paizo.com Favorited Posts by Kelsey MacAilbertpaizo.com Favorited Posts by Kelsey MacAilbert2024-01-02T19:41:36Z2024-01-02T19:41:36ZForums/Paizo: General Discussion: Why does Paizo continue to do business with Bill Webb?Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs43tuq?Why-does-Paizo-continue-to-do-business-with#12023-06-09T05:41:29Z2023-06-04T00:27:23Z<p>Your company, at this very moment, has dozens of Bill Webb's products for sale on the Paizo storefront. Bill Webb, the man who has assaulted and harassed several women at Paizocon events, and who physically injured a Paizo employee for intervening in his creep behavior. Bill Webb also jumped into the ORC lisense movement withoout even a response from Paizo. M You have, almost six years after this man hurt your own emoloyee and chased someone else out of the industry, not even seen fit to even cut off business ties with this individual? Is that how little regard for the safety of your own employees and of your convention goers you have? Can I trust your company to be a safe and inclusive environment right now? Because I'm not sure I can.</p>Your company, at this very moment, has dozens of Bill Webb's products for sale on the Paizo storefront. Bill Webb, the man who has assaulted and harassed several women at Paizocon events, and who physically injured a Paizo employee for intervening in his creep behavior. Bill Webb also jumped into the ORC lisense movement withoout even a response from Paizo. M You have, almost six years after this man hurt your own emoloyee and chased someone else out of the industry, not even seen fit to even...Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2023-06-04T00:27:23ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=5515?Deep-6-FaWtL#2757172023-02-20T20:39:21Z2023-02-16T19:32:43Z<p>Anyway reason I left and am back are basically the same, and pretty simple. I left because I stopped playing Pathfinder, so I stopped frequenting on the Paizo forums. I'd switched over to D&d 5e (though I never did begin using WOTCs forums). Now I'm switching from 5e to PF2e, so now it makes sense to be on the Paizo forums again. And I' not jumping to Pathfinder because I'm mad at WOTC over the OGL thing. What it's about is, back in the PF1e days, I really liked the Alchemist and Witch and wrapped those into my worldbuilding. I never really stopped using them, but 5e just cannot provide a suitable replacement, and it's been a frustration for years. And my favorite monster type has long been undead, which 2e has released a whole supplement for in Book of the Dead, and Dark Archive also looks interesting. I am pro-muzzleloading firearms in D&D, there's Guns and Gears. The Kineticist is coming to 2e soon for all my Avatar needs. In general I love archetypes as a concept. I prefer the higher level of character options of PF over modern D&D. It just sorta feels like PF2e better fits what I actually want to do in my fantasy.</p>Anyway reason I left and am back are basically the same, and pretty simple. I left because I stopped playing Pathfinder, so I stopped frequenting on the Paizo forums. I'd switched over to D&d 5e (though I never did begin using WOTCs forums). Now I'm switching from 5e to PF2e, so now it makes sense to be on the Paizo forums again. And I' not jumping to Pathfinder because I'm mad at WOTC over the OGL thing. What it's about is, back in the PF1e days, I really liked the Alchemist and Witch and...Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2023-02-16T19:32:43ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=5515?Deep-6-FaWtL#2757112023-02-21T18:14:27Z2023-02-16T07:39:25Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">gran rey de los mono wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Rosita the Riveter wrote:</div><blockquote> Okay, what have I missed in the past several years? </blockquote>This and that. You should really go back and read all the posts you missed just to be safe. </blockquote><p>Aw, Nobodyshome left?gran rey de los mono wrote:Rosita the Riveter wrote: Okay, what have I missed in the past several years?
This and that. You should really go back and read all the posts you missed just to be safe. Aw, Nobodyshome left?Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2023-02-16T07:39:25ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=5515?Deep-6-FaWtL#2757032023-06-06T04:59:22Z2023-02-15T10:22:18Z<p>Okay, what have I missed in the past several years?</p>Okay, what have I missed in the past several years?Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2023-02-15T10:22:18ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=5165?Deep-6-FaWtL#2582452021-01-02T13:17:36Z2021-01-01T11:52:58Z<p>I'm back, what did I miss in the last, like, what, year? Something like that. I've been gone because I got converted over to D&D 5E, but I've got a Starfinder project brewing now. Also I'm moving to Japan in (checks notes) three months, so that's a thing.</p>I'm back, what did I miss in the last, like, what, year? Something like that. I've been gone because I got converted over to D&D 5E, but I've got a Starfinder project brewing now. Also I'm moving to Japan in (checks notes) three months, so that's a thing.Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2021-01-01T11:52:58ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4847?Deep-6-FaWtL#2423442020-03-31T15:21:07Z2020-03-22T06:45:30Z<p>There are two types of motorcyclist in this world. Those who have crashed, and those who are going to crash. And there's very, very few of the second.</p>
<p>My number already came up. Like anyone with their first motorcycle, I misjudged something. Had to go over a trench to get onto the incline up my driveway, then go over two steel railings. Gave it too much throttle, came in at an angle instead of head on, got intimately familiar with a stone and iron fence. Luckily, I came in shoulder first, right onto my jacket, which is a pretty good motorcycle jacket, and as such actually absorbed most of the blow. My helmet absorbed some, too, the bike just got some scratches because I hit first and ended up between the bike and the fence, and all I ended up with was some bruises and a sprained finger.</p>
<p>So, yea. Good motorcycle gear. Pricey, but it just paid for itself by virtue of the fact that I'm enbarassed instead of hospitalized right how.</p>
<p>Also, should have walked that bike. Throttling up a driveway is bad news, crossing those two metal rails is bad news, and that trench is just unsafe. Ideally, I'd have just pulled the bike up with the clutch, but the trench prevents that, so in the future, I need to walk it.</p>There are two types of motorcyclist in this world. Those who have crashed, and those who are going to crash. And there's very, very few of the second.
