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  1. Wishing a very Happy Birthday to our very own @DemonGoddess 

    May it be a wonderful day, and an even better year!

    :bday: :wish: :wub: :hug:

  2. Well, the admins of AFF are so skilled they scared the crap out of me.

    The other day I got an update that I would need to verify my email or something to that effect, since the site was at long last coming out of Read Only mode.

    ...only problem was, I received this email at an address I didn’t think you all knew.

     

    1. DemonGoddess

      DemonGoddess

      The good thing to know is that emails are NOT displayed, unless the user actually inputs it in the profile description.  Only admins and mods are able to even see them.

      As to whether or not I’m human, that depends on the day….😁

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  3. I would love to strangle whomever in HR came up with the less is more policy. Running skeleton crews is not how one runs a customer service based business.

    1. DemonGoddess

      DemonGoddess

      Boy do I get that.  Of course, I have a micromanaging DM, which is driving me battier than I already am

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  4. Back to every other weekend off.  I wanna just scream

    1. DemonGoddess

      DemonGoddess

      All I have to do is THINK the v word and the shit hits the fan.  Every time 🤬

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  5. I am so fucking tired of double shifts.  ugh

    1. DemonGoddess

      DemonGoddess

      The double shifts are off an on.  it’s part of what happens when you’re a manager in retail ya know.  I’m salaried, so no OT fer me

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  6. I am so fucking tired of double shifts.  ugh

    1. DemonGoddess

      DemonGoddess

      I get people trained, avoid this shit, and then it starts all over again

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  7. My day job has been a gong show of late, troubleshooting AFF's woes has remained on my mind.

    Hoping to start the first phase of unlocking the site this week.  So don't be surprised if you get an email asking to re-verify your email and to change your password. 

  8. The happiest of birthdays to @DemonGoddess, and here’s hoping you won’t be working all the hours of the day today. :wub: :hug: :birthday::cheers: :bday:

  9. The happiest of birthdays to @DemonGoddess, and here’s hoping you won’t be working all the hours of the day today. :wub: :hug: :birthday::cheers: :bday:

    1. DemonGoddess

      DemonGoddess

      heh, worked a full shift the 14th, went back later that same day and covered third shift, ended up working 13 hours, then 13 hours the next day, then a split double for 16 hours on Thursday.  Thankfully, I only worked 11 on Friday.  LOL

       

      thank you all for the birthday wishes!

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  10. Woo! AFF good luck charm strikes again! I got the job :D

    Hm… How do I donate?

    1. DemonGoddess

      DemonGoddess

      Congratulations!  There’s actually a donation link in the archive. :)

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  11. So, like everyone else, I would really, really like to put this nasty hacking crap behind us.  Unfortunately, it does take time to find the likely culprits, whether individuals, or what they used.  I am making progress, but please understand I’m reading these things line by line by line

    1. DemonGoddess

      DemonGoddess

      Great!  What complicates things is my real job.  Been working hell hours again, so adjusting to that new schedule so I can focus on this again

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  12. I’d like to pick your brain on this matter; and likely others will want to: namely why did you elect to set this site up if you do not want to post your own works- as well as for others to do the same thing- and also to add in a library of favorites of your own regarding works? Most people here will no doubt be mature enough to avoid being petty and complaining about “so-and-so likes your work better than mine...” kind of whiny pouting, but it does surprise me that you haven’t posted any works here in your profile, given that you spent the time to set it up, as well as presumably the whole site in the first place

    Your motives are your own, of course, but I want to understand you a bit better; and it is also likely that others will be curious as to your thoughts as well, in addition to your own motives for why you do what you do- you obviously think it a good idea, but *why* do you think it a good idea, pray tell?

    1. DemonGoddess

      DemonGoddess

      Very earliest iterations of ElderScrolls while it was still shareware and not called that.  Many Origin company games, big into Ultima for a long time, played the computer D&D games (was playing pen and paper D&D for years before that.  Duke Nuke’em, Doom, Hexxen, Wolfenstein;’ just to name a few of the shareware.

