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well if you would hurry up and propose to one of those 30 girls you keep breaking up with...Also, I would have to have a wife.I mean I kind of assumed... If half of these were true your wife would of murdered you by now.-_- your channeling pearls before swine pretty hard on this one.I'm not channeling anything. I'm copy-pasting from another website.
Oh no! I've just given away my secret. The shame! The horror! The apathy!
Nah. None of them understand me.
Although they might understand being nekkid.
I'm lost on the subject myself.
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Go to work! all your potential wives are gonna need the money.
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The pumpkins and tomatoes have begun a turf war, and the hot peppers are losing.
Also the tomatoes have outgrown their cages and have gone feral, and the pumpkins have had a taste of human blood.
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Tomatoes will do that. I swear I had a tomato patch once that consumed a neighbor's Volkswagen.
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We had a cherry tomato plant last year that grew six feet tall and would occasionally have tufts of fur by it or in it's upper branches.
I called it the Little Tomato Plant Of Horrors.
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So for the first time ever, in our Strange Aeons game we're using Hero Points. And my immediate reaction as a GM is, "Why didn't I start using these sooner? And how do I get my PCs more of them?"
It's kind of like "mythic done right". "Well, you only get 3 of these, but you can use them to get extra attacks, act out of turn, or even prevent your own death."
So in one of those horrible, horrible situations, where all you have to do to save someone's life is roll over a 5, and you get two 5s in a row, leading to abject frustration all week, instead you can burn a Hero Point and say, "Nah, that wasn't really a 5, it was a..."
And if that fails, you can burn another.
So I like 'em, and I'm glad we're playing with them, especially in Strange Aeons, where keeping the original 4 PCs works better for the plot, but the books are also deliciously deadly.
But the whole, "You only get 1 per level" isn't working for me. I'm going to have to up the ante a bit and see how well I can distribute them without turning the game into a farce-fest of excess Hero Points.
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Make them EARN them, by roleplaying.
What you'll get is either complete derailment as everybody overacts in character and spends 15 minutes talking about the stitching on their backpack or emoting over a oddly shaped shrub that reminds them of their dead wife, or no hero points for anybody, depending on the composition of your gaming group.
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Make them EARN them, by roleplaying.
What you'll get is either complete derailment as everybody overacts in character and spends 15 minutes talking about the stitching on their backpack or emoting over a oddly shaped shrub that reminds them of their dead wife, or no hero points for anybody, depending on the composition of your gaming group.
It's the family game. Last night they spent 20 minutes of real time just buying some bedrolls, because they HAD to play out the interaction with the shopkeep.
If I start giving out Hero Points for roleplaying, they're going to have 10-20 apiece within a couple of sessions...
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Martha!?!
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I'm probably the only person that would ever say this, but I love Batman vs Superman.
Of course, not because it's good or anything.
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We did 3 hero points per level back when we used hero points. That seemed to be the right balance. But they were often wasted due to our terrible rolling, so we scrapped the whole thing. Now we do a thing where everyone gets a heroic moment to use every session. A heroic moment grants you an auto-success, how cool it ends up being depends on a combo of the player's description of the action and how well they roll. So if you had a bad roll and a bad description then you just squeak by and barely complete the action, but if you have a good roll and a good description then you can have a super cool rules be damned superhero moment. So far it's working really well.
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Random aggravations of the morning:
I shouldn't complain. I'm old enough that when I first started working I had to *gasp* listen to ordinary radio or LPs.
But with AIs like Shazam out there, able to recognize virtually any song based on its patterns, you'd think that Evanescence, Alanis Morissette, and Florence and the Machine would not trigger, "Disney Princess Inundation".
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You reminded me that I thought today about listening to "I am not calling you a liar"...
But it's too late. I need to get to bed asap.
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Random aggravations of the morning:
I don't like Spotify because you have to explicitly list what songs/artists you like. Everyone tells me that's true -- you can't do, "Play artists similar to this one" on Spotify. But with AIs like Shazam out there, able to recognize virtually any song based on its patterns, you'd think that Evanescence, Alanis Morissette, and Florence and the Machine would not trigger, "Disney Princess Inundation".
I find that the daily mix recommendations on spotify are pretty good about getting a genre correct. That said, it gives me my fresh rock channel (disturbed, ffdp, three days grace, hailstorm, , my alt rock channel (sabaton, battle beast, night wish, within temptation, dragon force, ale storm), my folk channel (heather alexander and a bunch I don't know), and them my pop princess channel. I have not yet tried to favorite enough punk to see where it starts putting those in the queue.
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...my alt rock channel (sabaton, battle beast, night wish, within temptation, dragon force, ale storm)...
I need to get you together with Impus Major. Add Korpiklaani and Power Wolf and you've hit his playlist almost exactly. (Though the only CDs he collects are Korpiklaani, Sabaton, and Alestorm...)
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Disturbed is "fresh rock"
Other than that, I can't say I recognize any of those other bands.
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There are reasons why Sabaton is very popular in Poland...
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There are reasons why Sabaton is very popular in Poland...
