Distinct Lunatic

As of today I'm now the owner of a 2016 Honda Civic. I am a bit annoyed though, I was hoping to get more from my trade in but there were a few things that didn't manage to fly under the radar. I knew the front suspension for my car was going bad, but when their guys took a look at it they said to replace them and possibly the rear suspension as well would easily cost them close to a grand. There also being two lesser things they'd need to fix to be able to sell the vehicle. The kbb valued my trade in at around 2 grand which I would have gotten, but because of those issues I only got $600. I guess the nice thing though is I was still able to get the car today without paying anything out of pocket. I do love this new car, it looks, drives, and feels so much better than this new one. I am paying more than I wanted, at $350 a month but it does carry two warranties, one for 50,000 miles (which should be fine cause in the 3 years I owned my previous car I didn't even put 20k miles in it), and one that covers any of the electrical stuff in the car going bad.

As Pahn's troops cleared out, Terrell chose to linger behind. Telling his party to move on ahead without him, that he'll catch up later. "Well, Pahn you arrogant bastard. I kept telling you that one day you're gonna bite off more than you can chew." The monk spoke aloud as he closed in on the individual's corpse, taking a knee beside him. Terrell exhaled heavily as he slide Pahn's armor aside to allow him to reach his hand down in front of his chest, breaking the chain of a solid gold amulet that was marked with the house Bishop crest. "We were never friends, but the least I can do is return this to your parents..." Terrell spoke softly as he slid the amulet into his back pocket. He debated on whether or not he wanted to do a burial. He took notice of the men that died serving under him, Terrell deciding that if he was gonna do it he should see to it properly. "Hehehe," The dwarf chuckled, whistling along happy and content after that skirmish, especially since it gave him the opportunity to show off a bit. "Ya know, when we're all done with this expedition, how about ya consider becoming members of my new pirate crew." Banarr exclaimed loudly while fumbling about in his bag as he pulled out his bagpipes to play some wondrous music. He nudged Neflet's horse side with his elbow, "You especially stood out to be well accomplished... I know! You could be my first mate!" The dwarven pirate propositioned as they were setting up camp.

I looked it up online and a rough average for youtube ad sense after Googles cut is about $3-5 per thousand views. Looking at the kind of views the guy's getting he'll be lucky to make above $100 a month

because realistically I'd say being a complete hardcore anime fans and being part of the LGBT community goes hand in hand *edit, want to clarify that isn't me taking shots at anyone, just an observation

People actually watch digineckbeard? I got major basement dweller vibs from digibrony years ago.

It won't be til tomorrow when I'll go and check out the car, I've just been looking at a lot of reviews for the Honda, them all saying great things. There hasn't been anything said to indicate that it's CVT transmission is bad, but it doesn't help that when I try to find out more about CVTs it's all about how "they're destined to fail". That said though it could very well be old fashioned folks that are going off on them since they're relatively new and not the "standard" gear based transmission type. I'm looking forward to tomorrow. I'll be using a vacation day so I can have a 3 day weekend, tomorrow being when I plan on looking at / trying out cars.

(If Neflat wants to have the honor of killing Pahn that's perfectly fine. My intention for him being that about a day after he dies he gets brought back by raise dead instead of resurrection, it being funny if he were to gain a phobia of horses) "Huh!?" Terrell exclaimed as he noticed that Banarr was nowhere to be seen, (on phone at work so don't have time to figure out dice rolls) "Didn't take that useless pirate for the type that would turn tail and run." Terrell commented aloud in an annoyed manner, being distracted by that and hit from behind by an arrow. It striking him in one of his biceps. Terrell suppressed the pain the best that he could, fortunately it was just a flesh wound and nothing that'd incapacitate him. The monk spun around facing the direction of the Archer, making a quick dash toward him, managing to get to the Archer before he could grab another arrow, striking him at the knee, dropping him with his kick. Terrell then stomped on the archers bow, snapping it in half to make it of no use. "You wretched creature!" Pahn shouted after sending his men forward to deal with her. "Don't kill this one, boys." Pahn ordered, "If she's gonna prance around like a horse than she'll learn how it feels to be broken in like a horse." Needless to say this encounter wasn't going the way Pahn expected it to. He couldn't help but recount the encounter with the Tiefling and what it said. He clenched his fists in anger. "I am the first born of house Bishop, not a single one of you have what it takes to stop me." He held his longsword up in his right hand in a manner meant to rally his troops, but just as his hand was up in the air, the loud pop of a pistol was heard as a metal piece fired from the forest to the side of Pahn, hitting the noble in the hand, blowing off his ring and pinkie finger, his sword falling to the ground as he clutched his hand in agony, having permanently lost 2 of his fingers. Off to the side the Dwarven pirate was chuckling triumphantly.

