I helped a lady on the phone sort out how to set up a Roku-style box that is focused on Persian-language channels. She's already talked to two other people who gave her blatantly false information, one of them told her she needed a new cable box, an…
Buying a system will never make anyone automatically an excellent PKer, ever.
Buying a system is the only way some of us will ever have one. So if I -want- to -ever- participate in PK, I have absolutely no shame in purchasing a prebuilt …
Super stressful month made better by an unexpected cat smuggled into our house by my turd of a teenage daughter. We got rid of the last black kitten that appeared. But this one has improved everyone's mood so much that we decided to keep him. …
Metabolic disorders will screw with your ability to lose weight. I can bust my behind daily with exercise and eat right and still barely move the scale. But the fact that you -did- lose that weight, Nola, means that you have the ability to get it go…
When I am not posting from my phone I will dig up my research notes as well as the research done by an anthropologist I've known for years. If they are having trouble coming up with examples they are not trying very hard or are suffering from cultur…
There are plenty of examples of traditional cultures that are not at all patriarchal.
Gender as binary is really a hard sell with western views on gender roles to begin with. I had ...we'll call it a gender crisis when I was a younger tee…
This game though. Spines regularly has offensive language on ct. If that's going to happen, then it seems pretty silly to get ultra offended over one naughty word and not the rest. Trager said it wonderfully. We use all sorts of words that have a lo…
Maybe Aetolia is different, but in Imperian, shopkeeping took a -long- time to recoup the initial investment for, same with tradeskills. It takes a lot of in-game gold to recover the initial 100 credit fee plus the credits to learn to Transcendent. …
Yesterday, in one fell swoop, we resolved a terribly clogged sink (we had to take it apart), the bushes in my front yard are no longer eating my house, my grass is now a proper lawn and not a jungle, my downstairs has been power-cleaned, and we own …
I have now had to reload my browser 12 times to look at one thread. My computer is having a serious memory leak/memory something issue that is making it impossible for me to even run mudlet and -anything- else. Even wordpad. -kicks things-
The firm corruption of Kamus into a proper nerd. He has now spent the last two weeks obsessively plotting a Star Wars RPG game for the household. I've had to actually -watch- Star Wars again (first time in...ages). Incoming Witch of Dathomir, yush. …
For you people with the free time to code your own systems, kudos. For people who have lives that barely allow time to play, let alone fiddle around with code, $70 bucks isn't a terrible investment for a system if it works and I can muck about with …
I've seen some phenomenal customer service in weird places, and some utterly crappy service from people who are getting paid well enough to know better. Just depends on the situation. Tips are really not mandatory, so putting a tip jar out doesn't …
I have had to take a ridiculous amount of time off in the last six months. My youngest daughter's father died unexpectedly, I caught a death plague which turned into hellacious bronchitis that killed my voice for a…
I don't even watch football, but I now have an overwhelming urge to post a trolly Seahawks v Broncos picture. I just need you to know I resisted the urge.
The endless broken voice odyssey that my current illness has become.
Back to urgent care after the first and second sets of meds didn't fix my inability to speak for more than a few moments without either losing my voice, coughing violen…
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I've justified my spending over the years with the amount of time invested in these games. I will happily shell out $60 for a console game that nets me a limited number of hours of gameplay, but I have spent a stupid, truly STUPID, amount …
@Ishin - That's what Kamus said when he got back. Throw it in neutral and tap the gas good once. But as with all things mechanical, once the actual -mechanic- shows u…
Tried to drive to Arby's to have a last fling with bad-for-me-food before I go on my mostly paleo diet tomorrow. Car decides to go into hyper-rev mode as soon as I hit 40. Refuses to slow down. I had to literally slam my brake to the floor to get do…
I have made attempts in game. I found it very similar to beating my head into a wall. Not everyone makes their statements in game by shouting and making repeated newsboard posts.
I was working on an entire path that described ideas for co…
Daskalos, I am not talking about the Enorian leadership. The guilds are a part of the culture of Enorian. The people in the guilds are Enorianites. If it was originating -only- from one guild, I'd be saying 'This guild does this.' The CULTURE which …
No faceless Templar yelled at Minarael. A Templar was reprimanded for consorting with Minarael and Kamus in a public location. That was just the most recent incident. Since I don't particularly enjoy naming other people's characters in association w…