[Gredfallan Ale]

20000 posts in this thread, we're a troubled lot.

My grandfather is back in the hospital; I'm not sure he'll get back out again.

[Maark Abbott]

Morgoth, on 01 March 2016 - 08:56 PM, said:

Maark, on 01 March 2016 - 08:45 PM, said:

I seem to have been taken by 'the terror' recently (aka existential dread). My thoughts are utterly consumed with mortality, the moment of death, but from a first-person perspective. Fuck, I don't know why this suddenly hit me, but I'm fucking terrified right now. I think Hood may be about to stick his hoary balls down my throat.

You've had this amazing sudden success. Getting your book published and all. How long has that been a dream for you?

Yeah, it's really odd timing. I'm just sat there at my brother in law's house and I suddenly realise 'one day I will die' and there's nothing I can do about it.

Yeesh. It's fucked up. But then again, it could be useful. Accepting the terror and channelling it into my writing...

[worry]

QuickTidal, on 01 March 2016 - 01:59 PM, said:

Puck, on 01 March 2016 - 10:38 AM, said:

We have new corporate colours (and a new logo) at work and it's driving me nuts, because the different colour modes don't add up, like, at all. It works as it should in print, but for web stuff even with the right colour modes, the colour looks vastly different depending on the programm.. And nobody is qualified enough or can be bothered to tell me which one to use and I can't wait until the new logo goes online all officially. Why did they pick a colour that's so difficult to deal with? Suppedly, arriving at that decision cost a tonne of money, and it will cost more to revamp all the print and online media. I hate to be against change, but the old colour looked the same no matter what.

Usually with corp logos it tends to be done with spot colour Pantone picks, and corresponding CMYK breakdowns (current book values). You should be able to use the CMYK breakdowns for online and program stuff. Did they supply you with a Logo spec book for it (this is usually how I find things are done)?

Karsa is right about civilization.

[Egwene]

Puck, on 01 March 2016 - 07:23 PM, said:

EDIT: I think I have found the problem. That does not improve the issue much, because I have no way to be sure (and like hell am I going to bring it up at work unless I have to), but I think I'm dealing with a typo here.. I have found that if I change one number in the CMYK values (say, I mistype and type K38 instead of K28), I arrive at almost exactly the offending RGB values (almost being off by 1 in one of three numbers) listed in the guidelines.

Basically, some idiot at the main office made a typo while converting the colour and nobody noticed (or everyone's pretending otherwise, because shit's off to be printed already).

Maybe you should have a word with someone - just because the stuff is at the printers doesn't mean to say the work's been done, yet.

[Morgoth]

Maark, on 01 March 2016 - 09:12 PM, said:

Morgoth, on 01 March 2016 - 08:56 PM, said:

Maark, on 01 March 2016 - 08:45 PM, said:

I seem to have been taken by 'the terror' recently (aka existential dread). My thoughts are utterly consumed with mortality, the moment of death, but from a first-person perspective. Fuck, I don't know why this suddenly hit me, but I'm fucking terrified right now. I think Hood may be about to stick his hoary balls down my throat.

You've had this amazing sudden success. Getting your book published and all. How long has that been a dream for you?

Yeah, it's really odd timing. I'm just sat there at my brother in law's house and I suddenly realise 'one day I will die' and there's nothing I can do about it.

Yeesh. It's fucked up. But then again, it could be useful. Accepting the terror and channelling it into my writing...

I was just thinking that accomplishing something so major, I wouldn't be surprised if you felt a bit of a mental backlash.

[Maark Abbott]

Morgoth, on 02 March 2016 - 10:52 AM, said:

Maark, on 01 March 2016 - 09:12 PM, said:

Morgoth, on 01 March 2016 - 08:56 PM, said:

Maark, on 01 March 2016 - 08:45 PM, said:

I seem to have been taken by 'the terror' recently (aka existential dread). My thoughts are utterly consumed with mortality, the moment of death, but from a first-person perspective. Fuck, I don't know why this suddenly hit me, but I'm fucking terrified right now. I think Hood may be about to stick his hoary balls down my throat.

You've had this amazing sudden success. Getting your book published and all. How long has that been a dream for you?

Yeah, it's really odd timing. I'm just sat there at my brother in law's house and I suddenly realise 'one day I will die' and there's nothing I can do about it.

