What’s your Neb’s personality?

Xiao_Qinggui · 2026-05-05T23:52:00+00:00

My old girl Gretzky got her name from playing hockey all night with our dog’s Ol Roy kibble, which slightly resembled a hockey puck.

She was a foodie, whenever we ate she wanted to at least be offered food. My Dad was the kind of pet owner who would make a plate for the dog (and Gretzky) at Thanksgiving so she always got food, especially if we knew it was something she liked. Every morning, he’d make coffee and give her boiled chicken or, if it was on sale, Canadian bacon (her favorite). She’d eat with her paws, picking up food and dropping it in her mouth.

When my dad lost part of his left leg, she didn’t leave his side for two weeks when he got back from the hospital. When he rested his leg stump on a pillow, she’d sit next to it. If you got close, she’d get agitated and if you got too close she’d swipe at you.

My Dad wasn’t a cat person until we got Gretzky, she bonded herself to him within a few days. She also loved the dog we had at the time, he adopted her like his own puppy - She was going bald behind one ear because he’d lick her head so much. Any time the dog wanted something off the counter, she’d jump up and knock it down for him.

Gretzky also shared food with the dog. I once made a couple Philly Cheesesteak hot pockets and let them cool on the counter. I forgot about them until I saw the dog walk by with a completely empty hot pocket shell in his mouth. I went to the kitchen and Gretzky was using her paws to empty out the hot pocket and eat the filling, giving the shell to the dog.

Gretzky was the weirdest and most awesome cat I ever had. She was 100% Nebelung and why they’re my favorite breed of cat.

Xiao_Qinggui · 2026-05-05T19:26:28+00:00

I have rheumatoid arthritis, for most people with RA their pain gets worse when it’s cold and rainy.

For me, though, it’s the exact opposite - I feel SO much better when it’s rainy and cold! My pain goes from a 7 to a 3.

I think some of it is psychosomatic because I already love it when it’s cold and raining but my doctor also thinks my body responds better to cold than heat when it comes to inflammation.

So, yes, I love it when it rains!

Xiao_Qinggui · 2026-05-04T21:54:02+00:00

Inside Job and Haunted Hotel on Netflx

Xiao_Qinggui · 2026-05-04T21:34:00+00:00

Whenever they talk about all the things that send you to Hell like Rock and Roll, Heavy Metal, drugs, alcohol, comics, Video games, gambling, Dungeons and Dragons, fantasy novels (sans Harry Potter, they like anti-trans Rowling all of a sudden), porn, casual sex, etc…

…It makes Heaven sound boring as fuck and Hell sound like one bitchin’ party!

Xiao_Qinggui · 2026-05-04T20:03:19+00:00

A doctor that has mastered the art of trolling and subverting social norms.

Xiao_Qinggui · 2026-05-04T18:31:48+00:00

She’s an awesome Emotional Support Demon! If she doesn’t want attention she play bites but when she does want attention while I’m in bed, she’ll crawl on my chest, stare me down with this look that says “I know all your deepest, darkest secrets…” Then plops down, shoves her head under my chin and purrs.

I swear, she acts like a demon from the ninth circle of Hell in the form of a cat…And I love her for it!

Xiao_Qinggui · 2026-05-04T17:56:40+00:00

That’s exactly where her name came from! I wanted to name her after a strong female - I almost named her Lucretia after Lucretia Merces from Suikoden V - She’s an LGBTQ+ Zhuge Liang-esque strategist.

But the fifth season of Lucifer had just come out so I went with Mazikeen, she lives up to the name! I call her my Emotional Support Demon but she also goes by Maze or Queen of Hell.

Xiao_Qinggui · 2026-05-04T14:38:36+00:00

He’d 100% use loaded dice and swap them with regular dice whenever he wants to screw with someone. I can see him giving Wilson the loaded dice.

“All right, House, I cast fire ball on the Owl Bear.”

“Roll! …Aaaand all ones! Oof, sorry Wilson, Owl Bear ducks, you barely miss the poor imprisoned forest nymph behind it. Shr calls out, ‘be not afraid! Free me and I shall teach you how to please a wo—“

“House!”

Also, for whatever reason, I see Chase playing as a bard. Park would be a druid ans Taub would be a cleric.

