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[Mothra]

Backstory:
Alright so, back when I was a teenager I was put on something called Accutane for my skin, which is a fairly aggressive anti-body. It worked well at the time, but jump eleven years in the future and I've come down with a delightful little intestinal condition called Ulcerlative Colitis, wherein my large intestine gets hells of ulcers up and down, making eating painful as fuck.

After staying at the hospital back in August to try out steroids and a few other angles, the only thing I've had some success with is this stuff called Remicade, which, while leaving me immunosuppressed, gets rid of my ulcers for a good two and a half weeks before they come on back. Usually, it's two and a half weeks of sunshine and lollipops, then three and a half weeks of utter fucking misery before I get my next infusion (which are expensive as hell, but that's neither here nor there).

Last time I went in for an infusion, I was feeling like I was literally dying and apparently was both anemic and had lost 25 dang pounds. They put me back in the hospital, did a few blood infusions, and started feeding me intravenously on this stuff called TPN (as I've kind of reached that point where I can't eat solid food right now). Feeling better after that, though sure as hell not good, I managed to get released from the hospital last Monday so I could get back to work.

Now:
So once I got out of the hospital, I still can't really eat food until my ulcers heal, which will probably not happen for some time. They set me up with deliveries of this TPN intravenous fluid that goes into my arm and is basically how I eat these days (overnight mostly). The actual process isn't too bad, but the recovery's going to be a bit of a bitch.

I'm essentially stuck in one place while I'm getting this intravenous liquid pumped into me, which goes on for something to the tune of 14 freaking hours. The rest of the time the stomach pain keeps me from wanting to do much, though they did give me some pretty decent painkillers, which helps quite a lot.

Whether I like it or not, I'm not going anywhere for these next few weeks.

So:
I need stuff to do. I've already got a few projects on my plate that I've been picking at, like a Facebook app, Pike and Shot and some fiction work, so there's that. But I need you kids to recommend shows I can download, PC games that require Some Investment, enjoyable books you'd recommend, little hobbies that've worked for you in the past, things I could read up on and learn that might be useful... whatever you got, I'm going to need it to keep madness at bay.

halp

[Mothra]

Also: There is a long-term plan (e.g. within the year) of getting a surgery done to completely remove my large intestine (which I guess apparently you don't need that much!) that will essentially cure me of this condition.

Part two of the plan is of course joining one of the many class-action lawsuits against the makers of Accutane.

[Smiler]

Shit Kabbage I am sorry. If you want I could try retyping your huge block of stuff from memory. I probably shouldn't try to quote stuff anymore.

[Niku]

he was already dying and NOW YOU KILLED HIM

[Friday]

that's ok I read his original post

Kabbage man you are a true american hero, don't stop brolieving

[Friday]

also I assume you have seen Avatar: The Last Airbender

if not watch Avatar

[Smiler]

Yaaay friday please tell me you have it saved somewhere? :3

And that suggestion is rather vague and confusing.

[Friday]

I AM A TRUE BRO

Backstory:
Alright so, back when I was a teenager I was put on something called Accutane for my skin, which is a fairly aggressive anti-body. It worked well at the time, but jump eleven years in the future and I've come down with a delightful little intestinal condition called Ulcerlative Colitis, wherein my large intestine gets hells of ulcers up and down, making eating painful as fuck.

After staying at the hospital back in August to try out steroids and a few other angles, the only thing I've had some success with is this stuff called Remicade, which, while leaving me immunosuppressed, gets rid of my ulcers for a good two and a half weeks before they come on back. Usually, it's two and a half weeks of sunshine and lollipops, then three and a half weeks of utter fucking misery before I get my next infusion (which are expensive as hell, but that's neither here nor there).

Last time I went in for an infusion, I was feeling like I was literally dying and apparently was both anemic and had lost 25 dang pounds. They put me back in the hospital, did a few blood infusions, and started feeding me intravenously on this stuff called TPN (as I've kind of reached that point where I can't eat solid food right now). Feeling better after that, though sure as hell not good, I managed to get released from the hospital last Monday so I could get back to work.

Now:
So once I got out of the hospital, I still can't really eat food until my ulcers heal, which will probably not happen for some time. They set me up with deliveries of this TPN intravenous fluid that goes into my arm and is basically how I eat these days (overnight mostly). The actual process isn't too bad, but the recovery's going to be a bit of a bitch.

I'm essentially stuck in one place while I'm getting this intravenous liquid pumped into me, which goes on for something to the tune of 14 freaking hours. The rest of the time the stomach pain keeps me from wanting to do much, though they did give me some pretty decent painkillers, which helps quite a lot.

