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MMCJawa wrote:
I actually favored Hillary over Bernie. While I would prefer Hillary to be a bit more progressive on some issues, I think she can actually get a lot of what she promised done. I feel that if somehow Bernie did get the nom and then won the election, Bernie would have a much greater difficulty working with congress and wouldn't be able to follow through with a lot of his campaign platforms.
I really have no idea when this idea that the GOP was suddenly gonna greet Hillary with open arms came from, but I chuckle at it every time. She will probably get a lot more of what she wants from a Republican congress - but they aren't anything an actual progressive should be happy about.
She's going to face the same opposition to health care reforms or minimum wage legislation Bernie would, but they'll be damn happy to agree to any safety net cuts or international trade deals she is keen on.
I'm just going to answer Scott Bett's post in point by point paraphrasing because the quote tags get ridiculous with a post that long.
Point 1: Bernie endorsed Hillary enthusiastically and it makes no difference.
Enthusiasm is largely a matter of opinion, and some Hillary backers would disagree with your assessment. But the point is that leading up to the endorsement they were still battling over rules in the platform and he will continue to push her even so - he endorsed Obama in 08 and still remained a gadfly.
But ultimately, my only point is that an endorsement is not selling out - I could be wrong in my assessment of the relationship at play here, but he said he'd endorse, and he endorsed. I don't think we actually have an argument about whether that was somehow selling out, even though you seem to have backed Hillary from the beginning, anyway, so we're coming at it from very different perspectives.
Point 2: Hillary and Bernie are similarly liberal and their voting records show that.
No two candidates in the 2015/16 election cycle had a closer voting record - you know what they say about lies, damn lies, and statistics, right? You're comparing specifically SENATORS who ran for president in this election cycle - which gives us Clinton, Cruz, Sanders, Paul, Webb (kind of), and Chaffee (kind of) and Rubio. Take out the outliers - very "red" Democrats like Webb and the libertarian Paul - and you're left with 4 traditional Senators to compare.
As for her being 'hardcore liberal,' that REALLY depends on the issues. Abortion? Kind of. Intelligence/Surveillance? Definitely not. Student loans? Not surprisingly, not really. Gender equality? Surprisingly not great! But looking at the email leaks and her attitude on foreign policy it gets really stark . . . her bloodthirst for Syria and unequivocal support for Israel and its rightwing Likud party is seriously scary. What she did in Haiti and Honduras is unequivocally terrible. She's Pro-TPP, pro-fracking, takes money from private prisons (even as she promises to shut them down), takes money from banks, from defense contractors, is appealing to Bush donors, and has the admiration of Dick freaking Cheney. And that 7% difference included the vote for Iraq - which I'm going to circle back to.
Point 3: I'm going to break my rules here and quote because it calls for it:
Scott Betts wrote:
I'm going to reiterate the part you apparently glossed over because it provides important context:
...he was going to win my state either way. Which is the case for MOST of the people who are talking about voting 3rd party...
Even buying the Nader argument (I don't, obviously, but that's a discussion for another thread) no, see, never in our lifetime has a 3rd party candidate in a heavily Red or Blue state made any difference whatsoever. I live in Indiana. Trump will win here, handily. There's not even a question mark about it. You apparently did read this part, because you reference me being in a red state elsewhere in your post, but somehow conveniently left it off your retort?
People in swing states who decide to vote strategically --- look, I get it. As always, I don't agree, but I get it and I will understand why. But when you go on these long tangents against people in Indiana or New York or Wyoming or Oregon, what good does it do? Only a handful of states really will make a difference, and the candidates know this, which is why they spend all of their time there.
So the irony is that we get flamed by party loyalists who lament our dedication to purity and feeding our egos when what we do won't actually result in a victory . . . while basically arguing against people whose votes really aren't going to make a huge difference to assuage your egos and feel like the only adults in the room who can be reasonable about all this pesky 'morality' business.
EDIT: Almost forgot to circle back to Iraq!
It's not really in response to any point, but Dems like to throw around Nader as a precautionary tale about voting 3rd party and how it'll get us another Bush. But the absolute WORST piece of the Bush legacy - the Iraq War - Hillary voted for. And now she's gearing up to get us involved in another quagmire just like it. All of the WORST thing's about Bush's presidency had the seal of approval from way too many Democrats so this attitude that if we'd only elected Democrats we'd all be spared another disaster is preposterous, short sighted, and the kind of black-and-white thinking that leads to things getting progressively worse and worse as we let more slide because, "Well, the other side is just pure EVIL!"
And finally - breaking my no quote rule again, but it's thejeff this time so I'm going to officially pardon myself:
thejeff wrote:
That'll unfortunately still be a hard sell. The Indiana Democratic Party is an enormous mess that was running a proven loser even before they knew Pence was going to be leaving and when I voted in the primaries for my district, most of the Dem candidates didn't even bother creating websites or publishing a platform. The Dems have been hanging by a thread at the state and congressional level for a while now and the 2014 midterms were pretty much the death knell. Unless we get another implosion like Richard Mourdock, it's hard for me to see the Dems winning anything here.
thegreenteagamer wrote:
Sorry, I know I'm late to this particular party and the thread has moved on, but as a flag-wavin' member of the #NeverHillary crowd, I just really want to weigh in that Bernie didn't sell out.
Firstly, he endorsed - which is exactly what he said he would do at the beginning. I don't think it could rightly be called selling out to do exactly what you said you would do before you became a household name.
I know a lot of others will argue with me that he shouldn't be held to that word since the primaries were often unfair and there was certainly a rewriting of rules to favor Clinton when her delegates couldn't be bothered to show up. (Nevada still infuriates me.) But what could he do? It was pretty well established the DNC was firmly in Clinton's camp and it was obvious he wouldn't get a fair shake in the media. So he could make a ruckus, placate a few fans, and be banned from the convention and have all of his delegates forfeited to Hillary.
Which brings us back to the endorsement - he endorsed, he didn't concede. That's a small but important distinction. By not conceding he keeps his delegates and will have them at the Convention next week. And it allowed him to keep his delegates while drafting the platform (who, it should be noted, are the ones responsible for the $15 minimum wage and got narrowly voted down on fracking and TPP). If he'd conceded, I'd grant you he sold out. But he endorsed - like he said - and, while he's definitely out of the running for president, is using what leverage he does have to push the Democratic candidate on policy.
Will it be enough for me to vote for Hillary? Probably not. But as much as my refusal to vote for Hillary will be lambasted as an obsession with 'purity,' I never thought Bernie was perfect. But he was a candidate close enough that I could, in fairly good conscience, vote for him - even if that conscience had to wrestle with the use of drones and refusal to use the word 'apartheid' no matter how much the treatment of Palestinians calls for it. But Hillary has just done too much and falls far too short. (BTW, you can stop with the 'Voted the same 93% of the time' statistic. Most votes are symbolic or roll call votes - they're utterly meaningless. Ideologically speaking, they're pretty far apart as a neoliberal and a Social Democrat, even if they're nearer than Trump and Sanders.)
But it doesn't matter, anyway - it seems highly unlikely that Trump will win, and even if he does, he was going to win my state either way. Which is the case for MOST of the people who are talking about voting 3rd party so typically your moralizing about how they're going to wreck the country by not voting for the candidate you prefer is - well, it's kind of ironic, all things considered.
DungeonmasterCal wrote:
I have to say the two FLGS' I frequent are nothing like this. The owners and staff are right there for the customers as soon as they walk in the door. The other two that I know of but haven't visited have the same level of customer service from what I've been told by friends who patronize them. I guess we just got lucky in that department.
Sadly I had a friend who ran a gaming shop this way - though replace tabletop game with "Minecraft." Ironically he was so lazy some days he'd let his roommate run it (1PM is just TOO early for some people I guess) and those were typically the only days anything was sold.
Was very sad to see it go as none of us, at the time, had a very good setup for hosting games.
thecursor wrote:
Watch Requiem for a Dream. The only thing Connelly (or Leto for that matter) will ever arouse in you ever again is severe existential dread.
The Hyenas from Lion King.
Maybe stretching the 'fantasy' criteria, but I 100% support Scar and The Hyenas. The animals' great society is a brutal caste system that functions on the backs of an ostracized and brutalized minority. Scar is not the leader the Lions may want, but he sure as hell is the one they deserve. Scar turned their own gluttony back on them and forced everyone to live in the world they created for the hyenas. Frankly the end of that movie pisses me off still - the fascists are returned to power, having learned nothing. Hooray?
Loki - Thor was a stupid, drunken lout. Odin has a perfectly good, though adopted, son to claim rulership but instead selfishly just held onto power. I don't blame the guy at all for snapping. But that is honestly the least of my problems with the movie Thor.
I am sure it has been said (a lot) but full attack.
