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[May. 5th, 2012|09:41 pm] |
Well, that didn't work out too well. That "legend" game was far more puzzle than dungeon run, and I'm not a fan of solid puzzles anymore. That and I've grown soft on procedurally generated dungeons... static dungeons don't do anything for me anymore.
Maybe I will pick up Tera. I'm certainly not going back to Rift or WoW, mostly because I'd be so far behind I'd never catch up. WoW has total jerks, Rift has guilds that implode the second they're made... Tera seems to have a race of all-male furs of some kind. I made 100 dollars doing readings last month, and that's not enough to cover rent or bills, so... might as well treat myself. If I don't like it, I cancel the subscription. Easy as that.
Edited to add: Well, that doesn't bode well. Every page of the business that sells Tera gives me a "some of this might be visible to third parties" error even on their secure "https" pages. It's a Korean game, so... meh, I dunno. Still, three... three and a half... *watches the timer climb* four and a half hours on the launcher download... ... ok, I'll mess with it tomorrow.
Edit #2 an hour later: 12 hours now. And judging by the forums, this company sucks molten dragon balls. It's beginning to smell more and more like they jumped the gun HARD getting the game out when there's so many web-based things they can't seem to squish. I'm seeing shades of Linden level stupidity here. I'll give it a day, if it fails to download I'll kill the subscription... assuming I can find the page where it has that option. |
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[Apr. 30th, 2012|12:01 pm] |
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Fixed the check problem (she got in contact with me; if she doesn't show up with it tomorrow when she is supposed to get it, I will have her head), and the muse is starting to poke me demanding to resurrect some old characters for another go... we'll see... |
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[Apr. 29th, 2012|10:38 am] |
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This sucks. The person in charge of getting me my welfare check (since the government has flat out refused to make it direct deposit on a "technicality" --- they have to send it to an "approved payee" who delivers it to me) has been incommunicado for over three weeks. No phone/work phone/emails are being returned and her place of business has completely shut up. I now have no way to make rent in two days. Family is not helping (one says "I'll help", the others go "do so and we politically ruin you, death to you for not being us").
I might lose my apartment soonish. Lovely. :/ |
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| Because it needs to be said on a day like today... |
[Apr. 13th, 2012|11:28 am] |
What could possibly go wrong?
(other than me being up over 24 hours so far, 75% of that time in Minecraft only to have a server mod installed that wiped 4 hours of progress and turned the damn server into an RPG instead of just "standard Minecraft")... |
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| A brief thought while meddling with Minecraft... |
[Apr. 10th, 2012|01:03 am] |
Apparently you can lay "wire" in a series of "logic gates", to power doors, minecarts, traps and such.
If only a certain Wolf had the time to meddle with it, I bet his Engineer side would be in heaven. "and" gates, "or" gates", "xor" gates, etc. Heh. |
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[Apr. 6th, 2012|08:48 pm] |
*listens to the hard drive rev like an engine* I don't expect Wraithguard to last six months. I'm never buying from Best Rip-Off again.
In other news, got Minecraft but finding a server that isn't full-to-bursting with trolls is damn near impossible and I'm not going to play on Creative/Single Player.
Anyone know of a good storage site with over a gig of space (so I can stick a backup of my entire music folder in there) for the next time I need a new computer? |
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[Apr. 2nd, 2012|01:25 pm] |
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Yesterday I had $1300 in my account, enough to make rent. Today, I have less than $500. Not enough to make rent. I sent out the rent check not knowing this. Deposited my welfare check too though. I can hope it clears before the landlord tries to cash my rent check. :/ Blah. If he calls whining about it bouncing I'll just tell him to wait a couple days so the new check clears. |
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Signal Boost via ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=91.7) shadow_mage... |
[Mar. 31st, 2012|12:40 pm] |
| [ | This Hyena Feels... |
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My comments in italics...
According to this article, dated March 15, 2012:
http://www.digitaltrends.com/webnews/major-isps-turn-into-copyright-police-by-july-says-riaa/
"File-sharers, beware: By July 12, major US Internet service providers (ISPs) will voluntarily begin serving as copyright police for the entertainment industry, according to Cary Sherman, chief executive of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The so-called “six-strikes” plan is said to be one of the most effective anti-piracy efforts ever established in the US." If that doesn't piss off the Anonymous collective, nothing will...
