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| Topic | What do you use for alarm(s)? |
| Trialia 09/01/19 6:15:43 PM #1 | Curious now, based off the ringtone topic, and knowing how many people are like me in that we use our phone alarms to wake us up... For my part, these are my most-used:  (Philip Glass, Metamorphosis One)  (Greg Edmonson, Inara's Suite, from Firefly)  (Bear McCreary, Passacaglia, from Battlestar Galactica (2003))  (Clair Obscur, Tiresias)  (Murray Gold, A Lot of Life Behind Us, from Doctor Who (2005)). So how about you lot? Like something gentle but dramatic to wake you without a headache, like my lot? Or something annoying to make sure you get up and turn it off? --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | What's your ringtone? |
| Trialia 09/01/19 6:04:22 PM #41 | I alternate between the opening bars of these two, but right now it's the former:  (Lacuna Coil, Wide Awake - first 13 seconds)  (Within Temptation, Faster - first 20 seconds) --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | When do you expect to retire? |
| Trialia 09/01/19 1:52:27 AM #41 | Miroku_of_Nite1 posted... I'll probably be dead by 40. Is that because you want to be? Or do you work in a dangerous profession, or what? --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | I'm at my first rock/metal concert ever |
| Trialia 09/01/19 1:50:48 AM #23 | PK_Spam posted... One interesting thing I noticed was that if one of the moshers noticed that someone dropped something, they stopped everything they were doing and held it up so everyone could see. The former's about usual for a good mosh pit, and a metal crowd. It's why I love it. And yeah, if there is any fighting it's generally in fun or over someone not respecting the mosh pit etiquette, which is to say no abuse or intentional knocking people over etc, in most places. Edit: wow I can't type this morning... --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | I'm at my first rock/metal concert ever |
| Trialia 08/31/19 6:54:10 AM #9 | PK_Spam posted... Im really surprised how nice and welcoming everyone was. I even had someone explain to me, as the band was playing, the general etiquette of the mosh pit. I didnt even have to specifically ask. That's cool. And yeah, that's pretty much the atmosphere at most metal gigs. It's why they're the genre I end up at most, people are so friendly & kind. When I went to see Leaves' Eyes 2 guys helped me get my wheelchair right up next to the barrier at the front, and during a Lacuna Coil gig a couple of years ago I changed my shirt in the midst of the crowd and nobody turned a hair or tried to grope me or anything. A little sad that that's so unusual it bears mentioning, but at non-metal gigs I would have *expected* to be groped while doing that, so I wouldn't have dared. I dislocated my shoulder in my first mosh pit at my very first metal gig, when I was 19, and that was before that happened every day. I was having so much fun (that was also a Lacuna Coil gig) that I put it back against the pillar in the middle of the dance floor and carried on regardless. Did the same 3 more times that night, because I was loving the show so much I didn't want to have to go to the first aider and miss any of it. (I've seen them something like 9 times since then. xD) --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | When do you expect to retire? |
| Trialia 08/28/19 2:32:24 AM #21 | dancer62 posted... ZeroKelvin posted...dancer62 posted...Retired at 65, been retired for almost 8 years now. I do a few little teaching gigs for Adult Continuing Education at the university, a bit of part-time auto mechanic work, and the occasional guest bit in dance concerts. Good for you! :) Age shouldn't be a barrier to gaming in one way or another (though yes, I do agree with the certificated games *being* certificated, even little kids have age-appropriate games they could play). I'm 33, but medically retired already, and have been for several years. I've been pretty well told outright that if I ever try to go back to full-time work it could kill me. --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | So then...how far *almost exactly* do you live from where you were born? |
| Trialia 08/26/19 8:15:29 PM #43 | 46 miles, almost exactly. The furthest I've ever lived from my birthplace was about 170 miles. --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | Do you consider yourself a fan of the matrix movies? |
| Trialia 08/25/19 11:15:00 PM #30 | I honestly think Reloaded is probably the weaker of the main trilogy. What do you lot think about the Animatrix? I'm curious now. --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | some people shouldn't have kids |