My number already came up. Like anyone with their first motorcycle, I misjudged something. Had to go over a trench to get onto the incline up my driveway, then go over two steel railings. Gave it too much throttle, came in at an angle instead of head on, got intimately familiar with a stone and iron fence. Luckily, I came in shoulder first,...Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2020-03-22T06:45:30ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4838?Deep-6-FaWtL#2418702020-03-31T11:03:23Z2020-03-17T06:21:25Z<p>Well, this lockdown is fun. I just got a motorcycle, and I can't go play.</p>Well, this lockdown is fun. I just got a motorcycle, and I can't go play.Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2020-03-17T06:21:25ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4828?Deep-6-FaWtL#2413992020-03-12T13:55:09Z2020-03-12T04:53:47Z<p>Well, I've had a fun couple of weeks. I failed my driver's test last week, and I passed the motorcycle safety course today. Since I already have my M1 learner's permit, that means I get my M1 license as soon as I get the certificate of completion from the school and give it to the DMV. So I kinda sorta got my driver's license today! I mean, what California is going to issue me <i>says</i> driver's license on it, though it is only a class M1, not a class C, and in no way authorizes me to operate a car, only a motorcycle or scooter.</p>
<p>I can't retake the driver's test until mid-June at the earliest because of how horrifically booked out they are, but suddenly it doesn't matter so much. I earned a motorcycle license, I have access to motorized transportation.</p>
<p>Now I need to find the right bike. I've been riding a crappy ADV (street legal dirt bike basically), and I know I NEED a motorcycle now that I've ridden a motorcycle, but I think I want a cheap, light cruiser to start. Like a Honda Rebel, except I'm kinda big, so maybe something a bit taller. But that kind of bike.</p>
<p>Or I could buy some sort of crotch rocket I can in no way handle, and that doesn't even fit what I want to use a motorcycle for, and then proceed to ride around like a squid. That's also a valid option.</p>Well, I've had a fun couple of weeks. I failed my driver's test last week, and I passed the motorcycle safety course today. Since I already have my M1 learner's permit, that means I get my M1 license as soon as I get the certificate of completion from the school and give it to the DMV. So I kinda sorta got my driver's license today! I mean, what California is going to issue me says driver's license on it, though it is only a class M1, not a class C, and in no way authorizes me to operate a...Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2020-03-12T04:53:47ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: What do I do with a day in Seattle?Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs42xnw?What-do-I-do-with-a-day-in-Seattle#112020-02-24T05:27:50Z2020-02-23T07:29:43Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Phillip Gastone wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Rosita the Riveter wrote:</div><blockquote> And punching police horses. </blockquote>Wait, what? </blockquote><p><a href="https://nypost.com/2018/01/22/punching-horses-is-turning-into-an-epidemic-at-eagles-games/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Yea, it's a thing at Eagles games. Or at least was.</a>Phillip Gastone wrote:Rosita the Riveter wrote: And punching police horses.
Wait, what? Yea, it's a thing at Eagles games. Or at least was.Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2020-02-23T07:29:43ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: What do I do with a day in Seattle?Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs42xnw?What-do-I-do-with-a-day-in-Seattle#92020-02-24T05:27:48Z2020-02-22T23:55:14Z<p>And punching police horses.</p>And punching police horses.Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2020-02-22T23:55:14ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: What do I do with a day in Seattle?Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs42xnw?What-do-I-do-with-a-day-in-Seattle#52020-02-24T05:27:39Z2020-02-22T05:25:46Z<p>I'm in Seattle now ^.^</p>
<p>I got some stuff done today. I bought my way overpriced gourmet popcorn at Pikes Place, went to Metsker's Maps, ate fish, shopped at two different art stores (one was called Monster and in Ballard, one was a branch of Monster under a different name at Pikes Place), went to a few bookstores, visited the Pioneer Square National Historic Park and toured the little museum.</p>
<p>Tomorrow I'm riding the monorail to MoPOP. Then I have the regular Seattle Underground Tour booked for 6, and the Adults Only booked for 8. If I get done with MoPOP early, the National Nordic Museum is 40 minutes away by transit.</p>
<p>There's a Utilikilt retail outlet a block away from the Underground Tour that closes at 6. I turned in my official paperwork to change my legal gender to nonbinary on Wednesday, and I'm a kilt owner who considers them THE nonbinary garment, so I am totally paying them a visit.</p>
<p>On Sunday, I've booked a factory tour of Boeing. I've been to the Seattle Museum of Flight, but not the factory tour. After the four ends at 2, I'll probably stay at the museum until it closes at 5.</p>I'm in Seattle now ^.^
I got some stuff done today. I bought my way overpriced gourmet popcorn at Pikes Place, went to Metsker's Maps, ate fish, shopped at two different art stores (one was called Monster and in Ballard, one was a branch of Monster under a different name at Pikes Place), went to a few bookstores, visited the Pioneer Square National Historic Park and toured the little museum.
Tomorrow I'm riding the monorail to MoPOP. Then I have the regular Seattle Underground Tour booked...Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2020-02-22T05:25:46ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4784?Deep-6-FaWtL#2391602020-02-08T03:42:42Z2020-02-08T00:23:41Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">NobodysHome wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Rosita the Riveter wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Scintillae wrote:</div><blockquote> ...hell, it's ranging from the teens to the 30s here, and I refuse to set my thermostat above 65. </blockquote><p>I turn it off if she's not around. The house will be whatever temperature it will be. I don't care if the living room is 45 degrees, we live in coastal California, not the Great Lakes, the temperature doesn't get dangerous here, and Americans overcontrol our building climates, anyway (seriously, I've traveled pretty extensively, and nobody else heats and air conditions indoors to the obsessive extent that we Americans do).
<p>Granted, I also strutted around in the Canadian winter at 6AM in a kilt without stockings or anything else to warm my legs, because I had to walk from the hostel to the train station and an 11 yard kilt was <i>not</i> going to fit in my luggage on the airplane. So what do I know? </blockquote><p>There's "not dangerous", and then there's, "Warm enough to function."
<p>I find anything below 58 to be too cold to effectively sit at a computer working all day, so that's where I set my thermostat.
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</blockquote><p>I've done a bunch of those DNA tests that tell you where your ancestors are from, and the final verdict is that literally all of them are from places that are chilly, wet, and grey all the time at best, and straight up freezing at worst. Plus I used to live in the Rocky Mountains and rural Montana. And I grew up in unheated houses.
<p>I was not made for 70+ indoor temperatures.</p>
<p>This is why I keep threatening to move to Seattle after I get my Masters.</p>NobodysHome wrote:Rosita the Riveter wrote: Scintillae wrote: ...hell, it's ranging from the teens to the 30s here, and I refuse to set my thermostat above 65.