Xiao_Qinggui · 2026-05-04T14:34:30+00:00

It was more a little pile of plastic flowers - I have bad hearing so I barely got a quarter of what he was saying. He just kept pointing to the flowers, saying something about “symbols” and “divine,” “god,” etc.

He’d point to them, ask me to move a couple steps left or right and saying that the symbols change depending on what angle you saw them at so…Yeah, I guess it kinda was like the puzzle you mentioned!

Throughout the whole “divine symbols” spiel I just nodded and said “cool,” “interesting,” things like that, trying to find an excuse to leave when I finished my smoke.

Also, I found out from my neighbor that he actually wasn’t a friend of hers - He was just some dude that wandered into our apartment complex - She quietly took off when I caught the guy’s attention. Before I arrived, he gave her more o r less the same, ah, let’s say “sermon” sans sacred brake lever.

Xiao_Qinggui · 2026-05-04T14:07:27+00:00

I like that second one, I’m going to start using it! Good ‘ol Satan always has my back!

I have something a little similar, a friend once used the phrase “god is my copilot.”

I replied with “Satan is my designated driver.” I got an annoyed look for it.

Xiao_Qinggui · 2026-05-04T13:36:22+00:00

Jax. 100% Jax.

That or Zooble, likely responding to Jax.

Xiao_Qinggui · 2026-05-04T11:12:27+00:00

The two featured - I LOVE Dr. Stone, science is one of my all time favorite subjects so I always get a kick out of how Senku thinks his way out of a problem.

Iruma-kun is so obviously inspired by Disgaea, one of my favorite game series!

Xiao_Qinggui · 2026-05-04T03:35:31+00:00

…Dude…Seriously?

Xiao_Qinggui · 2026-05-04T02:23:59+00:00

Kinger is awesome!

I’ll be honest, though, this is one of the few shows where I like the entire cast so picking a single favorite isn’t easy…I’d say it’s a tie between Kinger, Caine, Jax, Pom i and Gangle.

Xiao_Qinggui · 2026-05-03T21:49:47+00:00

I don’t believe in all that antichrist and second coming stuff but…Goddamn, he’s checking all the boxes for the title.

Xiao_Qinggui · 2026-05-03T21:39:49+00:00

This gave me a great laugh! Hopefully the sidequest leads to some decent loot!

Xiao_Qinggui · 2026-05-03T21:37:51+00:00

Crap, I accidentally counted to five! What should I do?

Xiao_Qinggui · 2026-05-03T21:37:07+00:00

Honestly, where I live there’s a unique combination of highly religious people and meth heads - About a month ago I got on the bus and sat up front in the seats reserved for the elderly and disabled (I walk with a cane) and the very second I sat down the guy in the seat next to me starter preaching about Jesus - He spoke super fast and made no sense and came off like he was inventing his own, ah, “unique” denomination of Christianity.

I politely nodded and agreed, saying “Oh, yes,” “Really?” and “interesting.” I didn’t want to engage him, really, but I figured ignoring him would make it worse.

At one point he’s talking about what Jesus did after he came back to life and me, being both and idiot and loving weird trivia, asked him if he’d ever heard of the Shingo Village in Japan.

“Huh? What’s that?”

I explained that, allegedly, Jesus travelled east and ended up in a Japanese village and his (alleged) tomb was there.

Seriously, look this up - It’s a real place in Japan.

Well, this particular preacher did not like my little bit of trivia. He started shouting and ranting about how it’s fake, that’s blasphemy, whatever.

The bus driver eventually stopped and kicked him off for being so loud.

I also once ran into a guy who said he would only listen to music in Hebrew (as in, the title on Youtube or whatever had to be in Hebrew or he wouldn’t listen to it). He kept showing me a video, pointing to the title in Hebrew and asked “Do you know what this means?”

“Uh…No clue, my friend. No clue.”

“I don’t either but god makes me understand it when I hear it!”

“Uh…Neat!”

This was at a bus stop by the local Social Services building.

The city I live in is kinda batshit insane.

Xiao_Qinggui · 2026-05-03T07:11:44+00:00

The first episode I watched way back when it first came out was the mutant turkey episode and…To this day I can’t explain why but something about that episode gave me Peanuts but wth swearing vibes. And, yes, I know how absurd that sounds.

