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lisamarlene wrote:

Of course I do!

NobodysHome is one of the two people on this planet who make me feel like I ought to be riding the short bus, instead of assuming I'm one of the smartest people in the room. I *always* listen to what he has to say.
I may not like it, but I listen.

Greaaaat... now I have to start making s*** up.

"Hey, AI! Tell me about the fall of the French monarchy and how it relates to Paizo's We Be Goblins campaign. And I don't mind hallucinations..."

Just put what i put in the app for travel notes "F+*#ing Dragon". It's short and can apply to anything.

I worked 55 out of 72 hours.

I do miss having a dishwasher. None here in this apartment, so it's back to washing things by hand, which is admittedly how I did things for the majority of my childhood - as soon as we were tall enough to reach the sink, our parents pawned off all the dishwashing duties on myself and my brother.

I've never had a dishwasher until the current apartment. I've lived here 2 and a half years and i still haven't used it.

I'm done with work.

I've worked 55 out of 72 hours, shoveling snow.

I have a rock collection.

The American South.

I recommend it. Sure, the humidity makes Satan wilt, but I can count on the toes of one foot the number of times in the past two decades that snow has created actual problems.

That is okay, I'd rather deal with the snow than people and politics from the south every day.

Aaand... so it begins... one of the players has already said: "The news is talking about snow."

*sigh*

Not to be That Guy, but where the f+*+ do you live where not driving if it's snowing is even viable.

Says the guy doing snow removal and hasn't had a weekend off since the week before Thanksgiving.

Games I plan on actually playing this year are only Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3.

One game I've been playing recently is Assassin's Creed Valhalla, I got it pretty cheap with all the DLCs.

It's a pretty fun viking game! Long as f&**, but fun.

It's pretty interesting because right before I started it I'd also started listening to a bunch of history podcasts diving into the Ragnarson invasion of Britain (which the game is loosely based on) so it's pretty fun recognizing the names and places.

captain yesterday wrote:

Breaking Bad is extremely well done and one of the greatest shows from an artistic perspective.

That said, it can be hard to watch.

Personally, I prefer Better Call Saul (which is actually WAAAAY better artistically even).

I just never had any interest in Breaking Bad. Plenty of people have told me that it's great, but I don't want to watch it. I've seen some clips on youtube that were recommended as "this will make you want to watch", and I still have never felt any desire to watch it. I've also seen a couple of clips of Better Call Saul, but also haven't been drawn to it.

I don't blame you! Like I said, it can be hard to watch.

I'm just going to leave this here, probably unrelated.

Fun fact! We were going to name Milo, Dexter, but a week before the birth i happened to tell one of my brothers and he said "Oh, like the TV show!"

One Google search later and we were looking for a new name.

I've still never seen it but I've seen enough clips and memes i don't need to.

Blue Prince- I hate puzzle games but I love Blue Prince. That said it is just as easy to get burnt out on it as it is to burn 4 hours playing it.

So most threads are about a particular game and peter out after a few or a dozen posts, including my own.

So I thought it would be nice if there was a spot where you can talk about games in general, what are you currently playing? What's your favorite game you played last year? What game are you excited for? Does your cat sleep on the keyboard? All relevant.

I personally have been playing Assassins Creed Valhalla (for the a viking) and have been getting back into Expedition 33 since they added the free expansion, which is pretty out there, even for Expedition 33 standards.

Breaking Bad is extremely well done and one of the greatest shows from an artistic perspective.

That said, it can be hard to watch.

Personally, I prefer Better Call Saul (which is actually WAAAAY better artistically even).

Waterhammer wrote:

Gen X is the best. Only because there’s less of us.

When people ask me why Gen Xers are so bitter when we had it so much better than more recent generations, I point out:

Childhood: "OK, you need to make yourself breakfast, make yourself a bag lunch ('cause no way in heck are we paying those outlandish prices for those crappy school lunches), get yourself to and from school, let yourself in to the empty house, entertain yourself and do all your homework until we get home, and in my case, plan and make dinner for the family every night." I didn't know a single friend who had after-school activities; we were all left to our own devices to find our own way. Which, according to studies, was incredibly healthy for us and made us far more independent adults much better at handling life's hardships.

Teenage years: "Well, we decided to do away with pensions so you'll be responsible for your own retirement as well. Oh, and don't expect Social Security by the time you're old enough to retire; there are too many of us and too few of you, so it'll go bankrupt before you get it."