There is a lot I love about Pathfinder - but I can pretty much guarantee my group has permanently moved to 5E, and a huge part of that is how much smoother combat is with the Move-Action-Bonus Action setup. Instead of standing still and doing nine attacks or move and do one, you have 2-4 attacks period. Way more meaningful and fun than I stand still for the whole combat and hope I do enough damage before an SoS spell takes me out.
Martin Misthawk wrote:
One of my first house rules was that intelligent undead were not immune to mind affecting.... er, effects. That always rubbed me the wrong way.
Back to the swarm thing, my group always ruled bludgeoning weapons overcame the damage immunity by covering enough surface area to make a dent.
thejeff wrote:
And there's the rub. You cannot fix the problem without undoing the damage the Republicans have done - mainly redrawing the district lines into something resembling sanity and doing away with the gerrymandered mess we currently have.
But as long as Republicans hold majorities, they're not going to do anything about it for obvious reasons. And it'll be almost impossible to take away that majority because they've redrawn everything to make sure they'll stay in power.
Imagine partisan gridlock stomping on a human face forever and ever.
I have to say I'm sick to death of this "country has moved to the right" refrain. First of all, most of the country doesn't participate in the political process AT ALL - if there's been a shift anywhere, it's toward apathy.
But on most of the issues, when broken down, Americans are really more progressive than Congress or the conventional wisdom for sure. Most people do want the rich to pay more, like specific government programs (even my wife's super-Republican, gays-are-causing-the-apocalypse grandfather is worried about Social Security cuts), most Americans are in favor of common sense gun control laws. There are some ways in which that American mean streak shines through - we're overwhelmingly majority in favor or the death penalty no matter how many innocent people we execute (or how many racial biases are revealed in the system, and sadly, often even moreso afterward), and we'd rather let someone die needlessly without access to healthcare rather than see our own taxes increase by a red cent - but ultimately, by most metrics, we are arching toward a more inclusive, progressive society than we had in the 80's.
To the issue of the debates themselves, though, I was kind of shocked O'Malley didn't get more credit. Looking at the debate alone, discounting previous records or gaffes the candidates may have had, O'Malley performed strongly. When asked about climate change, he was the only one to actually mention a proactive plan instead of blaming lobbyists (Sanders, Chaffee), or freaking China. (Clinton - in what was to me the worst answer of the entire night, until Webb made it look like solid gold by comparison to his China/India blaming.)
Webb spent more time complaining about not getting his chance than actually making a case, and in the end, the only reason he's not running as a Republican is because that party has gone down the rabbit hole that if you're not prepared for a Final Solution regarding immigrants or to outright call Climate Change a hoax perpetrated to silence good Christians, you have no place in that clown car.
I like Sanders, I really do. But his performance at the debate was, "Meh." I'll give to him that of all the candidates he was the one who almost straddled the line of telling the truth and admitting that Syria is a situation we have no good answer for. (Prop up a dictator, put troops on the ground and possibly begin a war with Russia, or let civil war reign and concede a large portion of the middle east to Radicals. Sorry if you don't like that but that's the decision America made in 2002 when we planted those seeds.) And his stance on guns is, let's face it, a huge weakness facing down how many high profile mass shootings there have been since Sandy Hook.
Ultimately the real problem with Sanders is that he is just not very popular with the demographic blocs the Democrats actually need to win - the young people and economic populists love him, but they (especially young people and college kids) don't ever vote. Even when Obama was super popular with those blocs, they were not ultimately crucial to his victory. Women and African-Americans actually DO vote, and both are backing Clinton over Sanders by a wide margin.
And as much as I detest Clinton I'll take that sleazy, pandering, take-whatever-side-is-politically expedient over a loony-bin conspiracy theorist like Carson or head-in-the-clouds racist like Trump or - worst of all - a second round of the WORST president in history by any honest metric (or if you can't admit that, at least the worst Republican president), any day of the week.
BigDTBone wrote:
You know what's sad? I KNEW what that was going to be and I still clicked the damn link.
Well played.
I do keep alignment, but I have a very specific interpretation that only relates Law to civic laws. I've stated many time that every single person of any alignment has a personal code and to be any sort of adventurer you have to be disciplined. (Screw that monk justification.)
So Paladins do remain Lawful Good for me - they should respect legitimate authority and always look for opportunities to work within the framework of the law if it is possible.
However, if a player wanted her Paladin to be neutral good, I wouldn't flip the table over it.
Druids have the single most pointless alignment restriction in the game. At least Barbarians and Monks have a justification. The Druid restriction is just dumb. I squash that.
That being said, justification or no, I still don't enforce the Monk or Barbarian alignments. Barbarian tribes definitely have laws (ones I suspect are usually enforced by death or exile, what with the lack of prisons and all) - for that matter, I could see the tribal lifestyle being VERY traditionalist and with very specific protocol and etiquette, particularly when dealing with elders of spiritual leaders.
And I could see a Monk whose 'discipline' is unpredictability and natural talent, who bucks tradition and flouts expectations.
Kthulwho? wrote:
I am guessing this was probably from my earlier response and the reason is I had to copy+paste and fill in the quote tags myself since I was replying to two separate posts. I always forget the second "h", so, er... my bad.
Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
Well that and (spoilers ahead):
Ulfric was a Thalmor agent meant to destabilize the empire and make Skyrim/Cyrodill easier to invade. They even mention that had he simply made his case to Torygg, Skyrim would have seceded as one and presented a much stronger front. So really even if you hate the Thalmor, The Empire is your best bet.
Even though Redguards are my favorite race to play and Hammerfell declared independence, I can never bring myself to side with the racist sleeper agent specifically propped up to further the Elf Nazis' cause. (Though I like to headcanon it's just to reunite Skyrim as Asa united front against the Empire and then the Thalmor.)
Edit: Ooh, and I almost forgot the rank hypocrisy over the Markarth incident.
So yeah I can never see any good reason to go Stormcloak.
Snowblind wrote:
Soooo many ways to break Skyrim...
I think Skyrim kind of plays on a gentleman's agreement that you'll do things the 'right' way and have balanced skills. Of course once you've dumped 10 hours buying and selling to raise Speech by 3 points, you say screw it and do the trick to get speech to 100 in one transaction because tedious.
My favorite, although not necessarily most powerful, thing to do is max out illusion so I can get Mayhem from the guy at the college. (Best place so far: Riften, though Whiterun had its moments.) I could almost end the civil war by default just by causing everyone to murder each other.
And yet oddly, despite the genocidal rampage, I can still never find it in me to join with Ulfric. I find him distasteful.
knightnday wrote:
Wait, hold everything - you don't like Pink Floyd?
But . . . why?!
(OK, I made the obvious joke. It's now copyrighted and no one else can make it without paying me a royalty.)
Angstspawn wrote:
No! No to all of this! What even . . . I mean, wha-? I don't, I can't .... I mean, seriously, what?
Is this what all of our alignment debate has lead to?! Dear god what have we done?
How has nobody mentioned "Feral Child" yet? I would call it the worst option in all of Pathfinder.
It gives up !@#$ing wildshape in exchange for . . . trap sense and a situational bonus to CMD. JUST CMD. So to be clear, Devs, that you consider trap sense to be so freaking amazing that it's worth giving up:
-Ability increase
Adding insult to injury is that she could still get the CMD bonus by flying in th first place.
It's sad, too, because a Tarzan type human-only Druid could've been REALLY cool - but instead you get a Druid that trades out one of its most iconic features for what is widely considered one of the most useless rogue features.
Milo v3 wrote:
TIER 1: Arcanist; Tier 2: Shaman, Tier 3: Bloodrager, Investigator, Hunter, Skald; Tier 4: Slayer, Brawler; Tier 5: Swashbuckler?
Aniuś the Talewise wrote:
I don't hate elves, but I typically play elves the same way. Why?
Elves are damn near immortal, mystical, and supposedly very intelligent. They never have the problems that humans have and are almost always presented as superior in nearly every way.
My thought was, with the crapsack worlds most RPG lands tend to be, why on earth would these beings let mankind run the show?
Elves in my homebrew world have a continent spanning empire and are largely in charge of things. It's a patrician, gentle sort of tyranny - they see humans less as animals to be broken and more as unruly children that need the adults to corral them for their own safety. They'll even give them some nominal responsibility the way you might let your kid be in "charge" of the family pet or some chore. But it is tyranny nonetheless.
The difference being that they don't mess with Dwarves (the Dwarves have the underground, which holds no interest, and besides, provides a nice bulwark against Drow - who aren't actually evil, per se, but it'd be way too long to explain here) and still kill Orcs and Goblinoids on sight.
captain yesterday wrote:
I always hoped for the day when Artemis Entreri would kill Drizz't, I wouldn't know if it happened yet as I stopped reading his books after The Ghost King the worst book I ever bought, in hard cover :-)
I couldn't read much past The Pirate King. It's clear Salvatore is tired of Drizzt - which I understand and would be fine with, except the newer characters he's attempted to introduce I find very uninteresting.
