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[vertigomez]

Which GD tho, ME or DAI?

I rarely look at the DAI boards anymore.

Well... probably both. But I only ever frequent the DA boards.

[FKA_Servo]

I hope I'm wrong, but his current signature has the tone of a permanent goodbye, and he hasn't posted in about a week. Maybe he'll come back when there's something to discuss, after the next big reveal or after Andromeda comes out...which would still be a long time. 

 

He's been one of the best, for as long as I've been here at any rate. But I can't say I don't sympathize. I think this place has gone noticeably downhill fairly recently. Moderation is a joke, as we're all aware, and there are (I believe) a ton of folks making second troll accounts or adopting trollish personas. Some of them are pretty obvious, some of them aren't, but there are a lot of them, and they are way, way too successful. Of course, this is all in addition to the typical white noise idiocy that's the undercurrent of any gaming forum.

 

A break might be in order. I'm worried I'm getting meaner, although there are are possibly externals that are contributing to that (personally, I've been more active lately because it diverts me from an unhappy job situation - which isn't a unique affliction by any means, but it is what it is).

[FKA_Servo]

As far as vents go (and bringing it back to bugs), I have a decent one tonight.

For context - today, my aforementioned unhappy job situation kept me for 11.5 hours, which is rarely fun. I was ready to be done with any and all unpleasantness, is the point. I got back home around 9:30, began to unwind. I was in the kitchen, which is essentially also our living room, cutting fruit to make some smoothies, when one of our cats (we have four - yeah, we're one of those couples) jumped off the back of the couch to pounce on something.

Not a cause for concern. My immediate assumption is that it's one of the several hundred stuffed mouse toys that we have scattered around the apartment. But I know her routine when she's hunting toy mice, and she's acting differently, if only slightly. With mounting apprehension, I approach. No point in dragging it out - she's got a big ass cockroach, and I hate it.

(I'm good with spiders, I don't like bugs generally, but cockroaches make me want the earth to fall into the sun.)

So she's toying with this horrid, scuttling little monster. Batting at it, biting it, holding it in her mouth(!), while I'm shrieking and emoting and (as before, when a bug was invading my person) my better half is looking on in amused bewilderment. The roach is on the carpet, I grab this steel, concave candle holder thing and trap it. Then I take a moment to collect myself.

The Better Half is all big talk about how we should put it out on the deck. I say "We'll see," but my primary concern is sliding a piece of paper under the candle holder and transporting this thing to the bathroom. I get a couple of feet, the antennae are waving around under the candle holder, and the thing gets out and falls on the ground. Another moment of shrieking and emoting, and I hurl the steel candle holder at the roach. I hit my mark. It's mortally wounded. I cast it into the depths, take a shower, and resume my smoothie making. All is ostensibly well. As I'm loading fruit into the blender, I look around. I see three cats, sitting at attention, focused on a specific spot further down the hall.

That is cause for concern.

She says "I have bad news, toots."

I say "You."

So she disappears down the hall to deal with this. Confidently, I assume, considering all that fancy talk about "putting it out on the deck." I hear nothing, so I finish making our smoothies, just as if we occupied a just and good world - one without cockroaches.

Still nothing, so I go down the hall. There's no sign of her, but there is an even bigger cockroach, fluttering around the hall light with it's awful little wings that were, as I learned in a previous cockroach encounter, not ornamental as I had once thought. I assumed it had eaten her, but no, she was just in the shower, hiding. All talk, of course.

So, I shrieked and emoted a little bit more, and closed our bedroom door (the bastards blend right in with the carpet), and went and got our only spatula. It was cheap, and plastic, but it's served us well for many years.

Meanwhile, this Brobdingnagian nightmare denizen is right where I left it. I start swinging, and it's flying around erratically, but I get three good whacks in. It's on the ground. I finish it off and, as before, bury it at sea.

And there's no moral. That's the conclusion. I had a bad day that ended in cockroaches, and now I need to buy a new spatula.

[nightscrawl]

Printer broke and have to buy a new one >.<.

[vertigomez]

And there's no moral. That's the conclusion. I had a bad day that ended in cockroaches, and now I need to buy a new spatula.

You poor dear! That poor spatula!

Printer broke and have to buy a new one >.<.

Ack, I'm sorry! Maybe... maybe you can get an even better one? /silver lining squad

[BraveVesperia]

And there's no moral. That's the conclusion. I had a bad day that ended in cockroaches, and now I need to buy a new spatula.

