It's Personal...

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 5:06 am

So, uh, on sunday someone messaged me on steam:

do you think this word is funny
don't lay a hand on me

I am thoroughly confused, because his profile stats say he's played all of 5 hours ever of multiplayer games I've played.

Wait, looks like he's played a reasonable amount of Left4Dead 2, which I haven't played in months.

Oh, huh, he's on my friends list for some reason, guess we met in Left4Dead2 last year or something. No idea why he messaged me out of the blue, though.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 6:23 pm

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:I don't know where the contact info thread is anymore, but my xbox live gamer tag is ctarioch28. I'm getting Live set up by the end of the week.

Really? Awesome! What games do you have? My XBL-worthy games are

Red Dead Redemption
Borderlands 2
Assassin's Creed Brother and Revelations (haven't really played these multiplayer that much)
Dark Souls
Mass Effect 3

...You Lost Me · Post by **...You Lost Me** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 8:29 am

So my summer internship this year is really picking up. For three months, we've had a variety of projects running in tandem, and now that the summer is over, we're presenting our research at (hopefully) two competitions, where we'll be judged and given awards and stuff. Last Wednesday, we finished our wiki, which contains a metric ton of info. This Friday I'm flying out to Stanford with 5 other guys, and if we pass the preliminary round of judging, we'll be off to MIT in 1-2 weeks. Last year, our team placed first in the entire world, so stakes are high...

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 2:09 pm

Oi vey, another Export from the US of A that nobody wants . .
Mormons . . a Ginger(red hair, pale skin, freckles, soulless eyes, THE WORKS) approached me out on the street while i was shopping and wanted to talk to me about the Book Mormon . . in a horrible american accent tacked onto what was probably supposed to be german . .

@You lost me:
So, what are you doing?
Making Bacteria that will, some day, eat oil for use in spillages?
Or radioactivity like in the older Gojira Movies?

Ted the Flayer · Post by **Ted the Flayer** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 9:48 pm

I give mormon missionaries some slack. Because they're not being missionaries because they choose to, they're being forced to do so. They're sent far away from home and aren't allowed to own a car or anything and have to live on a very small amount of money for a certain amount of time.

It's annoying, but those kids aren't having a good time.

erik · Post by **erik** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 10:27 pm

Ted the Flayer wrote:I give mormon missionaries some slack. Because they're not being missionaries because they choose to, they're being forced to do so. They're sent far away from home and aren't allowed to own a car or anything and have to live on a very small amount of money for a certain amount of time.

It's annoying, but those kids aren't having a good time.

We had a couple Mormon kid "elders" come by, and I was tempted to invite them to play board games like Carcasonne, Settlers or whatever else we had at the ready, but wife was napping and my boys were running around crazy having too much fun so I told em we weren't interested.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 12:25 am

They could instead choose to stop believing in crazy shit*, stop associating with an insane cult of paedophiles, and do something else with their lives. I mean, I get the whole "I want to leave Utah, what a shithole" thing, but there have to be easier ways than becoming a missionary.

*Even by Christian standards, and let's face it, you're starting with benevolent zombies that are forgiving you (if you believe in the heart of the cards) for shit they decided you were going to do ahead of time so is actually their fault, not yours, and if you don't believe in the Kamina that believes in you, then the benevolent zombie can't do anything, his hands are tiednailed to a cross and you have to suffer for ever in Hell.

Ted the Flayer · Post by **Ted the Flayer** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 2:11 am

Some pig rapist ran over my mom's cat today. Everyone is very upset.

...You Lost Me · Post by **...You Lost Me** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 2:11 am

Stahlseele wrote: So, what are you doing?
Making Bacteria that will, some day, eat oil for use in spillages?
Or radioactivity like in the older Gojira Movies?

Well we have bacteria that digest the components of polyurethane (a plastic that's in seat cushions and shoes), we fiddled with a protein so that it binds better to a certain flu protein (so we can identify it), and made an app for the Android OS that lets us shine light on bacterial cultures in specific ways to induce gene expression.

