2D8HP's extended mea culpa and Random Banter #218

[2D8HP]

I can't do better than Dark Shadow, but here's a new Random Banter:

Please play nice, enjoy each others company, and... follow the rules.

Let's all have a good chat, then. :smallcool:

Amotis' Random Banter #1 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13484)
Dhavaer's Random Banter #2 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13401)
PhoeKun's Random Banter #3 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13319)
Rei Jin's Random Banter #4 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13205)
Toxic Avenger's Random Banter #5 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13146)
Jibar's Random Banter #6 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13026)
Ego Slayer's Surrogate Random Banter #7 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12939)
Sneak's Random Barroom Brawl #8 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12918)
Sophistemon's Solemnly Random Banter #9 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12855)
Vaynor's Very Random Banter #10 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12834)
Bookman's Blathering Random Banter #11 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12809)
Gralamin's Glorious Random Banter #12 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12785)
Rilik's Resplendently Random Raillery #13 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12766)
Gezina's Growling Grazing Random Banter #14 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12747)
The Zerglings Utterly And Geeky Random Banter #15 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12740)
jaqueses Truthfully Randomly Fireside Banter # 16 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12735)
Jack Squat’s Jubilantly Quixotic Random Banter #17 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12693)
Cardel's Banter of Cookie Jubilation #18 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12668)
Archonic's Chaotically Random Banter of Rods #19 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12657)
The Rod's Inanimate Temple of RANDOM banter #20 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12638)
Lucky’s Loquaciously Loud-Mouthed Random Banter#21 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12630)
Deckmaster's Divinely Delightful Random Banter #22 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12614)
Saithis' Soliloquy of Random Banter #23 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12598)
Loveable Lianae's Ludicrous Lampooning Lottery #24 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12578)
NEO|Phyte's Neolithic Nest of Weasel Banter #25 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12544)
Target's Random Banter of "non-violence" #26 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12533)
Tarnag40k's Random banter of "grammar errors" #27 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12515)
Kyrian's Random Banter of ADHDness #28 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12507)
El Jaspero's Random Drunken Ramblings #29 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12503)
Boss Smiley's Eloquently Eggy Banter #30 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12494)
Lykan's Looney Explosionarama & Random Banter #31 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12482)
Iames's Iambic Yarn of Yammering #32 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12468)
Dispozition's Deviously Distressed Banter #33 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12458)
CP's Copiously Combusting Banter of Carnage #34 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12445)
Alarra's Altar of Random Banter #35 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12432)
Eloquent Rune's Electrifying Rambling Banter #36 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12423)
E_P's Very Own Quite Popular Random Banter #37 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12419)
Hydrogelic's Foolish Mortal Random Banter #38 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12413)
Ink's Smudgy Splotchy Random Banter #39 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12405)
Azrael's Big Black Book of Banter #40 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12397)
The Logic Vampire's Rational Random Banter #41 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12387)
Shiny's Shimmering Space-hitchin Random Banter #42 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12376)
ZombieRockStar's Random Banter #43 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12360)
Nostrabel's Realm of Cookies and Random Banter #44 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12342)
Charity's Cheery Chatter Circle #45 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12328)
Samiam's Spontaneous Scintillating Soliloquy #46 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12310)
LLama's Masked Mysterious Random Banter #47 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26599)
Ravishing Rydia's Recumbentibus ^_^ Random Banter #48 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27622)
Penguinizers Perilous Random Banter #49 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28083)
Death's delightfully morbid surrogate random banter #50 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28444)
Wayril's wonderfully weird surrogate random banter #51 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28990)
Rawhide's Deck of Random Banter (52 Cards) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29697)
Korith's Sorrogate Random Banter of Zombie Killing #53 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30353)
Surrogate thread of random Bor-dom #54 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31109)
Rex Idiotarum's Painfully Pogoing Thread #55 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31512)
The Wrath of KHAAAAAANtalas’s William Shatner Flavored Random Banter # 56 (Surrogate) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32080)
EmeraldRose's Random Banter of Lashing Wit #57 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32494)
Captain van der Decken's Surrogate Ship of Random Loot (Banter) #58 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32847)
SDF's Neverending I-Don't-Have-an-OotS-Avatar-Yet Story Banter #59 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33465)
Mauril's Surrogate Dwelf Banter of Fantasy Race Confusion 60th Edition (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34165)
Rockphed's Dice Rolling Toga Party of 61 Drunken CIA Analysts (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34568)
var Lord_Magtok = Random(Banter*62) + Surrogate (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34801)
Jibar's Retro Random Banter #63 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35014)
Malina's Random Spanish Banter #64 of morphical annoyance (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35256)
Mr. E's Random Banter #65 of Cane Toting and Hat Tipping (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35418)
Ego Slayer's Hellishly Random Banter #66.6 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35596)
Purple Gelatinous Cube o' Doom's bowl of bantery j-e-ll-o randomness #67 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35859)
Zephra's Random Banter of Ghostly Wailings, and Howling Fun#68 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36317)
Cobra Ikari's Random Banter #69 of Rampant Hugging, Guttermindedness, and ;-) Kinky. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36977)
Scorpina's Random Banter #70 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37480)
Raistlin1040's Super Special Awesome Random Banter #71(Now with 20% more tacos) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37824)
Uberblah's Random Banter #72 Of Caffeine And Sleep Deprivation Induced Randomness (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38225)
Lucky’s Random Banter #73 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38987)
Castaras's Random Banter #74 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37836)
D'anna Biers RB #75 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39495)
Zeb The Troll's RB#76 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39801)
Eldpollard's RB #77 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40128)
Gezina's and Calamity's Random banter #78 of double entendre and doom (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40410)
Random Banter #79 In Loving Memory of Hexa_Regina (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40909)
Zeratul's random banter #80 of throwing puppies off bridges (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41778)
Vespe's Random Banter #81 of singing dolphins and mostly harmless planets. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43254)
CSK's Giant in the Playground Forums Addicted Anonymous, Random Banter #82 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44919)
Iames's Ramblingly Erratic Belldandy-Charged Random Banter #83 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47592)
Serpentine's Scintillating Sensually and Sinuously Seductive Stochastic Satire #84 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49048)
Radikalskippy's Random Banter #85 of lost ideas and where to find them... (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50658)
Moon Called's Random Banter #86 of Sexy Anime Boys and Fangirl Squeals (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=51825)
Lilly's Lovely Random Banter #87 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=52783)
FdL's Fuzzbox-Fueled Random Banter #88 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=54612)
SweetRein's Sugary Restrained Random Banter #89 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=59668)
Midnight's Mutant Motorcycle Madness Random Banter #90 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=62430)
Em's Extremely Extraordinarily Epic Random Banter #91 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=65645)
Dragonrider's Random Banter in Conjunction with the Weighted Cube #92 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=67629)
Bushranger's Bodaciously Buffed Random Banter-y Rooster #93 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=69425)
Haruki's Historically Hilarious Honey-covered Random Banter #94 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=71161)
North's Maple Syrup Flavored Non-Alliterative Random Banter #95 Eh? (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=73464)
Wadledo's Weirdly Warbling Watercress Watching Washing Machine Only Random Banter #96 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=75946)
SMEE's Random Banter #97 of gender bending and closet bursting (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=78694)
Raiser's Rambunctiously Rambling Random Banter #98 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=81626)
Dr. Bath's Random Banter, dripping with daring deeds of dastardly deipnosophists #99 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=84068)
VOTE, the Democracy Demon's Devilishly Devious and Decidedly Diabolical Desultory Derision (Random Banter) #100 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=84914)
Jack Squat's Justlessly Juxtaposed Random Banter #101 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=87577)
Dallas-Dakota's Dundering Dandelion's Devilish Damsel's Distress Random Banter #102 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4790602#post4790602)
Destro Yersul's Dangerously Distracting and Doubtlessly Disturbing Random Banter #103 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4903962#post4903962)
Aziraphales Actually Alliterative and Awesomely Affluent Random Banter #104 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=92718)
Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=94491)
Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=95905)
Slayer's Seemingly Sweet and Socially Silly Random Banter # 107 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=97703)
Zero's ambrosial and aberrantly adventitious, abstemiously erudite Random Banter #108 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=99100)
Coplantor's Completely Creative Cautious and Contemplative Random Banter #109 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=100414)
Rutskarn's Roly-Poly Rebellious and Rejected Random Banter #110 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101156)
TwoBitWriter's Tubular Tracts of Thought-Talking Random Banter #111 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=5600540#post5600540)
Phase's Phully Phormed, Phalangeal, and Phantasmagorical Random Banter #112 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101988)
Wolfbane's Wonderfully Wacky and Wildly Wandom Random Banter #113 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=102865)
The Kiwi's Kinkily Knotted and Kookily Kickass Random Banter #114 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=103674)
Jude's Judgmental Jugular Jab and Jibber Jabbery Random Banter #115 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=104480)
The Throne of Thufir's Thoroughly Theoretical and Therapeutic Random Banter #116 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=105584)
Random Banter #117 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=106698)
Dragonprime's Dynamically Dangerous Dextrous and Destructive Random Banter #118 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=107882)
Farmer Felix's Fantastic FRandom FBanter #119 (may contain traces of fnuts) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=109007)
Groundhog's Random Banter of Weather Prediction and Anti-Gopherness (part one) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=110963&page=50)
Groundhog's Random Banter of Weather Prediction and Anti-Gopherness (part two) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=113197)
Mrmud's Mixed-Up and Minimally Mechanized Random Banter #121 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=114623)
Dogmantra's Dastardly, Despotic and Dangerous Random Banter #122 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=116660)
Alteran's Amazingly Anachronistic, Altruistic, and Antagonistic Random Banter #123
(http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=118380)Admiral Euphoria's Random Banter Thread of Delusional Grandeur #124 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=6614894)
Fred's Flying Fishy, Fighting, Fiery, Fantastic Face Off Random Banter #125 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=121385)
Cyrano’s Non-Alliterative Inaugurational Random Banter #126 To Usher In The Future (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=122977)
Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
loopy's Legendary and Long-Awaited Lollipop Fuelled Random Banter #128 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=123816)
Shadow's Shady Shop of Sharks, Shingles, Shammies, Shiny and Random Banter #129 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=125667)
KataraAltinaII's Premature Not So Short & To-The-Point Random Banter #130 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=126557)
Supagoof's Supa-Sensational Silly Symphonies Set Sizzingly On Fire Random Banter #131 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=128570)
Pyrian's Pyrotechnic Pyre of Pyrrhic Pyros with Pyrotic Pythics Random Banter #132! (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=130459)
Perenelle's Pleasantly Playful and Passionately Peculiar Random Banter #133 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=131814)
Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=7373844#post7373844)
Il'deav Ilah'naie's Indiscreet Intimacies on Indigo Iceboats Random Banter #135 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=134438)
Recaiden's Resplendent and Rotating Realistic Random Banter #136 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=136879)
Jibar's Random Banter #137: Return of the Cat-muffin (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=138879)
Edge's Effluence of Extravagant and Effulgent Random Banter #138 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=7876065)
Zeb The Troll's Zecond Go At Ze Random Banter #139 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=8061505&postcount=1)
Curly's Rambunctious and Erudite Random Banter #140 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=148462)
Deth Muncher's Destructive and Meandering Random Banter #141 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=150904)
A Thread in Which Banter Most Random is Expulsed Into Existence, By Ravens_cry #142 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=8722755)
Several Silly Sealions Stuffed Seaweed Southward Swiftly (Or, Random Banter #143) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=159998)
The thread that changed name one last time, with style. (Random Banter #144) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=161407)
Banjo’s Bodacious & Boosted Bumper Bulletproof Box of Banter Most Random #145 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=162819)
Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=164224)
KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=166664)
Archonic's Archaic Acronymical Antidisestablishmentarianism Random Banter - #148 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=169890)
Skeppio's Splendidly Strange & Superbly Scintillating Random Banter - #149 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=173056)
Teddy's Turbulent and Topicless Random Banter #150 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=175338)
Fifty-Eyed Fred's Ferociously Fanatical and Fabulously Fascinating Random Banter #151 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=178205)
Rae's Really Rascally and Ridiculously Rowdy Random Banter #152 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=181296)
Haruki's Hot n' Holy Random Banter #153 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=10176275#post10176275)
MoonCat's Magnificently Mythopoeic Random Banter #154
(http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=187576)Eadin's Exchange of Extraterrestrial Excuses AKA Random Banter #155 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=190034)
Happy HalfTangible's Horrific Hail of Random Banter #156 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=10629167#post10629167)
AtlanteanTroll's Atrocious and Terrific Arcade of Terror - RB #157 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=196302)
LaLa’s Laughably Silly Random Banter Thread – RB #158 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=198767)
Zaydos's Zany Zooetic Random Banter - RB #159 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=200208)
Blue's Blessed and Blissful Random Banter - RB #160 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=201653)
Absolmorph's Azoic Arete of Adventitious and Aimless Random Banter - RB 161 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=202546)
Gwyn's Gloriously Green Garrumphing Garter of Garrulous Gabble! Random Banter #162 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=203954)
Eruantion's Euphoric, Elephant-filled Elevated Epoch of Eurhythmic Random Banter #163 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=205487)
ATW's Awesome Androgynous Avaricious Azure Ardent Adamant Alluvial Random Banter #164 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=207269)
Cynical Avocado's Absolutely Admirable Accumulation of Random Bantering #165 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=209860)
August's Pink Plushy and Phantasmagorically Random Banter Thread #166 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=212011)
Heliomance's Everchanging Thread Title Random Banter #167 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=213053)
Tragic_Comedian's Tremendously Tropical Random Banter #168 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=215180)
Qwertystop's Quickly Quilted, Quip-filled Random Banter #169 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=217326)
Thufir's Thupremely Thatithfying Thecond Random Banter With a Lithp #170
(http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=219654)Feytalist's Fantastically Freakish First Random Banter #171 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=222713)
Dragonprime's Dashing Delight-fu Dazzling Dualistic Random Banter #172
Castaras' Random Banter #173: Bringing back your nostalgic Great Old Ones (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=229164)
Pokemon-freak89's Random Banter number eleventy-twelve... uhh... I mean... number 174 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=231235)
Dark Elf Bard's Random Banter #175:Playin' Underdark Jazz since the Drow went dark. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=235950)
Mutant Sheep's Post Septaquintaquinquecentennial ApRiL fOoLs Random Banter: #176 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=238117)
Elemental's Excitingly Excellent Random Banter: No.CLXXVII (177) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=13163770)
Amiel's Appeasingly Appropriate Arbitrary Amusement (Random Banter): No.CLXXVIII #178 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=245179)
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[Bartmanhomer]

Me first. I'm so looking forward to see Deadpool 2 this Saturday with my friend.

