Yeah, basically my point is that they did skip things, and they did take liberties. However, they presented some reasonable explanations for certain characters' actions and even explained to a certain extend what some of his plays meant rather than fully acting those plays out
@doppelgreener At least I managed to make part of my job something I enjoy doing. I just need to convince them that they need the other things I do full time, not just a few days a month...
Well, if you're lucky, you might end up doing something you enjoy, but the expectation people have that work is enjoyable leads to all kinds of problems.
@doppelgreener +1 for letting crap places choose you. Too many people I've known have just gone for whenever they can find work and ended up hating it, rather then finding somewhere they actually enjoy, or has room to move to somewhere they enjoy.
@Nyoze Sometimes, other times not. But I know a lot of people who have failed to maintain a steady state of being employed because they had faith in the idea that work should be enjoyable.
@Miniman I would suggest that their idea that one's job should be enjoyable was not the sole cause of that. They probably also took actions to disrupt their employment, wise or unwise.
@Miniman In that case, I think it's possible an issue of finding ways to enjoy the work they are doing, or taking the time to find a place of employment where they will fit in before disrupting their current job.
@doppelgreener It's more often that they don't get any jobs because they're looking for some dream that well-meaning teachers have told them is out there.
@doppelgreener I agree that it's foolish, but my original point was that it's not their personal philosophy. It's a philosophy that our society wrongly instills in people.
Many successful individuals recite the same philosophy, and are enacting that philosophy successfully. (And obtained their success while enacting that philosophy, not after.)
@doppelgreener Hey, I'm not denying that it can work, or that it works for some people. Just that it doesn't work for everyone, and it's wrong to tell everyone that it will work for them.
@Miniman I don't think it's as much as "You will find a job that you will enjoy", but more of a way of saying "You can find a way to enjoy your work?". I definitely don't enjoy Sales as a job, but I've taken my love of computing and problem solving, and carved a niche out that at least 2 days a week, I am doing something I enjoy.
Conclusion: It's probably not possible to distill the lifelong experience of balancing the duties and desires for gainful employment, self-betterment, and contentment, into a single pithy phrase.
To enjoy one's work is to experience satisfaction and gratification from it. There's various pools of thought about how to obtain that - one is that you must feel you are doing meaningful work, you are able to work toward mastery of it, and you are able to self-actualize through your work. (And, I think, another I forgot.) That's related to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
Some construe "enjoy my work" as meaning "oh, enjoyment, like when I'm watching a funny movie! I should be having a blast! And, I should quit when I'm not!"
and other unhelpful interpretations
There is also a difference between "have work you enjoy" and "chase your dream most enjoyable most fantastic idealistic job". You can have work you enjoy that isn't your ideal choice of work. I worked in a warehouse for a year moving boxes and shipping heavy equipment; that also became satisfying after a while. (I just didn't want to stay there, and I was not as effective as others who worked there.)
Personally, I've recently started trying to better understand what my faith means by contentment. It seems to be a more active thing than my contemporary society uses the word for.
I think it's something to do with being okay with having the challenges you face, without giving up on facing them.
> The happiness and greatness, the rank and station, the pleasure and peace, of an individual have never consisted in his personal wealth, but rather in his excellent character, his high resolve, the breadth of his learning and his ability to solve difficult problems.
there is a piece of thick paper I have in my wallet
I gave a couple of dollars once to a man who was posing as a statue, and he bent toward me and handed me this piece of paper. It's tiny, and I've kept it in my wallet ever since.
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It says:
> Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it. -- Buddha
@doppelgreener Yes, we believe Buddha was also a Manifestation of God, and His Revelation is a part of the same eternal, progressively revealed, Faith of God.
Although, I gotta say, I'm pretty sure your quote--while I agree with it--isn't actually from Buddha.
@BESW half the things people attribute to Buddha weren't said by him, and when we're talking about passing around little quotes and bits of wisdom it becomes virtually all of them, so sure, it probably isn't, but that's what the piece of paper says
That blue light is Zeta Ophiuchi. It's a star. It used to have a partner star, but that one exploded. It exploded so hard, Ophiuchi is now hurtling through space at 24 km/second. That's so fast Ophiuchi's solar wind catches up the stuff it goes past, squeezing and heating it up to make a giant curved shockwave of spacestuff in front of the hurtling star.
Because in the Marvelverse humanoid form is default for mortals and immortals alike, and Galactus is both.
(The alternate explanation is that --similar to Vorlons-- Conceptual entities in the Marvelverse are seen by lesser beings in a form determined by the unconscious mind of the beholder.)
