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Vid! Seriously, man, that's why I spoilered!
Don't go there, or lynora goes away!
K deleted it. I have so many questions now.
SOOO many questions. Like why am I nekkid?
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Thank you. Without lynora, things get weird.
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K.
You day walkers are so weird...
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Well, the Week from Heck is over (late birthday dinner Tuesday, Gloryhammer concert on Thursday, graduation and paternal grandmother sleepover on Friday, clearing maternal grandmother's front yard Saturday, Shiro's game and a movie on Sunday), so FaWtL members who are hooking up with us in Europe should expect emails this evening clarifying where we'll be when and whatnot.
Now all I have to do is finish clearing the storage facility, restore the house to sanity, and teach Impus Major to drive.
No problemo.
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Its super warm today. I feel miserable.
I know what you mean; it might break 70°F today.
Oh, wait. No I don't.
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I'm putting in a patio for a chicken coop, in the General's hometown (which she just yesterday vowed to never return to).
Already put in a small wall.
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Its super warm today. I feel miserable.I know what you mean; it might break 70°F today.
Oh, wait. No I don't.
Yeah, well I'm done trying to sell you all for warmer weather, you people clearly have no monetary value.
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We saw The Dead Don't Die last night.
GothBard: It was kind of like there was a writer's strike partway through the film, and the scabs didn't know how to finish it. Or some film school student with a rich relative got his first script produced. Like Shark Boy and Lava Girl.
Shiro: I liked Shark Boy and Lava Girl better.
that bad?
Oh no...I had such high hopes...
Bummer! I was looking forward to it, too!
I'm not the rabid Jarmusch fan my sister is (it's pretty much exactly like her and the Ramones - she adores them, I think they're kinda cool but I don't usually listen to them). But the coffee shop scene with GZA, RZA and Bill Murray in Coffee and Cigarettes is one of my favorites. ("You spit that out. Do NOT swallow, Bill Murray.")
So I was hoping this would be a Jarmusch-flavored Shaun of the Dead.
Well, I'd like to respond with, "Your tastes may vary", but when it's a non-controversial movie with no likely "ballot-stuffing" and it's at 53% critics, 43% audience on Rotten Tomatoes you know it has some fundamental issues.
That 43% represents people who wanted to see the movie. That's pretty bad.
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I am having a blast working in the General's hometown.
You don't know if people are gawking at you because you're working for an unfamiliar company from The Big City, if they recognize you (we dated in high school, I was a frequent visitor), or if it's because you look like a hippie.
Or all of the above.
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I'm putting in a patio for a chicken coop, in the General's hometown (which she just yesterday vowed to never return to).
Already put in a small wall.
I drove through there the last time I was in the area.
Reminder: can be in your area June 30th for the hostas.
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I am having a blast working in the General's hometown.
You don't know if people are gawking at you because you're working for an unfamiliar company from The Big City, if they recognize you (we dated in high school, I was a frequent visitor), or if it's because you look like a hippie.
Or all of the above.
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By then they might be big enough to sustain a large dinosaur.
No hurry, they're not going anywhere.
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We saw The Dead Don't Die last night.
GothBard: It was kind of like there was a writer's strike partway through the film, and the scabs didn't know how to finish it. Or some film school student with a rich relative got his first script produced. Like Shark Boy and Lava Girl.
Shiro: I liked Shark Boy and Lava Girl better.
that bad?
Oh no...I had such high hopes...
Yeah, me too, but they were crushed yesterday or day before by Patrick.
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I am not on steam, I am on gog.
Both? Both.
Both is good.
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So, given a choice between:
(a) spending three days doing yard work,
(b) seven hours working on my garage, or
(c) five hours paying bills, balancing accounts, and working on our household financial projections for the next 30 days,
guess which one I'd least prefer to do?
Now guess which one I've been doing all morning?
BUT, it's done, and things seem to be not quite as horrid as I originally thought. I've been avoiding working on the finances because I was worried that I'd have to go 60 days on a bill or two in order to pay for my gas to Oregon, but it turns out that we're going to squeak by. (I got paid for my unused sick leave at school at the end of May.) We can even make our debt repayment installment to my mother-in-law this month, which had been making me very nervous. This makes me happy.
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Neat, it's a smart chicken coop, at regular intervals it plays classical music for them.
I wonder if that's how they get the Omega-3 in the eggs.
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Mainly for LM, because she knows Shiro and his insatiable appetite for terrible movies.
Shiro: OK. Here's my "official" review of the movie: It sucked.
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Its super warm today. I feel miserable.I know what you mean; it might break 70°F today.
Oh, wait. No I don't.
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This Year's Father's Day:
A nice, peaceful Sunday as everyone forgot about it. Then Impus Major woke up at 12:15 pm today, started surfing the web, said, "Oh, yeah, yesterday was Father's Day," then ran off to the corner store.
So a couple of minutes ago, the Impii walked up to me with Impus Minor banging on a drum, presented me with a blank receipt-sized scrap of paper that said, "Hapy Hankah Dab! Imp 8. Help"
I said, "Where's my banana?"
Impus Minor pulled a banana out from behind his back and handed it to me.
"Where's my penny?"
Impus Major pulled a penny out of his pocket and handed it to me.
"Where's my tape?"
"Budget cuts."
Then Impus Minor took a bite out of the banana (peel and all), threw it back on my desk, and they walked off.
I love my kids.
