Anyone here a lore buff on Greyhawk and/or Dragonlance? Could use some advice/suggestions.I know a bit about Dragonlance but it's been fifteen years.
Even more for me. I remember bits from the old series but only know a smattering of things after the world was stolen.
Ask anyway!
A proactive doctor who reaches out to you to provide lifestyle advice based on your medical tests may be intrusive, but at least you know they mean well.
A proactive doctor who reaches out to you before even reading your medical history to provide lifestyle advice based on your medical tests comes across as an uncaring idiot.
My cholesterol's been creeping back up again, so at my annual physical in December the doctor recommended I increase my statins to daily and re-test in 3 months to see how effective it was. It wasn't bad -- my cholesterol numbers dropped by 10-15%, but not *quite* into the normal range, so still a little bit high.
I expected a call to discuss whether or not we should increase my dosage.
Instead I got a call from one of the nurse practitioners: "While your numbers aren't high enough for us to put you on statins yet, I'd like to discuss some possible lifestyle changes with you..."
"Can I stop you right there and point out that I've been on statins for over 20 years now?"
"Oh. Well, about those lifestyle changes..."
"Here's the list I know I should be following from 20 years of battling high cholesterol. Were you going to expand on that this?"
"Er, no."I'm a strong advocate of medical professionals proactively reaching out, because health maintenance is much better for everyone involved. But can you at least read my chart before calling me?!?!?
*something-something about IT support always asking you to reboot computer even after you explicitly told them you did exactly that before*
Anyone here a lore buff on Greyhawk and/or Dragonlance? Could use some advice/suggestions.
I consider myself quite well learned in the lore of Greyhawk and Dragonlance, what sorta stuff do you need/want to know?
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*something-something about It support always asking you to reboot computer even after you explicitly told them you did exactly that before*
I'm going to defend the IT community here. Seriously 9 times out of 10 the conversation is:
IT Person: Have you tried rebooting?User: Of course I did! Right before this call!
IT Person: Can you do it again? Just to be sure?
User: What? You don't believe me! I'm going to report you to your manager...
etc., etc., etc.
And as a support person, you finally remote log in to their computer and see processes that have been running for 9 days solid. They didn't just lie to you about rebooting; they haven't rebooted in well over a week and they're still yelling at you for claiming they didn't reboot.
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*something-something about It support always asking you to reboot computer even after you explicitly told them you did exactly that before*I'm going to defend the IT community here. Seriously 9 times out of 10 the conversation is:
IT Person: Have you tried rebooting?
User: Of course I did! Right before this call!
IT Person: Can you do it again? Just to be sure?
User: What? You don't believe me! I'm going to report you to your manager...etc., etc., etc.
And as a support person, you finally remote log in to their computer and see processes that have been running for 9 days solid. They didn't just lie to you about rebooting; they haven't rebooted in well over a week and they're still yelling at you for claiming they didn't reboot.
I am pretty sure a lot of nurses and MDs have similar experience with their patients.
"Have you been taking your meds?"
"Of course!"
"Your blood tests* say otherwise..."
* I almost wrote blood tastes
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All I know is when I worked in catering at a major downtown hotel nearly every time someone had technical issues with AV equipment it was almost entirely because it was unplugged for some reason or because they couldn't figure out how power buttons work.
I also once saw a guy in his twenties trying and failing to figure out how a price scanner works at Toys R Us.
Yeah, the second or third biggest culture shock of moving from the Midwest to Seattle was realizing how much more expensive milk was.And honestly, Shiro inadvertently made a really good point: "$100k is a fortune in Kentucky. You could have your house paid off in 2 years and be moving towards retirement."
In the Bay Area, I'm worth about $170k. But now that most tech work has gone remote, I may well be nowhere worth that much any more. Can't tell without checking around, but it may well be that my work's gone from "boring and underpaid" to "boring and perfectly well paid", which is a far more acceptable circumstance...
...even if prices around here don't seem to be miraculously dropping as a result of all this...
It's the dearth of milkmaids around there...
Freehold will not be pleased when he learns that.
Freehold ain't going to Seattle. Unless its to visit someone.
It involves me getting new boots.
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For free.
