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[Silverthrone]

Magdalena Ribbing, Queen of Proper Manners & Etiquette, ever ready to make the understanding of these available to anyone prepared to listen, and a terribly bright and humourous woman, standing by the banner of common decency, has died.
Towards her last days, she remained a thoughtful and honourable brand of socialite, and while she always campaigned for etiquette, it always remained based on simple grounds that everyone ought to aspire towards; gentleness, kindness, thoughtfullnes. Tradition and pride is important, but never on the expense of someone else's feelings and composure.

There is more to good behaviour than (bloody buggery) fish cuttlery. Go with God, and thank you for all the times you have made that loud and clear.

She died, according to current knowledge, in the aftermath of misadventure while preparing a luncheon for close friends. Dying in the pursuit of what one lived with, lived for, is not the most terrible death one can ask for, I must say.

It was... Well, quite unexpected. I knew, of course, that she would not live forever. Nonetheless, the urgency of her death was quite unexpected. I cannot state that her death feels entirely like one amongst the family (we have had quite enough of those lately, Lord, kindly keep that in mind as you draw your schedules), but certainly close and personal, considering that we rallied 'round the same banner, as it were. She has been a fixture, of sorts. A constant, that I have always admired, someone that has made it clear that civil and gentle life is possible and preferable, now in the 21st century as it was in the 18th century as it was in the 7th and will be in the 36th so forth. It is, and will always be, about attitudes.

_{I shall confess. I am hit by this, to the degree that I share it on-line, for it is rather like as if Grandmother have died twice, truth be told. Providence is rather cruel at the moment.}

[Information:
Magdalena Ribbing was a Swedish noblewoman, authoress and journalist. She was an educated authority in questions and matters of etiquette and behaviour, and respected in those fields. She was also involved in radio, and was a skilled lecture.
She was born on the 30th of July 1940, and died on the 29th of September 2017.]

Yes, it is almost as if Hyancith Bucket (but more agreeable in every way) has died. To make it more relatable at a glance.

[CABL]

Had a sleep paralysis today. The reason I wrote this post in mild sad instead of terrified, is because it was very brief.

[Dunamisdeos]

For more than two years I have hunted the DEMON HAT OF CASTING. It is the most grand and magnificently feathered hat that a caster can own. It only drops from one boss in one raid.

It has eluded me. If crewing a ship and hunting the seven seas with a harpoon tempered in blood was an option then I'd be on a boat right now.

Please give me my hat, FFXIV.

Spoiler: Why is my life so hard (click to show/hide)

[hops]

Anyone else slightly dissatisfied with their life but has trouble voicing it because they have everything better than other people around them?

No?

[Tiruin]

Anyone else slightly dissatisfied with their life but has trouble voicing it because they have everything better than other people around them?

No?

* Tiruin boops (~'u')~

There are a lot of people with that idea. Just because someone is well-off than others, doesn't mean that comparison is applicable when determining if one approaches others with help, or with asking help, because they have problems or troubles themselves.

Sometimes patience is an answer, and growing understanding. Sometimes, sharing ideas are. Dissatisfaction has causes and processes; it's better off expressed with a goal in mind rather than compared and hidden because you saw the general idea of 'but others are worse off :<'

Because one's own concerns, are with oneself. Life is dynamic that way, in that these matters can be both connected and on different contexts entirely.

[Avarice]

Anyone else slightly dissatisfied with their life but has trouble voicing it because they have everything better than other people around them?

No?

Grass always greener

[hops]

Anyone else slightly dissatisfied with their life but has trouble voicing it because they have everything better than other people around them?

No?

Grass always greener

I mean, does that apply when your grass is the greener one?

[Reelya]

We can quantify how far you are above the general background level of suffering and apply a corrective, if you like.

This sort of seems to be the zeitgeist now instead of pulling the disadvantaged up, because tearing others down is way easier than fixing things.

[scriver]

Anyone else slightly dissatisfied with their life but has trouble voicing it because they have everything better than other people around them?

No?

Grass always greener

I mean, does that apply when your grass is the greener one?

Always greener

[Reelya]

Also aren't the college generation suppose to value how oppressed you are? Note that this attitude only holds in the population segment of "American college students" who are, objectively the most coddled and privileged class of people on the planet. So it's natural that "not having it all" is the new status.

Not having the green grass and having everything laid out on the red carpet, in that situation, is the new "grass is greener" because it implies you're not just coasting on parent's money.

[Yoink]

Just become a "miserable bastard" and start taking pleasure in the misfortunes of others.
Not only will the resulting entertainment distract you from your own issues, I imagine your newfound lightness of heart would make you less bashful over talking about whatever problems still bother you.



