Randomness: the 18th sequel

[haldir]

6 hours ago, Chaoswolf said:

I tend to hear a lot of old 80's rock in my store. 

I think that's pretty cool.

Right up until there's a break in the music and then an ad for classic rock.

 

You kids get off my lawn!!!

 

They using xmradio?

[kristof65]

1 hour ago, TGP said:

What kind of messed up city layout has two numbered streets crossing at an intersection..?

 

(5th should be parallel to 56th !??)

 

1 hour ago, TGP said:

New York, NY is apparently the answer. 

There are more cities besides NYC that do that.  Take a look at addresses in Salt Lake City some time, for example.    And I've got tons of sites scattered throughout the US and Canada that have addresses like "106th and 6th."

 

Here in Winterset the numbered streets run north south, and as such don't intersect, but you do have to be aware that Streets are east of town square, and Avenues are West of Town Square.  So if someone wants to meet you at 2nd and Jefferson, they could mean the library on 2nd Street, or the Post Office on 2nd Avenue - 3 blocks apart. 

 

Getting frustrated with a site. Their system stopped processing credit cards on Jan 1st, they didn't figure it out until Jan 31st, got them working on Feb 2nd, and verified they were working fine on Feb 3rd.  Told them "You need to run this report every few days, but at least weekly so you can catch this problem before it goes a whole month again." 

Today I get another call from them that credit cards aren't working again.  They went down mid day on the 4th. Had they been running the report I told them two as often as they should have, they would have caught this problem last week.  

[Serenity]

The Crafty Creative with Josh Foreman! Terrain Cave Carving!  Start screen up at 1:46 PM.

 

https://www.twitch.tv/reaperminiatures

[haldir]

So with the Pathfinder 2e game, we almost all use our phones or in the case of the married couple, they use a tablet & a phone, for our character sheets as we all use the Pathbuilder app for creation & sheets (great program, well worth the 5 bucks they want to fully unlock it). I use a Samsung S10 & it's a great phone, but the other day I went to my phone provider & went all in on a upgrade/preorder for the new S23 Ultra. I thought about getting a tablet but I think I'm gonna wait to see what Pathbuilder looks on that nice large(r) screen when it finally get into my hands. I did pick up a new case while I was there. Funny putting my S10 inside it's like one of those size comparison diagrams, ha ha.

 

I think if I go tablet, I may look into the Fire tablets again. I think the last time I owned one of those they were on 5 or 7, . 

[sumbloke]

54 minutes ago, kristof65 said:

2 hours ago, TGP said:

What kind of messed up city layout has two numbered streets crossing at an intersection..?

 

(5th should be parallel to 56th !??)

 

2 hours ago, TGP said:

New York, NY is apparently the answer. 

There are more cities besides NYC that do that.  Take a look at addresses in Salt Lake City some time, for example.    And I've got tons of sites scattered throughout the US and Canada that have addresses like "106th and 6th."

 

Here in Winterset the numbered streets run north south, and as such don't intersect, but you do have to be aware that Streets are east of town square, and Avenues are West of Town Square.  So if someone wants to meet you at 2nd and Jefferson, they could mean the library on 2nd Street, or the Post Office on 2nd Avenue - 3 blocks apart. 

It can get worse if the streets aren't named exclusively numerically and not in a strict grid pattern. I've been told that in the town I was born (but before I was born, mumble mumble years ago) a house burnt down after a fire was reported at the corner of Seventh Road and Eighth Avenue but the fire brigade went to the corner of Seventh Avenue and Eighth Road which was several kilometres away (or the other way around).

[Pegazus]

Yeah, the street namers here were not kind. 
 

We have, for example, Mineral Avenue, Boulevard, Street, Road, Place, and Circle. Six different paved surfaces that may or may not touch. 

[kristof65]

31 minutes ago, sumbloke said:

It can get worse if the streets aren't named exclusively numerically and not in a strict grid pattern.

That appears to happen a lot where cities/towns grow into each other.  There is one place in the Des Moines Metro area where you're driving down 60th Street, and the next thing you know you're on Northwest 128th Street, and another area a few km away where 63rd street turns into 1st street and then back into 63rd street. 

