I once spent an entire day (real time) following these three goats across the continent until they were all killed by a dragon on the opposite coast. I got my vengeance on it though.I wonder if your character would be friends with this guy...
We used to own goats as a kid, you want goat stories, I got goat stories.
That said, I'm not stupid enough to put on a bicycle helmet and climb some hills with the goats.
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I was following a buffalo through Yellowstone today...that's similar to following goats.
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I've got an even simpler solution: I don't have a kitchen table.(Yeah, I'd folded them and left them out on the kitchen table yesterday, a near-never-happens event.)I have a simple solution to leaving clothing on kitchen table - I don't have free space on kitchen table (electric oven and electric stand on it, though I might move oven back to its resting place nearby, not today because I am going to use it in a moment, when I take a break for making a dinner).
Long time no talk. Good to see something from you!
NH - PM
Long time no talk. Good to see something from you!
Oh, I'm always around, glad to see I'm not the last of the "Old Guard." Good to have you back, you're always welcome to stick around.
careful they're scary used to the tourists but they're not shy about trampling a few. An individual bison might put up with someone hopping on their back and another one might get ornery if you're within 50 feet.
When I went through, they were in the bathroom parking lot so close to the door I asked one if he was in line.
NH - PM
A couple of PMs back.
Long time no talk. Good to see something from you!I've got an even simpler solution: I don't have a kitchen table.(Yeah, I'd folded them and left them out on the kitchen table yesterday, a near-never-happens event.)I have a simple solution to leaving clothing on kitchen table - I don't have free space on kitchen table (electric oven and electric stand on it, though I might move oven back to its resting place nearby, not today because I am going to use it in a moment, when I take a break for making a dinner).
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I think you'll like it, even though it frustratingly doesn't do some things as well as Fallout 4 (e.g., settlement building and management). It's really easy to build your own head canon in the game, andEek... is it as tied into the story as it is in Fallout 4? That was pretty much my least-favorite part of the game, alongside the mild motion sickness.
Nope - settlement making is entirely optional and can be avoided entirely.
I'm constantly doing random things because it fits the story in my head.AKA why I keep playing Skyrim and Morrowind over and over again...
The NG+ mechanic also feeds into it as well (though I'm reluctant to say more lest I spoil).
I'm not going to say Starfield is better than Fallout 4 (or even Skyrim). But it scratches the same itch.
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DM: "All right, introduce yourselves."
Barbarian:
Iron Gods is off to a good start.
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I'm making a traditional Swedish meatball Mid-Summers dinner:
Swedish meatballs
Mashed potatoes
Green bean casserole
Rice Pudding
Pies (strawberry rhubarb, pumpkin, cherry, buttermilk chess).
I'm making a traditional Swedish meatball Mid-Summers dinner:
Swedish meatballs
Mashed potatoes
Green bean casserole
Rice Pudding
Pies (strawberry rhubarb, pumpkin, cherry, buttermilk chess).
I literally made all of that for Christmas.
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I took Hermione for her fitting appointment for her first pair of pointe shoes this afternoon.
The fitting took SEVENTY FIVE MINUTES. We went through box after box after box, different makers, different styles, to find the right shoe for her very narrow foot.
She starts beginning pointe technique classes next Monday. It's taken her nine years to get this far. She's over the moon with excitement, largely because she doesn't realize yet just how much her feet are going to hurt.
I never got to do this. I spent the same number of years preparing to get there, and just as I was ready for pointe, we moved across the country to a town where the nearest ballet school was over an hour away.
Living vicariously through my daughter? You betcha. But she wants it more than I did and is better than I was.
DM: "All right, introduce yourselves."
Barbarian:Iron Gods is off to a good start.
does he have the conspiracy theory board?
I literally made all of that for Christmas.I'm making a traditional Swedish meatball Mid-Summers dinner:
Swedish meatballs
Mashed potatoes
Green bean casserole
Rice Pudding
Pies (strawberry rhubarb, pumpkin, cherry, buttermilk chess).
Excellent, now I have two houses to break into, at two different times of year. Yay!
I took Hermione for her fitting appointment for her first pair of pointe shoes this afternoon.
The fitting took SEVENTY FIVE MINUTES. We went through box after box after box, different makers, different styles, to find the right shoe for her very narrow foot.
She starts beginning pointe technique classes next Monday. It's taken her nine years to get this far. She's over the moon with excitement, largely because she doesn't realize yet just how much her feet are going to hurt.