Artless · Post by **Artless** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 4:27 am

So I am finally able to say without dying inside that I'm a professional illustrator, although the actual body of freelance prospects for me are as barren and empty as before. Still, even having had two projects to work on for a little while was like water in the desert.

I did some sketches and a logotype for my good friend and basically uncle Russ Brown for his d6Pool project. I feel shitty because I know I could have given him better pieces, but thankfully he seemed satisfied. It's somewhere online if you're curious.

But what I'm actually proud of is that I got chosen to be a part of Light Grey Art Lab's GIRLS show in November. I don't think I'll be able to actually attend to gallery showing in person but I feel good just having been able to participate anyway. I can't actually show the whole piece but here's a cropped preview if anyone's interested. I did a piece on the German folk tale about the Lorelei rock.

I feel a bit egotistical even typing this up to put here but for the first time a long, long time I didn't feel like I was wasting my goddamn time trying to be an illustrator. Hopefully this maintains, though with actually pulling off the impossible and getting Thomas Scholes to mentor me and working my ass off painting when I can, I'd like to think I'm trying my damnedest to ensure that it does.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 5:05 am

That preview looks moderately impressive. Do you have an online portfolio? I'm curious to see how it compares to other stuff you've done.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 5:48 am

Koumei wrote:They could instead choose to stop believing in crazy shit*, stop associating with an insane cult of paedophiles, and do something else with their lives. I mean, I get the whole "I want to leave Utah, what a shithole" thing, but there have to be easier ways than becoming a missionary.

*Even by Christian standards, and let's face it, you're starting with benevolent zombies that are forgiving you (if you believe in the heart of the cards) for shit they decided you were going to do ahead of time so is actually their fault, not yours, and if you don't believe in the Kamina that believes in you, then the benevolent zombie can't do anything, his hands are tiednailed to a cross and you have to suffer for ever in Hell.

Well, see, that's the problem. Their whole families are Mormon, most likely. Everyone they know is Mormon. So it's kinda hard to welch out without totally uprooting your whole life.

Which can be a bit hard to do, what with money and jobs and such.

So I can be sympathetic to the kids, even if I do find the religion itself nuts.

Edit: Forgot to say. I had a couple come up to me and try to talk me to like I was in high school. I asked if they'd done any college. "No, not yet, we're doing our missionary work first."

"Really. I'm 25."

And they lost the formal tone. As I've mentioned before, I get mistaken for high school age a lot. So much in fact, that I made a couple of Mormon missionaries go, "Wait, WHAAAT?"

"I don't drink, smoke, do drugs, I sleep for at least seven hours every night and I get two to three continuous hours of light exercise every day. The excess bodyfat is because I do like to eat. This is clean living."

I gave them a dollar, asked if they'd ever eaten at Subway. Told them to try it, because they can get Hi-C and other no-caffeine drinks.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 7:05 am

@Ted.
Sorry to hear that, my condolences ._.

@You Lost Me:
I think i actually heard about that app some days ago on one of the tech sites i frequent, impressive O.o

@Maxus:
By Thor, a genuine do gooder? HERE of all places? o.O

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 7:28 am

I'm by and large a kind and tolerant person when I don't have a reason to be otherwise.

Of course, that tolerance does have limits and when it hits the end of it, people just can't believe that good ol' cheerful happy-go-lucky nice guy just said/did that.

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 11:56 am

Maxus wrote:Well, see, that's the problem. Their whole families are Mormon, most likely. Everyone they know is Mormon. So it's kinda hard to welch out without totally uprooting your whole life.

Which can be a bit hard to do, what with money and jobs and such.

So I can be sympathetic to the kids, even if I do find the religion itself nuts..

I'm especially sympathetic to the kids. There's a big difference between adopting a religion as an adult and as a two-year-old. I mean, there's a reason you don't see to many adults talking straight-faced to each other about Santa, but you do see kids doing so.

