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Scarab Sages

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*sees the posting stop at 50 posts a page again*
*sigh*

I'll take one for the team again.

Scarab Sages

*puts on clothes*

The chart says I'm gen Y.


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*sits at the border between X, Y, and Millennial, depending on chart*


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Woran wrote:

*sees the posting stop at 50 posts a page again*

*sigh*

I'll take one for the team again.

dont you mean take one off for the team?

Grand Lodge

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NobodysHome wrote:

I seriously wish this wasn't an internal talk. This stuff is amazing. When you compare what the "gurus" say about generations vs. the cold hard facts, all you learn is that the gurus are idiots.

She's going through and showing the most well-known generational books and showing how they're contradicting each other.

But my favorite one so far: One book said Baby Boomers volunteer more than any other generation. A second book said Millenials do.

So they just went to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and it turns out that Generation X kicks both their butts.

We just don't brag about it.

OMG. She just delivered the coup de grace, and she's only 15 minutes in.

"So, at the start of the presentation, I had all of you put your generalizations about Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millenials, and Gen Zs into chat."

"Let's do that with race..."

She let the shocked audience hang for about 10 seconds, then said, "So if it's appalling for you to do that for races, why is it OK for you to do that with ages?"

I am impress.

I think this guy has a bit of a point, in that its a fine line between targeting an age group versus responding to individual takes.


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All I know is, it's 15 degrees out and I'm digging a trench.

That's living.


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Needs to be an Olympic sport: Boulder Wrestling.


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'OH NO - IT'S THE GALEB-DURH WITH A GRANITE CHAIR!!!!'


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I was born in the start of 1966.
I'm a Generation "What the !@#$ is all this Generation nonsense about?!?!" -er.

;P


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Correction: Wrestling Boulders.


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Hungry.


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So, on the one hand I was rather ecstatic with the work done by the old grognard who replaced our first heater, so I'd like to hire the same company to do our other heater.

On the other hand, I asked the first guy who came out to give me an estimate for it. He failed. I emailed them and asked them for an estimate. They never replied. I asked the old grognard to get me an estimate. 48 hours later, and nothing.

If they are really that desperate to avoid my business, should I keep pursuing them, or just go with a company that actually, y'know, responds to its customers' requests?


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Captain Yesterday, A Team wrote:
Needs to be an Olympic sport: Boulder Wrestling.
Limeylongears wrote:
'OH NO - IT'S THE GALEB-DURH WITH A GRANITE CHAIR!!!!'
captain yesterday wrote:
Correction: Wrestling Boulders.

“The Boulder is over his conflicted feelings; and now he’s ready to bury you in a Rockalanche!”


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NobodysHome wrote:

So, on the one hand I was rather ecstatic with the work done by the old grognard who replaced our first heater, so I'd like to hire the same company to do our other heater.

On the other hand, I asked the first guy who came out to give me an estimate for it. He failed. I emailed them and asked them for an estimate. They never replied. I asked the old grognard to get me an estimate. 48 hours later, and nothing.

If they are really that desperate to avoid my business, should I keep pursuing them, or just go with a company that actually, y'know, responds to its customers' requests?

Oi, that about sums it up today.

IF they do good work, they dont respond to phone or emails.

IF they are good sales people and are all about communication, they dont usually do great work.
;P

How does that old joke go? About getting ANYTHING repaired?
"Good, Fast and Cheap, pick any TWO"
:)


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Hello, everyone.


Hi, John!

Dealing with a fussy Youngest. Both boys are in rare form, however.


Ah, the power of Asian cuisine. Both boys have forgotten all ills and unpleasant thoughts other than the fact that the other boy (or their Daddy) is somehow daring to eat some of their noodles/chicken.


I have to say: I am confused about how generous other people are with my kids. I’m not inherently opposed, but everyone seems so excessively generous it’s almost embarrassing. Also makes it difficult to teach them that the world doesn’t revolve around them when people keep going out of their way to give them things or do nice things for them.


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I mean, the complaint sounds dumb. “Oh, no, someone did something nice for my son!”

But when I tell them, you have to work hard to get something and someone just hands it to them sans work...