I turn it off if she's not around. The house will be whatever temperature it will be. I don't care if the living room is 45 degrees, we live in coastal California, not the Great Lakes, the temperature doesn't get dangerous here, and Americans overcontrol our building climates, anyway (seriously, I've traveled pretty extensively, and...Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2020-02-08T00:23:41ZForums: Off-Topic Discussions: What do I do with a day in Seattle?Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs42xnw?What-do-I-do-with-a-day-in-Seattle#12020-02-24T05:27:30Z2020-02-08T00:19:04Z<p>Paizo's located in Seattle, so I bet this is a decent enough place to ask. I've been to Seattle a few times at this point. Done a lot of stuff, like the Museum of Flight, checking out Bremerton with the ferry, Mt Rainier, Pikes Place, the Museum of Industry and History, and so forth. Never been to the Museum of Pop Culture, though,</p>
<p>Well, there's both a tattooing exhibit and a Minecraft exhibit at MOPOP right now, and flights from San Jose to Seattle can be had cheap even pretty close to departure, so I'm flying up on the 21st and returning on the 24th. Booked a hostel in Chinatown. I've stayed there before, it's pretty decent for the price.</p>
<p>On the 21st, I get there early in the afternoon, and I'm gonna go Pikes Place. I go to Metsker Maps every time I'm in Seattle (I have a degree in Geography, so this is a Thing), and I want to get some crumpets at the crumpet place and pop into the two gourmet popcorn stores.</p>
<p>On the 22nd, I'm gonna go to MOPOP. Already bought my ticket. I actually haven't ridden the monorail yet, so I'm gonna take a bus or walk from Chinatown to the monorail station and ride that to MOPOP. I may or may not go up in the Space Needle or visit the Science Center (is it for adults?). Haven't decided.</p>
<p>That leaves potentially Saturday afternoon and all day Sunday open to do stuff. And I dunno what to do. Is the National Historic Park at Pioneer Square any good? That's really close to my hostel. Is the Underground Tour worth it? Should I check out the Navy Museum in Bremerton? Is Fisherman's Terminal worth it if I'm going to Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco all the time? Is the Seattle Aquarium any good (can anyone compare it to the Monterey Bay Aquarium)?</p>Paizo's located in Seattle, so I bet this is a decent enough place to ask. I've been to Seattle a few times at this point. Done a lot of stuff, like the Museum of Flight, checking out Bremerton with the ferry, Mt Rainier, Pikes Place, the Museum of Industry and History, and so forth. Never been to the Museum of Pop Culture, though,
Well, there's both a tattooing exhibit and a Minecraft exhibit at MOPOP right now, and flights from San Jose to Seattle can be had cheap even pretty close to...Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2020-02-08T00:19:04ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4783?Deep-6-FaWtL#2391012020-02-06T21:53:15Z2020-02-06T21:41:53Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Scintillae wrote:</div><blockquote> ...hell, it's ranging from the teens to the 30s here, and I refuse to set my thermostat above 65. </blockquote><p>I turn it off if she's not around. The house will be whatever temperature it will be. I don't care if the living room is 45 degrees, we live in coastal California, not the Great Lakes, the temperature doesn't get dangerous here, and Americans overcontrol our building climates, anyway (seriously, I've traveled pretty extensively, and nobody else heats and air conditions indoors to the obsessive extent that we Americans do).
<p>Granted, I also strutted around in the Canadian winter at 6AM in a kilt without stockings or anything else to warm my legs, because I had to walk from the hostel to the train station and an 11 yard kilt was <i>not</i> going to fit in my luggage on the airplane. So what do I know?</p>Scintillae wrote:...hell, it's ranging from the teens to the 30s here, and I refuse to set my thermostat above 65.
I turn it off if she's not around. The house will be whatever temperature it will be. I don't care if the living room is 45 degrees, we live in coastal California, not the Great Lakes, the temperature doesn't get dangerous here, and Americans overcontrol our building climates, anyway (seriously, I've traveled pretty extensively, and nobody else heats and air conditions indoors...Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2020-02-06T21:41:53ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4782?Deep-6-FaWtL#2391002020-02-06T21:41:49Z2020-02-06T21:38:47Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">NobodysHome wrote:</div><blockquote><p> And the incompetence continues:</p>
<p>AT&T just put signs up and down our block that they're closing the street all next week. This is presumably to move all their lines underground, which means tearing up the street... <i>again</i>.</p>
<p>That's two major "public" works within 8 months of the city paying to repave the street.</p>
<p>Somehow, the planning department isn't succeeding at this whole "planning" thing...
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</blockquote><p>I don't know to what degree it's the planning department's fault, though. AT&T aren't great about actually cooperating with the planning department or communicating their future plans, and the planning department can't really tell them to go pound sand when they decide it's time for major infrastructure upgrades. PG&E is actively worse.
<p>Also, I have AT&T internet, and my download speeds never hit 1 MB/s, and service interruptions are daily. In the middle of a city in Silicon Valley. I had AT&T Mobile, and I finally ditched them because it's slow, unreliable, and everywhere I frequent seems to be a dead zone. Plus there was the whole Disneyland clustertruck with Rise of the Resistance, where you needed a cell phone right at 8AM to get a boarding group in order to ride at all during the day, and AT&T slowed to a halt like clockwork right at 8AM every morning, and T-Mobile and Verizon customers got all the boarding group slots.</p>
<p>What I'm saying is, as a planning student, I blame AT&T. For all the things.</p>NobodysHome wrote:And the incompetence continues:
AT&T just put signs up and down our block that they're closing the street all next week. This is presumably to move all their lines underground, which means tearing up the street... again.
That's two major "public" works within 8 months of the city paying to repave the street.
Somehow, the planning department isn't succeeding at this whole "planning" thing...
I don't know to what degree it's the planning department's fault, though. AT&T...Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2020-02-06T21:38:47ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4782?Deep-6-FaWtL#2390982020-02-06T21:38:13Z2020-02-06T21:32:43Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">NobodysHome wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Tacticslion wrote:</div><blockquote> Huh. Actual severe weather warning - enough to suspend various schools’ activities. Go figure. </blockquote><p>We're settling into a rather disturbingly warm February, which indicates we're in for yet another drought year. February's the big "swing month", where some years you don't see the sun at all for the entire month, and other years (like this one) there's not a cloud in the sky for the entire month.
<p>The really strange thing is that we're around 10 degrees warmer than typical; nights are in the low 40s (which is still cold in an uninsulated house), days are in the mid-60s.</p>
<p>So yeah, my house is all opened up and it's very pleasant outside, but it bodes poorly for summer and fire season.
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</blockquote><p>This, and yet my roommate <i>still</i> insists on having the house's furnace cranked into the 70s at all times.
<p>Rabble.</p>NobodysHome wrote:Tacticslion wrote: Huh. Actual severe weather warning - enough to suspend various schools’ activities. Go figure.
