No, no, see, that's your counter-argument.
You are the buildings' Big Guy and if a customer your size ever gets violent, you being there has them ready for the Godzilla vs. Titanosaurus slugfest.
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He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
That reasoning for a demotion is so completely, transparently stupid it probably wasn't even meant to be actually believed.
Honestly, you should probably figure out the actual reason before deciding what to do about it.
Honestly, you should probably figure out the actual reason before deciding what to do about it.
DSMatticus wrote:It's not just that everything you say is stupid, but that they are Gordian knots of stupid that leave me completely bewildered as to where to even begin. After hearing you speak Alexander the Great would stab you and triumphantly declare the puzzle solved.
So, in other words, he should angle for promotion to newly created bouncer position?Maxus wrote:No, no, see, that's your counter-argument.
You are the buildings' Big Guy and if a customer your size ever gets violent, you being there has them ready for the Godzilla vs. Titanosaurus slugfest.
Or possibly pull a scene out of Fight Club…
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
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Ted the Flayer
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sabs wrote:You're being demoted.
The reason is that you are so small, we're worried that if you ever flip out and lose your temper, all your coworkers will die from laughing and pissing themselves.
This is a serious issue, so you're being demoted to foot stool.
That's what SHE said!
Prak Anima wrote:Um, Frank, I believe you're missing the fact that the game is glorified spank material/foreplay.
Frank Trollman wrote:I don't think that is any excuse for a game to have bad mechanics.
It sounds no more or less actionable than "because I don't like you." If you're in the US, that is probably not illegal, because the list of reasons you are forbidden from taking negative action based on is fairly short, and goes: old age ("too young" is fine), race, sexual orientation, sometimes religion. If it's not one of those, you'd have to fall back on whatever your contract says. That's not necessarily just the words on paper, there's all kinds of extra contractual stuff that accrues from published and enforced policies, and may be even more "implied contract" stuff, which depends heavily on your state.
You might be able to force them to fire you instead of accepting demotion, which would let you collect unemployment (half of the average of the two highest of the four earliest of the last five quarters; roughly half your current pay, but for no work).
Either way I would start looking for a different job. You probably don't want to work anywhere that capricious.
You might be able to force them to fire you instead of accepting demotion, which would let you collect unemployment (half of the average of the two highest of the four earliest of the last five quarters; roughly half your current pay, but for no work).
Either way I would start looking for a different job. You probably don't want to work anywhere that capricious.
Vebyast wrote:Here's a fun target for Major Creation: hydrazine. One casting every six seconds at CL9 gives you a bit more than 40 liters per second, which is comparable to the flow rates of some small, but serious, rocket engines. Six items running at full blast through a well-engineered engine will put you, and something like 50 tons of cargo, into space. Alternatively, if you thrust sideways, you will briefly be a fireball screaming across the sky at mach 14 before you melt from atmospheric friction.
Clearly you are not from 'Merika, because old age and sexual orientation are totally reasons you can fire people. Also you forgot gender as an actual reason they can't.fectin wrote:because the list of reasons you are forbidden from taking negative action based on is fairly short, and goes: old age ("too young" is fine), race, sexual orientation, sometimes religion
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The U.S. isn't a democracy and if you think it is, you are a rube.DSMatticus wrote:Kaelik gonna kaelik. Whatcha gonna do?
That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.
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This is not true at all. The list includes, for example, 'genetic information' and 'assumptions made about genetic information.' I don't know if that includes 'being big,' but it might.fectin wrote:It sounds no more or less actionable than "because I don't like you." If you're in the US, that is probably not illegal, because the list of reasons you are forbidden from taking negative action based on is fairly short, and goes: old age ("too young" is fine), race, sexual orientation, sometimes religion. If it's not one of those, you'd have to fall back on whatever your contract says.
Here's an answer from a discrimination lawyer I found regarding 'demotion without cause.'
Your rights as an employee depend on several things. One, whether you have a contract of employment and, if so, whether the employer violated the contract. Two, whether you are in a union, and if so, whether the union agreement was violated by the employer. Three, whether you are a government or civil service employee protected by civil service or other government laws or regulations, and, if so, whether the employer violated those laws or regulations. And four, in addition to the above (or if none of the above apply and you are an at will employee), whether the employer had some legally prohibited motive or reason for the demotion. Most of the illegal or improper reasons for demotions are exceptions to the at will doctrine and they require proof of some illegal or improper motive such as discrimination due to your age, race, sex, color, national origin, pregnancy or disability. Some exceptions require proof of a retaliatory motive such as retaliation for complaining about illegal conduct of the employer like not paying overtime, or violating OSHA regulations, or discrimination, or taking FMLA leave, or filing a workers comp claim, or doing other things that the law either gives you a specific right to do or imposes an obligation to do.
If you want to determine if your rights have been violated as an employee your best course of action is to speak to an employment lawyer and be prepared to discuss the possible motives for the adverse employment action.
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Well, I have been perhaps a bit too complacent in my work. This might be the kick to the ass I need to get something done...fectin wrote: Either way I would start looking for a different job. You probably don't want to work anywhere that capricious.
