*guy is playing Pokémon ZA*
"Wow, look at those hoops. Guess Pokémon still doesn't have the polygons to render actual circles."
I haven't been able to get the DLC yet ;_;
On the other hand, it does mean I'm not distracted from finally playing Expedition 33.
ACK! Caught mid-outfit change!
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I never thought my driveway was that big, but it sure seemed huge as I cleared 9" of snow off it in sub-zero (Fahrenheit) temps. Surprisingly, it only took 45 minutes (it was light and powdery, not wet and heavy).
I'm sure captain yesterday could have cleared it with a fart without even opening his truck's door.
That sounds like the kind of thing people used to say about Chuck Norris.
FaWtLites don't need Chuck Norris.
We've got the captain.
His action figure comes with three boulders, a pie, a giant doobie, a skid loader, and a shaved bear.
I never thought my driveway was that big, but it sure seemed huge as I cleared 9" of snow off it in sub-zero (Fahrenheit) temps. Surprisingly, it only took 45 minutes (it was light and powdery, not wet and heavy).
I'm sure captain yesterday could have cleared it with a fart without even opening his truck's door.
That sounds like the kind of thing people used to say about Chuck Norris.
FaWtLites don't need Chuck Norris.
We've got the captain.His action figure comes with three boulders, a pie, a giant doobie, a skid loader, and a shaved bear.
...what kind of pie?
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I regret/am happy to report that the kitty exercise wheel may be the third-best cat item we've ever bought (behind our two well-loved cat trees).
Mephisto finally realized that he can release all his frustration on it. Can't get Nefret's food? Run on the wheel. Brought inside too early? Run on the wheel. NobodysHome is up but it's dark outside so you can't go out? Run on the wheel.
We even got Morrigan and Mephisto running on the wheel in tandem for a few seconds, though yes, cats, so they quickly got out of sync and Morrigan went flying off the wheel. Much to her delight.
If Impus Major works really hard, Lenore will walk a few feet on the wheel, just to please him. But she does not see the point in moving other than to get food, warmth, or love.
...what kind of pie?I never thought my driveway was that big, but it sure seemed huge as I cleared 9" of snow off it in sub-zero (Fahrenheit) temps. Surprisingly, it only took 45 minutes (it was light and powdery, not wet and heavy).
I'm sure captain yesterday could have cleared it with a fart without even opening his truck's door.
That sounds like the kind of thing people used to say about Chuck Norris.
FaWtLites don't need Chuck Norris.
We've got the captain.His action figure comes with three boulders, a pie, a giant doobie, a skid loader, and a shaved bear.
I'm assuming chess. Isn't that one of his specialties?
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Yesterday we finally got the tree up and the house decorated. Yay.
Today, @#$%ing Nutcracker finally wraps.
(Curses in Ballet Mom)
Four and a half more days of school.
Our faculty holiday luncheon this year is being catered--for free--by the restaurant owned by the father of one of my most difficult students (the one who like to throw food and tantrums and is always calling me a penis).
Sigh.
It's nice when they understand their kid is difficult and want to make up for it.
It would be nicer if they would actually, you know, set some boundaries and parent them.
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Our faculty holiday luncheon this year is being catered--for free--by the restaurant owned by the father of one of my most difficult students (the one who like to throw food and tantrums and is always calling me a penis.
I am so sorry you have a difficult student.
Your only difficult student should be Young Freehold, who will attend your classes via time machine, with flattop, faint whisp of mustache(I have had once since I was a little boy), and huge, large, eager intellect.
What? I thought I knew everything as a kid. What did you think I was going to say?
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I regret/am happy to report that the kitty exercise wheel may be the third-best cat item we've ever bought (behind our two well-loved cat trees).
Mephisto finally realized that he can release all his frustration on it. Can't get Nefret's food? Run on the wheel. Brought inside too early? Run on the wheel. NobodysHome is up but it's dark outside so you can't go out? Run on the wheel.
We even got Morrigan and Mephisto running on the wheel in tandem for a few seconds, though yes, cats, so they quickly got out of sync and Morrigan went flying off the wheel. Much to her delight.
If Impus Major works really hard, Lenore will walk a few feet on the wheel, just to please him. But she does not see the point in moving other than to get food, warmth, or love.
I will now refer to Mephisto as Furry Freehold.
