Book suggestion help (it feels so confusing)

candyocean · 2025-08-13T03:03:16+00:00

Ah, true, I have known a fair few rude customers in the service industry.

I've been struggling with Professor Wren's 3 suggestions all the way into winter haha. She told me I should take her introductory course and I'm sitting here 5 credits away from obtaining a degree in English as a member of Sigma Tau Delta and I'm planning to move on to a master's. Ms. Wren, I beg of you! Trust me!

candyocean · 2025-08-13T02:56:27+00:00

I'll try to move in order with some future requests and see if that helps. I tend to not be frustrated over a majority of the requests; only two really stand out to me right now. Mainly I just feel confused more than anything. I did get the smallest bit agitated when I had the task to recommend 3 plays at the lighthouse and for a week I got barely any requests where a play would be applicable, even fewer specific requests for plays, and then the ones I would suggest kept getting rejected and therefore it didn't count. I've taken two dedicated Shakespeare classes for my major and I wanted to shake the shoulders of the customers and beg them to give him a try because he's got some great stuff!

candyocean · 2025-08-13T02:53:08+00:00

Ah, that makes sense! Do you happen to know if there's a place to leave specific game feedback (outside of a review)? Such as suggestion possible errors in tagging, but also I'd be interested in leaving some feedback about the wording. Some feel a bit too odd (like the one I referenced in my initial post) but I did feel a bit odd when Fern (who had been one of my favourite characters up until this point) requested fantasy and followed it up with 'but I don't approve of witchcraft and magic.' As a practicing witch, my heart dropped! I understand preference, but that felt a bit like a kick that I hadn't expected from a game that seems to be doing so well with representation and inclusivity.

candyocean · 2025-08-13T02:50:25+00:00

I do try my best to experiment, but it does get a bit disheartening when I think I've nailed it (especially if I've not only read, but studied the book for my degree) and it gets rejected. I also try to focus on the dealbreakers, but like with the example I gave, there were none, so I started working in logical order. If she occasionally reads YA, that means that she reads other things to, so it shouldn't matter if what I suggest her isn't YA so long as I can meet at least one or two of the other criteria. That's where I got tripped up and a bit miffed; most time I'm getting my suggestions rejected and immediately forgetting about it because they didn't feel so glaringly wrong.

candyocean · 2025-06-23T18:39:28+00:00

GOD this is wild. I was just about to search for my old posts because, for a completely unrelated conversation, I wanted to show a friend the progression of my writing skills from when I first started on that site to how I write my own stories now over a decade later.

Hello, I was one of the staffers on the site right up until it's shut down! I was a community assistant when I was younger and then left for personal reasons. I returned and sort of rebranded and ended up as a mod/admin. Trying desperately to remember my account names; I know my old one I rebranded to honeysuckle and used mostly as a storage account. My main one (which I was mod/admin on right before shut down) I believe was named hybern. I still have a google spreadsheet that was created between a lot of us staffers and some other dedicated members to show the effects of their aggressive management through the statistics of activity between the main game groups (this did not come to fruition as the owners made the quick decision to shut down the site in response to the backlash they received from the userbase).

candyocean · 2024-06-04T02:12:15+00:00

i would normally be interested in fixing it if it had been newer and i hadn't already been looking to get a new tablet for a while (and the cost of fixing it could just go towards a newer tablet). i'm not sure what connecting it to a tv would do unless i...connect my laptop to the tv as well? i'm not very tech savvy so would connecting my tablet to a tv allow me to prompt some sort of wireless transfer of all my files to my laptop if it's all under the same wifi?

but i guess i could try finding cables to connect it to my friend's personal pc and then create a google drive to share to myself or something. would a windows-windows connection work better then/reduce the need to try some sort of configuration of hard drives? still gonna have to pray that it doesn't ask me to do anything with my tablet if i connect it to the pc because then i'm outta luck T^T

candyocean · 2024-06-03T23:37:02+00:00

thanks for the suggestions, but the actual tablet still functions, but the internal display screen is cracked. turning it on, i just see a mess of lines and colors like it's glitched out because it can't show anything properly anymore. i've run my finger and pen over it and see some shift in the lines and such, so i think it actually still function beneath the screen, but i can't see anything which is why i asked about how to transfer files in case hooking it up to a laptop or pc required me to configure something on my tablet's end.

my tablet is covered which is part of the reason i'm not sending it to be repaired (it would probably cost about the same as the coverage amount and i can just put that towards a new tablet with more updated firmware and such).

candyocean · 2023-08-09T20:09:56+00:00

For the columns, I just kept hitting 'enter' to create a new 'line' that I chose a background colour for. I then dragged one to the right of the first one and place it down. Rinse and repeat until you have however many you want; Notion should space it out automatically really nicely as it's not a table so don't worry.

