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Ah, there's nothing like being a dad! I had to go into Impus Minor's room to talk to him about tonight's cancelled Strange Aeons game.
NobodysHome:
Impus Minor:
NH: Oh, nothing. I just like to come into your room when I need to fart.
IM: I hope you're not serious!
The fact that one of my kids could think I was serious about such a thing just delights me no end...
EDIT: OK. It would have probably been even MORE disturbing if I'd done it naked...
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The Raven, read by Christopher Lee
Miss that totally rockin' righteous dude.
Taking a post from myself in another thread, because these names deserve more recognition:
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Awesome intros~! Crazy cartoons!
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So, Tequila Sunrise got me thinking, and with the canceled game tonight I figured I'd put my money where my mouth was and evaluate my immediate representative, Barbara Lee, whom I've voted against in the last 2-3 elections.
It's pretty easy to get your representative's voting record, and you then just rate every vote from 1 (I strongly disagree with how my rep voted) to 5 (I strongly agree), and you have to accept that you're going to get a lot of 3s because guess what? A lot of what your representative does is rubber-stamping appropriations budgets.
The result? In 2019 Barbara Lee gets a 3.13 from me, which is astonishing in that it's above average in a candidate I opposed.
And the reason is really rather startling.
Candidates SAY they're going to do a lot of things while they're running. Some of the things the Democratic field have said during their debates has been out-and-out alarming.
But comparing the wild things Ms. Lee has said to the legislation she's introduced? She's actually a pretty darned good legislator. Yeah, we disagree in some areas, but I can see her point clearly, even if I disagree with it.
I strongly recommend it as a 45-minute exercise.
It was... enlightening.
EDIT: And in case you're wondering, yes, a 3.13 and the stuff I've seen her introduce based on her voting record is enough that I'll vote FOR her next time she comes up. What a concept! Voting FOR a candidate is such an alien concept to me!
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** spoiler omitted **** spoiler omitted **
Thanks for the insight, I truly appreciate it.
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Awesome intros~! Crazy cartoons!Taking a post from myself in another thread, because these names deserve more recognition:
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i always wanted to see the Visionaries(one of the greatest, shortest openings ever) and King Arthur and the Knights of Justice (one of the greatest, longest openings ever) fight each other.
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So, Tequila Sunrise got me thinking, and with the canceled game tonight I figured I'd put my money where my mouth was and evaluate my immediate representative, Barbara Lee, whom I've voted against in the last 2-3 elections.
Ooh fun idea. My rep is Andy Biggs, who is infamous 'round these parts for:
Looking at his Key Votes via Vote Smart...
*spends 30 minutes tallying scores*
OK, I actually counted appropriations votes for or against him, because they're boring but they do matter. He's basically Ron Swanson except authoritarian and mealy-mouthed, so he's ideologically opposed to a functioning government and literally voted against every single appropriations bill.
He did get three 5s due to apparent bouts of integrity-over-party, but overall his final score of 1.51 does not in the least surprise me. I will vote against and work against him as a PC so long as he holds any office, barring any road to damascus moments or the sky falling in.
Taking a post from myself in another thread, because these names deserve more recognition:
and
Awesome intros~! Crazy cartoons!
i always wanted to see the Visionaries(one of the greatest, shortest openings ever) and King Arthur and the Knights of Justice (one of the greatest, longest openings ever) fight each other.
When the intro is better than everything in the cartoon put together, bossasaur!
Central Organization of Police Specialist - fighting crime... in a future time... C.O.P.S.!
EDIT: fixed coding?
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Use it to bribe your way into her fan club so that you may destroy it from within.Cleaning out my phone contacts today, I discovered that I have Sarah McLachlan's mobile number. Yes, the Sarah McLachlan of SPCA I Will Remember You [in]fame[y]. Well, my bestie has phone interviewed her twice, so I'm reasonably sure I somehow got her number through him. Not sure whether he sent it to me accidentally, or I stole it at some point.
Now what to do with this information? Mwahahahahaha...
Yes DEATH TO MULTITALENTED 90s ARTISTS oooh you know half this stuff is pretty good and she's so wholesomely Canadian...
*TS is never seen again without wearing...whatever it is that McLachlan fans wear, maybe a Canadian teardrop dreamcatcher thingie?*
*Queue Angel*
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So does that sound like a nighttime incontinence medicine to anyone else?a medication that solves the problems of constipation and sleeplessness simultaneously sounds like something I would make.
Guinness!
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Hello, John!
