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I stepped into it myself the moment I got to work today. Cannot discuss anything due to HIPAA regulations obviously, but I had to be professional supervisory authoritative and put together after a hellish commute. Ugh. Bad start.Today's going to be an absolute pisser of a day.
At 10:00, I have my last admissions tour.
At 11:00, The Boss arrives on campus to give an admissions tour of her own. This means that (a) she's going to make all the faculty edgy, because (b) she will find a long list of things for which she can be pointedly disappointed in us, and (c) none of the teachers will get breaks (yes, it's against labor law and no, she doesn't care) because she'll want to drag teachers into the office instead for lengthy "little talks".And then I also have a birthday celebration in my class for one of my students, which means his parents will be there, and I also have the gal I desperately want to take over my position coming in during the afternoon to observe the classroom and then talk to me for the fourth time about the job because she still hasn't made up her mind. And I'm not sure if Xiao Zhang (the boss) is going to want to stay to talk to her as well. Or what time she will finally leave so we can all start breathing again.
Including today, 24 work days left.
Ugh. Sorry Freehold.
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Wait, why are you giving advice on destroying an ecosystem?Jeez this thread grows faster then the weeds in my garden.Your weeds are wimps. Get some ivy. Or kudzu.
Because the End is Nigh. Hail to the Everblight!
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Ugh. Sorry Freehold.I stepped into it myself the moment I got to work today. Cannot discuss anything due to HIPAA regulations obviously, but I had to be professional supervisory authoritative and put together after a hellish commute. Ugh. Bad start.Today's going to be an absolute pisser of a day.
At 10:00, I have my last admissions tour.
At 11:00, The Boss arrives on campus to give an admissions tour of her own. This means that (a) she's going to make all the faculty edgy, because (b) she will find a long list of things for which she can be pointedly disappointed in us, and (c) none of the teachers will get breaks (yes, it's against labor law and no, she doesn't care) because she'll want to drag teachers into the office instead for lengthy "little talks".And then I also have a birthday celebration in my class for one of my students, which means his parents will be there, and I also have the gal I desperately want to take over my position coming in during the afternoon to observe the classroom and then talk to me for the fourth time about the job because she still hasn't made up her mind. And I'm not sure if Xiao Zhang (the boss) is going to want to stay to talk to her as well. Or what time she will finally leave so we can all start breathing again.
Including today, 24 work days left.
no need to apologize, you already made my day better!
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I know I tiraded about it once before, but WHY do co-workers need to make your friendships with them so awkward?
UK Instructor: Hey, Nobody! I just got my 30 days' notice!
NobodysHome: Oh, man! I'm sorry to hear that!
UKI: Oh, by the way, can you send me all the source for this particular course?
NH: ...
For those of you who don't work in such fields (e.g., Captain Yesterday), providing unauthorized source to a co-worker is an immediate fireable offense. You give source to the co-worker, management finds out, and your employment ends that day.
So we have this legal grey area where:
(1) As an instructor, he is authorized to receive source from me. Had he not JUST told me that he was being terminated, I would have sent it to him without question. Technically we're supposed to get a business justification from the instructor, but it always comes back, "Prepping to teach a course" so we never bother.
(2) Therefore, if I followed "standard" procedure and just sent it to him, it wouldn't be an issue, UNLESS he misused it and took it with him when he left.
(3) At that point I'd have no justification and I'd be fired.
So it's basically, "Dude. You're asking me to risk my job for you just to do you a favor. No."
Fortunately, UK guy just wrote back and immediately recognized the issue and is going through other channels. But I've had former co-workers get livid with me for not being willing to hand them source after they received their termination notices.
And the question really is, "OK. You've just been terminated. Why do you suddenly need source again?"
*SIGH*
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I know I tiraded about it once before, but WHY do co-workers need to make your friendships with them so awkward?
UK Instructor: Hey, Nobody! I just got my 30 days' notice!
NobodysHome: Oh, man! I'm sorry to hear that!
UKI: Oh, by the way, can you send me all the source for this particular course?
