Call me Kazz! (with two Zs) I'm a Canadian/Australian dual citizen living in South Australia. LA by Night and NY by Night twitch mod. I'm into lots of seemingly random stuff. I write fanfiction, cross stitch and play a lot of table top RPGs. Cis. Het. She/Her. Gangrel. Taurus. Neutral Good.
I am a dual Canadian/Australian citizen currently living in South Australia. I grew up in the 90’s, so 90’s nostalgia is my jam. My husband and I have been together since 2011. He is in most of my same RP games. I work retail in a grocery store and have a (useless) bachelor of arts in English and History, a Graduate Diploma in Education and a degree in Library Studies. Orcas are my favourite animal, although I’m also partial to cats, dogs, red-tailed hawks, Australian magpies and guinea pigs.
I’m currently the owner of three guinea pigs named Sable, Neil and Buzz. Check out their side blog HERE.
My hobbies are writing fanfic, playing RPGs, video games and cross stitching.
Link to my Fanfic on Ao3
Link to fuckyeahlabynight Tumblr's largest collection of everything to do with LA by Night and NY by Night.
Link to my Cross Stitching Side Blog
Link to my public Spotify Playlists, including the ones I made for the Kindred clans.
My CURRENT Fandoms include (but are not limited to):
Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss
LA By Night, NY by Night and Vampire the Masquerade in general
Critical Role
Dropout.tv
Doctor Who
Good Omens
I also love SMOSH, Dropout.tv, Last Podcast on the Left (and other true crime/spooky/disaster podcasts,) Disney, Shakespeare, Norse, Greek and Egyptian mythology, most films, musicals and theatre in general. My favourite musicals include Cats, Phantom of the Opera, Little Shop of Horrors, Six, Beetlejuice, Hadestown, and Les Misérables. I also love the Starkid musicals.
Past fandoms include Pirates of the Caribbean, The Dresden Files, Star Wars, the X-Men, Spider-Man, Marvel and the MCU, Batman and the DCU, Hellsing, Hannibal, Dracula Daily, Animorphs, Discworld, Game of Thrones, Supernatural, Smallville, Harry Potter, Team Four Star, Achievement Hunter, Death Note, Wolf’s Rain, True Blood, How to Train Your Dragon, Steam Powered Giraffe, Lord of the Rings, Rifftrax, The Sandman, American Gods, and Transformers.
My favourite video games include Dead by Daylight, The Sims 4, Wingspan, Power Wash Simulator, Hunter: Call of the Wild, Stardew Valley, Jackbox Games, Unpacking, House Flipper and Steamworld Heist.
I prefer watching streamers play horror games rather than playing them myself. (I make an exception for DbD, as I’ve become a killer main and that’s a lot less scary than playing survivor.)
I’m also into reading runes/tarot cards and doing some magicy stuff from time to time.
Current RPG games I’m Gming or are playing in:
Vampire the Masquerade 5th edition
Scion
A homebrew game called "Becalmed" using the nWoD system.
RPG Systems I have played in the past include:
Most New World of Darkness systems. (“Vanilla” WoD, Vampire: the Requiem, Werewolf: the Forsaken, Changeling: the Lost, Hunter: the Vigil and Mage: the Awakening, while also running games with Geists and Prometheans.)
Call of Cthulhu
Dread
Exalted (2nd and 3rd ed.)
Dungeons and Dragons (3.5 and 5th edition)
Spirit of the Century
Pathfinder
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Monster of the Week
The Buffy the Vampire Slayer RPG
Apoc World
Shadowrun
Only War
Star Wars: Edge of the Empire
Marvel Multiverse RPG
Please note that though I used to love a lot of things that have *problematic* creators, that does NOT mean I support or condone the actions of those creators. I may still reblog things from those fandoms from time to time.
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signs at stores? émail? menu ?? instruction ? post online ? caption with andswer to question ? group hand outs ??? street sign ??? no. The Written Word Is The Enemy
#The number of compliments i have gotten for reading a thing
The ability to occasionally Read A Thing will make you a hero in your workplace, especially if it is for example an error message that tells you what you need to do differently, or instructions on unjamming a printer.
I work in tech, and much of what I do is support sales reps within the company by resolving errors with the software they use.
