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SilentMech said:
Devoid Mana destroys matter, period. To the point that an Eldrazi who has encountered antimatter considers it to be an overly excitable bit of matter. If enough devoid enters a reality then it literally consumes it and returns it back to the void between realities.
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Ah, Thank You. That makes your statement make more sense. It also fits in with how the Eldrazi eat worlds.
 
So, let's play a round of Good Idea/Bad Idea.

Good Idea: Switching out 50 inch 4k TV for a 28 inch monitor that had previously been used because you are ordering a stand that will let your 50 inch tv fit on the entertainment center.
Bad Idea: Forgetting that you had thrown out your old speakers because they were old and wearing out, and the TV had built in speakers.

Good Idea: Adding PC speakers to your cart before checkout.
Bad Idea: selecting the slowest (and free) shipping method without noticing they will be shipped from China.

My speakers are apparently being shipped via a slow boat from China, because the delivery is expected to take a month.
 
FaerieKnight79 said:
So, let's play a round of Good Idea/Bad Idea.

Good Idea: Switching out 50 inch 4k TV for a 28 inch monitor that had previously been used because you are ordering a stand that will let your 50 inch tv fit on the entertainment center.
Bad Idea: Forgetting that you had thrown out your old speakers because they were old and wearing out, and the TV had built in speakers.

Good Idea: Adding PC speakers to your cart before checkout.
Bad Idea: selecting the slowest (and free) shipping method without noticing they will be shipped from China.

My speakers are apparently being shipped via a slow boat from China, because the delivery is expected to take a month.
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dude we have a few things to say to you in Venezuela...


thinking it better i don't want to give more of the dumbass racist prejuices so i just tell you:

you deserve a virtual cookie in order to rise your spirits

chose one:

🥠 the life give you lemons? at least you are not in a factory in china writting this dumbs messages

🍪 you wonder why you find a paper on your cookie who say "why this one"
 
How about neither. This was more of a "you dumbass" moment. I can easily switch back to the TV until the speakers get here. Or use headphones in the mean time. This swapping of monitors was in part being done in prep for the TV stand, and in part so I could take out the leaf from my table and create some extra room for a base station tripod since I have a HTC Cosmos Elite getting here tomorrow, and my landlord doesn't want tenents putting nail or screw holes in the walls. Thus wall-mounting the Lighthouse Tracking base stations isn't an option. I'd honestly forgotten I had thrown out the old speakers since I'm a horrible packrat and almost never throw things like that out. I still have power cords from electric razors that died 15+ years ago and monitor cords which use connection types that no PC or monitor uses anymore.
 
FaerieKnight79 said:
How about neither. This was more of a "you dumbass" moment. I can easily switch back to the TV until the speakers get here. Or use headphones in the mean time. This swapping of monitors was in part being done in prep for the TV stand, and in part so I could take out the leaf from my table and create some extra room for a base station tripod since I have a HTC Cosmos Elite getting here tomorrow, and my landlord doesn't want tenents putting nail or screw holes in the walls. Thus wall-mounting the Lighthouse Tracking base stations isn't an option. I'd honestly forgotten I had thrown out the old speakers since I'm a horrible packrat and almost never throw things like that out. I still have power cords from electric razors that died 15+ years ago and monitor cords which use connection types that no PC or monitor uses anymore.
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are you on a bad humor?

because i just wanted to make a joke to make you feel better.

i mean you have read the extras i add to the cookies?
 
hakunoX said:
are you on a bad humor?

because i just wanted to make a joke to make you feel better.

i mean you have read the extras i add to the cookies?
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My last living grandmother is in the hospital, dying, and I can't go see her one last time. Between this delivery and a housing inspection to make sure repairs to my bathroom ceiling are up to code I can't leave home for any length of time, let alone travel to a different state to spend any time with my grandmother before she dies since I don't own a car. It's only 3 or so hours away, but that may as well be an infinite distance right now. My mom is injured because she slipped and fell down half a flight of stairs while at work as well. But because of the pandemic I can't go visit her in the hospital either. So yes, I'm kind of in a bad mood overall. Me joking about a mistake I made is in large part because it feels like everything in my life is going wrong all at once.