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  13. I’d like to pick your brain on this matter; and likely others will want to: namely why did you elect to set this site up if you do not want to post your own works- as well as for others to do the same thing- and also to add in a library of favorites of your own regarding works? Most people here will no doubt be mature enough to avoid being petty and complaining about “so-and-so likes your work better than mine...” kind of whiny pouting, but it does surprise me that you haven’t posted any works here in your profile, given that you spent the time to set it up, as well as presumably the whole site in the first place

    Your motives are your own, of course, but I want to understand you a bit better; and it is also likely that others will be curious as to your thoughts as well, in addition to your own motives for why you do what you do- you obviously think it a good idea, but *why* do you think it a good idea, pray tell?

    1. DemonGoddess

      DemonGoddess

      It’s been my gaming name for years.  Since I used to dial in to bulletin boards.

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  14. I need to spork out my eyes! :D

    1. DemonGoddess

      DemonGoddess

      Yeah, kind of have filters.  Going into the raw data and sorting it in a way that I can pinpoint a little quicker the incursions.

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  15. Welp, Episode eight managed to somehow find the subbasement to rock bottom. Dear god where do I start?

    It is a banal anathemic sacrilege and outright vitriolic and visceral sustained blasphemic abortion to Tolkien’s works. Not only is tone deaf in a way that only a soulless and hellbound corporation could manage. It goes out of its way to be Anti-Tolkien even at its basest level.

    Corporate Anti-fiction as its final shuddering evolution on par with the erecting of the tower of babel itself.  Not only does it absolutely and resolutely undermine LOTR in its entirety it precludes the conceptual possibility of LOTR altogether.

    it has to be AU at best.

    The least of its crimes against nature and sin is it refutes the concept of goodness itself. Morgoth won the war is the best way to describe it. Eru Ilúvatar could never have created something this vacuous and empty.

    Galadriel-Sue is the brand new face of a blackhole mary sue. Reality is her bitch and even the plot gives way to her mercurial wants.

    Non-negotiable Ray Palpatine doesn’t even come close to this new found level of mary sue. This utterly insulting caricature. She is the left hand and right hand of Morgoth at the same time. Fk it Galadriel is what a successful Morgoth would look like.

    Not only is she the instigator of everything in RoP. She’s The Dark Lord of the entire franchise by proxy who not only is forgiven but gets to escape karma entirely and go to the Undying Lands.  Sauron himself is her victim. Let that sink in.

    I joked in an earlier post that sauron was the only one that could topple her. Nope, she took an erupting volcano to the face. Her plot armor is so heavily reinforced and thick I don’t even think the Death Star could touch her.

    Sauron is exactly who you think it is and he is the doomed hero of the series.

    This finale is what the death of fiction looks like.

    If a corporation and or hollywood so much as even looks in your direction. Rings of Power is the absolute and resolute lasting example of what they’ll do to your beloved works if given even half a chance. Have a lawyer on hand and a box of pampers cause there’d be no possibility of even a bathroom break for the author on set who’d actively have to have a fricking loaded gun on the desk in front of everyone in the writing room at all times.

    Rings of Power -10/10 Actively avoid at all costs with the acknowledgment that anyone praising it is actively trying to gaslight you.

     

    1. DemonGoddess

      DemonGoddess

      It’s bad fanfiction, using visuals to break my eyeballs.

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  16. I’d like to pick your brain on this matter; and likely others will want to: namely why did you elect to set this site up if you do not want to post your own works- as well as for others to do the same thing- and also to add in a library of favorites of your own regarding works? Most people here will no doubt be mature enough to avoid being petty and complaining about “so-and-so likes your work better than mine...” kind of whiny pouting, but it does surprise me that you haven’t posted any works here in your profile, given that you spent the time to set it up, as well as presumably the whole site in the first place

    Your motives are your own, of course, but I want to understand you a bit better; and it is also likely that others will be curious as to your thoughts as well, in addition to your own motives for why you do what you do- you obviously think it a good idea, but *why* do you think it a good idea, pray tell?

    1. DemonGoddess

      DemonGoddess

      As to why I don’t have anything in my profile, I just never got around to it, to be honest.  I’m not a writer.  Not at all.  I am a reader and an artist.  So, I can appreciate art in the form of the written word, but can’t do it myself.  I was asked to get involved, initially, because of the iteration of IPB (Invision Power Board) at the time, was not being updated, nor was it being maintained correctly.  

      Like Manta, I think there SHOULD be a space for people to express their creativity.  

      As to moderation, we are careful and impartial about that.  We have to be.  For example, Hall of Shamers are not put there until I have proof positive that is ironclad.  Never on a supposition.

