Topic: Re: Blog Thread IIIb : Look Who's Blogging Now (Read 246264 times)

Carl-E · « **Reply #3550 on:** 09 Nov 2012, 10:22 »

Thanks to the blender, and a supply of protien shakes from my mother (with added icecream, of course) I was the only person the oral surgeon ever knew who gained weight while their jaw was wired shut.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #3551 on:** 09 Nov 2012, 12:01 »

I just went on tumblr and saw a picture of Dollface on my dash.

dr. nervioso · « **Reply #3552 on:** 09 Nov 2012, 21:21 »

Well thanks to certain events, I have been completely stressed out and exhausted this week.

And next week, I have several very important and critical deadlines I have to meet.

All I know is I better go out or something tomorrow night

Carl-E · « **Reply #3553 on:** 10 Nov 2012, 01:17 »

Sort of a "last call!" situation

Barmymoo · « **Reply #3554 on:** 10 Nov 2012, 02:25 »

I baby sat for five and a half hours last night, which meant that not only did I earn an absolute fortune this week (a total of seven hours of babysitting and four hours of tutoring), I also got through an entire chapter of my EU textbook out of three I need to have read by Tuesday. I also watched David Attenborough for the first time, alongside the 98 year old grandmother of the father of the children I was sitting with. I found it almost impossible to believe that the animals were real.

Jace · « **Reply #3555 on:** 10 Nov 2012, 13:21 »

I had an extremely trying Friday Night Magic experience because in round 4 (out of 4) I was paired up against the 7 year old who clearly did not want to lose another couple games of MtG. I tried to be nice but my deck is just too good against slow to mid-range without removal and by turn 5 both games I'd won. It took almost the full 40 minutes to play two games. Now I don't mind playing against kids if they can focus and have an idea of what's going on (Most of the time, I will end up winning but I try to be helpful during and after the game), but this was rough. I reported the 2-0 victory to the tournament organizer (my housemate). Later the kid came up and said that he decided to quit so it was 1-1. It is unfortunate that the parents don't have anyone to watch him (they also come and play) because he isn't very good at losing and doesn't have the higher level of reasoning to win games consistently yet.

I made some changes to my deck and it is getting downright ridiculous with how well it runs. Hopefully I will do better with it in 2 weeks when I go again. I also started cataloging my collection of cards in standard. I made it through lands, artifacts, and multi-colored cards, still have to do the 5 colors, which is probably around 1500-1800 cards to sort through.

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #3556 on:** 10 Nov 2012, 14:08 »

Wait, he retired and in doing so he gained a game?

LTK · « **Reply #3557 on:** 10 Nov 2012, 14:45 »

I think Jace is saying he lied.

Jace · « **Reply #3558 on:** 10 Nov 2012, 15:07 »

Yeah, I won both games. After I had won he said "so I won one and you won one." I corrected him that I had won both games. Then I went and reported our games. Later he went to report the games and tried to lie about the results.
Of course, he is 7 years old and probably lost all 8 games that night.

Jace · « **Reply #3559 on:** 10 Nov 2012, 23:49 »

RGW humans

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #3560 on:** 11 Nov 2012, 04:05 »

I miss Magic. But I haven't had time or opponents in 6 years or so. Pretty sure I don't even know how to play any more. Oh ... and the cards are 6 years old.

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #3561 on:** 11 Nov 2012, 04:17 »

Beo, have a look at www.elementsthegame.com

It isn't Magic, but it's quite good. it hasn't been updated in a while, but the dev often disappears for a few months and then comes back.

ackblom12 · « **Reply #3562 on:** 11 Nov 2012, 06:57 »

Or Magic 2013.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #3563 on:** 11 Nov 2012, 08:04 »

... okay ... thanks! That cockatrice thing looks promising!

Jace · « **Reply #3564 on:** 11 Nov 2012, 12:58 »

Just realized this other deck I'm working on has exponential lifegain to the magnitude of (2^n)+t. Where n is the number of Rhox Faithmenders in play (I can create tokens of them and then copy the tokens) and t is the toughness of the creature entering the battlefield.

