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And we have a clear loser: Nearly a month after Halloween, our candy bowl is a wasteland of virtually nothing but plain M&Ms.
GothBard put it well: "When your entire selling point is your chocolate, you really should try putting in some actual chocolate."
Plain M&Ms -- the Arby's of candy.
Against all expectations, our little lad has completely forgotten about the still half full bag of revolting sweets he collected at Halloween. He was worried about them going stale, but that's unlikely to happen much before the 40th Millenium rolls around.
Unexpected source of melancholy:
I picked one of the many YT music videos I have bookmarked to listen. It was a song that I found after hearing it in an ad... For a game that I have 0% interest in, and while listening to it, it made me feel wistful that such nice music is wasted for a multiplayer/PvP crap.
It would work fine in a game like Metal Gear Solid...
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I grew up on a dairy farm, and became a baker and then a landscaper.
Waking up at 4 AM is all I've ever known.
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That's okay, you can send them to me. I even enjoy Arby's.Believe it or not, you're the first person I've ever met, either online or in person, who willingly eats Arby's.
Add two more to that list, it's one of Scint and my go-tos for fast food.
And it begins...
Friend just got laid off two days before Thanksgiving.
Just like wearing white formals, layoffs should be illegal after Halloween.
Add two more to that list, it's one of Scint and my go-tos for fast food.That's okay, you can send them to me. I even enjoy Arby's.Believe it or not, you're the first person I've ever met, either online or in person, who willingly eats Arby's.
I like Arby's, in theory.
Unfortunately the ones we have around here are all filthy and the curly fries are never fresh.
You got a good, clean, Arby's and I'm all game however!
Look, I didn't say it was good. :PThat's okay, you can send them to me. I even enjoy Arby's.Believe it or not, you're the first person I've ever met, either online or in person, who willingly eats Arby's.
When I was a kid, my favorite fast food was the hot ham & cheese at Hardee's.
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Happy Thanksgiving, 'Merikuns!
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At this point Problem Player's character is throwing up enough red flags to line a parade route in Beijing.
He's already playing a shadar-kai, which, to paraphrase Freehold, is such an OP race that most reasonable people will walk away from a table where someone is playing one.
Then he made himself a warlock with the Undying pact. Another OP non-core build.
Today I was trying to add a language to my replacement character and learned that languages in 5e are hard, so I decided to look at that character since I knew they had the language. Problem Player locked that character. All other characters from all other players, including all of Problem Player's other characters, are visible; his shadar-kai build is the only locked character in the entire campaign.
And what does he do with this OP build? He plays just like Whingey Wizard did at his worst, except without the evil. In other words, "Hide all combat doing diddly-squat, then once the combat is almost over shoot the final bad guy and then pretend that you won the entire combat for everyone and saved the party."
Last night was the worst: My cleric was getting the crap shot out of her by a hidden assassin; the first hit took over half her hit points. The second dropped her to 1 hit point. What did Mr., "I can teleport as a bonus action and get damage resistance against all damage types" do?
He hid behind her.
Yes. Seriously.
He took no offensive actions. He did not attempt to locate the assassin, nor get into a better position so he might be able to see the assassin when I got shot. He hid. Behind. My. 1. HP. Cleric.
NobodysHome Did Not Approve -10.
The thing I noticed about fast food is that the food is pretty good when a branch first opens. Later, ( I’m not sure the exact time interval) the food degrades to fast food normal.
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When you die, you don't feel the pain, those around you do.
The same is true when you're stupid.
That's okay, you can send them to me. I even enjoy Arby's.
When you die, you don't feel the pain, those around you do.
The same is true when you're stupid.
I need this a bumper sticker for...reasons.
So.
Didn't post Thanksgiving wishes yesterday.
I take it out of the oven and enjoy a slice. Yum warm out of the oven. A little weird texture but still good.
I put it on the dining room table in a fancy bread basket.
My sister in law comes into the dining room after I leave, wanting to move the table so we can all fit around it.
She claims she forgot about the fact the table had a wing in the center, so the table expands instead of moves, and dumps the bread all over the floor.
I was... displeased.
Now I am getting questions all throughout the meal about why I am being so quiet.
Yeah. I'll skip the later squabbling. But this wasn't the world greatest Thanksgiving.
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So.
Didn't post Thanksgiving wishes yesterday.
** spoiler omitted **
Disappointing to be sure, and very deflating after putting in all that work, but man...accidents happen. Don't hold on to that one.
That bread did look good from the pictures you sent though.
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I did that with cupcakes once.
Embarrassing.
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Damn you steam!
