CrosshairCollie

"[black People] can have their equal rights when they get jobs." --My Mother She's started this habit of bringing up a contentious topic during her phone calls, causing an argument by saying asinine things like the above, and then curtly and condescendingly saying "We're not going to discuss it." If you didn't want to discuss it, why did you bring it up, you obnoxious b***h?! This is especially amusing/frustrating because not long ago, she was complaining about how her sister did the exact same thing, cutting off arguments she induced by saying "We're not going to talk about it." So, she's a racist, *and* a hypocrite. And at the risk of an infraction, which I will gladly accept, she b***hes about people on welfare while claiming to be a 'good christian'. Wasn't one of Christ's big things supposed to be feeding the hungry and giving to the poor? At this rate, I am not going to shed a tear at this woman's passing. She is swiftly revealing herself to be everything I hate in people, and I honestly do not think I love her anymore. Let. Her. Die.

Playing the Pathfinder card game. My wife, playing the rogue character, has acquired two avian allies during gameplay. "A rogue with two crows? You're under arrest for attempted murder."

Thanks for the sympathies. I managed to duck any serious drama (I made it a point to 'get sleepy' just as she wanted to start watching the news), and overall we had a good time. She's in remarkably good spirits, all things considered.

Mom called today. Her cancer has advanced to Stage 4. She's not on a countdown, but she's working out her final arrangements. So, I'm running down to see her tomorrow afternoon, coming back Friday. I am quite nervous, though, as I strongly suspect she's going to go all 'tape Bible to front of sledgehammer, beat on Collie's head' until I completely flip my defecation.

No, even better. It was political. So, yeah, my mom confirmed, beyond a doubt, her racism. I am disappoint, but at the same time, those are the kinds of people I *love* to tick off ...

I said something that made my mother threaten me with physical violence. Yes, this is in the correct thread.

Depending on the special effect, I'd go with AE Radius Useable As Attack (or whatever it's called now), for something like a gravity bubble or a Storm-style whirlwind.

I'm going to be stuck with this damned catheter for the rest of my life. I have a hyper-clotting disorder and a very weak overall vascular system, meaning that I can't support a normal access; they put one in my chest, connected to one of the biggest blood vessels in my body, and it failed. It's not worth it to try a leg graft, and the odds of a transplant taking are so slim that it would be irresponsible and wasteful to try. My two cats both fell ill and passed over the last month or so.

Ever wanted to do something incredibly cathartic, but utterly horrible at the same time? There's this kid ... I'd guess 16ish ... a couple of doors up the block from me. I don't know what the socially acceptable term is these days, so I'm just going to say it. He's retarded. Plastic helmet, training wheels on the bike and all. It's a beautiful, sunny, seventy degrees outside, so I want to open the house up. But this kid ... all he does, all day, is scream and shout. Not words, just ... sounds. Random squeals, at the top of his lungs. I know it's not his fault, he can't help it, but I *still* want to lean out the door and scream STFU.

I think the entire Taco Bell breakfast menu should go on this list ... and probably the dinner menu, too.

Thanks, guys. I appreciate the sympathy. Now if only it would warm up enough for me to be willing to walk over campus posting recruitment flyers for my village in BvS ...

A month ago, I got a new graft in my left arm. It worked dandy. I got my hopes up that this would work, and I could get rid of my catheter. It clotted up after two weeks, and my catheter didn't work worth a damn either. Trip to hospital to replace catheter and unclot graft. Signed in at noon, was after 8pm by the time I left (due to being penciled in on short notice) on Friday. Saturday morning ... graft clotted off. At least the catheter worked. Frustration growing to head-explody levels.

Hamburger Bake The as-is recipe: 1.5 lbs lean ground beef 1 5oz pkg croutons 2 cans cream of celery soup 1 soup can of milk. Preheat oven to 350. Press beef into 13x9 baking pan. Combine croutons, soup, and milk in bowl, pour over beef. Bake for 1 hour. Experimental chef that I am, I modify the recipe thus ... Replace 1 can of celery soup with cheddar cheese soup. Cook some bacon and crumble it into the topping mix. Add dry ground mustard and onion powder (or diced onion) to the topping mix. Flavored croutons, of course ... I used bacon/cheddar in the last batch.

Yet another attempt at a graft installation coming up at the end of the month. I'm not placing any bets on whether or not it's going to work this time.

Today, some homophobic bastard called me one of Satan's Patriarchs, because I didn't agree that homosexuality was a sin. I took that as high praise and a sincere compliment. Edit: Holy crud, I'm almost up to 100 Twitter followers. I feel famous!

The last five minutes of dialysis today ... Overheating Dizziness Confusion Cramping in both calves and thighs My legs are still feeling wonky from the 2.5 mile hike I took last week due to car issues, and now I cramp up really hard.

Which I suppose I could pick up and convert. I mostly needed it because I remember it having two categories of powers (Chaos and Life Force) that I'm now in need of.

.... huh?

Whatever happened to the USPD Online? I used to have it, but hard-drive failure means I lost access to it. Does it still exist somewhere and I just can't find it?

Glad to see you again, Kitty! My mother and my brother came up for a visit Wednesday ... unfortunately, it had to be cut shorter than expected, I started crapping out and needing painkillers early ... but while we were out, we ran into a couple of friends of mine. One of them is a very, VERY goth girl, and she had it dialed up to 11. All black, a hood, white skin, black around the eyebrows, black lipstick, piercings, all that. My mother is a very conservative sort ... and the look on her face when I waved and greeted them was PRICELESS. She couldn't get away fast enough.

F my life. F my body. F this world. F this universe. And if there is some supreme being controlling everything, F HIM TOO. F HIM WITH A RUSTY CHAINSAW THAT'S TURNED ON. My fistula fails, so I get a graft in my other arm. It doesn't work. I go down to get a surgery, on my F'ing birthday, to get it fixed. I come out from under the anaesthesia completely lucid, and by this morning, I was experiencing no pain and didn't need to take the Vicodin. Go to the clinic today, and guess what? IT STILL DOESN'T WORK. At this point, I think thoughts of suicide aren't an emotional response, I think they're perfectly logical. I am so tired of this crap, I can't begin to describe it. The worst part right now might be that I'm on such a strong dose of antidepressants that I can't cry, even though I really want and need to.

The moment the player said he wanted to play a sociopath, I would have politely shown him the door. I have yet to meet anybody who has wanted to play a sociopath in a game who didn't have 'issues' in real life.

5e's Gadgets and Gear had the Webshooters built as a Multipower with 4 clips of 32 charges on the reserve and Focused. Manipulating objects at a distance was Stretching with limitations for being direct, suffering range penalties, and not dealing damage.

Of those two choices, I would go with 'spiritual gods', though my personal preference is 'none of the above'. There are no gods, people just think there are.

Yes, the pre-6e scale was 1 hex=2 meters, which is what I still use (having not shifted to 6e in the first place). As far as weapons go, it's just a matter of how you built it. If you want to be able to attack non-adjacent hexes, you have to add Stretching to your weapon (with lots of limitations). No more complicated than that. Sharing hexes with an opponent is easy ... you just cram them into the same hex base-to-base, or buy a hexmap with larger hexes so they'll fit normally.