I never got to do this. I spent the same number of years preparing to get there, and just as I was ready for pointe, we moved across the country to a town where the nearest ballet school was over an hour away.
Living vicariously through my daughter? You betcha. But she wants it more than I did and is better than I was.
I am discovering more and more of my female friends did pointe and ballet long before I ever met them.
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I think you'll like it, even though it frustratingly doesn't do some things as well as Fallout 4 (e.g., settlement building and management). It's really easy to build your own head canon in the game, andEek... is it as tied into the story as it is in Fallout 4? That was pretty much my least-favorite part of the game, alongside the mild motion sickness.
Re: Fallout 4: Argh, it drives me crazy when people say this (and hello! It's nice to see you). The settlement building is not tied to the main quest at all. The first quests you're given in the game are a skippable tutorial, but they don't tell you that. You can actually blow right past Concord and never find the Minutemen (or say no to them once you help them, or say yes but still walk away) and then go on to do the main quest (there are several ways you can pick it up in the game) and not miss anything important story wise.
You can also skip past them, and at a later point in the main quest another NPC will tell you "hey, in case you don't like working with the Brotherhood or the Railroad, you might try looking for the Minutemen in Concord," so you can then seek them out and it's at a point in the main quest that feels much better for your doing so. (But if you don't want to you don't have to and can just work with the other factions.) I have a feeling that's actually when you were SUPPOSED to go look for the Minutemen in an earlier iteration of the story, but they decided to put all that nonsense in Concord to make easy gameplay demos for marketing.
The only necessity for building in the main quest is the "build a teleporter" quest, and the two non-settlement-based factions will give you a base of operations where you can build it that has no other settlement support factors.
My general recommendation to folks playing Fallout 4 is don't do the opening tutorial section and head straight for Diamond City (stopping and doing any sidequests on the way if desired). You know Diamond City exists because you get its radiocast as soon as you step out of the vault, and the DJ sounds harmless, so you can surmise it's a safe place to go, so there's a perfectly good in-story reason to head there without anyone telling you too. You'll still find and unlock many settlements if you want to so you have safe bases of operations, but you won't get bombarded with "another settlement needs your help."
Then, if you don't want to side with Brotherhood, Railroad, or Institute, get the Minutemen later when the other NPCs tell you to and do just enough to get the Castle etc. Or otherwise, leave them in Concord until you complete the main quest entirely, and then go get the Minutemen once you've finished the main story and use the Minutemen gameplay as a post-quest goal to rebuild the Commonwealth. Since you've probably taken a bunch of settlements already it'll be easy to fast forward to the interesting parts of their plot, and Preston can go stick his thumb up his backside.
Also, I don't understand people who play games like Skyrim and Morrowind and who thus know you don't have to do what the quest markers tell you treat Fallout 4 differently. You also still don't have to do what the quest markers tell you. Just go and do what makes sense.
There's a little more settlement building tied into Far Harbor IF you want to help the Harbormen, but it doesn't need to be a huge part of your life then either.
Oh: PS: I get motion sick from almost all 1st person games. Fallout 4 actually plays extremely well in 3rd person, and that eliminates the problem. You occasionally need to go into 1st person to pick something close to you off the ground or something, but the 3rd person gameplay is surprisingly good.
I know you were asking about Starfield but, sorry, just need to bust that weird misconception. (And I've not played Starfield, so I've no idea about that one. I saw some streamers play and it wasn't quite doing it for me.)
</nerdrant> Back to your regularly scheduled socializing. I will go back to my cave now.
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For the first and hopefully not the last time in my life, I have woken up in Seattle.
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Speaking of Seattle, seniority has its privileges.
I just got assigned a "How to run effective meetings" all-day workshop on June 21, when I'm already scheduled to be visiting my mother in Seattle.
My immediate reaction is, "Anyone who needs a full day to tell you how to run effective meetings doesn't know what the **** they're talking about."
My secondary reaction is, "And I'm not going to go, so they can deal with it."
Nice to have been working here long enough that they can assign me a mandatory, "You MUST attend this training," workshop and I can just ignore it and say, "Try again next year."
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Speaking of Seattle, seniority has its privileges.
I just got assigned a "How to run effective meetings" all-day workshop on June 21, when I'm already scheduled to be visiting my mother in Seattle.
My immediate reaction is, "Anyone who needs a full day to tell you how to run effective meetings doesn't know what the **** they're talking about."
My secondary reaction is, "And I'm not going to go, so they can deal with it."
