So there is no coverage?FH ;P
No, it's covered. It's under the deductable. That's what deductable means: maximum amount covered by insurance. Duh.
** spoiler omitted **
Neener-neener! :P
Seriously, though, Economics is fine. My teacher kills the subject, though, and it can never match my passion for the other classes. Sorry, Sebastian. :)
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Or a small battalion of kobolds. That would work too.
Ooooohhhhh man... No, you don't.
Care and feeding of an entire battalion is SO ANNOYING!! And, one thing they neglect to mention in the Monster Manual AND Races of the Dragon...
Kobolds aren't terribly concerned with where they... umm... do their business... if you know what I mean.
And they a lot of raw meat. Ew.
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Seriously, though, Economics is fine. My teacher kills the subject, though, and it can never match my passion for the other classes. Sorry, Sebastian. :)
No worries Saern. Sorry to hear your teacher isn't that good. Econ 101 was an epiphany for me. I had been thinking along those lines my entire life, but my high school social studies department was the dumping ground for the various coaches, and thus offered little of educational value. I couldn't get any good classes my first semester (I was going to be a philosophy major) and landed in Econ 101. I couldn't believe there was an entire academic discipline that conformed so well to my thought process.
Ooooohhhhh man... No, you don't.
Care and feeding of an entire battalion is SO ANNOYING!! And, one thing they neglect to mention in the Monster Manual AND Races of the Dragon...
Kobolds aren't terribly concerned with where they... umm... do their business... if you know what I mean.
And they a lot of raw meat. Ew.
The Demon Queen of Victuals has a full-time staff of minions to take care of the food requirements of any creature in all the planes! I only need their sweet, sweet labor...
Yeah, she doesn't really comprehend student questions, and she just rambles incoherently. She'll start on real life examples, and you can just see them veer out of the realm of relevancy and then just fall off a cliff all together. The text book is the saving grace- it's well written and moderately engaging, and I wouldn't have a clue what was going on in that class without it.
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I saw this messed up story on the news tonight.
In Frisco Tx, just north of Dallas, a few months back, this one kid knocked on the door of a random house and shot the person who answered the door. The victim lived. It was another teenager.
So the perp confessed to his parents. He was "living the fantasy of being a serial killer." So off to wherever he goes; juvenile(?) So,...they charge this kid as an adult. That means he can get bail. So...they gave him......$100,000 bail. So he's back home!!! (the news show showed his $300,000 house in Frisco, Tx).
At least they have a police car out in front of the house watching him until his bail hearing on Thursday; apparently they might adjust his bail up a little bit.
Why can't we, as a society, figure out how to take somebody who apparently admits freely and openly to shooting somebody for answering their door and put them somewhere where they can't do things like that?
If he's crazy, hey okay. Put him somewhere.
If he's not crazy, fine. Put him somewhere.
Why is this hard?
And whoever bailed him out, what were you thinking?!?
I think there should totally be crimes for which bail does not apply, "attempted murder for no reason" being one of them.
Also if I was the president of the world I'd make all punitive fines and bail fees percentages of people's assets/income rather than fixed figures. Let's see if his parents still want to bail him out if it'll cost them 95% of everything they own...
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I saw this messed up story on the news tonight.
In Frisco Tx, just north of Dallas, a few months back, this one kid knocked on the door of a random house and shot the person who answered the door. The victim lived. It was another teenager.
So the perp confessed to his parents. He was "living the fantasy of being a serial killer." So off to wherever he goes; juvenile(?) So,...they charge this kid as an adult. That means he can get bail. So...they gave him......$100,000 bail. So he's back home!!! (the news show showed his $300,000 house in Frisco, Tx).
At least they have a police car out in front of the house watching him until his bail hearing on Thursday; apparently they might adjust his bail up a little bit.
Why can't we, as a society, figure out how to take somebody who apparently admits freely and openly to shooting somebody for answering their door and put them somewhere where they can't do things like that?
If he's crazy, hey okay. Put him somewhere.
If he's not crazy, fine. Put him somewhere.
Why is this hard?
And whoever bailed him out, what were you thinking?!?
