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Bluh. Can't sleep. Haven't been hit by insomnia like this in years.
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And no, I sleep with clothes on.
I guess I was just confused because you said it was for your plot...I don't understand how that's for a plot.
Unless it's a device to be used in the game to represent a plot. Did I misunderstand when I assumed it helped to illustrate or otherwise illuminate the plot?
Yes this turtle is a scorpion in disguise...or is he?We had Turtle in the previous party, played by a notorious and repeated Scorpion. She is our only Bayushi in current party... Trained by Otomo.do you mean a tortoise?
I am a big fan of the Kasuga family.
Oh, yeah, they are actually called Tortoise.
Anyway, what's going on here? I've increasingly been gone. Can't really play Pathfinder because my school is all 5e, all the time, so Paizo's fallen to the wayside. I'm more active on rpg.net.
Lots of stuff going on. I live in San Jose now. I left San Francisco for my grandmother's house in Los Altos after getting into grad school. Then my grandmother passed away during the holidays, so I had to move to San Jose. Also I work for my university's administration and as a TA.
I'm getting ready to work on a major D&D worldbuilding project based on the Mediterranean, in which the fantasy counterpart of the Med is literally the center of the entire setting, with all of the parts of the setting that are actually mapped existing along the sea. Every land is defined by it's relationship to the sea, and seafaring adventures are not so much an option as they are openly encouraged.
You know, I am surprised there are no more such settings. The Mediterranean is one of the early multicultural adventure setting of RL in the first place.
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Rewatched Infinity War, with Mrs. Sunrise this time, and I thought of VE's plot-hole claim about Thanos just creating more resources instead of wiping out half the universe. Initially my thought was "Well duh he's gonna wipe out half the universe anyway, he's a pscyho, he enjoys killing people!" But he really doesn't, at least not that we can see on screen. His enemies are just obstacles in the way of his goal.
So yeah, major plot hole. Unless maybe the Stones can only create temporary effects, rather than truly changing the universe? Doubt it.
He doesn't even need create resources. Each planetary system contains enough resources and energy (hello stars!) to sustain civilization of human-like beings at least a few orders of magnitude above a a few billions. What he needs to do is provide them with (a) relatively efficient intra-system starflight to harvest those resources and energy (dyson swarm of solar panel-powered anti-matter producing cyclotrons to harness more than a fraction of the star's output), (b) provide the civilizations with designs for efficient recycling of leftovers (most of the technological process do not degrade matter beyond advanced recycling), and (c) provide birth control leading to stable populations after passing certain threshold.
We know he had access to easy startravel which means he has (a) before he even got infinity stones. He is supposed to be a genius so he should be able to design (b) and (c) easily.
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I guess I was just confused because you said it was for your plot...I don't understand how that's for a plot.
Unless it's a device to be used in the game to represent a plot. Did I misunderstand when I assumed it helped to illustrate or otherwise illuminate the plot?
It's an illustration for dramatic purposes as the plot moves into its next phase. If you can can understand the audio, the voices are saying the line from Mass Effect - "We are assuming direct control."
Basically the antagonists are now in position to take more direct actions against the PCs rather than acting through intermediaries such as crazy cultists and spawning cerebrotic blots full of mutated monsters and warped terrain.
Excessive numbers of eyes is one of the main features of one of the antagonists, hence the imagery.
See, that makes a lot more sense!
My love for Mass Effect and/or elder gods cancels out my hate for Forgotten Realms. Therefore the video is cool by a factor of 1.
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“Get the copy of indemnification provisions of the proposer.”
Me: Oh noes, there are 13 different companies, do I need to read every single Bye-law/Articles of Association? >.<
Turns out, yes >.<
And good thing I studied law so I can pull those exact provisions out, np, just needs time.
And the bank somehow seemed to forget all the resolutions and emails we sent to them since june 2015, so I have to hunt them down and toss it back to them. How did THAT even happen? *Growly noise*
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The Sea Beggars?Several of my ancestors were pirates.I'm related to Vlad the Impaler.Should we declare today to be Talk Like You're Irish Day.The accent may be fake but I am Irish among a hodge podge of other things.
