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Didigetit??!!
EDIT: Woohoo! You're very welcome.
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Stupid g**@%!n f@!$ing rain...
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The Ersatz Russian's wife is working WozCon this weekend. She frequently gets the sought-after celebrity handler assignments, because she works hard and behaves like a professional.
And then she texts me to rub it in, because I SHOULD be working the con on her team this weekend, except I moved away.
So she texted a few moments ago that she's been escorting my girl crush around the con this evening.
Bad ersatz Russian wife.
Bad.
She should be escorting your girl crush TO you.
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So, Endgame was a pretty stupid movie, didn't really like it, reminds me of the second and third Hobbit movies.
If you have three hours of free time I recommend spending it on something else.
I enjoyed the ending.
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Stupid g+**$$n f&**ing rain...
It was supposed to be snow....
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I enjoyed the ending.So, Endgame was a pretty stupid movie, didn't really like it, reminds me of the second and third Hobbit movies.
If you have three hours of free time I recommend spending it on something else.
I actually enjoyed the movie.
I mean, I like most of the recent Marvel movies (especially the Guardians films, the Captain America films, the first Avengers, and Doc Strange, oh, and the first two Spiderman with Tobey Maguire... not so much the Iron Man 1 through 20). And I even enjoyed SHIELD, even though the writing and plot twists were uneven and sometimes head-scratchingly WTF. Mostly for Agent May.
But I liked the "return to New York" bits, and the new "smart Hulk" reminded me of the Ersatz Russian. And I loved the ending for Captain America and Falcon.
Oh, and it didn't have much Hawkeye. Which is a bonus.
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Up since 5. Did the accounts and the bills. Showered. worked on school stuff, because I can't stop working on school stuff, even when I don't have to.
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Tonight's Gaming Agenda:
Gang warfare on the streets of Ravnica!!
Wooo-hooooooooo!!
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Tonight's Gaming Agenda:
Gang warfare
:-D
on the streets of Ravinica
:-$
Wooo-hooooooooo
BOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Durst thou naysay the glory of Ravnican brawls and intrigue??!
Tut-tut, sir! I say: tut-tut!!!
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Today I did sword and dagger, rapier, then sword & cloak.
Now I'm queuing for the barbecue dressed as a musketeer, and have recieved my first (and probably last) complement on how well my arse looks in velvet britches.
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So my favorite locally-owned hardware store was having a 40% off sale on outdoor plants and soil today.
As we're waiting in line, Hermione notices the display of pocket knives.
H: "Mama! Look! Remember how Papa was saying I'm old enough to have a pocket knife of my own now?"
(WW has been saying this to Hermione for the past year. We don't agree.)
Me: "Yes, but Papa and I don't agree on that. We'll discuss it."
Farm Grandma Saleslady: "You know, I think you were having the same argument about pocket knives the last time you were in here."
Me: "It's possible, but we haven't been in here in a few months. I think the last time was when we were here with our Girl Scout troop selling cookies out front."
FGS: "Yes! That was it. You were arguing about it then and you're arguing about it now."
But she was smiling while she said it, because, well, Texas.
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If it helps, I think Hermione is ready.
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It heavily depends on on age, relative maturity, and (especially) culture (also personal choice - both of the child and of the parents).
I have absolutely zero qualms with pocket knives, but my eight-year-old doesn't actually have one... because:
-1) they aren't really a big thing around here
-2) my wife's family is reeeeaaaally nervous around such
My brother-in-law's wife and I both agree that it's extremely practical and we kiiiiiiiiinda wish our mutually-married-into-family were more okay with them, but, eh. We love 'em anyway!
And, really, they have their reasons for being nervous. Our mutual father-in-law was a diplomancer negotiator in the Miami-Dade police department for many years, and running into people with knives is... not a happy experience in his line of work.
Ultimately, it's a cultural thing, and a personal choice, and it's really going to come down to personal familial cultures. And that's a good thing!
Huzzah for family!
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If it helps, I think Hermione is ready.
