It's Personal...

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Thu Nov 19, 2015 2:32 am

Shrapnel wrote:Thanks.

So far all I've got is Dragon Quest Heroes and the new Battlefront (which I haven't tried out yet). I'm planning on getting Dragon Ball: Xenoverse, and so far that's it, but if there's other stuff out there, I'm open to suggestions.

Xenoverse is allright for what it is.

But I do recommend, well, what I said: GTA V is good, Bloodborne is good, MKX surprisingly good.

Lemme know how Battlefront is.

MisterDee · Post by **MisterDee** » Thu Nov 19, 2015 6:30 pm

Welp. Sent my first query letter today. Fingers crossed!

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Thu Nov 19, 2015 9:38 pm

Happy birthday, Shrapnel, and good luck, MisterDee!

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Fri Nov 20, 2015 11:45 pm

My book is finally on Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Cthulhu-Mytho ... 0189NOKVO/

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sun Nov 22, 2015 4:46 pm

http://onanunderwood5.blogspot.com/2015 ... s-sex.html

Aharon · Post by **Aharon** » Tue Nov 24, 2015 12:40 pm

I'm pretty happy right now

After my breakup four years ago, I didn't have any partners. Recently, two poly pairs have invited me (separately) in their dynamics as secondary, which is a lot of fun. Not the same as being in a monogamous relationship or the primary in a poly relationship, but still really, really good!

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Tue Nov 24, 2015 8:02 pm

Oh, so that's why the needle on my Loath-o-matic ticked up recently. Well, good on you, I suppose.

Aharon · Post by **Aharon** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 7:53 am

If it helps - it came pretty unanticipated and I didn't actively try to seduce them. In both cases, we met via common interests via internet forums. My active approaches (dating sites like OKCupid, Tinder, Speed Dating, even being desperate enough to try and use PUA tactics) wweren't successful at all. How it happened:

Couple One: Common interest in application of psychological results in everyday life (stuff like Kahnemann's Thinking, fast and slow), holiday together, then things developed.

Couple Two: Different common interest - I contacted the woman in the relationship without any romantic intentions (since she stated clearly on her profile that she wasn't looking for anything), just was intrigued by a detail on one of her pictures (she has an interesting necklace). Luckily for me, her partner decided to vet me, since she had expressed an interest based on our conversations. All three of us met for a coffee, we had a lot of fun, and it developed from there.

Count Arioch the 28th · Thu Nov 26, 2015 9:45 am

Every new medication my doc puts me on messes me up bad. Janumet gave me literally every side effect that I should contact the emergency room over. It might be wise to actually do what my doc says and eat right and exercise. Despite the fact that being a fat hedonist has really been working for me lately (think Bender when he became human in that on non-canon episode of Futurama. WOO!).

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Fri Nov 27, 2015 4:28 am

Ess can't take things like that, either.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Fri Nov 27, 2015 4:38 pm

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Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sun Nov 29, 2015 12:47 am

i got a new subwoofer today. . it's a damn sight bigger than i had expected at 60x60x40cm with an 18" driver . . and i appearantly had, without realizing it, ordered an even bigger one in the beginning <.< . .
i think if something like the brown note actually existed i could actually make the entire street shit itself with this monstrosity . .
i am guessing my neighbours might be a bit cross with me over this . .

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sun Nov 29, 2015 3:01 am

http://imgur.com/a/sJpY6

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sun Nov 29, 2015 5:20 pm

http://onanunderwood5.blogspot.com/2015 ... ex_29.html

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 4:10 am

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Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sat Dec 05, 2015 12:16 am

I'm working on my group's next adventure. Basically, a Wastri cult is arranging a sacrifice, trying to use the BoVD asymmetric power grab stuff. It involves aberrant blooded priests, including a couple quickly written up frog-themed Aberrant feats, were-frogs as an homage to Hellboy, and a refluff of Slimy Doom as Froggy Doom.

I'm now really disappointed that Dungeon isn't a thing anymore. I'd totally submit this.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sat Dec 05, 2015 12:19 am

I doubt you need it, but there's an option where Aberrant Dragonmark feats from Eberron count as Aberrant Blood feats, if you want your cultists to have freaky spell-like abilities and bitchin' tattoos.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sat Dec 05, 2015 12:41 am

Tempting, but I'm pretty cool with them just having an Innsmouth Look (aberrant blood- bulging eyes) and surprise frog tongues (refluffed Deepspawn). The leader guy has the Natural Armor and bonus HP Aberrants and one of the ones I wrote up that gives him froggy legs and a bonus to jump (that's actually worth having, unlike the usual bad touch skill feats).

On the other hand, freaky spell likes and bitchin' tattoos are tempting. And one of the spell-likes is Jump. Sold. Hmm... now should I give them torcs of Shatter or something... fuck it, sure. All frog cultists need a croak ability.

And knowing my players and their group consisting of a Goblin Barbarian, a Halfling Conduit Necromancer, and a Kobold Artificer, I suddenly have this scene in my head.

