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Warp Coil
... d-... daggummit, Drejk. You couldn't help yourself, could you...
XD
EDIT: Dang it! We're talking about Drejk's "warp serpent" not mine!
*Gets redressed*
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I'm considering the ruling that, once you hit, like, 22 Str, you can probably span a heavy crossbow with your bare hands, removing that long loading time.
Problem is, what kind of crossbow fighter needs 22 Str in the first place?
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Walking the dog across a snow covered field, where it has naturally started to snow.
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I might run a Razor Coast PBP. I'm in a weird position with my campaign setting where I'm feeling like Starfinder is kind of exactly what I need to round it out, and I have limited time to work on it because of school, anyway. So, published campaign it is. I'd be making some cosmetic modifications, though. I feel like I want a lot of Chinese, Indian, Javanese, and Spanish influence in the Razor, and I want early firearms to be common. This is quite easy to accomplish, of course.
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The dog was so happy he almost caught a field mouse. He actually saw it this time.
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WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I'M MARRIED!!!
(...) I'll get used to it, I'm sure.
Wearing ring or being married?
:P
...Yes. ;)
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WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I'M MARRIED!!!
(...) I'll get used to it, I'm sure.
I've picked up orange juice and grenadine in your honor, and I've plenty of tequila.
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Warp Coil... d-... daggummit, Drejk. You couldn't help yourself, could you...
Duh. It was supposed to be warp coils...
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O_O I... could have sworn red wine didn't have near enough alcohol to be flammable.
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It shouldn't... Unless it so thick with proteins and carbons that it burns as a food, not alcohol...
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O_O I... could have sworn red wine didn't have near enough alcohol to be flammable.
SCIENCE!
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Another snow storm rolling in tonight. Yay!
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Huge accomplishment this last weekend.
We found my favorite action figures, Square Dude, and Evil Square Dude.
And Sergeant Scoop!!
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Another snow storm rolling in tonight. Yay!
send it this way! It is too warm, much too warm!!
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I'm surprised you haven't gotten any of it yet. We've been getting hit about twice a week for the last... whatever... forever... two weeks... I don't even know.
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The only thing I've been hit with is an upper respiratory infection.
I hate being sick.
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~comes in dressed in my Arctic Explorer gear~ Sooo cold! ~shivers~ It is 54 degrees here in the South! I am going back in to hibernate the winter away!
~grins~
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Well, finals week is over and I'm proud as h*** of Impus Major:
In short, for the first time in his life, he might have all A's and B's on his report card, though Spanish and History are still up in the air (he missed a LOT of assignments). But if he ends up with 3 A's, 2 B's, and 2 C's, it's still his best report card to date, so I'm a "proud enough" father...
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Jehovah's Witnesses are so charming.
They show up at my door. I explain that I'm not interested in what they have to say, but I appreciate that they're following their beliefs, and if they want to drop off their little pamphlet, I will indeed read it when I have time.
They get very happy, smile broadly, thank me, and move on their way.
Why people have issues with them is beyond me.
Though I suspect my particular local JWs' tread very lightly.
They just never come across as demanding. Just, "Excuse me. This is what we believe. Would you like to take a moment and listen?"
"Not particularly."
"Oh, well. OK. Thank you for your time. Have a pamphlet."
Not exactly an overbearing, "Thou shalt believe what I do" approach to life...
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They are nice people, as long as you don't get to know them.
At least around the parts of the Midwest I lived, they tended to be hyper intense, incredibly controlling (especially with their kids) and generally creepy in a way you can't really pin down.
That said, nothing against their beliefs, I've seen weirder.
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Jehovah's Witnesses are there to tell you that there's a thing, and if you're willing to listen, tell you more about a thing.
A lot of folks have lost the sense of courtesy of telling them 'Yeah, I've got another thing, thank you for your time'.
We get them every so often, and they are polite and respectful, and when one of us opens the door in our bathrobe and apologizes, they're even apologetic in return.
But it all revolves around courtesy, which is a vanishing thing in this 'modern' era.
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I answered the door for Mormons, once.
It was butchering season.
Something about a ten year old calmly answering the door covered in blood and holding a knife.
Luckily, the sheriff who answered the call was our neighbor, so no problems there. :-)
Dad was not happy though.
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Taxes are done and successfully submitted.
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I find that the less popular a religion is, the more polite its proselytizers are -- J Dubs and Mormons that I've met. And no wonder -- who's gonna take salvation from someone who's both losing a cultural popularity contest and overbearing?
On the other hand, the more popular a religion is, the more entitled some of its proselytizers feel to be obnoxious. The dude who gets on a rush hour subway car to tell everyone in earshot about Jesus and Hell, regardless of who wants to hear? Well I don't think anyone's taking salvation from him either, but he does have random Christians on the subway car telling him to preach on.
EDIT: I also find that some people have funny ideas about what 'overbearing' and the like mean, and some people intentionally use them as dogwhistles.