The article goes on to give details. After six notices, internet providers will decide to throttle a person's internet speed, or cut it off altogether. I don't know if they will crack down on torrents only, or if it is up to the internet provider. I get the sense it is up to the internet provider. So some people could get away with downloading non torrents, while others might get their internet service cut off. I urge you to click it and read, as we all know people who download. this won't stop anything, before long a whole "black market web" for high speed would blossom, methinks.
No more downloading eps of your favorite shows for vidding, gifs, or fanfiction art. No more downloading screencaps possibly. I'm so sorry my friends. I don't even know if BT Guard will work to protect you, but I would google it if I were you. It is a professional service that supposedly can protect you from the invasive eyes of your internet provider.
Just, my friends, please make each other aware. Please be aware of the date JULY 12TH. Mark your calendar and double check with your internet provider by then. If you start receiving notices of downloaded activity, this is why. And your internet service could be throttled or cut off.
Fox news confirms this:
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/03/17/us-isps-become-copyright-cops-starting-july-12/ (oh boy faux snooze...
Youtube video explaining this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5OG0R-yS-c
SIGN THE PETITION!
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/backdoor_sopa/?source=fb |
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[Mar. 28th, 2012|03:19 pm] |
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Considering taking up Minecraft for something new to do, as I've never tried it. Those of you who still read this, is it fun and/or worth it? |
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[Mar. 16th, 2012|02:40 am] |
Rediscovered DosBox and Dungeon Hack... god damn I feel old.
Oh, and as an add to the last post with the data file. Run down and ranged down by a herd of centaurs. Heh.
shadow_mage, you might like Dungeon Crawl, since it's turn based and not real-time. Interested in it? I'll throw it your way. |
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| Bah Flubug |
[Mar. 9th, 2012|09:55 am] |
| [ | This Hyena Feels... |
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*throws up paws* If anyone out there has the MP3 of the N64 game Gauntlet Legends "Desecrated Temple" theme, could you send it my way? It's damn near impossible to find without having to download 17 different bullshit music services which I ain't touching with a 20 foot pole, let alone a ten foot one.
On top of that, the government decided "hey, let's make this fucker go through two more psych tests or we'll revoke disability!" Fucktards... |
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| RED ALERT: Offline until further notice |
[Mar. 2nd, 2012|12:50 pm] |
| [ | This Hyena Feels... |
| | irritated | ] |
| [ | Between The Ears... |
| | Nothing, due to a dead hard drive. | ] |
Last night while helping a newbie in Second Life, Apocnarok, my computer, up and died. My guess is the hard drive (which was revving like an engine and vibrating -hard-) collapsed, but knowing my luck it was probably both motherboard and hard drive. Keeping the thing on for a year and a half straight probably didn't help either.
With a little financial juggling (and waiting for a disability check and Liveperson to pay me, assuming they don't withhold because I haven't sent them a piece of paper about tax this year yet) I can -technically- get a new laptop within a short time frame. But it'd have a piss poor quality to Second Life, no Skyrim capability (I'd stopped recently, but you know what I mean), and many things I use wouldn't run.
So I'm waiting a few days or a week or two. First, to see if my family will help. I don't think they will, because one person won't do anything unless commanded to by my father, my father is ignorant of computers in my opinion and my brother wouldn't believe it was "just" the hard drive --- he'd probably try to drop by and "recover" it, which would only make the situation worse.
To those of you in Civilization: The easiest way to have dealt with Rupert was a straight on bull rush when he first showed up. Speed, savagery and shock. :) Civilization II is now on hiatus until I can get at least a new laptop with internet capability, and given the fact I can brick computers just by walking by them in a show room... yeah, you get the idea. Hang in there, I'll try to be back as soon as I can.
Until then, I'm stranded on library computers for two hours a day, spending the rest of my time in an empty apartment with no TV, no nothing else. I ain't social, I don't have income, the internet is my lifeline to sanity. I'll see you when I get back.
Wolf: Please tell Rita to leave the light on for me and to get Kit to get her ass in gear.
ETA: Hmmm. Payment day for tarot is (technically) March 5, for 300, combined with my paypal at... and a week to "transfer funds" from paypal to my bank... hmmm. *juggles numbers in his head* So March 15th seems like a good attempted return date.
Winds Be At Your Back and May The World Still Be Here Tomorrow. |
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[Jan. 20th, 2012|10:25 pm] |
According to this, at the very end, LJ is planning on looking for new customers, and to hell with the current customers. At least, that's how I'm reading it. Apparently in another article elsewhere, the planned site redesign is going to take away subject lines, with no work arounds.
