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Forgive me for saying anything at all then. I shall now know for next time.

My homebrewed Pathfinder campaign is finally at the point where it's "done".   *happy dance*

Finally managed to catch a TV series that I'd never been able to find anywhere (at least not affordably) midway through season 2 yesterday and got it set to record - AND for added bonus, found season 1 on demand on my streaming service!

Hooray!

I think that I've finally kicked the soda habit after thirtyish years.   Next challenge....sugar.

In reply to Hunter (msg # 939):

That's awesome! Good for you! You can do it! I cut soda and sugar out of my own diet many, many years ago and it has been wonderful on my health.

In reply to SunRuanEr (msg # 938):

What show?

Killjoys, Smoot. =)

I'd been looking for it (affordably) for quite some time, and just happened to stumble across it on SyFy one night that my spouse hadn't already commandeered the TV for their usual Friday night viewing.

I was so happy they let it run to a pause point and didn't just kill it mid-story like so many others.
Might even be worth paying a streaming service, if you haven't seen it.

I want to sincerely and directly, but openly--so as to reach all mods without demanding them read an Rmail as "needed" or "demanding"--express my deepest appreciation for tweaking my post. I understand it was within their power to delete it wholesale, and had I taken a few more minutes before hitting post from review I would not have needed to be moderated. I will do better, for the community, and especially in the letter of the rules quite literally. This is, however, a good thing. I have learned a line I crossed and recognize it with a nudge and compassionate but stern finger of disfavor. To be clear, a finger as it "1" or "one minute" not rude finger. As in a warning that very well could have--if not for the humanity of this moderation--been a shove back in line. Thank you! I should have been quicker with those words. I thank you, whomever made the kind and precise excision, and whomever stayed their hand, whomever would have paused to consider a vent worthy to preserve the heart and not the bile. I am very much humbled by your generosity and reminded to read what I write longer than I feel is best and instead also consider to I know what I post is best within a certain degree of certainty.

I also want to thank the patience of the nine slides that were given. I appreciate this empirical fairness. I appreciate everyone that donates to the costs of the server, and the mods and the code, and most of all, I am ashamed but deeply grateful to be given a seat in jase's gaming post store.

Today made me feel a mercy was given, where justice could have been dealt with impunity. I will endeavor to burn this line into my textual retina.

Thank you moderators for your part in my experience, as a gamer, as a user, as a problem, as a person. Thank you.

I hope this was not inappropriate. If it was...next time I will rmail it. I wanted this thank you to be waiting for you on your doorstep, not to ring the bell to distract you. I hope I made the right decision. If not, I will from now on know the right decision.

In reply to V_V (msg # 944):

That's because the mods here are AWESOME!

Got my Altar for Season 28. Haven't seen a Primal since then, but that's okay. It was a very fun penultimate to a game that made me choose my first gaming computer, and changed so much! I distinctly remember playing with all rares and magic items against those damned Mallet Lords, and I look fondly upon the Homunculus I found with my Witch Doctor. I really felt like I had community for times in the game's lifespan. I got to be somewhere between casual and serious. And that was fun! I'm looking forward to the Ethereals again some far flung day, as I really wanted to play a Crusader. LMAO. Season 29 though....wow! That's what I ended on with Season 28, for the Echoing Nightmares. Gonna be fun to pony up!

Glad the season is ending though! I have my games on RPoL set for then. Coincidence, but still nice.

It's a silly thing, but every year when my spouse takes my car in for an inspection, the guys at the shop - even when it's not the same guys year-to-year - always gush over it. This year they were offering to buy it for cash on the spot. This makes me feel warm and fuzzy.

...and maybe a bit like an awesome parent, since it's going to go to the kid that's about to get their license.

(For context, my car is old enough to drink, so it's always nice to be reminded that it's still kinda cool!)
This message was last edited by the user at 13:32, Thu 21 Sept 2023.

This may not be the thread for it, but there are times when I read a game set up, and I don't have the headspace or time to join, but there is so much love, care and attention in the set up I just want to say to the GM, 'wow, I can't be in this game right now, but your work is brilliant'.  Now I recognise that maybe that sounds a bit weird, but it's easy to grumble about players and GM's but it's important to recognise our collective creativity and effort that makes our hobby so wonderfully rewarding.

Maybe I am just filled with a bit of positivity, but it really does amaze me how wonderfully creative some people are.

In reply to bazhsw (msg # 948):

I very occasionally receive a similar message, and it's always a delight. Please continue, and I hope your post encourages others to do the same.

In reply to bazhsw (msg # 948):

Yes, please! :)

In reply to bazhsw (msg # 948): Very thoughtful!

Got a double hit :)

After a looooooooong time in IT I took a career diversion into a slightly different job which still involves me using a computer most of the time, and given my background I immediately became the office IT guy.
Couple of months ago the owner brings in his home PC for me to have a look at "Worked okay, turned it on one day and everything was powered up but the screen was black."
Easy job I thought...until it wasnt. Long story short it wasnt the graphics card and I diagnosed it down to being either the motherboard (not a consumer model) or the CPU (Intel 10700k), and nothing else in the office was compatible to swap bits to test. Pretty sure it was the mobo which I found a genuine part from a reseller for £150. If it wasnt that it was probably the CPU at £300 second hand off ebay.
He bought the mobo, and it didnt work.

