Uuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhggggggggggggg.
So, my dryer is fixed, but I have learned that my vent is apparently blocked to extreme degrees.
So... roof-walk plus clean a vent, I guess.
EDIT:
*definitely clothed while outside*
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I just want to say that those are not my pants that you are about to find on your roof.
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*SIGH*.
Really, Global Megacorporation?
My job for today is to verify that all the labs from the previous release still work on the latest release.
Know what they changed?
Apostrophes and other special characters are no longer allowed in the Description field.
So "NobodysHome's Rule" is suddenly verboten.
Global Megacorporation... too lazy to parse strings correctly in... forever...
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Hallooooooooo
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*SIGH*.
Really, Global Megacorporation?
My job for today is to verify that all the labs from the previous release still work on the latest release.
Know what they changed?
Apostrophes and other special characters are no longer allowed in the Description field.
So "NobodysHome's Rule" is suddenly verboten.
Global Megacorporation... too lazy to parse strings correctly in... forever...
/facepalm
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Since we have a lot of D&D players who feel limited by the lack of options in 5e at our game location, and want to sniff pathfinder, I figured Id take a sniff at 5e back. Just so I could inform the players better of differences.
So I figured Id be nice and lawfull and buy a PDF of the player's handbook.
OH BOY ARE THEY STILL A BUNCH OF D*CKS AT WIZARDS.
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Today's ghost is the Terror Of The Mead Glade.
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A plane crashed on our main thoroughfare today. So that’s a thing that can happen, apparently.
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A plane crashed on our main thoroughfare today. So that’s a thing that can happen, apparently.
If it doesn't start with "Florida Man" it doesn't count...
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A plane crashed on our main thoroughfare today. So that’s a thing that can happen, apparently.If it doesn't start with "Florida Man" it doesn't count...
Counts enough to add an extra half-hour (at minimum) to everything we do.
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Since we have a lot of D&D players who feel limited by the lack of options in 5e at our game location, and want to sniff pathfinder, I figured Id take a sniff at 5e back. Just so I could inform the players better of differences.
So I figured Id be nice and lawfull and buy a PDF of the player's handbook.
OH BOY ARE THEY STILL A BUNCH OF D*CKS AT WIZARDS.
You can get the basic rules as a system reference document pdf here. It cuts away a lot of options leaving only the core rules and some basic choices (practically all classes have some of specialization such as school, domain, etc., this one contains only one specialization per class). No feats, not all spells, some of the monsters, etc.
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What the what, this actually exists.
I mean, it's at least semi-similar to strange beliefs we harbor about spiders, but... it's literally being afraid you're pregnant with puppies.
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I just want to say that those are not my pants that you are about to find on your roof.
You don't want them back, then?
You can get the basic rules as a system reference document pdf here. It cuts away a lot of options leaving only the core rules and some basic choices (practically all classes have some of specialization such as school, domain, etc., this one contains only one specialization per class). No feats, not all spells, some of the monsters, etc.Since we have a lot of D&D players who feel limited by the lack of options in 5e at our game location, and want to sniff pathfinder, I figured Id take a sniff at 5e back. Just so I could inform the players better of differences.
So I figured Id be nice and lawfull and buy a PDF of the player's handbook.
OH BOY ARE THEY STILL A BUNCH OF D*CKS AT WIZARDS.
Okay, so my post recommending (and linking to) d20srd.org has vanished for reasons unknown.
I'm not really sure why this occurred, but I won't link to it again, other than just mention it here, now. It has basic 5e stuff, along with the standard 3.5 stuff and quite a lot of PF content. I have not explored the latter, but discovered it was an impressive amount tonight (I usually use the 3.5 stuff; I have better 5e stuff). Anyway, hope that helps!
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What the what, this actually exists.
I mean, it's at least semi-similar to strange beliefs we harbor about spiders, but... it's literally being afraid you're pregnant with puppies.
I dont know about you, but I am ill-equipped to bring a litter of puppies into the world, heavy throbbing penis or no.