Yeah, but they still haven't done a song about Dunkirk.
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I'm starting to wonder if my math professor is secretly a cartoon character, because she's so agressively horrible at her job that I wouldn't believe the stories about her if I wasn't there for it.
She doesn't teach us to do things the way the book or most professors do them. She has her own shortcuts and some specific preferences regarding notation, and that's how she teaches you to do things. She also skips some concepts she doesn't think are all that important to Calculus (never mind it's Pre-Calc, which is also the basic Trig class at my school, and some of us aren't here to move on to Calculus)
She assigns homework straight out of the book using one of those finnicky online systems, but the homework expects you to do things by the book she admits she hates. So you get dinged for improper notation constantly, and each problem only gives you two tries, then you can't get credit for that problem at all. And when we brought that up, and mentioned that it's hard to learn when you can't keep working on what you got wrong until you get it right, she fumed that learning that way is the wrong way to learn anything, and that you should already understand all the concepts before you ever start the homework.
She admitted today that she doesn't actually look at the homework problems before assigning them, and doesn't know what they are. She just randomly picks problem numbers from the relevant section of the book.
If you have a lot of trouble understanding something, she sometimes calls you out in front of the whole class and tells you that you aren't going to pass.
She's been threatening to fail anyone who isn't, in her opinion, ready for Calculus, regardless of what their actual percentage in the class is (never mind not all of us are advancing to Calculus). This is not in the syllabus, which states that grading is based completely on exam scores, homework, and attendance.
She will actually mark you absent for the day if you show up 1 minute late (dead serious, she did it to me) or use the restroom during class. And she will stop a lecture to line you out when you come back into the room.
She threw a fit because, out of a class of 24, 9 passed her exam last week (if the pass rate is that low, you aren't doing your job as a teacher). I got a 25%, and I was in the tutoring center all week before the test. The exam had a ton of stuff we hadn't actually covered in any detail (related to the first complaint about her, as she sometimes skips something and then it ends up on the test).
She threw a fit in front of the whole class because somebody filed a complaint with the dean against her, and flat out said she's guessed who filed the complaint.
Seriously, this is cartoon character behavior, not anything to be expected from a real person. So glad I'm taking this class credit/no credit right now.
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Uh, have you considered complaining to her superiors? Request changing the teacher for an actually competent one?
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Uh, have you considered complaining to her superiors? Request changing the teacher for an actually competent one?
Complaining? Oh, yes. She's ranted to the class that she got a complaint filed against her, and I'm probably going to file one. Transferring isn't an option, though. She's the only person teaching this class over the Summer.
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The kids have me DJing cruising music while they cruise around in GTA 4.
The things we do to avoid dishes under the flimsy pretext it distracts from the imminent severe weather.
But really, I'm just sick of doing dishes.
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One for the Crusader Kings players: The white elk has been sighted!
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Amazon's Revenge:
So yeah, they're making sure I'm going to suffer the "death of 1000 separate deliveries".
And yes, I'm amused.
In terms of Rosita's "professor", I apologize profusely on behalf of my profession. I've met teachers like that. If I had the power, I'd fire every single one.
It's pretty simple:
When I was in grad school, we were tasked with grading the calculus final. I forget the exact details of the problem, but it was something along the lines of "The integral of sin(e^-x)/e^-x".
The student performed an amazing series of steps: He or she split the integral into the integral of the numerator over the integral of the denominator (not legal). Then pulled the sin out of the integral to leave e^x in the integral (not legal). Then combined some stuff outside and inside the sin (not legal).
It was a hilarious, half-page litany of illegal steps...
...that just happened to yield precisely, exactly the correct answer.
And yes, after getting virtually no credit on the problem (2/10), the student complained bitterly that the answer was correct, so they deserved 100% credit.
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Pea Bear has developed a taste for coffee.
Which wasn't my doing.
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I did it.
I TPKed my players' party.
It was my first time to do that, as I am not a very harsh GM and I have intelligent players.
They died by the guts of an undead woman in a red dress. It wasn't a fancy death.
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I did it.
I TPKed my players' party.
It was my first time to do that, as I am not a very harsh GM and I have intelligent players.
They died by the guts of an undead woman in a red dress. It wasn't a fancy death.
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I did it.
I TPKed my players' party.
It was my first time to do that, as I am not a very harsh GM and I have intelligent players.
They died by the guts of an undead woman in a red dress. It wasn't a fancy death.
*Snifles*
I knew this day would come...but every time it just seems so soon!
*wipes tears from his eyes*
Here you need this stuff for your future bloody endeavours...
*Hands Kile a sacrificial dagger, a book titled "Necromancy for beginners", and a coupon for some Rent-a-Thugs redeemable at Mooks-R-Us*
Now it's time for you to strike out on your own...
*Opens door and ushers kile out, giving her a pat on her behind, on the way out*
They just grow into Dungeon Mastering so fast these days!
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I'm starting to wonder if my math professor is secretly a cartoon character, because she's so agressively horrible at her job that I wouldn't believe the stories about her if I wasn't there for it.
