RL things I love
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Geist and Demon can fight it out for which of its meta-settings are more obnoxious because when they're included on a multi-genre game, you can't seem to ignore them.
“Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.”
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@The-Tree-of-Woe They're trying to hide. Of course they stand out.
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Over at Eldritch, the Demons are doing a really crappy job keeping on top of their shit, yo. If this was vampire stuff somebody would've yelled "MASQ BREACH" and we would've been like fucking fire ants.
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When people say 'going HAM' and all I can think about are MU Hams freaking out at their keyboard.
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I posted a random link to Wuhan's AQUAPOCALYPSE yesterday. Since I live on a hill (the ominously-named "flood hill" … we in the trade like to call this "foreshadowing"), the flood had minimal and mostly comical impact on me.
As you can see from the photo, however, that's not true of the whole city:
That was downtown Wuhan yesterday. Near Zhongshan Park and right in the middle of the commercial district. This is the worst flood to hit the city in 50 years.
So why is this in the "RL things I love" category?
- Nobody died. Seriously. Torrential rainfall that at its peak exceeded 66mm per hour; that left buses partially submerged and cars fully submerged; that let people swim in the streets and even go fishing (with umbrellas!) in them; all of that and nobody died.
- Nobody whined. The general reaction of the citizenry was to either get out and help (like the cleaning lady at a university that helped stranded students get to the bus by carrying them on her back!), or it was to go out and play and laugh and generally enjoy the fuck out of nature being a classic grade A bitch.
- It's getting cleaned up by a host of volunteers. Yes, the PLA is in doing its usual thing, but so are all the out-of-town students who're in town for the summer visiting family for vacation. And so are construction workers and housewives and a myriad of others.
Here are a few more pictures to entertain:
I wasn't kidding about submerged cars.
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This guy is one bad-ass bicyclist!
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I guess that's one way to do it…
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Who said chivalry is dead?
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Flood waters falling.
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They have a submarine engineering facility in Wuhan. You can tell, can't you?
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How does Geist intrude via meta setting?
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Halloween decorations. They're already out yay! And $50 corsets like whaaaat. All the upcoming goth social gatherings require new corsets. My old ones are too big.
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I'm going to go ahead and guess that your old corsets being too big is "congratulations!" time.
CONGRATULATIONS!
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@WTFE 240s to the 150s! So like woah and yes! Thank you!!
Fun? What is this fun thou speakest of?
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New tool for relaxation that I love: http://stopbreathethink.org/
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@Luna said:
@WTFE 240s to the 150s! So like woah and yes! Thank you!!
From 180kg (396 pounds) to about 120kg here. I know the pain.
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@WTFE Good job!!
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@WTFE Man I miss Asia.
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My friends. My church family. All the feels, man, all the feels. I'm so damn lucky to know these people, and I know it.
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This weasel., doing what it can to put an end to the tyrrany of seagulls.
Fuck those birds.
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VACATION!
My first real vacation in about three years. (As in, does not involve being in some family member's wedding)
Excuse me, while I moonwalk and tapdance up to Maine.
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@thebird How exciting!! I'm going to Vegas in October to see a kpop band. I've never been west so yay! Vacations are wonderful!
Fun? What is this fun thou speakest of?
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@Luna
My inlaws live in Utah, so I've been over that way before. Need to go to California someday, but good grief, it's expenssive to go out there. Vegas is pretty fun if you like the heat!
I do not like warm weather, so definitely looking forward to curling up in a chair on the bay with a good book and a drawing or two. 60-some degree weather. So ready. -
@thebird I live in Texas. So. Yeah. Lol hot is for me.
Speaking of, headed to the beach again today!
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SGDQ, or Summer Games Done Quick. It's a week long, 24 hour speedrunning marathon that raises money for charity. I lose about a week of my life watching this twice a year. It just started, so if any of you have this odd(read: sick)fascination with watching people break the shit out of games by seeing how fast they can beat them, you can watch here.
I love this shit, I have no idea why.
