Troy Spiral

The street team and putting your name on the back of cards? What kind of crazy "in real life" thing is she talking about?

Happ birthday way late. 🤗🐉💕

Thanks for making this. Apparently I don't know how to hit "submit reply." (I thought I'd already replied /fail)

I keep ALMOST being not sick enough to pack up all the cards and mail everything but the health!! @TronRP Just tagging you as almost no one else sees this thread after wed night. You might think about joining our discord. It's just text chat. Nothing to install: Discord Invite Link:https://discord.gg/hg8g6y7

I can't see it changing for the foreseeable future so some variation of the below would be helpful. The regulars already know the info so the above and below would only be relevant for newbies: Topic: House Spiral Zoom Gathering Join Zoom Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82046862654 7:30 Thursday. Every Thursday until the real one resumes. A YouTube video I made explaining the gathering: Please don't bother if you have no plan to come to the real gathering when It re-starts. At least say once a year or once a lifetime if that is all that's realistic!😁 Tentative plan is to celebrate the anniversary of the gathering the last Thursday in October. It's just cooler in October since all of October is Halloween. What doe 'Celebrate' mean? It means show up. Bonus points for dressing up.

Welcome!

This is great.

Interesting

This weeks card @TronRP Due to health im a bit behind but catching up. I should be able to mail a mountain of stuff soon. For whoever: Was so sick last Thursday I had to text bobbi to call my mother to come bring water and some juice I couldn't even. speak properly. But I finally did get the gathering started even though I want in it. First gathering I've missed in like nine months and the only zoom gathering..

Thanks for taking the time. Last week was a nightmare (see other post) working on the cards now for last and this week.

I got really sick this week. Probably for the best that I didn't see this 1 reply post. I "made it" finally but was too sick to really speak or get on camera. I'll make a "black card" for this gathering.

The tool i usually use to make the cards host site seems to be down at the moment and I'm too tired to stay up and wait. I'll get to the cards when I have time and its back up. Based around this :

And then there where two. Getting close to closing up shop if this is how little interest there is (in the cards.) I'm going broke with all the other things and now the additional $15 a month for zoom. I can't keep spending time on something if only 3 people or less care about it. Not that I'm stopping this week or next week or even next month. I'm also done being the only promoter. 20 years is enough. Again, not that I'm quitting. Just it gets harder to justify the time. Same goes for the zoom meetings.

Thanks for taking the time. I'm behind on the cards but i just spent ALL DAY yesterday trying to catch up. I have them all caught up now , at least the "hard" part which is actually designing them / printing them. Putting the lamination on and such is just time consuming. Mostly its the Patreon cards I was behind on) I'm hoping to send all the stuff out next week sometime. Its crazy how little "awake time" I have. Trying to get everything done that I have to do just to survive in like 5-7 hours is a lot harder than I thought. I've always been a "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" sort of guy. Not to say that system is working crazy good. But I'm not throwing in the towel.

Its interesting how Asian "pop music" resembles 80s-90s american music so much. Reminds me of the days when MTV still had music! ha.

I know you try brother. And its appreciated. I just can only split the pie into so many slices. (My 5 hours a day of actual "functional" time) Beta-max was better than VHS. Mini disks were Better than CDs. Skype had a 17 year head start and zoom ate its lunch in 2 weeks. Message boards are better than so-called "social media". (picture sharing networks). Sega was better than Nintendo (early on). But its what people are going to actually use. Almost everyone is on zoom now. Its sort of like Instagram. Of the big three Instagram sucks the hardest but its the fastest growing. Teaching people to learn a new technology on top of dragging them kicking and screaming to a meeting is a nightmare. I am open to the discord idea. I'm not open to promoting it. I'm exhausted 24/7 already... and its getting worse. No one wants to promote or has the time to. Back when I was going HAM on DGN it took me 2 years to find 3 decent promoters to help me. Having said that, at least YouTube is growing despite no one here watching it. That probably will get large enough for discord that I don't have to do much to promote at some point. I seem to be attracting submissives and goths. (Exactly my target audience anyway for the you-tube channel). It'll be a while though since I'm only getting like 20 new subscribers a month. (Although that is more new subscribers than I got in the first YEAR when I first started.

Thought you might think it was interesting. Damn picture didn't come out too well.

Its awesome that you keep up with this. I especially like the silver gold bronze thing.

