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Thanks all for the hugs, everyone. :)
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So, you're saying if I drink an extra glass of milk, then I'll be able to kill Wade?
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Thanks all for the hugs, everyone. :)
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Congrats!
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So, you're saying if I drink an extra glass of milk, then I'll be able to kill Wade?Thanks all for the hugs, everyone. :)
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What the f++*, man!
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So, you're saying if I drink an extra glass of milk, then I'll be able to kill Wade?Thanks all for the hugs, everyone. :)
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yes.
Please.
Kill him.
In the face.
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Do I have to come home from Seattle? Can’t I just stay here?
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We're below freezing for the first time this fall.
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Haha!
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That's going to be a definitive pass for me.
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Even though Cap Yesterday doesnt like simming, I would still like to propose the FaWtL swimming event, so we can see how everyone swims/floats.
Let's do it.
Shall we just go backwards and forwards across the North Sea, or do we have to meet the Americans halfway in the middle of the Atlantic?
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Haha!
Oh crap, a cunning use of flags!
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That's going to be a definitive pass for me.
but cap. You get to see me in a swimsuit.
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That's going to be a definitive pass for me.but cap. You get to see me in a swimsuit.
I dread to think how does Freehold's swimsuit looks like...
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Spandex is everybody's freind.
In other news, I am on the horns of a Dilemma (CR10)
Should I buy the greatsword?
On the one hand, Iam trying to save money, and also want to avoid buying anything on credit.
On the other hand... it's a greatsword...
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Spandex is everybody's freind.
Hrm...
In other news, I am on the horns of a Dilemma (CR10)
Hrm! This is a powerful delimma.
Should I buy the greatsword?
On the one hand, Iam trying to save money, and also want to avoid buying anything on credit.
On the other hand... it's a greatsword...
You should make the responsible choice - the thing that allows you to build for a better, brighter future. Obviously I mean you should purchase the greatsword. :V
EDIT: I'm so good at coding...
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Even though Cap Yesterday doesnt like simming, I would still like to propose the FaWtL swimming event, so we can see how everyone swims/floats.
I will win.
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Spandex is everybody's freind.
In other news, I am on the horns of a Dilemma (CR10)
Should I buy the greatsword?
On the one hand, Iam trying to save money, and also want to avoid buying anything on credit.
On the other hand... it's a greatsword...
You need to buy it, of course.
And then take it everywhere with you, like that gal on Instagram who bought a replica Uruk-Hai blade and then photographed herself using it in everyday life.| 4 people marked this as a favorite. |
I tried an amazing local beer today.
A smoked maple Russian Imperial Stout, bourbon barrel-aged, and it was not, contrary to expectations, too sweet.
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Even though Cap Yesterday doesnt like simming, I would still like to propose the FaWtL swimming event, so we can see how everyone swims/floats.I will win.
Not at floating, because I have no patience for that s***, but distance/endurance swimming, I would stake actual money on my chances.
Vany(throwing buckets of water into Freehold's face as he runs down the street): You're a bum! When I'm done with you, you'll swim thunder and breathe lightning!
Freehold(coughing, sputterint): That sounds dangerous! When are we going to actually get in a pool to...you know...swim?
Vany: You're a swimming machine!
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I tried an amazing local beer today.
A smoked maple Russian Imperial Stout, bourbon barrel-aged, and it was not, contrary to expectations, too sweet.
Sounds pretty good. Sickly-gooey tasting stouts are always disappointing, so if they've made something around the 7-12% mark that doesn't taste like treacle, that's good work.
Sounds pretty good. Sickly-gooey tasting stouts are always disappointing, so if they've made something around the 7-12% mark that doesn't taste like treacle, that's good work.I tried an amazing local beer today.
A smoked maple Russian Imperial Stout, bourbon barrel-aged, and it was not, contrary to expectations, too sweet.
10.7%
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Even though Cap Yesterday doesnt like simming, I would still like to propose the FaWtL swimming event, so we can see how everyone swims/floats.I will win.
