Yeah. I'm usually good with long hours, but this has been a real bear of a day. Mentally and physically draining.I don't know why, but this work 8, sleep 4, work 8, sleep 4 schedule is very tiring.
Yeah. I did eight, then I had to go waaaay up Cape to get my fingerprints did, and I had to go straight after to work, where I did 16 hours. So it was like 32 hrs up. Plus dealing with a sh!tty situation in one of my games with a player who decided I was an 'old-school OD&D sh!t" and decided to rant at me for the teremity of not knowing a fine rules point in the Stealth rules. Then I had six hours down, and here I am for another 16. Oh, and I have to go to Boston tomorrow to get sworn in as a notary public. So, yay.
So TL;DR: Grumpy Monkey is grumpy
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Speaking of which, it's about time to ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzz...Yeah. I'm usually good with long hours, but this has been a real bear of a day. Mentally and physically draining.I don't know why, but this work 8, sleep 4, work 8, sleep 4 schedule is very tiring.
for the love of god, don't fall asleep in the mist!!
for the love of god, don't fall asleep in the mist!!Speaking of which, it's about time to ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzz...Yeah. I'm usually good with long hours, but this has been a real bear of a day. Mentally and physically draining.I don't know why, but this work 8, sleep 4, work 8, sleep 4 schedule is very tiring.
Yeah. More than your clothes may be turned inside out...
New episode drops tomorrow...
I'm interested to see what's going to happen with the crazy church lady
Oh and at the mall
Will watch on Friday, so i can on demand it.
Yeah. I did eight, then I had to go waaaay up Cape to get my fingerprints did, and I had to go straight after to work, where I did 16 hours. So it was like 32 hrs up. Plus dealing with a sh!tty situation in one of my games with a player who decided I was an 'old-school OD&D sh!t" and decided to rant at me for the teremity of not knowing a fine rules point in the Stealth rules. Then I had six hours down, and here I am for another 16. Oh, and I have to go to Boston tomorrow to get sworn in as a notary public. So, yay.Yeah. I'm usually good with long hours, but this has been a real bear of a day. Mentally and physically draining.I don't know why, but this work 8, sleep 4, work 8, sleep 4 schedule is very tiring.
Tomb of Horrors! Tomb of Horrors! Tomb of Horrors!
Or just mention Grimtooth.
Will watch on Friday, so i can on demand it.
It'll actually drop early Friday. I'm starting to forget where and when the day is
Spike, I think.
Hour 10. Six more to go...
Sheesh guys, I thought my schedule was crazy. :P
... Tawny shapes that leap straight up low bluffs...Cougars. The mountain lion, not the mature women looking for younger men.
... Things with green eyes, puffy butts, and big, fluffy tails...Cougars. The mature women looking for younger men, not the mountain lions.
Yeah,...
And I'm honestly not sure which one would be scarier to run into. :/
Meh. That which does not kill me, only makes me stronger.
I've decided the notary swear-in can wait until I get back from Canada. I need some sleep time, and there are things that need taking care of before I go. Plus I'm just not up for a Boston run today.
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I see weird things at night, just out of the corner of my eye. Huge, long flapping wings. Tawny shapes that leap straight up low bluffs. Long, low things that streak across the road ahead. Things with green eyes, puffy butts, and big, fluffy tails like snow leopards.
I think the wings are owls. Honestly not sure about the rest.
Ok, that all sounds kind of freaky.
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Plus dealing with a sh!tty situation in one of my games with a player who decided I was an 'old-school OD&D sh!t" and decided to rant at me for the teremity of not knowing a fine rules point in the Stealth rules.
Wow, are you serious? That ... certainly is a s!%*ty situation. I'll refrain from what I was going to add.
I reckon some games could use MORE 'old-school OD&D' stuff myself...
Yup.
Not pleased. Not in the least. I'm trying to let it slide past, but the sheer Pis$iness of it is still mind-boggling me. It was if I had invited a friend over for dinner, cooked an elaborate meal for them then gotten yelled at because the recipe wasn't quite correct. I came within an inch of closing the whole game, I was so angry.
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No one talks to me like that in a game. My regular players are never a problem. We'll discuss a rules point, but it's never confrontational. That would get someone shown the door.
So damn overheated... Urgh...
Several weeks ago I pulled a tendon in my right elbow. For weeks I lived with some pretty bad pain. Finally, last week it began to let up and yesterday was the first pain free day I'd had with it since it happened. So I was feeling pretty jazzed that it was finally healed.
