Two weeks later, without any announcement, no one is wearing a mask outside any more, and people stare at my family because we still wear them.
"Well, he said he was going to ease restrictions, so obviously masks are now passe."
*SIGH*
Fantasy Monster: Garden Hag.How often can she use lashing vines? Every round?
Yes. It is really just a replacement for a ranged attack (which it was supposed to be initially, but then I went with Reflex save instead).
I could use one as well.Ah! Ah! Aaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!I see you need a hero too.
So one of my signups for PaizoCon Online is a Pathfinder 2e game which I... Ahem... have never actually played. So I figured this is a good time to brush up on the system. I’m an experienced gamer; how hard could it be?
Now I am reading the Core Rulebook and... I am scared.
Is it just me, or is this system really complicated?
A bit less so than the first edition, actually, though there are things that are bit more complicated and others that are somewhat less complicated. It also benefits from much less rules bloat. Yet.
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I went out for a job interview today. The interviewer and other office folk weren't wearing masks but didn't react in any way to me wearing one. They also refrained from shaking hands and provided sanitizer freely.
That said, it was about fifty-fifty of people wearing masks and people not in the people coming and going around the area and at the gas station I stopped at along the way. Which is about standard for what I've seen both here and back in Chattanooga.
We don't need another hero...I could use one as well.Ah! Ah! Aaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!I see you need a hero too.
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A bit less so than the first edition, actually, though there are things that are bit more complicated and others that are somewhat less complicated. It also benefits from much less rules bloat. Yet.So one of my signups for PaizoCon Online is a Pathfinder 2e game which I... Ahem... have never actually played. So I figured this is a good time to brush up on the system. I’m an experienced gamer; how hard could it be?
Now I am reading the Core Rulebook and... I am scared.
Is it just me, or is this system really complicated?
I’m warming up to it quickly. The character creation process seems to have a lot of steps, but gameplay seems fairly straightforward.
to call homeAre you quite certain we don't?We don't need another hero...I could use one as well.Ah! Ah! Aaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!I see you need a hero too.
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I went out for a job interview today. The interviewer and other office folk weren't wearing masks but didn't react in any way to me wearing one. They also refrained from shaking hands and provided sanitizer freely.
That said, it was about fifty-fifty of people wearing masks and people not in the people coming and going around the area and at the gas station I stopped at along the way. Which is about standard for what I've seen both here and back in Chattanooga.
Yeah honestly half isn't bad for chat.
to call homeAre you quite certain we don't?We don't need another hero...I could use one as well.Ah! Ah! Aaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!I see you need a hero too.
MMM love that song. (short change hero.)
I mean I'm sure new players will appreciate the help from it. Me as a veteran player knows I'm fully capable of ignoring it or altering it to how I see fit.
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Are you quite certain we don't?We don't need another hero...I could use one as well.Ah! Ah! Aaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!I see you need a hero too.
Has everyone been asking for me for some reason?
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It really is amazing to me just how impervious some people are to some very basic ideas.
Global Megacorporation uses Slack, much to my chagrin. There's a sales channel I need to monitor to see what customers are asking for. It has thousands of users. (Yes, we are indeed a megacorporation.)
Somehow, somewhere, a large number of the users got the idea that the correct way to enter any question was to put in , "Hi, @channel!", sending an active alert to everyone on the list. If you're signed in, you get a pop-up, which is really annoying if you're presenting in a meeting. If you're not signed in, you get an email unless you turn OFF notifications, in which case you miss it in case anyone's trying to get in touch with you directly.
So as a user, you're stuck receiving notifications because everyone now uses Slack for IM, and you're stuck receiving these idiots' notifications because SOMEONE convinced them to use @channel.
One person posted a complaint.
I posted a complaint.
I posted a second complaint.
Yet we still have at least half a dozen users who post, "Hi, @channel!" on a daily basis.
It is beyond annoying and into, "I want to beat these people about the head with my keyboard," territory.
It happens in Discord all the time, which I use for basically every community I'm part of (including this one! Message Tac if you want in.). And Discord has two commands like that - @here and @everyone. The program has even reached a point of popping up a "hey, are you sure you want to do that?" message when you try to use @everyone but people still make use of it.
Granted, sometimes I have to use it myself because I'm an administrator for one of the channels I'm in, but we try to keep it as rare as possible because we know how annoying it is.
But we still get people who use it regularly, as well as at least two users who will begin every message they type with "@(person they were talking to in that particular sentence)", despite repeated requests for them to knock it off.
