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Oh, no. I was told very clearly it was "Neh-VAY-dah."It's like driving through southern Missouri. I will never forget the first time I had someone correct me to "El Dor-ay-do.""locals pronounce it Nev-ADD-ah and get very annoyed at tourists who don't."
"IT'S NEH-VAH-DAH! IT'S SPANISH!"
*mumbles incoherently about arson and Midwestern towns that insist on mispronouncing their very clear names*
*looks at San Jose, IL*
*looks at them again*
Yeah. They pronounce it San Johss. Similar to "Joe's", but with the s sound instead of the z sound.
*prepares napalm*
*looks at Cairo, IL*
CAY-ro
*begins mixing thermite*
>_>
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I know what thermite is since I read "The Thing" where it is used to melt out the UFO from underneath the ice.
>_>
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All and all I'm pretty sore today.
I always forget the second week is usually worse than the first (mostly because it was cold and snowy).
I took a bath but that only helps for so long.
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Visual tour of Halifax, England, 1902
Odd. I recognise many of the places in this film, 118 years on, and I'm not sure I like it.
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Just rode 1 mile indoors on an elliptical today.
Suck it, quarantine. I'm back to riding every day.
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RIDE FREE OR DIE
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As an expert on the subject, not everyone likes being called internet trolls or having dragon turds dropped on them metaphorically.I remember fans complaining about one of the 4e promotion videos that WotC put out, so I went and watched it -- the one about grappling. It was definitely a bit of an exaggeration of the wordiness and detail of 3.x grapple rules, but it was very tongue-in-cheek and goofy. (And whaddya expect from a company selling a new product.)for them to not actively insult the people using their previous product.
Seriously, the 80s are over. You can sell something new without actively insulting anyone who goes to the other guy, especially when the other guy is...yourself.
*rewatches the vid after 12 years*
Yeah I still don't see it, but hey, repeat a myth often enough and it becomes the truth!
I have zero context for this statement, so I'm gonna just agree to disagree on the whole 4e issue. Life's too short to argue with friends.
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I assume we are talking about different videos then.
Edit: Here it is.
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Ah, Macallan...you understand me...
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Fire is ALWAYS a solid plan B, no matter what you're doing.*stares into the middle distance, continues preparing thermite*You don't pull roots, you chop them with an axe.Who knew that pulling up the roots left behind after chopping down bushes and using a pickup to to pull the stumps out the ground was the HARD part?
Oh, wait, I DID!
(My wife is wondering why my back hurts? Because I hurt it trying to pull up those CONFOUNDED @#$% roots!)
;P
I concur.
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Ride on, Bicycle Hero! Ride on!Just rode 1 mile indoors on an elliptical today.
Suck it, quarantine. I'm back to riding every day.
Bicycle, Bicycle,
He wants to ride his Bicycle, he wants to ride his Bike; he wants to ride his Bicycle, he wants to ride it where he liiiiiiikes....| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
Ride on, Bicycle Hero! Ride on!Just rode 1 mile indoors on an elliptical today.
Suck it, quarantine. I'm back to riding every day.
Bicycle, Bicycle,
He wants to ride his Bicycle, he wants to ride his Bike; he wants to ride his Bicycle, he wants to ride it where he liiiiiiikes....
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I'd be game for using thermite on Best Buy.
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You always hear about how ice makers are the Achilles Heel of refrigerators, and you should never get one because they break so often.
Yesterday, I finally got a chance to see why.
After what? 1 year? Two? The ice receptacle in our refrigerator door filled up, a couple of ice cubes got lodged against the automatic shutoff switch, nonsense happened, the switch got frozen open, and the whole mechanism iced over.
Opening the door and looking at it, the obvious "no thought" solution would be to try to break away the icy coating to free everything up again. But of course, it's a modern fridge, so everything is made of ultra-thin breakable plastic, so that way lies madness... and a hefty repair bill for a new ice maker.
Fortunately, I examined it first, and GothBard was highly amused to catch me standing there with the fridge door open, blowing her hair dryer on the ice mechanism. It took quite a while to melt all the ice without allowing the plastic to get warmer than "warm to the touch" (because plastic both melts and breaks, much to the delight of repairpeople everywhere, I'm sure). But once everything was melted, I used a turkey baster to carefully bail out all the water, let it dry overnight, and in the morning turned it back on.
