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I would have a hard time drawing NH's avatar.sketchingSketching is far easier for me than doodling, by the way. Something about the freedom to have rough lines and turn mistakes into new artistry and change the anarchy into order is much more liberating and fulfilling than having to create intricate patterns from the get-go.
(To me.)
That's because my avatar is the height of high art! :-P
...and obviously if we're going to discuss "high art", we must discuss... the nudes!
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I dunno I figured it out.
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Wait, so, the big companies don't even offer prepaid options? We have 3 big mobile phone operators here, and they all offer both contract and prepaid options. Prepaid can be every bit as good coverage and value wise as contracts, but contracts usually come with free phones.
Not to my knowledge. The only things ever advertised are the X-year contracts, and that's all they discuss when you speak to them in a store.
I imagine if they do offer some sort of prepaid service, it's probably very bare-bones, very no-frills, limited minutes and limited texting, so they can convince you to either jump to the contract to get all the bells and whistles, or charge you extra when you go over the arbitrarily-low limits.
I actually use my phone extremely rarely for actual calling, doing most of my communication in texts or over Skype, and I wouldn't be surprised at all to hear that prepaid smartphone usage had an even lower data limit than my current contract (2 GB/month before they start charging extra). And that's not even getting into putting a limit on texts each month (currently have unlimited).
So yeah. The entire business is geared very strongly toward getting you on a contract. Add in what Drejk said, that the salesman/woman has no motivation to let you get away with anything but signing a contract and getting him/her a commission for the sale, and it just simply never comes up, if it's even an option at all.
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Mornin', FaWTLpods!
My D&D game is tomorrow. Thank you, TL and lyn, for the advice!
I'll try to post kind of a liveblog, blow-by-blow of the game if you guys are interested.
In other news, I've finally dragged some of my friends to the D&D encounters session at our local friendly gaming and coffee shop. Kickstarter continues to tantalize me, as always, with amazing games like Fellowship and Masks that I don't have the money to back.
Somehow, my joker player has evolved into a sophisticated roleplayer. I'm so happy for him! He went from crude jokes to in-depth characters overnight, it seems.
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Yes please post your campaign summaries in the Campaign Journals forum and link us when you update =)
I'm so behind on mine, sadly... I need to take a weekend and catch up....
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Wait, so, the big companies don't even offer prepaid options? We have 3 big mobile phone operators here, and they all offer both contract and prepaid options. Prepaid can be every bit as good coverage and value wise as contracts, but contracts usually come with free phones.Not to my knowledge. The only things ever advertised are the X-year contracts, and that's all they discuss when you speak to them in a store.
I imagine if they do offer some sort of prepaid service, it's probably very bare-bones, very no-frills, limited minutes and limited texting, so they can convince you to either jump to the contract to get all the bells and whistles, or charge you extra when you go over the arbitrarily-low limits.
I actually use my phone extremely rarely for actual calling, doing most of my communication in texts or over Skype, and I wouldn't be surprised at all to hear that prepaid smartphone usage had an even lower data limit than my current contract (2 GB/month before they start charging extra). And that's not even getting into putting a limit on texts each month (currently have unlimited).
So yeah. The entire business is geared very strongly toward getting you on a contract. Add in what Drejk said, that the salesman/woman has no motivation to let you get away with anything but signing a contract and getting him/her a commission for the sale, and it just simply never comes up, if it's even an option at all.
Very true, I know for myself I just like the security of knowing that I always have the minutes available even though I do not use the phone very often. My wife on the other hand... It's also why I probably have way too much insurance
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Mornin', FaWTLpods!
My D&D game is tomorrow. Thank you, TL and lyn, for the advice!
I'll try to post kind of a liveblog, blow-by-blow of the game if you guys are interested.
In other news, I've finally dragged some of my friends to the D&D encounters session at our local friendly gaming and coffee shop. Kickstarter continues to tantalize me, as always, with amazing games like Fellowship and Masks that I don't have the money to back.
Somehow, my joker player has evolved into a sophisticated roleplayer. I'm so happy for him! He went from crude jokes to in-depth characters overnight, it seems.
I got the 5E players book last week, It is a simplified system but you know if sales go well more and more options will come out. I have no problem with this, I really enjoy the "Bloat" that PF offers.
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Space Jesus!I haven't laughed that hard in a while.This is for all the Mass Effect fans.
** spoiler omitted **
ROTFLLLLLLLL
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I'm really not going to get started on potty training because I'll just be too depressing.
As I've mentioned, Impus Major is (and always has been) a Force of Personality. We tried the "no pants" thing. He just squatted wherever he happened to be. We tried showing him. We tried praising him. We tried everything in the books, and that all the other well-meaning parents told us would work.
Didn't matter. He was still in pull-ups at 3.
Then one day he just told us, "Oh, I've decided I'm going to use the toilet from now on."
