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Best in-game one-liner ever, courtesy of Teensy Valeros...
Tonight, exploring the vaults underneath the Alabaster Trident, they find a Wand of Gentle Repose in one of the experimental operating rooms after they've killed the two Pelagic Children experimenting on a dead Sahuagin.
Val: What does that do?
Me: It keeps dead things from decomposing and smelling bad.
Val: Cool! We could use it on cheese! (pause) Or on my shoes.
Bonus points to Teensy Valeros!
EDIT No nakedness!
Kind of depends on if you define weekend as the actual days of the week or as my days off work. One excellent the other hard meh :D.
The weekend was too short, which is weird because with all the rain we got last week we didn't really work that much.
Sorry about your cat, TOZ. I have only had to have one pet die, and it...just totally sucks.
Hell of a damn day today.
** spoiler omitted **
TOZ, I am sorry.
Monster: Biersal Gremlin. No, it doesn't wear bikini...
like that little guy.
I started a franchise on NBA 2K20...Why can't they just say 2020? I mean, the 2K thing has been a waste of syllables since 2010. It's even the exact same amount of characters.I totally agree, my brain hurts whenever anyone says "DC Comics".
At any rate, I couldn't handle getting blown out every f#+@ing game so I started over as the Bucks and it's going a lot better (3-1).
Play. The. NETS.
We had riots in town last night.
It's gotten ugly here.
Downtown Brooklyn has seen no small amount of rioting. In Manhattan, Soho was outright looted. I am calling the second job to ensure everyone is okay.
That's the kind of world we live in, really. Scint and I were rather jumpy and nervous on Friday night when the riots really started in earnest, but by morning... it was kind of just "this is life now".
I was focusing on Minnesota and the immediate environs, I forgot that you had moved into those environs. Sending PM.
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far more one of resigned, "Here we go again," than, "This is finally the catalyst that's going to make things change."Because very very few of us believe this. Most of us, I think, don't think this will change anything.
The riots and protests will rage for a few days. Some people will probably die. Some people in power might get fired or outvoted or resign. Things will go back to "normal". And this will all start up again in a short time. Nothing will change long-term.
I've seen a little bit of "yeah revolution time!" from a handful of more politically-active, farther-extreme-left types who are edging on the anarchist spectrum, but the majority of people, even highly-involved politically people, are kind of just expecting this not to change anything on a fundamental or systematic level. Things will just... eventually fade back into normality, and the abuses will continue on.
That's... kind of also the world we live in.
I don't know. This feels different somehow.
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Yeah, protests alone don't get anything done, in order for protesting to affect change a la MLK's years and years of organized protesting, we need a 2/3 majority of people in power who actually give a s#*!. And as it is, about half of our leaders give a s+%~, some of them would likely even sacrifice their careers to see justice done, a quarter don't care one way or another, the rest are low-key to overtly racist, and we have a president who loves calling white supremacist looters "antifa" in order to drag the left side of the spectrum down to his level.far more one of resigned, "Here we go again," than, "This is finally the catalyst that's going to make things change."Because very very few of us believe this. Most of us, I think, don't think this will change anything.
The riots and protests will rage for a few days. Some people will probably die. Some people in power might get fired or outvoted or resign. Things will go back to "normal". And this will all start up again in a short time. Nothing will change long-term.
I've seen a little bit of "yeah revolution time!" from a handful of more politically-active, farther-extreme-left types who are edging on the anarchist spectrum, but the majority of people, even highly-involved politically people, are kind of just expecting this not to change anything on a fundamental or systematic level. Things will just... eventually fade back into normality, and the abuses will continue on.
That's... kind of also the world we live in.
well said.
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Yet also, we have the SPACE-X Dragon capsule "Endeavor" successfully launching and docking with the International space station. All systems worked as intended with no reported hitches. (so far)
As the first US astronauts lunched from US soil in 9 years (since the shuttle program was scrapped) this would normally be at the top of the news.