Then somehow my arm became trapped between the wall and the bed in my sleep and it's right back where it started. I can barely type or text using my right hand because the pain extends all the way down into my fingers.
Dammit.
hi everyone
Howdy.
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I made a decision a long time ago that it was not worth my time or effort to play RPGs with people that I didn’t see eye to eye with or who had a very different perspective from me on what was the ‘right’ way to play; which is the main reason now for pbp games that I never do open recruitment and rarely apply to open recruitment games (unless I already know the DM and most of the players who are likely to apply). I realise that limits my exposure to different people and styles and creates a bit of a closed system where the idea that my way is ‘right’ gets reinforced … but man, it cuts down on the drama, and that horrible feeling when you realise your game has become a chore rather than a pleasure.
I’ve shut down games I was running in the past due to one or two problem players (note: not the reason I walked away from pbp and the boards a few years ago, those issues were mainly all mine – this goes back to years earlier) – it’s probably not a very mature way to do things and definitely not fair to the non-problem players, but it’s still better than investing time and effort into running a game and getting served s@#$ for it.
I so very, very rarely have a new player join my games I'm not sure how I would handle it. One of my long time player's 11 year old daughter recently joined and despite her inexperience she's a great player. And an old friend from back in the day just rejoined us after moving back into the area, so that took a little getting used to, but she's fallen right back into place.
But a brand new adult player? I'd have a break down.
Yeah, I had thought open recruitment might be a cool thing, but it obviously was not. It'll be invite-only from this point on. It's sad when a game that has been going on for almost ten years has suddenly lost its joy.
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It seems like not so long ago (but is probably about ten years ago by now ... wow, time flies) that I was the new player to this particular group, most of whom had been playing together for, I don't know, 15+ years.
They had a very stringent process for screening new players; I had met a couple of the guys in the group on two previous occasions (meetups of local Paizo people at the pub) before they invited me to join ... but before that invitation was totally solid I had to meet (and be 'approved by') the other members of the group at another two separate meet-ups (both also at pubs ... yes, a theme is developing) before I was actually invited to a game.
Since then the group has unfortunately lost one member to cancer and another few to much less tragic circumstances (moving, other commitments, loss of interest). We've been trying to find new members, but it seems like the approval process has become a lot less stringent ... or maybe I just seemed extra shifty at the time.
I'm giving it a week. I'm going to be on vacation, so my posting is going to slow dramatically anyway. If at the end of that time I still can't get past the incident I'm going to have to consider what to do.
It isn't 7 am yet and the air already stuffy and hard to inhale already.
Urgh.
We'll not work much today probably... Instead we'll keep boring our asses off for hours and hours after the first two or three hours...
I'm giving it a week. I'm going to be on vacation, so my posting is going to slow dramatically anyway. If at the end of that time I still can't get past the incident I'm going to have to consider what to do.
So, I decided to clear the matter up before I go on vacation. I don't want this negativity hanging around all week. Better to rip the bandaid off quickly and get it over. I know my mind. I'm not going to suddenly forget the insults.
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Ah Dawn. One more shift tomorrow and I'm off to Canadia, land of Tim Horton's and Hockey
I awoke at 2:40 am to take the dogs for a walk (one is on medication and has to be walked more often than normal). But the intense pain in my knee has kept me from going back to sleep so here I sit, listening to Van Halen I (their best album. Don't argue because you'll be wrong ;) ) and trying to relax enough to fall back to sleep.
I'm partial to Fair Warning, and I have a deep nostalgic bond with 1984, but YMMV.
My favorite was when Sammy Hagar was with Van Halen.
Anyone seen the new Netflix show, the Ozarks? It's pretty good. Kind of a Breaking Bad meets Deliverance
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My favorite was when Sammy Hagar was with Van Halen.
You are dead to me
DEAD!!
(J/k)
My favorite was when Sammy Hagar was with Van Halen.You are dead to me
DEAD!!
(J/k)
Good! That means you can't mooch off of me anymore.
Mooch off you? You are such a mooch they call you a tin dragon!
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Your hoard is an old shopping cart full of 5-cent return bottles!
Mooch off you? You are such a mooch they call you a tin dragon!
~whistles innocently as I pick PC's pockets~
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Halp! HAAALP!!!
Inappropriate dragon touch!