And seriously, Pandora? Now BabyMetal = O Fortuna? (The most famous piece from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, which is actually overall quite a good work, so it's too bad O Fortuna gets all the love.)
I'd guess O Fortuna, as re-arranged/covered by one of the best Swedish Metal bands, Therion?
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Ah, there's nothing like being a dad! I had to go into Impus Minor's room to talk to him about tonight's cancelled Strange Aeons game.
NobodysHome:
Impus Minor:
NH: Oh, nothing. I just like to come into your room when I need to fart.
IM: I hope you're not serious!The fact that one of my kids could think I was serious about such a thing just delights me no end...
EDIT: OK. It would have probably been even MORE disturbing if I'd done it naked...
at this point, I think you just helicopter around your house.
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So, Tequila Sunrise got me thinking, and with the canceled game tonight I figured I'd put my money where my mouth was and evaluate my immediate representative, Barbara Lee, whom I've voted against in the last 2-3 elections.Ooh fun idea. My rep is Andy Biggs, who is infamous 'round these parts for:
** spoiler omitted **
Looking at his Key Votes via Vote Smart...*spends 30 minutes tallying scores*
OK, I actually counted appropriations votes for or against him, because they're boring but they do matter. He's basically Ron Swanson except authoritarian and mealy-mouthed, so he's ideologically opposed to a functioning government and literally voted against every single appropriations bill.
He did get three 5s due to apparent bouts of integrity-over-party, but overall his final score of 1.51 does not in the least surprise me. I will vote against and work against him as a PC so long as he holds any office, barring any road to damascus moments or the sky falling in.
Lets see, my rep is...
Huh. Some kind of bicycle.
It...moves by itself? Thats unusual for a bicycle of any sort, especially one elected to public office.
It's walking in front of some kind of...old timey cannon? Very strange.
Okay. Apparently it is insane, as it has just doused itself in lamp oil and has SET ITSELF ALIGHT! AMAZING that it did that without hands or opposable thumbs.
Its still moving. It is climbing inside the cannon. Is this some kind of circus trick?
I think some kind of mouse is on top of the cannon. It seems to be...aiming?
Oh my god its going to FIRE! SCATTER! EVERYBODY SCATTER AND HIT THE DECK!
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My mom came to visit for a week.
She spent over $800 on stuff for our upcoming daughter.
Between Tala's grandparents buying the crib (a converter that becomes a toddler bed and then a full bed), the epic stroller we found at a thrift shop for 10 bucks, and this, now we have everything...baby changing table, carseat (converts over time to a booster seat up to 100lb), bassinet, so damn many cloth diapers, so much clothing, and more toys than a baby ever will need.
And anxiety still asks "do we need more?"
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Yes, VE, you do. Trouble is, you won't even know it until the moment you actually have to have it.
Get used to that feeling, because the kid is going to do that to you for at least 20 years.
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I'd guess O Fortuna, as re-arranged/covered by one of the best Swedish Metal bands, Therion?Hello, John!
And seriously, Pandora? Now BabyMetal = O Fortuna? (The most famous piece from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, which is actually overall quite a good work, so it's too bad O Fortuna gets all the love.)
No; it's a straight-up version of it. Not the best I've heard, but not terrible. It was just odd among all the anime theme songs and other nonsense.
I swear, considering Facebook claims that if you hit "Like" 20 times it'll know your tastes better than your own spouse, with over 200 likes/dislikes you'd think Pandora would know me better...
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My mom came to visit for a week.
She spent over $800 on stuff for our upcoming daughter.
Between Tala's grandparents buying the crib (a converter that becomes a toddler bed and then a full bed), the epic stroller we found at a thrift shop for 10 bucks, and this, now we have everything...baby changing table, carseat (converts over time to a booster seat up to 100lb), bassinet, so damn many cloth diapers, so much clothing, and more toys than a baby ever will need.
And anxiety still asks "do we need more?"
Sounds like you have the "big ones" covered. The *one* thing I see missing is a diaper service, and it seems like your mom might be able to gift you one for a year or something (even the ones around here aren't that expensive).
Having done both disposable diapers and a diaper service, I'll swear by the diaper service, because having 80 cloth diapers a week to not only deal with what they're supposed to but to clean up everything else as well is golden. As I think I've mentioned, last year I bought 40 diapers just to use as cleaning rags and I loooooooove them.
But 3-4 onesies (you'll go through a couple a day), a car seat, a crib, a stroller, and a "stuff bag", plus some bottles should do you nicely. We never used a bassinet; the detachable/portable car seat was plenty.
