Hmpf.
There is a nice humble bundle with a very promising game Ghost Recon Wildlands...
Except I have all the remaining worthwhile games from that bundle (Aer, Borderlands GOTY, Kingdom Come)... And now I wonder... Do I want to spend $10 for a single game?
I might get a bit spoiled with bundles and humble choice where I usually get more games for that price.
Anyway, Wildlands looks like a game that might be fun to NobodysHome, GothBard, and Shiro, with its four-player coop.
Nighty.
I should probably go to bed and catch some sleep.
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*Manager show up* Where is all the laundry and why is their a big smoke cloud outback?
you: I took care of the laundry.
I thought you just said you had a ton of laundry?
well I guess your stuck then.
HA!!! That is funny! Thanks for sharing!
That is a strangely detailed and believable dream.
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The talk with the young woman went well, even though it involved BOTH finances and relationships.
And it pretty much boiled down to, "Just because something is tired and overused and constantly questioned doesn't mean it's not still valid:"
(1) "Don't spend more than 30% of your gross income on housing."
WOW, the example scenarios were all kinds of fun. "Can you live on a food, clothing, cell phone, internet, and utility budget of $30/day?"
(2) "As long as you're employed, put 10% of your gross income into savings, even if it means cutting back on other things."
"It'll take you 7 months just to put away enough money that you can comfortably be unemployed for a month. From personal experience, this one is really, really important."
(3) "In a relationship, expecting the other person to change to suit your tastes is not a viable long-term strategy."
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In other news, California has 'mostly' ended its lockdown, so we can examine 461 days of what SHOULD have been a 42-day lockdown and think, "Yeah, the zombie apocalypse movies have got it right. People really are that stupid."
What will be more telling will be Disneyland. They've:
(1) Removed mask restrictions for vaccinated patrons, and
(2) Publicly announced that they will not require proof of vaccination.
I was planning on wearing a mask anyway, but it'll be interesting: Now that Disneyland is allowing out-of-state visitors, how much grief am I going to get for wearing a mask when I don't have to?
Northern Californians are remarkably mellow when it comes to respecting other people's choices. Southern California, not so much, but at least mellower than the rest of the country is rumored to be. I'd really love to do a survey: "Excuse me. You're harassing me for wearing a mask. Do you mind telling me what state you're from?"
The results would be fascinating.
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My knee is sore and back is also on the sore side.
But at least I'm working by myself tomorrow, as I don't have enough stuff to keep the kids busy, and they're scared of using power tools (which is weird to me as you couldn't give me a power tool fast enough when I was their age).
Yes, his cut of thumb was still on it.
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OK. Hilarious source of wisdom:
An employee recommended that we add a "phoenetic pronunciation" guide to the employee directory.
I immediately thought, "Is she Indian? Other southeast Asian? European?"
Nope.
But her last name ends in ough.
Cough? Tough? Through? Although?
So yep, an extremely well-placed recommendation...
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Phoenetic = wants everyone's name translated into Phoenician?
And now I have finished* Shadow Of War. It was getting tedious near the end, and some of the final fights were rather poorly implemented. Someone, somewhere had a terribly bright idea of combining quick time events with regular mass combat - i.e. you are fighting in the middle of a tight crowd and you have the poorly visible QTE prompts on the sides, and at times the game seems to be unable to recognize if you are pushing space in response to QTE or are you simply trying to dodge, and so on and on. Oh, and the bosses require to be finished with a drain attack... Except the game loves to auto aim the drain attack at orcs instead of wraiths in the crowd.
Why the hell designers insist on designing a complex combat and skill system that you slowly (or quickly) master through the whole game only to render it completely irrelevant in the final combat?
Uh... Those Wildlands will take around 75 GB... That will be a loooong installation. Thankfully uninstalling Shadow Of War freed 105 GB.
BTW: If anyone wants Borderlands GOTY edition, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, or AER: Memories Of Old, let me know.
Actually, I have at least two keys for Borderlands, I would have to check unclaimed choices to see if there's more, which is likely.
Oh, goody! I have new "Global Compliance Training" I have to complete!
Er... compliance with what, exactly?
I guess I'll find out.
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In other news, our property manager totally dropped the ball on a rat problem in my parents' house and now there's a major infestation so he notified us and gave us the estimate from the new exterminator (he send the old one out four times and that one never noticed the issue, so really deserved to be fired).
My mother is freaking out and asking what we're going to do about it.
Er, don't you remember? You freaking fired me!!!!!!
I'm letting the property manager clean up his mistakes and not worrying about it. That's what I'm doing about it.
(And I have some sympathy. He hired a licensed, bonded exterminator to deal with the problem. Four times. At that point the tenant brought in a different exterminator who found the problem. If you've been working with a company you trust for many years, it's hard to realize they've gone down the toilet.)
