When I was 5 I got this giant green schwinn bike, with training wheels.
I made it to the bottom of the steep giant hill before I fell off and skinned the entirety of my knee as well as my elbow, I then had to walk my giant green bike back up the hill by myself, that was my worst birthday.
Also the next spring we moved and my giant green bike was "lost" during the move, funny how that happens.
So... Saturday I finally had to 'fess up, as NobodysWife and Shiro's player bought me a nice bottle of rum as a gift and then wondered why I didn't drink any of it, so I made it... 77 days before anyone found out.
Needless to say, they're very supportive of my efforts now that they know about them.
And we had a nice little shake this morning -- a 4.1 quake centered a few miles from the house that just reminds you you're in earthquake country. Strong enough to make all the glasses rattle, just long enough to make you think, "Aw, carp! Am I going to have to get to shelter?" before it stopped.
And of course now I can look forward to every radio station full of idiots, er, non-locals, talking about how "terrifying" it was to have the ground shake for no reason.
Ah, well. Live anywhere long enough and you get jaded about its natural disasters.
Now, where is it that has Sharknados on a regular basis again?
a very small quake hit new jersey while i was at the con. I was worried it was a fault line shared with ny.
Ha! Nekkid birthday trauma:-)
When I was 5 I got this giant green schwinn bike, with training wheels.
I made it to the bottom of the steep giant hill before I fell off and skinned the entirety of my knee as well as my elbow, I then had to walk my giant green bike back up the hill by myself, that was my worst birthday.
Also the next spring we moved and my giant green bike was "lost" during the move, funny how that happens.
some of my favorite memories are of horrific bike accidents and the healing processes afterwards.
You deserve to be naked for poo-poohing such wonders of childhood, adolescence and development!
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So... Saturday I finally had to 'fess up, as NobodysWife and Shiro's player bought me a nice bottle of rum as a gift and then wondered why I didn't drink any of it, so I made it... 77 days before anyone found out.
Needless to say, they're very supportive of my efforts now that they know about them.
And we had a nice little shake this morning -- a 4.1 quake centered a few miles from the house that just reminds you you're in earthquake country. Strong enough to make all the glasses rattle, just long enough to make you think, "Aw, carp! Am I going to have to get to shelter?" before it stopped.
And of course now I can look forward to every radio station full of idiots, er, non-locals, talking about how "terrifying" it was to have the ground shake for no reason.
Ah, well. Live anywhere long enough and you get jaded about its natural disasters.
Now, where is it that has Sharknados on a regular basis again?
also, send that rum over here.
How I learned to ride my bike was going down this hill, with trees ringed by large rocks and in one of the rock piles was a bee's nest, best time of my life, I assure you the giant green bike is my only bad memory and I still wish it hadn't been "lost" so many memories that could've been...
Also I'm a big fan of bike riding, I just don't have a bike right now, the kids do :-)
Edit: also my birthdays get worse, much worse!
I had a Big Wheel, rode that thing into the ground :-)
Yes, this. I tried three times before I got my port to work on it, only to discover that their new graphics make me motion sick so I couldn't even play the game...I have much hate for DA:I. My husband doesn't even like the game, but he played it for a while so he could tell me what the story was. I was not impressed when I found out. That game was a huge disappointment all round,The 360 port is absolute garbage in terms of bugs. The game was optimized for the Xbox One and PS4, and it really shows.I'm about ready to light my copy of Dragon Age: Inquisition on fire and throw it in the f%*~ing garbage. Currently on my third attempt at starting the game. The first time, I got just past the first part of the main quest, and all of a sudden, my character's head was invisible, and no amount of resetting the game could make it go back. So I started over, and everything was running smoothly until about 4 hours in, when I discovered that my save import hadn't worked. What the f&&! is going on?Yikes. Never ran into invisible heads...
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~looks at my vacation balance~ uh oh. It is almost September and I have 17 and 1/2 days of vacation to burn through. I might take tomorrow and the day after off.
I did not learn to ride a bike until I was an adult, a few years ago, for the simple reason that training wheels are useless.
I love riding my bike and I find it easier than walking.
fun fact: I never actually fell when learning to ride my bike. The reason is that I'm too afraid of falling to allow my body to fall. If I felt my bike going out of control I just let go of the bike, stepped off and let it fell under me.
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I liked Skyrim, although I preferred Oblivion. Also, the last time I was playing through Skyrim I got about 10 hours in or so, and could suddenly no longer absorb dragon souls. Even loading an earlier save from when I could didn't help. I was pretty upset, so I put it aside and haven't gone back to it since.
