Kaymyth

For making me think of Red Dwarf every time I see your username. Ace Rimmer (the improbably dapper alternate universe version of Rimmer): "Smoke me a kipper! I'll be back for breakfast!"

At work I've been doing things that involve lots of small boxes of widgets. I have to put "Property of <Company>" stickers on each widget. This involves bringing out cartloads of boxes, opening them up one at a time, and slapping a sticker on, then putting it back into the box and back on the cart. This leads to me building many temporary walls of widget boxes all over my desk and cube. People started teasing me about building walls against them, and so I (naturally) cried out, "For the love of god, Montressor!" *blank looks* Me: Oh, come on! Edgar Allen Poe? The Cask of Amontillado? Them: You weird person and your reading of things! Me: I had to read this in school! In junior high! It's commonly taught! Them: Rosemary, normal people don't remember lessons from junior high! Me: .... Junior high wasn't that long ago! Only...only.... only 25 years ago.... OK, so they may have a point there....

You have to arrange all of your Sanderson novels in front of a bathroom mirror and whisper, "Rubix Shenanigans" 5 1/2 times.

I don't think you've got the game right. You're supposed to say what you think the last person who posted is known for, not yourself. Oh, and you: for making me not feel alone in my adoration of Wayne.

My unofficially adopted little sister lives in Portland. I might make it up there one of these years.

Running on about 4 1/2 hours of sleep. Scale sewn on. Probably going to take half of it off and redo it later for con-level goodness, but it's good enough for tomorrow's costume thing at work.

For being the Prettiest Pony .

This is the problem, I'm afraid. You're not a bad musician, you're just overstretched. You do not have enough spoons! What type of saxophone? If it's an alto, they do make gig bags that can be backpacked. I wouldn't want to try biking with a tenor or a bari, though. I'm with Twi on the pepper spray. And I know you're worried about your parents' reaction but tell them anyway. What if he does step over the line and grab you? Your family needs to know where to start looking. And this might sound weird, but start keeping a Creeper Diary. Document every incident. Keep a running log. This will be exceedingly useful should you need to pursue something like a restraining order or (gods forbid it's necessary) criminal charges. I kind of love this idea. There's a reason why glitter is called the herpes of the craft world. Glitterbomb his locker and he'll be sparkling for the entire rest of the school year. And then you can call him Glitterboy!

Hey, if it's worth fanning over, it's worth doing it full-throttle. It's hard to tell with nobody who will play it with me. If you ever find yourself in the Kansas City area, look me up and we'll fire it up.

This is true. That's about the one and only thing he actually takes seriously. Of course, part of his atonement is providing for the family he broke, so I don't actually see him jumping into Worldhopping anytime soon. I can't imagine that it's very easy to send half of one's pay back through Shadesmar.

Eeee, must go read! I have the game (though nobody will play it with me), and I also have both of those books, along with the Snips, Snails book of the compiled Dragon Magazine stuff. ....I also have all of the Christmas ornaments and get the calendar every year.

One of the ideas I've had about Bronze savants is that they'd actually be able to tell the difference between a normal metal burn and a Compounding burn. There'd be a subtle difference in the way the pulse patterns are heard.

Sorry-not-sorry.

It's days like these when I feel like I should apologize to everyone for unleashing ThirdGen upon the forum.

I see what you did there.

I'm saying that Hoid has a goal in mind and is up to something. I ascribe no such ambitions to Wayne.

Sneaking food into your room as a peace offering is not a symbolic apology, it's a tactic to try and get you to thaw enough to apologize to her so that she can still feel like the wronged party. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: This is not a normal family dynamic. If I lived close enough to you to make it remotely feasible, you absolutely would have someplace to go. You wouldn't be the first tormented twentysomething that I've rescued from a toxic family environment...

Heh. Is Hoid really that crazy? Wayne is 100% pure chaos.

This is possible. I do remember MeLaan saying that they couldn't tell what attribute the Trellium spike was bestowing; it could very well be part of what was driving her mad. What if she was actually spiked with the source Shard's Intent? I think that this was supposition on Harmony's part; he was explaining how it could be possible, not that he knew for certain that was what she was doing.

That sounds to me more like your sister acting like your mother than you. All of that twisting things around back at you? That's exactly what your mom does. Your reaction sounds a lot more like a person who is under a great deal of stress trying to navigate a complicated social environment. Coincidentally enough, that's also exactly where you are. You will manage with people just fine, because most people do not act the way your family does. The biggest thing you're going to have to worry about is deprogramming your expectations so that you don't wind up dating someone who does the same crap to you.

For not being the same guy as on Kongregate. (Which, for you, is a good thing.)

I know; I'm weird. My taste buds are miscalibrated so that it's harder for me to pick up sweet flavors than most folks. So there are a lot of things that people say are sweet that I just don't taste as sweet at all; cheesecake is one of those things. So things have to be really, really sweet for my tongue to register it as such. Oh, and I also don't like tea. Well, that's a strong word; I'm sure I'd like it if I could taste it. Unfortunately, all tea tastes the same to me: hot, slightly bitter water. I've had master teamakers try and take this on, and so far it has been for naught. Artificial sweeteners, by the way, taste absolutely vile to me. Just pure bitter nastiness. Ironically, brussels sprouts, one of the supposedly most bitter vegetables, taste sweet to me. Like I said, taster calibration is just totally frelled. I know, I know. See above. I'm right there with you on the cheesecake, except that I can barely taste any sugar at all. And I hate cream cheese. So there you go. Uuugghhh, grapefruit juice. That stuff make my mouth twist into an Escheresque knot.

*consults Google* Looks like it's similar but slightly less sour. I still probably wouldn't like it. I have some really weird food aversions to things that apparently everyone else loves. Like: popcorn peanut butter meatloaf chili "good" cheeses cheesecake orange juice

Oh, so it's an eldritch abomination disguised as pizza? (I detest sour cream. Biting into something like that would bring with it a nasty shock.)

That looks like pizza.