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And not even a single sword, sabre, cutlass, rapier, epee, dagger, main gauche, axe, mace, warhammer, poleaxe, halberd, guisarme, glaive, bec de corbin, bardiche, spear, pike, or any other stabby, pointy, and/or curshy implement?Don't know about you folks, but I've pulled on my Care Bear tights, donned my modesty compliant sportswear, and am off to join the Jesuits, stopping off at the National Library of Israel to admire my whisky investment portfolio on the way. Thanks, targeted social media ads!!!Hmm, I just get ads for power tools, women's lingerie, and video games.
Perhaps I just need to accept that I'm living the American Dream.
For when you badly need a pair of spare knickers for your Mario-branded circular saw.
To be fair, the National Library of Israel has a lot of interesting stuff, but as for the others, I am not any sort of Care Bear, let alone a Catholic one, all my sportswear is modesty compliant already, OF COURSE, and whisky belongs in a Limey, not in a bank vault.
Advertysyng suche delightes art forbyddenne on ye Tome of Visages, on pain of confinement in ye oubliettes of ye Keep on The Zuckerlands.
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Aaaaand the speakers just blew out in my Honda. It's got 187k miles on it, it was bound to happen eventually, but I'm annoyed.
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I'm not embarrassed! I literally have the tab open trying to think of a good answer! I keep going around in circles with "Oh, no, this one's better!" XDEvening all. What did I miss?- Sharoth wants to know our Isekai fantasies and everyone's too embarrassed to admit them except Limey. Because Englishmen are strange
- Many people are afraid of and violent towards needles
- My cat is on steroids
- Woran went on a worldwide bank heist/murder spree, got a stomach ache, passed out, and forgot that anything ever happened
Bah! Ah, maaaaaaan!
Spent the day off-and-on building a series of ideas, slowly, while interrupted by sick boys stuck at home all day, but turned off the computer without submitting. :/
WELP
Imagine I said something pithy and insightful about classic Western isekai vs. anime isekai and something-something-"split the difference."
Quick Version 1: An arcanist with a set of the Nether Scrolls in 1372 (or earlier; 1359 at earliest) in Dweomerheart; shortly thereafter, I'd be able to change history and prevent 4e from rolling out (effectively).
Quick Version 2: Either a living spell with a special item or just the item (that's sentient) allowing me to shapeshift and have various adventures that work out in fixing a lot of things for a lot of people.
Quick Version 3: Spellcasting mastery with Kingmaker AP and eventually nabbing some mythic before helping out in WotR. While this could sort of apply to computer games... less so.
Quick Version 4: moving onto gaming, Chrono Trigger; there are a few places to install a new character with a few possibilities for filling niches; alt. I'd choose to be Chrono. I couldn't even begin with Chrono Cross yesterday, and I couldn't today.
Quick Version 5: Final Fantasy Tactics; as Sky Pirate stole one selection of things I want, and Orlandu most of the others, that leaves a vague fusion built off of an assassin base (though preferably with better speed, ala thief ) with elements of mediator/orator (including the arts application to all) and knight.
Quick Version 6: being a noble in the game My Next Life as a Villainess would actually be legit cool.
Quick Version 7 or higher: I'm too tired and too sick to either recall or come up with something else at this point, even though I've got other ideas
Bonus Round: Definitely not FF2, FF4 (added after), FF6, FF7, FF13, or FF15 (that goes double for the Ardyn's expansion version of FF15); FF1, FF4, and FF8 actually all work out well enough that those are cool (I take it back, I now remember what happens in FF4's expansions); FF10/10-2 and FF12 feel questionable, but are cool. I can't really comment enough on FF3 or FF9. Star Trek would be cool, but I'd obviously want my own fully functional full sized replica of Enterprise D (or a later, even more sophisticated version), but installed in a relatively quiet and safe part of the universe. Star Wars sounds cool for adventure, but, honestly, I wouldn't want to live in most places there - far too chaotic and prone to omniversal destruction. Same with Mass Effect. Also deeeeeefinitely not Dragon Age. Blue Rose might be cool, but I'm hard pressed to come up with any specifics. The various Legend of Zelda entries are varied (so hard to answer), but none of those worlds are inherently or outright rejected (though only because LttP actually manages to revive all those dead people, my word) (I'm not actually suggesting I become Link; if that were the case, almost certainly something like Wind Waker rather than something like Skyward Sword or Breath of the Wild).
I had more thoughts, once, but they're kind of burned out of me. Something about speicific animes or Wester literature, something else about nifty new worlds, and something else about being able to come home with those abilities. Man - so brilliant.
Now to go back to sleep.