... and that may seem specific, but it specifically happens so many times.


... but it’s still super sweet. Dang it.


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makes sweet love to pen


Then again, free samples... okay, I’m sold!
Give those to my kids!


Tacticslion wrote:
Tequila Sunrise wrote:
Tacticslion wrote:
Tequila Sunrise wrote:


FF7 remake?! I might actually finally get to play this game.
My point isn’t to say “don’t play it” but rather to just manage expectations. It’s easy to get overhyped by a game that receives constant praise and fond memories.
Fair enough. My RL bestie is one of those who fell in love with FF7, and mostly I just want to share some of that experience.

And this is very fair.

By contrast, I came to FF7 after: FF6 (called FF3 at the time; an amazing game).

So just started replaying FF3. It’s so very good. A little slow and grindy the only the way that old RPGs can be, but I’m having a blast so far.

EDIT: clarifying what “it” was, exactly.


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Tacticslion wrote:
I have to say: I am confused about how generous other people are with my kids. I’m not inherently opposed, but everyone seems so excessively generous it’s almost embarrassing. Also makes it difficult to teach them that the world doesn’t revolve around them when people keep going out of their way to give them things or do nice things for them.

Speaking as someone who's dealing with the repercussions of 18 years of such generosity, make it stop now!!!

Your friends and relatives mean well, but you cannot possibly own a house large enough to contain 18 years of such gifting.

College funds. Digital books and music. Dinners at their favorite places. Days out at their favorite parks. Home-baked cookies. Anything other than more stuff you will eventually have to discard.

Good luck!


NobodysHome wrote:
Tacticslion wrote:
I have to say: I am confused about how generous other people are with my kids. I’m not inherently opposed, but everyone seems so excessively generous it’s almost embarrassing. Also makes it difficult to teach them that the world doesn’t revolve around them when people keep going out of their way to give them things or do nice things for them.

Speaking as someone who's dealing with the repercussions of 18 years of such generosity, make it stop now!!!

Your friends and relatives mean well, but you cannot possibly own a house large enough to contain 18 years of such gifting.

College funds. Digital books and music. Dinners at their favorite places. Days out at their favorite parks. Home-baked cookies. Anything other than more stuff you will eventually have to discard.

Good luck!

Thanks! I’ve had this particular conversation with my family lots of times. It has only somewhat helped.

But, uh, I meant random strangers. “Hey, kid, it’s your birthday? Have ten bucks! And your brother gets five! Why, yes, we are a couple with a newborn baby! And we’ve never seen you before five minutes ago when you complimented said baby!”

I mean, generosity is good. But. What. Or:

Me: “Now, you can’t go around selling rocks or performing violin in public without permission. People don’t like for you to sell unliscenses things (especially since you literally just pick them up off the ground).”
Another Adult: “Why, sure, sell all the rocks you want, buddy! And here’s money! Also, please play your violin for the whole Restaraunt!”

I mean, this just feels exactly like the stuff I should not be allowing, but... I’unno. I’m super proud of my kids. I think they’re awesome. We have people literally handing them money, letting them create businesses of selling rocks, and engaging in public performances in places that otherwise would have their own music. To name a few things.

And it’s nothing bad, per se. It’s just a little odd-seeming to me.

But it is cute.

EDIT: more examples (and some typos)...

- giving limitless free samples (instead of just one)

- giving them toys

- allowing them to have special permission to climb on things that have signs saying, "No climbing." (permission being granted by the owners who put up the signs in the first place)

- yes, it's fine to ask "may I have it" for literally anything (NOTE: fortunately it is not always given... but it is far more often than I'd have thought)

- sure, I'll buy a rock/top from a GoGo Squeeze/literal garbage from you for actual money (I've done my best to actually throw these things away to prevent exactly this; the problem is they find more)

- it is absolutely allowed that you play your personal music anywhere with no restrictions whatsoever

- yeah, have some of our dinner that we made for us

- here, free cookies, just because

- you picked up garbage all over the store? Have cAnDy~

- sure, we own too many, take massive amounts of Pokemon cards with you on the way home

I mean, I haven't had someone actually request that they steal their money, at least not in so many words, but we're very nearly there. It just... even when nothing wrong is actually happening, it feels kind of almost transgressive to accept all this generosity.