Nice to have been working here long enough that they can assign me a mandatory, "You MUST attend this training," workshop and I can just ignore it and say, "Try again next year."
Maybe they work on the principle of showing What-Not-To-Do?
For the first and hopefully not the last time in my life, I have woken up in Seattle.
Are you staying at Stoker's Coffin Motel? I hear that place is nice and cheap, chummer.
Speaking of Seattle, seniority has its privileges.
I just got assigned a "How to run effective meetings" all-day workshop on June 21, when I'm already scheduled to be visiting my mother in Seattle.
My immediate reaction is, "Anyone who needs a full day to tell you how to run effective meetings doesn't know what the **** they're talking about."
My secondary reaction is, "And I'm not going to go, so they can deal with it."
Nice to have been working here long enough that they can assign me a mandatory, "You MUST attend this training," workshop and I can just ignore it and say, "Try again next year."
How is she doing?
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How is she doing?Speaking of Seattle, seniority has its privileges.
I just got assigned a "How to run effective meetings" all-day workshop on June 21, when I'm already scheduled to be visiting my mother in Seattle.
My immediate reaction is, "Anyone who needs a full day to tell you how to run effective meetings doesn't know what the **** they're talking about."
My secondary reaction is, "And I'm not going to go, so they can deal with it."
Nice to have been working here long enough that they can assign me a mandatory, "You MUST attend this training," workshop and I can just ignore it and say, "Try again next year."
Lots of frustrating/entertaining news, but long story short she's being released from her current full-care facility back to her assisted living facility today, and apparently they're also removing the staples from her scalp wound. Which makes it clear that the "bump on the head" they described was actually far worse than they made it out to be. But as usual, U.S. health care is the big news because Medicare decided not to pay for any of her stay at the full-care facility so we're out ten grand for the month. So classic U.S. elder care: "You must put her in this facility because no one else will take her, so your only other choice is home care."
"Oh, you chose the facility option? Sorry, your insurance won't pay for that because they didn't deem it 'necessary' so that's out-of-pocket for you."However, our in-law's favorite WWII vet decided to do my mother one better. He was admitted to hospice last year at 102. He's improved so much that they kicked him out of hospice because he wasn't likely to die soon enough. So at 103 he's finding himself an apartment.
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I actually abandoned Starfield - and I loved Skyrim and Fallout 4. It was just too hokey and bland for me. I wanted to like it.
I want to rage and tell you you're wrong and it's the best thing since sliced bread, but...
The game is seriously janky and a hot mess. And yet, I'll dump hours into it.
My favorite thing I did that wasn't appreciated by the game was to romance and marry Sam. Then, I wanted to see if I could marry someone else. So I romanced Andreja and asked her to marry. She said I had to break things off with Sam, so I went to him, chose the most hurtful dialogue options possible, and told him it was off. To really rub salt in the wound, I then slept with Andreja on a really small ship with Sam and his daughter on board. For like a full week. He started out angry at me and wouldn't be a follower, but by the end of the week, he had gotten over it and was neutral towards me.
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I just got assigned a "How to run effective meetings" all-day workshop...
My immediate reaction was, "Anyone who needs a full day to tell you how to run effective meetings doesn't know what the **** they're talking about."
Apparently my seething rage was so palpable that whoever assigned me the class felt it. I was assigned the class on Wednesday at 8:13 pm, found out about it this morning at 6:02 am, and was removed from it at 7:22 am.
My manager thinks it's because I have a "name imposter" at the company (someone with almost the exact same name), but I prefer to believe my rage waves floated across the aether and made them change their minds...
RE: Fallout 4: DQ is absolutely correct about everything I've actually gotten super fat into the game without developing a single settlement except for the Red Rocket gas station for crafting purposes (I love modding weapons and armor).
As long as far as crafting goes, the game with the absolute best weapon crafting system is Biomutant.
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Agreed that the only time FO4 requires anything relating to settlement building is the teleportation chamber. I've always accomplished that through a settlement, and didn't realize it could be built on another faction's turf (I thought the other factions gifted you with a settlement and then you had to build there).
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Sometimes gaming "coincidences" are side-splitting to me.
Shiro asked me to be in his Wednesday night games, where he's been running an old-school D&D module (Tomb of Annihilation) that's been converted to 5e. He handed me a fairy grave cleric NPC he'd created to keep the party alive, so I've been playing her the way I play all small fey: Utterly devoid of any shame or thought of consequences.
