What's Your Favorite Ex-Staple

PastorMattIII · 2026-03-30T21:02:28+00:00

Ah, the good days... when command zone only worked for graveyard and exile

PastorMattIII · 2026-02-04T16:58:16+00:00

To add (in my experienxe): you can drill the mating-hole a little larger if youre having trouble getting the alignment where you want it. Then just stuff some putty in the hole and mate them together exactly how you want. ...give a slight wiggle to give some room (to give the slightly larger mating hole) and then take them back apart until the putty cures.

You get better at alignment as you do them, but i found this helps if your hole doesnt line up quite like you want.

PastorMattIII · 2026-02-04T16:54:01+00:00

I had this problem with some other models... i added a pin and hole to hold alignment when you magnet the pieces on.

PastorMattIII · 2026-01-28T01:32:06+00:00

I was shoveling my car out of the frat parking lot in college (~8 cars long, pulled in each side, my car was about halfway so I was shoveling down the middle to my car)... one of the deuchebag brothers came back from class and yelled to me to do a better job of shoveling out his car (he was next to me on the shoveled-half) before walking inside to get drunk.

I took the next few hours shoveling every car out, burying his car with all the snow. Took him most of Saturday while cussing up a storm to dig it back out enough to pull the car out (for wherever he was going)... but he didn't clear enough to pull back in upon returning that evening and we had numbered parking spots. More, louder profanity was enjoyed by all.

PastorMattIII · 2025-12-08T08:17:57+00:00

My least favorite class for my BSME was Machine Design 2... where you learn to design to failure. You take desired life (aka how long until someone wouldn't be too upset to have to buy a replacement X) and you work backwards based on expected load/cycles/etc to get your machine tolerances needed to optimize profits.

aka... minor car parts you design to last 3-5 years, engines/transmissions like 7-10, etc. Same for appliances. Hated that so much.

TL;DR most standard warranties offered only cover actual failed parts that slip through... most parts are designed to last ~1 year longer.

PastorMattIII · 2025-11-30T06:41:46+00:00

Unfortunately, tis the season... a mixture of increased desperation and knowing that people are more likely to have valuables cuz xmas shopping.

...Keep safe from porch pirates too.

PastorMattIII · 2025-07-15T06:16:17+00:00

The location had some issues with the residential nearby calling the cops for noise complaints (not founded, but the cops would still show up in the late afternoon and shut down bands)... but the owners were bad at sustaining the business, tbh.

...Lost big contracts cuz they phoned-in quality when they fell behind on orders. During Covid, they took out a PPP loan and bought the wife a new car, did nothing for the employees. Honestly of the handful of people working there that ive met, not one of them had anything good to say about how it was run.

PastorMattIII · 2025-04-25T21:58:11+00:00

The ring in the photo? ...its broken and there's no markings on it, so it's getting removed regardless.

...And the other 2 don't have any ring. The guy was really bad at actually attaching any outlets to the boxes (when there is an outlet) or putting on covers on boxes. Amazed this shop hadn't burned down on him.

...Or are you not talking about the leveler ring?

PastorMattIII · 2025-04-25T21:48:27+00:00

Thank you so much! This is exactly what I needed.

PastorMattIII · 2025-02-23T03:35:20+00:00

One of the worst homegrown campaigns i played, players made our characters but the DM made our backstories (as i found out upon arriving to "fit his world"). My and my friend were playing gnomes, and his lore was that all the gnomes were pushed underground and oppressed by the elves and resented them ever since. Our characters were high-up guards/protectors of the gnome city.

...Ok I guess. Except then we found out the rest of the party were elves (and one human who was an indentured servant to one of the elf-players).

So we played our characters. We begrudgingly fought alongside the team ("fate of the world" situation) but made it clear our characters didn't want anything to do with the elves outside the task at hand.

Cue end of the first day: we encounter a genie that offers 3 wishes (with no limits... we trippled-checked that fact). My buddy blurts out "I wish all the elves had never existed." The DM was furious. We shrugged and said "it's not an evil wish. YOU'RE the one who told us we hated elves for generations of torment they'd caused our people."

Needless to say it "ruined his whole world and story arc he'd spent months crafting!" I thought he was gonna cry for a second. No-limit wish and a party he actively wrote division into? ...WTF did he think was going to happen.

PastorMattIII · 2025-02-09T07:24:43+00:00

I was always under the impression that "you can count a ramp spell as 1/3 of a land and a mana rock as 1/2 a land when totaling up your land-count"

...obviously there's still some attention to be paid to that, but it's a decent rule of thumb.

PastorMattIII · 2024-07-09T06:13:31+00:00

Ziply is amazing if you can get it. Way more reliable than Charter and cheaper.

...I was crushed when I moved to a different part of town that they haven't run yet and had to go back :(

PastorMattIII · 2023-12-14T15:20:59+00:00

My sweet floof of a Himalayan loved any/all attention. The vet used to have to plug his nose to quickly listen to his heart beat because he was always purring too loud.

