I just finished a little strategic game Codex Of Victory.
A somewhat crude in execution, with some balancing issues (start is easy, the end was me steamrolling over anything the enemies threw at me, though I spent a lot of time before going on what looked like a final mission leveling all my mechs. On the other hand I used <spoiler> quite early instead of letting the enemy keep attacking me, which meant I hadn't had enough of the enemy's wracks to produce the best modules to upgrade all of my relevant units (i.e. mechs, by the end of the game most of the tanks rarely saw any action).
Still, the game was quite a bit of fun. I hadn't had enough hex-based strategic games with tanks and mechs recently.
My little cuddly rat boy Jake isnt doing well. We probably have to put him down tomorrow :(
My little cuddly rat boy Jake isnt doing well. We probably have to put him down tomorrow :(
=(
It's a terrible year for that. :(
My little cuddly rat boy Jake isnt doing well. We probably have to put him down tomorrow :(
Oh no! Big hugs!
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07/09/2020, 21:40 hours. Longears Investigation Bureau has come into possession of a leaked script from noo tip-top hit sitcome 'At Home With The Homes', so here 'tis
[A modest home in Albany, CA. Enter NOBODYSHOME, to cheers and applause from the studio audience. He detaches his mohawk, throws it on the hatstand, then glares about him, hands on hips]
NH: Hey, boys! Where the heck's that new home server I bought?!
[IMPUS MAJOR and IMPUS MINOR enter through a door in the opposite wall. IMPUS MINOR has red hair, cut in a Nice Boy short back and sides style, is covered in freckles, and is wearing a sports shirt and beige slacks. IMPUS MAJOR, on the other hand, has a black goatee and shoulder length hair, and is wearing sunglasses and a purple crushed velvet Nehru suit with bell-bottomed 'pants']
IMi: Well, golly gee whillikers Pop Dude, I sure don't know!!
IMa: OPEN YOUR MIIIIND, Impus! [He leers at the camera, pursing his lips and making an 'I Am Smoking Controlled Substances' gesture. Cue gales of canned laughter]
[A trapdoor opens in the ceiling, and GOTHBARD descends, wearing a slinky floor-length dress.]
NH: Ahhh, cara mia!
[GOTHBARD extends her hand towards NOBODYSHOME, who plants a row of kisses up her arm; they then briefly fight with scythes, then perform a Sensuous Tango together. Midway through the tango, she turns to stare at the camera, then gasps, placing one hand on her chest and saying:]
GB: The server! It's gone - as are all my brassieres!
[IMPUS MINOR looks panicked, and runs back out of the door he entered from. There is the sound of frenzied searching, after which he returns, an alarmed expression on his face]
IMi: And so are ALL of our nerf guns - all of them!! What could this mean?!
[A fanfare of trumpets. Another set of doors open, and there stands FREEHOLD DM, dressed as an 18th century French nobleman. He unrolls a parchment scroll]
FHDM: Greetings, honoured Papa NobodysHome. Greetings, revered Mama Gothbard. Greetings, beloved brothers. I hereby announce...
[Another trumpet fanfare]
FHDM: That it is now officially HOME-MADE MILKMAID GUNDAM GOLEM HOUR, for now and for evermore.
[He rings a bell, and with a series of bleeps, grunts and crunches, a robotic monstrosity enters, firing a volley of foam pellets into the ceiling and attempting to twerk with approximately 0 success]
OMNES: OHHHH FREEEHOLD!!!!!
[More canned laughter. The end]
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Love the Cloisters.
Mrs Sunrise's favorite book is The Last Unicorn, and she also loves the old 80s animated film of it. In the opening credits, they use that famous unicorn tapestry, among other imagery.
A couple years ago we went to the Cloisters on the way to the airport, and all of a sudden Mrs. Sunrise gets super excited and even cried a little IIRC. Turns out she hadn't known the unicorn image in the opening credits came from a real tapestry, the one she found in the Cloisters. (See the second image in the wikipedia link above.)
Also, listening to It Could Happen Here with Robert Evans, thanks for the recommendation...um, I forget who recommended it?
Scary stuff, and that's an understatement.
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Diseases I've "acquired" so far.
Dysentery
Feverclaw
Glowing pustules
Parasites
Rad worms
Snot ear
Weeping sores.
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It is so true to life as to be scary!
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And GothBard says she adores it and wants to buy you a pint!
Diseases I've "acquired" so far.
Dysentery
Feverclaw
Glowing pustules
Parasites
Rad worms
Snot ear
Weeping sores.
You're missing Sludge Lung and The Blight.
My little cuddly rat boy Jake isnt doing well. We probably have to put him down tomorrow :(
Ugh. SO sorry! That's always so hard...
