#types of ERP

[eastsonstech]

Enterprise Resource Planning or ERP is the next-generation software that helps businesses to streamline their functions and operations. In this cutthroat business environment, ERP software helps businesses to understand which projects can lead to success, and which to failure. That said, many have claimed that ERP Software development cost is higher than their entire business cost.

To read full post, Visit: https://tech.eastsons.com/blog/how-much-does-it-cost-to-develop-an-erp-software-in-usa

[floortile34]

when i die, if my body isnt useful for science or such, would tbh give it to a necгophile. have a new toy :3

[musical-chick-13]

Again, always very confusing to me when people suffering from The Obsessive Compulsives are Antis™, like these people will not protect you. They believe thought crimes are real. They inherently hate you and WILL throw you to the wolves if they ever come to know about anything related to your intrusive thoughts or the """""weird""""" things they ask you to do in therapy to manage/cope with them.

[anarkhebringer]

I wanna start going back to Balmung when I get my better desktop next year, I have friends there that I haven't seen in-game in forever and I wanna say hi to them.

[syscest]

Species-affirming cybersex. That is all

that's NOT all because I'm gonna break down these concepts and how they work.

species first. reffing chapter 2 of plural respect, system members have self-perceptions that can differ from the body and don't have to resemble things that exist in the outside world - and a shared understanding of this can help you connect. Nonhuman types often shorthand this as "species" to indicate something left field of human - but it practically encompasses impossible-human stuff like "human with a curse" or "human that's a wizard" and inorganics like "sentient computer virus" or "reanimated skeleton" for most use cases - anything physically impossible enough. if you're into shapeshifter language, you might prefer "form" - same difference.

with that in mind let's talk cybering. Cybersex in most of its forms is collaborative fantasy. You're taking "thinking about a hot thing" and extending it to include someone else over the internet somehow. Though valid barebones sexting can be purely something like discussing physically occurring masturbation, it usually involves constructing a scene of some kind and (though its rarely admitted) you're basically collaboratively writing smut fanfiction about you and your hookup.

I think breaking the "this is weird" glass is critical to engage with this properly and prevent mystifying it. yes you are writing self insert oc fiction with a friend over the internet, yes you're gonna be horny about it. and yes omg you DO get to choose the tense case and perspective you prefer to write in this is huge and nobody says it.

Furry ERP communities (owing to a common layer of seperation between the selves) often use third person language, refer to sonas by name, and put dialogue in quotes: (confused, she pokes her friend's arm. "Hello?" she whispers, "Anyone home?") etc etc, providing a clear seperation between OOC and not. You might find this stiff or impersonal or booky - and there's a tonne of variation you can apply to see if it fixes that:

first-person pronouns: (I poke your arm. "Hello?" I whisper. "Anyone home?")

qualify actions instead of dialogue: ([she pokes her friend's arm] hello? is anyone home?) - this also removes hard OOC separation, enabling chitchat

both: ([I poke your arm] hello? is anyone home?)

both while avoiding self-references where possible: (*pokes your arm* hello? is anyone home?)

So sexting gives you a canvas, and because it's collaborative smut writing, it really doesn't require you to adhere to what regular humans do and look and feel like. You can write directly about your metaphysical forms interacting because you're literally out here playing pretend for fun.

It definitely works for some people and doesn't for others, but don't get caught in "what do I write". you can't focus on cybersex being *good*, focus on silly little whims and suggesting whatever comes to your head - start by finishing the sentence "if I had you in a room right now, I'd __". Its a silly little playpen for exploring eachother's sexuality and relationship to themself, just be nice to eachother and run with it.

And, yknow, affirming? well, as long as you communicate well, take the standard safety measures you would for any kink scene, and understand consent applies just as much when you're acting out text - then you can do/pretend/play/perform all kinds of stuff via text cybersex you can't do in-person. It's a great way to connect with these parts of yourself and resulting tendencies, and acquire stupid fantastical kinks about it. All new weird ways to be found (find yourself?) attractive.

Ok. well. unrelated tangent. you CAN do it in person. invoking weird nonhuman or otherwise metaphysical junk in bed is not strictly typing only - for one you can literally bring your phone TO bed and do mixed-media sex where you get to sext *and* get handsy, but that's not even the point. Sexting might make you a sex-fanfic-author but don't forget you can be a sex-wrestler/sex-theatre-performer too - talk to your hookup about the impossible things you'd like to do, and then do things that physically resemble them and you can both enjoy filling in the blanks. Your brain WILL help, if you're thinking about picking someone up with your tentacles and you use your body's arms, you'll naturally want to move them in a different kind of way, and you'll both pick up on it. The more you engage, the more it comes through in how you move. Hell, you can even check verbally if you're understanding things right - "is that your arm" etc etc. It's a more complicated, subtextual language, but it can be a LOT of fun.

