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Today is the last day of school before spring break. Kidlet has anime club after school, then jujitsu. Then we are going to go see Pacific Rim 2! Presumably. There is a chance the kidlet will try and postpone the movie until tomorrow. But not a big chance. He wants to see it as bad as I do.
From someone who has never even seen a full trailer for either PR, what is the deal? I'm vaguely turned off by the concept due to it being reminiscent of the Transformers franchise, but I do love me my action flicks. I could YouTube the trailers, but I'd rather hear it from a fan. :)
EDIT: It's a good thing the concept doesn't turn me on....
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Like I said, my problem with this place is that I forget how amazingly bleh that particular sandwich is from them. The au jus tasted like it was just a bouillion cube in water.
They do a fine hamburger. Good, simple breakfasts. Perfectly fine pork tenderloin. I don't have to move my car to eat there, and it's about 75 feet from my desk.
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Today is the last day of school before spring break. Kidlet has anime club after school, then jujitsu. Then we are going to go see Pacific Rim 2! Presumably. There is a chance the kidlet will try and postpone the movie until tomorrow. But not a big chance. He wants to see it as bad as I do.From someone who has never even seen a full trailer for either PR, what is the deal? I'm vaguely turned off by the concept due to it being reminiscent of the Transformers franchise, but I do love me my action flicks. I could YouTube the trailers, but I'd rather hear it from a fan. :)
EDIT: It's a good thing the concept doesn't turn me on....
Okay, so I am admittedly a total fangirl. My son and I saw the first Pacific Rim movie in the theater five times. We won't get into how many times we've watched the DVD....
Not even remotely like Transformers. For starters you can tell which robot is which. :P But also it's more live-action gundam style. The robots all have human pilots. And the robots are enormous. (There is a scene in the first movie where a robot uses a ship as a bat against a giant kaiju....it is made of cheese, but it is tasty,. tasty awesome cheese! ;P) They are fighting against a whole slew of Godzilla style monsters, which are done really well, and there's a subplot in the first film about the science team figuring out more about the kaiju. It's very much a del Toro film, which is a good thing in my opinion. He doesn't direct the second one, so I'm a little concerned about possible change in tone, but I'm hoping it will still be awesome. :)| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
Aiymi loves Pacific Rim. Zelda and I can't stand it.
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I've got the first half of my parent-teacher conferences tomorrow and I'm only 40% done with writing up my reports for the parents, and I picked up a bag of jelly beans to give myself a nice sugar high for the up-until-two-a.m. evening of jollity ahead of me, and I accidentally got the fruit flavored beans instead of the spice flavors.
You know, for those of us who actually like clove or horehound flavored candy.
I am not amused.Ooh, that does not sound like a fun evening. Hope it went better than expected.
Also, squee! Someone else likes the weird flavors! Anise, clove, and horehound are my favorite candy flavors and usually this gets me looks of disgust. :)
we need to go out and enjoy absinthe...
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We're trying to see Black Panther for the FOURTH time.
This time I didn't even bother pre-ordering tickets.
YOU HAVE MADE WAKANDA PROUD
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Meanwhile, my husband is grateful that we're not trying to drag him along. Not sure what's wrong with him, but for some reason he doesn't like monster movies. Or giant robot movies. I don't understand....
this is what the abscondi-cave is for...
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Today is the last day of school before spring break. Kidlet has anime club after school, then jujitsu. Then we are going to go see Pacific Rim 2! Presumably. There is a chance the kidlet will try and postpone the movie until tomorrow. But not a big chance. He wants to see it as bad as I do.From someone who has never even seen a full trailer for either PR, what is the deal? I'm vaguely turned off by the concept due to it being reminiscent of the Transformers franchise, but I do love me my action flicks. I could YouTube the trailers, but I'd rather hear it from a fan. :)
EDIT: It's a good thing the concept doesn't turn me on....