But still. Two hours talking about shoes.
Shoes are important. As an old supervisor once told me, you are never so poor as to not be able to afford good shoes.
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All I know is when I worked in catering at a major downtown hotel nearly every time someone had technical issues with AV equipment it was almost entirely because it was unplugged for some reason or because they couldn't figure out how power buttons work.
I also once saw a guy in his twenties trying and failing to figure out how a price scanner works at Toys R Us.
Physical connections are 90% of equipment failure causes. The other 10% is 9% user error.
Anyone here a lore buff on Greyhawk and/or Dragonlance? Could use some advice/suggestions.Have some Greyhawk stuff, love Dragonlance and was active in the commmunity there until things...took a turn and I ended up being a part of paizo. That was a number of years ago.
EDIT: Just discovered the Greyhawk stuff I have is out of print. Huh.
Anyone here a lore buff on Greyhawk and/or Dragonlance? Could use some advice/suggestions.I know a bit about Dragonlance but it's been fifteen years.Even more for me. I remember bits from the old series but only know a smattering of things after the world was stolen.
Ask anyway!
Anyone here a lore buff on Greyhawk and/or Dragonlance? Could use some advice/suggestions.I consider myself quite well learned in the lore of Greyhawk and Dragonlance, what sorta stuff do you need/want to know?
Looking for some advice/suggestions here if you can spare a few minutes =)
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Shoes are important. As an old supervisor once told me, you are never so poor as to not be able to afford good shoes.It involves me getting new boots.
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For free.
But still. Two hours talking about shoes.
Captain Samuel Vimes' "Boots" Theory of Econonomic Injustice
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*something-something about It support always asking you to reboot computer even after you explicitly told them you did exactly that before*I'm going to defend the IT community here. Seriously 9 times out of 10 the conversation is:
IT Person: Have you tried rebooting?
User: Of course I did! Right before this call!
IT Person: Can you do it again? Just to be sure?
User: What? You don't believe me! I'm going to report you to your manager...etc., etc., etc.
And as a support person, you finally remote log in to their computer and see processes that have been running for 9 days solid. They didn't just lie to you about rebooting; they haven't rebooted in well over a week and they're still yelling at you for claiming they didn't reboot.
I am pretty sure a lot of nurses and MDs have similar experience with their patients.
"Have you been taking your meds?"
"Of course!"
"Your blood tests* say otherwise..."
* I almost wrote blood tastes
My favorite story along those lines was when I broke my wrist back in 2002 or 2003 and the physical therapist commented, "You're recovering faster than anyone I've ever seen! What are you doing?"
"I'm only doing the exercises you told me to do.""You're doing those? You're the first patient I've ever had who did! No wonder you're recovering so quickly!"
So if she'd asked, "Are you taking your medicine?" it would have been reasonable. But she said, "We're not considering putting you on statins quite yet," indicating she hadn't even looked at the chart to see they've been prescribing them to me for 20 years, whether or not I'm taking them.
Anyone here a lore buff on Greyhawk and/or Dragonlance? Could use some advice/suggestions.
More Greyhawk than Dragonlance.
Anyone here a lore buff on Greyhawk and/or Dragonlance? Could use some advice/suggestions.More Greyhawk than Dragonlance.
LoL, and I am more Dragonlance than Greyhawk (not that I don't know stuff, just more about Dragonlance). Let us combine our powers Limey!
LoL, and I am more Dragonlance than Greyhawk (not that I don't know stuff, just more about Dragonlance). Let us combine our powers Limey!Anyone here a lore buff on Greyhawk and/or Dragonlance? Could use some advice/suggestions.More Greyhawk than Dragonlance.
My knowledge is mostly Forgotten Realms and Eberron.
My knowledge is mostly Forgotten Realms and Eberron.LoL, and I am more Dragonlance than Greyhawk (not that I don't know stuff, just more about Dragonlance). Let us combine our powers Limey!Anyone here a lore buff on Greyhawk and/or Dragonlance? Could use some advice/suggestions.More Greyhawk than Dragonlance.
All input and assistance appreciated! The link is a few posts up =)
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Shoes are important. As an old supervisor once told me, you are never so poor as to not be able to afford good shoes.It involves me getting new boots.
