...i've claimed unemployment benefits a couple of times in the past four decades and the administrative burden was onerous-enough to substantially disrupt my liberty to look for work, the release of benefits delayed until i'd already found work the better part of a year later, and the benefits such a token pittance as to be eclipsed by interest on credit i used to make ends meet in the interim...
...i supect their fraud-prevention programs cost more to administer than the actual benefits they're supposedly protecting...
...hah!..well that kind of superfandom commands my respect even if the material doesn't earn it: dorks dorking-out over dorky things are always cool in my opinion...
...so, like, it was a walmart-exclusive live television broadcast?..
...i thought someone stuck googley-eyes on its closed eyelids...
...heck, may parents' first litton microwave took three grown men to move and we barely managed at that...
...then the contractor installs some murdock 'equal' for your specified elkay LMABFTL8WSSK despite REJECTING the substitution and it drips like a sieve...
...oh right, i see it now: allan quatermain and the lost city of gold!..
...first time i heard ozzy playing in a grocery store twenty-five years ago, i knew my age had passed into history...
...the fck is that?..
...my 2ZZ-GE has been great; this is the first time i've read a complaint about the 1ZZ...
...i posit that jim shooter's tenure fostered marvel's second-most-successful creative run on the merits of editorial consistency, which has always been fundamental to marvel's identity and success...
...i don't think his pinnacle decade has been matched since, not in print...
...not until they file two doctors' recommendations, a one-year waiting period, and two more notes from doctors...
...big boxes killed malls in the 2000s, the retail apocalypse killed big boxes in the teens, and covid put the nails in big retail's coffin...
...powerhug!..
...handles about as well as a blimp, too...
...with uniformly-tessellating paper sizes, you'll have cave geomorphs...
...never heard that specifically but fourty years ago my parents ambushed me with their pastor telling me that i'd go to hell for becoming vegetarian; something about god creating animals for exploitation and to reject that was forsaking his will...
...then they tackled me to the ground, pried my jaws open, and shoved chunks of chicken down my throat: nice people...
...you'll put your eye out, kid...
...i give everyone i work with stickers when they do a good job, and they all go crazy for them: interns, bosses, the lot!..
...our CEO rolled his eyes at first and said they were patronising, then the entire staff catcalled him over it, so he changed his mind and loves getting stickers now, too...
(i think that's half the reason why armed forces do ribbons)
...every time my network goes down...
(spent six hours wrestling with AT+T's managed fiber connection last night, cursing like a naboo the entire time)
Dice Bags
...i need a really good bag for about eighty chessex-style dice: any better-suited options out there than the crown royal standard?..
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Dominate Person - Indefinite Duration
...how would you characterise dominate person cast with indefinite duration?..
...upcasting dominate person at eighth level can maintain up to eight hours with concentration, so i'd be inclined to consider twenty-four hours duration equivalent to a ninth-level spell, but perhaps i'm under-gauging the difference in power between eighth and ninth-level spells?..
...regardless, in this particular case it was cast with indefinite duration plus disadvantage on the saving throw against a hostile player character, which i'd like to translate into mechanical terms: maybe a ninth-level casting with heightened metamagic plus silvery barbs?..
...i'm playing with a DM who has a poor grasp of fifth-edition's mechanical balance and i'd like to help him understand just how adversarial his homebrew and houserule tendencies are leaning, especially for early tier-two gameplay...