[TheWombatOfDoom]

Shuffles on in and considers the fact that saying hello to everyone on the final page of a thread may have not been good timing...

Also, fyi the final previous thread link is broken, as an fyi 2D8HP

[FinnLassie]

Finn, I'm glad to hear that the infection is out and that you have someone you're comfortable with changing your bandages. I wish you a fast recovery.

Hello everyone! It's your overworked and underpaid wombat, back from the lurking realm. How is everyone?

Thanks! Was back at the nurse today, since the regular services are open Mon-Fri. I've actually ended up getting a rash from my bandages, so they've had to change to a tad fancier one with a more gel-like adhesive.

You're alive! ALIIIIIIVE! AAHAHAHAHAH!

[TheWombatOfDoom]

Thanks! Was back at the nurse today, since the regular services are open Mon-Fri. I've actually ended up getting a rash from my bandages, so they've had to change to a tad fancier one with a more gel-like adhesive.

You're alive! ALIIIIIIVE! AAHAHAHAHAH!

Ugh, adhesives always give me some sort of reaction. So what does 80kph translate to in miles...50! OMG, that's crazy fast! I'm so thankful you're in relatively okay shape... I can't believe insurance isn't covering the infection. That's just bs....

*waves hands in a frankenwombat type of way* I'm alive!

[2D8HP]

Shuffles on in and considers the fact that saying hello to everyone on the final page of a thread may have not been good timing...

Also, fyi the final previous thread link is broken, as an fyi 2D8HP


Thanks.

Mea culpa on the broken link, which is now fixed.

[AuthorGirl]

2D8HP, have I mentioned yet that I very much like your new avatar? :smallsmile:

[WarKitty]

*sets boxes all over new thread, then proceeds to curl up in one*

[2D8HP]

2D8HP, have I mentioned yet that I very much like your new avatar? :smallsmile:


Maybe?

Anyway thanks! :smile:

All praise is due to the completely awesome Honest Tiefling (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/member.php?60172-Honest-Tiefling) who kindly did me a solid and gifted me with a http://i.imgur.com/fsjcfap.png that's less pasty and more cheerful than my http://www.giantitp.com/avatars/mobile/RangerGuy.gif (which you'll still see in "mobile").

It's a struggle, but I'm trying to be a little less crabby so I don't besmirch my grand new Avatar....

....much more than I may have already


:redface:



*sets boxes all over new thread, then proceeds to curl up in one*


Now it's getting started!

[LaZodiac]

For some reason I feel quite at home in this thread. I hope everyone is doing well today.

[WarKitty]

For some reason I feel quite at home in this thread. I hope everyone is doing well today.

*puts zodi in a nice zodi-sized box with a blanket and pillow*

[Bartmanhomer]

I was going to originally posted the next random banter thread but 2D8HP beat me to it. :smile:

[LaZodiac]

*puts zodi in a nice zodi-sized box with a blanket and pillow*

Ah, relaxation. I appreciate it, Warkitty.

(I was making a joke about how Canadians are always apologetic but honestly given how thiings have been going for me it's super appreciated)

[DataNinja]

I can't do better than Dark Shadow...
You're giving me far too much credit. The bar for doing better is roughly... yay high. *waves hand horizontally, just barely not touching the ground* :smallamused:


Shuffles on in and considers the fact that saying hello to everyone on the final page of a thread may have not been good timing...
Eh, it just means that you get to do it again. Also, hello!


Thanks! Was back at the nurse today, since the regular services are open Mon-Fri. I've actually ended up getting a rash from my bandages, so they've had to change to a tad fancier one with a more gel-like adhesive.

Oh dear. Hopefully it's not too bad, at least. (Though, it's probably better than if there were no bandages at all, admittedly.)


*sets boxes all over new thread, then proceeds to curl up in one*
Do you mind taking the boxes from my work? They did 'spring cleaning' of about the past 4 years of administrivia down in the basement storage, so there was a stupid amount of boxes everywhere...


For some reason I feel quite at home in this thread. I hope everyone is doing well today.

(I was making a joke about how Canadians are always apologetic but honestly given how thiings have been going for me it's super appreciated)
Well, I'm sorry that my thread wasn't up to, ahem, code. Must've been an agonizing 50 pages. Gonna need to step up my apologies. :smallwink:
Sucks that things aren't going entirely tickety-boo, though. Hopefully they improve.

[WarKitty]

Ah, relaxation. I appreciate it, Warkitty.

(I was making a joke about how Canadians are always apologetic but honestly given how thiings have been going for me it's super appreciated)

*sticks various treats into box*

[Mith]

You're giving me far too much credit. The bar for doing better is roughly... yay high. *waves hand horizontally, just barely not touching the ground* :smallamused:


He's classified as an Old Geezer according to his statblock. Are you sure he can jump that high? :P.

Sorry 2D8HP, couldn't resist





Plus, jumping a bar, no matter how low, is a form of high jump. And THAT is a sport...

[Comrade]

After ten or so years, it seems my Ipod is finally giving out. It's cracked, the power button no longer works, the home button barely works, and now the music screen is frozen. It may at last be time to figure out how the hell to get music from Itunes onto my Iphone.

You know, if my technologically illiterate ass can make sense of it.

[2D8HP]

Plus, jumping a bar, no matter how low, is a form of high jump. And THAT is a sport...


That reminds me:
I hope The Eye (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/member.php?150971-The-Eye) starts another thread, those are awesome.

[Tvtyrant]

No its my a cup a coffee.

[Strigon]

After ten or so years, it seems my Ipod is finally giving out. It's cracked, the power button no longer works, the home button barely works, and now the music screen is frozen. It may at last be time to figure out how the hell to get music from Itunes onto my Iphone.

You know, if my technologically illiterate ass can make sense of it.

Ugh. Good luck.
I haven't used iTunes in quite a while, but I definitely recall that there were some songs it just refused to load onto my devices. No idea why; they were the same as any other song, and sometimes songs from the same album would differ in whether or not they worked.
Download new songs, make sure they're checked, sync your device, watch as 80% of them make it onto said device, but the best 20% are in no way acknowledged by iTunes, spend half an hour restarting computer, unplugging and plugging back in your iPhone, cursing everything Apple is and stands for, and then nine times out of ten it'll just suddenly work, despite you doing nothing different from any of the other dozens of times.

But hey, maybe it's better now!
Or maybe it was my computer; that's also not unlikely.

[FinnLassie]

@ FinnLass, it is actually good that your cavity woundis on your back, or you would be expected to learn to stuff it with wound pack your self!

I mean, I'd get used to it and wouldn't have to pay the hospital fee for going in every day to get my stuff changed...

[Peelee]

You're giving me far too much credit. The bar for doing better is roughly... yay high. *waves hand horizontally, just barely not touching the ground* :smallamused:

When the bar is that low, it's all too easy to trip over it.

[Comrade]

But hey, maybe it's better now!

It isn't, haha. I tried syncing my phone to Itunes, but couldn't get it to sync because of an 'invalid connection'. Now I'm trying to restore the Ipod to the factory settings because I remember doing something like that last time similar problems came up, so we'll see if that works, even though it means resyncing all my music all over again.

Doesn't help that I don't get my music through Itunes (does anybody?), I just use it to store and play music, so I think that complicates the process.

[Teddy]

We've been struck by a really unseasonable heat wave, pushing the temperature up to ~27°C in the afternoons. As a rather heat resilient person, I'm fine with this, albeit a bit taken by surprise. However, my apartment faces the south east with quite a lot of windows, so the temperature can push up to 29°C indoors while I'm at work, and even in the morning after a relatively cold night (~8°C), it can sport an indoor temperature of 27°C. Suffice to say, the dress code has changed from 'clothing optional' to 'clothing prohibited'.

What worse is, my landscape(-ish) at work is poorly ventilated, and now the sun rises high enough in the sky to shine through our windows, making this room really hot as well. I might be resilient to heat, but hot temperatures are still terrible for my work efficiency, as I can't focus very well when I'm hot. http://i.imgur.com/b6MRqPf.png

[Honest Tiefling]

It's a struggle, but I'm trying to be a little less crabby so I don't besmirch my grand new Avatar....

He could be made grumpier if you want, but I was trying to match the art I thought was of the 1e ranger. He seemed pretty chill overall.

[Peelee]

He could be made grumpier if you want, but I was trying to match the art I thought was of the 1e ranger. He seemed pretty chill overall.

I love the avatar, but now I really want to see it be grumpier.

[Honest Tiefling]

Here is the ranger, 2D8HD style:

https://i.imgur.com/l2YgKWJ.png

Through your dragon one is pretty good, Peelee. I feel like it has really captured the essence of dragon while remaining true to the OoTS style.

[Anonymouswizard]

Well hello all, I hope I'm not breaking banter protocol by jumping in on this threadwagon, I've never been too good at all that social malarkey.


(I was making a joke about how Canadians are always apologetic but honestly given how thiings have been going for me it's super appreciated)

Not to make light of being in a bad place, but this reminds me a lot of when I was in university.

Specifically I had a Chinese friend who got annoyed at the British saying sorry all the time. Of course she was too polite to say this in private, but with the number of times I apologised for it she was almost ready to hit me.

About three years later I achieved ultimate Britishness when I apologised to my bag for tripping over it, a couple of weeks after apologising for turning up exactly on time for a meeting (to the minute, the lecturer was shocked).

Also, minor note, that Chinese friend was probably the first person I seriously crushed on, and since then I've not had a single crush on somebody of my own nationality to the point it's a running joke with one of my friends.


Now what I originally planned to post before seeing the earlier ones.

I've recently started a new job (as in a month and a bit ago) and my accent has become a recurring joke among my colleagues because I just sound so much more posh than everybody (comes from growing up in the home counties and having speech therapy as a kid but working in central London). It's not bullying or anything, it's just one of those amusing things like them all assuming I'm in a relationship.

[WarKitty]

Well hello all, I hope I'm not breaking banter protocol by jumping in on this threadwagon, I've never been too good at all that social malarkey.

You are supposed to offer us tea and biscuits first.

[Anonymouswizard]

You are supposed to offer us tea and biscuits first.

Oh, I'm sor-Britishness quota exceeded, please input teabag to continue-but I'm out of custard creams.

[WarKitty]

Oh, I'm sor-Britishness quota exceeded, please input teabag to continue-but I'm out of custard creams.

What about spotted genitalia?

[2D8HP]

He could be made grumpier if you want, but I was trying to match the art I thought was of the 1e ranger. He seemed pretty chill overall.


Oh no, it's perfect.

I'm very grateful.

http://i.imgur.com/XqgZdeq.png


Here is the ranger, 2D8HD style:

http://i.imgur.com/l2YgKWJ.png


By what witchcraft?!!!

I'm going to save "Grumpy Ranger" for special occasions.

Thanks again!


...About three years later I achieved ultimate Britishness...


AWESOME! ...er..

GEAR!

(Maybe it's just Ringo Starr who says that as an expression).


...I've recently started a new job (as in a month and a bit ago) and my accent has become a recurring joke among my colleagues because I just sound so much more posh than everybody (comes from growing up in the home counties and having speech therapy as a kid but working in central London)....


It's my dearest wish that you now sound almost exactly like Brian Blessed (or soon will).

[Anonymouswizard]

What about spotted genitalia?

Nobody said anything about puddings, get your hands off my Spotted Richard. And the custard! :smalltongue:

(Which really isn't that popular anymore, people prefer sticky toffee pudding as a general rule.)

EDIT: unfortunately 2D8HP I sound pretty much like a posh git. Not in my head of course, but I might have been Anne to squeak a radio job even before regional accents we allowed (although I'm not BBC standard). I can be as loud as him though.

If I ever post something on my YouTube channel or turn up in the media you might get to hear my accent, but right now I'm too busy convincing the chef I won't knife myself.

And no, never heard that expression in my life.

[Honest Tiefling]

On the politeness issue, I have found that only Canadian Let's Players will apologize to zombies or other monsters attacking them. Just saying.

[WarKitty]

Nobody said anything about puddings.

Your puddings are confusing.

[Thufir]

Britishness quota exceeded, please input teabag to continue

Clearly you need a higher quota. Hang on, I have an old avatar for this purpose...

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k63/Razor-Sharp_H7/Avatar/TeapotRain2.png

[DataNinja]

When the bar is that low, it's all too easy to trip over it.
Okay, that's a good one. I've never heard that particular response before. :smallamused:


We've been struck by a really unseasonable heat wave, pushing the temperature up to ~27°C in the afternoons. As a rather heat resilient person, I'm fine with this, albeit a bit taken by surprise. However, my apartment faces the south east with quite a lot of windows, so the temperature can push up to 29°C indoors while I'm at work, and even in the morning after a relatively cold night (~8°C), it can sport an indoor temperature of 27°C. Suffice to say, the dress code has changed from 'clothing optional' to 'clothing prohibited'.

What worse is, my landscape(-ish) at work is poorly ventilated, and now the sun rises high enough in the sky to shine through our windows, making this room really hot as well. I might be resilient to heat, but hot temperatures are still terrible for my work efficiency, as I can't focus very well when I'm hot. http://i.imgur.com/b6MRqPf.png
Oh, geez. I like heat as much as the next Canadian (wait... I'm not sure if that's how that's supposed to go...), but that's excessive. I know my room in particular has that issue, and putting up thick posterboard in the summer really helped. (The fact that it's white still helped to let some glow in.)


Through your dragon one is pretty good, Peelee. I feel like it has really captured the essence of dragon while remaining true to the OoTS style.
The artists here on this site are really good at doing that. I'm always amazed, and sometimes feel bad about having abandoned my older adopted avatar to take on a non-stick-y personal. (But not too bad... I like this one.)