You are not helping!
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So my favorite locally-owned hardware store was having a 40% off sale on outdoor plants and soil today.
As we're waiting in line, Hermione notices the display of pocket knives.
H: "Mama! Look! Remember how Papa was saying I'm old enough to have a pocket knife of my own now?"
(WW has been saying this to Hermione for the past year. We don't agree.)
Me: "Yes, but Papa and I don't agree on that. We'll discuss it."
Farm Grandma Saleslady: "You know, I think you were having the same argument about pocket knives the last time you were in here."
Me: "It's possible, but we haven't been in here in a few months. I think the last time was when we were here with our Girl Scout troop selling cookies out front."
FGS: "Yes! That was it. You were arguing about it then and you're arguing about it now."But she was smiling while she said it, because, well, Texas.
How old is she?
Maybe go for either a simple and a short one, or one that is more a set of tools than a knife (shouldn't that be suitable for a Scout anyway?)
And then find her something to do where a handy tools will be useful.
Also, make her understand that she is not supposed to bring that to school in the first place.
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I...have ideas...about blades...
And it's pretty extreme, by American standards.
And considered somewhat (*cough*) political due to American gun laws.
But here it is, spoilered.
The cops got the Dayton shooter in 30-60 seconds from the moment he opened fire. He killed 9 people and wounded I don't know how many. He may have found his way to a bladed weapon under my rule, but he wouldn't have killed nearly as many. I'm not so blind or nuts or drunk or unrealistic to believe that we'd have a utopia of no violence, so yes, a couple of people would be dead from his actions. People are still people, and he could have killed one person with the string I really don't trust people with.
I mean, seriously speaking here, I don't trust most people with string. I'm conceding that people can have bladed weapons for self-defense and legitimate tool use, and I feel that's being fairly generous.
Oh, and for anyone worried about the 2nd Amendment...the 2nd Amendment was meant for arming militias. We call them the National Guard these days. And anyone who thinks that civilians need guns to defend themselves from an oppressive governmental force has never studied what Apache helicopters and Abrams tanks can do, and just what they can withstand. Armed civilians have zero chance against a modern army. And that's before you remember that unmanned drones come with missiles.
Nobody needs an AR-15 to defend their home.
So yeah, I think Hermione can own a knife. I also think she's of an age where it's stored safely away, and she's only allowed to have it when a parent is there for supervision, out away from others, while she's trained to use it responsibly.
Which is better than how most Texans (and Illinoisans) treat giving guns to their kids.
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So, Endgame was a pretty stupid movie, didn't really like it, reminds me of the second and third Hobbit movies.
If you have three hours of free time I recommend spending it on something else.
Well we can't be friends anymore.
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So my favorite locally-owned hardware store was having a 40% off sale on outdoor plants and soil today.
As we're waiting in line, Hermione notices the display of pocket knives.
H: "Mama! Look! Remember how Papa was saying I'm old enough to have a pocket knife of my own now?"
(WW has been saying this to Hermione for the past year. We don't agree.)
Me: "Yes, but Papa and I don't agree on that. We'll discuss it."
Farm Grandma Saleslady: "You know, I think you were having the same argument about pocket knives the last time you were in here."
Me: "It's possible, but we haven't been in here in a few months. I think the last time was when we were here with our Girl Scout troop selling cookies out front."
FGS: "Yes! That was it. You were arguing about it then and you're arguing about it now."But she was smiling while she said it, because, well, Texas.
You might look into the requirements for the BSA Totin Chip (google BSA totin chip lesson plan).
Regardless of politics or past bad actions, the BSA knows knives and how to handle safely.
If she can pass the requirements of the lesson plan, then you can decide if she NEEDS one and/or can have one.
As a further aside, since you are in the south, she has to buy the knife. If someone gives her the knife, it is a sign they want to sever the friendship/relationship what have you.
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So my favorite locally-owned hardware store was having a 40% off sale on outdoor plants and soil today.
As we're waiting in line, Hermione notices the display of pocket knives.
