Anyone ever wanted a robotic tail for a costume? Check this video out!
Could I sound more like an ad?
Yes, but you did enough with this, so don't worry about trying. :D
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Let us begin Friday with a glorious bang.
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Let us begin Friday with a glorious bang.
Well, I'll see if Mimdel Boom is done with "Time Out." I'm sure she could get us going with a glorious bang!
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Let us begin Friday with a glorious bang.
Not that kind of a bang!
*gets dressed*
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This is fantastic world-building advice.
It also works well with that project that I was working on relatively recently.
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Let us begin Friday with a glorious bang.
I prefer to end Friday with a glorious bang, after the kids go to bed.
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So, this is the kind of article that incenses me.
"A mathematician has found a new way to derive the quadratic formula that's MUCH easier than the old way!"
New math, huh?
Let's see if it bleeds like the old one.
More seriously, you have been doing it your way for...how many decades now? Of course your way is going to be faster. I'm sure you take all sorts of mental shortcuts brought on by lubrication of years of practice that would beat out all but the most sophisticated adding machines.
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Let us begin Friday with a glorious bang.I prefer to end Friday with a glorious bang, after the kids go to bed.
There's nothing wrong with beginning and ending the day the same way.
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I would like to place my order for the functional replica of Tails's tails, thank you sir and take my money.
(Are we at the critical mass of common usage where I can follow an S and an apostrophe with another S? Oh well, too late.)
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More seriously, you have been doing it your way for...how many decades now? Of course your way is going to be faster. I'm sure you take all sorts of mental shortcuts brought on by lubrication of years of practice that would beat out all but the most sophisticated adding machines.So, this is the kind of article that incenses me.
"A mathematician has found a new way to derive the quadratic formula that's MUCH easier than the old way!"
Er... that's kind of my point.
Do the "new" way step-by-step, showing every single operation.
Do the "old" way step-by-step, showing every single operation.
The "new" way is quite a few lines *longer* than the old way, with no shortcuts whatsoever.
I'm not talking time, I'm talking length of derivation on paper.
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There's nothing wrong with beginning and ending the day the same way.Let us begin Friday with a glorious bang.I prefer to end Friday with a glorious bang, after the kids go to bed.
I love you guys.
Not in that way though.
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More seriously, you have been doing it your way for...how many decades now? Of course your way is going to be faster. I'm sure you take all sorts of mental shortcuts brought on by lubrication of years of practice that would beat out all but the most sophisticated adding machines.So, this is the kind of article that incenses me.
"A mathematician has found a new way to derive the quadratic formula that's MUCH easier than the old way!"
Er... that's kind of my point.
Do the "new" way step-by-step, showing every single operation.
Do the "old" way step-by-step, showing every single operation.The "new" way is quite a few lines *longer* than the old way, with no shortcuts whatsoever.
I'm not talking time, I'm talking length of derivation on paper.
ah, I guess I misunderstood.
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That definitely kept getting darker and I hated it. I just kind of hate-watched it after a while until I finished it. Sometimes I loved it. Oftentimes not. I'unno. It was weird.I think you're mixing it up with the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina the Witch.Man.
She-ra keeps getting DARKER.
Haven't watched the new She-ra yet. (SO many other cartoons/Anime to watch before that one) ;P
Also haven't watched the new dark adventures of Sabrina. But it is lined up on my Netflix.
i HAVE read the 'dark comic' it was based off of though. Was in the library one day browsing, and there it was. So I read it.
Immediately regretted it. But I read it. O_o
From what little clips i have seen of the show, they seem follow the comic very closely. Whether that is good or not depends on if you like your 'new, improved' comics shows to be all 'dark and creepy' or not.
Personally, from what little I have seen of Riverdale and the New Nancy Drew, Not. A. Fan.
:P
YMMV. :)
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So I may have caused a Thing.
In my constitution class, a few of the seniors were complaining that there's nothing to do in town. Having just finished the lesson about the importance of civic engagement and giving back to the community for democracy to function, I asked them why they didn't come up with something to fill that need since they were about to be adults and knew what the community was missing. They got really quiet for a few minutes.