Much of the guidance comes in sound bytes that don't tell the whole story. Intentionally so, because people can't even be bothered to read a 2 minute Facebook post much less pay attention to something ACTUALLY IMPORTANT. They are too busy watching TickTok or some other human life imperative. So it needs to be a blunt sword message. Nuance doesn't work on the masses, sadly. Digging deeply into the WHO website and the CDC website you can find nuanced messages but they aren't on the front page or even the "second layer". Hell we can't even get people to care about the end of a livable earth for the bottom 90%. The "Don't wear masks" was early on when PPE was especially in short supply and medical professionals need it far more than Joe Blow does. (This is still true but manufacturing and distribution has ramped up enough) They also said "make your own" (which are often better than ones you buy) but 1. People are lazy. 2. People don't have the skill or patience. 3. Its a difficult sell. (I've never even seriously considered it.) Meanwhile one of the girls in the zoom meeting was hand making them while chatting. The WHO has never once recommended 6 feet while the western world is unified on the subject. They have to make guidance that wont collapse smaller countries. 6 feet is barely realistic in developed economies. The WHO has said 1 Meter since day one and its still right on their front page. Has never changed. Also we live in a sort-of democracy. (for at least the next few months anyway) Most places are STILL just "suggestions" meanwhile its a fact that not socially distancing and not wearing masks kills people. Best place to live in a pandemic? A dictatorship that is on top of this. You wear your fucking mask and stay socially distanced the end. No bullshit anti science or debate. Have any questions about that? No you don't. Now shut up. Dictatorships (almost every single one one earth) is also on board with the Paris Climate Accords, even Saudi Arabia one of the most anti-science places in the world doesn't have the greed enough to be anti-earth. We have a special kind of moron in america. We have four things going on all at once that many people are just ignoring: 1. A national obesity epidemic. The CDC has been screaming bloody murder about this for 20 years. But, they have no megaphone with which to send the message. Only 12% of people in america are actually considered healty. Its called "Metabolic Health". KEY REASON deaths to covid are worse in america than other places in the world. Along with the Mad King making it worse. 2. COVID 3. The End of Days (Impending Climate Change) The younger people being born right now have every right to murder us in our sleep. We knew what was wrong and did nothing. Still doing next to nothing. You'd think his would be the top story every day all day. Nasa has been screaming about this since the 80s. In Europe its a daily conversation. In america the top three networks combined spent a grand total of 200 minutes talking about climate change in 2019. The rain forest is on fire. One out of every three breaths you take originated in the amazon. A near year-round "Hurricane Season". Some island nations are now underwater. Miami is being destroyed by rising sea levels same for Hawaii. Arctic ice that has NEVER melted since humans have been alive are getting record temperatures. Some diseases trapped in that ice have never come into contact with humans. We are at the start of a MASS EXTINCTION EVENT such as the dinosaurs dying. In some cases up to 90% of all life on earth had been wiped out. Every couple hundred million years this happens due to a bad-luck perfect storm (humans have never been around to see one). This one is man made before. 4. Rising suicide rate. Its now the number 10 leading cause of death in america for the first time in history. It is the number 1 cause of preventable deaths among millennials. Isolation and lack of socializing is the core reason. "Not my problem" seems to be our opinion on everything in america. Now skyrocketing in the age of covid. The data can't be compiled fast enough.

@GraphiteIs this meant to be "my top ten picks for this time period? Pretty neat regardless. Never even heard of a few of these before.

Too long and deep to explain here. 🌊 Scenes Of Lovemaking by Sugimura Jihei. Belived to be from the 1680s. (Early-Mid Edo Period) 🇯🇵 Considered one of the masterworks of Japanese Erotica. The Gathering 225 Z. 🔥 @TronRP

Thanks @TronRP @sekhmet2002 @Nitewolf Guys you know you don't even need to have the video on right? You can just lurk and type in the text chat. Its stupid easy. I don't have the cards done yet or Id post a picture here. Been running on 2 hour of sleep every day for the last week and last two nights no sleep at all. I didn't know this sort of "just survive" thing could get this bad. I thought just the regular PTSD was a nightmare (which are back ugh) , Now I WISH the old PTSD without the insomnia would come back.

Thanks to the embarrassingly small number of people that bothered to post. X10 Thanks to Tron for posting this as always.

I didn't even see that! Thanks for doing that! There is a "House Spiral Discord" but so few people use the existing resources adding yet another one just splits the party further. I've yet to even suggest anyone use it other than bobbi.