There is one sales rep who, every single time I send her a message or email with extremely specific instructions that will resolve her issue, does something completely different from what I tell her. Every time. Without fail. It is so glaringly obvious that she has never read even a single word that I have written to her.
So one day, she sends me a message that says little more than "(software) is broken, help"
So I do my standard song and dance of asking her what she's trying to accomplish, and what specifically is stopping her from doing that. And eventually, after much unnecessary back and forth, she tells me there's an error message. I ask her to send me a screenshot of the error message. She does.
The error message basically says, "these two required fields are blank. To resolve this, please fill in these two specific fields, and then click save."
So I take a few deep breaths.
Then I lie to her.
I message her back, saying "hey yeah, for some reason it's not loading that screenshot on my end. Could you type out the full text of the error message for me?"
Client is reporting that Some Thing Program doesn't work. I ask if there's an error message with further information about what's not working. Client says "no". I go over and ask Client to open Some Thing. Client double-clicks on the icon for Some Thing, it starts to boot, an error message dialog flashes up on screen, Client closes error message before I can read it, Thing closes after the error.
"What did that error message say?" I ask.
"What error message?" asks Client.
I tell Client to open the Some Thing again and then not click anything else. Client opens Some Thing, error message appears, Client clicks it away again.
I tell Client to stand up, step away, and give me physical control of the computer. I open Some Thing, start looking at the error message without closing it, and Client says "You should close that." I tell Client that I am reading the error message. Client is apparently accustomed to treating error messages as a kind of spam email that should be deleted as fast as possible, and gets agitated that I'm reading it.
I read the error message. It tells me what the problem is. I fix the problem. Some Thing works now.
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Later, I start thinking about how such an error message might perhaps be engineered to be more attention-grabbing and close-resistant as a way of making people read it. It's not important for some random program here, but there are more important systems (medical, etc) where it would be reasonable to demand the user's attention because people's lives depend on paying attention to the error message.
But then people with a perverted intellect would still be thinking about ways to avoid reading the message, like dragging it off edge of screen or hiding it behind another window. So maybe the dialog box could have an always-in-front feature to override other windows, and the alert could use the computer's hardware "beep" functionality that can't be switched off by muting the regular sound system, and keep beeping... shit, I realize I'm reinventing pain, and get philosophical about it.
I've found myself realizing I failed to Read a Thing on occasion. On other times, I was typing it into Google when I realized I already knew the answer.
I've solved this problem in the past in some creative ways.
My favorite was a recurring issue where, in an accounting system, there were two reports. One displayed the running summary of all cash in all accounts. The other one did that, but also ended the quarter, cleared the ledger, and started a fresh new quarter.
One user in particular kept running the second report too early, when they intended to run the first report. Then they'd call in a panic, wondering "where did all the money go?!"
It already had an ARE YOU SURE? prompt in front of that report. But the user blindly clicked YES without thinking. Every time.
So we added a second ARE YOU REALLY SURE? prompt after that, and moved the YES button someplace else. The user quickly adapted to that.
The final thing that worked? We replaced the ARE YOU SURE? prompt with a requirement that they type out the phrase YES I REALLY WANT TO CLOSE THE QUARTER into a floating text box then click OK.
The first time they encountered that they called us.
Asked us about "the weird new error" and what they had to do to get around it. We asked, "it's not the end of the quarter. Do you REALLY want to run that report?"
After thinking about it for two seconds they said "nope" and hung up.
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*walks up to a group of children playing raptor* you wouldn't want to be chased by raptors in real life, i say smugly with my vast knowledge as an Adult.
stop. analyse that text through the lens of its author's intentions and original historical context. okay now take the author out back and kill them dead and analyse that text as though it were published by your mutual yesterday and is in direct conversation with the contemporary discourse that's most relevant to your life. okay now pick your favorite angle of interpretation and come up with the strongest possible argument against it. now imagine that the text is your best friend and that it means you well and that you naturally give it every benefit of the doubt because you're on its side and you want the best for it. now imagine that the text wants you dead and it'll eat you if you don't eat it first. now pretend that you found this text locked away in a cave with no evidence of when or where it came from and you have to divine its meaning solely through its internal coherence and nothing else. okay now address the elephant in the room aspect of the text you've been ignoring because you find it boring or confusing or uncomfortable and become the number one expert on it. now spend forty minutes assigning all the characters dnd classes with at least three sentences of reasoning each. okay now do the cha cha slide.