Today, one of them walks in and, before I have the chance to say anything, starts writing on the board. He'd been researching expenses - they want to open a gaming bar.
So I told them I'd delay our review/test till next week, and we spent the hour talking through ideas and such. I'm...kind of surprised/impressed at how seriously they're taking this.
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THIS delightful little bit of literary snark is for anyone who has participated in the Heathcliff-bashing over time.
I love Mcsweeney's.
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This may be some kind of record.
Yesterday, Impus Major had THREE finals: An in-class history final, an online art history final (that took him four hours to finish), and the aforementioned English essay that he got assigned during finals week.
He was up 'til midnight, December 12.
Spring semester starts on Monday, January 27, 2020.
What the ever-living eff?
I have never heard of a school with a SIX WEEK winter break. I mean, doing the math, yeah, even with a 19-week semester and holidays he'll still get out in June while starting in January, but what am I going to do with an 18-year-old hanging around the house for 6 weeks?
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There's nothing wrong with beginning and ending the day the same way.Let us begin Friday with a glorious bang.I prefer to end Friday with a glorious bang, after the kids go to bed.
Yawning and confused?
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I have never heard of a school with a SIX WEEK winter break. I mean, doing the math, yeah, even with a 19-week semester and holidays he'll still get out in June while starting in January, but what am I going to do with an 18-year-old hanging around the house for 6 weeks?
Pretend he is not 18 yet?
Play some games?
Get him to train driving some more?
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I have never heard of a school with a SIX WEEK winter break. I mean, doing the math, yeah, even with a 19-week semester and holidays he'll still get out in June while starting in January, but what am I going to do with an 18-year-old hanging around the house for 6 weeks?
Pretend he is not 18 yet?
Play some games?
Get him to train driving some more?
Indeed. Make the most of the time.
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THIS delightful little bit of literary snark is for anyone who has participated in the Heathcliff-bashing over time.
I love Mcsweeney's.
I am renaming you in my contacts as "That Bold Saucy Infernal Wench".
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THIS delightful little bit of literary snark is for anyone who has participated in the Heathcliff-bashing over time.
I love Mcsweeney's.
McSweeney's may be the single greatest source of educated sarcasm on the internet.
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I have never heard of a school with a SIX WEEK winter break. I mean, doing the math, yeah, even with a 19-week semester and holidays he'll still get out in June while starting in January, but what am I going to do with an 18-year-old hanging around the house for 6 weeks?
Pretend he is not 18 yet?
Play some games?
Get him to train driving some more?
I already told him that I'd like to show him how to do drywall, mudding, and painting so he can finish off the garage and paint it the way he wants.
Six weeks is a LONG time, and learning a useful skill would be well worth it.
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So, sports, family, and politics. How could this not be FaWtL-friendly?
As I think I've mentioned, I fundamentally do not approve of the way my nephews were raised. Why? Because they were banned from all TV except professional sports. So when they naturally gravitated towards professional sports, their parents catered to them and bought them tickets to games, official merchandise, yadda yadda yadda.
I despise professional sports in all guises, and refuse to spend a penny on them. It's a matter of principle.
Even worse, the last time the nephews got together with the Impii, they immediately started the trash talk. "You're from San Francisco! You like the 49ers! The 49ers SUCK! Who's your favorite player? I bet you like xxx! He SUCKS!"
I was extremely proud of my kids for not punching out their cousins.
And so of course the nephews' Christmas list came out with about a dozen items, half of which were pro sports crap. "A so-and-so jersey. A so-and-so signed ball."
Just all the crap they trick you into wasting money on, made in the finest Chinese sweatshops.
And everyone else, even the parents, immediately grabbed everything that wasn't a branded sports item. And when I say, "Immediately," I mean, "I got one email with the list, and two more five minutes later saying that everything had been taken but the sports stuff."
So, we have the choice of buying sports-branded stuff, or looking like jerks for buying something off-list.
Yep. Pretty peeved.
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I always go off list when it comes to sports crap.
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Go ahead and look like jerks. Amazon gift card.
