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RE: Omniverse Venting Thread - Blink - 09-13-2017
My wife has been sick for over a week and I'm putting my dog down on Saturday.
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This site and writing on it is a big part of keeping me together.
RE: Omniverse Venting Thread - Omni - 09-13-2017
Glad the site is helping, and I'm sorry about your dog. Hope Laura feels better soon. Things will get better soon.
RE: Omniverse Venting Thread - Jade Harley - 09-23-2017
One of the things I dislike the most about living in the middle of nowhere (super rural farm yo) is all the horseback riders. Like, don't wander onto someone else's land when there's a gap in the fence, you boobs! There are no trespassing signs for a REASON. You could get hurt or killed in these areas, and don't you even try to sue us, 'cause those signs warned you.
And then there's the DOGS. Some assholes think it's okay for your untrained dog to come along with you, but it's not. Don't take your dog horseback riding past someone's property if they won't come when you call them. Someone's mastiff or something chased my dog all the way down our drive from the road, and I'm lucky it didn't come after me. If it'd been after our livestock or me, though, it wouldn't be a living dog anymore. Seriously. We have laws about this.
There's signs and fences everywhere that say no trespassing. Paint. Barbed wire. Just, idiots. Don't come on our land.
Then there's the men in cars who think it's okay to yell, "Wanna fuck?!" at me from the road. In what world is that okay. Gross.
RE: Omniverse Venting Thread - Tearen Wover - 09-23-2017
That must be horrible to deal with, Jade, I'm sorry you have to put up with that. Tbh, people shouting vulgarity from passing cars happens everywhere. It's a display of cowardice, if anything.
People will indulge in stupidity if they think it's fun. That's as simple as I can put it. From trespassing to feeding strange farm animals or whatever, there's just an assumption that the person being infringed upon won't notice, won't care, or doesn't have the guts to tell them off. I've become very vocal about this recently, granted, the violations against me are minor in comparison to yours.
Also, might I note, the image of you toting a 20 gauge shotgun is aesthetically sublime. Maybe just go full Weatherman and carry around a weapon wherever you go. I imagine your state has open carry. I'm only 50% joking.
RE: Omniverse Venting Thread - Amaterasu - 09-23-2017
@Jade You might enjoy this story: https://notalwaysright.com/dont-have-a-cow-man-3/83961/
Story of my own: we (my parents and I) are in the process of remodeling the apartment I live in, so that we can put in a second roommate. One of the things was to replace the old fridge (a model from the early 2000s or perhaps more antique) with a spacier, more economical one.
-The delivery company says that they wrote down my number, and will give me a call 1-2 hours before they get to my place. I checked back with them because I wasn't sure what number my dad had given them. Turns out that they hadn't even written a number down.
-The day comes where they're supposed to do the delivery, I get no call. Because I have a bad gut feeling, I use up my lunch break to go home and hang up a post-it on the main door of the apartment block asking the delivery people to call my cellphone if they get there and can't reach me.
-Surprise surprise, I get a call at work about how they're in front of my door and nobody is there. They claim they called the number given to them an hour ago but nobody responded. Complete lie - they hadn't called any number - me, my parents, my home phone and certainly not the number I gave them. But they saw the post-it and called that number. ItsSomething.png
-Okay, so I'll be there in 10 minutes (lucky me, I live very close to my workplace). His response: "Yeeeah, we have other deliveries to make actually so we can't stay here forever. So if you could hurry a bit..."
-I get there, they bring the fridge into the apartment, plop it down, and only in the last second does the guy pull out the paper asking me to sign that the fridge is delivered etc. As if I'd sign without reading it first.
-Later turns out that my parents paid extra for the delivery people to unpack the fridge. Guess who got to do it instead? (I filed a complaint with the delivery company for that one)
-Upon inspection of the fridge for issues I notice that one of the copper pipes on the back has some green rust on it. I called the vendors right then... they sent an electrician (more accomodating than the delivery company, thank god). The good news is that the rust isn't threatening the fridge's lifespan, it's a byproduct of soldering the pipes together and comes off easily.
RE: Omniverse Venting Thread - 2B - 09-23-2017
I moved at the change of months. Ever since I got here, the stovetop / hob has been dead. It's still dead.
It's expensive AF to live when all you can do is eat out.
It's been over three weeks now and the warranty process is still....in the process.
Just fuck it.
