doomdragon6
Staff member
I dare you to pitch this to me and tell me how this works.
I actually have a FLG. It's The Guardtower and it's a fairly big store space for RPGs and minitures, with a side of CCGs and board games. Even has table space and weekly games. But not everyone is so lucky, so my advice on finding local game spots? Like Frank said, ask your comic book stores. They'll ether know or know who to ask, and that's assuming they don't have fliers on their bulletin board. It's kind of like trying to find guitar lessons: you ask the guys who run the place you buy your equipment.
Oh man, I'd totally play a wrestling rpg with you. My friends and I once tried coming up with rules for how a wrestling rpg would work. I think the only thing we agreed upon is that Undertaker gets a native +100 boost to all stats, but only during Wrestlemania.
Got to see the dentist today for my multiple abscessed teeth, have an appointment on Monday to extract all four of them. The upcoming procedure, however, is not the rant. The fact that my dental plan doesn't cover surgical extractions (at all), and I'll be paying $828.00 out of pocket for the pleasure of having 4 teeth cut out of my head is. Ok, sure, only one of them actually has to be cut out, the other three can be pulled, but still. My dental plan blows.
They are a great bunch of guys. They are not a comic book store, others in the city have that market. They are a games store, largest selection of table top RPGS in the city.
On the plus side, I was able to walk into the company owner's office this morning and tell him that our dental plan blows and he needs to find a new one, without being laughed out of his office.
GasBandit
Staff member
Stubhub?
GasBandit
Staff member
Oh, I meant, can't you sell them on stubhub... but I guess you got them on stubhub? Well, maybe it's still worth a shot to get at least some of the money back, even if you have to sell it back to somebody else for less than you paid.
No, I don't get gauze wads until Monday. I'm really not looking forward to Monday. Usually I don't fear the dentist, I've had teeth pulled before so the concept doesn't concern me, but one of the teeth had a root canal done on it and then shattered down to one little sliver, so they have to actually surgically remove it, instead of just popping it out, and it's freaking me out a good bit. Luckily, I get Halcion before the appointment, which I've never done before. I hope to all things holy that it works better than the "stop caring about the pain" ingredient in Hydrocodone, because all that does is clear my head so I can really concentrate on just how agonizing whatever pain it was prescribed for truly is.
Actually have already sold 2 of the 3 tickets, so thats good. If the last one is still available tomorrow I'll probably give it to my friend who is still at school.
Kijiji people suck. Selling my lens and I'd love to see it go but I won't give it away. If it doesn't go now, I will save it and sell it in a bundle with my camera body and kits lens when I upgrade. ( I would love to go full frame one day ).
I have idiots trying to offer me half of what I want, morons committing to buy then bailing and one very nice lady whose professional camera wasn't compatible.
I have idiots trying to offer me half of what I want, morons committing to buy then bailing and one very nice lady whose professional camera wasn't compatible.
Cajungal
Staff member
I don't know if this is just a Southern thing or if there are people all over who are like this, but here goes...
So the South is supposed to be full of people who are all about manners and etiquette... and that's actually pretty true. People are surprised when you don't open up a door for someone behind you, stuff like that. I'm fairly polite in that way. What I'm not is this other type of person committed to manners.
I was talking to this person who was bad-mouthing someone else for not doing certain things. Writing thank you notes, pulling out chairs for his girlfriend.. I can't remember the others. But the point is that some people do these and some people don't. And if they don't, it doesn't mean that they are bad people.
I guess my rant is just that it feels like some people use the manners they live by more for judging others than actually making the world a better place. Their little rules only seem to be in place so that they can feel better than everyone else and point out who isn't living the right way. It's annoying.
So the South is supposed to be full of people who are all about manners and etiquette... and that's actually pretty true. People are surprised when you don't open up a door for someone behind you, stuff like that. I'm fairly polite in that way. What I'm not is this other type of person committed to manners.
I was talking to this person who was bad-mouthing someone else for not doing certain things. Writing thank you notes, pulling out chairs for his girlfriend.. I can't remember the others. But the point is that some people do these and some people don't. And if they don't, it doesn't mean that they are bad people.
I guess my rant is just that it feels like some people use the manners they live by more for judging others than actually making the world a better place. Their little rules only seem to be in place so that they can feel better than everyone else and point out who isn't living the right way. It's annoying.
fade
Staff member
Yeah, I married a Yankee, and I noticed something interesting. A nice dichotomy if you will. Southerners are outwardly polite, but generally keep to themselves and rarely help anyone they don't know. Northerners are outwardly rude, but seem to be much more willing to lend a hand.
I think that some (or a lot) of the whole Southern politeness is false. I think folks are just "keeping up appearences". They like to be known as polite, and might do polite things, but aren't really polite people.
I have found Northeners (at least in Boston/Cape Cod/NYC) to be just as friendly and nice as folks that I have met in California/North Caroline/Oklahoma/Texas/etc. They may not hold the door open for me or wave me on at an intersection, but when speaking with them, they're the same.