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I actually stopped asking for (and giving out) Christmas lists a few years ago.
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Is this going to be in person, PbP, or other? I want to know my chances of getting to try it =DAlso working on the 100 floor dungeon of trials for our Legend-of-Zelda fan TTRPG game I’m running. I... may have made a mistake.
But! I’ve gotten to 80! Woo!
Hahah!
It's an in-progress in-person PbP that I'm running for my kids.
It's using a thourve-point-eh?-edition P&F "system" (of sorts) that uses heart pieces instead of levels/hit points (effectively each "heart" is 4 hit points, more-or-less), but upgrades specific abilities individually.
My wife (by vote of my children) was Tetra. She started out as a "captain" (limited pirate-style attacks and ability to "encourage" (heal a heart) or "command" (cause a creature to take an action).
My Eldest is Gelato, a Lizalfos who started as a stealthy rogue, but has since followed the path of
magewizzrobe, having collected a couple staves of power and melded them together (super fire staff, super ice staff -> super steam/water staff) who has made "cores and contracts" with a bunch of little monsters so he can summon them.
His things include:
- chu-chus (red, green, yellow, blue, and "dark"/purple)
- keese (some of which are fire)
- rat (some are bombchus)
- kargaroc (those birds from WW)
- peahats
- robots (of various sorts; created from scraps of others)My Youngest is Oblada, a Rito native to the strange island the other two PCs (my Eldest and my wife) found themselves on. He and Tetra started off kidnapped by bokoblins and were freed by Gelato. Thereafter, he fell in with them and (using his knowledge) helped them navigate the island. He started off as a rudimentary scrapper-type character (scavenging various weapons and items from the bad guys), but entered an ancient tomb (in a quest to become a hero) and overcame a challenge of an ancient dead...
This is soooooooooooooooooo amazing!!!!!!
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The problem with going off-list is that my sister-in-law is vehemently opposed to all forms of electronic entertainment (hence the TV ban), yet they have over the years grudgingly given our kids electronic gifts.
So if I refuse, I really am an amazing jerk.
But for me, it's the difference between, "I don't buy games from Snoodlepup because of their flagrant misogyny and sweeping domestic abuse cases under the carpent," versus, "I don't buy games because I don't like video games."
I don't want to buy sports stuff because I find the industry vile and corrupt.
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I wish they would just stop with fireworks.
A few years back they blew up our mailbox. Our in wall mailbox. With some very illegal piece of fireworks. It blew a hole in the wall and part of the mailbox flew trough the livingroom after bouncing off the couch. Id been sitting on the couch just half an hour earlier, and if I hadnt gotten up after finishing watching an episide (and had continued to watch another episode), I would have been seriously hurt.
So now that its getting closer to the end of year, there are more and more loud bangs outside.
And it stresses me out. A lot.
I wish they would just stop with fireworks.
A few years back they blew up our mailbox. Our in wall mailbox. With some very illegal piece of fireworks. It blew a hole in the wall and part of the mailbox flew trough the livingroom after bouncing off the couch. Id been sitting on the couch just half an hour earlier, and if I hadnt gotten up after finishing watching an episide (and had continued to watch another episode), I would have been seriously hurt.
So now that its getting closer to the end of year, there are more and more loud bangs outside.
And it stresses me out. A lot.
Oh, wow! I haven't seen fireworks go that off since Lithuania, and even then nothing quite that intense happened!
(In our case, it was a spinner disc flaring with fire that arced around the apartment building, aimed for my head, bounced off the brick wall when I ducked under it - I was between twelve and fifteen -, and continued back arcing around the building.)
But, no, that's insane, Woran, and has to be illegal. Is there any recourse for having your mailbox vandalized like that?
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So, sports, family, and politics. How could this not be FaWtL-friendly?
As I think I've mentioned, I fundamentally do not approve of the way my nephews were raised. Why? Because they were banned from all TV except professional sports. So when they naturally gravitated towards professional sports, their parents catered to them and bought them tickets to games, official merchandise, yadda yadda yadda.