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Gods, why is being honest such a PITA?
As I think I mentioned, our Chase Disney card got skimmed and someone bought $93 worth of gas in Bakersfield using it. So I dutifully called up and reported the fraud, and in spite of my clearly saying, "That is the only fraudulent one, the rest were me," (GothBard heard it), they cancelled over $300 in pending charges, and refunded me two legitimate charges that had gone through.
So I called them yesterday morning and dutifully went charge-by-charge through the list with the rep, and she flagged all of the pending ones plus the two that went through and said that they'd fix it and make sure the vendors got paid and I got billed.
This morning I checked my account (as I do every morning, and I highly recommend considering the level of fraud that goes on these days) and of course none of the charges have appeared.
If Chase wants to hand me $300, that's their business. But seriously; they've been quite good to me and had excellent customer service. I'd prefer not to rip them off if they could show a thread of competence here...
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So, yesterday hit 90°F, as expected, but was only a Spare the Air "advisory" (in other words, it's going to be bad air. If you have asthma or other breathing problems, consider staying indoors).
Today it's supposed to be a bit cooler (86°F) and I believe it because it's 56°F this morning instead of 70°F, but not being able to walk two days in a row is... frustrating.
Back in my youth I could lie around for a week and still be in relatively good shape. In my 50s I take 2 days off and my body reverts to couch potato status.
Stupid aging! Stop that!
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As someone that has had two kids, cloth diapers are gross.
Target actually has a generic diaper brand (Up & Up) that we loved and was pretty cheap.
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Cloth diapers are a pain.
And Nasty.
They are a nasty pain.
That is all.
Seriously, I had MUCH worse problems with kids and cloth diapers, (rash, etc) not counting dealing with the nasty diapers themselves.
Find a disposable brand that doesn't leak, and change often. Solves a LOT of problems all at once.
From the aged wizzie with a total of 4 kids of his own, and who helped with his 2 siblings back in his mis-spent youth.
:)
And enjoy the baby! Because they want to be with you!
Because then they hit teenage years, and suddenly cant be seen with you in public?!?!? ;P
;)
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Cloth diapers are a pain.
And Nasty.
They are a nasty pain.
That is all.Seriously, I had MUCH worse problems with kids and cloth diapers, (rash, etc) not counting dealing with the nasty diapers themselves.
Find a disposable brand that doesn't leak, and change often. Solves a LOT of problems all at once.
From the aged wizzie with a total of 4 kids of his own, and who helped with his 2 siblings back in his mis-spent youth.
:)And enjoy the baby! Because they want to be with you!
Because then they hit teenage years, and suddenly cant be seen with you in public?!?!? ;P;)
Thankfully we've stayed hip and current enough our 15 year old hasn't reached that point.
I suspect all the farting in their room keeps us young.
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Both of my current set hit that stage about 16,
My daughter hit the 'I'm embarrassed to be seen with you, can I just walk the last mile to school?!?' at 16, but by 18 she hit the 'When my dad's not actually TRYING to embarrass me, he's still pretty cool' phase again.
My son hit the 'embarrassed to be with you in public' stage at 15. Hard. He's 16 now and it's still there. >_<
I think once he makes it to 18 or so we'll be fine.
IF he lives that long,... o.O
(Daddy wizard pours extra shots into his evening tea, and repeats his mantra,... 'This too shall pass, this too shall pass')
;)
I blame myself for NOT taking away their electronics as much as I could have/should have. ;P
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Cloth diapers are a pain.
And Nasty.
They are a nasty pain.
That is all.Seriously, I had MUCH worse problems with kids and cloth diapers, (rash, etc) not counting dealing with the nasty diapers themselves.
Find a disposable brand that doesn't leak, and change often. Solves a LOT of problems all at once.
From the aged wizzie with a total of 4 kids of his own, and who helped with his 2 siblings back in his mis-spent youth.
:)And enjoy the baby! Because they want to be with you!
Because then they hit teenage years, and suddenly cant be seen with you in public?!?!? ;P;)
so, which diapers do you use?
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so, which diapers do you use? ** spoiler omitted **Cloth diapers are a pain.
And Nasty.
They are a nasty pain.
That is all.Seriously, I had MUCH worse problems with kids and cloth diapers, (rash, etc) not counting dealing with the nasty diapers themselves.
Find a disposable brand that doesn't leak, and change often. Solves a LOT of problems all at once.
From the aged wizzie with a total of 4 kids of his own, and who helped with his 2 siblings back in his mis-spent youth.