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J Dub was one of my nicknames... never really liked that one.
I got it because there was five other people in just the landscaping department that had my name, so we all got nicknames.
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Pretty excited to get the taxes done.
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Impus Major declares it, "The best ride north of Disneyland!"
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You want to ride a carousel, Ella's Deli is the place to go. The Zoo also has one. And then there's the Circus Museum up in Baraboo.
I'm pretty sure the surprising amount of carousel in our area says something about Wisconsin, and the Midwest in general, but I'm not working on that today. :-)
Possibly that we enjoy going around in circles and can't accept change...
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Kind of nervous about sharing this, but I'm going to anyway:
So this is frustrating.
I've noticed a bad thing in myself that has recently crept into my way of thinking, and I hate it: a kind of racism.
It started with customer service, especially that of Dell, and various issues I've had. I've had many different people from many different walks of life and kinds all assist me, and some of them have been great, and some terrible, and that really hasn't reflected on anything, but, unfortunately, I've just realized that a pattern-recognition thingy has kicked in.
For the last several years, every time I've had a lot of spam callers claiming to be from Dell. That's fine - I try to take the opportunity to witness to them, these days, so that they, at least, can find a better life than that of a thief who preys upon the innocent.
However, without fail, all of these men (and they are always men), have an Indian accent (as in from the country of India), and it goes pretty much the same every time thereafter.
After a while, I'll apparently irritate enough of them enough times that they stop calling me.
Then I call an actually legitimate line with some tech issue or another, and one of two things happens: I talk to a man with an Indian accent, or I talk to someone else. If the latter happens, eventually my issue is resolved, and no harm-no foul. If the former happens, however - every single instance I can recall such a thing occurring within the last five or so years - one or two days later I'll receive a spam call. This will begin a series of such calls until I irritate the spammers (or maybe it's just they go on vacation, or something, I don't know) so that they stop. Every. Time.
Because this is a pattern that's repeated itself enough, I found my idle thoughts the other day just assuming that various scammers and spammers are Indian-heritage (probably relatively young) men.
That is... disturbing.
I actually was surprised to find that as a "thing" that I'd picked up, as it'd never been true in my past or family, and I know and enjoy the company of people of Indian heritage; I have neighbors, share Taekwondo class, and so on - I never found myself suspicious of any of them, and still don't.
Thus, I was able to trace where it came from with the question of, "Why?" and kind of thinking about my own past, and seeing what my mind provided... and found the stuff I mentioned to you up above. This, of course, linked to all sorts of other times in my past, under nearly identical circumstances (though the company changed, or the exact scam, it's never strayed too terribly far afield from the gist) through my life... though, of course, never has often as now. And it's an emotionally () convincing pattern.
Nonetheless, the currently-held subconscious assumption about who is on the other end of a spam attempt is an unpleasant one to say the least, especially since I know plenty of people that would fall into that broad category of people who are entirely outside of that lifestyle and nature. Effectively, due to the repeated malevolence of a few individuals of moral bankruptcy, I'm getting a poor impression of an entire group of people they hypothetically represent (even though they don't at all represent such).
This has no impact on my daily life, really - my friends and neighbors are still my friends and neighbors, and I don't harbor any lingering suspicions of such, nor do I mentally link them with the spammers.
But it does raise warning signs, flags, and makes me aware just how easily something as sinister as racism can creep into a situation based on simple pattern recognition.
And I don't know how soon I'll be able to shake that emotional assumption/suspicion that any young Indian-accented man on the other end of the line is going to sell or otherwise pass on my number to a spam site populated by young Indian-accented men who will then plague me with attempts to trick me out of my money and/or computer and/or data.
I think recognizing it, speaking about it, and sharing it helps, which is why I'm doing so - I'm more or less just telling you guys this thing I just realized last night after another spammer tried and failed to get me to do whatever it is they're planning - but it's still up to me to not make the assumptions in the first place.
And, you know, I have to say - I hate what the thieves are doing. I really, really do. I hate the fact that they prey on the innocent, I hate the fact that some of them respond to my actual care with vitriol and insults and arrogance, and I hate that their actions are poisoning me against innocent people (and I hate that I allowed it). But I pity them. The actual thieves. Because they're hiding. They are cowardly and afraid and cruel and and arrogant and are devoted to a life of spreading misery and loss. That will not end well for them, and they don't understand that, yet.
Oh. Oh. Oh.
I see, 100. I see.
I get it.
See, you're called "100" because there's 100 people and 100 years.
See. Subtle, that.
*
* EDIT:
Humor aside, it actually is an interesting premise, and well made - there is a surprising tension between the story of those on the ground and those on the station.
EDIT 2: I would say it's kind of corny about the whole 100 teens on the surface instead of adults, but the society is pretty clearly run by relatively myopic and frightened people who don't trust their own children, and are mostly going through the motions of a "civilized" society, rather than an actually forward-thinking one. I am confused about the premise of 100 years having passed, though - I'm not exactly sure if the people have been around that long, or what?
