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Ive been playing a lot of the new pokemon snap and my brain is now all pokemonA Wei Ji sighting!Its like a rare pokemon encounter!Wei Ji attempts Response!
...it is minimally effective.
:>
** spoiler omitted **
Come ooooon tell me there's a litten in there....
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Looks like we're soon to lose our "one degree of separation" between us and our original cats.
As I mentioned, the Calico's already lost over 30% of her body weight for reasons the vet can't figure out, even after two major blood panels. ("We think it may be her thyroid again.") This morning she's uninterested in food at all, even the prescription wet stuff she's been going nuts over for the last few months.
So I can rush her to the emergency vet to try to get her intravenous nutrients for a while, but to what end? If they don't know what's causing the issue, they can't exactly fix it, and I don't want the final days of her life to be spent in a veterinary hospital, terrified, alone, and miserable.
I'll let her lie on the deck in the sun all day, being paid attention to by her family, I'll set an appointment to bring her in for more testing, and if she survives to that day, great. If she doesn't, we did a fantastic job of taking in a near-dead stray and giving her a d**ned fine life.
It's kind of funny -- for all our other cats, I would have done anythng to keep them alive for even a few more months. For the Calico, we're ready to let her go when she decides it's time.
When and if she does go, know that you made the right decision.
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The eternal optimism of youth.
Shooting hoops with Tiny T-Rex I miss wildly so I quip "I guess I'm not going to the NBA" Tiny T-Rex says back "Maybe next year!".
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The eternal optimism of youth.
Shooting hoops with Tiny T-Rex I miss wildly so I quip "I guess I'm not going to the NBA" Tiny T-Rex says back "Maybe next year!".
Whenever someone at work misses a shot when throwing trash into a wastecan I snark "The Bulls are hiring.'" :>
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Whenever someone at work misses a shot when throwing trash into a wastecan I snark "The Bulls are hiring.'" :>The eternal optimism of youth.
Shooting hoops with Tiny T-Rex I miss wildly so I quip "I guess I'm not going to the NBA" Tiny T-Rex says back "Maybe next year!".
LOL. Oakland kids would say "the Cavs", but that was a couple of years ago.
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Serious question: has anyone here ever seen a Walmart use all of it's registers? Ever?!? Even on Black Friday they only ever seem to open half.
I mean, wtf is the point of so many registers when all you ever have open is maybe three of them and the self checkout?
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I am pretty sure I can say that I have never seen a Walmart use all of it's registers...
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This week I have to vote, have bloodwork done, get a COVID-19 vaccine shot, plant a mass of small plants coming in on order, possibly pot and plant a mass of trees coming in on order, and game with COVID-bubble friends on Saturday. A busy week.
I loathe weeks like this. It feels too much like effort.
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Serious question: has anyone here ever seen a Walmart use all of it's registers? Ever?!? Even on Black Friday they only ever seem to open half.
I mean, wtf is the point of so many registers when all you ever have open is maybe three of them and the self checkout?
Yes, the Walmart north of Seattle is the only one in the area, that one always had every register open and would still have lines going half way through the store.
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Ive been playing a lot of the new pokemon snap and my brain is now all pokemonA Wei Ji sighting!Its like a rare pokemon encounter!Wei Ji attempts Response!
...it is minimally effective.
:>
** spoiler omitted **
Come ooooon tell me there's a litten in there....
Its all Magikarp
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Impus Minor's been being kind to Calico all day, and just attracted her attention with a can of food, then sat with her as she ate the whole thing down.
Absolutely touching, endearing, and I really hope it works for his sake.
We'll see whether she's kept it down by morning.
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Grqagh. Morning. Blargh.
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Unclear on the Concept:
Global IT: Since we've finally realized that sending you unsolicited password reset links in email isn't best practice, we're no longer providing the links. Just copy-and-paste these long, convoluted URLs with lots of special characters and reset your password.
For the non-IT folk: A common form of account theft is to send users unsolicited password reset emails with links that lead to a fake site that skims the username and password and provides it to the miscreants. Changing it from a clickable link to a complex copy-and-paste link does NOTHING to mitigate this issue.
DON'T SEND LINKS IN EMAILS!
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Aaaaaand... the PVC pipe the guy put in on the outside of the house just burst.
I swear. Worst... contractor... EVER!!!
(There's a shutoff right there and it was an improperly-glued joint, so I can fix it this weekend with nothing more than a pot of glue and maybe 20 minutes, but it's the principle: If you're charging me money for a job, you should at least be remotely competent at said job.)
Hola!
As I know everyone here loves pointless rules minutae, go here for a dead thread I made about brilliant energy, disruption, and <elemental> abilities and how such things interact (3.5 rules).
