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*Gets dressed* :) :P :)


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gran rey de los future wrote:
captain yesterday wrote:
John Napier 698 wrote:
Come on, guys. You're letting me down. Or am I the only one that remembers postings made less than five pages ago?
I don't even remember what I said five posts ago, much less pages. :-)
Huh? What? Who are you people? Get off my lawn!!!

Your lawn! According to this most recent land survey, it's my lawn!


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So hung over.

2 hours of sleep.

Only person at first job today.

Working second job tonight.

This isn't going to end well.

Still.

Totally worth it.


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Freehold DM wrote:

So hung over.

2 hours of sleep.

Only person at first job today.

Working second job tonight.

This isn't going to end well.

Still.

Totally worth it.

~begins playing polka music very loudly near Freehold DM~


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gran rey de los mono wrote:
Tequila Sunrise wrote:
Finally got around to making my gingersofts today! They are tasty, but not as soft as I'd hoped. The fiancee suggests cutting them a bit thicker than the suggested 1/4" next time. Thanks again Gran Rey!
You're welcome. Though I wonder why they weren't soft. They always came out soft and chewy for me, but then again I always suspected the oven at my old apartment ran cooler than what it was set at. Maybe that's why.

Chewy, that's the word! They're soft, but not as chewy as I'd hoped. I think my oven does run hot.

There's also the fact I used two medium eggs rather than one large one.


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Sharoth wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:

So hung over.

2 hours of sleep.

Only person at first job today.

Working second job tonight.

This isn't going to end well.

Still.

Totally worth it.

~begins playing polka music very loudly near Freehold DM~

I'd kill for some brownies right now.

Silver Crusade

Freehold DM wrote:
Sharoth wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:

So hung over.

2 hours of sleep.

Only person at first job today.

Working second job tonight.

This isn't going to end well.

Still.

Totally worth it.

~begins playing polka music very loudly near Freehold DM~
I'd kill for some brownies right now.

or Rice Krispies treats.

Shadow Lodge

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Cyz is off to Hawaii, and I'm off to work with about 4 hours of sleep. x.x


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TOZ wrote:
Cyz is off to Hawaii, and I'm off to work with about 4 hours of sleep. x.x

toz, I have heard tell your wife loves MLP.

Cuz I'm going to a con for weekend. What does she seek? Which pony is her spirit animal?

Silver Crusade

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Freehold DM wrote:
TOZ wrote:
Cyz is off to Hawaii, and I'm off to work with about 4 hours of sleep. x.x

toz, I have heard tell your wife loves MLP.

Cuz I'm going to a con for weekend. What does she seek? Which pony is her spirit animal?

From the G1 - WindWhistler :) she was always my favorite growing up.

G3 is Baby Surfstar, I kept mine though and it's been my MLP under name for years!

The new series I'm definitely Twilight Sparkle :)

I just recently downgraded my collection to just a few ponies and kept only my favorites :) so if you feel the need - art or other things is better than actual ponies!

But I love them all and the thought is wonderful.


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All I can remember seeing at work is Pinky Pie and Purple Moody Pegasus.

But then, My Lil Pony isn't usually my section.

Unrelated, I had big, big plans to go out and about putzing around town, but then I walked the dog, and sat down, now, I'm not so sure I want to.

shakes fist at cold dreariness of January.


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cyzzane wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
TOZ wrote:
Cyz is off to Hawaii, and I'm off to work with about 4 hours of sleep. x.x

toz, I have heard tell your wife loves MLP.

Cuz I'm going to a con for weekend. What does she seek? Which pony is her spirit animal?

From the G1 - WindWhistler :) she was always my favorite growing up.

G3 is Baby Surfstar, I kept mine though and it's been my MLP under name for years!

The new series I'm definitely Twilight Sparkle :)

I just recently downgraded my collection to just a few ponies and kept only my favorites :) so if you feel the need - art or other things is better than actual ponies!

But I love them all and the thought is wonderful.

