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Also, not to be That Guy, but i made my character very not white with a very not white baby so if I roll into the institute and my boy is white, heads will roll. He shouldn't be, they use their fancy genetics algorithm to make your son look like a cross between you and your spouse. Re Big Dig Fun fact: the "Big Dig" title is a reference to a real life massive excavation project in Boston that was part of a transportation/tunnel project. Maybe you knew that but in case anyone else is reading this, there you go. Hancock is pretty cool but I feel sorry for Mel. You can randomly run into him in the world later and he feels like he has to be on the run from Hancock and you can't assure him otherwise. Feels like a questline that got dropped halfway. I think you could convince Hancock to go easy on him. Which of course describes most of Fallout 4. I love this game but I wish it were a game of five or 10 really fleshed out questlines and ideas rather than 500 questlines and ideas they never quite finished or implemented properly (and it's always weird to me what they DID implement and finish properly. Like, you can never properly reclaim Quincy for the Minutemen when it's CLEAR they originally planned for you to do so... or like, it seems like they were planning to do a ton more with Magnolia (custom animations, face build, Lynda Carter playing her and a whole sound track to boot) but she barely has a role to play. But then you have this whole Cabot House questline that's fully built, detailed, and thought out even though it has f+@#all anything else to do with anything else that goes on in the game and just adds some weirdass shit to the setting lore for no good reason. Like some dude just wanted to throw in his personal gothic sci-fi fiction in the game because he could. I'm finishing up some loose ends as I progress the main quest. I got sick of everyone else and I hadn't rescued Cait yet so I've been running around for her for a bit. I forgot how fun she was. More chill than I remember. Well, chill for a jet-addicted pit fighter who beats people to death with a baseball bat, but you know what I mean.
Speaking of sweet potatoes... I visited my Dad a few days ago and made a dinner that was super easy and he adored. Cut up sweet potatoes into long strips and tossed in oil and seasonings and laid along either long edge of a baking sheet. Cut up red onion into half moons and mixed with oil and seasonings and spread all along the middle of same baking sheet. Baked for 15 minutes at 400, during which time I got out a 2-4 serving slab of salmon my dad had bought, patted it dry, seasoned it, and laid lemon slices atop it. Once the roasted roots had their 15 minutes, put the salmon on top of the bed of onions and put everything back in the oven for another 15 minutes (you might need slightly more or less time based on thickness of fish and how done you like it; the sweet potatoes and onions can take a little less or more). During that 15 minutes, sauteed spinach in a little oil and butter and garlic powder, then finished it with lemon juice and lemon zest. (Only takes a few minutes to cook. Probably takes longer to zest the lemon!) With about 40 minutes from prep to plate, it was super easy and delicious. And plenty of iron for my anemic dad. He said he would pay to eat it again in a restaurant. I probably should have asked for tips, but decided against it. Lemon curd over vanilla ice cream for dessert.
Avowed has a slow and somewhat frustrating start. I do believe it's worth it to get past the first area; once you get into the main city it gets much better I'm excited about the update because they've added more player races among other things. (And that said, if it's not for you, it's not for you. But if you tried it early on release it has changed notably even prior to this update. Typical Obsidian, I adore them but you almost always need to wait at least 6 months after release to get the real game.) Glad to hear OW2 has the 3rd person option, that will make it far more likely I will get it. I had to play the first one on handheld for no more than 2 hours at a time with frequent breaks.
I've also been replaying Fallout 4, in part inspired by the Fallout TV show, which I adore (second season is just as good IMO!). I was going to post to your old Fallout thread but I forgot the thing I was going to say in it. I've been mostly dying a lot in a slightly modded survival mode. I decided to base my character on Scarlet Lake from Alpha Protocol since she's also voiced by Courtenay Taylor and it amuses me. Also been playing Stardew Valley on my phone. Theoretically Avowed is getting a massive update tomorrow so I might try a replay or a new game + of that soon. That was truly a really good and highly underrated and underhyped game. ETA: And holy shit I just learned I somehow entirely missed the Outer Worlds 2 coming out last October. So that's a thing I'm gonna have to get. Though I might wait till the DLC comes out.