She crushed the competition not by multiple squares but my multiple turns.
This morning Shiro confessed to me that I'd pretty much min-maxed the system: The velociraptor has a tiny carrying capacity, but my naked 30-pound butt was well within it. The raptor is lightning-fast, but if you ever use the whip on it (the whip I didn't have), you lose two turns because it refuses to run.
So my fairy enjoyed getting to race buck naked through the city on the back of a velociraptor, and is now legend as The Blue Streak, fastest dinosaur rider in decades. (My rolls didn't hurt either, and on the 50-odd-square track I was 4 squares short of a perfect finish.)
Is Hermione a real person or J.K. Rowling fan-fiction character?
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Speaking of "things never said by employees", I took a couple of sick hours on Tuesday afternoon and thought I was better, but this afternoon I'm back over 99°F, which is when I start pondering taking sick time...
...except we just got the announcement that it's time for our annual compliance training so I can spend the afternoon "productively" watching insultingly simplistic required training.
I exclaimed to GothBard, "Yay! I can take global compliance training!"
Which I realized has probably never been uttered by an employee before...
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Yes. But. You could spread your virus like a chinese fighter pilot to your coworkers[1].
Ash:
Maybe. Just maybe my boys can protect the book. Yeah, and maybe I'm a Chinese jet pilot.
"Evil Dead" (1993)
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Yes. But. You could spread your virus like a chinese fighter pilot to your coworkers[1].
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"That would be a neat trick." Beverly Hills Cop, 1984.
I've been fully remote since 2008, and when they tried to make me return to the office in 2022 post-COVID I pointed out that my closest co-worker is just under 2,000 miles away and the distances rapidly get stupider (two of my team members are 9,000 miles away). So exactly why was I going in to do remote work in an office they had to pay for?I got the exception approved.
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I just got assigned a "How to run effective meetings" all-day workshop...
My immediate reaction was, "Anyone who needs a full day to tell you how to run effective meetings doesn't know what the **** they're talking about."
Apparently my seething rage was so palpable that whoever assigned me the class felt it. I was assigned the class on Wednesday at 8:13 pm, found out about it this morning at 6:02 am, and was removed from it at 7:22 am.
My manager thinks it's because I have a "name imposter" at the company (someone with almost the exact same name),
Dr. Evil?
but I prefer to believe my rage waves floated across the aether and made them change their minds...
Dr. Evil.
Agreed that the only time FO4 requires anything relating to settlement building is the teleportation chamber. I've always accomplished that through a settlement, and didn't realize it could be built on another faction's turf (I thought the other factions gifted you with a settlement and then you had to build there).
The Brotherhood gives you space in the airport and the Railroad has you set up a safehouse. While both technically function under the settlement mechanics, you can't have settlers move in or raise food in the airport, and while you technically can at the safehouse, the only necessary mechanical thing you need to fulfil there is having an adequate defense rating. They also won't count as Minutemen territory if you are General, and I don't think they can be raided by the Nukaworld raiders (i.e., they don't consider them settlements either).
Likewise the "settlement" you get from the Automatron DLC is just a place for you to set up a place for yourself to sleep and build robots.
What I wanted out of Fallout 4 was Glory as a companion to travel with. There's probably a mod for that.
What I wanted out of Fallout 4 was Glory as a companion to travel with. There's probably a mod for that.
They sell AI girl friends now.
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I actually abandoned Starfield - and I loved Skyrim and Fallout 4. It was just too hokey and bland for me. I wanted to like it.I want to rage and tell you you're wrong and it's the best thing since sliced bread, but...
The game is seriously janky and a hot mess. And yet, I'll dump hours into it.
My favorite thing I did that wasn't appreciated by the game was to romance and marry Sam. Then, I wanted to see if I could marry someone else. So I romanced Andreja and asked her to marry. She said I had to break things off with Sam, so I went to him, chose the most hurtful dialogue options possible, and told him it was off. To really rub salt in the wound, I then slept with Andreja on a really small ship with Sam and his daughter on board. For like a full week. He started out angry at me and wouldn't be a follower, but by the end of the week, he had gotten over it and was neutral towards me.
The things that got to me the most:
1. The NPC animations and dialogue. I mean, I know Bethesda dialogue can be hokey, but Starfield felt like a new low. And the animations feel like they reverted to Oblivion.
