seems to. Dials three digits and talks to a voice. So I go outside. I wait. I wait. I wait. No police. So I go back and knock. "Mark, I need my cards. You can even pack them and hand them to me" he turns on Major Tom, and "In the army now" and stands in front of the window, blinds open, volume so loud the doors, plural are vibrating and his neighbors come out, They see me first, and I see them. I just shake my head and walk aout. They, reasonably,. ask
"Wtf?" The moment I do, the nod, in unison, as ifd this is MArk's like, MO. God I'd hate to have ever been his roommate. So I go home. I get in my car to leave and I see him saluting the...sky? as the music blares and he winks at me and gives me a rude finger. So I write it off. This si about eight years ago. I call a mutual friend and they "inherit" my cards through smooth play of "suping up the decks" and then gfive them to me. LAmost ayear passes and Mark sees me at the same LGS. Nothing, in his mind has occurred. Now he works there though. So he pulls an atttitude when I try to buy a card, and then another employee literally ejaculates the full utterancxe of "WTF! Mark!" and proceeds to bruish MArk off and and get my long list of cards. Mark corrects (or thinks he is) about what MTG card I want. No. I DO want meddling Mage. Not mage's duel.  The deck I'm making clearly makes a $1000 deck. No one was confused. MAybe MArk was just playing game of Chaos. No idea. I leave, and he walks after me, I /parfked WWAAAAY far away. Bar is next to LGS, have (at the time!) a decent car I like. So I want to avoid the drunks. Mark tags after me, and I'm loaded down, so I slow to let him catch me, and not like run off. He apologizes for having to correct me; that it was "my bad" (his bad) that he shouldn't tell me how to make the deck. He'd just thought I'd want the cards I own. This is another indication of the distorted reality. In his mind buying singlees was only "allowed" if you pulled it from a pack. This is not a law. I haven't played with him in months, but all throughjout playing MTG, I /always made constructed casual decks. I  had no reason to limit myself to the wizard lotto. He argues how he's technically right, and I nod and say I'm techncially late. I'm going to a party and it's my party, II REALLY need to go...now. He says "WELL! If yyou have to go that quick I guess I won't call you!" the yyou and caps was intentional. That was his outburst and him assigning punishment.

So I go on. about 18 months later he's at the store again, because I'm not regular, I arrive. He no longer works there, but "volunteers" to get attention from people to be imp;ortant...or more likely for tax free stroe credit. Either way, verified not on the payroll. I beeline for m,utual friend. This mutual friend is with MArk, so I cut he conversation sweet but short, and go to get my WoW card traded for cash. MArk says "You have dragonrider!" I blink and relfexively just ignore him "LEt me see it" I move my hand with it out the way. Employee tgakes the card MArk reaches over, and THANKFULLY, employee has it and gives MArk a "Don't make me get the spray bottle" expression. It goes on their book for $600. I take the $200 bid near $300, I can't haggle it there but I get close. I think $270. I take it in cash. Mark is now entranced by whaever card I sold, to the store that got ME that money and so is worth far more. I talk to the mutual friend. WE really lose track of Mark, and I sit down to play cards. I'm really enjoying this mutual friend's time. MArk comes back and this friend says "LEt's all play!" his friend "will join us and I'll run Naxoramos." Three yeses, MArk shrugs. "Nah" So we look for fourth. Mark then says, as we'rve got our fourth "I didn't say no. I say Nah. NOT the same thing" Awkard but mutual friend wants to appease Mark. I basically hammer in on the negatives to deter the new joiner from staying. I'm trying to enjoy the company of my friend, his friend, and this new guy or Mark, it's up to my friend. So I clear the seat. We play. It goes well! Back to cards every month. Mark and I suture things back up. My sister is in the hospital and so is her then infant. I'm told last minute, no warning, that both arer undergoing a spinal tap. My friend and roommate sunk $1000 into a scam artist. I'm suicidal. I admit this, and Mark says "You can call me anytime you need to" I should not have. Weeks later, I do. This is fiasco. Just as bad as it gets. Not as bad as the harpy cove on RPoL, whose motivation was to get create game to pressure me to suicide, but the web always has the worst cowards in their supposed Sifu Tai Chi master of more professions than batman typical troll. Next to the M&M game from hell, this was the worst point. The one and only time I tied a knot in preparation.