RE: Omniverse Venting Thread - Omni - 09-24-2017
Don't have much comfort to add, but reading all the stories and I SHARE YOUR IRRITATION.
I have a minor gripe that is pretty much entirely my own fault. Part of my exercise regime goals have been to re-strengthen and rehabilitate my arm/back/entire fucking right hand side which has been stiff and achy ever since I got RSI at the hands of my previous employer.
Actually, sub-rant, since I'm here: I got a letter back from my lawyers last month, stating that after 2 years of back-and-forth, they decided to drop the case against my previous employer since they can't prove liability. See, this is what I'd initially expected, but after all the fucking time spent, and the assurances I'd get some money, it's really fucking disappointing that they're actually gonna get off scot-free. My hopes had been built up.
Okay, back to this week. I've been careful not to go too far with my weightlifting, but on friday a friend of mine was leaving the house I'm now in, somewhere between 5 and 6, and I didn't want to miss them. I assured them that my training would only take about an hour, so I'd be back in time. Course, when I get there, somebody is using the olympic bar I need for my pendlay rows, and wandering around the gym for about 10 minutes between each set, taking the absolute maximum rest time. I mean, fair enough, they were deadlifting nearly five plates on each side, but it meant that by the time I was done with my rows, I was glancing at the clock, with two more exercises to do, and not wanting to miss my friend before they left.
Soooo I kinda rushed my squats, which were low-weight, high-rep variety and so in my mind "safe and easy", but because I was so tense and trying to do them so fast, ended up twinging something in my back. Skipped the last exercise because I didn't wanna be late.
Felt not too bad immediately afterwards, but I'm aching hard yesterday/today. Not in the DOMS way, but in the "ah fuck, I strained that thing that was already strained" kinda way. I'll be skipping today, because I don't wanna make it worse, and just doing stretching/mobility to try and make it feel better. Hope this doesn't end up delaying my training. Fark.
See, everything I know tells me that injuries happen when you're trying to rush, and I KNEW THAT, but I am still a fucking idiot and did the thing. Least I got to say goodbye, lol.
RE: Omniverse Venting Thread - Tearen Wover - 09-24-2017
Sometimes I feel like it helps to look at success in life in degrees of percentage, that than pass/fail.
So yeah you rushed your squats and strained your back, but you kept on with your weightlifting and accomplished your greater goal, so like...probably 80% success? Seems okay to me.
RE: Omniverse Venting Thread - Omni - 09-24-2017
Oh, yeah, it's a minor gripe for sure. I'm taking today off because I feel like twinged back is a slap on the wrist from my body, but I'll be back at it tomorrow.
RE: Omniverse Venting Thread - Aadibah - 10-03-2017
I have to go in at 7 tomorrow to persuade to my former co-workers to go eat at the new restaurant I work at. I have less than 50$ to my name and around 1500$ in credit card debt. I have to wash and clean a presentable uniform for the internship fair tomorrow. I have to complete my resume for the internship fair tomorrow. I have an exam on Thursday I need to study for and I still haven't bought the fucking textbook for that class. I'm gonna be working OPENING FUCKING NIGHT at the restaurant I work at, because it's new. I will also be on my own in the dishpit. I haven't worked out in weeks, I barely eat and get shit sleep. I can already see my life going down the drain cause even though I'm a Software Engineering major it seems like literally everyone fucking else is ten steps ahead of me. I'm the eldest brother of three, but I'm still living with my parents like 3 years out of high school, but my second youngest brother is already living on his own, has a gf, has good grades, is taller, more good-looking, and significantly more mature than me, and my youngest brother is the fucking same and is soon to move out as well.
I'm not handsome, witty, or charismatic, I've never dated or even had a "thing" with a girl. I often times feel inferior to everyone around me like a fucking stock background character in a movie. I often feel like I am destined to lose so that somebody else wins. I feel like my purpose in life is to observe and absorb the information presented to me by the world and never experience anything. I fear I will never "win" at life.
I've told my brothers that I think I'm dealing with depression, but they don't fully grasp the concept. Literally every happy moment or success is invaded with negative, toxic emotions and thoughts. They tell me nobody wants to actually hang out with me, nobody actually loves me, nobody actually enjoys my presence, they just deal with me out of societal or familial obligation.
I feel like an obligation to people.
RE: Omniverse Venting Thread - Jade Harley - 10-04-2017
I'm so sorry, friend. I know that this doesn't mean much from a stranger on the internet, but I'm feeling very emotional and maybe a bit homicidal on your behalf.