We're settling into a rather disturbingly warm February, which indicates we're in for yet another drought year. February's the big "swing month", where some years you don't see the sun at all for the entire month, and other years (like this one) there's not a cloud in the sky for the entire month. The really strange thing is that we're around 10 degrees warmer...Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2020-02-06T21:32:43ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4780?Deep-6-FaWtL#2389772020-02-04T15:21:54Z2020-02-04T11:08:48Z<p>Oracles must have interesting childhoods in my campaign setting. One skill that is common, though not universal, among divine spellcasters is the ability to read the stars. Something no non-divine spellcaster could do. The stars are echoes left behind by particularly bright burning lives that ended in their prime. All people powerful in body, mind, or spirit, and all died young. A divine spellcaster can read these stars, to an extent. It's like a particularly long and detailed tombstone epitaph. And brighter stars are easier to read, with some being dim, worn out, and difficult. Not to mention language barriers. Practically, reading these stars is a great aid in navigation. There is no rotation to the world, so stars are static within the sky, and if you can identify stars by reading them, they make a perfect navigation landmark.</p>
<p>More spiritually, though, imagine being an Oracle child who suddenly realizes they can read the stars. Most people grow up knowing the stories of the big stars, the bright ones that even non spellcasters can read and navigate by. But you can read all of the local stars. Hundreds of stars. Stories nobody has ever told you. But all short, and tantalizingly sparse in detail. Every night you look up at the sky, and it opens up to you like a book. And then you travel, and all the stars you grew up with are no longer visible, because you entered a different pantheon's realm. So know a whole new set of stories is before you, if you can understand their language.</p>Oracles must have interesting childhoods in my campaign setting. One skill that is common, though not universal, among divine spellcasters is the ability to read the stars. Something no non-divine spellcaster could do. The stars are echoes left behind by particularly bright burning lives that ended in their prime. All people powerful in body, mind, or spirit, and all died young. A divine spellcaster can read these stars, to an extent. It's like a particularly long and detailed tombstone...Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2020-02-04T11:08:48ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4780?Deep-6-FaWtL#2389762020-02-04T15:21:47Z2020-02-04T10:51:23Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">DSXMachina wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Rosita the Riveter wrote:</div><blockquote><p> I wonder if I'm going to get harassed by Italian immigration officials at some point. I am legally allowed a total of 90 days in the European Union in any 180 day period. I though I'd have to work over Spring Break this year, so I booked a 10 day trip to Germany over my birthday in late April (except now I'm spending a third of it in France, because ending up in France is apparently just what I do, now). Then I got Spring Break off, and I can't reschedule the Germany trip, so whatever. So I'll go to Italy over Spring Break. 6 full days of All Ancient Ruins, All The Time between Rome, Paestum, and Naples. But then I got into that super interesting Summer study abroad that starts in Italy but is mostly in Greece, so that's another three weeks.</p>
<p>All told, if travel time counts against visa, I'm looking at about 45 days within 3 months, and I don't have any other trips to Europe in a 180 day period before or after, so I'm within the rules as written. I will, however, only have 3 weeks between each trip. I'm wondering if, by the third time, immigration will be like "What is this?"</p>
<p>Oh, and on the way back from Greece, I'm gonna chill in Scotland for a while. Decompress from study abroad and cool off from the Mediterranean head. See some castles, do various Scottish things, pop down to York for the British National Railroad Museum, which is supposed to even be better than the two amazing ones I went to in Japan. Who knows what Brexit is gonna do with that immigration procedure? I made sure my layover in Heathrow on the way in is, like, 4 hours in case it's all sorts of jacked up. </blockquote>My sister goes to the railway museum all the time & it's pretty good - I hear. I can recommend a few pubs around, mostly for drink rather than food & would probably advise against going into the Minster (based on price) but the surrounds are free. </blockquote><p>Good pubs for whiskey? I stopped drinking beer for health reasons.DSXMachina wrote:Rosita the Riveter wrote:I wonder if I'm going to get harassed by Italian immigration officials at some point. I am legally allowed a total of 90 days in the European Union in any 180 day period. I though I'd have to work over Spring Break this year, so I booked a 10 day trip to Germany over my birthday in late April (except now I'm spending a third of it in France, because ending up in France is apparently just what I do, now). Then I got Spring Break off, and I can't...Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2020-02-04T10:51:23ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4777?Deep-6-FaWtL#2388282020-02-01T13:11:59Z2020-01-31T18:56:53Z<p>I wonder if I'm going to get harassed by Italian immigration officials at some point. I am legally allowed a total of 90 days in the European Union in any 180 day period. I though I'd have to work over Spring Break this year, so I booked a 10 day trip to Germany over my birthday in late April (except now I'm spending a third of it in France, because ending up in France is apparently just what I do, now). Then I got Spring Break off, and I can't reschedule the Germany trip, so whatever. So I'll go to Italy over Spring Break. 6 full days of All Ancient Ruins, All The Time between Rome, Paestum, and Naples. But then I got into that super interesting Summer study abroad that starts in Italy but is mostly in Greece, so that's another three weeks.</p>
<p>All told, if travel time counts against visa, I'm looking at about 45 days within 3 months, and I don't have any other trips to Europe in a 180 day period before or after, so I'm within the rules as written. I will, however, only have 3 weeks between each trip. I'm wondering if, by the third time, immigration will be like "What is this?"</p>
<p>Oh, and on the way back from Greece, I'm gonna chill in Scotland for a while. Decompress from study abroad and cool off from the Mediterranean head. See some castles, do various Scottish things, pop down to York for the British National Railroad Museum, which is supposed to even be better than the two amazing ones I went to in Japan. Who knows what Brexit is gonna do with that immigration procedure? I made sure my layover in Heathrow on the way in is, like, 4 hours in case it's all sorts of jacked up.</p>I wonder if I'm going to get harassed by Italian immigration officials at some point. I am legally allowed a total of 90 days in the European Union in any 180 day period. I though I'd have to work over Spring Break this year, so I booked a 10 day trip to Germany over my birthday in late April (except now I'm spending a third of it in France, because ending up in France is apparently just what I do, now). Then I got Spring Break off, and I can't reschedule the Germany trip, so whatever. So...Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2020-01-31T18:56:53ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4777?Deep-6-FaWtL#2388272020-01-31T21:40:49Z2020-01-31T18:46:53Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">NobodysHome wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Rosita the Riveter wrote:</div><blockquote><p> I'm going up to San Francisco so I can buy Scottish shoes, buy several hundred Euros, and do some fieldwork for grad school.</p>
<p>I really want to move back to San Francisco. </blockquote><p>Geez, I'd tell you to come up the east side and I'd sell you the Euros for a better price... except with the whole fireplace thing they're buried deep, deep somewhere I can't find them.
<p>Plus I don't think I have any Scottish shoes lying around the house...
<br />
</blockquote><p>I'd still have to do my fieldwork, though.
<p>You have that many Euros lying around? I think all I've got at home is a couple dollars worth of small Canadian coins, maybe 6 or 7 bucks in Mexican coins, a similar amount in Japanese coins, and a 1000 Yen note.</p>
<p>Also I have big feet.</p>NobodysHome wrote:Rosita the Riveter wrote:I'm going up to San Francisco so I can buy Scottish shoes, buy several hundred Euros, and do some fieldwork for grad school.
I really want to move back to San Francisco.
Geez, I'd tell you to come up the east side and I'd sell you the Euros for a better price... except with the whole fireplace thing they're buried deep, deep somewhere I can't find them. Plus I don't think I have any Scottish shoes lying around the house...
I'd still have to do my...Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2020-01-31T18:46:53ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4777?Deep-6-FaWtL#2388252020-01-31T21:40:26Z2020-01-31T18:02:32Z<p>I'm going up to San Francisco so I can buy Scottish shoes, buy several hundred Euros, and do some fieldwork for grad school.</p>
<p>I really want to move back to San Francisco.</p>I'm going up to San Francisco so I can buy Scottish shoes, buy several hundred Euros, and do some fieldwork for grad school.
I really want to move back to San Francisco.Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2020-01-31T18:02:32ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4776?Deep-6-FaWtL#2387772020-01-30T17:16:25Z2020-01-30T06:31:05Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Ragadolf wrote:</div><blockquote><p> I love the Mandolorian.</p>
<p>"I have Spoken."</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>(OR as it is also known, THE BABY YODA SHOW!) </blockquote><p>This is the way.Ragadolf wrote:I love the Mandolorian.
