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Yay! My review is in the review feed!
I was actually thinking about using my aliases for short, helpful (hopefully), and humorous reviews for stuff.
On account of me not being capable of writing long and reviewy reviews.
Edit: and in the tradition of beat writers of yore I shall write them naked!
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Yes, we can see you are excited...
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my own lunch, minus the chutney.For no other reason than those words (out of context, even), I just wanted to link this.
I was on the edge of my seat ... for the sausage sandwich.
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Yes, we can see you are excited...
So you're saying I should pop some Viagra (or whichever pill gives you a 4 hour.. you know) and put on a performance art show where I just stand to the side naked and let people use me as a coat rack...
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I think that right there is a good reason not to base life's decisions on whether or not Shia Lebouf would do it.
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While I agree, there are also other factors at play. Basically: it's really hard to know yourself, or understand, factually, what and who you really are, what you quantifiable strengths and weaknesses are, and why those are actually things.
What Tac said. Humans don't get a racial bonus to Introspection. Heck, the majority of the time, they seem to get a penalty, with bonuses to Denial and Rationalisation.
Games take way more time than that spent at the table playing. Learning rules, creating a character, crafting a backstory, building a future, considering the current events in the game, probably discussing them with others outside the gaming hours, there's a lot more investment that goes into a night's drinking.
It's frustrating, yeah, but I don't really hold it against those people. Heck, I can't even hold it against the people that actually know what the issue is but still demure in the admission of it's place as lower in the hierarchy of fun - they're basically trying to be diplomatic and avoid implying (even to themselves) "I find hanging out with you in this manner to be mentally exhausting in ways that interfere with my life." because, like it or not, most people will take that kind of thing poorly.
This is also big. I recently found out the GM of my last game is running a new one, and didn't invite myself or another player. Why? We apparently made it less fun for other people at the table. But they still enjoyed being friends with us off the table, so rather than say anything, including when they were missing sessions to go for drinks with friends or off to concerts, they just didn't include us this time. Humans are social animals, and will often put maintaining a social order ahead of being honest.
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I think that right there is a good reason not to base life's decisions on whether or not Shia Lebouf would do it.
I can think of four...
...Directed by Michael Bay.
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He wasn't in the fourth transformers movie.
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I should update my list of D&D / Pathfinder characters I want to play out some day...
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He wasn't in the fourth transformers movie.
Consider me proud to not have known that.
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It has the worst dialogue I've ever seen in a movie before.
Literally for ten minutes John Goodman transformer is telling Mark Wahlberg (whom he's just met) "Cade, you can do it, you can do it Cade" as he's gunned down in slow motion.
I'm not usually one to be super critical of movies but that one was terrible.
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I think that right there is a good reason not to base life's decisions on whether or not Shia Lebouf would do it.I can think of four...
...Directed by Michael Bay.
time for a marathon!
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Yay! It's springtime! All my construction friends are coming out of hibernation! All of a sudden I get a flood of texts not from my wife (or parents) it's always so much fun.
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I'm always disappointed when I can't favorite my texts tho. :-(
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Also everyone has ZZ Top beards, I miss that part of snow removal, I always went for a more grizzly Adams look personally tho.
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Yuck, shave those beards off please.
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I shaved mine off yesterday actually. :-)
Edit: most of the pictures were of the "look how long my beard was before I/the significant other made me shave it off last weekend" variety.
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Yes, we can see you are excited...So you're saying I should pop some Viagra (or whichever pill gives you a 4 hour.. you know) and put on a performance art show where I just stand to the side naked and let people use me as a coat rack...
I'll keep my coat, thank you.
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I am cold-ish... Ugh. Yesterday was beautiful, dry, and warm and today is cold and wet.
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both look delicious. And sound suspiciously like my own lunch, minus the chutney.
On the other hand, Panda Pop is a game produced by NobodysWife's company. Woo hoo!Play it. Spend much money on it. Talk about how great it is.
But limey said it was a drink that he enjoyed as a lad, and...
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEYIf she gets a bonus, she's more likely to be able to afford a Lulu costume...
Panda Pops (the beverage).
Lulu costume not included.
Beer not included.
Your lunch involved beer and a Lulu costume?
Lucky old chap.
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So is it just me, or is there nowhere in Pathfinder the idea of a bow that turns people to stone when it hits?
That's such movie trope I figured I'd find one, rather than having to build one myself...