There are in-game scenarios where you can't absorb dragon souls, like if you kill the same dragon more than once or if you are in the Dragonborn DLC and that other dude is taking them from you.
I smell a Kickstarter opportunity.{orders "The Tao of Michael Bay: A Pop-Up Book" from B&N}My life has been perpetually exploding for years. It's like a supernova.Life is all about the explosions and how you respond to them.
I will donate and follow.
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When I was 9 I had enough friends to have a birthday party, had a bunch of outside stuff planned and then it snowed, in August and only one person showed up, except for my older brother's friends, who proceeded to pick on me and my friend, who never came back to my house.
And that was my worst birthday.
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{orders "The Tao of Michael Bay: A Pop-Up Book" from B&N}My life has been perpetually exploding for years. It's like a supernova.Life is all about the explosions and how you respond to them.
And what do your crossbows have to say about this?
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Only one way to find out,
If this is the real Orthos what is the best Final Fantasy and why, also if you wouldn't mind telling tale of your exploits in NWN
Despite my much-avowed public love of VI, it really is kind of tied with IX at the moment due to me recently replaying the latter and noting the improvements in various mechanics and the better balance of character attentions the cast gets. While I loved almost all of the characters in VI, it should be a surprise to no one that several get the shaft in regards to screen time (Shadow, Gau, Cyan, Strago, Relm) and/or mechanics (Sabin, Cyan, Strago, Relm, Gogo).
IX has a slightly smaller cast and a bit better focus on each of the PCs, with only really Eiko and Quina getting less attention than they probably should have (and Quina makes up for it with that damn frog-catching minigame). Likewise the game mechanics are significantly more cleaned up, less glitchy, and smoother (except Blue Magic ... again, Quina). Likewise, all the important NPCs and temporary PCs get significant attention and relevance to the plotline, whereas VI had a handful of characters who'd get mentioned once and forgotten about or ignored for the rest of the game.
So yeah. If I had a revamp of VI with IX's mechanics and a bit tighter story focus and character attention, I'd be in heaven. Still my favorite though, with IX a very close second.
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As for NWN... I actually have been fairly lackluster in NWN until recently, due to the overtime that knocked me off these forums back in late June/early July putting me out of most of my gaming time as well.
Playerside-wise... Ebon's Cleric of Tymora is on the rebound from temporary insanity due to Far Plane exposure and my Theurge of Beshaba has been thoroughly scared out of doing any research of her own due to seeing her twin's reaction to unintentional discoveries. That plot should be resuming in September as the DM running it was on a hiatus through July and August as well.
Ebon's other Cleric, this one of Torm, along with my Barbarian/Rogue and Scint's Wizard/EK are chasing a cult of Mammon who have been kidnapping children and replacing them with cursed dolls and possessed duplicates. There was a subplot involving where one of the switches had been with a fey changeling instead of a cursed doll, and we managed to weasel a deal out with several powerful fey to get the original kid (now in his late teens) back to his mortal parents, but it cost us pretty heavily, including a hex that makes my Barbarian nauseous whenever he drinks alcohol (which, as pro-dwarf as he is, REALLY SUCKS). The Cleric adopted the changeling, named Twig, since he no longer had a family or a place to go.
I recently had an Ice Genasi Bard character approved and she's been running around smashing things with a greataxe alongside Scint's paranoia-stricken Sorcerer/Paladin of Mystra who we refer to sometimes as "Mad-Eye Mulder". Said Genasi is an adopted cousin of the Tymoran/Beshaban twins mentioned above.
And my current "main" character, my Drow Shadow Dragon Disciple, has gotten wrapped up in a murder mystery plot. A friend of hers was researching the local lore of an infamous half-drow assassin (who was an actual quest enemy on the server almost a decade ago!) and stumbled onto a series of what's looking like copycat killings. Along with Scint's OTHER Wizard/EK and Ebon's Half-Celestial Bard, she's joined with a group of friends to chase down the clues, hopefully find the killer before too many more people die, and if we're lucky recover the assassin's legendary weapons.