Anyway, species-affirming cybersex :)

[softerseasons]

Juno, out of curiosity, what does an accountant DO? What does it mean to be one? Because I know there's math involved. I've heard it's very boring. But I don't know anything else and I'm curious because you're very good at putting things to words.

Okay first of all, I cannot express just how excited I got when I first saw this message. There is nothing I love more than talking about things I know about, and usually when my career is mentioned I don't get questions so much as immediate "Oh, bless you" and "I could never"s. Which- totally fair! For some people, accounting would be boring as all hell! But for a multitude of reasons, I adore it.

There are multiple types of accounting. The type most people tend to be more familiar with is that done by CPAs- CPAs, or Certified Public Accountants, are those that have done the lengthy and expensive process to be certified to handle other peoples' tax documents and submit taxes in their name, amongst other things. Yawn, taxes, right? Well, the thing with that is that there's a lot of little loopholes that tax accountants have to remain familiar with, because saving their clients a little more here or getting a little more back there can really add up, and can do a lot for people who, say, have enough money to afford to hire someone to do their taxes but not necessarily enough to be going hog wild with. Public accountants can work for large firms or by themselves, and also do things like preparing financial statements for businesses, auditing businesses to ensure all of their financial transactions are true and accurately reported to shareholders and clients, and consulting on how finances can be managed to maximize profit (money in - money out = profit, in very simple terms).

The type of accounting I do is private accounting! That basically just means that I work for a company in their in-house accounting/finance department. Private accounting tends to get split up into several different areas. My company has Payroll, Accounts Receivable, and Accounts Payable.

Payroll handles everyone's paychecks, PTO, ensuring the correct amount of taxes are withheld from individuals per their desires, and so on. Accounts Receivable handles money flow into the company- so when our company sells the product/service, our Accounts Receivable people are the ones who review the work, create the invoices, send the invoices to the clients, remind clients about overdue invoices, receive incoming payments via ACH (Automatic Clearing House- direct bank-to-bank deposits), Wire (Usually used for international transactions), or Check, and prepare statements that show how much revenue we are expected to gain in a period of time, or have gained in a period of time. This requires a lot of interfacing with clients and project managers.

My department is Accounts Payable. Accounts Payable does basically the other side of the coin from what Accounts Receivable does. We work mostly with vendors and our purchasing/receiving departments. We receive invoices from people and companies that have sold us products/services we need in order to make our own products/perform our services, enter them into our ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning, a system that integrates the departments in a company together- there are many different ERPs, and most people simply refer to their ERP as "the system" when talking internally to other employees of the same company that they work at, because saying the name of the system is redundant) using a set of codes that automatically places the costs into appropriate groups to be referenced for later financial reports, and run the payment processing to ensure that the vendors are being paid.

To break that down because I know that was a lot of words, here's some things I do in my day-to-day at work:

- Reconciliations, making sure two different statements match up: the most common one is Credit Card reconciliations, ensuring that there are appropriately coded entries in the system that match the payments made on our credit line in our bank.

- Invoice entry: this is basic data entry, for the most part. This can have two different forms, though

- Purchase Order Invoice entry: Invoices that are matched both to the service/product provided from the vendor and the purchase order created by our Purchasing/Receiving department. We ensure that the item, the quantity, and the price all match between our records, the purchase order, and the invoice, before we enter this.

- Hard Coded Invoice entry: Invoices that we enter manually due to there being no Purchase Order for them. This is often recurring services, like cleaning or repairs, that may happen too often or have prices vary too much for Purchase Orders to be practical.

- Cleaning up old purchase orders: sometimes Purchase Orders are put in the system and then never fulfilled. Because this shows on financial statements as being a long-standing open commitment, it looks bad, so we have to periodically research these and find out if the vendor simply didn't send us the invoice, if the order was cancelled, or if something else is going on.

