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From the home user perspective, I find them all to be largely the same. The general question is which flavor of butt are you most willing to put up with.
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Well that seems appropriate.
That's why we like TeamSpeak. It's pretty much, "Here are the tools to build your own voice chat system. Leave us out of it."
So you have to be fairly technically-savvy to set up your own TeamSpeak server, and then you have to pay some kind of monthly licensing fee to maintain it, but... Shiro.
So we have our own dedicated voice server and it serves us well.
We found out our favorite burger place, Mooyah, is originally from Texas so the General asked "Are they allowed to use Moo in the name like that there?" to which I replied "yes, as long as they're eating it".
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That's why we like TeamSpeak. It's pretty much, "Here are the tools to build your own voice chat system. Leave us out of it."
So you have to be fairly technically-savvy to set up your own TeamSpeak server, and then you have to pay some kind of monthly licensing fee to maintain it, but... Shiro.
So we have our own dedicated voice server and it serves us well.
I used to run a TeamSpeak server for my LOTRO kinship/guild. The problem is that it was so rarely used that the server would shut itself down, and I wouldn't notice that until someone would complain at me once every three months and then say "It's never up!"
We found out our favorite burger place, Mooyah, is originally from Texas so the General asked "Are they allowed to use Moo in the name like that there?" to which I replied "yes, as long as they're eating it".
I am not familiar with Mooyah.
It's on State street, we recently discovered it, it's pretty much a student and UW fan hangout.
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For anyone who wanted to know what teaching high school is like, I had a two-minute derail in economics today about the taste of milk.
I see there is one Mooyah in Illinois. In Joliet. Who made that decision? There are only three truly acceptable "first location" towns for chains coming to Illinois. Chicago (NOT Joliet), Bloomington (for decades has had the highest number of restaurants per capita in IL), or Champaign (University of Illinois, enough said).
Cap - There's also one in Fitchburg and Sun Prairie when you're out in those directions.
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For anyone who wanted to know what teaching high school is like, I had a two-minute derail in economics today about the taste of milk.
So, you're just going to tease us! More details are needed.
Cap - There's also one in Fitchburg and Sun Prairie when you're out in those directions.
I try not to eat anything from Fitchburg, it's a smelly town.
That's why we like TeamSpeak. It's pretty much, "Here are the tools to build your own voice chat system. Leave us out of it."
So you have to be fairly technically-savvy to set up your own TeamSpeak server, and then you have to pay some kind of monthly licensing fee to maintain it, but... Shiro.
So we have our own dedicated voice server and it serves us well.
Oh, and the licensing costs are...variable...
If you get it directly from TeamSpeak it's about $55/year for a 64-slot license ($500/year for a 1024-slot). Now, most people don't buy and install the server software themselves, but rather have some hosting company take care of the server side for them, and those hosting companies will break up the licenses they've purchased into 10/20/30-ish users and charge enough that it will make them a profit.
When I did it there was a local company charging about $80-100/year for a 20ish user server. That company seems to be missing from the internet now.
Ok Vany...stop typing here and get working on rewriting Rise of the Runelords for Aiymi.
Due to my new house rules that I've adopted (stealing what I like from PF2 Playtest rules and slapping it into the PF1 engine) plus taking into account that we don't use a 15 or 20 point buy for stats, I need to make the APs a bit harder than published.
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For anyone who wanted to know what teaching high school is like, I had a two-minute derail in economics today about the taste of milk.So, you're just going to tease us! More details are needed.
Not a whole lot to say. Textbook used milk as an example of a commodity - a good where the producer doesn't matter. I was swiftly informed that the brand of milk does matter. No, they didn't mean the percent.
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FAVORITES HAVE NAMES BACK
Now I know who favorited my posts! And which one!
I had my American Government teacher her first year teaching. She loved Norma Gene, and we'd derail her all the time.
"Hey Miss X, I don't get it, what was so great about Marilyn Monroe?"
A good ten minutes later we might get back to the bicameral system or the Constitution.
Advanced template on some stuff, extra mooks where it makes sense, extra levels on others, reworked classes for others. Example: Tsuto is being reworked as a 1/4 monk/ninja instead of a 2/2 monk/rogue. Nualia, yes, redone as a warpriest. Six skeletons in the Boneyard vault instead of two. Aiymi also wants it to go to 20th, so I'd have to do a lot of extra work to do that anyway. I don't mind.
EDIT: I knew I wasn't remembering right on Tsuto. 1/1/3 unchained monk/oracle (wave mystery - see through fogs/mists)/ninja. Also give him 8 goblin friends in the lower levels of the Glassworks, while the main area has 16 goblins running around.
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Never put the advanced template on gremlins, unless you're ready for a 23 round fight.
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My dog pissed in my bed.
I literally own nothing else in my life at this point but that and my phone and my crappy 200 dollar chromebook and that stupid dog pissed in the one luxury I had.