I have found Northeners (at least in Boston/Cape Cod/NYC) to be just as friendly and nice as folks that I have met in California/North Caroline/Oklahoma/Texas/etc. They may not hold the door open for me or wave me on at an intersection, but when speaking with them, they're the same.
Growing up in NJ, having lived in SoCal for 6+ years, and having relatives in AL has given me a chance to see this from a few perspectives. My take away has been this:
My southern relatives and people I knew in CA were the ones who were nice to your face and would stab you in the back no sooner than you turned around. At least people from NJ/NY/PA will stab you in the front.
My southern relatives and people I knew in CA were the ones who were nice to your face and would stab you in the back no sooner than you turned around. At least people from NJ/NY/PA will stab you in the front.
There's probably a couple reasons for this, but two major factors could be "rural separatism v urban community" and "southern social stratafication v northern entreprenuerialsim and industry". In a rural area, when population densities are low and there's low population turnover, people are more clannish, more protective of their personal property, and more suspicious of strangers - when you interact with others, you're polite to make a good impression. In urban areas, where there's a lot of population turnover, you don't know your neighbors as well, you have to interact with people frequently, and basically being rude or standoffish is a way of not being a victim or preserving one's identity. In a rural area, something that affects people you don't know means it's not effectively local, so one's mind makes it a low priority. In an urban area, something that affects someone you don't know might very well also affect you, so there's much more of an impetus to help - because you would want to be helped in return. Futhermore, the south has a history of social strata - the genteel plantation class, the merchant class, sharecroppers, and of course, slaves. This is the origin of the term "scalawags" (lower-class whites who dared act above their station) - people who didn't respect the social order as established by the plantation aristocracy were considered to be troublemakers. So acting too familiar or without refined manners made you a social undesirable. In the North, however, since the economy was more trade and industry based, and fortunes could turn very quickly, there wasn't the same codified class structure - old money was quickly joined by new money, and either absorbed or surpassed. Since society was considerably more fluid, there wasn't quite the same degree of stigma for interacting with people of different social strata.
Of course, that's just my take on it, I have no research or data to prove it.
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yeah, that's what I call "California nice" - make all the proper noises and obeying the social norms, but not actually doing anything to help - and in some cases, being an actual obstacle. For example, being polite when introduced to someone who runs an animal rehab center, but then voting against allowing them to move into certain areas or to change local ordinances to allow them to better do their job.
They can be cold as a falling thermometer in December if you ask about the weather in July.
But they'll give you their shirt and a back to go with it if your crops should happen to die.
--Patrick
And the third was sold so I'm still out $30 but better than before.
As someone born and raised in the south, and who never felt like they fit in the south, I'm of the opinion that "Southern Politeness" is in fact just a form of passive aggression. People only pay lipservice to politeness in hopes that they can judge someone else and appear superior.
In a related topic, some of the most awful things I've heard people say about other people were whispered in a church.
In a related topic, some of the most awful things I've heard people say about other people were whispered in a church.
Cajungal
Staff member
It'll be nice to live somewhere else for a while and just meet different kinds of people. My hometown just got named "happiest city in America" recently, and I'm just sick of hearing about it. Pride in your home is a great thing, but I'm just disenchanted lately, I suppose. I'm tired of a lot of things about living in the south in general. Girls who ball-bust sensitive guys and say they need a "real southern man," alcohol being tied to every social occasion (I'm not against drinking, but I don't drink just to drink either), the "manners," the heat. I need a change! Can't wait for Jake to graduate and hopefully--eventually-- land a job someplace else.
http://blogs.marketwatch.com/capito...ork-city-is-the-most-unhappy-city-in-america/ <--That's the report. I'll be honest; I still don't quite understand how they figured it all out.
http://blogs.marketwatch.com/capito...ork-city-is-the-most-unhappy-city-in-america/ <--That's the report. I'll be honest; I still don't quite understand how they figured it all out.
Probably vaguely worded surveys about overall satisfaction - but you know, that doesn't determine happiness, it determines ambition, when you get down to it. If you have a bunch of people who don't have high goals, or have reached what they wanted out of life, they'll probably report being happy or satisfied. (And again, there's that whole keeping up appearances thing - you don't want people to think you don't like their way of life). In a place where people are constantly told to strive for more or where you have to compete with many people for everything, you're not going to report being as satisfied, because you always want more or feel like you're missing out.
Cajungal
Staff member
True. I'm fairly certain I'll want to be near family again when I'm older, but no one believes I actually want to move.
fade
Staff member
They'll do that Klingon thing where they rip off your uniform patches and then ritualistically turn their backs to you in a circle.
Or from what Cajungal said, spill her beer.
Maybe even slap the crawfish right out of her hand.
That sounds pretty harsh. I thought they reserved that for people who don't say y'all.