H: "Mama! Look! Remember how Papa was saying I'm old enough to have a pocket knife of my own now?"
(WW has been saying this to Hermione for the past year. We don't agree.)
Me: "Yes, but Papa and I don't agree on that. We'll discuss it."
Farm Grandma Saleslady: "You know, I think you were having the same argument about pocket knives the last time you were in here."
Me: "It's possible, but we haven't been in here in a few months. I think the last time was when we were here with our Girl Scout troop selling cookies out front."
FGS: "Yes! That was it. You were arguing about it then and you're arguing about it now."But she was smiling while she said it, because, well, Texas.
You might look into the requirements for the BSA Totin Chip (google BSA totin chip lesson plan).
Regardless of politics or past bad actions, the BSA knows knives and how to handle safely.
If she can pass the requirements of the lesson plan, then you can decide if she NEEDS one and/or can have one.
As a further aside, since you are in the south, she has to buy the knife. If someone gives her the knife, it is a sign they want to sever the friendship/relationship what have you.
Wow, that is 16 pages of super useful. I saved a copy of the syllabus to my google drive and shared it with WW. Thanks.
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I have a new favorite Starfinder character.
Raoul Duke, Human Outlaw Technomancer with ranks in Profession (Gonzo Journalism).
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It's probably a different situation, because I got the kids pocketknives to go camping, but I gave them knives when they were very young (I think Impus Minor was 5) and said, "And the moment either of you cuts yourself both of you lose them for a year."
The first year they lost the knives within 2 minutes of getting them.
Once they got them back, they were much more careful, and we haven't had a cut since.
Of course, Tracker's Camp in Berkeley has the whole "knife safety" course they both went through as well, so they did get a LOT of proper knife handling training over the years.
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Am I creepy in that I find getting the little photos of my front porch saying, "Amazon has delivered your package" kind of cute?
Especially when it's not my porch and I can say, "Er, ahem..."
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So, Endgame was a pretty stupid movie, didn't really like it, reminds me of the second and third Hobbit movies.
If you have three hours of free time I recommend spending it on something else.
I... feel it's reductive to call it stupid, but I get why you're saying that; the whole time travel thing feels very cop-out ish (as the "Honest Trailers" points, it's what you resort to when you write yourself into a corner). However, I think they did an amazing job trying to get all those moving pieces into a single whole; the sheer sort of logistics of trying to make that movie work with any degree of coherency and depth... it's a miracle Endgame is even a passable movie at all, let alone the blockbuster that it was. So the directors, crew, and cast deserve big props for make it work on any level.
The scope and pace of the thing made me feel, as I have said before, like while watching it you're on a roller coaster.
Problem is, and the thing I didn't say in other threads earlier, I only sort of like roller coasters, mostly prefer to admire their engineering from afar, and half the time when I'm on one all I'm thinking about is how I want to get off. Then when I get off, the adrenaline makes me feel WOOOO! and I'm proud of myself for having done it, but five minutes later I will make the decision to never ride that particular ride again.
As with many of the Russos' films, likewise the movie is sort of a constant broiling of emotions and a thrill to watch... but ultimately an empty one that I struggle to want to go back for more.
I am also FURIOUS with what happened on Vormir. That character is basically the only reason I ever watched the Avengers movies at all.