Yea. I was talking smak about you two to Freehold DM last night. Freehold, do mention the bad things I said about TOZ to TOZ.

Shadow Lodge

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Freehold DM wrote:
Which pony is her spirit animal?

I was pretty sure she could speak for herself, but knew Twilight Sparkle was her answer.

I'm totally Big Mac, however.


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TOZ wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Which pony is her spirit animal?

I was pretty sure she could speak for herself, but knew Twilight Sparkle was her answer.

I'm totally Big Mac, however.

ZOMG TWILIGHT X BIG MAC IRL

Shadow Lodge

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Yup.


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Ended up going out.

Bestbuy was sad. I haven't been there in years. Definitely not the same place.

Found Frozen Stars and Beyond The Doomsday Door for 9.99 each at half price books. Now I give my older, beat up copies to my nephews.


John Napier 698 wrote:
Copy web addresses to text files.

I do this sometimes, and used to do it a lot, but it takes so daggum long these days for a Word document to open, and I really don't like the others (which are less convenient to find and open anyway).

Generally, even with poor internet, it's faster to just make a post, for me.

captain yesterday wrote:
I use a bookmark bar.

I would, but my bookmarks are overcrowded as-is. I tend to avoid it for that reason. :)


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I just had an epiphany on the Hunter class in my campaign setting. My setting focuses on PCs working under the government, not independently, and I never really warmed up to the Hunter class. Then I realized something.

I like zombies. I kind of assume the government of my setting can handle an outbreak, which would fall upon the PCs, as skilled agents of the government. My setting doesn't have Channel Energy because it doesn't fit into my metaphysical system, so Clerics (a generally rare class, anyway) aren't that strong against undead. So what's the best tool if you can't channel energy?

Well, what does a government force dealing with an outbreak hate? Probably the final cleanup. If the undead are out in the open, the government can outmaneuver, outnumber, and outarm them. Clearing a city or village after the main undead force is crushed is different, however, is different. Lots of places for the undead to lurk, not much room to maneuver, and lots of risk of getting ambushed. And you have to go house by house and room by room. Enchanted forests are worse, because of their ever shifting nature, low visibility, and inherent magic undead can draw on. What can help neutralize this?

Dogs. If you have trained cadaver dogs, ambush suddenly becomes much less likely. Of course, you'd need a particularly smart dog, so as to differentiate immobile corpses that aren't a threat from walking corpses. In fact, this goes way beyond the undead. Dealing with the Fey kidnapping children? A particularly skilled dog might actually be able to find a trail. That's where the Hunter comes in. Animal companions are smarter and more capable, and the Hunter is the most specialized in handling them. A Ranger or Druid could be a good dog handler, but the Hunter is the best dog handler.


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Rosita the Riveter wrote:

I just had an epiphany on the Hunter class in my campaign setting. My setting focuses on PCs working under the government, not independently, and I never really warmed up to the Hunter class. Then I realized something.

I like zombies. I kind of assume the government of my setting can handle an outbreak, which would fall upon the PCs, as skilled agents of the government. My setting doesn't have Channel Energy because it doesn't fit into my metaphysical system, so Clerics (a generally rare class, anyway) aren't that strong against undead. So what's the best tool if you can't channel energy?

Well, what does a government force dealing with an outbreak hate? Probably the final cleanup. If the undead are out in the open, the government can outmaneuver, outnumber, and outarm them. Clearing a city or village after the main undead force is crushed is different, however, is different. Lots of places for the undead to lurk, not much room to maneuver, and lots of risk of getting ambushed. And you have to go house by house and room by room. Enchanted forests are worse, because of their ever shifting nature, low visibility, and inherent magic undead can draw on. What can help neutralize this?

Dogs. If you have trained cadaver dogs, ambush suddenly becomes much less likely. Of course, you'd need a particularly smart dog, so as to differentiate immobile corpses that aren't a threat from walking corpses. In fact, this goes way beyond the undead. Dealing with the Fey kidnapping children? A particularly skilled dog might actually be able to find a trail. That's where the Hunter comes in. Animal companions are smarter and more capable, and the Hunter is the most specialized in handling them. A Ranger or Druid could be a good dog handler, but the Hunter is the best dog handler.

cool.