NH: ...For those of you who don't work in such fields (e.g., Captain Yesterday), providing unauthorized source to a co-worker is an immediate fireable offense. You give source to the co-worker, management finds out, and your employment ends that day.
So we have this legal grey area where:
(1) As an instructor, he is authorized to receive source from me. Had he not JUST told me that he was being terminated, I would have sent it to him without question. Technically we're supposed to get a business justification from the instructor, but it always comes back, "Prepping to teach a course" so we never bother.
(2) Therefore, if I followed "standard" procedure and just sent it to him, it wouldn't be an issue, UNLESS he misused it and took it with him when he left.
(3) At that point I'd have no justification and I'd be fired.
So it's basically, "Dude. You're asking me to risk my job for you just to do you a favor. No."
Fortunately, UK guy just wrote back and immediately recognized the issue and is going through other channels. But I've had former co-workers get livid with me for not being willing to hand them source after they received their termination notices.
And the question really is, "OK. You've just been terminated. Why do you suddenly need source again?"
*SIGH*
This sounds awful. I am glad the error was realized, if it was indeed an error.
As an aside, if they are being terminated, do they have to do their jobs? I know there are issues in NY revolving around that, depending on the field.
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So Drejk was asking about cost-of-living differences, Dallas vs. the part of the S.F. Bay area where N.H. and I live.
Prices are so low that we've switched from looking at apartments/duplexes to rent to instead just renting a house... something that for us has been completely unheard of before now.
Our current favorite--and there are over a dozen comparable homes in the same area and price range--is $1350 a month for a 3 bedroom, 2 bath, house. 1522 square feet, newly renovated (new roof, new flooring, new deck in the back yard), 2 car garage.
The same house, here, would probably rent for at least $4000 a month.
The Portland house is 2300 square feet, and technically only 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 baths (though you KNOW it's much bigger than that), 1 car garage, and rents for $3450.
EDIT: I think the big difference is yard space. The Portland house is only on a 5000 sq. ft. lot, and that's the biggest lot available in Albany. I'm sure the houses in Dallas have much more land around them.
Depends entirely on what part of Dallas you're talking about. Suburbs? Certainly.
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I know I tiraded about it once before, but WHY do co-workers need to make your friendships with them so awkward?
UK Instructor: Hey, Nobody! I just got my 30 days' notice!
NobodysHome: Oh, man! I'm sorry to hear that!
UKI: Oh, by the way, can you send me all the source for this particular course?
NH: ...For those of you who don't work in such fields (e.g., Captain Yesterday), providing unauthorized source to a co-worker is an immediate fireable offense. You give source to the co-worker, management finds out, and your employment ends that day.
So we have this legal grey area where:
(1) As an instructor, he is authorized to receive source from me. Had he not JUST told me that he was being terminated, I would have sent it to him without question. Technically we're supposed to get a business justification from the instructor, but it always comes back, "Prepping to teach a course" so we never bother.
(2) Therefore, if I followed "standard" procedure and just sent it to him, it wouldn't be an issue, UNLESS he misused it and took it with him when he left.
(3) At that point I'd have no justification and I'd be fired.
So it's basically, "Dude. You're asking me to risk my job for you just to do you a favor. No."
Fortunately, UK guy just wrote back and immediately recognized the issue and is going through other channels. But I've had former co-workers get livid with me for not being willing to hand them source after they received their termination notices.
And the question really is, "OK. You've just been terminated. Why do you suddenly need source again?"
*SIGH*
This sounds awful. I am glad the error was realized, if it was indeed an error.
As an aside, if they are being terminated, do they have to do their jobs? I know there are issues in NY revolving around that, depending on the field.
UK law would be involved there, and I honestly have no idea.
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So, you're saying there's a job opening.
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I know I tiraded about it once before, but WHY do co-workers need to make your friendships with them so awkward?
UK Instructor: Hey, Nobody! I just got my 30 days' notice!
NobodysHome: Oh, man! I'm sorry to hear that!