I am not clicking on Sniper Elite 5 sale until the Tuesday evening, when the next Humble Choice is revealed...
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It's nice to have your opinion vindicated. I described the setup in our game to Impus Major, and I emphasized again and again that Problem Player had no way of knowing how many hit points I had left. So I asked him what he'd have done.
Answer 1: Since I get damage reduction after teleporting, I'd teleport in front of you to reduce both our damage.
Answer 2: I'd teleport out into the open so I had a good view of the entire area and try to spot the guy, figuring you could take care of yourself and I could take the hit.
Answer-ish 3: Um... I guess I could try to heal you, or get you indoors, or declare an action to shoot the guy when he popped up to shoot you...
Final Answer: OK. I give up. What did he do?
So he went defensive?
What the actual ****?
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am really considering saying passing to this pre-final fight (there is a True Final Boss after this one—yes, I was using guides—which consists of another, allegedly tedious and annoying boss, paired with an NPC that you interact with over the game...)
I gave Hellpoint a try today.
I was getting tired of that fight so I used up all the fearful effigies I had - items that reduce the difficulty by making the enemies weaker...
It worked, and after a few tries I did kill the Final (but not the Final True) Boss... Only to discover that I missed a crucial step along the way (either the necessary NPC glitched and didn't appear in the final section - apparently a know bug, OR I have failed a spot check to notice his dark apparel in one of the darker corners of final section) and got the second ending that did not involve the Final True Boss...
And now the game respawned me at the very start of NG+, and another NPC told me that I have to keep going until I finish his quest and get the final-final ending... Or not.
I might have used to manny fearful effigies... I run with the NG+ to see how powerful are enemies... And they die... A big lava demon died faster than it did in normal game (with baseline endgame-gear and level) so the difficulty increase of NG+ was definitely offset by the effigies with a spare to lower it even more.
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Wheee! I am invisible!
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First boss (that made me quit the first time)...
Vanquished (that's the word the game uses) in... Three? Four hits? I definitely overdid with the effigies.
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The holidays are truly upon us.
I ate an entire package of jaffa cakes for breakfast.
Not even sorry.
Eh, I think I am done with it. It's not like I can discover something new anyway. It would be just trying to hone a skill of defeating game that I have already finished.
I could try with some other weapons, but, meh... It's not like the weapons types are different in interesting and entertaining way, like they were in Nioh 2.
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Apparently your problem player never played dodge ball, NH. Because in dodge ball you learn to never hide behind another person. Because they dodge the ball and then it hits you.
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It's always fun when someone finds a Jerusalem cricket in the house, because they always come to the same conclusions:
(1) It's not dangerous to humans (correct).
(2) It's not native to this area (incorrect).
(3) It might be a termite or other wood-burrowing insect that's a danger to the house (incorrect).
They're just surprisingly large bugs that look like alien creatures that occasionally appear in the house.
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My favorite "WTF IS THAT" animal has to be the flying squirrels. They're nocturnal and REALLY shy around humans. So you almost never see them, no one knows what they look like. So when a "Crack kite" starts running around your house and springs out like a switch blade people think it must have escaped from the zoo.
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The holidays are truly upon us.
I ate an entire package of jaffa cakes for breakfast.
Not even sorry.
That is a remarkably easy thing to do with a packet of Jaffa cakes.
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Family.
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Fantasy NPC: The Ghost of The Singing Nanny
Haunting the castle for years since the Queen's untimely death...
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So my paladin in our current campaign has Divine Sense ("The presence of strong evil registers on your senses like a strong odor..."), and the rest of the party have started asking, "Talvi, do you smell anything?"
Today, just as someone asked the question, the GM's fall spice plug-in air freshener went off, and I said, "Oh my gods! Evil smells like Hobby Lobby!"
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That's a truth bomb.
I returned to playing The Surge... and I am actually enjoying it now...
Oh...
Oh, no...
No, no... No, nononoNO!
I have been infected... INFECTED with the SOULS-like VIRUS!
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"Oh my gods! Evil smells like Hobby Lobby!"
MY CRAFTBADGES!!
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So close to getting all tanks to 90... then I can get back to story finally....
All done and back on the plot!
And now apparently I'm going back in time again...
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I didn't realise Gully Dwarves actually existed, but they do, and they're here, in the pub, full nearly to overflowing.
So close to getting all tanks to 90... then I can get back to story finally....All done and back on the plot!
** spoiler omitted **
Now I'm doubly irritated we're on different data servers. Some of the instances you do during that postgame are truly amazing... the first couple of times, at least.
Not that I had to grind them weekly for a year to get my Wondrous Tails done or anything...
