That last line is pure poetry. “Meanwhile, in the real world, federal criminal law and white-collar dip tests keep us on our toes.”
laughs out loud
I hope someone is kind enough to explain this to you. A “white collar dip test” describes exactly this community as we see it. I’m never going to forget that ^_^
On the other hand, I have both tacos and hashish, and it’s time to forget the day with a shitty Californian red.
You may return to your tepid, toothless discussion. I’m out.
@shit-piss-love My horoscope is more accurate than this, and it didn’t require sorting declaratives in inefficient loops.
@STD This wasn’t as fun as sudoku, but it was easier than lifting my arm in this billion degree heat while waiting for DoorDash 
@spiriferida If I stop now, I’m going to look really stupid with all these chandeliers, chaises, and Big-Chill style dramatic curtains that blow dramatically.
Sometimes you just have to own your terrible interior design choices.
@spiriferida Professional blackmail?
Just out of curiosity, do you think federal criminal law has a white-collar dip test for financial fraud?
@shit-piss-love In my day we had character, which meant you were traumatized but always had a snappy remark on-hand just in case.
ChatGPT? No. Ask Jenn. I’m just holding conference calls, so you’re getting my split attention.
Edited to add, I was going to reference Anita Loos but what a wasted reference.
@shit-piss-love I forgive fast.
If someone promises to key my neighbor’s car, I’ll open the higher shelf booze and roll some joints.
He’s one of those people who moved from obnoxious fake tickets to bumper stickers on cars he… disagrees with. Deal with him and we can all party.
@Warma-Sheen I’m trying to imagine this group of people trying to operate in life, to navigate the world of adulthood, but this is difficult with these wild emotional whirlpools.
@STD I do not spend time with people who consider an eighth grade reading level “obtuse” and require multiple clarifications.
You really come across as a small person trying to look large in front of these people, and you don’t need to cram so many $5 words into your palms to present to me your argument sans point 
@Testament Perspective.
Look at what some dipshit is doing to someone we all of us happen to like.
It felt like Metro in its final days, it just left you sick but your friends are there…
And I do care. I care a lot. Seeing this done in real time to a friend is more disturbing than just about anything. If this were anyone but Jenn, I wouldn’t have bothered.
Since half of the discussion here seems to be a very passive but aggressively dry circle jerk about fixing your community issues, maybe regroup and refocus. I’m certainly not spending my time here; maybe halt the insta-aggro.
Oh! In small words:
“What’s your damage, Becky?”
@shit-piss-love If I were to read the room, it would be because I suspected a tough crowd.
You are not that. You’re just the clamor of any group with low confidence and cracked self-esteem looking to exercise some form of power, ie doing to others etc etc.
You even sound exactly like Wizard.
@Cobalt Demanding evidence of someone’s personal medical history so that your afternoon of petty kvetching keeps the beige from sinking in still makes you the asshole.
I just wanted you to remember this the next time you make any demand.
Personal Business Made Public
Setting aside our slapfight, this is the only time I’ve repeatedly had to tell someone to not talk to me about other players. Especially when they own the game.
But this went on endlessly. Laurent was a very flamboyant half-fae psychic-- the one who was trying to rob a grave because I was literally just told “why don’t you just steal these corpses (instead of asking me to process a single job).”
It was easier to desecrate a recently deceased woman and her son’s final resting place than it was so get an NPC to respond. Then she got excited and proclaimed that fae bones when ground up are an aphrodisiac and also super cocaine.
I guess, being gay, she just had no idea what to do with me. So I was treated like a weird confidante.
@Jenn and a few others were worth it all You can always find assholes, but good people are rare.
@Vulgar-Boy “Blackmailing someone online may be deleterious to one’s job if the intended victim goes public” is not a sentence I thought I would have to rephrase so many times.
Perhaps I am insinuating that this is most likely the case— reaction out of fear— because the subtext seemed so glaringly obvious.
@sao said in Seeking Wyrdhold Family:
@Istus I’m a little confused by this question. It’s the same as any other relationship – you communicate ooc about what is happening between your characters when you can’t be online at the same time.
You just said exactly what I have been wanting to scream at two very troublesome customers earlier.
All of the laurels and fanfare for you!
@DrQuinn The discussion of someone’s potential real life health concerns in favor of validating the demands of people who have no right to ask such a thing is, generally, considered to be in poor taste.
In other words, this craven entitlement you have going on can sod off.
Which is to say, you can fuck off and wait until I have time to post an image instead of tending to real life.
@Cobalt Sure but you’re going to have to wait a few. Work and all that.
I fucking hate this Wednesday shit.