2. I’m a completionist. I like to do all the side quests. New Atlantis broke me. So. Much. Filler.
If anyone reading this tries Starfield, do yourself a favor. Spend as little time in New Atlantis as you possibly can
So they're teaching my 5th grade niece to do basic graphing algebra.
They've just started
The problems have FRACTIONS. You have to add , subtract, multiply and divide mixed numbers in multiple steps.
how the )#*(#$ are they supposed to convey the idea of an equation (which they've renamed a rule just to make sure the parents are lost) when you're stuck fiddling with fractions for a page and a half?
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We have that x1=0
, y1=14, x2=1, y2=32
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Plug the given values into the formula for slope: m=(3/2)−(1/4)(1)−(0)=5/4 1=54
(as a human doing this without a calculator insert at least 3 more steps here)
Now, the y-intercept is b=y1−m⋅x1
(or b=y2−m⋅x2
, the result is the same).
b=1/4−(5/4)⋅(0)=1/4
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Finally, the equation of the line can be written in the form y=mx+b
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y=5/4x+1/4
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I use a measuring tape,colored pencils, crayons, and a laser for most of my math. And spray paint.
Which, to be honest, is a better selling point for learning math rather then "you'll end up using it every day, but I'm not going to tell you how..."
Is Hermione a real person or J.K. Rowling fan-fiction character?
My nickname for my thirteen year old daughter on the boards. My son is Teensy Valeros, my husband is WW (short for Whingey Wizzard, NobodysHome named him when we used to game together).
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So they're teaching my 5th grade niece to do basic graphing algebra.
They've just started
The problems have FRACTIONS. You have to add , subtract, multiply and divide mixed numbers in multiple steps.
how the )#*(#$ are they supposed to convey the idea of an equation (which they've renamed a rule just to make sure the parents are lost) when you're stuck fiddling with fractions for a page and a half?
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Be honest, did you do that just to torture Freehold? If so, you get cookies.
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So they're teaching my 5th grade niece to do basic graphing algebra.
They've just started
The problems have FRACTIONS. You have to add , subtract, multiply and divide mixed numbers in multiple steps.
how the )#*(#$ are they supposed to convey the idea of an equation (which they've renamed a rule just to make sure the parents are lost) when you're stuck fiddling with fractions for a page and a half?
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Don't. Get. Me. Started.
Basic Learning Theory 101: When you are teaching a new concept, the first example should be so trivial that 90+% of students have no difficulty with it. Finding the line between (1, 3) and (2, 5) would be a good, solid example.
And it doesn't extend to fifth graders. Impus Minor had to drop out of integral calculus not because he didn't understand the higher-level concepts, but because the homework literally had answers at the level of 1793/217 that were graded as 100% right or 100% wrong, so over 75% of his time spent on homework was trying to simplify and combine massive fractions.
Which, given the advent of calculators in the 1970s, is a nigh-useless skill.
I'll argue on the importance of mathematics education 'til I'm blue in the face. But I won't even climb that hill, much less fight on it.
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We've discussed how timid California black bears are before, but this unfortunate story surprised even me -- apparently last year we had the first documented killing of a person by a black bear in California's history.
I was under the impression that we had one every couple of years as people did stupid things like get between a mother and her cubs or physically assault the bear (which hearsay evidence says was the case here). But several articles claim this is the first.
I am surprised.
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Be honest, did you do that just to torture Freehold? If so, you get cookies.
By why in the blazing H-E-double hockey sticks would someone inflict that on fifth graders?
not... just to torture freehold...
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RE: Fallout 4: DQ is absolutely correct about everything I've actually gotten super fat into the game without developing a single settlement except for the Red Rocket gas station for crafting purposes (I love modding weapons and armor).
As long as far as crafting goes, the game with the absolute best weapon crafting system is Biomutant.
I misread this as Fallout 4: DQ.
Now I am waiting for a DeathQuaker focused Fallout.
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2. I’m a completionist. I like to do all the side quests. New Atlantis broke me. So. Much. Filler.
In my most recent new games, I have gone to extraordinary lengths to avoid quests. I have to stay out of the three big settlements because you can't even walk to a shop without overhearing some dialogue and getting assigned a quest.
So they're teaching my 5th grade niece to do basic graphing algebra.
They've just started
The problems have FRACTIONS. You have to add , subtract, multiply and divide mixed numbers in multiple steps.
how the )#*(#$ are they supposed to convey the idea of an equation (which they've renamed a rule just to make sure the parents are lost) when you're stuck fiddling with fractions for a page and a half?
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