:)And enjoy the baby! Because they want to be with you!
Because then they hit teenage years, and suddenly cant be seen with you in public?!?!? ;P;)
Aged Wizzie is not THAT old!
,... Yet,...;P
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I wanna go to a convention!
Where you at? WHERE YOU AT?!?!
Yeah, I dont have the energy for that anymore, but I LOVE trying!
:)
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Hello, John.
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Both of my current set hit that stage about 16,
My daughter hit the 'I'm embarrassed to be seen with you, can I just walk the last mile to school?!?' at 16, but by 18 she hit the 'When my dad's not actually TRYING to embarrass me, he's still pretty cool' phase again.
My son hit the 'embarrassed to be with you in public' stage at 15. Hard. He's 16 now and it's still there. >_<
I remembered the day I learned to be embarrassed to be seen with my mom in public.
Due to my mother's deep seated fears about me being home alone and naturally causing a fire or smoking weed or both because...well, what ELSE are kids doing nowadays, my mother REFUSED to let me walk home from school and be in the house by myself. Clearly, that was dangerous. She instead demanded I do the smart thing and wait for her at the library a little ways away from school. I was to do my homework there and read. And above all, never leave the building until she came to pick me up. Ever. Upon pain of death. There are monsters in the tall grass. Never leave the cave.
It wasnt as bad it sounded. I discovered a lot of books and anthologies that are old friends now. Sword and Sorceress. Shadowrun. Xanth. Thieves World(which i knew of before, but this tiny library in this tiny town had a better collection than the Brooklyn Public Library). There was even the occasional book on COMIC BOOKS, which was really really really cool.
There were also books on psychology. Treatises on human reproduction. Long, dry books on history, some of it local. Advanced texts on human reproduction. Steven King novels that had recently been released. Books on human reproduction. I think you sense the theme here. Puberty had started for me a little while ago, and my interest in girls was slowly going from a perpetual, mild scientific curiosity to a burning desire for dedicated, practical field research.
Not that that was going to happen here. The occasional kid from school I knew(I didnt have any friends really, save for Rich, and he didnt come by the library that often). Most people there were either senior citizens or guys studying for college. Neither really wanted me bothering them. So I made peace with my situation, and read every book on human sexuality available. And some others. You know, for variety.
Then, one cool autumn day, The Bad Kids showed up.
These werent the regular bad kids, mind. The ones who muttered racial slurs while I was around, asked me where my tail was, threatened to beat me up, bragged about killing animals on the weekend, or were otherwise all around malcontents, no. These were the real Bad Kids. Absolutely noone messed with them. They wore leather jackets and cut class regularly to smoke on the track at the high school, where junior high school kids were not allowed. At least two of them had been left back a year(or two) and were physically huge compared to the other kids in class. They were rumored to sell and use drugs, which made no sense to me- drugs only existed in Brooklyn, right? Right. The guys had...earrings. The girls had NOSE rings. In another time and place they would have looked like they walked out of the 2nd ed Clanbook: Brujah. Here and now, they looked dangerous. And COOL.
I knew one of them, sorta kinda. One of the girls actually talked to me at school. She had a SERIOUS punk haircut, wore dark eyeliner and s~$@kicker boots that made her taller than some teachers, smoked a pack of marlboro reds whenever the teachers werent around and, well, had boobs. She didnt wear a bra, and that went from an affectation to...more interesting...over the course of the school year. She laughed at me when she caught me gawking at her one day, as she thought everyone from the big city dressed like she did. I said no, and she seemed to find that concerning. A conversation grew from there, and we chatted every now and again. In response to my occasional gawking, she made it very clear that she wasnt interested in me in a gentle way, and promised to introduce me to someone who might be more my speed in the future.
Well. It seemed the future was now. Huddled in the middle of them was a new Bad Kid, who seemed to be pointed in my direction. She was of mixed race it seemed- which was important, considering the number of subtle threats I had recieved about expressing interest in the white girls who lived in the area. Which was every girl in the area save one girl that everyone thought was my sister for some reason, and...well, this one. Who had cut school so much I didnt even know her name. The one Bad Kid I knew whispered something to her and pointed her to me, which caused her to laugh. The group walked over to me and asked me to hang out outside, and as I was thumbing through a copy of Thieves World Book 5 for the umpteenth time, I thought it would be best to ignore mom's nonsensical fears and get some fresh air. Besides, the librarian had kicked out the group en masse for making too much noise.
