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I am reading article about drop of number of various illnesses because of the increased pressure on washing hands and social distancing...
Which is staggering, as diseases that are passed by not washing hands dropped, in some cases even to a third of the corresponding numbers last year. Apparently Poles didn't washed their hands before...
And there was such a gem in the text:
Interestingly, the number of STD cases dropped as well. "2 meters of social distancing hinders non-airborne transmission as well." - commented specialist.
This swelling is result of a mosquito bite, not a STD lesion.
I truly wish I had more money that night. There were not enough pelvic thrusts in your general direction.I will be sending you naught but the finest go go men along with a table for them to dance upon.My birthdays have always been non-events. When I was a kid, my mom would make a cake, and I would get to choose what I had for dinner. Sometimes my grandmother would visit.
I have still never had a birthday party in my life. I’ve participated in other people’s (and thrown a few), so I get the general idea.
I expect nothing less.
This is giving me merry flashbacks of my bachelor night.
I thought your own TPM rate was high enough to generate power for most of Brooklyn. What were you about?
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The headaches are not helped by the low simmer of incredible rage I've been feeling for a few weeks now.
MrT's nephew is still living with us. His mom (MrT's sister) just such an utter piece of garbage I do not know if I could keep myself from violence if I were to see her right now.
She's f*cking the poor boy up so much. He obviously has a form of autism. While I am no expert, I have asperger myself and MrT used to work in a long term care home and worked with people with autism before. We both recognise the signs.
He has never recieved any help, apart from speach therapy. He is now 19, and mentally a few years behind (as in, he's nowhere near starting the journey to adulthood you start in your teenage years).
But instead, he needs to finish his school (mandatory, you need a diploma here). But she cant handle money and squandered the money the grandparents set aside for study. So now he's doing what is probably the equivalent of community college. No help in managing things like homework, exams. Also, because she is s*~* with money, he needs to work a job to he can pay his own tutition. What is left over he has to hand over to her. And because he's been so desensitivzed to 'punishment' (which you get if you get yelled at and punished for things that are in no way your fault), the last time she had to 'punish him' she had him give up his better paying job, and had him take up a job where he has to work harder to make the same amount of money.
Because she's such an emotinally manipulative b!~!%, its hard to make him see her for who she is. He's not ready to face the harsh truth of seeing her as the garbage she is. And even if we could make him see it would be better to stay with us, the second she would say 'if you leave me Id never love you again' (and she has done that kind of tactic before), he would never leave.
There is so much more. I could just scream and punch something.
Hugs Woran.
You might want to try making an appointment and expressing your concerns to a counselor, especially if you can somehow make the initial meeting about his school performance. Even with teenagers who are expressing normal levels of independence, ideas are sometimes better accept if they don't come from family members.
And the counselors might be able to get testing and assistance set up for him as part of the school's 'concern'.
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Is it possible to wear contacts if you need bifocals?
Not being able to wear my glasses all day in the classroom because they constantly fog from my mask is giving me eyestrain.
They have the "continuous correction" thingy for contacts just like they do for glasses, but I don't know how well they work; my optometrist made me get a pair of glasses that had it and I hated them.
But yes, there are contacts that have variable correction, according to what I've heard.
I’ve known people who have worn single vision contacts for distance and then have reading glasses they can put over them.
Another option.
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I've worn:
Bi-focal contact lenses
Continuous focal glasses
Near focus-right eye/far-focus left eye contact lenses
Far focus contact lenses with near/mid focus glasses
What matters most is how your brain processes the inputs. For me, they all worked.
Some people get dizzy or can't focus with the left eye/right eye thing.
Some people can't get used to continuous focus lenses.
PS the far-focus contacts/near glasses works best because you can wear normal sunglasses over them when you're outside or driving. Or the near/far contacts.
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I think for Agents of Edgewatch I'll make a Shoony Investigator named McGruff.
Also, you might be surprised by how many people that know you don't notice the color change. Or that may only be the people who know me.Is it possible to wear contacts if you need bifocals?
Not being able to wear my glasses all day in the classroom because they constantly fog from my mask is giving me eyestrain.
They have the "continuous correction" thingy for contacts just like they do for glasses, but I don't know how well they work; my optometrist made me get a pair of glasses that had it and I hated them.
But yes, there are contacts that have variable correction, according to what I've heard.