The good news: Our ice maker is working normally again.
The bad news: It took about 20 minutes of "hands on" work (the hair dryer) and another 12 hours of letting it dry to actually get it working.
So yeah, I'm sure a lot of ice maker breakdowns can be chalked up to, "I don't have that kind of time/patience."
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NobodysHome: I love this song. It's a really, really boring song, but then you hit the chorus and there's this beautiful harmony between the two women's voices, so you're sitting there thinking, "This is boring. This is boring. Why am I listening to this again? Oh. Aaaah."
Impus Major: Father, you've discovered power metal!
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NobodysHome: I love this song. It's a really, really boring song, but then you hit the chorus and there's this beautiful harmony between the two women's voices, so you're sitting there thinking, "This is boring. This is boring. Why am I listening to this again? Oh. Aaaah."
Impus Major: Father, you've discovered power metal!
He is wise beyond his years.
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NobodysHome: I love this song. It's a really, really boring song, but then you hit the chorus and there's this beautiful harmony between the two women's voices, so you're sitting there thinking, "This is boring. This is boring. Why am I listening to this again? Oh. Aaaah."
Impus Major: Father, you've discovered power metal!
I hope he said that in a Victorian waif's voice.
Not a Victorian waifu's voice. I don't know what that might sound like, and I definitely do not want to know.
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...I want to know.
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Today I made tiny shelves for tiny miniatures.
Did you use tiny nails and a tiny hammer?
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Blergh. My head... Is there a weather change incoming or what?
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Temperature drops a few degrees (the real ones, not the American corns-syrup filled substitute), but no mention of rains.
Ah, well, I suffer without reason...
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Johnathon Harker (to Dracula): You're a monster!!
Dracula: You're a lawyer, nobody's perfect.
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Watched Brotherhood of the Wolf again for the first time since I originally saw it in theaters. I still like it, but I didn't remember it being so... French.
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Watched Brotherhood of the Wolf again for the first time since I originally saw it in theaters. I still like it, but I didn't remember it being so... French.
You say like it was a bad thing.
Funny enough. Monica Bellucci played both in the Brotherhood and in Dracula (though not the one CY is watching, I think).
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FedEx seems to be getting faster and faster.
Local Time: 3:53 pm PDT
Sunset: 7:48 pm PDT
Time Until End of Day: 3 hours, 55 minutes
Estimated Delivery Date: Saturday, 4/18/2020 by end of day
Current Status: Shipping label has been created. The status will be updated when equipment begins to travel
From: Penninton, NJ, U.S.A.
So yeah, they don't even have it yet and they're going to make it from New Jersey to California in under 4 hours. Color me impressed!
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FedEx seems to be getting faster and faster.
Local Time: 3:53 pm PDT
Sunset: 7:48 pm PDT
Time Until End of Day: 3 hours, 55 minutes
Estimated Delivery Date: Saturday, 4/18/2020 by end of day
Current Status: Shipping label has been created. The status will be updated when equipment begins to travel
From: Penninton, NJ, U.S.A.So yeah, they don't even have it yet and they're going to make it from New Jersey to California in under 4 hours. Color me impressed!
Maybe they use Julian calendar?
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FedEx seems to be getting faster and faster.
Local Time: 3:53 pm PDT
Sunset: 7:48 pm PDT
Time Until End of Day: 3 hours, 55 minutes
Estimated Delivery Date: Saturday, 4/18/2020 by end of day
Current Status: Shipping label has been created. The status will be updated when equipment begins to travel
From: Penninton, NJ, U.S.A.So yeah, they don't even have it yet and they're going to make it from New Jersey to California in under 4 hours. Color me impressed!
Epic Spell: Power Word: Yeet
Some breakage may occur. FedEx is not responsible for a lack of proper padding at the delivery site.
He is wise beyond his years.NobodysHome: I love this song. It's a really, really boring song, but then you hit the chorus and there's this beautiful harmony between the two women's voices, so you're sitting there thinking, "This is boring. This is boring. Why am I listening to this again? Oh. Aaaah."
Impus Major: Father, you've discovered power metal!
Pretty much. All power metal is either that or "these lyrics are so ridiculous and over the top that it loops around to awesome."