- Forensics! This is my personal favorite part of the job, where someone has massively borked something that is affecting my work, and so I go dig into it, sometimes going back as four or five years in records to find the origin point of the first mistake, and untangling the threads of what happened following that mistake to get us to where we are today. There's an entire field called Forensic Accounting that is basically just doing This but for other companies (it's a subset of auditing, and often is done via the IRS) and that's my dream position to be totally honest. I loooove the dopamine hit i get with solving the mystery and getting praised for doing so faster than anyone else has even begun to realize the problem to start with.

- Balancing Credits/Debits: This is more of a Main Accountant role thing, but the long and short of it is that every business has Assets, Liabilities, and Equity. Liabilities and Equity are what we put into the company/what we owe, and assets are what we have received/what we are owed. Anything that increases Assets or lowers Liabilities or Equity is a Debit. Anything that decreases Assets or raises Liabilities or Equity is a Credit. Every monetary change we process has to include an equal Debit and Credit. This is its own whole lecture, so if you wanna know more about double-entry accounting, let me know, but it's yawnsville for most people.

- Actually cutting checks or initiating bank payments to vendors for amounts we owe them.

- Vendor communication: I'm on the phones and email a lot with vendors who are wondering where their payment is, or why something was short-paid, or if I can change some of their info in our system, and so on and so on. Every job is customer service, unfortunately. I don't love it, but I do a lot less of it in private accounting than I would have to do in public accounting.

- Spreadsheets: I make so many spreadsheets I am a goddamn Excel wizard. I love spreadsheets. This isn't necessarily accounting-specific though, most people in Finance jobs love spreadsheets, or at least use them to make their lives easier. I make them just for fun, because I'm a giant fucking nerd who finds that kind of thing enjoyable lol. So if you ever need a spreadsheet made for anything, hit me up.

As for math, that's a pretty common misconception. While there is math, it is very rarely more complicated than "I paid $3 of the $8 I owe, now I owe $5" for me. There are some formulas you learn in school (Business Administration with a focus in Accounting is what I studied), but they're also pretty standard and rarely include more than like... basic algebra. Which. Thanks @ god because I flunked so hard out of pre-calc in college. I could not have done accounting if it really were all that math heavy.

Aaaand yeah! That's all I've got off the top of my head- if you have any more questions about it, do let me know, I'm happy to ramble on for hours, but I'm cutting it here so I don't start meandering on without direction lol.

[musical-chick-13]

Wow, "What Is It About Her?" from The Wild Party really hits different when it's sung by a woman, huh.

[wyrmguardsecrets]

Different anon from the Community Protection Tips anon, but also sharing some RED FLAGS to look for in anyone who you're starting to RP with: DRAMA VICTIM - If, as soon as you start to talk to someone, they go on and on about how many awful people have grudges against them for no reason or due to jealousy or because they're scheming and abusive, that's a RED FLAG. This is a sign that someone is trying to add you to the buffering army between themselves and the people calling them out for their bad behavior by setting the narrative on their terms before you can hear the other side. LOVE BOMBING - They are constantly, right off the bat, telling you how wonderful you are, your writing is, your character is, how much they adore the story you're doing, they offer you gifts of game time and in-game items, every time you log in they're right there wanting to whisk you away. Yes, sometimes people are genuinely impressed and excited when they meet new people and stories are starting up, but if they never give you a minute to interact with anyone else and go way over the top with it and it's all IMMEDIATELY on starting RP with them, that's a RED FLAG. It's a sign that once you're firmly under their thumb they'll suddenly go cold and leave you hanging when you're safely in their collection and they've moved on to their next victim. They'll still count on you to defend and support them IC and OOC, though, this is another type of defensive army building. PUSHING BOUNDARIES - You say right in your TRP that you're not interested in romance, but wouldn't a date be CUTE? You say right in your TRP, no ERP. But maybe you can just play out MOST of the way then fade to black? Your characters are in a relationship and they want to see what it would be like! You've talked it over and you're really not comfortable with certain themes due to your personal preferences, but just this ONCE they have SUCH a cool idea...This is a RED FLAG. They won't stop pushing until they've gotten you to agree to what they want, and what they want will be a constantly moving target. PUNISHING YOU - You were talking to this person OOC every day, but then the story took a turn that they didn't like, your character didn't do EXACTLY what they wanted them to, and now suddenly you're getting the cold shoulder OOC. Sometimes not even just from the person you were directly playing with, but also their friends and other people they know. This is a RED FLAG, they're trying to control you and "train" you to not go counter to their whims in the future by enforcing unrelated OOC consequences on you and may even be spreading stories about you to the people they know to isolate you and farm for sympathy.