Also related to Charles Dickens. True story.
Duinkerker Kapers. Its not always easy to track family history, as the further back you go, the less records were kept/survive. But being officially hanged by the state leaves a good paper trail.
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Every second Friday, we have this thing called morning tea in my office. Someone on the staff (you have to sign up, it can't be forced on you) gets a €30 budget and has to buy/bake a bunch of stuff for everyone in the office. It used to be weekly, but a combination of a lack of sign-ups, and a disagreeable administrator, resulted in it becoming fortnightly.
Anyways, tomorrow is my day, and I've baked a bunch of cakes and cookies. :) I hope I don't poison anyone. :P
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I've got the little man this weekend, bringing him up to Galway. He turns six today, so we'll be throwing him a little celebration when we get there. :) He had a much bigger celebration this past weekend, with a lizard show, and dinosaur fossil dig, and bouncy castle. He is totally dinosaur obsessed. :P
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Every second Friday, we have this thing called morning tea in my office. Someone on the staff (you have to sign up, it can't be forced on you) gets a €30 budget and has to buy/bake a bunch of stuff for everyone in the office. It used to be weekly, but a combination of a lack of sign-ups, and a disagreeable administrator, resulted in it becoming fortnightly.
Anyways, tomorrow is my day, and I've baked a bunch of cakes and cookies. :) I hope I don't poison anyone. :P
I might have baked orange cake for everyone. My chocolate cake recipe is still a little unreliable. I suppose I could do the ham and cheese pizza thing too.
And no, I sleep with clothes on.
Not me.
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I've got the little man this weekend, bringing him up to Galway. He turns six today, so we'll be throwing him a little celebration when we get there. :) He had a much bigger celebration this past weekend, with a lizard show, and dinosaur fossil dig, and bouncy castle. He is totally dinosaur obsessed. :P
Did you buy him a large Barney?
But seriously, I hope you guys have fun =)
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When Tiny T-Rex was about two (making Crookshanks about 9) we were going through the TV channels and Barney is on and Crookshanks strongly opposes Tiny T-Rex watching Barney, so I ask why, her reply "Because, Barney is such a douchebag!".
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Yesterday was 15 degrees, but had a steady wind, so the wind chill was -2 degrees.
Today is 14 degrees, but hardly any wind, so the wind chill is 10 degrees.
It's amazing how much difference a lack of wind can make in the winter.
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Tiny T-Rex, while walking to the bus stop yesterday morning noticed he'd accidentally put his pants on backwards, which of course left him worried his classmates would tease him. The General, not missing a beat says "If anyone says anything just say they're reversible".
Yesterday was 15 degrees, but had a steady wind, so the wind chill was -2 degrees.
Today is 14 degrees, but hardly any wind, so the wind chill is 10 degrees.
It's amazing how much difference a lack of wind can make in the winter.
Indeed.
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Tiny T-Rex, while walking to the bus stop yesterday morning noticed he'd accidentally put his pants on backwards, which of course left him worried his classmates would tease him. The General, not missing a beat says "If anyone says anything just say they're reversible".
The Kriss Kross revival starts here!
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One of the toughest parts has been going from being a weekend Dad, to a Dad, back to a weekend Dad again. My little one still asks me when I'm coming home and I don't know how to explain that, when his mom and I are together, it's not healthy for either of us. He's adjusting again, but it's tough.
Another tough thing is being left with the loans. We'd borrowed, for this, for that, but we'd done them all in my name, because I had a good credit rating. Now she refuses to contribute to any of them, and my repayments are more than my rent.
Anyways, I've been seriously down recently, and I just feel like I had to vent somewhere, or I'm going to explode. And I don't want to admit to my friends and family how hard a time I'm having, or how I regret leaving, even if things were turning unhealthy. At least I had a family, and could be there for my son. Anyways, sorry all, but I just needed to get that off my chest.
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Er... isn't FaWtL all about venting and supporting each other?
Vent away, Fine Sir! Vent away!
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I never know whether I should favorite these kinds of posts to show support or if that reads like I am in favor of your misfortune.
I hope things get better for you.