Instead? We have memes saying the astronauts are smart for leaving the planet.
;PAnd tomorrow is my Anniversary. And NO idea what to do for my wife.
-_-I couldn't understand why my kids were freaking out as we watched the launch, because it seemed so commonplace to me when I was their age.
Then I realized, it was the first time it had happened in their lifetimes.
And then I realized I was crying.
I think I posted before, the Challenger disaster was the first time I ever saw adults crying en masse as a kid. Even as a kid I knew it would be a long time before we saw something like this happen again.
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I'm surrounded by protests in every major city around me. Nashville which is a stone's throw (if your very very strong) from me had their courthouse burned down but turns out that wasn't a protester it was some unstable white supremacist MFer.
This seems to be the general situation overall. The original protests were loud and aggressive but not violent, at least not until the police started attacking people. But a LOT of antagonizer groups, white supremacist groups, and general troublemakers have either taken advantage of the chaos to break stuff and cause trouble, or to give the original purpose of the protests a bad name, or to add hostility and violence to the protests so they can then turn around and blame left-wing groups or efforts like letting Trump use this as an excuse to blame it all on Antifa (which is, despite Trump and the right's insistence, NOT an actual organized group, it's a mindset and set of tactics).
I stopped believing protests actually do ANYTHING when the largest protest in human history failed to accomplish anything back in 2003.
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I delayed posting this, because I don't want any of you (whose opinion of me matters to me) to think I'm making light of the current situation.
BUT. I also know that, with my current level of anxiety/depression about life, the universe, and everything, I desperately need to find humor where I can, and I like to share.
SO.
Last night, a friend of mine whose property borders on the Oakland Zoo (which is at the far outskirts of town, a good half an hour's drive from Downtown Oakland) received a report that vandals had broken into the zoo and damaged enclosures, and at least one of the four tigers was at large in the area.
She has goats.
So she brought them in to her kitchen for the night, where they climbed up on the kitchen counter, ate all the fruit in the fruit bowl, peed all over the floor, and generally goated up her kitchen.
This morning, she found out it was a false report.
Then, a mutual friend of ours who is, in fact, a zookeeper at the Oakland Zoo, said, "Yeah, our tigers are so spoiled and lazy, they wouldn't know what to do with a live goat. A squirrel... maaaaaybe."
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As for the actual protests/riots, well, there's the fall of the Iron Curtain, the end of apartheid, Tienanmen (which, admittedly, didn't change much, but it did raise international public awareness), and the Arab Spring.
It's not that protesting doesn't accomplish much; it just doesn't seem to yield the same results here in America.
I'm sure some of that is apathy/resignation/cynicism/etc., but I think part of it is geographical... the country is just too danged big for the unrest to have the same effect. It's sort of a PSI of collective human pressure, and here it's too widely spread.
Does that make any sense, or does it sound completely stupid?
As for the actual protests/riots, well, there's the fall of the Iron Curtain, the end of apartheid, Tienanmen (which, admittedly, didn't change much, but it did raise international public awareness), and the Arab Spring.
It's not that protesting doesn't accomplish much; it just doesn't seem to yield the same results here in America.
I'm sure some of that is apathy/resignation/cynicism/etc., but I think part of it is geographical... the country is just too danged big for the unrest to have the same effect. It's sort of a PSI of collective human pressure, and here it's too widely spread.
Does that make any sense, or does it sound completely stupid?
I'll argue that the anti-apartheid protests succeeded in the U.S., but only because major corporations bought into them. Otherwise protestors haven't garnered corporate support and therefore haven't changed much around here.
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So...
Last night Peoria had several dumpster fires and at least 10 vehicular arsons. Also someone/some people broke into the zoo and released...a pair of donkeys...who just wandered around and then went back to their enclosure.
Unfortunately, my office building's owner was informed by the police that protests were planned for right about now at both the county and federal courthouses in downtown Peoria. My office building is directly between both courthouses.