I don't know how well variable correction lens work, but if you get contacts, get one colored.
That's how I keep from accidentally switching mine (gReen lens = Right eye, cLear lens = Left eye).
can you flip pancakes perfectly too?
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Is it possible to wear contacts if you need bifocals?
Not being able to wear my glasses all day in the classroom because they constantly fog from my mask is giving me eyestrain.
They have the "continuous correction" thingy for contacts just like they do for glasses, but I don't know how well they work; my optometrist made me get a pair of glasses that had it and I hated them.
But yes, there are contacts that have variable correction, according to what I've heard.
I’ve known people who have worn single vision contacts for distance and then have reading glasses they can put over them.
Another option.
That's what I do. Contacts for distance, then reading glasses over them for close-ups. I swear by it.
Not having any real sense of smell I overcompensated by being able to see everything.
It's more of a curse then a blessing as high definition has completely ruined Hell's Kitchen for me.
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What else I learned from Far Cry 5.
1) Like Middle Earth the roads are overfilled with a$!$@%!s trying to kill you and take your s&&!.
2) Airplanes are for crashing.
3) If you run around an orchard run by cultist d&+~%eads throwing dynamite and grenades everywhere eventually a bear will show up and help you clean out the d+@*~eads.
4) Make sure you have enough ammo left over for the bear.
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It turns out that certain vans have hostages in them and throwing grenades at the van until it blows up is not the best way to rescue them.
In fairness, I didn't know there was someone in the back until after I blew it up.
And yet somehow, the two cows survived both the explosion and spraying the whole area with a 50 caliber rifle.
Apparently the only car I own in Far Cry 5 is a decked out Hyundai sedan, with LED lights and a super loud stereo.
Which is exactly the type of car a federal agent in Montana would drive.
Fortunately, it is super easy to run off the road and hit apple trees when driving in first person so I shouldn't have this car for too long.
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Not having any real sense of smell I overcompensated by being able to see everything.
It's more of a curse then a blessing as high definition has completely ruined Hell's Kitchen for me.
I know there are too many fancy coffee places there.
But I love me some fancy coffee.
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The price of a seven month old child sleeping 6.5 hours of an 8 hour drive? Up before five am the next day. Fair trade but i like sleep too
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There are some things that I can still smell, coffee is one of them (manure is another).
I will say, not having a sense of smell lets you appreciate the things you still smell, even the bad smells.
And, I found I can no longer smell body odor so if they ever open things up again, conventions and PFS will be no problem.
My ability to smell and taste citrus actually improved since I was injured.
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What else I learned from Far Cry 5.
1) Like Middle Earth the roads are overfilled with a@!!!&!s trying to kill you and take your s+!!.
2) Airplanes are for crashing.
3) If you run around an orchard run by cultist d~!$*eads throwing dynamite and grenades everywhere eventually a bear will show up and help you clean out the d#*$@eads.
4) Make sure you have enough ammo left over for the bear.
5) Mongeese will always latch onto your crotch and never let go until one of you is dead.
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What else I learned from Far Cry 5.
1) Like Middle Earth the roads are overfilled with a@!!!&!s trying to kill you and take your s+!!.
2) Airplanes are for crashing.
3) If you run around an orchard run by cultist d~!$*eads throwing dynamite and grenades everywhere eventually a bear will show up and help you clean out the d#*$@eads.
4) Make sure you have enough ammo left over for the bear.
5) Mongeese will always latch onto your crotch and never let go until one of you is dead.
6) Eagles are d***s.
Oh, the eagles, the terrible terror of Himalayan mountains!
Rebels in Far Cry 4 probably spent up more ammo firing at eagles than they used during actual engagements with Royal Army.
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I am in soooo much pain today, because yesterday I was appallingly stupid for good reasons.
1. Make my weekly grocery order via Instacart for pickup later.
2. Write a detailed fourteen-point schedule for the day which will be completely trashed by ten a.m.
3. Take everything out of my closet and everything off my bedroom bookshelves, laying out all seven shelves in order.
4. As soon as Hermione wakes up, take everything out of *her* closet and off of her bookshelves.
5. Completely swap and reorganize both closets.
6. Put Hermione's bookshelves and books into our old room. Realize that she hadn't organized them properly by height, so everything that was too tall for a shelf was just turned on its side. Reorganize her bookshelves.