| Trialia 08/25/19 1:38:24 PM #16 | Dreaming_King posted... Trialia posted...Dreaming_King posted...If people shouldn't have kids because their kids occasionally do stupid things then no one should have any >_> Now you're just being deliberately ignorant and facetious. If that's how you interpret my post, you need to study reading comprehension rather more often. No sensible parent would leave a kid that young unsupervised in public, not with known hazards around and the chance someone might snatch them. Under 5, under 3 especially, is a very vulnerable age for a child; that's one of many reasons infant mortality is so high up to the age of five. As for your commenting as though leaving a toddler alone should be normal and reasonable behaviour, I just hope you never have one to look after. I wouldn't trust they'd survive your neglect. --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | some people shouldn't have kids |
| Trialia 08/25/19 12:20:02 PM #11 | Dreaming_King posted... If people shouldn't have kids because their kids occasionally do stupid things then no one should have any >_> Pretty sure that is not the point of this. No parent should be letting their kid put plastic over their face and failing to notice. That's how kids get killed. FFS, every plastic bag here has "danger of suffocation" on it and warnings about letting kids under 3 play with them. Does nobody read anymore? --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | some people shouldn't have kids |
| Trialia 08/25/19 5:50:45 AM #2 | Krazy_Kirby posted... little girl (2 or 3) was in a shopping cart playing with a plastic bag with her mom about 10ft away.... *smh* Got that topic title right then. Though it would have been anyway. Did you explain to her the kid could've suffocated? --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | Con crud post-Worldcon |
| Trialia 08/24/19 2:05:58 PM #10 | Phew, home from hospital this afternoon and glad of it. Though now I apparently have to deal with an infestation of fruit flies in my apartment instead. Damn them! --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | Do you consider yourself a fan of the matrix movies? |
| Trialia 08/24/19 2:03:33 PM #26 | CedarPointcp posted... fyi they're making a new matrix movie Honestly, given the casting spoilers, I really want to see it to find out how the hell they're planning to pull that off. Also I may have seen (& cried at) Revolutions 37 times (I lost count of the others), so, there's that. Not my favourites ever, but pretty close. Also, do please bear in mind I was thirteen when the first one came out. Also, Carrie-Anne Moss sort of hits nearly all of my weaknesses. *g* --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | Con crud post-Worldcon |
| Trialia 08/23/19 4:06:53 AM #9 | Zareth posted... Have never heard anyone call it con crud. It's always con flu. Do they call Influenza crud over there? Not generally. I've only ever heard it called "con crud", at British and European events, though Worldcons tend to have a more international member mix. --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | Con crud post-Worldcon |
| Trialia 08/22/19 7:29:01 PM #4 | rjsilverthorn posted... I had a minor bout after GenCon, but never too bad. I had about one day of feeling really crappy and then it was mostly just an annoying cough. Ouch! Bronchitis is decidedly not fun, I sympathise. With my underlying problems the one time I've had that ended in my dislocating both shoulders and a couple of ribs every time I coughed. Thankfully, I wasn't living alone at the time -- unlike now. I felt bad yesterday, but today I'm so damned sick that I suspect I'll wind up in hospital by tomorrow afternoon at the latest. I can just about keep down sips of water and liquid morphine, and stave off adding opiate withdrawal to the mix, but I can't swallow anything solid at all, and between a badly upset stomach and the fever I'm fighting, I seriously considered taking my bedding to sleep on the bathroom floor for the coolness and proximity. The big problem is that I have dysautonomia as one of my underlying chronic illnesses, and dehydration is blackout territory for that. Worrying. It's peculiar though, I seem to be the only one in the convention Facebook group to have been dosed this badly this time. @Lorthremar - Con crud is the convention-goers' nickname for the colds, coughs & flu many people pick up after closely interacting with a big group of people from all over the world. It's rather like freshers' flu. I don't usually get it this badly; last time I was in hospital as an in-patient was 6 years ago, and the last bout of flu, last year, was combined with sinusitis and a double ear infection. I'm just grateful I don't get it often, but I wondered how many others catch con crud on a regular or semi-regular basis. (Also, this is the longest & most coherent post I've written anywhere all day.) --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | Con crud post-Worldcon |