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Yuck, shave those beards off please.
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My only comment on beards is that NobodysWife knows where to buy Nair and isn't afraid to use it on men when they sleep...
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Tiny T-Rex: Dad, if something dangerous has to be done, I really want to do it in slow motion.
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Yuck, shave those beards off please.
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......seriously cannot think of where to begin commenting here...
On another note; what is with the boards dropping so oft of late?
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I blame the nogoodniks, whoever they may be.
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Is there anybody out there?
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{Continues to hang by her knees from the rafters, unobserved by all and thanking her lucky stars for Ninja Sports Bra Technology}
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Well, it's done, game over, I fold, wave the white f&++ing flag.
Pea Bear (as we pick her up from school): dad! I've got wonderful news! I know who likes me now!
Ayup, my daughter is almost a teenager, just like she's been warning us would happen since she was two.
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Well, it's done, game over, I fold, wave the white f**$ing flag.
Pea Bear (as we pick her up from school): dad! I've got wonderful news! I know who likes me now!
Ayup, my daughter is almost a teenager, just like she's been warning us would happen since she was two.
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
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So, I think I may be done asking women out forever now. Did something a couple of hours ago that I don't think I can recover from.
So, as it turns out, the universe seems to hate me when it comes to asking people out on dates. Either that, or I'm just an unlikable person when it comes to the opposite sex. Regardless of the reason, I have a horrible, horrible streak of luck when it comes to getting people to go out with me. That's without figuring in me overcoming my own anxiety. However, this sometimes leads to me.... Missing some key details.
So, long story short.... I just asked out someone on the same day they got proposed to.
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Thats some rotten luck right there!
Sorry to hear that, still, there's always a chance!
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There that ought to give me time....
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Don't count on it.
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I met my wife online on a dating site. Its nice to approach a relationship knowing you're both looking for the same thing and weeding out your dealbreakers by putting them on the table before the conversation begins. None of the tiptoeing around the issue, and most importantly you don't limit your pool of potential mates to the areas you happen to geographically frequent.
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Yeah, my GF and I were friends for almost a decade online before we started officially being in a relationship.
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I met my wife in high school, when i was dating one of her best friends.
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I feel clever. I answered some key things that didn't make sense about my Pathfinder campaign setting.
So, it's a setting that takes back in the nation of Vendalia, which is a fantasy counterpart culture based largely off of the 60s American West, if they had access to magic and a bunch of them were elves or dwarves or orcs. I've talked about that before. What I haven't talked about is that, on the one hand, we have a setting with the economic golden age of America in the 60s, but on the other hand Vendalia only possesses the West and fought a huge, destructive war on it's soil twenty years ago. America of the 60s was rich partially because it controlled so much of the continent and Europe was recovering from the war. So why is Vendalia, with only some of America's resources and recovery from a war to do, on similar economic terms to the California of America's 60s? In fact, the main superpowers in the world are, on one side of the Cold War, Britain, Japan, and Mexico, and on the other side Hindustan and Aksum, with superpower France trying its best to play both sides. So why is the American West the center of the campaign and so massively powerful? It isn't even a superpower.
Well, I've established that Vendalia was at one point British, and maintains close ties. Like, close ties as in Britain having a currency union, free trade agreement, and free travel/employment agreement with a lot of former colonies, including Vendalia. So, Vendalia is using British pounds to buy things, imports and exports from them tariff free, and workers and businesses can move freely between the two. If the three allied superpowers on the protagonist side are Britain, Japan, and Mexico, that right there is HUGE. Vendalia has very easy access to all three, and if Mexico and Japan offer good trade deals, it's the natural middleperson for trade between the allies. Get good trade arrangement with the Chinese countries (my setting doesn't have a unified China) and Korea and Southeast Asia, and its looking even better. Especially if Britain were to beat a little sliver of Texas out of the French back in the colonial days, giving Vendalia access to the Atlantic. Modern France is trying to play both sides of the Cold War, so they'd naturally be good to Vendalia, old wounds aside. My setting doesn't have a Panama canal, so using Vendalia's well developed railroad system would be the next best thing if they had access to both oceans. Vendalia isn't just at the center of trade between three big superpower allies, its at the center of Asia-Europe trade in general. That means Vendalia is raking in money hand over fist, and also means a lot of soft and cultural power from being so geograpically and economically vital. It also means that, after the war, they got mountains of redevelopment aid and were able to get their economy flowing again relatively rapidly. Everyone powerful wants them Vendalia functional, so people aren't going to let Vendalia just stumble its way through rebuilding what the war damaged. And logic would dictate that Britain, Mexico, and Japan sent troops to fight side by side with the Vendalians in the war.
