Hollismason posted:

Confirmed. We failed our wellness check.

PupsOfWar posted:

welcome to dungeons & dragons chat thread new posters

today we are talking about GMPCs and why they are just fine

1.

Indeed I live in the dark ages!
A guileless word is an absurdity. A smooth forehead betokens
A hard heart. He who laughs
Has not yet heard
The terrible tidings.

Ah, what an age it is
When to speak of trees is almost a crime
For it is a kind of silence about injustice!
And he who walks calmly across the street,
Is he not out of reach of his friends
In trouble?

It is true: I earn my living
But, believe me, it is only an accident.
Nothing that I do entitles me to eat my fill.
By chance I was spared. (If my luck leaves me
I am lost.)

They tell me: eat and drink. Be glad you have it!
But how can I eat and drink
When my food is snatched from the hungry
And my glass of water belongs to the thirsty?
And yet I eat and drink.

I would gladly be wise.
The old books tell us what wisdom is:
Avoid the strife of the world
Live out your little time
Fearing no one
Using no violence
Returning good for evil --
Not fulfillment of desire but forgetfulness
Passes for wisdom.
I can do none of this:
Indeed I live in the dark ages!

2.

I came to the cities in a time of disorder
When hunger ruled.
I came among men in a time of uprising
And I revolted with them.
So the time passed away
Which on earth was given me.

I ate my food between massacres.
The shadow of murder lay upon my sleep.
And when I loved, I loved with indifference.
I looked upon nature with impatience.
So the time passed away
Which on earth was given me.

In my time streets led to the quicksand.
Speech betrayed me to the slaughterer.
There was little I could do. But without me
The rulers would have been more secure. This was my hope.
So the time passed away
Which on earth was given me.

3.

You, who shall emerge from the flood
In which we are sinking,
Think --
When you speak of our weaknesses,
Also of the dark time
That brought them forth.

For we went,changing our country more often than our shoes.
In the class war, despairing
When there was only injustice and no resistance.

For we knew only too well:
Even the hatred of squalor
Makes the brow grow stern.
Even anger against injustice
Makes the voice grow harsh. Alas, we
Who wished to lay the foundations of kindness
Could not ourselves be kind.

But you, when at last it comes to pass
That man can help his fellow man,
Do no judge us
Too harshly.

The ideology eater posted:

My experience in California was that this was actually absurdly easy. People kept giving me hash because with all the weed being grown around there people just give giant bags of pot leaves away and people make hash out of them.

ReidRansom posted:

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Hey, off topic, but when if at all are you finishing your Lunar 2 LP? It's been more than a year.

ReidRansom posted:

I'm good with smoking it, fiancee not so much. We were planning on some edibles of some sort. She still has friends there though, and we're pretty sure at least one has a card. I can't get one as a visitor, I guess, and she's concerned about her DEA license if she got one, though it probably wouldn't be a thing.

The ideology eater posted:

When I was in San Francisco there was literally a guy in a park who was carrying around big containers filled with chocolate weed truffles and sold them super cheap. I wouldn't be surprised if San Diego had something similar.

ReidRansom posted:

Ah!

I probably should.... yeah. I lost to the end boss a couple of times and didn't have time to keep trying before I left for my previous expedition, and then when I got back I got distracted with work and girlfriend and the rest of life. I've been meaning to set back up and try to resume things though.

e: that end boss is tough

exmarx posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpiaw3pSuqY

ReidRansom posted:

yeah but OTOH I"m going to be there in a week and I can't yet buy recreationally

all I wanna do is get high and walk around the san diego zoo and disneyland and poo poo and now I gotta find a hookup x2

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Well, don't stop the important things in life just on account of little old me.

Raskolnikov38 posted:

if you've got $50 and an id with a CA address you can get a medical card online in like three minutes

OMG sriracha pudding! posted:

I've always felt serious posting was more for people who *aren't* dead on the inside, but gosh, this is an appropriate poem:

[url="https://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/bertolt-brecht/to-posterity/"]

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

The zoo sounds like a terrible place to be stoned.

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

Thanks for posting this. Brecht seems like the voice of the hour to me, either him or Vonnegut.

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

The zoo sounds like a terrible place to be stoned.

kustomkarkommando posted:

Everyone remembers Weill & Brecht but forget about his collaborator Eisler who was hounded out of the US for being a communist and was declared the Karl Marx of Music by the HUAC, so he upped stick to the GDR and composed their national anthem

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

The zoo sounds like a terrible place to be stoned.

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

Actually I'd kinda forgotten Brecht until I read an article recently about Rhinoceros. I read a little Brecht back in high school and college when I was moving through the existentialists and I remember thinking "oh, this guy was writing in reaction to fascism, that's not something I will ever need to worry about"

edit: see how ignorant I am confusing brecht and ionesco

Absurd Alhazred posted:

"I am not owned, I am not owned!", I yell as I slowly transform into a rhinoceros.

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

Thanks for posting this. Brecht seems like the voice of the hour to me, either him or Vonnegut.

exmarx posted:

long week end


brecht owns

Absurd Alhazred posted:

How's it hanging, fellow exmod?

exmarx posted:

p good, i just bought some shoes

Pirate Radar posted:

Also lmao dickie spencer got punched, gj folks

Pirate Radar posted:

Also lmao dickie spencer got punched, gj folks

For all the good it will do anyway