Thought or Rant of the day!!!

[Misato]

RotD:
When you click out of a character after typing something, and several hours later, when your character lights up again to let you know you finished a project, another character had posted something right after yours, and you missed it, and that character was grey for however many hours you were again. I hate that!

omg yes! especially when that character is no longer online because your char never lit up and so you missed his/her response.

I hate that! On the other hand...at least that doesn't just happen to me.

[Comy]

What I do to avoid that is click on Inventory or one of the other tabs before hitting the button to go back to the player page. That way, you're less likely to miss an auto-refresh while you're scrolling down to it.

[Rebma]

I still hate that the auto-refresh is 5 seconds. it's a pain on slow connections because everything freezes until it processes. and by the time you click something else its stuck again.

I remember discussion about this before, the time being too short, but I forget where.

[SumBum]

You can disable it. Just saying.

[Rebma]

I still want it to refresh. But 20-30 seconds (reminiscent of olden days) would be so much more convenient.

[SumBum]

Ah, I gotcha. It's only a problem with my browser if the event list is huge and I want to look at something that's scrolled off the active listing. Otherwise I really like it.

[phoenixannwn]

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Sometimes it freezes on mine, and I don't realize it, and I'll say something, only when it goes through, what I sound sounds stupid/has already been said/has been answered/w.e, because someone posted while my little thingie was frozen and it didn't tell me 'cause it's a butthole. *pouts*
On a less rant-y note, I took a shower, brushed my hair, went to bed while it was still mostly wet and it's SO CUTE NOW. For srs.

And Misato, no joke, it was coffee. Usually, I get my caffeine baseline from the 4 liters of Dr. Pepper I drink a day (41 milligrams in every 8 oz), so when I drink coffee, it understandably fucks up that careful balance.
So drink two bottles of soda a day, cut back to one, run out, immediately start drinking the aformentioned coffee cocktail (make sure you're missing numerous hours of sleep. Better yet, don't sleep at all!) and boom, you have...the mess that was me. Was that wednesday? IDK I literally slept for two days after that.

[Armulus Satchula]

I have omega faster internet! So no complaints on the auto refresh from me!

[phoenixannwn]

These animal attacks are getting ridiculous. Even hitting them doesn't work anymore. Any of my characters that spend more than one day outside are getting attacked.

[Joshuamonkey]

Last night I was driving home sometime after midnight (only a 7 minute drive) and a car with bright lights came out of no where, it seemed, and started closely following my car, which seemed odd because I wasn't going slow. Then they turned on their police lights. At first I thought it was for speeding, but it wasn't (whew). I pulled over and they said that someone ran into a fire hydrant and they thought it might be me because my right headlight was out. I said it wasn't. They asked where I came from, which was a church dance about an hour south (someone drove me there and back). The policeman took my driver's license back to their car and then gave it back. That was it.
That was the first time I'd ever been pulled over by police.
Today, I did a lot of driving, because I helped someone in my church move stuff onto a truck and then move the stuff to where they're moving about half an hour away; also, I gave two missionaries a ride to and from there. It was snowing a lot, but the roads were fairly clear. Not long after I dropped off the missionaries, I was driving on the expressway and at the end of a long fairly normal turn my car lost control and I nearly crashed into a car in the lane to my right, though, luckily, I swerved left into the area between the lanes going opposite directions. This was over 70 miles per hour and during the few seconds that this happened, I seriously thought I was going to crash and wondered if I was going to get hurt badly.
My car got stuck in the snow. A tow truck person saw me and asked if I wanted to be towed (for a fee). I wanted to try getting snow out of the way first (earlier today my car got stuck in snow but I successfully freed it by kicking away the snow). I tried extensively to free my car, but I couldn't. A policeman found me, and he called a tow truck. It took about an hour for it to come, though I got to see many people in the opposite lanes turn their heads and look at my car and I. Further down the opposite lanes there were two police cars and a few others cars on the side of the expressway, and later many many cars were backed up behind them. Apparently something worse happened over there. When the tow truck came, the policeman used his car and lights to let me safely get back onto the expressway.

So there's my nice experience with police. I'm okay with not having any more though.

[SekoETC]

Usually, I get my caffeine baseline from the 4 liters of Dr. Pepper I drink a day (41 milligrams in every 8 oz)

4 litres? Ô_o How can your teeth take that, or your stomach? There's so much acid and so much sugar, I assume, unless it uses artificial sweeteners. I think I drink 5 litres of carbonated drinks a month at most, and my teeth have started bothering me lately, I wonder if I have cavities coming up, and I often have a bit of heartburn or other stomach discomfort.

[phoenixannwn]

It's just two, two liters bottles a day. I'm kind of addicted. They probably do use artificial sweeteners, though, I don't know. I occasionally get heartburn, but it gets better with more soda.

[Snickie]

Usually, I get my caffeine baseline from the 4 liters of Dr. Pepper I drink a day (41 milligrams in every 8 oz)

4 litres? Ô_o How can your teeth take that, or your stomach? There's so much acid and so much sugar, I assume, unless it uses artificial sweeteners. I think I drink 5 litres of carbonated drinks a month at most, and my teeth have started bothering me lately, I wonder if I have cavities coming up, and I often have a bit of heartburn or other stomach discomfort.

It's just two, two liters bottles a day. I'm kind of addicted. They probably do use artificial sweeteners, though, I don't know. I occasionally get heartburn, but it gets better with more soda.

O___O
That's a lot of soda. Two 2-litre bottles equals 4 litres, by the way, phoenix.
And artificial sweeteners are more unhealthy than just plain ol' sugar.
I don't think I've ever drunk more than one litre of carbonated drinks in a month. Not even when while I was on vacation where soda was readily available. Most of my carbonated drinks are club soda that has some sort of fruit juice or syrup mixed in, and I don't even get that very often.
I haven't seen a dentist in at least a year and a half, and I don't plan to see any anytime soon (I don't like the dentist -- I'm an anti-dentite). Last time I visited I had two small cavities, and I never had them filled. I wonder whatever became of them.
Lucky for me, I've never experienced heartburn.

[phoenixannwn]

I know it's 4 liters. That's why I said 4 liters originally.
And unhealthy is my favorite word.

[SekoETC]

This year in school I started buying energy drinks because I imagine they help me stay energetic after only a few hours of sleep, even 6 hours is rare for me. So often I consume at least half a litre a week, sometimes more, depending on if I only drink a part of it and bring the same bottle to school the next day, or if I finish it and buy a new one the next morning. I also buy a 1 and a half liter bottle of Pepsi Max soon after the previous bottle runs out. I used to drink stuff like apple soda but I can't buy it in big bottles anymore because the sugar makes me feel awful. Even if I buy a half a liter bottle, I usually don't finish it in one day, or if I do, there's usually hours between drinking the first bit and finishing what's left. I've started using a lot of xylitol chewing gum and drops. I'm even chewing gum right nwo. Still it feels like my teeth are dirty and it's bothering me. I have a dentist appointment on the last day of March. It's the earliest they could give.