Hoping someone that knows a thing or two about cars and their mechanics could share some wisdom. This Friday I plan on going to this one dealership and trading in my car for something better. The car I'm looking at is a 2016 Honda Civic EX, that so far I'm pretty damn interested in. I've watched a bunch of reviews that painted it in a very positive light, and with it being a Honda Civic reliability is almost guaranteed. The big thing though that I'm concerned about is when it comes to it's transmission, it using CVT transmission, and so many videos and articles I've looked at says those types are destined to fail and will cost over 3 grand to replace when they do. Though I have seen statements that of all cars with that type of transmission Honda's are the most reliable and better implemented. I'm still concerned though.

During that exchange between Toh-ken and Pahn. Terrell took immediate action to drop a couple of the hired goons that were most close to him, Banarr took the opportunity to retreat into the nearby forest, plotting something. "Unless you wish to die now by my blade, you best bite your tongue!" Pahn shouted angrily, glancing over toward the ruffian as he tended to his leg. The arrow from earlier was poking through the other side of his leg, he took a deep breath before gritting his teeth and pulling it out from his leg, blood pouring down his leg. Pahn staggered a bit as he reached into a pouch on his hip, pulling out a glass vial as he took a heavy swig of a potion which helped close the wound, though he was still in a lot of pain.

Busy with work and was hanging out with people the other day, will post sometime today

"I hate you." Muttered Pahn, aiming his words at the ruffian. "Fifty gold pieces to whichever one of you halfwits kills this guy!" Pahn announced loudly to his men. "Fifty gold pieces you say!?" Banarr blurted out on impulse with his jaw dropped, followed by rubbing his two hands together mischievously, "Ol' Gods know the things fifty gold pieces can get ye." He chuckled to himself like he was plotting something, resulting in a kick to the side from Terrell as a way of saying "cut that shit out". "Hehehe," Snickered the red-skinned Tiefling from his position far off in the trees, holding a simple bow at his side, him being the one that fired the arrow. "That'll show what happens when you insult a musician." The tiefling stated simply with a content grin on his face as he turned around and walked away, further into the woods. Waiting until he was out of earshot of the humans before he started playing his fiddle once more as he retreated.

(I've never played DND so don't know what the majority of those dice rolls mean...) Banarr stood back behind Neflet as he took his time putting his bagpipes away, wanting to be careful as to not damage them. He did shed an ounce of pity for all the underlings, it being poor leadership decisions that put them in this position. One of the archers off to the side took aim at Banarr, however he was quicker than the lad (Dex 10+2) with a flick of his wrist he had his flintlock pistol in hand and fired a shot into the young lads thigh, downing him and completely incapacitating him. (A character sheet for Banarr ddb.ac/characters/33965448/eaXvT5 ) As for Terrell, he cleared his mind of any and all distractions (Wis 12+0), to keep himself from feeling overwhelmed. He was surprised by the dwarf opting to incapacitate instead of kill, something he'd never have expected from a pirate. He noticed that Neflet seemed to be handling herself well, and didn't seem to be in any immediate need of aid. He glanced over in Pahn's direction, somehow Toh-ken was able to distract him and keep him busy. At that time one of the melee fighters attempted to strike Terrell from behind, (Dex 8+3), the grunt managed to graze Terrell, but he quickly reacted by swinging around with a low kick, knocking the fighters legs from under him, (Str 12+2) Terrell without wasting a second grabbed the down fighter by his collar, sending a swift punch to the side of their head to knock them out. Terrell won't criticize any of the others for killing out of self defense, but for him personally he avoids it unless it can't be avoided... which he worries might end up being the case for Pahn. (Terrell's character sheet ddb.ac/characters/32969003/zMibsk ) Pahn was distracted by the odd fellow offering him a pipe, whatever its contents were smelt most foul and nauseating. "Get that filth out of my face!" Pahn shouted in frustration, taking a step back. He internally decided that once the other misfits are dealt with he'll likely have Toh-ken dealt with as well, insuring no loose ends. As he turned to walk away from Toh-ken however, a stray arrow flew through the air, striking him in the thigh; Pahn falling over in pain, clutching his leg. "Just what the hell do you think you're doing!?" He shouted at his men, them being the only ones he could see that were equipped with bows and arrows.

No that's fine. As for now I was wanting Neflet to get an action in before continuing, since her character was put on the spot.

get over yourself

@jezebelthenun@SwimModSponges (As far as PC's go, I treat Terrell and Banarr as PC's and not NPC's. Pahn I consider a mix, for the sake of moving stories along I treat him as a PC, but he isn't one of the party characters. Sure he can distract him, but OOC things like having him do drugs I'm not fine with. As far there being a DM to this, with this being an open RP others are free to have their goes, but for the sake of moving on from the tavern I decided to be defacto DM for the first part of this, at least til the fortress arc is done) (*edit, back on topic with PC's, I'm using Terrell and Banarr, but after this arc depending on what happens from there I'll probably relegate Banarr to being an NPC)

I find Nihilistic folks to be more annoying than even most atheists.