DM-side, I've picked up my various plots again but only really gotten to run one - the undead-dragons plot I've had going on and off for a couple years, where I implemented parts of Council of Thieves into the latest bit. They just wrapped up the last of the COT-inspired sessions, actually, with the group encountering and defeating Ilnerique Silvanshin in a climactic rooftop battle with a horde of shadows, a pack of shadow mastiffs, a great deal of flying magic, thunder and rain, and one very nasty vampire cleric. One of Bisby's "murderdolls" as one player has taken to calling them showed up to snatch the Aohl after the heroes killed Silvanshin and put the artifact back together, but they managed to catch it before it got too far and recover the object; now I'm just waiting for them to decide what to do next before the final event wraps this section of the plot up and I move on to the grand finale.
This next week I'll be running a chat with a Shadow Dragon, overseeing an investigation into a Cult of Demogorgon, leading a gang of tieflings on a wild chase for an eyes-obsessed Orc shaman, and taking a Yuan-Ti back to his birthplace to search out the reasons he was sold into slavery and learn a bit about his people.
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In unrelated news I'm also poking at things on my blog more lately, AND I have an idea for a series of monsters I'd like to stat out and post up, perhaps as a cooperative effort with the Badger? =)
Yup it's the real Orthos :-)
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In unrelated news I'm also poking at things on my blog more lately, AND I have an idea for a series of monsters I'd like to stat out and post up, perhaps as a cooperative effort with the Badger? =)
That sounds like fun.
I'm in a cooperative mood. ;)
RPG Superstar voting has started!
You can tell by the site's sluggishness.
Yeah was curious what that was about. Unfortunately I lack the time to vote right now.
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In unrelated news I'm also poking at things on my blog more lately, AND I have an idea for a series of monsters I'd like to stat out and post up, perhaps as a cooperative effort with the Badger? =)That sounds like fun.
I'm in a cooperative mood. ;)
Coolness, I'll shoot you a message tonight =)
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Yup it's the real Orthos :-)
Oh dear it seems I prepared wall of text today rather than summarize.
This is why I prefer spont casters and power-point psionics!
When I was 10 my mom wanting to make up for the snow of the year before threw me another birthday party and even scored a Batman Cake pan and made my favorite frosting, all I had to do was march in a 4-H parade beside a pink manure spreader. The thing is it was super hot out and I wasn't feeling well to begin with, needless to say I was wiped out so I fell asleep while waiting for the candles and stuff, they ate the whole cake while I was asleep and had a great time.
And that was my worst birthday.
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Blogpost! This times it says a few words about interaction between some of the races I wrote.
Yup it's the real Orthos :-)
yeah its him.
When I was 12 I asked this 14 year old girl out, she said no, then she and her boyfriend laughed at me.
This also happened when I was 14, with a 16 year old girl, except then her friends were also there to laugh at me.
And those were two of my worst birthdays.
When I was 15 my mom cut my hair for the last time, she gave me a mullet, then forced me into family photos so it's documented, at least my eyes are closed in the picture, like a Earl Hickey Jr.
And that was my worst birthday.
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This is actually helping, usually I get in a funk and stew, this is much better :-)
Don't worry there's much more, I'm worse at birthdays the Leela is at Blurnsball :-)
Bah!!! Fallut Shelter will not work on the kindle fire.
Oh well. I think I will read Dracula.
skyrim is a huge improvement over oblivion imo even if the game is still really, uh, unpolished. But then, that's Bethesda for you lol
I'd like to replay oblivion, but with skyrim's character models and mechanics, since the leveling system is horribly unbalanced and every character looks like a potato.
Ever checked out Skywind? They should be done reasonably soon.
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I see the reason they did what they did to Shep, but I would have liked to come out alive. Shep can survive if you have over 4000 points from war assets and choose destruction, but it's not as cool as synthesisMass Effect 3 completed.
I think I need a cigarette. And I don't even smoke...
So I will need that much, thanks.
Control was the only moral choice... But this time through I will save before the end and try all four endings.
The way I see it, the Control ending was what the Illusive Man wanted all along, while Synthesis is what Saren was aiming for in the first game. I always go with Destroy because it's what Anderson would have wanted.
Ever checked out Skywind? They should be done reasonably soon.skyrim is a huge improvement over oblivion imo even if the game is still really, uh, unpolished. But then, that's Bethesda for you lol
I'd like to replay oblivion, but with skyrim's character models and mechanics, since the leveling system is horribly unbalanced and every character looks like a potato.
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I love we bare bears.
Most adorable show since Steven universe.
Pan-pan displays why I hate Facebook so eloquently in the everyday bears episode.
He also flips out hilariously in the primal episode.
I love you fro-yo!
