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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Bits and Bobs 51 |
| MaliA |
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Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 13:07
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Got my gig ticket, did a tip run, about to have a haircut.
What a day! Hitting the notes and rocking the boxes. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Finish 52 Books 2024 |
| MaliA |
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Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 17:40
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| These Burning Stars - Bethany Jacobs entertaining enough romp where two government agents try and track down a rebel across the stars. The "drinks a lot (mainly spirits), fights, and promiscuous" portrayal of "strong women characters" is getting tired, though. The House ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Craig David's Bow Selector |
| TheVision |
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Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2024 22:54
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| **Makes notes that if I'm going to attack Trooper and stand a chance of defeating him, wait until the weather is bad** |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Finish 52 Books 2024 |
| MaliA |
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Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2024 18:38
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| These Burning Stars - Bethany Jacobs entertaining enough romp where two government agents try and track down a rebel across the stars. The "drinks a lot (mainly spirits), fights, and promiscuous" portrayal of "strong women characters" is getting tired, though. The House ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Finish 52 Books 2024 |
| MaliA |
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Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2024 18:52
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| These Burning Stars - Bethany Jacobs entertaining enough romp where two government agents try and track down a rebel across the stars. The "drinks a lot (mainly spirits), fights, and promiscuous" portrayal of "strong women characters" is getting tired, though. The House ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Bits and Bobs 51 |
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Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2023 22:44
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Bits and Bobs 51 |
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Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2023 19:19
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| Voice notes are rubbish. They're only convenient for the sender. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Bits and Bobs 51 |
| GazChap |
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Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2023 17:28
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So do I, normally (with one or two exceptions), but he refuses to text and I really hate answering phone calls and listening to voicemail on the voicemail system, so it's the only option really.
If WhatsApp ever add in an AI powered auto-transcription service for voice notes I'll be a happy bunny. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Bits and Bobs 51 |
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Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2023 17:21
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Finish 52 Books 2023 |
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Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2023 13:28
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| Hello! Do you have an eBook reader? Would you like a free book? I wrote it, so it's rubbish, but I'd love some notes on how to make it better (and where all the spelling mistakes are). Bobby described it as "space Jack Reacher hangs out with a sex robot", which is pretty accurate. Hit me ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Finish 52 Books 2023 |
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Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2023 15:13
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| Hello! Do you have an eBook reader? Would you like a free book? I wrote it, so it's rubbish, but I'd love some notes on how to make it better (and where all the spelling mistakes are). Bobby described it as "space Jack Reacher hangs out with a sex robot", which is pretty accurate. Hit me u... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: EBay tales of yay. |
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Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2023 13:45
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| I advertised my old sofa on Facebook marketplace, free to anyone that would come and get it. The guy gave me £20. When my grandad decided not to drive any longer he advertised his car free to anybody who wanted it in the local newsagent. A young man with a little boy came to look at it and said it ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: EBay tales of yay. |
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Posted: Wed May 31, 2023 12:05
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| I advertised my old sofa on Facebook marketplace, free to anyone that would come and get it. The guy gave me £20. When my grandad decided not to drive any longer he advertised his car free to anybody who wanted it in the local newsagent. A young man with a little boy came to look at it and said it ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Bits and Bobs 51 |
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Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2023 15:12
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| They're just breast pockets. When I was on office based I.T. support I had a folded sheet of A4 paper in the shirt pocket, and a pen, so I could easily make notes when I was visiting a customer. When I was a mobile customer service engineer I had to wear a company polo shirt with no pocket, so my pe... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: The Bin Thread |
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Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2022 13:21
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| Performative comment is an interesting term/concept. I see that sort of behaviour at the workplace but haven't really had a label for it until now. I didn't do much work at uni, to be honest. I went to most lectures and took notes but rarely studied outside of that. And ivd leave assignments right t... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Finish 52 Books 2022 |
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Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2022 22:31
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| The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton. I read Turton's second book (The Devil and the Dark Water) and thought it was great, so I came to this. And it's great, too. A short description doesn't do it justice - body-hopping, time-travelling whodunnit. The author's workspace must be a m... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Finish 52 Books 2022 |
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Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2022 22:25
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| 1. A Deadly Education - Naomi Novik. 2. Sad Little Men - Richard Beard. 3. The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu. 4. Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World - Otto English. 5. The Blade Itself: Book One (The First Law 1) - Joe Abercrombie. 6. Born a Crime - Trevor Noah. 7. D... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Finish 52 Books 2022 |
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Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2022 12:12
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| 1) Trust Your Eyes by Linwood Barclay 2) The Medium-Sized Book of Boring Car Trivia Volume 2 by Sniff Petrol 3) Perdido Street Station by China Miéville 4) Kill Your Friends by John Niven 5) Rum Runner by J.A. Konrath 6) Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky 7) Verity by Colleen Hoover What's this? A r... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: The Need For The Need For Speed (and Friends!) |
