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See? At least trying to keep the griping behind spoilers.

So, how many fake diseases are going to have the kids come up with they absolutely should get their cat tested for?

Vanykrye wrote:

NobodysHome wrote:

Large Denomination Bill Issues

Honestly, we can run into those issues with $50 bills, let alone $100.

No worries, Vany, I'll take your 50s.

Anybody have any issues with their 500 dollar bills? 1000 dollar bills?

Hands Freehold his car payment bill (500) and monthly rent bill (1,000)

Hey thanks, man!

Now I'm going to have so much money for lottery tickets and Pokémon cards!

I'm not really on FaWtL anymore.

The game I'm most excited for is Clair Obscure: Expedition 33.

But I have an extremely busy week and a half ahead of me as my daughter turns 21 next week and I have to bake a cake and learn how to make margaritas.

Oblivion is what led me to Fallout.

That said, because of difficulty spikes and f%+*ing dungeon trolls I never actually finished it.

Still, a great game, I highly recommend it.

Of course I have Game Pass, so it's basically "free" (I do pay 25 a month for Game Pass but it's a small price to pay for The Patrick Star Game).

How many landscapers does it take to screw in a light bulb?

5. 1 person that does all the actual work and then 4 more standing around him smoking and giving critique.

captain yesterday wrote:

gran rey de los mono wrote:

Currently sitting in a VW showroom, and they have an ID.Buzz (electric van) painted up as the Mystery Machine from Scooby Doo.

a pizza company in town bought a bunch of them painted like this for delivery vans.

Hope they got a deal, because that one was listed at $76k.

Yeah, they are stupid expensive and you only get a 200 mile range out it to boot. They are cool looking though!

Currently sitting in a VW showroom, and they have an ID.Buzz (electric van) painted up as the Mystery Machine from Scooby Doo.

a pizza company in town bought a bunch of them painted like this for delivery vans.

Ahh, explaining minor word differences to children.

"Google was founded in the 90s" vs. "Google was found in the 90s." Apparently, we just picked up a rock or something.

F%$*ing A right we did.

I started playing Fallout 4 again.

After beating Elden Ring several times I cab honestly say I need a change of pace, for awhile. And Clair Obscure isn't coming out until the end of April so, why not.

Named myself Rambo (though I'm still a chick, it's 2025, every name is gender neutral now!) I'm currently level 10 and looking for the lost patrol in that military base lousy with ghouls.

At first I was all in on finding Shaun, then I found the brotherhood and now I'm slogging through ghoul intestines looking for distress beacons.

My special is pretty messed up, not sure what I was thinking here.
S 4. P 6. E 4. C 6. I 5. A 3. L 4.

Without my chef hat and welding goggles my perception is 5 and my luck is 3.

I haven't found anything legendary yet I assume that's probably luck related.

So it's been 6 years!!

Man, what a crazy ass 6 years!!

I wrote a senior paper about frogs taking over the world, so this hits on so many levels!

Captain Yesterday's quotes out of context!

"Yeah, I"d hate chocolate! Like a deep in your soul hate!... Would you like a chocolate cake?"

I mean, they're called super heroes for a reason.

Just saying.

captain yesterday wrote:

I'm really busy snow whoring.

Don't tell Freehold or he'll want to join...

Freehold knows, I've been trying to get him to join my crew for years now.

I'm really busy snow whoring.

captain yesterday wrote:

While wearing only underwear and a giant pot on your head.

Edit: how apropos!

In Baldur's Gate 3 you can take off the underwear...

In Baldur's Gate 3 EVERYONE takes off their underwear, all the time. For almost no reason at all.

Limeylongears wrote:

Drejk wrote:

Whelp.

I have too many lovely-lovely swords and I don't know what to use!

A stylish regular katana that just dropped from Demi-human Queen? A pair of light greatswords that I (technically) gotten yesterday?!

That great katana I was running with since the initial incursion into The Shadow?

The Shadow kno-o-ows!

(Seriously, they let you fight with a greatsword in each hand? I suppose that isn't any more improbable than most stuff that happens in The Merry Land Of Fantasy, but still...)

<video of a guy showcasing one of the possible builds centered on those swords, linked for the images> — they are classified as "light greatswords" though they are far from being big-big swords.