"I have Spoken."
:)
(OR as it is also known, THE BABY YODA SHOW!)
This is the way.Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2020-01-30T06:31:05ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4775?Deep-6-FaWtL#2387212020-01-29T12:22:04Z2020-01-28T23:32:00Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">NobodysHome wrote:</div><blockquote><p> <b>NobodyHome's Opinion on Dubbing, Summarized in an IM to GothBard</b>:</p>
<p>Gods, I hate dubbing, even in anime theme songs! :P</p>
<p>The theme for <i>The Ancient Magus' Bride</i> is magical specifically because the singer has this sharp, pained voice that reflects the lead character's internal pain. It sounds desperate, and hopeless, and hopeful, all at the same time, because of the sharp raspiness of her voice.</p>
<p>The English version has a woman with a beautiful, velvety voice who smooths out all the sharps.
<br />
And it sounds AWFUL. </blockquote><p>If we didn't have dubbing, we wouldn't have all the Disney songs in French. I refuse to live in such a world.NobodysHome wrote:NobodyHome's Opinion on Dubbing, Summarized in an IM to GothBard:
Gods, I hate dubbing, even in anime theme songs! :P
The theme for The Ancient Magus' Bride is magical specifically because the singer has this sharp, pained voice that reflects the lead character's internal pain. It sounds desperate, and hopeless, and hopeful, all at the same time, because of the sharp raspiness of her voice.
The English version has a woman with a beautiful, velvety voice who smooths out...Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2020-01-28T23:32:00ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4746?Deep-6-FaWtL#2372762019-12-24T13:43:15Z2019-12-24T10:27:14Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">captain yesterday wrote:</div><blockquote><p> I don't really care for any chocolate.</p>
<p>I understand I'm in an extreme minority here. </blockquote><p>Chocolate's too rich. I can stand pieces as an ingredient, or a thin chocolate coating, but eating straight up chocolate? No, I can't. Nor do I like solid chocolate cake, or cookies, or ice cream.captain yesterday wrote:I don't really care for any chocolate.
I understand I'm in an extreme minority here.
Chocolate's too rich. I can stand pieces as an ingredient, or a thin chocolate coating, but eating straight up chocolate? No, I can't. Nor do I like solid chocolate cake, or cookies, or ice cream.Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2019-12-24T10:27:14ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4727?Deep-6-FaWtL#2363032019-12-03T01:54:24Z2019-12-03T01:00:37Z<p>Americans are a terrible influence on Canada. Get a load of the sporting goods store advertising 6 days of "Black Frid'eh" sales.</p>Americans are a terrible influence on Canada. Get a load of the sporting goods store advertising 6 days of "Black Frid'eh" sales.Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2019-12-03T01:00:37ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4727?Deep-6-FaWtL#2363012019-12-03T01:53:57Z2019-12-03T00:27:35Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">NobodysHome wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Rosita the Riveter wrote:</div><blockquote><p> I just got reminded I have to go fail my driver's license exam on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Fun. </blockquote><p>If you do, schedule your next test for Friday in Eureka! We'll make a road trip of it!
<p>Hope you like metal!</p>
<p></blockquote><p>Eureka is very far away from me. Though, yes, I do like metal.NobodysHome wrote:Rosita the Riveter wrote:I just got reminded I have to go fail my driver's license exam on Wednesday.
Fun.
If you do, schedule your next test for Friday in Eureka! We'll make a road trip of it! Hope you like metal!
Eureka is very far away from me. Though, yes, I do like metal.Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2019-12-03T00:27:35ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4726?Deep-6-FaWtL#2362992019-12-03T01:53:27Z2019-12-03T00:13:07Z<p>I just got reminded I have to go fail my driver's license exam on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Fun.</p>I just got reminded I have to go fail my driver's license exam on Wednesday.
Fun.Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2019-12-03T00:13:07ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4726?Deep-6-FaWtL#2362672019-12-02T14:49:45Z2019-12-02T08:52:04Z<p>Do you have something against death metal, Denny's, or Canada?</p>Do you have something against death metal, Denny's, or Canada?Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2019-12-02T08:52:04ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4726?Deep-6-FaWtL#2362652019-12-02T13:19:39Z2019-12-02T08:47:15Z<p>They're playing death metal in a Canadian Denny's at 12:30 in the morning, it's actually a pretty decent band, the table next to me is not happy about it, and they're making this well known. So that's my night. How about you guys?</p>They're playing death metal in a Canadian Denny's at 12:30 in the morning, it's actually a pretty decent band, the table next to me is not happy about it, and they're making this well known. So that's my night. How about you guys?Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2019-12-02T08:47:15ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4723?Deep-6-FaWtL#2361472019-11-29T02:45:32Z2019-11-28T16:07:44Z<p>I'm in Canada right now, and it's very cold. This pleases me. I have escaped the California heat and my roommate's blasted insistence at running the furnace at 72.</p>I'm in Canada right now, and it's very cold. This pleases me. I have escaped the California heat and my roommate's blasted insistence at running the furnace at 72.Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2019-11-28T16:07:44ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4723?Deep-6-FaWtL#2361192019-11-29T02:54:50Z2019-11-27T22:30:57Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">captain yesterday wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Rosita the Riveter wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">captain yesterday wrote:</div><blockquote><p> Now this is hilarious, they have Tillamook cheese at our local Target.</p>
<p>Hmm, get some flavorless stale hybridization of plastic and cardboard that vaguely tastes like cheese from the s$+! holes of Oregon.</p>
<p>Or you know, get some actual cheese handcrafted just down the road for the same price. </blockquote>Are you talking s~$! about Tillamook? You better stay away from the West Coast, now. </blockquote><p>I lived in Seattle for five years and had to suffer through what the West coast called "cheese".
<p>I stand by what I said.</p>
<p>Tillamook might be considered cheese out west but it's barely better than Kraft here. </blockquote><p>Good cheese comes from happy cows. Happy cows come from California. And that's that.captain yesterday wrote:Rosita the Riveter wrote: captain yesterday wrote:Now this is hilarious, they have Tillamook cheese at our local Target.
Hmm, get some flavorless stale hybridization of plastic and cardboard that vaguely tastes like cheese from the s$+! holes of Oregon.
Or you know, get some actual cheese handcrafted just down the road for the same price.
Are you talking s~$! about Tillamook? You better stay away from the West Coast, now. I lived in Seattle for five years and had to...Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2019-11-27T22:30:57ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4723?Deep-6-FaWtL#2361162019-11-27T21:03:30Z2019-11-27T19:33:51Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">captain yesterday wrote:</div><blockquote><p> Now this is hilarious, they have Tillamook cheese at our local Target.</p>
<p>Hmm, get some flavorless stale hybridization of plastic and cardboard that vaguely tastes like cheese from the s$+! holes of Oregon.</p>
<p>Or you know, get some actual cheese handcrafted just down the road for the same price. </blockquote><p>Are you talking s&!% about Tillamook? You better stay away from the West Coast, now.captain yesterday wrote:Now this is hilarious, they have Tillamook cheese at our local Target.