This one hit hard. Watched "A Mighty Wind" not long after hearing the news. She was just so f@!%ing talented. Absolutely brilliant. From what I know, beloved by her costars. RIP.
I'm interested and I have this character I built for another Hell's Rebel's recruitment: Whisper, tiefling counterfeit mage rogue (intended to become an arcane trickster). I need to update her according to your chargen rules. (She was actually originally built for Council of Thieves, hence the origins in Westcrown, but she's a courier and arrived in Kintargo and decided to build her messenger business there.)
Due a few kerfuffles, albeit rare, I feel it best to post an about me/disclaimer: DQ's Disclaimer:
I am an experienced poster who generally can post once a day to every two days. I will communicate when I can't post or if I have concerns that can be easily resolved through civil discussion. I can point to prior GMs and players who can vouch for me as a player if needed.
I've also gotten into disagreements with some GMs--and chose to leave games as a result--over one of two issues:
2. Given we are in a public global forum full of strangers, I do not wish my PCs to engage in scenarios involving flirtation, propositions, romance, affectionate or intimate touching, sex, abuse, or harassment. If someone for narrative reasons wants to go in that direction, I expect the player/GM to reach out to me about it first, out of character, before posting it in game. If any of that seems problematic to you, please let me know not to apply. Otherwise I'll aim to get the character updated before your Friday deadline.
I highly doubt we'll get more than 8 episodes a season, for 2 reasons. Sure, but don't stop a gal from dreamin'. I'd like there to be one version of Fallout that isn't ridiculously overladen with sidequests for the size of the main story. ;) Finally though, I'd seen at least rumors that Amazon was developing one or more spinoffs/separate Fallout shows, hinted at being with completely new characters in different parts of the country/world. Considering that Amazon is global and serves multiple large audiences in different countries, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see Fallout: India, Fallout: Mexico, etc. They are making a Fallout reality show called Fallout Shelter (Casting call is open through February 15, in case any of you want to know what it's like to live in a Vault). That is the only other Fallout show I've heard or know of from any reliable sources and is obviously not an extension of the fictional world. I get that we're going to Colorado next, but don't have a clue if that's anything that's been done in FO3 or 4 (though it reminds me a lot of Wasteland 3 which is set in Colorado) Colorado was supposed to be the setting for Van Buren, a cancelled Fallout sequel that was going to be made by Black Isle (i.e., the original Fallout 3) before Interplay went bust. It was supposed to have a big management vault for Vault Tec employees and other stuff that I think they are going to pull from for season 3. Which is cool, I like that they're pulling from some unpublished stuff to add to the lore.
To explain further, Liberty Prime was a giant robot developed by the U.S. government and used to help secure Alaska during the Sino-American war. It is a major plot point in Fallout 3 in a Brotherhood versus Enclave battle. If you side with the Brotherhood (which is the canon and "good ending") they rebuild and reboot Liberty Prime to use it to fight the Enclave. You have the option of again refurbishing and powering up Liberty Prime in Fallout 4, but only if you side with the Brotherhood over the other three factions. I don't think the Commonwealth Brotherhood actually has Liberty Prime... Notably in Fallout 4 you need to get a special reactor agitator to make Prime work, and if you don't side with the Brotherhood, that agitator gets taken by the Institute and in the Minutemen and Railroad endings it gets blown up. I think the canon Fallout 4 ending is probably NOT the Brotherhood ending, and I think it's why Paladin Harkness wanted to bring cold fusion back to the Commonwealth--to use that to power Liberty Prime instead. Most likely the canon Fallout 4 ending is Minutemen... that leaves the Commonwealth Brotherhood alive and well with all its airships and multiple suits of T-60 armor, but not in charge and wanting to find an edge to secure its power over the region.
Possibly, but I assumed "alpha" meant it was a prototype of Liberty Prime rather than an improved version. Perhaps something retrieved from the sunken ruins of the Enclave Oil Rig in San Francisco?
