any comment missing a necessary -as- can use the superfluous one here.
coffee
10 years ago
So DotaCinema uploaded their ALS ice bucket challenge video, which included their editor, a woman. Comment’s section is naturally full of “tits lol” “girls don’t play dota” and the corresponding accusations of white knighting and SJW’ing (that’s a verb now I guess) when called out on it, because youtube is a shit community, dota is a shit community, and dota’s youtube community is distilled and purified shit.
Anybody here play dota by any chance? Besides me, obviously #winvokerforlyfe
grumpycatisagirl
10 years ago
Katz – thanks!
Pecunium, I’m in the Bay Area – on the Peninsula. The epicenter was further north, in Napa, but I did feel it pretty well. I haven’t heard of any injuries anywhere.
grumpycatisagirl
10 years ago
Oh, never mind about not hearing about any injuries. 🙁 Injuries reported in Napa.
OK, backscrolling the ‘hate’ seeing Dr Who first thing.
It’s all due to Bab5.
I used to have a strong online presence on MUSHes when Bab5 was being broadcast.
For most of the series, Americans saw it first and gloated about it to Brits, some people even gave spoilers (Boo!)
Then came Spring Break, and thus us Brits saw the final 3 eps of every series first.
So we gloated back. (but never did spoilers, cos ugh)
I mean damage was localized to there. EQ was felt as far away as Daly City, which is south of SF.
grumpycatisagirl
10 years ago
I’m in Mountain View, quite a bit south of Daly City, and I felt it. And I didn’t feel it just a little. Felt pretty big. Friends in Santa Cruz Mountains felt it too.
Seconding WWTH. Your correction made me smile, because it was perfect in every way: especially in timing.
Bigger thing, Grumpycatisagirl: Thanks so much for the first hope that they were okay. I was really freaked for a bit, there, and it was nice to know someone was thinking and hoping out there with me.
Really, big thanks.
grumpycatisagirl
10 years ago
Ha ha. I’m glad I was able to recover from that gracefully, even belatedly.
And yeah, it’s freaky when your loved ones are at the epicenter of a natural disaster and you can’t reach them. I remember not being able to reach my mom for several hours after the 89 Loma Prieta earthquake hit. I was in high school then, and she was in San Francisco for work that day and had a hellish time getting home. And of course that was before Internet or ubiquitous cell phones (although they probably wouldn’t worked very well that day anyway).
So, just saying, I know how it is too be really freaked out by loved ones in an earthquake.
Most of my immediate family is in the Bay Area, but we are all south of Napa and are all fine. Thanks, though, GrumpyOldNurse.
grumpycatisagirl
10 years ago
*to* be really freaked. Sheesh.
BreakfastMan
10 years ago
So, um… Sometime within the next week or so, I am going to have to tell my aunt that my grandmother (her mother) is dying of cancer. I suspect it is going to be one of the hardest things I have ever done. Can I get some hugs n’ stuff?
We Hunted The Mammoth
In Ireland, means I can’t really get ahold of any of my people in Calif. to see how they are (seems there was an earthquake in the Bay Area).
Well, I could have got up at 4am to watch it at the same time here in as Australia as the Brits saw it.
But I didn’t.
any comment missing a necessary -as- can use the superfluous one here.
So DotaCinema uploaded their ALS ice bucket challenge video, which included their editor, a woman. Comment’s section is naturally full of “tits lol” “girls don’t play dota” and the corresponding accusations of white knighting and SJW’ing (that’s a verb now I guess) when called out on it, because youtube is a shit community, dota is a shit community, and dota’s youtube community is distilled and purified shit.
Anybody here play dota by any chance? Besides me, obviously #winvokerforlyfe
Katz – thanks!
Pecunium, I’m in the Bay Area – on the Peninsula. The epicenter was further north, in Napa, but I did feel it pretty well. I haven’t heard of any injuries anywhere.
Oh, never mind about not hearing about any injuries. 🙁 Injuries reported in Napa.
OK, backscrolling the ‘hate’ seeing Dr Who first thing.
It’s all due to Bab5.
I used to have a strong online presence on MUSHes when Bab5 was being broadcast.
For most of the series, Americans saw it first and gloated about it to Brits, some people even gave spoilers (Boo!)
Then came Spring Break, and thus us Brits saw the final 3 eps of every series first.
So we gloated back. (but never did spoilers, cos ugh)
3 critical injuries reported, over 80 minor injuries, and lots of damage in Napa. Seems pretty localized there.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/northern-california-struck-60-magnitude-earthquake/story?id=25101008
I mean damage was localized to there. EQ was felt as far away as Daly City, which is south of SF.
I’m in Mountain View, quite a bit south of Daly City, and I felt it. And I didn’t feel it just a little. Felt pretty big. Friends in Santa Cruz Mountains felt it too.
I have an aunt and uncle in Napa. We’re trying to get in touch with them.
Is there phone line down, contrapangloss? I hope they’re okay and their home is okay!
Finally got through! They’re okay, just some minor damage, utilities are disrupted, and a cell that was on silent.
Silent is a terrible mode for a phone to be in.
I’m glad there okay! yay!
I’m glad *they’re* okay.
How embarrassing.
It’s hilarious and adorable that you corrected that error 7 hours later.
Earthquake; I really hope all your friends and realtives are OK, guys.
Seconding WWTH. Your correction made me smile, because it was perfect in every way: especially in timing.
Bigger thing, Grumpycatisagirl: Thanks so much for the first hope that they were okay. I was really freaked for a bit, there, and it was nice to know someone was thinking and hoping out there with me.
Really, big thanks.
Ha ha. I’m glad I was able to recover from that gracefully, even belatedly.
And yeah, it’s freaky when your loved ones are at the epicenter of a natural disaster and you can’t reach them. I remember not being able to reach my mom for several hours after the 89 Loma Prieta earthquake hit. I was in high school then, and she was in San Francisco for work that day and had a hellish time getting home. And of course that was before Internet or ubiquitous cell phones (although they probably wouldn’t worked very well that day anyway).
So, just saying, I know how it is too be really freaked out by loved ones in an earthquake.
Most of my immediate family is in the Bay Area, but we are all south of Napa and are all fine. Thanks, though, GrumpyOldNurse.
*to* be really freaked. Sheesh.
So, um… Sometime within the next week or so, I am going to have to tell my aunt that my grandmother (her mother) is dying of cancer. I suspect it is going to be one of the hardest things I have ever done. Can I get some hugs n’ stuff?
Yes, BreakfastMan, have some hugs.
Oh, lawks. Hugs and kittie cuddles and doggie kisses and comfy pillows and anything else you need, BreakfastMan.
Hugs. All the hugs. If I had a critter here, I’d hug them and sent their wiggly furrinati kisses your way as well.
That’s rough.
Have another hug.
All the hugs for BreakfastMan. Also, child hugs, which are not to everyone’s taste (unlike furrinatti hugs), but are still very sweet.