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OT: General OT Thread #44 - Hat Talk 2025

Minnewildsota said:
There's nothing wrong with public education IMHO.
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Ehhh, I’m not so sure about that. Having gone to public schools in three different states (NM, WI, IN), there are vastly different levels of education quality. Hell, I had two years of high school in Wisconsin and two years in Indiana at a Blue Ribbon public high school. I went from everyone needs notebooks for each subject to everyone gets a MacBook Air provided to them. Shit was crazy.

Anyways, there are plenty of spots where kids are getting lesser opportunities that we could be doing better in.

Side note: the same year I went from one high school to the other, I had a $120,000-140,000 back surgery. Pretty sure it came out to be somewhere around $4,000 thankfully. Much easier on my parents to deal with. Still living with side effects from that surgery (nowhere nearly the monthly cost you see though). I’d like to see cost comparisons for similar treatment before and after a certain something was put into place for the medical industry in the 2010s. I’ve done zero research into that, but I don’t remember people ever complaining it was this bad prior to the last decade or so.
 
Weird that I had no idea this sub forum had an OT thread. Don't remember ever seeing it before. Must've either hidden it accidently or maybe decided it was superfluous and taking up space in the forum feed.

[EDIT]: Apparently I even posted in it. I have no recollection of that whatsoever.
 
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NHL1674 said:
Okay, why don't I have an option for dark mode?
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Dunno. Mine seems to have transferred over and kept it. I just want to get rid of all the inane sh** on the right hand side and can't remember how to get it to f*** off.

All that garbage in the green:
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I selected the dark setting and saved it.....doesn't work. The page reloads and remains light. Dark mode works on other forums I'm on, so it makes no sense why it won't work here.
 
No iossue for me as i hate the dark setting. Makes me feel like i am sitting in someone's basement listening to Machine Head.
 
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BagHead said:
How is the Strahd campaign? We nearly played that before this one, and I've got history with Ravenloft, so I'm interested in hearing about your experience with it.

We're playing an eldritch horror campaign set in the Magic: The Gathering plane of Innistrad, so we all basically have to be humans as that is the only non-vampire/werewolf/zombie race on the plane. To answer your question though, I went with a custom lineage and took darkvision (a relic of my character's background), which has been an absolute blessing combined with the Skulk feat and how dark the plane is. We've got a sanity system in place, and my character nearly had his sanity go to zero last session due to a decision I made to enter into Psychic Whispers with an eldritch being. If that happens, I have to roll a new character.

The Soulknife is a lot of fun. It's definitely a great skill monkey, if you're into that. If you're willing to put expertise into something like Athletics or Arcana, you can outdo a fighter or wizard at them. I actually haven't played a rogue before in 5e, but I'm finding it to be a lot of fun! Instead of worrying about casting spells, I find myself looking at the surroundings and my items and a lot more and coming up with creative uses for them.
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The Strahd campaign is brutal! The madnesses can really mess with you, we've all died at least once (some more lol), but in Strahd, death isn't always permanent, there are only certain places/ fights where it is. There's also SO MANY things that can side track you from what you want to do... we've gotten side tracked A LOT! Our party really sticks out in Barovia, I'm playing an Aarakocra, then there's a Tabaxi, a Tieflingand and a Wendigo... lol
 
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The Strahd campaign is brutal! The madnesses can really mess with you, we've all died at least once (some more lol), but in Strahd, death isn't always permanent, there are only certain places/ fights where it is. There's also SO MANY things that can side track you from what you want to do... we've gotten side tracked A LOT! Our party really sticks out in Barovia, I'm playing an Aarakocra, then there's a Tabaxi, a Tieflingand and a Wendigo... lol
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lol I'll bet they stick out! The one character I've played in Ravenloft, many years ago, was a native Barovian, though a wizard so I really had to be sneaky with the casting, so I didn't stick out too much, which was a bit of a blessing.

Thanks for sharing your experience with it! I've been hoping to play a really brutal campaign for a while now. I've had characters die over the last few campaigns, but it's very rare and most of the time I feel like I can do crazy stuff and still survive, so a change of pace would be nice.
 
I have never done my taxes so early that they told me 'Uh...the IRS hasn't even started processing returns yet. But...we'll let you know.' 😄

This, coming from a guy that used to procrastinate and then panic file them at the last possible minute every year. The past 3-4 years, I've done them earlier and earlier.

This is how I know I'm getting old.
 
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Dark theme works on me (w/Firefox). I know it's just a temp look but I kinda dig the blue on black look, gives mid-late 00s internet vibes with eleventy billion phpBB2 themes to choose from. Still preferred the old one, but this wouldn't be too bad with some tweaks either.

One annoying issue is this flicker of a white screen when I'm changing pages. Does not mesh with my eyes, does not at all.
 
BagHead said:
For us, we just wanted kids so that was a priority. We don't make a ton of money, but it's enough to raise two kids (not more). I also save regularly for our retirements, and can pay our mortgage, so we're overall fine barring any change too drastic. That said, they're gonna be public school kids out of financial necessity, if not for other reasons.

My daughter has expressed an interest in playing hockey. She's 4 now, and still doesn't know how to skate, so I don't think she'll end up being great at it which will, thankfully, limit the cost. Sports in general are going to be one of those things where we'll probably just enroll them in one or two. They don't need to be enrolled in something all the time. I've got a nephew who is and goddamn if that kid's schedule isn't even fuller than mine.
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My daughter wasn't good at hockey and it was still expensive. Figure a couple weekend travel tournaments a season, equipment, league fees, jerseys, the random team gear you'll need to buy so your kid can match everyone else, etc. We skipped the summer camps/leagues (mostly her choice).

A lot of these costs holds true for any travel team sport. So none of them are "cheap". The cost in gear and team/league fees is the real separator in youth sports.
 
Wabit said:
My daughter wasn't good at hockey and it was still expensive. Figure a couple weekend travel tournaments a season, equipment, league fees, jerseys, the random team gear you'll need to buy so your kid can match everyone else, etc. We skipped the summer camps/leagues (mostly her choice).

A lot of these costs holds true for any travel team sport. So none of them are "cheap". The cost in gear and team/league fees is the real separator in youth sports.
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I'll need to create a team of the underprivileged and downtrodden, and we'll play for as cheap as possible. I live in St. Paul so maybe we can have team meetups at Mickey's diner. Of course, I'll need to think up a team name... maybe Loons, or Swans. No, those aren't it, but I'm close.
 
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