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SURPRISE! I was the turkey all along!
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Now that that's out of the way....
For all the people musing about getting into NWN and looking for opportunities to get involved with the server:
Ebon (Belladonna on CD) and Scint (Ladybug) and I (Edge) will be starting up a big server-wide plotline of ours either sometime late this autumn (November/December-ish) or late-winter (February-ish) depending on how a few other things currently going in-game play out. That gives any interested parties a few months to get on the server, try some character ideas out, get integrated into the community a bit, and gain some levels under your belts before storyline stuff starts happening.
(It's not yet announced publicly, hence why you won't find any notice of it on the CD forums if you go looking. Consider this a special teaser trailer for FAWTLfolk only. ;) It will be announced with plenty of reaction time when it's actually ready to run on CD, however. Just keep an eye on the Announced Quests forum.)
The main point of this big upcoming plot is to have a storyline that affects all characters on the server rather than a small handful of participants, and there will be a lot of spontaneous unannounced scenarios as well as open-call scheduled events for people to participate in. We're hoping we can get a lot of people involved from different angles as the story unfolds, and it's going to be used as a sort of testing-grounds for us for events of this scale in the future.
And as fellow Paizonians, I believe this will exceptionally appeal to all of us as well. ;)
So yeah, if any of that appeals to you, please feel free to give the server a shot, and send me PMs if you have any questions or curiosities. =)
As long as maleShep comes around from time to time to mess around with Cortez and/or Alenko.Considering how much everyFAWTL seems to love Mass Effect, FaWtL VII would clearly have to be Mass FaWtL or FaWtL Effect or something.
I may have to transmogrify female FaWTLs into asari.
I'm sure they will understand.
I am also equally sure David M Mallon will support this transmogrification.
Cortez...
G.I Joe with Kung Fu Grip..hell yeahI never had dolls. Dolls were for girls.
I had action figures. That I dressed. And talked to. And made go to school. And brought to my female friends houses so they could attempt to take their dolls out on dates. They had so much game.
GI Joe was called 'Action Man' over here. He had a skrutty '70s beard, blue swimming trunks that didn't come off and a little switch in the back of his head that made his eyes move from side to side.
Also...
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The name of that place always seemed like it was just trying to skirt by with a name that was nearly swearing.
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Gratz!
Approved for what? You are already in the Insane Asylum.
So I think the flea infestation in my apartment is worse than I originally thought.
I might need to schedule a day sometime soon that the cats and I can go hang out at the parents' while I bug-bomb the place. Probably going to have to be a Sunday, just out of necessity and timing.
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WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Gratz!
Approved for what? You are already in the Insane Asylum.
for status as an independent student on my financial aid!!!
for status as an independent student on my financial aid!!!Gratz!
Approved for what? You are already in the Insane Asylum.
Quick! Lock up all the college girls!
Alright... which game is your server on? 1 or 2?
1.
I think there is just a general cultural understanding among a lot of people that hard/long day = everybody is going to want drinks after. And that if offered (especially if someone else offers to pay) everyone will jump at the opportunity.Glad to hear that you resisted the temptation.So yesterday was a 15-hour day at work, and one of my closest friends said, "You need a drink! I'm buying!"
Amazing to be 101+ days in and still have people who see me several times a week unaware that I've stopped.
Oh, there was no temptation involved. He offered at around 7 pm, when I had another half dozen labs to test. Testing while schnockered = Bad.
I just found it amusing that he offered to buy me drinks while:
(a) I was obviously inundated with work, and
(b) He was still unaware that I stopped drinking months ago...
Well, yes. But he offered the drinks DURING work, when I had at least 3 more hours to go!
Unless you're in sales or construction work, that's a no-go...
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SURPRISE! I was the turkey all along!
Sooo... many... wrong... things... to... say...!!!
"Yeah... the NAKED turkey!"
"Hey, baby! Want to go to my house and get basted?"
"Oooh... I feel like I'm going to get clucky tonight!"
...various turkey part jokes even I am not tasteless enough to post...
Cool. I'll see if I can coerce my other computer (I'm typing on a chromebook) to download it. It be a wily ol' beasty, fragged, clunky, and liable to regurgitate anything more I download on it, but I'll try.
Hopefully I'll get a new one this Christmas.
I hate it when bosses try to buy me lunch, I'd rather they just give me a little extra in my paycheck from time to time.
Oh, don't get me started. As a "bonus" back in May my VP approved $100 for me to take my wife out to dinner. We still haven't used it.
I have to find a restaurant that's under $100 for two in the S.F. Bay Area, that will take American Express, and that we would both enjoy. AND I have to find time to do it while juggling three games and many other social commitments.
You know, I'd have rather just gotten $50 cash.