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Tiny T-Rex, while walking to the bus stop yesterday morning noticed he'd accidentally put his pants on backwards, which of course left him worried his classmates would tease him. The General, not missing a beat says "If anyone says anything just say they're reversible".The Kriss Kross revival starts here!
JUMP! JUMP!
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** spoiler omitted **[spoiler]I know you shared a lot before and I hope you continue to share. That is what we are here for man. I hope things get better for you. If you want to start a GoFundMe, I will be happy to contribute. Mine is still going, and it is helping even now.
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Speaking of venting and so forth, after my tirade about housework, I really couldn't be more proud of Impus Major after I went down with the flu. He:
- Folded at least 20 pieces of laundry a day
- Took out the trash, the recycling, and the green waste
- Loaded the dishwasher and hand-washed the stuff that couldn't fit
- Prepared dinner for the entire family according to my verbal instructions Tuesday night
He just stepped up big-time and took care of the house and the family. Yeah, he earned around $30 in allowance money in just 2 days, but it was all voluntary, and holy cow did it feel good!
Nice job, Impus Major! Well done.
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I've got the little man this weekend, bringing him up to Galway. He turns six today, so we'll be throwing him a little celebration when we get there. :) He had a much bigger celebration this past weekend, with a lizard show, and dinosaur fossil dig, and bouncy castle. He is totally dinosaur obsessed. :PDid you buy him a large Barney?
But seriously, I hope you guys have fun =)
Oh Gods, Barney. Q.Q No, I did not subject him to that thinly veiled eldritch horror.
No, we got Thunder, the animatronic baby T-Rex.
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Not really a dinosaur type. I prefer critters with fur. So fluffeh!
I'm not a feathers person myself to be honest.
The little mouser loves both Dinosaurs and fluffy things. One of this favourite toys currently is this fluffy llama "Santa" got him for Xmas. He insists I sing the Llama Song to him whenever the "three" of us are together.
He did inherit my fear of dogs though, which is weird, cause I thought I did really well at hiding it when he was about.
I thought you'd be a big fan of birds, Mort. Tasty, tasty birbs. :D
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Whee, we get to read about eating babies next week.
I'm starting my seniors on "A Modest Proposal" once we get through a quick review of satire as a concept.
Whee, we get to read about eating babies next week.
Sign me up!
Since when do sableyes eat people?
Dragons eat people. They also speak well. When you consider the two, you might say I'm a cunning linguist.
Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip your waitress.
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Yes this turtle is a scorpion in disguise...or is he?We had Turtle in the previous party, played by a notorious and repeated Scorpion. She is our only Bayushi in current party... Trained by Otomo.do you mean a tortoise?
I am a big fan of the Kasuga family.
Oh, yeah, they are actually called Tortoise.
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Yup same up here Drejk.
Both Turtle and Tortoise is a Skildpadde, you just put the prefix Hav (Sea) to differentiate between a land-dwelling and a sea-dwelling specimen.
You know, I am surprised there are no more such settings. The Mediterranean is one of the early multicultural adventure setting of RL in the first place.Anyway, what's going on here? I've increasingly been gone. Can't really play Pathfinder because my school is all 5e, all the time, so Paizo's fallen to the wayside. I'm more active on rpg.net.
Lots of stuff going on. I live in San Jose now. I left San Francisco for my grandmother's house in Los Altos after getting into grad school. Then my grandmother passed away during the holidays, so I had to move to San Jose. Also I work for my university's administration and as a TA.
I'm getting ready to work on a major D&D worldbuilding project based on the Mediterranean, in which the fantasy counterpart of the Med is literally the center of the entire setting, with all of the parts of the setting that are actually mapped existing along the sea. Every land is defined by it's relationship to the sea, and seafaring adventures are not so much an option as they are openly encouraged.
Might be because Mediterranean cultures are ripped out rather willy-nilly and inserted into hundreds of mish-mash cultured settings.
*Cough* Golarion *Cough*An actual "historical" Mediterranean setting would be something to pull of as, while a lot of civilizations could be viewed as continuous, they do undergo so significant changes that they (can) become somewhat unrecognizable to our "pop-culture" idea of said civilizations.