| Trialia 08/21/19 9:16:45 PM #1 | So, Worldcon in Dublin was brilliant...but now I feel like somebody ran me over repeatedly, and it seems I have full-blown flu as my version of con crud. *shivering with fever* So. How bad have you ever had post-con infections etc? And how many people did you interact with closely enough to catch their germs? There were about 6,000 people at Worldcon; I can't tolerate more than that really, but between them, the ferries & the hotel (though that was quite a good one), I feel really awful just now. Sigh. --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | Have anyone of you or someone you know ever gone unaffected by their parents.... |
| Trialia 08/15/19 4:07:37 AM #9 | My mother died when I was a teen, but she'd tried to start the process of divorcing my father long before that, only it got interrupted when she came out of remission. I think we'd all have been much better off had she been able to manage it. My stepmother left my father 7 months ago, and the two of them have been an outright nightmare about putting myself and my (step)brother into the positions of "piggy in the middle", though. All that said, stepmum is a very different person from birth mum, so I really don't believe that if would have been thus acrimonious on both sides had it happened to me as a kid. --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | Answer these questions to determine if your normal! |
| Trialia 08/12/19 4:24:13 AM #41 | wolfy42 posted... Trialia posted...wolfy42 posted...Trialia, I am a long term mudder, there is slang and alternative rules of punctuation and grammar for mudders because we survive by typing extremely fast and doing multiple things at once (through typing). Fair. I learned to type on an old Olivetti typewriter, so I had to actively teach myself to stop hammering the keys when I switched to a computer later on. I have trouble with dislocating my wrists and fingers if I get up to my full speed from years ago, now, so I have to be more careful, though it still happens every now & then when I get really angry. Of course I've tried pizza, just not this kind. --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | Answer these questions to determine if your normal! |
| Trialia 08/11/19 8:25:28 AM #32 | wolfy42 posted... Trialia, I am a long term mudder, there is slang and alternative rules of punctuation and grammar for mudders because we survive by typing extremely fast and doing multiple things at once (through typing). I used to do 195 wpm. I never resorted to that. As for the pizza, I don't know whether I'll like it yet. Never tried it before. --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | Answer these questions to determine if your normal! |
| Trialia 08/11/19 1:08:23 AM #20 | If my normal what? At least I know the difference between your and you're. This "questionnaire" is so silly. As for pizza... I have a BBQ Coca-Cola one in my freezer to try out with my brother for tomorrow's dinner. That'll be interesting. --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | REO Speedwagon - Keep On Loving You. |
| Trialia 08/11/19 1:05:00 AM #5 | Why make a thread about it? Good song, but you could've just added it to the "rate the song above you" thread... --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | Are you worried you aren't normal? |
| Trialia 08/11/19 1:04:10 AM #31 | captpackrat posted... I know I'm not normal but I think that's a good thing. --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | Lmao someone here is BORED |
| Trialia 08/09/19 8:35:39 PM #194 | Wow. Okay, so. Jen's body is her own. She can do what she wants to or with it including photography, because it's hers. That's pretty much the point, Kenshin: your behaviour is creepy s--t because you're making such pervy comments not only about a person who is right here and will see your comments, but because it is not your body. You don't have the right to judge what she does with it: she didn't do anybody any harm, including herself, and that is the only thing that matters. Stick a cork in it, dude. --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | Is not enough money the biggest complaint you have in your life right now? |
| Trialia 08/08/19 8:57:16 PM #8 | At the moment, not enough physical energy is more of a concern. --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | How Much Do You Have In savings |