I despise professional sports in all guises, and refuse to spend a penny on them. It's a matter of principle.
Even worse, the last time the nephews got together with the Impii, they immediately started the trash talk. "You're from San Francisco! You like the 49ers! The 49ers SUCK! Who's your favorite player? I bet you like xxx! He SUCKS!"
I was extremely proud of my kids for not punching out their cousins.
And so of course the nephews' Christmas list came out with about a dozen items, half of which were pro sports crap. "A so-and-so jersey. A so-and-so signed ball."
Just all the crap they trick you into wasting money on, made in the finest Chinese sweatshops.And everyone else, even the parents, immediately grabbed everything that wasn't a branded sports item. And when I say, "Immediately," I mean, "I got one email with the list, and two more five minutes later saying that everything had been taken but the sports stuff."
So, we have the choice of buying sports-branded stuff, or looking like jerks for buying something off-list.
Yep. Pretty peeved.
Just buy half a dozen breezeblocks, or jars of pickles (everybody likes pickles, and breezeblocks) and write 'LOSS ANGULURS ROIDERS' or 'DES MOINES SEAHAWKS' on each one, in Tippex, together with a little drawing of a man with big shoulders kneeling down. That should delight them thoroughly.
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"Does anyone else think Tom Buchanan looks like Ted Bundy?"
"I mean, there are worse characters to go extra on than Daisy."
"Wolfsheim's beard is on point!"
"I don't think anyone else is doing Myrtle."
"I've heard a few people are."
"Tom did Myrtle."
"What theme can I write about to explain that Daisy is the worst?"
The Gatsby projects are going pretty well.
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Just buy half a dozen breezeblocks, or jars of pickles (everybody likes pickles, and breezeblocks) and write 'LOSS ANGULURS ROIDERS' or 'DES MOINES SEAHAWKS' on each one, in Tippex, together with a little drawing of a man with big shoulders kneeling down. That should delight them thoroughly.So, sports, family, and politics. How could this not be FaWtL-friendly?
As I think I've mentioned, I fundamentally do not approve of the way my nephews were raised. Why? Because they were banned from all TV except professional sports. So when they naturally gravitated towards professional sports, their parents catered to them and bought them tickets to games, official merchandise, yadda yadda yadda.
I despise professional sports in all guises, and refuse to spend a penny on them. It's a matter of principle.
Even worse, the last time the nephews got together with the Impii, they immediately started the trash talk. "You're from San Francisco! You like the 49ers! The 49ers SUCK! Who's your favorite player? I bet you like xxx! He SUCKS!"
I was extremely proud of my kids for not punching out their cousins.
And so of course the nephews' Christmas list came out with about a dozen items, half of which were pro sports crap. "A so-and-so jersey. A so-and-so signed ball."
Just all the crap they trick you into wasting money on, made in the finest Chinese sweatshops.And everyone else, even the parents, immediately grabbed everything that wasn't a branded sports item. And when I say, "Immediately," I mean, "I got one email with the list, and two more five minutes later saying that everything had been taken but the sports stuff."
So, we have the choice of buying sports-branded stuff, or looking like jerks for buying something off-list.
Yep. Pretty peeved.
"ROIDERS" is probably pretty accurate for most teams...
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The problem with going off-list is that my sister-in-law is vehemently opposed to all forms of electronic entertainment (hence the TV ban), yet they have over the years grudgingly given our kids electronic gifts.
So if I refuse, I really am an amazing jerk.
But for me, it's the difference between, "I don't buy games from Snoodlepup because of their flagrant misogyny and sweeping domestic abuse cases under the carpent," versus, "I don't buy games because I don't like video games."
I don't want to buy sports stuff because I find the industry vile and corrupt.
Oh, you could turn it into a morality contest with your family. Then, you never have to worry about this again.
"I cannot support buying sports merchandise because it promotes selfish and other immoral behavior, which really reflects on you as a parent. I have bought good, wholesome books."
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My coworker got all his family high quality metal straws with a pamphlet about reducing dependence on plastic.
Also working on the 100 floor dungeon of trials for our Legend-of-Zelda fan TTRPG game I’m running. I... may have made a mistake.
