Random Rants LXVI: NO, **YOUR** THREAD TITLES SUCK!!

[Valka D'Ur]

Got a call Tuesday night that my grandmother fainted, fell and broke her neck. Subsequent test shows she has pneumonia and an aggressive form of Leukemia. Shock set in and I felt nothing.

Woke up Wednesday morning and got dressed just in time to break down. Sobbed the whole way to work, then went home around 10 because I couldn't stop crying. I'm better today but the prognosis gets worse and worse. I can't afford to make two trips back to St Louis so I am working out with family if I should go before she dies (while she's semi-conscious at best most of the time) or for the funeral.

When I dropped out of high school, my parents kicked me out. This grandmother took me in and helped me grow into a man. She put me on the path that brought me here and now I'm not there for her. It hurts. She's like a second mom to me.

I was mostly raised by my grandmother, even before my parents' divorce, and even my mom finally had to admit that my grandmother had been more of a mother to me than she had.

I'm sorry that you and your family are going through this. Yes, it will be hard, but remember that there's no right or wrong way to handle what you're feeling. Sometimes you just have to take life hour by hour, never mind day by day. The emotions will probably be on a roller-coaster, so I hope you have someone who can be your support system when things get extra tough.

*hugs*

 

[shadowplay]

Got a call Tuesday night that my grandmother fainted, fell and broke her neck. Subsequent test shows she has pneumonia and an aggressive form of Leukemia. Shock set in and I felt nothing.

Woke up Wednesday morning and got dressed just in time to break down. Sobbed the whole way to work, then went home around 10 because I couldn't stop crying. I'm better today but the prognosis gets worse and worse. I can't afford to make two trips back to St Louis so I am working out with family if I should go before she dies (while she's semi-conscious at best most of the time) or for the funeral.

When I dropped out of high school, my parents kicked me out. This grandmother took me in and helped me grow into a man. She put me on the path that brought me here and now I'm not there for her. It hurts. She's like a second mom to me.

That's really terrible. Thoughts and prayers for your family. I'll be thinking of you. (astral spaceman hugs)

 

[Mouthwash]

I can't imagine what that's like. You can have an internet hug from me too.

(Second time in a week someone has posted about someone close to them dying. Don't let this be a jinx...)

 

[Cutlass]

I''m very sorry to hear that Hobbs. My condolences.

 

[Noble Zarkon]

I can't afford to make two trips back to St Louis so I am working out with family if I should go before she dies (while she's semi-conscious at best most of the time) or for the funeral.

How much are we talking about? Perhaps start a GoFundMe drive, I'm sure some folks here would chip in.

 

[JohannaK]

Oh Hobbs.

I'm really sorry. My condolences. You have all our support.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Capital founded and turns out to be right in the center of a nice peninsula. Locations for four good port cities, but first expand off the peninsula to secure some resources. Cultural border expanding nicely to illuminate the future port sites. There is only ONE square on the peninsula lost in fog of war.

It spawns a barbarian axeman.

 

[Mouthwash]

That's what savescumming/Worldbuilder is for.

 

[Synobun]

Capital founded and turns out to be right in the center of a nice peninsula. Locations for four good port cities, but first expand off the peninsula to secure some resources. Cultural border expanding nicely to illuminate the future port sites. There is only ONE square on the peninsula lost in fog of war.

It spawns a barbarian axeman.

I've decided I want to play Civ again.

Damn.

 

[Lohrenswald]

I played civ 5 a bit today

got bored

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I've decided I want to play Civ again.

Damn.

What's wrong with that?

 

[Mouthwash]

I played civ 5 a bit today

got bored

Play Civ 4.

What's wrong with that?

You aren't familiar with the series motto?

 

[Synobun]

What's wrong with that?

I don't have friends to play it with anymore, so what usually ends up happening is that I install it, play single player for a game or two, and then uninstall it with a sense of dissatisfaction.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

You aren't familiar with the series motto?

"Never trust an Aztec with nukes."

No?

"One more turn."

Or in my case, what I end up shouting at the aliens in the Lalande scenario in ToT when they try to fight the Nona aliens with a Bombus. "No, you <censored> idiots, you can't survive that!" and then I'd have to use my own Kineticore units to save the aliens because I need them to survive long enough to develop the technology I need to steal.

The reason I don't just produce a few extra Kineticores and give them to the Lalande aliens is because of course they would turn around and use them on me. They are without honor.

I don't have friends to play it with anymore, so what usually ends up happening is that I install it, play single player for a game or two, and then uninstall it with a sense of dissatisfaction.

Why not write some stories based on your games?

 

[Synobun]

Why not write some stories based on your games?

I cheat in single player so it would be a fairly boring story.

I enjoy challenge when sharing it with others in real-time. But alone and for my singular entertainment... nahhhh. I'd do something valuable for my life if I wanted a challenge.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I cheat in single player so it would be a fairly boring story.

I enjoy challenge when sharing it with others in real-time. But alone and for my singular entertainment... nahhhh. I'd do something valuable for my life if I wanted a challenge.

So make something up. Do you think I always follow the storyline and dice rolls exactly when I adapt those gamebooks to novel form? I remember reading some of the stories in the Civ III forum that had me in stitches, because the author put such a humorous twist on them.

I'm having a heck of a frustrating time with the prep work for this next installment because the mapping and diagramming is so complicated. Most people who go through those gamebooks want to do it as quickly as possible. I want an entertaining story, so I'm having my character do some stuff that most Fighting Fantasy players would never do - deliberately making a bad choice so they have a more challenging experience.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Play Civ 4.

honestly that's boring too

 

[sophie]

honestly that's boring too

Play Civ 4 using only your nose.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Play Civ 4 using only your nose.

 

[sophie]