Well hello all, I hope I'm not breaking banter protocol by jumping in on this threadwagon
What? How dare you say hello in this open public forum? You should be ashamed of yourself for being polite, and acting exactly like this thread is supposed to enable (i.e. public random discussion). The nerve of some people! :smallwink:


On the politeness issue, I have found that only Canadian Let's Players will apologize to zombies or other monsters attacking them. Just saying.
...I definitely have never made apologies to inanimate objects before. Nope, not at all.

[Honest Tiefling]

The artists here on this site are really good at doing that. I'm always amazed, and sometimes feel bad about having abandoned my older adopted avatar to take on a non-stick-y personal. (But not too bad... I like this one.)

I'd personally like to hope so. Or a lot of people are just using awful avatars to make me feel better. People are pretty nice here after all.

[2D8HP]

...unfortunately 2D8HP....

...never heard that expression in my life.


Before your time (https://books.google.com/books?id=SVQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA33-IA3&lpg=PA33-IA3&dq=ringo+starr+really+gear&source=bl&ots=l2cPOav5kh&sig=ZRpFJxqbMVyP88F2LiskVRIL8jY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjRg7iz6ojbAhUDb60KHXvBDpY4ChDoATAJegQIA RAB#v=onepage&q=ringo%20starr%20really%20gear&f=false) I suppose.

[Strigon]

On the politeness issue, I have found that only Canadian Let's Players will apologize to zombies or other monsters attacking them. Just saying.

Look, it is said that many stereotypes have a grain of truth somewhere deep down. This is not the case for the apologetic Canadian; it's entirely true, 100%.
Honestly, it's a reflex for me at this point. High school was a nightmare for this; every day, each time I traveled from one class to another, it was just a constant stream of apologies. Doesn't matter if I actually slowed them down in any way, and it certainly doesn't matter if it's my fault or theirs.

[Peelee]

Here is the ranger, 2D8HD style:

https://i.imgur.com/l2YgKWJ.png
Oh man. I love it. I love you. That's amazing.


Through your dragon one is pretty good, Peelee. I feel like it has really captured the essence of dragon while remaining true to the OoTS style.
All credit good to Cuthalion. Thats more or less just how I pitched it, and dude absolutely nailed it.

Okay, that's a good one. I've never heard that particular response before. :smallamused:l


I very rarely get to say this honestly, but thanks! I made it myself!

[Insane Jeenyus]

*sees all of the boxes left out by warkitty*

Oh! Way cool! this one is the firefly class named Serenity!

its love that keeps her in the air, fun out of love, she'll fall to the ground

Take me out to the black, tell 'um I ain't comin' back . . . . Reavers?!?! I don't want to to be eaten by REAVERS!!!!

[LaZodiac]

I mean, I'd get used to it and wouldn't have to pay the hospital fee for going in every day to get my stuff changed...

Wait you need to pay for that? That's lame.

[Peelee]

Wait you need to pay for that? That's lame.

Hoo boy, you should travel statistically a hundred miles south.:smalltongue:

[enderlord99]

Hoo boy, you should travel statistically a hundred miles south.:smalltongue:

Pretty sure Yellowknife is way more than 100 miles from the US.

[LaZodiac]

Hoo boy, you should travel statistically a hundred miles south.:smalltongue:

Oh trust me I'm well aware of how terrible they are, I'm just shocked Finland doesn't cover for that. Up here it'd be all covered.

[Peelee]

Pretty sure Yellowknife is way more than 100 miles from the US.

Well maybe they'd let it be closer if someone cleaned the knife. Anyway, that's why I threw statistically in there.

[LaZodiac]

Well maybe they'd let it be closer if someone cleaned the knife. Anyway, that's why I threw statistically in there.

Hey man it's yellow because there's gold in them there hills.

...that said we've got like twice as many diamond knifes I should petition to change the place to Diamond Knife.

[AuthorGirl]

I have a shiny new avatar because Honest Tiefling is awesome :smallbiggrin:

[Teddy]

You are supposed to offer us tea and biscuits first.

Nonono, we are supposed to offer them tea and biscuits...
first...
...
I think I understand why this thread moves so slowly nowadays: People are slacking off on their tea and biscuit duties! How are we supposed to get new banterites if we don't bribe them with tea and biscuits?


Oh, geez. I like heat as much as the next Canadian (wait... I'm not sure if that's how that's supposed to go...), but that's excessive. I know my room in particular has that issue, and putting up thick posterboard in the summer really helped. (The fact that it's white still helped to let some glow in.)

The problem with that is that I really like the light. I style myself as some kind of nerd, but I'm secretly starting to suspect that I am in fact a highly confused plant. Like I'm really the son of a tree and no one ever told me I was adopted by this pair of human nerds.


Look, it is said that many stereotypes have a grain of truth somewhere deep down. This is not the case for the apologetic Canadian; it's entirely true, 100%.
Honestly, it's a reflex for me at this point. High school was a nightmare for this; every day, each time I traveled from one class to another, it was just a constant stream of apologies. Doesn't matter if I actually slowed them down in any way, and it certainly doesn't matter if it's my fault or theirs.

The important question is, though, did they apologise back to you?

ION:
Today I heard a song from the Halo soundtrack play in the background of a radio programme about social class and class contempt. That was some cognitive dissonance right there. A pretty fun way to be jostled out of your morning routine, though. Forces the brain to actually boot up. http://i.imgur.com/rcxULF7.png

EDIT:

I have a shiny new avatar because Honest Tiefling is awesome :smallbiggrin:

Ooo, shiny indeed.

[DataNinja]

I have a shiny new avatar because Honest Tiefling is awesome :smallbiggrin:
Ooh, very nice. :smallcool:


Nonono, we are supposed to offer them tea and biscuits...
first...
...
I think I understand why this thread moves so slowly nowadays: People are slacking off on their tea and biscuit duties! How are we supposed to get new banterites if we don't bribe them with tea and biscuits?
...oops. No one told me that was part of the curation business. >.>;


The problem with that is that I really like the light. I style myself as some kind of nerd, but I'm secretly starting to suspect that I am in fact a highly confused plant. Like I'm really the son of a tree and no one ever told me I was adopted by this pair of human nerds.
Very fair. Hence why I suggest white, as that lets a fair bit of light through, but it may not be ample for your needs.

[Goblin Slayer]

When it was 2d 8 hp was the whole dnd of old more difficult?

[factotum]

I think I understand why this thread moves so slowly nowadays: People are slacking off on their tea and biscuit duties! How are we supposed to get new banterites if we don't bribe them with tea and biscuits?


Oh, *I* see. This is like car insurance all over again, you dangle the incentives for the new people but just don't care about the loyal banterers who have been here for years? :smalltongue:

[DataNinja]

Oh, *I* see. This is like car insurance all over again, you dangle the incentives for the new people but just don't care about the loyal banterers who have been here for years? :smalltongue:

Well, go and switch to a different Banter thread, then. Oh, wait, you can't. There's a monopoly on bantering here. You're stuck. I'm stuck. We're all stuck here. :smallamused:

[Elanasaurus]

We've been struck by a really unseasonable heat wave, pushing the temperature up to ~27°C in the afternoons.

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http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z257/kerisrain/other/5979666e.png

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http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z257/kerisrain/other/XD.png

You should visit the tropics sometime.
:elan:

[2D8HP]

...People are pretty nice here after all.


Sure seems that wsy


I have a shiny new avatar...

Oh wow!

=If youre in "moblile]http://i.pinimg.com/originals/fc/57/86/fc5786fe0a0d9fc4b1c08eac506cd4cf.png

Very cool.


...because Honest Tiefling is awesome :smallbiggrin:



Indeed she is.


When it was 2d 8 hp was the whole dnd of old more difficult?


Only some parts, like rolling high enough stats to qualify for Ranger.

[Anonymouswizard]

Only some parts, like rolling high enough stats to qualify for Ranger.

Wait, you actually rolled stats back in the day? Not at home? In front of people?

How did you qualify for anything?

Also man, those Avatars are so spiffy, when the broadband's back I might have to look into getting one somehow. Which demon did you sell your souls to?

[Florian]

Wait, you actually rolled stats back in the day? Not at home? In front of people?

How did you qualify for anything?

Where´s the problem? Back then, even the classes you gained with the best rolls were more than fragile in the first levels, so while it was damn cool to have rolled a Ranger or Paladin, you basically didn't attach to your character until 5th or 6th level, the range they were beyond being insta-killed by some abilities.

[TheWombatOfDoom]

I just noticed the tags included apologizing. That made me smile. Can't believe I missed that. :smallsmile:

Does anyone have a consistently bad day of the week? For me, never fails, Tuesday ends up falling apart. Always. You could make a movie out of my bad day yesterday, and the ending would be me finally settling into bed, closing my eyes, murmuring thank God it's over. And then the eyes shooting open again because I got a phone call from work. :smallsigh:

[enderlord99]

No matter how far away I stand, I can't hear "yanny" without a bit of tone-shifting.

[Strigon]

No matter how far away I stand, I can't hear "yanny" without a bit of tone-shifting.

That's so weird. Because, for me, there is absolutely zero question about whether or not the first vowel is "a" as in angry, or that the last one is a long "eee" sound.
And I don't know why I'm engaging this because all it does is make me angry to hear about it because I'm obviously right and anyone who hears "laurel" has a condition.

[enderlord99]

:smallannoyed: I have several "conditions" but none of them are related to that.

[NRSASD]

Camp Yanny forever! Though I'll admit that it doesn't really sound like a word

[factotum]

Wait, you actually rolled stats back in the day? Not at home? In front of people?

How did you qualify for anything?

As I recall, there used to be a rule that would allow you to lower one stat by 2 to increase another by 1, so, if you fancied being a fighter but rolled 3 for your Strength, you could bring that back up to tolerable regions by basically dumping every other stat but Constitution.

[FinnLassie]

... sigh. :smallsigh:

My hospital and health care bills are gonna be about 300 euros for now, and it's gonna get even steeper due to my future evaluation for surgery and then the upcoming surgery itself. :smallsigh: It's such a lie when people talk about free health care in Finland. It freaking isn't. Not anymore. For a pish poor student like me this is hitting me really hard. On top of all this, I got a 124€ fine from the car crash and I'm in dire need of new glasses. A visit to the eye doctor will be around 80-90€, plus the glasses themselves will be around 300 euros (I went around opticians today asking about their pricings, I need glasses plus sunglasses).

AARHG.

[Honest Tiefling]

Oh, geez. I like heat as much as the next Canadian (wait... I'm not sure if that's how that's supposed to go...), but that's excessive. I know my room in particular has that issue, and putting up thick posterboard in the summer really helped. (The fact that it's white still helped to let some glow in.)

Do...Do Canadians just put posterboard over their windows?:smallconfused:

[Anymage]

On my phone, I could only hear "yanny". On my computer with better speakers, it's always "laurel". Unlike the dress, I'm pretty sure what you listen through will sway which one you hear.

[AMFV]

... sigh. :smallsigh:

My hospital and health care bills are gonna be about 300 euros for now, and it's gonna get even steeper due to my future evaluation for surgery and then the upcoming surgery itself. :smallsigh: It's such a lie when people talk about free health care in Finland. It freaking isn't. Not anymore. For a pish poor student like me this is hitting me really hard. On top of all this, I got a 124€ fine from the car crash and I'm in dire need of new glasses. A visit to the eye doctor will be around 80-90€, plus the glasses themselves will be around 300 euros (I went around opticians today asking about their pricings, I need glasses plus sunglasses).

AARHG.

If it makes you feel better, I have had to spend around 1k USD on my wife's pregnancy, and around 500 dollars on discovering I had sleep apnea. And both my wife and I have really good insurance.

[AuthorGirl]

Do...Do Canadians just put posterboard over their windows?:smallconfused:

Yes, when it's extremely hot and/or bright outside.

I can hear you wondering "what about curtains?"

I wonder that too.

[Strigon]

Do...Do Canadians just put posterboard over their windows?:smallconfused:

I live in what is probably one of the warmest places in Canada - seriously, we go North to enter the States - and I've never seen this.
Canada is a big place, though, and what's commonplace varies wildly.

[Teddy]

Oh, *I* see. This is like car insurance all over again, you dangle the incentives for the new people but just don't care about the loyal banterers who have been here for years? :smalltongue:

I'm pretty sure there's supposed to be some kind of benefit programme for us oldtimers too, but the oldtimers of my prime era never explained it to me, so I can't pass it on. It would explain why there are so few oldtimers around as well, though...


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http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z257/kerisrain/other/5979666e.png

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http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z257/kerisrain/other/XD.png

I see you're also into the custom smilie business! http://i.imgur.com/haudcUB.png


You should visit the tropics sometime.
:elan:

I have a few times in the past. As I said, the problem isn't that it's hot, the problem is that it's unseasonably hot, which means wild temperature swings, and all the buildings I have to be in lack proper cooling.


I just noticed the tags included apologizing. That made me smile. Can't believe I missed that. :smallsmile:

Oo, that's cute. http://i.imgur.com/jLvmsd9.png


Does anyone have a consistently bad day of the week? For me, never fails, Tuesday ends up falling apart. Always. You could make a movie out of my bad day yesterday, and the ending would be me finally settling into bed, closing my eyes, murmuring thank God it's over. And then the eyes shooting open again because I got a phone call from work. :smallsigh:

Not consistently, no. However, my long commute and kinda unfortunate ability to handle sleep deprivation really well does tend to build up some kind of hidden stress capacitor, and every now and then it will unload and I will sleep straight through the apocalypse if it so decides to happen that morning, naturally causing me to get really late for work. It's not something that gets me into trouble, but it's never fun to see 2-3 hours cut from your flex account in a single sweep.

Not as bad as your situation sounds, though.

[LaZodiac]

... sigh. :smallsigh:

My hospital and health care bills are gonna be about 300 euros for now, and it's gonna get even steeper due to my future evaluation for surgery and then the upcoming surgery itself. :smallsigh: It's such a lie when people talk about free health care in Finland. It freaking isn't. Not anymore. For a pish poor student like me this is hitting me really hard. On top of all this, I got a 124€ fine from the car crash and I'm in dire need of new glasses. A visit to the eye doctor will be around 80-90€, plus the glasses themselves will be around 300 euros (I went around opticians today asking about their pricings, I need glasses plus sunglasses).

AARHG.