With all the right cards hitting at the right time at bare minimum, I gain 10 life turn 5, 20 life turn 6, 40 life turn 7, 80 life turn 8. Sometimes though I can get more cards out that copy tokens, which is when it starts to get ridiculous. Creating 4 copies of a card that doubles life gain in a turn, and each of those gaining life when they show up.
On turn 9 (not hard to get to since I've got Fogs) I'm looking at 560 life in the upkeep step. Then another 640 in my main phase.
On turn 10, I'll get 8960 in the upkeep and 10240 in the main phase.

Ri-goddamn-diculous.

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #3565 on:** 11 Nov 2012, 13:01 »

The question is how reliably you can get that sequence of cards. Could be interesting though, I'd be interested in knowing how that turns out...

Jace · « **Reply #3566 on:** 11 Nov 2012, 13:06 »

Pretty reliably, I think. All of the cards needed are 3-ofs in the deck. There's usually a pretty good chance that I'll have at least 2 pieces of the combo in my starting hand. In addition, I've also got some low cost creatures to help soak up damage while I draw into the other cards.

snalin · « **Reply #3567 on:** 12 Nov 2012, 11:53 »

Yesterday morning there was a naked junkie chick sleeping on the top of the indoors staircase outside the door to my apartment. She'd apparently grabbed a bean bag that'd been lying out there for a while to sleep on, and some kind of coat. There was a junkie dude with her, who kept going "we have to go!", but she didn't seem awake enough to care. He was nice enough to pull the bean bag and her far enough out of the way for me to get by.

My biggest worry is that the house owner will start threathening with throwing everyone out again when she finds out. Not that she'll ever do that, but it stresses some of my roomies out, and then they start discussing and planning and... Jeez. I asked the guy how they got in, and he just at me and went "... we walked in". Either someone has unlocked the back door that's only supposed to be used for emergencies, or... I don't know.

Bluesummers · « **Reply #3568 on:** 17 Nov 2012, 05:59 »

Quote from: Jace on 11 Nov 2012, 12:58

Just realized this other deck I'm working on has exponential lifegain to the magnitude of (2^n)+t. Where n is the number of Rhox Faithmenders in play (I can create tokens of them and then copy the tokens) and t is the toughness of the creature entering the battlefield.

You are a terrifying individual, and you're playing with forces beyond your comprehension. You're going to open a planar rift into the netherworld and we'll all be sucked in. Thanks.

Also, RGW? Isn't that a little tough to manage, being able to pull the right lands at the right time?

Welu · « **Reply #3569 on:** 17 Nov 2012, 09:46 »

I've learned to sort of keep a steady work pace for university work. Been delighted that I've got everything in on time so far and not been freaking out about everything being so perfect. It's clicked in my head that getting something decent in on time is more important than getting the most amazing bit of work the tutor has ever seen in late.

Jace · « **Reply #3570 on:** 17 Nov 2012, 12:25 »

Quote from: Bluesummers on 17 Nov 2012, 05:59

Quote from: Jace on 11 Nov 2012, 12:58
Just realized this other deck I'm working on has exponential lifegain to the magnitude of (2^n)+t. Where n is the number of Rhox Faithmenders in play (I can create tokens of them and then copy the tokens) and t is the toughness of the creature entering the battlefield.

You are a terrifying individual, and you're playing with forces beyond your comprehension. You're going to open a planar rift into the netherworld and we'll all be sucked in. Thanks.

Also, RGW? Isn't that a little tough to manage, being able to pull the right lands at the right time?

Previously I was running a mana curve with a top value of 3, with the highest cost being 1GG. That meant that I could play nearly the whole deck if I got 3 lands out. Now I put in the card Cathars' Crusade which costs 4WW since I have trouble with big creatures and not having enough damage late game for my one or two that get through.
I'm also running 7 dual lands (1 G/R 2 R/W, 4 G/W), Avacyn's Pilgrim (T: add W), and Abundant Growth (land aura, land taps for any color) for mana fixing, plus I've got Druids' Repository for the late game (each time a creature attacks, you add a charge counter. You can remove a charge counter to add one of any color mana to your pool)

Patrick · « **Reply #3571 on:** 17 Nov 2012, 12:29 »

Fuckin NERDS

Right on the first day in a week where it decided to rain, I thought it'd be reeeeeal cool to dress completely monochrome black. This involved black skinny jeans, black long-sleeve tee, black bill Giants hat, and of course my black Chucks, which have been 'talking' since around August. My feet were fucking soaked last night and were that way for at least 4 hours.

