Orlion Blight he/him Posted November 7, 2015 Posted November 7, 2015 *Smack!* I don't *Smack!* see why *Smack!* this is such a *Smack!* big deal with you! 1
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted November 7, 2015 Posted November 7, 2015 *Smack!* I don't *Smack!* see why *Smack!* this is such a *Smack!* big deal with you! Hey, would you look at that, there's a fire in the Jolly Ranchers factory. Wonder what caused it. 6
Kobold King he/him Posted November 7, 2015 Posted November 7, 2015 Hey, would you look at that, there's a fire in the Jolly Ranchers factory. Wonder what caused it. There's a banana orchard there now. I like bananas. 3
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted November 7, 2015 Posted November 7, 2015 There's a banana orchard there now. I like bananas. A good friend will try to talk you out of burning down a Jolly Ranchers factory. A best friend will plant a banana orchard to hide the evidence. 7
Orlion Blight he/him Posted November 7, 2015 Posted November 7, 2015 Well, at least I still have my Werther's! 1
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted November 7, 2015 Posted November 7, 2015 Well, at least I still have my Werther's! Those were accidentally destroyed maliciously. 3
ThirdGen Posted November 7, 2015 Posted November 7, 2015 I can make irritating noises without consuming delicious sugar. 3
Voidus Posted November 8, 2015 Posted November 8, 2015 Well good news: at least now if Twi becomes an Epic we all know what her weakness it.Bad news: She will have destroyed everything that can set off her weakness even before she becomes an Epic.I for one welcome our sparkly new overlord. 3
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted November 8, 2015 Posted November 8, 2015 Well good news: at least now if Twi becomes an Epic we all know what her weakness it. Bad news: She will have destroyed everything that can set off her weakness even before she becomes an Epic. I for one welcome our sparkly new overlord. There's only one person who knows my true weakness, and he has four feet and a smushy face.
Voidus Posted November 8, 2015 Posted November 8, 2015 There's only one person who knows my true weakness, and he has four feet and a smushy face. Deathwish after Scribbler turned his hands into feet and punched his face until it was smushy? 3
Kaymyth she/her Posted November 9, 2015 Posted November 9, 2015 Oh, the joys of dealing with IT (with emoticons!). So, this morning, access to an internal site on my computer broke. It baffled me. So I do the IT chat thing. Dude comes on and ports into my computer and proceeds to start puttering around with my internet settings. Some of the things that he did were things that I recognized as possibly bad, but let it slide because hey, he's IT, right? He should know what he's doing. Well, you can see where this is going. So, he fixes the first thing, but another critical application now won't launch. I tell him, "Um, hey, I think X thing you did might've caused this." Him: "No, no, I enabled that plug-in!" Me: "And I think that was wrong...." Him: *doing more things, including enabling something else that I KNOW breaks things* Me: "Um, I don't think you should do that thing..." Him: *ignores me* Me: *tries to type again, gets shut down as he continues to control the mouse* *makes inarticulate arglebargle sounds at the computer* Him: *after 20 minutes of piddling around and not listening to me* "OK, I'm gonna open a ticket." Me: "Whatever, dude." The instant he ports back out of my computer, I proceed to go and disable the things he enabled and restart my computer. Lo and behold, everything works again. I do a victory dance and send him an e-mail telling him not to open the ticket. Five minutes later, he opens the ticket. *sigh* So I IM him, which goes something like this: Me: "Dude, I fixed it." Him: "Cool! How?!" Me: "By doing X and Y." I nobly refrain from phrasing it, "By doing the exact gorram thing that I told you to do when you were in here." 6
Delightful Posted November 9, 2015 Posted November 9, 2015 Wait so you did know what to do all along?
Orlion Blight he/him Posted November 9, 2015 Posted November 9, 2015 Well, Kaymyth, at least your issue lasted only day... whereas I've been trying to get an issue resolved FOR OVER A FRIGGIN YEAR! *Orlion hyperventilates for a bit, forces himself to take deep breaths and "calms" down*
+Slowswift Posted November 9, 2015 Posted November 9, 2015 So. Apparently my upper respiratory apparatus hates my guts. Whose idea was it to curse me with hayfever, thereby rendering me only able to function in winter, where I get rhinorrhea anyways because it's so rusting cold?! Alternatively, I might just have a cold. Which is almost worse, because I just got over one a month ago.
