There's not enough bitching

[Dracos]

It is indeed my fault.

I blame dune.

His plague spreads.

[Anastasia]

My shoulder is sore and stiff as hell.

[Anastasia]

My entire body is now sore.  I don't know what it is, but I ache all over the last few days.

[Brian]

Prima Donnis, the Attention Grappler, is how I refer to the most annoying and terrible character I've had to play with in a recent game.  His player and I recently had a falling out, what with this player sabotaging a recent campaign, then telling me on the third session of my Pathfinder dungeoncrawl, "This was just an engine test, so I got what I wanted out of it," and "I never had fun playing anyway"....

Arg.  This is the guy who plays a grappler in the Friday game, so he can be the ONLY one acting against a boss-type-enemy, OR he will whine/bitch/moan/cry that he can't do anything if denied that option.  Keeping in mind that grapple rules generally mean that the rest of the party can't even _try_ to help him while he's grappling, thanks to a 50% chance to hit (or heal) the wrong dude.  He loves that.

But he can't be assed to play a support caster in Pathfinder, that'd be like _my_ character in the Friday game -- a mystic theurge who was told to prepare to fight against a red-dragon.  So I go through an entire session being told not to waste any of my spells because we might find the dragon.  At level seven, I have three classes with +0 BAB for their first level, so my BAB is +3 at level 4 (before my +1 strength bonus), so I can't really melee.  We fight some undead, but as a mystic theurge, I'm only a level 3 cleric, so I don't want to waste a turning attempt on trying to defeat them (we also have a level 7 cleric, so all of the cleric duties are covered, actually).

The entire session turned into a dungeon crawl where I got to cast resistance to energy twice and drop a spell for healing.  But Grapplor the supreme got to wrestle a wight into submission and kill it with his bare hands.  Given that my pathfinder game is on Wednesday, and the other game was on Friday, this made post-game on Friday, after the Attention Grappler got to pretty much 'win' the session while I was kept in a holding pattern (got to level 30 in all classes on DQIX, though, so it's not like it was a total waste of time), he came up to me and said, "I'm quitting your Friday campaign because support casters are bitches, and I don't want to put up with that.  Also, fix your Monday campaign, because I don't like combat."

FFfffff.....

The premise of the Monday campaign is fighting slavery!  That means killing dudes that say slavery is great!  They live in castles and travel in armies!  You will not rid the world of slavery by killing rarer and rarer monsters in increasingly obscure holes in the ground!

* Brian sighs.

So, my Monday campaign is crippled, my Wendesday campaign may die because we have no healer, and the replacement I found is loathed by the tank (interestingly, this bit of infighting is the Attention Grappler's fault), and I can't abide the player, so I dropped out of the Friday game before I finally got what would have been my mystic theurge's first genuine moment of awesome since choosing a class level other than cleric (dropping nearly thirty scrolls on buff spells pre-combat.  Would have been pretty epic).

So angry.

[Anastasia]

Sounds like you got a case of That Guy. Been there, done that and got the headaches for it. Fuck 'em, get rid of him and have fun with people who give a shit.

[Dracos]

"This is stupid.  Look, change this and everything will be faster."
*time passes*
"Fine, I'll change it myself."
*changes happen*
*folks try it*
"WARNING: EVERYTHING IS FINE AND DANDY"-> "Error, it looks like there's a warning!  Ask for help!"
*folks ask for help*
"I'll just fix that it treats that warning as an error conditiooon..why is the handler to this attached to this gigantic program like a small support column?"


Perforce C++ api, I deplore you and your lack of on the fly handler overrides.

Bonus:
"It looks like you're using the default XDK tools to interact with the xbox.  These are not parallel use safe, but will cause the deadlock on the remote side only.  Look at this example of having a giant manager application that avoids ever sending more than one command at a time." - sigh.

[Yuthirin]

At 2am a bunch of people stumbled into my house, drunk. I stayed up until 4am corralling them from drunk to bed.

[Anastasia]

That's a special type of kick to the 'nads. Being the DD when you didn't even go out and have fun sucks.

[Yuthirin]

I dunno, the girls were all hot and watching drunk people be drunk can be fun. I'm only complaining because I'm tired as fuck.

[Anastasia]

I've started reading Ranma fanfiction again.

[Yuthirin]

I never stopped. What did you start reading?

[Anastasia]

Had a random whim and read a few fics:

Crossed Wires: I'd missed this one before. It's okay though dated. Author has a knack at building up the situation for humor.
Am I Smart: Apparently making Ranma want to be a girl is popular now. Okay fic.
Bitter: Re-read. I liked it before, more neutral on it now. I wasn't in the mood for a darkfic when I read it, ended up analyzing it this time around. Interesting fic, feels like the author went through depression or knew someone close who did.
The Bitter End: Still an awesome fic, as long as you accept the premise and understand Akane's as much a victim as anyone else.

I'm forgetting a few, but oh well.

[Brian]

After decades, I'm running out of patience to deal with an alcoholic family member.

Unfortunately, in order to continue having to have a place to live, I must be an enabler.  I don't know how much more of this I can take.

[Anastasia]

Reading fanfiction is interfering with my DM prep.

It'll pass, but arghfuckle. I have a post I've had half written for three damn days now.

[Anastasia]

I now remember!

This is what it's like to stay up to 4 AM! Reading a fanfic that's awesome is a  wonderful thing! That is, until the last 5% has a twist that ruins the entire story.

I remember why I don't read fanfiction.