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Don't they call swamp shrimp...err crayfish, or crawdads, or some such...

oh, yeah, I am still alive...been a while, this year, err last year now, has been, err was, challenging to say the least...

Glad to hear you are doing pretty good there KC, and yes, I am still alive, just been...well, long story, too long for here, or anywhere. 2023 I am expecting you to treat me and the wife a heck of allot better than your friend 2022...I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE :)

Today I learned that the German term for a lower back tattoo, aka a "tramp stamp", literally translates as "ass antlers".

As a man with a lower back tattoo (soooo! not low enough to qualify as a TS, also got it way befor that was a thing), I nearly spit out my coffee, though gotta say, kinda like ass antlers, leave it to the Germans to coin that...

Eve to her daughter this morning:

"My love, generally a hug does not warrant a battle cry."

This is news to me.

Tell that to Thibbledorf Pwent :).

Hey there John!

Well... I'm pretty disappointed in my local police force and leadership.

Stopped out to get gas and pick up drinks last night and saw three squad cars pulling over a single car in the parking lot, six officers rummaging through the vehicle looking despondent and frustrated with the middle-aged AA driver just sitting quietly and annoyed on the curb waiting for them to stop tearing his car apart, seems like they'd been there for a while and was just trying to remain patient.

Five of the six police officers were clean-shaven heads and wore the trademark ugly "Hawaiian-print" button-up shirts under their vests in leu of a normal uniform. It may have seemed weird until I remembered that this is something of a uniform/fashion trend to communicate to people that they're card-carrying members of the Proud Boys and/or the "Boogaloo."

Urge to say unkind things about law enforcement that are Proud Boys or Boogaloo rising! Already not a "big fan" of 'Merikan police, but ones such as those...biting tongue now, hard.

I somehow missed all the requests for submissions, so I'll have to present Cosmo, the bestest boy, via a short video of him exploring freshly fallen snow on Twitter.

Love all the fuzzies of Paizo, though, I have to...

Good boy Cosmo..

uhh...thanks...

We named the dog Cosmo...

Oh...

Vanykrye'll like this one.

I was trying to describe my hardware requirements to GothBard. And I realized they're very simple:

"Can I drop it in a jar of jam?"

It's an amazingly good test: If you can drop it in the jam, rinse it off, let it dry, and still use it, then it's "good" hardware.

RASPBERY, no one would dare give me RASPBERRY... LONESTAR!!!

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Great, another thing I dislike about Florida, alas, the wife has planned our vacation for July there...

NobodysHome wrote:

Speaking of Impus Major, it's his Spring Break.

He has FIVE separate writing assignments from three of his four instructors due this week.

I am going to strongly encourage him to write letters of complaint to the appropriate deans.

I mean, seriously, WTF?

Sounds like a super s*$%ty school and he should probably transfer somewhere interested in higher education rather than just your money.

Interested in money AND power-tripping! Wait no, I think I already said that is double plus un-good. In all seriousness, what is wrong with these professors...teaching ='s good. Expecting the best from your students ='s good. Helping them reach said best ='s good. Loading them with work while you drink scotch over break and laugh at their missery ='s not. good. at. all.

Not naming names, but when a friend at another company mentions that their executive leadership is being compared to Zap Brannigan and Prince Farquaad in the public All Hands chat, then maybe, just maybe, that company has an employee morale issue...

"What is the worst job in this man's army Kif? Being your assistant?! No, being YOUR assistant!"

And it continues...

...Impus Major's significant assignments are due Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays, so he wants to move the family game from Tuesday night to Thursday night. Since he has no classes on Friday, that should be great, right?

Nope. Just this week he has a take-home test and a written essay, due on a day that he has no school.

I'd love to take these teachers and randomly throughout the summer say, "No, sorry. You have an unscheduled work day today, and your pay will be docked if you don't show up! Get to it!"

If you don't have class session that day, you can't have assignments due that day. It's common courtesy, and should be common sense at a community college where a significant percentage of the students is people who have REAL jobs and need a reliable schedule from their teachers.

Bad monkey...Professor likes to play power games (only thing I can fathom as to motivation)..BAD MONKEY! Prof needs to be called into school over the summer randomly and forced to write on a black board, in chalk, for 8 hours straight "T is for teaching, not tormenting." Or maybe the classic "I will stop being a D-bag"

the Dragonlance novel Darkness and Light presents the Red Moon Lunitari very interestingly, and could be a great source of inspiration. There is additional setting info available both via wikis and many of the older world suppliments about the moons. Though their use will vary, some of the wiki material is, not good.

You could visit the three moons of Kyrnn via spelljamming, and they are odd and interesting places to visit. One could easily setup any number of adventures on them, or weave visiting the three of them into one larger piece.

