tupapayon wrote:He will pay rent. We offered him the room cause we could use the money
Niccea wrote:
It's a boy!
No. No. Don't worry. I'm not having a duckling. My younger brother has moved in with my husband and me. Any advise for "raising" a seventeen year old brother?
Make him pay rent… hopefully he's potty trained…
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I feel like I've been neglecting you all lately! I have a fair bit of free time at work, but I can only connect to the internet through my phone and this site is pretty terrible on mobile, so I tend to avoid it a bit. Things have been pretty dramatic at work! One girl I work with was told off super harshly by our boss - in front of me, which was incredibly uncomfortable - and then was fired yesterday. I never had any real issues with her to be honest, but apparently she just wasn't doing a whole lot of work. More positively, I've been getting along super well with the guy I work with. We went for coffee yesterday in the evening and despite having spent 7 hours together the day before it was lots of fun. :)
bravo wrote:Whoa, that's awesome! They're going for way less here in Canada so I was feeling kind of concerned. But I guess that makes sense!
The banner ad is going for $13.10 right now and the sidebar ad for $4.90! DD might be making some money there. This thing might be working!
Niccea wrote:My little sister is fifteen, and I find her surprisingly easy these days! Much easier than she was five or so years ago. I think she's an exceptionally well-behaved kid, though. I wouldn't have the first idea how to handle a 15- or 17-year-old me. Mostly there's a lot of being patient and calm when she flies off the handle for seemingly no reason. Reacting to anger with love rather than with more anger.
Any advise for “raising” a seventeen year old brother?
Is there a place that's a good resource for keeping up to date with alternate comic cons? (I can't believe I missed this one by a day! http://www.flamecon.org/ NYC's first queer comic con) I don't mean the big, huge, mainstream ones. Those are pretty easy to find, but mainstream comics don't interest me.
Ow. My hand hurts from using this tablet pen. I think I'll switch back to using pen and paper, then either using a scanner or my own tablet's camera to import images into the computer for editing. Or get a true Wacom tablet (which I never had a hard time holding). GIMP works okay, but it doesn't detect my drawing tablet's pressure sense.
Or maybe I just need a ton more practice with it… Or just pay someone else to draw what I need if I must. Maybe…
As for my designs on Pinky, she'll just be called T.A here (as a way to be friendly with the colonists). Still trying to get that "steampunk" look. And I'm looking up images on steampunk outfits as inspiration.
And again I'm gonna have to practice a lot of drawing, figure out how to use the music app for my tablet, AND tinker with Clickteam Fusion 2.5 to see what I can do with it.
And all this without falling asleep while I'm doing it…
And one other type of game I'd like to make? This…
http://store.steampowered.com/app/328740/
But without the 8 bit graphics. :)
Oh man, I am having the most awkward day at work. The guy I work with just told me super awkwardly that he really likes me, and right at the beginning of the day too. Had no idea how to respond…he's awesome and we're very compatible, but I'm just not feeling it. Now we're just sitting here silently with the loud old clock ticking and it's the worst. Why you gotta go and do that, guy.
Mostly my fault for not saying no when he asked me to coffee the other day, but I figured it would be alright since he's moving a few hours away at the end of summer and so it would be silly for him to try to make anything happen.
That sounds amazing lonne! :)
@Hippie- When you talked about the cafe thing the other day I thought you knew? Wow man! From how you described it I thought it was obvious: lots of fun, get on well together, coffee, niether of you are attached… Guys and girls just look at that scenario differently I suppose.
Ah well, hopefully you guys can laugh it off and move past it. Or something. Keep it light!
And just for the record, it's not your "fault". The guy is moving soon and he's interested so he was probably looking for a last chance to make a move on you. - Which would have happened regardless eventually anyway.
Having someone confess to you so suddenly is pretty awkward. Hopefully you can let him down easy…
For anyone who's interested, the STEAM version of Standard Clickteam Fusion is on sale for… $20 US. Or you can wait for the standalone version to go on sale soon at their main site. Just saying this for anyone who might be interested in making games with it (Five Nights at Freddy's was made with this software after all). :)
Well… try the free demo first though. Gives you a good idea of how the software works. :)
I've been told… by Guys… that if a Guy wants to be around you, then he likes you 'like that' (unless he's gay…)! If guys wants to just hang out with someone, it'll be other guys…
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While I don't believe this to be true to the extent I've geen told, but I've had quite a few awkward moments of my own… cuz I'm clueless :D
Ironscarf wrote:This is right. Live for the moment and have fun. Be in the moment, savor it and enjoy it. Get tied up in not "feeling it" and you'll never feel anything except regret. Life is a banquet and most people are starving to death.
To act is a season of embarrassment.
To not act, a lifetime of regret!
If I didn't seize moments even when I didn't "feel" right I never would have met my wife, never have started any of my comics let alone finished them, never have done anything. I don't feel right about anything so if i don't ignore my feelings I never do anything. I listened to them the past two days and missed out on two lovely family dinners and lots of great times. I was so not feeling it that I even turned down take-out. Yeah all I feel like doing is putting my head on the pillow and sleeping. And whenever my eyes open there's all that regret.