I also HATED HATED HATED WITH HOLY HELLFIRE the ending for Cap (apart from the fact that Sam got the shield), and as it was the last scene you're saddled with, also tainted my enjoyment of the other things that happened in the movie. I am not going into it here, because it would require about 12 pages of ranting, but in short F$~! YOU STEVE. Okay, ONE thing I think I can say briefly (WARNING THIS DID NOT TURN OUT TO BE BRIEF):
I think everyone here knows I am a rabid fan of the TV Show "Agent Carter." Anyone who "loved that ending" go see Agent Carter if you haven't; it is currently on Hulu and Amazon Video. The first season of Agent Carter is entirely about how Peggy mourns Steve, then learns to let go of him. It is a brilliant tale of how we as real human beings have to process loss--THE MOST universal thing we can experience--and then learn again how to live life. The second season carries forward with Peggy learning to live life, enjoy the people she's with, and ultimately at the end she starts seeing someone whom she is clearly visibly passionate for. And overall it is a show that has some of the best character development at all in the MCU, and especially for Peggy (especially in the first season). And importantly, it leaves us, the audience, with lessons we can live with about grief, moving on, building relationships, etc. All of that wonderful storytelling is SHAT ON by Endgame, which teaches you that you should never get over your grief for someone even after 12 years, should just use magic shenanigans to fix all your problems (sad? Don't cope! Just travel through the quantum realm) [i.e., leaving the audience jack s$+* to learn from or emulate], and then go insert yourself into someone else's life who, last we saw, WAS PERFECTLY HAPPY WITHOUT YOU, AND SHE DESERVES SO MUCH BETTER THAN TO BE YOUR F+##ING EMOTIONAL CRUTCH, YOU F$*&ING NANCYBOY LOSER WHO DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO BE HUMAN (i.e., grieve and process loss) AFTER 12 YEARS! FURTHERMORE PEGGY F!$&ING CARTER IS NOT YOUR F!~+ING PRIZE YOU WIN AFTER BEATING THE BIG BAD BOSS!!!!!!!!!! You can't just f!@*ing assume she'll take you back or that it'll work out!! She is her own person, she has a complex life and friends whom she doesn't just completely abandon and ditch after a big fight, and she was happy WITH SOMEONE ELSE. <DeathQuaker's crazy fanfic ending> And furthermore, her soul mate is Dottie Underwood and once she's done with Daniel she's going to work on "reforming" Dottie and she's just going to use you as her beard while she goes off with Dottie.</DeathQuaker's Crazy Fanfic Ending> SO THERE. AND NO, HE DOESN'T "JUST GET TO BE HAPPY" AT PEGGY AND OTHER PEOPLE'S EXPENSE AND HE DOESN'T "JUST GET TO BE SELFISH FOR ONCE" AND F@#* YOU IF YOU THINK SO. AND I DON'T CARE IF IT'S AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE, IT'S STILL F++~ING STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My own headcanon is that he delivered the time stone last (because he'd need to use it to turn the Reality Stone back to Aether and restore the Tesseract), and the Ancient One had a sense he was about to spin off an alternate universe for an entirely selfish reason that was not going to do the universe any good, and she just froze him in stasis, used the Time Stone and magic to allow him to "see" what his life with Peggy "could have been like" while making him believe it was real; then she ages him with the Time Stone and sends him back to the future with the Time Stone, and even conjures him a new shield, which is why he shows up not on the platform, all the while believing what he just experienced was real. That or, but this alternative is far more terrible: Cap does get back to the past, goes to stop Arnim Zola before he joins SHIELD, but instead he encounters Zola's prison roommate Dr. Fenhoff (if you don't know what I'm talking about, SEE AGENT CARTER F@!&ING ALREADY!), who hypnotizes Cap into believing he's living his happiest life with Peggy, and meanwhile Fenhoff gets all this useful information about how Hydra infiltrates SHIELD, and so Cap, in his stupid quest to get Peggy when she has her own f*@%ing life to live without him, ends up actually ENABLING Hydra's takeover rather than stops it. Eventually he is found and rescued much later, but noone has the heart to tell him he's been stuck in a lie, and they give him a shield as a consolation prize, and he eventually grows old (and if he's in an alternate universe, gets Pym Particles from Hank to jump back as required).
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I also HATED HATED HATED WITH HOLY HELLFIRE the ending for Cap (apart from the fact that Sam got the shield), and as it was the last scene you're saddled with, also tainted my enjoyment of the other things that happened in the movie. I am not going into it here, because it would require about 12 pages of ranting, but in short F*#$ YOU STEVE, and STEVE, YOU'RE ONLY GOING TO BE HER BEARD WHILE SHE GOES OFF TO BE WITH HER POLY HAREM OF DANIEL, ANGIE, AND DOTTIE, SO THERE.