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Since we have a lot of D&D players who feel limited by the lack of options in 5e at our game location, and want to sniff pathfinder, I figured Id take a sniff at 5e back. Just so I could inform the players better of differences.
So I figured Id be nice and lawfull and buy a PDF of the player's handbook.
OH BOY ARE THEY STILL A BUNCH OF D*CKS AT WIZARDS.
Yeah I've been pretty much relying on Scint and/or my fellow players for stuff for my 5e game. WOTC has basically done everything possible to make it impossible to play their game without buying all the material, sometimes multiple times.
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You would think they'd learn...
I mean *not* catering to their players' desires and simply producing what they thought would be a cash-grab as fast as possible lead to 4e, which lead to Paizo making Pathfinder, which lead to their literal greatest threat to their business in history. Only an idiot would repeat that.
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I am disgustingly drunk. Why am I still coherent?
My doctor says no beer because carbs and I have pre-diabetes. So I've been drinking straight whiskey at the Halloween festivities all night. I'm sure she'll be utterly thrilled with my good judgement.
You're actually still sober, because your doctor has been sneaking into your house and surreptitiously replacing your whisky with flavoured apple juice.
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Okay, so.
Spent the week on hold while failing to achieve most goals set. But I’m close, now, to having finished this daggum week.
Finished all but one Haloween... thing. Might’ve had to stay home for one ‘cause of emotional breakdown. You don’t know! Also, finally fixed the dryer. After the dryer guy had already left. By using a leaf blower into the vent. Still can’t get the AC fixed, though.
Found out that somehow BOTH cars tags are expired. Really not sure how that happened.
Was almost in a few traffic accidents and almost witnessed one that would likely have had fatalities (more than one near misses - only one that likely would have had fatalities) while stuck in traffic due to plane crash. If there is an accident, why, people, would you be even more reckless?!
Three bags of candy and a single trick-or-treater. Finally finished daggum laundry. Well. Enough so that the Youngest could dress up like a Saint. (Link’s a Saint, right? Look: it’s the only robe-like thing we got.)
Almost there. Almost. There.
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You can get the basic rules as a system reference document pdf here. It cuts away a lot of options leaving only the core rules and some basic choices (practically all classes have some of specialization such as school, domain, etc., this one contains only one specialization per class). No feats, not all spells, some of the monsters, etc.Since we have a lot of D&D players who feel limited by the lack of options in 5e at our game location, and want to sniff pathfinder, I figured Id take a sniff at 5e back. Just so I could inform the players better of differences.
So I figured Id be nice and lawfull and buy a PDF of the player's handbook.
OH BOY ARE THEY STILL A BUNCH OF D*CKS AT WIZARDS.
Its just that you cant buy PDFs of books because they are afraid of piracy... is... just...
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Its just that you cant buy PDFs of books because they are afraid of piracy... is... just...
“... entirely ignorant of how piracy and humanity works?” yeah. Weird.
Of course you can buy online access trough D&D beyond for a whooping 30$ a book. Which then does not work with text to speach software.
Wait, I thought you just said they were afraid of theft. If that were true, they wouldn’t be engaging in such Highway robbery~!
:V
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Wondering if Nanking a metajoke explaining the pun and indicating how much I amused myself while making what is a genuinely dumb thing would be funny or just cringe or enough of both that I should do it anyway. Settling for making an even more meta post about the metajoke post I’m not making (“See it’s funny because I look dumb... wait!”) and overexpkaining because I’m sleepy oh no someone help I’m trapped in a spiral of over-exhaustion-induced nonsenseifimnothomeinthreehourssendinkeylimepie
I can’t even edit the typos so GOOD LUCK FIGURIING OUT WHAT I WAS SAYIN’ , suckers!
... man I am a jerk when I’m trying to be funny but am this exhausted. Love you all!