That is insane, but in a way, I can understand if it was the parents who bailed him out - they probably are deluded and still think of him as their darling little boy, all innocent. If it was my kid, I would hope that I'd have left the little bastard in there, but until I'm in the shoes of the parents, I can't really say what my reaction would be.
But what about the judge - couldn't he have denied this kid bail?
The only econ class that I took was in high school and it was awesome as all get out! I learned to play BS and spent about half of every class playing cards with my buddy. When our teacher saw us playing, he would saunter over and ask us "So, how much is in the pot?" Econ was also the birth place of our running Sally joke, who was the individual whom all of the textbook's practice questions referred to. Whenever I or my buddy encountered a conundrum, we would thoughtfully ask each other "What would Sally do?"
But seriously, in regards to economics, what I learned about it was like a combination of math and American history: endless numbers that represent vague trends and arcane terms that seem to be specifically designed to confuse each other. Boooring.
Hey, Saern, what's your major? And which university are you attending?
I'm working towards a B.A. in English, with a writing concentration. I am definitely going to pursue my Master's Degree afterwards, and hope to go on to a Ph.D., as well. I'm currently enrolled in Indiana University, in a little satellite campus known as Indiana University Southeast (IUS; thus my confusion when people use this as an abbreviation for Improved Unarmed Strike), which is just across the Ohio River from Louisville, KY. However, it's not really a place to pursue this field of education past the B.A., so I'll at least be transferring to the main campus in Bloomington, IN, (with it's library of 10 million books, I think the 10th largest in the USA), and perhaps to another institution entirely (something I just really haven't put much thought into at the moment).
Thanks for the interest! Now complain about something.
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But seriously, in regards to economics, what I learned about it was like a combination of math and American history: endless numbers that represent vague trends and arcane terms that seem to be specifically designed to confuse each other. Boooring.
Yes, that's macro economics, and is what most people think of as economics. Micro economics is an entirely different beast based on logic, rationale thought, and other good things.
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I am all alone at work today. Granted, we are an office that consists of the agent himself and two staff people (of which I am one) but still: EVERYONE ELSE is on vacation this week. The other staff person took the whole week off. The agent was here Monday and Tuesday but will be gone the rest of the week (including, as I said, today).
I have to answer ALL the phone calls, write ALL the policies, fix ALL the problems, respond to ALL the e-mail, take care of ALL the faxes, and be nice to ALL the customers...
It's enough to make me start knocking on people's doors and shooting whoever answers....
For there is strength in numbers. Unite against WotC! It may not have occured to them that by doing this they would anger many of those that read and treasure these magazines but they have. I have read many people's posts on several other thread discussing this and have found a great deal of anger directed at WotC. I say that we boycott WotC! I won't buy anything of theirs from a site or store that would give them profit (places like Ebay are okay). I have never actually held a subscription to either magazine for money reasons but I have always read issues and picked them up when I could find them cheap and I love them. I am going to send furious emails to WotC telling them where they can stick their 'online content' and will spread the word. If anyone else agrees with me email WotC, post on other sites frequented by D&D players and let them know, encourage them to rebel!
I don't want 'online content'! I want a real magazine! I want a magazine published by the talented people at Paizo! Not some online crap. I want to have a magazine that I can take with me when I go somewhere! GIVE PAIZO THEIR LISCENSE BACK!!!!! Who's with me!?!!?!
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For there is strength in numbers. Unite against WotC! It may not have occured to them that by doing this they would anger many of those that read and treasure these magazines but they have. I have read many people's posts on several other thread discussing this and have found a great deal of anger directed at WotC. I say that we boycott WotC! I won't buy anything of theirs from a site or store that would give them profit (places like Ebay are okay). I have never actually held a subscription to either magazine for money reasons but I have always read issues and picked them up when I could find them cheap and I love them. I am going to send furious emails to WotC telling them where they can stick their 'online content' and will spread the word. If anyone else agrees with me email WotC, post on other sites frequented by D&D players and let them know, encourage them to rebel!
I don't want 'online content'! I want a real magazine! I want a magazine published by the talented people at Paizo! Not some online crap. I want to have a magazine that I can take with me when I go somewhere! GIVE PAIZO THEIR LISCENSE BACK!!!!! Who's with me!?!!?!