Hmm, get some flavorless stale hybridization of plastic and cardboard that vaguely tastes like cheese from the s$+! holes of Oregon.
Or you know, get some actual cheese handcrafted just down the road for the same price.
Are you talking s%#~ about Tillamook? You better stay away from the West Coast, now.Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2019-11-27T19:33:51ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4722?Deep-6-FaWtL#2360902019-11-27T17:21:09Z2019-11-27T06:39:30Z<p>I posit that overweight men should be encouraged to wear kilts instead of pants. As a transwoman, I have the male body shape, and I have quite the gut. So, as many overweight men do, I have some degree of trouble keeping my pants up. That body shape just is not conducive to suspending a garment about the hips, and the only things that really work are wearing a belt so tight it's actually painful, or wearing suspenders, which come with their own set of difficulties.</p>
<p>The kilt, however, which I, as a mostly closeted transwoman of Celtic extraction, naturally own multiple examples of, fixes this. A proper traditional kilt (so, not a Utilikilt) goes around your natural waist, which is just above the navel. For someone my size, that does mean a particularly large garment (52 to 54 inches in my case), but the advantage is that this part of the body actually is conducive to holding up a garment, even on overweight men. You fasten the kilt up there, and, wonder of wonders, it actually stays up there. Without having to be painfully tight.</p>
<p>It just works in the "not showing off parts of your rear anatomy" department. Kilts feel like they fit in a way pants never do. Wear underwear, though. As far as we know, most modern Scots do when they wear a kilt, and if you don't, it'll chafe. "Being proper traditional" <i>that</i> way isn't worth it.</p>I posit that overweight men should be encouraged to wear kilts instead of pants. As a transwoman, I have the male body shape, and I have quite the gut. So, as many overweight men do, I have some degree of trouble keeping my pants up. That body shape just is not conducive to suspending a garment about the hips, and the only things that really work are wearing a belt so tight it's actually painful, or wearing suspenders, which come with their own set of difficulties.
The kilt, however, which...Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2019-11-27T06:39:30ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4715?Deep-6-FaWtL#2357362019-11-19T21:16:10Z2019-11-19T08:33:05Z<p>So if I am declaring that my Spring Break shall consist of rolling up to the airport in Rome, splitting my hotel bookings between Rome and Naples, and having 8 full days of "All Ancient Rome, All The Time", what all does that actually entail doing, keeping in mind I'm open to day trips out of Rome and Naples. Clearly, I'm visiting Pompeii and Herculaneum. That's a major reason to spend some time in Naples in the first place. Also clearly going to the Colosseum, and seeking out those ancient Roman water fountains still marked SPQR that are in Rome, and I'm certain Rome has a good archaeology museum. Also take a day trip to Ostia Antica, and another to Hadrian's Villa, <i>maybe</i> break the rules and visit Bracciano and Viterbo even though those are medieval towns rather than ancient. I might hike Mount Vesuvius. Actually, I also want to see Paestrum, even though that's Greek and not Roman.</p>
<p>Okay, fine, I guess this <i>isn't</i> going to be all Ancient Rome, all the time. And what question was I even asking, again? I probably have about 8 days of stuff, here.</p>So if I am declaring that my Spring Break shall consist of rolling up to the airport in Rome, splitting my hotel bookings between Rome and Naples, and having 8 full days of "All Ancient Rome, All The Time", what all does that actually entail doing, keeping in mind I'm open to day trips out of Rome and Naples. Clearly, I'm visiting Pompeii and Herculaneum. That's a major reason to spend some time in Naples in the first place. Also clearly going to the Colosseum, and seeking out those ancient...Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2019-11-19T08:33:05ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4714?Deep-6-FaWtL#2356892019-11-18T12:26:50Z2019-11-18T03:46:39Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">NobodysHome wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Rosita the Riveter wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">NobodysHome wrote:</div><blockquote>Around here, a significant portion of the cyclists are absolute <<i>obscenities</i>>.</blockquote>It's not like drivers are any better. It just gets shrugged off because drivers are the majority and cyclists are the minority. </blockquote><p>So, we can agree to disagree on this, but a driver who's trying to run a stop sign and sees you typically brakes and lets you through; I have to slam on the brakes for a driver running a stop sign <i>maybe</i> once a month, if that.
<p>For bicyclists running stop signs, it's at least once a week.</p>
<p>If bicyclists are in the minority, why do I have to brake more often for them when I have the right of way?
<br />
</blockquote><p>Because, while drivers don't follow the rules any more than cyclists, they commit different violations than cyclists do? Like, cyclists habitually run stop signs, but drivers habitually speed, block the box, and block crosswalks. Drivers also are prone to not signal or look before changing lanes, just like cyclists doing stuff without warning.
<p>And, as a cyclist, I can assure you drivers don't give a damn about giving a 3 foot passing distance, and very often don't respect the right to take the lane. Also, while it is fully legal to make a left turn on a bicycle, it's insanely dangerous, because no driver lets you make those lane changes.</p>NobodysHome wrote:Rosita the Riveter wrote: NobodysHome wrote:Around here, a significant portion of the cyclists are absolute obscenities>.
It's not like drivers are any better. It just gets shrugged off because drivers are the majority and cyclists are the minority. So, we can agree to disagree on this, but a driver who's trying to run a stop sign and sees you typically brakes and lets you through; I have to slam on the brakes for a driver running a stop sign maybe once a month, if that....Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2019-11-18T03:46:39ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4714?Deep-6-FaWtL#2356862019-11-18T12:25:45Z2019-11-18T02:18:56Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">NobodysHome wrote:</div><blockquote>Around here, a significant portion of the cyclists are absolute <<i>obscenities</i>>.</blockquote><p>It's not like drivers are any better. It just gets shrugged off because drivers are the majority and cyclists are the minority.NobodysHome wrote:Around here, a significant portion of the cyclists are absolute obscenities>.
It's not like drivers are any better. It just gets shrugged off because drivers are the majority and cyclists are the minority.Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2019-11-18T02:18:56ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4714?Deep-6-FaWtL#2356852019-11-18T12:12:39Z2019-11-18T02:13:09Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">NobodysHome wrote:</div><blockquote><p>But he <i>should</i> have signaled, he <i>should</i> have checked, and he's going to have 3 more weeks of public transportation to remind him to be more careful during the next test.
</p>
</blockquote><p>How the hell did you schedule a driving test three weeks out? Here in the South Bay, it takes about three months. I have a driving test December 4th, and I scheduled that back in September, for the earliest day available. And if I fail, I fully expect to wait months to take another test. Since I have no family I can practice with, that means at least another several hundred on professional lessons, on top of what I've already spent, just to keep practicing through those three months.NobodysHome wrote:But he should have signaled, he should have checked, and he's going to have 3 more weeks of public transportation to remind him to be more careful during the next test.