GM Umbral Ultimatum wrote:

Anyone here a lore buff on Greyhawk and/or Dragonlance? Could use some advice/suggestions.

More Greyhawk than Dragonlance.

LoL, and I am more Dragonlance than Greyhawk (not that I don't know stuff, just more about Dragonlance). Let us combine our powers Limey!

Anyone here a lore buff on Greyhawk and/or Dragonlance? Could use some advice/suggestions.

I consider myself quite well learned in the lore of Greyhawk and Dragonlance, what sorta stuff do you need/want to know?

This really is beyond the pale.

Impus Major is back in school, on campus full time.

Doesn't matter. As I mentioned, one of his instructors assigned a quiz over the Presidents' Day holiday. Today he got not one, but TWO take-home exams, due tomorrow.

I literally cannot express how much this frustrates/enrages me.

Guess that was without an iota of warning and likley not documented on the exam schedule for the class? Man, college has changed since I was in it...also, teaching is not punishing students professors...cripes.

I will never destroy dice when they missbehave, but they do get a stern talking to and a time out to think about what they did, or in point of fact, did not do. Tempted to make a little jail though, "you, purple d20, get yourself to the fail tank and think about what you did!"

captain yesterday wrote:

No idea what any of that is, but on an unrelated note we're getting a few inches of snow tonight so I get to go out on a snow run. Should be fun!

Turns out I was right! Both my guys came in drunk and surly. Not so much fun for them but a whole lot of fun for me.

I shouldn't snicker as hard as I am about that...but then again, no ones perfect...

Also, it was a fine name, until that no talent arse clown put out an album.

What can I say, Office Space is a personal favorite, and hits WAY too close to home...WAY...TOO...CLOSE.

Guys.

Guys.

Guys.

I lost so much weight I can take my pants off without buttoning them.

I can fit into my old freaking JNCO jeans.

Holy s*%*.

I knew it, I am not the only one who still has a pair or two of their old JNCO's!

DO it Freehold, DO IT!!!

who wouldn't want to be a were-velociraptor...as long as you could control the change that is...otherwise that would get...messy and hard to explain...

Hoping for the best for your dad there Feros, had a scare with my own pop's last year, so I totally get it. Good luck man!

Hope the GF has recovered fully by this point there KC. Also belated congrats on the new digs!

Apparently I had acute parinychia -- watch out! The picture is pretty gross, but mine was significantly worse. It required outpatient surgery.

ouch, sorry bout that NH. I freely admit the hospital is one of the few things that really disturbs me...and I strive to never go there. Hope your digit heals up quickly there ser.

Hey there John, what ya up to this snowy (here) winter day?

Appreciating the grit there LM, also, mmm, home baked bread! Having yanked a shoulder and finger back into socket and/or alignment in my day, I also appreciate that it does freaking hurt. Glad you are generally ok though, aches not withstanding.

I always figured if I had to stat myself for Pathfinder I'd most likely be a Rogue. But I've come to realization over the past year as I've taken on more responsibility that I'd actually be a Bard. Not one of those bards that can play music or act or anything, but I'm really good at inspiring people to work, even people that normally wouldn't work that hard.

I suppose I should probably get a mandolin now or something.

I humbly suggest carved boulder bongos!

Though I bet it is still 50% the hair that inspires others there Cap.

Still feeling salty at the loss of the Buffalo Bills to KC, gorram it, SO CLOSE, but Mahomes does it again. GRUMBLE GRUMBLE SNARL TEETH GNASH!!

Good to hear Cap, suppose I should get my arse in gear and get my third.

Hang in there LM!

Hey there John Boy!

Bit of exciting news here, I am four novels away from owning every TSR and WotC novel ever published (to date, that is). And yes, I do also own all the PF novels, and a pretty dense collection of other classic SF and Fantasy books, I have a library, gotta be filled, or I would be doing it wrong. :)

Drejk wrote:

Scintillae wrote:

Always a good day when I can gross out an entire room full of teenagers simply by discussing a poem.

What poem?

"Harlem" by Langston Hughes.

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There is something immensely satisfying about doing that sorta things with words.

Good news! I probably have a mild case of COVID, so now whenever I make bad takes about alignment it's because I'm clearly delirious and everyone has to feel sorry for me. :)

I am so using this to get out of any and all responsibilities for all things, Brilliant KC!

"Nope, can't judge me...COVID...BOOM!"

On a more serious and less crazed note, glad you are feeling better KC.

In "reassuring but silly" news, yesterday we received a letter from our insurance company formally approving Impus Major's 3-day hospital stay.

On the one hand, it's a little late to take him to the hospital now.
On the other hand, it means the whole overall treatment and care will be approved for coverage, greatly reducing the chance of the bill breaking $2000.