Be the fucking Nike ad and just do it.
There's a scrolling project wonderful ad that is driving me crazy. Stupid flashing images.
Ironscarf wrote:To act is a season of embarrassment.
To not act, a lifetime of regret!
So true.
Your co-worker did the right thing, Hippie. Of course, you're allowed to be interested or not!
Maybe he did it in the wrong way, though. You mentioned it was awkward. It can be tough not to be awkward in those situations. These days I try and make the move when I'm compelled to do so, instead of letting it pass the way I used to (that regret is horrible. Poisonous. The worst!) - but quite a bit of thought and energy goes into doing it in a non-awkward way and at the right time (like after there seem to be some sparks).
Apparently guys are much worse than ladies at reading those social cues (speaking generally). But with some effort, the cues can be learned!
Out of curiosity, was the awkwardness the reason you weren't interested?
ozoneocean wrote:You two already date. You spend hours together on Saturdays doing all kinds of wonderful things. You probably spend more time together than I do with my wife.
Banes…
WILL YOU GO OUT WITH ME?
Just for coffee… maybe dinner? A movie?
I hear you like stuff. I like stuff too!
@bravo - haha! It's true; we have a regular thing going!
@ozoneocean - HAHAHA! Awesome.
Which is to say…
No thanks. But that's really flattering! I appreciate that, man!
(see? that's how we gently reject our Aussie Approachers!)
EDIT: This is not to say I don't have many regrets, or that I don't get anxious and crash and burn and say the wrong thing. Dear Lord, that's always part of the picture…
Banes wrote:
Maybe he did it in the wrong way, though. You mentioned it was awkward. It can be tough not to be awkward in those situations. These days I try and make the move when I'm compelled to do so, instead of letting it pass the way I used to (that regret is horrible. Poisonous. The worst!) - but quite a bit of thought and energy goes into doing it in a non-awkward way and at the right time (like after there seem to be some sparks).
Apparently guys are much worse than ladies at reading those social cues (speaking generally). But with some effort, the cues can be learned!
Out of curiosity, was the awkwardness the reason you weren't interested?
Generally I don't think flat-out telling someone you're into them is the best way to go. Ask them out, see each other a few times, see how it goes. Then you can start talking about feelings a bit more.
No, the awkardness wasn't the reason. As much as I like him and enjoy his company, I'm just not interested romantically. And I mean, we see each other a lot. I don't think it's a matter of starting something and then maybe feeling differently unfortunately.
Ironscarf wrote:It is very British, if you take it from the point of view of a people that know the regret side of the equation intimately. Coming from that proud tradition myself, I often find myself musing on such regret while standing in a queue, sipping a cup of tea, or training my upper lip to remain stiff.
To act is a season of embarrassment.
To not act, a lifetime of regret!
That's not very British of you!
It's a fine tradition ozone!
There's definitely a right way and a wrong way to do these things and sudden proclamations of desire are not the best solution. The first time I saw Mrs Scarf I knew she was the one, but how to approach a complete stranger with a proposal of undying love?
After three weeks of contemplation, a drunken friend of mine took the initiative and told her loudly of my intentions. I was forced to improvise my way out of a difficult situation with all eyes on me. Un/fortunately I was also very drunk at the time so I'm not sure what was said, but somehow she took pity on me. I guess the moral is, don't approach your dream date - get a drunken fool to do it for you.
Well at least you weren't taken on numerous outings with girls who liked you but were too shy or too clueless to do anything. I was fixed up so many times and I screwed it up each time until I met my wife. On yet another blind date.
Heck, if the guy can actually confess it he's lightyears ahead of those who suffer in silence. If you can just say it once you can do it again and if you got shot down still plenty of others out there. This is called the "shotgun" approach. Put up enough shot and you're bound to bring down something. Once you make one appraoch it becomes easier and easier to harden yourself to the inevitable rejection until someone somewhere says yes. And that is the worst thing that can happen because first dates are so much worse and harder to work than just rejection.
And you know what really sucks? Being able to finally pick up on all the clues and able to flirt and converse well but only after you're happily married. So you're no longer afraid of rejection but terrified of fucking up your conjugal bliss by simply going out for a friendly coffee with a fellow student.
We should start a new thread about the trails and tribulations of relationships and asking people out and having dates and stuff. :)
I mean: it's all very well to GET a date, but whaaaaaaat then? -And so it goes. There's a lot of meat on that bone! Lots of stuff to talk about.
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Sooooo, I'm looking into cheaper hosting for DD. If I can get the costs down that will make things a LOT easier. SSSSoooooooo much fricken easier.
It is theoretically possible to cut the server costs in half, and if that could happen then We could be in profit from the PW ads at the end of the month, and THEN we could start putting money away for fixes.
Why is is so fricken quiet here? Is it the crappy forum? Is there some new thing happening on the net and everyone is going there instead? What?
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