Not at floating, because I have no patience for that s***, but distance/endurance swimming, I would stake actual money on my chances.
Vany(throwing buckets of water into Freehold's face as he runs down the street): You're a bum! When I'm done with you, you'll swim thunder and breathe lightning!
Freehold(coughing, sputterint): That sounds dangerous! When are we going to actually get in a pool to...you know...swim?
Vany: You're a swimming machine!
Are you Merman?
YES YOU ARE MERMAN.
MERMAN = FREEHOLD. FREEHOLD = MERMAN.
10.7%Sounds pretty good. Sickly-gooey tasting stouts are always disappointing, so if they've made something around the 7-12% mark that doesn't taste like treacle, that's good work.I tried an amazing local beer today.
A smoked maple Russian Imperial Stout, bourbon barrel-aged, and it was not, contrary to expectations, too sweet.
I must try.
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Even though Cap Yesterday doesnt like simming, I would still like to propose the FaWtL swimming event, so we can see how everyone swims/floats.I will win.
Not at floating, because I have no patience for that s***, but distance/endurance swimming, I would stake actual money on my chances.
Vany(throwing buckets of water into Freehold's face as he runs down the street): You're a bum! When I'm done with you, you'll swim thunder and breathe lightning!
Freehold(coughing, sputterint): That sounds dangerous! When are we going to actually get in a pool to...you know...swim?
Vany: You're a swimming machine!
You do understand that I have a sick enough mind to think up tortures you will never have the understanding to consider and I will call them "training exercises". Right? You understand this?
Now stop running. You're through Phase I of your warm up.
You're going to speed crawl down the length of Lake Shore Drive, and I have an effectively endless supply of water just to the east. And then I'm going to have Zelda's Boy, a 15-year-old high school football player, "coach" you into keeping the pace up. Watch out for traffic.
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So, I'm running a game set in the Tiger & Bunny universe, but in the Miami-analogue instead (destroyed by a series of hurricanes in 1950, rebuilt as OK City and linked by underground-and-over-island rail ways directly to Havana-and-Matanzas Haven City - the two may as well be the same city, really) with the new branch, HeroTV2, broadcasting the exploits of that city's heroes across the city and the world, and set nine years later in 1988.
Run by the ex-vigilante who legally changed his name, CEO Neo Stone, the new branch of HeroTV and Apollon Corp ("HeroTV2") has proven a wildly popular local spin-off, and has attracted and created a large roster.
The heroes in this city include:
- GoGo-Let'sGo! (sponsors: Padlock-Dadeland Millennial Mall, Burger Bell, and Taco King); power: psycho-lightning generating small gates through space-time (elemental/psychic type)
- Force Shield (sponsors: MDPD Public Relations, Shield Hygenics); power: shield made of force energy (psychic type)
- Wild Puncher (sponsor: Treecozia.com); power: extreme physical capability (power type)
- Jetting Water (sponsors: )
- Good Times (sponsors: )
- Wildling (sponsors: )
- Heave-Ho! (sponsors: )
... to name a few. And that's just the A-List heroes! There's an entire lineup of B-list and C-list heroes who deal with crimes that - while perhaps less exciting - are still important to handle!
So tune in to your local station to catch the next exciting episode of HeroTV2: Live!
EDIT: If you'd like to submit your Hero for HeroTV2, please do, but remember to give:
- a name,
- costume,
- type (and power),
- and (importantly) a sponsor!
Also make sure to mention whether they're an A-List, B-List, or C-List hero!
Your Hero could soon be appearing on an episode of HeroTV: LIVE!
(If you just want to help me out and create sponsors for heroes already listed, instead, feel free! This is not a request, just an offer if you'd think it's fun.)