I am delighted. I have so much to say. I just haven't had the time to write it all down. I will say for now my only wish is the three main characters were finally just together as a party. I'd rather less jumping around with 17 subplots. Butt if they're gonna do all these subplots, can we have more episodes in season 3 so they don't have to cram it all in 8?
Never thought of baking quesadillas! Brilliant and easy way to make multiples. Going into the meal plan next week, tho maybe with black beans instead of (or in addition to) chicken. Still trying to get more legumes in me.
Ah yes, George Washington's lesser known plan for the great Hudson-Potomac soup canal. If only the plans hadn't been set aside for the boring old Chesapeake and Ohio river canal.
This isn't my usual recipe for black bean soup, and rutabaga is a bit of an odd ingredient to put in it, but it turned out well. Moosewood Cooks At Home Cookbook has my favorite black bean soup recipe.
Was going to make chili and then discovered I was entirely out of canned tomatoes (or any other kind of tomato, but it's winter so it'd only be canned). So, needing to use up a bunch of vegetables in my fridge anyway, I made a black bean and vegetable soup. I had some ancient but still (just) edible carrot and celery and onion, sauteed that; added cumin, red pepper flake, smoked paprika, and a blob of tomato paste and stirred until fragrant; added a chopped and peeled sweet potato and rutabaga and a can of black beans and a bay leaf; then added a bottle of Shiner Bock, 2 chicken broth concentrate packets, and some water and simmered a half an hour, till the rutabaga was fork tender. Whizzed the stuff with an immersion blender so basically the beans turned into thickener and gave the soup a nice texture. Added a little rice vinegar for brightness and adjusted for salt flavor. It had no right to taste any good but actually was pretty decent. Not the best soup I've ever eaten, but hearty and appropriate for winter. Greek yogurt and olive oil served as tasty garnishes.
I don't know if we'll see something directly related to the Master (possible, but I'd wonder how they'd do it without bogging things down in exposition), but in Season 1, they mentioned Bud Askins worked for WestTek before he came to Vault Tech. Who was the same group doing the FEV experiments to create Super Mutants that Roger Maxson interrupted, and their leftover FEV in Mariposa created the first super mutants who captured the man who'd become the Master and threw him in the vats. So yeah, many fans are speculating (which I'm just saying to make clear this isn't my idea), his vision of "super managers" could well involve making the vault dwellers into mutants as you say. Where the Master I think indirectly ties in (1) is he said that vault dwellers make especially good FEV test subjects because they aren't exposed to the radiation and other toxins in the wasteland and (2) I wonder if the "super managers" are supposed to be more intelligent mutants than the super mutants, which resulted from efforts to create soldiers.
I love licorice. I tried salt licorice candy once and I have to say it was... odd. There was something in the flavor profile that came off as intriguing for a split second, but overall it was just... jarring. Also, really salty. I was expecting sweet candy with a touch of salt and it was just ... not that. FWIW, I should have clarified what I was referring to upthread was licorice root, the actual plant. While obvious licorice-root-flavored candy (commonly called "licorice") should have the same herbal benefits, it if course also comes with a ton of sugar (or salt). The cherry flavored candy made in the same way as licorice candy rope does not contain any licorice root. The root in a tea has a much less astringent flavor and is very soothing. It also tastes naturally sweet without adding any sugar to it.
Glad something worked, quibblemuch. I'm surprised he could eat peppers (even sweet ones are acidic), but it depends a lot on the particular bad stomach juju he has. I didn't think of it sooner but other herbs and spices associated with stomach soothing, off the top of my head, include:
For future reference if you cook for him again. None of the above should be taken as medical advice.
Is he banned from eating ginger? For some it could trigger some digestion issues, but it is a well known treatment for indigestion and nausea, and I personally find when my acid reflux is acting up, it helps tremendously. And it is delicious with chicken. I'd confirm with him first whether he can eat it or not of course. But if he can--if you want to keep it easy, maybe a ginger, chicken, and rice soup. Other typical soup herbs like thyme or sage should taste good with that and hopefully not be too volatile. If you want to get slightly riskier, maybe a stirfry. Mix a little broth, ginger, sesame oil, soy sauce, and corn starch together to make a not-too-bland sauce. Maybe a drop of sugar or honey. Stir fry the chicken with celery and carrot, add sauce. (I'd say add vinegar or lemon to the sauce as well but that could be reflux triggering.)
