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Remote milking is a classic. Awesome thing to do, really. Don't tell me it isn't the first thing you would want to do with your new satan-fueled powers!
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Staying naked just in case it is the kind of milking I think it is.
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The General has dispatched us for Noodles (and Co.), Pea Bear and I.
Mmm... Noodles and Co.
what is noodles and Co?
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One of the more common witch accusations was that the witch had stolen the milk of a cow by milking some inanimate item. Sometimes a stone wall, sometimes some small object.
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One of the more common witch accusations was that the witch had stolen the milk of a cow by milking some inanimate item. Sometimes a stone wall, sometimes some small object.
and here I was thinking it was Bathykolpian in origin. Ah well. Years of h will do that to you.
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H remote milking sounds... Odd. For starters, there would be little kolpian stuff on display...
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In Discworld, Witches are most famous for "borrowing", which would probably be akin to the Magic Jar spell, or perhaps Charm/Dominate Animal/Person, or Astral Projection.
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So, anyone know what are the most common spells associated with witches in fiction? Trying to figure out a character for a thing.
In folklore:
* Souring dairy products
* Blighting crops
* Turning people mad, or giving them mysterious aches and pains
* Making livestock ill
* Smearing yourself with ointment, then flying off to nocturnal orgies where you'd eat babies and have it off with the Devil.
Seemed to be amongst their chief activities. Should you wish to stop them, cutting them/getting hold of their blood somehow worked, as did putting some nails in a bottle and weeing in it.
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what is noodles and Co?The General has dispatched us for Noodles (and Co.), Pea Bear and I.
Mmm... Noodles and Co.
This is Noodles and Co., Mmm, so good...
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...bwahahahahaaa... I, the horrible witch, will now sour ALL THE MILK IN THE DAIRY SECTION OF THIS STORE!!!...
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We currently sell carrot cake flavored coffee at work. Not sure how I feel about this. Carrot cake coffee doesn't sound right. A slice of carrot cake with a cup of coffee on the side? That sounds awesome. Carrot cake in the coffee? That's off putting.
Coffee flavors go over my head. Vanilla this, pumpkin spice that, cinnamon whatever.
Tastes like coffee to me.
Then again, flavored coffees really need sugar to bring the flavor out, and I typically take my coffee black. Black flavored coffee just has a weird aftertaste I don't like, and I'm not swotching back to sweetened coffee.
Wouldn't you want to go back to sweetened if black has a weird aftertaste?
Just recently I've gone from needing creamer and sugar with every cup to just creamer sometimes. I must be growing up or something. :p
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I'd like to thank Sharoth, for encouraging me to get Fallout 3 last summer, and constantly telling me I should get New Vegas as well. Absolutely spot on, phenomenal games, the best I've ever played! :-)
Good beans properly roasted not only don't require milk or cream, but are ruined by it. A single spoonful of sugar to cut the bitter is all you need for properly made quality coffee.
The cheap stuff NEEDS dairy, though.
Coffee and tea are two products where the difference between cheap and expensive is very, very noticeable.
I can't drink coffee black, ideally it will have international delights creamer, but I can make do without it, it's gotta have something to tame the acidity tho.
Light roasted coffee isn't that acidic. I think it gets more so the darker they roast it.
Oddly enough dark roast has less caffeine. I don't know why it's so popular. I love light roast, but almost every quality brand only sells dark and medium.
We usually get a medium roast or light roast, never dark roast. :-)
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...bwahahahahaaa... I, the horrible witch, will now sour ALL THE MILK IN THE DAIRY SECTION OF THIS STORE!!!...
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
We currently sell carrot cake flavored coffee at work. Not sure how I feel about this. Carrot cake coffee doesn't sound right. A slice of carrot cake with a cup of coffee on the side? That sounds awesome. Carrot cake in the coffee? That's off putting.Coffee flavors go over my head. Vanilla this, pumpkin spice that, cinnamon whatever.
Tastes like coffee to me.
Then again, flavored coffees really need sugar to bring the flavor out, and I typically take my coffee black. Black flavored coffee just has a weird aftertaste I don't like, and I'm not swotching back to sweetened coffee.Wouldn't you want to go back to sweetened if black has a weird aftertaste?
Just recently I've gone from needing creamer and sugar with every cup to just creamer sometimes. I must be growing up or something. :p
On the rare occasions I drink coffee it is always with cream(or milk if no cream is available), no sugar.
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I'd like to thank Sharoth, for encouraging me to get Fallout 3 last summer, and constantly telling me I should get New Vegas as well. Absolutely spot on, phenomenal games, the best I've ever played! :-)
I would like to thanks Sharoth for talking me into buying X-Com- Enemy Within.
It truly is an upgrade over Enemy Unknown.
