Friends

Dear lady.

Yes, we are out of a popular item just to specifically inconvenience you.
Yes, we just purposely sold out of them since Black Friday...just to inconvenience you.

No, we can't make one just pop in under your tree.


Did you figure trying to buy a POPULAR ITEM ON CHRISTMAS EVE AN HOUR AND A HALF BEFORE CLOSING IS A BIT RIDICULOUS?



Please be trying earlier! Like say, SEPTEMBER.


Everyone else ordered theirs before you, they will get them before you.


Yup, you do have to wait in that black friday line sometime just so you get the item you want.




Throwing a fit will not get you the item. We offered you a special order at the sale price.

Our advertisement states that all stores have a limited quantity.

It's not false advertising.

Not really a huge suck but it is definately a huge WTF moment. (for me anyways!)

( Just because It's Christmas Eve! does not mean you should touch me. )
*Edited to fix html!

Dear Dude,

I sympathize, I really do. We all have that character - the one we really love, but keep stashed away in storage. Maybe it's our first character ever, maybe it's just a setting we would like to push the boundaries on - either way it's something we recognize as a bit on the overpowered, Mary Sue side of things. We all have that character, and it's sad that due to circumstances you can't always play them. I wish the world was perfect and I could just show people my I'm A Good RPer I Promise badge and then get to play whatever the hell I wanted, without fear of things going pear-shaped, without people having bad memories of very bad roleplayers doing the same thing and doing it very badly.

I've been there, so when I try to give you a sympathetic shoulder to cry on, don't scream at me that I ~*just don't understand*~. It happens to all of us. Nobody really wants to hear my tales about how my WoW character's entire storyline was wholesale ignored, or how I kept getting shortchanged by bad mods in Harry Potter games who took back their word and let me high and dry.

The moderator is a decent guy. Yes, it sucks that he heard out your plans for your character's backstory/main story and agreed and has now just brought up the issue of these powers in this rp to the rest of the board, taking a democratic sort of manner about it. But he isn't leaving you completely stranded. He's understanding and has promised you that if the majority of players veto these special powers for PCs in this game, he will help you to manage your backstory and find a way to make it work.

Throwing a shitfit does not make me want to agree with you. I was completely neutral on the topic until you got irrationally angry and started taking it out on everyone else. You know who acts like that? Bad roleplayers who are angry their Mary Sue pet got taken away, not good ones. Now you've pressed the subject and just about created a civil war on the site because of it.

Sometimes, it is better to just let something drop, or say "Okay, I'll trust the vote, but here is my idea for everyone to look at", or, you know, BE CALM, instead of pressing it and getting angrier and angrier and making a hostile OOC environment.

As it is, you've effectively made me want to vote against your measure because you flipped out so bad. It was a thoroughly unhealthy level of flipping the fuck out that makes the worst posts on here look even-tempered. 5 stages of grief, my ass. If you are THAT involved in a concept in the RP, I don't want it - or you - around with those irrational, unhealthy thoughts.

Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up,
Sincerely yours,
Me

Every holiday, customers say "Oh, gee, it sucks that you have to work on (holiday)!"

Yeah, jackass, it's so people like you can spend their holiday shopping for effing tee shirts and other unnecessary crap.

One more day of Christmas music! Is anyone else as excited as I am?

So at my center we have fax services, they're self serve so you come in and can fax. Very simple yes? I do understand questions like "Face up or down?" "Do I dial a 9 first?" They're pretty standard questions since places and machines ARE different. I'm HAPPY to help! But at LEAST once a week I get this.

Customer: Uhhh...do I dial the area code?
Me: Is it long distance?
Customer: I dunno....
Me: Well where are you sending it?
Customer: Arizona/Florida/California (Note..all states far away and not connected to us.)
Me: *blink blink* Yup that's long distance just dial it like you would from a home phone!

*putter putter..work work...hum hum and ten minutes later*

Customer: It won't go through!!!
Me: Let me see the paper that's printing out, it might be a busy signal..

*Look at the print out that says why the fax won't go through IE "Poor line connection" "Busy signal" "No answer" and see they dialed 314-222-2222*

Me: Oh you have to dial a one before the area code, that's all *smile smile*
Customer: (At least 70 percent of the time) What?! Why didn't you say so I'm in a hurry!
Me: Well you dial it like a home phone is all.
Customer: (Often nastily) I don't HAVE a home phone, just a cell!


Are you saying that in your 25-50 years of life you have never made a long distance call using a home phone? You actually have NO idea how to make a long distance call and if you were stuck in the middle of no where and needed to make that call you'd just blank and sob? Seriously?! What the FUCK?! It is a BASIC principle. But this happens at LEAST once a week. Am I just being insane here and expecting human being to know too much?