Oh god, that's terrible. I'm sorry Finn :smallfrown:


Do...Do Canadians just put posterboard over their windows?:smallconfused:

Only if you're looking to save money. Up here we use blinder curtains to block out the sun.

[DataNinja]

Do...Do Canadians just put posterboard over their windows?:smallconfused:
Probably not, no. It's just what I do, (was taught by my family,) because it's cheap and it helps.

Also, I've got no air conditioning, so...

Yes, when it's extremely hot and/or bright outside.

I can hear you wondering "what about curtains?"

I wonder that too.
...huh, or there's someone else who does it, too. :smalltongue:

And, yeah, I have curtains, they're just not terribly effective at keeping out the heat in the warmest months of the year. Having both really helps.


I live in what is probably one of the warmest places in Canada - seriously, we go North to enter the States - and I've never seen this.
Canada is a big place, though, and what's commonplace varies wildly.
Yeah, I didn't expect it to be particularly common. Heck, I'm surprised that even one other person does it. :smallamused:

[Honest Tiefling]

I live in what is probably one of the warmest places in Canada - seriously, we go North to enter the States - and I've never seen this.

I live in California, but all native Californians are eternally cold. Unless you live in the Southern bit, but then there's your problem. Then again, blackout curtains should help, but they can get expensive.

[Peelee]

Just get AC and run it damn near all day, every day. Maybe a few months in the winter you don't need it.

[SodaQueen]

Just get AC and run it damn near all day, every day. Maybe a few months in the winter you don't need it.Well, everyone has AC no matter how low it is. You definitely need it in the winter too! There are plenty of cold-themed monsters with high attack bonuses :smalltongue:

[FinnLassie]

If it makes you feel better, I have had to spend around 1k USD on my wife's pregnancy, and around 500 dollars on discovering I had sleep apnea. And both my wife and I have really good insurance.

Well, not exactly, since it's all relative. I know how **** expensive everything is in the US. I was in a car accident there, and the hospital bill for the 3 hours I was in was around 5000-6000$. I already know "things are worse elsewhere blah blah."

[2D8HP]

Just get AC and run it damn near all day, every day. Maybe a few months in the winter you don't need it.


Well, everyone has AC no matter how low it is. You definitely need it in the winter too! There are plenty of cold-themed monsters with high attack bonuses :smalltongue:No AC here, which is unfortunate as less than a year ago we had the hottest day ever recorded (http://www.ktvu.com/news/all-time-record-high-temperature-broken-in-san-francisco) here.

In contrast:

As a little boy I saw snow for a couple of days in 1976.

It was a very big deal, I wonder if it will happen again in my lifetime?


http://snowbrains.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/snow-article-ski.jpg

https://cbssanfran.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/bay-area-snow.jpg?w=420&h=1&crop=1

https://cbssanfran.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/bay-area-snow-5.jpg?w=386&h=1&crop=1

Normally winter means rain (or just day long fog).

We usually do have a couple of nights of freezing temperature (and I try to remember to valve off and drain the backyard hose bibs so the pipes don't burst).

But snow in town?

A fading memory.



Well, not exactly, since it's all relative. I know how **** expensive everything is in the US. I was in a car accident there, and the hospital bill for the 3 hours I was in was around 5000-6000$. I already know "things are worse elsewhere blah blah."


But the advantage of that is apparently you can actually earn a good living in pharmaceutical sales (my wife's did some research).

[factotum]

And, yeah, I have curtains, they're just not terribly effective at keeping out the heat in the warmest months of the year.

In my experience, what happens when the sun shines on closed curtains is that the curtains heat up and then start radiating that heat into the room--if anything, it gets *warmer* than if you had them open, unless you happen to be sitting in the direct sunlight.

[Peelee]

In my experience, what happens when the sun shines on closed curtains is that the curtains heat up and then start radiating that heat into the room--if anything, it gets *warmer* than if you had them open, unless you happen to be sitting in the direct sunlight.

I don't see any reason why the room would get warmer, since that same heat would be heating whatever is being the curtains.

[factotum]

I don't see any reason why the room would get warmer, since that same heat would be heating whatever is being the curtains.

Like I said, it's just my experience. The main point is, it doesn't seem to *reduce* the heat generated in any way?

[enderlord99]

Hand of Fate 2 is a great game, even if my character sometimes acts like Abridged Gohan in combat.

[Elanasaurus]

I see you're also into the custom smilie business!http://i.imgur.com/haudcUB.pngI'm on mobile, so I get all the smilies from the OOTS Smilies thread.
I have a few times in the past. As I said, the problem isn't that it's hot, the problem is that it's unseasonably hot, which means wild temperature swings, and all the buildings I have to be in lack proper cooling.Oh. Unseasonably. Misread that.
:elan:
EDIT:
That's so weird. Because, for me, there is absolutely zero question about whether or not the first vowel is "a" as in angry, or that the last one is a long "eee" sound.
And I don't know why I'm engaging this because all it does is make me angry to hear about it because I'm obviously right and anyone who hears "laurel" has a condition.I hear both at the same time! Listen for the growl in the background.

[Mith]

Regarding the posterboarded window, combining that with curtains also allows you to sleep because of how much sunlight we get in the summer.

[Honest Tiefling]

Hand of Fate 2 is a great game, even if my character sometimes acts like Abridged Gohan in combat.

Please, describe this game more to me.

[enderlord99]

Please, describe this game more to me.

It's a roguelite with Arkham Style combat and a card-based metaprogression.

[WarKitty]

Regarding the posterboarded window, combining that with curtains also allows you to sleep because of how much sunlight we get in the summer.

Yeah it's a common trick among night shift workers pretty much anywhere. Posterboard behind your curtains means it stays actually DARK.

[TheWombatOfDoom]

It's a roguelite with Arkham Style combat and a card-based metaprogression.

I will someday stream that game for you. I have it on my list, per your request.

[AuthorGirl]

I'm off to a church camp/retreat in the morning! So excited . . . hoping most of all to learn a lot and make connections with people :smallsmile:. I'm trying not to get my hopes up unreasonably high (which is difficult).

I just really want to find some friends to share things with (and we can grow together). I have never had a friend who shares my faith and I really want one.

Whatever happens, I know there'll be good bits, and I've got so many butterflies in my stomach right now!

[Mith]

I'm off to a church camp/retreat in the morning! So excited . . . hoping most of all to learn a lot and make connections with people :smallsmile:. I'm trying not to get my hopes up unreasonably high (which is difficult).

I just really want to find some friends to share things with (and we can grow together). I have never had a friend who shares my faith and I really want one.

Whatever happens, I know there'll be good bits, and I've got so many butterflies in my stomach right now!

Good Luck!

[Goblin Slayer]

Do zombies dreams of undead sheeps

[enderlord99]

Do zombies dreams of undead sheeps

Nope. Vampires might.

[Teddy]

Like I said, it's just my experience. The main point is, it doesn't seem to *reduce* the heat generated in any way?

I think it can be explained by the curtains preventing the heat in the room from radiating back out the window again. And since the space between the curtain and the window probably is quite a lot hotter thanks to the sun, the room is going to continue heating up that way. Any locked in heat has to find other ways to escape.

To compare, if you want something heated by the desert sun, you put it in a black plastic bag, not a clear one.

That said, if you also open the window, the equation is going to be a little bit different.


I'm off to a church camp/retreat in the morning! So excited . . . hoping most of all to learn a lot and make connections with people :smallsmile:. I'm trying not to get my hopes up unreasonably high (which is difficult).

I just really want to find some friends to share things with (and we can grow together). I have never had a friend who shares my faith and I really want one.

Whatever happens, I know there'll be good bits, and I've got so many butterflies in my stomach right now!

Oo, I hope you'll have a lot of fun! http://i.imgur.com/jLvmsd9.png

ION:
I kinda need to have a real talk with someone who's capable to truly work ut my life situation. I've pretty much proven that I have no self-preservation instinct whatsoever when it comes to managing my work and sleep schedules, and the fact that I can maintain an acceptable performance even with several days of accumulated sleep deprivation isn't doing any wonders for me. Plus, it's quite noticable that the poor sleep does lock me out from my true potential. I had a problem I told my stakeholders I wouldn't have time to fix in the two weeks remaining before a release. I then overslept one morning, and proceeded to fix it in the span of just two days.

I just doubt I'd manage to convince my boss I should be allowed to oversleep every morning without cutting down on my salary...

[HalfTangible]

Do zombies dreams of undead sheeps

Zombies are the RESTLESS dead.

They don't sleep.

[Honest Tiefling]

Yes, when it's extremely hot and/or bright outside.

I can hear you wondering "what about curtains?"

I wonder that too.

I might be too late, but good luck with this and I hope you have fun! Never went to one of these camps, but perhaps consider bringing an icebreaker like a deck of cards or a simple game?

FATE might do wonders with newbies...

[2D8HP]

I'm off to....
....now!


Hoping you have a wonderful time!

Also, I think Honest Tiefling gave Quill an inkwell balanced on the tail.

Very cool.


:cool:

[Bartmanhomer]

I feel like I'm very well known in this forum.

[LaZodiac]

I feel like I'm very well known in this forum.

I'll give you this much. This is true.

[Bartmanhomer]

I'll give you this much. This is true.

Really? How so?

[HalfTangible]

I feel like I'm very well known in this forum.

Who're you again?

[Anonymouswizard]

Who're you again?

He's the guy who posts threads.


I least two hours of sleep last night (reason belongs in other thread, bring going on for like four months), please send cups of tea.

[Goblin Slayer]

does the saying beauty in the eye of the beholder work in dnd?

does that means everyone is is ugly

[Peelee]

does the saying beauty in the eye of the beholder work in dnd?

does that means everyone is is ugly

It means the beholder thinks everyone is beautiful in their own way.

[Insane Jeenyus]

I'm off to a church camp/retreat in the morning! So excited . . . hoping most of all to learn a lot and make connections with people :smallsmile:. I'm trying not to get my hopes up unreasonably high (which is difficult).

I just really want to find some friends to share things with (and we can grow together). I have never had a friend who shares my faith and I really want one.

Whatever happens, I know there'll be good bits, and I've got so many butterflies in my stomach right now!

*first sports game?
Baseball
Genesis: in the big inning
*Moses played what sport?
Tennis
"Moses served in Pharaoh's court"
*Shortest prophet was .. .. .. .. ..
"Knee-high Miah"
*first car in history?
Honda Accord
"All of the apostles were in one accord"

[Insane Jeenyus]

does the saying beauty in the eye of the beholder work in dnd?

does that means everyone is is ugly


It means the beholder thinks everyone is beautiful in their own way.


I seem to recall something on this . . . . .

https://www.rpg.net/pictures/show-pic.phtml?picid=8554

[factotum]

Didn't they defeat a beholder using the beauty of a flower in that D&D cartoon from the 80s?

[Peelee]

Didn't they defeat a beholder using the beauty of a flower in that D&D cartoon from the 80s?

I need to rewatch that sometime soon. According to the stats in the DVD booklet, Venger should have wiped them all out in the first episode, though.

[LaZodiac]

Really? How so?

Like Anon Wizard said, you're the person who posts The Threads.

Anyway, I've got a very strange dream to share with all of you.

I was watching a mixture of the Ice Age movies crossed over with a comedic super hero esque film starring Ben Stiller as a guy with fire powers and puppets are invovled, and this IS ased on a thing that is real I'm like 80% sure, but the connection it has to Ice Age is super tenious so I don't know if it was actually connected beyond there being a squirrell who does stuff in it. They were trying to get these bad guys out of their house who are from some other thing I've seen that I _swear_ is real but I cannot remember where a bunch of kids have super powers like being invisible and stuff. Also they have teenage mutant ninja turtles but instead of being anthromorphic they're just actually turtles who are mutants and probably teenagers but they don't do anything. He defeats them by stealing the two light capsules from the girl who has light controlling powers and smashing them together with his fire powers to cause a blinding light, then causing a mini nuclear reactor with the small nuclear reactor he was given in the first film to take away his powers if he wanted, causing a massive miniture nuclear reaction explosion which made everyone decide to leave and split the turtles into many smaller turtles.

Also this took place in my Grandma's apartment but also a large church with flowers that had a dew in them that let you adjust your powers strength. Also at some point during all of this I was playing a new Dark Souls game and I tried to help someone beat a boss but I ended up going into it solo and losing but almost doing it. The film ends with an after credit sequence that shows a penguin riding a mean blue whale that constantly freezes it under water to make sure it stays on him, and then a squirrel that ends up in some sort of dinosaur graveyard and after fighting off these weird rat things he ends up getting a thing stuck on his head which breaks to reveal a necromancer helmet and it implies that he's going to revive all the dinosaurs to fight in the next film.

And then the credits actually roll and it's this weird and trippy claustrophobic style thing where it's a bunch of raising and closing doors that you have to walk through, but mid way through it stops and switches to Ben Stiller's character walking through a movie set explaining how the credit roll works and we start hearing a rumble implying something is happening, and then we cut to a graveyard in the church the fighting happened in and there's a guy I've never seen reading an evil note left for him and deducing egyptians are involved but the person who wrote it is dumb and didn't use terms properly anyway so he doesn't suspect anything will happen from it. Then we cut to a bar where Lisa and Bart Simpson are watching an ad for the next movie, which is actually about puppets taking over the city with a dome and forcing everyone to be in a christmas movie. Then Bart throws away my garbage for me and I wake up.

[Mith]

Like Anon Wizard said, you're the person who posts The Threads.

Anyway, I've got a very strange dream to share with all of you.

I was watching a mixture of the Ice Age movies crossed over with a comedic super hero esque film starring Ben Stiller as a guy with fire powers and puppets are invovled, and this IS ased on a thing that is real I'm like 80% sure, but the connection it has to Ice Age is super tenious so I don't know if it was actually connected beyond there being a squirrell who does stuff in it. They were trying to get these bad guys out of their house who are from some other thing I've seen that I _swear_ is real but I cannot remember where a bunch of kids have super powers like being invisible and stuff. Also they have teenage mutant ninja turtles but instead of being anthromorphic they're just actually turtles who are mutants and probably teenagers but they don't do anything. He defeats them by stealing the two light capsules from the girl who has light controlling powers and smashing them together with his fire powers to cause a blinding light, then causing a mini nuclear reactor with the small nuclear reactor he was given in the first film to take away his powers if he wanted, causing a massive miniture nuclear reaction explosion which made everyone decide to leave and split the turtles into many smaller turtles.