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Pretty much. All power metal is either that or "these lyrics are so ridiculous and over the top that it loops around to awesome."He is wise beyond his years.NobodysHome: I love this song. It's a really, really boring song, but then you hit the chorus and there's this beautiful harmony between the two women's voices, so you're sitting there thinking, "This is boring. This is boring. Why am I listening to this again? Oh. Aaaah."
Impus Major: Father, you've discovered power metal!
Or both. We need heavy riffs, operatic vocals, and essentially DuckTales level of seriousness. Like Gloryhammer meets Nightwish.
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Or both. We need heavy riffs, operatic vocals, and essentially DuckTales level of seriousness. Like Gloryhammer meets Nightwish.Pretty much. All power metal is either that or "these lyrics are so ridiculous and over the top that it loops around to awesome."He is wise beyond his years.NobodysHome: I love this song. It's a really, really boring song, but then you hit the chorus and there's this beautiful harmony between the two women's voices, so you're sitting there thinking, "This is boring. This is boring. Why am I listening to this again? Oh. Aaaah."
Impus Major: Father, you've discovered power metal!
What's hilarious is that both Gloryhammer and Nightwish are very heavy in my Pandora and Spotify rotations. Go figure.
\m/ AWESOME. \m/
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I just want someone to take Tarja vocals to a lyric as delightfully stupid as "fireballs make everyone die," okay
DO IT.
Came 3rd in the CyclopsCon Appendix N sword & sorcery trivia quiz.
Must Do Better, especially as I got the Hawkmoon question wrong.
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I just want someone to take Tarja vocals to a lyric as delightfully stupid as "fireballs make everyone die," okay
Ahem.
Fireballs and lighting are raining from the sky
Chaos and bloodshed while all the people die
Now THAT'S writing!
EDIT: And technically, the lyric in question is, "Fireballs make everybody die", which is FAR less silly.
SOOOOOO Californian.
Tonight's dinner is bangers and mash.
With spicy duck sausage from a local charcuterie that provides meat for some of the top-end restaurants in Berkeley and Oakland.
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Tales From The Loop and Things From The Flood rpg should arrive Tuesday.
I mostly wanted to support the local store and stick it to Amazon at the same time, and since I buy my Pathfinder stuff from Pathfinder and D&D is never an option this seemed the most interesting way to go (plus it sounded like something Crookshanks will enjoy with her cousins).
All of the Mass Effect 2 & 3 DLCs are on sale on Origin's website.
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I'd be game for using thermite on Best Buy.
It's not as hard to make at home as you might think... I mean oh cool. I would never make thermite at home.
Edit:I might be thinking of napalm actually.
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Pretty much. All power metal is either that or "these lyrics are so ridiculous and over the top that it loops around to awesome."He is wise beyond his years.NobodysHome: I love this song. It's a really, really boring song, but then you hit the chorus and there's this beautiful harmony between the two women's voices, so you're sitting there thinking, "This is boring. This is boring. Why am I listening to this again? Oh. Aaaah."
Impus Major: Father, you've discovered power metal!
They want to keep us down
But they can't lastWhen we get up we're gonna kick your ass
Gonna keep on burnin'
We always will
Other bands play Manowar kill
Other bands play Manowar kill
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Pretty much. All power metal is either that or "these lyrics are so ridiculous and over the top that it loops around to awesome."He is wise beyond his years.NobodysHome: I love this song. It's a really, really boring song, but then you hit the chorus and there's this beautiful harmony between the two women's voices, so you're sitting there thinking, "This is boring. This is boring. Why am I listening to this again? Oh. Aaaah."
Impus Major: Father, you've discovered power metal!
I've been pretty big on Sabaton myself lately (edit: and by lately I mean since 2005.)I think they are "War metal" and created the genre. Their lyrics are a straight up history lesson. I have learned so much from them. Not even kidding.
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Tales From The Loop and Things From The Flood rpg should arrive Tuesday.
I mostly wanted to support the local store and stick it to Amazon at the same time, and since I buy my Pathfinder stuff from Pathfinder and D&D is never an option this seemed the most interesting way to go (plus it sounded like something Crookshanks will enjoy with her cousins).
I recently got the book for Tales from the Loop and we're watching the series on Amazon Prime and I'm really itching for a game.