See my thread: 'The Million Gamer March' in the Transition section.
I feel crushed. :(
I feel as though 'Crushing Despair' has been cast upon me. I loved those magazines and they were a valuable part of my gaming experience. I won't even be able to boycott WotC products becuase it would mean not supporting my local gaming store (something I am unwilling to do). If I could boycott WotC without taking buisness away from another important part of my gaming life. Da*n you WotC. I just read your press release and it is a load of crap. You make me so SO ANGRY!
This smarfin April 1st bug is gonna make me quit posting on the 1st of any month if it keeps hanging around. It was fun for April Fools and I admit on some of them when the avatar changes to one of those blue critters, it's actually appropriate to the post but as a friend says, "FUN spelled backwards is NUF".
But that's just my 2cp.
Anyone noticed that the flippin death of our two favorite mags has kinda killed the messageboards; its like we all got kicked in the crotch and are out of breath and stunned and in shock so some try to go on, but no real interesting and mindcrunching threads lately like we all lost a bit of our hearts and souls.
We cannot have said everything there is to say; some body please breath some life into us.
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Anyone noticed that the flippin death of our two favorite mags has kinda killed the messageboards; its like we all got kicked in the crotch and are out of breath and stunned and in shock so some try to go on, but no real interesting and mindcrunching threads lately like we all lost a bit of our hearts and souls.
We cannot have said everything there is to say; some body please breath some life into us.
I have noticed the change. It sucks but the one shining grace is the vitality of the Pathfinder threads. Dragons are different, giants are different, everything is new and scary. I feel like a new dawn is coming and I am staring towards the horizon with a small group of like minded chums. Its dark now but when the sun comes up the light will bring a new brighter tomorrow. I have to believe that.
FH (Wax on, wax off poetic)
Ticks.
Ticks are some of the most foul organisims on this planet...especially when their heads are buried in your back!
As ever,
ACE
Ticks.
Ticks are some of the most foul organisims on this planet...especially when their heads are buried in your back!
As ever,
ACE
Agreed. Also, what part, exactly, do these little bastards play in the food chain? Unlike mosquitos, which are a healthy source of protein for bats, I don't think anything eats ticks. They lie outside the natural order of things. Thus, I think it's safe to say that they are actually some form of aberration or evil outsider and deserve extermination universally.
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I have noticed the change. It sucks but the one shining grace is the vitality of the Pathfinder threads. Dragons are different, giants are different, everything is new and scary. I feel like a new dawn is coming and I am staring towards the horizon with a small group of like minded chums. Its dark now but when the sun comes up the light will bring a new brighter tomorrow. I have to believe that.
FH (Wax on, wax off poetic)
So, does this mean we are going to start a new cult that worships Pathfinder? I assume you'll want to be High Priest, and that's OK, as long as I get to be High Inquisitor or something.
Aye! And add skunks, groundhogs and squirrels to the list as well.Agreed. Also, what part, exactly, do these little bastards play in the food chain? Unlike mosquitos, which are a healthy source of protein for bats, I don't think anything eats ticks. They lie outside the natural order of things. Thus, I think it's safe to say that they are actually some form of aberration or evil outsider and deserve extermination universally.Ticks.
Ticks are some of the most foul organisims on this planet...especially when their heads are buried in your back!
As ever,
ACE
But small woodland creatures are cute....
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So, does this mean we are going to start a new cult that worships Pathfinder? I assume you'll want to be High Priest, and that's OK, as long as I get to be High Inquisitor or something.I have noticed the change. It sucks but the one shining grace is the vitality of the Pathfinder threads. Dragons are different, giants are different, everything is new and scary. I feel like a new dawn is coming and I am staring towards the horizon with a small group of like minded chums. Its dark now but when the sun comes up the light will bring a new brighter tomorrow. I have to believe that.
FH (Wax on, wax off poetic)
Done and done.
FH(Demi-lord of Pathfinder Cult)
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Ticks.
Ticks are some of the most foul organisims on this planet...especially when their heads are buried in your back!
As ever,
ACE
As a fellow bloodsucker, I would like to defend my tick brothers. For example, some ticks don costumes and fight evil. Where would you be without such noble creatures? Where?!? I'll tell you where, you'd have a moon with CHAIRFACE CHIPPENDALE written on it. That's where you'd be!