Should I give them bonus XP if they actually try the "three guys in a trench coat" ploy?

erik · Post by **erik** » Sat Dec 05, 2015 4:14 am

So a couple personal life things.

1. I gave up drinking soda (mostly) back in August. I feel skinnier probably only lost a few pounds tho, but now I have a really good appreciation for how a sober alcoholic must feel. I have longing whenever I see a bottle of root beer, and want to just sniff those syrupy sugar balms, and then maybe a taste, or a bottle or two. I've limited myself to maybe 16 oz per month, like when doing something like driving a long haul and needing some energy, or going to a movie and splitting an overpriced soda with my wife. But life feels more empty without soda to this sugar addict.

2. I've had some interesting medical issues for the last couple weeks (and a less interesting nasty cold + tension headaches the two weeks preceeding). I had what seemed like cluster headaches, which culminated this week in acute Horner's Syndrome on my right side along with the headaches (unilateral mild upper lid ptosis, miotic pupil, mild lid edema, slight post nasal drip). The only thing that really didn't match up with cluster headache as the cause was that my headaches had longer durations than typical. I found relief when trying to blow my nose so figured something must be lodged in my sinus. I doubt it's an infection on account of not having any fever, but sinisitis was a tempting diagnosis since the week or two prior to these headaches I had a nasty cold which culminated in a swollen lymph node under my right jaw enough to make my jaw sore, and I sneezed several times a day despite having no allergies. (me sneezing at all is kind of rare, maybe monthly is my norm)

With some saline spray I lubed it up and the headache pain greatly decreased. And around dinnertime that night I blew my nose and out came about a 1" stalk of broccoli but without the little green buds. I baffled at it sitting in the kleenex for a few seconds and realized my headache had gone from muted to gone once it came out.

I think I must have snorted it up when I had a cold a couple weeks ago maybe coughing while eating. Bizarre. But I have snorted a brownie up and out before when someone made me laugh while eating. Maybe my sinuses just love to suck up food, I dunno. I guess it is possible it was just compacted mucus that looked just like a short stalk of broccoli. I should've taken a picture and poked it some instead of just tossing it. If it was actually solid green mucus that would be a big ++ under the sinusitis column.

Anywho, I thought that was it and I'm cured, but the pressure started to build up a bit earlier today. I'm hoping it is just some residual/rebound inflammation since my sinuses got cleared somewhat abruptly after being clogged for a while and I was taking maximum excedrine dose daily for a couple weeks and abruptly stopped when I got better. If it doesn't resolve completely this weekend as I try to taper down my drugs then I guess I'll need to get x-rayed/CT scan to make sure no tumor or sinusitis infection, maybe see an ENT. I'd rather it was just the broccoli+rebound inflammation since that's an elegant enough explanation, and it doesn't involve surgical resolution or death.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 5:37 pm

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Shady314 · Post by **Shady314** » Tue Dec 08, 2015 12:41 am

erik wrote:So a couple personal life things.

1. I gave up drinking soda (mostly) back in August. I feel skinnier probably only lost a few pounds tho, but now I have a really good appreciation for how a sober alcoholic must feel. I have longing whenever I see a bottle of root beer, and want to just sniff those syrupy sugar balms, and then maybe a taste, or a bottle or two. I've limited myself to maybe 16 oz per month, like when doing something like driving a long haul and needing some energy, or going to a movie and splitting an overpriced soda with my wife. But life feels more empty without soda to this sugar addict.

That's interesting. Maybe with time it will change for you. When I gave up soda a few years ago (which I did completely) I craved it for some weeks but now it disgusts me and I have no problem turning it down. I also felt loads better and I lost quite a few pounds because I had been guzzling that crap. I wonder if Id change my tune if I actually did drink some but I have no desire to do so. Now its almost entirely just water for me.

erik · Post by **erik** » Tue Dec 08, 2015 2:34 am

Both times I shared a pepsi with mrs erik it did taste really gross, and she said it tasted great, so there could be a shift in my tastes. But my brain still tells me that if I just had a sip of rootbeer it would be delicious.

I once gave up soda previously, but still drank tons of apple juice (i.e. sugar water), and even just doing that I noticed that other foods seemed to start tasting different, especially white bread tasted sweet, whereas before it was almost flavorless.

On my headache front, it seems that all of the best things are happening since it has gone away almost entirely, so the brief recurrence was probably just some rebound inflammation when I stopped acetaminophen cold turkey. I was worried that maybe I did have an infection but the fever was masked by the meds, but apparently not.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Wed Dec 09, 2015 7:16 am

I'm 29 today!

And gotta say, life's been good. I tried to go to another jobsite, that went horrible, got back to my old jobsite, and I'm a lot happier. Got friends and family, I'm healthy, and I've got new books to read and new things to play.

I'm single but, eh, I'm not having any pressing urge to pair up just so I can say "I've got a girlfriend!"

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Wed Dec 09, 2015 2:55 pm

Congrats! You're a year closer to the end of the ultimate path!

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Wed Dec 09, 2015 4:50 pm

Shrapnel wrote:Congrats! You're a year closer to the end of the ultimate path!

Journey before destination, Shrap, journey before destination