Of course, in this game you can dual wield colossal weapons larger than you, taken from the dead-cold hands of huge enemies like trolls...

You're selling it short! You can literally dual wield a giant's dead finger and the tooth of a giant cosmic bull. While wearing only underwear and a giant pot on your head.

Edit: how apropos!

I'm pretty sure it's the law now to provide one button cancelations of subscriptions.

I of course, could be wrong but I thought the Supreme Court made it illegal.

captain yesterday wrote:

NobodysHome wrote:

Orthos wrote:

I've been in favor of an "amicable divorce" as a solution to the increasingly-hostile disagreements between states in the US for some time.

Give a few years (and maybe some financial aid) for families to relocate to the states that jive with their personal positions, then go our separate ways.

But that's admittedly unrealistic for a whole host of reasons and especially ignores the fact that it's a certain particular set of states that provide all the funds and a certain other particular set of states that receive all of it.

One of my fun thought/discussion topics is, "What would the world be like now if Lincoln had allowed the Confederacy to secede peacefully?"

There's a whole realm of historical fiction that could be written there. I see quite a few thought articles on it, but no books. Maybe an untapped inspiration for someone?

I recommend Cyberpunk Red, if only for the setting (which is also the setting for Cyberpunk 2077).

Thanks!

Yeah, most of the thought articles all follow the bizarre thinking that, due to worldwide anti-slavery sentiment, the Confederacy would have suffered an economic collapse before the turn of the century. Which ignores the entirety of human history and worldwide trade policies of, "As long as we're not doing it, what the heck do we care about how they treat the people in their country?"
(I looked it up and there were -0- cotton embargoes prior to the Civil War, which says about all you need to know on the topic.)

Well to be clear I didn't mean to infer anything regarding the civil war or anything I was just recommending a post apocalyptic "future" setting where states start to secede from the US.

Orthos wrote:

I've been in favor of an "amicable divorce" as a solution to the increasingly-hostile disagreements between states in the US for some time.

Give a few years (and maybe some financial aid) for families to relocate to the states that jive with their personal positions, then go our separate ways.

But that's admittedly unrealistic for a whole host of reasons and especially ignores the fact that it's a certain particular set of states that provide all the funds and a certain other particular set of states that receive all of it.

One of my fun thought/discussion topics is, "What would the world be like now if Lincoln had allowed the Confederacy to secede peacefully?"

There's a whole realm of historical fiction that could be written there. I see quite a few thought articles on it, but no books. Maybe an untapped inspiration for someone?

I recommend Cyberpunk Red, if only for the setting (which is also the setting for Cyberpunk 2077).

I am slowly running out of things to discover in Elden Ring and getting too close to the end... :/

Of course not counting all the things I have missed.

I've been playing Elden Ring for over 1200 hours over the last 3 years and I'm STILL finding places I didn't know about.

Jhaeren Embercrest wrote:

Given how bad the original three-volume AP was, is anyone actually excited to re-purchase this in a single volume, while hoping that Paizo actually fixed it sufficiently that it no longer sucks?

I'm on book 3 running this and I really don't get the hate. It's not the strongest AP of all time but it's also not as bad as I hear people say. My players are having fun, they are invested in dealing with the fallout of the missing moment, they all have a shared distrust of whales and bald men... Not sure what the major complaints are.

I am just now finding out that it's disliked! Personally, one of my favorite 2nd edition adventure paths.

Flu A and Strep are ripping through my school this week.

Yesterday, I started the day with 5 children out and sent home 5 more with fever and lethargy over the course of the morning. Then I got sent home with a fever, too.
Today, a quarter of our faculty and support staff are out (including me and my assistant), and TWO-THIRDS of the students in my class (17 of 26). I have a sub there with nine children.
And, yes, I DID get my Flu, Covid Booster, and Pneumonia shots last month.
And I clean and sanitize my classroom three time a day myself because I don't trust the cleaning crew.

Adams-Friendship school district is closing on Friday due to rampant illness they say.

Half the guys at work have either missed time or complain about feeling like s*+&. I've set up my winter workshop on a separate farm.