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You're missing Sludge Lung and The Blight.Diseases I've "acquired" so far.
Dysentery
Feverclaw
Glowing pustules
Parasites
Rad worms
Snot ear
Weeping sores.
Don’t forget Heat Flashes and the most elusive of them all: the Whoopsies.
I still need to get that last one. And dysentery, because it never occurred to me to drink tainted water, so I avoided it effectively.
I can't wait until I get my first case of the whoopsies, I might not even cure it immediately.
GothBard also mentions Flap Wing.
07/09/2020, 21:40 hours. Longears Investigation Bureau has come into possession of a leaked script from noo tip-top hit sitcome 'At Home With The Homes', so here 'tis
[A modest home in Albany, CA. Enter NOBODYSHOME, to cheers and applause from the studio audience. He detaches his mohawk, throws it on the hatstand, then glares about him, hands on hips]
NH: Hey, boys! Where the heck's that new home server I bought?!
[IMPUS MAJOR and IMPUS MINOR enter through a door in the opposite wall. IMPUS MINOR has red hair, cut in a Nice Boy short back and sides style, is covered in freckles, and is wearing a sports shirt and beige slacks. IMPUS MAJOR, on the other hand, has a black goatee and shoulder length hair, and is wearing sunglasses and a purple crushed velvet Nehru suit with bell-bottomed 'pants']
IMi: Well, golly gee whillikers Pop Dude, I sure don't know!!
IMa: OPEN YOUR MIIIIND, Impus! [He leers at the camera, pursing his lips and making an 'I Am Smoking Controlled Substances' gesture. Cue gales of canned laughter]
[A trapdoor opens in the ceiling, and GOTHBARD descends, wearing a slinky floor-length dress.]
NH: Ahhh, cara mia!
[GOTHBARD extends her hand towards NOBODYSHOME, who plants a row of kisses up her arm; they then briefly fight with scythes, then perform a Sensuous Tango together. Midway through the tango, she turns to stare at the camera, then gasps, placing one hand on her chest and saying:]
GB: The server! It's gone - as are all my brassieres!
[IMPUS MINOR looks panicked, and runs back out of the door he entered from. There is the sound of frenzied searching, after which he returns, an alarmed expression on his face]
IMi: And so are ALL of our nerf guns - all of them!! What could this mean?!
[A fanfare of trumpets. Another set of doors open, and there stands FREEHOLD DM, dressed as an 18th century French nobleman. He unrolls a parchment scroll]
FHDM: Greetings, honoured Papa NobodysHome. Greetings, revered Mama Gothbard. Greetings, beloved brothers. I...
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From the Mouths of Babes:
Impus Minor: So has it cooled off yet?
NobodysHome: Well yes, but... the winds shifted and it's down to the low 80s, but now they're coming directly from the fire so it smells like a smoke pit outside.
Impus Minor: Remember way back when, when we used to be able to go outside?
EDIT: And yes, LM. It's my lamb vindaloo. It really does make things better...
I can't wait until I get my first case of the whoopsies, I might not even cure it immediately.
...what in the world is the whoopsies?
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I got to thinking...what if the rapture happened like 6 years ago and this is actually the rest of the book of revelations?
Not seriously thinking but kind of a bourbon induced ‘well that could explain things’ sort of thought.
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From the Mouths of Babes:
Impus Minor: So has it cooled off yet?
NobodysHome: Well yes, but... the winds shifted and it's down to the low 80s, but now they're coming directly from the fire so it smells like a smoke pit outside.
Impus Minor: Remember way back when, when we used to be able to go outside?
EDIT: And yes, LM. It's my lamb vindaloo. It really does make things better...
Yes. It does. WANT.
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I got to thinking...what if the rapture happened like 6 years ago and this is actually the rest of the book of revelations?
Not seriously thinking but kind of a bourbon induced ‘well that could explain things’ sort of thought.
I mean, I've heard similar. At least one person on one of my Discords theorized that we're in an alternate Dark Timeline created by the earth being swallowed by a black hole produced by the Large Hadron Collider.
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My favorite part of parenting is childhood typos.
"We simply must play Exposing Kitties!" - Tiny T-Rex, getting his friend to play Exploding Kittens.
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I'm going to like the raider faction.
Rose is my muse.
Like how would we recognize rapture in modern times. What if it was a rapture of one? E.g., mother Theresa.
In other news I am now taking a self-taught course on desert cuisine. There is remarkably little insect life that's actually edible out here to try cooking with, unless I just want to make elixirs. Which feels like a missed opportunity. Ditto, a surprising lack of snakes.
