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You know, we have internet, streamed shows, and other entertainment for long dark nights these days, Old Man Freehold.We used to get a lot of kids back when we lived in a duplex on the corner in Normal, IL. (Yes, the town is called Normal, and there's a historical reason.) Then we moved and got very, very few. Then we bought a house and moved to East Peoria. We've had one family show up in the last 5 years. Nobody in the last 4 years.And Another House Goes Dark
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we only got about 3 or 5 groups all night. Kids around here are growing up, and we havent had another natural disaster to shore up new kid numbers in quite some time.
Heres hoping we get a nice, heavily snowy winter. Like for other reasons, not the usual ones.
waitaminute- how am *I* the old one after NHs rant?!
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waitaminute- how am *I* the old one after NHs rant?!You know, we have internet, streamed shows, and other entertainment for long dark nights these days, Old Man Freehold.We used to get a lot of kids back when we lived in a duplex on the corner in Normal, IL. (Yes, the town is called Normal, and there's a historical reason.) Then we moved and got very, very few. Then we bought a house and moved to East Peoria. We've had one family show up in the last 5 years. Nobody in the last 4 years.And Another House Goes Dark
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we only got about 3 or 5 groups all night. Kids around here are growing up, and we havent had another natural disaster to shore up new kid numbers in quite some time.
Heres hoping we get a nice, heavily snowy winter. Like for other reasons, not the usual ones.
[Nelson]HAHA![/Nelson]
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waitaminute- how am *I* the old one after NHs rant?!You know, we have internet, streamed shows, and other entertainment for long dark nights these days, Old Man Freehold.We used to get a lot of kids back when we lived in a duplex on the corner in Normal, IL. (Yes, the town is called Normal, and there's a historical reason.) Then we moved and got very, very few. Then we bought a house and moved to East Peoria. We've had one family show up in the last 5 years. Nobody in the last 4 years.And Another House Goes Dark
** spoiler omitted **...
we only got about 3 or 5 groups all night. Kids around here are growing up, and we havent had another natural disaster to shore up new kid numbers in quite some time.
Heres hoping we get a nice, heavily snowy winter. Like for other reasons, not the usual ones.
Nobody was already old when he showed around. You grew to be old here.
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It's essay time. I've gotten through almost 1/3 of them, and...they're both better and worse than I was fearing/hoping.
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In good news, I really like chia seeds. They add a great texture to juice, and probably any drink.
In bad news, I now have a chia plant sprouting from my bathroom sink, where I must have deposited an unchewed chia seed while brushing my teeth.
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In good news, after two weeks of non-treatment for my lung infection (which is not one but two strains of MRSA), my doctor has finally decided I'm worth treating.
The bad news, he's re-admitting me to hospital, probably today. :(
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In good news, after two weeks of non-treatment for my lung infection (which is not one but two strains of MRSA), my doctor has finally decided I'm worth treating.
The bad news, he's re-admitting me to hospital, probably today. :(
Ugh. Sorry to hear that! Good luck!
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Oof. Get healed quickly, TS!
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TS heal up man.
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waitaminute- how am *I* the old one after NHs rant?!You know, we have internet, streamed shows, and other entertainment for long dark nights these days, Old Man Freehold.We used to get a lot of kids back when we lived in a duplex on the corner in Normal, IL. (Yes, the town is called Normal, and there's a historical reason.) Then we moved and got very, very few. Then we bought a house and moved to East Peoria. We've had one family show up in the last 5 years. Nobody in the last 4 years.And Another House Goes Dark
** spoiler omitted **...
we only got about 3 or 5 groups all night. Kids around here are growing up, and we havent had another natural disaster to shore up new kid numbers in quite some time.
Heres hoping we get a nice, heavily snowy winter. Like for other reasons, not the usual ones.
[Nelson]HAHA![/Nelson]
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I hope that you get better soon, TS.
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Arkathiel, The Last Lord Of Tor Entheriel. The last of the ghost pack for now. No post tomorrow.
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Get well soon, TS!