Also this took place in my Grandma's apartment but also a large church with flowers that had a dew in them that let you adjust your powers strength. Also at some point during all of this I was playing a new Dark Souls game and I tried to help someone beat a boss but I ended up going into it solo and losing but almost doing it. The film ends with an after credit sequence that shows a penguin riding a mean blue whale that constantly freezes it under water to make sure it stays on him, and then a squirrel that ends up in some sort of dinosaur graveyard and after fighting off these weird rat things he ends up getting a thing stuck on his head which breaks to reveal a necromancer helmet and it implies that he's going to revive all the dinosaurs to fight in the next film.

And then the credits actually roll and it's this weird and trippy claustrophobic style thing where it's a bunch of raising and closing doors that you have to walk through, but mid way through it stops and switches to Ben Stiller's character walking through a movie set explaining how the credit roll works and we start hearing a rumble implying something is happening, and then we cut to a graveyard in the church the fighting happened in and there's a guy I've never seen reading an evil note left for him and deducing egyptians are involved but the person who wrote it is dumb and didn't use terms properly anyway so he doesn't suspect anything will happen from it. Then we cut to a bar where Lisa and Bart Simpson are watching an ad for the next movie, which is actually about puppets taking over the city with a dome and forcing everyone to be in a christmas movie. Then Bart throws away my garbage for me and I wake up.

In my experience, if you are just lucid enough to realise how nuts the dream is as it is going on, just sit back and enjoy the show.

[LaZodiac]

In my experience, if you are just lucid enough to realise how nuts the dream is as it is going on, just sit back and enjoy the show.

I really wasn't though. It's only now that I realize it was kind of insane.

[Anonymouswizard]

I really wasn't though. It's only now that I realize it was kind of insane.

Honestly, in experience it's when the dreams start to get sane you have to be worried.


One of the few dreams I remember was really short, and remarkably sane. I woke up in my bed at 10:00, late for work so there was no point going in. I have no idea where that dream was going because I then woke up, a few minutes before my 7:00 alarm.

I'm honestly not sure if that dream is a better or worse sign than the ones where my ex visits me but forgets to bring clothes...

[enderlord99]

My dad dropped a wooden spoon, yelled at the constantly-nervous dog that she "stole his spoon" even while I was telling him that I saw him drop it, and then claimed "I never mess around" when my brother tried to assure me that he was just messing around.

EDIT: Apparently he wasn't yelling, or even talking in an angry voice. Never mind.

[2D8HP]

Honestly, in experience it's when the dreams start to get sane you have to be worried....


I hate those dreams that seem close to real life.

I always feel cheated that I'm not paid overtime for them!

http://i.imgur.com/l2YgKWJ.png

[WarKitty]

The absolute worst dream I had:

There had been a very nasty situation with some people I had thought were friends. Details aren't particularly relevant, but basically there were a ton of accusations going around of stuff I hadn't done, I was being blamed because I wouldn't explain to anyone what was going on but also threatened if I did (not that I had any idea anyway), and it was a huge mess.

In the dream I said everything I wanted to say and everything I was told I couldn't say, and people listened and believed me and I had my friends back and got to go back to the clubs I'd been forced out of and such.

And then I woke up.

[Amazon]

I need to rewatch that sometime soon. According to the stats in the DVD booklet, Venger should have wiped them all out in the first episode, though.

Stats are not everything, by stats alone captain america would never stand a chance against comics foes Avengers face all the time, but he's more than the sum of his parts.

[AMFV]

Stats are not all, by stats alone captain america would never stand a chance against comics foes Avengers face all the time, but he's more than the sum of his parts.

Well yeah, but then he got on the 'roids...

[Amazon]

Well yeah, but then he got on the 'roids...

Unless this is a joke you missed Abraham Erskine's point on why Steven Rogers was the only one who could be cap.

He has strength of character! Steve Rogers is respected by everyone, despite:

1-Not being the strongest.
2-Not having any real power.
3-Not being a scientist.
4-Not being a god.
5-Not being the king of one of the most advanced and rich nations on the planet.

And people respect him because he’s the first to protect others from any danger, he’s willing to sacrifice anything for his best friend. Caracters that are way more powerful than him, heave a sigh of relief when he arrives to fight. He’s always first in line, no matter who’s in front of him, no matter who’s behind him.

Beasts take orders from him; gods fight alongside him; geniuses admire him; kings respect him; enemies fear him because he is more powerful then the sum of his parts. He respects, he is a good leader and he acts to do what is really rigth no matter if that's againts what most people think is rigth.

https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-d9bac072eb3d35fc25c37c27d36553e9.webp

[AMFV]

Unless this is a joke you missed Abraham Erskine's point on why Steven Rogers was the only one who could be cap.

It was a joke. Because the Super Soldier Serum acts like steroids do in the movies. But I think that Cap's strength of character would be represented in stats and abilities in a standard RPG.

[Amazon]

It was a joke. Because the Super Soldier Serum acts like steroids do in the movies. But I think that Cap's strength of character would be represented in stats and abilities in a standard RPG.

Not it doesn't, Red skull took the same serum. It boosts your attributes traits features and characteristics.

It's an instantaneous process that reveals what is truly inside the person without having to do any extra work.

If your evil you will get super evil (like Red skull). Because, he was already a monster deep down.

If you are good you will get stronger (like Steve). Because, he was already strong and a hero deep down.

Steroids they just make muscles grow faster and there are harmful side effects to your health, most people do it out of vanity or obsession. (Let me guess not all steroid users?)

[AMFV]

Not it doesn't, Red skull took the same serum. It boosts your attributes traits features and characteristics.

It's an istatinous process that reveal what is trully inside the person without having to do any extra work.

If your evil you will get super evil (like Red skull). Becuase he was already a monter deep down.

If you are good you will get stronger (like Steve). Becuase he was already strong and a hero deep down.

Steroids they just make muscles grow faster and there are harmful side effects to your health, most people do it out of vainity or obsession. (Let me guess not all steroid users?)

Look I already explained the joke. Do I have to explain the joke twice? The joke is that when people in movies take steroids they immediately get giant muscles, the same way as Captain America did in the film. Hence the joke. Since you were talking about his stats being poor, the joke is that I assumed that you were talking about him prior to the serum, and then made a joke comparing the serum to steroids.

Also why did Red Skull get as strong as Cap if that's the case? Cause physically the effects were pretty much identical. Except for the skull thing, and Erskine says that was because he hadn't perfected the serum.

[Amazon]

Look I already explained the joke. Do I have to explain the joke twice? The joke is that when people in movies take steroids they immediately get giant muscles, the same way as Captain America did in the film. Hence the joke. Since you were talking about his stats being poor, the joke is that I assumed that you were talking about him prior to the serum, and then made a joke comparing the serum to steroids.

Also why did Red Skull get as strong as Cap if that's the case? Cause physically the effects were pretty much identical. Except for the skull thing, and Erskine says that was because he hadn't perfected the serum.

Evil can be strong too, strength is not a measurement of goodness. I would have not commented if you just said it was a joke but since you added an explanation I felt compelled to explain why such comparison makes no sense.

[AMFV]

Evil can be strong too, strength is not a measurement of goodness. I would have not commented if you just said it was a joke but since you added an explanation I felt compelled to explain why such comparison makes no sense.

But it does kind of make sense, and it's not even an original joke. Hell, you could argue that Captain America was partially inspired by the same sort of character flaws that you said make people take steroids in volunteering for the program. Especially in the pre-movie versions.

[Anonymouswizard]

I hate those dreams that seem close to real life.

I always feel cheated that I'm not paid overtime for them!

http://i.imgur.com/l2YgKWJ.png

Yeah, annoyingly they're generally the ones I remember (or arguably experience, I'm not convinced I dream normally).

Plus I really, really need to get a snazzy avatar. How can I expect to be as famous as you while I'm stuck with a stock model :smalltongue:


Well I just spent about two hours screaming at a laptop at least the better part of a decade old, I think it's safe to say that I need a new machine.

[Peelee]

Stats are not everything, by stats alone captain america would never stand a chance against comics foes Avengers face all the time, but he's more than the sum of his parts.

No they're not, but an 18th level Sorc against single-digit level barbarians and monks?! Dude was packing serious power that her never seriously leveled against them.

[DataNinja]

Plus I really, really need to get a snazzy avatar. How can I expect to be as famous as you while I'm stuck with a stock model :smalltongue:

To the MSPaintmobile, clearly. :smalltongue:

[S@tanicoaldo]

But it does kind of make sense, and it's not even an original joke. Hell, you could argue that Captain America was partially inspired by the same sort of character flaws that you said make people take steroids in volunteering for the program. Especially in the pre-movie versions.

With those pecs as a result who can blame him?

https://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/hayleyatwellboob.gif?w=650


No they're not, but an 18th level Sorc against single-digit level barbarians and monks?! Dude was packing serious power that her never seriously leveled against them.

They did have epic magical gear. And a high level gnome wizard mentor.

[2D8HP]

...I really, really need to get a snazzy avatar. How can I expect to be as famous as you while I'm stuck with a stock model...


A snazzy avatar is it's own reward, but you don't need one to be famous:


....I'm very well known in this forum.


See?

[Aedilred]

Look I already explained the joke. Do I have to explain the joke twice?

In order to get a joke you need to have a sense of humour in the first place, so I think you might be wasting your time.

[Bartmanhomer]

A snazzy avatar is it's own reward, but you don't need one to be famous:




See?

2D8HP. May I also add that being famous in a forum means that you need to more post more threads that people find it interesting. Having an avatar won't make you famous, no matter how cool your avatar is. It will gain little to no effect to attract people attention. Just a helpful advice that I want to bring it up.

[Peelee]

2D8HP. May I also add that being famous in a forum means that you need to more post more threads that people find it interesting. Having an avatar won't make you famous, no matter how cool your avatar is. It will gain little to no effect to attract people attention. Just a helpful advice that I want to bring it up.

My avatar disagrees.:smalltongue:

[Amazon]

In order to get a joke you need to have a sense of humour in the first place, so I think you might be wasting your time.

Excuse me?

[Anonymouswizard]

With those pecs as a result who can blame him?

https://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/hayleyatwellboob.gif?w=650

Meh.

My D&D group once tried to work out what the make version of large breasts would be. It ended up with pecs being dismissed as 'discount biceps'.

[Teddy]

2D8HP. May I also add that being famous in a forum means that you need to more post more threads that people find it interesting. Having an avatar won't make you famous, no matter how cool your avatar is. It will gain little to no effect to attract people attention. Just a helpful advice that I want to bring it up.

It is a very good way of attracting people if you are a good avatarist and made it yourself. When I see really cool avatars, I tend to look at the signature to see who made it, and if it's self-made, I tend to remember the avatarist. I've still got a bunch of good avatarists floating around in my head, even though they haven't been active for years.

[Anonymouswizard]

It is a very good way of attracting people if you are a good avatarist and made it yourself. When I see really cool avatars, I tend to look at the signature to see who made it, and if it's self-made, I tend to remember the avatarist. I've still got a bunch of good avatarists floating around in my head, even though they haven't been active for years.

Yeah, main reason I don't have a custom Avatar is because I'm really bad at making them (I did try, although the picture died with my old laptop) and too proud to ask my brother to make me one.

Honestly the main reason I want a custom Avatar is because it'll make my posts easier to pick out when I'm scrolling through a thread looking at something I posted months to years ago. I also remember a few posters here by their Avatars, I came to associate the standard RangerGuy one with 2D8HP before he got a custom Ranger.

[Bartmanhomer]

It is a very good way of attracting people if you are a good avatarist and made it yourself. When I see really cool avatars, I tend to look at the signature to see who made it, and if it's self-made, I tend to remember the avatarist. I've still got a bunch of good avatarists floating around in my head, even though they haven't been active for years.

I suppose there are exceptions if you created the avatar originally by yourself and attract some attention, I guess that counts for some fame in a forum.

Anyway I thought of a TV show. What if we could make this forum a TV show? :smile:

[AMFV]

I suppose there are exceptions if you created the avatar originally by yourself and attract some attention, I guess that counts for some fame in a forum.

Anyway I thought of a TV show. What if we could make this forum a TV show? :smile:

It be canceled after the first season because Fox aired episodes out of order and then forgot to air a few important ones.

[Bartmanhomer]

It be canceled after the first season because Fox aired episodes out of order and then forgot to air a few important ones.

I suppose the movie idea is out of the question as well. :frown:

[AMFV]

I suppose the movie idea is out of the question as well. :frown:

No there will be a after couple years after there's like a huge cult following which will kill off several main characters

[Bartmanhomer]

No there will be a after couple years after there's like a huge cult following which will kill off several main characters

And who will be the several main characters if I may ask?

[LaZodiac]

He's referencing Firefly so presumably anyone who knows how to pilot.

[Mith]

Plus I really, really need to get a snazzy avatar. How can I expect to be as famous as you while I'm stuck with a stock model :smalltongue:

But you are the ANONYMOUS wizard. Why would you want to be famous? Wouldn't that defeat the point?

[Bartmanhomer]

He's referencing Firefly so presumably anyone who knows how to pilot.

I never watched Firefly but what I heard from other people it was a good TV show.

[AMFV]

He's referencing Firefly so presumably anyone who knows how to pilot.

Also the character with the hinted-at cryptic backstory that now you will NEVER know.

[Anonymouswizard]

Anyway I thought of a TV show. What if we could make this forum a TV show? :smile:

I'm assuming more of an ensemble format for this. I'm obviously the equivalent of 'Pedestrian #7'.


But you are the ANONYMOUS wizard. Why would you want to be famous? Wouldn't that defeat the point?

I'm a wizard, I don't need your pathetic mundane logic :smalltongue:

[Peelee]

Also the character with the hinted-at cryptic backstory that now you will NEVER know.

Weren't there comics that went into it?

[AMFV]

Weren't there comics that went into it?

Maybe, but my experience with Joss Wheedon influenced continuation comics is that they're not even really worth exploring. At least in my own humble opinion.

[WarKitty]

Random question: are you ever embarrassed to have expensive or fancy stuff out where people can see it? I always feel like I have to justify where I got it because otherwise I feel like I'm showing off my money. (Usually I really didn't spend that much, I just have a good eye for getting nice stuff for cheap.)