Funny thing about Tiche (haha) is there's a spot if you're welding a shield and dagger you can get her stuck in that spot and just block her with the shield and slowly whack her health bar down.

My go to weapons are usually Bloodhound Fang and the Black Knife, also a huge, huge fan of Malenia's sword (it's special move counts as a long jump so no running off ledges for me) and Blasphemous Blade you get from Rykard and the Polearm of the Bud from the DLC.

captain yesterday wrote:

So, Drejk, how far are you in Elden Ring?

I am standing at the Drainage Channel, fuming at the very thought of going through those !@#$%^&*()+ knights, getting close to have my ass handed to me by Malenia.

I also burned the tree and reached the crumbling azula or what-is-it called, and I am shortly before Mogh.

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What kind of character you building?

Mage

ca. 80-85 Int (depending on headwear and talismans), 25 Faith, 16 or so Arcane, 16 Str, 12 End, closing to 50 Vigor (48? something like that)

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Favorite weapon?

Mainly spells so the staff I got from Rennala - after so many tries, though occasionally I pull out Darkmoon Greatsword for backstabbing/slashing enemies I feel I can take on, or when I know I won't have time to finishc asting, though I occasionally switch to some holy sword to deal with skeletons, or back to Moonveil which I used for melee most of the game before getting.

This complemented with a carian knight shield occasionally switched to fundamentalist seal when I need to cast a prayer or two (it has Int scaling), and horn bow (again, Int scaling).

The staff, both moon swords, and seal are maxed to +10.

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Spell?

Very vanilla set of night comet and rock sling for bosses, with occasionally playing with things like cannon of Haima (nice aoe against weaker enemies plus knockback - I had killed some really annoying enemies by stunlocking them), frenzy fire (I think that's how it is called - it's a very long range ray of madness fire.

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Spirit summons?

I used banished knight Engvall for a long time, until I got dung eater ashes, and now I am mostly using Black Knife Tiche... I struggled for so damn long to defeat her that I intend to milk her for every drop of blood of mine she has spilled - it will be a very long time.

My first playthrough I went with strength mage. Since then I've discovered the joys of faith based spells and arcane and dexterity based weapons.

One of my weaknesses is I'm incapable of min-maxing so all my characters tend towards punitivly balanced.

Drejk wrote:

captain yesterday wrote:

So, Drejk, how far are you in Elden Ring?

I am standing at the Drainage Channel, fuming at the very thought of going through those !@#$%^&*()+ knights, getting close to have my ass handed to me by Malenia.

And...

It was anticlimatic...

Yes, she killed me on the first fight because of a cheap trick - her introductory animation moves the PC to the center arena, within the range of her first combo, so she killed me because I wasn't holding shield block (or dodged in a right direction) immediately when the animation ended.

The second attempt was... Maybe not a complete cake-walk, she put me near death a few times (and if I haven't been investing in Vigor for the last few levels, she would definitely got me), basically depleting all four of healing potions I had prepared, but otherwise, Tiche, with some help from my slung rocks massacred her.

It would be completely different if I was melee, as I would fail to block/parry/dodge her attacks in direct melee slashfest...

I was fortunate my first time I defeated her I happened to summon Let Me Solo Her and we were able to get her in a corner and wailed on her.

So, Drejk, how far are you in Elden Ring?

What kind of character you building?

Favorite weapon? Spell? Spirit summons? Boss?

captain yesterday wrote:

Rookie landscape designer: I have this idea for a water feature, but it's kind of intricate

Veteran landscape designer (raises an eyebrow and looks at me): I mean, that's kind of our thing, lay it on us!

What are the odds that their "intricate water feature" is a small pond with a tiny fountain in it? What's that? The tiny fountain is slightly off-center for aesthetic reasons? Ooo, fancy.

So close! It was actually a small fountain that flows off 3 sides into tiny ponds. All perfectly centered.

Which, to be honest, wasn't THAT intricate (I was doing that the first show I helped set up in Seattle).

Rookie landscape designer: I have this idea for a water feature, but it's kind of intricate

Veteran landscape designer (raises an eyebrow and looks at me): I mean, that's kind of our thing, lay it on us!

Spotify is good for older stuff (as is Youtube - maybe better), but Bandcamp is where I look for new music.