Someone mentioned "hyper sleep" and that may be the trick, but it's unclear why everyone is awake, if that's the case. It may be a matter of future episodes explaining things though.
Oh, and, spoiler alert, I guess there're only 98, now. Oh, I mean 97. Geeze, at this rate, the group down below isn't going to last that long...
Well, now there's 83...
Oh, oop, 82.
Daggummit, show (). >:I
I actually like and empathize with the characters while they're making bad decisions, even as I hate that they're making those decisions.
I... you... dang it.
... okay, no, not that decision. That one's just dumb; well, okay, there are two decisions dumb enough that I don't appreciate/empathize with ('cause you don't know what's in/out there, dang it, don't be stupid for no reason). The latter, at least, worked out okay...
In any event, I do appreciate the back-room politics, wheeling and dealing. I can see that the people believe they're doing the right thing, and I can see why they believe they are doing the right thing, when they aren't. It's... well-done. I'm impressed. I don't know if I agree that these are likely decisions by those people... but, I see why they were written that way, and I'm invested, so.
EDIT: presentation. You know.
EDIT-du: To be clear, this is no Game of Thrones (
That said, he has clear reasons and motivations substantially better than "self interest" in mind, and I'm only two episodes in, so it may yet surprise me (though I doubt it at this point). The only question, to me, is whether or not he's complicit in a certain aspect of villainy it's been implied that he was a part of. It certainly seems that he could be, and definitely implies that he is, but... he denied it, and, for all his faults, he doesn't...
Well, okay, not that decision. Or that one. Okay, now you're just becoming a Lost (and various zombie films, and so on) with all the "bad good guys" thing...
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There isn't enough snow.
That is all.
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That is true.
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There isn't enough snow.
That is all.
So say we most!
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( I mean, I'm under the impression that there's at least a few of us that prefer a lack of snow. )
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You all secretly, deep down, yearn for snow.
Otherwise there wouldn't be ski resorts.
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I've noticed a bad thing in myself that has recently crept into my way of thinking, and I hate it: a kind of racism.
Thanks for sharing, Tac. I don't have a story like yours, but I do from time to time catch myself engaging in subtle and nasty -isms. It probably happens more than I realize. I think the important thing is to realize when we slip into these inhumane thought-patterns, so that we can correct for them in our actions toward the innocent.
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Gotta work tonight.
Sadly, the boards will most likely be alight with [redacted].
The dog is pissed because I took all the blankets off the bed looking for my errant keys.
Poor guy, was all set to make himself a nest, looked at the blankets on the floor, looked at me, sighs, gets up on the bed anyway, looks at me again, sighs, obstinately builds his nest with the one sheet, looks at me again before climbing in, curls up and heaves one last sigh.
Then, when I sit on the bed to brush my hair after showering he lays his head on my knee, looks up, hound dog sad, and sighs.
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I've forgotten what snow looks like.
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Not here, got about ten inches (of snow) in the last week. With another storm supposedly taking aim at us. But not until Sunday-Tuesday.
Bring it on I say, there's only so much winter left, might as well keep it lively. :-)
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Hipster Douche Bag That Doesn't Listen to His Girlfriend is the crowd for tonight.
Naturally, the girlfriend is always right, which I make sure is emphasized.
"Do I know where the puzzles are. Yes, they're over there, exactly where she said they were"
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There must be some Curse of the Wednesday Night that I'm unaware of.
As those who follow my Serpent's Skull thread are delightedly reminding me, it's time for me to resume the game post-finals.
The kids are all looking forward to it, and I think it's really good therapy for all of them.
So of course the school planned "10th grade student information night" for tomorrow night. I *have* to be there, because I care very much about Impus Major's future. So one more week with no Serpent's Skull game.
Boo!
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Impus Major: Do you think it's a mental disorder that some people won't use their turn signals no matter what?
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Kind of nervous about sharing this, but I'm going to anyway:
...*snip*...
You are (admirably) fighting human nature. It's a fundamental survival instinct to recognize patterns and draw associations. "Blarg ate that plant. Blarg died. I will not eat that plant."
Maybe the plant was poisonous. Maybe it was just Blarg's time. But not eating the plant slightly increased your chance of survival, and did you no harm.
One of my greatest frustrations with humankind is the vast majority's inability to move past this instinct.
It is "natural" for you to start being suspicious of Indian accents, and to mistrust those that call you with them. There's nothing to be ashamed of... as long as you recognize and suppress it.
If you were to start treating all Indian callers with disdain and condescension, or accuse them of being liars and cheats, that would be a problem. If you recognize, "Hey, I'm having this visceral reaction. I need to watch it to make sure I'm still being a good person," it's a good indication that you're still a good person.
So as long as you stay aware, there's nothing to be ashamed of.
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If it helps, every time I try to schedule a game this winter someone comes down with something. I'd say they're just trying to get out of it, but throwing up is a long way to go to not hurt my feelings.