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captain yesterday wrote:
And it's not traffic we have to worry about, what with at least 10 people within half a mile on the sex offender registry 2 guys on our cul-de-sac even >:(

Is it now a bad time to ask permission to practice swordsmanship unarmed combat (since I don't actually own a sword) in your neighborhood?


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captain yesterday wrote:

Yes she'll walk, she's always walked, not alone mind you, only time she takes a bus is for field trips, they still tried charging us for it tho :-)

This year is awesome because the school is on mom's walk to work so they'll walk together :-)

And it's not traffic we have to worry about, what with at least 10 people within half a mile on the sex offender registry 2 guys on our cul-de-sac even >:(

mmm.

I am no fan of sex offenders, and even less a fan of registry. It was a good idea at the time, but the amount of unrelated things that can get you on there are disturbing.


Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
captain yesterday wrote:
And it's not traffic we have to worry about, what with at least 10 people within half a mile on the sex offender registry 2 guys on our cul-de-sac even >:(
Is it now a bad time to ask permission to practice swordsmanship unarmed combat (since I don't actually own a sword) in your neighborhood?

put some clothes on!


Freehold DM wrote:
Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
captain yesterday wrote:
And it's not traffic we have to worry about, what with at least 10 people within half a mile on the sex offender registry 2 guys on our cul-de-sac even >:(
Is it now a bad time to ask permission to practice swordsmanship unarmed combat (since I don't actually own a sword) in your neighborhood?
put some clothes on!

Wait, how did you know I was disrobed in my own house with nobody home, are you a psionic?

For the record, the last time I brutalized someone with my bare arms to an inch of their life I was fully clothed (except for the aforementioned arms apparently). It was also in a dream and the guy had shot my friend with the beautiful beard, but that's not relevant.


I tried growing a beard. It was not very successful ;__;


Durkon: Makes reference to Thor for the first time in pages

Me: Feels worlds better


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Kajehase wrote:
captain yesterday wrote:

So apparently at Pea Bear's new school it costs them $300 for each kid to ride the bus, at least that's what they tried charging me.

Yeeaahh!! No thank you! even if we didn't live 3 blocks max from the school there's no way i'm giving em that much to bus, i'd drive her myself, also Saddle Club (*sigh* yes it's one of those schools) was 88 bucks, luckily Pea Bear wasn't biting, despite her deep and passionate love of horses:-)

Pardon someone from foreign parts, but shouldn't three blocks be short enough to trust Pea Bear to walk on her own, or is the traffic that bad?

My favorite such incident: I was walking Impus Minor to school, and arrived at the infamous Marin-Sante Fe crossing almost every child has to brave to get to elementary school. In spite of 2 crossing guards on duty at that one intersection, I am amazed there are so few "incidents" there.

Anyway, the light turned green, the crossing guard came out to meet the kids, and a woman in a black SUV making a left turn into the 4-lane street accelerated rapidly, trying to get through the intersection before the kids made it to the middle of the road. A dumb, dumb maneuver. The crossing guard stopped in the middle of the left lane. The woman in the SUV swerved to the right, trying to get around her. The septuagenarian crossing guard nimbly moved to the right lane, blocking her path again. She swerved left, now determined to get past the ornery crossing guard.

So the crossing guard strode up to the vehicle and planted her Stop sign directly on the hood. Then stood there. For the ENTIRE light.

We all applauded her, but the notion that someone was trying to race recklessly through an intersection to try to beat a bunch of 7-11-year-old kids crossing the street incensed me.

Have you ever watched 7-11-year-old kids walk? It's more random Brownian motion than anything having to do with sedate walking.

Yep. We took photos of the SUV's license plate and turned 'em over to police. Never did find out what happened, though.

As to the "sex offenders" list, if I start discussing it at length, Freehold will slap me for getting political on FaWtL. I'll just say that when they stop registering consenting 16-year-olds as "sex offenders", I'll be more concerned about the list...


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Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
captain yesterday wrote:
And it's not traffic we have to worry about, what with at least 10 people within half a mile on the sex offender registry 2 guys on our cul-de-sac even >:(
Is it now a bad time to ask permission to practice swordsmanship unarmed combat (since I don't actually own a sword) in your neighborhood?
put some clothes on!

