Seriousness Do avatar images influence your impression of personality? - Page 22

kennyc · 12-08-2009, 12:48 PM

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Originally Posted by kindlekitten

I haven't any resources left to attempt that. getting a roof back on the house (before I knew about the mold issue) and going after the contractor ate up what little I had left. my former best friend was a mortgage broker and got us into one of those damned balloon mortgages for the remodel. we didn't need that kind of financing. we had just paid off the house and took out the loan for a remodel. she should have gotten us a remodel laon, very different from a standard one, and she flat out lied and manipulated the loan packet so we ended up with that balloon. bankruptcy was the only way to hang on. this was at the beginning of the mortgage crisis so the other options were not available at the time.

sorry for the soap opera

OMG!

WT Sharpe · 12-08-2009, 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by kindlekitten

not only out of business, in prison. we spent a year without a roof, had a big blue tarp over the house. the water damage was so bad there is now black mold throughout the house. the only option now is to raze it and start over. the insurance company cancelled the policy stating that as the contractor did it, his insurance should cover it which they won't. so I am left with 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and a kitchen on a 6000 sq ft. 10 room house and I'm pretty much out of options

That is some super bad crap, and I feel horrible for you and your family. Once more, let's hear it for Insurance Companies. They're there as long as you don't need them. Too bad the folks at the company in charge of making those decisions won't be joining your former contractor in his new home.

Dishonest Insurance Companies.

Crooked contractors.

(I hope that helps a little bit.)

kindlekitten · 12-08-2009, 02:41 PM

it's nice to know that there is empathy out there

Ea · 12-08-2009, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Wetdogeared

And my apologies for being silly in this serious thread Ea.

It never really survived that first derailment and I still feel bad about it

The fun wasn't very funny to me.

However, I don't think I could have done more than I did - thus why I stopped taking it seriously myself, even though I would have liked to discuss the subject further. I hope that people will remember to respect the seriousness tag when someone else uses it another time - however funny the subject might appear to themselves. There's always the possibility to start a silly 'sister-thread'.

kindlekitten · 12-08-2009, 03:00 PM

actually I think everyone behaved pretty well (even though I did a huge derail sorry). at least people self adjusted fairly often! and it could have been worse, much MUCH worse!

Sparrow · 12-08-2009, 03:02 PM

I think it might help if Serious threads had a different colour background - I kept forgetting this was one.

Ea · 12-08-2009, 03:02 PM

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Originally Posted by kindlekitten

actually I think everyone behaved pretty well (even though I did a huge derail sorry). at least people self adjusted fairly often! and it could have been worse, much MUCH worse!

That it could have been worse, still doesn't make it any better

Your huge derail was way after I'd given up on the discussion. Dont' feel sorry.

Ea · 12-08-2009, 03:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Sparrow

I think it might help if Serious threads had a different colour background - I kept forgetting this was one.

That's the problem with having them in the Lounge... There's a certain tone here that just doens't work well with serious discusssion. I think this thread is a stellar example of that. However, I can hear an echo of myself from some time ago now, and I'll just step qiuetly away from the thread now.

kindlekitten · 12-08-2009, 03:11 PM

well the conservatory just didn't work, and I'm not sure why. there's a lot of times I'd like to bring news articles in here (non literary related) and get some discussion going, and I've posted a few... well mostly humourous stuff. but it goes flat.

it's a tough sale. and insisting that folks stay serious just gets resentment going for some. even in the "News and Commentary" we already have which, is supposed to be serious, people start bouncing all over the place

dsvick · 12-08-2009, 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Ea

That's the problem with having them in the Lounge...

Maybe there should be a conference room built next to the lounge? Can anyone recommend a good contractor? Anyone except kindlekitten that is

badgoodDeb · 12-08-2009, 03:21 PM

I figured we had gotten as much serious discussion as was going to happen. Everyone who joined the thread, began with a serious answer to the topic. Those who were still hanging around had already said their say. Don't most topics have a brief life time, before the topic is talked out?