Eww. Anything with more than two eyes and four legs is an immediate cause for concern for me. I don't mind some things. Like ladybirds, butterflies. Maybe bumble bees. But I've never seen a cockroach firsthand and I never want to. 

 

You should tell the cats off. They're supposed to protect you from bugs, and it sounds like they're slacking off!   I guess at least you had a captive audience for the whole experience though.

[Biotic Apostate]

Meanwhile, this Brobdingnagian nightmare denizen is right where I left it. I start swinging, and it's flying around erratically, but I get three good whacks in. It's on the ground. I finish it off and, as before, bury it at sea.

Those monsters can ****** fly?! I'd burn the building down, it's beyond saving. Our cockroaches are tiny compared to what you guys have. The spiders though *shudder*

[Panda]

Never seen cockroach myself- well other than FO4- , it's probably something I can be happy about. I do have fear of wasps though, I just can't handle myself around those!

[FKA_Servo]

Never seen cockroach myself- well other than FO4- , it's probably something I can be happy about. I do have fear of wasps though, I just can't handle myself around those!

It's basically like Fallout 4.

[Steelcan]

I've no significant issues with insects or arachnids.

I'm not a huge fan of them, but I'm the designated bug killer for my apartment.

[SmilesJA]

I'm getting tired of people being accused of defending sexy character/clothing "maintaining the status quo" or "you are a pervert!" 

 

That's all I have right now.

[Lady Artifice]

That's sounds like a horrible experience...but a really great story. 

 

Your cats are not good hunters. I wish I could say the same of mine. She's not great, but good enough that she catches lizards and Jerusalem crickets that she brings inside and eats if I don't stop her. 

[nightscrawl]

You poor dear! That poor spatula!


Ack, I'm sorry! Maybe... maybe you can get an even better one? /silver lining squad

 

True... The old scanner bed had an unfortunate line on it that necessitated arranging the scanning material so that it wouldn't be present in the scan itself.

 

 

Those monsters can ****** fly?! I'd burn the building down, it's beyond saving. Our cockroaches are tiny compared to what you guys have. The spiders though *shudder*

 

I used to live in South Florida. Palmetto bugs, man. The stuff of nightmares. Once, when I was a kid, I was sitting in my room on the floor playing. I happened to turn my head to the side, and there on a pair of shoes was a 'roach, sitting, wiggling its antennae at me, like, "Hi!" Needless to say, I freaked out and Mommy to the rescue with a large flip-plop sandal.

[FKA_Servo]

My cats are actually fine hunters when left to their own devices. I've found plenty of dismantled and/or partially consumed roaches etc in our last few apartments.

It's just that when the roach actively makes itself known to me, I need to take matters into my own hands, because I can't work with the cats' timetable and priorities. I need the roach to vacate the material plane forthwith.

I don't know where you guys live that you don't have these bastards, but I'd like to move there. At least they keep to themselves when it's not 95 degrees and humid AF.

[Biotic Apostate]

I used to live in South Florida. Palmetto bugs, man. The stuff of nightmares. Once, when I was a kid, I was sitting in my room on the floor playing. I happened to turn my head to the side, and there on a pair of shoes was a 'roach, sitting, wiggling its antennae at me, like, "Hi!" Needless to say, I freaked out and Mommy to the rescue with a large flip-plop sandal.

[Grieving Natashina]

Oh my gods, Dallas.

I'm not touching the politics or anything like that with a 10 foot pole. I don't want to spark a huge debate in the RDF over the protests and the groups involved. I'm just heartbroken for the people that were hurt and the cops that were killed.

This has been a very crappy summer for this kind of tragedy.

[CrimsonN7]

Oh my gods, Dallas.
I'm not touching the politics or anything like that with a 10 foot pole. I don't want to spark a huge debate in the RDF over the protests and the groups involved. I'm just heartbroken for the people that were hurt and the cops that were killed.
This has been a very crappy summer for this kind of tragedy.

Sh*t is crazy in Murica yup, all those shootings but yunno won't give up dem guns so... yeah.

[Biotic Apostate]

Why would they, gun control doesn't work. It's not like Australia passed such laws, and it's not like their mass shootings went down from almost one per year to 0 since 1996.

 

 

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[SardaukarElite]

Speaking of Australia, it's been a week since our federal election and we still don't know who won, technically.

