There's not enough bitching

[Anastasia]

Ew. Scary stuff, 'specially since I use a similar program.

By the way, why'd you change your name to just Arakawa?

[Ranma_007]

Getting into it with my neighbors. We are putting up a fence on our side of the property line. They want us to push it back 6-12 inches so they can get in on their side. Heck no. We have every right to put it on our property, on the property line. That's where fences go. It hurts resale value and basically if it's 50 bucks a square foot, we would be asked to give up thousands of dollars of property. No. Just no. So we had that discussion and we said no.

Sorry neighbors, you don't have a leg to stand on. The fence goes up.

[Arakawa]

Ew. Scary stuff, 'specially since I use a similar program.

It makes me sad to drop the use a password manager, since the whole purpose of having it is so that I can wipe my cache whenever I close the browser, while only having one click to manually re-log-in to all of my accounts afterwards.

By the way, why'd you change your name to just Arakawa?

I decided a while ago that imposing the lastname-firstname ordering scheme in English is actually kind of obnoxious (I used it to great annoyingness in my first fanfic), but only realized just now I could simply change my display name. I could have done firstname-lastname, but everyone else here uses a short name, and there are no other Arakawas around for me to be confused with, so *shrug*.

[Anastasia]

Getting into it with my neighbors. We are putting up a fence on our side of the property line. They want us to push it back 6-12 inches so they can get in on their side. Heck no. We have every right to put it on our property, on the property line. That's where fences go. It hurts resale value and basically if it's 50 bucks a square foot, we would be asked to give up thousands of dollars of property. No. Just no. So we had that discussion and we said no.

Sorry neighbors, you don't have a leg to stand on. The fence goes up.

Fair enough. But what exactly do you mean by 'so they can get in on their side'? Like they want a gate there or a gap or something?

[Anastasia]

It makes me sad to drop the use a password manager, since the whole purpose of having it is so that I can wipe my cache whenever I close the browser, while only having one click to manually re-log-in to all of my accounts afterwards.

You could try a different program instead? I've had good results with LastPass.

I decided a while ago that imposing the lastname-firstname ordering scheme in English is actually kind of obnoxious (I used it to great annoyingness in my first fanfic), but only realized just now I could simply change my display name. I could have done firstname-lastname, but everyone else here uses a short name, and there are no other Arakawas around for me to be confused with, so *shrug*.

It sort of is, if only because it's obviously foreign. I don't think it's indefensible if the situation would make it appropriate, and I don't think your name was ever obnoxious, but yeah.

[Rukatin]

I did not get the job. I am depressed.

[Arakawa]

It sort of is, if only because it's obviously foreign. I don't think it's indefensible if the situation would make it appropriate, and I don't think your name was ever obnoxious, but yeah.

Yeah, it was more defensible as a nickname. It's blatantly obnoxious within a fic text, being just another form of Gratuitous Japanese. It's one thing to import Japanese for cultural realities like 'sensei'/'sempai' type honorifics that are cumbersome to render in pure English, another to import Japanese ordering for a concept (first & last names) that has an exact analogue in English and corresponding rules people expect to be followed.

[Anastasia]

I did not get the job. I am depressed.

Sad but not uncommon. If 10 people apply to a job, 9 people get let down. Hang in there and try not to let it get to you.

[Yuthirin]

Robin Williams is dead. :(

[Anastasia]

It sort of is, if only because it's obviously foreign. I don't think it's indefensible if the situation would make it appropriate, and I don't think your name was ever obnoxious, but yeah.

Yeah, it was more defensible as a nickname. It's blatantly obnoxious within a fic text, being just another form of Gratuitous Japanese. It's one thing to import Japanese for cultural realities like 'sensei'/'sempai' type honorifics that are cumbersome to render in pure English, another to import Japanese ordering for a concept (first & last names) that has an exact analogue in English and corresponding rules people expect to be followed.

Fair enough. I'm okay with it in a fic if it's consistent and makes sense within the confines of it. Like if the eastern style name order has an impact on the fic or otherwise has merit. I recall some fic or another ages ago that it actually mattered in.

[Anastasia]

Robin Williams is dead. :(

What a miserable, miserable bit of news.

A senseless, miserable tragedy.

[DY]

Robin Williams is dead. :(

What a miserable, miserable bit of news.

A senseless, miserable tragedy.

Terrible, really can't believe it.

[Anastasia]

Terrible, really can't believe it.

Neither can I. It's one thing if he just died of natural causes. This is so pointless. He's a beloved man who could go to virtually any movie fan on the street and get heaps of praise. A bit of an effort could get him as much help as he could ever need.

Sigh.

[Arakawa]

I only just now realize Jennifer Diane Reitz is one of the main authors of those weirdly preachy Conversion Bureau fics that are infamous among people who read pony fanfiction.

That... explains a lot.

_{(Unicorn Jelly is still pretty cool.)}

[Yuthirin]

I only just now realize Jennifer Diane Reitz is one of the main authors of those weirdly preachy Conversion Bureau fics that are infamous among people who read pony fanfiction.

That... explains a lot.

_{(Unicorn Jelly is still pretty cool.)}

I can't explain how happy it makes me that I have no idea what that means.