Kaymyth she/her Posted November 9, 2015 Posted November 9, 2015 Wait so you did know what to do all along? On the second issue, but not the first. Him fixing the first issue cause the second one. I intuited which part of what he'd done when trying to fix the first one caused the second break, but he wasn't listening to me when I told him. In retrospect, I think all that really needed to be done to fix the first issue was clear the Java cache - it was those plugins he activated that broke my other program. Bonus points: me figuring this out also allowed me to fix what turned out to be the same issue (regarding the second one) for one of my teammates. He's had a ticket open with IT on this since Wednesday of last week. And I fixed it. Not the IT guy. Me. I am the queen of fixing! Well, Kaymyth, at least your issue lasted only day... whereas I've been trying to get an issue resolved FOR OVER A FRIGGIN YEAR! *Orlion hyperventilates for a bit, forces himself to take deep breaths and "calms" down* Oh, dangit, man. I am so sorry. 3
Guest Posted November 9, 2015 Posted November 9, 2015 ... My favorite story regarding IT is the following... I had just bought a new laptop. A few weeks after my purchase, it stops working. It just refuses to turn on even if I plugged it into the wall. I suspected a battery issue, but then I wondered why it didn't work if I plugged it in. I had that before, so I suspected something else must be telling it it was unplugged even when it was. Anyway. I called the IT service to open up a request. "Madam, are you sure the computer is physically connected to the wall?" "Yeah. I'm sure." "Are you sure you have pressed the turn on button?" I HATE to be taken for an idiot Turns out the mother board had a defect. They had it replaced.
Mistrunner Posted November 10, 2015 Posted November 10, 2015 Can I get hugs?*hugs*I need some too right now. Can I get some? 1
Creccio he/him Posted November 10, 2015 Posted November 10, 2015 *hugs* I need some too right now. Can I get some? *hugs hard* 1
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted November 10, 2015 Posted November 10, 2015 "Hey, Twi. When you corrected me in front of your eleven year old sister this morning, clarifying something you said that I deliberately misinterpreted to suit my own agenda....well, it was a small thing, but it reminded me that you've been disagreeing with me in front of her a lot. Sometimes, you have good points, but exposing her to alternative perspectives undermines my control and authority over her, and we can't have that. Because I fully expect her to get pregnant the second she enters her teen years. Rather than assuming she does it to rebel against my draconian rules, I'll hold you responsible for letting her slip free of my grasp, because I think my rule are the only thing making her decent. But, you do make good points sometimes, so why don't you write your perspective down so I can pick out all the flaws in your arguments and remind you why I'm the parent and you're the child. Go clean up dog poo now." Wild guess who said that. Subtext added. 6
Orlion Blight he/him Posted November 10, 2015 Posted November 10, 2015 You could always tell her that Planned Parenthood will always be there to help her avoid getting pregnant. Just be sure to take cover, because your mom will explode. 2
ThirdGen Posted November 10, 2015 Posted November 10, 2015 "Hey, Twi. When you corrected me in front of your eleven year old sister this morning, clarifying something you said that I deliberately misinterpreted to suit my own agenda....well, it was a small thing, but it reminded me that you've been disagreeing with me in front of her a lot. Sometimes, you have good points, but exposing her to alternative perspectives undermines my control and authority over her, and we can't have that. Because I fully expect her to get pregnant the second she enters her teen years. Rather than assuming she does it to rebel against my draconian rules, I'll hold you responsible for letting her slip free of my grasp, because I think my rule are the only thing making her decent. But, you do make good points sometimes, so why don't you write your perspective down so I can pick out all the flaws in your arguments and remind you why I'm the parent and you're the child. Go clean up dog poo now." Wild guess who said that. Subtext added. Wow, at first I was like, "They never admit what they're doing like this."
Curious Anamaximder he/him Posted November 10, 2015 Posted November 10, 2015 "Hey, Twi. When you corrected me in front of your eleven year old sister this morning, clarifying something you said that I deliberately misinterpreted to suit my own agenda....well, it was a small thing, but it reminded me that you've been disagreeing with me in front of her a lot. Sometimes, you have good points, but exposing her to alternative perspectives undermines my control and authority over her, and we can't have that. Because I fully expect her to get pregnant the second she enters her teen years. Rather than assuming she does it to rebel against my draconian rules, I'll hold you responsible for letting her slip free of my grasp, because I think my rule are the only thing making her decent. But, you do make good points sometimes, so why don't you write your perspective down so I can pick out all the flaws in your arguments and remind you why I'm the parent and you're the child. Go clean up dog poo now." Wild guess who said that. Subtext added. WHAT in the name of J.R.R. Toklien is wrong with that woman! Seriously! 1
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