EDIT: No we can't put up signs we make on the machines, only corporate approved signage. And the few times Ive pointed out to dial one, people have snapped at me for talking down to them or treating them like their stupid. Pretty much I can get yelled at for one or the other.

Let's get this straight? You ditched a line with me, because the character had the same first name, PB and powers as yours. True, when I brought him over to the dressing room type game from a now defunct heroes style game on IJ, because I couldn't sleep, and people hadn't been around lately due to RL and the holidays, those things had not even occurred to me with how much sleep I haven't been getting lately. Also, the fact that you never even friended the one character, who was supposed to be his child, but you friended the other line you had just fine. I had him friended to those other pups because I play because I play them all. You ditched me because you thought I replaced you. Well you were barely around for the line, A) and B) it was like pulling teeth to get you to post, but I wouldn't do that to anyone. If you had READ the first page of his USER INFO, which house his full application, with link to said defunct game, you would have seen so many reasons for him TO NOT BE A REPLACEMENT. Say, oh, he had been married to a woman, in IRELAND, who died around the time that he would have also been meant to be in the states in college, fathering said child. Now, instead of talking to me about it, and asking me, you jumped to conclusions. I tried to show you the proof, again, that he was in another game, with the same exact pup that I wanted you to be the mate of. I told you I would take him out of said game, but you insisted that you just needed to get rid of some things. Before you even let me speak, you actually didn't even, you just severed ties, and erased the post they had together, going on your merry. Okay, I get why you were upset, I do, but you could have let me copy that log. I told you that I would remove him from the game setting, I would have even changed his powers too, if he stayed, but you weren't having any of it. You wouldn't listen, you wouldn't talk. You just snip snipped, removed things, and went about it with the other muse you had a line with. I at least tried to be accommodating, I tried to talk to you, it just seemed like you were so eager to get out of the line, that you saw a reason to jump ship and you did. I loved their chemistry, but you only ever gave me barely a sentence to work with, and with how fast you ran away, and never did much to initiate much of anything, nor to really post to my pup, or his supposed daughter, but you were all over this other line you had, with a character you had brought in to fill my line specifically. YOU SUCK!

You know those customers that start out being mildly WTF, but then gradually escalate to epic suck because they do the same mildly annoying thing EVERY. SINGLE. TIME? This is a letter to such a customer.

( Why )

I haven’t been around BRPS for a while, as I got busy with life, but I’m thinking of coming back and having some more good times around here. As a housewarming present, I have a great internet tantrum for you.

This happened a while ago early May of this year, but in going over the Best Bad Apps (TM) of this year, I decided to share this one with you all.

As way of prelude: I live at a place called Sithspawn, been there coming on two years now. We’re an intermediate to advanced Star Wars RP site (more emphasis on advanced), set in a slightly alternate universe in the time period otherwise known as approx. 3000 BBY.

We’re a close knit group of players, but always happy to have new people come aboard and join our motley crew. Frankly, I’m amazed at how many good apps we get, as I’m so accustomed to SWRP dragging in horrible idiots. All good things have a bad side, though, and this fellow was one of them.

We have a rule that says, quite specifically (previously at the top of the page, now in a sidebar) to register with first and last names only. We don’t want titles, we don’t want nicknames. We want your characters first and last given names. End of story. We make that clear enough, and if you don’t get it right, we’ll happily change your login for you if you catch one of us who can do so.

That was this kids first misake. His login? The Envoker

It only got worse from there.

( His application. The coding errors are, in fact, his. )

So with that mess there, our head Admin, Glorious Despot, and all around awesome gal, gives him the nicest response she can muster... a response not unlike other people we’ve liked but knew wouldn’t fit in have gotten before.

( Indy Says )

That should have gotten a ‘thank you for your time, I’ll see you later’ at the best, or, at the worst some complaining and wondering why he didn’t get a ‘full’ critique. The latter I could have understood to some extent, but what we got was instead... well, you’ll see.

( Illiterate whining, ftw! )

And if there’s one unspoken rule in SS, it’s don’t pick on our members. Especially not Indy, as she is our leader, and in doing so you’ll only invoke the wrath of the rest of staff. More specifically, our self-proclaimed “Elitest Bitch” (I put emphasis on it being self-proclaimed because I personally think she’s one of the best and awesomest people on the intranets), Manda. In the chain-o-command, she’s next. There’s nothing she loves more than tearing apart a bad app, and in insulting dear Indy, “The Envoker” was asking for it. Manda’s not afraid to tell people they suck to their face if they deserve it.

So, he got it.

