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Unwashed Village / Venting toxic brain gas
« on: December 29, 2011, 03:24:52 PM »
My brain is full of rage.

So I was gonna say this on some form of social media for the purpose of venting, like most people of ... well not my generation but the one after it.  But then I remembered a lot of people from work are following my various social media methods, so instead I'll put it here.

::begin venting::

So they hired me to be a web developer and also do design. That's always a tricky mix, because they assume you're better at one than the other. And as we all know, a small portion of the world can understand complex design patterns, but everyone thinks they're a designer.

So, I had this design that was very carefully created using the most usable and conscientious readability patterns that still conformed to their branding and colors. Everything was going great, been working for months without any complaints, and all of a sudden I start getting e-mails from someone who is halfway up the chain of command, telling me to change the white/grey gradient logo (which is on a sepia-toned background and has a subtle drop-shadow) to a burnt red color.

For those of you who aren't color blind, that's incredibly hard to see. So I explain this, and give all of my most diplomatic terms. "According to design theory, blah blah" and "I'll be glad to make the change for you, but my fear is that readability will be affected," blah blah. Her response?

"I know all that design stuff. I'm doing this because my boss told me to tell you. This is what they want"

I've never heard this from her boss, who has been talking to me off and on since the project started.  I thought nothing of it and made the change. Then I get another e-mail and she slips up and says "I hate that it's white, that looks bad."

Right. Your boss told you this.

The worst part? Her official job is doing print design for the company, and she makes professional catalogs for million-dollar events look like e-vites to a children's birthday party.

::end venting::

How is everyone else doing?

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Unwashed Village / Re: Wishing all my friends a very Merry Christmas!
« on: December 28, 2011, 03:51:08 PM »
I'm a little late on this, had family over, but I hope everyone had a great Christmas in the village!

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Unwashed Village / Re: The downfall of the Village: A Theory
« on: December 28, 2011, 03:50:37 PM »
Need more booze in the bastard bar, IMO.

My family, (as I somehow forgot) really enjoys drinking liquor when we're together. I had a bit of a blue Christmas, in the German vernacular.

I'll be happy if I don't see some booze for awhile.

That being said, http://www.arrogantbastard.com/

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Unwashed Village / Re: Leveling a Low Level Mage in WOW Fast
« on: December 20, 2011, 10:34:40 PM »
...wow is right.

I wonder if they used the same translator that turns the Jedi Council into the Presbyterian Church?

DO NOT WANT!

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Unwashed Village / Re: New Xbox Update 12/6/11
« on: December 12, 2011, 03:52:39 PM »
I'm still torn. People whine about netflix but I find it way better now. Search is only one button away, you don't have to hit a random sequence of buttons in order to control videos, etc.

As a web developer, Windows 8 is nerd porn for me, so probably not fair to judge it as such.

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Unwashed Village / Re: The Ketchup Hotness Test, and a Moral Dilemma
« on: December 01, 2011, 06:47:56 PM »
So, what does it mean when the big burly manager and his wife both occasionally tell their employees to put free extras on my orders?

It means you found a place that takes care of their customers and you need to go there more often.

Unfortunately I can't do the ketchup test because I don't like sauce of any type and can't stand wasting food.  Or even "food."

Well, if they have like a side dish or some kind of item that they give you X small items, count the items they give you. For example, at a local fried chicken place (Chicken Express) the guy that works there knows me from when we first moved into the neighborhood. His brother went to my alma mater and was having a problem with his computer, so I hooked him up with a local guy that fixed it on the cheap, so we're bros now.  So when I'd order the "five tenders" meal I almost always got at least 7.

Which I'm hoping has more to do with bro-ness than hotness.

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Unwashed Village / Re: The Ketchup Hotness Test, and a Moral Dilemma
« on: November 29, 2011, 04:33:45 PM »
I felt good while I was saying it.

I missed these sort of interchanges.

Also, BC, I didn't get any ketchup. But when I went back there with a friend once, the hostess wrote her number on the receipt. Which to me is very odd, because the only time we spoke, she said I was super sweet for getting my sick wife her favorite meal: a chili's grilled chicken sandwich with no tomato.

I politely threw the receipt away. In a trash can miles from my house.

After shredding it into a thousand pieces.

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Unwashed Village / Re: ....3 more days....
« on: November 18, 2011, 11:02:36 PM »

I became a werewolf but found it pretty useless for a melee character so I used the cure.



Also from what everyone's telling me, werewolf is useless UNLESS you're a melee character. I know it was for my friend the archer. I'm not sure how it'd go for my magic swordsman, but probably not great.

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Unwashed Village / Re: ....3 more days....
« on: November 18, 2011, 11:00:45 PM »
I'm in my mid-30s now with my orc sword and board build.

Every time you say that I want to make a sword and board Nord named Fjord.