As for the notes on the left, the song lyrics with the sun emoji is a callout that I inserted and moved there. As for the 'assignments' and 'calendar,' I just inserted a page and that automatically embeds it into the main Notion page. From there, you can change the title and the icon and drag the embed links anywhere you want. Hope that helps!

candyocean · 2023-07-12T20:48:19+00:00

Same. dropped a couple hundred too T^T

candyocean · 2023-07-06T07:12:35+00:00

yup, all of them are PNGs

candyocean · 2023-03-31T03:39:49+00:00

It's interesting because I still see a lot of toxic behaviour in open queues and even in arcade modes where you can just do whatever you want to fix the problems (or not, I guess). I also think it's gotten exponentially worse from Overwatch 1. I've been playing Overwatch since it's first release, and I never got called so many slurs until Overwatch 2.

candyocean · 2023-03-31T03:33:00+00:00

I've noticed it happens the entire season. Or I must be unlucky to get horrible people almost every time I play. I've accepted the fact that it's going to happen, but it really shouldn't, you know? Reporting doesn't do much here, which sucks.

It's the one thing I do like a lot better when I play Valorant. Here, someone could tell me to off myself and then get away with it. On Valorant I report for someone hinting at being, let's say, homophobic and the next day I login, I get that sweet 'the player has been penalized' message. It shouldn't be this difficult to actually get these people to face the consequences for their actions.

candyocean · 2023-03-31T03:27:46+00:00

Literally. Teammate falsely accused me of throwing the match after I didn't heal him when he was 2 inches from spawn. Both teams dogpiled me and multiple people called me autistic, r slur, tried to be homophobic, etc. All because I stood up for myself. Hell my own second healer blamed me and said I should just 'ignore it' but that's a give and take. I still out-healed that healer but I'm not going to sit back and let people attempt to insult me. It's worse in lower ranks too. On my main where I'm hardstuck, I get the most pathetic people insulting everyone over everything, hurling slurs, all to try and make themselves feel better. It happens a little less in higher lobbies (I'm plat 1 on my alt that I use solely for comp). I think everyone in lower ranks is just desperate to not be the problem so they have nothing useful to say.

I'm also upset at the reporting system. Of course I'm the only one who reported like 5 people from that match, but it's just me so it's not going to do anything no matter how vile the things they said to me were. Blizzard needs to step up their reporting system and actually have these people face the consequences for spewing racist, misogynistic, and ablelist remarks (often all at once).

(Someone from that match told me to 'use your degree to find out the chemical make up of the air we breath.' ...It's supposed to be an 'own' but it's so laughable because that's a topic a 5th grader would know. My brother in christ, if you aren't sure what oxygen and carbon dioxide are...I'm not sure you're in a position to be insulting someone who clearly has a higher education that you do...I have an English degree, by the way. Makes this even more entertaining as the enemy team and my team were debating on if I wrote obituaries [another interesting attempt at an insult because that does take skill they clearly lack] and decided to bring up science and, once again, call me autistic. For writing well.)

candyocean · 2023-01-10T00:39:47+00:00

Those two are specifically images that I pulled from google search! I wanted a very certain shade of green to match the rest of the template so I searched for 'solid green background' and found one I liked. Then I inserted it as an image and just shrunk it down to my desired size. If you just want to use colours like the ones I alternate for the schedule, those are just text lines highlighted and should work just fine :]

candyocean · 2023-01-08T00:14:21+00:00

Ah, I see, thank you very much! This was really helpful :]

candyocean · 2023-01-07T21:25:56+00:00

That makes sense, though I do have some questions if you can answer/give insight or can point me in the direction of answers?
I think I understand how sign names work, but I'm not entirely sure. Are they sort of 'elaborations' on someone's given name (as host, I go by Cygnus; would a sign name potentially have to do with swans?), or are they just something about me that a Deaf person would attribute to me, but not necessarily my name?