7. Realize that the place I had intended to put my own bookshelves in the new room was too narrow and the place I will have to put them instead isn't ready yet, so now all the books have to stay on the floor for awhile.
8. Begin disassembling Hermione's bunkbeds with one handheld screwdriver. Some of you may remember my ranting, venting and cursing two years ago when we moved from California that my uncle, the evil POS carpenter who built the bunkbeds, had stripped most of the screws and had never really intended for it to be disassembled and moved again. Yes, I cursed his name. But I was faster this time. (Stripping the screws is not why he's an evil POS. I'm not *that* shallow.)
9. Take a break to go pick up groceries.
10. WW and the kids leave to go socially-distance visit with Grandma in her backyard for a few hours so the children don't learn any more of my colorful invective.
11. I disassemble our bed and manage to manhandle all the pieces into the living room.
12. I carry all the pieces of the bunkbeds down the hall to our old room.
13. Lots of vacuuming and dusting.
14. I reassemble our bed in our new room. I move the nightstands. I start a load of laundry, because it feels weird to move the beds and not wash all the linens.
15. I start to reassemble the bunkbeds. I reach the place that almost killed me last time.
16. I stop and take all the drawers out of both dressers to prepare to move them. I put Hermione's snowglobe collection into her pajama drawer to protect them.
17. WW and the kids come home. I am ugly crying on Hermione's bedroom floor because I can't get two very long support screws to line up correctly in the bed base. WW gets his cordless drill and begins to help. We finish assembling the bed.
18. WW asks for instructions on how to make the Jamaican curry and goes into the kitchen and cooks dinner. I make Hermione's bed on the top bunk and then set up the bottom bunk as a reading nook with her largest stuffies and some cushions.
19. I move Hermione's dresser into her room. I start to arrange her special dolls on the top. She asks me if she can start bringing in her drawers. I ask her to wait. She doesn't. Her very favorite snowglobe (Sally from Nightmare before Christmas) falls out of the drawer she's carrying and shatters in the hallway. Hermione is distraught, doesn't eat dinner, and cries all night. (Yes, I found one on ebay to replace it and ordered it this morning.)
20. Hermione cleans up the glass and glitter in the hallway while I finish bringing in the dresser drawers and completely reorganize her dresser.
21. I move my and WW's dresser to our new room and put the drawers back in.
22. I move Hermione's desk.
23. I can finally vacuum and put my bookshelves up. I replace all the books.
24. I make our bed.
25. I finally get a shower, a beer, and some aspirin at 9:30 p.m.
26. WW and I try to watch the David Tennant episode of Criminal: UK. I have no idea how it ended because I fell asleep halfway through.
So this morning, WW and I finally woke up in the big bedroom, with our own bathroom (which we had given to the kids when we moved in since they were sharing), and the kids each woke up in their very own smaller rooms.
And EVERYTHING hurts... my back, my shoulders, my hands, and my calves. And I didn't do my game prep yesterday. And I still haven't started my taxes. (Tomorrow, I swear.)
But it was worth it.
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What else I learned from Far Cry 5.
1) Like Middle Earth the roads are overfilled with a@!!!&!s trying to kill you and take your s+!!.
2) Airplanes are for crashing.
3) If you run around an orchard run by cultist d~!$*eads throwing dynamite and grenades everywhere eventually a bear will show up and help you clean out the d#*$@eads.
4) Make sure you have enough ammo left over for the bear.
5) Mongeese will always latch onto your crotch and never let go until one of you is dead.
6) Eagles are d***s.
Oh, the eagles, the terrible terror of Himalayan mountains!
Rebels in Far Cry 4 probably spent up more ammo firing at eagles than they used during actual engagements with Royal Army.
In Far Cry 5 we've seen lone eagles take out entire compounds. They're amazingly aggressive and deadly.
In Far Cry 5 we've seen lone eagles take out entire compounds.What else I learned from Far Cry 5.
1) Like Middle Earth the roads are overfilled with a@!!!&!s trying to kill you and take your s+!!.
2) Airplanes are for crashing.
3) If you run around an orchard run by cultist d~!$*eads throwing dynamite and grenades everywhere eventually a bear will show up and help you clean out the d#*$@eads.
4) Make sure you have enough ammo left over for the bear.
5) Mongeese will always latch onto your crotch and never let go until one of you is dead.