PACIFIC RIM IS THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER MADE SEE ONE NOW SEE TWO LATER
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Aiymi loves Pacific Rim. Zelda and I can't stand it.
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we have to go jellybeaning.I've got the first half of my parent-teacher conferences tomorrow and I'm only 40% done with writing up my reports for the parents, and I picked up a bag of jelly beans to give myself a nice sugar high for the up-until-two-a.m. evening of jollity ahead of me, and I accidentally got the fruit flavored beans instead of the spice flavors.
You know, for those of us who actually like clove or horehound flavored candy.
I am not amused.Oh, gods! You guys BOTH have to go with Shiro.
He intentionally finds one kind of jellybean he loathes and one kind he loves of the exact same color and puts them all in a bag together. Or mixes same-colored fruit and spice in the same bag. Anything to make people make awful faces while eating jelly beans.
Sorry, I call Shiro's jellybean blend the "a*****e mix". Chaotic bastard. And we wonder why he plays a goblin so convincingly.
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I've never seen Pacific Rim, it looks alright, just haven't had the opportunity.
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YOU HAVE MADE WAKANDA PROUDWe're trying to see Black Panther for the FOURTH time.
This time I didn't even bother pre-ordering tickets.
You misunderstand -- we're TRYING for the fourth time.
We haven't actually seen it yet!
(lisamarlene got the tickets from our second attempt, so I know she's seen it)
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And yeah, two things in the universe I don't understand:
(1) Bad prime rib
(2) Bad French Dips
I've made both. They're ludicrously easy to make. I mean, seriously, "Buy a decent cut of meat, cook it slowly. Heaven!"
For prime rib you can quite seriously undercook it a bit, cut a slab, put it on a plate, and friggin' microwave it to proper temperature and it still comes out delicious.
So how is it that 95%+ of all restaurants in the U.S. fail at this?
Of all the places within an hour's drive of my house, I've had prime rib that I considered "excellent" at one: Skates. The seafood place.
WTF, restaurants?
(It is harder to do a well-done roast chicken than it is a good prime rib. Yet you can get good chicken all over the place.)
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I was really good at rubbing my prime rib when I was a sous chef.
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You misunderstand -- we're TRYING for the fourth time.
We haven't actually seen it yet!
(lisamarlene got the tickets from our second attempt, so I know she's seen it)
So like, do they not have the nice theaters with assigned seating and sweet recliners where you are? Or is that just outside the price range?
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Sorry, I call Shiro's jellybean blend the "a*****e mix". Chaotic bastard. And we wonder why he plays a goblin so convincingly.we have to go jellybeaning.I've got the first half of my parent-teacher conferences tomorrow and I'm only 40% done with writing up my reports for the parents, and I picked up a bag of jelly beans to give myself a nice sugar high for the up-until-two-a.m. evening of jollity ahead of me, and I accidentally got the fruit flavored beans instead of the spice flavors.
You know, for those of us who actually like clove or horehound flavored candy.
I am not amused.Oh, gods! You guys BOTH have to go with Shiro.
He intentionally finds one kind of jellybean he loathes and one kind he loves of the exact same color and puts them all in a bag together. Or mixes same-colored fruit and spice in the same bag. Anything to make people make awful faces while eating jelly beans.
he and i will either get along like a house on fire or like a house on fire.
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A couple of homebrew rule ideas I had.
1. What if Bravery applied to every Will save, not just for fear effects.
2. Since I have no intention of ever getting Unchained what spell list should I allow Magic Child Vigilantes use, since I'm the only person here that doesn't watch Anime or play Final Fantasy style games I'll let the experts decide.
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we have to go jellybeaning.I've got the first half of my parent-teacher conferences tomorrow and I'm only 40% done with writing up my reports for the parents, and I picked up a bag of jelly beans to give myself a nice sugar high for the up-until-two-a.m. evening of jollity ahead of me, and I accidentally got the fruit flavored beans instead of the spice flavors.