What might cheer you up a bit, or might not, is that the BBC are making a TV adaptation of Michael Moorcock's 'Runestaff' books.. I pray that they don't cock it up.
Also, ALL (DE) won Fridays by actually getting a doctor's appointment at 2.30, though what made that much less funny is that she had to go and get an infected wisdom tooth dealt with, poor thing.
Finally, I bought the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG 'Lankhmar' boxed set. That was kind of inevitable, really.
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Well, Halloween is 'saved'!
Impus Major: I really don't care if our stuff gets stolen, and middle schoolers are just middle schoolers; they're just like that and you can't get annoyed by them because they're just stupid. So I strongly object to stopping giving out candy.
So he and his friends are taking over for us, all for the price of pizza and cheesy movies.
Win-win.
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In other news, our second heater has "died", so we now have no heat at all for the house (other than tiny little electric room heaters).
If we didn't live in the Bay Area, this might be cause for alarm.
As it is, it's pretty much, "Meh. I'll put on long underwear and save money on gas."
I'll be a New Yorker yet...
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I constantly get mad at my roommate for using the furnace. I grew up in San Jose without one, you don't need it in this climate. And she keeps it at 72, because she refuses to live in anything other than t-shirt weather at all times.
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Get well soon, TS!
What might cheer you up a bit, or might not, is that the BBC are making a TV adaptation of Michael Moorcock's 'Runestaff' books.. I pray that they don't cock it up.
A series with imperialist, decadent Great Britain being the bad guys trying to take over Europe? What could possibly go wrong with that?
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It got cold today. Of course when I was graveraiding...
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So it seems I got super drunk last night and logging onto Ebay and Amazon. Apparently drunk me wanted a Wii, a Gamecube controller, Star Wars Rogue Squadron 2 and 3, Super Mario Sunshine, Galaxy, and Galaxy 2, and Legend of Zelda Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, and Skyward Sword.
Which, okay. At least I drunkenly bought stuff I'll enjoy? I never actually got to play Super Mario Galaxy, Twilight Princess, or Skyward Sword as a kid, either.
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I constantly get mad at my roommate for using the furnace. I grew up in San Jose without one, you don't need it in this climate. And she keeps it at 72, because she refuses to live in anything other than t-shirt weather at all times.
Er... it gets down to the high 20s and low 30s where I live, and my house isn't insulated.
Maybe *you* think you don't need heat when it's 45 in your living room, but I'll beg to differ...
EDIT: I got curious. San Jose's "cold" months are December and January, with highs in the high 50s and lows in the low 40s. I'd argue that even optimizing temperature management your house would be in the mid-50s much of the time, which is below my comfort threshold of roughly 61 for sitting at a computer.
Albany's not on the chart, but Berkeley is virtually identical.
So I'll just argue that anyone who says you don't need heat in the Bay Area either lives on the second floor of a building or is comfortable sitting around a 54-degree room.
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I constantly get mad at my roommate for using the furnace. I grew up in San Jose without one, you don't need it in this climate. And she keeps it at 72, because she refuses to live in anything other than t-shirt weather at all times.Er... it gets down to the high 20s and low 30s where I live, and my house isn't insulated.
Maybe *you* think you don't need heat when it's 45 in your living room, but I'll beg to differ...
I mean, I also live in a warmer part of the region than you. It's usually in the 40s in winter, might dip into high 30s a bit. That's those Bay Area microclimates for you.
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I mean, I also live in a warmer part of the region than you. It's usually in the 40s in winter, might dip into high 30s a bit. That's those Bay Area microclimates for you.I constantly get mad at my roommate for using the furnace. I grew up in San Jose without one, you don't need it in this climate. And she keeps it at 72, because she refuses to live in anything other than t-shirt weather at all times.Er... it gets down to the high 20s and low 30s where I live, and my house isn't insulated.
Maybe *you* think you don't need heat when it's 45 in your living room, but I'll beg to differ...
Yeah, I'm suspicious of weather.com. The Berkeley and San Jose charts look identical, and both you and I know that Berkeley is 15 degrees colder for pretty much the entire summer...