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The man has great taste in video games. :-)
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I'd like to thank Sharoth, for encouraging me to get Fallout 3 last summer, and constantly telling me I should get New Vegas as well. Absolutely spot on, phenomenal games, the best I've ever played! :-)
Always glad to pass on good games to a fellow gamer.
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The first Overlord game is a fun one if you have not played it.
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So, anyone know what are the most common spells associated with witches in fiction? Trying to figure out a character for a thing.
Bestow Curse. The single most iconic witch spell.
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~thinks~ Ok. What games have I sunk a lot of time into?
Solitare
Civilization I - II (Planning on playing III - V eventually)
Sid Meyers Alpha Centauri
Star Wars Knight of the Old Republic I & II
Baldur's Gate I & II
Sim Earth (Old DOS game)
Red Storm Rising (Old DOS Game)
Fallout 3, 4, New Vegas
Skyrim
Dishonored
Borderlands I & II
Portal I & II
FTL
Plants vs. Zombies
XCOM I & II
Doom I & II
Galactic Civilizations II
Europa Universalis III
Sword of the Stars
Diablo III
X3 - Terran Conflict
Sins of a Solar Empire
Master of Orion II
Geneforge 1 - 5
Eye of the Beholder I - III
That is off the top of my head. I am sure that I am forgetting a game or three, but those are my top time wasters.
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Random ramblings on a Wednesday morning: The house is infested with "polite" ants.
Our green waste bin is under the sink. It's an old house, so there's plenty of space around the pipes to get into the crawlspace below the house from there. Ants have found the green waste bin and are going to town...
...and are not bothering to show up anywhere else in the house!
I'm a bit of a neatnik, going through every room every day and putting stuff away, but I don't vacuum, scrub, or dust. I just get stuff put away so our house doesn't become a maelstrom of clutter.
In spite of all this, and cat food on the floor in the kitchen, and dirty dishes just above them, the ants are happy with the green waste, and have not expanded.
And if that's the kind of pest that's going to live in my house, they're welcome to my green waste. The little buggers'll massacre any other bugs that attempt to move in, so for now, I'm living with 10,000 new "good" roommates.
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Random ramblings on a Wednesday morning:
Today is Thursday.
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And thank the stars for that! :-)
Thursday (today) is when the entirely too long spring thaw begins, entirely too long , I say because it will be at least another 4-6 weeks before we crossover into consistently warm days.
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This is usually where my nemises talks about cases of Mondays. Predictably. Not chaotic at all.
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Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Wednesdays!
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Wouldn't you want to go back to sweetened if black has a weird aftertaste?Just recently I've gone from needing creamer and sugar with every cup to just creamer sometimes. I must be growing up or something. :p
It's only the flavored coffees that have the weird aftertaste when black. Unflavored black coffee tastes, well, normal. I just don't buy flavored coffee.
Now, I may have to get a slice of carrot cake and a cup of coffee. That sounds good side by side.
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Flavored creamers or syrups added to unflavored coffee gives you more potent flavor than flavored coffees, anyway.
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The first game I successfully completed was Master of Orion II... Later I got to the point where I could win regularly on impossible. Other games that hold a special place because I completed them are Neverwinter Nights I and II, Dragon Age II and Inquisition, and of course Mass Effect I through III.
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From Final Fasntasy 2/4 to today, I can't tell you the number of games I have completed.
I can tell you I've spent more time in Skyrim than with all my extended family combined, and know more about Talos than any of my aunts or uncles.
Thousands of hours, I would guess. At least 500.
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I am the only person I know that's never completed Super Mario Bros.
Even my mom's beaten Super Mario Bros.
The Video Games I have personally completed.
Legacy of Kain
Goldeneye 007
Turok the Dinosaur Hunter
Grand Theft Auto Vice City
Halo 3
Lego Indiana Jones
Fallout 3
Fallout New Vegas
I also used to be big into Madden, but it's best not to dwell on that.
Edit: oops, forgot my n64 phase.
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I have never completed Super Mario Bros. either. That's probably because I've never played Super Mario Bros.
I've completed NWN II, but not I.
I have also completed Icewind Dale I, but not II
I have completed Civ 2 and 4, but any bugger can do that.
I have completed Fallout 3 and NV too.
I have never completed Baldurs Gate I or II, despite having played them approximately 50,000,000 times (50, 000, 0001), if you include my present run.
I am crap at computer games, but I can live with that.
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Hmmm... I loved Super Mario Bros but never finished it.
I did forget a couple, Halo I and Civ V were completed.
I'm a console gamer for life, nothing pissed me off more then dying because I pressed command F instead of command V or whatever it is people press when they're playing on their computer. And then you have to worry about specs and memory and video cards or whatever.