She doesn't teach us to do things the way the book or most professors do them. She has her own shortcuts and some specific preferences regarding notation, and that's how she teaches you to do things. She also skips some concepts she doesn't think are all that important to Calculus (never mind it's Pre-Calc, which is also the basic Trig class at my school, and some of us aren't here to move on to Calculus)
She assigns homework straight out of the book using one of those finnicky online systems, but the homework expects you to do things by the book she admits she hates. So you get dinged for improper notation constantly, and each problem only gives you two tries, then you can't get credit for that problem at all. And when we brought that up, and mentioned that it's hard to learn when you can't keep working on what you got wrong until you get it right, she fumed that learning that way is the wrong way to learn anything, and that you should already understand all the concepts before you ever start the homework.
She admitted today that she doesn't actually look at the homework problems before assigning them, and doesn't know what they are. She just randomly picks problem numbers from the relevant section of the book.
If you have a lot of trouble understanding something, she sometimes calls you out in front of the whole class and tells you that you aren't going to pass.
She's been threatening to fail anyone who isn't, in her opinion, ready for Calculus, regardless of what their actual percentage in the class is (never mind not all of us are advancing to Calculus). This is not in the syllabus, which states that grading is based completely on exam scores, homework, and attendance.
She will actually mark you absent for the day if you show up 1 minute late (dead serious, she did it to me) or use the restroom...
join me, rosita, and we will rule the haterverse as father and son!
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After a vote, we're going to wait until the box arrives to look at Starfinder and it's adventure.
Although, I'm curious if they listened to my towel request.
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My neighbor, who is super cheerful and waves all the time and this angry woman who gawks and glares at me both have the same kind of car.
But of course, you don't know that until you've already committed to waving.
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My neighbor, who is super cheerful and waves all the time and this angry woman who gawks and glares at me both have the same kind of car.
But of course, you don't know that until you've already committed to waving.
Are you kidding? I'd wave at 'em both anyway.
I take annoyingly cheerful to a whole new level.
A hostile level...
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Also, the clouds don't look happy, but the dog has led me far afield.
I blame Tacticslion for letting my phone distract me.
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My neighbor, who is super cheerful and waves all the time and this angry woman who gawks and glares at me both have the same kind of car.
But of course, you don't know that until you've already committed to waving.
Are you kidding? I'd wave at 'em both anyway.
I take annoyingly cheerful to a whole new level.
A hostile level...
You should visit, there's a whole countryside of old men driving their tractors along the side of the road (spoiler alert! They're all going to the bar) that would love to wave at you.
You can even drive back and forth and wave at the same one, they don't care, they just love to wave.
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My neighbor, who is super cheerful and waves all the time and this angry woman who gawks and glares at me both have the same kind of car.
But of course, you don't know that until you've already committed to waving.
Are you kidding? I'd wave at 'em both anyway.
I take annoyingly cheerful to a whole new level.
A hostile level...
You should visit, there's a whole countryside of old men driving their tractors along the side of the road (spoiler alert! They're all going to the bar) that would love to wave at you.
You can even drive back and forth and wave at the same one, they don't care, they just love to wave.
There is something seriously wrong with me.
That sounds like a LOT of fun!
EDIT: We were hanging out with a French foreign exchange student, and she said she loved waving at boats as they went by in the Seine, because the only ones who wave back are the Americans.
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One for the Crusader Kings players: The white elk has been sighted!
Be careful! A comet has been sighted!
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It's pretty good. Best thing Elijah Wood's done (that I've seen) since that movie-trilogy.Also, could someone please do a long-running series of something starring Richard Schiff? He's almost at West Wing-Toby level of good in this.
I've still got fifteen minutes to go of the first episode, but man is it hilariously confusingly funny.
I especially like the old guy and the guy with the sniper rifle.
"You do realize we're here to protect the primary, and not kill anyone"
"Right... I've got a shot"
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I did it.
I TPKed my players' party.
It was my first time to do that, as I am not a very harsh GM and I have intelligent players.
They died by the guts of an undead woman in a red dress. It wasn't a fancy death.
I read that as "it wasn't a fancy dress"...
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Ugh, those things are disgusting.
They died by the guts of an undead woman in a red dress. It wasn't a fancy death.
Why don't you like red dresses?
The "thing", by the way, was a gutdragger lurcher. Really disgusting, indead. They attack with their own eviscerated entrails, trying to choke you with them and with their content. Yucks.
My players did well on all thethe mmodule but they wanted to experience some really threatening stuff and check if the module was really a killer. It is. The ability damage is high at all moments so they end getting to the last fights seriously debilitated.
My youngest player really loved her character so now I am thinking of a way to bring him back from the dead in a believable way so she doesn't lose it.
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I read that as "it wasn't a fancy dress"...I did it.
I TPKed my players' party.
It was my first time to do that, as I am not a very harsh GM and I have intelligent players.
They died by the guts of an undead woman in a red dress. It wasn't a fancy death.
Being dressed in your own entrails is the new fashion!!!