I am openly weeping that you hate the ending I love so much. It was an AWESOME take on the original comic, but I would do everything I could to wed your Poly Harem Ending to this one. A lot less F@!* YOU STEVE, a lot more Why Not Zoidberg(by Zoidberg I mean Steve).
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It's probably a different situation, because I got the kids pocketknives to go camping, but I gave them knives when they were very young (I think Impus Minor was 5) and said, "And the moment either of you cuts yourself both of you lose them for a year."
The first year they lost the knives within 2 minutes of getting them.
Once they got them back, they were much more careful, and we haven't had a cut since.
Of course, Tracker's Camp in Berkeley has the whole "knife safety" course they both went through as well, so they did get a LOT of proper knife handling training over the years.
I am of the mind that cuts tend to happen to kids for all reasons, and playing with a knife tends to be on the bottom of that list.
Then again, I was a weird kid.
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*reads own spoilered rant*
*slowly considers the fact that she has had no coffee or breakfast yet, and also has had a really f~*!ing frustrating week. No major disasters, just one thing after another of annoying s&!% like flat tire, and yesterday came home after what was otherwise actually a lovely day to find the freezer door had not shut all the way and defrosted and had to throw away about $100 worth of food, including some very nice meat and fish. And the only reason she had gone into the freezer yesterday was to get ice for her shoulder which is still f!%%ing hurting, especially after having to haul all that ruined food to the trash alley.*
*and decides she needs to go get some breakfast and coffee and curl up on the couch with a teddy bear for a bit, while gazing upon her cardboard standee of Scarlett Johansson and her signed photo of Bridget Regan.*
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There's nothing wrong with a pre coffee rant, we all do it.
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...and now I desperately want to watch Agent Carter, which I've never seen, because I only see what's on Netflix or what I can get WW to torrent for me.
So, thanks for giving me a solid reason to watch a show, because it sounds like I would love it.
And, wow, so sorry about the concatenation of crap that has been visited on you.
(Offers virtual cookies.)
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There's nothing wrong with a pre coffee rant, we all do it.
What is this "pre-coffee" thing of which you speak?
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I’ve gone on record before as saying I loved End Game. A lot. As a fan of the various franchises, I simply did not read the situation the same way DQ did, though I can understand why she did so.
Frankly, I thought it was an excellent achievement in film, and I feel they worked hard to avoid
But as I said before, though I think you can still enjoy it if you haven’t seen all the films, there is a large reliance on them to get a large amount out of the film.
Basically, I loved it, and stand by that! I strongly disagree with any criticism of “stupid” - then again, I’ve been ignoring nonsense in this series from day one, and if I don’t then I couldn’t have made it here.
(A man frozen in ice is fiiiiiiine, an alien fleet that doesn’t just fire from orbit, a dude doing MachWhatever in a tin can and is not smushed, a guy getting green rage powers and shapeshifting from GAMMA RADIATION, a god super space alien? With “sciiiiiiieeeeence?” a dude who was half-planet, a man literally shrinks and grows due to “particles” (lolwut) and the list goes on. Effectively, you have to accept nonsense to enjoy at all. Not ALL nonsense, obviously, but everyone has a different threshold, though I am surprised that End Game being targeted in particular - it was less egregious than some films in the same franchise.)
But I can understand why people might not like it. I might not agree with their opinion, but at least I can see it!
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And, in non-movie news: hugs to DQ.
(Also, wow, was I ever ninja’d. Sorry to hear about what’s been going on.)
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I...have ideas...about blades...
And it's pretty extreme, by American standards.
And considered somewhat (*cough*) political due to American gun laws.
But here it is, spoilered.
** spoiler omitted **
So yeah, I...
Greetings, fellow citizen of the United States! Here is our basic policy on weapons, be they ranged or melee in origin!
