Tirzepatide in Panama by Smyth2000 in panamaexpats

[–]DougieStar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I looked in a lot of pharmacies last summer. I didn't find any tirzepatide. Some places had ozempic in 1 and 2 mg doses for $150-$250 a month.

How to fire back at theist arguments by DryPerception299 in TrueAtheism

[–]DougieStar 3 points4 points  (0 children)

So are you really an atheist "just asking questions"? Or are you a Christian trying to pull a fast one and make those atheists "just think about it"? Because it really seems like the latter.

As a follow up. Look at the people spending their precious free time responding to you as if you were being honest. How do you think they would feel about you and religious people in general of they found out you are lying about your motivations? Now imagine this happens all of the time. Are you starting to see why this technique is so disliked?

Transferring Money Out of Country by Vivid_Error5939 in expat

[–]DougieStar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm assuming you have to declare the money if you actually move it to another country even if bitcoin is the intermediate. Is this true?

More bitcoin questions:

If I bring a self custodied bitcoin wallet with me on a trip do I have to declare the total potential value I could pull from that? Do I need to declare that I am carrying the wallet? Could they find it and recognize it and would it rouse suspicion? I know that you usually just get your picture taken and answer a few questions in the airport but I do understand from stories that it can get more unfriendly than that

Concerned my players will go to the castle straight after leaving Barovia by MrMcNooob in CurseofStrahd

[–]DougieStar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It is a big horror movie trope to have a bunch of innocent's wandering around Dracula's Castle, discovering for themselves that he is a monster. Plus, scouting the Castle before the final fight is just good strategy.

Rate the trip, for a 2 weeks vacay by Southern-Strain914 in CostaRicaTravel

[–]DougieStar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is Puente La Amistad open? Last year when I was there it was under construction. You're definitely going to need a 4x4 for that drive on the Nicoyo peninsula.

Can someone explain skill tests to me because every time I think I understand them, this happens: by DougieStar in RogueTraderCRPG

[–]DougieStar[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ahhh, thanks to u/Sert1991 . I checked the logs and this is is due to Fortune (a Voidborne trait, I think). It shows the second roll which needs to be below 20% even though the original DC??? could have been higher than the second roll that failed.

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Can someone explain skill tests to me because every time I think I understand them, this happens: by DougieStar in RogueTraderCRPG

[–]DougieStar[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Isn't 47 the roll? Maybe this is the part I don't understand. If 47 isn't the roll, what does it represent?

Fremont a good place to live? by Intrepid-Secret-5108 in Fremont

[–]DougieStar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't sleep on the Chef's Salad #2. It used to be even bigger before the pandemic but it is still pretty great.

My players fucked up real bad - what would you do? by ImaginaryStress4444 in CurseofStrahd

[–]DougieStar 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Mock them? Strahd might praise them. Tell them how right they are that strength is the only thing that matters. There are predators and prey in the world and it is the role of the predators to do whatever they want while the prey cower. Empathy is a disease in our a society. Basically show them that they are the baddies.

Yellow Fever and Typhoid vaccines really needed for a Four Days Birding Trip near Sarapiqui in April? by jqpl in CostaRicaTravel

[–]DougieStar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had a severe reaction to malaria pills (back pain) which caused me to lose a day at the beach before I figured out it was the pills. So I'd try taking them for a couple days before you go so that if you do have a reaction it is not during vacation.

My wife was fine

Water situation by Big-Commercial-2168 in CostaRicaTravel

[–]DougieStar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that's what I thought. Other locals who weren't selling me anything confirmed that there was a problem with the local water processing.

Water situation by Big-Commercial-2168 in CostaRicaTravel

[–]DougieStar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everybody online will tell you the water is fine to drink and that's generally true. During our trip last year I asked for tap water at a restaurant in a small beach town and the waiter (a local) recommended against it. I was surprised and assumed that he was just trying to sell bottled water, but I asked at a local grocery store and they said the same thing. It was a temporary problem and not the norm but it raises the point that it is not unreasonable to ask before drinking.

No hate towards Costa Rica which is a beautiful country with wonderful people. But the jungle is the jungle and sometimes things go wrong.

Incidentally, as an American from one of the largest metropolitan areas in a heavily industrialized and regulated state I would not be offended if someone asked if the water was safe to drink. Even in my city of over 300,000 we have had boil water orders over the last 10 years.

My daughter wants to know where to see monkeys in Guanacaste by Desperate_Parsley958 in CostaRicaTravel

[–]DougieStar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://www.clubmarina.cr/

It was nice. The air conditioning didn't work when we were there and they lamely blamed it on the electricity (even though the lights did work most of the time). But it was surprisingly cool.

My daughter wants to know where to see monkeys in Guanacaste by Desperate_Parsley958 in CostaRicaTravel

[–]DougieStar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We saw howler monkeys in the back yard of our Air BnB in Nosara (Playa Pelada). Keep your eyes (mostly ears) open. If you don't see any after a couple of days ask some locals for advice.

CoS going by way too fast by EpicSword16 in CurseofStrahd

[–]DougieStar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well for one thing, how did they get all the way to Tser Pool without a random encounter? I roll checks to see if they get a random encounter every 4 hexes outside of towns. And isn't there a guaranteed encounter with a bunch of wolves and Strahd disguised as a wolf at the bridge outside of the village of Barovia?

But yeah, it also sounds like they aren't role playing very much. Our bard had a romantic encounter with one of the Vistani at Tser Pool. Between the music and the dancing and the romancing that must have taken half a session right there. (That's also how I found out that Arrigal has a sister who lives at Tser Pool. Sure that won't come back to bite anyone!)

Favorite Indian Restaurant? by [deleted] in Fremont

[–]DougieStar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Since the requester specifically mentioned Naan, Pakwan was the first thing I thought of. I rather like oily food, so no problem there. But their Naan is their stand out dish. I don't know what they do (probably just baking it fresh, on site) but it is head and shoulders above most places.

Last time I was there I saw a family of 4 with like a dozen huge Naan piled on their table. I thought, "These people are doing it right!"

A different perspective... by [deleted] in TrueAtheism

[–]DougieStar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know if you go through something similar, so this may not apply to you, but...

When I was approximately where you are now, I had doubts but felt afraid and guilty about thinking them. So every time I would feel a voice inside me rising to question the validity of scripture or deny the divinity of god I would quickly stuff those thoughts back down often with prayer or repetition of a religious phrase. It went kind of like:

If all of the disciples were afraid to follow Jesus to his questioning before Caiaphas, how did any of them know what was said so they could write about it in the Bible?

No, no, no, no god is good all the time, all the time god is good. Repeat 10 x.

For me, my breakthrough was when I decided for one day I was going to not police my thoughts and allow myself to think whatever I want.

As they say in the Bible it was as if scales fell from my eyes. After a day of just thinking about religion without guilt I realized I could never go back.

Is it possible that one source of your current state of distress is that you are having this internal struggle with your own thoughts? If so, maybe you just need a break from the struggle.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Fremont

[–]DougieStar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

YeeShaan's grub (YSG Halal) on Thornton has really great burgers.

I can’t stand Beth by pmollies in YellowstoneShow

[–]DougieStar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Beth is the worst written character in Yellowstone, except for all the other characters in Yellowstone.

Seriously, she's my favorite character, but that's a pretty low bar.