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Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2022 1:25
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| Ridge Racer: Unbounded (The Full Game This Time) I traded in some DS games and saw this on the shelf for a... somewhat reasonable price so I decided to finally get my own copy of Ridge RUB after a decade of dithering. (Of course the shop reduces the price by 20% a few days after I buy it. Rascals.)... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: What have you bought? |
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Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2022 15:23
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| Alright, smartarse :D I wasn’t sure if rocketbooks were the reusable ones. I know there are some with pages that look like paper but are made of stone, and some that you photograph and it digitalises your work (these three qualities may all be in the same product, that’s why I was asking). This all... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: What have you bought? |
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Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2021 7:40
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| I’ve still got a kindle keyboard 3rd gen which works fine, but I’m very tempted to go for the Paperwhite. Are you pleased with it? I'd you've got the dollar I'd pump in the extra for the Oasis..it really is something special. Does it come with free internet and a web browser though, so you can chec... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Mince pie review season |
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Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2021 11:48
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| Ooh! I've finally remembered to do this! Tesco Finest - 6 All Butter Pastry Mince Pies with Brandy & Port Presentation: Pretty pastry snowflake on top with light dusting. Taste: Fresh, sweet taste, hint of brandy. Not sure about the port. Not much depth, but tastes quite nice. Filling: Moderate.... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: The 'Nay!' but 'Yay!' Thread |
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Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2021 23:59
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| I had a gastroscopy on October 14th and was told, third year in a row, there's nothing wrong... yet out of the blue I got an appointment for a gastroscopy on December 16th. I've had zero contact with/from anyone else in the intervening time... The booking hospital looked me up, got confused, went aw... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: General Purpose UK TV thread |
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Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2021 11:05
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Mimi wrote: I just thought it was made in the U.K: U.K. TV, made in the US: U.S TV, made anywhere else: goes in the foreign TV thread.
This was my understanding also. Otherwise I really should have made a thread for the TV I watched on my hols *checks notes* two years ago (sob) |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: BeeX Virtual Meet & Quiz |
| Findus Fop |
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Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2021 20:06
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| I too Kickstarted it and used it a bit, but never really found a workflow that wasn't a bit too much faff to be bothered with. So I just took notes like a normal notebook. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Finish 52 books 2021 |
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2021 11:05
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Grim... wrote: Which I suspect means "Some other dude wrote it and James Patterson might have read it and given some notes".
I think it's more along the lines of - "Here's an idea, go and write it as I don't have the time" which soon became, "Yeah that idea sounds fine, go write it". |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Finish 52 books 2021 |
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Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2021 16:30
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| Which I suspect means "Some other dude wrote it and James Patterson might have read it and given some notes". |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Bits and Bobs 51 |
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Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2021 12:41
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| If you followed the thread from Shahid Ahmad a few months ago on his history of early gaming stuff (including JSW) then he's just started his second 'season' on twitter over the weekend. Yes it would be much nicer to read this somewhere else but this is where you've got it so : https://twitter.com/... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: BeeX Virtual Meet & Quiz |
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Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2021 15:32
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| Thanks everyone. I’m off the Cardiac Care ward and in a single room on a standard cardiac ward, as my progress is deemed to be satisfactory. Should be going home tomorrow. I thought, “Lovely, a single room where I can get some peace.” The guy in the next bed to me upstairs was a 60 year old ex plast... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Finish 52 books 2021 |
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Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2021 16:33
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| 1.) The House Share - Kate Helm 2.) Rebecca -Daphne de Maurier 3.) The Black Cloud - Fred Hoyle 4.) Bad Move - Linwood Barclay 5.) The Longest Afternoon - Brendan Simms 6.) The Holocaust - Laurence Rees 7.) A Little Hatred - Joe Abercrombie 8.) Ghoster - Jason Arnopp 9.) Bad Guys - Linwood Barclay ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Gardening Corner |
| Mimi |
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Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2021 11:58
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| I grew parsnips for Darwin. He adores them. As does Russell, really. I roast them with a little honey, and either pinch of cinnamon or some rosemary. I just cut them into some chunky ‘chip’ shapes and mix them in with the carrots before roasting them. And thanks, too, Kern. I was very much spurred o... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Bits and Bobs 51 |
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Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2021 12:49
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| Today's lunch stop is down memory lane. I was on a call in Didsbury and finished just after 12, so it's time for a break. I had to get out of the car park, so drove just around the corner and the first place I could stop was 100 yards from my infant and junior school, and on the corner of a road on ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: The Need For The Need For Speed (and Friends!) |
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Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2021 18:21
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| NFS Heat (Again) It's time to bring my amazing Need For Speed thread up to date by playing the current main console Need for Speed game: NFS Heat ! It's thanks to a strange confluence of circumstances regarding Microsoft's Game Pass that I'm finally able to play Need for Speed Heat (or NFS Heat, as... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Cryptocurrency Mining |
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Posted: Fri May 07, 2021 9:23
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| And the value of cash is an illusion anyway. A £50 is only worth 5 £10 notes because everyone agrees that it is. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Nice things |
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Posted: Thu May 06, 2021 14:39
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BikNorton wrote: I'm assuming they'd moo in the notes of Close Encounters of the Third Kind as you did.