GO FURRY FREEHOLD! TAKE THE FRUSTRATIONS OUT ON THE WHEEL!
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He is in Wisconsin, so the "pie" could be beer cheese soup in a breadbowl "crust". Possibly with tater tots on top.I'm assuming chess. Isn't that one of his specialties?...what kind of pie?I never thought my driveway was that big, but it sure seemed huge as I cleared 9" of snow off it in sub-zero (Fahrenheit) temps. Surprisingly, it only took 45 minutes (it was light and powdery, not wet and heavy).
I'm sure captain yesterday could have cleared it with a fart without even opening his truck's door.
That sounds like the kind of thing people used to say about Chuck Norris.
FaWtLites don't need Chuck Norris.
We've got the captain.His action figure comes with three boulders, a pie, a giant doobie, a skid loader, and a shaved bear.
....lets do this, CY
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Moo... Moo, I say!
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...what kind of pie?I never thought my driveway was that big, but it sure seemed huge as I cleared 9" of snow off it in sub-zero (Fahrenheit) temps. Surprisingly, it only took 45 minutes (it was light and powdery, not wet and heavy).
I'm sure captain yesterday could have cleared it with a fart without even opening his truck's door.
That sounds like the kind of thing people used to say about Chuck Norris.
FaWtLites don't need Chuck Norris.
We've got the captain.His action figure comes with three boulders, a pie, a giant doobie, a skid loader, and a shaved bear.
Pumpkin or chess.
Also, you forgot the Stihl 420 (#4) chop saw with my name on it.
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I never thought my driveway was that big, but it sure seemed huge as I cleared 9" of snow off it in sub-zero (Fahrenheit) temps. Surprisingly, it only took 45 minutes (it was light and powdery, not wet and heavy).
I'm sure captain yesterday could have cleared it with a fart without even opening his truck's door.
That sounds like the kind of thing people used to say about Chuck Norris.
FaWtLites don't need Chuck Norris.
We've got the captain.His action figure comes with three boulders, a pie, a giant doobie, a skid loader, and a shaved bear.
Also, not to brag, but I am considerably more liberal than Chuck Norris.
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Maybe I'm just getting reflective since I'm 40 now or maybe it's because it's getting to be the end of what's been a very big year for me, but I feel like it's a good time to say how much I've appreciated FAWTL being a part of my life.
I joined the community in 2008 to get advice on running and modifying Savage Tide, and somehow managed to meander my way over here and get wrapped up in this community. It's been just shy of 20 years that FAWTL has, on and off, been a place to call home.
There's only one other community I've managed to stay in anywhere near that long, that being the Neverwinter Nights server I play on and DM for, which I joined in 2006. All the other communities I was part of in the late aughts either have broken up, I left of my own accord or was kicked out, or simply ceased to exist as the nature of the internet has waxed and waned.
Faces have come and gone here, some I miss and some I don't, I won't name names on the latter but the former include people like Kajehase, Jess, Treppa, Sharoth, Lynora, Taig/Mike/Badger, and others you can see nearly omnipresent in the first few pages of this very thread. Some like Kirth Girsen and our beloved Postmonster have passed on. Others simply have gone their separate ways across the vast internet, or just stay offline for their entertainment instead. Some we know about, some we don't. (Mostly because some of us are interconnected on Facebook, Discord, etc. and others aren't.)
(Funny enough, looking through the thread, I was absent for a hefty chunk of the beginning, to the point people were asking about where I'd gotten to and trying to track me down on Facebook, etc. I was basically absent throughout 2011 when the thread was started and showed back up in 2012. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But then again I did take a year-and-change break from the NWN server I was on at the time a bit before that time, which I mostly spent playing WoW and being unemployed. So maybe it's just a trend with me.)
It's been a wild and crazy couple of decades, and I certainly would not be the same person without FAWTL's influence, at least some of the way. I think FAWTL was the first place I interacted with openly-LGBT people on the regular, as a lot of the LGBT people in our NWN community weren't comfortable being openly so until closer to the 2012-2015 age as it was very much still a "straight white boys' gamer club" for a lot of the aughts (thankfully a sentiment that has noticeably faded some in the years since). These interactions were foundational in breaking down the bigotries and tribalism I'd been raised in, and a huge stepping stone to understanding and discovering myself in the process.