Living with your parents 3 years out of high school isn't something to be ashamed of, in my book. It's hard to buy/rent a home or apartment, and it's even harder to form a good, healthy romantic relationship. Some people are just lucky. These things take a lot of work and time, some more than others-- time that you can't really set aside at the moment. I would step back and focus on work, school, and your mental health. Work and school are a necessity and a constant in the life of a young person now, but you can't forget that your mental health is also important. I know from experience about the whole trying to explain depression to people who just. don't. get it! thing. My family for the longest time didn't want to or could not acknowledge that I was dealing with some very dark emotions. But, I made them understand. I sat my parents down and outright begged for help, because it's not only the asking for help part that's important, but you need to truly make them understand how seriously these thoughts are affecting your ability to function.
I know that balancing all of these things can seem overwhelming and you might feel so, so terrible and like you're just about at the end of the world over it. This feeling... will likely not go away soon. But consider the things that you're doing right now-- THESE are the ways you are experiencing life, and you can really flourish in these areas. You're in school. You have a job. You're attending internship fairs. Also, you ARE witty, goshdarnit. These are all good things that you're using to better yourself or improve the quality of your life, so take the bad things one at a time; write a list of things you need to do every day if you have to. Life isn't a competition, it's more of a video game with a lot of purchasable content and premium accounts. You're grinding through the lower levels right now, but you'll get there.
RE: Omniverse Venting Thread - Blink - 10-07-2017
Well, we finally put our dog down. We're good, we know it was time. Just wanted to put this somewhere to explain my temporary silence these last couple days.
RE: Omniverse Venting Thread - Guu - 10-27-2017
Oh my god, I wanted to get some writing done today, I really did, but my brother was hogging the living room all day, all goddamn day! He was watching movies, he was watching videos, was just there all day and I can't write while that's going on! And now that I finally have a chance to write, something else is vying for my attention and I have to choose between spending time with a friend and actually getting some fucking writing done. And to make matters worse, I have no idea if I'll have another chance this goddamn weekend, especially since I have volunteer work.
To make it worse, I'm half angry at myself. I could simply tell him I'm trying to write, and constantly hanging around the living room watching youtube videos impedes on that. He would... probably comply to that. But I can't bring myself to order him around. I'm pretty much bottom of the pecking order around here, queen of the freeloading scum and telling him what to do feels wrong at so many angles. But I miss so many opportunities because he doesn't realize he could take it to his room.
Aaaagh, I'm way too stressed to write now!
RE: Omniverse Venting Thread - Omni - 10-27-2017
That's frustrating, I know the feel.
This probably doesn't help and is just furtherly frustrating, but might I recommend writing stuff out on a pad? (that way you can write in your room or anywhere in privacy) Then it's as easy as typing it up. I do it sometimes when I'm away from my computer.
RE: Omniverse Venting Thread - W.D. Gaster - 10-27-2017
When I get excited about something, I lose control over myself and make myself look more of an idiot. I'm mad at myself rather than with anyone else on this site. *sigh* It also hurts to the fact that I'm not fully there due to a recent death in the family, police investigation and whatnot; I'm trying to get myself together as of late and I truly apologize if I was an inconvenience. There was no excuse for my behavior if I showed hostility to any of the mods/admin. I'm truly sorry.. :poop:
RE: Omniverse Venting Thread - PepsiYuuka - 11-17-2017
Is this... Venting? Just me talking to the wall? IDK, it's just something I've been ranting about in the chatbox since people are wondering what the deal with it is and it's easier to consolidate it in one space than keep typing there, lol. And venting I guess works, but instead of being angry I just need somewhere to post my shitty rambling I don't really care if anyone reads.
Anyway so yeah the Touhou thing which is PROBABLY mostly my fault because I am some lame lunatic nerd who's been passionately involved in this fandom for over 6 years and never shuts her damn mouth. Some people like it, some people don't. That's cool. But some people also really like it, and those people have somehow made other people really not like it. I get that. Somehow, it's contentious around here. And I'd wager a guess that it's because Touhou has a very different appeal from other things. Touhou is liked because it's an imperfect, incomplete medium in the first place. Like, ZUN sucks at art. The games really have skimpy plots. Character personalities and backstories are basic, if often interesting in concept. But it's not treated as a bad thing by fans. Instead, it makes Touhou conducive to a great amount of headcanon and fanwork that allows a potential writer for it to more greatly mold canon to their tastes than, say, DBZ.