I'm really only still here because two or three people I pay attention to are still here. If they go, I go.
Winds Be At Your Back, and May The World Still Be Here Tomorrow. |
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| Adventures in writing |
[Jan. 4th, 2012|02:13 pm] |
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So, yeah. Something semi-disturbing.
I'm trying to start again for the Orb of Radience story I was writing, with the cast in the artwork I posted a little bit ago. Jericho is finally feeding me pieces how it's really going down, but it is... more graphic/realistic than I'd care to write normally (nude slaves in cages, a public beheading), and it's not working as a story if I try to dumb it down. The society they're about to enter is heavily patriarchal, treating women as objects (so much as to call them "whore-holes" the moment they step off the boat, demanding they be naked and muzzled when in public), and already two characters are headed for slaughter, one ordered to be skinned -alive- for use in lingerie worn by the local lord's wife.
And of course, Jericho, being the paladin he is, is sitting by and letting this happen. Partially because he comes from a similar background, but also because the legit "lord of the land" commanded it. Either this is going to turn into a resurrection story in which case the entire party gets killed before they start and then raised from the dead as "heroes", or Jericho is going to wake the hell up and save the party before their deaths (which would forsake all he believes in)
It's not flowing any other way. Should I give up and tell Jericho to take he and his heroes with him, or bang it out, graphic realism or not? |
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| Artwork of the Orb of Radiance cast. |
[Jan. 2nd, 2012|10:50 pm] |
| [ | This Hyena Feels... |
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I need a better site to store arts people do for me. Freewebs has scripts running in the background that make my comp go "you might wanna shut this script down."
I haven't picked up the pen again to start the story fresh, and have taken down the LJ community, I got simply -no- feedback or comments on most of the pages, and the final chapter I'd written, half the page was in italics and no one caught me on it. I caught myself on it after four days of it being up.
Jericho's poking me with his sword (not -that- sword, you freaks, though he assures me it's equally impressive) though, and I might put down Skyrim long enough to bang out a few chapters now that he's whispering me how it's really going down.
( So yeah, anyone know a good place I can store this? ) |
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[Dec. 25th, 2011|11:39 am] |
| [ | This Hyena Feels... |
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My family said they would not be gathering for christmas this year. Two minutes ago they call saying they're on their way and say they're gathering, and expect to be picked up in two hours.
Why do I have this unending sense of dread, like they're going to spring very unpleasant things on me as "gifts for my own good"?
Fucks up my plans for the day... bleh. |
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[Dec. 12th, 2011|01:04 pm] |
| [ | This Hyena Feels... |
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So, my morning.
Caseworker: "You need Paper X in order to get your benefit checks rolling."
Me: "Ok." *runs to bank, gets Paper X*
Caseworker: "Wrong Paper X. You need the other Paper X.
Me: "I tried getting that Paper. They told me there's a two week wait as Papers Y, Z, and Q are pushed and some shitstain's palm is greased with a fee."
Caseworker: "..." *makes calls* "Ok, Person Y is at the bank with Paper X if he knows what is good for him. Go get it."
Me: "Ok." *runs to bank, gets Paper X*
Caseworker: "Paper X is missing Data J and Data V, which is the specific data we need. Why?"
Me: "Durr... duh... I like swords."
Caseworker: "..." *makes more calls, gets pissed, begins arguing with people on the other end of the phone, citing rule and law and technical jargon for 20 minutes*
Me: "It's never this easy."
Caseworker: "You fell through a crack, some kind of exception to Rule G and Condition P and they say they're under orders not to give that information to anyone thanks to 9/11. It's all bullshit; I'm working on the problem. Spend as much as fucking possible and drain the paypal account dry until I tell you otherwise. It's the only other way to get down under Threshold F so they listen to us in the first place."
Me: "Spending it all on stuff for myself will -not- endear me to my family. I do not want that kind of bitching out at Christmas and for years afterward. They will use it as an excuse to go 'I told you so, you can't hold onto money, we won't help, go to a shelter you stupid fuck. Have fun in hoboland.'"
Caseworker: "Visit friends in another state? Buy a new wardrobe?"
Me: "They'd still go 'I told you so.' for laughs at my expense and fuck the consequences and everyone else. If they didn't, I'd never believe it and figure they'd be planning -something-, because I know I certainly would be. We're too petty not to."