I don't think almost anyone would look back at my posts in 2008 through 2012-ish, especially in the politics threads that were allowed back then, and think that person would end up becoming the person I am today. It's kinda baffling and a bit embarrassing in hindsight.
At this point I think I'm just rambling so I'll just wrap this up. Thanks for being here, FAWTL, and here's to this place being the community it is for as long as Paizo will let it stand. Maybe we'll hit another twenty years together someday.
Did... Did he they just call us old?!!
Edit: My bad!
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"He" is the one pronoun I prefer not used for me ;D
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I swear, as if I couldn't think any less of Facebook.
Today's scam:
(1) GothBard got a series of email notifications that someone was trying to change her Facebook password.
(2) Being a reasonable person, she went directly to Facebook and signed in. She didn't click a single link because she knows better.
(3) On signing in, she got a pop-up from Facebook Security that suspicious activity had been detected on her account. Since she uses AdBlock, there was no reason in the world for her to suspect the notification was fraudulent. She had been getting suspicious activity, and the notification was a perfect copy of a real Facebook notification.
(4) So of course, clicking "Dismiss" on the notification brought up a screen-locking, obviously fake and stupid page stating that Windows Defender had disabled her machine due to "fraudulent Facebook activity" and she should call an 800 number to unlock her machine.
And it's just so classic Facebook: "Oh, someone's feeding AdBlock-dodging pop-ups that exactly mimic our notifications and try to scam users? Not our problem! Let the buyer beware!"
One NoScript login later and GothBard's Facebook account has been deleted.
I swear, Facebook...
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I find it sad and amusing that I've started referring to Morrigan as "Lil' Screamer" and nobody's even batted an eye or asked, "Who?"
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just call us old?!!
Someone recognized one of my characters online and said they were a part of their core memory from childhood. Both flattered and feeling old...
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OK. I think we have now moved on to "bats**t crazy cat owners".
Mephisto and Morrigan love the wheel. They love it even more if *we* spin it for them. Morrigan will come in, sit on the wheel, and scream at me 'til I spin it. Once it's going, she'll happily toodle along.
So, what happens?
- GothBard jokingly suggests adding a little motor to the wheel with a cat-pushable button so they can spin themselves.
- NobodysHome realizes it's an incredibly easy project and suggests it to Impus Minor.
- Impus Minor loves the idea and thinks he'll take care of it over break.
Yep. We may be building our cats their own motorized wheel.
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You are definitely doing it wrong. The cats should produce power for you in that wheel, not you powering the wheel for them...
Sheesh...
I officially achieved a badge of hopeless (computer) gaming nerd.
Yup. I have finished Dark Souls 1 (Remastered) , thus completing the whole trillogy.
The final boss was a study in tediousness and frustration... I have been at the very end for two or three days. Trying to parry him was annoying and unreliable. I ended putting on the heaviest armor, casting iron flesh and face-tanked his attacks while trying to get those parries and counterstrikes.
His animations where great looking but hit boxes and timing were terrible for me. Allegedly parrying and riposting him is the "Easy" way of defeating him. I could have tried the more conventional attacks and dodging but his reach and ability to leap to you ignoring obstacles 80% off time wasn't exactly promising a fair fight either.
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Maybe I'm just getting reflective since I'm 40 now or maybe it's because it's getting to be the end of what's been a very big year for me, but I feel like it's a good time to say how much I've appreciated FAWTL being a part of my life.
I joined the community in 2008 to get advice on running and modifying Savage Tide, and somehow managed to meander my way over here and get wrapped up in this community. It's been just shy of 20 years that FAWTL has, on and off, been a place to call home.
There's only one other community I've managed to stay in anywhere near that long, that being the Neverwinter Nights server I play on and DM for, which I joined in 2006. All the other communities I was part of in the late aughts either have broken up, I left of my own accord or was kicked out, or simply ceased to exist as the nature of the internet has waxed and waned.
Faces have come and gone here, some I miss and some I don't, I won't name names on the latter but the former include people like Kajehase, Jess, Treppa, Sharoth, Lynora, Taig/Mike/Badger, and others you can see nearly omnipresent in the first few pages of this very thread. Some like Kirth Girsen and our beloved Postmonster have passed on. Others simply have gone their separate ways across the vast internet, or just stay offline for their entertainment instead. Some we know about, some we don't. (Mostly because some of us are interconnected on Facebook, Discord, etc. and others aren't.)