( And he gets what’s coming to him. )

“Sparky” as he is now called, decided to NOT do the smart thing, which would have been to leave and never look back with his tail tucked between his legs. Instead, he gave us this gem. This is THE best part of the entire entry, so if you read anything, read this.

( IF I WAS A SITH LORD I WOULD SUCK THE LIFE OUT OF YOU!! )

Through all of this, pretty much every one of our little crew are sitting in the cbox. We are having a HAY DAY with this kid. We all love watching Manda eat up a “good” bad app, and Sparky just took the cake as far as bad apps go. His response only made it better. We’re having fun tearing apart his application itself as well as his comments, and honestly? We just want to share.

( So even though there’s normally a strict ‘no one but staff may reply to an application thread’ rule, Manda calls open season. )

It’s like a sport. Seriously.

Especially as after her call for open season, Sparky says: “empty words for an empty person” and that is all. I mean... LOL.

For your amusement, I’ll include our member responses (including my own) to this fool. They’re also good for a giggle, but if you got this far, you’ve read the part that truly matters. Though, there are a few more Sparky responses mixed in, which I suggest reading as well. :) They are extra hilarious.

( Herein lie monsters. )

( All good things must come to an end. )

We were nice? No. Were we really amsused? Heck freakin’ yes. Sparky has gone down in SS history as we predicted he would, and now all we have to do is say his name and we all burst into giggles and quotes of “IF I WAS A SITH LORD I WOULD SUCK THE LIFE OUT OF YOU!”

Because really, if you’re going to suck, might as well suck in an Epic fashion.

And with that, I'm going to bed, what with it being Christmas Eve tomorrow and all...

Oh, dear board owner, the super special smexy revamp of your site has been going on since ... early November?  And you just FINALLY, this week, changed the status message from 2/3 done to 3/4 done?  Come on already.  Way to kill a site, especially when you have plenty of people posting in the Cbox daily, wanting to join, wanting to play, and no one can do ANYTHING because the freaking site is offline!  And has been for going on two months now!  Just get it up and playable already!

When I was an admin on the site, a couple years ago, we NEVER took the board down for more than a couple hours.  Period.  Maybe once it was offline for a day, but that was a hacking issue.  We did not take the board offline for updates and graphics changes unless we had the materials and the time to do it RIGHT THEN.  You are making your faithful RPers who have been on this site for four years, with whole dynasties of plot and characters and such, very very sad.

I loved this site years ago.  I love it again.  I love my character who was actually in one thread for three posts before you took the site down.  I love the other two characters who used to be on the site and who I've been asked to bring back.  I have a busy life but I wanted to make time to RP because this community reminded me how much I enjoyed it.  I've tried to RP other places, but none is quite like this one - I want REALISTIC roleplay, none of that everyone-has-wings-and-purple-fur-and-magic-powers stuff.  Works great for other folks, but I can't play it.  And I want a level of literacy that I just haven't found anywhere else - I know it has to exist, but I keep not finding it.

Now please, board owner, give us back our site?  Pretty please?

(Userpic applies to RPers, too, at least in my case.)

Witnessed today...

I went to a lovely nail salon today to have my acrylics filled and recolored. (pretty red with silver snowflakes yay!) Chatting with my tech...a lady walks in. Asked what she can be helped with....she replies she wants a pedicure. But then...wait...she changes her mind and tells that she only wants a polish change.

Asks if they have OPI Red. I look at the polish rack, and there is ALOT of OPI Red. I mean...literally...4 racks full. She makes her selection, goes back to the pedi station...then proceeds to tell the whole salon she doesnt want a full pedi...just a polish change because she has open sores on her feet.

Then gets into a very LOUD detailed discussion about how it was caused, what shes being treated with, and how horrible it is to sleep. Later she did say they were cracks due to eczema, and very painful..so maybe her first admission of open sore was a bit over the top. Bless the guy for changing her polish and not causing a scene...but just ew. He did scrub the chair, dispose of/disinfect things her feet had touched..standard protocol I would assume....but again...EW.

Is it just me...or if you have...open sores/eczema on your feet...you change your polish at HOME and wait till it clears UP before you head to a nail salon for a pedicure?

 Dear player with autistic sibling.

Please don't tell me how to play my autistic character. Autistic people operate in so many diverse ways. One-size does not fit all. I understand that you have father that spent 35 years working with adults and you have a sister on the spectrum. But you have no idea as an autist to have a typical person tell me I am doing it wrong and how insulting that is. It's frustrating because you keep fucking interrupting and passively aggressively try to run the plot as well. 

Fine I'll play him in the way you see autistic people, I'll do what you say. But  I am so peeved right now. 

Your character is twenty-five. Is there any particular reason why you chose to have him literally have absolutely no idea what sex is?