Hey calling that one a win (the second part anyway), big believer in taking wins where one can get 'em. You should send them a huge bag of pennies!

Pretty sure most people would remember a picture of a Kate Moss lookalike licking an arrow.

Van's not wrong LoL

I got to level 72 got some nice weapons (Mayhem 1), finished all the DLCs, and uninstalled the game already.

I already sank... *checks Steam* 111.9 hours into it. Thanks for the offer but I don't really feel like spending more time repeating the content just to farm better gear or restart the game with a new character.

LoL Drejk, fair nuff, 2,030 hours in for me, but that is 10 level 72's best of being mayhem 4-5.

GM_Beernorg wrote:

Drejk wrote:

I have finished the last (out of order) DLC for Borderlands 3. There were some unfinished side quests, including one annoying boss that killed me multiple times and I wasn't going to farm suitable weapons nor trying other builds to fight her.

Betting you mean the terror that is Hemovorous the varkid queen. She is worth it on decent mayhem levels due to the good dedicated legendary drops, but she is a pain in the arse to kill. I have an armory the gods themselves would envy in that game, what mayhem level and character level/type you doing Drejk, I could send you some weapons and such. Heck, we could coop if you want, I have plenty of badarse level 72 characters.

I forgot about Hemovorous, actually. I referred to The Seer that is at the end (I presume) of the Ava's Mysteriouslier quest chain, which was a tedious damage sponge for me in her second and third phase, despite setting my element to corrosion. Her stream of projectiles was terribly annoying often not giving me enough time to hide behind the cover, especially when I was busy having to kill her summoned minions to not get killed by them.

AHH Ava's Murder Mysteries, the Seer can be a bugger too, with all his minons.

I have finished the last (out of order) DLC for Borderlands 3. There were some unfinished side quests, including one annoying boss that killed me multiple times and I wasn't going to farm suitable weapons nor trying other builds to fight her.

Betting you mean the terror that is Hemovorous the varkid queen. She is worth it on decent mayhem levels due to the good dedicated legendary drops, but she is a pain in the arse to kill. I have an armory the gods themselves would envy in that game, what mayhem level and character level/type you doing Drejk, I could send you some weapons and such. Heck, we could coop if you want, I have plenty of badarse level 72 characters.

I have 2 cats, both older. There's Lou, originally named Luke Skyfracker; he's a graying orange tabby that still thinks he's a kitten until he has to jump down from somewhere high.

The other is an all black cat named Olive. She is enormous and instead of being petted she prefers to be violently scratched, like most dogs I've had in the past.

Not as odd as one would think, we have quite a few cats (cat rescue folks we are) but Honey Bee, our old (18) tortie likes to be spanked...don't ask how we figured that out, it was an old room mates doing.

And now begins the ultra-fun game of, "Wait for the U.S. health care bill".

We have fairly good insurance, but my assumption is that we're going to easily hit the out-of-pocket maximum ($2000 in-network, $6000 out-of-network) because somewhere, somehow, taking our kid to the hospital with an inflamed heart isn't a fully-covered service.

I may be surprised; Impus Minor's $31,000 broken arm surgery ended up costing us a little under $800, but the whole, "You'll have no idea what you're going to pay until you receive the bill," approach to medicine really is quite terrifying.

(Impus Major almost started trying to deny treatment because he'd heard so many horror stories of COVID bankrupting families, so we had to reassure him that our insurance would cover almost all of it.)

Making a nasty face about U.S. health care. Though awful noble of the lad to worry bout the costs of treatment. Just glad he is home and ok, though hoping the Lady's Favor kicks in one more time and you don't get a mountain of a bill. No one should go broke because of medical care, the very fact it does happen in this nation is infuriating. Gettin' off my soap box now :).

LoL NH, however, glad you are on the mend Impus Major, don't take TOO much advantage...just a moderate amount of advantage. :)

Nothing worse than waiting and unanswered questions. Now, as always, may the Lady's Favor be with you and Impus Major.

Crud NH, Lady's Favor be with you Impus Major.

Happy New Year all you glorious folks!!!

Happy New Year's Eve there John!

The wife and I are going to consume delicious preserved meats, fancy cheeses, have some wine, and relax. Perhaps we will watch some of the new season of Big Mouth...just to dirty up the otherwise clean fun of the evening, also perhaps some board games with the neighbors.

uggg, poor lad. Hope ya feel better there soon Impus Major!

poof, still say hello to Steve for me, still good folk that one. Also no offense taken KC.

This is the most detailed map I could find anywhere for the Isle of Kortos

https://preview.redd.it/svptkmia03e61.png?width=1217&format=png&aut o=webp&s=924a0aaa249ea45eda55727eae42d70fec2451c4

Good afternoon there John!