Also, since I asked this elsewhere, I realized here might be good, too:
So, my fellow history nerds, I'm looking for nautical quasi-experts to yammer at me so that I get an idea for boats able to be crafted with Hellenic skills c. 600 to 500 BC - obviously triremes, of course, but I'm specifically asking, "What is a boat (including triremes) that could have conceivably been used at the time, possibly even in war, even though it wasn't?" For example, why didn't they build ships akin to longships? It seems obvious that longships wouldn't do well in direct combat with triremes (as the latter could simply crush the former from sheer weight), but were they in use in the mediterranean at all c. 550? If not, why not? Similarly, what were the far eastern peoples (most specifically those of India and China - though I beleeeiiiiiiiive India was still being slowly consolidated and the Zhou dynasty was pretty firmly eastern China)?Basically, I'm asking about possible methods of nautical revolution, if it's even possible, under those conditions and if, when, and how such a thing might happen. Thanks!
I might should make that it's own thread, but... oh well! :D
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HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO ALL WHO OBSERVE
DANG IT!
Happy Belated Mother's Day to all ye mothers!
(I'd planned on saying that yesterday, but... well, obviously didn't. That's what I get for sleeping most of the day from a second shot! Pah! Next time (maybe)!)
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Hola!
As I know everyone here loves pointless rules minutae, go here for a dead thread I made about brilliant energy, disruption, and <elemental> abilities and how such things interact (3.5 rules).
Can't give you much input on the nautical history and revolution question, but I did add my 2cp on your 3.x Brilliant Energy v Disruption v elemental damage post.
For those that don't want to follow Tac's link, here's my take:
Brilliant Energy doesn't allow the weapon to affect non-living matter, so constructs/undead/cardboard boxes would be immune to Disruption/Slayer arrows/appropriate Bane effects in combination with Brilliant Energy.
However, I would still allow elemental damage to happen anyway based on these two arguments:
1) A lit torch can be used as a club. Creatures/objects that are immune to bludgeoning damage can still be set on fire when bashed with said lit torch. Paper covers rock, but it still gets screwed by fire.
2) I don't remember if this was originally a 3.x or PF ruling, but elemental burst properties still function normally against otherwise crit immune creatures.
I don't know if that interpretation is truly RAW - I could see a ruling of "base weapon doesn't work, so no other abilities work" being applied, but I don't think that's within the RAI/spirit/logic of the question.
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Hola!
As I know everyone here loves pointless rules minutae, go here for a dead thread I made about brilliant energy, disruption, and <elemental> abilities and how such things interact (3.5 rules).
Can't give you much input on the nautical history and revolution question, but I did add my 2cp on your 3.x Brilliant Energy v Disruption v elemental damage post.
For those that don't want to follow Tac's link, here's my take:
Brilliant Energy doesn't allow the weapon to affect non-living matter, so constructs/undead/cardboard boxes would be immune to Disruption/Slayer arrows/appropriate Bane effects in combination with Brilliant Energy.
However, I would still allow elemental damage to happen anyway based on these two arguments:
1) A lit torch can be used as a club. Creatures/objects that are immune to bludgeoning damage can still be set on fire when bashed with said lit torch. Paper covers rock, but it still gets screwed by fire.
2) I don't remember if this was originally a 3.x or PF ruling, but elemental burst properties still function normally against otherwise crit immune creatures.
I don't know if that interpretation is truly RAW - I could see a ruling of "base weapon doesn't work, so no other abilities work" being applied, but I don't think that's within the RAI/spirit/logic of the question.
if I recall correctly, there were some out there rules for setting a character on fire, not just doing fire damage to them.
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if I recall correctly, there were some out there rules for setting a character on fire, not just doing fire damage to them.
Yes, but my overall point is that the torch will do fire damage even if the target is immune to being beaten with a stick. I'm extrapolating from that premise to Tac's scenario.
I was being loose with language (conversational) when there is indeed a game rules difference (and in actual reality) between taking fire damage and actually catching fire.
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Just had our first door-to-door salesman in a year.
Can't say as I've missed them.
I'd stop there, but this one was a hum-dinger:
(1) He ignored the sign on the door that says, "No Soliciting"
(2) He saw that we already had solar, so he started trying to sell me a "solar tune-up"
(3) He was pushy to the point I started getting angry, at which point he fled. (Apparently Angry NobodysHome is terrifying. I have some kind of aura effect.)
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I decided that, fat or not, I need a new bikini for this summer, even if I only wear it in my mom's pool and to the very foggy beach at Brookings next month. So I ordered one.
The price was so ridiculously low that it was probably made in a third-world sweatshop by indentured child laborers, so at least I can feel guilty about that every time I wear it.
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I'm pretty frustrated with people in my life right now.
Also I now have burns on my left arm I get to deal with.
But no one has asked if I'm okay, or said they were sorry for dropping whatever it was from above the stove into the hot oil I was cooking with that splashed all over my arm.
For the record I'm fine, but pretty cross, and doubtful to get a good night's sleep.
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I decided that, fat or not, I need a new bikini
Freehold places full support behind this idea.
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Just had our first door-to-door salesman in a year.
Can't say as I've missed them.