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So close to getting all tanks to 90... then I can get back to story finally....All done and back on the plot!
** spoiler omitted **
Now I'm doubly irritated we're on different data servers. Some of the instances you do during that postgame are truly amazing... the first couple of times, at least.
Not that I had to grind them weekly for a year to get my Wondrous Tails done or anything...
I'm really bad about remembering Wondrous Tales exist.
Or basically any side content but Golden Saucer, really. And even that only really Fashion Report and Cactpot.
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It's really pretty pathetic when marketing and executive mandates crash into reality in a burning, screaming, mess, yet no one above your pay grade seems capable of seeing the irony.
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Marketing: Our new user interface is so intuitive that documentation and training are a thing of the past!
Executive: Hear that, docs team? You are no longer to produce any guides, documentation, or end user training! Congratulations on your new roles as customer support personnel!
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Internal Ops: Dear employee, we are updating our payroll system to the new user interface. You are required to attend this hour-long mandatory training as to how to use the new user interface. Click here to register...
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Back at work.
You know it was bad when you are happy to be back at work after a vacation.
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*SIGH*. Still working on teaching the kids, "You have to expect everyone you ever come in contact with to fail to do their jobs. It's the nature of the world."
So Impus Major has a poster project due at school and he sent the print request to the local Office Depot for printing. A helpful staff member printed it, saw that it looked terrible, and called Impus Major to let him know. She then said, "I'll email you and you can send me the file directly."
90 minutes later, Impus Major was happily playing video games assuming that at some point she'd email him. I informed him that no, this would never happen, and he needed to call the store and take direct action.
A quick call to the store and yep. Nothing had been done on their side. The guy Impus Major spoke with said he'd take care of it. He didn't. Impus Major called again. Same guy. Now that Impus Major had called TWICE the guy actually sent him the email. Impus Major sent the image file, called the guy a third time and said, "OK, you should have it. If I don't hear from you in half an hour I'll call again to check in."
Finally, with all that badgering, the people at the Office Depot actually did their jobs and printed Impus Major's poster.
And yet I'm still making him leave the house half an hour early just in case the staff members at Office Depot messed something else up.
As I've said, it's why I'm not in management. I'd likely fire half my staff every single year because if I'm paying someone to do a job and they don't, I'd fire them. Yet most co-workers I've ever worked with fall into this category.
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Honestly, I teach it because I'm a history nerd, and it gives me the chance to talk about the Russian Revolution/rise of Stalin. That is the explicit parallel I draw every year.
I can't wait for what else happens every year. Pointing out that the animals are very insistent on being free while they are visibly not, and asking if they can think of a country that does that (like, y'know, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea). Every year, without fail, a kid says the US.
Combo breaker! They all went immediately to China. Well, Russia, and then I pointed out that we were kiiiiinda already talking about Russia since, well, USSR. Then China.
My neice won a goldfish at the fair, I finally saved enough to get it an aquarium so of course the fish died the night before it got here.
I'm looking at setting up this aquarium and I didn't do this much testing when I worked at a swimming pool. I wonder how we had any fish when you're supposed to do all this stuff. I just remember fish water filter go and we had some of those fair fish hit 10 years old.
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No-Context Theatre presents...
Please do not use my class to plan insurance fraud and wide-scale larceny.
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No-Context Theatre presents...
Please do not use my class to plan insurance fraud and wide-scale larceny.
Save that for Econ and Statistics.
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So, DVC was a terrible experience for both kids: Incompetent administration, unfathomable enrollment processes, a counseling department where not a single counselor ever once provided concrete guidance to either of the kids, and a staggering number of instructors who thought nothing of mountains of busywork (15+ hours of homework a week) or taking advantage of COVID-era measures to give exams on weekends or holidays.
-BUT-
Did the kids' DVC experience adequately prepare them for transferring to a 4-year school?
Impus Major's finishing his first semester with straight As, including an A so high that his professor is excusing him from taking the final (he's already at 101%). This after barely squeaking by with a C average for most of his DVC career.
So yes, DVC made a 4-year school seem easy by comparison. Not by competence or intent, but by such sheer incompetence and apathy that anything remotely structured is a godsend to the kids.
*SIGH*. It worked.
Save that for Econ and Statistics.No-Context Theatre presents...
Please do not use my class to plan insurance fraud and wide-scale larceny.
Warlocks and Wizards?
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Save that for Econ and Statistics.No-Context Theatre presents...
Please do not use my class to plan insurance fraud and wide-scale larceny.
Nooooo, I'm qualified to teach econ (and legitimately miss it).