The Good News Thread: I'm So Excited! And I Just Can't Hide It!

[Delightful]

This is a thing and I am happy: http://reshet.tv/item/entertainment/cinema/news/wonder-woman-gal-gadot-263401/

 

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Seriously, you thought I was going to talk to you in English? I'm so so excited to invite you to see my new movie, Wonder Woman. We've really been all over the world but theres nothing more exciting for me than knowing you guys are at home watching the movie. So, big kisses Israel. I love you.

And she's a major actress in a popular movie!!!!!!!!  

Edited May 21, 2017 by Delightfully Smoak
oh my goodness my pet is a two-humped camel :')

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

23 minutes ago, Delightfully Smoak said:

This is a thing and I am happy: http://reshet.tv/item/entertainment/cinema/news/wonder-woman-gal-gadot-263401/

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Seriously, you thought I was going to talk to you in English? I'm so so excited to invite you to see my new movie, Wonder Woman. We've really been all over the world but theres nothing more exciting for me than knowing you guys are at home watching the movie. So, big kisses Israel. I love you.

And she's a major actress in a popular movie!!!!!!!!  

oh my goodness hebrew is the preeettiest  XD, always love looking at it...even if I can't read it...

And yes.

Gal Gadot! Yay!

[Datan Nomlibash]

I QUIT MY JOB

I actually really liked my job and most of the people I worked with but it was low paying and pretty much a dead end so Im excited to be moving on.

On 5/20/2017 at 1:57 AM, Claincy said:

Tried out a rules-light single session rpg I designed today. It went really well! Well enough that I'm seriously thinking of turning it into an actual product to release.

What kind of rpg is it if i may ask?

[Jondesu he/him]

36 minutes ago, Datan Nomlibash said:

I QUIT MY JOB

I actually really liked my job and most of the people I worked with but it was low paying and pretty much a dead end so Im excited to be moving on.

That's a big step! Do you have another job lined up already?

[+Slowswift]

I took these photos, was it Friday? Yeah. Anyways, closing's got its perks, I have to say that.

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[A Budgie she/her]

@Slowswift those are really nice.

[Claincy he/him]

On 5/20/2017 at 8:40 PM, A Budgie said:

Great job! And that sounds really cool.

Thanks

7 hours ago, Datan Nomlibash said:

I QUIT MY JOB I actually really liked my job and most of the people I worked with but it was low paying and pretty much a dead end so Im excited to be moving on.

Good luck!

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What kind of rpg is it if i may ask?

It's a very rules-light system designed to encourage roleplaying and improvisation rather than mechanical challenges. The basic conceit is "The Aredeli live short lives compared to the other races, reaching maturity at 3 and rarely reaching ages above 8. They have a strong oral tradition centred around a set of legends they all learn at a young age. Once every 8-10 years when the Aredeli people face a crisis of great magnitude the elders declare a new legend to be in progress. Aredeli from all walks of life jump at the chance to be immortalised in a legend. The risks are high but to many Aredeli the opportunity is worth any danger."

That setup results in a lot of characters who really aren't suited to adventuring being part of it, which can be fun

[+Slowswift]

33 minutes ago, A Budgie said:

@Slowswift those are really nice.

Thanks!  

[A Budgie she/her]

1 hour ago, Claincy said:

It's a very rules-light system designed to encourage roleplaying and improvisation rather than mechanical challenges. The basic conceit is "The Aredeli live short lives compared to the other races, reaching maturity at 3 and rarely reaching ages above 8. They have a strong oral tradition centred around a set of legends they all learn at a young age. Once every 8-10 years when the Aredeli people face a crisis of great magnitude the elders declare a new legend to be in progress. Aredeli from all walks of life jump at the chance to be immortalised in a legend. The risks are high but to many Aredeli the opportunity is worth any danger."

That does sound really interesting. I don't really do rpgs, but this is sounding fun.

[Claincy he/him]

36 minutes ago, A Budgie said:

That does sound really interesting. I don't really do rpgs, but this is sounding fun.

It's designed to be played for single sessions in 1 and a half to 2 hours and to be easy for anyone to try I'll definitely post about it in the Creator's Corner when the design is more complete.

[Sunbird she/her]

Just wanted to share this photo of a super cool skink I saw in Ohio last Monday:

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I have more pictures, mostly from Saturday, but I gotta go to bed for now.

[A Budgie she/her]

@Sunbird that is a nice skink. Usually the ones here are black/dark grey...

[Hemalurgic Headshot he/him]

School is over!!! I have freedom for three months!

[Grumpy Dula]

1 hour ago, Hemalurgic_Headshot said:

School is over!!! I have freedom for three months!

Almost there for me!

[Jedal he/him]

1 hour ago, Hemalurgic_Headshot said:

School is over!!! I have freedom for three months!

I have 2 more weeks...

[StrikerEZ he/him]

School gets out next Thursday for me.

RIP

[A Budgie she/her]

4 hours ago, StrikerEZ said:

RIP

We had to explain what that meant to our music teacher yesterday...

[StrikerEZ he/him]

Just now, A Budgie said:

We had to explain what that meant to our music teacher yesterday...

Well then. Did he know about R.I.P. (as in Rest In Peace) and was just confused by the pronounciation, or did he really not know what it meant?

[A Budgie she/her]

Just now, StrikerEZ said:

Well then. Did he know about R.I.P. (as in Rest In Peace) and was just confused by the pronounciation, or did he really not know what it meant?

No, she knew about the rest in peace thing, but didn't connect it as something we'd say...it was used something like this:
Teacher: you did that one wrong.
Student: oh, rip.

[StrikerEZ he/him]

2 minutes ago, A Budgie said:

No, she knew about the rest in peace thing, but didn't connect it as something we'd say...it was used something like this:
Teacher: you did that one wrong.
Student: oh, rip.

Yeah, I gotchu. That's what I meant. Guess I just didn't phrase it very well.

Also, it's weird how I instantly think of it as rip, not r-i-p (the first being the word rip, the second saying each letter). I wonder how we started using the shorter version, instead of the longer version.

[AngelEy3 he/him]

58 minutes ago, StrikerEZ said:

Yeah, I gotchu. That's what I meant. Guess I just didn't phrase it very well.

Also, it's weird how I instantly think of it as rip, not r-i-p (the first being the word rip, the second saying each letter). I wonder how we started using the shorter version, instead of the longer version.

I feel like that teacher... Rip. 

[Sunbird she/her]

I have birb pictures from Saturday =D

Red-winged Blackbird:

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Bullock's Oriole:

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Fun fact: Orioles and blackbirds are in the same taxonomic family!

Killdeer:

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White Pelican:

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This pelican's body was facing away from the camera, but he had his head turned around 180 degrees and his bill buried in his back feathers. XD I found it amusing.

[Mestiv he/him]

I always translate RIP into Rest in Pieces when it's used outside the funeral /graveyard context. Too much games when I was young I guess

[A Budgie she/her]

@Sunbird biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrbs!

[StrikerEZ he/him]

@Sunbird

From now on, I shall only use the word 'birb' when talking about birds.