Lets hope it doesn't trickle down.
X_X
Well, there's yet another category, outside of my viewing experience.
:S
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Nothin' against my Mid-Atlantic friends, but Mid-Atlantic is Mid-Atlantic and New England is New England. Heck, we let you annex Connecticut didn't we? Heck, you can even have RI if you really want (it is the lair of The Company Which Shall Not Be Named after all-y'all are welcome to it =)
Here I just thought RI was known as the place where everything is void.
Night 2 of Linguini Pomodori.
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HEY!!!! I just remembered! Weren't Sara Marie and Post Monster boasting the other day of having "sekrits"?
And did they not promise that one "sekrit" would be revealed in a blog post, written by Lilith, and to be published on Wednesday?
Today is Wednesday!
Edit: Never mind! Sekrit was meh. Iconic Samurai? Pffft....
Yeah, I got my days and secrets wrong...
I love Iconic Samurai! Sutter did a great job writing that up although the Charity auction was the secret I was more excited about :D
Also, lilith is writing store blog for tomorrow and it should be... interesting :)
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Good:went to the gym, ran on the elliptical for a total of around 6 miles.
Bad:Feel that I can run for another 6.
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Dealing with a spot of interpersonal conflict with the newest member of our gaming group, and I'm uncertain of the outcome. Confrontation always makes me anxious.
?Dealing with a spot of interpersonal conflict with the newest member of our gaming group, and I'm uncertain of the outcome. Confrontation always makes me anxious.
Ya wants we should take cara da problem?
Ya wants we should take cara da problem??Dealing with a spot of interpersonal conflict with the newest member of our gaming group, and I'm uncertain of the outcome. Confrontation always makes me anxious.
I know a great way to build effigies taught to me by pacific islanders. They stomped and beat that thing all night before setting it on fire, using a technique I'd never seen before. And they did it all in my honor! What amazing folks they are, even after I stole a bunch of their crops to survive.
No good! You'll get through it though. What sort of issue is it? Is there a way to help??Dealing with a spot of interpersonal conflict with the newest member of our gaming group, and I'm uncertain of the outcome. Confrontation always makes me anxious.
Thank you.
Ouch.
Ugh.
Sorry you're having to deal with such.
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No good! You'll get through it though. What sort of issue is it? Is there a way to help??Dealing with a spot of interpersonal conflict with the newest member of our gaming group, and I'm uncertain of the outcome. Confrontation always makes me anxious.Thank you.
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Wish I could erase it for you. My only advice is to make him aware. He'll plead ignorance, just make sure he knows it's no excuse.
** spoiler omitted **No good! You'll get through it though. What sort of issue is it? Is there a way to help??Dealing with a spot of interpersonal conflict with the newest member of our gaming group, and I'm uncertain of the outcome. Confrontation always makes me anxious.Thank you.
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Yeah, I just sent off the "hey, dude, that wasn't cool and here's why" email. Past experience confronting these kinds of situations is a big part of my current anxiety. It almost never goes over well.
*sigh* it never ceases to amaze me.
It's this simple.
There's women playing.
It doesn't exist.
It's that easy.
I notice how the rules don't make allowances for such realistic eventualities as losing male reproductive organs to a really nasty axewound. Gored by a minotaur? I don't see a "Bigby's plastic testicle" spell anywhere. Now.......
taking that a step further,......
if you were in the room with somebody who had actually suffered such an event,
I doubt you'd talk about it unless you wanted to be their enemy.
*sigh* it never ceases to amaze me.
It's this simple.
There's women playing.
It doesn't exist.
It's that easy.
I notice how the rules don't make allowances for such realistic eventualities as losing male reproductive organs to a really nasty axewound. Gored by a minotaur? I don't see a "Bigby's plastic testicle" spell anywhere. Now.......
taking that a step further,......
if you were in the room with somebody who had actually suffered such an event,
I doubt you'd talk about it unless you wanted to be their enemy.
That would be the sensible approach, and the way this group operated before this player joined. I hope this was an aberration and that we can go back to that mode next time. Assuming, of course, that this doesn't blow up in my face.
Oh, and lesson to the youngsters:
when the dungeonmaster's wife is playing,
uuuuh.....you don't have to have your lawful neutral dwarf kill all the recently defeated tribes' orc females and children. Just....let it go.
You learn these things by crashing your durn fool head into hard objects. One way or da otha.
I should start a column: "stupid crap I did that you don't have to do just learn from me and don't be a goof."
Sincere condolences. You're handling it with far more grace than most of us could muster, I'd wager.
Some people... >:(
edit-No matter what, don't let the douchebag or his drama make you feel bad about calling him out.
Thanks. I've had more practice at this than anyone should have to have. (which is any, really.) But as anxious as I get about the confrontation, I'm pretty much immune to feeling ashamed or awkward about telling people they've crossed that line these days.
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Sounds like either the guy is a complete douche scumbag, and probably won’t react well to being called on it, or he was just insensitive and clueless and might, with any luck, be horribly embarrassed and apologetic about making light of a subject which is anything but, no matter who is present. Hope it turns out to be the latter Lindisty.
Sounds like either the guy is a complete douche scumbag, and probably won’t react well to being called on it, or he was just insensitive and clueless and might, with any luck, be horribly embarrassed and apologetic about making light of a subject which is anything but, no matter who is present. Hope it turns out to be the latter Lindisty.