I have replaced positive/negative energy with a boon/burden system similar to kenzerco Kingdoms of Kalamar series. You get less hp back but a small benefit too for boon, similar but negative for burdens.


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I have cow people bent on world domination.


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It's getting cold again.

The kids aren't taking it well.

They were already planning trips to Devil's Lake.


Well at least this way their souls can be saved!

*ba-dum-tish*


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You won't find a more beautiful place in Wisconsin.


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No wonder the Devil wants it for himself!

I do hope it's clear I'm just being silly.


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captain yesterday wrote:
gran rey de los future wrote:
captain yesterday wrote:
John Napier 698 wrote:
Come on, guys. You're letting me down. Or am I the only one that remembers postings made less than five pages ago?
I don't even remember what I said five posts ago, much less pages. :-)
Huh? What? Who are you people? Get off my lawn!!!
Your lawn! According to this most recent land survey, it's my lawn!

You can't survey land, it can't talk. Now get off my lawn! Or do I need to get a hearin' aid so's you can hear me better!


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Tequila Sunrise wrote:
gran rey de los mono wrote:
Tequila Sunrise wrote:
Finally got around to making my gingersofts today! They are tasty, but not as soft as I'd hoped. The fiancee suggests cutting them a bit thicker than the suggested 1/4" next time. Thanks again Gran Rey!
You're welcome. Though I wonder why they weren't soft. They always came out soft and chewy for me, but then again I always suspected the oven at my old apartment ran cooler than what it was set at. Maybe that's why.

Chewy, that's the word! They're soft, but not as chewy as I'd hoped. I think my oven does run hot.

There's also the fact I used two medium eggs rather than one large one.

Extra egg could be a problem.


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Tacticslion wrote:

No wonder the Devil wants it for himself!

I do hope it's clear I'm just being silly.

I got that, I would've made a joke myself, but it's just so darned pretty there. :-)

Edit: That's not to say your joke isn't funny, I just wanted to make sure how beautiful it is was properly conveyed amidst the jokes.

If that makes sense...


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Tacticslion wrote:


I do this sometimes, and used to do it a lot, but it takes so daggum long these days for a Word document to open, and I really don't like the others (which are less convenient to find and open anyway).

Generally, even with poor internet, it's faster to just make a post, for me.

Save it as straight ASCII and use Notepad. You can use copy from that just as easily, and Notepad doesn't have the huge memory footprint that Word does. Notepad also starts quicker.

Now, regarding the speed of your PC. When was the last time that you Defragged your hard drive?


captain yesterday wrote:
Tacticslion wrote:

No wonder the Devil wants it for himself!

I do hope it's clear I'm just being silly.

I got that, I would've made a joke myself, but it's just so darned pretty there. :-)

Edit: That's not to say your joke isn't funny, I just wanted to make sure how beautiful it is was properly conveyed amidst the jokes.

If that makes sense...

'course it does! :D

I'm glad to know, and, if I ever get up that way (unlikely as that is), maybe we'll both hang there!

John Napier 698 wrote:
Tacticslion wrote:


I do this sometimes, and used to do it a lot, but it takes so daggum long these days for a Word document to open, and I really don't like the others (which are less convenient to find and open anyway).

Generally, even with poor internet, it's faster to just make a post, for me.

Save it as straight ASCII and use Notepad. You can use copy from that just as easily, and Notepad doesn't have the huge memory footprint that Word does. Notepad also starts quicker.

Now, regarding the speed of your PC. When was the last time that you Defragged your hard drive?

Plenty.