[2D8HP]

Random question: are you ever embarrassed to...


Furniture?

Nope.

But I seldom have visitors.

The closest I get is I dressing "down" outside.

I'm actually very comfortable in suits and "button up" shirts, but I find that random strangers ask me for money even more than usual so I dress in jeans and "hoodies" outside, as does my wife even though she has some nice dresses (we look like we're in uniform!).

We just find we get hassled less if we look worse and are less comfortable in stupid "casual" clothesn

[Strigon]

Random question: are you ever embarrassed to have expensive or fancy stuff out where people can see it? I always feel like I have to justify where I got it because otherwise I feel like I'm showing off my money. (Usually I really didn't spend that much, I just have a good eye for getting nice stuff for cheap.)

Not really, but I can certainly see why that might be the case.
Personally, I refuse to worry about it because it's my place, dagnabbit, and presumably if I'm comfortable bringing someone into it they know me well enough already not to think that.

Plus, if I did that, I wouldn't be able to display much of anything. I'm of the camp that would much rather have a small number of things that I'm very happy with, than a wide variety of things I'm only somewhat happy with.
I don't have a lot of money, by any standard (except sustenance-level societies, I guess), so it takes me a while to save up for anything I want to buy. If I want to get something, then, it stands to reason it's pretty important to me, and it's worth spending the extra time researching and saving to get what I'll be happiest with.

If that means my place ends up sparsely decorated, but with very attractive items, then so be it.

[Anonymouswizard]

I'm actually very comfortable in suits and "button up" shirts, but I find that random strangers ask me for money even more than usual so I dress in jeans and "hoodies" outside, as does my wife even though she has some nice dresses (we look like we're in uniform!).

I have discovered that when I'm a relatively healthy weight I just outright prefer wearing shirts, and I prefer the hang of formal trousers compared to almost anything else. When I'm the weight I currently am (i.e. morbidly obese) I can look weird when I don't dress up, tending to wear formal trousers with casual t-shirts (although next time I go clothes shopping I'm buying a set of shirts, fat or not).

As a side note, because despite being obese I'm a) rather fit and b) thinner than your average person my age I've had a lot of trouble convincing people I am fat, and even those that can see it seem to think I must be sensitive about it (bah! I'm not exactly unfit and there are potential romantic partners who like fat men, why should I care?).

[WarKitty]

I meant more like clothing or stuff in your car or whatever, not stuff in your house.

[factotum]

I meant more like clothing or stuff in your car or whatever, not stuff in your house.

Surely the car itself is more of a indicator of your wealth than anything you have in it, when you're in that situation? Anyway, it's not something that ever arises for me because I don't buy expensive things!

[WarKitty]

Surely the car itself is more of a indicator of your wealth than anything you have in it, when you're in that situation? Anyway, it's not something that ever arises for me because I don't buy expensive things!

In america? No. A car is, in most places, a basic necessity to be employed.

[Anonymouswizard]

I meant more like clothing or stuff in your car or whatever, not stuff in your house.

In this case, no. I sound posh, and no amount of not wearing nice clothes will change that, so people already assume I must have at least some nice stuff.


In america? No. A car is, in most places, a basic necessity to be employed.

This is a cruel discrimination against those of us with disabilities that make us feel unsafe driving a car.

(Seriously, in a bad month I drop my phone at least once a day, I do not feel safe driving and never will.)

[AMFV]

Random question: are you ever embarrassed to have expensive or fancy stuff out where people can see it? I always feel like I have to justify where I got it because otherwise I feel like I'm showing off my money. (Usually I really didn't spend that much, I just have a good eye for getting nice stuff for cheap.)

Not really. But in my case the expensive stuff is usually tools, and those are only usually seen by other folks who have expensive tools, since those are what you use to make your living. I wouldn't be able to wear clothes that were nice around too much, since I wind up spending money on work clothes which are damaged and destroyed too often to be really fancy.


Surely the car itself is more of a indicator of your wealth than anything you have in it, when you're in that situation? Anyway, it's not something that ever arises for me because I don't buy expensive things!

Well the type of car you have can be a status symbol, but as people have said it's really a necessity. Actually it's kind of funny because the types of cars that are status symbols vary greatly by area. Like if you're out in the country where I live, it's big trucks, if you're in the city it's super fancy cars.



This is a cruel discrimination against those of us with disabilities that make us feel unsafe driving a car.

(Seriously, in a bad month I drop my phone at least once a day, I do not feel safe driving and never will.)

Well it's not really discrimination mostly it's just because things are so far away in the US. The UK is roughly forty times smaller than the US. So a lot of things are very far apart. If you live out in the suburbs, you'll probably have a minimum of a thirty minute commute every day. And that's without traffic. Now if you were living here, you'd probably want to move into one of the larger cities in the US, which can have reasonable mass transit.

[Algeh]

In america? No. A car is, in most places, a basic necessity to be employed.

Sure, but what kind of car, how old it is, and what kind of shape it's in do tend to be indicators of wealth/status.

I drove a 1984 Camry that my grandpa had fixed up after it was totaled as my main car for most of my adult years (until a year or so ago - the defroster stopped working and it's too expensive to hire someone to tear apart the dash to fix it, so it's parked until I have time/space/tools to do that myself). I once got a parking ticket for parking in a visitor spot at the high school I was substitute teaching at because they assumed it was a "student car". (They waived it once I took the ticket into the office since I was, in fact, supposed to be parking where I was parked.) I also once got pulled over for "having a dirty license plate" when driving late at night, and the cop visibly startled and changed his train of thought when he saw it was a middle-class white woman in their 30s behind the wheel (not quite sure what he was expecting - a bunch of teenagers?).

I have a friend who has wealthy parents but is not himself wealthy, so he's always driving 10-15 year old Audis.The combination of "expensive car" and "old" is particularly awkward when you're trying to find a repair shop.

I kind of have the same thing now. I bought a house, and it has an in-ground swimming pool. I didn't buy the house because I wanted a pool, pools don't actually make houses sell for more money where I live (in fact, at least one of the other prospective buyers decided not to put in an offer because they didn't want to deal with having a pool, and I suspect the pool is part of why I was able to get the house as quasi-affordably as I did after getting outbid on several other properties previously), and I wouldn't have paid money to put in a pool, but now I have a "fancy" thing about my house. It's kind of awkward, because people make assumptions about general house and lifestyle fanciness based on the fact that I have a pool.

[Peelee]

Random question: are you ever embarrassed to have expensive or fancy stuff out where people can see it? I always feel like I have to justify where I got it because otherwise I feel like I'm showing off my money. (Usually I really didn't spend that much, I just have a good eye for getting nice stuff for cheap.)

Not at all, but that's probably due to how I was brought up.

Unrelated to that, we baptized our baby today. My mom gave me a family baptism gown that my great great grandfather, Peelee I, got for just great grandfather, Peelee II. It's over a hundred and twenty years old. Little Peelee VI loved it.

[Mith]

Unrelated to that, we baptized our baby today. My mom gave me a family baptism gown that my great great grandfather, Peelee I, got for just great grandfather, Peelee II. It's over a hundred and twenty years old. Little Peelee VI loved it.

Congrats! Family heirlooms are great!

[Peelee]

Congrats! Family heirlooms are great!

Thanks! I also have a teddy bear that I think was from somewhere in the early 1900s. It's a cool gold color. I'm excited for when the baby can start sleeping with it.

[factotum]

Sure, but what kind of car, how old it is, and what kind of shape it's in do tend to be indicators of wealth/status.

Yeah, that's exactly what I meant. Nobody who sees me driving my 2012 Fiat Panda is going to say to themselves "There goes a millionaire being flash and showing off their wealth", but if I was in a 2018 Range Rover the situation would be somewhat different!

(The ironic thing is, if I won the lottery, I'd probably still have a Fiat Panda, because it's one of the only cars I've ever owned that I actually enjoy driving...).

[Insane Jeenyus]

I never watched Firefly but what I heard from other people it was a good TV show.Actually, IMHO, it was a great TV show.

[2D8HP]

I meant more like clothing or stuff in your car or whatever, not stuff in your house.


Well of course!

Clothes (as I posted upthread) to reduce being hassled, and keep possessions low and bad looking (old newspapers) in the car because of break-ins.

My wife theorizes that we haven't experienced a break-in of our house because our front yard looks terrible and I have a '91 parked in the driveway (before that an '84, before that a '76), so our neighbors look more enticing to burglars (and they have been burglarized).

We also have a Prius that we keep looking nice, which my wife insists that we use for visiting open houses, which came up yesterday when we were already out in the '91 we had to go home first and swap cars.

[WarKitty]

Sure, but what kind of car, how old it is, and what kind of shape it's in do tend to be indicators of wealth/status.

I feel like there's a wide range where the mid-line cars are ok though. Like, I have a 10 year old honda fit. You'll see that car on all sorts of price ranges, because it's the kind of car that mostly says "I wanna get from point A to point B without a fuss."

What actually started this was I was eyeing a second-hand designerish purse. It would actually only be about $20 (it's the kind of bag that retails for like $200 full price but one really doubts anyone ever paid that even when new). And I have found that a nice bag like that will last longer, especially if you're me and have far too many meds in there and some random craft stuff and an ereader and...you get the idea. But it's got this big fancy gold label slapped on it.

[Algeh]

I feel like there's a wide range where the mid-line cars are ok though. Like, I have a 10 year old honda fit. You'll see that car on all sorts of price ranges, because it's the kind of car that mostly says "I wanna get from point A to point B without a fuss."

That's a good point. There are certain cars that basically just make the statement "I am an adult who owns a car, which I use to drive places", possibly with a side of "with other people also in the vehicle most of the time" for some SUVs/minivans.


What actually started this was I was eyeing a second-hand designerish purse. It would actually only be about $20 (it's the kind of bag that retails for like $200 full price but one really doubts anyone ever paid that even when new). And I have found that a nice bag like that will last longer, especially if you're me and have far too many meds in there and some random craft stuff and an ereader and...you get the idea. But it's got this big fancy gold label slapped on it.

That is a trickier case. I've never experimented with designer handbags to see if they're actually sturdier than what I've been buying and had kind of assumed that handbags was one of those product categories where price and durabilty weren't closely related.

I came to this conclusion after I was talked into buying a Baggallini purse by being told that it would be sturdier than the cheaper purses I had been buying (which were mostly "whichever brand Target had the day my previous purse broke") and have zippers/straps that would cope better with my tendency to put too many things in my purse. This turned out not to be the case. I now buy MultiSac purses, which hold up just as well or better but are cheaper and easier to find at stores I'd go to anyway. (I want square or taller than they are wide rectangular cross-body bags with lots of zippered compartments, because I want something I can fit a book/ereader/tablet/etc. in that looks small enough that people don't make me check it at places that require large bags to be checked, and I've found that shape to let me get away with carrying the most stuff in that situation because estimating relative volume across different shapes is hard for people.) I've never tried buying a properly "designer" purse to see how those hold up in comparison.

I do buy some pretty expensive clothes, but they're "technical" rather than "fashion" so people parse them differently. (I wear $200-$300 hiking boots with wool hiking socks that cost more than $10/pair. The boots last a really long time and can be resoled, and the socks seem to last longer than cheaper socks, too.) People make assumptions about how I spend my weekends based on that, but not so much from a "how can you afford that" perspective even though they're pricey.

I suppose it might be kind of like my boots, in that once it's scuffed up and obviously in daily use it's parsed as a utility rather than status item, but I don't know if that's how it would be read for a designer purse.

[Florian]

@WarKitty:

Depends. I wear and use some pretty expensive stuff, but a lot of it isn't known beyond certain in groups. Thing is that we have some global brands that apparently stand for luxury, while in reality, they aren't, it´s only the price tag for the brand name as an entry hurdle. Wearing, for example, an Armani or Boss suit ain´t bad, it´s just no Saville Row or Brioni.

@2D8HP:

Funny, that. I live in a very quiet suburb of Berlin, in a "quaint and rustic" town house quarter. Thing is, we get hit every year with the usual December crime wave. Three years in a row, 39 town houses out of 40 were hit... but not mine.

[WarKitty]

Yeah I'm in that weird sort of pink-collar thing where you're supposed to look nice, but at the same time most people aren't making a whole lot and we have a lot of people who aren't making much more than what pays the bills. I get away with a bit more because I only have myself to pay for - many of my coworkers have children and I know a number who are helping to support elderly parents or similar.

I kind of feel like fashion is its own thing in a way. Because you're supposed to look nice but also look like you're not overspending, because overspending is frivolous.

[Honest Tiefling]

I feel like a fashionable bag is more likely to get stolen. However, I also think it would depend on your habits, as in, do you frequent crowded areas or walk around at night? Are you careful with your bags, so they won't get scuffed, ripped, or even lost? Is your workplace safe enough you can leave it alone without concern? Do you travel a lot?

In my opinion, if the people around you are judging you for what you are wearing, get new people, not new things.

[enderlord99]

How many time-traveling doctors and/or doctors with time powers do you know of? I can name four, assuming The Doctor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who) only counts once.

On the off chance anyone was wondering, the other 3 are Doc Brown, Doctor Strange, and Doc Scratch.

[2D8HP]

On the off chance anyone was wondering, the other 3 are Doc Brown, Doctor Strange, and Doc Scratch.


I know Brown & Strange, but I'm ignorant of "Doc Scratch".

[enderlord99]

I know Brown & Strange, but I'm ignorant of "Doc Scratch".

He's from Homestuck, which is a really long webcomic.

[factotum]

In my opinion, if the people around you are judging you for what you are wearing, get new people, not new things.

Not always practical if the people in question are your work colleagues and there aren't any jobs as good as the one you're in available.

[WarKitty]

Goth girl problems: I thought I grabbed my black lipstick this morning and threw it in my purse. Turns out I actually grabbed my dark turquoise. Oh well, it still coordinates well with the gold accents.

[LaZodiac]

Goth girl problems: I thought I grabbed my black lipstick this morning and threw it in my purse. Turns out I actually grabbed my dark turquoise. Oh well, it still coordinates well with the gold accents.

I tend to not use makeup because of a lowkey despair and dislike of looking at myself in the mirror but I still feel I can relate to this on a functional level.