He's actually someone I've liked and respected since college, though we've only recently reconnected after *mumblety* years. I hope it turns out to be the latter, too, for the sake of old friendships, if nothing else.
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I was in a situation recently where someone made a rather inappropriate remark about this very subject. Now, this guy is generally a nice fellow (a bit crude at times) and has a wife and teenage daughters; I was quite surprised at the remark. It wasn’t graphic, or about anyone in particular (or even anyone in general) but it did very much make light of the topic. Had the guy not been a valued client, two decades my senior and from a different cultural background I probably would have voiced that I didn’t think the comment was appropriate ... maybe I should have anyway, considering that I still wonder if I should have a week later.
I was in a situation recently where someone made a rather inappropriate remark about this very subject. Now, this guy is generally a nice fellow (a bit crude at times) and has a wife and teenage daughters; I was quite surprised at the remark. It wasn’t graphic, or about anyone in particular (or even anyone in general) but it did very much make light of the topic. Had the guy not been a valued client, two decades my senior and from a different cultural background I probably would have voiced that I didn’t think the comment was appropriate ... maybe I should have anyway, considering that I still wonder if I should have a week later.
I can't speculate about what would have been the right thing for you to do in that circumstance. Not my place to judge.
But if it makes any difference to you in potential future situations, I'll say that I always appreciate it when men call other men out on that kind of behavior. I'm willing to do it, but with the kind of person who's going to do that, a man's disapproval means more than mine would, and I see nothing wrong with bringing the most effective social pressure to bear in those circumstances.
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Also, lilith is writing store blog for tomorrow and it should be... interesting :)
Yeah...suuuure she is! It's too late now! You've shattered my faith! I'm doomed to a life of eternally lower expectations. No more excitement over the possibility of hidden knowledge being suddenly revealed. No more shouts of joy upon finally gleaning new wisdom from a cleverly worded blog post. No more....
....aw, who am I kidding....
.....I can haz sekrit?
Awright folks, i am outta here for now. It has been a hellish day, and I am off to manhattantown to get some yummy crack chicken and perhaps a beer with the wife. See you on the morrow.I didn't know there was a Popeyes in Manhattan....
Actually it's this place...It kicks Popeyes' ass, sorry to say.
I missed 50 pages?! Sorry for being MIA. Been sick, then had inventory, and was sucked into a Scrubs marathon. :D
I hope everyone is doing well. I am enjoying a lazy day off. Hubby has done all the running for me, I have yet to even get out of my PJ's.
Not gonna go back and read 50 pages. Sorry if I missed anything important.
Glad to see you're feeling better!
Heh-heh.
I just finished Jyuh-Oh-Sei. I think it's going down in my list of Anime that Ends Weirdly, but not too Weirdly.
I would love to see this list.
Well, all such attempts are relative, but relative to me:
Not too weird: I say "WTF?" a couple of times.
Too damn weird: I get angry that I actually stuck with it and watched the whole thing. "WT" is left out of most ejaculations.vs
Not weird: The ending is satisfying, if not revelatory.
Awesome: The ending is revelatory in some way.
And this list.
ejaculations.Yes, many of the anime I watch end with those.
That's strange..I didn't read anything about Joss Whedon anywhere recently. Ah well.
Sounds like either the guy is a complete douche scumbag, and probably won’t react well to being called on it, or he was just insensitive and clueless and might, with any luck, be horribly embarrassed and apologetic about making light of a subject which is anything but, no matter who is present. Hope it turns out to be the latter Lindisty.He's actually someone I've liked and respected since college, though we've only recently reconnected after *mumblety* years. I hope it turns out to be the latter, too, for the sake of old friendships, if nothing else.
Dear god...Here's hoping it's the latter. I have all male groups, all female groups and mixed groups, and the one time something like this came up recently, one of the females around the table quickly informed the person making the comment that it was not welcome. He apologized, stated he was trying out an evil character for the first time and didn't mean to offend anyone. We then moved on. We've all been friends for years, so it was relatively easy to smooth things over. Chances are it was a stupid insensitive comment that the person didn't mean, especially since you've known him for years. I don't think it will blow up in your face.
What? People want me to write my lists out? Oh, man. I remember Fruit Baskets fit into the "So Weird of an Ending I was Pissed" category. One thing I've noticed about several of these, is they start out strong, lose steam over the course of the series, and I've wondered if a super weird twist is all they feel they can do to try to revive things at the end. Doesn't work.
So. Much. Stress.
Since I'm slogging away at a community college, we'll see. The only one I've seen given their opinion quite vocally was the street corner preacher across the street from the bookstore quoting bible verses and telling us the end is near and we must turn from our sinful ways. Blah blah.wait. Did he see you? If so did he burst into flames upon laying eyes on the unholy one?
I was going incognito disguised as a trying-to-look-hip-and-younger college student. The time has not yet come. <cues sinister music>
I got the big 'leather' volumes of Edgar Allen Poe's poetry and Narnia series at B&N for *shamelessly promotes work* Buy one get one 50% off.I just got a really fancy volume of Dylan Thomas poetry at B&N. I love that poem in particular.Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Though wise men at their end know dark is right.
I have a big book of the collected works of William Blake. It'd be more impressive if it were leather bound, though.
Still looking for some boobs over here!