Also it's hard to explain to my kids that they can't just wish for something ask a rando on the street, and expect it to happen, because it so often does that it makes those occasions when it doesn't "really weird" to them. Also makes it hard to explain how money works when people literally just give it to them, often without them even asking, but even more often when they do.

It may be nothing. It's just something really weird to me, and makes me worry for how they'll expect to coast through the future.


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Must be a Florida thing, never had a stranger try to give my kids money.

I definitely would not let them accept money from a stranger.


captain yesterday wrote:

Must be a Florida thing, never had a stranger try to give my kids money.

I definitely would not let them accept money from a stranger.

Listen, I've never heard of this being a thing.

It's weird to me. I've lived in Florida for decades (off and on) and it's never been a thing, except to my kids for some reason. I mean, we've lived here for fourteen years, and for six of those, I've never seen the like happening (prior to my kids).

It is not something I'd consider normal, but it keeps happening to them.

EDIT: (Also, it usually happens when they go say, "Hello." to a kid. Mommy and I are sitting where we can see them, but then, five minutes later, "Oh, hey, you've got extra cash." and there's only so much rejecting-back-and-forth you can do before it gets even more awkward.)


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NobodysHome wrote:
Tacticslion wrote:
I have to say: I am confused about how generous other people are with my kids. I’m not inherently opposed, but everyone seems so excessively generous it’s almost embarrassing. Also makes it difficult to teach them that the world doesn’t revolve around them when people keep going out of their way to give them things or do nice things for them.

Speaking as someone who's dealing with the repercussions of 18 years of such generosity, make it stop now!!!

Your friends and relatives mean well, but you cannot possibly own a house large enough to contain 18 years of such gifting.

College funds. Digital books and music. Dinners at their favorite places. Days out at their favorite parks. Home-baked cookies. Anything other than more stuff you will eventually have to discard.

Good luck!

Well, if your family does really want to leave the old house—assuming you would move some place cheaper, you will have plenty of space for the price of your (not really that small, despite your complaints) house you have now.


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We got our outdoor home hole dug, only had to wrestle one boulder digging a trench for the gas line for the outdoor kitchen, but I also uncovered 6 sizable pieces of concrete (which is impressive for a four foot span).

Scarab Sages

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Strangers just giving your kids stuff is weird.


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So at least it’s not just me and my wife that thinks so. Even if it’s only two other people.

It’s not just adults, either - it’s kids of various ages. (Such as the fore-mentioned Pokémon cards; these we tried to return, as we were not interested in taking things from kids, but their parents allowed their children to make the final decision, and said children insisted, and I’m not going to tell another parent to teach their kids less generosity; we have successfully “paid it forward” to some other Pokémon fans, fortunately). I mean, it could be that they have an abnormally high Charisma score, but they gotta put actual ranks in that Diplomacy to succeed later in life, and that requires understanding that you don’t always get what you want by happenstance.

My Eldest seems to be absorbing that lesson better than my Youngest, despite the fact that my Eldest tends to be able to get away with more.

EDIT: some clarifications


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Parenting fail:

Did you know that the Director's Cut of "Little Shop of Horrors" ends with Audrey and Seymour both getting eaten by the plant, and the Earth being overrun by gigantic Audrey II's, just like the stage show?

Yeah, I didn't either, until it turns out that's the version we downloaded for family movie night tonight.

I had to search for the original theatrical ending on YouTube to show the kids, because we'd been reassuring them all through the movie, every time they asked, "But Audrey and Seymour both live, right? The plant doesn't eat them?"

Whoops.


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lisamarlene wrote:

Parenting fail:

Did you know that the Director's Cut of "Little Shop of Horrors" ends with Audrey and Seymour both getting eaten by the plant, and the Earth being overrun by gigantic Audrey II's, just like the stage show?

Yeah, I didn't either, until it turns out that's the version we downloaded for family movie night tonight.