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Mainly for LM, because she knows Shiro and his insatiable appetite for terrible movies.
Shiro: OK. Here's my "official" review of the movie: It sucked.
GothBard: My review was far more eloquent: The first third of the movie was pleasant, albeit slow paced before the entire movie dissolved into a morass of failed potential.
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This Year's Father's Day:
A nice, peaceful Sunday as everyone forgot about it. Then Impus Major woke up at 12:15 pm today, started surfing the web, said, "Oh, yeah, yesterday was Father's Day," then ran off to the corner store.So a couple of minutes ago, the Impii walked up to me with Impus Minor banging on a drum, presented me with a blank receipt-sized scrap of paper that said, "Hapy Hankah Dab! Imp 8. Help"
Hannukah Dabs are a thing now, hey?
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And LO, did a clubbe member see an Japanysse Moving Luminous Tapestry of 'Realystyque Ninjja Combatte Traynyge' with 10ft wobbly poles and daggeres, and thought, 'We muste hath 10ft wobbly poles and daggeres tonyght at HEMA', and we diddeth, and it wath ridyculousse.
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And so I finished Commander Lilith...
Well, I have one side quest to finish to get a sniper rifle... But that needs to wait 'til tomorrow. I need to go to bed now.
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This story's for Freehold. Maybe.
So yesterday on the way to Mrs Sunrise's birthday escape room event, she wanted coffee. So when we saw a sign for "Bikini Beans Coffee," she said "Oh good, let's stop there." The sign should have been a clue, but neither of us thought anything of it. We pull up to the beachcomber style coffee stand, and out walks a 120-pounds-soaking-wet 20-something in a bikini to take our order.
Mrs Sunrise's comment to me: I guess it's your birthday too!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MRS SUNRISE!
Directions to the abscondi-cave will be sent to you momentarily, please enjoy this 100 dollar gift card. That's right, as everything is free in the abscondi-cave, I will pay YOU to party there!
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Hello party people.
My S.O. likes to point out girls she thinks are hot to me. So we can both nod and go yelp.
That was in response to tequila not just a random fact.
Oh and happy birthday to the lot of you.
Hm. Irritating. I can't find "tiers of play" for the old 3e/3.5e or PF games. Instead, I keep getting referred to "tiers of classes" which, while appreciated, is not what I'm looking for.
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I've not heard that term before.
What is teirs of play?
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That makes sense. I may have had my vocabulary infected by later editions - that might be a reason I'm not finding what I'm looking for (though I thought it was the language used).
Tiers of play essentially tells you what kinds of adventures you tend to go on, depending on your level.
As a made-up half-example:
1-3: village heroes
4-6: heroes of the city
7-9: heroes of region
10-12: heroes of the country
13-15: heroes of continent
16-19: heroes of world
20+: heroes of forever
Obviously it doesn't quite line up like that; I literally just took groups of three levels and made up something about them. You could go into more specifics, like:
1-3: village heroes - At this tier of play, the PCs are generally facing threats that might threaten a few people, or even a small village. Perhaps saving a child lost in the woods, a farmer's daughter that was kidnapped by a small gang of thugs, or exploring an old graveyard said to be haunted.
(Again, this is just made up by me just now.)
Basically, I'm trying to find the "scope" expected at different levels of play across the 3e-to-PF systems.
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I don't think the tiers of gameplay were defined before 4th edition (which had 1-10, 10-20, and 20-30 explicitly listed). I think the GMs were supposed to decide for themselves the scope of adventures in relation to party level.
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I thought Tears of Play was something created by a tough GM.
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I have heard of that concept before. I usually keep pretty well to it as well. I get upset if I'm first level and already working directly for a king or god or what have you.
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So, I had lunch in the General's hometown yesterday, because her whole family went off on these "great places to eat" and wow, was it TERRIBLE!
Even more inedible then White Castle, or Old Country Buffet (I've gotten food poisoning three times in my life, twice from Old Country Buffet).
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I've been to places that my friends say were awesome but It made me think I was gonna die. One place in particular was an all you can eat fried seafood restaurant. So sick. so very sick. It didn't even taste that good.
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So, I had lunch in the General's hometown yesterday, because her whole family went off on these "great places to eat" and wow, was it TERRIBLE!
Even more inedible then White Castle, or Old Country Buffet (I've gotten food poisoning three times in my life, twice from Old Country Buffet).
DRUNKEN LIES! WHITE CASTLE FOREVER!
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Our kindom in Kingmaker is steadily growing.
Its twice as large as the town I grew up in now.
KINGMAKER FOREVER!
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*hugs* Woran
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Our kindom in Kingmaker is steadily growing.
Its twice as large as the town I grew up in now.
That wouldn't take much for me.
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Not even 8:30am and people are already burning popcorn in the break room. It's bad enough that I'm shocked the fire alarm hasn't been triggered.
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So, I had lunch in the General's hometown yesterday, because her whole family went off on these "great places to eat" and wow, was it TERRIBLE!
Even more inedible then White Castle, or Old Country Buffet (I've gotten food poisoning three times in my life, twice from Old Country Buffet).
Old Country Buffet...thanks for that disgusting memory. I think I'm going back down to the break room to smell something delightful by comparison.
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Are there any consistently good US chain restaurants?
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The Adult Kid is coming into town to visit for the first time in a couple years. I think she's getting here on Tuesday.
The Adult Kid missed her flight.