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So yeah. Fortunately I can pay hundreds of dollars to an artist to finish up a year-late commission piece (he had some real baaaaaaaaad shit ruin his life for a year, he gets a pass on it being so late as he only recently got back on the internet) and I can probably blow more money on parcels in Second Life. The money has to be -spent-, not just given for "holding" (thanks for the offer, Wolf)... meh, I'll think of something.
Winds Be At Your Back, and May The World Still Be Here Tomorrow... |
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| That's new... the government telling me to blow money like water. |
[Dec. 9th, 2011|04:32 pm] |
| [ | This Hyena Feels... |
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I just got back from a two hour meeting with Social Security Benefits goons. Mostly a lot of "good cop bad cop" where one who was "higher ranked" was obviously trying to talk down or intimidate the person handling my files; when they snarled at my caseworker and she didn't back down, they gave her a look that to me said "if murder were legal I'd kill you, inferior thing."
These bastards in power would attempt anything, I think, if they thought they could get away with it. No morality, no compassion, and a lack of the fear of a possible "big fire down below" makes for a bad mix.
Here's the thing. It looks like my paypal account is holding up the process because its contents put me "over the $2000 limit". I need to spend that money -now-, literally instantly, before things can proceed well. Most of the $700 or so in my paypal is earmarked toward an art commission that got delayed for a year due to artist RL bullshittery breaking their stride, but I might not be able to afford that because the money -must must must- be gone before the end of december, or everything gets fouled up for me trying to get benefits.
Yeah, they're telling me to basically blow a huge giant wad of cash on myself ASAP to satisfy the system. *shrug* Dunno if I'm going to hold out for the artwork (which has been restarted from scratch), or what.
naira666, you out there? Still doing artwork/commissions?
Winds be at your back, and may the world still be here tomorrow... |
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[Dec. 4th, 2011|02:06 am] |
So. Time for an update, for anyone who still reads or is around (though I don't think I'll be posting as much).
1) Was going to get back into IRC matches, but... kinda fell by the wayside. I need to get excited about it again, and right now it's not happening.
2) Don't ask me about government benefits. Strings have been forcibly pulled and hands played; late next week we'll see the results.
3) Visiting family for christmas, if only because I promised and didn't see them at thanksgiving. One of two things will happen, neither beneficial.
4) The guild I was in for Rift, huge solid mature group for almost the entire time I've been playing, had one bad night and disbanded. Completely. 19 people left in the course of 30 minutes. I knew it was the beginning of the end when the guild leader left the game (he gets a pass, baby on the way) but the damage done by his leaving both to morale and politicals plus the ripple effect by some of his late decisions before he left (we expected some "damage" but not on the scale it ended up) caused its demise. 70% of the fun has gone out of playing.
5) The last of my socks wore through. Time for a visit to the mall to snag a new pack. And a garbage bin... something gnawed through the lid during the summer when I put the thing outside, and then I found a large hole in the side of it as well.
That's it, I guess.
Winds be at your back and may the world still be here tomorrow... |
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[Nov. 20th, 2011|12:07 am] |
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Got word back on my government benefits now that I dropped below the limit required to "qualify" for $699 a month.
They screwed us. They promised my situation wouldn't be fucked with, and they went back on their word. Surprise surprise.
Everything we did for the past two years in order to set this shit up? Worthless. All kinds of excuses, from "new management" to "that judge you got papers from, has no value anymore" to "you waited too long to get under the limit to qualify" to "What the crap is this hell?". We're trying to re-apply this week, but it will take six months to process. Maybe. If we're good and kiss the asses of all the right people.
So. I have enough money for two months left. After that, I don't know. A shelter and library computers, probably. My caseworker is *LIVID*, but they're sweeping her under the rug and there is little she can do about it (mostly involving people that we know that are on the wrong side of prison bars at the moment, which is having an impact on people's "character" --- don't ask).
On top of that, several times in the past two weeks, I've gotten only what I can call "psychic slaps-to-the-face". I'll be busy doing something and I get this feeling that someone blew arctic air in my face and my entire face goes -frigid- for a minute, paralyzing me. I got these sensations as a young kid, and each time, not long thereafter, psychological and emotional tactical nukes were dropped in my family. Hell, the first time it ever happened, I got jumped by bullies and thrown into a tree.
