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I just realized how near I was to breaking my word . . . . But I stopped myself in time. Lucky us!!
------------------My frustration with PF2 grows.
But that may be heavily related to how stinkin' tired I am all the time. The money may be crazy-good with this new position, but I'm still workin' my @$$ off every shift, and sleeping the whole day once I get home. I can barely stay conscious for a 6-hr game session anymore! On my days off!!!
*shakes fist, seethes*
It happens man.
I remember when I first started the second job and I was still actively gaming on a weekly basis. One 5 hour energy got me through the game. As soon as I hit that 5 hour mark, I was unconscious. Not tired. Not sleepy. Unconscious

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Woran wrote:Looks like captain yesterday has send the truck of to repairs in russiaExcellent, this will give our mechanic a starting point, I've been asking for a flame thrower on the truck since I started.
I know :D
That is why when I saw this I immediately had to think of you.
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Fantasy Monster: Planetnik. A traditional Slavic entity that I planned to write for a long long time.
It is raining at the moment.

Freehold DM |

Fantasy Monster: Planetnik. A traditional Slavic entity that I planned to write for a long long time.
It is raining at the moment.
I have been meaning to stat up the zoanoids from guyver for the longest.

lisamarlene |

lisamarlene wrote:Might NH not need his ribs?I'm making NH's ribs for dinner, so the magic incantation must be said to make it turn out properly:
UP YOURS, MEAT BOY!
I used NH's no-fail procedure for sublime bbq ribs. Well, I tweaked if a bit.
The problem with Texas is that good bbq is everywhere, but it costs a lot of money. Even bad bbq is getting expensive now, and bad bbq is also, alas, everywhere.
But if you can make it yourself, all of this is irrelevant.
I'm good at making my own dry rubs and sauces and I'm good at all the meat except the elusive brisket. My brisket is improving, but it's not quite there yet. Which is why I've extracted a promise from WW to build me a proper smoker at Miz Daisy's.

captain yesterday |

Super weird question PERFECT for FaWtL!
How would you spell Fluffygoat as a Pathfinder character surname, as in when spelled out it doesn't necessarily jump out at you until you pronounce it phonetically.
Yes, it's going to be for a dwarven character (Digby Fluffygoat (class and everything else tbd probably for 2nd edition, but maybe Classic).

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Does anyone else remember back when doctors actually did things?
Impus Minor has a massive ingrown toenail, which is a serious issue when we're planning on leaving on a backpacking trip in 7 days, so we got an urgent appointment with the pediatrician this afternoon.
In the "good old days", the pediatrician might apply a local anaesthetic, perform the utterly routine procedure, and send us on our way.
Unfortunately, with lawsuits and insurance on the rise, I expect we're going to waste 45 minutes waiting for a 10-minute appointment wherein the doctor says, "Oh, my! That is nasty! Here's the number for a specialist you can go to."
And then we'll learn that the specialist has a two-month waiting list and Impus Minor will either have to trust us to try to fix it ourselves or he'll be miserable on the trip.
We'll know in a few hours.

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This is a fun read, especially the part about how serving the same wine in different-looking bottles affected how diners perceived the taste of the wine.
Which makes me wonder: How does Rivoli, with its simple, single-printed sheet of the 4-5 dishes you can choose from, possibly survive?

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This is a fun read, especially the part about how serving the same wine in different-looking bottles affected how diners perceived the taste of the wine.
Which makes me wonder: How does Rivoli, with its simple, single-printed sheet of the 4-5 dishes you can choose from, possibly survive?
Because their menu conveys that they're upscale as s#!+ and employ a professional chef.
I bet if you search for an upscale cafe in Mount Horeb you'll find a similar menu.

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Super weird question PERFECT for FaWtL!
How would you spell Fluffygoat as a Pathfinder character surname, as in when spelled out it doesn't necessarily jump out at you until you pronounce it phonetically.
Yes, it's going to be for a dwarven character (Digby Fluffygoat (class and everything else tbd probably for 2nd edition, but maybe Classic).
Phloofeygotte
If you want it in dutch its literally pluizegeit