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[batmanisagatewaydrug]

My QPP and I started doing kinky ERP with each other over Discord, something I'm really proud of since I have trauma associated with ERP in my past. Due to that trauma though, I don't really know any good etiquette for it. I'm not sure how to word this but do you have any tips for making sure it's fulfilling for both of us and aftercare tips? We're long distance and most ideas I see are for physical sex

-😇😇 (so I can search for it easier)

hi anon,

the best way to make sure that both of you are feeling fulfilled and cared for is to talk to each other about what you each like, want, need, and expect to get out of the experience, as well as any concerns you may want to address and the what, if any, type of care you want and need after and brainstorming ways to meet those needs together. and then, you know, continuing to talk about that and raising any issues that arise for either of you. it's the same as any other kind of sex, you just have to talk to each other.

[batsu4eva]

Long rant ab the fuckass server I'm leaving AKA Why You Never Join RP Servers From Disboard

Okay so I won't name any names for two reasons: One because I'm not an ass and TWO bc I'm afraid one of the server owners will find this post n yell at me even though I don't even know if they have a Tumblr <333 anyways this is gonna be mostly bullet points where I put as much bad shit as I remember from this server I joined while it's still fresh in my mind. And ofc I wanna use my character Carrie again so if you have anywhere BETTER I could rp let me know <333 anyways now onto the hater shit

So first of all, important thing about my character is she has a mortal partner and I mentioned that, and obviously knowing how the lore is I was like "She's going to keep her girlfriend a secret though because she does realize how that would go down if anyone knew" and they straight up said no???? And me, being socially awkward, immediately left in response bc I didn't have anyone else in mind to use as a character LMFAO- and it was only then that they asked me to rejoin and they changed their tune and said it was okay?? I did have my character ghoul her gf later so it was fine but that was... weird. But ok

Another thing about my character is: She does urban exploration in deserted buildings for aesthetic pics! Very risky obviously but one of the main points I was making about my character is that she's a very reckless fledgling girl. So she makes stupid decisions sometimes. Her sire is dead y'all she's gonna be a little dumb. But anyways I tagged an ST for these types of scenes exactly TWICE and then never again because every time he kinda just sent random bullshit at me to basically chase me out of the area and whatever I was rping??? It honestly irritated me because even if they DID feel the idea was dumb I wish they would've just told me instead of this??? Idk if they were trying to prove a point here or what

I'm not irritated that my character couldn't just do what she wanted to be clear- I'm just irritated that most of the rp was straight up "no" instead of giving me anything to work with. Like if they didn't like the idea I wish they'd just have told me!!! I feel like they just didn't like me for whatever reason. Anyways

I am going to leave a screenshot here relating to our nsfw server and let that speak for itself for this next point.

Anyways… 💅💅💅

Me and other people would start rps just to be told last second "actually you can't do it in this channel because of x reason" which was irritating bc then I'd have to plan around it last second and like. Everyone in this server is an adult with a job so we don't have all the time in the world to plan around this...

People would take LITERALLY FUCKING FOREVER to respond to rps I am so serious. I once saw an rp be NINE DAYS LONG and they were hardly doing anything except HAVING TEA TIME IM BEING DEADASS RIGHT NOW THAT WAS LITERALLY IT

I don't blame the entire server on this but have a horror story within the horror story. So there was this one player who immediately wanted to ERP with me and to their credit they did ask first. So we did it because my weakness is that I'm a slut in theory <3 (it was... not good. I don't think that person had ever had sex with a woman before and the way they typed responses was SO BAD) and they kept like horny messaging me in like ALL THEIR MESSAGES and like as hyper sexual and very 18+ as this blog is I don't like talking about sex ALL THE TIME. This motherfucker somehow made SEX unsexy it was pissing me off. So they disappeared for a while and I forgot about them and then they came back and they dmed me right? And they were like "What have you been up to" and I was just like "Oh I'm actually working on a lot of stuff! :)" (bc I was) and they were like "haha me too" and sent a gif of a porn actor beating off and ngl. That shit pissed me off so bad I just had my bf take my phone and respond "He's busy rn lil bro ;)" before blocking LMAO. Sorry, I was NOT the bigger person in that situation. Anyways end of my mini horror story haha

People were using ai as their literal character profiles. Not joking. They used ai for a LOT of stuff and I was dying inside as I kept seeing it happening.

THEY OPENED A FUCKING BATTLE ARENA SECTION??????