But! I’ve gotten to 80! Woo!
Is this going to be in person, PbP, or other? I want to know my chances of getting to try it =D
Hahah!
It's an in-progress in-person PbP that I'm running for my kids.
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This is soooooooooooooooooo amazing!!!!!!
Hah! We liked it! It's funny it really sounds pretty awesome when laid out like that - and I think it really is, in retrospect. Though I'd had the over-all plot before hand, several elements were created "organically" () and it really works over-all.
Some corrections:
- collected and saved babies from a miniblin tribe raiding the local (very weird) town
Specifically, they saved miniblin babies. They destroyed the tribe (it was trying to cook and eat people, after all) but, via traveling through time* they kept acquiring more; they now have a massive population of miniblin babies that they have tasked several people with guardian (most notably a zora named Zack as well as the lookout from Tetra's crew, named Zuko).
*
This is, naturally, a sequel, of sorts, to Wind Waker ().
- accidentally sheered off the top of a mountain and dropped it into the ocean; it's now a mountain ("I mean, (now) it's free real estate")
This should have been:
- accidentally sheered off the top of a mountain and dropped it into the ocean; it's now ("I mean, (now) it's free real estate"); the former mountain is now a much lower plateau
Oops!
- solved the mystery of strange effects (and creatures) in the area
Including the weird town they'd saved, mentioned above!
- fought robots
- defeated monsters
These are generic, but I intended them as more specific. They've fought robots from across 'Zelda lore and kept many of the pieces of those to later create nifty robots of their own with a mysterious light house keeper who goes by the name "Mantok - because I'm a huMan, you know?" who does some rather impossible things.
After the 100 layer dungeon they're hoping to bring all the Guardian and Beamos parts they've collected back to Mantok so he can forge them the ultimate versions of their various equipment.
The monsters have mostly been Wind Waker themed, but they've also fought some from Skyward Sword (specifically several of the bosses) and a few other games (mostly Link to the Past, Link Between Worlds, and Twilight Princess, though none of the really super-iconic foes from those games have made an appearance).
- unraveled a time-spanning plot
- explored a seaside town long ago ravaged and destroyed
- - explored the same town the night it was assaulted and destroyed
- - defeating the bad guys (after it was too late to save the town) and putting off their plans for decades... just in time for them to arrive and thwart their plans...
- accidentally sheered off the top of a mountain and dropped it into the ocean; it's now a mountain ("I mean, (now) it's free real estate")
- and recovered two major artifacts
It's probably not clear, but this is actually all part of the exact same sequence. The sad thing is the villain of this particular section was highly relatable: his goals were to try to "fix" the madness that had ruined all of Hyrule. In his efforts to control time, however, he had broken the flow of time for the entire island - the longer someone resided within the island the more they became inextricably tied to the curse he'd unleashed in his attempts to fix everything.
Of course, after having spent centuries (or even millennia) attempting to do the same thing, he could only be stopped by putting him down. Tetra managed this by having him drop the mountain (complete with monastery) on top of himself by using a Reverse Uno card er, "No,You." uh, by using the artifacts she'd stolen from him to sever his control of stuff and target him - fortunately, Gelato and Oblada had done a lot of the work in making this possible, and everyone was able to reunite after that, as these marked the completion of their individual quests.
They've also recruited twenty-two Shiekah monks (disciples, not tribesman), four minor noble mercenary brothers (the "Paidrags"), a merchant (Lyle), a doofy mage (Carbuncle; he's actually successfully used the spell vague several times!), a canoneer (Fritz; he finally got a canon after more than 3/4 of the game... he's been lugging it around ever since), and a smattering of others.
Everyone of these people are actually refugees - exiles from their own timeline.
The monks used to live in a monastery (long destroyed by the start of the game) and were rescued by the PCs when they were temporarily back in time (on the night the monastery was destroyed). That some of the monks lived was enough to quiet the ghosts of the other destroyed ones who went on to peaceful rest, as the twenty-two survivors followed Tetra ().