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SURPRISE! I was the turkey all along!Sooo... many... wrong... things... to... say...!!!
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I don't know if mixing Futurama and Invader Zim references is a recipe for gloriousness or absolute calamity.
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Great! Now I'm gonna be watching Invader Zim and Futurama all weekend, you're lucky I got both those shows in their entirety :-)
I wonder if Zim is on Netflix.
It's on Hulu :-)
I got the DVD set years ago, my wife is a huge huge fan :-)
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So... my kids are going face-to-face with death for the first time tomorrow, and I wish I could make it easier for them, but I can't.
Their grandfather is fading fast. NobodysWife and I were supposed to visit him last weekend, but grandma (NobodysWife's mother) decided at the last minute that we shouldn't have to brave Labor Day traffic to see a dying man, so we put it off by a week. And now it seems like this visit will be our last.
He will be terrifying. He has lost more than half his body weight. His hair and teeth are falling out. He is bedridden. But he is still their loving grandfather, and they need the chance to say goodbye. They were denied this chance with my father, and to this day it haunts them, and I am only just coming to terms with the fact that he really did do the right thing by his family, even if I vehemently disagreed with it at the time.
I have known far more death in my time than most Americans: Four childhood friends (my best friend included) before I was 30. Another to breast cancer before I was 40, along with my favorite "honorary" uncle. My father passed a couple of years after that. And, though it might offend many, I consider all of my cats among the losses: Two to cars, two to cancer, and one to old age, all burned into my memory.
And with all that death around me, one thing stands out: For those who I could meet and say, "Goodbye!" to, the deaths have passed. Although my honorary uncle was very dear to me, I've let him go because he had the best death of anyone I've ever seen: He decided it was time to go, invited all his friends and family from all over the country to come to him, we sat around telling stories about how he'd impacted our lives as he listened, smiling in spite of the respirator and IVs riddling his body, and finally bid each of us farewell before the tragic accidental morphine overdose.
My father was the opposite: When he realized that he was destined to spend the rest of his life attached to machines in a hospital, he instead chose to take his own life. Knowing how punitive the laws are, he was extremely careful to ensure none of us knew his plans, nor even that he had them. So it was, "Boom! Your father's dead without so much as a, 'Goodbye'."
It was much, much harder for me. It's been almost 10 years, and I finally started letting some of the bitterness go as my mother described his likely thought processes, so similar to my own: "Protect the family. Make sure none of them can ever be accused of helping me."
He did the right thing, in his own twisted way, but he didn't realize how much it would hurt the kids to just hear, "Sorry. Grandpa died today."
We couldn't even tell them why he didn't say goodbye, because they were too young to understand. Eventually, I'll explain it to them. But not yet.
So I feel it is incredibly important to their long-term emotional well-being to see him and say goodbye. But short term... it's going to be a hell of a weekend.
Wish me luck! And sorry to bring down FaWtL with sadness!
I favorite'd that because I feel your pain, my two best friends died in a car accident on my birthday on their way home from trying to surprise me for my birthday, but I was out partying elsewhere, the what ifs still haunt me 19 years later.
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I favorite'd that because I feel your pain, my two best friends died in a car accident on my birthday on their way home from trying to surprise me for my birthday, but I was out partying elsewhere, the what ifs still haunt me 19 years later.
Yeah, I know how that can burn. My best friend was an undiagnosed manic depressive, and it was perhaps even worse for me: We'd gone our separate ways for college, he went into a depressive cycle, everyone begged me to go see him and cheer him up, so I did.
A few days later he was gone, and it was decades later I learned that the most dangerous possible thing you can do with a depressed person is cheer them up a little bit, because it gives them motivation...
>_<
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OK. I'll stop breaking FaWTL. Captain Yesterday! Post something strange! Now!
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NobodysHome and Captain Yesterday. I fou need to talk, I am willing to listen. That is what friends are for.
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OK. I'll stop breaking FaWTL. Captain Yesterday! Post something strange! Now!
~Dragon moons NH and CY~
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LOL. I can't tell you how ticked off my friends get that I'm not on Facebook.
"How can you not know I'm pregnant! It's been on Facebook for like, two months!"
"I don't do Facebook."
<Knowing, "Oh.">
One of these days I'm going to get a kind pat on the head and a, "That's OK, Grandpa. I know technology is hard for you elderly people..."
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I never had dolls. Dolls were for girls.
I had action figures. That I dressed. And talked to. And made go to school. And brought to my female friends houses so they could attempt to take their dolls out on dates. They had so much game.
Ha! You had friends when you were a kid. Nerd.
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Tiny T-Rex has discovered Rampage 2 for our Nintendo 64, he takes the lobster guy every time and uses Mr. Krabs' voice for it, cracks me up:-D
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So yesterday was a 15-hour day at work, and one of my closest friends said, "You need a drink! I'm buying!"
