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Yup, I did it again.
I tried to turn the page of a physical book by scrolling down with my finger.
Technology! The cause of- and solution to -all of life's problems.
Yup, I did it again.
I tried to turn the page of a physical book by scrolling down with my finger.
Technology! The cause of- and solution to -all of life's problems.
We sure can see you did it again!
Oh my word. Real Jamaican food by a real Jamaican ex-pat.
So good.
And now I pay the price for my hubris. Oof.
(No regrets!)
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Ben 10 Season 2 is going into the donation bin, and it's funny just how much of an exemplar of 'ruination by marketing' the series is.
(1) Kid gets alien device that allows him to turn into 10 different powerful aliens.
(2) Seasons progress as the kid learns how to use the device to transform into all 10 aliens.
(3) Series does well; toys sell like hotcakes. Marketers say, "Hey, we can't end the series! We're making money here!"
(4) Series turns irrevocably stupid as he suddenly becomes Ben 11... Ben 12... Ben 13...
...anything the marketers can get away with...
..."And oh yeah, let's let a bunch of other kids transform, too, and turn them into a fighting team! That'll sell LOADS of figures!"
The first couple of seasons were a remarkably good show. By the end of Season 2, you could see where the train wreck was going, and that location was ToySalesVille.
Still bitter about that one...
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Ben 10 Season 2 is going into the donation bin, and it's funny just how much of an exemplar of 'ruination by marketing' the series is.
(1) Kid gets alien device that allows him to turn into 10 different powerful aliens.
(2) Seasons progress as the kid learns how to use the device to transform into all 10 aliens.
(3) Series does well; toys sell like hotcakes. Marketers say, "Hey, we can't end the series! We're making money here!"
(4) Series turns irrevocably stupid as he suddenly becomes Ben 11... Ben 12... Ben 13...
...anything the marketers can get away with...
..."And oh yeah, let's let a bunch of other kids transform, too, and turn them into a fighting team! That'll sell LOADS of figures!"The first couple of seasons were a remarkably good show. By the end of Season 2, you could see where the train wreck was going, and that location was ToySalesVille.
Still bitter about that one...
I liked Ben 10K.
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Another show I know nothing about.
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Did anyone see the episode of Quickdraw when the Younger brothers kidnap deputy Eli and use him as bait and while Sheriff Hoyle is trying to figure out how to get him out without springing the trap the undertaker mentions he has dynamite.
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My friend Miles moved to Germany, and just got his citizenship. He said it went pretty smoothly, except they did make him change his name to Kilometers.
It's ok at the end of the day he'll still be a fox.
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Nah. He's not that attractive.My friend Miles moved to Germany, and just got his citizenship. He said it went pretty smoothly, except they did make him change his name to Kilometers.It's ok at the end of the day he'll still be a fox.
No but he is always following that dang hedgehog around.
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I didn't even know Amy and kilometer were a thing...
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I didn't even know Amy and kilometer were a thing...Clearly we aren't reading the same fanfics.
Sonic fan fiction *shudder*
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Sonic fan fiction *shudder*I didn't even know Amy and kilometer were a thing...Clearly we aren't reading the same fanfics.
ah, memories.
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Jealous.Oh my word. Real Jamaican food by a real Jamaican ex-pat.
So good.
And now I pay the price for my hubris. Oof.
(No regrets!)
Very reasonable!
Also, just to brag, but it’s a place I could hyyyypothetically go every day... they make the food fresh, you know, while you wait.
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We're supposed to hit 60 degrees this weekend, for the first time since October.
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We're supposed to hit 60 degrees this weekend, for the first time since October.
*shudder*
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You can shudder all you want, I'm going to wear shorts and a f+@%ing t-shirt.
And probably get laid.
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A new cryptozoological sensation: the Wisconsin Egg In Shorts.
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You can shudder all you want, I'm going to wear shorts and a f~$&ing t-shirt.
And probably get laid.
Happy and active marriages are a wonderful thing.
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I never thought growing up in Florida that I would ever consider the sun anything but evil - a vile cancer causing skin burning f++$ing plague.
Then I moved to Ohio.
Today it's 32, but it is sunny, and Spring is coming, and I love that exploding ball of hydrogen now.
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It's amazing the difference three years can make.
11th grade: "Okay, your rough draft is due after we get back from break. Have something ready for a peer edit." "Okay!"
8th grade: "Okay. We're going to write your first body paragraph today. Your topic sentence for this one just needs to answer the question 'who or what is this?'" "I DON'T KNOW HOW TO WRITE A TOPIC SENTENCE."
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You can shudder all you want, I'm going to wear shorts and a f~%+ing t-shirt.
And probably get laid.
*shakes fist*
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I get troglodytes are big fans of riding dinosaurs, but there is absolutely no f##%ing reason why one would ride a triceratops into a g!*!$#n crypt.
That is all, rant over.