Hi folks, I have posted my recruitment for the interested applicants. Unfortunately it looks like Plastic Dragon's own game never got off the ground, so I also invited those players to apply to my table as well. One of those players has expressed interest. I'm asking folks who are still interested to please post to my thread to confirm they still are interested in playing.
Made the braised cabbage and daal (red lentils) last night. Seared the cabbage, took it out of the pan a moment, then sauteed garlic, red pepper flakes, smoked paprika, and tomato paste and then added a can of whole san marzano tomatoes and broke them up (I wanted to use diced tomatoes but apparently am out). Added some apple cider vinegar and honey and broth to thin out the liquid (the tomatoes came in more of a puree than canning liquid). Stirred about 1/3 to 1/2 cup daal into the mix (also was planning to use brown lentils but didn't have any, but daal cooks faster at least), then re-added cabbage and simmered, covered about 20 minutes. Served over farro. Was really tasty. Could have used more red pepper flake--needed a little more kick. Worth experimenting more with. Sadly one of my great fears is apparently coming true: cabbage is becoming the next "superfood." I have always loved it because it is cheap and abundant. But that of course makes it a ripe target by foodie influencers who take cheap food and try to "elevate" it in billions of fancy recipes, increasing the demand... and the cost. Food trends piss me off. Just look at how much oxtails and oxtail soup cost now, FFS.
For viewing, in addition to Max Miller's channel, be sure to check out Townsends.Townsends is a gateway to nutmeg heresies and/or nutmeg addiction. Careful, it can be hallucinogenic in high enough doses. :)
Wow, didn't know I had fellow food history fans in here. I collect historic cookbooks. :) For viewing, in addition to Max Miller's channel, be sure to check out Townsends.
Speaking of egg sandwiches... that's what I was going to have for breakfast this morning. I'd bought a lovely ciabatta from a bakery stand at the farmer's market and was going to put it on that. And then I discovered that my ADHD self had accidentally put the eggs in the freezer the last time I'd used them. While technically they should still be okay, there were still in shell and all cracked, so thawing them and then using them could lead to contamination, so I'm inclined to chuck them. They're still in the freezer as I make up my mind as to what to do with them but I don't think they're usable. IIRC if you freeze eggs you're supposed to beat them first and then freeze them in containers, e.g., ice cube trays. Anyway I'm disgusted. The chicken sausage and cheese sandwich on ciabatta was tasty, however. (No tomato for me, can't get good tomatoes around here this time of year)
I still haven't fully seen ep 4 but have seen enough from reaction vids and easter egg videos to get a sense of what's happened. The image of the deathclaw coming out of Gomorrah as the devil rising out of hell was so beautifully done. I have some things I want to ramble about WRT things happening and its relationship to New Vegas and speculation on what the canon courier did and didn't do. I've largely withdrawn from other online discussion boards so I'm gonna put that rambling under a spoiler here in case it is not of interest, but of course I'm always up for a discussion of someone wants. Thoughts on What's Happened to New Vegas, Etc.:
So first of all I want to say that I generally like what has happened in Fallout TV so far and would even go so far to say as it's all felt pretty natural as to what MIGHT happen 20 years after New Vegas, even though yes, of course a lot of it is depressing. I remember the showrunner saying he didn't want to show a really definitive conclusion to the events of Fallout: New Vegas so as not to invalidate different player playthroughs, which is bullshit for several reasons:
Here's what I'm pretty sure the Courier did in the canon:
Extrapolations and informed speculation:
Aside: the Ghoul mentions someone named "Darla" at Novac. There was never anyone there named Darla, but Boone's wife was named Carla. Ghoul strikes me as someone who might not fully remember her name. Which means the last time Ghoul was at Novac it was before Jeannie May sold Carla into slavery. Which would be also why he thought Camp Golf might have still been an active NCR outpost. What's yet to be revealed is what irradiated the Kings and when the Deathclaws attacked. (And the one thing that has upset me is how the Kings were just used for cannon fodder. The internal storytelling is interesting--Buffout-addled Lucy's "they're just ghouls" is an interesting comment given she chose to mercy-kill her feral mother. Is that how she had been justifying decision in her mind? But I'm sorry to see the Kings used like that, they were a cool faction and deserved better.) I'm not shocked that the Deathclaws overran Vegas. There was an insane number of Deathclaws near the Vegas city limits in Fallout: New Vegas. Their approaching and attacking the place feels like a reasonable inevitability--and it's a gap in New Vegas's storytelling. The huge number of Deathclaws is never really discussed or dealt with; even if you took out Quarry Junction they're still all over the place, so could eventually... well, move further into the city and kill everything that wasn't already dead. And an army of deathclaws could probably match the Securitrons. And I'm not upset at what's happened to Vegas... much. I mean, it's sad, but the New Vegas I remember playing made clear how very precarious the safety was there. Anything... like a slavering horde of previously, largely ignored deathclaws... could challenge that. Finally... what we know about the canon ending to Fallout 4:
That is all for now!