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Like how would we recognize rapture in modern times. What if it was a rapture of one? E.g., mother Theresa.
By almost every theology that considers the subject valid, the Rapture is described as an event that can't be mistaken for anything else - booming deific trumpets, people vanishing in the middle of open sight, the clouds being visibly pulled aside to reveal heavenly divine light, rains of blood and falling stars and blacking out the sun and so on and so forth.
Which is why it's always puzzled me when these groups try to dramatize the Rapture in book or film, it's always an event that happens quietly, usually in the middle of the night while most people are sleeping, that they wake up to and have no explanation for until people start - very timidly - suggesting it may have been a religiously-prophesied event.
The creative license doesn't really jive with the theological description and as a result sort of undermines the message that this is the kind of thing that no one will be able to ignore, and just turns it into a crisis of faith for the ones "left behind". Which admittedly is good for drama, but not so great for proselytizing.
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So, having a daughter of my own, I am able to empathize more with other parents now. Consequently, despite knowing I'm 100% in the right to cut her off from her granddaughter, because she's a toxic b!#~& I don't want influencing my kid, I wanted to give Cuntzilla another chance. I can only imagine how hard it would be to have my child cut me off thirty years from now, and even though it was Tala's choice (and I told her she's free to see her mom as much as she wants without me or our daughter), Tala's pissed enough at her mom for making her choose between her new family and old that she too is avoiding her mom.
So I called and told her to start talking.
She tried to say "I'm a sick woman" again. I told her don't pull that bullshit with me - your mouth and your mind aren't sick, and they are what chose to say and do the things you did, not your body. That started her fuming.
I pointed out that despite all of that I'm willing to give her another chance. In the middle of explaining the terms of said chance, I pointed out that because I know she talks smack about people the second they're out of the room EVERY SINGLE encounter with my daughter will be with me present. She lied and said she doesn't talk behind people's back. I pointed out an example of when she did that I was there for. She did NOT like this. She started getting disrespectful. You could hear the attitude in her tone, and she started trying to tell me what to do again.
I pointed out that she no longer had any threats to hold over my head, and that I was not the whipped puppy she was used to dealing with. She continued to get b$+!&ier. Tala could hear her mom on the other side of the phone - she was standing 10 feet away listening, though I did not tell Cuntzilla this.
I hung up. Later that day Tala's brother messages her and starts trying to talk bad about me USING THE VERY CONVERSATION with a bunch of lies mixed in that Tala knows I didn't say during the conversation - proving that Tala's mom was saying stuff about me behind my back to Tala's brother not a day after she was caught in a lie saying she doesn't talk shit behind people's back.
The manipulations went on for a while.
And despite literally every single person I spoke with about this saying I'm right, I still feel shitty, because I know how it feels to love your child so much, yeah? And even though I told Tala "go see your mom - without us - and see if she's actually changed, in person, and if you say she has, I'll give her YET ANOTHER chance" - Tala just doesn't want to.
So it's like...this...inner guilt for something I didn't even do just because I hate to see someone else suffer - especially because I know no matter how mad she is at her mom, it's still her mom. The mother of the woman I love. You know?
I just absolutely hate this bullshit drama crap. Why can't people be normal? Who acts that way? I mean, geeze, no matter how mad my family got with me, they never tried to manipulate me, change me, and make me into their own personal little clone - threatening to disown, kick out, or otherwise hanging a threat over me for acting out of line. Especially not as an adult. This is just so foreign and wrong to me. And I really don't want my kid involved around those kind of people.
....but isn't family supposed to forgive? I mean, yeah, she's not my family, but she's still my daughter and my fiance's family. But forgiveness isn't forgetting. That's foolishness.
And the whole thought pattern goes in a giant circle in my head until I need to take anti-anxiety meds to sleep at night (that I'm running out of since I don't have medicaid in Florida - which I did have in Ohio - which I left because of THIS b~#!*'s lies....and the cycle continues...)
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Like how would we recognize rapture in modern times. What if it was a rapture of one? E.g., mother Theresa.By almost every theology that considers the subject valid, the Rapture is described as an event that can't be mistaken for anything else - booming deific trumpets, people vanishing in the middle of open sight, the clouds being visibly pulled aside to reveal heavenly divine light, rains of blood and falling stars and blacking out the sun and so on and so forth.
Which is why it's always puzzled me when these groups try to dramatize the Rapture in book or film, it's always an event that happens quietly, usually in the middle of the night while most people are sleeping, that they wake up to and have no explanation for until people start - very timidly - suggesting it may have been a religiously-prophesied event.