Never another accident.
PITA kid.
I would say "I like this kid!" But god/karma has big ears....
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** spoiler omitted **Yay Synos game time has come again!
Unfortunately all the ones on the list I wanted, I think I already have =) Your generosity is still greatly appreciated! Hopefully there'll be someone here who wants some of these and doesn't have them yet =D
Seriously people, some of these are great games (even if they're not for me, for example I tend to avoid horror and shooters), and Synos offers them completely free, no strings attached, all you need is a Steam account. I highly advise you take him up on the offer =)
As, sure, they're just sittin' there doing nothing. Might as well share them with people who will enjoy them. Besides, I get a kick out of it when I see someone playing one of them down the line. :)
If you missed the link before, it's kept in my profile now, so everyone should feel free to take a look and claim what you like. There's a few additions I haven't had the time to update the online list with, but no really big names in there.
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"Welcome to the new dark ages, AAAAAAAaaaaaaa, I hope you're living right. These are the new dark ages, and the world might end tonight!"
I love me some Bad Religion.
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And as much as I despise 3 Days Grace, I love their one decent song: Animal I Have Become.
Such an earworm... and so good.
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Very true, I know for myself I just like the security of knowing that I always have the minutes available even though I do not use the phone very often. My wife on the other hand... It's also why I probably have way too much insuranceWait, so, the big companies don't even offer prepaid options? We have 3 big mobile phone operators here, and they all offer both contract and prepaid options. Prepaid can be every bit as good coverage and value wise as contracts, but contracts usually come with free phones.Not to my knowledge. The only things ever advertised are the X-year contracts, and that's all they discuss when you speak to them in a store.
I imagine if they do offer some sort of prepaid service, it's probably very bare-bones, very no-frills, limited minutes and limited texting, so they can convince you to either jump to the contract to get all the bells and whistles, or charge you extra when you go over the arbitrarily-low limits.
I actually use my phone extremely rarely for actual calling, doing most of my communication in texts or over Skype, and I wouldn't be surprised at all to hear that prepaid smartphone usage had an even lower data limit than my current contract (2 GB/month before they start charging extra). And that's not even getting into putting a limit on texts each month (currently have unlimited).
So yeah. The entire business is geared very strongly toward getting you on a contract. Add in what Drejk said, that the salesman/woman has no motivation to let you get away with anything but signing a contract and getting him/her a commission for the sale, and it just simply never comes up, if it's even an option at all.
Damn. That almost makes me feel bad about how good my package is. Free calls to anyone on the same network, free texts to any network, and unlimited data for €20 a month. I saw the internet dealie was bad a few pages back, but I didn't expect the phone deals to be so bad too.
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Right now my parents pay for my cell service. I certainly don't mind. Just a hold over from college when they wanted to make sure they could always reach me and keep tabs.
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LordSynos potty training:
Arg, I've run out of time, and editing the above is a masses of pain, thanks to being on a phone.The most important piece of advice: listen to ALL of the advice, weigh it carefully, and use what works for you and your family, respectfully throwing out the rest. That and patience/calm/happiness as it goes on.
Hope that helps! Maybe more later? God bless you, and good luck!
Edit: arg, autocorrect and phone editing suuuuuuck!
Thank you for all the advice. :)
Glad to! We went through it once and will do so again. One thing we never did, but was recommended, was putting Cheerios in the toilet: for boys, it could be a "fun game" to aim at them and try to hit them. We've got two boys, but I could never bring myself to actually throw the food that they eat into the toilet.
Incidentally, my eldest is yelling at me about how he's going poopy right now as I type this. I'm being very well informed.
Demigod
That one is pretty fun, but it doesn't "last" as long as some games - it's pretty light. It happens to be one of the few games I owned outside of LordSynos' generosity!
It's a MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena), most of its draw/playtime is supposed to come from playing with friends. Which, you know, now that a bunch of Steam FaWtL's own it... :D
Edit: If you like Demigod, btw, you should consider giving other MOBA's a try. My friends and I regularly play DotA 2 which, while it has a steep learning curve, can be very enjoyable. Heroes of Newerth (HoN) and League of Legends (LoL) are two other popular ones, and I believe they're all free to play.
Hah! I only ever did it single player. Makes sense the lifespan would be shorter. I did really enjoy it, while I played it, though. Yes... I tend to "do it wrong" with most games.
(It's effectively a very contrived version of Capture the Flag; pretty fun, though.)
SMITE is also a good MOBA. Great for beginners who are more used to action RPGs than isometric ones.
Mornin', FaWTLpods!
My D&D game is tomorrow. Thank you, TL and lyn, for the advice!
I'll try to post kind of a liveblog, blow-by-blow of the game if you guys are interested.
In other news, I've finally dragged some of my friends to the D&D encounters session at our local friendly gaming and coffee shop. Kickstarter continues to tantalize me, as always, with amazing games like Fellowship and Masks that I don't have the money to back.