Wait, how did you know I was disrobed in my own house with nobody home, are you a psionic?

For the record, the last time I brutalized someone with my bare arms to an inch of their life I was fully clothed (except for the aforementioned arms apparently). It was also in a dream and the guy had shot my friend with the beautiful beard, but that's not relevant.

When did I end up in your house? Darned no-coffee mornings! Never know where you're going to end up!


Icyshadow wrote:
I tried growing a beard. It was not very successful ;__;

I know that feeling.

I've got maybe seven terminal hairs on my chin? Damn natural hormone levels.

Maybe if I channel my inner dwarf hard enough I'll have a visible beard.

Speaking of, a shirt exists saying "PRECISE ÐWARF BRAVERY" [sic] and I want it! IF not as a tshirt then as a laptop sticker or something


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Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
Icyshadow wrote:
I tried growing a beard. It was not very successful ;__;

I know that feeling.

I've got maybe seven terminal hairs on my chin? Damn natural hormone levels.

Maybe if I channel my inner dwarf hard enough I'll have a visible beard.

Be very, very thankful.

Beards run thick and bushy in my family. My brother tried not shaving for two months. The kindest comparison was Grizzly Adams. Other comparisons, such as "a Q-Tip fresh out of the drier", were common.

He looked truly, truly ridiculous.

I think the best way to describe our beards:
- In 1 week, we have about 1 cm of growth
- They are full and bushy enough that if we grow one out for a month, then cut it off, it is "springy" enough to support a 750 mL bottle of vodka
- After growing out our beards, cutting them off, and placing vodka on them, people do not want to be our friends. Even when we offer them the aforementioned vodka. Go figure.


Have you tried something that tastes good, Vodka supported by a beard is still Vodka:-D


NobodysHome wrote:
Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
captain yesterday wrote:
And it's not traffic we have to worry about, what with at least 10 people within half a mile on the sex offender registry 2 guys on our cul-de-sac even >:(
Is it now a bad time to ask permission to practice swordsmanship unarmed combat (since I don't actually own a sword) in your neighborhood?
put some clothes on!

Wait, how did you know I was disrobed in my own house with nobody home, are you a psionic?

For the record, the last time I brutalized someone with my bare arms to an inch of their life I was fully clothed (except for the aforementioned arms apparently). It was also in a dream and the guy had shot my friend with the beautiful beard, but that's not relevant.

When did I end up in your house? Darned no-coffee mornings! Never know where you're going to end up!

Haha! You'll never know what my gender is just by peeping at me when my guard is down! It doesn't work that way.

(my gender isn't actually a secret by the way, I'm a bæddel; I just needed a joke to make)


NobodysHome wrote:
Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
Icyshadow wrote:
I tried growing a beard. It was not very successful ;__;

I know that feeling.

I've got maybe seven terminal hairs on my chin? Damn natural hormone levels.

Maybe if I channel my inner dwarf hard enough I'll have a visible beard.

Be very, very thankful.

Beards run thick and bushy in my family. My brother tried not shaving for two months. The kindest comparison was Grizzly Adams. Other comparisons, such as "a Q-Tip fresh out of the drier", were common.

He looked truly, truly ridiculous.

I think the best way to describe our beards:
- In 1 week, we have about 1 cm of growth
- They are full and bushy enough that if we grow one out for a month, then cut it off, it is "springy" enough to support a 750 mL bottle of vodka
- After growing out our beards, cutting them off, and placing vodka on them, people do not want to be our friends. Even when we offer them the aforementioned vodka. Go figure.

That's a problem I would like to have. We're even polish, which adds like +25 to the chance that there's vodka stashed somewhere.

My uncle on my mother's side can grow a fine ring beard and my dad has a perpetual 4 o clock shadow (I don't see him often enough to know if it's a hair growth thing or lazy about shaving thing). Thus I am optimistic about my chances of quality facial hair after enough time on HRT.

(Incidentally, I have a finely-bearded druid/barbarian who is a walking pagan Polish stereotype, a chaotic neutral aspect of myself, who is powered on vodka. They have a nice healthy serving of the stuff every breakfast, lunch and dinner.)