[Thoramel]

Apparently it is "Do a Grouch a Favor Day." The oldest member of my gaming group is always grumping about his feet hurting. So the rest of us bought him a cheap foot bath. The youngest, least grouchy, member of our group delivered it to him this morning. And true to form he grouched about us making fun of him. We are never going to drop this. We'll be reminding him of being a super grouch on his deathbed. Guaranteed. 

[kristof65]

25 minutes ago, Thoramel said:

Apparently it is "Do a Grouch a Favor Day." The oldest member of my gaming group is always grumping about his feet hurting. So the rest of us bought him a cheap foot bath. The youngest, least grouchy, member of our group delivered it to him this morning. And true to form he grouched about us making fun of him. We are never going to drop this. We'll be reminding him of being a super grouch on his deathbed. Guaranteed. 

Somehow, I picture this as there only being a couple of years difference between oldest/youngest, which, if true, just makes it funnier. 

 

[TripleH]

[haldir]

2 minutes ago, kristof65 said:

Somehow, I picture this as there only being a couple of years difference between oldest/youngest, which, if true, just makes it funnier. 

 

 

In my Weds night gaming group, there is 1 (2 if you include the "The Richard" when he shows up, which is rarely these days) guy who is older then me. I wanna say he's probably 5 to 10 years older... Anyways, I'm always razzing him, mainly cause he gets what I'm talkin about ha ha. Damnit, we're getting old!!

 

Rest of the guys are between 18 & 35, with 3 of them probably in the 18 to 20 range.

[Thoramel]

8 minutes ago, kristof65 said:

Somehow, I picture this as there only being a couple of years difference between oldest/youngest, which, if true, just makes it funnier. 

 

 

That would pretty hilarious. But no, our youngest player is a good 25 years younger than our oldest player. Maybe more, can't remember his age. He is also the oldest's nephew. Though these days he's taken to calling him Grandpa Bill instead of Uncle Bill. Which probably is one of the reasons he's so grouchy. 

[TripleH]

[haldir]

1 hour ago, Thoramel said:

 

That would pretty hilarious. But no, our youngest player is a good 25 years younger than our oldest player. Maybe more, can't remember his age. He is also the oldest's nephew. Though these days he's taken to calling him Grandpa Bill instead of Uncle Bill. Which probably is one of the reasons he's so grouchy. 

 

The last time we had a highly reliable 3rd guy on our freight crew was when we had a older guy who was on freight crew before I joined up (so yah many moons ago), but co-worker would call him "grandpa" even thou he wasn't older then co-worker, he just had less hair then him. He had the Hulk Hogan haircut. Eventually, he got the name "Franklin" for some reason as well. I never have understood that one thou.

 

Speakin of age & my Weds night group, damn I'm loving them at 10th level. I've taken the gloves off so to speak when it comes to combat encounters & monsters they've encountered have been hitting them hard. I think it starting to show what a balanced party means to their survival. Unfortunately for them, the guy who is playing the cleric couldn't make it, so I was nice & gifted them a one-night only greater healing potion. First encounter the fairy paladin character had to use it (by someone else giving it to him) as a Deep Shark (think huge size, Jaws) munch him for 80 pts of damage! I use Nord Games Crit decks for 1s (both) & 20s (DM deck) & I pulled a nasty one, quadruple the damage & then some other effects, but I rolled a 20 on 3d10+6, so not that bad per se, but when you times it by 4, yah. I just told the party, you hear the sound of squeaky toy in the water near the boat.  (luckily for him, the condition he was in (well besides being at 0 was just grappled), so I allowed the warlock's sprite companion to administer the healing potion. Luckily for the paladin, he kept getting into positive HP points, so the shark wasn't doing failed death save strikes.

 

Oh & while the party was fighting off 2 of these monster sharks, I had a hoard of stirges (like 15 or 16) come flying into the combat area as well. Luckily for the PCs (sorta) they attacked whatever. Currently the party is in a ziggurat temple on a small island in a Underdark cavern. They are investigating Yuan-ti activities. We left off just as 3 "water elemental-like" creatures made of acid rose up out of a trough in the middle of the hallway & attacked. 

[Corsair]