Though I always liked Entreri better anyway (obviously) and thought that the Sellswords series was better than anything he'd done since The Dark Elf Trilogy.
I confess that now that my group has largely switched to 5E, I miss doing some of the absurd gamebreaking stuff Pathfinder let me get away with.
-Nearly impossible to beat Enchantment DCs.
I know those are all signs of an unbalanced system, but I can't help it - occasionally I want to be an invincible badass.
PIXIE DUST wrote:
*Insert obligatory martials cant have nice things post*
With the news that Pummeling Style getting nerfed hardcore, I am really beginning to wish the devs would listen to the large number of people unhappy with martials continuously being depowered while spellcasters go unmolested.
I'd start a new thread about it, but recent history indicates it would be locked the 2nd page in.
Headfirst wrote:
TL;DR: There are rules in place to help the martial/caster power disparity. If you're really worried about it, use them in your game. If you want versatile characters, stop building them to be myopic killing machines and invest some feats and/or skill points in non-combat stuff.
So to rein casters in from godlike to just really overpowered you just have to remember to use all of the convoluted rules centered around spellcasting until they reach midlevels and literally all of those things are easily overcome. Got it.
If you want a good quick fix that doesn't change the game drastically, there are two things you can do that solve a good deal (if not all) of the disparity.
1. Full attack/standard does not exist. Nor does spring attack. If you are a fighter with 2 attacks, you have two attacks. As long as you have movement left, you can attack and keep on moving and split attacks between targets.
2. Combat feats scale with level. Is this feat a prerequisite for something else? Then it's granted automatically once your BAB reaches the appropriate level. Also combat expertise is dead as it should be.
Voin_AFOL wrote:
To truly hate takes time, emotional effort, focus on the object of your hate. We call the KKK and the Black Panthers "hate-groups" for a reason - they'd be a lot less trouble if they were simply "don't give a dire-rat's arse about people different then them" groups.
Hey sorry, I know this is semi off-topic, but this is just something I have to address because it's an oft-repeated and yet rarely challenged fallacy and it bothers me a lot.
It's popular to immediately compare the Black Panthers to the Klan for some misguided attempt at 'fairness', but the reality is the two groups could not be more different. The Black Panther Party was a group created by members of an oppressed minority in solidarity against a government that was actively killing them. The Black Panthers worked and interacted with other leftist groups of all races. Their fight wasn't against white people, per se, but white supremacy.
Furthermore their gathering immediately caught the ire of the US government, and in particular Hoover's FBI. They were immediately targeted with arrest, persecution, and murder. (Fred Hampton being the highest profile of these cases.)
I don't want to act as though it was all sunshine and roses - they were revolutionary, after all, and still radical. But they were not an organization founded to promote black supremacy or white genocide.
The Klan, by contrast, was founded by former Confederate soldiers with the express purpose of killing and intimidating black people after the Civil War. The Klan has killed nearly literally thousands of blacks by lynching alone. Despite this foundation of violent extremism and terrorism, it not only was not greeted with the same sort of resistance, but actually enjoyed a long period of legitimacy in the US government. (There was a time when my state, Indiana, had an entire state legislature consisting of Klansmen.)
For further contrast, here is the mission statement of the Klan as provided by a 1920 pamphlet the group released:
WE STAND FOR WHITE SUPREMACY. Distinction among the races is not accidental but designed. This is clearly brought out in the one book that tells authoritatively of the origin of the races. This distinction is not incidental, but is of the vastest import and indicates the wisdom of the divine mind. It is not temporary but is as abiding as the ages that have not yet ceased to roll. The supremacy of the White Race must be maintained, or be overwhelmed by the rising tide of color.
Now in fairness there is a black separatist, antisemitic organization of a much smaller number called the New Black Panther Party that HAS been designated a hate group, but typically when the Black Panthers are brought up the distinction is not being made. (It should also be said for the record that members of the original BPP have denounced them.)
We really need to quit parroting this myth. Without digressing too far into current events, it's a seductive narrative meant to assuage white guilt at the expense of meaningful change - and this sort of mythology we have built around our history is literally deadly.
John Robey wrote:
My only real difficulty has been gauging encounter difficulty. The XP Budget system presented in the DMG requires a lot of tweaking due to the number-of-foes multiplier and can present some pretty strange results if you push it too hard (such as the popular example of a solo lich being a moderate encounter at a given level while a lich accompanied by two kobolds is an epic encounter).
Actually that's not quite true. The DMG specifically points out that you do not include enemies whose CR is significantly below the party's APL as part of the challenge. So 2 Kobolds = CR 1/4, nothing to a 13th level party.
You'd need 16+ Kobolds before it even gets close to making a dent.
In regards to the Dex vs Str, I like the change a lot. STR is still slightly better for damage, and DEX is still slightly better defense - it's just that now you can reasonably do combat styles aside from THF and do decent damage.
TWF is viable. Archery doesn't mean having to focus on STR and DEX as opposed to a THF Barbarian just getting to pump their STR to absurdity. But Power Attack now belongs solely to Great Weapon Fighters. Criticals just doubling dice and not modifiers favors d12 and 2d6 weapons over d4 and d6.
Also, for the record, STR saves are fairly common at low levels. Pretty much every beast with a Trip attack requires a STR save. Prone isn't the worst thing in the world, per se, but it's no picnic.
PrinceRaven wrote:
Things I have learned from this thread:
1. My hatred of katanas is completely justified, but there are way cooler Japanese weapons that sadly are not getting their due.
2. Do NOT Google a "yuri" bow at work with the safe search off.
I feel like a lot of these changes would mean you're no longer playing Pathfinder. Honestly, I love 5E and a lot of the things it changed - but I don't want to turn Pathfinder into 5E. Too many people are eager to turn Pathfinder into something else and that's just not fair.
That being said some changes I would like to see:
1. Combat Expertise is the worst example I have ever seen of a rule remaining simply due to legacy. It's beyond worthless - it is actively detrimental to building martial characters who do anything besides "I hit with my stick!" I have already houseruled it out of my games, as have most GMs I know. Similarly -
2. Too many feats, especially maneuver feats, are nickel and dimed. When a trait is worth more than a feat, the design has failed somewhere.
3. Many of the super high level spells should be relegated to GM options only. The narrative shattering stuff like Simulacrum should not be assumed to be available to players, but as villainous options for BBEGs to use. Players could always take at GM's discretion of course.
4. Get rid of full attack/standard. If you have 2 attacks, you have 2 attacks. Period.
DM Under The Bridge wrote:
Rakshasha aren't used enough. I must correct this in my own games (alas they don't fit for this campaign).
Hear hear. It amazes me, too. Rakshasa are tailor made BBEG's for midlevel campaigns. Why more people don't utilize that I'll never know.
Speaking of things I think are underutilized as BBEG's, another favorite of mine are the Fey. Two reasons:
1. I love traditional fairy tales. Demons/devils and such are cool, absolutely, but it feels very heavy metal - and I'm just more of a Prog guy I guess. And almost all of the traditional folkloric monsters are in the 'Fey' category.
2. Their nature means the line between benevolent and antagonistic likes to blur a lot. Even "helpful" fey are often less than such, and antagonistic fey can show mercy or grant a boon at a whim because it's totally within their nature to be mercurial like that. I especially love having high level Fey as secondary antagonists or Enemy Mine characters.
As an atheist, I would absolutely be devoutly religious in Golatrion. And that's not just to say I would accept the gods as fact - any idiot in that world SHOULD - but would follow one whose ideals matched my own closely.
That's why I really hate misotheistic (NOT atheistic! Please Paizo, if ever Rahadoum gets another treatment, please change that. Atheists struggle with stereotypes of just being bitter god haters and slapping the title on any believer with a chip on their shoulder does not help.) societies in D&D and Pathfinder. It's an unlimited pantheon of deities who directly aid mortals in their lives! You can't find one you like?!
In Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, Elsa God-Hater was the only NPC you came across with this attitude, and it was a unique enough view that she took on a name after it. Even in Tamriel, gods are active enough that most people are not stupid enough to not st least pay lip service to SOMETHING, and those gods are far less involved than on Golarion.
But the OPs GM sounds terrible. Even as someone who GMs a lot and does not care for Paladins in my games (nothing against the nature of the class - it's just when it breaks something, it breaks it HARD.) I'd have to walk away from that game on principle. This is obviously one of those GMs who delights in taking powers away and, when he couldn't, punished a player in the most vindictive way possible.
DM Under The Bridge wrote:
I never expect my players to forgive antagonists just because they have sympathetic motivations - but I do like that it gives it a bigger twist than just go here, roll initiative, and try to kill them first. And it's never a "No Win" situation. Whether they choose to forgive or smite, I usually play up the better aspects of either scenario.