You know, for those of us who actually like clove or horehound flavored candy.
I am not amused.Oh, gods! You guys BOTH have to go with Shiro.
He intentionally finds one kind of jellybean he loathes and one kind he loves of the exact same color and puts them all in a bag together. Or mixes same-colored fruit and spice in the same bag. Anything to make people make awful faces while eating jelly beans.
I don't eat jelly beans because my mom loved doing this, to everyone.
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Considering the General's job, I love hearing her reading spells.does she make it sultry or something?
No, she's a rules lawyer, essentially, and so she breaks every sentence down to the sub atomic level and then puts it back together again, complaining about it the whole time.
It's pretty funny.
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Spring Break!!!, allegedly, Whoo hoo!!!, supposedly.
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A couple of homebrew rule ideas I had.
1. What if Bravery applied to every Will save, not just for fear effects.
2. Since I have no intention of ever getting Unchained what spell list should I allow Magic Child Vigilantes use, since I'm the only person here that doesn't watch Anime or play Final Fantasy style games I'll let the experts decide.
1) YES; alt: give them a good will save (it’s pretty similar - only +1 more at the highest levels)
2) literally anything other than the unchained someone or list. Like, anything at all. Magical girl genre really varies from series-to-series, and the effects, and what they are like, differ, immensely. Someone or is more along the Pokémon lines, while others might be a bit more blastula, and others more Healy, and so on.
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I have no idea what “blastula” is, but it’s supposed to be, “blastula” instead
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So like, do they not have the nice theaters with assigned seating and sweet recliners where you are? Or is that just outside the price range?You misunderstand -- we're TRYING for the fourth time.
We haven't actually seen it yet!
(lisamarlene got the tickets from our second attempt, so I know she's seen it)
Attempt #1: NobodysWife was sick. Returned the tickets
Attempt #2: NobodysWife was sick. Gave the tickets to LMAttempt #3: The nice theater with assigned seating and sweet recliners wanted $22 per ticket. NobodysWife was not willing to pay that much for a theater that would not serve her beer and nachos
Attempt #4: We're going tonight to the Cerrito, a movie theater with comfy sofas that will bring us nachos and beer and only costs $13 a ticket
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Blastula
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... okay, I earned that last one.
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And yeah, two things in the universe I don't understand:
(1) Bad prime rib
(2) Bad French DipsI've made both.
Speaking of poor English skills...
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Attempt #4: We're going tonight to the Cerrito, a movie theater with comfy sofas that will bring us nachos and beer and only costs $13 a ticket
Okay, a little jealous. Mostly from the nachos, not the beer.
Our assigned seat theater was sold out when we went to try, so we found another one that had space. Only it had the speakers built into the seats, so it was too much noise and feedback until I got used to it. Might take the time to see it again in a better venue.
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Oooh! I almost got my first DYAC moment!
What I tried to send to Impus Major, who is late getting home:
"Are you coming home or are you gnoming?"
What my phone tried to send him:
"Are you coming good or are you incoming?"
I *almost* hit send anyway, but I figured he was already going to Sherlock Gnome, so additional humiliation was unnecessary.
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Brief Cases (Dresden Files)by Jim Butcher coming soon.
*STOMPY DANCE OF HAPPINESS!!*
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Attempt #4: We're going tonight to the Cerrito, a movie theater with comfy sofas that will bring us nachos and beer and only costs $13 a ticketOkay, a little jealous. Mostly from the nachos, not the beer...
What's sad is that we're in the San Francisco Bay Area, so I can name at least half a dozen Mexican restaurants within 2 miles of my house, but the Cerrito's nachos are near the top of all of 'em in terms of tastiness. The rest of their food is so-so, but they manage to kick butt with their nachos.
And Black Panther and nachos on a sofa on a Friday evening just seems Swell!