6) Eagles are d***s.
Oh, the eagles, the terrible terror of Himalayan mountains!
Rebels in Far Cry 4 probably spent up more ammo firing at eagles than they used during actual engagements with Royal Army.
I don't recall seeing eagles attacking Outposts in FC4, I think they might have been scripted to not spawn near outposts and villages - lone farms and mountain trails were a fair game, though.
They're amazingly aggressive and deadly.
They are bloody difficult to hit, and that not only includes my poor aiming skill, but also definitely applies to NPCs as well. Anything that is aggressive but can't be killed easily is deadly, as it will keep attacking until it kills you, you kill it, or you manage to flee. And NPCs don't seem to be capable of fleeing.
Duh. Now I want to play Far Cry again...
One of the things I'd prefer to be done differently in FC4 would be the skill trees, or rather bars. It could have been made more interesting.
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Back from voting.
The predicted difference is so minimal we might not know the real results for the next few days as the votes will be counted, recounted, contested, etc...
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I set up the sprinkler in the backyard for the kids this morning. Teensy Valeros picked up his plastic cutlass and started enacting the "Battle of Monmouth" scene from Hamilton, running back and forth over the sprinkler shouting, "Everyone attack! Retreat! Attack! Retreat!"
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Mainly for Orthos, since I'm sure everyone else is sick to death of hearing about it, but I just prepared Shattered Star Book 3, Section 3, Area B.
Of the 11 rooms with encounters, 6 follow basic Pathfinder rules. The others contain traps that aren't traps so rogues can't detect them, paladin traps (good creatures that are bound to do evil deeds through spells outside of the ruleset), NPCs that can't be built using the normal rules, and so forth.
So, if an AP were advertised as "nearly 60% compatible with your rules system!", would you buy it?
And that is my complaint about the Paizo APs. They just don't want the rules to work the way they do, so they rewrite them on a case-by-case basis throughout their books.
If you're writing an AP, you have to be bound by the same set of rules as the PCs are. Physics doesn't get to work differently for the monsters. It creates resentment and a vast sense of unfairness.
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In fairness, James Sutter and Richard Pett both love to f%## with Paladins.
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What if that unfairness is coupled with the expectation that the PCs win anyway?
It's still not OK. My players gripe about it after every session.
A general rule of thumb for our greater gaming group is, "If you wouldn't let a PC do it, then you shouldn't be letting a bad guy do it."
You want a monster that runs along a tightrope without having to make an Acrobatics check? Since only Drejk could probably think of one off the top of his head, just give the monster a level of rogue, put all 8 skill points into Acrobatics, and suddenly you're within the rules, but the monster's unlikely to ever fail that check.
Just a plain and simple, "If this is how I am going to treat the PCs and this is how the world works for them, then those same rules apply to the bad guys."
Even when they overcome the monster despite those advantages?What if that unfairness is coupled with the expectation that the PCs win anyway?It's still not OK. My players gripe about it after every session.
Yes. They hate it.
To put it into context, we have a highly-optimized pistolero in the group, to the point that every combat is basically, "Make sure the pistolero gets his shot and he'll one shot the monster."
You'd expect this to cause discontent among the players.
Instead, for the next two weeks I hear nothing about the pistolero or increasing my bad guys' touch ACs. All I hear is, "I can't believe they pulled that, 'This isn't a trap' s*** again. I can't believe I wasted a level of investigator on something that'll never work," or, "I looked up the spell the book said the monster used and it cannot be used that way."
The whole, "This is a Binding, but it's allowed to be both permanent and to force the bound creatures to do the caster's bidding forever," is going to give me at least 3-4 days' worth of grief alone. "Hey, I'm a wizard! I've seen that spell now! I'm going to research it and I'm going to use it on every single bad guy from here on out, so I have my own personal army of slaves. That's OK, right? I mean, they allowed it for the bad guys..."
What if that unfairness is coupled with the expectation that the PCs win anyway?It's still not OK. My players gripe about it after every session.
A general rule of thumb for our greater gaming group is, "If you wouldn't let a PC do it, then you shouldn't be letting a bad guy do it."
You want a monster that runs along a tightrope without having to make an Acrobatics check? Since only Drejk could probably think of one off the top of his head, just give the monster a level of rogue, put all 8 skill points into Acrobatics, and suddenly you're within the rules, but the monster's unlikely to ever fail that check.