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As a fellow bloodsucker, I would like to defend my tick brothers. For example, some ticks don costumes and fight evil. Where would you be without such noble creatures? Where?!? I'll tell you where, you'd have a moon with CHAIRFACE CHIPPENDALE written on it. That's where you'd be!
SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!
I'm doing LAUNNNNNNNNNNNNNDRY! :D
I have noticed the change. ~yadda yadda blah blah~
FH (Wax on, wax off poetic)
So, does this mean we are going to start a new cult... ~blah blah yadda yadda~
It's this last part that makes me not want to join...
Done and done.
FH(Demi-lord of Pathfinder Cult)
We have cookies and kool-aid.
A cult with kool-aid... not very tempting, Mr Jones. ;op
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As a fellow bloodsucker, I would like to defend my tick brothers. For example, some ticks don costumes and fight evil. Where would you be without such noble creatures? Where?!? I'll tell you where, you'd have a moon with CHAIRFACE CHIPPENDALE written on it. That's where you'd be!Ticks.
Ticks are some of the most foul organisims on this planet...especially when their heads are buried in your back!
As ever,
ACE
I think you've found your totem beast.
Every now and then, I have an everyday experience that seems to somehow confirm that my life is awesome. I don't even need something huge or major, in fact, it's usually something really stupid.
But sitting at Burritoville with my Soy Philly Cheesesteak Burrito (I'm a gringo, as evinced by my beautiful blue eyes and red facial hair and I make no claim that Burritoville serves anything like traditional Mexican or Tex-Mex cuisine. I make no apologies for my froo-froo vegetarian burrito choice) with "Hey Ya" by Andre 3000 playing on the radio and graduation from college coming next week...man.
What's cooler than being cool?
my rant for today?
lets look at armor in the D&d game.
a chain shirt gives you a +4 armor bonus,
a chirana thingy goes over that to increase it to +5,
dastanna can be worn rasing the ac to +6
and then you can still get a shield!
one player who generated a samurai character for a 4th level adventure had the above items in the masterwork quality... totaling maybe 820 gold pieces, from his homeland. sure he was exiled to a distant land by a magical curse and the player is very good. what is my problem?
meanwhile, a suit of elven chain mail, frigin' mithril, is 4,000+ gold- covers the whole body- yet isn't as good as the above masterwork items.
chain shirt, chiranna, dastana, INDEED!
ARGH!
Add porcupines to the list; what good are they; at least wolverines and owls will eat a skunk.
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Agreed. Also, what part, exactly, do these little bastards play in the food chain? Unlike mosquitos, which are a healthy source of protein for bats, I don't think anything eats ticks. They lie outside the natural order of things. Thus, I think it's safe to say that they are actually some form of aberration or evil outsider and deserve extermination universally.Ticks.
Ticks are some of the most foul organisims on this planet...especially when their heads are buried in your back!
As ever,
ACE
Careful. The same could be said of humans.
Unless you consider us all prey for the Sebastians of the world ;)
P.S. Groundhogs are adorable. Anyone that has a problem with them has a problem with me.
Every now and then, I have an everyday experience that seems to somehow confirm that my life is awesome. I don't even need something huge or major, in fact, it's usually something really stupid.
But sitting at Burritoville with my Soy Philly Cheesesteak Burrito (I'm a gringo, as evinced by my beautiful blue eyes and red facial hair and I make no claim that Burritoville serves anything like traditional Mexican or Tex-Mex cuisine. I make no apologies for my froo-froo vegetarian burrito choice) with "Hey Ya" by Andre 3000 playing on the radio and graduation from college coming next week...man.
What's cooler than being cool?
Having gone through high school graduation last year and just finished my freshman year of college, I *think* I can understand the feeling somewhat. Congratulations on the impending events, by the way.
Ticks.
Careful. The same could be said of humans.
Now this is where druids and I disagree.
humans are a part of nature, everything and anything in the MM can take a bite and pretty much wants to. I was even bit by a rude unicorn once!technology isn't a valid excuse to rule humans as being outside the natural order, as other animals and insects communicate from one generation to the next and use tools.
Suck it, druid types!