The one thing I got for myself. I don't even own a box spring or a frame. Just one nice memory foam king sized bed. The only thing I splurged on for me when I got here. I own no chairs. No tv. One already broken walmart end table. This one stupid thing for me, a comfortable place to sleep, and that stupid animal pisses on it.
There's an empty living room and he pees where I sleep. Where I let him sleep next to me. I even got my own room With my own bed away from my girlfriend just because I wanted this one little thing to myself after all this time, after losing everything with my divorce, and again with my Ohio move... And I can't even have that.
9 years I wanted a dog, and my ex was adamantly anti-pet. I get a dog and he pisses in my bed. 9 years. And it turns out she was right. I have a crippled incontinent ferret who is nothing but work and sadness and now debt for vet bills, and a retarded puppy who can't scratch on a door or give any signal that he needs to go...and I just took him out like two hours ago.
The other day I said to my ex I wasn't sure if I was happy. I'm sure. I'm not. I'm not even close. I'm not even mediocre. I just hate life. I can't even have a mattress to myself that isn't piss stained.
F+*@ I miss my old life. I know a dog peeing on your bed shouldn't be a big deal, but after all this...it was literally the only thing I had of any value. It's the straw that broke the camel's back.
I can top that, when we moved to Seattle we didn't even have a bed and then our first apartment was haunted so we couldn't sleep in the bedroom (I realize other people will laugh at that but if you have a better way of calling it when two people have the same recurring nightmare night after night until they move out to the living room, I'd like to hear it).
My dad's dog will revenge shit all over the house if you yell at her.
She requires constant positive reinforcement.
That is to say others have been where you are and survived, so you'll be fine.
And trust me, as a lifelong dog owner, worth it.
He'll get better.
And yes, I still wear my favorite hoodie my dog chewed the zipper off of.
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I am tired of mere survival. Survival doesn't mean much to someone who's been suicidal on the regular, and depressed more than not. I think in 36 years of life I've not hated my life...okay age 0-6, then I got isolated from being gifted, then there was teenager years, then....okay that one year in college was okay...then maybe a third of my marriage...so...10 years? 10/36? Not a good ratio.
Though I appreciate your sentiment and understand your attempt to comfort. You're a good man cap.
The dog is already in bed with me. I know he's worth it. I just...my one goddamn thing...
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The other day I said to my ex I wasn't sure if I was happy. I'm sure. I'm not. I'm not even close. I'm not even mediocre. I just hate life. I can't even have a mattress to myself that isn't piss stained.F$#% I miss my old life. I know a dog peeing on your bed shouldn't be a big deal, but after all this...it was literally the only thing I had of any value. It's the straw that broke the camel's back.
Hey...I don't know if I'm reading too far into this...but please don't do anything life-threatening to yourself tonight. Those last two paragraphs are sounding to me like you may be contemplating it.
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No I'm not. Not at all. I don't want to make my mom, brother, girlfriend and ex sad.
Now if I had a time machine and could just sterilize my father... F&#$ing ass having me knowing his own issues and still passing that on. Selfish prick and his need to reproduce. They could've adopted but NO we need our own little dna clone complete with psychological issues out the ass.
Though if I did that, I'd never be born, so I'd never sterilize him, so I'd be born, so I'd sterilize him, so I wouldn't...
Why does everything suddenly taste purple?
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I can top that, when we moved to Seattle we didn't even have a bed and then our first apartment was haunted so we couldn't sleep in the bedroom (I realize other people will laugh at that but if you have a better way of calling it when two people have the same recurring nightmare night after night until they move out to the living room, I'd like to hear it).
Toxic mold syndrome. It can effect you mentally to have feelings of depression and dread. You can leave the house and suddenly feel better but upon entering the concentrated are area the symptoms can immediately flare up. It can make a house or even a room seem dreadful and depressing to enter. As far as the nightmares goes that gets a little complicated but you get the idea. (not saying it was or wasn't ghosts but I actually knew people that had a similar experience and that was what it was. It wasn't nightmares per say but pretty close)
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I can do nothing but take your word for it, but just so you know I've texted Freehold to get in touch with you, but it's also 11pm Eastern and he may already be in bed. Your words just set off alarm bells with me.
But...on that time machine note...when people go back in time for destructive purposes...say killing Hitler...why don't they just park the time machine on the person instead of coming up with huge elaborate plans that are doomed to fail? Just drop Dorothy's house on the target, as it were?
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Nah. I'm a coward. I don't know what's next if I do. My faith has kinda dwindled hard with time. Also I'm more afraid I'd f+$& it up and end up brain dead or crippled or such. I say suicidal but it's more just being tired of being alive. There's a distinct difference. Like if a bus hit me I don't think I'd be upset, but I wouldn't jump in front of one.
I believe they call that passively suicidal.