Thank you for allowing me to nerd in peace.
My recent best attempt at cooking was chicken jardiniere which I think I've posted about before. I used ATK's recipe portioned for two, subbing salt pork for pancetta. Basically a French stew of leg quarters, onions, carrots, potatoes, and peas with thyme and wine, finish with parsley and lemon juice. The "two portion" meal made three generous servings. I served with a side of Trader Joe's "mini baguettes" which are little crunchy bread sticks you bake from frozen for about six minutes. I also liked my "I'm too tired to cook but I need to eat something containing protein and a vegetable" meal this week, which was three Trader Joe's spanakopita, a scoop of garlicky seasoned cottage cheese, and some kalamata olives. Planning to make some braised cabbage and beans (or lentils, maybe?) today if the rain doesn't just glue me to the easy chair.
Hey folks, I am still planning to open recruitment for this adventure that I invited the other applicants to apply to. Recruitment post will go up sometime within the next week. I can't guarantee you will be selected; considering every application with fresh eyes. If you're interested in being invited to that recruitment, let me know via PM. For simplicity's sake I'm just using the same char gen rules Plastic Dragon did and folks can keep the same character, but folks can tweak or submit a different character if they want to. I'll post to the recruitment thread of this game as well as create my own recruitment thread so stay tuned. I too really hope Plastic Dragon is okay too. So many times people just disappear for random reasons, but I literally once learned a friend of mine died because I reached out to mutual friends after he had unexpectedly stopped posting to PBP (he and I lived far away from each other so PBP is often how we interacted on a regular basis), so now I always fear the worst when someone just disappears like that.
Thank you. So successes and failures are short for what the game calls degrees of success, e.g. 1 degree for every factor of 5 beyond the DC. And damage effect DCs will also be 11+rank, not 15+rank? I'll stay out of the odds discussions. My English major ass can understand things enough to edit scientific peer reviews talking about p values, but somehow the dice mechanic talk quickly goes over my head. Probably because I distrust dice to actually follow probability anyway... ;)
I'm not sure I am following on what you mean by reversing successes and failures. Can you provide an example with what the die rolls look like?
That's an interesting idea. It makes sense that in Quintus's mostly hypermasculine, mostly-men Brotherhood that the nonbinary one came from the more open-recruitment model in the Commonwealth. Though perhaps too obvious. Still, *someone* had to tip Paladin Harkness off for him to show up. I was taking at face value that Dane didn't like Maximus getting taken by the more brutal side of the West Coast Brotherhood chapters, but Dane's also been conspiring to make Maximus a hero knight all along. Could be they see potential in Maximus to be a good candidate for the Commonwealth and want to find an opportunity to push Maximus toward joining that group.