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Sorry for figuratively biting your head off. But I'm not really in a good mood at the moment. Everything is collapsing around me, and I'm waiting for the inevitable third disaster to occur while wondering how bad it's going to be.
 
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FaerieKnight79 said:
My last living grandmother is in the hospital, dying, and I can't go see her one last time. Between this delivery and a housing inspection to make sure repairs to my bathroom ceiling are up to code I can't leave home for any length of time, let alone travel to a different state to spend any time with my grandmother before she dies since I don't own a car. It's only 3 or so hours away, but that may as well be an infinite distance right now. My mom is injured because she slipped and fell down half a flight of stairs while at work as well. But because of the pandemic I can't go visit her in the hospital either. So yes, I'm kind of in a bad mood overall. Me joking about a mistake I made is in large part because it feels like everything in my life is going wrong all at once.

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Sorry for figuratively biting your head off. But I'm not really in a good mood at the moment. Everything is collapsing around me, and I'm waiting for the inevitable third disaster to occur while wondering how bad it's going to be.
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i don't think a virtual hug would suffice.


so i do this *hugs @FaerieKnight79 *, i know than this is not equal to the real deal but... i know what are you feeling.

my grandmother died years ago and i still cry sometimes for her, and being honest... it was a situation like this one, she had cancer, i could literally do noting!, i look at her day to day, looking her consume and die, how the quimio was killing her with poison, how her hair fall, how she lost energy to even walk...

and seeing her dead, my mother crying without peace because the ucking doctors don't allow her to do more Quimio, just because of life insurance "don't cover quimiotherapy" and forcing us to try to get 1000 dollars just for a little and...

i was angry to the world and i remember well what i did then.

i go to the window, and Broke it with one punch and start cursing the bastards who take away granny from me!.

...

you have a little luck, believe , it don't matter if its at 3 hours; GO, i didn't pass my grandma last hour with her because it was hurting me look at her and you know what, i regret it, i regret don't pass all the time i had with her, i regret let her alone, just Go, fuck anyone who tries to stop you, it don't matter, pass your time with her, it will hurt, but she will have a little more peace when the time comes.

don't leave her alone.
 
It's 3 hours by car. I don't have a car. I have bicycle that needs repairs. It's 27 hours on foot, if you don't stop for food, drink, sleep, or anything else. Oh, and you are in good health. And even if I could get out there, I couldn't see her one last time. God damn pandemic!

Grandma has end stage dementia, this has been coming for a while. It's just... I can't be there, and this is my last chance to see her.
 
FaerieKnight79 said:
It's 3 hours by car. I don't have a car. I have bicycle that needs repairs. It's 27 hours on foot, if you don't stop for food, drink, sleep, or anything else. Oh, and you are in good health. And even if I could get out there, I couldn't see her one last time. God damn pandemic!

Grandma has end stage dementia, this has been coming for a while. It's just... I can't be there, and this is my last chance to see her.
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it don't matter.

believe me, when she dies, you will always regret it.

its been more than 3 years for me, i regret it still.

try repair the bicycle ypurselve, and please please understand, she will just go ... and you cannot follow her yet.

at least say good bye
 
You really don't understand. The bike needs repairs. Which requires parts that are difficult to impossible for me to get. Parts that I can't get at the drop of a hat. If I had any way to get 90 miles in time, I would take it. I don't. It'd take me days to walk there, it'd take days to bike there even if my bike was working, and I can't leave. Even if I did get out there, hospitals aren't allowing visitors because of the pandemic. She's dying, and I can't be there for her. She doesn't even know who I am most of the time anymore. But that doesn't matter, because I can't be there when I need to be.
 