I had to search for the original theatrical ending on YouTube to show the kids, because we'd been reassuring them all through the movie, every time they asked, "But Audrey and Seymour both live, right? The plant doesn't eat them?"

Whoops.

Woooooow! Thanks for the heads-up. I did not know that!


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NobodysHome wrote:
lisamarlene wrote:

Parenting fail:

Did you know that the Director's Cut of "Little Shop of Horrors" ends with Audrey and Seymour both getting eaten by the plant, and the Earth being overrun by gigantic Audrey II's, just like the stage show?

Yeah, I didn't either, until it turns out that's the version we downloaded for family movie night tonight.

I had to search for the original theatrical ending on YouTube to show the kids, because we'd been reassuring them all through the movie, every time they asked, "But Audrey and Seymour both live, right? The plant doesn't eat them?"

Whoops.

Woooooow! Thanks for the heads-up. I did not know that!

Uh - wow!

Nor did I!

O.O

Thank you!


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NobodysHome wrote:
lisamarlene wrote:

Parenting fail:

Did you know that the Director's Cut of "Little Shop of Horrors" ends with Audrey and Seymour both getting eaten by the plant, and the Earth being overrun by gigantic Audrey II's, just like the stage show?

Yeah, I didn't either, until it turns out that's the version we downloaded for family movie night tonight.

I had to search for the original theatrical ending on YouTube to show the kids, because we'd been reassuring them all through the movie, every time they asked, "But Audrey and Seymour both live, right? The plant doesn't eat them?"

Whoops.

Woooooow! Thanks for the heads-up. I did not know that!

Well the stakes aren't quite as high for you. The Impii would probably find Kaiju Audrey Twos rampaging across the Brooklyn Bridge hilarious.


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Oh, you're watching the movie about the theater version of the original film from 1960.

The original didn't end that way.


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Clocking out, soon. Good night, everyone.


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So, the longest job I held was in a dental lab. It sounds like it's dentistry, but it's more like custom manufacturing - we made crowns, bridges, and dentures and the like for dentists.

I was GOOD at my job. I got many raises until I left to pursue higher education. I went into teaching. It sucked.

I returned to the lab. It had been sold to a mega corp that put my boss's boss in charge - the guy below the big boss who thought I was amazing. This new boss didn't. He made me come back at less pay.

I was promised I would be back to my old pay within 2 months. 11 months later I was not. I left without notice after an ultimatum. The way I figured, they had 9 months notice when they didn't keep their promise.

The lab blacklisted me. I couldn't get a job in Florida in the industry.

This was about 6 or 7 years ago.

About a month ago I found a small lab here. The old one had about 150 employees. This one has five. I called them. I told my story in an interview two weeks later. They just happen to be ready to expand and need someone with my type of experience to do so. There was talk of leadership. This Wednesday they got back to me.

I start Monday.

I'm making more per hour than I've made at any other job. I also get a week off paid for my daughter's birth.

It wasn't about finding any old job. It was about finding the right one.


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The first four Harry Potter books are quite light-hearted. The fifth one, however, is dead Sirius.

(I haven't read them, so I don't know how accurate this is.)


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Customer: "I have a question about the menu please."
Server: *slaps customer* "THE MEN I PLEASE ARE NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!!!"


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This is a Fibonacci joke. It is worse than the last two combined.

Dark Archive

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CrystalSeas wrote:

Oh, you're watching the movie about the theater version of the original film from 1960.

The original didn't end that way.

All I know is, Rick Moranis is a national treasure.


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The Vagrant Erudite wrote:

So, the longest job I held was in a dental lab. It sounds like it's dentistry, but it's more like custom manufacturing - we made crowns, bridges, and dentures and the like for dentists.

I was GOOD at my job. I got many raises until I left to pursue higher education. I went into teaching. It sucked.

I returned to the lab. It had been sold to a mega corp that put my boss's boss in charge - the guy below the big boss who thought I was amazing. This new boss didn't. He made me come back at less pay.

I was promised I would be back to my old pay within 2 months. 11 months later I was not. I left without notice after an ultimatum. The way I figured, they had 9 months notice when they didn't keep their promise.