@Miniman Pff. At level 5, I think that's impressive. Give me a few more levels, I only need to upgrade my Belt and Headband 1 level each, or even just swap out Spark Shield for Shield, and I'm at 30.
Lemon juice, cranberry juice, Celestial Seasonings Red Zinger tea, club soda, brown sugar, powdered ginger. Mix to taste, serve with ice in tall glasses.
A good charop question is either very specific or very general. If you fall in between you've entered the no mans land of gimmie the codez.
There are 3 types of char-op questions that fall into the "good" category in my mind:
I'm 90% complete and I need help making the final selection or two. ...
Just in case you wanted to know what it looks like to the public after a successful Shadowrun http://www.csoonline.com/article/2944333/data-breach/hacking-team-responds-to-data-breach-issues-public-threats-and-denials.html
Cool. No specific reason for mentioning that other than confirming that my memory conforms with the shared memory of others, as that is the only practical method of evaluating objective truth.
@Magician That would explain why after many years of research nowadays the only form of reality check I use to distingue between reality and dreams is that my dreams seem to have much more self-consistency that this thing called real world.
It was originally designed as a pain gun: strap a guy in the chair and torture him, and the army you've got the business end pointed at feels his pain.
So the party pointed it at the tentacles coming out of the rip in the sky and took turns sitting in the chair thinking hard about what was most important to them--what made them who they were, what made them feel, what drove their choices.
The city got trashed, but they saved the world. And it was a lousy city anyway.
In this case, the sky over the city was ground zero for the Far Realm's invasion of reality.
(In my version of the Points of Light setting, all the multiverse that is the Points of Light reality is a tiny sliver of coherency in the vast indefinable body of the Far Realm. The Far Realm responds to it the way our bodies would a foreign object: automatic responses engage to simultaneously destroy, encapsulate, and expel it.)
That's what aberrations, and horrific fates handed down by malevolent stars, and Star Pact warlocks, and all of that stuff, are: various kinds of auto-immune effects that sometimes work together and sometimes at cross purposes in response to an unwelcome body. It just so happens that body is all known reality.
@sillyputty Makes the Primordials' goal of unmaking reality into its constituent parts and re-building it over and over like Legos, look kinda local and petty, doesn't it?
@waxeagle Oh, yeah. And when aberrations conflict, like mind flayers and aboleths, it's because they're filling different roles with different goals for dealing with the "infection."
Like white blood cells attacking a sliver while other body processes are trying to encapsulate it.
And aberrations that are just mutated local creatures? That's just the Far Realm version of using a virus to convert enemy cells to your side.
It's not all my idea. I just consolidated several different notions and codified them.
It probably started from the bit in one of the 4e manuals that says some people describe the Far Realm as a fleshy domain akin to being inside an enormous body.
I threw out the literal visuals but kept the metaphor and ran with it.
When the party did once enter the Far Realm itself, it looked kinda like Arizona badlands.
Except the rivers ran with blood and the terrain was populated by giant soap bubbles that were all the wrong shapes.
And the colours just weren't right, any of them.
[digs around]
> A red stone cliff rises suddenly out of a flat scrub brush desert with strange bubbles drifting through the air. Stalactites hang from the sides of the cliff like gigantic sleeping bats, and a pink waterfall tumbles from the cliff into a frothy red pool. A sticky copper-smelling fog drifts off the pool, but you are distracted by the hair rising on your head like lightning is about to strike out of the clear blue sky.
I want to see a class that takes aaaaalll that external magic power that wizards have and internalize it to make themselves stupid strong physically. I don't mean raw strength strong either. Speed, reflexes, strength. ect
My main RP character Acheron does that. He uses external attacks but against someone really powerful he internalizes the power and uses it to move faster than a normal human would be able to see.
Acheron in DND or pathfinder would have like a move speed of 200 per round and a monk would be jealous about how many attacks he would get.
Arguably, what you're describing are high-level martial classes in D&D 4e. They're "balanced" to be as powerful as magic users, but their power comes from within, in an super-human capabilities kind of way.
Hm. I don't really know. I've run plenty of 4e sessions where I let rule of cool take hold all over the place. Then again, we have a long-running campaign where we all agreed we will abide strictly by the rules and that's the point.
I've never felt like I've had to fight the system to get it to do what I want to do.
Then again, I'm not the most versed in games mechanics theory or any of that. Someone with much greater knowledge might vehemently disagree with me.
A good charop question is either very specific or very general. If you fall in between you've entered the no mans land of gimmie the codez.
There are 3 types of char-op questions that fall into the "good" category in my mind:
I'm 90% complete and I need help making the final selection or two. ...