MOST of our people are working from home, but I still had 10-15 working at the office. I made sure they got out just in case today's protests went as well as everything else has been going. People had just begun gathering at the courthouse when the last of the people got out of the office.
So that was "exciting".
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So...
Last night Peoria had several dumpster fires and at least 10 vehicular arsons. Also someone/some people broke into the zoo and released...a pair of donkeys...who just wandered around and then went back to their enclosure.
Unfortunately, my office building's owner was informed by the police that protests were planned for right about now at both the county and federal courthouses in downtown Peoria. My office building is directly between both courthouses.
MOST of our people are working from home, but I still had 10-15 working at the office. I made sure they got out just in case today's protests went as well as everything else has been going. People had just begun gathering at the courthouse when the last of the people got out of the office.
So that was "exciting".
At least you had a brain and got them out of there. Too many managers wouldn't, and would declare them "essential".
We owe it to the brain of our species to stand here and die and all that.
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I'm sure some of that is apathy/resignation/cynicism/etc., but I think part of it is geographical... the country is just too danged big for the unrest to have the same effect. It's sort of a PSI of collective human pressure, and here it's too widely spread.Does that make any sense, or does it sound completely stupid?
As for riots, I agree with NobodysHome. Unless damage is widespread enough to concern private interests(and by extension, the majority of politicians whose primary income is from lobbying) then little will actually change.
In Pathfinder news, nobody has died in the Carrion Crown group I'm in so that's a plus. Fingers crossed we can make it out of Book 1 alive.
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Parenthood:
(1) NobodysHome goes to the corner store during his lunch break. Since he doesn't have a lunch in mind, he grabs a frozen lunch for himself and throws it in the freezer
(2) NobodysHome summons Impus Major from Whimseyshire to show him the ropes of caring for the Celica during its long idle period
(3) Impus Major precedes NobodysHome into the house, looks in the freezer full of available lunches and snacks, grabs NobodysHome's lunch, and claims it as his own.
It's just how parenthood works.
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Parenthood:
(1) NobodysHome goes to the corner store during his lunch break. Since he doesn't have a lunch in mind, he grabs a frozen lunch for himself and throws it in the freezer
(2) NobodysHome summons Impus Major from Whimseyshire to show him the ropes of caring for the Celica during its long idle period
(3) Impus Major precedes NobodysHome into the house, looks in the freezer full of available lunches and snacks, grabs NobodysHome's lunch, and claims it as his own.It's just how parenthood works.
And that's a GOOD day! ;P
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So, today is my anniversary, (VERY lucky am I, who found a woman who has put up with me for 24 years so far!) ;)
She doesn't want to go out tonight, she wants to wait to get this silly monitor device off first, so we can dress up. (Take-home heart monitor thing, linked to a phone for recording.)
So, we have gone and gotten her 'wedding -cake cupcakes' from the bakery, and I will fix her Mexican food tonight (One of her favorites) we have already looked at the wedding album, and we will probably sit through the weeding video tonight. (I won't make the kids watch it again. They just NOT interested.) ;P
Not too bad for a Monday I guess? :)
So, today is my anniversary, (VERY lucky am I, who found a woman who has put up with me for 24 years so far!) ;)
She doesn't want to go out tonight, she wants to wait to get this silly monitor device off first, so we can dress up. (Take-home heart monitor thing, linked to a phone for recording.)
So, we have gone and gotten her 'wedding -cake cupcakes' from the bakery, and I will fix her Mexican food tonight (One of her favorites) we have already looked at the wedding album, and we will probably sit through the weeding video tonight. (I won't make the kids watch it again. They just NOT interested.) ;P
Not too bad for a Monday I guess? :)
Congratulations!
But... er...
You're one of the few people on the boards older than I am, and GothBard and I took 7 years to go from dating to getting married...
...yet we just had our twenty-SEVENTH wedding anniversary back in March.