The lab blacklisted me. I couldn't get a job in Florida in the industry.

This was about 6 or 7 years ago.

About a month ago I found a small lab here. The old one had about 150 employees. This one has five. I called them. I told my story in an interview two weeks later. They just happen to be ready to expand and need someone with my type of experience to do so. There was talk of leadership. This Wednesday they got back to me.

I start Monday.

I'm making more per hour than I've made at any other job. I also get a week off paid for my daughter's birth.

It wasn't about finding any old job. It was about finding the right one.

Good luck! Sounds like a fun job!


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And on the plus side, you'll be able to tell your daughter you help out the tooth fairy for a living.


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So happy for you, VE. That sounds perfect for you!


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gran rey de los mono wrote:

The first four Harry Potter books are quite light-hearted. The fifth one, however, is dead Sirius.

(I haven't read them, so I don't know how accurate this is.)

wise.


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Parent-Teacher conferences yesterday for my two were wierd.

Teensy Valeros's teacher: Everything is fantastic! He's doing great! Just always make sure he gets his medication, and all is well!
(We have NEVER had a "no worries" conference for Val. EVER.)

Hermione's teacher: She's brilliant, but she never completes her work, has trouble remembering instructions, and knows no math facts at all. not even addition. (Which, as her DM, I knew. She can't add her dice.) But she's reading at a middle school level. It's time to get her a diagnostic assessment.

So... yeah.


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Thanks guys! I'm quite excited!

Re- Tooth Fairy
I don't plan on telling my daughter anything I don't personally believe in, so we won't be doing Santa, Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy, etc.

As a person of faith, it will help me avoid this conversation:

"Ok so I know I told you there was a Santa, and you figured out it was a lie, but I'm NOT lying when I mention this OTHER invisible being that rewards you for being good. What? I lied about the tooth fairy too? And the Easter Bunny. No this time I swear it's true."

You think kids won't remember that, but I did, and it's one reason I left the church as a teen.

Kids pick up on and remember little things. I want her to know I didn't lie to her about anything. Ever. I may explain things in a way she doesn't understand to avoid awkwardness... ("Where do babies come from? Cellular meitosis and meiosis, sweetheart. What's that? Well, it's the process of reproduction through division and combination using....")...but I will NOT lie to her.

I will let her celebrate these things, but explain they're as fake as ghosts on Halloween.


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Kudos VE! Enjoy the new job!

Wow, T-Lion, I have pretty cute kids (I am biased) but I never recall having anything like that happen to us.
And I lived in Florida for 1 year when they were at their most adorable. ;P

The only problem we have had with over-generosity is my in-laws (wife's parents) Because they are both so nice. Grammy in particular was always spending WAY too much on the kids, (why buy a cute Walmart dress for her when I can get a cute name-brand dress at 20X the price?!?)

Buuuut, it's their grandkids, totally different from random strangers.
O_o


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Yeah, I really get frustrated with players.

We're starting a new Shattered Star campaign. As I've mentioned, I don't like to have to upgrade monsters because even with the Advanced Simple Template you end up with monsters that the "well balanced" PCs can't hit, but that the "cheesemonger" steamrolls. So I allow the Core Rulebook, Advanced Players' Guide, and Ultimate Magic, Equipment, and Combat. Anything else is by GM permission.

Well-known min/max cheese player: "I'm going to play either an occultist or a Unicorn bloodline sorcerer!"

FTR, Occultist is in Occult Adventures and has some abilities that can break a campaign (Object Reading in particular), and the Unicorn bloodline is from a player companion and gives you a sorcerer with all the Cure spells, including Heal, eliminating your need for a divine caster to create a brutal 3-fighter, one caster mix.

And the BIG issue I have with this: He uses Hero Labs and he KNOWS how to set what books he's using, so he just doesn't care.

(And GothBard will never GM again because of him -- he built a dual-wielding crit-focused ranger with a bunch of player companion abilities so he could run around 150-250 hit points per round, eliminating ALL of her bad guys in the campaign without a single tense moment. So he's got a history of being a "problem player" in terms of builds that don't work with APs.)

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