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I disagree, Douglas!  Actually, I think the charm of the village was that somehow it grew out of the gritty posts of a video game message board.  For some inexplicable reason, a lot of people congregated in an imaginary place and spoke about unreal things.  Also, I constantly wanted to sleep with every female.  Sorry.

Like every female ever?

You are fucking legen...


wait for it...


...

dary!

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Unwashed Village / Re: The Ketchup Hotness Test, and a Moral Dilemma
« on: November 18, 2011, 09:58:14 PM »
Man those places always screw up my order, but they usually give me something I don't want.

I ordered a bacon egg and cheese bagel and they gave me a steak and onion bagel.

Really? You serve that? Also, for breakfast? Hope your relatives enjoy stankbreath on top of morning breath.

Anyway, I think you're fine ethically. I always run into that problem. Here's another fine example:

I ordered food from Chili's as takeout. I come in and they haven't made my order, in spite of the fact they said it'd be done 10 minutes before. So, I sit down patiently and chat up the random hostess standing at the back. She says they've had a hectic night, and I say I understand, no big deal, things are fine. So then, a lady runs out of the back, calls my name, and hands me my order. I've already paid for it at this point, and she hands me two strawberry lemonades I did not order. I've had places do this a lot if you have to wait for a long time for your food. So, I thought to check my bag, and sure enough there was my order on top, the big mouth bites (basically sliders, or mini-burgers). My wife ordered something that was in a big container, so I didn't even check, I just saw it was in the big container, so I figured I was good.

I get home, and it's completely wrong. I check the ticket, and some other guy's name is on there. I sigh, and head back to the place. On the way I get a call, the manager apologizes, asks if there's anything they can do to make it right. I say it's no big deal, it's like a mile from the house, I'm okay, just let me have my food. They've already remade the other guy's order, so I get to keep the extra food. I'm thinkin' this is not a bad day.

Then I arrive, and the recriminations abound. The guy is furious I walked out with his order. The waitress is implying I am an idiot for not checking the ticket when she handed it to me, and walking out the door with two drinks I didn't order. The hostess I was chatting up is giving me a sidelong glance like I'm a complete moron. Just then, the manager walks up and is horrified that I'm going to sue because of the crowd of people who have suddenly turned on me. I just smile and say I was wrong... to trust the waitress when she called my name and handed me my order. She gets flustered and runs to the kitchen, the old guy and his wife calm down when they realize I just drove all the way home and back (again, only a mile, but in rush hour traffic off the highway), and that they were being senselessly aggro.

Then I get home and the wife starts making fun of me for getting the wrong order. "How did you not know?"

Can't win.

Moral of the story: people screw up. Most of the time you just keep moving. Anyone who judges you for it is a dick. Including your wife.

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Unwashed Village / Re: ....3 more days....
« on: November 18, 2011, 09:43:06 PM »
The interface is super-annoying, and I've been trying to find ways to make it better. I'm debating going ahead and trying my hand at some UI modding, see if I can figure out a way to at least hotkey combos in a manner that's much less retarded.

We'll see how it goes.

BTW, I started out with a breton spellsword, wanted to try spells in one hand and one-handed weapons in the other. I soon discovered you could dual wield bound swords and after seeing how badass that looked, I made it the focus of my build.

So far, it looks awesome and I can murder things in high speed if I can get close. I found that one-handed and conjuration worked pretty well synergistically (+damage from both sides), and you can also use some crazy enchanting (+1 handed weapon damage, applies to both weapons in dual wield attacks and power attacks). Only downside : I'm finding that stoneflesh (even with the alteration perk to make it much better when you're not wearing armor) is not powerful enough to mitigate getting arrowed to death before you can stab someone with your glowing swords.

Looks like I'll need to figure that out in order to get more awesomer.

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Unwashed Village / Re: January 31st can not come soon enough
« on: November 18, 2011, 09:27:36 PM »
I always played as the fencing guy.  Can't remember his name.  Story-wise he was a bit of an ass, though.

Raphael? Yeah he was kinda a douche. Kind of like the arthas story. Started out trying to make things better and inevitably ended up trying to destroy everything.

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Unwashed Village / Re: Worse than 'Stuck Song Syndrome'...
« on: November 07, 2011, 03:01:35 PM »
wouldn't be a stupid collage add that's been airing recently (won't mention name as the jingle is NOT in my head at moment)

Get connected... for free.... it's edu-cation con-nection....

GET CONNECTED... FOR FREE... IT'S ED- SPILL THE BLOOD OF THE INNOCENT!

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Unwashed Village / Re: Then and now, motherfuckers
« on: October 18, 2011, 03:52:45 PM »
Oh, and snap, how is Fernis doing nowadays?

We never talked much on the forums but I still can't help but remember Fernis as the godking of Spear-usage in Asheron's Call

He's pretty good from what I see on Facebook. His family moved about the same time mine did, so we didn't see each other again until after college. I'm not sure he plays video games any more.

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