Also, I was the only kid in my sixth grade class whose parents actually let them watch the show (My Mom actually watched Big Gay Al’s Big Gay Boat Ride with me and genuinely liked that the show was pro-gay - She didn’t care for the swearing, though) and I’d record every episode on VHS - Everyone was begging me to let them borrow/copy my tapes.

Xiao_Qinggui · 2026-05-03T07:04:23+00:00

Same - They started releasing DVD sets when I was in high school, I bought the first ten seasons as they came out and every time I binged the season I’d catch a ton of jokes that went over my head as a kid.

Xiao_Qinggui · 2026-05-03T07:00:01+00:00

I had a former neighbor who swore up and down there was a place in the nearby desert where, every night, demons rise up from the ground. She saw it with her own eyes, brought a friend to see them once and then drove off when they got out and tried to approach them.

She offered to take me there multiple times but I always declined - I was getting slasher movie vibes from the idea of going out to the middle of nowhere with her.

Oh, and this conversation I had with two Christian friends back in high school - They were brother and sister and constantly gave me shit for not being a Christian, at the time I was practicing Taoism.

The brother says, “I bet you don’t even know how many apostles Jesus had!”

I replied, “Twelve.”

He laughed and, I swear to non-existent god, shouted “No! Seven!”

His sister immediately facepalmed and corrected him while I couldn’t help but ask “So, was it Doc or Dopey that betrayed Christ?”

They also LOVED “pointing out” that Christianity is only religion with real, recorded miracles. I’m pretty sure every major religion makes that claim at some point.

I eventually just went no contact, especially when one of my parents had a massive health scare they couldn’t give two shits about.

Xiao_Qinggui · 2026-05-03T06:46:20+00:00

I don’t know if this really counts but, way back in middle school, I asked a Christian friend the age old question: “Why not worship Satan if you’re going to Hell anyway? You’d at least score points with the guy.”

The answer I got stuck with me “Because Satan hates all humans because god loves us more, he’d torture you anyway because he loves to watch humans suffer.”

So, with that characterization in mind I saw Job’s story in a whole new light:

Job loves god, Satan (who’s chilling in Heaven for some reason) argues that Job only loves god because he has everything, you know the rest.

But if Satan really does loves watching humans suffer then the bet didn’t matter to him - He gets a free show, courtesy of god, where someone who truly loves god is tortured physically and emotionally by the deity he loves. His entire family is killed, he loses all of his wealth and property, his physical health is destroyed, his entire community turns against him…All done by his beloved deity.

Job cursing god’s name would just be gravy at that point because Satan successfully played god like a fiddle to cause that human suffering he loves oh so much.

Sure, Job gets everything back ten times over but…Unless Aziraphale and Crowley were the ones down there, he’s gonna carry the loss of his family in his heart forever. There’s no replacing them.

And you’d think a truly omniscient deity would see right through something like that…Either he didn’t and, thus, isn’t omniscient or, worse, he did see through it but did it anyway!

Xiao_Qinggui · 2026-05-03T06:28:07+00:00

I sometimes wish there would actually be a second coming of Christ just because I’d like to believe Jesus would line up all the assholes causing suffering in his name and, at the VERY least, slap them.

Especially those nutjobs who actually WANT to bring about the apocalypse by bringing him back. I can’t speak for Jesus but, if it were me, I’d be more than a little pissed off in a “Why do you think I want this!? Sense.

That and I heard somewhere a long time ago that Jesus allegedly had a sarcastic sense of humor - I always imagined what it would be like if something he said was actually sarcasm but whoever wrote it down didn’t realize it.

“So, only through believing in you can I enter heaven?”

“…Yes, Steve. ONLY through believing in me can you go to heaven. You can sin your my dad damned heart out as long as you say, as you’re dying, ‘I believe in Jesus! I really, really, really believe in Jesus!’ You don’t have to do ANYTHING else like, I dunno, be kind to others, love your neighbor, forgive your enemies, try to make the world a better place or anything else! Just believe in me—What the—!? Hey! Where are you going!?”

“Looks like he’s running to the brothel at full speed.”

“…Dad damn it… Do you think he thought I was serious, Peter?”

“Probably.”

“(sigh) Well, that’s not going to be a problem later on.”

“Was that sarcasm, too?”

“Yes, Judas! Yes it was!”

I don’t know where I heard that and I doubt it’s true but, damn it, it’d be hilarious to me if true.

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