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

Posted by Shannara
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.

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"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)
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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.
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