This is the second to last straw. Years would pass, I think three, and Mark and I meet at the LGS. He's gone totally bald, got a job asa schoool bus driver and seems chill. I figure "Awesome! He's got his meds. I've got mine. We can go back to the way things were" this is partly true. I'm apparently his backup. I find this out fater weeks of him ;canceling for our mutual friend. I give up on him, until he contacts me on steam, he saw I playged 7000 hours in Fallout 4 and wants to know how I made it "show you played that many hours" I todl him "I DID play that many hours" he laughs and I nod in front of my monitor. I go to play Fallout 4. He messages me what mods I have. Topical, safe conversation. It's a grazing type of conversation. Then he talks about RL shit. I /shbut him down. I tell him why. He goes quiet. I go on with my life. He messages me and says "I"m still heeeeere" and I ignore him. We're coming ton a point in my life where Christmas is approaching. I have fireworsk in Fallout 4 for my rooommate casting to my 4k TV.  It's a small thing just to have something for NEw Years, we share our first kiss, just as friends, and it's nice. Things are pleasant.

I have my home in a fire. I move into motel for one month. I get new place with insruance. My friend (not the same mutual friend at the LGS) spend 30 grand, $30,000 on stupid stuff. I get evicted since she has Covid. I move. I get evicted because she lies about the rent being paid by charity. I am homeless. I get us mental health, I get us lodging. I arrive here, where I am currently, having a crappy, but sheltered and electric home.

Mark then has his birthday roll around. This is the big reveal. He has cancer, three kinds. Skin Cancer from never wearing sun screen and having weekly sunburns already out of the way, not counting that. He has throat cancer. No idea on that. That just sucks! Man never did snuff, never smoked, never drank much. HE also has the most advanced colon cancer, and then also it spread his...honestly...I don't even remember. Same pathology of TB though, The streamer, not the John Green hot topic.

Mark writes the kind of vitriol to me in a DM as his manifesto, all focused around my short comings and his hatred of me. He latches onto my 7000 hours of Fallout 4 and that;s where things left for him. How everything, somehow, was thanks to him. Like the most lazy and transparent guilttrip. That has nothing to do with him having cancer. Except he's "going to die anyway". I'm visibly disturbed my roommate, now just buddy, pulls me away and I just close out.

Mark has apparently done this to many many other people. I only know this by putting together what he's cryptically said in our chats about Fallout. That mutual friend came out, and Mark disowned them. Publicly bashed them...and then ffelt alone. In his words "Everyone was fine in Lockdown for Covid. For me. Unlike everyone else. Lockdown was hell" so he reached out, but then edited his message, since I was MIA. I had logged on to Fallout 4, but I was always offline, because I was on a Motel ISP. So there was no point to even try to game. I also dived deep into SP games. Well, my hours clocked added up and he deducted I was avoiding him. Sort of true. He is an ass. Mostly though, not talking to anyone on Steam. No reason. I could barely keep up on RPoL. In fact, come to think of it, I haven't played GMed at all since late 2021 early 2022. At least not on RPoL. So yeah...even to people I stayed in contgact with, it was just workshoping and mostly...chatting.

Mark has no one. His parents figured a 40 year old man with cancer needed a different wake up call than a 32 year old man with aspirations. Mark lashed out at them and they cut ties with his toxicity. Mark alienated a friend over their identity, and not whon they are, more importantlyy their very overlying similar interests. Then...worst case, me, the pitiful back up...didn't even go online to let him message the back up. So he just regressed back to the that point with the cards and calling the police.

I'm reminded of Outsider by Perfect Circle. Looking back he was always that way. Always. I was naive. Even now, I'm naive, for my age and cultural access. It's clear though, he just wants attention. He's just burned the bridges that benefited him, to spite us, and we work perfectly well not going to his island. Now, rather than making smoke signals as hailmary, he lobs futile flaming rot that has no hope of hitting us so far removed from him. Kat, the friend of mine, the person I only name now, I miss them. I am...just gutted they got the first and strongest direct hit. Kat liked Mark. Kat and Mark have SO much in common. Kat was tempermental, but MArk is volatile. Just explosive. And POSSESSIVE!