Yeesh. It's fucked up. But then again, it could be useful. Accepting the terror and channelling it into my writing...

I was just thinking that accomplishing something so major, I wouldn't be surprised if you felt a bit of a mental backlash.

I suppose the fact my writing is pretty nihilistic is part of that. Still, Book 2 is coming on so I have that to be glad about, plus the tone isn't as dark as Book 1.

[QuickTidal]

Maark, on 02 March 2016 - 01:53 PM, said:

I seem to have been taken by 'the terror' recently (aka existential dread). My thoughts are utterly consumed with mortality, the moment of death, but from a first-person perspective. Fuck, I don't know why this suddenly hit me, but I'm fucking terrified right now. I think Hood may be about to stick his hoary balls down my throat.

I get that sometimes too.

The only thing that outweighs it for me in my "mental head space is currently fucked up" category...when I try to imagine what is OUTSIDE the universe. When I do that, my brain goes for a complete shit.

But yeah, I think about mortality now and again, and it hollows me out. Best thing to do, get out there and do something fun and exciting and life affirming. When it happens to me (or my wife, her anxiety is worse than mine about it), I'll usually plan out a hike at a nearby escarpment. Something that makes you feel completely alive, and out in nature. Very helpful. Takes your mind off it.

[Maark Abbott]

Watching Dexter is helping.

The irony is not lost on me.

[Andorion]

QuickTidal, on 02 March 2016 - 03:09 PM, said:

Maark, on 02 March 2016 - 01:53 PM, said:

I seem to have been taken by 'the terror' recently (aka existential dread). My thoughts are utterly consumed with mortality, the moment of death, but from a first-person perspective. Fuck, I don't know why this suddenly hit me, but I'm fucking terrified right now. I think Hood may be about to stick his hoary balls down my throat.

I get that sometimes too.

The only thing that outweighs it for me in my "mental head space is currently fucked up" category...when I try to imagine what is OUTSIDE the universe. When I do that, my brain goes for a complete shit.

But yeah, I think about mortality now and again, and it hollows me out. Best thing to do, get out there and do something fun and exciting and life affirming. When it happens to me (or my wife, her anxiety is worse than mine about it), I'll usually plan out a hike at a nearby escarpment. Something that makes you feel completely alive, and out in nature. Very helpful. Takes your mind off it.

Something that I found really helpful in this type of situation, and quite funny was Isaac Asimov's The Last Question short story. Its essentially thinking about entropy.

Thinking about mortality happens to me a lot. Only sometimes I take it too far and start thinking of it in gradually incremental terms, From my death, to the collapse of the human civilization, to the withering of Earth as the Sun reaches its red giant stage, to the stars shining dimmer and dimmer as the galaxies spin farther and farther away...

[Mezla PigDog]

Andorion, on 02 March 2016 - 03:54 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 02 March 2016 - 03:09 PM, said:

Maark, on 02 March 2016 - 01:53 PM, said:

I seem to have been taken by 'the terror' recently (aka existential dread). My thoughts are utterly consumed with mortality, the moment of death, but from a first-person perspective. Fuck, I don't know why this suddenly hit me, but I'm fucking terrified right now. I think Hood may be about to stick his hoary balls down my throat.

I get that sometimes too.

The only thing that outweighs it for me in my "mental head space is currently fucked up" category...when I try to imagine what is OUTSIDE the universe. When I do that, my brain goes for a complete shit.

But yeah, I think about mortality now and again, and it hollows me out. Best thing to do, get out there and do something fun and exciting and life affirming. When it happens to me (or my wife, her anxiety is worse than mine about it), I'll usually plan out a hike at a nearby escarpment. Something that makes you feel completely alive, and out in nature. Very helpful. Takes your mind off it.

Something that I found really helpful in this type of situation, and quite funny was Isaac Asimov's The Last Question short story. Its essentially thinking about entropy.

Thinking about mortality happens to me a lot. Only sometimes I take it too far and start thinking of it in gradually incremental terms, From my death, to the collapse of the human civilization, to the withering of Earth as the Sun reaches its red giant stage, to the stars shining dimmer and dimmer as the galaxies spin farther and farther away...