| Trialia 08/06/19 11:05:26 PM #52 | LinkPizza posted... Trialia posted...FrndNhbrHdCEman posted...Aaantlion posted..."Average American" includes people on the dole, so the numbers are greatly distorted. Plus people on an internet forum will most likely be more affluent than the average person (or, at the very least, skews higher than the general norm)Aren't you on the dole atm? *shrugs* Eh. I don't know about where you live, but my local library used to charge a pound for the second hour of computer time, till about a month ago. The first hour was always free though. --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | How Much Do You Have In savings |
| Trialia 08/06/19 11:00:47 PM #50 | FrndNhbrHdCEman posted... Aaantlion posted..."Average American" includes people on the dole, so the numbers are greatly distorted. Plus people on an internet forum will most likely be more affluent than the average person (or, at the very least, skews higher than the general norm)Aren't you on the dole atm? As for people on the net being better off than the norm... not anybody I know of...! As for having internet access? It may not be a "thing" in the States, but here in the UK, our public libraries have computers & provide a certain degree of internet access for free (usually one free hour with the option to pay for a second, though my own local library don't charge for the second hour either). I know a number of homeless people or people with otherwise insecure or severely impoverished living situations who spend a lot of time in the library I normally use sometimes to save having to use utilities at home, sometimes just to stay indoors. So it's wrong to assume internet access makes somebody rich. By worldwide standards? Maybe. But within their own societies? No. --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | Would you ever buy a used laptop? |
| Trialia 08/06/19 4:35:22 PM #46 | I am now entirely too confused for my own good. *sigh* --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | Have you ever flossed with your own hair before? |
| Trialia 08/06/19 4:33:39 PM #11 | Ew, no. --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | Would you ever buy a used laptop? |
| Trialia 08/06/19 1:43:50 AM #32 | Aaantlion posted... ferko420 posted...PayPal, and do your banking in person... Y'all see the /. Article yesterday 80% of anyone will connect to any open wireless they can and they say security isn't a concern, so why bother hacking your laptop traffic when the plebes will give you open access to their device?! Kinda gives new reason for wardriving! *sigh* I wish that surprised me. Same thing happened to me, though thankfully only once. It's one of the more problematic aspects of having a forum moderated by a group of its members, and with an indefinite degree of transparency or consistency on rules and enforcing them within the environment in question. (I'm three quarters asleep, don't roast me for my formal phrasing ) --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | Would you ever buy a used laptop? |
| Trialia 08/05/19 9:06:42 PM #28 | ferko420 posted... PayPal, and do your banking in person... Y'all see the /. Article yesterday 80% of anyone will connect to any open wireless they can and they say security isn't a concern, so why bother hacking your laptop traffic when the plebes will give you open access to their device?! Kinda gives new reason for wardriving! *eyebrow* 80%, really? Glad I keep mine locked down, in that case. What did HK get banned for? Anybody know? --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | What is your timezone |
| Trialia 08/05/19 9:04:40 PM #30 | kind9 posted... PDT. Official timezone of the SJW. PMSL. This unashamed SJW is nowhere near PDT. As for your comment, @Nichtcrawler_X, I don't believe that that pedantic definition is what the OP was asking about. --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | How Much Do You Have In savings |
| Trialia 08/05/19 9:01:25 PM #37 | Blaqthourne posted... ^ I thought the UK had free health care. Health care, yes. Social care (as in support at home if you're disabled & struggle without help)? Not so much. --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | oh, now we get notifications when we are *close* to earning a badge? |
| Trialia 08/05/19 9:00:20 PM #8 | MICHALCOLE posted... TheWitchMorgana posted...i dont understand those. why do I have 7 of the same one Pfft. I bet that'll be US only. Or US and Canada at the outside. It sucks that the rest of us never get to get money out of the competitive aspects of this site the way you lot do... --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | How Much Do You Have In savings |
