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So, having loaned my copy to someone years ago and never having it un-loaned, I finally broke down and ordered a new paperback of Good Omens. Kindle just wasn't right, what with how it handles footnotes. It's getting here almost a full week earlier than Amazon predicted.
...on the down?side, it's got me listening to a lot of Queen. Which means that's going to be in my head when I run 5e people through kobold trap hell.
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...I mean, I'm sure there are plenty of accounts of naked Freddie Mercury.
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...on the down?side, it's got me listening to a lot of Queen. Which means that's going to be in my head when I run 5e people through kobold trap hell.A kobold skald with Freddie Mercury's voice & theatrics sounds awesome.
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...on the down?side, it's got me listening to a lot of Queen. Which means that's going to be in my head when I run 5e people through kobold trap hell.
A kobold skald with Freddie Mercury's voice & theatrics sounds awesome.
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I actually need to come up with a few more one-off ideas. FLGS has a continuity-focused guild, so while my table is never constant, everything we do is canon, so we are able to do quest chains so long as every night has a "stop and return to base" point.
So I'm running an Old Kingdom-inspired fetch-quest, and kobold hell is starting it off.
They're the Abhorsen bells. The kobolds found the one based on Ranna and don't know what to do with it, but it smells magic, and the tall people want it, so clearly it must be good!
The other six are scattered in various places. One of them got found by a collector, so I'm going to have that one as a fancy party for social infiltration. I think I might have another turn up in an auction that they have to scare the other bidders off from. At least one will be in a crypt.
But I'm also introducing a necromancer and minions who are going to start racing the tables to getting it. Our tables have to wrap at 10:30/11 so the store can close, so there's the failure condition - don't puzzle out the way to get Thing by then, necromancer gets it. Kind of a Mother 3 situation - whichever faction gets more of the plot devices will determine how things go.
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I have a soft spot for Progressive Flo ever since ages ago when I was recovering from surgery and dozing in front of daytime TV, and the Progressive commercials always made me smile. (As opposed to many of the other commercials on daytime TV.) I'm sure it's just because the Tylenox made me susceptible to her brainwashing, but still.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to sacrifice a goat in Flo's honor.
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I welcome AI but insurance is a scam where the government forces you to participate in gambling that you cannot win at - even when you get a payout your premiums go up.
Premiums should roll over until you have a bankroll to pay your own accident costs and you no longer pay into. I mean if we can force people to gamble, why not force them to have a savings account instead?
The answer is because banks don't have as good lobbyists as insurance companies, because one is a business that loans it's resources out at a risk and has something to lose if their gamble doesn't pay off, while the other is a scam run by people who should have various limbs inserted into running food processors and then dipped in salt and washed with vinegar.
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Did I mention I used to work for State Farm as a transcriptionist until my job was offloaded to India? In the Jacksonville, Florida branch. Sue me, f~$$ers, I have nothing to take. I would tell you my boss's name and everything if I could remember. F*@% them.
99.9999% of my letters were "your claim is rejected because we don't cover..." And then a quote from their plan pointing out they don't cover f&#!ing anything that actually happens to houses, cars, etc.
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Uuuuuuugh. Storm delayed getting here until Tuuuuuuueeeesday. I mean, come on, weather! I know you don’t like me, but are you even serious about our friendship? And what’s all this about calling me, “B-baka?”
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6pm?! Already?! But it was a noon when I installed Slay The Spire moments ago...
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I am convinced Flo is a harbinger of the singularity.And Chandler is the har-har Bing-er of the singles hilarity.
my hatred for friends is considerable. It destroyed my town.
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...on the down?side, it's got me listening to a lot of Queen. Which means that's going to be in my head when I run 5e people through kobold trap hell.A kobold skald with Freddie Mercury's voice & theatrics sounds awesome.
you stole it...before she made it?
Your mastery of time is awe inspiring.
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I have a soft spot for Progressive Flo ever since ages ago when I was recovering from surgery and dozing in front of daytime TV, and the Progressive commercials always made me smile. (As opposed to many of the other commercials on daytime TV.) I'm sure it's just because the Tylenox made me susceptible to her brainwashing, but still.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to sacrifice a goat in Flo's honor.
The...The tylenox has worked, mistress. DeathQuaker is yours.
Shadowy Figure:
Ah, I see you have already recieved the goat.
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So, having loaned my copy to someone years ago and never having it un-loaned, I finally broke down and ordered a new paperback of Good Omens. Kindle just wasn't right, what with how it handles footnotes. It's getting here almost a full week earlier than Amazon predicted.
...on the down?side, it's got me listening to a lot of Queen. Which means that's going to be in my head when I run 5e people through kobold trap hell.
a naked english teacher, reading quietly, seems quite appropriate.
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Uuuuuuugh. Storm delayed getting here until Tuuuuuuueeeesday. I mean, come on, weather! I know you don’t like me, but are you even serious about our friendship? And what’s all this about calling me, “B-baka?”
I died.
I am dead now.
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...on the down?side, it's got me listening to a lot of Queen. Which means that's going to be in my head when I run 5e people through kobold trap hell.A kobold skald with Freddie Mercury's voice & theatrics sounds awesome.you stole it...before she made it?
Your mastery of time is awe inspiring.
{documentary voiceover:} If you do the Time Warp dance while singing from the Rocky Horror soundtrack, nothing happens. If you do it while instead singing along with Queen and orbiting around the Sun, you can actually travel through time. The grinding sound of the TARDIS as it (re)materializes is actually the temporal subharmonics of Sir Brian May's guitar amplified through a quantum badger so human ears can hear it.