UKI: Oh, by the way, can you send me all the source for this particular course?
NH: ...For those of you who don't work in such fields (e.g., Captain Yesterday), providing unauthorized source to a co-worker is an immediate fireable offense. You give source to the co-worker, management finds out, and your employment ends that day.
So we have this legal grey area where:
(1) As an instructor, he is authorized to receive source from me. Had he not JUST told me that he was being terminated, I would have sent it to him without question. Technically we're supposed to get a business justification from the instructor, but it always comes back, "Prepping to teach a course" so we never bother.
(2) Therefore, if I followed "standard" procedure and just sent it to him, it wouldn't be an issue, UNLESS he misused it and took it with him when he left.
(3) At that point I'd have no justification and I'd be fired.
So it's basically, "Dude. You're asking me to risk my job for you just to do you a favor. No."
Fortunately, UK guy just wrote back and immediately recognized the issue and is going through other channels. But I've had former co-workers get livid with me for not being willing to hand them source after they received their termination notices.
And the question really is, "OK. You've just been terminated. Why do you suddenly need source again?"
*SIGH*
This sounds awful. I am glad the error was realized, if it was indeed an error.
As an aside, if they are being terminated, do they have to do their jobs? I know there are issues in NY revolving around that, depending on the field.
Usually people are polite and work through their end date, though their productivity might dip by as much as 50%. It's very rare to see an explosive, "I'm not going to do diddly-squat for you any more!"
So I'm sure he'll do what they ask him to, but I suspect that won't be much; they just gave him the minimum-legal notice in the UK, and they'll pay him to hang out 'til then.
Heck, when they acquired us they paid us to do nothing for TWO MONTHS while they figured out whether or not they needed us...
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Wait, is this Melrose Place, Dynasty, or Neon Genesis Evangelion.
It's actually Melrose Place in SPAAACE!
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Oh, I just love testing things in production environments...
*headdesk*
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Apparently the really really good sushi place is closed on Tuesdays...
So here I am... At McDonalds...
Edit: to clarify, it has some of the best sushi I've ever had, and at 3 8-piece rolls for $9.99 it's very affordable as well.
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Oh, I just love testing things in production environments...
*headdesk*
They're trying to implement new web filtering systems at work. Their version of testing is to only have a handful of people at every location get put into the new system, so now we have a handful of people who can't work at every location.
Better than just unleashing it, yes, but still a horrible way of doing things.
Fun fact: The new web filtering system would allow them to sign into their clients' Citrix portals, but wouldn't let them actually launch any applications from within the portals. Great!
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Oh, I just love testing things in production environments...
*headdesk*
They're trying to implement new web filtering systems at work. Their version of testing is to only have a handful of people at every location get put into the new system, so now we have a handful of people who can't work at every location.
Better than just unleashing it, yes, but still a horrible way of doing things.
Fun fact: The new web filtering system would allow them to sign into their clients' Citrix portals, but wouldn't let them actually launch any applications from within the portals. Great!
Please tell me it's allowing porn through while blocking legitimate work! Those are the BEST web filters!
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Oh, I just love testing things in production environments...
*headdesk*
They're trying to implement new web filtering systems at work. Their version of testing is to only have a handful of people at every location get put into the new system, so now we have a handful of people who can't work at every location.
Better than just unleashing it, yes, but still a horrible way of doing things.
Fun fact: The new web filtering system would allow them to sign into their clients' Citrix portals, but wouldn't let them actually launch any applications from within the portals. Great!
Please tell me it's allowing porn through while blocking legitimate work! Those are the BEST web filters!
they are.
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I pictured pinning notes to the teenagers' shirts. I like that idea.Impus Major's Friend: Hey, Impus Major! What time is your brother's graduation? My brother's graduating, too, and he didn't know what time it was.
Impus Major: Hang on a sec, let me ask him...
Impus Minor: I don't know.
Impus Major: He doesn't know.
IMF: Tell your brother he's an idiot.The most entertaining aspects of this conversation are:
IMF's brother didn't know, either. So either the school did a terrible job of communicating when graduation was happening for them, or BOTH brothers are idiots. Both are distinct possibilities.