Like there were several rp channels in the server that suddenly opened up while I was there where characters would randomly teleport there and fight to the death before being revived back in... well, Seattle because that's where this server was set. I guess that's a fun concept for a different ttrpg but this is VTM???? The whole point is that the setting is realistic and gritty and. This felt so anime MMO THAT should've been the final straw for me and it just. Wasn't.

Should also mention that in response to experiencing this for the first time one of the characters said VERBATIM "Is this... how do they say, an isekai?" That shit pissed me off SO BAD I wanted to throw my phone away lmfaoooo

Oh also for some of the characters who were mid rp when they left just. Had their characters killed off after they left. No joke AT ALLLLL

The server owners and staff had like 3895783475029380328 characters in the server and mostly interacted with each other :/

And last but not least this fuckass ruling that doesn't even make sense????

Like that literally doesn't even make sense in either V20 OR V5 or any of the versions actually but okay we are just in a made up world now I guess. GOD I FEEL INSANE

That's it though hope u enjoyed my rant!!! I certainly learned a lot from this experience haha. It felt good to get this all out and if u all have better servers I'd be glad to join bc I wanna give Carrie something better than this bc she's my fav girl <333 that it now end of post yayyyyyyy!

[traumasurvivorshelpingsurvivors]

do you have any advice for someone with gender identity ocd? :(

i can’t trust myself anymore to know what pronouns i like or what clothes i like or what i want for my body… the dissociation is getting bad :(

Hey anon,

OCD can be very stressful. It's important to recognize that Gender Identity OCD is, at its foundation, OCD. It doesn't revolve around your gender, but your cognitive inability to deal with uncertainty. Thus, it can and should be helped with OCD support, as opposed to gender identity support. Focusing so much on the questioning aspect of your gender is what your OCD is fixating on. I would encourage you to directly challenge that. Here are some different support resources for OCD that might help you.

This is a site called OCD Challenge. It is one of my favorite resources for OCD.

This here is a list of OCD Related books and workbooks you might find helpful. Particularly the Self Help category.

The NOCD has many resources and blog posts with information, as well as tips for managing OCD.

Not Alone Notes is an organization that connects people with OCD and aims to bring support and end stigma. There is also a list of resources on their website you may find helpful.

OCD Gamechangers is an organization that helps provide professional help, resources, and other support to people with OCD.

OCD UK has some resources that go over different kinds of professional help and things that could reduce the weight of OCD.

If you haven't, I would highly suggest ERP therapy, which is a type of CBT especially for OCD. It could help you immensely.

I hope some of these help, anon.

~ Mod Night

[lizard-arlund]

Intro post!

My name is Gabby, pronouns are she/her, and this page is dedicated to my FFXIV oc Ami Arlund.

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Ami is a spunky, tomboy, Au Ra Raen from Nagxia. She's super small, super fast, and pretty strong.

She's an absolute weirdo.

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Some facts about her!

-Her lips are naturally green! 💋

-She's a Lancer, not a Dragoon. 🐲

-She's only 4'9 and weighs about 40 pounds. 🤸‍♀️

-Her teeth are very chipped and crooked. 🦷

-She's pretty damn weird. 🪲

-Her element is wind, she can manipulate it very well. 🍃

-She's blessed by the primal Garuda. 🪽

-While she's small, she has some unrelenting power behind her. 💪

-She smells bad! 🧄

If you want to learn more about her lore, you can find it here:

ami-arlund.carrd.co

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Rules for interaction

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-Her canon is mine, I'm not a lore purist and take some liberties but I do try and keep it as close to the story as I can

-She's extremely important to me, so please don't insult her. I have my boundaries when it comes to negative comments about her, I would appreciate you accepting those boundaries.

-This is a safe space for me to express her, and my love for her. She is my hyper fixation and developing her and watching her grow is my biggest hobby.

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Ami and I are both Ace, I take my boundaries very serious which means:

-No sexual comments about Ami

-No ERP

-Don't be a creep

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Facts about Gabby (Me)

-I am genderfluid, but mainly identify with female pronouns

-I'm an expat from Australia now living in the US!

-I enjoy alot of music but my favorite bands are Cult of Luna, Supertramp, Bell Witch, Holy Fawn, and Violent Soho.

-My favorite type of games are Roguelikes. And my favorite games in order are Risk of Rain 2, Dead Cells, Roboquest, Sifu, and Final Fantasy XIV

-I am Autistic

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Thanks for stopping by, I hope you enjoy my infodumps and pictures of Ami!

Much love 💚