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IT'S MAH BIRFDAY!!!
Shower me with love and adulation.
*Pokes out from his hidy-hole and waves*
Congratulations with a another year TS!
*Retreats back into hiding*
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Finished reading Act 1 of A Raisin in the Sun with kiddos. Asked them to write a short response of what the family should do with the money and how that would solve their problems.
I lost track of how many kids used some variation of "[character] is a grown adult and needs to act like it" in their responses.
Finished reading Act 1 of A Raisin in the Sun with kiddos. Asked them to write a short response of what the family should do with the money and how that would solve their problems.
I lost track of how many kids used some variation of "[character] is a grown adult and needs to act like it" in their responses.
Kids are good people.
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Er, not everyone has an 800+ credit rating and can take out money at the drop of a hat, moron! SOME people need proof of income to get any loans at all!
Tirade over.
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Tirade over.
That said, Fritzy, open fire.
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Shouldn't adventurers at 1st level just be able to open lines of credit?
Our "high" temperature for next week as it currently stands will average out to about -3 degrees.
Finished reading Act 1 of A Raisin in the Sun with kiddos. Asked them to write a short response of what the family should do with the money and how that would solve their problems.
I lost track of how many kids used some variation of "[character] is a grown adult and needs to act like it" in their responses.
I have always found it interesting that black entrepreneurship is always looked upon negatively in(and perhaps via) that work, especially with an eye towards black owned businesses.
Shouldn't adventurers at 1st level just be able to open lines of credit?
that's actually an adventure hook in the Ptolus setting.
Shouldn't adventurers at 1st level just be able to open lines of credit?that's actually an adventure hook in the Ptolus setting.
I have that gigantic book sitting on one of my shelves...
Our "high" temperature for next week as it currently stands will average out to about -3 degrees.
Our lows will most likely average out to around 45-50 degrees above that...
I have always found it interesting that black entrepreneurship is always looked upon negatively in(and perhaps via) that work, especially with an eye towards black owned businesses.Finished reading Act 1 of A Raisin in the Sun with kiddos. Asked them to write a short response of what the family should do with the money and how that would solve their problems.
I lost track of how many kids used some variation of "[character] is a grown adult and needs to act like it" in their responses.
In that sense, it's actually interesting - at the start of the play, the class was really split on whether or not Mama should let him invest. Most of the boys were really siding with him. Then they learned
So their reaction was less about "black entrepreneurship = bad" and more that it looked to them like the character was placing a very risky dream over the guaranteed security of a house for their family.
And given Mama's speech at the end of the play about there always being something to love, I think that was more Hansbury's intent: family > ambition.
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I love teaching this play because I can watch their opinions shift so much over the course of the play. Kids who were gung-ho for the liquor store suddenly change their mind as they get new information - what would their choice be if that happened to them? And I make them actually discuss it.
I'm in a heavily religious and conservative town, so this play is excellent for examining choices and motivations - that act 1 reveal always gets a visceral reaction. So I make them frame it as why is the character making that choice? What circumstances would bring them to that point, and therefore how can it be fixed? Every character's thought process is made clear, so even if you hate the decision they make, you can see exactly why they thought it was the thing to do at that moment.
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Apparently Homunculus #1's class is learning about the Protestant Reformation, because he had an interesting assignment last night: Given six of Martin Luther's 95 theses, write them as tweets.
I don't think I've ever had so much fun with homework, and I don't even know how to tweet! Sometimes I love being a (step-)dad. :)
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That said, Fritzy, open fire.
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Way of the wicked is also an evil AP. Pretty good reviews I've heard. And yes character motivation is also a thing with non good characters.
There was once I was called out by the GM for being not heroic enough. Because the character in question was a drunken sot(CN) , so after he rescued the merchant from cannibals, he declared that it was a moment worth celebrating(psst, he's just looking for an excuse to drink), then asked the merchant which bottle he should open for the occasion. When the merchant complained it was robbery, he helped himself to a bottle at random.
His POV:Come on, I rescued you from being eaten, so I do deserve a reward, right?
Giving him the cheapest wine would also have sufficed.
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So almost everyone in my L5R game either has the "Hero of the People" advantage, or otherwise is peasant-friendly, despite the lore of the area being that such an attitude is, at best, unusual, and most often perceived as weird as hell by your average samurai. They know this, and they like that quirk (they didn't even decide it as a group, just 4/5 of them happened to put that in their backstories and such).
The one character who doesn't is a Crab Clan bushi. This is what I said in regard to that:
To be fair, you're in the only clan that regularly recruits new Samurai through trial - so from your opinion, "if you want it so bad, get your ass on the other side of the wall and kill some goblins" is a natural thought pattern.