[Insane Jeenyus]

I tend not to use makeup unless I am going on stage for a play, then lip stick is not one of the things I use. Of course, I am a guy who felt odd about going out in the public when my Niece painted my nails


ION, I just noticed I am a dwarf!

[enderlord99]

Doesn't "goth" just mean "depression fandom?" Why would a mental disorder need a fandom?

[Peelee]

ION, I just noticed I am a dwarf!

Huh. I wouldve thought you'd have noticed something like that quite some time ago:smalltongue:

[Honest Tiefling]

Goth girl problems: I thought I grabbed my black lipstick this morning and threw it in my purse. Turns out I actually grabbed my dark turquoise. Oh well, it still coordinates well with the gold accents.

Fashion isn't about looking good, it's about making OTHERS think you look good by being extremely confident. At least that's what I think when people wear things I don't like.

[Peelee]

Fashion isn't about looking good, it's about making OTHERS think you look good by being extremely confident. At least that's what I think when people wear things I don't like.

I like this theory.

[LaZodiac]

Doesn't "goth" just mean "depression fandom?" Why would a mental disorder need a fandom?

That's...not even remotely correct, in basically every single way possible.

[enderlord99]

That's...not even remotely correct, in basically every single way possible.

What does it mean, then?

[Insane Jeenyus]

Huh. I would've thought you'd have noticed something like that quite some time ago:smalltongue:

I just passed a mirror and I just saw I have been polymorphed from a pixie.

[Honest Tiefling]

What does it mean, then?

I admire your ability to ignore fashion trends that are older than a lot of forum-goers.

[2D8HP]

I admire your ability to ignore fashion trends that are older than a lot of forum-goers.


*does arithmetic*

Oh jeez, you're right!

[enderlord99]

I admire your ability to ignore fashion trends that are older than a lot of forum-goers.

"Ignore" is probably the wrong word. I'm just oblivious.

I mean, I do that too, but it's not what's happening here.

[HalfTangible]

Doesn't "goth" just mean "depression fandom?" Why would a mental disorder need a fandom?

Goth is a particular fashion style that focuses heavily on dark colors, predominantly black and purple. It is associated with rebellion against authority and (ironically) tradition/groupthink.

It has nothing to do with depression, beyond the fact that rebellious teenagers are often also depressed.

[WarKitty]

A lot of the confusion I think is that many of us goth types are attracted to things that a lot of other people find creepy or depressing.

Also, I feel I should point out as a goth I am pretty well past the rebellious teenager stage.

[Goblin Slayer]

I thought goth was about gloomy cloths that use dark color. And a glum out look of life with the excess usage of metaphor that are tied to death, darkness, shadows and sadness. And the tendency to use those metaphor gives the impression that the goth is depressed.

Also gothic Lolita is best goth I'll fite anyone on that.

[2D8HP]

The "Goths" I remember of the mid and late 1980's seemed more cheerful and less morose than most teen and twenty-somethings of those years did to me, but I knew a lot more Goth girls than guys, though my best friend (and DM) was a guy who looked Goth, and he was cheerful, but he still called himself "New Wave".

But my allegiance was to "Punk" so I didn't have an inside view, even if I spent the night.

[Dexam]

How many time-traveling doctors and/or doctors with time powers do you know of? I can name four, assuming The Doctor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who) only counts once.

On the off chance anyone was wondering, the other 3 are Doc Brown, Doctor Strange, and Doc Scratch.

All doctors are time-travelling1, it's just that the vast majority of them are restricted to "forwards, at a constant rate of one second per second".

:smallwink: :smallbiggrin:



1 = Just like everything else (https://xkcd.com/209/) :smalltongue:

[enderlord99]

All doctors are time-travelling1, it's just that the vast majority of them are restricted to "forwards, at a constant rate of one second per second".

:smallwink: :smallbiggrin:



1 = Just like everything else (https://xkcd.com/209/) :smalltongue:

That doesn't really count, but okay.

ION:https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVhwCf2WAAEJ_7W.jpg:large

[Algeh]

Well, my current shopping list reads:

Rubber gloves
Sleeping pills
Mop
Spray bottle


This means that (a) I am probably going to end up on some kind of watchlist and (b) I'm tempted to add "condoms" and "canning wax" to the list just to make it a more interesting watchlist to be on.

[Goblin Slayer]

Needs a bottle of bleach, some cheap towels, 10 feet of rope, industrial size garbage bags and maybe get a meat clever.

[HalfTangible]

A lot of the confusion I think is that many of us goth types are attracted to things that a lot of other people find creepy or depressing.

Also, I feel I should point out as a goth I am pretty well past the rebellious teenager stage.

*shrug* I only brought 'teenager' up because of the connection to depression/rebellion.

I don't pretend to be an expert.

[Goblin Slayer]

On the topic of goth what qualifies as gothic architecture?

[Algeh]

Needs a bottle of bleach, some cheap towels, 10 feet of rope, industrial size garbage bags and maybe get a meat clever.

Sadly, (a) I already bought the bleach at Costco earlier today and (b) I just realized that I also need to pick up a big sack of store brand bran flakes, which kind of breaks the implied theme of the list up a bit. Alas.

[Tvtyrant]

On the topic of goth what qualifies as gothic architecture?

Inspired by high medieval cathedrals. Lots of spires, statues, dark (because of wear and smoke) stone, etc.

Gothic in art overall is (from old art history memories of mine) a subset of the Romantic period.

[Knaight]

Goth is a particular fashion style that focuses heavily on dark colors, predominantly black and purple. It is associated with rebellion against authority and (ironically) tradition/groupthink.

That second association is pretty standard for basically any subculture with a twinge of the counterculture, particularly if it's heavy on younger people. There's a very predictable series of events that produces a very predictable set of criticisms. The short version.

1: A subculture with similar values that disagree with the predominant culture pops up. Hippies, goth, nerds, whatever.
2: Interactions within this subculture lead to the development of cultural markers, because that's basically what cultures do.
3: The predominant culture notices these markers clashing with the standards of the predominant culture.
4: The predominant culture spins an overly simplified narrative where the only thing linking the group is that they're trying to be "different", which conveniently centers the predominant culture in this narrative while eliding the very existence of the subculture.
5: Tedious jokes about people trying to be different ending up all looking the same come up, based on the misconception in part 4.

It gets old, as do closely affiliated patterns. For instance, step 4 nicely mirrors more than a few claims about "rebellion", where affiliation with one cultural group is reframed not as a positive affiliation but instead as just a reaction to another, and the term "rebellion" is selected largely to suggest that the negative reaction to the other cultural group doesn't have any legitimacy.

This can crop up in weird places. For instance, I have seen multiple people take extremely well to an academic environment, naturally fitting in with that culture and its values (starting with just being open to intellectualism and friendly to analytical perspectives), only for this to be condemned as rebellion against subcultural groups hostile to academia, and pretty consistently groups which have fairly directly opposed values, starting with veneration of believing what you're told by the proper authorities instead of having the temerity to think.

[Anonymouswizard]

Well it's not really discrimination mostly it's just because things are so far away in the US. The UK is roughly forty times smaller than the US. So a lot of things are very far apart. If you live out in the suburbs, you'll probably have a minimum of a thirty minute commute every day. And that's without traffic. Now if you were living here, you'd probably want to move into one of the larger cities in the US, which can have reasonable mass transit.

Yeah, I'm thankfully very much a city boy. My parents continually try to drag me to the country for the weekend* (joke's on them, I can get an endless supply of Saturday shifts), but there's these weird mooing things that apparently aren't public transport.

* They don't actually, they just make sure I know the offer's open.


Goth is a particular fashion style that focuses heavily on dark colors, predominantly black and purple.

Fun fact, when I was just wearing dark clothes and growing my hair long (which I'd love to do again, but I work in a kitchen) adults would sometimes think I was a goth despite not actually wearing any gothic fashion (I just like to wear black, sue me).


In university my 'style' as far as most people thought of it was my glasses, the way I sit and talk, and the fact I had shoulder length curly hair (very loose curls, but still curls). Also the fact that I have skin horrifically pastypale enough to make Chinese ladies jealous.

So I think I might be a xenophile. Not just as in 'likes the alien', but as in 'sexually attracted to the alien'. I don't think I've asked out a single person of my ethnicity or nationality in my life, and tend to find them 'meh' compared to foreigners. Or am I just noticing how horribly unattractive English people are?

[factotum]

Inspired by high medieval cathedrals.

That's Gothic Revival rather than plain Gothic, isn't it?

[FinnLassie]

Wow, seven pages already. Picking up back to the old pace? (at least to the pace that I entered into back in 2013)

[DataNinja]

Wow, seven pages already. Picking up back to the old pace? (at least to the pace that I entered into back in 2013)

Apparently all you need is the right curator or something. Or maybe the planets are aligned. :smallamused:

[WarKitty]

There is at least some evidence that people who have been depressed are attracted to goth. So it's probably not totally spurious, but it's not nearly as simple as goths are all depressed. At the same time, the subculture has historically tended to be more open to the idea of mental illness, so there probably has been a bit of a support group aspect.

I do know I tend to carry an accompanying attitude of "Sometimes life sucks, sometimes you didn't do anything to cause it and you can't fix it, and you have to figure out how to manage with what you've got." I know that puts some people of because they see it as pessimistic or depressing. Personally I find it somewhat liberating.

The teenager aspect also probably has to do with that most adults tone things down one way or another to get to work, and it's less common to spend large amounts of time on your appearance unless you're in a profession where that's super important.

[Strigon]

I do know I tend to carry an accompanying attitude of "Sometimes life sucks, sometimes you didn't do anything to cause it and you can't fix it, and you have to figure out how to manage with what you've got." I know that puts some people of because they see it as pessimistic or depressing. Personally I find it somewhat liberating.


Do you really catch flak for that? Because that just sounds like basic-level maturity to me.
Really, to call that acknowledgement pessimistic or depressing means calling Picard pessimistic and depressing. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TCX90yALsI) Whether or not you agree with his general philosophy, I can't see how he could be considered either of those.

Unless, of course, that is the sum total of your outlook on life; I can see their point in that case. But to simply acknowledge that life isn't 100% fair all the time, and you have to deal with that, just seems like common sense to me.

[Tvtyrant]

That's Gothic Revival rather than plain Gothic, isn't it?
The problem is that Gothic was a pejorative word for a very wide set of styles in the high medieval period, the word being backwards applied from the fifteenth century onward.

Having an external buttress system or an interior one greatly changes the building design, St. Chappelle looks silly from the outside but has a massive unified interior and Notre Dame is smooth outside but a mess inside for having internal buttresses (leading to those dark alcoves.)

They do share groin vault as central design concepts, but renassiance churches often did as well.

[WarKitty]

Do you really catch flak for that? Because that just sounds like basic-level maturity to me.
Really, to call that acknowledgement pessimistic or depressing means calling Picard pessimistic and depressing. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TCX90yALsI) Whether or not you agree with his general philosophy, I can't see how he could be considered either of those.

Unless, of course, that is the sum total of your outlook on life; I can see their point in that case. But to simply acknowledge that life isn't 100% fair all the time, and you have to deal with that, just seems like common sense to me.

Let's just say I think a lot of people are really good at knowing exactly how to solve situations they've never been in, or at assuming since they personally have always had the resources to avoid certain situations that anyone who's in a superficially similar situation can deploy the same resources to get the same result.

I've had a relatively high level of crap in my life for someone of my age and general location. I think it scares people a bit because I accept that a lot of it I really couldn't do anything about - or if I could the alternatives weren't clearly better.

See my occasional rant about the magic of boundaries. Not that I think they aren't a good concept in general, but that sometimes it's going to cost a lot to actually have them in a particular relationship and it can be a rational choice to decide that putting up with someone who's way overstepping is better than the alternative.

[Peelee]

Let's just say I think a lot of people are really good at knowing exactly how to solve situations they've never been in, or at assuming since they personally have always had the resources to avoid certain situations that anyone who's in a superficially similar situation can deploy the same resources to get the same result.

How dare you besmirch the noble profession of Armchair General? I'm shocked, shocked I say! Well, not that shocked.

[Anonymouswizard]

Sometimes the members of this forum get me to do weird things. Thanks to everybody's favourite nondeceitful infernally heritaged forum member I have decided to abandon my planned character for a campaign and actually make the Anonymous Wizard an actual D&D character (I've had the core idea for years, but could never get it to feel right).

Currently referred to as Nommy in out of character conversation, because he doesn't trust the party enough to give out his real name (I'm going to let them nickname him as they wish, he's going by Stephen at the moment), the Anonymous Wizard is on the run from [wizard university] because at his graduation the staff suddenly realised that the name he had given was a false one designed to make him not look like the son of a master forger. So Nommy BTh is on the run under an assumed name, currently Stephen Copperfield although previous aliases include Daniel Blackstone and Fredderick Grant, because the university wishes to interrogate him in order to find out how he managed to enroll under the name Peter Williams.

The build is just pretty straight Tiefling Wizard stuff, high scores in Intelligence, Charisma, and Dexterity, with the Charlatan background to represent growing up as the child of somebody who forged identities. While on the run he tries to right wrongs he sees and spread knowledge, especially the ability to cast spells.

Mr Andromedus Vitalus BTh

[2D8HP]

Sometimes the members of this forum get me to do weird things. Thanks to everybody's favourite nondeceitful infernally heritaged forum member I have decided to abandon my planned character for a campaign and actually make the Anonymous Wizard an actual D&D character....


:confused:

Who is that masked Tiefling?


Congrats on the new Avatar, it looks fantastic!

[Peelee]

Now that's a snazzy avatar!

[WarKitty]

Y'all are making me feel like I need a new avatar. But I also kinda like mine...

[FinnLassie]

Y'all are making me feel like I need a new avatar. But I also kinda like mine...

For some reason I changed my avatar to my face last year and I just can't be bothered to change it... I can't believe how I used to have the time and energy to care about seasonal avatars. :smallsigh:

[Florian]

Hihi, the funny/good thing about using the mobile skin for the forum is that it actually doesn't show custom avatars. I'm so used to seeing WarKitty as a Wolf-In-Sheep-Clothing, I guess I wouldn't recognize her should I ever use the regular skin.

[Peelee]

Y'all are making me feel like I need a new avatar. But I also kinda like mine...

But yours has a kitty!