Ok, installation complete. Let's see if it was worth it.
Oh, great DirectX installation step. Again.
Lawn Guy (watches me as I pull our saw out of the truck): That looks fun to use!
Me: Yes, it's my favorite tool!
Lawn Guy: Wait, really?!
Wildlands looks and feels (at least for now) very good. It might be a worthwhile purchase.
John, have a good night and enjoy your day off.
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For Freehold DM and anyone else interested.
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First of all, a trigger warning, the following clip is about sports, the relevant part starts at 1:44.
i firmly believe I'm better at my job then Aaron Rodgers is at his.
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For Freehold DM and anyone else interested.
My eyes! MY EYES!
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There was no call for that, Sharoth!! lol
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While there are some play styles that I don't enjoy, but I at least understand ("The game should be an antagonistic, 'Players versus the GM' power struggle", or, "I prefer dungeon crawls with lots of combat. Roleplay is a waste of time"), there are others that I simply don't get.
One of our guests prefers to play incredibly obnoxious loners who intentionally antagonize the other PCs and try to go off on their own. Our group prefers strong roleplay and staying in character, so their response is, "OK, off you go, then!"
Last night Impus Minor ran a really fun one-off. Said player ran his typical obnoxious self so we ditched him and he was dead less than 45 minutes into the session (I'd already hit him for half his hit points before he chose to go one direction while the rest of the party went another). So he got to sit and watch the 2.5-hour session, wondering whether Impus Minor would be able to re-introduce him as an NPC-turned-PC at a later time.
He insisted it didn't matter and he had fun being that obnoxious. But when he runs every single PC the same way, and nearly gets killed or abandoned by his fellow PCs every single campaign, then maybe, just maybe, he should choose a different character personality archetype.
(It's particularly annoying because he plays in multiple campaigns and likes to try different personality types, but at our house he's always the obnoxious loner because we're the most lenient of the groups in terms of not killing him outright. But maybe, just maybe, if every group is killing your PC, you shouldn't be exploring that archetype.)
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Going out to the coast today to go to the beach, and the best ice cream shop in Oregon.
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I'm finished!!
It is absolutely amazing looking.
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Really is. Well done sir.
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Thank you!
We started it last October and so many people have tried to screw it up it so it feels like a huge accomplishment.
Coincidentally, coworker finished the project at the X-Men mansion yesterday. It would have been nice to help finish it as I did most of it to begin with, but I understand why the boss would want both finished simultaneously.
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OK. This is utter hilarity.
If I do away with the rest of my family and then sell my property in California, this place is within reach. The two California one-family homes combine to be worth a bit more than that place.
So, other than the fact that actually maintaining the place would probably run around $7000/month and bankrupt me, sounds like a plan! (Oh, and murdering the rest of my family for their inheritance would probably be frowned upon as well, I suppose...)
(Shiro is shopping for me and being silly.)
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OK. This is utter hilarity.
If I do away with the rest of my family and then sell my property in California, this place is within reach. The two California one-family homes combine to be worth a bit more than that place.
So, other than the fact that actually maintaining the place would probably run around $7000/month and bankrupt me, sounds like a plan! (Oh, and murdering the rest of my family for their inheritance would probably be frowned upon as well, I suppose...)
(Shiro is shopping for me and being silly.)
It's just right by my parents, I could visit you while visiting them.
<.<
>.>
If you decide to buy it, maybe you could hire my parents as staff?
I am pretty sure it would be less strenuous job than my father's current factory work.
Maybe I could also shame him into stopping drinking by having you as an example.
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(Shiro is shopping for me and being silly.)
Or maybe he could buy it for himself. We could still organize a meeting when you would be visiting him?
And hiring my parents as staff would be still a viable option.
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OK. This is utter hilarity.
If I do away with the rest of my family and then sell my property in California, this place is within reach. The two California one-family homes combine to be worth a bit more than that place.
So, other than the fact that actually maintaining the place would probably run around $7000/month and bankrupt me, sounds like a plan! (Oh, and murdering the rest of my family for their inheritance would probably be frowned upon as well, I suppose...)
(Shiro is shopping for me and being silly.)
Also, it would be perfectly fitting (if improper) to kill your family for inheritance when such lovely place is at stake. Just ask Agatha Christie about it!
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Now I scrolled the property description...
And what do I noticed? Freehold is already mentioned!
Now I scrolled the property description...
And what do I noticed? Freehold is already mentioned!
Yeah, I saw that. I could tell there would be a pest control problem...
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Eve and my mom officially put their first offer in on a house in Maine today.
Because we were out at the coast, they signed the papers electronically from the beach.
I quoted The Goonies entirely too much.