How the hell did you schedule a driving test three weeks out? Here in the South Bay, it takes about three months. I have a driving test December 4th, and I scheduled that back in September, for the earliest day available. And if I fail, I fully expect to wait months to take another test. Since I have no...Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2019-11-18T02:13:09ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4712?Deep-6-FaWtL#2355802019-11-15T01:13:47Z2019-11-14T22:44:30Z<p>So, I have become one of <i>those</i> photographers. I now own a vest, so I look like either a journalist or like I think I'm on safari or something. Why? Because the sheer amount of kit in my shoulder bag just isn't good for me long term, and I'll have far fewer back problems later on by properly distrubuting the weight. Plus, a vest is easier to grab a second camera out of. And if I have something like the Texas Leica on me, I can hang that from my shoulders instead of my neck.</p>
<p>I still look like a g#~~~~n nerd, now.</p>So, I have become one of those photographers. I now own a vest, so I look like either a journalist or like I think I'm on safari or something. Why? Because the sheer amount of kit in my shoulder bag just isn't good for me long term, and I'll have far fewer back problems later on by properly distrubuting the weight. Plus, a vest is easier to grab a second camera out of. And if I have something like the Texas Leica on me, I can hang that from my shoulders instead of my neck.
I still look like...Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2019-11-14T22:44:30ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4712?Deep-6-FaWtL#2355782019-11-14T23:31:00Z2019-11-14T22:34:30Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Vanykrye wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">NobodysHome wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Vanykrye wrote:</div><blockquote> I have actively pissed face right now. My company is now not only telling me what hotel I have to stay in, but that I have to pay for it up front out of pocket until they reimburse me. Same thing with the car rental. I'm utterly shocked I'm not having to pay for the flight as well. </blockquote><p>At that point you say, "I'm sorry, but with the pittance you pay me I live paycheck-to-paycheck, and with my poor credit history I don't have a card. So, since I cannot afford to loan you any money, I guess I can't go."
<p>I'd be seriously pissed, too. Global Megacorporation has never once made me travel, but they handed me an American Express card with a $5000 preapproval that I just keep in a drawer, because it's easier to just give me one and not bother to track it than to try to manage individual expenses.</p>
<p>You have to travel, you put it on the AmEx, you sign in to our app and say, "Yeah, I spent that," your manager approves, and you're done.</p>
<p>It's not rocket science.
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</blockquote><p>They turned me down for a corporate card. I don't rank highly enough to be allowed to have one, regardless of the fact that I travel more than anybody in IT aside from our CIO?
<p>So instead I have to pay up front and expense it later. I will get the money back, but, like, in 2-3 weeks depending on where we are in the payroll cycle. They won't cut a separate check/direct deposit for reimbursements. They always tack it on to the regularly scheduled payroll. </blockquote><p>Wait. That's not okay. That really complicates your taxes. If it's on your paycheck, the Federal Government is deducting income tax from it. Maybe the state, maybe not, but definately the Feds. Your reimbursements are being taxed, so you aren't actually getting fully reimbursed. Now, these should be tax deductible business expenses, but that means you only get fully reimbursed with your tax refund, and you have to know how to properly claim those business expenses.
<p>This is seriously terrible behavior.</p>
<p>EDIT: Actually, from what I can find, this kind of thing isn't tax deductible anymore. Your employer may not actually be reimbursing what you are spending, and certainly isn't properly documenting reimbursements.</p>Vanykrye wrote:NobodysHome wrote: Vanykrye wrote: I have actively pissed face right now. My company is now not only telling me what hotel I have to stay in, but that I have to pay for it up front out of pocket until they reimburse me. Same thing with the car rental. I'm utterly shocked I'm not having to pay for the flight as well.
At that point you say, "I'm sorry, but with the pittance you pay me I live paycheck-to-paycheck, and with my poor credit history I don't have a card. So, since I...Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2019-11-14T22:34:30ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4709?Deep-6-FaWtL#2354042019-11-12T13:50:21Z2019-11-12T11:19:50Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">NobodysHome wrote:</div><blockquote><p> Impus Major is writing a literary analysis of <i>A Modest Proposal</i>.</p>
<p>It is now his favorite essay <i>ever</i>. He wants to read it aloud from the stage at the Dickens Faire.</p>
<p>I do not know that it would go all that well...
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</blockquote><p>Would you recommend attending Dickens Faire?NobodysHome wrote:Impus Major is writing a literary analysis of A Modest Proposal.
It is now his favorite essay ever. He wants to read it aloud from the stage at the Dickens Faire.
I do not know that it would go all that well...
Would you recommend attending Dickens Faire?Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2019-11-12T11:19:50ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4707?Deep-6-FaWtL#2353492019-11-11T01:31:07Z2019-11-11T00:26:49Z<p>Well, the East Coast to Texas is gonna get a cold front, but I'll be back in California. Where the fire season is gonna last into December this year.</p>Well, the East Coast to Texas is gonna get a cold front, but I'll be back in California. Where the fire season is gonna last into December this year.Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2019-11-11T00:26:49ZRe: Forums/Gamer Life: General Discussion: The LGBT Gamer Community Thread.Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2nxz2&page=352?The-LGBT-Gamer-Community-Thread#175822019-12-23T21:50:39Z2019-11-10T23:45:44Z<p>I went to the Texas Renaissance Festival today, and bought a kilt. So I can wear a skirt while pretending I'm not wearing a skirt. Gender affirming, but with plausible deniability!</p>I went to the Texas Renaissance Festival today, and bought a kilt. So I can wear a skirt while pretending I'm not wearing a skirt. Gender affirming, but with plausible deniability!Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2019-11-10T23:45:44ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4707?Deep-6-FaWtL#2353472019-11-11T01:31:00Z2019-11-10T23:43:10Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">captain yesterday wrote:</div><blockquote><p> Just say it's unusually humid, you're living in Texas, it's not that unbelievable.</p>
<p>Otherwise the answer is always flying mermaid. </blockquote><p>I'm in East Texas right now, and it's just hot. Just like it is back home in California. Hot. This year's Fall sucks.captain yesterday wrote:Just say it's unusually humid, you're living in Texas, it's not that unbelievable.
Otherwise the answer is always flying mermaid.
I'm in East Texas right now, and it's just hot. Just like it is back home in California. Hot. This year's Fall sucks.Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2019-11-10T23:43:10ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4699?Deep-6-FaWtL#2349302019-11-01T23:59:46Z2019-11-01T22:47:43Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">NobodysHome wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Rosita the Riveter wrote:</div><blockquote>I actually don't know Berkeley. Barely go to the East Bay now that I don't live in San Francisco anymore. I just know San Jose really doesn't hit the low 30s often at all. I've lived here over two-thirds of my life, including my entire childhood, and your temps are definitely a good chunk lower than what I've experienced. </blockquote><p>I went to U.C. Berkeley before you were born and I still fondly remember biking to school for an 8:00 am class and seeing how much of a layer of frost I could build up on my polypro shirt. If I could make a little 1/2" snowball, it was a cold day.