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Freehold DM wrote:
captain yesterday wrote:

Yes she'll walk, she's always walked, not alone mind you, only time she takes a bus is for field trips, they still tried charging us for it tho :-)

This year is awesome because the school is on mom's walk to work so they'll walk together :-)

And it's not traffic we have to worry about, what with at least 10 people within half a mile on the sex offender registry 2 guys on our cul-de-sac even >:(

mmm.

I am no fan of sex offenders, and even less a fan of registry. It was a good idea at the time, but the amount of unrelated things that can get you on there are disturbing.

I agree, they put too many people on that list, it should be reserved for the worst of the worst, otherwise people just become lackadaisical about checking it and drop their guard, i don't need to know the guy up the road banged his 16 year old girlfriend when he was 18.

one of the guys on our cul-de-sac is there because he was a teacher and slept with his son's girlfriend and the other guy molested three of his nieces, then got busted again molesting little girls in the neighborhood where he lived so they both deserve to be on there, in fact the second guy deserves to be castrated and left to bleed out in the woods, but that's for someone else, i have not the stomach for mutilations.

Vigilance is key here, also my brother the Tae-Kwon-Do black belt instructor gives both my kids free lessons so i'm pretty sure they could both take him, if he can catch them that is with his s~$!ty ass knees, and there are people everywhere on that list, 800 in our county alone.


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Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
Drejk wrote:
Orthos wrote:
Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
Tarquin is one of the most interesting characters of his general archetype (lol) that I've had the pleasure of reading.
OOTS is one of the best examples of quality of story over quality of art that I've ever seen. And for cartoony stick figures the art is very much not bad at all, and constantly improving.
Well, today's strip is big (figuratively). The next one will be even bigger... #1000.

I still have a bet with myself that I will catch up on Order of the Stick before #1000 publishes.

I currently have #920 open in my browser, so I might actually make it.

At the current rate of new ones showing up you should make it... Unless the 1000 will be quicker than the recent ones.


On the plus side i found a brewery t-shirt from Orcas Island:-D


captain yesterday wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
captain yesterday wrote:

Yes she'll walk, she's always walked, not alone mind you, only time she takes a bus is for field trips, they still tried charging us for it tho :-)

This year is awesome because the school is on mom's walk to work so they'll walk together :-)

And it's not traffic we have to worry about, what with at least 10 people within half a mile on the sex offender registry 2 guys on our cul-de-sac even >:(

mmm.

I am no fan of sex offenders, and even less a fan of registry. It was a good idea at the time, but the amount of unrelated things that can get you on there are disturbing.

I agree, they put too many people on that list, it should be reserved for the worst of the worst, otherwise people just become lackadaisical about checking it and drop their guard, i don't need to know the guy up the road banged his 16 year old girlfriend when he was 18.

one of the guys on our cul-de-sac is there because he was a teacher and slept with his son's girlfriend and the other guy molested three of his nieces, then got busted again molesting little girls in the neighborhood where he lived so they both deserve to be on there, in fact the second guy deserves to be castrated and left to bleed out in the woods, but that's for someone else, i have not the stomach for mutilations.

Vigilance is key here, also my brother the Tae-Kwon-Do black belt instructor gives both my kids free lessons so i'm pretty sure they could both take him, if he can catch them that is with his s#&%ty ass knees, and there are people everywhere on that list, 800 in our county alone.

Screw unarmed combat, I'm getting the hatchet and marching straight to your neighborhood to practice a little axemanship.


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Ragadolf wrote:
Sharoth wrote:

Paratus 14:50

As someone who saw the before and after of Katrina, thank you to all the brave men and women of the Coast Guard and all of the other rescue squad for what you have done. Police, fire, medical, guard units, ect. Thanks you! I was luck that the people I loved who were there got out before Katrina hit. But there were many more people who were not so lucky.

PBS is airing the show right now, but it will be on their web site or YouTube soon. So far I am very glad to be watching this show.

Paratus 14:50 trailer on YouTube

Thanks for the heads up Sharoth.

As one whose family was living BETWEEN the two levy breaks, this is very interesting to me personally.

(Made it sound worse than it really was. Because Me and Mine were smart enough to leave BEFORE it actually hit!) :)

When I was (much) younger, we lived in New Orleans, then across the state line in Mississippi. The place we were at in Mississippi was wped out after Katrina.