Prak Anima wrote:Um, Frank, I believe you're missing the fact that the game is glorified spank material/foreplay.
Frank Trollman wrote:I don't think that is any excuse for a game to have bad mechanics.
+1fectin wrote: Either way I would start looking for a different job. You probably don't want to work anywhere that capricious.
Indeed. A former coworker of mine got screwed repeatedly. Twice written up for threatening behavior, each were completely bogus petty attempts to get him fired but stuck because him just standing there at 6'8" and 300+ pounds alone apparently was threatening, despite him never having done anything threatening in nearly 20 years of service.
And several months later he got fired for fraudulent evidence of sleeping on the job by the same sociopath who made the last complaint of threatening behavior.
Definitely start searching for new employment. You don't want to work with capricious people, and if you're unlucky it doesn't even stop here.
If plants in general already freak you out, what do you think about those that create zombies? Like the ones in the Amazon Rainforest, turning ants into zombies?Ted the Flayer wrote:My stance on this debate is that plants creep me right the fuck out. Beings with no central nervous system have no right to react to stimuli and communicate with other plants the way they do. It really weirds me out...
Gary Gygax wrote:The player’s path to role-playing mastery begins with a thorough understanding of the rules of the game
Bigode wrote:I wouldn't normally make that blanket of a suggestion, but you seem to deserve it: scroll through the entire forum, read anything that looks interesting in term of design experience, then come back.
You mean there's a horror that doesn't already exist in Australia?Koumei wrote:And just wait, once they're mixed with banana plants, they'll be WALKING, WALKING AROUND IN SOCIETY, TURNING PEOPLE INTO ZOMBIES.
Vebyast wrote:Here's a fun target for Major Creation: hydrazine. One casting every six seconds at CL9 gives you a bit more than 40 liters per second, which is comparable to the flow rates of some small, but serious, rocket engines. Six items running at full blast through a well-engineered engine will put you, and something like 50 tons of cargo, into space. Alternatively, if you thrust sideways, you will briefly be a fireball screaming across the sky at mach 14 before you melt from atmospheric friction.
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Well, there was . . hmm, no, that's not good . .Cynic wrote:So what good things has Australia produced?
But on the other hand that . . no, not that one either . .
I got nothing O.o
Welcome, to IronHell.
Shrapnel wrote:TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
Kangaroo burgers. Those taste nice.
Everything I learned about DnD, I learned from Frank Trollman.
Kaelik wrote:You are so full of Strawmen that I can only assume you actually shit actual straw.
souran wrote:...uber, nerd-rage-inducing, minutia-devoted, pointless blithering shit.
Schwarzkopf wrote:The Den, your one-stop shop for in-depth analysis of Dungeons & Dragons and distressingly credible threats of oral rape.
DSM wrote:Apparently, The GM's Going To Punch You in Your Goddamned Face edition of D&D is getting more traction than I expected. Well, it beats playing 4th. Probably 5th, too.
Frank Trollman wrote:Giving someone a mouth full of cock is a standard action.
PoliteNewb wrote:If size means anything, it's what position you have to get in to give a BJ.
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TumblingDown: That isn't a thing to be proud of. Seriously.
K: Yah, and that.
K: Yah, and that.
Everything I learned about DnD, I learned from Frank Trollman.
Kaelik wrote:You are so full of Strawmen that I can only assume you actually shit actual straw.
souran wrote:...uber, nerd-rage-inducing, minutia-devoted, pointless blithering shit.
Schwarzkopf wrote:The Den, your one-stop shop for in-depth analysis of Dungeons & Dragons and distressingly credible threats of oral rape.
DSM wrote:Apparently, The GM's Going To Punch You in Your Goddamned Face edition of D&D is getting more traction than I expected. Well, it beats playing 4th. Probably 5th, too.
Frank Trollman wrote:Giving someone a mouth full of cock is a standard action.
PoliteNewb wrote:If size means anything, it's what position you have to get in to give a BJ.
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Opals. Lots of fucking opals.
Seriously. Australia has it going on with the mineral wealth.
Seriously. Australia has it going on with the mineral wealth.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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Ted the Flayer
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I have friends with connections in the Coal industry, and they say if you're an experienced miner and are willing to live out in the middle out the freaking outback, you can make bank. It's too bad that I am not a miner, because I would totally do that if given the opportunity.Maxus wrote:Opals. Lots of fucking opals.
Seriously. Australia has it going on with the mineral wealth.
Prak Anima wrote:Um, Frank, I believe you're missing the fact that the game is glorified spank material/foreplay.
Frank Trollman wrote:I don't think that is any excuse for a game to have bad mechanics.
It's too bad I'm not willing to live out in the middle of bumfuck nowhere. Or an experienced miner...
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
With the right co-workers/folks to live with, I could likely handle it.Prak_Anima wrote:It's too bad I'm not willing to live out in the middle of bumfuck nowhere. Or an experienced miner...
As long as I could pick up mining as I went.
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He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!