      As to why I continue doing this, I like the part of it that I do.  Which is forum stuff, helping manta with some things, and, of course, the database maintenance and whatnot.  I like working in and with databases.

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  17. I feel like Dobby since I only have to stomach episode 8 and I can leave RoP behind for good thank god.

  18. Full read only mode.  Hacker attacked the chapters tables. Thier malice is wearing on my nerves.  Dg and I will deep dive after our respective day jobs. 

    1. DemonGoddess

      DemonGoddess

      What I’m hoping is that by looking at some logs, given the time it occurred, I may be able to find something out.  Won’t know until I try it.

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  19. RoP should be used as a sleep aid. Episode 6 made me sleep. Apparently sacrificing the only fortified structure for miles if not days and managing not to kill anyone with it was a bad move. Who knew?

    Right when it started getting actiony suddenly NyQuil mode engaged.

    The good shot was evil herself watching as Mount Doom erupts.

     

    1. DemonGoddess

      DemonGoddess

      The whole episode sucked.  No dwarves, so no entertainment value.  I seriously am only now watching for the dwarves

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  20. Archive repairs & recode are sitting at around 50% done.  Archives are next followed by the story manager.
    If you like what you see so far please donate to the site and if you feel generous say it’s a bribe for me to work faster :P .

    1. DemonGoddess

      DemonGoddess

      I’ve been poking around where you direct me to.  So far, everything is looking and working great!

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  21. Rings of power can be summed as thus

    • Galadriel is pretty much the greater evil of the story and at this point only Sauron himself is capable of knocking her down a peg. No, I’m not joking. She has glimmers of self-awareness that flicker and fade just as quickly as the story itself won’t let her be wrong.( She’s pretty much the most empowered Mary Sue in recent history)
    • The Harfoots are evil to the core. Let’s leave them to die turned to lets steal their wheels so they’ll absolutely die. Forget orcs, the only reason anyone is alive is because they’re avoiding these murder monsters. Orcs are more sympathetic and they’re the minions of evil.
    • Exiling evil herself absolutely was the right call as even when she’s apologizing for manipulating someone. She’s still un-apologetically doing it. “Because I cannot stop”
    • Durin’s subplot is the best part of RoP. The actors are having fun with what they’re given.
    • The only reason sauron’s acolytes are about is they want to steal the Harfoot’s unabashed evil for themselves and for screen time.
    • The Mithril thing.
    1. DemonGoddess

      DemonGoddess

      i have no doubt you would do a better adaptation.  I mean, FFS, they killed LOIAL.  He’s in every book

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  22. Rings of power can be summed as thus

    • Galadriel is pretty much the greater evil of the story and at this point only Sauron himself is capable of knocking her down a peg. No, I’m not joking. She has glimmers of self-awareness that flicker and fade just as quickly as the story itself won’t let her be wrong.( She’s pretty much the most empowered Mary Sue in recent history)
    • The Harfoots are evil to the core. Let’s leave them to die turned to lets steal their wheels so they’ll absolutely die. Forget orcs, the only reason anyone is alive is because they’re avoiding these murder monsters. Orcs are more sympathetic and they’re the minions of evil.
    • Exiling evil herself absolutely was the right call as even when she’s apologizing for manipulating someone. She’s still un-apologetically doing it. “Because I cannot stop”
    • Durin’s subplot is the best part of RoP. The actors are having fun with what they’re given.
    • The only reason sauron’s acolytes are about is they want to steal the Harfoot’s unabashed evil for themselves and for screen time.
    • The Mithril thing.
    1. DemonGoddess

      DemonGoddess

      Amazon did the same thing with Wheel of Time.  I slogged through the first season.  I doubt I will watch the rest of it.

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  23. Took a short break as I’ve noticed a lot of invalid avatars in the user profiles.
    New Drfault Avatar

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  24. I think we all need to agree that Rings of Power counts as a crime against humanity and amazon sued for war crimes. Episode five… here I come.:yawn:

  25. I think we all need to agree that Rings of Power counts as a crime against humanity and amazon sued for war crimes. Episode five… here I come.:yawn:

    1. DemonGoddess

      DemonGoddess

      You know this reminds me of that godawful fanfic that was written by, I forget who, that was in Harry Potter fandom.  I think the author was a Tara something or other?  

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