It was worth it though, because bandmates and I all hung out, and we wound up running into the super cute girl from our Halloween show! We all hung out with another friend of ours (somebody I've known for 10+ years) and got pie. My bandmates decided to wingman for me (they know I'm interested, of course) and this of course meant them teasing me without mercy the whole time we hung out. All I could do was laugh, it was too funny. Then Halloween Girl took it upon herself to try and defend me, which my bandmates took as an opportunity to turn it against her, and that just put both of us in stitches.

I am soooo tryna hang out with her again. :3

nekowafer · « **Reply #3572 on:** 17 Nov 2012, 12:49 »

Quote from: Patrick on 17 Nov 2012, 12:29

Fuckin NERDS

Also aww I remember having adventures like that, back in the day. Only, you know. I'm not a dude.

Patrick · « **Reply #3573 on:** 18 Nov 2012, 03:56 »

So I dropped off my bandie Matt at SFO Airport for his flight to see his girlfriend Adara, who lives in Vancouver. I started missing him dreadfully about 30 minutes into standstill traffic on the San Mateo bridge. Now I understand why people always think we're brothers, we totally are.

On the way home, I got a text from one of my coworkers saying shit at work was insane and that I should call in if I could, and since I was 5 miles from the exit and en route to get my paycheck anyway, I did just that. Things were crazy, and it turns out that two stock associates both decided to quit this morning. While I'm stoked about now being the only heterosexual male working there (if there is any workcest to be had, it is going to be all mine), this does not fucking bode well for my Thanksgiving plans at ALL.

This is going to be a long fucking week.

Bluesummers · « **Reply #3574 on:** 18 Nov 2012, 06:29 »

Quote from: nekowafer on 17 Nov 2012, 12:49

Quote from: Patrick on 17 Nov 2012, 12:29
Fuckin NERDS

Also aww I remember having adventures like that, back in the day. Only, you know. I'm not a dude.

Mmmkay, Nerdette. One of us...one of us...

Jace · « **Reply #3575 on:** 18 Nov 2012, 12:44 »

Quote from: Patrick on 18 Nov 2012, 03:56

Adara,

This is the name I convinced Jess (my girlfriend) to use in Dagorhir because it sounds suitably fantasy-ish. Mostly it is a big joke because it is an arabic name meaning virgin according to the internet.

Patrick · « **Reply #3576 on:** 18 Nov 2012, 14:03 »

Haha, interesting. She's such an innocent person, so that really does suit her I suppose.

I just cleared out all the band shit (but I left the merch, I can sell that to people and make myself useful) from Matt's car and cleaned up a bunch of trash and coffee cups from the front seat, because Matt told me he would be disappointed in me if I didn't bang a chick in his car (yeah, whatever, we'll see). Jesus Christ. I cleaned out 16 packs of cigarettes, one of them was mine. He left an empty Chobani cup in there, and now I know what was making his car smell a little ripe. *sigh* He's lucky I love him.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #3577 on:** 18 Nov 2012, 19:14 »

My friend visited and we talked about living in the Compound together. He said it was like living in a cult while we were there, and holy shit was he so right. It opened up a lot of feelings and memories and I feel weird for having the experience of being in such an awful place.

I think I'm having my first proper rebound, which is kind of cool. She's cute and sexy and we both know it's a rebound (it's one for her too) and it has a definitive end date, so hopefully I can treat this like an adult and use it to heal/grow a bit rather than fuck up again.

Carl-E · « **Reply #3578 on:** 18 Nov 2012, 20:30 »

Was this friend the one with the box of stuff?

I hope so, or that she can at least get hold of it for you...

Zingoleb · « **Reply #3579 on:** 18 Nov 2012, 20:32 »

No. Elsa's the one with the stuff, and ze's being a fucking pain in the ass about it.

Carl-E · « **Reply #3580 on:** 18 Nov 2012, 20:57 »

Oh. Damn. Sorry to dampen the mood.