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For free.
But still. Two hours talking about shoes.
Wow, that is mindbogglingly inaccurate.
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Wow, that is mindbogglingly inaccurate.Shoes are important. As an old supervisor once told me, you are never so poor as to not be able to afford good shoes.It involves me getting new boots.
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For free.
But still. Two hours talking about shoes.
The decent fine for China-made work shoes I currently wear costed an amount of money that would feed me for a month and a half (about seven weeks) when I was at my financial worst.
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My favorite quote along those lines was from some pulpy detective novel I read at some point where the detective identified the suspect by his shoes. "You can always tell a man's wealth by the shoes he wears."
Even back then it amused me because most of the homeless people I pass on the street have better shoes than I do. I was raised by Depression-era parents; you don't throw something out until it no longer serves its purpose. So right now I'm wearing a pair of shoes where you can see the socks through the holes in the sides and the soles are completely worn off. Since it doesn't actually rain here in California, I won't be throwing them out until my socks physically touch the concrete when I walk. At that point they will have served out their useful lives.
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In my case I've found that it doesn't matter how much they cost I'm still going to wear through two or three pairs of shoes a year.
As long as they are comfortable that's all I care about.
Edit: And yes, like Nobodyshome, I don't replace my shoes until absolutely necessary, so that should give you an idea of how hard I am on my shoes.
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The things that I was most excited about when WW got his new job, after health insurance? I don't have to buy used shoes off of eBay or the consignment shop anymore.
I don't mind buying consigned clothing, because a lot of women buy good clothes, wear them for one season, and then consign them to buy new stuff. But I hate wearing shoes that someone else has worn before.
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Wow, that is mindbogglingly inaccurate.Shoes are important. As an old supervisor once told me, you are never so poor as to not be able to afford good shoes.It involves me getting new boots.
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For free.
But still. Two hours talking about shoes.
English wasn't her first language. I think it was better translated to the idea of bad shoes never being worth the money.
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If I buy new boots, I buy as expensive as I can afford, then get them re-soled or patched up until that's no longer practical. Footwear with holes in = wet and cold feet, and that is something I cannot abide.
Trainers/sneakers are another matter, and a £5-£10 pair will do me fine, as they never last.
English wasn't her first language. I think it was better translated to the idea of bad shoes never being worth the money.Wow, that is mindbogglingly inaccurate.Shoes are important. As an old supervisor once told me, you are never so poor as to not be able to afford good shoes.It involves me getting new boots.
<.<
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For free.
But still. Two hours talking about shoes.
I actually wondered if that was the intended meaning when I read it.
I actually wondered if that was the intended meaning when I read it.English wasn't her first language. I think it was better translated to the idea of bad shoes never being worth the money.Wow, that is mindbogglingly inaccurate.Shoes are important. As an old supervisor once told me, you are never so poor as to not be able to afford good shoes.It involves me getting new boots.
<.<
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For free.
But still. Two hours talking about shoes.
I believe she was Ukrainian acrually.
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Marvel Movie Timeline #18: Black Panther:
Similar to Civil War, my first take on Black Panther when I watched it in theaters was, "OK, this is a perfectly fine movie, but it's nowhere near as good as the nigh-cult following would have you believe."
On a second watch-through, my opinion stands: It's a fine movie. Good character motivations and people behaving (mostly) rationally and in character, (mostly) good action scenes, and all in all a solid, enjoyable movie that yet again proves that you should always:
- Double tap your enemies and their entire families to avoid creating supervillains.
I was also surprised at how much the final climactic combat between the Wakandan factions annoyed me. "We have the greatest technology in the world, so we're going to beat each other senseless with clubs and spears."
It really hit home when the mountain tribe showed up with no vibranium technology whatsoever and turned the tide of the battle. When a group of club-wielding warriors can rout your infantry, your infantry needs better equipment. Yes, numbers and surprise matter and there are historical precedents for such battles, but the mountain tribe didn't seem that numerous compared to the other factions.
Those are fairly typical nitpicks for a superhero movie, however, so all in all a solid entry into the Marvel stables.