NobodysHome |

Does anyone else remember back when doctors actually did things?
Impus Minor has a massive ingrown toenail, which is a serious issue when we're planning on leaving on a backpacking trip in 7 days, so we got an urgent appointment with the pediatrician this afternoon.
In the "good old days", the pediatrician might apply a local anaesthetic, perform the utterly routine procedure, and send us on our way.
Unfortunately, with lawsuits and insurance on the rise, I expect we're going to waste 45 minutes waiting for a 10-minute appointment wherein the doctor says, "Oh, my! That is nasty! Here's the number for a specialist you can go to."
And then we'll learn that the specialist has a two-month waiting list and Impus Minor will either have to trust us to try to fix it ourselves or he'll be miserable on the trip.
We'll know in a few hours.
UPDATE: Not quite that bad.
(1) Thanks to COVID and their "no waiting room" policy, Impus Minor was seen on time. An amazing rarity for this pediatrician.(2) His evaluation was, "It's too far back on the toe for us to do anything about it. We'll have to wait for it to grow out. Good luck on the trip with it!"
So yes, they did nothing, but at least they didn't send us to a specialist. I'd just kind of been hoping for SOME kind of advice or mitigating treatment before a hiking trip, but instead was told that he'd just have to deal with it until it grew out. Probably sound medical advice, even if it wasn't the advice I wanted to hear.

Freehold DM |

Does anyone else remember back when doctors actually did things?
Impus Minor has a massive ingrown toenail, which is a serious issue when we're planning on leaving on a backpacking trip in 7 days, so we got an urgent appointment with the pediatrician this afternoon.
In the "good old days", the pediatrician might apply a local anaesthetic, perform the utterly routine procedure, and send us on our way.
Unfortunately, with lawsuits and insurance on the rise, I expect we're going to waste 45 minutes waiting for a 10-minute appointment wherein the doctor says, "Oh, my! That is nasty! Here's the number for a specialist you can go to."
And then we'll learn that the specialist has a two-month waiting list and Impus Minor will either have to trust us to try to fix it ourselves or he'll be miserable on the trip.
We'll know in a few hours.
I can see both perspectives and the negative parts of them.

NobodysHome |
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The most depressing thing about watching Babylon 5? It's not seeing just how bad the 1990s CGI was (though the battle in Season 2, Episode 10 is downright embarrassing). It's not seeing their failures to foresee future tech (they still use paper printouts, and when they are carrying "portable" devices, they're 2 inches thick).
It's the news.
The supposed space news network, ISN, is an absolutely classic, standard "boring" news channel from the 1970s or pre-CNN 1980s: The anchor reports the facts. No blame. No incendiary quotes. Just, "This is what happened," delivered in a near-monotone.
Oh, how I miss when that's what the news was like!

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The most depressing thing about watching Babylon 5? It's not seeing just how bad the 1990s CGI was (though the battle in Season 2, Episode 10 is downright embarrassing). It's not seeing their failures to foresee future tech (they still use paper printouts, and when they are carrying "portable" devices, they're 2 inches thick).
It's the news.
The supposed space news network, ISN, is an absolutely classic, standard "boring" news channel from the 1970s or pre-CNN 1980s: The anchor reports the facts. No blame. No incendiary quotes. Just, "This is what happened," delivered in a near-monotone.
Oh, how I miss when that's what the news was like!
Worry not. Remember that they fix that.

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NobodysHome wrote:Worry not. Remember that they fix that.The most depressing thing about watching Babylon 5? It's not seeing just how bad the 1990s CGI was (though the battle in Season 2, Episode 10 is downright embarrassing). It's not seeing their failures to foresee future tech (they still use paper printouts, and when they are carrying "portable" devices, they're 2 inches thick).
It's the news.
The supposed space news network, ISN, is an absolutely classic, standard "boring" news channel from the 1970s or pre-CNN 1980s: The anchor reports the facts. No blame. No incendiary quotes. Just, "This is what happened," delivered in a near-monotone.
Oh, how I miss when that's what the news was like!
Not a B5 fan but I remember that too.

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The most depressing thing about watching Babylon 5? It's not seeing just how bad the 1990s CGI was (though the battle in Season 2, Episode 10 is downright embarrassing). It's not seeing their failures to foresee future tech (they still use paper printouts, and when they are carrying "portable" devices, they're 2 inches thick).
I read that and started to wonder about fitting in-world excuses for at least some of those...
And then it occurred to me: the station is a multi-species project, but probably everyone wanted to protect their most advanced technological secrets and so a lot of what we see is a sort of a lowest of compromise between a number of advanced civilizations about what can be actually allowed near hands of other species who are sure to be conducting technological espionage and will steal and reverse engineer anything they can get their hands appendages on.
This might get even worse when counting in possible cultural and religious taboos spread among the minor and major contributors, and varied bureaucratic needs of civilizations involved...

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I can look back at it in retrospective as a sort of *brag* by Earthgov Yes, we're using REAL wood to make REAL paper to make real pulp... on a space station! Sure it's impractical as all heck, but can YOU do that?
And as far as the 'portable' devices being 2in thick? Ragnarok-proofed military issue 'just in case'.