That said, I think -something's- up family-wise that I am not being told about, on the assumption of high-and-mighty people who think they "know better than me" that "what I don't know can't hurt me." I plan on visiting the family for Christmas unless they tell me to fuck off, so I figure they will set things straight there.
I have my hunches, and I have my doubts. For now, it's the same as it always was, one day at a time.
lowen_kind, did you get my LJ message containing that reading you wanted?
Winds Be At Your Back, and May The World Still Be Here Tomorrow. |
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[Nov. 19th, 2011|12:11 am] |
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Check your LJ messages. I only now made the time to get that reading done you wanted. |
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| Has it really been over a month? |
[Oct. 28th, 2011|03:45 am] |
| [ | This Hyena Feels... |
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Has it been a month or more? Damn.
So, in a nutshell:
1) Sleep schedule all messed up.
2) Trolling Omegle is fun. Though... I did it for 7 hours straight
3) Civilization is in its twilight. Probably ending it at the end of the game's "year" at "Winter's Meet."
4) Time to poke caseworker into getting me those benefits. According to her I still have them but could not access them because money was too much. Now that it's below threshold, I can "get them in theory." If the government doubles back and tells me to fuck off, I'm in trouble financially. :/
5) Wow, I didn't know the Occupy Wall Street stretched to an Occupy Albany chapter; tents in the park a few hundred feet from my place. Light snow tonight. Hope they came prepared.
6) Mass exodus of friends from LJ to other platforms. *shrug*
7) Something nommed on my rubber garbage lid out on my porch. Like, tried to eat through it. >_>
8) That worthless, useless, brain-divided-by-zero programmer of mine better make time for me in the coming days to shit the rest of these "other project not in SL" details out... :D
9) Wolf, possible BIG payoff project in SL in the works. You can use the organizing in the game we're working on (interaction between squares), on this. Simple sorting script with parameters and moving of inventory from one prim (the "loader") to various other prims (the "sorters") based on parameters set. Doing more than one parameter though is not possible... right now... until I discuss it with you.
Winds Be At Your Back and May The World Still Be Here Tomorrow... |
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[Sep. 25th, 2011|11:05 am] |
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Wow, what is with the world turning to shit like this?
I order pizza. 20 minutes late delivered by some new ugly-as-sin chick, and half-cold and a crushed box to boot.
I'm scheduled to be on a SL show in two and a half weeks only to find "producers all car accident'd into comas, season over before it begins, sim taken offline".
I royally botch up messing with one of my avatars and decide to go for a new look. The place I bought a specific tail (I cannot abide non-flexi tails) from? No longer exists.
Benefits and disability? "The movers and shakers have their heads up their asses." says my caseworker. "We're lucky we got the food stamps renewed. Fucking pack of jackals!"
Plans to get back into IRC gaming? Not if Aori continues to get swamped with college work to the point he can't even move.
Stuff I need to write for the SL Newser? Hard to get myself excited about things I don't find interesting, and I'm so cynical these days NOTHING is interesting.
Winds Be At Your Back, and May The World Still Be Here Tomorrow... |
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| WTF is this shit? |
[Sep. 1st, 2011|02:27 pm] |
| [ | This Hyena Feels... |
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10 minutes ago I got some angry spanish person calling me. Sounded like a kid with something to prove. I kept going "wrong number, wrong number" and eventually hung up on the kid, but five minutes later heard a car pull up and a bunch of angry voices yelling spanish at the top of their lungs.
... the hell? Did someone troll me by telling a gang I messed with someone? Because that's certainly how it sounds. These kids (kids? teens? high schoolers?) were pissed about something...
Sigh. First, no sign of the caseworker, as my food stamps have run out. Then the storm knocks me without power for a few days. Now this.
... shut up. You're thinking it. Don't say it.
Winds Be At Your Back, and May The World Still Be Here Tomorrow... |
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| Library computers. Blah. |
[Aug. 31st, 2011|07:56 pm] |
| [ | This Hyena Feels... |
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They're saying tonight at 11 is when power should be restored. Bull. Bull fucking shit. Things on time don't happen around here, especially not to me.
My landlord came and shut everything off, so if it does come on I have to call him at Retard O'Clock at night to have him come and turn things back on.
Spent the downtime seeing movies. I NEVER see movies in theatres (or like, ever), the ticket cost is more than the weight of the planet. Still, I need something to do to avoid going bugfuck batshit, so Rise of the Planet of the Apes (impressive, believable) and Conan (lots of gore, lots of shiny, a couple of slavegirl boob shots which was nice, but looked like a bunch of random scenes stitched together) have now been seen. Not going to see the Smurfs.
