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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.

Musta been a really awful pun.

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.

if you efer to the post office website it is still in existance

.... 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.

In a regular supers setting, I don't even roll attacks for normals. They either bounce or miss. If a super-being attacks a normal, they're just out cold (or whatever effect of said attack would be if not damaging). All normal objects and people have a double-BODY and double-STUN (if applicable) Vulnerability to super-powers or super-tech ... this is my way of letting supers do things like smash tanks in a single shot without running a 1000 point game.

So, basically, normals are props.

Goradin will no longer be joining us in these forums.

 

Thank you to everyone else for not falling to his level.

 

Let's not get into a "fan defensiveness" situation here. They tend to devolve rather rapidly. And I just don't want to deal with that.

 

I've been with the Hero System since 3rd edition. And I have a copy of 2nd edition. I also have a complete run of the Adventurer's Club. And one of my letters was printed in issue #9 of the Champions comic book series. So yeah, I've got more than a little experience with the system and the community around it.

 

My view of the Hero System is my own. I'm not trying to convert anyone to my way of thinking.

 

You don't want to get in to it? Who in the heck do you think you are? I could care less what you want to get into, bub. The moment the posted the article you became fair game for comments. No one cares what you want to get into and it's a free country where I live. Your article certainly seems to take shots at a lot of systems and put down a lot of games. Are you an avid RPGer? Owning a book and playing are two different things every system has it's faults. I would like to point out that you seem to get lost on a lot of systems. Do you GM less and play more?

 

You wrote the article and I pointed out some other matters that you completely ignored that in all honesty it's not just Champions/HERO system but the RPG industry, in general. There are plenty of guys who have been around just as long if not longer. AC is pretty easy to get a complete run of it. Collector wise it is not that impressive.

 

Wow, your letter made it into a comic book your Mom must be proud. That is almost as good as Pulitzer, I am sorry I got out of line and questioned you. Did any of your letters make it to the North Pole too?

And it's "I couldn't care less". If you could care less, there's a chance of you still caring.