@Testament I’ve been playing FFXIV for over 2 years now. It’s fantastic. Best storytelling I’ve seen in an MMO. While the very first part can be a bit of a drag (it’s still a good story), it skyrockets from there in further expansions. I’ve heard more than one person say how devastated and how they cried at certain points.
I’m on Primal/Hyperion if anyone wants an invite to a good FC. Very active players, very cool people, always willing to help out players.
Short answer: clique, exclusion, ostracization, bad blood. Rinse repeat Mu* after Mu*. Toss some staff bits in there for good measure.
Submitted an application two adopt to little girls, sisters. They were rescued from a hoarding situation. The woman had 43 cats. One of them is so skittish and wouldn’t come near me but her sister, despite being wary, actually came over to me a few times for petting. I’m sure with her sister’s help, the other will calm down and learn the joy of cuddles in time.
@watno said in Celebrities We've Lost 2025:
Him, his wife, and his dog. My money’s on carbon monoxide since the police said no evidence of foul play.
The only consolation I have is that I’m in NY and we’re safely blue. Schumer and Gillibrand already hate Trump and will do anything to stop him. So will the governor.
I can’t explain it. She got better. The day before the vet was scheduled to come, she started to improve. Began to drink, eat, was steadier on her feet. The next morning, she obviously wasn’t back to normal but I canceled the vet. Today, it’s like nothing was wrong. We both got a reprieve.
She’s dying. The most important part of my life is going to be forever lost to me along with our little boy. I’ve scheduled a vet to come tomorrow. I just wish the vet could have a second shot for me.
1 year, 8 months, and 8 days ago, my little boy Shadow died. One day I noticed he was eating less and losing weight. Then he stopped eating completely. Doctors couldn’t find anything. Less than 3 weeks later, he was dead. He was 14.5 years old. t was horrible. But at least I still had his mother, Sable.
Last week, I noticed she was feeling bonier than normal. She was always thin and underweight but not like this. I took her in for and exam and blood test, hoping it was her thyroid. That’s very treatable. Blood test results, if not normal, didn’t indicate anything that would be the cause, just symptoms. Yesterday she had an ultrasound.
There are masses in her abdomen. Without further, expensive testing, they can’t be absolutely certain but it almost certainly is cancer. The vet said three times how sorry he is. She’s 16.5.
And now I get to go through it all again, this inexorable journey towards a yawning abyss of overwhelming, crushing grief and not even one of my kids left. My heart is breaking already and I can only hope it really does on the day that’s inevitably coming.
@Roz Oh, shit. 2 months after being diagnosed? Fuck cancer. I love this video of him and Aaron Tveit singing “Take Me Or Leave Me” From Rent.
For at least today, for one moment in time, there is justice in the world. This makes me happy.
@Alveraxus said in Celebrities We Lost 2024:
Pete, with all due respect, someone’s gonna put him in something, and people are gonna want to see him.
A coffin. rimshot
Paul Alexander. Technically not a celebrity but kind of fascinating. He was the last person alive to have been in an iron lung. Back in 1952, he got polio and he was in the iron lung for 72 years. I can’t imagine it.
@Rinel said in Elysium /MUSH:
Back on topic, my favorite not-horrific part of this trainwreck is the flouncing away from the planet where baby goddess mysteriously gained her powers. Fuck you, Earth! You were mean to me about my predilection for preying upon children, so I’m going to go make a new reality!
This plot twist is that it’s all just a holodeck simulation (tempted to call it a stimulation).
