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Food, Fuel, And Firearms—Twilight 2000, 4th edition. A review of the new edition of Twilight 2000.
Yarrrr!
I've never played any edition of Twilight 2000. Ever. One of the guys who plays in my group is trying to get a group together in his hometown so he calls me to talk about the game, either forgetting I know nothing about the game or not caring that I don't know anything about it. One day when I felt really cruddy with COVID he called, asked how I was doing, then launched into a 40 minute recap of the game and how he kept screwing it up because he thought it would have been the same rules as the original game from the 1980s. I was polite and said lots of "Uh huh" and "Oh, ok" to him until he ran out of steam...lol
Also, during the 1980s a friend of mine was in Army intelligence stationed in eastern Europe. He said he played the game once and realized that all too well that what he was simulating could turn real in an instant and never played it again...lol
And today we have news that USA authorized sending 12 AH-64 helicopters to be stationed in Poland...
We can still get a chance at going live with it. Not very big, but still.
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"May you live in interesting times."
Again?!
Still. And always.
Again.
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One of my pals was on deployment in Poland - I think he's come back now, and I hope so...
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I love this guy. He immediately made me think of the famous "Devil's Bible" or the the "Codex Gigas", which was allegedly written in one night by a monk who offered his soul to the devil to complete it.
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I love this guy. He immediately made me think of the famous "Devil's Bible" or the the "Codex Gigas", which was allegedly written in one night by a monk who offered his soul to the devil to complete it.
Sucker... Staples would've done it for $34.99. And he would've gotten Rewards points.
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Fantasy NPC: Feillvert, The Publisher Infernal
I think I've met this guy at a conference. It's hard to tell... most publishers smell sulfurous and have a distinctly... fiendish... demeanor.
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Ok, some of you know I have a cat now. She's about eight months old by this point and I took her to be spayed today. I haven't owned a cat in many years and certainly haven't taken care of a young animal in a very, very long time. I need positive vibes so I don't sit up all night eating anti-anxiety meds like Pez.
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OH! And Happy! Happy! Joy! Joy! My son and his gf began moving into their new place tonight. Soon I will have my house all to myself again. I'm much happier and healthier living alone and I'm giddy with the prospect.
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Ok, some of you know I have a cat now. She's about eight months old by this point and I took her to be spayed today. I haven't owned a cat in many years and certainly haven't taken care of a young animal in a very, very long time. I need positive vibes so I don't sit up all night eating anti-anxiety meds like Pez.
Just remember, she's a cat. They're pretty tough critters.
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Ok, some of you know I have a cat now. She's about eight months old by this point and I took her to be spayed today. I haven't owned a cat in many years and certainly haven't taken care of a young animal in a very, very long time. I need positive vibes so I don't sit up all night eating anti-anxiety meds like Pez.
I initially misunderstood your last sentence and thought you'd been prescribed Pez under the guise of it being an anti-anxiety med. It was one of those "Do I tell him... do I not...?" moments.
Language is hard some mornings.
On the positive vibes front--woot woot on the cat! What kind of cat is she? Adorable? I bet adorable...
It's hard not to worry, I know, but just remember: all a cat needs to thrive is food, water, clean litter, and to draw your blood fortnightly. Preferably from a thigh, through a pair of pants. I hope you enjoyed many fine years of having unshredded pants, because those days are over. May god have mercy on your Levis...
Wait, somewhere that stopped being helpful. Crap.
Cole's right. Cats are tough. Even my boy Odin, who is the wimpiest cat in all the land, managed to survive two months in a fetid drainage tube with only one eye and no testicles. He's home now and prodding my thigh. OW SONOFA--
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She is adorable. And a tiny menace. She's probably reached her full growth and she's a petite little grey and black tabby, weighing around five pounds. She was a little over a month old when my son's mom saw her in the middle of a busy highway. She slammed on her brakes, jumped out of her car and stopped traffic in both directions and picked her up. Her first words to the kitten were, "'Ello, Poppet", a la "Pirates of the Caribbean". And the name stuck. She has more nicknames than I think can recall, such as Popcat, Popsicle, Pops, Hey Get Off That, You Little Dumba**!, and others.
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I don't know why, but I love "Popcat."
EDIT: Oh no! This is post 6,666! Popcaaaaaaaaaaat!
I don't know why, but I love "Popcat."
EDIT: Oh no! This is post 6,666! Popcaaaaaaaaaaat!
I do tend to call her Popcat more than anything else.
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This is post 6,666!
Dammit! Ninja’d!
I have an appointment this afternoon to take Poppet to the weekend vet. She's acting like she's in more pain now than the first night after she was spayed. A friend of mine has a cat the same age and size and her cat is fine and frisky, even catching a mouse this morning. Popcat just stays hidden. She's barely eaten anything and I've yet to see her drinking water. She's now in my bedroom under the bed, so I at least know where she is for when I leave for the appointment. I've closed my bedroom door so she can't go to one of her other hidey holes.
Oh no! Poor little girl!
I hope she's ok. Best thoughts sent her way!
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Oh no! Poor little girl!
I hope she's ok. Best thoughts sent her way!