The noble mercenary brothers were sons of a local lord... who was really centuries dead at the start of the game... as were the brothers. But, see, they'd followed the PCs through temporal shenanigans and so ended up time-lost and stranded in the relative future.
The merchant, mage, and canoneer were all seafarers from decades ago who'd been stuck in the local island's timeloop long enough to become permanent unknowing features.
A much more recent arrival, Maramimi (also recruited and has since effectively become Tetra's most trusted friend and stalwart ally; basically a Gerudo prototype, though with some differences in physical features) was new enough to know that something was wrong and helped the PCs figure that out, but had been there long enough to become trapped.
The PCs fought minions of the shadow cult in the dodongo graveyard which is where they first began to understand that the gate didn't just exist but something was actively threatening to open it; that's also where they first began to understand the effects of the strange storms happening nearby, and the temporal "resets" that seemed to keep happening.
The players (even my Youngest, who cried for the Paidrags) were all suuuuuuuuuuuper into it when they finally broke the cycle of temporal shenanigans, defeated the bad guy, and went back to town... only to discover it had been desolate for centuries. The Paidrags got to give farewells to their parents, friends and family and the PCs got to say farewells to important NPCs they'd become close with before the shades (who had been waiting for them) faded.
Tetra (and somewhat Gelato) also worked with Lyle, Carbuncle, and Fritz to comfort them, because it became clear that they'd lost everyone they'd ever known, too - perhaps they weren't here for centuries, but like Captain America frozen in the ice, their world(s) and people had to have moved on without them.
They restored the Great Fairy in the town's central fountain after this event. She was able to reveal much and answer many questions.
Many of the monsters were "new" (relative to the last few years) to the whole timeline issue, having been brought by the machinations of the would-be shadow-gate-opener. They happened to appear right about the same time as Maramimi... hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...
Of course, you could have been talking about why you guys would eventually take over the world, in which case: yeah, that was amazing.
Hey, NH (or anyone else who has it) - if you want to play AoM, I'm going to be on for a few minutes flutzing about. Feel free to contact me and let me know (though probably by Steam, as I'm unlikely to check FaWtL or the forums; though you can try!).
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The problem with going off-list is that my sister-in-law is vehemently opposed to all forms of electronic entertainment (hence the TV ban), yet they have over the years grudgingly given our kids electronic gifts.
So if I refuse, I really am an amazing jerk.
But for me, it's the difference between, "I don't buy games from Snoodlepup because of their flagrant misogyny and sweeping domestic abuse cases under the carpent," versus, "I don't buy games because I don't like video games."
I don't want to buy sports stuff because I find the industry vile and corrupt.
what's snoodlepup?
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I wish they would just stop with fireworks.
A few years back they blew up our mailbox. Our in wall mailbox. With some very illegal piece of fireworks. It blew a hole in the wall and part of the mailbox flew trough the livingroom after bouncing off the couch. Id been sitting on the couch just half an hour earlier, and if I hadnt gotten up after finishing watching an episide (and had continued to watch another episode), I would have been seriously hurt.
So now that its getting closer to the end of year, there are more and more loud bangs outside.
And it stresses me out. A lot.
why are fireworks going off exactly?
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"ROIDERS" is probably pretty accurate for most teams...Just buy half a dozen breezeblocks, or jars of pickles (everybody likes pickles, and breezeblocks) and write 'LOSS ANGULURS ROIDERS' or 'DES MOINES SEAHAWKS' on each one, in Tippex, together with a little drawing of a man with big shoulders kneeling down. That should delight them thoroughly.So, sports, family, and politics. How could this not be FaWtL-friendly?
As I think I've mentioned, I fundamentally do not approve of the way my nephews were raised. Why? Because they were banned from all TV except professional sports. So when they naturally gravitated towards professional sports, their parents catered to them and bought them tickets to games, official merchandise, yadda yadda yadda.
I despise professional sports in all guises, and refuse to spend a penny on them. It's a matter of principle.
Even worse, the last time the nephews got together with the Impii, they immediately started the trash talk. "You're from San Francisco! You like the 49ers! The 49ers SUCK! Who's your favorite player? I bet you like xxx! He SUCKS!"