I don't get the terror so much as I get really gutted that I'm probably not going to live to see humans colonising space. I want to see humans get to Mars, minimum. I don't know what it is about that one thing, I'll be gutted to miss it, it feels like such a waste.

[Maark Abbott]

Mezla PigDog, on 02 March 2016 - 04:44 PM, said:

Andorion, on 02 March 2016 - 03:54 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 02 March 2016 - 03:09 PM, said:

Maark, on 02 March 2016 - 01:53 PM, said:

I seem to have been taken by 'the terror' recently (aka existential dread). My thoughts are utterly consumed with mortality, the moment of death, but from a first-person perspective. Fuck, I don't know why this suddenly hit me, but I'm fucking terrified right now. I think Hood may be about to stick his hoary balls down my throat.

I get that sometimes too.

The only thing that outweighs it for me in my "mental head space is currently fucked up" category...when I try to imagine what is OUTSIDE the universe. When I do that, my brain goes for a complete shit.

But yeah, I think about mortality now and again, and it hollows me out. Best thing to do, get out there and do something fun and exciting and life affirming. When it happens to me (or my wife, her anxiety is worse than mine about it), I'll usually plan out a hike at a nearby escarpment. Something that makes you feel completely alive, and out in nature. Very helpful. Takes your mind off it.

Something that I found really helpful in this type of situation, and quite funny was Isaac Asimov's The Last Question short story. Its essentially thinking about entropy.

Thinking about mortality happens to me a lot. Only sometimes I take it too far and start thinking of it in gradually incremental terms, From my death, to the collapse of the human civilization, to the withering of Earth as the Sun reaches its red giant stage, to the stars shining dimmer and dimmer as the galaxies spin farther and farther away...

I don't get the terror so much as I get really gutted that I'm probably not going to live to see humans colonising space. I want to see humans get to Mars, minimum. I don't know what it is about that one thing, I'll be gutted to miss it, it feels like such a waste.

Chances are, we'll be dead by the time we'd otherwise have gotten that far.

[worry]

Upload your brains into cubes. Problem solved.

[Nicodimas]

Mezla PigDog, on 02 March 2016 - 04:44 PM, said:

Andorion, on 02 March 2016 - 03:54 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 02 March 2016 - 03:09 PM, said:

Maark, on 02 March 2016 - 01:53 PM, said:

I seem to have been taken by 'the terror' recently (aka existential dread). My thoughts are utterly consumed with mortality, the moment of death, but from a first-person perspective. Fuck, I don't know why this suddenly hit me, but I'm fucking terrified right now. I think Hood may be about to stick his hoary balls down my throat.

I get that sometimes too.

The only thing that outweighs it for me in my "mental head space is currently fucked up" category...when I try to imagine what is OUTSIDE the universe. When I do that, my brain goes for a complete shit.

But yeah, I think about mortality now and again, and it hollows me out. Best thing to do, get out there and do something fun and exciting and life affirming. When it happens to me (or my wife, her anxiety is worse than mine about it), I'll usually plan out a hike at a nearby escarpment. Something that makes you feel completely alive, and out in nature. Very helpful. Takes your mind off it.

Something that I found really helpful in this type of situation, and quite funny was Isaac Asimov's The Last Question short story. Its essentially thinking about entropy.

Thinking about mortality happens to me a lot. Only sometimes I take it too far and start thinking of it in gradually incremental terms, From my death, to the collapse of the human civilization, to the withering of Earth as the Sun reaches its red giant stage, to the stars shining dimmer and dimmer as the galaxies spin farther and farther away...

I don't get the terror so much as I get really gutted that I'm probably not going to live to see humans colonising space. I want to see humans get to Mars, minimum. I don't know what it is about that one thing, I'll be gutted to miss it, it feels like such a waste.

Zoolanderis Derake, on 02 March 2016 - 11:23 PM, said:

Upload your brains into cubes. Problem solved.

Human's probably won't be colonizing space. As Machines, we would have far less problems, space travel will be deemed far too tough for human's bodies in the long run. See we already do it now, we send drone's out there to do the exploring for us. In the future, humans will by mass majority vote machines to replace them and it will very democratic. The future overlords of government will convince them that this is the best thing for all of society to do to make sure everyone is in fact equal.

[Maark Abbott]

Zoolanderis Derake, on 02 March 2016 - 11:23 PM, said:

Upload your brains into cubes. Problem solved.