No thanks, put the disc in and press start is as complicated as I wanna get. :-)
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~thinks~ Ok. What games have I sunk a lot of time into?
Solitare
Civilization I - II (Planning on playing III - V eventually)
Sid Meyers Alpha Centauri
Star Wars Knight of the Old Republic I & II
Baldur's Gate I & II
Sim Earth (Old DOS game)
Red Storm Rising (Old DOS Game)
Fallout 3, 4, New Vegas
Skyrim
Dishonored
Borderlands I & II
Portal I & II
FTL
Plants vs. Zombies
XCOM I & II
Doom I & II
Galactic Civilizations II
Europa Universalis III
Sword of the Stars
Diablo III
X3 - Terran Conflict
Sins of a Solar Empire
Master of Orion II
Geneforge 1 - 5
Eye of the Beholder I - IIIThat is off the top of my head. I am sure that I am forgetting a game or three, but those are my top time wasters.
Also, add Neverwinter Nights (specifically Shadows of Undrentide and Hordes of the Underark).
Speaking of...
... I'm having a blast converting NWN to the Firefly RPG Cortex System! It's really, really great!
I've converted all the classes (filling the "role" part of Distinctions), races (filling the "background" part of Distinctions), and am working on Alignments (for "personality") but am not really satisfied with them.
I managed the eleven core classes and (most of) the psionic classes (replacing Divine Mind and Lurk with the Meditant and Terror, respectively).
((Psionic classes are: Ardent, Meditant, Psion, Psychic Warrior, Soul Knife, Terror, and Wilder.))
Each distinction gives three skills, and at least one "asset" that can be used. Classes and races (usually) also step up or step down stats by one level (humans, half-elves, and rogues are not automatically changed).
I added a "level up" system - basically every "chapter" (about 20-30 adventures) the character can upgrade themselves, either by taking a class, entering a qualified prestige, or upgrading a stat - that functions along side the normal progression system. When you take a class, it stacks with your current class - increasing your skills and modifying your stats and either stepping up or granting extra assets.
I made a leadership system that functions to explain the Henchmen system, but still allows players to attempt to recruit or organize other groups.
I also added a wealth/renown asset-like system that replaces the B.D.H. Die system and automatically grows over time.
Magical items make great assets, that degrade over time (except for artifacts), encouraging newer and more interesting items over time. Items that degrade to below d4 are automatically sold, generating a wealth value equal to its original value. It can be sold earlier for double the current value. Either way, you always gain 1 plot point.
I really like how everything just kind of comes together, over-all.
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Today is Thursday.Random ramblings on a Wednesday morning:
I blame NobodysWife entirely.
Her Wednesday night game got moved to Thursday this week, and the kids are out of school for the week so they provide no clues.
My whole world is confused.
How do you guys get a week off, especially from school. Is it a statewide furlough so everyone can spange to cover the state budget.
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How do you guys get a week off, especially from school. Is it a statewide furlough so everyone can spange to cover the state budget.
It's the whole "California has no budget for schools because of Prop 13" thing.
The feds (and one of my most-loathed terms, "Busy" parents) mandated a longer school year. California can't afford a longer school year.
So our school year is still 180 days, but they added two one-week breaks to the school year, along with a bunch of administrative holidays, so the school year "seems" a month longer (August-June instead of September-June).
Politics in action!
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How do you guys get a week off, especially from school. Is it a statewide furlough so everyone can spange to cover the state budget.It's the whole "California has no budget for schools because of Prop 13" thing.
The feds (and one of my most-loathed terms, "Busy" parents) mandated a longer school year. California can't afford a longer school year.
So our school year is still 180 days, but they added two one-week breaks to the school year, along with a bunch of administrative holidays, so the school year "seems" a month longer (August-June instead of September-June).
Politics in action!
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How do you guys get a week off, especially from school. Is it a statewide furlough so everyone can spange to cover the state budget.It's the whole "California has no budget for schools because of Prop 13" thing.
The feds (and one of my most-loathed terms, "Busy" parents) mandated a longer school year. California can't afford a longer school year.
So our school year is still 180 days, but they added two one-week breaks to the school year, along with a bunch of administrative holidays, so the school year "seems" a month longer (August-June instead of September-June).
As a teacher, my mother loves this. She basically sees it as more vacation time for herself.
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Except she already had it, it was just clumped in with summer.
Edit: not that I'm telling ANY mother she's doing it wrong, just pointing out the obvious. I do hope she enjoys her vacation. :-)
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Don't want to work tonight.
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Mostly, the reason I don't want to work, is because I have a big ass bunk bed to put together, and that's infinitely more fun then helping some a!~~&!& load a bike into his car because "he hurt his back" yeah, there's a lot of that going around.