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Oh i got axes :-)

But i'd rather use them on things then people, besides Karma keeps breaking the a*~&*+%'s bike and our dog goes a%@%#@& every time he rides by, so we should be fine:-)

true story, our neighborhood is surrounded by woods and when i get frustrated i go out in the woods and knock down sun starved volunteer saplings with my bare hands to vent, works every time, and there is no end to the sun starved saplings in the underbrush:-)


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Anyway i'd rather talk about something else, like how Nobodyshome uses his kids' beards for Vodka coasters:-)


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captain yesterday wrote:
Anyway i'd rather talk about something else, like how Nobodyshome uses his kids' beards for Vodka coasters:-)

Very much understandable!

Anyway, how do you support a vodka bottle with your beard? Do you just sort of balance it on your chin and hope the glass doesn't fall on your face and break?


Of course now i'm checking my email every five minutes to see if they got the subscription issues figured out :-(


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Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
captain yesterday wrote:
Anyway i'd rather talk about something else, like how Nobodyshome uses his kids' beards for Vodka coasters:-)

Very much understandable!

Anyway, how do you support a vodka bottle with your beard? Do you just sort of balance it on your chin and hope the glass doesn't fall on your face and break?

Well, as I mentioned, you really should cut it off first. Otherwise you kind of cheat because your face gets in the way...


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Thats a relief!

I was starting to get dizzy standing on my head:-)


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NobodysHome wrote:
Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
captain yesterday wrote:
Anyway i'd rather talk about something else, like how Nobodyshome uses his kids' beards for Vodka coasters:-)

Very much understandable!

Anyway, how do you support a vodka bottle with your beard? Do you just sort of balance it on your chin and hope the glass doesn't fall on your face and break?

Well, as I mentioned, you really should cut it off first. Otherwise you kind of cheat because your face gets in the way...

Cut off... the beard? I do not understand.


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Aaaalll (or moooooost) of the pre-Baldurs Gate D&D games appear to be available on GoG.


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Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
EDIT: Death is a very good dancer by the way. I on the other hand am a clumsy dancer and keep accidentally stepping on his foot. Sorry, death.

SQUEAK.


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Notice anything different:-)

huge thanks to Diego for fixing the issue:-)


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I practically grow facial hair on command, in fact if it weren't for shaving the only thing separating me from a Werewolf is at least they're only covered in hair once a month :-D


Cap'n "Grizzly Adams" Yesterday wrote:
I practically grow facial hair on command, in fact if it weren't for shaving the only thing separating me from a Werewolf is at least they're only covered in hair once a month :-D

I am unfortunately the same way. Add in that I can't stand having facial hair and that it itches like crazy if it's not removed within two or three days, and it leads to me having to shave at least twice a week.


So no idea which GURPS recap to start with?


Orthos wrote:
Cap'n "Grizzly Adams" Yesterday wrote:
I practically grow facial hair on command, in fact if it weren't for shaving the only thing separating me from a Werewolf is at least they're only covered in hair once a month :-D
I am unfortunately the same way. Add in that I can't stand having facial hair and that it itches like crazy if it's not removed within two or three days, and it leads to me having to shave at least twice a week.

I noticed that hair stops being itchy when I stop shaving it altogether and endure the temporary itchy phase.


I used to itch if it got so long, then I grew out it into a full on beard and now it doesn't itch anymore, even in the summer, no matter how long or short it is.

I personally miss the itches as that forced me to shave, now it's up to me, so I shave once every couple weeks, usually when it annoys my upper lip :-)

Silver Crusade

I have tried growing a beard and a goatee. It just comes in all patchy so I am shorn clean


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Icyshadow wrote:
So no idea which GURPS recap to start with?

I vote for funniest or easiest to remember :-)


Order of the Stick 946:
no, is he really gone? I thought something felt o--OH COME ON!!!!!! SHE IS NOT EVIL, SHE IS A NEUTRAL FIGURE WHO GIVES HOSPITALITY TO THE DEAD PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T MAKE THE CUT (and throws the evil ones onto nastrond, because of course, she is aware of the wicked deeds they perpetuated on those in her care) SHE IS NOT NORSE LADY LUCIFER!