Catch up, you!
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I can't imagine a video of weeding is that exciting for kids or adults. I mean...its weeds.
all typos aside - grats
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OK. I keep deleting posts because politics, but this really is massive. We just got another call from Alameda County. Another night of, "Don't leave your house because of the riots."
I've never seen one such call in my life, even during anti-apartheid and Rodney King (forget whether I deleted all those posts, and too lazy to check).
And now two in a row. Yikes!
I'm pretty good at killing weeds.
I pulled out a hundred year old patch of ivy in Seattle that still hasn't come back.
I don't even need a hand shovel, just give me an edging stake and I'll get every damn root there is.
So, today is my anniversary, (VERY lucky am I, who found a woman who has put up with me for 24 years so far!) ;)
She doesn't want to go out tonight, she wants to wait to get this silly monitor device off first, so we can dress up. (Take-home heart monitor thing, linked to a phone for recording.)
So, we have gone and gotten her 'wedding -cake cupcakes' from the bakery, and I will fix her Mexican food tonight (One of her favorites) we have already looked at the wedding album, and we will probably sit through the weeding video tonight. (I won't make the kids watch it again. They just NOT interested.) ;P
Not too bad for a Monday I guess? :)
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!
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I'm pretty good at killing weeds.
I pulled out a hundred year old patch of ivy in Seattle that still hasn't come back.
I don't even need a hand shovel, just give me an edging stake and I'll get every damn root there is.
So, today is my anniversary, (VERY lucky am I, who found a woman who has put up with me for 24 years so far!) ;)
She doesn't want to go out tonight, she wants to wait to get this silly monitor device off first, so we can dress up. (Take-home heart monitor thing, linked to a phone for recording.)
So, we have gone and gotten her 'wedding -cake cupcakes' from the bakery, and I will fix her Mexican food tonight (One of her favorites) we have already looked at the wedding album, and we will probably sit through the weeding video tonight. (I won't make the kids watch it again. They just NOT interested.) ;P
Not too bad for a Monday I guess? :)
Happy Anniversary!
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I'm pretty good at killing weeds.
I pulled out a hundred year old patch of ivy in Seattle that still hasn't come back.
I don't even need a hand shovel, just give me an edging stake and I'll get every damn root there is.
I only use my powers for good, those were invasive species I exterminated.
Happy anniversary Rags!
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I'm pretty good at killing weeds.
I pulled out a hundred year old patch of ivy in Seattle that still hasn't come back.
I don't even need a hand shovel, just give me an edging stake and I'll get every damn root there is.
Ranger Yesterday with Favored Enemy (Plants)?
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Curfew tonight in nyc. Never thought I would see the day.
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Apparently we're back to where I can't walk by a place without a cop glaring at me because I'm a hippie.
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Apparently we're back to where I can't walk by a place without a cop glaring at me because I'm a hippie.
I'll come out there and walk with you. I'll carry my boom box and play public enemy.
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Apparently we're back to where I can't walk by a place without a cop glaring at me because I'm a hippie.I'll come out there and walk with you. I'll carry my boom box and play public enemy.
We've been blasting Run The Jewels pretty much wherever we go.
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If three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in, singing a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an organization.
With just one more person, it'll be an organization. Count me in.
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Damn it, I'm gonna have to eat some people before this all over, aren't I?
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If three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in, singing a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an organization.With just one more person, it'll be an organization. Count me in.
Done!
Now where's my anti-massacree Thanksgiving dinner?
Congrats Ragadolf!
Apparently we're back to where I can't walk by a place without a cop glaring at me because I'm a hippie.I'll come out there and walk with you. I'll carry my boom box and play public enemy.
Apparently we're back to where I can't walk by a place without a cop glaring at me because I'm a hippie.I'll come out there and walk with you. I'll carry my boom box and play public enemy.
Freehold I don't think I've ever heard a statement from you that I've like more than that one!