You should have already received your (varying degrees of fancily filigreed) class knife upon graduation from high school or the completion of your TASC. Whether you have it in a case at home collecting dust or carry it on your person, remember that, like all weapons if it ever leaves your home, it must openly displayed and carried in a bonded sheathe in front of your person at all times. This weapon is largely ornamental, as it is given to graduates unsharpened, but just as you sharpened your mind over the past 5 years of school so too may you sharpen this knife after you graduate.
Should you decide to go to college, trade school, or receive some kind of official certification, you will receive a (varying degrees of shiny chrome, no matte) six round revolver from your educator upon graduation. This represents the highest level of private armament any non military citizen of the United States may have, and you are responsible for it at all times. It is to be kept in a locked safe at home and not openly displayed when not in use, but worn openly opposite your knife in public in a similarly bonded holster. You must purchase your own bullets for this weapon, probably through the same organization that provided the revolver.
Hunting rifles/shotguns are something of an exception to these rules in that they must be openly displayed in the home and in public but must be locked at the trigger via a shiney triggerlock at all times save immediately prior to hunting. They can be purchased privately along with a hunting license, but the hunting license must be renewed annually, with an actual record of use/animals hunted with said weapon via local wildlife commissions. If no animals are hunted with said hunting rifle during a particular season, the license is revoked, and the weapon may be seized by local law enforcement, although the individual will be refunded the cost of the rifle and the individual may reapply for a new hunting license at the start of the next season. Using said hunting rifle to defend oneself in a dire situation is encouraged, however the law will demand evidence of self defense.
Remember- you are responsible for anything that happens with your weapon. There are no accidents- any loss of life or limb are the owners responsibility to face in court. You are responsible for anything a third party that makes use of your weapon does with it, and if necessary both owner and user will face legal penalties for any crimes committed with said weapon. Attempting to hide a weapon on your person is illegal, and will result in loss of said weapon, the ability to carry said weapon, and significant civil and criminal penalties.
Do you wish to make use of semi automatic and automatic weapons, grenades, rocket launchers, or heavier ordinance? Then consider joining the National Guard, or even the Armed Forces! We need you!
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*reads own spoilered rant*
*slowly considers the fact that she has had no coffee or breakfast yet, and also has had a really f$*%ing frustrating week. No major disasters, just one thing after another of annoying s%+! like flat tire, and yesterday came home after what was otherwise actually a lovely day to find the freezer door had not shut all the way and defrosted and had to throw away about $100 worth of food, including some very nice meat and fish. And the only reason she had gone into the freezer yesterday was to get ice for her shoulder which is still f%*~ing hurting, especially after having to haul all that ruined food to the trash alley.*
*and decides she needs to go get some breakfast and coffee and curl up on the couch with a teddy bear for a bit, while gazing upon her cardboard standee of Scarlett Johansson and her signed photo of Bridget Regan.*
damn. I'm sorry. Is there anything you need from up here?
Should I come over and make breakfast?
Or a...rather late dinner?
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There's nothing wrong with a pre coffee rant, we all do it.What is this "pre-coffee" thing of which you speak?
coff-what?
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So, intentionally a bit snarky here, but blame my Lawful side:
...that's also what made it exciting to encounter new monsters......Yes, you do. You're the GM. You can rip pages out and do what you want...When a game system requires that I throw out the rules to make encounters exciting, or rewrite monsters in my AP to suit my party, I think that's a clear indicator that the game system is faulty.
Honestly, all we want is a system where the same rule set applies to every piece on the board. It works in every other RPG we've played (Runequest, Call of Cthulu, Champions, Tunnels and Trolls, Bunnies and Burrows, D&D 1.0, Traveller, Shadowrun, and I'm sure more that I'm forgetting). I can't think of another system that says, "Well, the bad guys follow this rule set, and the good guys follow that one."
So why is it that Pathfinder keeps saying, "Well, this rule is inconvenient for this creature, so we're going to make it ignore it?"
A well-prepared party SHOULD be protected from the attacks they're expecting. I don't consider, "Well, you prepared correctly, but my creature ignores that protective spell because I want it to," to be particularly "exciting".