 

Though there is some comfort in the knowledge that the result can't possibly be worse than Brexit or anything where Trump is a contender. 

[Steelcan]

Speaking of Australia, it's been a week since our federal election and we still don't know who won, technically.
 
Though there is some comfort in the knowledge that the result can't possibly be worse than Brexit or anything where Trump is a contender.

y'all had Tony Abbott, no stone throwing from down under

[Steelcan]

Sh*t is crazy in Murica yup, all those shootings but yunno won't give up dem guns so... yeah.

its not a matter of wanting to give up guns, its enshrined in the Constitution that American citizens have the right to bear arms, so a buyback program like in Australia or the stringent requirements in other nations just wouldn't fly without either a constitutional amendment or some rather questionable decisions from justices.

That is not to say however that there's no problem with guns in America.

[SardaukarElite]

I feel (as an informed outsider and all that) America's gun issues are more cultural than political. Statistics and alternate systems aren't really significant if people don't want to change or value something they stand to loose. 

 

y'all had Tony Abbott, no stone throwing from down under

 

Trump's more like Clive Palmer. 

[SardaukarElite]

I checked in on the Revealing Armor thread, I regretted it. 

[Sylvianus]

Sh*t is crazy in Murica yup, all those shootings but yunno won't give up dem guns so... yeah.

 

Gun control isn't the only issue in the United States. There is a systemic racism that is happening in this country. To the point that less 25% of black americans trust their police, absolutely do not trust their justice system, do not feel comfortable when they walk on the streets when white cops are looking at them. Feel absolutely sick in their belly, when a white cops in their car ask them to stop to check something, wondering if they are going to be killed. Not even a 13 years old black girl can feel safe. I was absolutely shocked by how the white cop behaved with the poor girl. 

 

You know what she did ? She came to a party without authorization, and cops were called to deal with her and her friends. He has beaten the poor girl because she said " I have done nothing wrong ", maybe a with little insolence, ( but so what ? she is an adolescent for god sake )  and before such horrible scene, her friends, ( black too ) shocked obviously automatically tried to help her and the cop drew suddenly his gun at everyone. You could totallly see how his mate was embarassed by his alarming behavior,  but he did absolutely nothing. The crazy guy came back to the poor black girl harassed who was crying and fearing for her life, forcing her to put her head on the ground, talking badly to her, while the other neutral cop monitored the other guys shocked, their only crime being to want to protect the poor girl.

 

I am a peaceful man, i am a reasonable man but damn, seeing such scene made me certainly feel a strong hatred, like it never happened in my whole life when just seeing something on TV. And the end of the story ? Hillarious. unbelievable. Nothing for the cop, it was normal stuff. There was a whole video showing what he did, but no, he did nothing wrong. In any other country, that crazy and racist cop would have been fired and even been put under arrest, judged for dangerous actions and abusive behavior. 

 

In France, before such scene there would have been a whole revolution if the guy could escape justice. 

 

It's urgent for the society over there to deal with this big issue too. I wouldn't be surprised if the most fragile guys wouldn't be convinced  that there is a war happening between white cops and the black community. It's been too long that it is happening, for too many years. The most shocking for me has to be all those people who supported the bad cops and their behavior blindly all these years. " They are right, " ugh. 

 

Racism happens everywhere, but for a country to work well, people have to be able to trust a little their justice, their police. When it's not the case, there is a whole dangerous path behind. 

 

Speaking of Australia, it's been a week since our federal election and we still don't know who won, technically.

 

Though there is some comfort in the knowledge that the result can't possibly be worse than Brexit or anything where Trump is a contender. 

 

The brexit, has to be the most suicidal economic decision ever made in recent history. Great Britain was absolutely economically fine. Now, I don't ever want to see a referendum in France about staying or not in EU. I don't want ignorants and racists to be able to dictate the future of my country. We have a parlement with people who knows their stuff unlike the mass, so I'd rather trust them for the vital interests of the country. 

 

Many People voted no against EU, not because of EU but because they were against their governement, or because of migrants and polishs. The most hillarious reason, being, " I didn't know that my vote would matter so much, I thought the yes would win "  Just unbelievable. That's why we could really ask ourselves if a referundum is really the best way. 

[SmilesJA]

I checked in on the Revealing Armor thread, I regretted it. 

 

It's becoming crazy. I can't believe I just posted there.