(Though 90% of the time they only allow Ronin to do this, and only during "20 Goblin Winters")
But I'm feeling that the Crab Clan, if presented with enough Shadowland creature deaths, would acquiesce to a request for nobility in the face (pun intended) of enough heads.
"You killed 37 goblins? Yep. You're a samurai. No, you must've been an illegitimate bastard of some samurai we never heard of. No, your mom was a whore. Accept it. You're in the Hida family now."
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Y'know, it's funny. I sound optimistic because I typically say, "Most people you meet are fundamentally good. If you treat them fairly and well, they will treat you fairly and well."
But I also say, "And the moment you get 5 or more people in a room, they become the most evil abomination imaginable, with no atrocity too vile for them."
So yeah, a little less optimistic.
Today's lesson in the abject vileness of humanity?
Remember that $135 felt hat at the Dickens Faire? I never mentioned it after ridiculing the price, but Impus Major bought one. And it looks really good on him.
So he was changing in the bathroom at school, put his hat at the top of the stall, and forgot it in his rush to get to choir. He remembered it a few minutes later, rushed back to the bathroom, and someone had, of course, thrown it in the toilet, then used the toilet (#1, fortunately), then flushed.
We are trying to rescue it, but WTF? Was the Lost and Found really that hard?
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In terms of RP, I'm really looking forward to when Shiro finally gives me permission to post Trig's journal here. (He plans on getting his AP published, so I don't get to talk about it until he's done.)
But having 209 distinct items in your Handy Haversack alone (closer to 300 if you count duplicates) is just TOO fun.
GothBard put it very well.
NobodysHome: Just so's you know, Trig couldn't afford to replace that potion of Water Breathing Llew used, so unless Llew asks about it Trig isn't going to replace it until next time and we'll have to go without.
GothBard: Are you kidding? Llew just assumes that that thing Trig wears on her back is just some kind of magical gnome bag and whatever she wants just pops out of it, because that's Llew's experience with it.
The best moment of the campaign so far: She loaned her bag to the sorcerer, and there is no love lost between those two. She told him the magic word to get alchemist's fire out of the bag was "Boomy!"
So he was greedy and he told the bag to give him "Candy!"
And promptly ate the vomit capsule that came out and was out of the fight for a round.
We ruled that Trig was also out for a round because she was laughing too hard to help anyone.
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Stone me, the train is on time.
I am reading a book about the sex industry in C17th London.
I have been to the pub with ALL (DE)
Super.
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Tirade over.
Nothing will change because of this. One lone goon might lose his job, but the people who actually lead to this mindset aren't going anywhere.
We're currently at 7 degrees, the warmest point for the next three days.
Oh, how naive I was this morning! Turns out it was the warmest point for the next week, at least.
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"In the card game I made, you can't divide by two."
Me: What do you mean you can't divide by two?
"Like if something tells you to draw an odd number of cards and divide by two, you can't."
Me: So if something tells me to divide my draw of seven cards by two, I draw seven; but if I'm told to divide a draw of six by two, I draw three?
"Yeah."
-- Homunculus #2, in Game Design for the Mathematically Disinclined
It's getting worse.
I just read (I'd link but it was on a different device) there's an arctic blast coming Tuesday that is supposed to drop Midwest temperatures 30 degrees F lower than usual for this time of year.
I might've picked the wrong year to leave Florida.
Thankfully, my part of Ohio is damn-near on the West Virginia border, and in the Valley, so it hasn't been outrageous, but...s$#~...the article said this could be a record breaking cold, and that it will most certainly be the coldest of the year.
I have that gigantic book sitting on one of my shelves...Shouldn't adventurers at 1st level just be able to open lines of credit?that's actually an adventure hook in the Ptolus setting.
Me too.
So almost everyone in my L5R game either has the "Hero of the People" advantage, or otherwise is peasant-friendly, despite the lore of the area being that such an attitude is, at best, unusual, and most often perceived as weird as hell by your average samurai. They know this, and they like that quirk (they didn't even decide it as a group, just 4/5 of them happened to put that in their backstories and such).
The one character who doesn't is a Crab Clan bushi. This is what I said in regard to that:
To be fair, you're in the only clan that regularly recruits new Samurai through trial - so from your opinion, "if you want it so bad, get your ass on the other side of the wall and kill some goblins" is a natural thought pattern.
(Though 90% of the time they only allow Ronin to do this, and only during "20 Goblin Winters")
But I'm feeling that the Crab Clan, if presented with enough Shadowland creature deaths, would acquiesce to a request for nobility in the face (pun intended) of enough heads.
"You killed 37 goblins? Yep. You're a samurai. No, you must've been an illegitimate bastard of some samurai we never heard of. No, your mom was a whore. Accept it. You're in the Hida family now."
I love the L5R setting. They really did a wonderful job with it.