Somehow, my joker player has evolved into a sophisticated roleplayer. I'm so happy for him! He went from crude jokes to in-depth characters overnight, it seems.
Glad you liked it! Mind if I ask what "CFT round" is? I'm afraid I'm not savvy enough to figure it out.
3 Days Grace, I love their one decent song: Animal I Have Become.
Such an earworm... and so good.
Yes. :D
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CAPTAIN YESTERDAY YOU CHANGE AVATARS RIGHT THIS MINUTE YOUNG MAN! YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE NOBODYSHOME'S AVATAR. NOPE. CHANGE.
>:(
(I'd never know what's happening 'round here...)
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Ah, must have misspelled it... CTF for Capture the Flag. The round will be 3 days long, with 8 teams of 8, with the goal to come out of it with the most flags.
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Heeey.... why don't we all change our avatar to Elan?
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*gets flattened Loony-Toons style*
*picks self up and straightens self out*
Did somebody get the plates on that thing?
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I MISSED THE CLASS AGAIN!!!!!!!!
I haven't even been to that class at all yet because I've slept through it EVERY TIME
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CAPTAIN YESTERDAY YOU CHANGE AVATARS RIGHT THIS MINUTE YOUNG MAN! YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE NOBODYSHOME'S AVATAR. NOPE. CHANGE.
>:(
(I'd never know what's happening 'round here...)
But I just learned how to draw it! And it's fine art! Fine. Art.
We don't get much of that in here parts, even when a famous artist donates a sculpture for in front of the football stadium it looks like a diseased penis, and so many people have it!
Fine, I'll change:-(
Isn't that what most "famous artists" donate to places?
I just thought it was, "Ah, crap! I looks like a warped sexual organ and/or boring everyday uninteresting object! I'll donate it, get a good tax break, and make good will with the locals!"
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Science test. Didn't study.
Crap. Crap. Crap.
Heart of the numbers, Doomi... heart of the numbers...
By the way, Mickey Mouse is not a paladin - just in case anyone was curious.
There are times he's been lawful-good-like. But he has never displayed paladin tendencies, even then. (And the most lawful good version of him I can think of, he was playing the role of "Bob Cratchit" instead of "Mickey Mouse"...)
Man, I love the internet. I can take discussions like that wwwwwwaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy too seriously. :D
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I would have a hard time drawing NH's avatar.sketchingSketching is far easier for me than doodling, by the way. Something about the freedom to have rough lines and turn mistakes into new artistry and change the anarchy into order is much more liberating and fulfilling than having to create intricate patterns from the get-go.
(To me.)
That's because my avatar is the height of high art! :-P
...and obviously if we're going to discuss "high art", we must discuss... the nudes!
Actually yes, I would have a hard time drawing Order of the Stick
also drawing highly stylized anime and western cartoons.
it's like trying to write in someone else's handwriting. Even Ogata, who draws Death Note with a similar level of realism to myself, stylizes things in different ways, so if I were to emulate that style I would have to contradict my own habits.
Or emulating the style of Jack Kirby or John Romita, come to think of it. (I don't read a lot of western comics)
Yay! You're a lion!
... but, wait, you should always tell the truth... aaaggghhh~!
*self-realization*
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CAPTAIN YESTERDAY YOU CHANGE AVATARS RIGHT THIS MINUTE YOUNG MAN! YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE NOBODYSHOME'S AVATAR. NOPE. CHANGE.
>:(
(I'd never know what's happening 'round here...)
But I just learned how to draw it! And it's fine art! Fine. Art.
We don't get much of that in here parts, even when a famous artist donates a sculpture for in front of the football stadium it looks like a diseased penis, and so many people have it!
Fine, I'll change:-(
Oh, don't get me started. During my time at U.C. Davis they installed the infamous eggheads. To the tune of around $50,000. Each.
Yes, an artist got the idea to make a bunch of egg-shaped heads with varying facial expressions.
And that idea was worth $50,000. Per. Egg.
I always feel the world would be a far more reasonable place if, instead of an unlimited budget of other people's money, sales reps, corporate decorators, and so forth were required to pay for things out of their own salaries. Maybe increase the salary by $20k-$50k (or whatever) and say, "You need to entertain this many clients," or, "You need to add artwork to this many buildings," but the sheer ludicrosity of what such people pay for "fine wine" or "art" appalls me.
(The eggheads don't bother me. They creep NobodysWife out.)
EDIT: And I mean, at least most artists are grossly underpaid, so one big windfall may be all an artist can expect in a lifetime of work. When my first tech company was going under, the sales reps held a 3-day $11 million 'corporate retreat' complete with exotic petting zoo (how many people can honestly say they've petted a giraffe?) while engineering was seeing 2/3 of its work force laid off. Spend 110 people's annual salaries on a 3-day jig as they are laid off? Why not? It's not OUR money!