| Trialia 08/05/19 4:09:37 PM #30 | I have exactly 420 right now, and within a month's time that'll be back down to 0 (I've been scraping & saving for Dublin Worldcon, but have just had my local authority basically hit me in the face with a bill for 8,000+ for home care - & not only inaccurately billed care, care I haven't even been regularly getting, if you can believe that. Every time the agency meant to deliver my home care cancel a call on me, they still get paid...). --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | those who are over 25, do you still have all your wisdom teeth? |
| Trialia 08/05/19 7:01:13 AM #19 | Nope. I'm 33 and have 7 of my adult teeth remaining, total. One of which is a wisdom tooth. I have something called dental hypoplasia, which means my teeth crack and crumble to bits, no trauma necessary. It's such a nightmare. The only reason I even have that one wisdom is because it came through after all my other upper teeth were extracted (17 teeth in one op, upper & lower); my mouth was overcrowded before that, so there just wasn't room for it. On the plus side, both my upper wisdoms used to be at right angles under the roof of my mouth and the thin layer of skin between them and the air used to get super sore whenever I had a cold, and now they're no longer in the roof of my mouth it doesn't anymore. So, there's that... --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | MAGA Alert II: Trump declares Mass Shootings as a 'Mental Illness'... |
| Trialia 08/05/19 2:44:00 AM #24 | BlackScythe0 posted... It's not a mental illness. It's people who feel the same hate as Trump does. Who feel so passionately about their hate and political beliefs that they plan and carry out these terrorist attacks to try achieving their goals of starting a race war. This, partly anyway. Not only race war. But the situation in the States isn't really about mental illness. If you look at the worldwide statistics it's very clear that those of us who do have definable mental illnesses are overwhelmingly most often the targets of violence rather than the perpetrators. It's also evident that far too many of the general public have trouble differentiating between, to put it simply, "bad" and "mad" which are not one and the same. For the record/background, I have bipolar disorder with psychotic episodes - which is to say, auditory hallucinations - as well as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). I'm also autistic. And not once, as an adult, have I ever assaulted or hurt anybody other than myself in any situation other than self-defence. I am not unusual. Think on it. --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | which version of both sides now should i bang my tinder babe to? |
| Trialia 08/04/19 3:42:49 AM #2 | Playing Rapunzel. Or maybe Mary Fahl. See? More exist than you think. --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | Would you ever buy a used laptop? |
| Trialia 08/02/19 2:04:08 PM #15 | Red_Frog posted... ... and no battery lasts forever. Lol, I know right? I have two of those, one black & one white (I managed to lose the first one for a long time, then found it again after I'd replaced it), both used. I've never needed to replace the battery for either of them, and they still charge well a decade or so later. --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | What game was you dreaming about? |
| Trialia 08/02/19 2:00:16 PM #16 | Heh. Various editions of Bejeweled and/or Tetris, usually. They get stuck in my head, the repetition can be strangely soothing. I've had dreams about other games that I later turned into fanfiction stories, too... --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | Would you ever buy a used laptop? |
| Trialia 08/02/19 6:10:36 AM #5 | I have done before, & they lasted me years. I've only ever had one brand new laptop, and that was when I got a compensation payment for something; I've never been able to afford one otherwise. Good models though. I always make sure to buy them in person, so I can make sure they function well. --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | What is your timezone |
| Trialia 08/02/19 6:08:42 AM #24 | Croutonman posted... GMT. No plus or minus here If you're in the UK, it's GMT+1 till October. Or are you along the mean line somewhere else? --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | What is your timezone |
| Trialia 08/01/19 5:22:02 PM #17 | OHJOY90 posted... Trialia posted.../s Not that it makes a major difference for me, anyway. Unless I wear a sleep mask I invariably wake at dawn in summer - whatever time it is. --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | Anyone else here headed to WorldCon? |
| Trialia 07/31/19 9:16:40 PM #3 | rjsilverthorn posted... Nope, but I'm at GenCon this week. I've seen the advertising for that one, but never been. It's not so easy for me to travel outside Europe unaided as it used to be - much as I miss doing so! Hoping to meet anyone in particular? I love Worldcons especially because I know so many people there, it's like a big meet to make new friends & spend time with old ones --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | What's the deal with today's POTD? |