Conan... that actor was NOT Conan. Just another barbarian. And I'm not saying that because I think Arnold's the only one. It just felt completely wrong.
Hopefully I'll have power tomorrow.
Aori, anything done? :P If not, not terribly important.
Winds Be At Your Back and May The World Still Be Here Tomorrow... |
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| Aftermath of Irene |
[Aug. 29th, 2011|12:08 pm] |
| [ | This Hyena Feels... |
| |  pissed off | ] |
So early this morning, I lost power. An exploded transformer, or transformer fire. There was a fire truck down the road and everything, so I hear (was woken up by my brother at Retard O'Clock in the morning and realized hey, no power... well, shit).
So I call the power company. We're a tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny pocket of lost power --- only three of the buildings on our corner lost it and everyone else didn't. Thus, we're a LOW LOW LOW LOW LOW LOL LOW FUCK YOU YOU POOR INFERIOR PEOPLE priority.
Estimated time for repairs? 2 fucking weeks or more.
Not happy. Not happy at all. Not. Happy.
Aori, sit tight please on my scriptwork, but when I return I want you to make time to blow through at least three of the last classes (see, this is why I wanted you to make that one part of the CT Script that didn't rely on all this). This is kinda time sensitive stuff we are doing because I wanted to get the hard shit done before you got slaughtered in your classes with college work and the like. In the meantime, maybe get the catboy to go over your currently-done work.
To those of you waiting for the next installment of Goblins: Civilization: Sit tight. I'll be back. The very moment I am, expect a lot of Zhishnak-flavored fun, among other things. I kind of led you into the impending war with what Ol' Mags pulled off, it'll be your job to win the damn thing.
So yeah, until then, I guess.
Winds Be At Your Back, and May The World Still Be Here Tomorrow... |
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[Aug. 14th, 2011|12:58 pm] |
| [ | This Hyena Feels... |
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Not a lot going on, as usual.
Might have completely jeapordized my chances at getting disability/food stamps --- caseworker and I got in a shoving match and now I have to send a $50 check to her in cash before more things get done and we're on very time sensitive material here. I really don't like making a check out to cash --- especially when I'm supposed to meet her at the end of the upcoming week in order to Get Shit Done.
I can't afford to lose my food stamps now; my family has all but ignored the emails I've sent out.
deathy_the_sock: http://forums.keenspot.com/viewtopic.php?f=136&t=113773 --- something fun if you want to do it. And get back on Rift, it needs more murlocs! :)
For those of you who are friends with vandaeron, his old AIM got spamhacked (I got a link from the old name that I didn't click on; knew it wasn't him because he was on as his current name and not the old D-P-R one). So stick to his current name.
Let's see... Aori's scripting something for me from the ground up... going to be very different than what most of you weirdos are used to once it's done...
Meh. Off to grind Dragonslayer Rep. |
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| Ping lowen_kind! |
[Aug. 2nd, 2011|07:45 am] |
| [ | This Hyena Feels... |
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How much is the most recent version of Poser? I've been wandering /b/ lately and someone posted some damn good renders... I wasn't aware the models got that detailed!
I say that because most of the renders I see of yours (especially say Tiffany or Leona) seem... boxy and flat colored with no texture. Or maybe I'm not looking hard enough.
So I was thinking maybe I should give it a go and I could swipe some of your models to fool around with and learn the thing.
In other news, note to self: 3 mountain dews, five slices of pizza with lots and lots of toppings, plus one bottle of regular lemonade... BLEAAAAAHHHHHH... too much acid. It didn't stay down. Heh.
Winds Be At Your Back and May The World Still Be Here Tomorrow... |
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[Jul. 26th, 2011|12:54 pm] |
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Note to self: Set an alarm. That's the fourth week you've gone missing garbage day.
Nothing new to report.
Winds be at your back and may the world *sniff sniff, bleah* still be here tomorrow... |
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[Jul. 18th, 2011|01:26 pm] |
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Who would have thought it? Something non-porn -and- interesting coming out of /b/ while I lurk in the threads.
Someone seemed to have started a thread of "beginning civilization", and the other posters comment on what they want the people in the civilization to do (hunt, explore, develop language, etc).
That might be an interesting experiment to do as a LJ account. Hmmmm. Why not. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif?v=91.7) planet_xybam --- I'll start on the 22nd. For those of you still reading this journal, spread the word and we'll see where the thing takes us.