This also makes Vendalia symbolically important. It's location between Mexico, Japan, and Britian makes it a symbolic lynchpin of the alliance, and the large numbers of British, Japanese, and Mexican soldiers who died together with the Vendalians to keep the demonic armies at bay solidifies that symbolic relationship. It's not just economically vital to the alliance, it's where the alliance proved that it can stand together in the face of an actual fight. Then we have the cultural symbol of Vendalia as the intersection of Europe, Asia, and America. That makes it a great place to set the story.
So no wonder Vendalia is on par with the US. It may not have access to the whole United States, but it has complete economic access to Britain and all her settler colonies (to the point where the Vendalian currency is the British pound, even though they are an independent nation), as well as access to a massive amount of trade and beneficial trade arrangements.
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I met my wife in high school, when i was dating one of her best friends.
I met my wife in elementary school. She beat up one of my friends.
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So, I think I may be done asking women out forever now. Did something a couple of hours ago that I don't think I can recover from.
So, as it turns out, the universe seems to hate me when it comes to asking people out on dates. Either that, or I'm just an unlikable person when it comes to the opposite sex. Regardless of the reason, I have a horrible, horrible streak of luck when it comes to getting people to go out with me. That's without figuring in me overcoming my own anxiety. However, this sometimes leads to me.... Missing some key details.
So, long story short.... I just asked out someone on the same day they got proposed to.
DAMN! I'm sorry man that's awful.
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Well, it's done, game over, I fold, wave the white f+~#ing flag.
Pea Bear (as we pick her up from school): dad! I've got wonderful news! I know who likes me now!
Ayup, my daughter is almost a teenager, just like she's been warning us would happen since she was two.
soon, puberty will be upon her...
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So, I'm a big fan of horribly, horribly inappropriate gifts that show such utter cluelessness on the part of the giver that you can do nothing but let your jaw drop and laugh. My favorite example was giving baby clothes to a woman who'd just had a miscarriage. "Well, I'd already bought them, and you're going to try again, right? So no point in letting them go to waste!"
Too tasteless for words.
I've also vastly enjoyed CY's tales of his own birthdays. Makes me feel SO much better about mine!
But then, you see a gift that defies explanation.
My widowed mother-in-law was just given...
...a 6-pound box of knock-off generic Thin Mints.
WTF?!?!?!
"I know you're living alone now, so I thought you'd appreciate some cookies. So I'll give you enough to stuff a pillow. But buying actual cookies would be too expensive, so have some generics."
I mean, it's just one of those gifts that's beyond even irrational rationalization...
...and now the darned thing is sitting on my dining room table!
Ah, well, next kids' game is on Monday... they'll keep 'til then, I'm sure...
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Disgaea is coming to the PC at Steam Games.
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I was walking home because my bike had a flat tire, while passing by Farm & Fleet (like Home Depot, except for redneck farmers and hipsters) the alarm happened to be going off. Next thing I know, I'm being swarmed by cops, and spent a half hour with cops asking me questions and looking thru my shoes, with threats of charges if anything turns up missing.
I was barely ten minutes into my eighteenth birthday, and I was already under investigation for burglary.
And that, was my worst birthday ever.
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Disgaea is coming to the PC at Steam Games.
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I was walking home because my bike had a flat tire, while passing by Farm & Fleet (like Home Depot, except for redneck farmers and hipsters) the alarm happened to be going off. Next thing I know, I'm being swarmed by cops, and spent a half hour with cops asking me questions and looking thru my shoes, with threats of charges if anything turns up missing.
I was barely ten minutes into my eighteenth birthday, and I was already under investigation for burglary.
And that, was my worst birthday ever.
wow.
What the hell happened exactly?
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A lightning storm fried the alarm, so, nothing, at least as far as I know. :-)
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I am drunk. Religion was mentioned. I don't know whats going on really, so I'm just going to wave this flaming bike around blindly.
flail
I am now imagining you wearing a rabbi's robe in the desert, asking a burning bike what its name is.
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Spike, it's name is Spike.