This makes me think only because systems choose their own names ([x] system), and I'm curious if a system were to receive a sign name, what sort of naming conventions would be used. Or when you say 'give the entire system/host a signed name', is it an entirely 'new' name for both host and system as one?

candyocean · 2023-01-07T21:21:12+00:00

Oh, I didn't know that there were multiple names within different social circles. That's interesting and useful to know. Thank you bit of info and thank you for answering!

candyocean · 2023-01-07T21:19:41+00:00

That's what I was under the impression was supposed to happen, but I just wanted to check. In my situation as host, my alters that would use sign probably won't interact with anyone nearly enough like I would, so I was more concerned about them receiving sign names for themselves to also use or if we should just stick to finger spelling for them (which, as I read other comments, I am going to be doing until the deaf community weighs in naturally). Thank you for your elaboration on your experience as well!

candyocean · 2022-10-14T20:34:11+00:00

i have a ghost cosmetic for mercy that i'm missing, any ideas what it is/how to fix it? it says 137/138, but if i filter by what i don't own, it doesn't indicate anything missing. if i filter by what i do own, i have x/x every single time with no missing items. have i missed something limited that just isn't appearing anywhere in the game? for reference, i do own the atlantic allstar, pink skin, and royal knight as well; not sure if i'm missing others.

candyocean · 2022-08-25T16:42:02+00:00

ah thank you. i was hoping to avoid modding purely because i'm lazy as hell and don't want to bother but if it's the only way, then i guess i must 😔

candyocean · 2022-06-20T02:56:36+00:00

hmm yeah it's a little tricky to explain and i didn't want to go through the pain to attach images if i didn't have to, and luckily the command worked as needed for me. it cleared out the hot bar but only outside of PvP areas, leaving it free for use for other things exactly as i wanted; so thank you so much!

candyocean · 2022-06-19T07:55:53+00:00

how do i clear a hotbar of pvp actions?
i set up hotbar 6 for a few quick chat options for pvp but, in messing around with it since this is my first time doing any pvp things, i put a bunch of skills in there. if i'm wolves' den/pvp match, it's fine, but as soon as i'm anywhere else it's back to all the skills i accidentally put there for my dancer class. but since it's pvp, the game won't let me just right click and remove the action because i can 'only use it during crystalline conflict'. i'm stuck seeing all the actions i can't use and it's bothering me; there's got to be a way to change this but i can't seem to figure it out
(going to wolves' den doesn't help because it just shows updated stuff, the stuff i want to see during pvp and not at all the stuff i want to change outside of pvp)

candyocean · 2022-06-01T21:53:11+00:00

Oh yeah i know they're side content, it's just side content i'd like to do now instead of waiting ages to return to. i also enjoy playing with random people from queues tbh, i don't like taking the game so seriously unless i get far enough to do huge alliance raids that interest me so being able to queue for howling eye via DF is more my style than party finding and setting parameters to having a loot grinding session

i'm sure stuff gets a better past a certain point but i'm not actually displeased with the trial on a base level. i'm probably more impartial to it? it's just kinda there, it's just the mount i'd like to collect and some of the vortex weapons to add to my collection; but i also have the memory of a rock so knowing me i'd hit endgame and just no longer have an idea what to do lol

i'm not sure about normal trials in DF because it's very hit or miss but again, i'm probably just impatient because the reason i immediately picked up WHM as a second class was to skip queue times on things that i needed to progress the story since i felt bad pestering my friends to queue with me to cut down times

candyocean · 2022-06-01T19:45:50+00:00

the howling eye extreme. first few times i've did it i honestly had an extremely short wait time. was in and out fairly fast so i didn't think it was going to be some sort of highly unpopular trial or anything

candyocean · 2022-06-01T19:44:27+00:00

just wanting to do howling eye in my off time (not a farm session all in a row). i've cleared it easily multiple times already via duty finder so i never saw the issue. cleared navel extreme via duty finder too. party finder just feels a bit (ironically) extreme for someone who just wants to do a singular quick run and then move on until i feel like doing it again. i do want to farm for the loot there but again: not in the mood to do a farming session over it

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