<p>I don't think I could have generated that much frost with temps in the 40s.</p>
<p>But yeah, I have a thermometer outside these days, and for most of late January/early February our lows are in the high 30s, and just like the week-o-90s we get in summer, we get a week-o-low-30s or even 20s.
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</blockquote><p>Yea, growing up, there might be a little frozen dew in the morning, but it would quickly melt. You definately couldn't build up frost on your shirt, and we never, ever had enough frost to make even a tiny snowball. Last winter, my roommate left for two weeks, and I shut the thermostat off completely for that whole time. It was cold as hell in the bathroom when I took showers, but I was fine.NobodysHome wrote:Rosita the Riveter wrote:I actually don't know Berkeley. Barely go to the East Bay now that I don't live in San Francisco anymore. I just know San Jose really doesn't hit the low 30s often at all. I've lived here over two-thirds of my life, including my entire childhood, and your temps are definitely a good chunk lower than what I've experienced.
I went to U.C. Berkeley before you were born and I still fondly remember biking to school for an 8:00 am class and seeing how...Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2019-11-01T22:47:43ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4699?Deep-6-FaWtL#2349272019-11-01T23:58:50Z2019-11-01T22:40:06Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">NobodysHome wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Rosita the Riveter wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">NobodysHome wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Rosita the Riveter wrote:</div><blockquote> I constantly get mad at my roommate for using the furnace. I grew up in San Jose without one, you don't need it in this climate. And she keeps it at 72, because she refuses to live in anything other than t-shirt weather at all times. </blockquote><p>Er... it gets down to the high 20s and low 30s where I live, and my house isn't insulated.
<p>Maybe •you• think you don't need heat when it's 45 in your living room, but I'll beg to differ...
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</blockquote>I mean, I also live in a warmer part of the region than you. It's usually in the 40s in winter, might dip into high 30s a bit. That's those Bay Area microclimates for you. </blockquote><p>Yeah, I'm suspicious of weather.com. The Berkeley and San Jose charts look identical, and both you and I know that Berkeley is 15 degrees colder for pretty much the entire summer...
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</blockquote><p>I actually don't know Berkeley. Barely go to the East Bay now that I don't live in San Francisco anymore. I just know San Jose really doesn't hit the low 30s often at all. I've lived here over two-thirds of my life, including my entire childhood, and your temps are definitely a good chunk lower than what I've experienced.NobodysHome wrote:Rosita the Riveter wrote: NobodysHome wrote: Rosita the Riveter wrote: I constantly get mad at my roommate for using the furnace. I grew up in San Jose without one, you don't need it in this climate. And she keeps it at 72, because she refuses to live in anything other than t-shirt weather at all times.
Er... it gets down to the high 20s and low 30s where I live, and my house isn't insulated. Maybe *you* think you don't need heat when it's 45 in your living room, but I'll...Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2019-11-01T22:40:06ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4699?Deep-6-FaWtL#2349252019-11-01T23:58:42Z2019-11-01T22:30:04Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">NobodysHome wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Rosita the Riveter wrote:</div><blockquote> I constantly get mad at my roommate for using the furnace. I grew up in San Jose without one, you don't need it in this climate. And she keeps it at 72, because she refuses to live in anything other than t-shirt weather at all times. </blockquote><p>Er... it gets down to the high 20s and low 30s where I live, and my house isn't insulated.
<p>Maybe •you• think you don't need heat when it's 45 in your living room, but I'll beg to differ...
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</blockquote><p>I mean, I also live in a warmer part of the region than you. It's usually in the 40s in winter, might dip into high 30s a bit. That's those Bay Area microclimates for you.NobodysHome wrote:Rosita the Riveter wrote: I constantly get mad at my roommate for using the furnace. I grew up in San Jose without one, you don't need it in this climate. And she keeps it at 72, because she refuses to live in anything other than t-shirt weather at all times.
Er... it gets down to the high 20s and low 30s where I live, and my house isn't insulated. Maybe *you* think you don't need heat when it's 45 in your living room, but I'll beg to differ...
I mean, I also live in a...Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2019-11-01T22:30:04ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4699?Deep-6-FaWtL#2349232019-11-04T10:01:17Z2019-11-01T22:18:26Z<p>So it seems I got super drunk last night and logging onto Ebay and Amazon. Apparently drunk me wanted a Wii, a Gamecube controller, Star Wars Rogue Squadron 2 and 3, Super Mario Sunshine, Galaxy, and Galaxy 2, and Legend of Zelda Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, and Skyward Sword.</p>
<p>Which, okay. At least I drunkenly bought stuff I'll enjoy? I never actually got to play Super Mario Galaxy, Twilight Princess, or Skyward Sword as a kid, either.</p>So it seems I got super drunk last night and logging onto Ebay and Amazon. Apparently drunk me wanted a Wii, a Gamecube controller, Star Wars Rogue Squadron 2 and 3, Super Mario Sunshine, Galaxy, and Galaxy 2, and Legend of Zelda Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, and Skyward Sword.
Which, okay. At least I drunkenly bought stuff I'll enjoy? I never actually got to play Super Mario Galaxy, Twilight Princess, or Skyward Sword as a kid, either.Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2019-11-01T22:18:26ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4699?Deep-6-FaWtL#2349202019-11-01T23:57:36Z2019-11-01T22:10:46Z<p>I constantly get mad at my roommate for using the furnace. I grew up in San Jose without one, you don't need it in this climate. And she keeps it at 72, because she refuses to live in anything other than t-shirt weather at all times.</p>I constantly get mad at my roommate for using the furnace. I grew up in San Jose without one, you don't need it in this climate. And she keeps it at 72, because she refuses to live in anything other than t-shirt weather at all times.Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2019-11-01T22:10:46ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4698?Deep-6-FaWtL#2348732019-11-01T17:35:50Z2019-11-01T05:38:47Z<p>I am disgustingly drunk. Why am I still coherent?</p>
<p>My doctor says no beer because carbs and I have pre-diabetes. So I've been drinking straight whiskey at the Halloween festivities all night. I'm sure she'll be utterly thrilled with my good judgement.</p>I am disgustingly drunk. Why am I still coherent?
My doctor says no beer because carbs and I have pre-diabetes. So I've been drinking straight whiskey at the Halloween festivities all night. I'm sure she'll be utterly thrilled with my good judgement.Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2019-11-01T05:38:47ZRe: Forums: Off-Topic Discussions: Deep 6 FaWtLRosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lusz&page=4697?Deep-6-FaWtL#2348152019-10-31T02:04:37Z2019-10-31T01:50:25Z<p>What does one do in Canada in November? I'm afraid I don't know.</p>What does one do in Canada in November? I'm afraid I don't know.Rosita the Riveter (alias of Kelsey MacAilbert)2019-10-31T01:50:25Z