| Trialia 07/31/19 9:08:12 PM #11 | captpackrat posted... Debit cards are more dangerous to use than credit cards. If someone manages to get your debit card number, they can drain your account and while the bank is legally obligated to return your money after you file a complaint, they don't have to return it right away and they can charge you for overdrafts the entire time. If you're talking to me... I should remind you, I have both bipolar disorder and dyscalculia. Ergo, credit cards will never happen for me. Not to mention that I don't have a high enough monthly income to qualify for any credit card or associated account that I've ever seen anywhere. Anyway, it is as I have already pointed out, there just isn't ever enough in my account to make it worth stealing from me. I survive on government welfare, after all. It isn't a whole lot. --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | Anyone else here headed to WorldCon? |
| Trialia 07/31/19 9:06:01 PM #1 | Or for those who are not aware of it, the World Science Fiction Convention, to give it its full name? It's in Dublin, this year, in two weeks' time, & membership sales stop tomorrow, except for exchanges & in-person sales at a local convention before this one... So, given the regular worldwide membership, who here is going this year? Me, I tend to make it every other year; gives me time to save for a hotel room & lets me skip the ones that usually wind up being in the US (they're too far away & it's too much hassle for me - San Jose in August would've killed me). Last one I attended was Helsinki... Lots, lots of fun. Exhausting, but worth it. So? --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | What is your timezone |
| Trialia 07/31/19 9:02:07 PM #12 | GenericGuy posted... No bias detected. /s Of course mine isn't properly on this poll. UTC/GMT, or currently UTC+1/BST - Universal Time Code/Greenwich Mean Time, or UTC+1/British Summer Time. Which means it's 2am right now & I have 6 hours til the Hugo Awards voting deadline. --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | I thought this was supposed to be about Discord? |
| Trialia 07/31/19 10:11:09 AM #3 | DontTakeMeSrsly posted... Why are people talking about other stuff? I thought this was for the poll of the day? Lol... Some of us do talk about the actual polls here, but a lot don't. Hmm... there's a moving banner ad for Aldi at the bottom of my page while writing this, scanning over images of watermelon and tartlets. Now I'm hungry... --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | What's the deal with today's POTD? |
| Trialia 07/31/19 10:04:41 AM #7 | Crepes posted... If youve never been scammed then the only options are you dont have a card or admit you have not been scammed yet but will get scammed in the future. I know, right? I'd have gone for that. I'm always careful, and I only have one debit card anyway, no credit cards. I don't have enough money for anybody to care about scamming me. --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
| Topic | 259 people cannot let go of the 80s |
| Trialia 07/30/19 4:53:48 AM #20 | Pfft. I actually have a comparatively *new* cassette player, but have never owned a car so wouldn't be voting for that one. Anyway, an "everything" store near me, a few years ago, were selling stereo units that had cassette, CD-mp3 (& .wma), radio & record player, with a slot for USB flash drives & one for SD cards, for just 80. And they're good solid units too. I bought one as a holiday treat for myself after a pretty awful year about 5 years ago (I lost two very dear friends at painfully young ages, that year), and it's still going. Will record tape, CD, vinyl or radio to the memory card in mp3 or wav format, and it lets me split tracks before export as well as after. Great deal there, and it means I can revisit some of my old mixtapes from when I was a kid that I still own, as well as some older audiobooks of out-of-print novels, that simply haven't been released on CD or Audible yet. So why wouldn't I? I still have the mixtape my first long-term love made for me before we started dating (2002-03). It's about the memories, for me, and recordings I can't get in other formats. I stream & listen to mp3s on the regular, too, so it isn't a case of not moving with the times. I just don't think it's necessary to abandon the past entire when moving towards the future, is all. --- Trialia ~ unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X, Xaedere (100%) | XBL: trialia, Noquelle (100%) |
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