EDIT: Though for the record, I think the BBEG's motivation and characterization had some of the best depth of any villain: It raised a lot of wonderful moral issues, including the fascinating, "I am become mine enemy," trope that's so rich and worth exploring and yet so rarely used.
EDIT 2: And while I'm surprised I didn't complain about the "vibranium can do anything and everything the writer needs at any given moment" ridiculousness, the "bull****ium trope" is so ingrained in virtually every comic book universe that I figure I have to just grit my teeth and bear it. "How can we explain xxx?" "Bull****ium." "Brilliant!"
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Marvel Movie Timeline #18: Black Panther:
Similar to Civil War, my first take on Black Panther when I watched it in theaters was, "OK, this is a perfectly fine movie, but it's nowhere near as good as the nigh-cult following would have you believe."
On a second watch-through, my opinion stands: It's a fine movie. Good character motivations and people behaving (mostly) rationally and in character, (mostly) good action scenes, and all in all a solid, enjoyable movie that yet again proves that you should always:
** spoiler omitted **
Those are fairly typical nitpicks for a superhero movie, however, so all in all a solid entry into the Marvel stables.EDIT: Though for the record, I think the BBEG's motivation and characterization had some of the best depth of any villain: It raised a lot of wonderful moral issues, including the fascinating, "I am become mine enemy," trope that's so rich and worth exploring and yet so rarely used.
EDIT 2: And while I'm surprised I didn't complain about the "vibranium can do anything and everything the writer needs at any given moment"...
My late father in law loved Killmonger(and this is a FASCINATING take on an old character, btw), and was upset he didn't win. I worried about that.
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<Humans are on Glowy Boxes. Bed is mine now.>
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Marvel Movie Timeline #18: Black Panther:
Similar to Civil War, my first take on Black Panther when I watched it in theaters was, "OK, this is a perfectly fine movie, but it's nowhere near as good as the nigh-cult following would have you believe."
On a second watch-through, my opinion stands: It's a fine movie. Good character motivations and people behaving (mostly) rationally and in character, (mostly) good action scenes, and all in all a solid, enjoyable movie that yet again proves that you should always:
** spoiler omitted **
Those are fairly typical nitpicks for a superhero movie, however, so all in all a solid entry into the Marvel stables.EDIT: Though for the record, I think the BBEG's motivation and characterization had some of the best depth of any villain: It raised a lot of wonderful moral issues, including the fascinating, "I am become mine enemy," trope that's so rich and worth exploring and yet so rarely used.
EDIT 2: And while I'm surprised I didn't complain about the "vibranium can do anything and everything the writer needs at any given moment"...
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Speaking of modern "construction"...
Our cats are old; the calico is somewhere around 19 and the fluffernutter is 16. Frighteningly enough, our cat tree is even older: We first bought it when we moved back to Albany in 1996 and had to keep our original cats indoors.
So the cat tree's lived through two adult cats, then five more kittens/cats through their entire lifetimes. It's pretty filthy.
Except because it's so old, its internal structure is solid wood, it was well made, and it's still an absolutely serviceable cat tree.
Thus, I'm torn: Do I try to clean it up a bit and put it out front, or cut it up and dispose of it?
And the funniest part is that Shiro bought a cat tree for his cats just a few years ago and it's already falling apart because the internal structure is all cardboard; he'll never have this issue.
Ah, well. It's had a good existence. Unless Impus Major strenuously objects, I think it's time to end-of-life this thing.
(And yes, LM, this is the same one the Impii spent so much time climbing when they were little, so it was a "kid tree" as well.)
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Wow, that is mindbogglingly inaccurate.Shoes are important. As an old supervisor once told me, you are never so poor as to not be able to afford good shoes.It involves me getting new boots.
<.<
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For free.
But still. Two hours talking about shoes.
Yeah, I didn't want to be a negative nathaniel myself as I often wonder if oversharing here is a problem I have but... I very much had an emotional reaction to reading those words. Whichever supervisor stated that strikes me as someone who never truly had to experience the realities of poverty.
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There is something cathartic about sending Hurk chasing a wolf across the Montana wilderness with a rocket launcher.
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Today's amusement: When the kids were young, we set up PlayStation accounts for them using our email addresses because small children don't email.