Thrillho · « **Reply #3581 on:** 19 Nov 2012, 09:34 »

Gawd, I could really use a rebound.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #3582 on:** 19 Nov 2012, 10:15 »

Date's in four hours. It's so awesome that I'm presenting male for this - if I was presenting female, I'd have already started getting ready. Presenting male takes my preparation time down to under an hour.

pwhodges · « **Reply #3583 on:** 19 Nov 2012, 10:21 »

Can I ask how you decide? Is it a matter of how you feel, or who you're meeting, or something more complicated?

Zingoleb · « **Reply #3584 on:** 19 Nov 2012, 11:02 »

How I feel, usually. How someone views me factors into that - if they don't know about my gender fluidity then I'll usually present how they assume I will and tell them about it. I've not decided how to approach jobs yet - I feel like I look more professional when presenting male, but all my ID is female and that makes things awkward.

Gender ID markers are pretty fucking irritating.

Edit: Also time it takes to get ready. It's way easier to present as a disheveled guy than as a disheveled girl. People don't openly judge you on it. Sexism's great, guys.

Welu · « **Reply #3585 on:** 19 Nov 2012, 14:57 »

I fixed my move counter! Some how! It wasn't uploading the data to the site (USB), displaying a calorie count and taking ages to change the daily goals but I fixed it! Some how!

Edit, ten minutes later: Tested it by plugging it in. It's not uploading data again. Some how!

Patrick · « **Reply #3586 on:** 19 Nov 2012, 16:02 »

I took a girl on a date last night. First time I've actually gone on a proper date in at least a year. What happens? Some shady fucker slips something in her drink. Her roommate had to take her home because she started feeling reeeally weird right when we had finally broken some ice.

I'm pissed off, and I can't even imagine how she must feel about it. I brought it to the bartender's attention and talked to a few of the regulars there, we're not gonna let shady shit ruin our bar, but fuck man.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #3587 on:** 20 Nov 2012, 03:34 »

I'm assuming there's no chance she might think you did it - I obviously know you wouldn't do that, but I hope it doesn't mean that your chances of seeing her again are damaged.

Patrick · « **Reply #3588 on:** 20 Nov 2012, 10:07 »

Well, we all think it happened while her roomie and I were outside smoking weed, which took us about 30 minutes. Lots of opportunities for creepers to sneak up in that much time, and there were definitely two very creepy dudes sitting with her when we got back.

Honestly though I don't know if she wants to see me again or not. I texted her later saying I felt terrible for what happened to her, and said I'd really like to see her again somewhere where there's less boozin' and more daylight. She never replied, so I'm just gonna assume the worst and leave her alone.

In the meanwhile, I went out again last night, and started talking to a girl sitting at the bar about football. She told me she had a boyfriend, and I was well-behaved like always, but that didn't stop us cuddling outside when my friend smoked me out. I'm such a suckerrrrrr

dr. nervioso · « **Reply #3589 on:** 22 Nov 2012, 17:00 »

Gah, It is only 8 pm?

Why did I get up so freaking early?

I almost wish I was going Black Friday crazy so I would have something to do.
But I don't have the patience
Or the money

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #3590 on:** 23 Nov 2012, 07:31 »

So I got my new computer yesterday. It's just a little bit of an upgrade; I used to have this (well, I still do, but...), now I have this (but slightly modified).

Lines · « **Reply #3591 on:** 23 Nov 2012, 07:36 »

Pat, you do not leave a girl alone on a date for half an hour. I mean, I'm hoping the best for you, but if I were her and some dude left me alone and then creepy dudes put shit in my drink, that would pretty much make that one of the worst dates/nights ever.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #3592 on:** 23 Nov 2012, 08:12 »

I don't wannnnnnnnna tutor tonight, or go to the orchestra rehearsal, or do the work I'd have to do if I didn't do those things. I want term to end already!

Barmymoo · « **Reply #3593 on:** 23 Nov 2012, 10:28 »

Just got rejected from one of the unis I applied to for midwifery. I've got an interview from another and I'm waiting to hear from two more. I'm not all that cut up about it, because it'll all work out the way it's supposed to, but it's disappointing not to have that choice.

Nikolai · « **Reply #3594 on:** 23 Nov 2012, 10:29 »

Sitting in the airport. 27 hours 'till I'm home. Eeeeeeeeeeee

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #3595 on:** 23 Nov 2012, 12:31 »

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Completely juvenile, I know ... but ...