This summarizes my life with teenagers. The school rashly assumes they will communicate with me in some manner. They fail. Events are entirely missed. Huge 12-hour parties are planned at my home without my knowledge.
Anyone have a bomb shelter I can lease for 16 years 'til both my kids hit 30?
I think high schools should do what preschools do: assume the students are not capable of communicating accurately and spam the parents with multiple, detailed email reminders about each event.
Then the *parents* can ignore the reminders, not read the emails, and shrug and say, "Oh, I didn't know that."
Which they do. Because most parents are idiots.
We all know that those notes will end in laundry machine still pinned to the shirt.
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Hi, everyone. Just taped off a parking space in my garage, because management wants another bike rack. So, what'd I miss?
Porn.
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I came across plans for a speech synthesizer using an Atmega128 microcontroller. It seems to me that this could be used for an electronic talking polyhedral dice roller for visually impaired players. The buttons would have Braille on them. This seems to be something worthwhile to develop.
cool.
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Oh, I just love testing things in production environments...
*headdesk*
They're trying to implement new web filtering systems at work. Their version of testing is to only have a handful of people at every location get put into the new system, so now we have a handful of people who can't work at every location.
Better than just unleashing it, yes, but still a horrible way of doing things.
Fun fact: The new web filtering system would allow them to sign into their clients' Citrix portals, but wouldn't let them actually launch any applications from within the portals. Great!
Please tell me it's allowing porn through while blocking legitimate work! Those are the BEST web filters!
That has been avoided. The old one did for a while, but that got straightened out. Most of the rules are transferring over without issue.
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You call these Tandoori peanuts.
Sir, I know what Tandoori tastes like.
These are not Tandoori peanuts.
Good day to you!
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Wait, is this Melrose Place, Dynasty, or Neon Genesis Evangelion.It's actually Melrose Place in SPAAACE!
** spoiler omitted **
The first rule of watching Melrose Place is never admitting to watching Melrose Place.
Except for me, I have no shame.
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no need to apologize, you already made my day better!Ugh. Sorry Freehold.I stepped into it myself the moment I got to work today. Cannot discuss anything due to HIPAA regulations obviously, but I had to be professional supervisory authoritative and put together after a hellish commute. Ugh. Bad start.Today's going to be an absolute pisser of a day.
At 10:00, I have my last admissions tour.
At 11:00, The Boss arrives on campus to give an admissions tour of her own. This means that (a) she's going to make all the faculty edgy, because (b) she will find a long list of things for which she can be pointedly disappointed in us, and (c) none of the teachers will get breaks (yes, it's against labor law and no, she doesn't care) because she'll want to drag teachers into the office instead for lengthy "little talks".And then I also have a birthday celebration in my class for one of my students, which means his parents will be there, and I also have the gal I desperately want to take over my position coming in during the afternoon to observe the classroom and then talk to me for the fourth time about the job because she still hasn't made up her mind. And I'm not sure if Xiao Zhang (the boss) is going to want to stay to talk to her as well. Or what time she will finally leave so we can all start breathing again.
Including today, 24 work days left.
It took me a minute to figure out what you meant
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Hi, everyone. Just taped off a parking space in my garage, because management wants another bike rack. So, what'd I miss?Porn.
Well, I guess we know why the school district Wi-Fi blocked the forums.
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In the middle of the seventh lightning storm this week here in Paris.
Seriously though, it rains and thunders more here than on Thundera Plateau
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Someone started a thread about gaming while visually impaired. Braille dice seems impractical, I think. Talking devices are ubiquitous, now. So, why not dice?I came across plans for a speech synthesizer using an Atmega128 microcontroller. It seems to me that this could be used for an electronic talking polyhedral dice roller for visually impaired players. The buttons would have Braille on them. This seems to be something worthwhile to develop.cool.