Like I'm pretty sure you could experience most of everything considered, by the strictest definition, "canon" for Yuuka in roughly the same amount of time you could read my roster. And yet somehow she's been within the top 20 characters overall every year up until the last. (And that's including over 160 characters.) She's been in one single game currently considered "canon." But she's 30 places above a character with an entire 7 volume Manga written about her. Probably precisely because there's less to go on with Yuuka- she has a couple interesting character traits and a good basic concept, and the rest is left for the fans to fill in themselves. You can make of her whatever you want, really. And that goes for most of the characters- there's never any pressure to stick to purely canon things, since the canon is so light on detail it's inevitable some headcanon will come into it. That just isn't as much of a thing for most other large series, with the exception of the JRPG Silent Protagonist. (Whom, I'm sure, this site sees a fair number of as well.) It basically gives any given Touhou infinite outward potential to become more interesting based entirely on their writer.
And this being an RPG as opposed to a flat RP makes it less likely to have users dwell on power level garbage instead of actual, interesting content for some of these characters. Sure it comes up to some extent, but the RPG gives it more balance so that it's less of an issue. And that's kind of a major thing- even within Touhou canon, power levels in battle are balanced by a system. In other multifandom roleplays where they aren't, questions arise as to what is and isn't possible for a given character and it's a hassle. An RPG like this is appealing because it also has a system which can work to balance things so that characters aren't just leaps ahead of others by default because their powers are cooler. We know what's possible for any given character because there are rules for it. It's simple.
Also the massive amount of characters of different mythological origins basically makes it Pokemon with girls. Not saying that isn't part of the appeal too, as my lesbian ass can probably tell you.
And like... I get it, us Touhou fans can get really entrenched in discussion about it. But that's mostly just because there's so much to talk about, since not only does it have the canon to discuss, there's also working out our own fan ideas in relation to each other to supplement that canon. We just don't have much in the way of other characters interacting with us IC right now to divert our discussion from just being about our fandom. And it's just something we obviously have a mutual interest towards, so naturally it comes up.
tl;dr we're terrible memers who enjoy having fun, but the fact is we probably aren't going anywhere. touhou legitimately has some merits that make it interesting to roleplay and even especially suitable for a site such as the omniverse, which is why it's getting more popular on here.
RE: Omniverse Venting Thread - Jade Harley - 11-19-2017
Lol, I know where you're coming from, dude. The entire internet used to HATE Homestuck because it seems like a pile of terrible from the outside, and I'm sure some people still do. There are parts of the fandom that I dislike, too, because hey, everything's gotta have faults. That Pokémon with girls comment? Homestuck's fandom is that way with shipping a bunch of underage characters, even though the original source doesn't usually provide much backing. It's gross, but I'm pretty sure most people can learn to separate the material itself from fandom content.
I don't think Touhou's more unique than other media because it has a mutable universe or whatevs, but I'll admit that it's got a lot of material. That probs makes it seem daunting to people and hard as heck to get into. I dunno though.
RE: Omniverse Venting Thread - 2B - 11-19-2017
(10-27-2017, 06:12 PM)Guu Wrote: Oh my god, I wanted to get some writing done today, I really did, but my brother was hogging the living room all day, all goddamn day! He was watching movies, he was watching videos, was just there all day and I can't write while that's going on! And now that I finally have a chance to write, something else is vying for my attention and I have to choose between spending time with a friend and actually getting some fucking writing done. And to make matters worse, I have no idea if I'll have another chance this goddamn weekend, especially since I have volunteer work.
To make it worse, I'm half angry at myself. I could simply tell him I'm trying to write, and constantly hanging around the living room watching youtube videos impedes on that. He would... probably comply to that. But I can't bring myself to order him around. I'm pretty much bottom of the pecking order around here, queen of the freeloading scum and telling him what to do feels wrong at so many angles. But I miss so many opportunities because he doesn't realize he could take it to his room.
Aaaagh, I'm way too stressed to write now!
I'm just going to ask but... Why exactly do you HAVE TO write in the livingroom? Like, why is/was it the only option?
RE: Omniverse Venting Thread - Jade Harley - 11-20-2017
There are frickin'. Toenail. Clippings. All over my bathroom floor.
RE: Omniverse Venting Thread - Marcus Wright - 11-20-2017
I need lessons on how to not give a shit: parts 1 and 2.