So, I'm running a game set in the Tiger & Bunny universe, but in the Miami-analogue instead (destroyed by a series of hurricanes in 1950, rebuilt as OK City and linked by underground-and-over-island rail ways directly to
Havana-and-MatanzasHaven City - the two may as well be the same city, really) with the new branch, HeroTV2, broadcasting the exploits of that city's heroes across the city and the world, and set nine years later in 1988.
Run by the ex-vigilante who legally changed his name, CEO Neo Stone, the new branch of HeroTV and Apollon Corp ("HeroTV2") has proven a wildly popular local spin-off, and has attracted and created a large roster.
The heroes in this city include:
- GoGo-Let'sGo! (sponsors: Padlock-Dadeland Millennial Mall, Burger Bell, and Taco King)
- Force Shield (sponsors: MDPD Public Relations, Shield Hygenics)
- Wild Puncher (sponsor: Treecozia.com)
- Jetting Water (sponsors: )
- Good Times (sponsors: )...
Anyway, the prelude episode ("Episode 0" - first crime) went really well! It was a one-off encounter and I acted like the announcer as the characters rolled initiative, showed up at the scene (a bank robbery) and foiled the bad guys. We tallied up points thereafter.
(All, as it turns out, got 500 points.)
We're using the 4E chassis because the Powers system works pretty well, but we're using the psionics conceit (at will powers that can be Augmented; the Augmentations replacing Encounter powers) to model the effects.
We've identified several types of NEXT:
- animus-type (imbuing energy or mobility into objects or an area)
- elemental-type (power themed after a particular element)
- morphic-type (power built around transformation)
- power-type (power functioning by physical augmentation or ability)
- psychic-type (power channeled through psionic abilities)
Though NEXT are born with a single power, most can find multiple ways of using it, and a given NEXT's power can be based on up to two types.
GoGo is an elemental (electric, lightning)/psionic-type NEXT who's psycho-lightning is fantastic at battlefield control, and seemingly allows him to open gates.
- Costume: "Purple with yellow lightning designs"
Wild is a power-type NEXT who's physical abilities are entirely unmatched. He carries an iron shield and plows into his foes to bash them with surprising agility for such a big and bulky man.
- Costume: "Basically Wild Tiger's old costume; not the new costume, but the old one, 'cause it's better"
Ms. Shield is a psychic-type NEXT who's power is the ability to project and maintain force shields and energies.
- Costume: "The colors are blue, and sparkly"
There's a lot more to do before we're ready to make this game "serious" (if it ever gets there) but the first session was silly and an absolute blast!
GoGo went first (reasonable) and slammed into a gun-wielding perpetrator, taking him down instantly!
Though Force would have gone next, she delayed by sneaking through the battlefield to the suspects in order to protect them from any repercussions.
That allowed Wild to surge in, storming into the middle of a group who'd stolen riot gear from police and he absolutely tore them apart (and is now wielding a shield taken from them as part of his costume/equipment .
The final robber decided to make a get-away by causing problems and lobbed a grenade at the tellers... but Force was already in place and her shield went up, blocking the grenade and knocking it right back down at the robber and into the main, empty room...
Though it was a grenade, and was built to hurt, it wasn't made to be lethal, and the robber survived, attempting a run, only to be taken down by GoGo at the last second!
All-in-all a successful episode of HeroTV, as the criminals, apprehended, were turned over to the authorities!
Even though Cap Yesterday doesnt like simming, I would still like to propose the FaWtL swimming event, so we can see how everyone swims/floats.I will win.
Not at floating, because I have no patience for that s***, but distance/endurance swimming, I would stake actual money on my chances.
Vany(throwing buckets of water into Freehold's face as he runs down the street): You're a bum! When I'm done with you, you'll swim thunder and breathe lightning!
Freehold(coughing, sputterint): That sounds dangerous! When are we going to actually get in a pool to...you know...swim?
Vany: You're a swimming machine!
You do understand that I have a sick enough mind to think up tortures you will never have the understanding to consider and I will call them "training exercises". Right? You understand this?