The vet said the incision looked great and there were no signs of infection, which was good news. She agreed that Popcat's posture and behavior indicated she was in quite a bit of discomfort so they gave us three doses of a feline pain medicine (one for today and one each for the next two days). She gave her the first dose to show me how to do it without getting my hands minced by an uncooperative cat. And they didn't charge me for the medicine or even the full price for an appointment. They didn't explain why, just "Take care of Poppet and come back if you need to!"
Good! That's good to hear. Hope she's feeling better with the extra pain meds.
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How's Popcat feeling?
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Quite a bit better, I think, though she's been very clingy yesterday and today. Yesterday she slept in the crook of my left arm for two hours, and because I'm a complete sap I sat there until the arm went to sleep then began to cramp uncomfortably. She's been like that today, as well. The clinginess makes me think she's still not back up to 100% but this morning, while I desperately tried to get more than the two hours of sleep I've had since Friday night, she ran up and down my body for almost 30 minutes fighting a piece of cellophane to the death. Over and over.
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CELLOPHANE!!!!!
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So on Sunday one of the dogs got into the bathroom trash. Chewed up my old toothbrush. I found the remains and threw it away.
Or so I thought.
At about 4:00 AM this morning she threw up on the bed… pieces of toothbrush.
*hurgh*
So on Sunday one of the dogs got into the bathroom trash. Chewed up my old toothbrush. I found the remains and threw it away.
Or so I thought.
At about 4:00 AM this morning she threw up on the bed… pieces of toothbrush.
*hurgh*
A few of the things Rosie and Buster have eaten over the years and survived:
A wooden spoon
A CD (Sparkling poop for a week)
A Pathfinder Core Rulebook (they survived this only because I was physically restrained from beating them)
LOTS of rolls of toilet paper (in an attempt to create self-wiping butts, I assume)
Lots of the cardboard tubes from inside rolls of toilet paper
Most of a cardboard box
A dozen Taco Bell sauce packets
All of the contents of a 14 oz (397 grams, for those outside the USA) box of Valentine chocolates
Cat poop (with and without a crunchy cat litter coating)
Rabbit poop
Raccoon poop
Opossum poop
Most of a rotisserie chicken (including bones)
An entire order of black pepper chicken from a local Chinese takeout joint (chock full of yummy green onions)
Three cloves of garlic (my sweet Rosie was The Gassiest Dog on Earth™ well before this. I thought the world was ending)
Approximately a dozen beef bouillon cubes (with golden foil wrapping)
And those are just some of the ones I can recall.
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So on Sunday one of the dogs got into the bathroom trash. Chewed up my old toothbrush. I found the remains and threw it away.
Or so I thought.
At about 4:00 AM this morning she threw up on the bed… pieces of toothbrush.
*hurgh*
Sophie chewed up about half of a Roku remote back at the beginning of January. Later that evening she horked up several plastic and electronicky bits that looked like they'd have been quite painful if she'd let them go through her whole digestive system.
Thankfully she ate the half of it without the batteries. That would've gone badly had it been the other way around.
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HURK!
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HURK!
I have been summoned!
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WOOOOO!!
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HURK!I have been summoned!
Oh no, not again.
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Fantasy Monster: Censor Inevitable.
It will probably cut some of my writings sooner or later.
Sort of related to the last post.
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Fantasy Monster: Censor Inevitable.
It will probably cut some of my writings sooner or later.
Sort of related to the last post.
I wonder if a certain super mega huge social media company sometimes (often) use these where I'm concerned.
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NO ONE EXPECTS THE FACEBOOK INQUISITION!
*zucker punch*
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NO ONE EXPECTS THE FACEBOOK INQUISITION!
*zucker punch*
*ba dum tiss*
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Fantasy Monster: Atomic Moose.
Recently someone mentioned when commenting on a friend's post that she lives between a nuclear reactor, a military training field, and a forest with elks moose.
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Fantasy Monster: Atomic Moose.
Recently someone mentioned when commenting on a friend's post that she lives between a nuclear reactor, a military training field, and a forest with
elksmoose.
This is a work of art...LOL
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Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti...
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We apologise for the fault in the forum posts. Those responsible have been sacked.
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So, either I have been rewarded by higher powers for doing good things or the Satanic Panic was right and I've somehow made a diabolic pact by playing D&D/Pathfinder for all these years. I was texting a friend and I said, "I want pizza." My dog Buster began barking which meant someone had come to the mailbox or front door. It was the mail with a prepaid debit card from Kia for owning one of their cars.
My friends are either impressed or afraid of me now. I'm probably gonna exploit that.
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Just a thought... but you could probably get a pizza with that prepaid debit card!
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Just a thought... but you could probably get a pizza with that prepaid debit card!
Nonsense! I'll use my newfound powers to trick them into giving me a pizza and I'll spend the debit card on some sort of gaming frivolity.
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Just don' summon Pizzazuzu by mistake.
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*slow clap*
Well played, good sir, well played...
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Fantasy NPC: Five-Stone-Yellows Of The Hidden Bay.
A friendly urchin in a top hat.
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So I was in line at Staples and saw this display with Crayola's newest box of crayons, called Colors of Kindness (link to image).
I mis-read that as COLORS OF MADNESS.
Because apparently that's where my brain is at now.
This is not a good omen...