(Funny enough, looking through the thread, I was absent for a hefty chunk of the beginning, to the point people were asking about where I'd gotten to and trying to track me down on Facebook, etc. I was basically absent throughout 2011 when the thread was started and showed back up in 2012. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But then again I did take a year-and-change break from the NWN server I was on at the time a bit before that time, which I mostly spent playing WoW and being unemployed. So maybe it's just a trend with me.)
It's been a wild and crazy couple of decades, and I...
I'm glad you're here.
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I swear, as if I couldn't think any less of Facebook.
Today's scam:
(1) GothBard got a series of email notifications that someone was trying to change her Facebook password.
(2) Being a reasonable person, she went directly to Facebook and signed in. She didn't click a single link because she knows better.
(3) On signing in, she got a pop-up from Facebook Security that suspicious activity had been detected on her account. Since she uses AdBlock, there was no reason in the world for her to suspect the notification was fraudulent. She had been getting suspicious activity, and the notification was a perfect copy of a real Facebook notification.
(4) So of course, clicking "Dismiss" on the notification brought up a screen-locking, obviously fake and stupid page stating that Windows Defender had disabled her machine due to "fraudulent Facebook activity" and she should call an 800 number to unlock her machine.And it's just so classic Facebook: "Oh, someone's feeding AdBlock-dodging pop-ups that exactly mimic our notifications and try to scam users? Not our problem! Let the buyer beware!"
One NoScript login later and GothBard's Facebook account has been deleted.
I swear, Facebook...
I would normally celebrate this but it seems GothBard is attached to her account.
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...I would normally celebrate this but it seems GothBard is attached to her account.
Let me disavow you of that notion. She's ignored the account for years, but when she started getting messages about password resets she decided to delete it, THEN ran into the scam nonsense.
It did not make her less happy to delete her account.
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You are definitely doing it wrong. The cats should produce power for you in that wheel, not you powering the wheel for them...
Sheesh...
Cats would never do anything to benefit someone else so they'd never fall for it, as soon as it's hooked up they'd immediately stop using it. But not until AFTER you've spent an obnoxious amount of money or time trying to make it happen.
And just for funsies, a pipe at work started leaking, so they had to shut off the hot water to the whole hotel late last night. It's still off, so pretty soon people are going to start waking up and trying to shower with cold water. I do not look forward to this.It's been fixed, but apparently the first plumbers they called said "Last time it took 4 months and us threatening to send it to a collection agency before you guys paid us. So if you want us now, you have to pay by credit card as soon as we finish." Instead, the owner found someone to do it. I don't even know if they are a licensed plumber, or just a guy who knows some stuff, but it's (currently) fixed.
Oh that is a bad sign.
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'Sup, FaWtLfolk?
Hello!
'Sup, FaWtLfolk?
Hiya! Long time no see :)
'Sup, FaWtLfolk?
o/
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It's petty and meaningless, but when I need to set up in the bedroom because Impus Minor has friends over (Fridays) or I'm sick enough to have to lie down all day (today), I break out the 42" "smart" TV that I use as a monitor. (You'd be surprised how hard it is to see print on a monitor just 6' away from you).
And every time I start it up, the TV whines at me. "I don't have an internet connection1 You haven't accepted any license agreements! Please do SOMETHING!"
And I change input to HDMI and continue using it as a glorified monitor. Which brings me satisfaction in two ways:
(1) My "mart" TV is not spying on me. With no cell phone signal here in the house and no network connectivity, the TV is effectively isolated from the world. I suppose it would have a GPS signal, but "this TV is being used at this address" isn't exactly useful data; you could get that from the shipping address on the order.
(2 I keep thinking, "Brain the size of a planet, and I'm just a glorified monitor". Yep.