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The way I see it, the Control ending was what the Illusive Man wanted all along, while Synthesis is what Saren was aiming for in the first game. I always go with Destroy because it's what Anderson would have wanted.I see the reason they did what they did to Shep, but I would have liked to come out alive. Shep can survive if you have over 4000 points from war assets and choose destruction, but it's not as cool as synthesisMass Effect 3 completed.
I think I need a cigarette. And I don't even smoke...
So I will need that much, thanks.
Control was the only moral choice... But this time through I will save before the end and try all four endings.
Yes the irony didn't escape me that the least moral man was seeking the most moral solution.
But the four solutions (as I understand them):
-Synthesis: requires you to forcibly mutate every being in the galaxy against it's will. That's evil.
-Destroy: Safely eliminates the threat... but genocides the entire Geth race and Edi, as well as any other machine beings. Evil if you consider AI's to be people too. And after fighting SO hard for the Geth / Quarian peace I wasn't going to do THAT.
-Control: You sacrifice yourself to save everyone else... and gain an AI with your personality that controls the greatest force in history. Not good for you but it harms no one else.
-Refuse: Seriously who would let the reaping continue after ALL that struggle? Oh and obviously evil.
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Thanks for the rundown, aranna. Interesting viewpoint. Will consider this as I am about to beat 2/start 3 today. You would be a wise choice for annoyingly moral science officer as well as girlfriend!
Did you play arrival DLC for 2? If so, what are your thoughts?
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The way I see it, the Control ending was what the Illusive Man wanted all along, while Synthesis is what Saren was aiming for in the first game. I always go with Destroy because it's what Anderson would have wanted.I see the reason they did what they did to Shep, but I would have liked to come out alive. Shep can survive if you have over 4000 points from war assets and choose destruction, but it's not as cool as synthesisMass Effect 3 completed.
I think I need a cigarette. And I don't even smoke...
So I will need that much, thanks.
Control was the only moral choice... But this time through I will save before the end and try all four endings.Yes the irony didn't escape me that the least moral man was seeking the most moral solution.
But the four solutions (as I understand them):
-Synthesis: requires you to forcibly mutate every being in the galaxy against it's will. That's evil.-Destroy: Safely eliminates the threat... but genocides the entire Geth race and Edi, as well as any other machine beings. Evil if you consider AI's to be people too. And after fighting SO hard for the Geth / Quarian peace I wasn't going to do THAT.
-Control: You sacrifice yourself to save everyone else... and gain an AI with your personality that controls the greatest force in history. Not good for you but it harms no one else.
-Refuse: Seriously who would let the reaping continue after ALL that struggle? Oh and obviously evil.
I'd disagree on Control. You're effectively
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This one is sad so I'll hide it if you don't want to read it
That was my worst birthday.
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When i was 17 i picked up my new guitar that i'd had on layaway forever, a sweet Telecaster with an island paint job, then i paid my buddy 10 bucks to drive me to this little town 17 miles away where, after 3 months or so of courtship i'd finally scored a date with this super hot blonde grunge witch chick, boy you should've seen me that night, i was on fire! i pitched the most perfect game of woo that was ever pitched i tell you!
It also began a whirlwind 8 and half month relationship, the eventual break-up doesn't matter because that super hot grunge witch is my wife:-)
And that was my best birthday ever!
Before my 18th birthday i discovered these wonderful new things called Weed and Whiskey and Rum, so then my friend Chad and i decided the birthday doesn't actually end until you go a day sober, that year my birthday lasted 389 days.
And that one was one of my best birthdays ever, maybe, it's kind of fuzzy:-)
Thanks for the rundown, aranna. Interesting viewpoint. Will consider this as I am about to beat 2/start 3 today. You would be a wise choice for annoyingly moral science officer as well as girlfriend!
Did you play arrival DLC for 2? If so, what are your thoughts?
Are you comparing me to Liara?
I did play Arrival... I was sad that they turned it into a railroad. I would have liked to find a way to fix the problem without
When I turned 21 I had recently moved to Madison, spent the summer partying with my future wife and her college roommate who was already 21, anyway they went to California to spend the rest of the summer there leaving me alone. My mom that morning says to me "if you walk around n that door drunk you're kicked out!"
So I spent the rest of the day setting up the tent in the backyard and running extension cords and buying up as much rum as I could afford and a bunch of fruit and invited this other couple that partied with us that summer and had a backyard camp out, even set my arm in fire when dropped the hemp bracelet my future wife had given me in the fire, totally saved it.
I spent the rest of the weekend getting wasted in Monroe and haven't been back since.