ETA:
For some reason I changed my avatar to my face last year and I just can't be bothered to change it... I can't believe how I used to have the time and energy to care about seasonal avatars. :smallsigh:

I like it. It's bold.

[factotum]

There is at least some evidence that people who have been depressed are attracted to goth. So it's probably not totally spurious, but it's not nearly as simple as goths are all depressed.

One of the happiest people I've ever seen on Youtube is a Goth--Nika Harper. Don't think I've ever seen a picture or video where she's not smiling. Could be all an act, of course, but I think it would be difficult to maintain an act for that length of time.

[Anonymouswizard]

:confused:

Who is that masked Tiefling?


Congrats on the new Avatar, it looks fantastic!




Now that's a snazzy avatar!

Thanks, I'll be honest in that I wasn't expecting it. I was trying to complement people on their snazzy avatars in a funny way. I love it though, it fits perfectly with how I think of wizards and really is the kind of character I'd play, down to throwing on a dark cloak and face mask to try to remain anonymous.


Y'all are making me feel like I need a new avatar. But I also kinda like mine...

Kitties are good. Keep the kitty.

(I mean, Nommy is going to choose rat or bat instead of cat when picking his familiar, but that's because I want the cutest familiar possible.)


For some reason I changed my avatar to my face last year and I just can't be bothered to change it... I can't believe how I used to have the time and energy to care about seasonal avatars. :smallsigh:

Huh, your Avatar is your actual RL face? That's bold, reallt bold.

Congrats on the great face, for the record.

[AuthorGirl]

For some reason I changed my avatar to my face last year and I just can't be bothered to change it... I can't believe how I used to have the time and energy to care about seasonal avatars. :smallsigh:

I seriously thought you were using the face of some actress or other.


Thanks, I'll be honest in that I wasn't expecting it. I was trying to complement people on their snazzy avatars in a funny way. I love it though, it fits perfectly with how I think of wizards and really is the kind of character I'd play, down to throwing on a dark cloak and face mask to try to remain anonymous.

I wasn't expecting mine either. I complimented 2D8HP on his new avatar, and our tiefling friend sent me message basically saying "I'm glad you like the avatar. Have one of your own."

[WarKitty]

Kitties are good. Keep the kitty.

There have been multiple kitties over the years. I think I'm proud of this one though because I made this one and it was hard because I've never done line art before.

[LaZodiac]

There have been multiple kitties over the years. I think I'm proud of this one though because I made this one and it was hard because I've never done line art before.

It's a very cute and good kitty!

[Peelee]

There have been multiple kitties over the years. I think I'm proud of this one though because I made this one and it was hard because I've never done line art before.

Well now I'm sad that you don't keep the old ones in your sig. Because kitties!

[2D8HP]

There have been multiple kitties over the years. I think I'm proud of this one though because I made this one and it was hard because I've never done line art before.

It's wonderful WarKitty.

Also,


https://i.imgur.com/l5zlVzC.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/l5zlVzC.jpg

It's perfect!


:smile:

Thanks!

[Cuthalion]

Oh hi there's a new RB. Hello all, hope you're well.

[WarKitty]

I do kind of want to make myself a new avatar though. But I think keep the same kitty, just maybe doing different stuff.

Also there were a lot of messages from me to myself in my pm folder...

[DataNinja]

Oh hi there's a new RB. Hello all, hope you're well.
Hi, hello. Welcome to the new thread. Old thread, new paint? I dunno. Something. :smallamused:


I do kind of want to make myself a new avatar though. But I think keep the same kitty, just maybe doing different stuff.
Sleeping, napping, dozing, snoozing... :smalltongue:


Also there were a lot of messages from me to myself in my pm folder...
Did you at least answer? :smallwink:

[Anonymouswizard]

I wasn't expecting mine either. I complimented 2D8HP on his new avatar, and our tiefling friend sent me message basically saying "I'm glad you like the avatar. Have one of your own."

Yeah, I honestly think it's great. Making this forum more diverse one user at a time.


There have been multiple kitties over the years. I think I'm proud of this one though because I made this one and it was hard because I've never done line art before.

I think you need to make a new avatar with ALL THE KITTIES! As many as it's physically possible :smalltongue:

Being serious, yeah it's always great when that happens.

[Peelee]

I wasn't expecting mine either. I complimented 2D8HP on his new avatar, and our tiefling friend sent me message basically saying "I'm glad you like the avatar. Have one of your own."
I'm amused by how much that dude likes horns.

I do kind of want to make myself a new avatar though. But I think keep the same kitty, just maybe doing different stuff.
Ooooh! A kitty getting belly rubs! Do that!

[Teddy]

Y'all are making me feel like I need a new avatar. But I also kinda like mine...

Likewise. Actually, I need a new general avatar which looks good even when shrunk to 24 pixels so that I can use it all over the Internet. Sadly, what drawing skills I had managed to work up have rusted now, and if I find the time to start undertaking arts and crafts projects again, those will be physical craft projects, because I've got a lot of fantasy accessories I need to make for myself.

...
And now I started thinking about the Iron Avatarist threads of yore. Those were fun, and I even got a pair of trophies. Ahh, now I'm all nostalgic and wistful!


For some reason I changed my avatar to my face last year and I just can't be bothered to change it... I can't believe how I used to have the time and energy to care about seasonal avatars. :smallsigh:

The time half of that is easy to explain, that's just a product of having finished basic university level. The step into advanced education kinda hit me like a sledgehammer in slow motion. And the next step into the working life was just that all over again. Suddenly, the concept of spontanity has become hard to understand...

ION:
Today I got to be a very expensive babysitter. We have a bunch of guys over from another city to do a software upgrade to a rig, and both I and my team partner have to watch them, which mostly involves standing behind them as they talk about routine stuff which we neither understand nor are a part of. Although I did get to apply the sponginess of my brain to avert an impending disaster, so that's always something.

[Insane Jeenyus]

Well, my current shopping list reads:

Rubber gloves
Sleeping pills
Mop
Spray bottle


This means that (a) I am probably going to end up on some kind of watchlist and (b) I'm tempted to add "condoms" and "canning wax" to the list just to make it a more interesting watchlist to be on.


Needs a bottle of bleach, some cheap towels, 10 feet of rope, industrial size garbage bags and maybe get a meat clever.

don't forget a shovel.


Apparently all you need is the right curator or something. Or maybe the planets are aligned. :smallamused:

Hey, that planet there, isn't that Miranda? where did all of the reavers go .. .. .. .. ..

[WarKitty]

I have been at work for 11 minutes and I am already bored out of my mind.

[Peelee]

I have been at work for 11 minutes and I am already bored out of my mind.

Same.

It doesn't help that I actually have stuff to do, either.:smalltongue:

[2D8HP]

I have been at work for 11 minutes and I am already bored out of my mind.


Oh wow, you're working day shift!

[WarKitty]

Oh wow, you're working day shift!

Yah. I actually am starting to have a social life.

I'm debating between a new avatar with a cat in a box, or one with a bowl of food. I'll probably make both eventually.

In the meantime, I am now playing cookie clicker at work, because it's actually a really good game to play at work.

[Amazon]

Can I get a new avatar too?

Who do I have to sacrifice What do I have to do to get one?

[Peelee]

Can I get a new avatar too?

Who do I have to sacrifice What do I have to do to get one?

Be awesome. So I'd think your odds are pretty good!

[Anonymouswizard]

Can I get a new avatar too?

Who do I have to sacrifice What do I have to do to get one?

Yeah, seems to be 'hint/state that you want one and be somebody Honest Tiefling likes'. Alternatively you can take the simpler route of paying one soul or first born child, although not all avatarists accept both options. Unless the Avatar Adoption threads are still running? I honestly stopped checking after a couple of months of nothing I liked when I first signed up.

[DataNinja]

Yeah, seems to be 'hint/state that you want one and be somebody Honest Tiefling likes'. Alternatively you can take the simpler route of paying one soul or first born child, although not all avatarists accept both options. Unless the Avatar Adoption threads are still running? I honestly stopped checking after a couple of months of nothing I liked when I first signed up.

I'm pretty sure there's a request thread in the art forum, though I'm not certain on that.

[WarKitty]

Yeah I dunno - I'm making my own but I have no idea what i'm doing most of the time and I stole half of it from clipart because I can't freehand anything.

[Strigon]

So, I've been watching the original Thunderbirds TV show, and I spotted something... peculiar.
Does anyone know if there was ever any scandal involving one of the cast or crew? Because I noticed a definite... *ahem* easily identifiable symbol that became quite common in Europe around the early-mid 20th century.

[LaZodiac]

So, I've been watching the original Thunderbirds TV show, and I spotted something... peculiar.
Does anyone know if there was ever any scandal involving one of the cast or crew? Because I noticed a definite... *ahem* easily identifiable symbol that became quite common in Europe around the early-mid 20th century.

If you mean how the actual Thunderbird logo for the United States 45th Infantry Division looks pretty close to a swastika then not that I can see. If you mean Nazi's in general that's prooobably because they fought a lot of Nazi's, so they're the bad guys so it's okay.

Otherwise I have no idea what you mean.

[Strigon]

If you mean how the actual Thunderbird logo for the United States 45th Infantry Division looks pretty close to a swastika then not that I can see. If you mean Nazi's in general that's prooobably because they fought a lot of Nazi's, so they're the bad guys so it's okay.

Otherwise I have no idea what you mean.

That... could be it, I suppose.
There was just a random building in the background with a great big swastika painted on it. Given that the show was made in 1960's Britain, I almost did a spit take when I saw it.

I mean, I recognize that it has a lot of different meanings, based on when and where you see it, but in western Europe? In the 1960's? The meaning is pretty unambiguous.

[LaZodiac]

That... could be it, I suppose.
There was just a random building in the background with a great big swastika painted on it. Given that the show was made in 1960's Britain, I almost did a spit take when I saw it.

I mean, I recognize that it has a lot of different meanings, based on when and where you see it, but in western Europe? In the 1960's? The meaning is pretty unambiguous.

And how you see it. Make sure it was a manju before jumping the gun.

But yeah no that was probably in Germany, in universe.

[factotum]

I mean, I recognize that it has a lot of different meanings, based on when and where you see it, but in western Europe? In the 1960's? The meaning is pretty unambiguous.

I'm pretty sure that doing a web search for "Thunderbirds Swastika", as I just did, would have come back with some relevant results if what you actually saw *was* one--it beggars belief that you'd be the first person in half a century to notice?

[Peelee]

Car got hit when leaving the movie theater tonight. Pretty good sized dent in both passenger side doors. It was a pretty great day up until that.

[Strigon]

I'm pretty sure that doing a web search for "Thunderbirds Swastika", as I just did, would have come back with some relevant results if what you actually saw *was* one--it beggars belief that you'd be the first person in half a century to notice?

Believe me, that's the first thing I did. Anything interesting was drowned out by the 45th infantry - and probably the fact that this was pre-internet didn't help.
It's in the background, but front and center, so I can't be the first to notice. Usually, in fact, I'm the last to notice. Which means that it's probably not a swastika, but it's the same exact shape rotated 45 degrees. I should think a mere 20 years after the war, Britain would still have a bit of a sore spot there.

Unless I'm just poorly educated on the matter, and a 45 degree rotation is all that's required to render it inoffensive; I grant you that it's possible.
If anyone wants to check it out for themselves, and has access to the show, it's the fourth episode "Terror in New York City", at time stamp of 30:30. As Thunderbird 1 lands, it's right in front of a red building with a (not?) swastika on the side. In New York City, of all places!


I trust nobody was hurt, Peelee?

[Peelee]

Not at all. No injuries, low-speed accident, went pretty well considering. Won't be driving my car for a bit though; in addition to the damage to the lower part of the door, it juuuuust won't close fully at the top by like a couple centimeters. So it's kind ilof noisy to drive.

And most of all, im fortunate enough for it to not be anything not than a mild inconvenience for me.

[Goblin Slayer]

do oyu guy think roll 20 is good dnd medium?

[WarKitty]

I got a cat fountain. So far the cat is not convinced. She'll drink when it's off, so I'm leaving it off for a little bit.

[Mith]

Not at all. No injuries, low-speed accident, went pretty well considering. Won't be driving my car for a bit though; in addition to the damage to the lower part of the door, it juuuuust won't close fully at the top by like a couple centimeters. So it's kind ilof noisy to drive.

And most of all, im fortunate enough for it to not be anything not than a mild inconvenience for me.

That is good to hear. Hopefully this is a straightforward incident resolution all around


do oyu guy think roll 20 is good dnd medium?

I tried it once and didn't care for it. My problem had more to do with being hearing impaired when using a chat function (I think i this case we had Skype going). In any case, it loses out on a lot of what I enjoy from D&D, which is sitting around a table with friends.


I got a cat fountain. So far the cat is not convinced. She'll drink when it's off, so I'm leaving it off for a little bit.

I have yet to meet a cat that wasn't suspicious of change. I think she'll come around. Don't those fountains also keep the water clearer due to circulating the water?

[Peelee]

I got a cat fountain. So far the cat is not convinced. She'll drink when it's off, so I'm leaving it off for a little bit.
It took our cats a little bit to warm up to ours, but they love it now.

That is good to hear. Hopefully this is a straightforward incident resolution all around

Guy admitted fault (and was a really nice guy, too. Kind of young, first accident, very sorry), and given where it occurred and the damage to both cars it's pretty clear what happened regardless. I don't see any issues, except maybe my insurance rates going up a bit. I've mostly been joking that Solo was so bad somebody hit us. Solo was not bad, btw.

Thanks, though!

[WarKitty]

I have yet to meet a cat that wasn't suspicious of change. I think she'll come around. Don't those fountains also keep the water clearer due to circulating the water?

That's the idea. She doesn't like that it gets fur floating in the water. But there's usually fur floating in the water. Because she's got more fur than cat.

[factotum]

Believe me, that's the first thing I did. Anything interesting was drowned out by the 45th infantry - and probably the fact that this was pre-internet didn't help.

There are plenty of things online about the dwarf who supposedly hanged himself in the backdrop of a shot from "The Wizard of Oz", so I don't think it being pre-Internet would make a difference. I don't have the original Thunderbirds series to verify it for myself (the one that comes free with Amazon Prime is the 2015 remake), so will just have to leave it be.