The most straightforward was the cult leader trying to seal off the abyss. The players were having none of the justifications and he ultimately succumbed to a fate worse than death when a Demon lord claimed him for his hubris.
With the priestess it was actually planned from the beginning that the child would actually turn out to be one of the PC's (One of my players had rolled up a tiefling orphan when my backstory included the murder of a noble's tiefling bastard.) As all the players that game were some shad of good, the final showdown came down to trying to divert her before she did something truly irredeemable - making a pact with a lich - and finding and punishing the remaining co-conspirators, which included some high ranking nobles and members of the thieves' guild, so no easy task.
The Inspector had no end, sadly, as my work picked up and I had to stop playing for about two months, causing the game to dissolve. They ended up killing the Drow enclave, which also broke the seals holding the monster in the Underdark, resulting in a very difficult final boss battle. As for the Druid - well, that one is happening now, so I'll let you know lol.
My favorite antagonists are sympathetic ones. Though I'll always have plenty of kill-on-sight irredemable baddies on the way to the final confrontation, I like my final showdowns to be with somebody whose motivations a) make sense and b) let the heroes think outside the box. I've done -
A priestess who murdered the man that killed her child. Framing the PCs for his murder was keeping the authorities busy while she took out the nobles who helped him cover it up.
That's not to say they're all not evil or even pleasant, but I love the how far could anyone go if pushed hard enough story line.
gamer-printer wrote:
You might check out the one shot module, Up from Darkness, from Rite Publishing for the Kaidan setting of Japanese horror (PFRPG). It starts out exactly as you describe and its definitely story driven. Lots of unique undead and traps, its a very deadly dungeon with a very unique twist. Read Endzeitgeist's review to get a good idea of what I'm talking about. The PCs begin at the lowest level of the dungeon with no memory as to who they are and why they are here...
These were all really helpful, but this post in particular was awesome. I downloaded the PDF and read through it and I have to say, wow. This gave me just about everything I wanted (and some things I didn't know I did until I read through)
The Dread Pirate Hurley wrote:
Gnomes are predisposed to having quirky obsessions. They're on a constant quest for novelty to keep them from Bleaching. It's not difficult to imagine a gnome with decidedly more... gruesome obsessions. I could see Count Rugen from The Princess Bride as a gnome.
(Side note: Already saw the Gnome hate coming to the fore. Man, people really don't like these guys, eh? Makes me sad.)
Truthfully, I think a Bleachling would make a better and far different sort of Gnome villain than the PHB Gnome. If I recall correctly, a gnome that survives its bleaching loses its CHA boost and gets a WIS bonus instead, becomes super connected to the First World and has an ethereal, inscrutable quality about it.
Imagine a hypermeditative, silent summoner-type with impenetrable motives and the appearance of a frail, albino child. I'm seeing a Shaman with a snow owl familiar perched in a lofty position beyond the PC's reach, with Ankou servants bringing the fight to their level while she casts spells from afar. That would actually be scary as hell.
EDIT: Apparently Gnome's ability array doesn't change after Bleaching, though it can speak with animals at will and gets Druid as an additional favored class. So even better - imagine a Summoner whose summons have become twisted mockeries of First World creations.
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I wonder if that is to balance that since most Small races are 20ft/round, you have to spend the extra point to get the speed but also the +1 to AC and attack rolls?
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I suppose. I actually liked gnomes even in the 3.5 days - one of my first characters ever was a Gnome Cleric of Garl Glittergold. It really seems like most of the hatred is just that they're silly or childish for whatever reason, but I suppose I can understand the hatred for not really doing any schtick particularly well.
Actually I really wish, as Gnomes were the traditional Bard choice from 3.5, that Pathfinder had saved the CHA bonus for them alone and given Halflings INT. +DEX/INT makes halflings the best small race for rogue, magus, wizard, alchemist, witch, investigator, etc. +CON/CHA makes gnomes a great fit for sorcerer, Paladin, cavalier, bard, summoner, and Oracle.
Unpopular opinion here, but I'd personally take your D-team over your A-team to begin with. Let's break down what you have:
1. Bard - Bards are unique in that their efficacy is largely dependent on the party make-up. The more Martials in a party, the better a Bard becomes. Your other party members are a Fighter (Martial), Ranger (Martial), Paladin (Martial, Martial, Martial!). As well the Bard has the almighty UMD which makes up for a LOT of the missing spellcasting. Wizards are technically better, but they're not nearly the team player a bard is. As well any Bard worth their salt should have the Scrolls and Wands to cover your necessities - especially healing.
2. Fighter - This is the one area a fighter wouldn't be my first choice, either, especially compared to Barbarians. However, you could not have chosen a more ideal party for a Fighter to be a part of. All of his weaknesses are beings shored up by Bardic inspiration and the Paladin's aura. You have the Skills pretty well covered by the Bard and Ranger. And if the job is simply "Go Kill _______", well, great news! Fighters still do that quite competently. I'm not gonna start splitting hairs if the Barbarian one-shots an enemy plus 20 hit points and the Fighter one-shots an enemy plus 10 hit points.
3. Ranger - Druids are (like Wizards) technically better, but you have a high skills class to complement the bard, and a full-BAB switch hitter with full feat trees to back the Fighter. 4th level spellcasting isn't 9th, but it's not too shabby, and it's one of the better 4-level spell lists. Take Boon Companion at level 5 and you're on par with one of the Druid's best class features. And if the favored enemy aligns, I'd easily say the Ranger in his element can surpass the Druid.
4. Paladin - In many ways I prefer this to a Cleric. Paladins passively buff their party just by being around. She's going to have a better way to overcome DR out of the gate. And while the Cleric doesn't have bad saves, the Divine Grace means you can pretty much pump CHA and dump WIS/DEX and still frustrate the hell out of your DM. Self heals as a swift action makes her the tankiest of tanks.
If you're running an open ended campaign with lots of world building and very complex narrative challenges, the A-team is pretty much necessary. If you're running an AP or any sort of straightforward adventure consisting of Go Here - Kill This, I'd take these options over the A-team any day of the week, with the lone exception of the Fighter - and again, even so, a lot of the big drawbacks of a Fighter versus a Barbarian are being greatly mitigated by the makeup of the party. That is how you use party synergy to overcome the issue with Class Tiers.
Very recently I played in a campaign where I challenged myself to never do any direct HP damage. I was a caster who specialized in enchantment and control - after a few sessions it became a running gag that I ALWAYS cast "Grease" - especially once we hit about Level 5 and our other caster was using stuff like Fireball to clear gaggles of minions. Despite this proving very useful (especially in some out of combat situations), I game with people who measure success by how much direct damage you're doing so there were always silly arguments about whether Grease was stupid or, as I insisted, the most useful spell in the game.
Fast forward two years. Our characters are all Level 16 and fighting a Balor with Fighter class levels for control of the World Ending macguffin - something he and a friend developed for this campaign that appeared as a normal Crystal Ball but actually containing the energy of sorta mini-universe. I've burned all of my higher level spells on keeping him and his minions away from this thing, but after the rest of us are unconscious and dying and he's managed to grab the orb I get desperate and do the only thing that comes naturally - I Grease the orb.
Amazingly, our DM Nat 1'd the save and the crystal falls from the BBEG's hands and smashes on the ground. Our DM rolls on a table for random effects and a planar gate opens --- deposting everybody in a 300ft radius onto the plane of Elysium.
Grease. We ended a 2-year campaign against a Balor with grease. Most useful spell in the game.
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A Ladder from pretty much any game
In that same vein: A small shrubbery from any early RPG. Infinite HP, regeneration, immunity to all damage types, and you cannot climb over it or teleport past it. It can only be destroyed with a special weapon that can only be wielded by a 10th level character. Imagine the BBEG dropping a few of those outside his door to finish his plans while the party levels up.
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Casters are built up as better than martials for their versatility, not because they always kill things better. Barbarians kill things (Especially puny wizards!) damn well.
I just ask myself, "What are orcs?" They're raiders. They don't spend a lot of time in quiet contemplation or study, and their gods are venerated by war and bloodshed - not burning incense and meditating on the universe.
Being simple works because they have the Strength to back it up.
As for Bulls Strength - A) It's limited to so many times per day, B) It's a short duration, C) It is wasted on a spellcaster with no good weapon proficiencies and half BAB and (most importantly) D) As a 2nd level spell, it is easily within the reach of an orc spell caster with 12 Wis to use on an orc Warrior for an even more ridiculous slash chop.
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A gift card deal too good to resist/
[update 2/6/14: please see my post on Upromise Investments]
Gift card churning seems like a lot of fun for those who enjoy it. The really serious guys like Frequent Miler wait for a big opportunity to come along and then go big, turning gift cards into merchandise and then trying to liquidate the goods, generating credit card spend and – hopefully – a small profit.