He owns, in his mind, everything but his own actions. I lookm at this long, rambling, typo laden rant and just see in front of me the mountain I traversed. I'm not happy with it, in  this rant or in long version. It reasonably marks Mark in time, as a point in my stubbornness and perseverance that I have to see, and can't allow the fact it's not edited, ikt's not 100% unbiased, it's..a vent...deter me from posting this just...ridiculous, but necessary load and putting only half the stamps needed to ship and saying "Eh, that'll do".

A lot of very toxic people had an impact on me. I let them affect my relationships with people who left a good impact. Which is likea lighting good brew to the flame of a rubbing solvent. Just such a waste. 1108. Close enough to what I'll remember. This vent is one that I hope I'll not ever want to come back to. I think I may just yet. In this year of winter, and coming spring.

Thankfully, if you read this all. That's the end.
OBorg
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Thu 24 Aug 2023
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Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Gorram it why does my writers muse always wait until nearly midnight before showing up?
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facemaker329
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Fri 25 Aug 2023
at 06:06
  • msg #1111

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

My job would be so much easier if people would just put all their crap together at the end of the season...

I was informed this afternoon that someone had misplaced some masking pieces (a few of our set pieces are reversible, but they don't want the backside noticed by the audience--they start out with the backside facing the audience, get spun around to create a set, and then the covers are removed before they get spun around again to create a different set), and so they needed new ones made.  Victim of my own success, I guess...they had someone else make them last year, but those kept ripping until I went in and reinforced the points that would rip...so I had to find the big roll of fabric, roll it out on the stage floor (because we don't have ANYTHING big enough to fit that roll on, as far as a table goes), measure out and cut four pieces...

I'm a middle-aged man.  Getting down on the floor is nowhere near as enjoyable as it used to be...

And then, to top things off, after I carried those four pieces (plus a couple I needed for another project) to another building where I have more room to work (and functional AC), I PROMPTLY FOUND THE MISSING PIECES, sitting on top of a stack of scrap material.  Why they were put on a scrap pile instead of folded up and stored with the rest of the stuff for that show, I have no idea.

The good news is, I found them before I started sewing the new ones.  The old ones are made from heavier material that will hold up to wear and tear a LOT better.  The bad news is, I now have four panels of material that are 40" wide by 9' long...material that could likely have been used for something else, and didn't need to be cut AT ALL...just because someone didn't say, "Oh, these were custom built to fit on those, maybe we should store them in the same place..."  By the time all was said and done, that was also a little over an hour of time that was wasted.
Ostof
member, 6 posts
Boundary observant,
proponent of common sense
Sat 26 Aug 2023
at 15:49
  • msg #1112

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Ugh...so OVER players not paying attention to not only what other players have written, but to what **they** THEMSELVES wrote, in their prior post!

And then blaming the other players for the information *they* missed?

I realize Adulting can be hard, but c'mon....paying attention to what's happening in the game ***IS*** the game!

</vent>
BFink
member, 93 posts
Sat 26 Aug 2023
at 17:27
  • msg #1113

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Every time I hit the mountains, the first thing I do is look for a proper staff. Not a walking stick - a proper long, heavy staff. It usually takes some time to find one and fine-tune it so that it works as expected.

And today, while I was taking a break during my 20-mile trek at a local cafe, someone stole my staff. Sure, I left it by the entrance because carrying it inside would be rude. But still - it was not just some stick lying in the forest, so why would anyone think they can simply grab it?
V_V
member, 1101 posts
Event: Departure
Horizon: March 3rd, 2033
Wed 30 Aug 2023
at 09:40
  • msg #1114

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Finally found the "receipts" for those that thought "we can't take one" misrepresenter's "words over" mine. My S.S. game has all the receipts, so read them. Yeah, scone you making faces at me. Weigh on the ACTUAL receipts. Unnecessary my ass! I ADDED to the OP. Proof is there if you can gain the willpower to look it up. I have a track record that isn't perfect, but that's a huge success of mine. The reason for hiatus was that I had to go the neurologist people! I also quoted everything Crying Fowl said. It's been time stamped since 2019. So scone you for not doing the five minutes, at most, check to see I wasn't BSing. Yeah, maybe "anon" was only at fault of misremembering, but no, proof shows in 2019 what did and didn't happen.

If you read this far, replace "scone" with "shame on". I know what I was mad, and if you read this far, you know to cool off too.