In other news, there is no news. Though the muse is tapping at the glass. It's very faint, though.
Had someone custom-design a giant cave for my land in SL. It's a tight fit, but those who have visited it seem to like it.
Down to almost 4500-5000 inheritance wise. Turns out the recipts I HAVE been saving don't count for purposes of the government not being a shit head to me; foodstamp use is "not my money". I'm -praying- that payment histories of bills over the past couple of years will be enough to make them cave and give me my damn benefits. |
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[Jun. 26th, 2011|03:46 pm] |
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... I just went to /b/ for the first time and have been lurking the past hour.
I want to say "I don't see why their reputation is deserved", but then I remember just how bad and indignant *I* was as a kid.
Still, it's something new to do.
Winds Be At Your Back and may the world still be here tomorrow... |
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[Jun. 16th, 2011|02:01 pm] |
Yes, it has been over a MONTH since my last post.
THAT is how boring and quiet things have gotten.
No, I haven't gotten "benefits" yet. That's almost completely dried up, mostly because I don't go out and now have (for now, anyway) working food stamps.
Rent went up. Not much I can do about that. That's like the only thing draining my account right now except for the occasional pizza. The rest is all internet and phone bills.
I've been considering a project, now that I see a sort of "hub" for people to donate. I've even gone and written a specific programmer going "if I can raise capital funds, would you program it?" --- given I paid $400 for naira666's beautiful work of art... yeah. And if that fails I'm sure I can find someone with some free time on their hands if I managed to raise the funds. I haven't poked my nose around the site to get the specifics though.
But if I were to raise the funds, it'd be a sort of pigeonhole to get my family to continue to support me when my money runs out. It's all concept right now, but somehow a Final Fantasy-esque game based on the heroes and villains (glad I kept links to their nemesi drawn by pine_fuzz...) seems possible now if I plan it right.
But it's all just a gleam in my eye right now. I don't know.
So yeah. I'm still alive.
Winds Be At Your Back, and may the world still be here tomorrow... |
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[May. 2nd, 2011|11:43 am] |
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Still here. Been a while, but nothing of interest has been going on.
Bills paid. *rubs wallet*
Rent increased as of July. Still, rent's half of what the surrounding buildings on my block are, so I should be lucky.
My brother isn't talking to my caseworker. Hell, no one is talking to anyone, as in a "that is not a person, that is a non-human THING" kind of not-talking.
Osama's dead. Why is the only phrase that comes to mind is "And nothing of value was lost."
Blah. |
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| Fun with attempted disability benefits... |
[Apr. 17th, 2011|11:46 pm] |
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This is how I am seeing it so far.
So, on the one hand we have my brother, who only speaks to my caseworker through Lawyer A.
My caseworker has Lawyer B. "Lawyer A is the wrong kind of lawyer", She says.
Caseworker doesn't want to speak through Lawyer A to my brother unless politically forced. (Essentially, if the caseworker and Lawyer A say the same things word for word, he'll listen to Lawyer A and not Caseworker).
My brother doesn't want to hear what Lawyer B has to say. In one ear out the other, flat out. Ask to agree to disagree, get an orbital laser cannon to the face for your trouble.
Caseworker is sounding like she only functions through Lawyer B at this moment, some phone calls still have to be made.
My brother helps in the major decisions (as in, if I anger him and by proxy my family and allies, no help for me after the money runs out). My brother does not like caseworker, thinking she is stringing us along and already he's called her once and chewed her out, severely damaging relations between caseworker and myself.
Caseworker has finally gotten through the wall of red tape separating me from food stamps and medicaid and the like, and can keep the door open, where I or my brother can't. The next step is setting up a special-needs trust.
However, she may bug out at any time because of the chew-out and damaged relations (I am guilty by association here). All doors shut and we lose two-plus years of work and I end up on the street long before this is resolved in that case.
My brother thinks caseworker charges too much. I have no problem with her pricing (less than $30 an hour where we usually meet for an hour or a little more every now and then). Of course, because I believe something different than my brother, that makes me "automatically wrong and therefore bad", which irritates/angers him. I can't lose his support.
... ... ... my brain hurts.
My mission here is to get communication going through all the above. So far I've simply asked Caseworker "what harm can be done in parroting what you say through the language parser that is Lawyer A?" I have yet to receive a response as it's late; Tomorrow's Monday, so we'll see.