Just a plain and simple, "If this is how I am going to treat the PCs and this is how the world works for them, then those same rules apply to the bad guys."
Or just give them flying.
A side note that come to my mind when I checked the Acrobatics rules looking for that issue you had with being flat-footed: it occurred to me that there should be some kind of size-based modifier either to check itself or DC (reversed, bigger=harder) when trying to move on a narrow surface. One foot might be narrow to my clumsy appendages, but it's a exquisite highway for a Tiny gremlin.
I hate them. You are a better man than I to put up with that.Yes. They hate it.Even when they overcome the monster despite those advantages?What if that unfairness is coupled with the expectation that the PCs win anyway?It's still not OK. My players gripe about it after every session.
Except that by his own multiple admissions, NH agrees with the players and thinks this is a huge misstep and constant series of mistakes and rules abuses by Paizo, with their own ruleset and in their own APs.
And frankly, I agree. One of the biggest allures to me of 3e/PF is that the monsters and the PCs play more or less by the same rules. It irks me to no end, as a player and as a GM, when suddenly they're expected not to, to ignore this rule or use that ability incorrectly in a way that no sane GM would allow a player to get away with but supposedly is expected to allow the NPCs and monsters to do so.
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But I’m not casting my despite at their wanting the rules to be equal for PC and NPC alike. I despise them for complaining, even after they have won, that the challenge was unfair. I have no sympathy for players who gripe that their victory was not utter and complete.
Such human beings are not welcome in my company.
I think there's some talking-past going on here. One can still be upset that the game is not following its own rules and annoyed that NPCs are getting away with things that the PCs can't, and still not be complaining that "their victory was not utter and complete".
Complaining that NPC X is not following Rule Y even though they were able to overcome Encounter Z and the challenges posted by it is not automatically the same as complaining that NPC X not following Rule Y makes Encounter Z too hard or unfair.
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If he's breaking the rules to do it, then yes I do. Because the alternative is that any level of cheating is authorized as long as the NPCs still lose, and I don't agree to that.
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Yep. They're not complaining about the difficulty; they're complaining that the rules for the NPCs are completely arbitrary. The sad thing is, this week's Shattered Star isn't even the worst offender of the week.
GM: As you walk into the room, three Shining Children use their Blinding Light abilities on you. Make 3 saves each.
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Player: I shoot one of the Shining Children.
GM: Sorry. There's a horizontal Wall of Force between you and them.
Player: But they're attacking us through it!
GM: Yes. They're allowed to do that.
Player: OK, I put up my own horizontal Wall of Force to protect us.
GM: Sorry. By the rules Walls of Force have to be vertical.
Player: WTF?!?!!?
So, OK, the Shining Child's Burning Touch is a supernatural ability, and isn't directly addressed by Wall of Force, but having an already-existing horizontal Wall of Force and then preventing the player from doing the same is just wrong, plain and simple.
In short, we can agree to disagree. My players want to enjoy the game, not "win" the game. And if nearly every other room deviates from the rules we've agreed to play by, then whether they win or lose they're not having fun.
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Gladly. I'm not interested in a game where one side has to play by set rules and the other side can do whatever the hells they want, regardless of who wins or loses.
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All I see are players trying to win.
The problem is "NPCs cheating is okay as long as the PCs still win" is that it comes across as a surly DM going "I'm annoyed that the PCs are too well-built or tactically capable to do anything so I'm going to bend or break the rules so I can do something to them".
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Which is not the kind of people either NH nor I are talking about nor relating the complaints of. Hence my earlier comment about talking past one another.
Expecting the NPCs to follow the same rules as the PCs and complaining when they don't is not the same as being upset that the NPCs are doing anything at all and not just sitting there and getting curbstomped.
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The kind of players I am railing against will complain even if the NPCs use the same rules they do to gain an advantage. F~*& them.
Nah. My players will get TPK'ed and say it was a "great session" if it was. They'll one-round the BBEG and complain about him using Charm Person at the dinner table rather than about his tactics or build.
They want a game that makes sense, where the same rules apply to everyone. I'm running a homebrew where every encounter is CR+3 or CR+4. They're loving it anyway, because I'm not using any cheese nor creatures like seugathi; I'm just challenging them within the framework of the rules we've all agreed to follow.