Random Rants Eighty-Four: Rants Gone Wild!!!!

[MaryKB]

It's almost not worth taking vacation time when you come back and everything's screwed up because the whole operation fell apart without you.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

I'm disappointed with Picard at the moment, mainly because it's all about Romulans. Ugh, who cares about Romulans? Won't they ever learn that nobody wants this? Two episodes in and he still hasn't left Earth yet. You could completely sleep through episode 2 and not miss anything important. I thought this was going to be about Borg or something *cries*

I'd say more happened in episode 2 than episode 1. And the whole "surgically-altered Romulan spies in Star Fleet" stuff seems pretty important...

 

[MaryKB]

I find Romulans unbearably boring, and ugh spies ... we had a whole thing with covert intelligence stuff in Discovery's last season. I personally would've much prefered a more personal story for Jean-Luc, and something about exploration.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

Did you canceled the order?

Canadian tense?

 

[Manfred Belheim]

I find Romulans unbearably boring, and ugh spies ... we had a whole thing with covert intelligence stuff in Discovery's last season. I personally would've much prefered a more personal story for Jean-Luc, and something about exploration.

Well I'm not arguing with that, but given that that's what the plot is about, I'd say it's fairly important when you get some info on what the spies are and what they're doing...

 

[MaryKB]

Oh I don't disagree at all, I'm sure it's very important to the plot. I just mean the plot isn't really capturing my interest

 

[MaryKB]

I opened up one of my Steam chats, and I saw the other night when I was incredibly drunk I posted some extremely humiliating things. I haven't done this in like a year and a half. I'm so embarrassed, I think I'm going to crawl into a hole somewhere and just wait for the end to come.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

I honestly don't feel like it's healthy to be regularly getting drunk to the point of memory blackouts. Surely?

 

[Farm Boy]

Does one do that to be healthy?

Blackouts are different depending on who you are, as is say inhibition dropping. I blackout fairly easily, just being exhausted and operating late gets me there sometimes. No chemicals required. Physical inhibitions though? Back in grindy-party days where people are randomly physically affectionate with people they don't know? I could get there, but it was well well past the point where memory was gone and several hours of vomiting was guaranteed.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

Well if the memory blackout coincides with embarrassing chat logs I'd guess it was past the point of inhibition dropping. But fair point that it probably varies from person to person. I can get vomitingly drunk and still remember it all pretty clearly the next day. Which isn't ideal.

 

[MaryKB]

I don't get vomitingly drunk or pass out, but I lose my inhibitions and my sex drive jumps to truly scary levels.

 

[Arakhor]

I do keep telling people not to drunk-post at CFC. The same would apply to any internet connection.

 

[Farm Boy]

Things are definitely way more interesting when drunk-going out!

I never bothered to verify him, but I remembered an interesting video from a vet about the challenges of reintegration into civilian society after long combat deployments. The part that struck me the most was his claim that being deployed in a combat area* is generally less dangerous than being a young man in America out on the town looking for something to do. Just not being drunk takes out somewhere over 50% of homicide victims as well as over 50% of killers.

*This has to be a qualified claim. Like, has to has to and I don't remember how it was qualified. Probably serving in Afghanistan for context.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

Given the number of times I've seen Americans posting about "vets", and my mind has immediately gone to vetarinarians, only to then realise it's about veterans... I have to ask do you even use the word "vet" for the former? If so, how does that not get confusing?

 

[Farm Boy]

The contexts in which you discuss your dog's vet are usually pretty evident and involve less conflict zones.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

Do American vets not go on long combat deployments then? Weird.

 

[Farm Boy]

I assume there are some in service as well as private practice.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I don't get vomitingly drunk or pass out, but I lose my inhibitions and my sex drive jumps to truly scary levels.

alcohol + sex drive + ovulation = babies
Timing is everything.

 

[JohannaK]

When I get drunk I only lose my climbing-related inhibitions. Maybe my libido goes up but I'm still too hard-coded not to make any advances on anyone for anything to happen.

 

[rah]

When I was younger, drinking made me more susceptible to women trying to pick me up.
But since that wasn't a common occurrence if usually never caused any issues.