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I mean, I also live in a warmer part of the region than you. It's usually in the 40s in winter, might dip into high 30s a bit. That's those Bay Area microclimates for you.I constantly get mad at my roommate for using the furnace. I grew up in San Jose without one, you don't need it in this climate. And she keeps it at 72, because she refuses to live in anything other than t-shirt weather at all times.Er... it gets down to the high 20s and low 30s where I live, and my house isn't insulated.
Maybe *you* think you don't need heat when it's 45 in your living room, but I'll beg to differ...
Yeah, I'm suspicious of weather.com. The Berkeley and San Jose charts look identical, and both you and I know that Berkeley is 15 degrees colder for pretty much the entire summer...
I actually don't know Berkeley. Barely go to the East Bay now that I don't live in San Francisco anymore. I just know San Jose really doesn't hit the low 30s often at all. I've lived here over two-thirds of my life, including my entire childhood, and your temps are definitely a good chunk lower than what I've experienced.
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OK, short story writers! Here's your million-dollar idea! For free!
A conversation this morning between Impus Minor and NobodysHome, which Impus Minor doesn't remember, and NobodysHome doesn't understand:
NobodysHome: Good morning! Do you want the lights on or off?
Impus Minor: What?
NH: Do you want the lights on or off?
IM: On, please. And are you going to do the toothbrush thing?
NH: The what?
IM: The toothbrush thing. Where you use that special toothbrush on all the good boys and girls...
NH: I think you were dreaming. I have no idea what you're talking about.
IM: No. No! I saw you! You were in the living room, and you were looking at a toothbrush...
NH: I was doing what now?
IM: Never mind! Get out! GET OUT!!!!
Authors, start your pens...
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I actually don't know Berkeley. Barely go to the East Bay now that I don't live in San Francisco anymore. I just know San Jose really doesn't hit the low 30s often at all. I've lived here over two-thirds of my life, including my entire childhood, and your temps are definitely a good chunk lower than what I've experienced.
I went to U.C. Berkeley before you were born and I still fondly remember biking to school for an 8:00 am class and seeing how much of a layer of frost I could build up on my polypro shirt. If I could make a little 1/2" snowball, it was a cold day.
I don't think I could have generated that much frost with temps in the 40s.
But yeah, I have a thermometer outside these days, and for most of late January/early February our lows are in the high 30s, and just like the week-o-90s we get in summer, we get a week-o-low-30s or even 20s.
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I actually don't know Berkeley. Barely go to the East Bay now that I don't live in San Francisco anymore. I just know San Jose really doesn't hit the low 30s often at all. I've lived here over two-thirds of my life, including my entire childhood, and your temps are definitely a good chunk lower than what I've experienced.I went to U.C. Berkeley before you were born and I still fondly remember biking to school for an 8:00 am class and seeing how much of a layer of frost I could build up on my polypro shirt. If I could make a little 1/2" snowball, it was a cold day.
I don't think I could have generated that much frost with temps in the 40s.
But yeah, I have a thermometer outside these days, and for most of late January/early February our lows are in the high 30s, and just like the week-o-90s we get in summer, we get a week-o-low-30s or even 20s.
Yea, growing up, there might be a little frozen dew in the morning, but it would quickly melt. You definately couldn't build up frost on your shirt, and we never, ever had enough frost to make even a tiny snowball. Last winter, my roommate left for two weeks, and I shut the thermostat off completely for that whole time. It was cold as hell in the bathroom when I took showers, but I was fine.
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Get better Tequila Sunrise!
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A series with imperialist, decadent Great Britain being the bad guys trying to take over Europe? What could possibly go wrong with that?Get well soon, TS!
What might cheer you up a bit, or might not, is that the BBC are making a TV adaptation of Michael Moorcock's 'Runestaff' books.. I pray that they don't cock it up.
But Drejk, the question is, are we being imperialistic and decadent enough?
Can't we do better?
Where's my mantis mask?
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TS...get well.