I mean, a heads up on the basics of Vegas would be a good idea. Fill her in on the factions, tell her to avoid the Supermutants, Avoid certain critters..all critters, etc.... little bits of useful details Sure, it would be smart for him to tell her all that stuff, but that's assuming he cares about her, which I don't think he does. His motivation seems to be to have her talk and chatter at him as little as possible, so literally almost anything he says to her is a waste of time to him, except in the specific tactical situation he's in, since he does acknowledge that having a combat companion and/or bait isn't a bad thing, he'd just prefer to have someone who didn't talk. Also, keeping her around as some type of leverage/pawn to use against her father should they catch up to him is another tactical reason he wants her around, but not enough to actually have long discussions explaining stuff to hear that may extend her lifespan. Yeah, I think you're right that he just doesn't care... and/or knows she won't listen to him. But at the same time it's also hurting his own survival chances. Because he wanted to "teach her a lesson" about how survival is key more than take the opportunity to explain what the Legion is, he slits a man's throat in front of her and starts eating him... which results in her being so repulsed it guarantees she gives her last stimpak to the woman rather than him when he gets injured. Lucy for all her naivete has probably been given philosophical/mental challenges in the Vault like the Trolley Problem: if she has to pull the switch toward one or the other, she'll do the one she thinks will do less harm: help the helpless woman, not the murdering cannibal who's lecturing her about how she should behave. I expect that over time he'll actually change that view, either due to her stoking the bits of humanity in him that cares about people other than his family, or by whatever he finds out about his family's fate causing a change of heart. I think of course we're going to see him change and soften a bit (he never would have gone after Lucy when she went into the hospital if he hadn't softened already)... and I think we're gonna see Lucy break (and I hope come back out of rock bottom).
I had two amazing homemade cheeseburgers last night so good I dreamt about them afterwards. What did you put on them? Tavern style or smashburger? These are important details. I had cereal for dinner. I have no regrets.
Indeed. Rather than put up with her retelling of a Charles Dickens tale we know he probably is familiar with and maybe even performed in! I wondered why he didn't just tell her he knows the story. But I guess then he'd actually have to tell her what his life was like, what he was like, before the bombs dropped and 200 years of ghoulification in a harsh world changed him. And he doesn't seem to to want to do that, other than to say, "I was like you once." Which isn't even really that true. Cooper in the past seems like a nice enough guy, but he's neither brainwashed by middle management principles nor ever seemed that optimistic.
Really enjoying this show again! But the once a week releases are killing me. What is this, broadcast television? ;) (Really it's fine, I just want to know what happens next!) So interesting that they are keeping the Robert House who showed up in last season as a canon presence but also the House played by Justin Theroux? Does House have a body double? Is one of them supposed to be his brother Anthony?
If the Ghoul had said, "Lucy, see these tunics? These are from Caesar's Legion, a band of murdering slavers that make me look like Santy Claus. Don't help them or you'll end up with a bomb collar 'round your pretty neck," and then she ignored him, I would say that was a bad move on Lucy's part. But not only did the Ghoul give no explanation as to why he didn't trust these people, he also in the same episode stole Lucy's canteen, cut a man's throat (who from Lucy's perspective was entirely innocent), and began to eat said man. Which is bound to cause Lucy to view his actions compared to that of the strangers as not worth regarding. Not to mention, this is also the same Ghoul who sold Lucy to organ harvesters, the same Ghoul who cut off Lucy's finger to punish her for defending herself against him, and the same Ghoul who has in general made it clear that he thinks no life whatsoever is worth saving save his own regardless of where they come from. If Lucy wanted to build on her past experiences with the Ghoul, she wouldn't have even been traveling with him. But she is putting up with him because he can lead her to her father and because she's convinced herself she can reform him (just like many a karma farming Fallout protagonist out to reform her crooked companions and colleagues). And he is putting up with her because she is collateral in his own dealings with Hank and because he has convinced himself he can corrupt her (just like many a bad karma farming protagonist out to corrupt his righteous companions and colleagues). But she has extraordinarily little reason to trust him--he could tell her someone is trustworthy and they might just be more organ harvesters. If he tells her someone is untrustworthy, for all she knows they are good people he wants her to stay away from because they might give her hope for what is possible in the Wasteland, and he is desperate for her to be as hopeless as possible. Is she still being foolishly naive? Of course! But did the Ghoul give her any decent reason to actually listen to him? F*%% no.