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It happens in Discord all the time, which I use for basically every community I'm part of (including this one! Message Tac if you want in.). And Discord has two commands like that - @here and @everyone. The program has even reached a point of popping up a "hey, are you sure you want to do that?" message when you try to use @everyone but people still make use of it.
Granted, sometimes I have to use it myself because I'm an administrator for one of the channels I'm in, but we try to keep it as rare as possible because we know how annoying it is.
But we still get people who use it regularly, as well as at least two users who will begin every message they type with "@(person they were talking to in that particular sentence)", despite repeated requests for them to knock it off.
Yeah. What I'd really like to see is every communication platform start requiring two confirmations every time you try to pull that s***.
"You are about to send an active alert to everyone in this channel. Is your message really so important that you want to do that?"
"Your post may be in violation of your company's usage policy with regards to large-scale broadcasts. Do you still want to proceed?"
I think the second one might shut at least SOME of the people up.
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Vany, 6 years ago: Wait, you have one account that you all share to access the client's SFTP server*? You really shouldn't do that.
Operations: Yeah, but it's fine. It's just easier this way.
Vany, 6 years ago: It's not fine, it's going to be a compliance audit issue, and eventually one person is going to lock it out. They'll want to talk to whoever that account is registered to in order to fix that, and if that person isn't available you're all going to be hosed.
Vany, off and on for the ensuing years: You still haven't gotten that account situation fixed, huh?
Operations, today: Hey, we can't get in to that client's SFTP server!
One of Vany's Techs: Yeah, from the errors you're getting it sounds like that account is locked out. You'll need to call the client to deal with that since it's their system.
Operations: Hey, they're saying they can't talk to me. The account is registered to someone I've never heard of before. They're saying they need to confirm the identity of that person!
(Turns out the account was registered to a former employee of ours who left the company about 8 years ago.)
Operations: Vany, can you or one of your techs talk to them and get this straightened out for us? Please?
Vany: No.
*Secure File Transfer Protocol - secure file sharing between two different corporations that doesn't involve third party services.
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OK. I did it. Let's see how much trouble I get into.
Would it be possible for Global Megacorporation to implement a simple verification dialog for users who insist on using "at channel" to start every message, no matter how trivial? I've muted a couple of channels because of the several-times-a-day-use of, "Hi, at channel" as a greeting. It's distracting. A simple dialog that said, "You are about to send an active alert to every member of this channel. Do you really want to do that?" would really help cut down on this. Thanks! (And yes, I'm unhappy that Slack's settings combine direct messages and keywords. Direct messages are important to me. People saying, "Hi, at channel"? Not so much.)
EDIT: Wooooow! I got an almost-immediate response. It *IS* already implemented!
"By using @channel, you are about to notify xx people. Are you sure?"And people are still doing it on a daily basis.
EDIT 2: OK, Slack DOES have a use -- I complained on the Slack help channel and three guys popped up and helped me resolve the issue. Muting notifications for a channel is buried deep, deep down in the app and it takes some digging to find it.
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OK. Impus Major's math teacher now takes the prize for worst college teacher decision EVER.
It's finals week. The final is on Wednesday. She just today assigned a homework assignment that's due on Friday.
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OK. Impus Major's math teacher now takes the prize for worst college teacher decision EVER.
It's finals week. The final is on Wednesday. She just today assigned a homework assignment that's due on Friday.
idiot.
It happens in Discord all the time, which I use for basically every community I'm part of (including this one! Message Tac if you want in.). And Discord has two commands like that - @here and @everyone. The program has even reached a point of popping up a "hey, are you sure you want to do that?" message when you try to use @everyone but people still make use of it.
Granted, sometimes I have to use it myself because I'm an administrator for one of the channels I'm in, but we try to keep it as rare as possible because we know how annoying it is.
But we still get people who use it regularly, as well as at least two users who will begin every message they type with "@(person they were talking to in that particular sentence)", despite repeated requests for them to knock it off.
Yeah. What I'd really like to see is every communication platform start requiring two confirmations every time you try to pull that s***.
"You are about to send an active alert to everyone in this channel. Is your message really so important that you want to do that?"
"Your post may be in violation of your company's usage policy with regards to large-scale broadcasts. Do you still want to proceed?"
I think the second one might shut at least SOME of the people up.
When I worked at PacBell, you could get fired for that.
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Yes, we doAre you quite certain we don't?We don't need another hero...I could use one as well.Ah! Ah! Aaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!I see you need a hero too.