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{documentary voiceover:} If you do the Time Warp dance while singing from the Rocky Horror soundtrack, nothing happens. If you do it while instead singing along with Queen and orbiting around the Sun, you can actually travel through time. The grinding sound of the TARDIS as it (re)materializes is actually the temporal subharmonics of Sir Brian May's guitar amplified through a quantum badger so human ears can hear it....on the down?side, it's got me listening to a lot of Queen. Which means that's going to be in my head when I run 5e people through kobold trap hell.A kobold skald with Freddie Mercury's voice & theatrics sounds awesome.you stole it...before she made it?
Your mastery of time is awe inspiring.
You again?! How in the Heaven did you fit into the glove compartment? Out! Out!
*spritzes with cold-iron-laced holy water*
And stay out of my plants!
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You never did tell me how you get those plants so lush and green.
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What was that last bit?
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Ah, yes, of course. All a bit ineffable, really.
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Who has two thumbs and a new phone with a battery that won’t die in a few minutes?!?
*looks at self, notices am just some dice lacking thumbs*
Oh, come on!!
EDIT: who knew min-maxing to such extent could ever come back to haunt me!
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If I weren't so lazy I would make an Itty Bitty Living Space Gamer alias just for the joke of foiling the above.
"But you are lazy, right?"
"Ah, don't get me started!"
Hey! There are no rules about morale penalty due to tiny living spaces!
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Anyone else have these days:
Me: "Wow, life has been good lately."
Brain: "Feel guilty about innocuous thing you did."
Me: "...but...that isn't anything new. I always do that."
Brain: "Seems to me you have a lot of guilt and hating yourself to catch up with."
Me: "...but...but...I have been better than usual lately!"
Brain: "Seems to me that means we should feel even MORE guilty and hate ourselces EVEN MORE because if this is good you have been even worse of an example of humanity than I was originally blaming you for!"
Me: "That's illogical! And mean!"
Brain: "So you're saying you should also hate yourself for how much you hate yourself..."
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Hey! There are no rules about morale penalty due to tiny living spaces!
Tell that to Robin Williams and Jafar
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Hey! There are no rules about morale penalty due to tiny living spaces!
Glad to see that my house classifies as "small", but not "tiny".
As an 80s punker, I cannot be part of any movement.
Unless some horrible creature devours me, I guess. Then it's just nature.
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"Well, you have a tipping job, so we only need to pay you $2.13 an hour. Your tips will make up for it."
"But I live in rural Texas!"
"It'll be fine. Don't worry."
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Diner: "Things have been tight lately, but I finally saved up enough to take my family out to dinner. What? A tip? Sorry, we don't have the money for that. Isn't that why the restaurant pays you in the first place?"
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Yeah, I was just reading an article in Time about the economy tightening up, and that it's likely to hit service workers first, and especially those who rely on tips, and you realize that it really does boil down to management saying, "Yeah, it's not *MY* fault that I don't pay you a living wage! That's the law! Blame the patrons who don't tip!"
And yeah, I know there are a LOT of well-off so-and-sos who don't tip because they think it's funny, but I'm betting there are an equal number of not-so-well-offs who would tip if they COULD, but if they had to tip they wouldn't be able to go out. And even kids like Impus Major, who knows he's supposed to tip, but is so unclear on the concept that I'll have to have a talk with him because I just saw one of his bank charges where he added a $1 tip to a $26 meal. I know Impus Major wants to do right and can afford it, so it was just an honest, "I don't know how much I'm supposed to give."
Just SUCH an execrable system.
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Tell that to Robin Williams and JafarHey! There are no rules about morale penalty due to tiny living spaces!
They stopped returning his calls.
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We're at the taste of Madison.
It is packed!
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I was at the Derya Yildirim gig.
It was not quite packed, and most of the people there were 1st year undergraduates, by the looks of things. Extremely good performance, nonetheless.
One bloke was sporting a bleached blonde curly bob/mullet, which probably makes him the High King of Hipsterland or something.
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We went to the 4H junior rodeo at the state fairgrounds this morning.
Lots of 8-12 year olds barrel racing and roping calves.
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"A Doomsday device you say! Ah, now the ball's in Farnsworth's court!! I suppose I could part with one and still be feared" - Professor Farnsworth, Futurama.
Uuuuuuugh. Storm delayed getting here until Tuuuuuuueeeesday. I mean, come on, weather! I know you don’t like me, but are you even serious about our friendship? And what’s all this about calling me, “B-baka?”I died.
I am dead now.
Oh, no! Live, dang it! Liiiiiiiiivvvvvve!
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Taste of Madison? Sooo.....cheese and PBR?We're at the taste of Madison.
It is packed!
Yup, pretty much.
One of the highlights was PBR battered fish tacos.
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Taste of Madison? Sooo.....cheese and PBR?We're at the taste of Madison.
It is packed!
Yup, pretty much.
One of the highlights was PBR battered fish tacos.
Woooow...
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F%+! it's a Cat 5 now.
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That both sucks and blows.
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I need to let the wind out of it's sail.
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I need to let the wind out of it's sail.
Nuke it, it's the only way to be sure.
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We went to the 4H junior rodeo at the state fairgrounds this morning.
Lots of 8-12 year olds barrel racing and roping calves.
Sounds fun.
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I need to let the wind out of it's sail.Nuke it, it's the only way to be sure.