Outside the group quickly decided they had business in the library parking lot, which is to say the semi paved area the librarians parked their cars in. From there, everyone split up to explore the woods that lay beyond that parking lot. Leaving me alone with my own Bad Kid. Who happened to be a girl. Was she a Bad Girl? I would have to ask her.
The silence was deafening. I hadn't been left alone with a girl before. Not this way, at least. Eventially I asked her her name, what she liked to do, why she didnt come to school...all at once. She answered, kind of rolling her eyes all the time. It didnt take a genius to realize I wasnt really keeping her interest. But suddenly something shifted between us. She quickly said she was too cold, and asked me to keep her warm and kind of...melted? into my arms.
I had never held a girl before.
I had no idea where to put my hands, so I just wrapped my arms around her, awkwardly. Her leather jacket was like refreshingly cool to the touch(my face seemed to be composed less of skin and more of a mass of prickly heat, in comparison), and smelled like...well, leather. But also girl-like. She looked at me with eyes that were dark like mine, and seemed to be waiting for me to do something. She was amused by my hesitance at first, but her good humor was running out. I had to do something.
Her neck was an open, inviting target, so I bit it, sorta kinda. I was expecting a smack or a yelp, as I was being playful, but she just kind of gasped. Nor did she push me away. This was not the reaction I was expecting. The wind seemed to stop. Time seemed to stop. The world fell away. There was just me and her...
And the familar sound of a knocking engine of a 1980 sky blue Buick Skylark.
Mom's car.
It pulled up to the parking spot we were in front of(we didnt go into the woods, as I was afraid a deer might attack us. No lie, it had happened to other kids in the area that year).
Similar to how the girl had poured herself into my arms, Mom poured out of the car. She was INCENSED that I had dared to leave the safety of the hallowed library against her orders. She demanded to know why I had left The Building I Was Never Supposed To Leave, and I just didn't have an answer for her, as my mouth wouldnt work. My legs wouldnt work. I was pinned underneath the weight of her stare. The girl I was with seemed to evaporate into the ether. Eventually she ordered me into the car and drove me home. I was harangued the entire time. What could have been so important that I would leave?!?
Later that evening, she reiterated the story to my then-stepfather, who did his best to back her up, but failed to come up with a single punishment for me once he heard a girl was involved. He kind of looked at mom in a strange way, but mom was unfazed.
You know what WAS fazed? My reputation at school.
Overnight I was a mama's boy. I mean, being an unpopular kid in Intermediate Band playing an unpopular instrument(low brass forever) didnt help, but this turned me into a pariah. I elicited giggles everywhere I went. A few kids were mature enough to give me the time of day, but my social sphere shrank to the point that only the kids in my church youth group would talk to me. And even then, not that much.
Thanks for that, mom.
What kind of parent does it make me when my 18-year-old son wakes up, finds the faded copy of Naughty Bear he begged us to buy for him back when he was 9 or 10, starts playing it, meticulously scaring each and every one of his fluffy companions to death...
...and I wax nostalgic about what a fantastic kid he was...
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Both of my current set hit that stage about 16,
My daughter hit the 'I'm embarrassed to be seen with you, can I just walk the last mile to school?!?' at 16, but by 18 she hit the 'When my dad's not actually TRYING to embarrass me, he's still pretty cool' phase again.
My son hit the 'embarrassed to be with you in public' stage at 15. Hard. He's 16 now and it's still there. >_<
I remembered the day I learned to be embarrassed to be seen with my mom in public.
** spoiler omitted **...
LOLOL. See? You should have been like me, and had no friends. That way you couldn't be embarrassed!
Or like Impus Major, who takes great pride in my horrific lack of cool. He's trying to teach me to be even less cool and I'm failing at it.
Which I find utterly hilarious.
EDIT: I think that's my favorite part: With my weird pants, utter lack of concern for what the kids think of me, and treating them as equal human beings instead of "stupid kids", my general impression is that the kids don't consider me cool, but consider me a "tolerable weirdo". Which is better than most parents get, so I'll take it.
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Hm. Fallout series on Steam is under 50-60% discounts.
EDIT: This is weird timing, considering they've decided to charge $100 a year (equivalent) for Season Passes for FO76 for limited eight-man servers.
This amuses me immensely, since Bethesda did everything it possibly could to alienate its user base with the Fallout 76 apocalypse and its unapologetic aftermath.
GothBard is supposed to play games as part of her job. She refuses to ever give another penny to Bethesda. Shiro is a whale, but ditto.
Bethesda really done messed up.