The creative license doesn't really jive with the theological description and as a result sort of undermines the message that this is the kind of thing that no one will be able to ignore, and just turns it into a crisis of faith for the ones "left behind". Which admittedly is good for drama, but not so great for proselytizing.
I always assumed it would be obvious for the people paying attention - which would be the people who disappeared, as it were. Let's be real - if you actually think the end is near, everyone looks at you like you're crazy, even if you can point to things that seem to make it likely.
My point is I'm like 97% sure Trump is the literal anti-christ.
Honestly, I have serious in-depth analysis about this I could go over. Another time, another channel, and I'd totally be in on talking about it. Maybe in the DaWtL?
I got to thinking...what if the rapture happened like 6 years ago and this is actually the rest of the book of revelations?
Not seriously thinking but kind of a bourbon induced ‘well that could explain things’ sort of thought.
Dammit Nylar, stop thinking things I am secretly afraid of!!
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Yes. It does. WANT.From the Mouths of Babes:
Impus Minor: So has it cooled off yet?
NobodysHome: Well yes, but... the winds shifted and it's down to the low 80s, but now they're coming directly from the fire so it smells like a smoke pit outside.
Impus Minor: Remember way back when, when we used to be able to go outside?
EDIT: And yes, LM. It's my lamb vindaloo. It really does make things better...
...he makes lamb vindaloo, does he?
Hm.
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Explosive bait she wants me to craft!
Honestly, I was on board as soon as she said "explosive".
Unfortunately, in order to learn this I had to get mauled by a Yao Guai.
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So, having a daughter of my own, I am able to empathize more with other parents now. Consequently, despite knowing I'm 100% in the right to cut her off from her granddaughter, because she's a toxic b~#!! I don't want influencing my kid, I wanted to give C$#@zilla another chance. I can only imagine how hard it would be to have my child cut me off thirty years from now, and even though it was Tala's choice (and I told her she's free to see her mom as much as she wants without me or our daughter), Tala's pissed enough at her mom for making her choose between her new family and old that she too is avoiding her mom.
So I called and told her to start talking.
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My father in law refused to come to our wiccan wedding two years ago, saying he "didn't want to dis the one true god," and Mrs Sunrise hasn't talked to him since. He's a pleasant enough guy, I met him while we were dating, but I'm totally happy to never see or hear from him again. When someone shows you their bad character, especially if in your MIL's case over and over again, you have to draw a line. Forgiveness is one thing, endless second chances is another.
The kids start school tomorrow, we'll see how online learning goes, we've done everything we can to make it comfortable for the kids, we'll see how the school district does with their preparations.
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I haven't talked to a couple of my brothers for years now, which makes holidays fun when they try to talk to me.
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I haven't talked to my parents since early June, as they essentially cut me off after I moved because Scint and I didn't get immediately married but I remained living in the house.
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....but isn't family supposed to forgive?
Who told you that? And why do you believe it?
In my universe that's not a true statement.
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I haven't talked to my parents since early June, as they essentially cut me off after I moved because Scint and I didn't get immediately married but I remained living in the house.
That still bothers me.
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....but isn't family supposed to forgive?Who told you that? And why do you believe it?
In my universe that's not a true statement.
Damn. I'm sorry.
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** spoiler omitted **Like how would we recognize rapture in modern times. What if it was a rapture of one? E.g., mother Theresa....
What's hilarious is that I've made that exact same comparison without any reference to Revelations. It's just the whole
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So, having a daughter of my own, I am able to empathize more with other parents now. Consequently, despite knowing I'm 100% in the right to cut her off from her granddaughter, because she's a toxic b~*%! I don't want influencing my kid, I wanted to give C$!!zilla another chance. I can only imagine how hard it would be to have my child cut me off thirty years from now, and even though it was Tala's choice (and I told her she's free to see her mom as much as she wants without me or our daughter), Tala's pissed enough at her mom for making her choose between her new family and old that she too is avoiding her mom.
So I called and told her to start talking.
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No. Just. No.
Toxic people don't change. At least without years of therapy. And not without even showing an acknowledgement that they need to change. You and Tala owe her nothing. Ever. Until she can prove she's been in therapy every single week for at least two years.
And I'm Lawful Good.
You're missing Sludge Lung and The Blight.Diseases I've "acquired" so far.
Dysentery
Feverclaw
Glowing pustules
Parasites
Rad worms
Snot ear
Weeping sores.Don’t forget Heat Flashes and the most elusive of them all: the Whoopsies.
I still need to get that last one. And dysentery, because it never occurred to me to drink tainted water, so I avoided it effectively.
No cooties?
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Hey there TOZ. I hope that you are doing well. Tell the wife that I said hello. I hope that you both have a good week.