Curse this feudal society that I have been (re)born into!!!Damn it! Our local Baron has just raised taxes and the weather has turned for the worse. My crop will be ruined!!! Plus the plague is coming. This "fantasy" world sucks!Just wait until you find out that the Baron is actually a weather-wizard and has caused the inclement weather in order to destroy all the crops, thus ensuring that you and all the other farmers will be unable to pay your taxes, allowing him to seize all your lands, homes, and other properties as well as placing you and your family into "indentured servitude" (essentially slavery), all so that he can claim an even larger share of the profits from the land. And, of course, the plague is a myth. Just rumors being spread so that he can enforce strict laws preventing you and your neighbors from being able to gather together and plot against him.
So incredibly definitely not Dragon Age.
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Almost done with the 3-D pattern portion.
Just one side needs to be cut.
After that I clean up my mess and prepare for next week, which will finishing up the patio.
And then after that I get to do two driveway inlay areas.
And then after those are done there's a couple of boulders I have to carve out.
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About to go home. Good night. everyone.
Good night, John!
FYIF!!
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I usually wait until after work to do that but it's an exciting day for me.
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FYIF!!Frank Yells "Impudent Francophiles!"?
Diswho?
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Hey Freehold, is this your cat?
Yep, this seems appropriate attire.
Every time I ask for a cat that can do that at the pet store, they kick me out!
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This is what we like to see.
In other news, one of the production guys brought his dog in, to give everyone an end of the week morale boost, which meant that all one heard this morning was a bunch of grown adults saying things like 'AWWWW HEYYYO PUPWUP, OOGLEBOOGLESHOOGLEGOO YESYOUARE'. The dog itself had a good time scuttling about, breaking wind and hoovering debris off the carpet, and somewhen around noon, was sick in the middle of the floor.
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THIS is a big reason why my children do not go to public school, and why I won't teach in them. Texas is so messed up.
THIS is a big reason why my children do not go to public school, and why I won't teach in them. Texas is so messed up.
That's horrifying.
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THIS is a big reason why my children do not go to public school, and why I won't teach in them. Texas is so messed up.
I have an interesting take on it: I think the curriculum director is intentionally taking the law to its unintended extreme to demonstrate just how horrifying it is.
So yes, the fact that Texas has the law is, indeed, "messed up".
But I'm not convinced the director is being clueless in her direction.
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THIS is a big reason why my children do not go to public school, and why I won't teach in them. Texas is so messed up.
...is this some kind of joke?
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THIS is a big reason why my children do not go to public school, and why I won't teach in them. Texas is so messed up.I have an interesting take on it: I think the curriculum director is intentionally taking the law to its unintended extreme to demonstrate just how horrifying it is.
So yes, the fact that Texas has the law is, indeed, "messed up".
But I'm not convinced the director is being clueless in her direction.
...except for the fact that that suburb is one of the most Abbott-loving in the Metroplex.
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Spending all of today, and tomorrow, up on ladders (my favorite, hooray) painting the window frames and trim of the House of Usher, which is how I privately refer to Miz Daisy's manse.
Woohoo vacation week!
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Spending all of today, and tomorrow, up on ladders (my favorite, hooray) painting the window frames and trim of the House of Usher, which is how I privately refer to Miz Daisy's manse.
Woohoo vacation week!
Yep. I took today off, which means I'm cleaning the house, prepping to replace the sidelight (which I did indeed break on my own), going by the hardware store, taking the Satanic Calico to the vet, getting my hair cut, and prepping scallop risotto for the kids for dinner.
Free time? What's that?
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*SIGH*. The kids and Far Cry games.
I don't know whether anyone recalls, but in the end game of Far Cry 5 as the kids were chasing down the final boss, he jumped out of a plane to try to parachute to safety. Impus Minor hurled a shovel, severing the parachute and sending BBEG plummeting to his death... making the subsequent cut scenes all the more hilarious.
Now they're playing Far Cry 6. Impus Major stepped out of a motorcycle side car while it was in motion and fell through the world to position (0,0)... which happens to be the starting point of the end boss run. Impus Minor intentionally died and joined him. So they got to spend a hilarious evening looting gear that was ludicrously over-leveled for them, then quit to reset the game and put themselves back in the "correct" region... except with loads and loads of incredible gear...
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*SIGH*. The kids and Far Cry games.
I don't know whether anyone recalls, but in the end game of Far Cry 5 as the kids were chasing down the final boss, he jumped out of a plane to try to parachute to safety. Impus Minor hurled a shovel, severing the parachute and sending BBEG plummeting to his death... making the subsequent cut scenes all the more hilarious.