Whether I like it or not, I'm not going anywhere for these next few weeks.

So:
I need stuff to do. I've already got a few projects on my plate that I've been picking at, like a Facebook app, Pike and Shot and some fiction work, so there's that. But I need you kids to recommend shows I can download, PC games that require Some Investment, enjoyable books you'd recommend, little hobbies that've worked for you in the past, things I could read up on and learn that might be useful... whatever you got, I'm going to need it to keep madness at bay.

halp

[Smiler]

Kabbage apparently Dawn of Discovery is the bees knees if you like city buildy games. I have yet to start playing it mostly because I have less time consuming games I should probably play first.

[JDigital]

X-Com: UFO Defense (UFO: Enemy Unknown), Rome: Total War, maybe try and collect all the Pokemon. Play Final Fantasy 5 and 6 if you haven't already.

Watch an anime called Nichijou.

[Lottel]

I just recently watched all of Dr. Who. That took some time.

Brave Story is a fairly good book. And it's 1500 hundred pages. They've even based a few video games off it.




And fuck it. MINECRAFT.

[Büge]

- Go through Diablo II class-by-class. Beat every difficulty.
- Take up painting miniatures. Post your results!
- Write one page of your thoughts each day in a standard ruled notebook.
- Read through The Wheel of Time if you're feeling desperate.
- Take up embroidery. Post your results!
- Get Oblivion, mod it out with FCOM Convergence and squeeze as much play time out of it as possible.
- Legos.
- Trains.
- Lego trains?
- Take up wood-burning. Post your results!
- Read The Nibelungenlied.
- Purchase a tiny Buddha. Bonsai a fig tree for him.
- Pick a subject at random from the dictionary. Research that subject until you get sick of it.
- Take up yoga. Post your results!

[Lottel]

- Read The Nibelungenlied.

Second this. Read a three different translations of it. One was amazing. Second had forced rhymes with no rhythm. Third dropped the structure and was rewritten to look like LotR. Same story and everything, but completely different. Enjoyed the First and third go of it.






EDIT: Practice this song to sing the day you can leave and do stuff

Out Of The Box Theme

[Lady Duke]

You dick.  Did you sue yet.  Do I have to do it for you?

Oh, I missed your second post--I guess you finally are.  Good--I hope they give you a ton of money and then you get to punch them in the face.

[jsnlxndrlv]

Dude, I took Accutane for a couple months about 11 years ago. I feel like I dodged a bullet.

As for something to do: go to Select Button, find a post from Deus Jester that's more than 15000 words long, follow his modding instructions for whichever game he's obsessing over, and play for infinity hours.

[Mothra]

You are all stellar doggs

Shit Kabbage I am sorry. If you want I could try retyping your huge block of stuff from memory. I probably shouldn't try to quote stuff anymore.

What is wrong with youuuuuuuuuuuuu

also I assume you have seen Avatar: The Last Airbender

if not watch Avatar

This is an ideal suggestion but YES, Kazz, Geo and Det marathoned this show the Magfest before last! Good times.

Kabbage apparently Dawn of Discovery is the bees knees if you like city buildy games. I have yet to start playing it mostly because I have less time consuming games I should probably play first.

Don't have a Wii at my person at the moment but hot damn this thing looks gorgeous.

X-Com: UFO Defense (UFO: Enemy Unknown), Rome: Total War, maybe try and collect all the Pokemon. Play Final Fantasy 5 and 6 if you haven't already.

Watch an anime called Nichijou.

At this point I have somewhat played X-Com into oblivion. I do love it so, but so, so many times. FF 5 and 6 are in the same boat, though I'd love a good, long-winded RPG of some sort. Been considering the Front Mission 5 translation, though I'm ten minutes into it and it seems strangely charmless.

I gave Pokemon Diamond a go when it came out, and at some point during my 400th tenticool encounter trying to EV stat train my Koffing, I vowed to never, ever touch another Pokemon game again. The thought of doing so these days honestly makes me depressed.

I just recently watched all of Dr. Who. That took some time.

I actually started doing this over the past few weeks, after getting out of the hospital, starting with the Tom Baker ones. They're charming, but they aren't really... anywhere near engaging to justify their length (i.e. Terror of the Zygons, The Brain of Morbius, Seeds of Doom). I guess they're just sort of predictable, is what I'm finding. I worry that the more I watch these, the less I'm going to like the franchise as a whole.

I did sort of like the Ark in Space, though! Something about the setting.

And fuck it. MINECRAFT.