I was personally attacked. I am vindicated by ACTUAL receipts. Don't bandy words you don't understand. Certainly don't juxtapose  "I won't judge" immediately invalidated with passing thinly veiled castigation. You just sound like Zoltun Kulle to everyone else in the Vesica Pisci of D&D 3.5 and DIII community.

This is the mirror I cast to the face you made at me.
Zoltun Kulle:
Small minds, small goals. I won't judge *laughs*.


Which is a verbatim quote from Diablo III. That's how your juxtaposition feels and appears to those in the know. Everyone who is in the circle of D&D 3 to 5 and in between knew I got called out. I can't name you, but you and I, and most here, are intelligent enough to see who and what you are. Acting like you know the world that I set the stage of. At least you had other points to make. Some of the others that chimed in I praised. I also wasn't "tweaked". Please refer to msg #=(Dirty Number-1)

Think better of taking someone's word...when you don't have to. I'm about facts above feelings. I think both matter, in their own way, but emotions have their own place to evidence. I'm not a fan of the man coined the phrase, in any sense, but wise words spoken by a fool are no less wisdom imparted. Think better of me. Consider it from my position. This wasn't a failed game. This wasn't just success. It was one of my very few grand successes. I've had many in 3.5, but only the one in 4e. Don't take that away from me. I stand to accusations. I think all should. Guilty as charged of innocent to re-appropriate blame.

I'm not done though. Not with RPoL at least. Took me god damn weeks to let it slide, but it hurt, people. Taking a 4e edition game from 1st to 30 is hard enough with an AP. I made a whole world building for it; just one of two in my life. That was my second sun. It fruiting hurt to have "unsurprisingly" been erroneously "prevented from starting" THEY, THEY were welcome to rejoin. I even said this much. They may avoid me, but all I told them was to cool their heels.

The "unsurprising" fact the game "died" is that I had neurological blackouts. As in periods I have no memory of occur. This was the same year I had my pedo brother move in with sister and her kids. In tandem I had a reaction to antibiotics on antidepressants and needed intervention. I went to KU med to have scans. They concluded it was not from a disease or growth. TRhey gave me nothing but medical shrugs. It wasn't until about a year ago, right before I was homeless, I found out it was due to PTSD combined with the drug interaction. It was physical, in that the brain is an organ, but it was chemical signal of my triggers, in my case being hungry (I was starved at a youth, for 14 of my first 24 years of life) made me start to suffer dementia like events.

So surprise. I had a pretty damn unrelated reason for the game "dying" than world building, which true to my word, I got back on track. I just took the only one wanting to transcend forums because 4e really helps with simultaneous reactions and interrupts.

I'm done with this feud though, at least I will be after this post and any fall out. Took me weeks to uncover these--casually discarded without review--receipts. There they are though. Read them or just take opinions as facts. Your choice. I made my point here and CC and in games clear. If you're willing and wanting to apologize, do so by making action indicative of reform.

For the record, I'm not hanging onto to any grudges. With the single exception of the "Mother" harpy, who has no relation to this feud, I don't have grudges for users. Sure, I avoid players over others. I prefer GMs over others, but I don't talk smack arbitrarily. Nor do I deny someone unreliable a chance to change my mind. Please respect, that while you may not need the clarification, my community, they do. If the only necessity of your reply is to invalidate mine, and nothing else. Don't you think that's a bit on the nose?

I'm glad to vent it, and let it go. breath is, breathed out. Let go. I knew people would let it go in their own mind, but my cred speaks, and I care about that. Brash, blunt, and prickly, sure. I'm also honest. I know my faults. I would hope others would turn their own assumptions into inspection. It's a hope, not a request.

Peace. Have fun in your other games. Good luck too.
This message was last edited by a moderator, as it was against the forum rules, at 14:22, Wed 30 Aug 2023.
shinanai
member, 193 posts
Mon 25 Sep 2023
at 14:10
  • [deleted]
  • msg #1115

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

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Smoot
member, 195 posts
Fri 13 Oct 2023
at 10:59
  • msg #1116

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Second game in a year where someone quit because another character just disagreed with theirs. Wasn't even an ugly RP argument, just not thinking the same way.