Now stop running. You're through Phase I of your warm up.
You're going to speed crawl down the length of Lake Shore Drive, and I have an effectively endless supply of water just to the east. And then I'm going to have Zelda's Boy, a 15-year-old high school football player, "coach" you into keeping the pace up. Watch out for traffic.
Oh, so you're trying to turn him into Hairo. There are worse fates.
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Twenty five years ago I was a water lovin otter-child.
Today I might die before LM finished her third lap.
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HEY FREEHOLD! Romancing SaGa 3 will be on Steam in November! =D
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Even though Cap Yesterday doesnt like simming, I would still like to propose the FaWtL swimming event, so we can see how everyone swims/floats.I will win.
Not at floating, because I have no patience for that s***, but distance/endurance swimming, I would stake actual money on my chances.
Vany(throwing buckets of water into Freehold's face as he runs down the street): You're a bum! When I'm done with you, you'll swim thunder and breathe lightning!
Freehold(coughing, sputterint): That sounds dangerous! When are we going to actually get in a pool to...you know...swim?
Vany: You're a swimming machine!
You do understand that I have a sick enough mind to think up tortures you will never have the understanding to consider and I will call them "training exercises". Right? You understand this?
Now stop running. You're through Phase I of your warm up.
You're going to speed crawl down the length of Lake Shore Drive, and I have an effectively endless supply of water just to the east. And then I'm going to have Zelda's Boy, a 15-year-old high school football player, "coach" you into keeping the pace up. Watch out for traffic.
Freehold(exhausted): How will any of this lead to me defeating lisamarlene in the FAWTSWIMLYMPICS?!
Vany: That's a question only Taskmaster Zelda's Boy can help you solve.
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HEY FREEHOLD! Romancing SaGa 3 will be on Steam in November! =D
YES
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I was wanting to watch one of my very favorite October movies, but the kids aren't quite old enough for it and WW is snooty about it. Something about it only getting 20% on Rotten Tomatoes and only getting made in the first place because Dow Chemical had money they couldn't take out of Yugoslavia.
It's a screwy, dorky, fantastic movie with one of Carole Kane's goofiest performances.
Here it is for free: Transylvania 6-5000.
Meanwhile, WW has promised to watch my favorite artsy October movie, Shadow of the Vampire, with me later this month.
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Even though Cap Yesterday doesnt like simming, I would still like to propose the FaWtL swimming event, so we can see how everyone swims/floats.Let's do it.
Shall we just go backwards and forwards across the North Sea, or do we have to meet the Americans halfway in the middle of the Atlantic?
We could meet up halfway, in iceland? Find a nice hot volcanic pool? Cap Yesterday can be in charge of grilling stuff over the lava.
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I was wanting to watch one of my very favorite October movies, but the kids aren't quite old enough for it and WW is snooty about it. Something about it only getting 20% on Rotten Tomatoes and only getting made in the first place because Dow Chemical had money they couldn't take out of Yugoslavia.
It's a screwy, dorky, fantastic movie with one of Carole Kane's goofiest performances.
Here it is for free: Transylvania 6-5000.Meanwhile, WW has promised to watch my favorite artsy October movie, Shadow of the Vampire, with me later this month.
why does that last sound familiar? What's it about?
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why does that last sound familiar? What's it about?I was wanting to watch one of my very favorite October movies, but the kids aren't quite old enough for it and WW is snooty about it. Something about it only getting 20% on Rotten Tomatoes and only getting made in the first place because Dow Chemical had money they couldn't take out of Yugoslavia.
It's a screwy, dorky, fantastic movie with one of Carole Kane's goofiest performances.
Here it is for free: Transylvania 6-5000.Meanwhile, WW has promised to watch my favorite artsy October movie, Shadow of the Vampire, with me later this month.
Willem Dafoe as Max Schrek. It imagines that, when he made the classic "Nosferatu", F.W. Murnau found an actual vampire to "play" the monster in his movie (which I think is based on an old rumor surrounding that film). John Malkovich plays the director.