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Nice things |
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Posted: Wed May 05, 2021 10:31
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| I'm assuming they'd moo in the notes of Close Encounters of the Third Kind as you did. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: The Apple Thread |
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Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2021 2:18
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| Work got a bunch of Macbook Airs with the new M1 chip earlier this year, so I nabbed the first one to do the initial testing with our in-house applications. They seem pretty neat, very responsive (although my standard work tasks are not massively processor heavy) and the screen looks really good. Ev... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Dungeons and Dragons |
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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2021 11:30
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| I’ll try and get the map updated in the next few days, I’m off work this week so I’ve had way less time at my computer than normal :ninja: Once I’ve updated the map I’ll try and make entries for some of the new places as well but they might stay hidden if I put DM notes in them and then I’ll make th... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Dungeons and Dragons |
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Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2021 7:33
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Dungeons and Dragons |
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Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2021 2:32
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Dimrill wrote: I don't think the notes are worth posting this week. As it was all giant.
Plus during that long list of names of giants, empires and battles I sort of zoned out. Too many names to ask the spelling of. It was like this
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Dungeons and Dragons |
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Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2021 22:46
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| I don't think the notes are worth posting this week. As it was all giant. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Dungeons and Dragons |
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Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2021 18:30
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| I only ever look at Druid spells and woodland creature challenge ratings :D Kinda obvious to me that if you looked up stuff about a campaign you'd find out things about the campaign, and I hate spoilers anyway. I think based on the post I read, the player looked up a group they'd just met without t... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Dungeons and Dragons |
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Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2021 15:35
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| I'd like to make a suggestion, now that the campaign is becoming more of a sandbox. Could one of you take session notes each week and share them either here, or in the Discord, or in Legend Keeper? I'm thinking basically a rough outline of what happens in the session - where you were, any lore or ex... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Dungeons and Dragons |
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Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 18:49
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sdg wrote: Dimrill wrote: x1 Ruby - valuation unknown, or not noted! I'm not sure about this one, can't find it in my notes.
Was in session 8. Possibly in the well with the cloak of billowing. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Dungeons and Dragons |
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Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 14:31
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| Actually, I wonder if Suddenly Persuasive Ivo might not quite fancy a bit of bling. A couple of platinum rings might be handy in browbeating the locals. Other items we have in the collective pool for such uses: A Gold Earring with Ruby - worth 30g Clothes, Fine - Glasstaff's undies Bugbear tusk pen... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Dungeons and Dragons |
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Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2021 15:50
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| I think I've calmed down enough to do this now. LOOT! Staff - black adamantine - magical - spider staff - Myptik Rough notes Map of mines Black leather sack 190e - 38 each 130g - 26 each 15p - 3 each 9 gemstones dwarven ale mug - Erm potion healing - dave mace - sunburst - lightbringer - cleric - D... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Dungeons and Dragons |
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Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2021 13:28
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| I think I've calmed down enough to do this now. LOOT! Staff - black adamantine - magical - spider staff - Myptik Rough notes Map of mines Black leather sack 190e - 38 each 130g - 26 each 15p - 3 each 9 gemstones dwarven ale mug - Erm potion healing - dave mace - sunburst - lightbringer - cleric - Da... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Animal Crossing Switch |
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Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2021 23:05
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| I really enjoyed the dream, but I didn't find all 4 zones It's surprisingly hard to enter an island you don't know with only the map I hope you'll give me a proper tour at some point I loved your music area with the music notes floor and your outdoor library and I def found the medieval bit I'm also... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Dungeons and Dragons |
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Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2021 20:06
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Achy with chills and hot flushing? My Ma had that post jab. She notes that it was much better after 24 hours, so there's still hope!  |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Bits and Bobs 51 |
| Warhead |
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Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2021 19:07
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| Thanks. It was all going so well until my last call of the day. I've had calls in Lancashire, Cheshire, Derbyshire and Yorkshire today and stopped for lunch on Saddleworth Moor. Final call is Wilmslow for a till "that won't power on," according to the notes. I got it to power on and then .... |
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