The kindest way I can put it is that, maybe, non-solo RPGs aren't for them?
This message was last edited by the user at 10:59, Fri 13 Oct 2023.
Yaztromo
supporter, 551 posts
Fri 13 Oct 2023
at 19:34
  • msg #1117

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

I feel tired this Friday. I worked too much and next week won't be better, probably. I'm sure I'm not the only person that can solve that problems.
Silverlock
member, 152 posts
Fri 13 Oct 2023
at 21:11
  • msg #1118

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Two days ago, at a job I'm counting the months of retirement out of, once again a toastie was promoted over 6 other qualified people, and this toastie (think, less bread, more hopping and eating bugs) had only been hired in 2022.  The fallout is that another good worker is leaving the place, after wasting 9 years there.  The employees are demoralised and I'm the dinosaur that has seen everything go on over the past two decades - and I've had to defend my meagre position twice in the last year, while another colleague was turned out to pasture on a disability retirement and NOT allowed to return even to say goodbye.  I, too, am permanently disabled by this job and they've tried rather hard to get rid of me. Talk about a disposable workforce - we are there every day.  And management had to limitless gall to advise us to 'show our worth, show our motivation, in order to get a promotion'.  It didn't matter, every time I went for a promotion, I was left in the dust, despite education, experience, seniority, and loyalty.  Nepotism and kissing up rule.

So, in real language, work harder, for the same pay, and no chance of promotion as all the people in jobs above me are much younger than me.  Well then, I'll 'act my wage' and carry on with my defence of my own employment from those who got the promotions because they can lick boots or are someone's relative.  Counting down.  Too old to go somewhere else now.
V_V
member, 1117 posts
Condition: CovID
Prognosis: TBD
Fri 20 Oct 2023
at 14:46
  • msg #1119

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Trigger warning for trauma. Trigger warning for mawkish outlook.

This is not pleasant, and is more a discharge than a vent. I really...I needed to put this somewhere where people I care about live, even part time. Even for once in a period, or just once. It is a fraud committed that has no recompense. There is no silver lining. I find this not just deep, but to my clarity, a yawning abyss, but deep it is still, and dark, and long and with all that without conclusion, without purpose, just an emptying of the empty husks. This is somewhat vague and it's something I couldn't put into ten nor ten thousand words and it be acceptable to write with any clarity, becasue it is just so...I wrote this to try to really let people know why this long, and as they read this that it has very little value, beyond my own I assign it, and that someone else may have value in. I guess I'll let the original start commence.


I struck a pressure point of my past, and remembered something, a repressed memory, and it truly left me victimized all over again. I cried, and I sobbed, and I tried to call the crisis line, but my phone has no "carrier service" and I tried calling 911 and that didn't work. !FYI this was a few days ago now.

I have good in my life, and so this ugly...no...

[6 blank lines suppressed]

repugnant

[7 blank lines suppressed]

horrid

[6 blank lines suppressed]

skeleton surfaced in the now calming waters.

[8 blank lines suppressed]

If YHWH (Abrahamic Deity) wanted a double or nothing, Lucifer made back losses and then a windfall or plenty more; after betting on the American Roulette Basket of grotesque trials.

[10 blank lines suppressed]

I live on, and have over the last few years, knowing that death will come, as it always will, and one day for me, and I'll cordially accept it. I want to live for this life. I want to live for my time with the few people I have had the good company of. I want to live for frivolous moments. I want to live for the sadness, anger, grief, resentment, and happiness, and charity that I can appreciate while I have a mind know, to remember and to be conscious of.

Sometimes however, I wonder why this life was mine, and yet I owe everyone who ruined it for having it. I didn't ask to be born, and I....sometimes I wonder had I been asked...or should....this life be a sequence in a cosmic pattern of no divine yet still incomprehensibly massive and powerful...and predetermined...........and recurring "life" with variance...if I'd say "no" I'd rather give away every friend's letters, every good samaritan's charity, every dollar I gave a homeless and poor panhandler with sign by the highway asking for help, give away my instrumental healing for my closest friends, my love of the video game Fallout 4, my gaming golden years, my first love and the woman I lost just months after having cold feet to her proposing to me, not because she left, but a reckless driver took her, turn down...just...all of this...all I have...and reroll another character...or just lose the die.

I am here though, and I am asking for help, and I'm telling my doctors about my thoughts, and I'm doign what I can, and I'm hoping I just dumb, and can't make sense of what it easy to comprehend, and that's why no one's advice makes sense.