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Science test. Didn't study.
Crap. Crap. Crap.
Heart of the numbers, Doomi... heart of the numbers...
that sounds like math talk to me, doomkitten.
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CAPTAIN YESTERDAY YOU CHANGE AVATARS RIGHT THIS MINUTE YOUNG MAN! YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE NOBODYSHOME'S AVATAR. NOPE. CHANGE.
>:(
(I'd never know what's happening 'round here...)
But I just learned how to draw it! And it's fine art! Fine. Art.
We don't get much of that in here parts, even when a famous artist donates a sculpture for in front of the football stadium it looks like a diseased penis, and so many people have it!
Fine, I'll change:-(
Oh, don't get me started. During my time at U.C. Davis they installed the infamous eggheads. To the tune of around $50,000. Each.
Yes, an artist got the idea to make a bunch of egg-shaped heads with varying facial expressions.
And that idea was worth $50,000. Per. Egg.
I always feel the world would be a far more reasonable place if, instead of an unlimited budget of other people's money, sales reps, corporate decorators, and so forth were required to pay for things out of their own salaries. Maybe increase the salary by $20k-$50k (or whatever) and say, "You need to entertain this many clients," or, "You need to add artwork to this many buildings," but the sheer ludicrosity of what such people pay for "fine wine" or "art" appalls me.
(The eggheads don't bother me. They creep NobodysWife out.)
wow.
In my experience, which is limited, as I learned early on that artist are their own, weird people who don't often socialize well with non artists, high art is its own world where money tends to materialize out of nowhere and go into pockets unknown. It is very much like mental health/anything in psychology that way.
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Science test. Didn't study.
Crap. Crap. Crap.
Heart of the numbers, Doomi... heart of the numbers...
Quick... switch to my avatar and channel my brain!
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I dont understand the world of high art.
i just use my art to tell stories about gay moe vikings mang
(no but seriously the other day I realized that my version of bēowulf fits the definition of moe. I have been developing this character for five years)
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I love public art, Seattle has some spectacular public art.
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I love public art, Seattle has some spectacular public art.
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I love public art, Seattle has some spectacular public art.
Any city that has this understands public art.
Now you're Durkon!
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Any city that has this understands public art.I love public art, Seattle has some spectacular public art.
We had our picture taken with the Fremont Troll, don't forget Stalin, Fremont also has a bronze statue of Stalin, that they decorate for every holiday:-D
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We had our picture taken with the Fremont Troll, don't forget Stalin, Fremont also has a bronze statue of Stalin, that they decorate for every holiday:-DAny city that has this understands public art.I love public art, Seattle has some spectacular public art.
I'm going to pull that statue down.
EDIT: I googled it and found a statue of Lenin in Fremont. Is this what you're thinking of? (I'm still pulling it down and putting up a statue of Nestor Makhno in its place)
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There is a difference between public art and donated art...
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We had our picture taken with the Fremont Troll, don't forget Stalin, Fremont also has a bronze statue of Stalin, that they decorate for every holiday:-DAny city that has this understands public art.I love public art, Seattle has some spectacular public art.
I'm going to pull that statue down.
EDIT: I googled it and found a statue of Lenin in Fremont. Is this what you're thinking of? (I'm still pulling it down and putting up a statue of Nestor Makhno in its place)
You're correct it is Lenin
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We had our picture taken with the Fremont Troll...
Somewhere in our archives is a picture of the Fremont troll crushing Impus Minor and devouring Impus Major.
Stand still for a normal family photo? Impossible!
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Science test. Didn't study.
Crap. Crap. Crap.
Heart of the numbers, Doomi... heart of the numbers...
Quick... switch to my avatar and channel my brain!
(Hope that's a physics or math test, though -- otherwise you're really in trouble if you're in MY brain...)
Chem test. It was actually pretty basic-lots of heat related questions-and I feel like I did good.
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*whacks herself*
Well! It's well, you FOOL!
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I'm pretty sure I was picking his nose :-)
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its really too bad that a lot of the time color pages are not preserved in tankoubon :c
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We had our picture taken with the Fremont Troll, don't forget Stalin, Fremont also has a bronze statue of Stalin, that they decorate for every holiday:-DAny city that has this understands public art.I love public art, Seattle has some spectacular public art.
I'm going to pull that statue down.
EDIT: I googled it and found a statue of Lenin in Fremont. Is this what you're thinking of? (I'm still pulling it down and putting up a statue of Nestor Makhno in its place)
They would probably let you put up a statue next to it, Fremont is the hippiest of hippy neighborhoods in Seattle, every summer they have a summer solstice parade where everyone gets naked puts on body paint and ride their bikes, I was pretty lit the first time I saw it in person, and a little confused.
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