Personally, I only dabble in gift cards when opportunities come along that already fit into my overall strategy. For example, I was happy to pay $7.50 for 3,500 Flexpoints last May.
Today I made an exception and strolled down to my neighborhood Staples to buy some hanging folders – and a $100 Visa gift card, which came with an activation fee of $5.95. Just to magnify the insanity, I didn't even use a card that bonuses office supply stores: I used my American Express Hilton HHonors card, which earns 3 HHonors points per dollar spent on non-bonused purchases.
American Express Offers for You
By now you've guessed where this is going: my HHonors card was targeted by Amex for the Staples "Offer for You," which reads:
Get a one-time $25 statement credit by using your enrolled Card to spend a total of $100 or more on qualifying purchases at Staples by 3/17/2014.
If you carry any American Express cards, log into your online account and see if any of them have been targeted. From the reports I've read online, most people are only receiving the offer for one of their credit cards. If you get the offer for more than one card, then use the "Multiple Browser Tabs" trick described here to register for the offer on each eligible card.
In addition to the $25 statement credit I received from American Express, I also made sure to add my Hilton HHonors card to Plink in order to earn 300 Plink points (worth $3 in Amazon credit) for spending more than $60 on my linked credit card at Staples.
Breaking: Liquidate with Evolve Money
Finally, I was excited to take advantage of this offer in order to run an experiment liquidating Visa gift cards using Evolve Money.
I'm more than happy to report that I was able to successfully add the Visa gift card to Evolve Money (after registering the gift card online), and make a bill payment to one of my utility companies.
This is extremely exciting since it effectively reduces the cost of gift card liquidation to $0. If this technique continues to work with other prepaid cards, like the One Vanilla cards sold at CVS, it will mean $28,000-$31,000 in monthly manufactured spend with no liquidation costs.
The possibilities here are truly staggering, but I'm going to refrain from any additional speculation until later this week when it becomes clearer what kinds of possibilities exist to liberate cash using Evolve Money.


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The Dix Family gives thanks!
Today I am Thankful for everything! I know it's very cliché but it's so true!
Last night the girls and I decided to make a last minute thankful turkey project. We have never done this before and I thought the girls were old enough now to both think of things they are thankful for.
So I got out my new Cricut. (which I LOVE) Believe it or not I still don't own any cartridges other than the ones it came with. I did however purchase the Sure-cuts-a-lot program which allows you to virtually create anything imaginable. Check out the program here. I still use it blindly and have so much to learn. I wanted a turkey cut out for our project but being on a budget I really didn't want to purchase one. I sat down at the computer and created this little guy…..
Simple I know, but I just think he's so cute! Other than the feet and the wings which are hand drawn the rest of this little guy is all mouse drawn. I just love to create cute little images on my computer. You can use your creations for so many different things. I hope to someday really learn about designing graphics but until then I'll just have to do things my cheat way! I know it's a little late but feel free to grab this little cutie if you want! Just be sure to tell everyone where you got him.
Anyway on to my Cricut and the sure cuts a lot program. While making the turkey in photoshop I made sure each part of the him was a different layer. I am certainly not a photoshop expert nor do I claim to be one on T.V. I am sure some of you seasoned photoshop users will find all the flaws in the way that I do things! LOL! That is another thing on my list of things to learn, better photoshop skills. Sheesh, I wish there was a place that I could take a class on all the things on my list to learn! Any tips and tricks on any of my projects is greatly appreciated.
Well shoot I thought I had been doing so good with my rambling! I guess not!
So while designing my turkey I made sure each part was a separate layer. When everything looked just right I saved the whole thing as a psd file. I then saved each individual layer as a jpg. and loaded them into my sure cuts a lot program. I don't know how the svg file makers do it? Being this was a paper piecing project it took a while for me to get the pieces to all be the appropriate proportions. Finally when I put it all together to make sure the pieces fit, I saved my project as an SVG file. When I was ready to cut him out I got out the colors I wanted and cut out the pieces one by one. I "hid" all the parts I wasn't cutting at the time so that the Cricut was only cutting the one piece I needed for the color of the paper I was using at the time. Not sure if this is making sense but if you want to give this a try and need help let me know and I'll try to help the best I can. Like I said I'm no expert, in fact I need all the help I can get! LOL!
So here is our finished Thankful Turkey project…
I've only had my Cricut for about a month, I don't have any fancy papers yet, and I've never done paper piecing before let alone design my own svg. but all those things considered I think he turned out pretty adorable! What do you think?
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3 comments:
- Alison said...
WOW--this is absolutely darling! I am impressed that you "drew" this in Photoshop. I use Photoshop all the time, but my drawing skills are NOT good!! This will be a fun family tradition for years to come! Thanks for the great ideas, and thanks for following with Oopsey Daisy! Happy Turkey Day!
- November 25, 2010 at 12:31 PM
- Whimsical Creations said...
That turned out so cute!!
- November 25, 2010 at 6:38 PM
- IPOHC said...
Thanks so much for the sweet comments ladies! I appreciate you taking the time to visit my blog.
- November 27, 2010 at 6:26 AM
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Sadly, if he only carried whatever your state minimum liability requirement is, the insurance won't touch what he is probably entitled to. I hope the driver has some assets.
I'm in agreement with checking with someone not involved in the local politics of it all. There are excellent advocates out there for you, I'm certain.
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Tributes To Trailblazer Ed Bradley
From dignitaries to average television viewers, tributes poured in for Ed Bradley, the veteran 60 Minutes correspondent who died Thursday in New York at the age of 65.
At the White House, President Bush said he and first lady Laura Bush were "deeply saddened by the death of Ed Bradley." Mr. Bush remembered Bradley for producing "distinctive investigative reports that inspired action and cemented his reputation as one of the most accomplished journalists of our time."
At CBS News, where Bradley spent 35 years, including 25 with 60 Minutes, friends and colleagues offered their remembrances.
Bradley was "a kind, gentle, strong man. A first-rate reporter and a first-rate human being," said fellow 60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace. "When he laughed, he laughed whole-heartedly from down deep. He was just an absolutely delightful man."
CBS News chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer said Bradley "was simply the coolest person I have ever known. He was a great observer of the American scene with a shrewd eye and a terrific sense of humor. And let me tell you, no one ever put one over on Ed Bradley."
Bradley died at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan of complications from chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
His consummate skills as a broadcast journalist and his distinctive body of work were recognized with numerous awards, including 20 Emmys, the latest for an interview with Neil Armstrong.
As one of the most visible black journalists on television, Bradley broke down racial barriers and became a role model for young African Americans.
"The pressure is there," Bradley said. "It's been there every day of my life."
Bradley was honored with the Lifetime Achievement award from the National Association of Black Journalists. Three of his Emmys came at the 2003 awards: a Lifetime Achievement Emmy; one for a 60 Minutes report on brain cancer patients, "A New Lease on Life;" and another for an hour-long piece about sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, "The Catholic Church on Trial."
more of what Wallace has to say about Bradley.
Check out photos of Bradley through the years.
Read what Public Eye has to say about Bradley.
Viewers who watched Bradley's reports over the years shared their thoughts on CBSNews.com.
"My wife and I wept at the news of Ed Bradley's passing. She said, 'He came into our home every Sunday with something important to say'. He did indeed. I don't write these types of 'fan letters' but Bradley was extraordinary," said RJGATOR.
"Ed Bradley will be sorely missed in our household and by countless admirers," said joycenbill. "His ability to give us the heart and soul of the people or stories he reported upon was extraordinarily human."
And jtmjc wrote: "We loved Ed Bradley here in New Orleans, he was here in town this past Jazz fest in May, and he got on stage with Irma Thomas and watched behind the stage as Lionel Richie performed his set. … We will miss his COOLNESS."
Ed Bradley was born June 22, 1941 in a rough section of Philadelphia, where he once recalled that his parents sometimes worked 20-hour days at two jobs apiece.
Read more memories of and tributes to Bradley.
"I was told, 'You can be anything you want, kid,'" he once told an interviewer. "When you hear that often enough, you believe it."
After graduating from Cheney State College with a degree in education, he launched his career as a DJ and news reporter for a Philadelphia radio station in 1963, moving to New York's WCBS radio four years later.
Bradley's first job out of college was as a sixth-grade teacher.
He joined CBS News as a stringer in the Paris bureau in 1971, transferring a year later to the Saigon bureau during the Vietnam War. It was the story that put him on the map and almost killed him, Stahl reports.
As Bradley explained in one interview: "People were moved from Viet Cong areas into towns controlled by the government. And all of a sudden I heard this terrific noise ... if I had not moved to sit on the side, I would have been dead."
After reporting in Cambodia, Bradley moved to the Washington bureau in June 1974, 14 months after he was named a correspondent.