Sometimes...like...often times....very sobering lonely and silent hours...I wonder if I am not just a fool with creative artist talent, but among the smart, and so there are few that could be smarter than I, so I have to be my own council and live by ancient yet enduring philosophy. I will be a stoic. I enjoy sensation. I enjoy remembering tragedy, even when out of limelight and current news. The death of Chester Bennington, the death of John Pinette, the death of Alan Rickman. The....love...hope....loss....of my dear Chloe.

I play Fallout 4 often, to pass my months alone. I sometimes talk as if someone were with me, when I'm alone and think how pitiful I am.

[13 blank lines suppressed]

Then, when I've quieted all of that, and I'm ambitious about just cleaning up the tiny apartment of the cardboard boxes, hitting the gym to give myself the chance to pay off the diet debt of years off my life....

And my memory reminds me while I've tresspassed...done wrong, been a bully, been vindictive, and sometimes petty. I am a product....in a way that is amplified from the multiplying negative (toxic) numbers....of people, that -11 by -11 creates a meager 121, but a positive meant to intensify the pain, but through the mutual heinous proclivities, I come out still with hope, and grief, and meaning.


I may be pitiful. Some people may feel I'm done. Some people may rejoice in my misery, some justly vindicated by my own past malice; I'm not just imperfect, I've done bad things, I've been a bad person. MAybe I am a bad person.

This memory though...I...think...think...have to believe why I if asked I did say yes. The skeleton of this re....this trauma laid dormant until I could bury it properly. I wonder in that moment, who that might otherwise have been. I didn't save anyone. These people, they are like lice, and legion. I can say, that whomever this person I never knew and will never know was, is, could have been if not for truly evil people...I can say...smearing tears and my nose running...I knew they were someone, they were my brother or sister. My protector or my fellow, my charge or my friend. They were under the same weight, and they sunk...so deep I lost all sense of them...but I say a few words of thanks, to the unhearing, the unknowing, to the departed. I cry now again. I lay them to rest, in a grave with symbol of critical decision and challenge.

"Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower."

A small reminder of the movies of Harry potter and how the symbol of lily meant something different for me.

I don't dare go diving for more into the dark depths. I just find what solace I can. Knowing there is no silver lining to be had. Knowing that to even look for one, is to err to justify such evil. The hollow cost, the sacrament of the necessary and best  or held by the poorest offered, and yet given to the craven to vicious cycle that I best leave to  to Perfect Circle's approach of the Doomed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDvfbvuJtS8, "the new beatitudes...↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑ the DOOMED!, your on your own!"  being the reward for the meek. Even the decent.

I am alive. In forty years it's likely someone may remember me. In One Hundred Sixty I'll never have existed by all intents and purposes. Terminal goals, and instrumental goals.

I know why I wrote this, I needed to purge this. I know why I made it so public despite being so guarded about the scope and blurring the crime. Someone, perhaps, may see it. I don't know if it will only cause harm, or if someone will see this and think I beckon them to my aid. I hope though, despite the mawkish voice over, that someone who feels worthless, or is suffering in vain, and finds any pleasure with no expense of anyone's pride, comfort, integrity, and most of all safety, saftey of any kind, will read this and not feel they have to justify any terminal goal of pleasure or satisfaction. To know if it brings you some joy, and takes none from others directly, to not feel shame, but enjoy the flickering glow. Whatever darkness you face, it probably isn't fair, but it's not forever. You owe few if any anything you hold dear.

So I pray, not to be heard, but to take the act to hear my appreciation and grief of those that were that glow, are that glow for me, and will light my pyre with that glow at zenith falling downward . I love you, You few that also love me, though none have told me, wrote it nor said it, love is a verb and you do love me. You few. You give me your time, and your company, and your trust, and your dreams and fantasies and art and stories. To me, to have these, from you, that is loving me. I wish those few that truly do this, would tell me that is what they intend to, but I would rather feel it than read it a thousand times, or hear it every birthday, or New Year.

I'll stop. This memory haunts me, but I just have to back away and let this rest. I have no way...to undo...to reverse....to unknow...of these there is no solace for this knowledge, but solace from the knowledge that it has passed. No justice, no mercy, but time takes its toll from all. I'm glad, however that there is no such life eternal. To know this misery was not part of some plan, certainly not all benevolent. Just the free will because we have no choice, and some people can coerce or even brutally terrorize that will into abjection.