Early twenties: "Oh, you can vote now? Well, too bad! we vastly outnumber you and you're not responsible enough to rule, so we'll just keep right on going."
(If you ever want to understand Gen X's fundamental bitterness, review our congressional representation over time. It's never even come close to matching our population. We have had the least say of any generation in this country's history, all because the Boomers outnumbered us so heavily.)

Early fifties: "Look at how much the older generations have f***ed up the world! You're all selfish monsters!"

TL;DR: We were never allowed representation because the Boomers outnumbered us, yet now we're being blamed for ruining the world because somehow we had a hand in something we were never allowed to have a hand in. All the while being completely self-reliant from an early age and then being told we...

I had to ride my bike 7 miles one way to get to school, past two different farm dogs that actively tried to kill me and my friend Joey, just to go to school, because my d!$!!ead brother (who was going into town anyway) wouldn't give me a ride into town or home unless I paid him gas money.

See, in Wisconsin, you have approximately 30 seconds to reply before the follow up with the name, especially with Gen X. They will not shut up about their f*&%ing cats!

Edit (preemptively): I'm not complaining about it or you, it's just a fact Gen X loves cats and loves to talk about them.

Vany CH, and Freehold all do it too!

Diswhat?!!

Yeah, i mean, it can be fun building your camp or shelter or whatever, and I love the premise and the locale, but the grind of keeping enough ammo and stuff for mindless exploration got to be too annoying and took away too much time from exploration.

When I first started at Alt's Operation 8 years ago it was to work with 5 guys I'd worked with before Toys R Us, going back 21 years.

Now, I'm the only one left.

Fortunately, I now work with, and in fact, trained in most of their kids.

Time is pretty weird, just saying.

We're on day 2 of setting up for the Home and Garden Show at Monona Terrace this weekend, which is not to be confused with the Garden and Home Show, which is in March and a much bigger deal.

This morning I will be cutting a new countertop after one broke over the summer in storage.

Edit: Puts on safety glasses and Bluetooth earmuffs. Safety first!

I apologize for the slightly click baity title, I am a big fan of Gabe.

Anyway, just wondering what happened to the Burning Archipelago and the sun in Starfinder 2 I noticed it hasn't been mentioned at all in any book.

Just curious.

I mean, if you want to grind like any MMO but with a fallout vibe and engine then yes, but you will have to REALLY grind to get anywhere and that kind of killed it for me.

Thry cut my snow list into 2 and then the guy that was supposed to do the part they cut off didn't show up so I ended up doing both lists anyway.

And we're going back out for another run in an hour.

For Christmas, my nieces gave me a "LEGO" "Serenity" from the show Firefly. It's actually much better quality than I would have expected from a knock-off brand. Anybody else get anything fun?

Original painting of Placidusax (a two headed dragon god in Elden Ring) by my daughter. And some cookie cutters.

More importantly I got to spend it with my daughter and her bunny.

Merry Christmas!!

There are 3 camps at the shop in winter, those that get s!%& done, those that stand around complaining, and those that do busy work.

Funny enough, they are all necessary.

Next week I will be helping to corral boulders from the free range boulder field.

The head of the mowing department pulled his truck into the barn and remarked "Hmm, I think it's a little too the left?" I said, jokingly, as I do "Yeah, you should back it out and do it over!"

And he did it! Not only that, but he also had one of his junior mowers stand in front and guide him in.

This is why I work in the shop during the winter.

And what did I do?

I drove around town all morning pushing boulders back into place that had been hit by plow trucks with a mini bobcat.

Yeah, it's 46 degrees here on the tundra. I wore shorts to work today.

I just cleaned and organized the flamethrower shelf at work last week.

By the Abyss... Has the YouTube made an actual improvement? You can now choose block on a specific ad to, at least in theory, not see that particular ad anymore.

Or is that just me, wearing YouTube with my policy of actually reporting scammy ads all the time?

You've been able to do that for awhile.

I got the 2nd edition Starfinder player and GM core yesterday.

It is genuinely the only time I bought a paizo product and had buyers remorse.

I do not like the art direction (waaaay too cartoonish) and I don't feel like they differentiated it enough from 2nd edition Pathfinder as you can save yourself 115 bucks by just using the 2nd Pathfinder books and just tell everyone that it's in space and your bow is now a laser and your sword is whatever you want to call a lightsaber that won't get me sued by Disney).

After having a few days to look over everything more in depth I'd like to rescind pretty much everything i said.

Penny looked through it and loved the new art style and everything I criticized about it so i realized I was just being grumpy about change.

It's Freehold's birthday?!