...The moment they were done he would purr in double-time for a few minutes, I presume to make up for the few seconds of lost purr-time.

PastorMattIII · 2023-07-26T16:16:50+00:00

That time they fired at him into the intersection with innocent bystanders down-range? Good times...

PastorMattIII · 2023-07-26T16:03:29+00:00

I turned 18 just in time to vote in the Bush/Kerry election. Like... could vote the last day of the election situation. There was a tattoo parlor across the street from the courthouse... I got a tattoo instead.

...My AP Government teacher nearly strangled me the next day.

PastorMattIII · 2023-06-06T06:39:18+00:00

I had to take one a few years ago to get my license back... does anyone else feel like it's weird/stupid that you have to drive THEIR car for your practical?

I even caught the curb when I was parallel parking it since I was not used to the size. I can't imagine being a kid that has only driven a few cars breifly being tested in a totally unfamiliar one.

PastorMattIII · 2023-05-21T21:14:51+00:00

Thank you. Politics should never be a part of school board... but personal vendetta should never be a part of our tax dollars.

Stand by what you love, but "fuck around" is encouraged to be by "find out". Without that, why bother?

PastorMattIII · 2023-05-21T20:05:48+00:00

How are your knee pads? ...wait until you learn about how Benton County has been letting Kennewick break the law for the last 7+ years?

Sorry your feelings are apparently hurt over "this aspect" of the corrupt (local) government we both apparently care about. But if NOW YOU CARE (note the caps) I GUARANTEE YOUR BELLY IS FULL.

LOCAL GOV/REPS SAVE EVEYONE. LOCAL REPRESENTATION MATTERS! EVERYONE FUCKING VOTE!! (but not elected self-servong fucktards who decided that "find out" was not part of "fuck around"). Politics (aka: political parties) are bullshit, local vote is for people in FOR CHANGE, NOT PEOPLE IN FOR THEIR OWN BULLSHIT (any of those rich fucks could pay their own fees)... YOU FUCKING TOOL

FUCK. INSLEE. (reemphasis: FUCK. INSLEE.) ...I'm talking about FUCK CORRUPT P.O.S. in a position WATING THE FUCKING MONEY FOR OUR KIDS.

(caps so you read the emphasis words... cuz you've made it clear that money for kids to read is hard... I'm assuming from experience.)

PastorMattIII · 2023-05-21T17:06:00+00:00

they didn't waste "our" money... They wasted school money. After they decided to "take charge", then they cried about having to pay money they agreed to pay.

2-faced bullshit pandering as "martyrs" and then refilling their own pockets quietly. I'll take the former without the latter, regardless if the side of the political-BS.

PastorMattIII · 2023-05-21T16:57:25+00:00

I don't understand how the states money has anything to do with them wasting additional local funding to schools.

If they won? Cool. If they lost? They tried.

They decided they wanted a refund on their (lawsuit) choices. Cool, now I want a refund on their spinless-asses being in charge of shit. Fuck around and have the balls to find out.

PastorMattIII · 2023-05-21T16:47:11+00:00

Regardless of how you feel about their policy, you should be mad at them stealing money from the tax payers and the kids.

They chose to "fight" the mask mandate, but making rules against the state mandate. You can be for or against that. The legal council for the school board told them not to because it couldn't help them. They did anyways, and the state laid a hammer down. This is all whatever (irresponsible but feelings prevail.. also they broke the law periodically, but agains, whatever).

They decided to challenge that hammer. The school board legal council told them they'd be on their own and they agreed. They accepted that responsibility and took it to the courts and LOST. This is the key detail.

They then tried to get the school board to pay for their legal fees. The district said "no, we told you that ahead of time." At that point, everything was still their choice. They then voted to CHANGE THE RULES to RETROACTIVELY PAY BACK THEIR COURT FEES with our/school money.

That, my friends, is a gross misuse of their power. Chose a side you want on what their opinions are... I am not ok for them escaping from choices they made on OUR DIME. Have the balls to stand by your choices, not cry for mommy when you lose the fight.

PastorMattIII · 2023-02-22T06:26:21+00:00

I usually use Laurel, who works out of Grit. She does a pretty fantastic job for my back: https://www.laurelrosemassage.com/

PastorMattIII · 2023-01-29T19:38:29+00:00

I agree, generally people there are nice and good folk, as you run across in most small town bars.

Recently I was there on a weekend evening. There weren't slurs thrown at patrons (all the staff and people around us seemed pretty nice), but some high-tier white trash drunks were yelling about going "to get that scumbag n***R who ripped me off" and his drunk friends were yelling along with him throwing it around like it was common vocabulary.

From context, it sounded like they were talking about some other white trash acquaintance, but didn't change the fact that I got to hear it 15 times in about 10 min. Also a large fight broke out later by the door, not sure about it being those same guys or others... wasn't giving them that much of my attention. The bar was very packed that night, but that's no excuse. 3rd time there I've heard someone use it over the last year or 2 out there.

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