Wondering if Nanking a metajoke explaining the pun and indicating how much I amused myself while making what is a genuinely dumb thing would be funny or just cringe or enough of both that I should do it anyway. Settling for making an even more meta post about the metajoke post I’m not making (“See it’s funny because I look dumb... wait!”) and overexpkaining because I’m sleepy oh no someone help I’m trapped in a spiral of over-exhaustion-induced nonsenseifimnothomeinthreehourssendinkeylimepie
For the record, though, I really am chucking at my own bad puns.
I am so easily amused some days.
(This is one of those days.)
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And Another House Goes Dark
In the 1980s, as the whole anti-candy movement hit full swing, I convinced my parents that it was wrong to deny kids their candy, and kept my house open. In the 1990s, even as a poor grad student I gave out full-sized bars, because it was what you do.
But the last few years have worn on me. 3 straight years of hardly any kids under 10, then multiple groups of late elementary/early middle schoolers who made repeat visits, even after I told them to stop.
This year, as I mentioned we put out our chibi death and he got stolen in less than 3 days. Last night, the very first visit was a group of such greedy 12-year-olds, one of whom went so far as to claim it was his birthday just to try to finagle more, then all of them "jokingly" said it was their birthday in front of their bemused parents (so really? Lying is OK in your household?). They came back less than an hour later (no parents any more), and Impus Major refused to give them more candy, and they started arguing with him about it. A second group showed up to get seconds. The first group showed up a third time and GothBard had to chase them off. We were so fed up at this point (we'd had only about 10 "real" trick-or-treaters and FIVE repeat visits) we turned off the lights and closed up shop. And they came back ANYWAY, calling through the mail slot that if we didn't open up and give them treats they were going to "trick" us.
GothBard stepped out and gave them a withering lecture. One of them had the grace to apologize. The rest slunk off.
But when your entire evening is ruined by about a dozen 12-year-olds who just won't leave you the **** alone, and you get less than ten real kids, it's time to close up shop for good.
Halloween, you will be missed.
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I'm also uber-stressed because it's Impus Major's first "college party": A costume party from 9:00 pm - 3:00 am in a town at least a 45-minute drive away, and neither he nor his friend drive, so they have to rely on someone at the party to remain sober enough to drive them home.
There's granting your kids freedom and advising them on making all the right choices, then there's having to trust their friends to do the same.
(I trust Impus Major to avoid substance abuse, but I really don't trust anyone under 22 to be driving home after a party at 3:00 am.)
EDIT: And yes, I gave him the usual lecture: If no one is sober enough to drive you, call me and I will come get you. But I'm fairly sure he won't take me up on it.
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I'm also uber-stressed because it's Impus Major's first "college party": A costume party from 9:00 pm - 3:00 am in a town at least a 45-minute drive away, and neither he nor his friend drive, so they have to rely on someone at the party to remain sober enough to drive them home.
There's granting your kids freedom and advising them on making all the right choices, then there's having to trust their friends to do the same.
(I trust Impus Major to avoid substance abuse, but I really don't trust anyone under 22 to be driving home after a party at 3:00 am.)
EDIT: And yes, I gave him the usual lecture: If no one is sober enough to drive you, call me and I will come get you. But I'm fairly sure he won't take me up on it.
Mistakes will be made. Mistakes *need* to be made. And he will learn from them. The hard part as a caring parent is sitting back and letting him make them.
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And Another House Goes Dark
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We used to get a lot of kids back when we lived in a duplex on the corner in Normal, IL. (Yes, the town is called Normal, and there's a historical reason.) Then we moved and got very, very few. Then we bought a house and moved to East Peoria. We've had one family show up in the last 5 years. Nobody in the last 4 years.
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Also, the yelling at you through the mail slot on Halloween, demanding candy thing? That would not end well here.
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Mistakes will be made. Mistakes *need* to be made. And he will learn from them. The hard part as a caring parent is sitting back and letting him make them.I'm also uber-stressed because it's Impus Major's first "college party": A costume party from 9:00 pm - 3:00 am in a town at least a 45-minute drive away, and neither he nor his friend drive, so they have to rely on someone at the party to remain sober enough to drive them home.