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We live above a business behind a house in a converted barn apartment (it's actually rather nice if weird looking...which suits me) so we don't get trick or treaters. At all. Ever. In the middle of a small town residential area.
It's the best of both worlds. I can take my daughter out in a few years but never have to buy candy of my own because even the mailman has a tough time finding where to leave packages if he is a sub.
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Crookshanks stayed home last night to hand out candy, she didn't get a single trick or treater.
It was about 25 degrees with a half foot of snow on the ground but still.
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Today, at an interview, a prospective employer asked "so if I sent you for a drug test right now, could you pass?"
Fake urine is a thing, and about 5 bucks, and I've used it before (what I do in my off time is Not Their Business). It works. But I decided in this decent economy to just be honest because I want to find The Right Job.
So I said "Nope. I smoked pot less than a week ago. Should I leave this interview and go home?" (It is depenalized here and a zero dollar fine with zero court fees as a way of the city saying f~@$ you to the Feds.) I figured I could at least make it home in time for a nice nap.
Her reply? "Oh no, we're looking for hard stuff. So anyway..." Interview continues.
Now...
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This may not shock any of you who didn't spend the last 30 years in the South, but I almost crapped my pants in surprise.
This was an EXTREMELY conservative location working with the elderly and she waved off weed like I said I drank a white wine spritzer.
And when I told this story to locals they were like "ok so what's the shock?"
I WILL NEVER VOLUNTARILY RETURN TO FLORIDA.
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I constantly get mad at my roommate for using the furnace. I grew up in San Jose without one, you don't need it in this climate. And she keeps it at 72, because she refuses to live in anything other than t-shirt weather at all times.Er... it gets down to the high 20s and low 30s where I live, and my house isn't insulated.
Maybe *you* think you don't need heat when it's 45 in your living room, but I'll beg to differ...
EDIT: I got curious. San Jose's "cold" months are December and January, with highs in the high 50s and lows in the low 40s. I'd argue that even optimizing temperature management your house would be in the mid-50s much of the time, which is below my comfort threshold of roughly 61 for sitting at a computer.
Albany's not on the chart, but Berkeley is virtually identical.
So I'll just argue that anyone who says you don't need heat in the Bay Area either lives on the second floor of a building or is comfortable sitting around a 54-degree room.
YO!
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Crookshanks stayed home last night to hand out candy, she didn't get a single trick or treater.
It was about 25 degrees with a half foot of snow on the ground but still.
I KNOW! What is going ON with these kids?!?
FREE CANDY IS FREE CANDY!
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So it seems I got super drunk last night and logging onto Ebay and Amazon. Apparently drunk me wanted a Wii, a Gamecube controller, Star Wars Rogue Squadron 2 and 3, Super Mario Sunshine, Galaxy, and Galaxy 2, and Legend of Zelda Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, and Skyward Sword.
Which, okay. At least I drunkenly bought stuff I'll enjoy? I never actually got to play Super Mario Galaxy, Twilight Princess, or Skyward Sword as a kid, either.
Mario Galaxy is a legitimately fantastic gameplay experience. I love it.
Twilight Princess is my favorite of the ‘Zelda stories, and Midna my favorite Link companion.
Skyward Sword is pretty.
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OK, short story writers! Here's your million-dollar idea! For free!
A conversation this morning between Impus Minor and NobodysHome, which Impus Minor doesn't remember, and NobodysHome doesn't understand:
NobodysHome: Good morning! Do you want the lights on or off?
Impus Minor: What?
NH: Do you want the lights on or off?
IM: On, please. And are you going to do the toothbrush thing?
NH: The what?
IM: The toothbrush thing. Where you use that special toothbrush on all the good boys and girls...
NH: I think you were dreaming. I have no idea what you're talking about.
IM: No. No! I saw you! You were in the living room, and you were looking at a toothbrush...
NH: I was doing what now?
IM: Never mind! Get out! GET OUT!!!!Authors, start your pens...
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So, this is probably more appropriate as a PM, but I overshare.
LM, you should know that the grand villain of the first 2-3 books of Shiro's AP was named... Jeggare...
...and based on a certain PC run by a certain person you know.