Sweetpea · 12-08-2009, 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Ea

That's the problem with having them in the Lounge... There's a certain tone here that just doens't work well with serious discusssion. I think this thread is a stellar example of that. However, I can hear an echo of myself from some time ago now, and I'll just step qiuetly away from the thread now.

No, any topic will go off topic. Some faster than others, on some fora faster than on others... What badgoodDeb is true, at some point everybody has said his or her say and then? You could close threads at that point, or you could see what happens.

Personally, I find it a healthy sign of a forum if a thread starts serious and ends silly. It means that people can still laugh, even over serious stuff...

kindlekitten · 12-08-2009, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by dsvick

Maybe there should be a conference room built next to the lounge? Can anyone recommend a good contractor? Anyone except kindlekitten that is

and it wasn't even the contractor I wanted. the real irony is that I have spent the majority of my adult life in the industry on the telecommunications end. I know what's right and wrong on jobs, and when people are screwing up. I told the spousal unit (whose main contribution was waving money around in the air), and his response was; "my money my way". this is a sure fire way for a marriage to end up in the toilet

badgoodDeb · 12-08-2009, 05:16 PM

Double Ouch, then. Money issues are providing the final nails in the coffin in my marriage too.

mvisconte · 12-08-2009, 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Sweetpea

Though, I do get influenced by avatars, not so much personality, but rather gender... When somebody has a "female" avatar (or an avatar I see as female), I find it strange when that person turns out to be male (or vice versa, naturally!)

One thing I noticed was that many male gamers choose female characters for some games... moi aussi. I figured it out easily enough...

If you have to spend hours at a time looking at the north-facing end of your south-facing avatar, you choose what you'd rather be looking at. Heh.

69th Level Magical Female Wood Elf, BTW. Hubba hubba.

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12-08-2009, 02:41 PM	#318
kindlekitten Professional Adventuress Posts: 13,368 Karma: 50260224 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Olympic Peninsula on the OTHER Washington! (the big green clean one on the west coast!) Device: Kindle, the original! Times Two! and gifting an International Kindle	it's nice to know that there is empathy out there

12-08-2009, 03:00 PM	#320
kindlekitten Professional Adventuress Posts: 13,368 Karma: 50260224 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Olympic Peninsula on the OTHER Washington! (the big green clean one on the west coast!) Device: Kindle, the original! Times Two! and gifting an International Kindle	actually I think everyone behaved pretty well (even though I did a huge derail sorry). at least people self adjusted fairly often! and it could have been worse, much MUCH worse!

12-08-2009, 03:02 PM	#321
Sparrow Wizard Posts: 4,395 Karma: 1358132 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: UK Device: Palm TX, CyBook Gen3	I think it might help if Serious threads had a different colour background - I kept forgetting this was one.

12-08-2009, 03:11 PM	#324
kindlekitten Professional Adventuress Posts: 13,368 Karma: 50260224 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Olympic Peninsula on the OTHER Washington! (the big green clean one on the west coast!) Device: Kindle, the original! Times Two! and gifting an International Kindle	well the conservatory just didn't work, and I'm not sure why. there's a lot of times I'd like to bring news articles in here (non literary related) and get some discussion going, and I've posted a few... well mostly humourous stuff. but it goes flat. it's a tough sale. and insisting that folks stay serious just gets resentment going for some. even in the "News and Commentary" we already have which, is supposed to be serious, people start bouncing all over the place

12-08-2009, 03:21 PM	#326
badgoodDeb Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,551 Karma: 64462893 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Harrisburg outskirts Device: Palms, K1-4s, iPads, iPhones, KV, KO1	I figured we had gotten as much serious discussion as was going to happen. Everyone who joined the thread, began with a serious answer to the topic. Those who were still hanging around had already said their say. Don't most topics have a brief life time, before the topic is talked out?

12-08-2009, 05:16 PM	#329
badgoodDeb Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,551 Karma: 64462893 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Harrisburg outskirts Device: Palms, K1-4s, iPads, iPhones, KV, KO1	Double Ouch, then. Money issues are providing the final nails in the coffin in my marriage too.