There's granting your kids freedom and advising them on making all the right choices, then there's having to trust their friends to do the same.
(I trust Impus Major to avoid substance abuse, but I really don't trust anyone under 22 to be driving home after a party at 3:00 am.)
EDIT: And yes, I gave him the usual lecture: If no one is sober enough to drive you, call me and I will come get you. But I'm fairly sure he won't take me up on it.
Just one of those things. I don't like playing the odds, even if they're long.
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Trust me, I get it. I don't disagree with you, and sometimes parental intervention helps, and sometimes it just makes things worse (Aiymi and I were on this end of it). And there's just no way to know ahead of time which way it will go.
And Another House Goes Dark
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If I let one group of idiot kids keep me from celebrating halloween, I would have stopped back in the 90s.
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We used to get a lot of kids back when we lived in a duplex on the corner in Normal, IL. (Yes, the town is called Normal, and there's a historical reason.) Then we moved and got very, very few. Then we bought a house and moved to East Peoria. We've had one family show up in the last 5 years. Nobody in the last 4 years.And Another House Goes Dark
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we only got about 3 or 5 groups all night. Kids around here are growing up, and we havent had another natural disaster to shore up new kid numbers in quite some time.
Heres hoping we get a nice, heavily snowy winter. Like for other reasons, not the usual ones.
** spoiler omitted **Mistakes will be made. Mistakes *need* to be made. And he will learn from them. The hard part as a caring parent is sitting back and letting him make them.I'm also uber-stressed because it's Impus Major's first "college party": A costume party from 9:00 pm - 3:00 am in a town at least a 45-minute drive away, and neither he nor his friend drive, so they have to rely on someone at the party to remain sober enough to drive them home.
There's granting your kids freedom and advising them on making all the right choices, then there's having to trust their friends to do the same.
(I trust Impus Major to avoid substance abuse, but I really don't trust anyone under 22 to be driving home after a party at 3:00 am.)
EDIT: And yes, I gave him the usual lecture: If no one is sober enough to drive you, call me and I will come get you. But I'm fairly sure he won't take me up on it.
that is scary. I went through something similar waaaaaaaaaaaay back in the day right when the last of the real tongs(not their americanized descendants) were pushed out of Chinatown. We were mostly good(not to mention scared) kids so we got out of there pretty early to avoid stupidity. While it only takes one moron to ruin things, I am sure your son will do much the same. And, if what you have said of him is any indication his friends will be looking to him to do much the same. Bugging out before things get bad is the key to having fun at that age, I found. I dont think that's changed much.
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If I let one group of idiot kids keep me from celebrating halloween, I would have stopped back in the 90s.And Another House Goes Dark
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I think you missed the point: It was two groups of idiot kids, and they outnumbered the decent trick-or-treaters 1.5:1.
When you're getting more troublemakers than actual trick-or-treaters and people start stealing your decorations, it's time to shut down.
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(Re-edited and finally deleted after three tries at making a relevant, not-too-long-winded-post)
The point was, Regarding raise-and-watch-em-go,
I feel you NH. Loud and clear.
:)
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If I let one group of idiot kids keep me from celebrating halloween, I would have stopped back in the 90s.And Another House Goes Dark
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I think you missed the point: It was two groups of idiot kids, and they outnumbered the decent trick-or-treaters 1.5:1.
When you're getting more troublemakers than actual trick-or-treaters and people start stealing your decorations, it's time to shut down.
Oi yep. That would be,... frustrating, to put it politely. :(
Since we moved into our house 12 years ago here, we have had great, good, and "MEH" years. Sometimes we get a few obnoxious teenagers, but fortunately far and few between. A couple of years we get squat, and then suddenly trick or treaters are coming out of the woodwork! Honestly I can't predict it. O_o
THIS year was pretty lean due to the afore-mentioned neighborhood kids growing up, (Including my own) and the sudden cold snap we got on the day of Halloween this year. (Dropped into the 30's last night, rare for only October in South Lousy-anna) But the cold snap also seemed to keep away any would be teens as well, ... so,... yay? ;P
And yeaaahh,.... Yelling at me through my mail slot would likely invite a sword coming out of the slot to poke you in the nose.