Other hour-long reports by Bradley prompted praise and action: "Death by Denial" won a Peabody Award for focusing on the plight of Africans dying of AIDS and helped convince drug companies to donate and discount AIDS drugs; "Unsafe Haven" spurred federal investigations into the nation's largest chain of psychiatric hospitals; and "Town Under Siege," about a small town battling toxic waste, was named one of the Ten Best Television Programs of 1997 by Time magazine.
WatchBradley on the anchor desk in 1979. WatchBradley report on the end of the Vietnam war. Watch"the best of Bradley."
Bradley's significant contribution to electronic journalism was also recognized by the Radio/Television News Directors Association when it named him its Paul White Award winner for 2000, joining distinguished journalists such as Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite and Peter Jennings as a Paul White recipient.
More recently, the Denver Press Club awarded him its 2003 Damon Runyon Award for career journalistic excellence. Bradley also received the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards grand prize and television first prize for "CBS Reports: In the Killing Fields of America," a documentary about violence in America, for which he was co-anchor and reporter.
Bradley's work on 60 Minutes gained him much recognition, including a George Foster Peabody Award for "Big Man, Big Voice," the uplifting story of a German singer who became successful despite birth defects. In 1995, he won his 11th Emmy for a 60 Minutes segment on the cruel effects of nuclear testing in the town of Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan - a report that also won him an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award in 1994.
In 1983, two of Bradley's reports for 60 Minutes won Emmy Awards: "In the Belly of the Beast," an interview with Jack Henry Abbott, a convicted murderer and author, and "Lena," a profile of singer Lena Horne. He received an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton and a 1991 Emmy Award for his report "Made in China," a look at Chinese forced-labor camps, and another Emmy in 1992 for "Caitlin's Story," an examination of the controversy between the parents of a deaf child and a deaf association.
In addition to "In the Killing Fields," his work for "CBS Reports" included: "Enter the Jury Room," an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award winner that revealed the jury deliberation process for the first time in front of network cameras. A series of stories from 1979 were award winners, including: "The Boat People," which won duPont, Emmy and Overseas Press Club Awards; "The Boston Goes to China," a report on the historic visit to China by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which won Emmy, Peabody and Ohio State Awards, and "Blacks in America: With All Deliberate Speed?," which won Emmy and duPont Awards.
Bradley's coverage of the plight of Cambodian refugees, broadcast on the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite and CBS News Sunday Morning, won a George Polk Award in journalism.
He also received a duPont citation for a segment on the Cambodian situation broadcast on CBS News' "Magazine" series. He covered the presidential campaign of Jimmy Carter during 1976, served as a floor correspondent for CBS News' coverage of the Democratic and Republican National Conventions from 1976 through 1996, and has participated in CBS News' election-night coverage.
Prior to joining 60 Minutes, Bradley was a principal correspondent for "CBS Reports" from 1978 to 1981, after serving as CBS News' White House correspondent from 1976 to 1978. He was also anchor of the "CBS Sunday Night News" from 1976 to 1981 and of the CBS News magazine "Street Stories" from January 1992 to August 1993.
A lifelong fan of jazz, Bradley took on a side gig in recent years as radio host for "Jazz at Lincoln Center," for which he won one of his four Peabody awards.
Bradley joined CBS News as a stringer in its Paris bureau in September 1971. A year later, he was transferred to the Saigon bureau, where he remained until he was assigned to CBS News' Washington bureau in June 1974. He was named a CBS News correspondent in April 1973 and, shortly thereafter, was wounded while on assignment in Cambodia. In March 1975, he volunteered to return to Indochina and covered the fall of Cambodia and Vietnam.
What was Bradley's secret to getting such renowned stories? Schieffer said it was all in his style.
"Ed knew everyone from Jimmy Carter to Jimmy Buffett. He made people comfortable. He wasn't the bulldog type reporter like Mike Wallace," Schieffer said. "He set people at ease and got them to talk. Sometimes that was in their interest and sometimes it wasn't. But he was like Columbo, who had that disarming style and the knack of getting that last answer out of someone."
60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft said: "I think the thing that made him terrific was his presence. There was a dignity about him... a perfect mix of style and substance."
Bradley is survived by his wife, Patricia Blanchet and Reba E. Gaston, his aunt, of Dayton Ohio.


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The new dining areas are open only for dinners and can take a maximum of 40 guests. The Dark Room is a luxuriously dark space where diners can enjoy cocktails and the first seven courses of the tasting menu. The Light Room is airier and more formal. Here guests will enjoy the remainder of the beautifully plated tasting menu in a more formal setting. Dale-Roberts jokes his staff have become "Tweezer Chefs" because of the detail required for each dish. Dinner only, Tuesday to Saturday: 7pm- 9.30pm. www.thetestkitchen.co.za.
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Thirty-two third-year Bioengineering students at UNamur visited the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK•CEN). "We immersed them in the fascinating world of nuclear science and technology. We took them to unprecedented heights with our space research but also took them 225 metres below ground to our HADES research laboratory", winked Sarah Baatout (SCK•CEN), researcher and departmental guide. The visit is part of "Printemps des Sciences", an initiative of the French-speaking universities in Belgium.
A new edition of "Printemps des Sciences" is set to take place from 25 to 31 March. "Printemps des Sciences" is an initiative of all French-speaking universities in Belgium who are hoping to make science more accessible to the general public. It is a week full of exciting exhibitions, laboratory visits, conferences and workshops for curious science enthusiasts, schools and families. This edition is dedicated to "Élémentaire". "Everything that surrounds us consists of barely one hundred elements: the oxygen we breathe, the calcium in our bones, and even the universe. The subject is right up our street! That's why we decided to participate in this extremely interesting science week and to organise a Space Day for third-year Bioengineering students at UNamur", explains researcher Sarah Baatout. "The programme is filled with activities."
A rich programme
The programme included space dosimetry, animals in space, experiments on spirulina and lectures on space exploration and life support, to name but a few examples. "For example, we are working on a life support system that will enable manned space travel to Mars. Crews will be able to produce drinking water, food and oxygen themselves by recycling their waste. So today's urine is tomorrow's coffee, but yesterday's coffee is also today's coffee. The water in the space capsule is, in fact, recycled an infinite number of times", explains researcher Natalie Leys. Of course that "coffee" is not made in one day. "The water goes through many stages in the recycling process." After these stimulating sessions, the students of UNamur visited the HADES underground research laboratory. The visit was very popular with the students of UNamur. "An inspiring discovery in the heart of the Earth and space ", say the students.
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CSU student tix gone, plenty of other seats remain for opener
With two weeks to go, all 10,000 Colorado State student tickets are sold for the Rocky Mountain Showdown Sept. 4 at Invesco Field for the season opener against Colorado.
However, fewer than 10,000 general public tickets remain.
There are numerous lower level seats available with Ram Club membership starting at $100.
Additionally, there are suite and club level seating opportunities available through the CSU development office (970 491-4666 or csurams.com.


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The core of what IT is and HOW to obtain it;
Along with self-confidence, another attribute that is required for success is motivation. Not motivation as a kick up the backside provided by others, but self motivation; the ability to keep yourself going when the going gets tough. Crawling through broken bottles and razor blades to get what you want.
So where does this self-confidence and self motivation come from?
You may have possibly heard the phrase "the body follows the mind". Bluntly put, if you want your actions to be great you first have to train the mind to be great.
How many people are truly self motivated?
Ninety nine percent of people struggle to be self motivated and then not have the self-confidence to follow their dreams. Going to personal development seminars and training courses can really get us fired up, full of energy to conquer the world. But how many of you find that two days later you feel flat again and all that motivation has worn off.
What is self motivation?
Self motivation exists when there is contradiction between your current results and your expected results. Your expected results are your vision. Time and time again people do not have a clear vision and self-confidence suffers because of this. The school's national curriculum doesn't teach children how to be millionaires. You and I are not trained to have time freedom or financial freedom. For most people their vision is to see themselves through from one payday to the next. Great results come from changing that vision which will enhance self-confidence and belief.
How do we change that vision?
The subconscious mind believes your current vision. If your current vision is one of struggling from payday to payday that is what your subconscious mind provides for. The subconscious mind is far more powerful than the conscious mind but it is unable to distinguish between facts and lies. True vision comes from what the subconscious mind hears the most often.
To improve this current state of affairs a vision statement needs to be created. Once this has been produced it should be read at least on a daily basis, if not more.
• Firstly think of where you want your life to be and the results you want to experience.
• Write a statement. Your words should be inspirational and encompass your core values. Be specific and allow your ideas to be big, as high as you can possibly imagine achieving.
• Write in the first party. Do not write my life will be… write my life is…
• Read aloud to train the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind will believe these positive statements and very soon self motivation and self-confidence will kick in.