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I got Rogue from the test. Very odd considering how many of the questions I answered with Magic or Faith being the key element.
I guess since I favor strategy the game says that must equal Rogue?
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Speaking of Fridays, it is VERY hard to take work seriously right now.
- I finished all the projects assigned to me on Monday
- On Tuesday I'd wrapped up all the extra work I'd been given because I was already done, finished next week's work, and offered to help out my manager on her work
- On Wednesday I resolved a problem she'd been having for 2 weeks, got to file 3 bugs against the product, had another PM and director both personally thank me, and told my manager I really had nothing to do
- On Thursday I did some personal research I've wanted to do for a few weeks, but wrapped it up
- So this morning I started work, called my manager, and I said, "I have absolutely positively nothing left to do. And I can't sit around watching YouTube 'cause I get bored." She found some mildly-interesting busywork for me (reviewing another team's security deep dive for accuracy). Then we had our teem meeting at noon.
And the lead dumped a bunch of nonsensical busywork in my lap. Not due 'til EOD Monday
- Everyone else in the department left by 2:30 pm my time.
So yeah, I've done more than my share this week, could leave any time and nobody would notice, but I'm sitting here doing busywork nonsense so I won't have to do it on Monday.
What's wrong with me?
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Brief Cases (Dresden Files)by Jim Butcher coming soon.*STOMPY DANCE OF HAPPINESS!!*
..... aww, it's just a short story collection, not a new novel.
Excitement has greatly dimmed.
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Sorry, I call Shiro's jellybean blend the "a*****e mix". Chaotic bastard. And we wonder why he plays a goblin so convincingly.we have to go jellybeaning.I've got the first half of my parent-teacher conferences tomorrow and I'm only 40% done with writing up my reports for the parents, and I picked up a bag of jelly beans to give myself a nice sugar high for the up-until-two-a.m. evening of jollity ahead of me, and I accidentally got the fruit flavored beans instead of the spice flavors.
You know, for those of us who actually like clove or horehound flavored candy.
I am not amused.Oh, gods! You guys BOTH have to go with Shiro.
He intentionally finds one kind of jellybean he loathes and one kind he loves of the exact same color and puts them all in a bag together. Or mixes same-colored fruit and spice in the same bag. Anything to make people make awful faces while eating jelly beans.
Have anyone told him that goblins become a regular playable race in 2nd edition of Pathfinder?
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Grave-claw. A medium cat-wight.
I could have called it a cat-wight... It would sound good. Ah, well, I might use the name another time.
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You know you'll be bored on Monday and ask for more, don't you.
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None of the wight-beast that I wrote this week had energy drain.
Also, you don't want an energy drain on a creature that can make 5 attacks at the end of a charge...
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Another headache, and it's not even raining. Nausea, too.
Glad you got to feeling better after this! Stay better!
I wanted to quote the better post, but I lost it in the shuffle.
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Huh. I'm a sorcerer.
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Today is the last day of school before spring break. Kidlet has anime club after school, then jujitsu. Then we are going to go see Pacific Rim 2! Presumably. There is a chance the kidlet will try and postpone the movie until tomorrow. But not a big chance. He wants to see it as bad as I do.From someone who has never even seen a full trailer for either PR, what is the deal? I'm vaguely turned off by the concept due to it being reminiscent of the Transformers franchise, but I do love me my action flicks. I could YouTube the trailers, but I'd rather hear it from a fan. :)
EDIT: It's a good thing the concept doesn't turn me on....
It's Gundam vs. Godzilla.
Or Battletech vs. Godzilla.
Basically, giant people-piloted robots fighting kaiju.
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he and i will either get along like a house on fire or like a house on fire.Sorry, I call Shiro's jellybean blend the "a*****e mix". Chaotic bastard. And we wonder why he plays a goblin so convincingly.we have to go jellybeaning.I've got the first half of my parent-teacher conferences tomorrow and I'm only 40% done with writing up my reports for the parents, and I picked up a bag of jelly beans to give myself a nice sugar high for the up-until-two-a.m. evening of jollity ahead of me, and I accidentally got the fruit flavored beans instead of the spice flavors.