I was extremely proud of my kids for not punching out their cousins.
And so of course the nephews' Christmas list came out with about a dozen items, half of which were pro sports crap. "A so-and-so jersey. A so-and-so signed ball."
Just all the crap they trick you into wasting money on, made in the finest Chinese sweatshops.And everyone else, even the parents, immediately grabbed everything that wasn't a branded sports item. And when I say, "Immediately," I mean, "I got one email with the list, and two more five minutes later saying that everything had been taken but the sports stuff."
So, we have the choice of buying sports-branded stuff, or looking like jerks for buying something off-list.
Yep. Pretty peeved.
there was a film several years ago that goes into the prevalence of steroids in american sports and asks the hard question of if something is still cheating if literally everyone is doing it.
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My coworker got all his family high quality metal straws with a pamphlet about reducing dependence on plastic.
I used to think that was stupid until I went to the beach and discovered that straws washed up with every wave. We have a real problem.
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there was a film several years ago that goes into the prevalence of..."ROIDERS" is probably pretty accurate for most teams...Just buy half a dozen breezeblocks, or jars of pickles (everybody likes pickles, and breezeblocks) and write 'LOSS ANGULURS ROIDERS' or 'DES MOINES SEAHAWKS' on each one, in Tippex, together with a little drawing of a man with big shoulders kneeling down. That should delight them thoroughly.So, sports, family, and politics. How could this not be FaWtL-friendly?
As I think I've mentioned, I fundamentally do not approve of the way my nephews were raised. Why? Because they were banned from all TV except professional sports. So when they naturally gravitated towards professional sports, their parents catered to them and bought them tickets to games, official merchandise, yadda yadda yadda.
I despise professional sports in all guises, and refuse to spend a penny on them. It's a matter of principle.
Even worse, the last time the nephews got together with the Impii, they immediately started the trash talk. "You're from San Francisco! You like the 49ers! The 49ers SUCK! Who's your favorite player? I bet you like xxx! He SUCKS!"
I was extremely proud of my kids for not punching out their cousins.
And so of course the nephews' Christmas list came out with about a dozen items, half of which were pro sports crap. "A so-and-so jersey. A so-and-so signed ball."
Just all the crap they trick you into wasting money on, made in the finest Chinese sweatshops.And everyone else, even the parents, immediately grabbed everything that wasn't a branded sports item. And when I say, "Immediately," I mean, "I got one email with the list, and two more five minutes later saying that everything had been taken but the sports stuff."
So, we have the choice of buying sports-branded stuff, or looking like jerks for buying something off-list.
Yep. Pretty peeved.
I think that just means everyone is cheating.
It's not that hard a question, especially when we've built so much of our culture around promoting athletics and fitness. If the tacit message sent is "you, too, can do this one day, child," which the marketing seems to suggest (and my experience in schools can tell you is a common ambition), then sneaking steroids while talking about your workout regimen is about as ethical as airbrushing and photoshopping in beauty ads...and as damaging to impressionable kids.
Hey, NH, with all that free time you don't have, go make fun of my bad math! Mock me! Mock my, I saaaaayy!
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My coworker got all his family high quality metal straws with a pamphlet about reducing dependence on plastic.I used to think that was stupid until I went to the beach and discovered that straws washed up with every wave. We have a real problem.
I saw a 'thing' on TV recently, (MAybe a documentary? Or a news special) where they went to ONE little island in the middle of the ocean, completely unused by man, except to visit it's former beauty.
It is now C O V E R E D in discarded plastic. And more washed up on the shore with every wave. They dug down through 1-2 FEET of plastic, to discover that the layers of pieces got smaller as they go down, towards the bottom they have been broken down enough that they are bite-sized for animals. Turtles, birds, etc.It was,.... Very enlightening. And a bit depressing.
Because NO amount of recycling that I do personally is gonna fix that!
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Hey, NH, with all that free time you don't have, go make fun of my bad math! Mock me! Mock my, I saaaaayy!
I see this thread must be purged.