The subconscious mind will believe a vision statement if repeated on a regular basis and will then overcome all hurdles in order to make the vision statement come true. Self motivation is now created because of the distinct contrast between vision and your current results.
This is likely to be the most powerful transition you are ever likely to make on your incredible journey towards success. It will substantially improve self-confidence, change your future and your results more than you can possibly imagine.
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If it's not apparent in the written form, please take a moment to re-read the title of this blog entry aloud and appreciate its marvellousness. I muttered it to myself a fair few times in about twelve different ways of phrasing it in order to best make it sound clever.
Anyhow. 2015 has been a grind for me, and it seems as though things are getting worse (perhaps as punishment for my lack of blogging?) The rigours and pressures of adult life I alluded to in October of last year have continued to mount - iffin' you're curious, I'm saving up for a wedding at the end of this year, which has completely stripped my lifestyle down to the essentials (read: booze), which was going fine until a few weeks ago, when the unthinkable happened.
While we were out celebrating my fiancée's birthday, someone broke into our apartment and burgled us.
I won't go into much detail because a) I watch too much TV and have convinced myself that it could 'jeopardise the police investigation', b) they stole my laptop and could possibly have access to this blog (in which case I hope they at least make some cool toy-related posts), and c) I reserve the right to track them down and cave their fucking head in, and the less evidence I leave of mens rea, the shorter my jail sentence.
The treachery and hollowness I felt in the apartment afterwards was horrifying: not only did they nab a whole slew of stuff, but there are other things they had picked up and put back into different places. Our home became a veritable buffet: take whatever you like, and feel free to jettison anything you decide isn't worth it. Similar to Eddie Izzard's take on growing bored of your shopping, and starting over again.
The first reason I came to discuss it on this blog is because I initially thought they had swiped my New 3DS, but later found it had been put into a drawer. Which is a huge relief insomuch as insignificant things like my 12 years' worth of Pokémon and the small, fragile animal community of Wiggins are intact (lord knows those fuckers aren't going to pluck those weeds without me), but a perverse reminder that someone invaded my living space, picked up my 3DS for long enough to carry it up the stairs and into a different room, and then decided to leave it behind.
Why do that? If you're going to turf some stolen goods, why would you leave it behind and risk fingerprints and other potential pitfalls (hidden Animal Crossing reference)? Perhaps they were overwhelmed by the sheer amount of choice at their disposal, because my old 3DS and even the original DS had also been moved to another location. It's like, 'shit, this is too much DS for me - let's bail'. Good thing I never bought a DSi, or else they may have well and truly lost their shit. While in the process of taking my shit.
The only things that were taken were items of quantifiable cash value, so all of my little toys and whatnot are still here, including ones I have not yet blogged about. Note to anyone concerned, apparently Gumby figurines are not worth stealing.
As an aside, in our fury and misery, we've done a massive clean out and cleared out some things that have been sitting around for years. Among these was a bag of toys I had prepared for the opp shop. I dropped it off at long last, then headed off to do some other errands. Afterwards, it had occurred to me how some things had been moved to strange places during the burglary, and I hadn't checked the bag to see if anything valuable had ended up in there. So I returned to the opp shop, and there before me, they had laid out the donated toys in a little basket.
The very nature of this blog is derived from some deep-seated issues I have with relinquishing material possessions (as you can appreciate, this made the burglary even harder for me to handle), so having seen the toys laid out, ready for sale, really tugged at my heartstrings in an unexpected way. Prior donated toys have either ended up in the possession of family members and/or my fiancée's classroom, or I have donated them somewhere - and never looked back. Today was the first time I saw the results. It was weird. Much less weird than being fucking burgled, but weird all the same.
Anyhow, that's where I'm at. As I rebuild my psyche and my life in general, I'm likely to return to the queer hobby of toy... describing, which at its base level, is what this blog is about. In the meantime, I'm going to put together some kind of lawsuit against Tonka, because my Pooch Patrol dog didn't do shit to stop this from happening. Fucking hell Sarge, you had twenty-five years to prepare for this!!


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More than ever, police are targeting drunk drivers and speeders
While they concede there likely will be drunken drivers as long as there are cars and booze, Merced police officers hope their recent education and enforcement blitz ultimately will reduce the number of inebriates on city streets.
The Merced Police Department's Traffic Division also is targeting street racers and speeders through its Office of Traffic Safety grants. DUI checkpoints and saturation patrols are planned this month to slow people down and keep them sober.
Officer Perry Flowers has been part of the six-man Traffic Division for eight years and with the department more than 15 years. He estimates he has arrested somewhere between 150 and 200 drunken drivers during that time and said people wrongly believe a little bit of alcohol won't affect them.
Not so, he says.
"It's a false perception. People don't seem to learn the lesson; we catch people for second and third offenses. Drunken drivers are of any age, all walks of life, any time of the day or night," Flowers said.
Sgt. Jay Struble, Traffic Division supervisor, estimates he has arrested about 40 drunks during his 13-year career with the department.
"I don't think we'll ever get rid of drunken drivers but with more education we can reduce the number of DUIs. If you're drunk, call a cab or a sober driver, and if you see a drunken driver, notify us," Struble urged.
Motorcycle officer Craig McKeeman illustrated the public's misconception with drunken driving through a recent arrest. He said a man called his wife from a bar to say he was drunk and asked that she follow him home in her car. That didn't stop the man from being arrested for drunken driving.
The proper thing for the sober wife to have done was to give her husband a ride home.
"Every traffic stop is a DUI investigation. We might have stopped somebody for a taillight out or running a red light. We pay close attention to the odor of alcohol and are looking at objective symptoms of intoxication," McKeeman said.
Like his colleagues, McKeeman estimates he has easily arrested hundreds of drunken drivers in seven years with the Merced Police Department, three of them spent in the Traffic Division.
"With all the public service announcements you see, people still drink and drive," he lamented.
Officer Dan Dabney said drunken driving is an ongoing problem just about everywhere. That's why the Office of Traffic Safety puts an emphasis on DUI enforcement and offers grants that pay for officers' overtime to run checkpoints and buy equipment.
Dabney said another checkpoint is planned in Merced this month. He can't be more specific when and where, particularly since word of checkpoint locations spreads to local drinking establishments through patrons sending text messages to bartenders and their buddies.
During saturation patrols, the Traffic Division's six officers are deployed throughout the city looking for drunken drivers and speeders. Flowers believes these saturation patrols are even more effective than checkpoints.
Dabney and Flowers said it's easy for officers to spot drunken drivers and it's not unusual for each officer to have multiple DUI arrests during a saturation patrol effort.
More than likely someone is going to get hurt, often an innocent person, in DUI-related crashes, Flowers said. Officers are trained to look for drivers weaving, driving too slow, making wide turns and blowing through stop signs or traffic signals, key signs the motorist is tipsy.
During the 10 checkpoints held so far this year, Flowers said about 30 drunken driving arrests were made.
McKeeman said five to 10 DUI arrests usually are made during a checkpoint.
"A lot of times people don't realize two or three drinks will put them over the limit. It depends on body size and the tolerance for alcohol," Dabney said.
Flowers said officers are trying to convince young people it's not wise to drink and drive. He is in charge of the "Every 15 Minutes" program regularly conducted at local high schools, in cooperation with the California Highway Patrol.
Drunken drivers will always be with us but Flowers said he'd rather not have that kind of job security.
Grants or not, Dabney said traffic officers will continue to target speed racers. While 16th Street, G Street, Olive and Yosemite avenues are popular spots for spontaneous stoplight racing, the city doesn't have the street racing venues found out in the county.
"If you are caught street racing, you will get your car impounded for 30 days without question. We haven't had a lot of high-notoriety incidents lately but the potential is always there," Dabney said.
Struble said younger people think street racing is "the cool thing" but their driving skills haven't kept up with the speeds their cars are capable of reaching.
It's only a matter of time before something major happens with street racers, Flowers worries. With high-horsepower cars it doesn't take too much for drivers to lose control.
"If your car is stopped for illegal modifications, you may be sent to a state referee for a complete engine-emissions inspection before you can operate the vehicle lawfully on the road again," Dabney said.
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{Husband's Letters}
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Over and out,
Are you introverted or extroverted? It can be tricky sometimes being married to someone who is opposite, but more wonderful than anything. Em has reminded me the importance of both rest and play.
22 comments:
- Michelle said...
definitely introverted but I think extroverted-ness can be a learned skill if you need to have it. i.e. if your married to an extrovert.
- May 1, 2012 at 7:48 AM
- post-grad11 said...
Introvert living an extroverts life? I took the Myers-Briggs test once and it said I was an extrovert. I think it's lying.
- May 1, 2012 at 8:59 AM
- R said...