I'd stop there, but this one was a hum-dinger:
(1) He ignored the sign on the door that says, "No Soliciting"
(2) He saw that we already had solar, so he started trying to sell me a "solar tune-up"
(3) He was pushy to the point I started getting angry, at which point he fled. (Apparently Angry NobodysHome is terrifying. I have some kind of aura effect.)
The three types of door-to-door salesmen we get (and have throughout the pandemic, because Texas) are:
1. Can I mow your lawn?
A. No. I'm a teacher and I can't afford it.
2. Can I talk to you about solar?
A. No. I rent, I'm not the homeowner.
3. Can I talk to you about Spectrum?
A. No. Everyone I know who has it, hates it and thinks it's a joke.
I'm pretty frustrated with people in my life right now.
Also I now have burns on my left arm I get to deal with.
But no one has asked if I'm okay, or said they were sorry for dropping whatever it was from above the stove into the hot oil I was cooking with that splashed all over my arm.
For the record I'm fine, but pretty cross, and doubtful to get a good night's sleep.
Jesus f@~% are you alright?
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I'm pretty frustrated with people in my life right now.
Also I now have burns on my left arm I get to deal with.
But no one has asked if I'm okay, or said they were sorry for dropping whatever it was from above the stove into the hot oil I was cooking with that splashed all over my arm.
For the record I'm fine, but pretty cross, and doubtful to get a good night's sleep.
Crap. I hate oil burns. So sorry.
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I'm pretty frustrated with people in my life right now.
Also I now have burns on my left arm I get to deal with.
But no one has asked if I'm okay, or said they were sorry for dropping whatever it was from above the stove into the hot oil I was cooking with that splashed all over my arm.
For the record I'm fine, but pretty cross, and doubtful to get a good night's sleep.
Oh, dang. Its been years since I had an oil burn but I remember them itching like crazy when they started to heal. Good luck!
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Sorry to hear about your injuries, Captain!
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And today, I am 42, or, more likely, six seven-year-olds in an extremely voluminous trench coat. To celebrate, I am going on a jolly to the earthly paradise that is Huddersfield.
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Happy birthday Limey!
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And today, I am 42, or, more likely, six seven-year-olds in an extremely voluminous trench coat. To celebrate, I am going on a jolly to the earthly paradise that is Huddersfield.
Happy Twilight Zone day!
It's also Hostess Cupcake Day.
Probably unrelated.
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Happy Personal Revolution, Limey!
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Happy Birthday, Limey!
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Happy B-Day, Limey!
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Happy Level-Up, Limey!
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And today, I am 42, or, more likely, six seven-year-olds in an extremely voluminous trench coat. To celebrate, I am going on a jolly to the earthly paradise that is Huddersfield.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HAPPY BIRTHDAY
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And today, I am 42, or, more likely, six seven-year-olds in an extremely voluminous trench coat. To celebrate, I am going on a jolly to the earthly paradise that is Huddersfield.Happy Twilight Zone day!
It's also Hostess Cupcake Day.
Probably unrelated.
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Well, it's official: Beloved Choir Director has resigned her position at the school. She will be missed.
As I've been doing all along, I have to give credit to her, the school administration, and the school board: Not a peep about her situation has leaked out; every single person involved has managed to stay mum, and that's an amazing accomplishment for a school district known for inappropriate personal information leaks.
As someone who left teaching myself due to the low pay, heavy workload, high stress levels, and utter lack of support to the point of open hostility from the administration, I sympathize greatly with her.
And while I'll likely never find out, I am left wondering whether that execrable petition to the school board of, "You have to make her come back, whether or not she wants to," had anything to do with her final decision.
I know that if I asked for emergency psychological leave and the school generously granted it, only to have a bunch of uppity parents demand that I come back immediately, I'd've walked as well.
(Second disclaimer: We have no idea why she was placed on leave. I can think of three possible disciplinary reasons and three possible personal reasons, and with the commendable silence from all parties involved I have no idea whether it was any of the six or something else entirely, with the only clue being the students', "We don't want her to come back until she feels she's ready," indicating it was probably personal and not disciplinary.)
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How To Lose a Sale:
We're evaluating a company that promises to take your boring old PowerPoint lessons, turn them into scripts, record videos based on the scripts, and provide a beautiful, professional-quality animated video for you.
NobodysHome: Ouch! If I'd known my slides were going to be read verbatim I'd've written a better script!
Sales Guy: Oh, no! That's not your slides! We took the bullets and text from your slides, edited them, re-flowed them to make them work better with the animation, and then did the recording. We had two team members write the script based on your PowerPoint.
High-Level Manager: So the script came directly from the PowerPoint?
Sales Guy: No. As I said, we took your PowerPoints, two of our authors wrote a script based on the PowerPoint, and we recorded that.
Today we got access to the recording.
(1) The script is verbatim my PowerPoint. No editing was done whatsoever.
(2) The audio dropped a few sentences, but is otherwise verbatim my PowerPoint.
Crossing out a few sentences you consider redundant is NOT "writing a script". The sales guy out-and-out lied to us in a demonstrable manner.
*** Sale Lost ***