I'm so far down the independent music rabbit hole on Spotify I only get obscure band recommendations for new music.

My teacher once whipped me with a belt.

Homeschooling sucks.

As far as streaming services I can't live without Spotify and I guess Hulu. And then we also have Netflix, Disney+, Peacock, and Paramount+.

I will submit that my father was categorically worse.

He taught us all about sex from a young age and let us know that he kept condoms in his desk that we could use at any time, no questions asked...
...and many years later claimed that he'd poked holes in all of them in the hopes of getting grandkids early.

Thankfully, none of us ever trusted him so not a single holey condom was ever used.

I knew a chick that did that.

I've had my apartment for almost a year and a half and just this morning I realized I can lounge on my loveseat.

This must be what the kids call "relaxing".

What's funny is there are some things AI won't touch.

For example, if you ask AI "how do I gouge out a horse's eyeballs" it won't even answer.

It suggests Reddit instead.

captain yesterday wrote:

I have 100%ed Elden Ring!

I'd say "now what I'm going to do the rest of the winter?!" But we all know the answer to that.

Embarrass the college kids by doing 5 times the work in 1/3 of the time?

Or did you switch jobs while I was gone?

No, I still do that but this is vacation week.

captain yesterday wrote:

I have 100%ed Elden Ring!

I'd say "now what I'm going to do the rest of the winter?!" But we all know the answer to that.

Steam shows me that I have reached 50% of achievements...

fortunately the DLC doesn't add achievements.

I will say I like that Elden Ring doesn't hand out achievements nor does it make you grind for them.

I have 100%ed Elden Ring!

I'd say "now what I'm going to do the rest of the winter?!" But we all know the answer to that.

The DLC costs how much?!

(it's more than I paid for the game itself...)

It's basically a whole other game.

Ok, my one complaint is that dodging is trerrible...

do you have a heavy load? It makes dodging harder (fat rolling it's called).

50 GB? I somehow expected more...

Yeah it's amazing how much they can fit in those 50 GBs too!

I learned today it is 2 days until Christmas.

Yup!

I'm super excited for The Outer Worlds 2! The first one is one of my favorite games and one of the few games I can play more than once (Elden Ring and Fallout New Vegas are the only other ones).

As someone that has sold a f#~$ ton of drones and also has regular experience with them at work I also don't get it, the high end drones are the only ones that sell and they aren't small! And yes, you always see drones flying st night around here, especially if there's any kind of sporting event going on (even bar softball games have some nerd with a drone filming it.

Nightreign looks like a lot of fun!

That was one of my few complaints with 4th D&D. It seemed like human was one of the worst, if not the worst choices.

In other news the leaves are falling. I remember a time, not so long ago, when the trees were bare by now. Strange, strange times.

In Wisconsin we've been below freezing for a couple of weeks now, and it's already snowed on multiple occasions.

I've cut my last paver of the season.

Which means winter has officially unofficially started!

Now, it's boulder carving season!

I will also be cutting pavers, but those are winter pavers.

I've cut my last paver of the season.

Which means winter has officially unofficially started!

Now, it's boulder carving season!

So, Tomb of Annihilation really does seem written by a GM frustrated by "special snowflake" player behavior. "Oh? You took a flying race? Well, for the entire AP if you try to fly over 10' in the air or past any of the traps you die." (No spoiler on that one because the GM is supposed to make it painfully obvious that flying will get you killed from the very start.)

Then Problem Player lost his shadar-kai last night in a rather GM-ruthless manner:
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More and more, the AP seems to be written as, "Are you a GM who hates players who bypass your carefully-placed mazes, traps, and roadblocks using movement powers like flight and Misty Step? Well, here's an AP where you can get your revenge...

That is factually correct as to original author intent.

NobodysHome wrote:

TriOmegaZero wrote:

That's okay, you can send them to me. I even enjoy Arby's.

Believe it or not, you're the first person I've ever met, either online or in person, who willingly eats Arby's.

Add two more to that list, it's one of Scint and my go-tos for fast food.

I like Arby's, in theory.

Unfortunately the ones we have around here are all filthy and the curly fries are never fresh.

You got a good, clean, Arby's and I'm all game however!