Of my, has it really been ten MONTHS since I've been in the x-change? Oh my.

Many apologies to tailypo and to dearest Mindrot, who has been waiting since February for this.

http://samateus-1987.deviantart.com/art/093-123853028

Many, many sincerest apologies for how long this has taken. I have no excuse that could possibly make up for this.

The quick version: older man calls me with very basic computer questions involving antivirus software. I answer his questions in a smooth, uneventful conversation. He seemed to understand all that I said and also seemed glad to have the help. At the end of the conversation, he says to me, "Okay, if you need any more help, let me know." As if I had called him for assistance! At the time, I was annoyed, but now as I share this, I'm lol'ing.

It's unusual to find a suck/wtf that has nothing to do with you nor anyone around you, but they can happen.
So today I'm sprinting about because it's *that* time of year when the sight of this young man brought me to a skidding halt. I could not ignore him, though he stood quite still and silently, due to his amazingly bright red pants. Once having brought my eyes to these neon-colored trousers, a few other details appeared.
1. The pants were an uncomfortable-looking level of tight on him, such as to appear to have been spray-painted on.
2. He was sporting a hard-on, easily visible because of aforementioned bottomwear.
3. He was also holding a treasury of Disney Princess Stories.

I wondered if I should maybe get him to leave the store, but seeing as he was not in the kid's department nor was he causing any trouble, there was no need. He went his way, I went mine, the end.

Just...Disney Princesses? Really?

This wtf occurred several years ago, but the story a couple of posts down about the John Lennon guy reminded me of it, so I figured I'd share it with you guys. I used to work as a receptionist at a desk at my university. My office closed at 10 back then, but everyone else on the floor went home at 5 or 6. For the last few hours of my shift, I usually didn't see anyone, and it was always really quiet (and kind of creepy).

One night, I suddenly heard music blasting from down the hall. At first I thought it was a radio or something, but I quickly realized that it was someone actually playing/singing "Free Fallin'" by Tom Petty - really badly. I probably wouldn't have gone to investigate except that I really had to go to the bathroom, so I sucked it up. There was a guy sitting outside the restrooms with a guitar and one of those huge duffel bags, kind of like soldiers have in the army.

I was wearing a uniform and nametag, and the guy got really excited and asked if I worked there. When I said yes, this conversation followed:

( um...what? )

Boys and ghouls, prepare yourselves for another harrowing story of the macabre, in...

GHOSTLY SOCK'S TALES FROM THE INTERNET!

( It was a dark and stormy night... )

I have not seen this ghastly apparition since, but I know without a doubt that they're still out there, waiting for another hapless player to suck into their web of horrors.

Until next time, my spectral spectators... Beware of strange roleplayers who accost you in the night and heed the warnings they give, or you, dear reader, may end up in your own tale from the internet!

You.
Nutbag.

Here's the thing, for at least the past twenty years (and I cut it off there because your character would not have been alive prior, being "16 or 17") there has been quite a bit of war, social upheaval, a plague or two, and all around "not nice" stuff going on in Azeroth.

People who haven't had any deaths in the family due to these things are generally not in the majority.

This is doubly so if you're talking to a Blood Elf (Hello there, 90% population reduction within the last decade!).

Now, I understand that your character might find my Blood Elf to sound a bit cold when he suggests that the "mysterious" death of your entire family was very likely nothing more than "Well, there is a war going on and the Kaldorei DO consider your people to be hostile invaders in their land."

Your family lived in Ashenvale (That's Elf Country for non Warcraft folk).
They were Orcs. All of 'em.
The Night Elves there generally do not approve of this sort of thing and deal with it in an eviction notice that comes in the form of "GTFO! KTHXBAI! *shoots arrows & druid-y magic* Oh, and stop molesting our trees."
They want you green skinned kids the hell off of their lawn and will resort to violence to achieve that goal.

Civilians are not off limits to either side, neither are children.
It's an ugly, ugly situation.
Genocide of the enemy seems to be considered a good idea and not some horrible taboo that's forbidden by a series of treaties.

It would be fairly normal for someone, IC, to just assume "collateral damage" over "vast cultist conspiracy to kill your family."

Now, given that, why did you elect to start screaming at me OOC that it was ruining your whole RP story that my generally skeptical warlock would not jump to the same conspiracy theory conclusion as your shaman?
The only evidence provided IC was, "I came home and found them all dead with arrows in them." Nothing told to him by your character would give any indication that it was cult related.

IC, pitch a fit, argue, provide more detail, whatever, it's fun.
OOC, seriously, STFU.

TL;DR:
Just because I know about your character's backstory doesn't mean my character does.
If you want my character to know, give him some actual knowledge via conversation.