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Willem Dafoe as Max Schrek. It imagines that, when he made the classic "Nosferatu", F.W. Murnau found an actual vampire to "play" the monster in his movie (which I think is based on an old rumor surrounding that film). John Malkovich plays the director.why does that last sound familiar? What's it about?I was wanting to watch one of my very favorite October movies, but the kids aren't quite old enough for it and WW is snooty about it. Something about it only getting 20% on Rotten Tomatoes and only getting made in the first place because Dow Chemical had money they couldn't take out of Yugoslavia.
It's a screwy, dorky, fantastic movie with one of Carole Kane's goofiest performances.
Here it is for free: Transylvania 6-5000.Meanwhile, WW has promised to watch my favorite artsy October movie, Shadow of the Vampire, with me later this month.
Coooooool
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Cooking experiment:
I still had some leftover cinnamon french toast batter after I'd used the last slice of bread, and there were half a dozen corn tortillas in the fridge from our last taco night, so I crumbled them up, soaked them in the batter for 15 minutes, and made a cross between french toast and chilaquiles. The sweet batter made them taste kinda like sopapillas. It would have been so much better if there were some bacon ends mixed in, though.
Except now I want *real* chilaquiles.
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I have a window garden of much produce. I finally got my first edible product today!
That's right, after planting 50 cents worth of seeds, and a month and a half of work, we have...
...a dollar worth of cilantro.
Meanwhile, tomatoes, lettuce, and everything that will sprout into something worth more than a 50 cent profit is taking it's sweet-ass time.
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Geez... just *SO* typical and yet again makes me ecstatic I now have a full Linux box running.
For those who use Macs and actually allow Apple to update your software, release 10.15 (Catalina) officially disables 32-bit apps. So if you've been using a Mac for a while, oh, things on my Mac that would die include Editra (a nice text editor), Paragon (mount Windows drives), Diablo III, League of Legends, and my corporate web conference software.
Yeah, I *could* replace most of them, but the point is, there is *no* reason to remove 32-bit support other than sheer laziness: QAing your 32-bit support costs money, Apple happens to be swimming in money right now, but they're cost-cutting anyway, just to be jerks.
Windows 10 has 32-bit support. All flavors of Linux have 32-bit support. Apple removing 32-bit support feels punitive and lazy.
And yep. System Update is now permanently off on my Mac.
Good job, Apple!
EDIT: And I wouldn't be so incensed if they'd just be honest about it. "As a cost-cutting measure, we will no longer be providing support to 32-bit applications. Use them at your own risk."
Instead, it's, "For your security, we're removing support for 32-bit applications."
I call b***s**t.
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And I used to swim 2-3 miles around Abbot's Lagoon for fun, so I'll take on Lisamarlene on the "endurance challenge". Why not?
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And I used to swim 2-3 miles around Abbot's Lagoon for fun, so I'll take on Lisamarlene on the "endurance challenge". Why not?
It's not like it will gonna happen anytime soon anyway...
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*grumble-grumble*
I need to put on some clothes and go out...
*grumble-grumble*
Stupid elections...
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I swear, you could ask Adobe to make a simple text editor or Cisco to make a basic CD player and they'd manage to make them grossly insecure.
Adobe: Well, of course we had to install an update tool that runs on startup with administrative privileges! How else are we going to keep the text editor up-to-date? And who could have possibly foreseen that our always-on, always-listening administrative-level update service would have gaping security holes allowing compromise of a user's entire system? You wanted a "basic text editor". We gave you one. We could not possibly have foreseen that the updater might have been an issue...
Cisco: Well, of course we put in an open wireless connection on your CD player! No one would buy one if we didn't, even if it wasn't in your specs! And yes, we realize that hard-coding the administrative password in our source code wasn't the wisest of moves, but we're re-training our engineers (again) to stop doing that (again), so it won't happen again (again).