This game is strangely therapeutic and has been genuinely helpful. It's the first game I can think of since Animal Crossing or Harvest Moon that sets me at ease so. Good for when my stomach pain acts up and I don't want to do anything constructive.

- Go through Diablo II class-by-class. Beat every difficulty.

Man I ain't playin' no Diablo II sheeeeeee

- Take up painting miniatures. Post your results!

Perhaps! This would probably be soothing and pleasent.

- Write one page of your thoughts each day in a standard ruled notebook.

I journal pretty regularly as is, which has definitely helped put this goddamn thing into perspective early.

- Read through The Wheel of Time if you're feeling desperate.

...

- Take up embroidery. Post your results!

Another possibility!

- Get Oblivion, mod it out with FCOM Convergence and squeeze as much play time out of it as possible.

I used to play this game with my roommates around when it first came out. At one point I got bitten by a vampire and could no longer go out during the day. Soon, this led to me becoming kind of in-game depressed that I could only do anything in the dark of the night.

- Legos.
- Trains.
- Lego trains?

What is this third-grade????????????????

Besides, Minecraft.

- Take up wood-burning. Post your results!

Perhaps not the best idea in my box.

- Read The Nibelungenlied.

Noted!

- Purchase a tiny Buddha. Bonsai a fig tree for him.

I have exactly these things at my work, on my desk. Both are planted into one of those Japanese sand gardens. It was v. useful for centering my chakrah on the regz.

- Pick a subject at random from the dictionary. Research that subject until you get sick of it.

Honestly? Not a bad idea.

- Take up yoga. Post your results!

Wh-

You dick.  Did you sue yet.  Do I have to do it for you?

Oh, I missed your second post--I guess you finally are.  Good--I hope they give you a ton of money and then you get to punch them in the face.

Yes! This is finally happening. Turns out suing somebody is a long, labor-intensive, exhaustive process that's hard to get started when you have absolutely zero energy and are in blinding pain constantly. Honestly cannot imagine am not going to be up for it until after the surgery and recovery.

Dude, I took Accutane for a couple months about 11 years ago. I feel like I dodged a bullet.

As for something to do: go to Select Button, find a post from Deus Jester that's more than 15000 words long, follow his modding instructions for whichever game he's obsessing over, and play for infinity hours.

Thank your dang fool stars you didn't come down with this or Crohn's Disease you lucky cad!

I will give your idea a go, because to sin if I have anything else to do. I should also catch up on Take It Sleazy's posting...

[Mothra]

ALSO:

Mongrel you are forbidden to give suggestions

[Classic]

I recommend NOT binging on a show. It only hurts.

EDIT:

You could also look up an old BioWare title. Pick one. They're not all good, but will probably distract you for a while.

[Beat Bandit]

- Free shitty MMOs on Steam

- APB!

- 01 and 10 is actually pretty tits and super easy to hear if you have the albums. Also legitimately makes Ok Computer good to me (but I always loved in Rainbows). If you didn't already know about it, that is.

- Talk in #Oblivion!

[MadMAxJr]

Have someone run out to a book store and spend $8 on a book for you called "The Atrocity Archives" by Charles Stross.  It's like 300 pages long, and you can knock it out in a couple days.  If you like it, go on and pick up 'The Jennifer Morgue".  This author is also working on a book called 'Rule 34', a government agency whose job is to identify trends on the internet and determine if they're harmless fantasy or masking criminal motive.

From Publishers Weekly
Lovecraft's Cthulhu meets Len Deighton's spies in Stross's latest, as the Scottish author explains in his afterword to this offbeat book offering two related long novellas, "The Atrocity Archive" and "The Concrete Jungle" (the latter previously unpublished). With often hilarious results, the author mixes the occult and the mundane, the truly weird and the petty. In "Atrocity," Bob, a low-level computer fix-it guy for the Laundry, a supersecret British agency that defends the world from occult happenings, finds himself promoted to fieldwork after he bravely saves the day during a routine demonstration gone awry. With his Palm, aka his Hand of Glory (a severed hand that, when ignited, renders the holder invisible), and his smarts, he saves the world from a powerful external force seeking to enter our universe to suck it dry. In "Jungle," Bob teams up with a cop, Josephine, to save the Laundry from a powermonger who seeks to stage an internal coup by using zombies as her minions. Amid all the bizarre happenings are the everyday trappings of a British bureaucracy. Bob gets called on the carpet by his bosses because he requested backup during an emergency without first getting his supervisor's okay and filling out the requisite forms. Though the characters all tend to sound the same, and Stross resorts to lengthy summary explanations to dispel confusion, the world he creates is wonderful fun.

Yes, it is about IT guys vs. Cthulhu.