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'Sup, FaWtLfolk?Hiya! Long time no see :)
Yeah, if I keep my current trend with my appearances here, I won't be seen again until like 2030. :p
Unfortunately, I find myself at a low point, but I'm trying to stay positive. The past few years have been a roller coaster, and my current situation is my fault. The short recap of my life since I was last active here is I lost my grandparents, finally got a game I'd been planning in my head for 15 years off the ground, landed a high paying job back home that led to the abandonment of said game and moving my family across the country, found out I have severe hypertension, quickly became one of my boss's most trusted workers, and got into 3D printing. Everything was great until a few months ago when a "friend" of my wife came to stay with us "temporarily". I'll not go into details other than after 3 months of being lied to and having my hospitality abused, I lost my temper lashed out (nobody was seriously hurt). I turned myself in and was stuck in jail for a few days awaiting bail. As a result, I lost my job, and haven't seen my wife and daughter in 4 months. I'm probably going to wind up getting a divorce. My wife sided with her "friend" through all of it, until they came clean weeks later and admitted they weren't looking for their own place. As far as my legal situation, I have to check in with the bondsman and court once a week and have no idea when anything will be resolved. I'm also not allowed to have alcohol even though there was no alcohol involved in the incident. I don't drink often, but I do miss being able to have a drink on occasion.
I want to emphasize, I am not looking for a pity party. I fully acknowledge that my current situation is of my own making.
What I do have going for me is my parents were willing to help me out and let me move back in. They haven't been pressuring me to hurry in my job search and have said I can stay for as long as I want. They have been wonderful support to me through this, and grateful to have my help around the house. I've been able to do some things for them that my dad has been putting off for years. I'm admittedly haven't been really trying to find a job. At first, it was due to depression about my situation, but right now its just because we're so close to Christmas and I don't want to suddenly not be able to attend the family gatherings. Plan to really get on the hunt in a couple of weeks.
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Wow. Whether or not of your own making, that still sucks.
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On a lighter note, I forgot just how much having an intelligent cat is a blessing and a curse. Morrigan has figured out how to open all the ornament boxes, goes through them, finds the "most fun" ones, and brings them to her friends. She's also learned to pull them off the tree, no maatter how far onto the branches they go. So little gold baskets, ornaments with belts, and OMG a poor felt reindeer have all garnered her interest and been sacrificed to the Black Death. I think she enjoys watching him eviscerate things.
I don't even know if they are a licensed plumber, or just a guy who knows some stuff, but it's (currently) fixed.
Anyone should be able to just slap a sharkbyte on a spare piece of pipe. they're more or less permanent even if they're a few bucks more expensive than soldering.
So, one of the things I've been doing with my copious amounts of free time is watching Smallville. I've seen the first few seasons before, but I believe I stopped somewhere in the middle of season 5. Something that never occurred to me before, is that Lex probably suffers from CTE after the numerous head injuries he suffered. Between that and the constant gaslighting, its no wonder he became a villain.
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'Sup, FaWtLfolk?Hiya! Long time no see :)Yeah, if I keep my current trend with my appearances here, I won't be seen again until like 2030. :p
Unfortunately, [terrible stuff happened]
Admitting your mistakes and taking responsibility goes a long way. It won't fix it, but you don't need me to tell you that.
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On a lighter note, I forgot just how much having an intelligent cat is a blessing and a curse. Morrigan has figured out how to open all the ornament boxes, goes through them, finds the "most fun" ones, and brings them to her friends. She's also learned to pull them off the tree, no maatter how far onto the branches they go. So little gold baskets, ornaments with belts, and OMG a poor felt reindeer have all garnered her interest and been sacrificed to the Black Death. I think she enjoys watching him eviscerate things.
Hey.
Thats Black Dynamite to you.
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Admitting your mistakes and taking responsibility goes a long way. It won't fix it, but you don't need me to tell you that.'Sup, FaWtLfolk?Hiya! Long time no see :)Yeah, if I keep my current trend with my appearances here, I won't be seen again until like 2030. :p
Unfortunately, [terrible stuff happened]
indeed.
That's a looooooooooooot to deal with in a short period of time.
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I swear.
(1) Corporations love layoffs. Every company I've ever worked for has conducted significant layoffs about once every three years.
(2) Another all-hands with hundreds of people, another presenter who didn't Mute All at the beginning of their presentation, another participant taking a call while on the meeting and drowning out the presenter.
And there are two people I'd flag for the next round of layoffs...
EDIT: OMG, just as I hit "Submit Post" a SECOND person started their own call. AFTER we all had to listen to the first person. For me, that's an immediate firing. You don't go out and try to one-up the last person who disrupted the meeting.
EDIT 2: And I'm not talking the people where their kid or their dog runs in and starts making noise and they take a second to mute themselves; I'm talking people who are sitting there with the mic right in front of their mouths conducting other business during the meeting and drowning out the rest of the presenters.