Merry Christmas, joyous Yule, and happy New Year! Wegman's largely did our Christmas dinner, but we did make homemade mashed potatoes and stuffing as grammy's recipe is a must. Christmas eve my dad showed my nieces how to make gołąbki (stuffed cabbage leaves), which my mom, grandchild of Polish immigrants, taught my dad to do. A Polish food that probably most Poles don't eat on Christmas eve, but none of us like fish that much.
And of course there's this quick and easy option. Didn't click on this sooner. Def one of my favorite YouTube cooking vids.
I made these cheese-stuffed latkes this evening. There was loads of filling left over, so I mixed it up with some flour and a beaten egg, formed it into spheres, and made a batch of Fried Cheese Globes to go with them. That sounds phenomenal. I mean holy cow. Only problem is I never want to go through the effort of processing the potato in latke recipes so I wonder if I can get someone to make them for me... Will GM for latkes?
As for Uncle Roger... He (comedian Nigel Ng) makes great observations about screw-ups and inaccuracies, and he is often bang-on funny. I just grew to find his shtick, his Uncle "performance" as tiresome. You're still allowed to have an opinion, and it isn't just you noticing pretention on YouTube. Someone linked to a really "great" movie criticism video and it's just a guy in a stupid hat pointing out "plot holes" that aren't actually plot holes, just him overthinking very simple shit. Also, I don't know Weissman but I agree with you on Babish (no autocorrect, not "Banish"). I used to really love his channel. But he ran out of ideas and is now doing the same shit other channels do with an unearned sense of superiority. I miss him when he was just hands.
I have never heard of Uncle Roger. Tell me more.
Thanks so much for doing this!!
I like Jamie Oliver fine, but his "I can make this in 15 minutes" generally would take about 45 for me. He forgets folks don't necessarily have the technique/practice he does. But I appreciate in his minimal ingredient meals tips on how to boost flavor without adding a ton of prep. I also agree with Amby on You Suck at Cooking. Beyond being hilarious, the recipes are really good and generally reasonably small batch.
It isn't already?
Hi all!!! I have missed this thread! I've been busy but that's because I got a new job! This is a good thing. Not been very adventurous cooking of late though I did make a bourbon and molasses marinated turkey breast for our small Thanksgiving gathering a couple weeks ago. Turned out tasty! Though I think I'm still partial to just slathering the turkey with butter.
While I prefer not having to log into something to see a map, I have a Roll20 account so I can access it.
Man, I have always wanted to play this AP. But some questions: 1. I've been playing the video game version recently, would that cause a conflict of interest?
Very important: What's the better name: Galeforce
So: I got hit by an attack of sanity and realized we are only a few weeks before the winter holidays, and every time I have been involved with a PBP that got started this time of year, it lagged (understandably) during that time and then it was hard to get restarted because we'd only just begun. And I know I will be distracted during the holidays and don't want to lose my own potential momentum. So: barring unforeseen circumstances, I will probably run a Dragon's Demand game, but I will wait to formally recruit until January. I will absolutely give the folks who have expressed interest here first consideration and will let y'all know when I recruit. The recruitment will not last long given there's already a decent sized pool of interested players. I am very sorry to lead folks on (and I'm also sorry I couldn't have gotten the ball rolling sooner, but I needed time to read the module), but I think it will probably be for the best to just have a fresh start in the New Year. I'll be in touch.
So with all the myth allusions, feels like we have the makings of an already established team. Freefall has suggested how my character and others may have met, Voltage what about you? Atlastic maybe we helped you out of a jam at the circus? I know some folks are hitting delays (and BTW I'll be slow the next few days) but any thoughts on that?
I love the idea of the traveling temple!
My condolences, Freefall. That's really rough.
Here is a rough draft of my character. He still needs a lot of tweaking but this should give the idea. Sorry this has taken me so long: Windrider: [size=150]Nick Aeolopoulous PL10[/size] Abilities
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