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Had a nightmare experience at the dentist today. I had to have four fillings done and a cracked tooth prepped for a crown. Local anesthetic doesn’t work on me, so I have to be put under when I have dental work done. But they screwed up and I was only partially under. I couldn’t speak or move but I was awake and aware of everything. And when they saw I was in pain they just kept giving me useless shots and I couldn’t stop them. So not only did that happen but now my mouth hurts so much from all the shots I didn’t need because they didn’t actually work. I mean, my lip went numb, but nothing actually inside my mouth :(
I have PTSD from similar event during my c-section when the kidlet was born. Protip: don’t have surgery without working anesthetic. Pain is not an adequate description. So getting me to actually show up for anything that requires anesthetic takes some doing. Even more now. Looks like it’s back to the therapist for me. >.<
Okay.
If me being naked during all of that didn't make you laugh/smile nervously, please return the day you are experiencing for a full refund.
returns lynoras day for full refund, yarn spindle
Freehold DM |
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The most surreal part of parent-teacher conferences: parents using their time block as a parenting coaching/therapy session because they feel like they have no idea what they are doing, and the only way they can get the kids to behave at home is to threaten, "I'm going to tell Mrs. X."
If they only saw what happens in my house...
it works for the kids who are sweet on Mrs X.
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Tacticslion wrote:Question for anyone who knows: why are so many carnival workers so strongly addicted to cigarettes. It's a strangely high ratio.it's the only way you get breaks in most jobs.
If I think about the smokers in my office, actually having a cig is secondary - the main appeal is spending some time off the floor and having a whinge with your friends out of doors.
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gran rey de los mono wrote:They say that behind every great man is a woman. This may be true. In my experience, however, it is always true that behind every angry woman is a man who has no idea what he did wrong.Oh I think YOU know what you did!
Me? I didn't do anything. I was just sitting here.
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In a few years, I bet there'll be a mandatory college course called "Eye Contact 101".
They need it now in my opinion. I am not a constant fidget on phone person but I would go out places with people in college and you couldn't have a conversation with people cause they'd be looking down on their phones or talking to you while looking at their laps.
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Vidmaster7 wrote:Just because I eat brains doesn't mean I'm a zombie.gran rey de los mono wrote:I must be getting old. The other day I walked past a cemetery and two men attacked me with shovels shouting "Zombie! Zombie!!"I blame it on your diet.
What about the excessive moaning and lack of a pulse?
gran rey de los mono |
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gran rey de los mono wrote:What about the excessive moaning and lack of a pulse?Vidmaster7 wrote:Just because I eat brains doesn't mean I'm a zombie.gran rey de los mono wrote:I must be getting old. The other day I walked past a cemetery and two men attacked me with shovels shouting "Zombie! Zombie!!"I blame it on your diet.
I don't think those are related to my diet.
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Is anyone looking for the start to a horror story? I have one. It goes like this:
A cell phone rings. The caller ID says "Mom". The antagonist answers the phone "Hi, Mom. What's up?" The mother says "I have a computer question." DUN DUN DUNNNNNN!!!!!!
O_O
(Fortunately my brother has a degree in it so he fields all those questions)
gran rey de los mono |
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gran rey de los mono wrote:Is anyone looking for the start to a horror story? I have one. It goes like this:
A cell phone rings. The caller ID says "Mom". The antagonist answers the phone "Hi, Mom. What's up?" The mother says "I have a computer question." DUN DUN DUNNNNNN!!!!!!
O_O
(Fortunately my brother has a degree in it so he fields all those questions)
But what if your brother is busy, so she calls you INSTEAD?!
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
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Completly horrified Vidmaster7 wrote:gran rey de los mono wrote:Is anyone looking for the start to a horror story? I have one. It goes like this:
A cell phone rings. The caller ID says "Mom". The antagonist answers the phone "Hi, Mom. What's up?" The mother says "I have a computer question." DUN DUN DUNNNNNN!!!!!!
O_O
(Fortunately my brother has a degree in it so he fields all those questions)
But what if your brother is busy, so she calls you INSTEAD?!
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
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It's amazing how certain play styles just grate on your nerves.
Whingey Wizard, in addition to his roleplaying faults, is one of those unbelievably-careful players who won't go anywhere before Scrying, Detecting Invisible, Detecting Magic, sending the ranger or rogue ahead to scout for traps, and then spending 15 minutes pondering in what other way his nefarious GM is trying to screw over the party.
It's one of those deer-in-the-headlight attitudes born of playing under an extremely-abusive GM who killed him more than once with, "Aha! You didn't think of THIS! Now you're DEAD! Mwahahahahahaha!"
Or maybe he's just always been that way.
But when you have an AP with an artificially-imposed time limit ("The BBEG is stirring! You must get there now Now NOW to stop him!!!!") and the wizard's response is, "Well, I prepare only one Scry spell a day because I need to keep my other slots ready, just in case. And if that one fails, then we need to spend another day in Safetown so I can scribe more scrolls and craft more wands. And we can try another Scry tomorrow," then by the third or fourth day you really feel like it's time to just let the BBEG wake up and wipe the party and respond with, "Oh, sorry. Your wizard didn't take all the threats of him waking up seriously, so you took too long."
So just two clashing play styles. I really don't want my players mistrusting me so much that gameplay grinds to a halt due to their paranoia, so it really grates on me when they do so anyway.
If it takes 10 minutes of real time, it's preparation. If it take 90 minutes, it's paranoia.
EDIT: And it's funny because I had a bit of enlightenment while talking about this on my Serpent's Skull thread: It's the difference between, "OK, let's think about what the enemy is likely to be doing and plan for that" (my JR and SA groups) versus, "OK. Let me open up the books and scan through them to try to figure out what spell or magic item I can get my hands on that will make it so I don't have to think about things at all" (the SS group and Whingey Wizard).
"Problem-solving through shopping and rules lawyering" is not my cup of tea.
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Give them some more warnings. Then steam roll over them with the awakened BBEG. They were warned, they ignored the warning. Did they expected the BBEG to politely wait for them?
Yeah. I'm thinking I should just calculate how long it should take them to finish, double it, and then put a date on the calendar at which point the BBEG wakes up. Seems the fairest thing to do.
EDIT: And don't worry, LM. I'm not spoilering these because I know you get frustrated too when the game degenerates into an hour and a half of him sitting there saying, "How can we gather information without putting ME at any risk whatsoever?"
It really is one of his more frustrating aspects. "I will not play a game in which I have to put my PC at risk."