(Obligatory Penny Arcade:)
http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/12/24

Ted the Flayer · Post by **Ted the Flayer** » Sat Oct 13, 2012 3:48 am

It seems that my former incestuous roommates were playing on my gamer tag somehow, because my XBL friends mentioned that they saw me online (?) two days ago, playing the roommate's favorite game (Resident Evil ORC to be exact). I don't like Resident Evil games...

sabs · Post by **sabs** » Sat Oct 13, 2012 4:19 am

change your password?
did you accidentally leave your xbox behind?

Ted the Flayer · Post by **Ted the Flayer** » Sat Oct 13, 2012 4:25 am

I'm not sure actually. I know that I took my hard drive and memory card with me. I did change my password, and logged every console off Xbox live via the website. Little fucking sneak.

EDIT: To be clear, I took an xbox with me. I don't know if it was originally mine though, because the roommates xbox was also a white, non slimline model.

I did leave on of my rechargeable batteries behind, which is lame.

Count Arioch the 28th · Sat Oct 20, 2012 5:09 am

I'm not sure why this island has wi-fi, but I'm giving an update.

Didn't find the cup. Turns out it was an old menstrual belt that kind of looked like a chalice in the correct lighting. My fellow party members ditched me because I lost my temper and head-butted every wall in the abandoned cactus plant for three hours. Bunch of impatient slackers if you ask me!

Found another rune room in the basement of the factory though. This one wasn't humming, and the runes had almost worn out. Odd. Found some scraps of paper that pointed towards an uncharted island in the middle of Lake Huron. There's no people and there are bird droppings on the island, so I'm claiming it as a sovereign nation. I'm calling it "Bumcivilian".

Anyway, I've been stepping on every 5' square hoping to find a trigger, because I know there's just gotta be something here. I've upgraded from a tent to a van (and you do NOT want to know what I had to do to get it here! It involved a roll of toilet paper and a stick of dynamite).

Anway, this seagull is eyeing me weird, so I better go. I didn't think seagulls spoke with the screaming voice of a thousand mouths, but it's really starting to be a bit of a pill.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Sat Oct 20, 2012 1:17 pm

If you have a relative you couldn't give a shit about to the extent of "I hope she fucking overdoses/goes to prison soon so she stops being our problem", and that person (or their dog) damages something that is important to you, then even if they're related is it socially acceptable to demand they pay for repairs?

If so, then assuming they don't, is "Okay you pay me or I go to the police with your income information and you go to prison" socially acceptable?

The Vigilante · Post by **The Vigilante** » Sat Oct 20, 2012 4:05 pm

Koumei wrote:If you have a relative you couldn't give a shit about to the extent of "I hope she fucking overdoses/goes to prison soon so she stops being our problem", and that person (or their dog) damages something that is important to you, then even if they're related is it socially acceptable to demand they pay for repairs?

If so, then assuming they don't, is "Okay you pay me or I go to the police with your income information and you go to prison" socially acceptable?

Was it done intentionally ? If not, was it through carelessness or some such ?

If neither, I don't think you should ask. Accidents happen.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Sat Oct 20, 2012 4:15 pm

She dumped her dog off here because that's easier than looking after it, basically, but in theory she intends on seeing the dog again so she doesn't want to readopt.

Now, her dog has not been trained in how to behave in any way because again, that sounds like effort. So said dog got into a fight with our dog (note: not the playing they usually do, but full-on going at each other, seemingly because she tried to steal some food from a bag and he blocked her from doing so). And now my laptop keyboard needs replacing.

Aharon · Post by **Aharon** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 10:05 pm

I think it may be socially acceptable, but I don't think you will get a lot of money out of it.

The fact that your own dog was involved is the problem here, IMO: it was not exclusively her dog that was responsible. It might be hard to prove to what extent that was the case.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 10:09 pm

On the other hand, it's something of a win/win for Koumei, she gets a replacement keyboard, or the person is reported to the police.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 11:37 pm

Yeah, it wouldn't be a court case where extent of responsibility has to be proven beyond reasonable doubt, it's more just "She's never taken responsibility for anything in her life, which is why she is where she is. So is it acceptable to give an ultimatum of 'pay or go to jail for other things'?"

In the end I decided it'd be less trouble just to get her father, my step father, to pay for it. If he wants to recoup his losses he can just stop financially supporting her.