Which would admittedly probably cause me more trouble, not less. :P
Yeah. People can be such,... People.
"Why can't we call just,... Get along?!?"
;)
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If I let one group of idiot kids keep me from celebrating halloween, I would have stopped back in the 90s.And Another House Goes Dark
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I think you missed the point: It was two groups of idiot kids, and they outnumbered the decent trick-or-treaters 1.5:1.
When you're getting more troublemakers than actual trick-or-treaters and people start stealing your decorations, it's time to shut down.
I keep water balloons full of vinegar around for just such an occasion.
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I'm also uber-stressed because it's Impus Major's first "college party": A costume party from 9:00 pm - 3:00 am in a town at least a 45-minute drive away, and neither he nor his friend drive, so they have to rely on someone at the party to remain sober enough to drive them home.
There's granting your kids freedom and advising them on making all the right choices, then there's having to trust their friends to do the same.
(I trust Impus Major to avoid substance abuse, but I really don't trust anyone under 22 to be driving home after a party at 3:00 am.)
EDIT: And yes, I gave him the usual lecture: If no one is sober enough to drive you, call me and I will come get you. But I'm fairly sure he won't take me up on it.
I did not drink at that age. Probably I would be much more popular, though, if I had a driving license and some sort of car to complement that quality.
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We used to get a lot of kids back when we lived in a duplex on the corner in Normal, IL. (Yes, the town is called Normal, and there's a historical reason.) Then we moved and got very, very few. Then we bought a house and moved to East Peoria. We've had one family show up in the last 5 years. Nobody in the last 4 years.And Another House Goes Dark
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we only got about 3 or 5 groups all night. Kids around here are growing up, and we havent had another natural disaster to shore up new kid numbers in quite some time.
Heres hoping we get a nice, heavily snowy winter. Like for other reasons, not the usual ones.
You know, we have internet, streamed shows, and other entertainment for long dark nights these days, Old Man Freehold.
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Time to put on some cloths and go for grave raid...
*yawn*
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I did not drink at that age. Probably I would be much more popular, though, if I had a driving license and some sort of car to complement that quality.I'm also uber-stressed because it's Impus Major's first "college party": A costume party from 9:00 pm - 3:00 am in a town at least a 45-minute drive away, and neither he nor his friend drive, so they have to rely on someone at the party to remain sober enough to drive them home.
There's granting your kids freedom and advising them on making all the right choices, then there's having to trust their friends to do the same.
(I trust Impus Major to avoid substance abuse, but I really don't trust anyone under 22 to be driving home after a party at 3:00 am.)
EDIT: And yes, I gave him the usual lecture: If no one is sober enough to drive you, call me and I will come get you. But I'm fairly sure he won't take me up on it.
I didn't drink, didn't do drugs, and drove a 1970 Volvo station wagon that could seat 7.
I was very popular.
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Just one more meeting and then I'm going to blow leave this popsicle stand.
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that is scary. I went through something similar waaaaaaaaaaaay back in the day right when the last of the real tongs(not their americanized descendants) were pushed out of Chinatown. We were mostly good(not to mention scared) kids so we got out of there pretty early to avoid stupidity. While it only takes one moron to ruin things, I am sure your son will do much the same. And, if what you have said of him is any indication his friends will be looking to him to do much the same. Bugging out before things get bad is the key to having fun at that age, I found. I dont think that's changed much.
So, statistically it's quite rare: Around here there must be over 5,000 college-age Halloween parties each year, and only one or two of them end that badly.
Unfortunately, as they gain publicity, copycats proliferate.
(1) Troll Facebook for a party announcement
(2) Show up at the party and be a jerk
(3) If they have the gall to throw you out, come back with firepower.
We're seeing maybe half a dozen such incidents a year in the Bay Area alone. It's just a really depressing trend.