Anyway I can only hold off seroquel's sleepy grasp so long. I promise I'm not doing anything stupid. I'm only killing myself like most Americans...slowly through a shitty diet, a sedentary lifestyle, and too much stress. Have a good night. Thanks for listening. That matters more than you think.
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VE, that sucks :(
Simple Solution or Nature’s Miracle, depending on what brand of cleaner you can find, will do wonders to get the smell out of the mattress, so it can be salvaged. Potty training puppies is often frustrating, but it does get better. You can do this. Although it never feels like that when you wake up in wet. But it makes a great funny story later. At least that’s what I always tell myself when I’m scrubbing up pee/poop/vomit. Anyhow, the point is that everything isn’t ruined, and you can make it through this, and all is not bad even if sometimes it feels like it. *hugs*
Edit: Also, I know that feeling too well. Finding the right meds to help is a process. I know you’re working on that already so I wish you luck and sending lots of good vibes your way
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I can top that, when we moved to Seattle we didn't even have a bed and then our first apartment was haunted so we couldn't sleep in the bedroom (I realize other people will laugh at that but if you have a better way of calling it when two people have the same recurring nightmare night after night until they move out to the living room, I'd like to hear it).Toxic mold syndrome. It can effect you mentally to have feelings of depression and dread. You can leave the house and suddenly feel better but upon entering the concentrated are area the symptoms can immediately flare up. It can make a house or even a room seem dreadful and depressing to enter. As far as the nightmares goes that gets a little complicated but you get the idea. (not saying it was or wasn't ghosts but I actually knew people that had a similar experience and that was what it was. It wasn't nightmares per say but pretty close)
Nope, had to be ghosts.
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My cat has decided that I’m no longer allowed in the bathroom unsupervised and will meow and claw at the door relentlessly until I let her in. This is equal parts adorable and annoying.
VE, I am so sorry that you are having such a hard time. I am just a phone call away if you need to talk. Good luck and I am glad that you are here with us.
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For anyone who wanted to know what teaching high school is like, I had a two-minute derail in economics today about the taste of milk.
MILK IS DELICIOUS!
We have a high temperature of 47 for today.
I'm still wearing my shorts.
And it's windy, which means we probably won't see 47 degrees.
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I'm here. I know Vank was worried. I sleep again. Meds.
Frosty grip gloves aren't made like they used to.
I'm here. I know Vank was worried. I sleep again. Meds.
But, if you're here, where am I...
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Why do I hate the "new" math so passionately?
For more than a decade, I had to fight tooth and nail to get my students to put down their calculators and try to understand what they were looking at. "Any monkey can push buttons. Until you know what you're looking at, you have no idea whether the number that's coming out of your calculator is right or wrong."
I cited and showed countless examples: The tripling in catastrophic building failures once AutoCAD was considered a standard architectural tool. My own students who would get answers that were orders of magnitude off (6x7 = 42,684??!?!?!!?) and not even recognize it as an issue. Proofs that if you draw a triangle on a piece of paper, you can prove that all triangles are isosceles because of the way people naturally draw triangles. Showing that even a top-rated tool like the Desmos graphing calculator shows no issues with (x-1)/(x-1) at x=1. Long demonstrations showing just how many parentheses and grouping symbols are required just to get a calculator to give you the correct answer.
In short, a calculator is a tool much like a chainsaw: Yes, in properly-trained hands it's a godsend. But in the hands of someone who's never held one before and who doesn't even understand its basic principles, it's a danger to everyone.
So what's "new math"'s approach to every problem? "Pull out your graphing calculator first and see what it looks like!"
Well,
(1) Students aren't trained to use graphing calculators, which are notoriously tricky in terms of getting the correct function entered.
(2) Requiring graphing calculators is ludicrously discriminatory against low-income families. "Everyone who can afford a $130 calculator just to take Algebra I, raise your hand!"
(3) Building an early and total dependence on an unnecessary tool drastically reduces overall mathematics comprehension. I still recall back in my teaching days when I could determine whether or not a student had attended a calculator-dependent school with a single question such as, "What is six times seven?"
And then have them pull out their calculator, give them a problem, and have them get the answer incorrect 100% of the time because it would require grouping. Students never get grouping correct on graphing calculators, because it's a PITA.
But the graphing calculator lobbyists have won, and now every single problem my son has is, "Step 1: Plug this into your graphing calculator".
I am... more than a little displeased.
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** spoiler omitted **...
I had that exact same argument with The Adult Kid's math teachers in high school, 10 years ago.
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"Does my story have to have a genre?"
"...yes. All stories have genres."
"What if it's just normal?"
"...realistic fiction."
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Not only does it have to have a genre, but it's also possible for it to be in more than one genre! Take that student brain!
Scint, every time you tell one of these stories I have flashbacks to my mother arguing with students when I was in high school.
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I'm getting paid a ridiculous amount of money to play in the mud today, with a mini bobcat.
For the record, any amount of money is a ridiculous amount for playing in the mud all day with a mini bobcat.