But, it's also National Fleshlight day!!.... wait, no, that's Flashlight Day, my bad!

captain yesterday wrote:

lisamarlene wrote:

captain yesterday wrote:

lisamarlene wrote:

captain yesterday wrote:

Before the app, when I salted a place, I'd roll up, get out, throw some salt on the ground and get back in my truck, write down the time and on to the next place.

Now, with the app.

I go in the app, hit find jobs, go to routes, hit all routes, type in the address (but only partially because it can't find the whole address) from the sheet, click on said address, scroll down, click on if I'm salting or shoveling, begin the job, and then I can throw my salt on the ground, and then after I'm done I have to click done and write down in the notes again if I salted or shoveled.

Meanwhile, as I'm filling it out, Penny has completely salted the entire place by herself.

I f!&%ing hate the app.

You're the superhero, she's the sidekick.

The app should be Penny's responsibility.

The app is on my phone.

Is she not riding shotgun?

She is, I actually gave her my phone once and had her fill out the app for the day while I drove back to the shop, for landscaping, where we were at one place the whole day, she vowed never again.

Hmph. Sounds like Hermione, willfully misconstruing which person is the sidekick.

No, she's a pretty good sidekick, literally the only thing i ask of my sidekick during snow is just being present, I will do the rest.

captain yesterday wrote:

lisamarlene wrote:

captain yesterday wrote:

Before the app, when I salted a place, I'd roll up, get out, throw some salt on the ground and get back in my truck, write down the time and on to the next place.

Now, with the app.

I go in the app, hit find jobs, go to routes, hit all routes, type in the address (but only partially because it can't find the whole address) from the sheet, click on said address, scroll down, click on if I'm salting or shoveling, begin the job, and then I can throw my salt on the ground, and then after I'm done I have to click done and write down in the notes again if I salted or shoveled.

Meanwhile, as I'm filling it out, Penny has completely salted the entire place by herself.

I f!&%ing hate the app.

You're the superhero, she's the sidekick.

The app should be Penny's responsibility.

The app is on my phone.

Is she not riding shotgun?

She is, I actually gave her my phone once and had her fill out the app for the day while I drove back to the shop, for landscaping, where we were at one place the whole day, she vowed never again.

captain yesterday wrote:

Before the app, when I salted a place, I'd roll up, get out, throw some salt on the ground and get back in my truck, write down the time and on to the next place.

Now, with the app.

I go in the app, hit find jobs, go to routes, hit all routes, type in the address (but only partially because it can't find the whole address) from the sheet, click on said address, scroll down, click on if I'm salting or shoveling, begin the job, and then I can throw my salt on the ground, and then after I'm done I have to click done and write down in the notes again if I salted or shoveled.

Meanwhile, as I'm filling it out, Penny has completely salted the entire place by herself.

I f!&%ing hate the app.

You're the superhero, she's the sidekick.

The app should be Penny's responsibility.

The app is on my phone.

I got the 2nd edition Starfinder player and GM core yesterday.

It is genuinely the only time I bought a paizo product and had buyers remorse.

I do not like the art direction (waaaay too cartoonish) and I don't feel like they differentiated it enough from 2nd edition Pathfinder as you can save yourself 115 bucks by just using the 2nd Pathfinder books and just tell everyone that it's in space and your bow is now a laser and your sword is whatever you want to call a lightsaber that won't get me sued by Disney).

Before the app, when I salted a place, I'd roll up, get out, throw some salt on the ground and get back in my truck, write down the time and on to the next place.

Now, with the app.

I go in the app, hit find jobs, go to routes, hit all routes, type in the address (but only partially because it can't find the whole address) from the sheet, click on said address, scroll down, click on if I'm salting or shoveling, begin the job, and then I can throw my salt on the ground, and then after I'm done I have to click done and write down in the notes again if I salted or shoveled.

Meanwhile, as I'm filling it out, Penny has completely salted the entire place by herself.

I f!+&ing hate the app.

You are definitely doing it wrong. The cats should produce power for you in that wheel, not you powering the wheel for them...

Sheesh...

Cats would never do anything to benefit someone else so they'd never fall for it, as soon as it's hooked up they'd immediately stop using it. But not until AFTER you've spent an obnoxious amount of money or time trying to make it happen.

gran rey de los mono wrote:

I never thought my driveway was that big, but it sure seemed huge as I cleared 9" of snow off it in sub-zero (Fahrenheit) temps. Surprisingly, it only took 45 minutes (it was light and powdery, not wet and heavy).

I'm sure captain yesterday could have cleared it with a fart without even opening his truck's door.

That sounds like the kind of thing people used to say about Chuck Norris.