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So, yeah, this is definitely political, but I think the Europeans might appreciate a read on just how bad U.S. sick leave is.
The short version: Since there are no regulations on sick leave in the U.S., fully 1/3 of all employees have to go to work sick or not get paid. So the whole coronavirus, "Stay at home if you're sick," approach isn't going to work here.
(And the New Hampshire case is very indicative of the American "tough it out" attitude, too: A person who'd been diagnosed with the coronavirus was told to quarantine themselves at home, but since they had already paid to go to a conference, they went anyway since their symptoms were mild.)
Oh. My. Wooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrd.
Ascendance of a Bookwyrm is just... it's just... I didn't know I wanted this anime. I mean, I thought I'd like it, but. But.
Hhhhhhhrrrrrrrrrrrrnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn. My heart, man.
I'm too overweight to for it to be played like a fiddle like that!
It's so much warmer and human than I expected.
Also is that... Holland... France... Japanese fantasy?
Whatever, it's amazing. I love it.
I have no idea if any of you will. That's fine. If you love it - good. If not, this is my thing for me. >Hugs this anime.<
I get troglodytes are big fans of riding dinosaurs, but there is absolutely no f~!@ing reason why one would ride a triceratops into a g$!@$$n crypt.
That is all, rant over.
Who wouldn't?!
I mean, uh, "Which," um, "which troglodyte wouldn't?" is what I mean. Yeah.
>.>
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I get riding triceratops, it sounds like the beeznees. However, there's a time and place for that, and inside a crypt with all sorts of stone coffins and nowhere to properly move around is not one of them.
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I gave the trogs in a dungeon I ran recently dimetrodons as guard dogs. The party mostly ignored them sadly.
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My absolute favorite/most loathsome example of sick leave is the school district.
"If your child exhibits any of the following symptoms, please keep them home for the day, as if they infect others it can significantly impact everyone's learning."
And yet if you hit 8 sick days for the school year, you get a threatening letter from the school board that they're going to report you to the truancy office and Child Protective Services for child neglect.
I know. I get one every year for Impus Minor.
And, being me, I called the office to complain, and they said, "Oh, that's just a form letter the state requires us to send. Just ignore it."
Er... no.
You can't threaten me with CPC and then say, "Oh, just ignore the letter."
My kid's going to school sick until you stop threatening me with life-changing assaults.
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I remember getting sick in Jr high with pneumonia and being completely out of commission for two weeks.
If that happened now I would be out a whole paycheck and thus fail to meet multiple monthly payments, debts, and dues. Almost none of which would care for any excuse why I didn't meet my pay date. The rest would slap a late fee on it but accept late payment... as long as it's not TOO late.
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Heck, when I had a cracked tooth removed a few months back, my supervisor was calling me the day after surgery asking when I'd be back in the office.
I wasn't even back to solid foods yet.
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I gave the trogs in a dungeon I ran recently dimetrodons as guard dogs. The party mostly ignored them sadly.
So thinking about this. Most dinosaurs, cool as they are in concept, are basically just bags of hit points with one, sometimes two decent attacks in pathfinder classic.
Anyone have some fun and flavor-suitable templates to recommend adding to them to make them more interesting combatants? I know I could just give them unique abilities from scratch, but I at least want to try working by the books first. ^^
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I gave the trogs in a dungeon I ran recently dimetrodons as guard dogs. The party mostly ignored them sadly.So thinking about this. Most dinosaurs, cool as they are in concept, are basically just bags of hit points with one, sometimes two decent attacks in pathfinder classic.
Anyone have some fun and flavor-suitable templates to recommend adding to them to make them more interesting combatants? I know I could just give them unique abilities from scratch, but I at least want to try working by the books first. ^^
The larger carnivores (TREX) may have a sonic attack representing their roar. Treat as a breath weapon, but sonic damage and radius out from the creature.
Tail slaps with bull rush/push/knock prone attack. "Did I just get yeeted off this bridge by the stegasaurus's thagomizer?" "Yes, yes you did."
Trample for the large herbivores (or really almost any of the BIG ones).
Minor earthquake on movement - knock prone effect for the larger ones.
Passage creates a trail of difficult terrain as their footprints are difficult through which to navigate.
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https://www.instagram.com/p/B1hVf08FWt7/
Oh. My. Wooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrd.
Ascendance of a Bookwyrm is just... it's just... I didn't know I wanted this anime. I mean, I thought I'd like it, but. But.
Hhhhhhhrrrrrrrrrrrrnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn. My heart, man.
I'm too overweight to for it to be played like a fiddle like that!
It's so much warmer and human than I expected.
Also is that... Holland... France... Japanese fantasy?
Whatever, it's amazing. I love it.
