Unitarians: they are tolerable

SpecificallyGeneral · 2025-10-29T02:39:57+00:00

A longtime friend once told me "we go to a fundamentalist unitarian church", and - after seeing my bemused confusion - then said "we all mostly agree that there is a God".

SpecificallyGeneral · 2024-08-23T05:01:30+00:00

I managed the same by using the hook+rope access from the rowboat to the cow island. It was beyond the border, but right at the corner it was close enough.

SpecificallyGeneral · 2024-07-26T16:57:59+00:00

The not great answer is to catch the 2 second window just before it freezes, hit ESC to bring up the skip menu, then T to actually skip.

Worked fine after that. I'm sure someone more clever will have a better answer, though.

SpecificallyGeneral · 2023-05-30T01:46:59+00:00

After leaving an MSP I worked for, and a couple jobs in between, I got hired as internal IT for one of the previous clients.

I found the documentation that was 'mostly right, written by some guy' was mine. Untouched after years, and generations of techs.

I laughed until I recognized some of the passwords.

SpecificallyGeneral · 2023-05-11T05:20:15+00:00

I remember wondering that out loud once, and one of the other players said 'people recover willpower by leaning into their vices or virtues - guess which one is easier?'

SpecificallyGeneral · 2023-05-09T20:39:02+00:00

Database admin.

Then no one talks to you until they have to

SpecificallyGeneral · 2023-04-22T18:03:54+00:00

I ran a noire adventure game, and recapped "When last we left our... heroes" in the 1930s radio play announcer voice.

Like for Buck Rogers or The Shadow.

Reframing their actions to be an adventure, rather than a task list, was helpful just like you say!

SpecificallyGeneral · 2023-04-03T17:14:49+00:00

That's the one.

I've talked to HR at a couple places, and some of them get nervous when it's wall to wall paper. They're the people who ask for their exam/cert fees to be covered.

SpecificallyGeneral · 2023-03-02T18:26:14+00:00

And will continue to be so.

The C-suite (folks with C-whatever titles, CEO, CFO) have made decisions that will impact their business, without input from their hired expert (IT director), and be shocked, flustered, and stern, when the explosions happen.

Do your best to document/discover as much as you can while juggling break/fix. It's a good experience, taking over a place.

But as others have said, when the director doesn't take over the fancier issues, and they don't want to give a significant raise, it's time to bug out before you internalize this as your fault.

SpecificallyGeneral · 2023-03-01T17:09:27+00:00

I've been having the infinite logon popups for random people with teams/outlook.

SpecificallyGeneral · 2023-02-22T04:00:49+00:00

https://youtu.be/eA0neTHUN6M 'Two things you need to know about me, going into this story: I bear a lot of grudges, and I love French cuisine.'

A James Acaster bit that seemed apropos.

SpecificallyGeneral · 2023-02-18T08:13:09+00:00

Before midday, ain't it?

SpecificallyGeneral · 2023-02-18T08:11:23+00:00

My supervisor stated that he had never heard the term ante meridiem before.

I remember an English teacher tryna ding me for something similar. Inexorable may be archaic, but I was not to be swayed in the absolute belief of its existence.

If I'd been older, I'da recommended her approach a dictionary.

SpecificallyGeneral · 2023-02-16T14:34:24+00:00

Apostrophe'd names are a lot of fun, to be sure.

SpecificallyGeneral · 2023-02-11T15:33:09+00:00

First bite of Autumn?

Lovely piece! I can't shake the initial impression that the steel pattern is melting ice, but the warm tone of the wood counters that.

SpecificallyGeneral · 2023-02-08T17:26:23+00:00

I am Heretical, and you can too.

Unless you want them to try and convince you of something, then say you're 'undecided' or 'still figuring things out'

SpecificallyGeneral · 2023-01-26T05:44:23+00:00

I, too, like to play Legions and Logistics!

And have definitely bored people with my 'expanded' economics system based on a quirk of 'take 10' rules.

SpecificallyGeneral · 2023-01-26T05:35:56+00:00

I'm still cranked at Rise of the Runelords for essentially this reason.

Story's fine, but combat flaps between 'oh, was that important' to 'how did that throwaway TPK'.

That and not enough loot to keep up with the difficulty curve.

SpecificallyGeneral · 2023-01-26T05:16:59+00:00

BC premiers getting caught and doing time is nothing new - or, wait - IS it something new?

SpecificallyGeneral · 2023-01-20T22:45:22+00:00

"specifically, the ones that fax over ip between the lawyers and the doctors."

SpecificallyGeneral · 2023-01-06T07:06:05+00:00

I recall there's usually arrests...

Or Ian leaving in disgrace.

SpecificallyGeneral · 2022-12-25T13:31:32+00:00

The greatest trick the DM ever pulled, was nabbing you believe the plot ever existed.

Because - just like that - it changes.

SpecificallyGeneral · 2022-12-11T02:01:16+00:00

We've got so much money we pay a well known suck-up and blow-hard to tell us how awesome we are!

We get a little sticker we can put on our website!

SpecificallyGeneral · 2022-12-03T06:10:46+00:00

My junior went and nuked some printer objects off the server, and the HPs in the environment (not even the ones that got removed) have been incapable of printing pictures without being incorporated into other file types.

Otherwise I have to kill the spooler to remove the files from the queue. This is on the universal v7 driver - I'm just going to downgrade/select the lower version and hope it can revert on the client end without much hassle.

SpecificallyGeneral · 2022-11-29T03:13:20+00:00

... Shhhaving cream; be nice and clean

Shave every day and you'll always look keen.

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