I'm an extrovert married to an introverted extrovert. Poor guy...I exhaust him w/ all the things I try to do & people I want to see every weekend. :-)
- May 1, 2012 at 9:01 AM
- abcdfamily said...
I am very introverted and so is my husband... It is nice to be similar since that means we (almost) without fail enjoy the same things, but it also keeps us in our comfort zone. However, my sister is QUITE extroverted so if I ever need a challenge I just turn to her :)
- May 1, 2012 at 9:06 AM
- Brianna Soloski said...
Definitely introverted, but I try to get out sometimes so people don't think I'm a total wallflower, even though I really am. I will always choose a night in over a night out.
- May 1, 2012 at 9:11 AM
- AJ and KJ said...
Introverted-ness is definitely my comfort-zone, but having a talky-extroverted husband, I've learned how to put on my extrovert's hat when needed!
- May 1, 2012 at 9:13 AM
- knewkirk said...
I'm a talkative introvert, so I think my poor extroverted husband thinks he was mislead! Luckily he loves me even when he has to beg me to go out and hang with the crowd.
- May 1, 2012 at 9:14 AM
- Molly Roberson said...
I choose the mountains over the beach too!
-M "The Extrovert"
- May 1, 2012 at 9:27 AM
I'm an outgoing introvert. I need a lot of time to myself to recharge, but I also love the time I spend socializing with friends. I think I landed just shy of the middle on the meyers-briggs test.
- May 1, 2012 at 9:39 AM
- Han said...
I'm not entirely sure - I think I'm an extrovert but Chris says I have my introvert moments more often than extrovert.
When I was at school my teachers always said I was shy but I think that was more that I had it engrained in me to focus and get on with my work rather than chat. Also I'd be quiet and take everything in.
I would how every rather read then go to a party so maybe that's introvert......
- May 1, 2012 at 9:48 AM
- Kym+Dustin said...
Maybe you guys should come visit us in Alaska this summer :) it is nice and rainy here now.
- May 1, 2012 at 10:02 AM
- Tracy said...
I highly recommend this TED Talk to both of you!
- May 1, 2012 at 10:46 AM
- KB said...
Introvert for sure. My husband is extroverted and I love it, especially when we are at social functions. He makes it much more comfortable for me. He does all the talking and I pipe in here and there but mostly I can just sit back and observe. Its what works for us.
- May 1, 2012 at 12:07 PM
- Frankie Bird said...
Can I please be both? I am predominantly an extrovert but have many introvert characteristics hidden within me like reading in closets, a fear of the phone and a love of silence and me-time
- May 1, 2012 at 12:26 PM
- Julie said...
I am introverted and marrying an introvert. Quiet time for the win!
- May 1, 2012 at 3:30 PM
By nature I am an introvert! Growing up with an extroverted best friend and going to a large public high school have helped push me a little further to the center of the introvert-extrovert scale. Now I can tap into either side depending on the situation, but introvert is still by far my home zone.
- May 1, 2012 at 4:45 PM
- Today's Letters said...
so many more introverts than i thought! have developed a deep love for extroverts after being married to tim. he reminds that playing before working can be equally as good for the soul.
- May 1, 2012 at 7:36 PM
Tim Tam,
I am an extrovert off the charts who loves sports, outdoors, etc and I am dating someone right now who is the complete opposite of me. Extremely introverted, so much so that having a disagreement is more like me talking to the wall than her. It bothers me beyond belief. Not sure always being with someone who is the complete opposite of you is always worth it, especially when it comes to sharing similar interest and being able to discuss things that will always come up. Any thoughts?
- May 2, 2012 at 12:17 PM
- Today's Letters said...
mel, shoot me your email! email@example.com
- May 2, 2012 at 3:17 PM
Tim and Mel,
This is something my mind battles constantly. My husband is very introverted and likes a lot of time to himself (running, fishing, etc.) and I am an extreme extrovert who lives in my husbands hometown-very isolating. Opposites can be attractive and of course, can open our minds to another perspective but it is so hard to feel misunderstood and always at odds with our partner. I try to remind myself of all of the beautiful parts of his introversion that attracted me to him in the first place. Remember to never let someone change who you are.
- May 3, 2012 at 12:53 PM
I love what you had to say. I agree I don't want to change who I am, but also taking little jabs for loving "ball" so much, or always wanting to watch "sports" gets very old after awhile. Props to you, I'd never make it in a small isolated town. Bless you and your extroverism. I know what it's like to be misunderstood, it happens alot because our backgrounds are so different and we struggle to see eye to eye sometimes. I guess I have to decide if I am creating my unhappiness through things not going my way or the mis-match of interest is enough to let go. Ugh!
- May 3, 2012 at 2:44 PM
It is nice to know that there are other people dealing with the same issues as we are. The question you asked is very similar to what we are dealing with:
Am I creating my unhappiness through things not going my way or is the conflict of mis-match of interest inevitable?
After going to some counseling we have been working on balance. It was so easy to live nearly separate lives with our different interests but that leads to both feeling unloved and almost rejected. Not a healthy marriage. Perfect balance is something we will never achieve but its a goal for us to continue working at so we don't become complacent. Not feeling loved or valued is the worst feeling you can have as a partner. My advice for you is, if you can't work on balance now- it will never work. Don't give up but both need to make a constant effort when your lifestyles are so different. Best of luck Mel!
- May 4, 2012 at 5:19 PM


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I didn't take many photos of the ride on Wednesday but I was able to grab a bunch of photos from the helmet cam video I took (which came out really good).
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It's been awhile since I have posted here. My husband is a T11 complete Asia A 10 years post injury. He has fallen out of his chair numerous times and sustained tibial and femur fractures on his right leg, which were treated successfully. He fell out of his chair yesterday (when I was not home) and sustained a probably distal tibial fracture on his left leg. I am seeing multiple fracture blisters over the site of the fracture. He is refusing to go to the ER and wants to wait to see his
ortho doc on Monday AM.
I know the feeling from the ortho people is to wait until the blisters resolve before doing the surgical repair. This fracture is a closed one thank God. But I think he has sustained multiple fractures on this tibia both distal and mid front.
My question is: Do I cover the blisters? I know they need to be kept intact if at all possible. If they do break... do I keep the overlying tissue or to we take it off and treat it?
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Dave Jones says the Owls must learn from their defeat at the hands of Blackpool on Tuesday night.
The Tangerines struck in either half to leave Wednesday empty handed but Jones rued his side's finishing, which may have triggered a different outcome with more composure.
The Owls' boss said: "Blackpool are a really good side, they kept the ball well in the first half but in the second half, we were much better.
"I think we suffered from some being a little naive at times but it's no good having a go at them because they will learn.
"We've created plenty of chances against a very good side and with more composure, we could have won the game.
"MIchail Antonio has hit one wide after beating two defenders and that bit of composure is the only part of his game that is missing.
"He reminds me so much of a young Theo Walcott or a young Aaron Lennon with the pace and the power. In time and with more experience, he will get there with the finishing.
"But listen, I'm not going to criticise the lad because tonight, I thought he was outstanding. He was magnificent against some very good players and let's not forget, he's not that long out of non-league football."
Jones also lamented another penalty decision that went against Wednesday, with man of the match Antonio again at the centre of the action.
The manager added: "The referee has to give that, it's a stonewall penalty.
"I asked the referee at half time and he told me the lad went down too easily.
"But Michail is a big lad, he is built like a brick wall and he is clipped and has been pulled back.
"Why would he go down when he is about to pull the trigger?
"It's a stonewall penalty but it's another one that has gone against us."
Jones also confirmed that Paul Corry, who missed the Blackpool clash with an ankle injury, should be fit in time for Friday, when the Owls travel to Teesside to take on second-placed Middlesbrough.


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Everyone said they were crazy when the American Cancer Society announced they would stop direct mail acquisition.
A huge decision given they mail 41 million piece of acquisition mail. In 2012, they spent $10 million to generate 252,000 new donors through direct mail acquisition.
But it kind of sounded like they had good reasons for making that decision. So despite the naysayers, I always think it's courageous to try something different.
Eighteen months after making that decision, ACS reinstated their direct mail acquisition program.


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The Girl Camp campers had a "UPBC Greatest Hits" sort of day yesterday. We started with hobo breakfast. After morning chapel, cabin discussions, and a quick lunch--we headed to Au Train Beach for the afternoon.
The girls spent the afternoon swimming, building/digging holes in the sand, making crafts, reading, and chatting on the beach. We ate dinner at the beach before heading back to camp for our evening chapel session.
Yesterday's chapel sessions focused on the gift of community. Our evening chapel time was a candlelight service; we spent lots of time singing and the girls finished the evening by praying for one another.
We've had a little rain so far this morning, but it hasn't dampened anyone's spirits. Everyone seems excited for our theme dinner tonight--"Emojis." We're looking forward to another great day at Girls Camp!


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