FaWtLites don't need Chuck Norris.
We've got the captain.

His action figure comes with three boulders, a pie, a giant doobie, a skid loader, and a shaved bear.

Also, not to brag, but I am considerably more liberal than Chuck Norris.

lisamarlene wrote:

gran rey de los mono wrote:

I never thought my driveway was that big, but it sure seemed huge as I cleared 9" of snow off it in sub-zero (Fahrenheit) temps. Surprisingly, it only took 45 minutes (it was light and powdery, not wet and heavy).

I'm sure captain yesterday could have cleared it with a fart without even opening his truck's door.

That sounds like the kind of thing people used to say about Chuck Norris.

FaWtLites don't need Chuck Norris.
We've got the captain.

His action figure comes with three boulders, a pie, a giant doobie, a skid loader, and a shaved bear.

...what kind of pie?

Pumpkin or chess.

Also, you forgot the Stihl 420 (#4) chop saw with my name on it.

After 15 days straight of working looks like I'll finally get a couple of days off.

It's pretty telling that everyone I know can tell I'm not a happy camper right now. Impus Major keeps walking by, stopping, looking at me, and giving me hugs. My manager reminds me daily that I get up to two weeks for bereavement. My online FFXIV buddy, who thinks I'm a middle-aged woman and calls me "Mom" (and yes, LM, you KNOW I Love it), checks in with me every morning to see whether I'm OK.

And it's funny; it's not so much that my mother's death is emotionally devastating me. I can tell there's some depression; my body's asking for 9-10 hours of sleep instead of its usual 6. But there is *SO* much else going on. At work, all of our jobs are uncertain and at the moment I'm working on an idiot project that never should have been assigned to me. (My manager and I finally worked it out today and it turns out that assigning it to my Indian colleague probably would have resolved the whole thing in half a day. India does payroll in a really weird way, and gee, assigning it to the native Indian might have been wiser, y'know?). My brother is utterly botching executing the estate and I need to set up appointments to try to clean things up. And the Celica needs its annual smog and oil change. While Nefret is refusing to eat.

So not so much "depressed" as "I was already near my limit and everyone started needing stuff at once".

And this, too, shall pass.

I get that.

One of the hidden epidemics among rich people, especially older rich people, is hoarding.

I can't tell you how much s*!$ they can pack in those mansions.

So yeah, definitely declutter.

Hey now, hey now, *I* didn't name names.

But yes, I was very much thinking of him...

EDIT: Do you remember when I finally snapped and pointed out to him that he was currently in a house with THREE other Ph.D.s, including an M.D./Ph.D., none of whom had so much as mentioned the fact during all his visits?

Yeah, I also have 3 PhDs, they aren't mine, but I'm not giving them back.

Freehold DM wrote:

Vanykrye wrote:

BigNorseWolf wrote:

captain yesterday wrote:

I've now been working for 10 days straight, and 13 out of 14 days.

Employees pay with organ failure because we don't pay employees enough to get a bunch of them is NOT a viable business model....

Snow removal in WI. It's hard to get people willing and capable. Most quit fairly quickly.

pay me in dairy queens and I will shovel all the snow you want.

A Dairy Queen is what a milk maid's called when they hit level 20, isn't it?

Yes.

Every county has one, and the coronation is at the fair, by the local 4-H club.

It's a big f@+!ing deal.

Vanykrye wrote:

BigNorseWolf wrote:

captain yesterday wrote:

I've now been working for 10 days straight, and 13 out of 14 days.

Employees pay with organ failure because we don't pay employees enough to get a bunch of them is NOT a viable business model....

Snow removal in WI. It's hard to get people willing and capable. Most quit fairly quickly.

In jr high and highschool I'd make pizza and movie money shoveling driveways. The old lady didn't have any cash but usually had hot cocoa. If it wasn't bad she'd get her driveway done last but if there was a lot she was just before lunch break...

Yeah, if we see an old person shoveling when we roll up on a neighborhood we automatically take over, free of charge.

A lot of times they'll give a tip but i give that to my crew (which boosts morale).

BigNorseWolf wrote:

captain yesterday wrote:

I've now been working for 10 days straight, and 13 out of 14 days.

Employees pay with organ failure because we don't pay employees enough to get a bunch of them is NOT a viable business model....

Snow removal in WI. It's hard to get people willing and capable. Most quit fairly quickly.

Yes, in my case I'm paid entirely too much and I'm too essential for me to miss work.

I'm basically the last line of defense between the office manager and surly customers.

I've now been working for 10 days straight, and 13 out of 14 days.