With Impus Minor about to turn 18, we just got a "conspirational" email from Sony telling us that now we're about to turn 18, we can change our account to an adult account and stop our parents from interfering with our gaming.
Yeah, thanks, Sony, for continuing to drive a wedge of mistrust between parents and kids for another generation...
(For the record, we never turned on any kind of parental control for the kids and trusted them to come to us with any questions, which we answered honestly, and they seem to have turned out OK for all that.)
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Sadly, my parents would 100% have continued to make use of such controls and limitations well into my adult years if they'd existed at the time, unless I'd removed their access. The only reason they didn't was because that kind of tech didn't exist yet in the late-90s and early-2000s.
But then, you already well know how different my parents' child-rearing strategies are from yours, and how much better yours have worked over the years.
Yeah, I didn't want to be a negative nathaniel myself as I often wonder if oversharing here is a problem I have but... I very much had an emotional reaction to reading those words. Whichever supervisor stated that strikes me as someone who never truly had to experience the realities of poverty.Wow, that is mindbogglingly inaccurate.Shoes are important. As an old supervisor once told me, you are never so poor as to not be able to afford good shoes.It involves me getting new boots.
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For free.
But still. Two hours talking about shoes.
This is a take on "you get what you pay for" not "lol bank account go brrr"
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Bleh, I typed out a few paragraphs and deleted them, rewrote, and then scoured the box again, too much oversharing on my part. No disrespect meant to any here and no offense taken on my part either.
I'll just say this instead, poverty isn't usually a state of being you can save/buy your way out of. I don't think I could be present for someone saying something like this in my company without either having an outburst, leaving the room or begrudgingly biting my tongue (if they had any personal influence on my finances/career/family) while simultaneously causing my respect for them as a person to instantly plummet.
Good boots for the kind of work that needs them are indeed a savvy, wise, and invaluable investment for sure, it's just that I know first hand how hard it can be to keep your shirt let alone afford nice boots when you're working two jobs so you can afford to sleep in a car.
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Bleh, I typed out a few paragraphs and deleted them, rewrote, and then scoured the box again, too much oversharing on my part. No disrespect meant to any here and no offense taken on my part either.
I'll just say this instead, poverty isn't usually a state of being you can save/buy your way out of. I don't think I could be present for someone saying something like this in my company without either having an outburst, leaving the room or begrudgingly biting my tongue (if they had any personal influence on my finances/career/family) while simultaneously causing my respect for them as a person to instantly plummet.
Good boots for the kind of work that needs them are indeed a savvy, wise, and invaluable investment for sure, it's just that I know first hand how hard it can be to keep your shirt let alone afford nice boots when you're working two jobs so you can afford to sleep in a car.
#1: I don't think you're oversharing, but then keep in mind who's talking.
#2: Yeah, it's baffling. I have NEVER been "poor". There was a time when we couldn't afford to replace things that broke or wore out, but we still had 3 meals a day, a place to live, a junker hand-me-down car to get around in, and were in generally decent shape. But maybe it's having two friends who ended up homeless, and a few more who needed help, but there's a HUGE difference between, "I can't buy a nice pair of shoes," and, "I can't buy a pair of shoes."
People respond to both with, "Just save your money."
Er, you CAN'T if you don't even have enough money to get by day to day.
About to go home. Good night, everyone.
Good night, John. Take care.
Oh for frak's sake. I just realized it's time change this weekend. Why can't we stop this nonsense?
Whoo hoo! Time to spring forward!! I'm ready!!!
Edit: That doesn't mean I'm pro daylight saving time but if we're going to have it I vastly prefer springing forward to falling back.
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Today is the last day of school before spring break and I'm supposed to be turning in my progress reports for conferences today.
I'm exactly halfway done.
Not stressed at all.
Oh for frak's sake. I just realized it's time change this weekend. Why can't we stop this nonsense?Whoo hoo! Time to spring forward!! I'm ready!!!
Edit: That doesn't mean I'm pro daylight saving time but if we're going to have it I vastly prefer springing forward to falling back.
The extra hour of sunlight is the only thing to look forward to as winter gives way to other seasons.