I have no idea if any of you will. That's fine. If you love it - good. If not, this is my thing for me. >Hugs this anime.<
DAGGUMMIT, ASCENDANCE', I TOLD YOU NOT TO PLAY WITH MY HEART THAT WAY.ASDF
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I gave the trogs in a dungeon I ran recently dimetrodons as guard dogs. The party mostly ignored them sadly.So thinking about this. Most dinosaurs, cool as they are in concept, are basically just bags of hit points with one, sometimes two decent attacks in pathfinder classic.
Anyone have some fun and flavor-suitable templates to recommend adding to them to make them more interesting combatants? I know I could just give them unique abilities from scratch, but I at least want to try working by the books first. ^^
The larger carnivores (TREX) may have a sonic attack representing their roar. Treat as a breath weapon, but sonic damage and radius out from the creature.
Tail slaps with bull rush/push/knock prone attack. "Did I just get yeeted off this bridge by the stegasaurus's thagomizer?" "Yes, yes you did."
Trample for the large herbivores (or really almost any of the BIG ones).
Minor earthquake on movement - knock prone effect for the larger ones.
Passage creates a trail of difficult terrain as their footprints are difficult through which to navigate.
THAGOMIZER! Named for the late Thag Simmons, if memory recalls correctly.
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I remember getting sick in Jr high with pneumonia and being completely out of commission for two weeks.
If that happened now I would be out a whole paycheck and thus fail to meet multiple monthly payments, debts, and dues. Almost none of which would care for any excuse why I didn't meet my pay date. The rest would slap a late fee on it but accept late payment... as long as it's not TOO late.
And places that do give paid time off...it's vastly inconsistent from company to company.
In my company, we get one pool of PTO, plus 6 paid holidays separate. That single pool is used for sick time, vacation, whatever. So someone decides they want to take a family vacation in May, and they have the PTO for a week off. They take it. Great. All is groovy. Then in June they get pneumonia, with no PTO left because they DARED to take time off work to spend time with their family. People have lost their jobs because of these scenarios. Oh, and until very recently, our PTO didn't roll over from year to year. Use it or lose it. So don't use it because you might get sick or get in a serious car accident...and then you have the entire company trying to take time off between Thanksgiving and Christmas because *everyone* saved their PTO and nobody wants to lose the benefits...
Fire away, Fritzy. At NH. His fault.
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Didn't the paleontologist community actually use that name officially when they realized no one had given the tail spikes a name?
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Didn't the paleontologist community actually use that name officially when they realized no one had given the tail spikes a name?
Yes.
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In the Dresden Files series (Book 6 or 7? Somewhere in there, name of the book is DEAD BEAT)
(SPOILER ALERT-If you want to read this book and be surprised, Dont read the spoiler!)
The Hero takes a t-rex skeleton and (temporarily) resurrects it, and rides a fully-fleshed T-Rex through downtown Chicago, in the middle of a zombie/undead apocalypse.
Best. Scene. In. A. Novel. EVER.
:)
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Ah, Sue. And the looks Dresden got from his "superiors" over that...
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My absolute favorite/most loathsome example of sick leave is the school district.
"If your child exhibits any of the following symptoms, please keep them home for the day, as if they infect others it can significantly impact everyone's learning."
And yet if you hit 8 sick days for the school year, you get a threatening letter from the school board that they're going to report you to the truancy office and Child Protective Services for child neglect.
Uh... Taking care of your child is neglect? I thought that Australia is the place where everything is upside down...
Here the primary difference is (or at least was in my times) presence of formal note from the MD. The parent could excuse the kid a few times on minor issues, though longer absences required doctor's confirmation.
As long as the kid was able to catch up with the material (which might include necessity necessity for extra tests), excused absences were not a major problem. I think I missed a month once because of extended sickness. Not really sure, though, it was long ago... Those could have been multiple separate absences of two three weeks.
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Fire away, Fritzy. At NH. His fault.
You expect his corporation to accept "being hit by a flaming bike for discussing politics" as a valid sick leave?
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My absolute favorite/most loathsome example of sick leave is the school district.
"If your child exhibits any of the following symptoms, please keep them home for the day, as if they infect others it can significantly impact everyone's learning."
And yet if you hit 8 sick days for the school year, you get a threatening letter from the school board that they're going to report you to the truancy office and Child Protective Services for child neglect.
Uh... Taking care of your child is neglect? I thought that Australia is the place where everything is upside down...
Here the primary difference is (or at least was in my times) presence of formal note from the MD. The parent could excuse the kid a few times on minor issues, though longer absences required doctor's confirmation.
As long as the kid was able to catch up with the material (which might include necessity necessity for extra tests), excused absences were not a major problem. I think I missed a month once because of extended sickness. Not really sure, though, it was long ago... Those could have been multiple separate absences of two three weeks.
The problem is that the investigative processes and threatening letters are kicked off without thought. And people do get investigated, and even when the parents have all the evidence to back them up, sometimes children are pulled from the home during the investigation and the investigations can take months. It's archaic.
And then you get the other side of the mess, and I'm not going to go into that one right now.