Go With The Grace Of The Vigil... |
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| Never thought I'd see -that- happen. |
[Apr. 16th, 2011|02:46 pm] |
| [ | This Hyena Feels... |
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Wow, Encyclopedia Dramatica is dead. The wikipedia article suggets "shock for shock's sake is old now", but... I dunno. I had fun clicking Search Random and finding all kinds of weird things there. And now they have a new "purified" version called "oh internet".
Wonder how long it will take the denizens of Planet /b/ to obliterate it and restore ED.
In any case, the whirlpool surrounding my own shit and government benefits and the like is starting to spin up again (or spit up again, take your pick). Hopefully I can play peacemaker before it gets out of control.
I'm declaring orbofradiance officially dead. I'm not giving up on the group, but if I start writing about them again, it's going to be far grittier and more nasty. Jericho was meant to be a woman-controlling chauvanist in a knight's armor, Corona and Belladonna were supposed to be at each other's throats while he was trying to completely own Deidre, etc.
I've also changed my signoff line.
Hey, wolf? You gotten any further on my little clusterfuck in SL? Just curious :)
Winds Be At Your Back! Go with the Grace of The Vigil! |
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| I am going to Hell. |
[Apr. 9th, 2011|05:02 pm] |
| [ | This Hyena Feels... |
| | creative | ] |
So I was reading through the Cracked.com articles the other day and decided that I'd try my hand at writing them myself. Things like This for example.
But instead of posting it there, I decided to infest Livejournal instead.
I'm either going to make you laugh, or I'm going straight to Hell in the comments. Probably both, but, eh. If you don't like it, fuck you.
(Images yoinked from Google and a couple of galleries elsewhere on the web.)
Thus:
( Hey, at least I was polite enough to hide it behind a cut. )
Winds Be At Your Back! |
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| Normally I hate April Fool's. |
[Apr. 1st, 2011|02:09 pm] |
| [ | This Hyena Feels... |
| | hungry | ] |
I think it's one of those traditions that needs to die. In a fire. Hard. With lots and lots of death.
Then the guy who does General Protection Fault pulled a fast one and did http://www.gpf-comics.com/ICE_Seizure.html for a few hours --- I was taken in by it.
I considered copying the image and posting it here modified to fit Livejournal with a note at the bottom. "We're from the government. We're here to help. Do not interfere or we will make you go away."
Then I realized the government is a bunch of humorless shitbags that also need to die in a fire with lots and lots of death. Probably would get pissed at "defacing" or something.
In other news, I spoke with some lawyers about my financial situation. One thinks I'm -just- borderline ineligible. One wants nothing to do with me despite being referred to by the first lawyer. One says "Oh, I've heard about you, your mother made many enemies who hold long grudges, you're guilty by association." And the financial planner my caseworker set me up with got spooked and pushed the date to meet back another week to the 11th.
LJ ate some of my userpics. This is a new one, I'll find or make a couple more to bring my total to 15 again soonish.
I'm considering finally changing my signoff tagline from its current one with something from Rift instead: "Go with the grace of the Vigil!" since I play Alliance the Guardian side. We'll see.
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| Damn it. |
[Mar. 30th, 2011|04:32 pm] |
| [ | This Hyena Feels... |
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Apparently having an inheritance on the east coast of the US forbids SSI, period. Just got off the phone with a lawyer, who sent me to another lawyer, and they both said "You're fucked, and you were fucked the moment this economy went into the tailspin it is in now." Whether it's put in a "special needs trust" or not, it's an "asset to be tracked". They both agreed that the only way out is "you're not disabled, but you need someone to get your foot in the door without having to take tests OR remain at the speed/quota of normal jobs."
I have to be at $0 with no income anywhere for one year before I can reapply. Then I *might* get approved if the people in office at that point in time aren't complete shitheads ("don't even try, right now. The current administration loves stepping on the lower class. It will take too long to arrest them for wrongdoing; wait for non-shitheads to come into power.")
I don't know what I'm going to do. For a year, someone else has to "take care of me" and I can't receive any money whatsoever before I can re-apply. My aunt works in the midwest now, so she can't do it. My uncle might if my brother and father don't poison his mind against it (they will try to, if only because I've never done anything in my life and they've worked their asses off), and neither my father (can't handle it, too old), nor my brother (we'd kill each other) can do it.
I don't know what the hell I'm going to do.
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