Oh, I never claimed PF was the best system ever. I simply said you can change things because it's a tabletop and not a computer game. This is why I play tabletop. Because that aspect is better than board games or video games or whatever - when the creator f$~~s up, you can fix it.
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where my inviteIn your PMs!
It expired because I didn't check every day. My bad. :-(
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In fact - PF is far from the best system ever.
Paizo is an amazing company with high quality products that actually go through an EDITOR who knows how to organize things (F$$$ YOU L5R) with helpful community interaction (f+#~ you indie companies) and classes that aren't basically the same mechanics with different flavor text (D&D). I love me some Paizo but Pathfinder itself would be dead to me if it weren't for nostalgia and community.
...but their product itself is to me a B- at best, usually a C with most GMs.
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I’ve gone on record before as saying I loved End Game. A lot. As a fan of the various franchises, I simply did not read the situation the same way DQ did, though I can understand why she did so.
Frankly, I thought it was an excellent achievement in film, and I feel they worked hard to avoid
** spoiler omitted **
But as I said before, though I think you can still enjoy it if you haven’t seen all the films, there is a large reliance on them to get a large amount out of the film.
Basically, I loved it, and stand by that! I strongly disagree with any criticism of “stupid” - then again, I’ve been ignoring nonsense in this series from day one, and if I don’t then I couldn’t have made it here.
(A man frozen in ice is fiiiiiiine, an alien fleet that doesn’t just fire from orbit, a dude doing MachWhatever in a tin can and is not smushed, a guy getting green rage powers and shapeshifting from GAMMA RADIATION, a
godsuper space alien? With “sciiiiiiieeeeence?” a dude who was half-planet, a man literally shrinks and grows due to “particles” (lolwut) and the list goes on. Effectively, you have to accept nonsense to enjoy at all. Not ALL nonsense, obviously, but everyone has a different threshold, though I am surprised that End Game being targeted in particular - it was less egregious than some films in the same franchise.)But I can understand why people might not like it. I might not agree with their opinion, but at least I can see it!
It's not about believing in time travel - it's about it being lazy writing from a literature perspective. It's the get out of jail free card that every sci-fi and fantasy hack uses when they write themselves into a corner. Any decent high school or college level writing class will tear to shreds any submission that even features time travel because it's just s&#+ty s#+!ty s~@+ty.
Remember the key isn't about believable, it's about internal logical consistency. If Superman can lift a sun, that's fine. But if his punch doesn't also cause a black hole event, then we have asinine b#$~+%*+, which is reason #3,947,749,145 that I hate Kal-El.
There is NO POSSIBLE internal logical consistency with reverse time travel, because of the Grandfather Paradox - no matter what problem you go back in time to solve, if you solve that problem, then you have no reason to have gone back in time in the first place. If you shoot Hitler in the head, he never rises to power, and thus nobody has reason to ever have gone back and time and shoot Hitler in the head. This is only avoided by even FURTHER lazy writing, either by using Multiverse Theory, which is the laziest time travel writing of all, or the Bill and Ted "dude we better remember to go back and do all this stuff" weirdness.
Time Travel is only done right as a parody, like in Futurama, because it's such bad writing it exists only to be mocked by good writers.
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Mark your calendars: Impus Major takes his (first) driver's license test on November 15.
Quake in fear!
(And for those following my ridiculously-slow trickle of photos and videos onto Flickr, GothBard's pictures are now up, including the Noma menu and pictures of all the food.)
(1) I only liked about half the dishes, which is appalling at a world-class restaurant feeding me a vegetarian dinner. As I think I've mentioned, we did the French Laundry for our 25th anniversary a few years ago and I did the vegetarian menu there and it was stellar. So Noma loses the comparison to the French Laundry, and even Greens (a Bhuddist restaurant in San Francisco). Pomp and circumstance me all you want, but if I don't enjoy at least 90% of the dishes, you're not a world-class restaurant.