Face meet egg, reputation meet toilet...

I'm somewhat vindicated when a week later he gives it to a local PC repair place who after two weeks come back with the same conclusion as me, and they dont want to spend £300 for a second hand CPU that they cant be sure will fix it either. Machine is discreetly pushed into the corner.
Last week I'm looking at an upgrade for my home PC and found a couple of places selling brand new Intel 10400 CPUs for £95 and suggest to the boss we could try it, and if it doesnt work we can get hold of a generic mobo and upgrade one of the older office PCs.
CPU arrives next day, I plug it in and after several spchinter clenching reboots the boss's machine is now working, albeit slightly slower but he doesnt need a 10700k for email and visio diagrams.

Which segues me neatly into my second success. My new job involves a huge amount of time creating office and building plans in Visio, and I finally managed to get the Arc tool in Visio to draw a decent semicircle! Sounds stupidly simple, but every time I use it the centre point of the arc biases itself to one side and makes an uneven curve. I'm not sure if the method I use is the best or offical one but it works.

I'm doing....better.   Not up to GMing....but better.

Welcome back!

I said it privately, but I want to say it here too. Good to see you back in the pool of players at least. I...I hope this alright to say :s...I came to understand you might be playing Shadowrun. I'm glad you have a goal that will help you refresh and get through that/this streak of GM hiatus, and hopefully play some. :)

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I have other good news. Well...not news, but something to actually be...eh...I'll just say it's another topic.

I have lived in Johnson County Kansas most of my life. I've always had residence here. So I can only compare my fanship for a movie series to the (Missouri) Royals and Chiefs; through the 90's and such. My topic is, however, one I am not allowed to discuss the whole, due to site rules, but I think it safe to generalize it as mostly garbage. The Saw series, with Tobin Bell.

So...I have watched EVERY Saw movie, every time it was out to rent. I was SOOOOOOOOOOO upset by Spiral, just livid. That was the straw that broke the camels back, but in Jigsaw fashion that was such a good let down to see Saw X. I loved Saw X so much. I had to really go into it knowing it wouldn't beat the original...but....it kinda did...for me! Not objectively. Just in my kind of taste. I know Alien, Aliens...should of stopped there, but both have their own genre. I feel like Saw, Saw X and Saw II complete what really is in my own little canon, the trilogy.

No spoilers, but I love the three of them. Saw X though...gotta say it's my favorite. I only disliked two of them. Again, even though it's garbage, even in a genre of mess,  I won't give spoilers, but two really had me hitting the bed (where I would sit for all but the last three--Jigsaw, Spiral and Saw X) in frustration. It was an ordeal to go to (then) red box, or get it from Netflix (for the two) and I was just like, wtf, that wasn't a twist that was a waste. Spiral, however, I don't count. I forget the count, but...simply put two really were almost as bad as spiral.

That's it though. I know it's not "good" stuff if it were real, but it gave me a good entertainment. This was my 2022 and 2023 Birthdays and last year's Christmas gift. On a lark, and because it was so recommended, and WAY too much to rent, I splurged and just bought it. I'm glad I did. I really am.

I'll always love Harry Potter's movies despite anything else, because it came when I was destitute but had my first home as an adult. I love LotR, because it was when I was first in my gaming hayday. I will, now, always love Saw, Saw X, and Saw II for the period that is marked. From zero to sixty to broke down and back on the road finally.

Anyway, I just wanted to say, it's dramatic. I recommend Chris Stuckman's review if Saw is a "maybe" for you. It is, however, faithful to the atrocity of the series without undoing it, or rehashing it. So if you haven't seen (≈70%) of them, you may not understand some context, but you don't need to. If you've been burnt out, but sat through the whole spill, and want to give Saw X a try, I recommend it; when the time is right for you.

That said, I know this is kinda of counter to the thread spirit, and bit macbre, but for me, for some, it's a kind of win.

If Saw is absolutely not your thing. I understand. I truly do. There are movies, movies people like, a lot of people like, that just...bug me...or bore me. For me, just from my point, it was a good break up with an old life into a new one.

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Reading that felt like watching a bond fire. Yes, there was light and heat but also destruction. Burning books, artworks and antiques can give the pleasure of not freezing to some but sadness to others. How is this related? SAW.

I do like a good bonfire and the weather is starting to be perfect for one.

This message was deleted by the user at 22:13, Sat 02 Dec 2023.

I just, minutes ago, realized the fact I can still, and only I (and the mods) can read my posts years after they're made, I think it's important feature that shows just how innovative jase was in designing failsafes.

I am getting closure on a chapter of my life, and helping my on again off again friend get closure, while she can, in the last year of her mother's life. I feel best when I am loved but loving, as a verb, loving someone.