No offense dude but I'm completely disregarding that post. I've RPed for years and its always been a thing where people don't like having their characters controlled by someone else. Small bits I overlook, but taking up the persons action that way I'm not fond of.

I find that organized religions, like Christianity and so on in the 21st century have the effect of pushing people away from God and religion than bringing them in. Because of the way they paint their God and their version of heaven, and with what's written in the bible it all seems like fairy tales. Now of days people are free to think whatever, and they see that stuff for what it is and use that to completely write off god and religion, and to promote atheism.

I mentioned some things that have gone on in my house since I've moved here that has me believe there's a strong possibility that my house is haunted. The biggest thing was one day when my boss called me into work for a couple hours early in the morning, when I got home I immediately went back to bed, but I had a pretty lucid dream, I kept moving around cause it seemed like a lot of people were talking around me. I remember opening my eyes a couple times while sleeping to see if anyone was in the room but there was no one. While still asleep I was dreaming that I was lying in bed in my room and when I looked to the side of my bed I saw an old man in his 70's or 80's, with some patriotic ball cap on, and a few other things about his appearance. When I got up I google searched the name that was on a letter I got from the VFW addressed to the person (not gonna post his name cause don't want the possibility of people finding out where I live, his initials were W. S. W), and sure enough I saw an IL obituary listing for Mr. W.S.W, same spelling even, and the picture that was shown there on the obituary listing matched what I saw while asleep. The guy was born somewhere between 38-40, and died in 2019, around a year before I bought the house. That said though I'm pretty sure he didn't die in the house, since I'm pretty sure they have to tell you about something like that happening.

Or some people simply don't want to pay for any service. There's a misconception where people think someone pirating something always equals loss of profit. While that can apply to some people, there exists a large amount of folks that had no interest in buying it to begin with. If you somehow managed to take away all illegitimate means of seeing something, many folks will just move on, since they didn't plan on buying it in the first place. On that same note, to some degree I support pirating games, with some conditions. I buy and refund games all the time on Steam, a large percentage of my purchases I end up getting refunded simply because it doesn't interest me like I thought I would. At the same time though, quite a bit of games that I have bought and kept were because I pirated them and tried them out first. Papers Please is an example of a game that I pirated and played through like 3 times or so, and still ended up buying it and playing it. The second South Park game is another one I remember pirating and beating, and then bought it and played through it again. Not saying piracy isn't wrong, but don't think for a second that piracy guarantees loss of profit. Hell, even back when I used to buy anime; season 1 of MHA I bought after watching it online for free. Same for Noragami, as well as Steins;gate. The first four seasons of Bleach I own on DVD after watching the shit for free online. There's some others I have, bought all of them because I watched them online and liked them. That said, don't know why I'm laying this all out. You're Elfie.

I've always been into anime as a kid, though obviously I didn't know or care about what the stuff was called or where it came from. I remember being into Inuyasha back in 2003 or so (me being 10), that was back when AS showed a fair amount of anime on weeknights. AS didn't spread to Fridays yet. I legit thought they were the ones making these shows, and also thought they were completely making each episode on a weekly basis.

My nephew will be 11 this year, and he thought Naruto was a very recent thing and didn't believe me when I told him that series was made back in 2002 (the anime, not the manga)

(Not really sure how far this will ever get, if they'll ever be featured, but I do have it planned out for Terrell to have his family brought up)

Even if I had all the money in the world, I refuse to give Funi so much as a penny. If it's an anime dubbed by Funimation, pirating it isn't an option, it's an obligation. That said though I haven't watched anything on KA in a long time. The site has become so riddled with ads and pop ups. The only reason I went to them is for downloads, and the number of hosts they have to download from kept shrinking more and more as time went on. That said though (x2) I don't even watch that much anime anymore, MHA is one of the few I follow. I'm much more annoyed by Kissmanga getting shut down since there were quite a few series there I followed, many were pretty niche.

With the ruffian... dealt with, Pahn turned his gaze to the remaining three party members, gazing over each and every one of them. "Terrell Horvat, almost seems like we're destined to keep running into one another..." He commented before gazing at the dwarven pirate that was fumbling about, trying to put his bagpipes away and ready his firearms. "Banarr Brewhelm... or "Captain Shortbeard" as you're best known as. You claim your ship was sunk following a battle with a kraken, when in actuality you were thrown overboard by mutiny." He then turned to the centaur, "Neflet Grovehold, searching for a purpose in life following the death of your people." As for how Pahn was aware of Banarr and Neflet's situations, coin can buy all manner of information. "You three have yet to grovel and beg for forgiv-" Pahn was interrupted as Banarr chucked a big rock (Dex roll 13+3=16) it smacking Pahn on the left side of his face, making a long cut that will definitely leave a scar. "Gah! You insolent little shit!" Pahn fumed in great anger, "Kill them!" Pahn shouted, the melee fighters came out of the woods to engage the group in battle.