It's getting worse.
I just read (I'd link but it was on a different device) there's an arctic blast coming Tuesday that is supposed to drop Midwest temperatures 30 degrees F lower than usual for this time of year.
I might've picked the wrong year to leave Florida.
Thankfully, my part of Ohio is damn-near on the West Virginia border, and in the Valley, so it hasn't been outrageous, but...s&+$...the article said this could be a record breaking cold, and that it will most certainly be the coldest of the year.
Good luck on evading old man winter.
My dog has been doing this weird thing for the past few weeks:
He walks up to you when you're sitting somewhere, and just kinda rests his dick on your knee, or if you're in a recliner, on your foot, or whatever. At least once a day I have to push him away. Sometimes he'll walk over to my girlfriend's dog, who's lying down, and either sit on him (like do the sit position, but resting his ass on the other dog's back) or straddle him so his johnson is resting on the other dog's head.
He's a neutered 9-month old (I have a big puppers), so I don't think it's a sexual thing, and he's not really a dominant type, so I wonder...is his junk just cold?
It's really, really weird...
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It's getting worse.
I just read (I'd link but it was on a different device) there's an arctic blast coming Tuesday that is supposed to drop Midwest temperatures 30 degrees F lower than usual for this time of year.
I might've picked the wrong year to leave Florida.
Thankfully, my part of Ohio is damn-near on the West Virginia border, and in the Valley, so it hasn't been outrageous, but...s!!!...the article said this could be a record breaking cold, and that it will most certainly be the coldest of the year.
I hate to break it to you but it's like this every year.
So almost everyone in my L5R game either has the "Hero of the People" advantage, or otherwise is peasant-friendly, despite the lore of the area being that such an attitude is, at best, unusual, and most often perceived as weird as hell by your average samurai. They know this, and they like that quirk (they didn't even decide it as a group, just 4/5 of them happened to put that in their backstories and such).
The one character who doesn't is a Crab Clan bushi. This is what I said in regard to that:
To be fair, you're in the only clan that regularly recruits new Samurai through trial - so from your opinion, "if you want it so bad, get your ass on the other side of the wall and kill some goblins" is a natural thought pattern.
(Though 90% of the time they only allow Ronin to do this, and only during "20 Goblin Winters")
But I'm feeling that the Crab Clan, if presented with enough Shadowland creature deaths, would acquiesce to a request for nobility in the face (pun intended) of enough heads.
"You killed 37 goblins? Yep. You're a samurai. No, you must've been an illegitimate bastard of some samurai we never heard of. No, your mom was a whore. Accept it. You're in the Hida family now."
in my NCJF, 20 Goblin Winters are only done by the moshibaru vassal family.
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Have I mentioned how much I love Impus Major?
One of his friends sent out a party invite to around 20 people.
Of course, people had to "Reply All" to RSVP, so everyone's inbox is spammed with stupid, "Yes, I am coming," messages.
So he replied:
"As will I, and I will also reply to all, as that seems to be the hip, new thing to do when telling a host that one will show up to their party."
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Meanwhile, in Canada we have been having an epidemic of people getting stuck in donation bins and dying. Apparently, since 2015 eight people have died this way. It's sad, because most of these people are the kind of people who are given the clothing inside. The bins were designed to prevent theft. Really, if you are trying to steal a coat from a donation bin, you're probably the kind of person who needs such an item, not a Kramer wanna be who's selling vintage ski jackets on ebay. Just let them steal the damned things. It's not worth anyone dying over.
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Taking a road trip today.
Taking a road trip today.
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Call me if you need anything. Sorry FH.
So sorry you lost your dad, Freehold.
Sorry for your loss.
Sorry for your loss, Freehold, and please accept my sympathies.
Sorry man, that sucks!
At least he got to say goodbye in his own way.
Freehold: Good ending, but endings are always rough. Take care!
Taking a road trip today.
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*Peeks out from his hiding place*
Sorry for your loss Freehold, please accept my deepest condolences...
*Waddles up to Freehold and gives him a burly-turtle hug before retreating back into his hidy-hole*
Thank you very much, everyone.
Next week is supposed to be colder than it has since 1996, which was insanely cold! Wind chills easily between -60 to -80.
Looks like I need to upgrade my gear.
Taking a road trip today.
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I'm sorry Freehold. It's been almost 20 years since I lost my dad, and from what I experienced, you never stop wishing he was still around.
It does gets easier to deal with.
But you never forget. You never stop missing them. To this day I still have dreams with him in it, and after a while in them I ask "Hey, wait, didn't you die?" and almost always instantly wake up at that point.
If you need someone to talk to, I'm there for you. If you believe in prayers, you have mine. If you care for hope, it's all yours. If there's anything I can do, don't hesitate to ask.