(2) The price point was a bit steeper than the French Laundry. So, not as good, more expensive = Another knock.
(3) On the other hand, the sheer imagination and artistry used was incredible. This wasn't about dining. This was about a chef looking around him(?), evaluating the native flora that was in season, and creating incredible mixtures of flavor and texture from only what was naturally available at the time. So yes, the food was definitely below some of the top places I've eaten. But in terms of what the chef did with what he had available, I've never seen the like. From the butterfly cracker made of seeds and nasturtium flowers to the moldy asparagus in an egg sauce that we all agreed was the one of the most incredible sauces we'd ever had to the candied frigging pine cones, what the chef did with the available ingredients was nothing short of jaw-dropping.
So, given an infinite amount of money and instantaneous travel time, would I eat at Noma again? Probably only twice ever, for the other two seasons. I wouldn't do another summer dinner there, because I just didn't enjoy it THAT much. Which sets it at a fairly low bar, because we hit Rivoli with astonishing frequency because their new dishes are so delightful (chicken fricassee on Friday that was amazing). I'd do the French Laundry again if I had the money because it was the best meal I've ever had. I'd do Greens any time if it weren't so darned hard to get in. Thus, Noma falls pretty low on my restaurant list.
On the other hand, I'm glad I did it, because it was certainly a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Mark your calendars: Impus Major takes his (first) driver's license test on November 15.
(And for those following my ridiculously-slow trickle of photos and videos onto Flickr, GothBard's pictures are now up, including the Noma menu and pictures of all the food.)
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Am I creepy in that I find getting the little photos of my front porch saying, "Amazon has delivered your package" kind of cute?
Especially when it's not my porch and I can say, "Er, ahem..."
How nice of them to document their failures for your!
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There's nothing wrong with a pre coffee rant, we all do it.What is this "pre-coffee" thing of which you speak?
coff-what?
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In fact - PF is far from the best system ever.
Paizo is an amazing company with high quality products that actually go through an EDITOR who knows how to organize things (F~&$ YOU L5R) with helpful community interaction (f*+$ you indie companies) and classes that aren't basically the same mechanics with different flavor text (D&D). I love me some Paizo but Pathfinder itself would be dead to me if it weren't for nostalgia and community.
...but their product itself is to me a B- at best, usually a C with most GMs.
That's about the most concise explanation of Paizo I have ever read.
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...and now I desperately want to watch Agent Carter, which I've never seen, because I only see what's on Netflix or what I can get WW to torrent for me.
So, thanks for giving me a solid reason to watch a show, because it sounds like I would love it.
Thank you. I feel like I have accomplished something positive, then. :)
Did I also mention that between the poignant personal growth there's also Peggy punching out communists on top of a moving truck and taking out several sexist moron agents almost singlehandedly to the tune of "it's a good day" by Peggy Lee? Oh and the time she beats up a guy with nothing but a stapler? Because there's that too. Hopefully those are selling points, not detractions. (And yes, autocorrect, I meant what I said the first time)
And, wow, so sorry about the concatenation of crap that has been visited on you.(Offers virtual cookies.)
Thanks to you and the others I am too lazy to try to quote on my phone. (And thanks, Freehold, but I think I need some quiet me time with Nat and Dot. ;) ) feeling much better after chocolate-orange waffle and coffee and a walk.
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Time Travel is only done right as a parody, like in Futurama, because it's such bad writing it exists only to be mocked by good writers.
I am required to point out the requisite exception that proves the rule on this, which is of course Chrono Trigger, the best time travel story ever written IMO.
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Time Travel is only done right as a parody, like in Futurama, because it's such bad writing it exists only to be mocked by good writers.I am required to point out the requisite exception that proves the rule on this, which is of course Chrono Trigger, the best time travel story ever written IMO.
The best take on time travel (which I am not fan of in general) was in Babylon 5 - in big part because it was planned part of the story, thus reflecting the fact that if time travel would happen, the past results of future time travel would be already history and affecting the now from the beginning.