It's Windows 10 that's the problem, not the computer - or rather, it's been that way ever since Windows auto-updated to 10 while I was asleep. My PC is plenty fast for plenty of things - Word isn't one of those things (and, in fact, neither is Notepad when I try and launch it). It's only the launching (or loading, i.e. Internet) that causes the slowdown, and it's pretty much been that way since Win10, i.e. "You really want this stuff that you really don't want, no matter what you say, we're definitely aware of your preferences more than you are, and you're wrong, so have this stuff, too, that you totally want."

It's a worthwhile note: while I can go in and hypothetically change registry stuff, I'll point back to my earlier jokes about l33t h4k3r. "It's simple!" is just not true, at least not for me. It requires a brain that is not dyslexic, attention deficit, and distracted by a toddler (and not while sick, like now) - or, perhaps, a brain like that can do it, but mine cannot. Not at this current time.

W10 hides a bunch of things I'd rather have available, while making things I don't care about more prominent. My Word now literally has an internet advertisement on it every time. It refuses to allow my preferences to stay (it keeps switching them back to, "I'll just go ahead and collect all the information, mmmmmmmmmmmmmm'kay?" about two seconds after I've tried turning the collection systems off, as an example), and the only "real" decisions I can make are the ones that don't mean anything, like what wallpaper I'd like.

Overall, ever since their debacle with Xbone, Microsoft has done little but become ever-more-transparent in their desire to keep, control, and consume every little piece of information about their users. It sucks.

Anyway, frankly, I don't care to go searching for a Notepad every time I want to save something, either - it's not on my Start Menu (said Menu is now an annoying thing, very presumptive), and I don't have (and don't particularly want) it in any of the folders I most commonly access.

Thanks for the ideas! I'm certainly glad you like the Notepad system. I think it's just a case of different comfort zones. :D


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Notepad is in the C:\Windows\System32 directory. Create a shortcut to this for your desktop. Also check www.speedtest.net and see what numbers your ISP has.


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Captain Yesterday's Random Quote From What He's Watching While Sorting Laundry.

"Dennis, your mule is shit! I am no longer turned on by mules" - Danny Devito, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.


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For instance, my current download speed is 13.52 Mbps and I upload at 6.05 Mbps, with Xfinity as my ISP. Please post your results, or PM them to me.


John Napier 698 wrote:
Notepad is in the C:\Windows\System32 directory. Create a shortcut to this for your desktop. Also check www.speedtest.net and see what numbers your ISP has.

Good advice that I probably won't do anything with.

Thanks, though!

John Napier 698 wrote:
For instance, my current download speed is 13.52 Mbps and I upload at 6.05 Mbps, with Xfinity as my ISP. Please post your results, or PM them to me.

See, like that doesn't actually mean anything.

I'd... rather not try to learn at present.

I have a mild fever, I'm aching all over, and I have problems concentrating.

I think it's awesome that people know this kind of stuff, and I might someday. This is not that day.


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Okay. Get well soon. :)


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Looks like I might get some landscaping work this spring. Very exciting!

gets out Mel Brooks Movie sized industrial hair dryer.

Damn it! It does nothing!


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Just remember that there is a difference between a mattock and a hoe.

Or so I've heard.


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I specialize in stone work, so it's all high powered diamond tip bladed saws and heavy machinery for me. :-)


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Looks like we have a winter storm a brewing.


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Got the General hooked on Fargo. :-)


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Just so we're clear, I did not break the message boards.


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Likely story. I saw you.


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I was just reporting what I saw.

Stands too close to a priceless vase.


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You pushed the red button, didn't you?


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Honestly, why would you make a button red if you didn't want me pushing it.


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It did look like they scuffed it up so it wouldn't be so shiny.


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That just makes me want to press it more, as if to say "hey, someone already pressed it, and they turned out fine"

stands over priceless document, eating barbecue.


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<redacted political comment>


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It's casually snowing, I'm walking the mile and half to the store for coffee creamer and oatmeal.

Very lovely out.


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I love when it snows like that. It makes me feel serene.


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Definitely more than casually snowing now.

But if anything, that makes it even more lovely.

At the store.

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