I SOLD A PAINTING!

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #3596 on:** 23 Nov 2012, 12:38 »

Woo! Go you!

Which one? Was it one you've shown us before? (Have you shown us any before?)

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #3597 on:** 23 Nov 2012, 14:13 »

... good point ...

It's gone! Out of the building! Out of my hands! To someone I do not know well!

For money!

Patrick · « **Reply #3598 on:** 23 Nov 2012, 14:35 »

Quote from: Linds on 23 Nov 2012, 07:36

Pat, you do not leave a girl alone on a date for half an hour. I mean, I'm hoping the best for you, but if I were her and some dude left me alone and then creepy dudes put shit in my drink, that would pretty much make that one of the worst dates/nights ever.

Yeah, I'm certainly not holding my breath. That said, she told me the other day that she was fine and no longer suspected anything had even been wrong with her drink. And then revealed to me she'd had a couple tequila shots while we were off and didn't tell us, hence the sudden changes in behavior. I texted her back saying I was glad she was okay, told her yeah, maybe another time, and haven't hit her up even one time since.

It's shit like this that makes me not want to meet/talk to new people. I don't wanna spend a whole uninterrupted night with some new chick who I hardly know and like 4-5 of her friends, have this shit happen, then get a "false alarm lol" text a couple days later. Idk. I'm not fond of being left to feel like shit for 2 days over something that wasn't even necessarily my fault. $:-\$

Patrick · « **Reply #3599 on:** 25 Nov 2012, 00:03 »

Yesterday was the longest day of my life.

I walk into work and it's insanely busy. My stockroom compadre Aaron is mopping up vomit off of the floor near the bathrooms, there's humans walking around EVERYWHERE asking me shit and I don't even start for another 30 minutes. That'll teach me to walk in with my work shirt on.

Next thing I know, I've got hellllllla curbside pickups to do, so I'm sprinting back and forth the whole 200m between offsite storage and the store and getting killer cardio.

Eventually somebody orders a table for pickup at the site nearest the store (but furthest from offsite) and my idiot manager Linda has stolen all the carts from offsite, so I carry a fucking 60lbs table all the way to the store from offsite. Thing's huge and awkward, all flatpacked in the box, and now my coworkers all think I'm "a beast". Nah dude. Just tryna get shit done.

After work, I go out into the parking lot to Matt's car (he was in Canada all week and let me borrow it) so I can pack a bowl and burn one and relax for a bit before going home. I go to blow my pipe out and I get hella weed ash in my right eye. So I ask the nearest person for help. Some Mexican guy who barely spoke any English (and I speak zero Spanish) was smoking a cigarette nearby and he went back into his work to grab an eye washing kit for me. He helps me out for 20 minutes afterward in broken English and all I can do is thank him and consider him a saint.

Eventually he leaves for his other job, and soon another car parks nearby. A gorgeous blonde girl gets out and I flag her down and ask her for help. By "help" I mean "shoot this bottle of eye wash solution into my eye" and it worked. So I smoked her out and we chatted it up for a little bit. I gave her a CD and a sticker for her trouble, but neglected to ask for her number.

So I go home, call my friend Bryant, and he and I go out to the bar. After the bar, we went next door to get some fast food with a friend. A few of our friends are already there, and so is a group of assholes who are looking for a fight. These assholes start instigating things, and sooner or later my friend Desiree goes and starts telling them off. Eventually, this led to her getting a drink thrown in her face, which led to her shoving him, which led to him punching her and throwing her over a table. Right around then, our friends who were already there jump in and start fucking fools up. A few other friends happened to be outside and saw the commotion, and my friend Erin jumped in to restrain one of the instigators. She wound up getting punched in the face, which led to my bud Andrew flipping his shit and beating the fuck out of the guy who hit her. He's got the guy by the throat, slamming his head into the table, punching him with the other hand, just wailing on him.

Eventually Andrew's guy's friends pull him off, and his guy runs out the front door right into the cops who are just pulling up. Cops took everyone's info down, watched surveillance footage from the restaurant, and grabbed the assholes who started it all.

I went the fuck home after, smoked several bowls with Bryant, and passed the fuck out.

Longest. Day. Ever.

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