FaerieKnight79 said:
You really don't understand. The bike needs repairs. Which requires parts that are difficult to impossible for me to get. Parts that I can't get at the drop of a hat. If I had any way to get 90 miles in time, I would take it. I don't. It'd take me days to walk there, it'd take days to bike there even if my bike was working, and I can't leave. Even if I did get out there, hospitals aren't allowing visitors because of the pandemic. She's dying, and I can't be there for her. She doesn't even know who I am most of the time anymore. But that doesn't matter, because I can't be there when I need to be.
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one cannot win in the real life right?

damn, why one cannot say a proper goodbye to their loved ones?

i truly sorry buddy... i hope that your mother get better at least.

maybe in the heaven, your grandmother and mine will meet right?

sumimasen, honto sumimasen.

i hope life give you a rest.
 
Again, I'm sorry. You really don't deserve the venom. It's just that the last 48 hours have been an all over the place, and I kind of have emotional whiplash right now. I found out a friend of mine who lives in Canada had ordered me an HTC Cosmos Elite as a birthday present. Yeah, it's nine months late, but they'd been out of stock a lot of that time. I found out about this on Monday, and it's suppose to arrive tomorrow when the email with a tracking number showed up in my email in-box after being forwarded by my friend with a Happy Birthday message. Then the double whammy today... It's just not a very good start to the week. Still, nobody deserves me being that snippy with them.
 
@FaerieKnight79 : I guess I have no kind words for you; I've been on the end of some very long ropes while relatives were dying, unable to visit to see them one last time (My sister passed away while on vacation in Brazil. I was living in Wisconsin, and at the time, I had no passport. Likewise, my last grandparent, my maternal grandmother, lived in Florida with my uncle and his family.) Keep hold of your memories of when she still remembered who you were, of the last time you spent with her. And have a <Hug>.
 
FaerieKnight79 said:
My last living grandmother is in the hospital, dying, and I can't go see her one last time. Between this delivery and a housing inspection to make sure repairs to my bathroom ceiling are up to code I can't leave home for any length of time, let alone travel to a different state to spend any time with my grandmother before she dies since I don't own a car. It's only 3 or so hours away, but that may as well be an infinite distance right now. My mom is injured because she slipped and fell down half a flight of stairs while at work as well. But because of the pandemic I can't go visit her in the hospital either. So yes, I'm kind of in a bad mood overall. Me joking about a mistake I made is in large part because it feels like everything in my life is going wrong all at once.
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I can also empathsize, my Grandmother (and last grandparent) passed away last November. she'd been in the hospital for a few weeks when I got a message at work (friday night afternoon shift) that she had started degrading rapidly. After work I hopped in my car and instead of heading home, drove for an hour to get to the hospital to see her one last time. she was gone by dawn. If I had waited til the morning, I'd have missed my chance.

My condolences.
 
i know than all of us don't want to break the line, and being honest a lot more don't want to discuss something this depresing...

so its up to me.

@Kryslin you would get mad if i add a "servant" page for Taylor/Naurelin?
 
hakunoX said:
i know than all of us don't want to break the line, and being honest a lot more don't want to discuss something this depresing...

so its up to me.

@Kryslin you would get mad if i add a "servant" page for Taylor/Naurelin?
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I don't think anyone would get mad, per se, but I'd put it in spoilers just to be safe, and thank you for asking first, as despite how people say it's better to beg forgiveness than to ask permission, I say an ounce (28.35g) of prevention is worth a pound (.45kg) of cure.
 
hakunoX said:
i know than all of us don't want to break the line, and being honest a lot more don't want to discuss something this depresing...

so its up to me.

@Kryslin you would get mad if i add a "servant" page for Taylor/Naurelin?
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Personally, I would rather you didn't, but I'm not the OP, so what I want doesn't matter.
 
I have been discussing this with him, and gave my approval, with two things noted:

It gets posted in spoilers, and may not be entirely canonical to the story.

Now... OP uses Anticipation on Readers: There will be a new post tomorrow evening!
...It's super effective! Critical Hit!
 
*tries to avoid notice of the guy holding open can of acid. no, seriously, coke has a lower ph then the stuff professional janitors use to clean toilets with...*

At least it's not Mountain Dew. That stuff can literally dissolve teeth. I'll stick with water or milk, thank you....
 
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