You know, for those of us who actually like clove or horehound flavored candy.
I am not amused.Oh, gods! You guys BOTH have to go with Shiro.
He intentionally finds one kind of jellybean he loathes and one kind he loves of the exact same color and puts them all in a bag together. Or mixes same-colored fruit and spice in the same bag. Anything to make people make awful faces while eating jelly beans.
You know this line comes from a video game? Was said by a crazy vampire with multiple personality disorder as a flirt?
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Brief Cases (Dresden Files)by Jim Butcher coming soon.*STOMPY DANCE OF HAPPINESS!!*..... aww, it's just a short story collection, not a new novel.
Excitement has greatly dimmed.
I'm still good with it, though Peace Talks (I *think* that's the title) better get here before the next Cinder Spires book . . . . .
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Today is the last day of school before spring break. Kidlet has anime club after school, then jujitsu. Then we are going to go see Pacific Rim 2! Presumably. There is a chance the kidlet will try and postpone the movie until tomorrow. But not a big chance. He wants to see it as bad as I do.From someone who has never even seen a full trailer for either PR, what is the deal? I'm vaguely turned off by the concept due to it being reminiscent of the Transformers franchise, but I do love me my action flicks. I could YouTube the trailers, but I'd rather hear it from a fan. :)
EDIT: It's a good thing the concept doesn't turn me on....
It's Gundam vs. Godzilla.
Or Battletech vs. Godzilla.
Basically, giant people-piloted robots fighting kaiju.
If you've played the old PS1 RPG Xenogears, it's a lot like that.
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I'm still good with it, though Peace Talks (I *think* that's the title) better get here before the next Cinder Spires book . . . . .Brief Cases (Dresden Files)by Jim Butcher coming soon.*STOMPY DANCE OF HAPPINESS!!*..... aww, it's just a short story collection, not a new novel.
Excitement has greatly dimmed.
That sounds familiar yeah.
I would take Cinder Spires 2 too though, I'm good with either =)
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Okay, so I am admittedly a total fangirl. My son and I saw the first Pacific Rim movie in the theater five times. We won't get into how many times we've watched the DVD....
Not even remotely like Transformers. For starters you can tell which robot is which. :P But also it's more live-action gundam style. The robots all have human pilots. And the robots are enormous. (There is a scene in the first movie where a robot uses a ship as a bat against a giant kaiju....it is made of cheese, but it is tasty,. tasty awesome cheese! ;P) They are fighting against a whole slew of Godzilla style monsters, which are done really well, and there's a subplot in the first film about the science team figuring out more about the kaiju. It's very much a del Toro film, which is a good thing in my opinion. He doesn't direct the second one, so I'm a little concerned about possible change in tone, but I'm hoping it will still be awesome. :)
You had me at "del Toro." I now have high hopes for at least #1. :)
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You don't have to worry any more.
Daeglan, or whatever his name is, and I have killed Klauth.
The Realms are safe from that scaly tyrant's depredations for evermore.
Huzzah for us.
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In HS news, I finally pulled the trigger on crafting The Last Kaleidosaur, and somehow I seem to be winning less than I did with my playtest deck. Despite the fact my playtest deck had zero 1-drop minions, to simulate how the completed deck would play. :/
Oh and since Blizzard tweaked the ladder rules, I have faced someone named Your Opponent 4-5 in the past week. I know the monthly cardback now requires winning 5 ladder games, but does it still require Rank 20?
I don't think it requires rank 20. But its still a way to get dailies done...that face hunter of mine does a pretty good job on standard ranked.
The thing is that the meta is evolving all the time, so during your playtest it might have been good, but the meta currently is very fast...even my murloc paladin hasn't been doing too well.