As for my mild sad... I stumbled upon Road To Perdition in the library and got all excited, having wanted to read it (and thus avoided watching the critically-acclaimed movie adaptation) for years. Turns out it kinda sucks. Well then. Same with Ghost World, another graphic novel I've wanted to read for a long time and recently found there. Sad times.

Oh well, at least now I can finally watch the film.
Tom Hanks rarely does wrong - although I did watch my first-ever bad film of his recently, which left me quite disturbed. I hope it isn't a sign of his Midas touch finally failing after so many years.

[Reelya]

I watched his early movie "Joe vs the Volcano" a while ago. It was a pretty good film. However it's all about the journey, the ending segment is the weakest part.

[CABL]

Ugh, why I'm such a magnet for bugs in vidya gaems? In DF, my animals refuse to kill creatures/neutrals who have lost the ability stand. In Rimworld, I've a bug which causes the game to play combat music and thus giving me no opportunity to name my colony (My colony is one year and a half old in-game, like, WTF).

[Yoink]

Not sure about the music part, but I have the same bug with naming colonies - fortunately, you can force the option to name it from the development mode menu.

@Reelya: I've not seen that one, I shall have to watch it at some point.

Spoiler: unplanned, inconsequential rant about a terrible book I luckily didn't pay any money for so what does it really matter anyway well I guess it's distressing that such rubbish gets served up on library shelves for the consumption of the masses but hey just about anything people read is stupid anyway so what difference does one more bad book make (click to show/hide)

Current Mild Sad: picked out a book at random from the library the other day. I was in a hurry to leave (I imagined the takeaway burger I'd ordered was most likely ready by then) and wanted to increase my number of newly-borrowed books to four.

Only having two at that point, I hurried over to the fiction section to see what was on offer. The first one to catch my eye was a tarted-up edition of a classic I'd wanted to read for some time, so that was convenient.
For the other one I basically just picked out something with an interesting title - Prohibited Zone. Didn't really give too much away.

I went into it entirely blind, not having read the blurb or even really glanced at either cover before opening it. But, as I flicked through the end pages to find the beginning I couldn't help but glimpse the words "born in... Australia" in the author's bio. Groaning inwardly but not abandoning all hope just yet, I pressed on.

The reward for my perseverance was this: large print, widely-spaced font and writing about as challenging as the kind of drivel one would see in a fifth-grade writing class. Ugh. Still, for some bizarre reason, I continued - no doubt mostly because I was taking a right nasty shit at the time and wanted at least something to read whilst stuck to the can indefinitely.

Somewhat impressively, it got worse.
Turns out, this wasn't just a bland and underachieving novel set in one of the most boring countries in the world, it was a bland and underachieving novel set in one of the most boring countries in the world with political themes. Jesus.
If I wanted to numb my mind with a hyperbolic fictional account of this cruddy continent's current affairs I would switch on the television to partake of a program such as the fittingly-named A Current Affair. Actually no, no I wouldn't - because if such an alien urge did occur to me it would clearly mean that I had either gone mad or been possessed, and as such I would promptly put a first through the nearest window and open every blood vessel I could reach with the resulting shards. Ahem.
I would have no real desire to read a novel learning either way on my country's political spectrum (unless perhaps the prose was utterly fantastic), and even an unbiased, non-fictional account of some political event would only prove entertaining if there were any interesting incidents throughout Australia's history, which to my knowledge there really aren't.

Anyway, despite all that I kept reading for some reason, and it defied my every expectation as to just how bad it could get. It was as if one of those awful, by-the-numbers macho western novels was written by (and starring) the quintessential Australian dweeb, who, after putting aside his beer and brushing pie crumbs out of his tacky beard, was awkwardly stumbling to shift his insipid adventure tale from a conversational storytelling tone into the format of an actual novel but getting lost somewhere halfway.

...Whew, sorry for the rant, there. The book was/is terrible, but I'm not sure it warranted devoting quite so much time to complaining about it. I think I've been starved for conversation somewhat today, that's probably the issue - been left alone too long with too many angry/worried thoughts and trying to cheer myself up by having a good old bitch about one of the many things that have annoyed me today.

At least the other book is Dracula! That can't fail to be at least interesting.
I reckon I'll go get started on that now.

[Khan Boyzitbig]

I do know what that music bug in rimworld is. On any map affected by this bug is an ancient danger with mechanoids, clearing them out will fix the bug (the game is registering them as active threats). You can use dev mode to kill them too (and respawn them when you want to actually fight them).