A few examples:
Around 1500 BC Greece you still have two distinct cultures - Helladic (mainland) and Minoan (island - Crete), so no unified "Ancient Greece" yet…
However by 1200 BC the Helladics have overcome and absorbed the Minoan's and we have a more unified (and pop culture recognizable -> think Troy, The Odyssey and stuff) Mycenaean Greece. Though we still need around 600-800 years before we see Classical Greece"
I could then go on to list how Egyptian culture developed from 1500 BC to 1200 BC (or 600-400 BC), but my point is just that not all civilizations as we know them "pop-culturally" might have existed simultaneously or more likely, they existed in forms that aren't at the forefront of our pop-culture representations of them.
One of the mistakes of this kind you often see is Egyptians, Classical Greeks and Romans all existing in their pop-culture forms simultaneously.
I've got the little man this weekend, bringing him up to Galway. He turns six today, so we'll be throwing him a little celebration when we get there. :) He had a much bigger celebration this past weekend, with a lizard show, and dinosaur fossil dig, and bouncy castle. He is totally dinosaur obsessed. :PDid you buy him a large Barney?
But seriously, I hope you guys have fun =)
*Hisses at the grinning monstrosity*
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*Waddles up to Synos, gives him a couple of shoulder pats and nudges a glass of scotch over to him*
Raw deal Synos.
Yea it sucks being alone (this turtle knows all too well), but you're doing the right thing if things keep breaking apart for the two of you. You're there for your kid that's what's most important for now.
Though the loan thing just seems spiteful (by your former significant other) to me...so if you ever decide to solicit donation, I'll gladly contribute.
Dragons eat people. They also speak well. When you consider the two, you might say I'm a cunning linguist.
Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip your waitress.
*Tilts turtlehead*
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*Cricket sounds*
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I guess Boyd wasn't too happy with Crookshanks and tried to lash out at one of her friends.
Yeah, big mistake.
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OK, that was indeed one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time (I took a picture, which I'll post after work if I get a chance):
Muddied and battered but not broken, lodged under the front left tire of a car parked facing the wrong way on our side of the street, was a beleagured sign reading, "Drive like your kids live here".
Pretty much tells us how that particular driver feels about their kids, eh?
EDIT: And, no, I didn't check the car for a bumper sticker reading, "My child is an honor roll student at xxx", because then I would have just hurt myself laughing.
Hi, Kjel!
Welcome back, Rosita.
*Waves to John*
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I guess Boyd wasn't too happy with Crookshanks and tried to lash out at one of her friends.
Yeah, big mistake.
That's one of the really weird things I'm seeing about this generation of teens: "xxx wronged me, so you cannot be friends with both xxx and me. You have to choose. And if you choose xxx, I'll hate you forever, and you'll go on my list, too."
I don't know whether it's just the group my kids are with (a lot more emotional instability there, as Impus Major seems to have a calming effect on all of them) or whether it's more prevalent with this generation, but holy cow!
"How dare you be talking to xxx?!?!? He's on MY list!!"
Of course, the Impii are perfect about it. "Why should WE care about YOUR list?"
I do love my Impii.
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I think it's a social media thing. Word spreads so much faster than it used to, so it's highly visible. I remember it being a thing when I was in high school, but I was in the Impii's boat on the rare occasion it actually impacted me (I didn't tend to have a crowd to run with, more drifted through several).
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I guess Boyd wasn't too happy with Crookshanks and tried to lash out at one of her friends.
Yeah, big mistake.
where can I buy some boyd-fertilizer? I just got some sweet marjoram, it could use the pick me up.
OK, that was indeed one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time (I took a picture, which I'll post after work if I get a chance):
Muddied and battered but not broken, lodged under the front left tire of a car parked facing the wrong way on our side of the street, was a beleagured sign reading, "Drive like your kids live here".
Pretty much tells us how that particular driver feels about their kids, eh?
EDIT: And, no, I didn't check the car for a bumper sticker reading, "My child is an honor roll student at xxx", because then I would have just hurt myself laughing.
I see that sign all the time in neighborhoods, and I think exactly the same thing every time.
"Well, I have no kids, which means nobody lives here, so I should floor it, right?"