This is why I like you.
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I second that opinion. Motion carries.idiot.OK. Impus Major's math teacher now takes the prize for worst college teacher decision EVER.
It's finals week. The final is on Wednesday. She just today assigned a homework assignment that's due on Friday.
And this is why I like John.
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Bought books. Nihilistic stuff. Cause that is what my brain needs in this day and time.
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This is why I like you.Yes, we doAre you quite certain we don't?We don't need another hero...I could use one as well.Ah! Ah! Aaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!I see you need a hero too.
I like him too.
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Just got the official announcement that our application will "only" support Internet Explorer for two more releases.
I swear. At this point in time you just say, "You're using IE? Yeah, we'd rather not have you as a customer, thanks! Buh bye!"
Sheesh.
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I found After the Bomb and Road Hogs at a local game store for a reasonable price!!
Today is a good day.
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DONE! I am DONE with Parent-Teacher Conferences!
Now it's just down to typing up my notes, and finishing up some administrative crap, and then a week and a half of teacher inservice.
While we wait for our new contracts, and to find out what next school year is going to look like.
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DONE! I am DONE with Parent-Teacher Conferences!
Now it's just down to typing up my notes, and finishing up some administrative crap, and then a week and a half of teacher inservice.
While we wait for our new contracts, and to find out what next school year is going to look like.
Considering how "well" DVC and AUSD have handled the shutdown, we're seriously looking at Impus Major taking a semester off and homeschooling Impus Minor for the semester.
Yes, it's been THAT bad.
DONE! I am DONE with Parent-Teacher Conferences!
Now it's just down to typing up my notes, and finishing up some administrative crap, and then a week and a half of teacher inservice.
While we wait for our new contracts, and to find out what next school year is going to look like.
Considering how "well" DVC and AUSD have handled the shutdown, we're seriously looking at Impus Major taking a semester off and homeschooling Impus Minor for the semester.
Yes, it's been THAT bad.
I was home schooled and I turned out fine.
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Crookshanks' first day is tomorrow.
We're pouring concrete.
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And if'n youse is gonna do that, I knows a guy what can help.
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Nope, she's pretty excited!
Not only does she get to see a cement truck up close, she's getting paid to do it.
And she's not working at Walmart, McDonald's, or Target like all her friends.
I figure I'll let her find out how steep and long the driveway is on her own (or the fact that once you get to the top of the driveway you're still only halfway to the concrete forms).
There will also be at least two other teenagers working with us tomorrow, so it's not all bad.
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That sounds vaguely threatening, like you're going to bury her in the cement.Crookshanks' first day is tomorrow.
We're pouring concrete.
I had the opposite impression: CY was teaching CS how to hide a body under a concrete slab.
Which isn't on Heinlein's List, but it's a skill that will probably come in handy. Modern problems require modern solutions.
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That sounds vaguely threatening, like you're going to bury her in the cement.Crookshanks' first day is tomorrow.
We're pouring concrete.
I had the opposite impression: CY was teaching CS how to hide a body under a concrete slab.
Which isn't on Heinlein's List, but it's a skill that will probably come in handy. Modern problems require modern solutions.
I believe it's covered in "solve equations, analyze a new problem, and pitch manure".
It's important to know the basics before moving on to more advanced tools like saws.
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I found After the Bomb and Road Hogs at a local game store for a reasonable price!!
Today is a good day.
I liked After The Bomb and some of the TMNT stuff, but not all. Maybe I'll see if I can find some of my old stuff.
Still love Nightbane.
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That sounds vaguely threatening, like you're going to bury her in the cement.Crookshanks' first day is tomorrow.
We're pouring concrete.
I had the opposite impression: CY was teaching CS how to hide a body under a concrete slab.
Which isn't on Heinlein's List, but it's a skill that will probably come in handy. Modern problems require modern solutions.
I believe it's covered in "solve equations, analyze a new problem, and pitch manure".
It's important to know the basics before moving on to more advanced tools like saws.
Please add "basic woodworking & metalworking, MacGyvering weaponry" to the list.
I found After the Bomb and Road Hogs at a local game store for a reasonable price!!
Today is a good day.
I liked After The Bomb and some of the TMNT stuff, but not all. Maybe I'll see if I can find some of my old stuff.
Still love Nightbane.
Nightbane IS pretty amazing.
About to clock out. Good night, everyone.
Night John.
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And today I burned my wrist. I really don't think that was necessary. I didn't need the reminder that I was alive.