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I'm fine John, thank you. We're having a badminton session later today after work. Also, tomorrow is a half day, so after collecting my medical report, I'm looking to go to some out of the way corner of Singapore to buy some mochi and glutinous rice balls.
They used to sell their mochi around shops Singapore but lately they discontinued the practice(the last time I saw them was at the Expo Food Fair) , saying we'd need to go to their factory to make purchases and since they are open only normal business hours, that makes it hard.
Fortunately before any public holiday, which Friday is, my company gives us half a day off.
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"Wait, am I a side character! Dudes, you ever think about stuff like that"
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About Drizzt - I think he's cool, but his copycats? Not so?
I also think that trope has been overused.
I made what I've learned is largely considered a Drizzt clone before ever really learning about Drizzt. I mean, he was technically in the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting book, and I owned said book, but I wasn't really aware of him, and hadn't read the whole thing.
Anyway, I made an outcast half-frost giant, half-drow (GM custom race using half-drow and half-giant races as a basic template, but altering what they do, exactly), who wielded a double-bladed scimitar (like a double bladed sword, but a scimitar).
... who was a ranger.
Again, though, I didn't know who he was; differences included the previously-mentioned "half-giant" part, that neither of his parents were good people, that the double-bladed scimitar came from a frost giant jarl instead of a dragon horde (and was large because of that), and that I couldn't decide between him worshiping Auril, Lolth, or Oghma - I eventually went with Oghma, but had him honor both Auril and Lolth as the deities of his parents (though he didn't know much about those other gods, himself). Also, he was true neutral, and, as far as he knew, both his parents were alive (they had ended up together because they were both outcasts and had used each other for protection against their different enemies - and had stayed together more or less by necessity thereafter).
He eventually adopted Eilistraee as part of his pantheon and was primed to choose her, predominantly; and married (in haste and with a lack of cultural context) a half-drow while sort of aaaaaaalllllllmost having an affair with an aasimar-bard (the wife was aware; the relationship was a complex one and part of the ongoing plot). He also kind of claimed ownership of a half-orc tribe. -Ish.
But I've since been inundated with the Drizzt clone meme, and it's gotten kind of funny. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it, by the by... but it's also reasonable that people get tired. I find both the people who like it and do it understandable and the people who are tired of it understandable - and I think it's really funny that WotC subsequently made it so that drow are also inherently good rangers... because, I mean, come on: they know.
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*Kicks Cover Turtle shell to wake him up, then starts rubbing paw. Ow!**Wakes up and flails at the air in attempt at propper blocks and punches, before getting his bearings and looks at Kitty and her sore paw*
*Tenderly takes Kittys paw and blows on it, before wobbling off to the kitchen*
*Returns with an icepack and places it on Kittys sore paw*Re Drizzt.
*Looks like he's trying to remember something*
I guess I would the say the books were okay. Nothing spectacular though.
Its been ages since I read one, so I might looking at them trough the rosy-tint of memory. What I do remember though is, that he wasn't my FR drow by far though, heck house Baenre has produced more interesting figures then him more then once.Re Foodfight
Food fight looks like someone went to the grocery store, smeared mud and feces all over everything and filmed it, and then added voice acting, using the worst possible takes that they could, all so that they could pocket 60 million out of a 65 million dollar budget.
...*Turtle chirps in*
While all of the above is at least partially true, there's so much more tasty imagery.
- Food Nazis
- pseudo beastiality
- a famous voice cast
- A strangely high amount of fetish fuel (various)
- And much much more!
Actually body combat is a non contact class, so the idea was not to hit anyone during class. So technically I shouldn't have kicked you on your shell, but I thought your shell would work like a giant bell and give a loud clang, waking you up.
(Think of the scene where Spidey smacks the bell to distract Venom)
*puts ice pack on sore paw*
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Captain Yesterday: If we get rained out this week I can't work on Saturday, it's Free RPG day
Coworker: Sweet! Where at, I can always use some free artillery!
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Drizz't was alright, but dwarves and evil assassins and such is where Salvatore shines.
Servant Of The Shard is hands down my favorite book he wrote, not a single bit of Drizz't.