She did gave a nazi a nasty case of kidneystones for me when I asked her to punish the ones who harassed me and their comrades in níþ, after all!

grumblemumbleupsetNorseheathen


Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
Orthos wrote:
Cap'n "Grizzly Adams" Yesterday wrote:
I practically grow facial hair on command, in fact if it weren't for shaving the only thing separating me from a Werewolf is at least they're only covered in hair once a month :-D
I am unfortunately the same way. Add in that I can't stand having facial hair and that it itches like crazy if it's not removed within two or three days, and it leads to me having to shave at least twice a week.
I noticed that hair stops being itchy when I stop shaving it altogether and endure the temporary itchy phase.

If I actually wanted the hair I'd put up with it, yeah. The problem is I don't.


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Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
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Spoiler:
Yeah unfortunately 99% of fantasy writers go "deity of death/the dead? Gotta be evil." My players and I had similar rants about NE Hades and Hecate (because witchcraft makes you evil too) when we got Deities and Demigods.

Bringing it up almost anywhere on Paizo will likely lead into rants and arguments about the different ways people dislike how Undead are handled in such games, as well. Such as Paizo's strict "almost all undead are evil, period, super super rare exceptions only" policy.


Orthos wrote:
Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
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Spoiler:
Yeah I mean, there's a reason why death/funeral was called the 'journey to hel' and it wasn't cus everybody who didn't make the cut of a heroic death was sentenced to endless suffering and torment along with the actual evil people. That would be stupid and illogical.

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captain yesterday wrote:
Icyshadow wrote:
So no idea which GURPS recap to start with?
I vote for funniest or easiest to remember :-)

I can second this.


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Heck, in my own setting the deity of death is Lawful Neutral, in the harsh but fair kind of way. The deity of undeath is Neutral Evil, but that does NOT mean all Undead are Evil.


Icyshadow wrote:
Heck, in my own setting the deity of death is Lawful Neutral, in the harsh but fair kind of way. The deity of undeath is Neutral Evil, but that does NOT mean all Undead are Evil.

Similarly, our giantess who oversees the dead would probably be considered either Lawful Neutral or True Neutral in the d20 alignment system.


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Look to how pathfinder did the Egyptian gods, there's only two evil guys up there, even Anubis and Sobek aren't evil, I don't think I've ever seen them stated up non evil in DnD before :-)


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captain yesterday wrote:

Notice anything different:-)

huge thanks to Diego for fixing the issue:-)

Woo hoo! Now you just have to beat me like you did Orthos, and get 4 of 'em under your name...


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While fun that sounds, I'm pretty sure my wife wouldn't let me:-)

Maybe for one glorious month at tax time, but definitely not long term:-D

Right now I'm gunning for Monkey and 200 aliases Mwahahahahaha!!!


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Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
Orthos wrote:
Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
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it's better to come up with your own gods of death. The one in Freehold is evil part of the time, but due to the dualistic nature of the gods of the setting, he has a very Neutral aspect as well.


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The only downside is now my name looks even smaller :-)


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captain yesterday wrote:
Look to how pathfinder did the Egyptian gods, there's only two evil guys up there, even Anubis and Sobek aren't evil, I don't think I've ever seen them stated up non evil in DnD before :-)

Anubis is LN in Deities and Demigods, but yeah Sobek/Sebek is usually CE.

Freehold DM wrote:
Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
Orthos wrote:
Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
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it's better to come up with your own gods of death.

Our setting actually has two: Ireshkigal, pulled from Babylonian myth, is LN, and Cara, based on a former PC of Ebon's with some heavy Celtic Morrigan influences, is CN.


Freehold DM wrote:
Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
Orthos wrote:
Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
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it's better to come up with your own gods of death. The one in Freehold is evil part of the time, but due to the dualistic nature of the gods of the setting, he has a very Neutral aspect as well.

That reminds me, I should come up with gods of death for my campaign setting.

Maybe to the imperial elves, the moons represent the mother and child of death? I'll work on it.


NobodysHome wrote:

Middle School? Middle School!??!?!?!

Impus Major is starting high school next week!

Isn't there a rule that you have to be at least 5'0", or weigh at least 100 pounds, before starting high school?

Nope. My son was under both those requirements when he was a freshman (he has since gotten taller and larger). Fortunately, he was "adopted" by some of the seniors in the marching band, which helped him avoid most of the not-so-awesome stuff that happens to smaller kids.

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