@surreality It's not something I encounter often with myself, because I tend to be pretty aggressive about my boundaries, and really upfront in my communication when I feel like somebody's being a jerk to me. But -- yeah, feelings got involved here, and so I didn't really defend my own feelings as much as I usually do. In the end, my heart feels pretty bruised, and it's lingering in a really frustrating way, but I'm mostly angry at the other person rather than myself. (Mostly.)

I heard back from him, and it is very clear that he is super excited and happy and probably a little in shock too, as he had no clue I existed. I will admit that I had never considered that possibility, even though I know in the era of 1950s-70s adoption there was no such thing as requirements for birthfather consent or notification in many areas. (in fact that was not really uniform until closer to the 90s). We have been messaging back and forth, apparently his kids and wife and the nieces and nephews that noticed me on the site are all extremely excited too, though we will see how things settle once the shock starts to wear off. But he seems happy, stable, ect, so that is a good thing. And I have the name of my biological mother now too. So back to the waiting for rejection game there. I have been walking around for the last 6 hours or so in a state of shock. Almost 30 years of combing through microfiche, looking at records, ect...and it's a DNA place that finds it--more than 3 years after I took the test. I am so thankful, given that he had no clue, that it wasn't a bad situation for him.

Yes. Absolutely amazing. Just the right amount of quirky.

@Ghost

@sockmonkey today was my friday!

@Ghost said in General Video Game Thread: @Sparks A lot of good feelings? Let's just say that right now, I'm emotionally invested in a particular part of the storyline.

@Jeshin Hey. I don't know if this got lost in the shuffle (shuffle, noise, vitriol), but I never minded the idea of anyone saying, "Hey, this thing is awesome and we want to feature it." I think it's a great community-building idea, and I hope you keep doing it. Even if people disagree, they will know what you think is good. The big explosion over ideas was because of the prerequisites. That is all.

So I watched the Alita movie, taking advantage of being in the UK where it released last week (I have no idea why?) It suffered from some 'time compression' where stuff that in the manga took a year+ seemed to take place over days but frankly? I really liked it, the huge eyes actually worked just fine in practice and I honestly found Alita really compelling as a character with how she was played. The action scenes were utterly phenomenal and despite how ridiculous it was I was completely sold on Alita just being that fucking good. She was fucking people up despite being vulnerable and them presenting a real threat, she was just too perfectly lethal and agile and really came across as a force of nature who was still very much a young, idealistic and opinionated person. Just one who was a peerless killing machine and was ultimately totally okay with this.

@arkandel Condolences, I'm so sorry. ;.;

Full Throttle Remastered (GoG) Lego: The Hobbit (Humble Store) Both 48 hrs from time of posting

@Cupcake said in The 100: The Mush: @Booriley Was this meant for the Apology thread? The apology thread has a 50% chance of just turning into a shooting gallery for bitter cunts.

@Bobotron said in The State of the Chronicles of Darkness: @tragedyjones Right. I skimmed that and honestly didn't think of Hunter or Mummy. :/ Sorry for forgetting someone's favorite game lines. I only know because it was pointed out on the onyx path forum, honestly.

@Coin said: Maybe it was a good run, maybe it wasn't, but we tried. Good enough for me. Fair nuff.

In contrast, I care where what behavior goes. It's a utility thing.

Altered Carbon, as a major inspiration for Eclipse Phase, has re-ignited THE ITCH.

"I tried out a few alts before settling on Redacted; mainly because Kestrel's enthusiasm was infectious." God damn if that isn't the nicest fucking thing I've heard all day. I built a group thing and people like it. I made this person happy and gave them a story to play with. Moments like this make all the crap and drama and stress worth it.

Since some people have expressed interest in checking the game out again, I thought I'd share this link here. It's where we try to keep an updated list of 'staff wanteds' because people often ask what the game needs or doesn't need. This is more general, if a player is interested in doing something really specific that we'd like to have for a plot or what-not, then we can talk about that! Just mail or page Asherat or Yeshua and we'll hash out details. https://www.kushielsdebut.org/index.php/CharGen/XP_Bonuses