And Dwahvel Tigerlillies, one of the coolest halfling mobsters you'll ever meet.
Man, tho: Pokémon Go should not be as fun as it is. Like; it does everything that it shouldn’t do, and I love it. Dang it.As long as you are in anything resembling an urban or suburban locale, yes. Poor Scint lives in a tiny rural town and the game just does not function for her at all, so she ended up quitting.
I still play, though not nearly as much as I did during the heyday. I have completed almost all of my Kanto PokeDex - I hatched a Porygon FINALLY earlier today, and otherwise am only missing regional exclusives (I sadly am probably NEVER going to be able to travel and grab Mr. Mime, Kangaskhan, and Farfetch'd), a couple of evolutions I don't have enough candy for (Grimer and Magnemite are rare where I live, so I don't have Muk or Magneton yet), and the last two legendaries (since Mewtwo is restricted to special raids and I haven't finished the questline for Mew yet).
Ebon, Scint, and I are all Mystic. Winter is Coming!Team Instinct!
(My natural inclination would be Team Mystic, but my brother in law and his wife were Instinct, and, though the NPC leader is a bit of a flake, it’s fun being the underdog.)
Yeah, Mystic would have been my choice, but as I said, I went with family, and it's actually kind of fun to be the underdogs.
Also, today, hoooooooooly cow. We met a level 40 who was clearly srs 'bout owning the gyms (dude had three ~30k pokemon - all cleffables - attached to the gyms and used multiple full-heal items on them during our raid). Had a dapper look with a top hat, Team Rocket T-shirt, shades, and was named something like "Captain K-Rool" or something similar. My wife and I declared him our nemesis. We eventually overcame (despite being 17 levels lower) by powering through, though it was expensive. What's nice, though, is that someone - we don't know who - came in after us and absolutely packed out our gyms, apparently after they'd been assaulted pretty heavily (both our pokemon were still in all three, but in the third, they were at only about half hearts, and couldn't eat anymore berries - apparently someone had almost booted them out, and our fellow Instinct had kept them alive and battling by feeding berries). Pretty surprisingly intense PG day, today!
The three gyms, by the way, were all at our local catholic church - the only other place I've seen even close to that level of heaviness is a) our local college (with five!), and b) the South of the Border tourist trap at the NC/SC border.
The rest are scattered pretty far abroad.
I've heard that less developed areas are pretty rough, though. It's too bad - I wish it were better across the board.
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Drizz't was alright, but dwarves and evil assassins and such is where Salvatore shines.
Servant Of The Shard is hands down my favorite book he wrote, not a single bit of Drizz't.
And Dwahvel Tigerlillies, one of the coolest halfling mobsters you'll ever meet.
This is actually true.
So, would our LE chef be an alchemist? A witch? Both have easy access to brew potion.
You still owe me for those Quicksilver clones. Do you have a spare Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator?Sounds like an episode of Good Eats.Sorry, NH, but I can only go with what I see on the PBS cooking shows.Great. Now you have me thinking of The Lawful Evil chef, where he/she demonstrates the most complicated, most dangerous possible way to perform each step of a recipe, so that only the strong survive.
"Next, we need half an avocado. We have an avocado tree outside, so get your straight ladder, your bungee cord, your cleaver, and of course your angry badger..."
When we did the guacamole episode, we lost two camerapeople, the gaffer, a quartet of interns, a gaggle of Aaron Taylor-Johnson clones, and all of craftservices. Even though he was the low bidder, I never should have hired Michael Bay as our lighting consultant.
On the positive side, I never would have thought to weaponize avocados until then.
- quickling fey creature
- alacritous template- alchemically quickened template
- eldritch creature template (used for continuous time-stop 1/round)
- quickling creature template
- time seer template
- time-breaker template
- agile mythic simple template
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A long-defunct fairy tale comic has a November as the main character, and she mentions her sisters are named August and September.
I wish that comic was still going. I enjoyed it back in the day, and it ended at such a meh point. I'm glad the site is still up, though.