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@wretched go get the quickstart from the Kickstarter page.

It's a game and a setting.

I found them for you and sent a message on here to you with their Discord deets they gave me. 🙂

@Ganymede said in Car Shopping:

@Macha said in Car Shopping:

I, too, drive a Nissan, and the CVT is actually something I like.

My partner has a 2012 Nissan Rogue equipped with a CVT. I enjoy the smoothness of the ride and the absence of feeling a gear shifting.

But I dread having to pay to fix that motherfucker.

I'm considering the extended warranty options for much that reason. Supposedly the 10 yr/100k warranty goes for $2200 at Subaru, but I've seen some people saying that they've negotiated it down $1500. That effectively doubles the warranty on the most expensive repairs -- the powertrain -- from where it normally sits at 5yrs/60k, and as evidence by the fact that my two previous cars have been a 2007 Saturn that I'm still driving and a 1988 Cadillac that I drove until I bought the Saturn new off the lot....

I drive my cars into the ground. Usually, any sort of extended warranty or protection coverage is hard pass for me, but if it guarantees me ten years in a car, I think it's worth it.

@coin said in YA Fantasy Recommendations:

@groth said in YA Fantasy Recommendations:
it's basically Ready Player One for vampire/classical sci-fi/historical lit. but without the exposition being introduced like a brick to your face, thanks, RPO, Jesus.

I watched a review of the movie that talked a lot about the book.

“Ready Player One is less like a book and more like a speed-run of a book.”

I hadn’t laughed so hard in a while.

I should probably note that the US actually does have laws about requiring employers to give time off to people to vote -- something along the lines of, "If there's not three consecutive hours that the polls are open during your shift, your boss is required to let you adjust your schedule so that there are." The thing is, a) most people don't know that and b) most Americans live in at-will employment/right-to-work states, so while your boss isn't allowed to fire you for taking time to vote on Tuesday, he or she is allowed to fire your ass because you wore a green shirt to work on Wednesday and fuck green. Like.... there's a whole host of things your boss isn't allowed to fire you for in this country, but the onus is on the employee to prove that's why they got fired. If your boss has about three brain cells to rub together, they will say, "Well, Jim, we've decided to let you go for being three minutes late to work that one time six months ago" as opposed to "Well, Jim, we found out that you really butt-sex -- the with other dudes kind, I mean! -- and haha, Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. Get your stuff and get out."

@lithium said in Star Wars?:

An abundance of plot for high level people, and nothing for low level people.

DEFINITELY something to watch for. Availability of plots between level 4-8, 8-12, and 12+ should be split based on population in each of those zones.

@bored said in Star Wars?:

Re: Saga, I think the solution is (and this is true of d20 on MUs in general) pick some level ranges and stick to them.

I'm a fan of PCs running from 4-13, which means that you just need two splits for plots most of the time: 4-8, and 8+.

@aria I'm doing really good. Living the dream in Tel Aviv. All good here. Hope all is well on your side of things.