Here's the post where the name first appears, but it's a fairly long one.
You might be interested in that section of the story, though. :-P
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Skyward Sword is pretty.
Okay, so this (while accurate) is delivered somewhat tongue-in-cheek. It was, of course, intended as a back-handed compliment.
Skyward Sword is a nice game with sometimes-awkward/sometimes-cool controls, the most “anime” version of Link, Zelda, et. al. to exist yet, and a fantastic premise that the actual game almost lives up to.
It has a seemingly free-roaming world with an exceptionally linear story, and, though it’s a good story, it’s not as strong as, say, Wind Waker or Twilight Princess.
Fi is an excellent companion, and the story is fun, but Fi is a miserably hand-holding mechanic and the gameplay suffers from the story’s linearity (also sometimes-awkward motion controls).
I feel it is an improvement in most regards over, say, OoT, but it tries to be like the more open WW and the more story-driven TP, and just doesn’t straddle that line as well as it would like.
The greatest difficulty is when you already know how to play and there is no way to skip Fi’s in-game dialogue. Pads things out to exceptionally frustrating lengths, especially in the early game.
The latter end of the game is rather beautiful, though, and the story builds up to be pretty good. The visuals are really nice, and the music is absolute perfection, as always for a ‘Zelda title (though I also prefer WW and TP, but those just kind of fit my preferred styles a bit more).
As a mechanic, Fi is more frustrating than Navi.
As a companion, Fi is much better than Navi.
It’s a good game. I just don’t think it’s as good as either of the two games that immediately preceded it.
(Also, WW and TP constantly fight for my favorite ‘Zelda spot, with BotW a new contender, so bear all that in mind when you’re comparing my opinions to yours.)
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Crookshanks stayed home last night to hand out candy, she didn't get a single trick or treater.
It was about 25 degrees with a half foot of snow on the ground but still.
I KNOW! What is going ON with these kids?!?
FREE CANDY IS FREE CANDY!
My point being that this being Wisconsin you'd expect to get a few kids, weather be damned, at least.
But nope, not a single one, and we live in a neighborhood with a lot of kids too.
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As far as Zelda goes I only played the Ocarina of Time.
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At least you played the best.
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I've always been pretty selective with video games.
I only average about 3-4 hours a week.
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An hour to an hour and fifteen minutes is about my limit for playing videogames in one sitting, after that I start to feel lethargic and have to do something active.
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Skyward Sword is pretty.Okay, so this (while accurate) is delivered somewhat tongue-in-cheek. It was, of course, intended as a back-handed compliment.
Skyward Sword is a nice game with sometimes-awkward/sometimes-cool controls, the most “anime” version of Link, Zelda, et. al. to exist yet, and a fantastic premise that the actual game almost lives up to.
It has a seemingly free-roaming world with an exceptionally linear story, and, though it’s a good story, it’s not as strong as, say, Wind Waker or Twilight Princess.
Fi is an excellent companion, and the story is fun, but Fi is a miserably hand-holding mechanic and the gameplay suffers from the story’s linearity (also sometimes-awkward motion controls).
I feel it is an improvement in most regards over, say, OoT, but it tries to be like the more open WW and the more story-driven TP, and just doesn’t straddle that line as well as it would like.
The greatest difficulty is when you already know how to play and there is no way to skip Fi’s in-game dialogue. Pads things out to exceptionally frustrating lengths, especially in the early game.
The latter end of the game is rather beautiful, though, and the story builds up to be pretty good. The visuals are really nice, and the music is absolute perfection, as always for a ‘Zelda title (though I also prefer WW and TP, but those just kind of fit my preferred styles a bit more).
As a mechanic, Fi is more frustrating than Navi.
As a companion, Fi is much better than Navi.It’s a good game. I just don’t think it’s as good as either of the two games that immediately preceded it.
(Also, WW and TP constantly fight for my favorite ‘Zelda spot, with BotW a new contender, so bear all that in mind when you’re comparing my opinions to yours.)
Skyward sword is the only zelda game I never managed to finish