I'd be a well fit Borg.

[Tsundoku]

Maark, on 02 March 2016 - 03:32 PM, said:

Watching Dexter is helping.

The irony is not lost on me.

You know what else would help?

Sit down in a comfy chair, or lay down in bed.
Close your eyes.
Tense all your muscles, and slowly relax them all in sequence from your feet to your head.
Do this 3 times.
Picture this:
you pump out 3 high quality books in a decent timeframe and gets shitloads of fans.
Then, you find other pursuits and delay the fuck out of book 4.
Use every excuse in the book, and invent a few new ones.
Revise, revise, revise.
Delay book 5 even more because you didn't like the lukewarm response to book 4.
Blame everything and everyone else but yourself.
Lather, rinse, repeat until you cark it without leaving any notes.
Cue worldwide nerdrage, meltdowns and riots on an epic "Canada lost the Stanley Cup" scale.

Feeling better now?

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 03 March 2016 - 09:21 AM

[worry]

I see what you did there. Just like that guy who wrote Captain Underpants!

[Tsundoku]

Zoolanderis Derake, on 03 March 2016 - 09:42 AM, said:

I see what you did there. Just like that guy who wrote Captain Underpants!

Exactly. That bastard!

@Maark
I forgot to add the line "Have naked money fights with supermodels". Mea culpa.

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 03 March 2016 - 10:04 AM

[Mentalist]

Stupid thing, but bugging me nonetheless.

Since I incorporated squats into my daily exercise routine (i'm basically upping it by one set every week or so. This way I plan to get to the point where eventually i'll be having having 25-30 min warmup in the morning and not have it feel like a chore), I feel that my upper legs started getting disproportionately big. No objective data on this (i.e: I didn't measure them), but: my old swimming trunks finally wore out and ripped (unrelated event: they were probably 10 years old and turned light brown from their original dark blue from all the chlorine), so I had to start wearing a new pair to the pool. I wore this (new) pair in the summer and swam multiple times when we went to the cottage or camping, no problem. Now the seams that are roughly in front of my thighs are rubbing against the skin, causing rope-burn-like abrasions.
At the same time, i'm trying to think what I can do to work on my calves at home (don't want to join a gym just for the sake of access to a few machines), because if it's true, I need to work on them a lot more...

[Slow Ben]

Are you upset because your uppers are too muscular or you're calves are underdeveloped?

Because calves are tooooough. And joining a gym just for calves would be pointless. There's basically a few variations of the same exercise- calf raises. And use heavy weight, light weights and calf training dont mix. Theyre used to light weight training, its called walking.









Theres a damn chance of rain here every...damn..day...for at least the next 2 weeks.

[Mentalist]

Slow Ben, on 03 March 2016 - 04:01 PM, said:

Are you upset because your uppers are too muscular or you're calves are underdeveloped?

Because calves are tooooough. And joining a gym just for calves would be pointless. There's basically a few variations of the same exercise- calf raises. And use heavy weight, light weights and calf training dont mix. Theyre used to light weight training, its called walking.









Theres a damn chance of rain here every...damn..day...for at least the next 2 weeks.

Both, I guess. I play soccer, I swim twice a week, and now I started doing squats (mostly for my knees and ankles, cuz my joints take a beating when I play). I don't drive, so I walk lots-basically everywhere I can get to w/o taking transit. Once the snow and cold's gone, i'll be starting to bike again.

So ionno. My calves always felt strong-w/o me doing anything extra for them. But now that it seems my upper legs are getting bigger, i'm thinking I need to work on calves as well.

As an aside: i've never been into body-building/lifting weights. The reason I kind of started to get healthier is b/c 2 falls ago I picked up a groin injury that took forever to heal b/c I switched jobs to a more desk-y setting, my commute became 2h/day longer, and due to season change I stopped swimming. When I finally recovered I realized that 27 isn't the same as 19 and I actually need to put some regular effort to stay in shape. So the stuff I do is purely for keeping myself conditioned and able to keep playing soccer.

Edit: also the fact that my job involves me spending most of my days reading life stories of people who suffer from chronic pain made me kinda paranoid about succumbing to a disability. So I tend to push back against any injury, ensuring to stay active.

This post has been edited by Mentalist: 03 March 2016 - 05:45 PM