*deep breath*

RPoL is a sanctuary for me. I can't...I can,...but I won't....find a better place to memorialize the candle lit. I care when that light went out. I still smell the ask from those...


Thank you for having a vent thread to put this in, that allows us all to leave a burden or a tribute, even in vain. LEave it, and not let it be touched except in the most necessary cleaning and scrubbing. I tried very hard to be candid, but I hope I was not trespassing upon the generosity of this site or this forum or this community of the mods, or any social contract. I weighed this, reviewed it, thoguth hard, despoite it ebing hard enough ti write let alone read. I looked and really slowed my reading to scrunitize if there was a way to discern if this would breech a agreement of conduct. In as few wordsa as I can paraphrase, no mod can tell me whether this is acceptable without seeing it. So...wrote it, and I'm rewriting this part, and I have to just hope, and rely on the consistent latitude. If I broke a rule, I sadly will have to be told what it is. I came here, and do not intend to browse the CC in general. I had to lay something in me. I just have very little traction as it is, and this is the closest to sharing an empty showing of senseless loss.
facemaker329
member, 7481 posts
Gaming for over 40
years, and counting!
Fri 17 Nov 2023
at 05:05
  • msg #1120

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

'scuse me while I switch on Sarcasm mode for a moment...

I just LOVE it when people get their advance checks returned to them so that they get sent to me a week late.  It's especially enjoyable when they have a project with a fairly tight deadline and the advance is to cover supplies I need to get for their project.  It's even better when my landlord takes my rent check to the bank earlier than usual, so my own personal finances are in such a state that I can't but most of the supplies I need.

It's so conducive to making my holiday season start off in a peaceful, enjoyable manner...

</sarcasm>

They didn't even tell me about the check being delayed.  I had to contact the artistic director to ask if the check had been sent, because I still hadn't seen it...she had to contact the accounting people, who said that they HAD sent the check, but it had been returned, so they were sending it again.  No explanation about why it was returned (which doesn't exactly inspire confidence that it won't get returned AGAIN and sent out yet another week later).  In the meantime, I'm racking up overdraft fees because my landlord jumped the gun (I mean, he IS at his discretion as to when he takes the check to the bank...but considering that he rarely does it before the middle of the month, and he didn't even get last month's check to the bank until the start of this month, I had kind of gambled that he'd follow that pattern...and I lost).

This isn't leaving me in the best state of mind to start the holiday season...
V_V
member, 1125 posts
Destination Critical
Inescaple Velocity
Thu 30 Nov 2023
at 14:19
  • msg #1121

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

Civ 6 still hasn't been fixed for my roommate. So she can't play the game I bought her for  July 2022. Instead she's playing Planet Zoo, but she doesn't have as much fun with it, and wants to watch me play video games more than play herself. She likes it, so it's fine. It just makes me feel bad that she can't play what she wants to. At least she has a nice T.V. to watch Fallout 4 cast on.

It is literally the one, the only, possession that I have after our fire in 2018 that was bought with insurance money. I love the T.V., so I'm glad she can watch it while I play on my PC.




Biggest vent...I may be quitting RPoL...entirely. A lot is stacking up, and I don't know how to juggle it all. I don't want to, but I'm having trouble on the old site, and if the new site gives me more trouble that may be the nail in the coffin before burial of my games.
belovedshadows
member, 114 posts
Sat 20 Jan 2024
at 16:27
  • msg #1122

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

When I say I have frequent posters I mean I have people who post daily,no updates, no posts and than try to join another of my games, no. thank you RPOL for the block feature.
Hunter
member, 2058 posts
Captain Oblivious!
Lurker
Sun 28 Jan 2024
at 10:13
  • msg #1123

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

I've discovered recently (the past few days) that I'm really not doing any better than I was before I took my (entirely too short) break.   So more unhappily than usual, I've dropped out of the few games that I decided to join as well as gone ahead and closed out the one game that I was running.
Hunter
member, 2071 posts
Captain Oblivious!
Lurker
Wed 21 Feb 2024
at 21:46
  • msg #1124

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

And...my depression has been kicking my butt more and more lately.   I'm hoping that it'll get better soonish.....
V_V
member, 1160 posts
Fri 15 Mar 2024
at 09:08
  • [deleted]
  • msg #1125

Re: The Nothing but Vents, Vents, and MORE VENTS Thread

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