Amazing to be 101+ days in and still have people who see me several times a week unaware that I've stopped.
In terms of video games and characters you play, I think I explained it to my kids very well:
Kids: "Dad! Why do you always play female characters?"
NH: "If I'm going to be staring at somebody's backside for the next 200-300 hours, you'd better believe it's going to be a woman."
I've heard our Lord President Moorluck say those exact words.
The vast majority of my characters are also female, both in NWN (my character vault currently has about 15 characters in it, only one of which is male) and in PnP (all my recently-played PCs are female, including Thistle, my AoW character and PC in the only PnP game I'm not DMing). It's less about the eye candy for me and more that I just for some reason prefer female characters. I really don't have a way to define it.
When it started out it was more that I'd come up with the basic concept then decide character gender based on whatever art I found that I liked best, and having more female character art available meant more female characters, but that's less true nowadays as I tend to also go looking for art deliberately rather than only sifting through my creature art folders looking for something appropriate.
Not really sure there's much of a reason to it. It just is.
I usually go about 50/50. For video games, I tend to pick whichever gets the best voice actor, which for BioWare games is invariably the female protagonist for some reason. In pen-and-paper games, I tend to think of a strictly stat-based character concept first, and the background fills in afterward.
Mass Effect, though... Mark Meer is a good actor (especially when he's in a comedic role-- there's a reason that BioWare asked him to do the voices for a bunch of the Vorcha, Hanar, and Volus characters as well as Shepard), but his role as Shepard just seems a little stiff and awkward. It doesn't help that his voice reminds me of whoever played the player character in Ultima 9. Jennifer Hale makes Shepard seem like more of a real character, to the point where, after a while, you feel like you really are Shepard. That takes real talent.
As long as maleShep comes around from time to time to mess around with Cortez and/or Alenko.
Cortez is my bro. Kaidan is... not here anymore.
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Well, yes. But he offered the drinks DURING work, when I had at least 3 more hours to go!
Unless you're in sales or construction work, that's a no-go...
I knew of a guy who had a tool bucket that had a false bottom. You put tools in the top part so that it looked like it was completely full, but if you unscrewed the inner lining of the bucket (with the tools in it), there was a 5"-deep space in the bottom that was always packed with ice and beer. The same guy was renowned for also carrying a coffee thermos full of whiskey. And then there was the guy that always brought two beers onto his shift hidden in a Pringles can. And then there was...
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I've heard our Lord President Moorluck say those exact words.So yesterday was a 15-hour day at work, and one of my closest friends said, "You need a drink! I'm buying!"
Amazing to be 101+ days in and still have people who see me several times a week unaware that I've stopped.
In terms of video games and characters you play, I think I explained it to my kids very well:
Kids: "Dad! Why do you always play female characters?"
NH: "If I'm going to be staring at somebody's backside for the next 200-300 hours, you'd better believe it's going to be a woman."
Maybe I should play Tomb Raider again?
I knew of a guy who had a tool bucket that had a false bottom. You put tools in the top part so that it looked like it was completely full, but if you unscrewed the inner lining of the bucket (with the tools in it), there was a 5"-deep space in the bottom that was always packed with ice and beer. The same guy was renowned for also carrying a coffee thermos full of whiskey. And then there was the guy that always brought two beers onto his shift hidden in a Pringles can. And then there was...Well, yes. But he offered the drinks DURING work, when I had at least 3 more hours to go!
Unless you're in sales or construction work, that's a no-go...
My driver's ed teacher kept a cooler of beer in the trunk of the driver's ed car, he'd have us stop by this park by the edge of town so he could disappear into the woods for awhile and drink. His twin brother was the head of the school board but I'm sure that had nothing to do with him keeping his job.
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I totally chewed this guy out at work the other night, like brutally honest, I honestly thought I'd either get chewed out myself, written up or worse.
Instead they gave me even more hours:-)
As a reward or as a punishment?
Guild Wars 2 went free... A cruel move... While the initial paid version offered already ruthless limit of five character slots, the free version offers only two...
Why?! Why*?!!! There are eight classes! (ninth class is part of expansion that was just released and has to be purchased)
My driver's ed teacher kept a cooler of beer in the trunk of the driver's ed car, he'd have us stop by this park by the edge of town so he could disappear into the woods for awhile and drink. His twin brother was the head of the school board but I'm sure that had nothing to do with him keeping his job.
When I was in high school, the 10th-grade history teacher (whose older brother was the richest man in town, as well as my boss a few years later), got caught twice doing coke in the men's room. It took a couple of years, but he finally "resigned" and became a bartender. He was a pretty nice guy, honestly, just kind of a dim bulb.