So the idea that now they're charging $100 per "season" for the "privilege" of using a Fallout 76 server that works is... amusing.
And I just read a note that a premium container that is available to people who paid for the pass occasionally eats things stored inside. Also, the "private" Fallout servers are not really private because people who are on friend list can join without invitation...
Good job, part XCIII, by Bethesda...
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"I figure if I don't succeed at world domination I can get a regular job" - Tiny T-Rex, setting goals.
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Hm. Fallout series on Steam is under 50-60% discounts.
EDIT: This is weird timing, considering they've decided to charge $100 a year (equivalent) for Season Passes for FO76 for limited eight-man servers.
This amuses me immensely, since Bethesda did everything it possibly could to alienate its user base with the Fallout 76 apocalypse and its unapologetic aftermath.
GothBard is supposed to play games as part of her job. She refuses to ever give another penny to Bethesda. Shiro is a whale, but ditto.
Bethesda really done messed up.
So the idea that now they're charging $100 per "season" for the "privilege" of using a Fallout 76 server that works is... amusing.
And I just read a note that a premium container that is available to people who paid for the pass occasionally eats things stored inside. Also, the "private" Fallout servers are not really private because people who are on friend list can join without invitation...
Good job, part XCIII, by Bethesda...
It really gets better and better. Shiro started reading the end user agreement, and not only can anyone on your friends list join at any time, but if *you* sign off they all get kicked. So it's an instance that only exists when *you* play, and that any random yahoo who friended you 13 months ago because there were so few people actually playing the game can join.
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"I figure if I don't succeed at world domination I can get a regular job" - Tiny T-Rex, setting goals.
Isn't he too young to face such disillusionment?
On the other hand, that might be the healthier approach...
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As my weight increases to my heaviest in life, back problems begin.
Wtf kind of design flaw b#@$##$* is that? You get big, and your body makes it painful to do what is required to get slim?
This is as dumb as putting waste elimination behind the recreation area.
Oh. And of course depression over it all. But I won't waste thread space outlining that beyond "the ever present grows."
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Speaking of poor design, I've been in the hospital since Monday, but they're discharging me this afternoon!
I went east for a family reunion ten weeks ago, caught a lung infection, tried to tough it out when I got back, then tried an oral antibiotic at home, then got myself a PICC line for a home IV antibiotic, then finally got admitted on Monday when none of the above worked. My doc still isn't sure wth is going on -- he's still waiting on test results -- but apparently I'm not quite ill enough to stay in hospital.
Which I have mixed feelings about. I love being home of course, but there is still something wrong with my lungs. Well I asked the hospital docs to write me a work letter so I can have a couple days off and then a week out of the sun, so that'll give me a nice breather.
Oh and next time I'm admitted, I'm bringing all of my own meds -- it seems every day I trip over another hospital policy, some of which seem to have been designed specifically to make my treatment more difficult. >:( What I wouldn't give to have one of those fur'reigner hospitals that understands that patients with chronic conditions don't suddenly lose the ability to manage our own meds when hospitalized.
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Get well soon, TS. You'll be in my prayers.
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Hope you recover quickly & fully, TS!
Today I went to the district congress of the political party to which I belong, which was a reasonable do. I didn't get hauled over the coals after making my treasurer's report, anyway.
After that, I went home, did some rapier practice, then decided to find a nice minor blues backing track on Youtube and do my fake 70s Carlos Santana thing for about half an hour, which proper cheered me up.
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Get well soon, TS. You'll be in my prayers.
Thanks, VE, hope you can sort out your weight and back problems despite everything!
A briefly religious comment:
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Heal up, Tequila Sunrise.
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Ah, nothing like the loooooong moment of silence that lets you know you hit home.
Telephone Spammer: Hello, I am calling on behalf of Fake Company to see whether you qualify for vague California program. How are you today?
NobodysHome: I'm... fine...
TS: OK, to make sure I am speaking to the right person, are you the homeowner?
NH: No... ... I'm his prostitute.
TS: Oh, OK, sir. Then have a nice day, sir. Goodbye!
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Ah, nothing like the loooooong moment of silence that lets you know you hit home.
Telephone Spammer: Hello, I am calling on behalf of Fake Company to see whether you qualify for vague California program. How are you today?
NobodysHome: I'm... fine...
TS: OK, to make sure I am speaking to the right person, are you the homeowner?
NH: No... ... I'm his prostitute.
TS: Oh, OK, sir. Then have a nice day, sir. Goodbye!
This is the best response ever.