Now they're playing Far Cry 6. Impus Major stepped out of a motorcycle side car while it was in motion and fell through the world to position (0,0)... which happens to be the starting point of the end boss run. Impus Minor intentionally died and joined him. So they got to spend a hilarious evening looting gear that was ludicrously over-leveled for them, then quit to reset the game and put themselves back in the "correct" region... except with loads and loads of incredible gear...
Had they got the boss?
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This is what we like to see.
In other news, one of the production guys brought his dog in, to give everyone an end of the week morale boost, which meant that all one heard this morning was a bunch of grown adults saying things like 'AWWWW HEYYYO PUPWUP, OOGLEBOOGLESHOOGLEGOO YESYOUARE'. The dog itself had a good time scuttling about, breaking wind and hoovering debris off the carpet, and somewhen around noon, was sick in the middle of the floor.
NEWSFLASH: It was sick again on the floor around 4:45pm. If the Big Boss finds out, I suspect that there will be no more pets allowed in the office, especially as it wee'd on the astroturf we have next to the canteen the first time it came in.
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Yes Impii! Abuse the bugs!
I thought that Impii were the bugs in the system...
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Had they got the boss?*SIGH*. The kids and Far Cry games.
I don't know whether anyone recalls, but in the end game of Far Cry 5 as the kids were chasing down the final boss, he jumped out of a plane to try to parachute to safety. Impus Minor hurled a shovel, severing the parachute and sending BBEG plummeting to his death... making the subsequent cut scenes all the more hilarious.
Now they're playing Far Cry 6. Impus Major stepped out of a motorcycle side car while it was in motion and fell through the world to position (0,0)... which happens to be the starting point of the end boss run. Impus Minor intentionally died and joined him. So they got to spend a hilarious evening looting gear that was ludicrously over-leveled for them, then quit to reset the game and put themselves back in the "correct" region... except with loads and loads of incredible gear...
way too underpowered to do that yet. Just a loot grab'n'go.
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Does Far Cry 6 uses levels/tiers with a significant damage/health escalation?
Yuck.
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Does Far Cry 6 uses levels/tiers with a significant damage/health escalation?
Yuck.
The mechanics are the same as previous versions, so I 100% don't know. All I know is that they said they were "nowhere near powerful enough" to take on the final boss, whatever that means in Far Cry terms.
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The people in the apartment below me are shouting again...not about whatever actually initiated the argument, but over how she's not listening to him and he is making something out of nothing.
This same argument is a weekly occurrence now. I swear I just saw my cat Pepi roll her eyes, even though I know cats can't do that. :P
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3-D pattern activated!
You're like a 3D printer, but on a bigger scale!
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3-D pattern activated!You're like a 3D printer, but on a bigger scale!
Not too shabby for one person over the course of a week with 2 days severely shortened by rain.
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She knows what she's about, and this is of particular interest to me. Good work,
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Does Far Cry 6 uses levels/tiers with a significant damage/health escalation?
Yuck.
They do that in Mechwarrior too, it pisses me off. It would have worked better if they just had different company names for weapons to create better immersion as opposed to "Tier 0 AC2 20" "Tier 1 LRM 15".
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Email ad from Victoria's Secret: "Ready for GNO?"
Me: What's GNO?
The General: Girl's night out?... So, you need lingerie for that these days?
Me: You never know when a pillow fight is going to break out.
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The more sweat equity I put into this crumbling house, the more things I find to add to the list of eventual repairs, and the more tempting the idea of just DIYing with a bit of C4 seems.
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The more sweat equity I put into this crumbling house, the more things I find to add to the list of eventual repairs, and the more tempting the idea of just DIYing with a bit of C4 seems.
Yeah, today was "sidelight" day and the glass I ordered was 1/8" too big (because of COURSE our contractor made the panel 69.5" x 9.875", because decimals are fun). So, not wanting to try to cut tempered glass, I chiseled a 1/8" groove in the frame for the glass to slot into.
And I did not encounter dry rot in my wall.
And I was all astonishment...
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"There are two things in this world that don't lie: 5-year-olds, and yoga pants."
I can say with certainty that 5-year-olds lie.
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Fantasy NPC: Biru Hakka, A Practical Archaeologist. An tomb robber archaeologist who died while stealing from a tomb exploring a tomb, but she got better.
Fantasy NPC: Biru Hakka, A Practical Archaeologist. Antomb robberarchaeologist who died whilestealing from a tombexploring a tomb, but she got better.
I love it.
"managed to get oneself killed—" -> "managed to get herself killed—"
"it also robed her" -> "it also robbed her"
"A distorted figure made of translucent ectoplasm, composed mostly of large head with big eyes and rather stupid smile, followed by comically undersized torso. His limbs extends into indistinct trails of smoke."
This does not seem to quite jive with the rest of the article.
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Ugh. That was old description that I hadn't replaced when I copied the previous undead as a template.