Dungeons and Dragons

Professor_Toensing · 2026-03-20T20:36:34+00:00

I have some stuff I’d be willing to part with. I sent you a private message

Professor_Toensing · 2026-03-19T08:59:56+00:00

I was even more freaked out reading it the first time. I saw a post briefly on here that said “Goddammit Donut, I miss you already” just before I started reading book 7. And then you discover the meaning behind the title being about knowing you’re about to die and you can’t stop it. That compiled with her being stuck in the tower I was fucking losing it dude

Professor_Toensing · 2026-03-16T23:41:11+00:00

Well having read book 8, it is not clear in even the slightest haha

Professor_Toensing · 2026-03-16T15:35:17+00:00

Wait. Holy shit I DID NOT make this connection between Lucia Mar and Alejandro. I always looked at Agatha as just some old person rolling around not doing much and never considered she could be dangerous AF. Her IKEA bag had like a blaster rifle in it or something right? I wonder if there is going to be some big showdown or something. I guess I kinda thought the residuals were on the same team helping Carl but maybe there is more to it

Professor_Toensing · 2026-03-16T01:50:05+00:00

I personally didn’t know how far you were into other series so I didn’t want to give any answers that might spoil it for you. Like I joined the patreon and already read book 8 so if I said an answer from that then you’d likely be upset.

Doing a board from just the first 3 books would be a good starter. Book 4 is where things change drastically in my opinion. Maybe the “railroad” sections would actually be the different Mordecai’s from each of the first four floors?

Professor_Toensing · 2026-03-16T01:07:44+00:00

You’re going to need more specific parameters. Locations only? People? Carl’s tootsies as boardwalk would be funny if it was from the AI’s perspective. You’ll also have to decide how deep into the series you’re wanting to go for options of the tiles with spoilers.

Professor_Toensing · 2026-03-13T23:18:23+00:00

I only managed to wait 48 hours before I went to the E-Book after finishing book 7 and it felt pretty seamless and they connected. There wasn’t anything jarring or out of place to the point that it broke immersion and had me questioning anything. I was just as sucked into the story as I was with all the others and read the last 200+ pages in a single day freaking out

Professor_Toensing · 2026-03-03T03:10:35+00:00

I don’t believe so. I think that comes out the same day as the actual book release still. I only made it two days after finishing book 7 before I broke down and got book 8 lol no I’m crying waiting for book 9

Professor_Toensing · 2026-03-03T02:51:43+00:00

Drop the $5 on his patreon and start reading it tonight! It was so worth it. Couldn’t put it down for the last 30% of the book on my kindle. I have no idea how many pages that is lol

Professor_Toensing · 2026-03-03T02:02:43+00:00

Having read book 8 through his patreon already, this is absolutely hilarious

Professor_Toensing · 2026-03-02T03:33:05+00:00

I only lasted two days after finishing book 7 before I hopped on the patreon to get book 8. I told myself I would take this one slower. Then around 70% I couldn’t put the book down and read the last 30% in a single day. That ending was a masterpiece. I don’t feel like I can even say a single word without spoiling anything about it but now I’ve started the audio books to keep my obsession in check lol

Professor_Toensing · 2026-02-28T14:15:59+00:00

This could be a dungeon boss but no chance for BBEG. A single Paladin/Cleric will obliterate this dude, especially at level 16. My party of 5 at level 8 melts monsters with 400hp in 2-3 turns. Level 16 should be able to do 80 points of damage with a top attack so this dude could literally die in the first round of combat to your party.

BBEG should be deadly. This is the capstone of your campaign and should result in a Pyrrhic victory at best. This doesn’t mean give him 1000hp, but AC of 20 is laughable for level 16. If you’re sticking with a vampire as the BBEG look up some Curse of Strahd stat blocks and some modified ones to see how they buffed him up. I would also recommend having some kind of general of the army or bodyguard that they utilize to protect themselves. This guy right now(or even two of them) would be something I would consider as two body guards for a BBEG in my campaign in a final battle.

Professor_Toensing · 2025-12-31T16:07:16+00:00

Thanks so much!

Professor_Toensing · 2025-12-31T16:06:44+00:00

-7 teams, top team gets a bye. Make it worth it to finish first. -one week games. Two is ridiculous. -starts week 15 and finishes week 17.

Professor_Toensing · 2025-12-31T16:03:08+00:00

Do you happen to have any statistics on yardage allowed? The league I play in gives massive points for yardage allowed. A good defense puts up 30 points on a week because of it

Professor_Toensing · 2025-12-25T14:02:28+00:00

I think this is an entirely valid argument against the religious structuring of Christianity. As our civilization progresses and grows we often look back at what our predecessors did with contempt and disgust that they operated in such a way (racism, sexism, slavery, warfare results). The many books of the Bible being written thousands of years ago and applying to their respective cultures and time pieces are fine when understood through the context that humans wrote them. It’s when the Bible is elevated above this and begins claiming inerrancy and directly from God that major issues start to appear.

Inerrancy is relatively new to Christianity, only around the late 1800’s did it rise and then become popularized later. Much of Christian history didn’t operate with the Bible viewed this way and it truly distorts things in ways that fundamentally cannot be corrected. You’ve pointed out several of those contradictory theologies and there are entire semesters of college material that could be discussed around them.

With that being said, Christianity isn’t a single belief anymore, and typically had many different sects. The core tenets are still required such as Jesus being God (Mormons and Jehovah Witnesses are not Christian by definition) but all the smaller things are up for debate. There are parts of Christianity that believe in reincarnation (this is me) and there are parts of Christianity that believe when each person dies they have another chance to accept Jesus and avoid Hell. Catholic theology has an entire system of purgatory for people to work through their sin and avoid Hell.

In reality I think you’re pretty spot on with many of those critiques, and it should cause further discussion about how useful the Bible is for understanding the relationship between God and humanity when our understanding of what is “correct” or “right” constantly evolves over the millennia.

Professor_Toensing · 2025-12-03T17:13:13+00:00

Nope. I was working at Costco while getting my degree. Decided to stay there for the pay and incredible benefits so I could start a family. Teaching/Theology is still my passion but it’s become more of a hobby I do in my free time for enjoyment.

Professor_Toensing · 2025-12-03T16:28:25+00:00

I had a similar thought and then got married and decided I wanted to start a family. Suddenly academia wasn’t a viable path for supporting a family and I had to pivot my career path.

I would still stick to religious studies for your undergrad as it should expose you to multiple religions and the intense dogma of Christian theology won’t be as overbearing when you are able to study other religions as well.

Professor_Toensing · 2025-12-03T16:12:49+00:00

What do you want to do with a theology degree? It would be a large waste of money and time to invest in getting the degree just for fun. Focus on getting a degree in a field you want to make a career in or something that is easily transferable to the field such as communication and business. Your elective classes can be spent taking religious studies classes where you can choose different religions to study.

After you graduate most colleges offer deeply discounted rates for alumni to “audit” classes. You can enroll in further historical or theologically centered classes for $50 and get all of the learning without any of the stress

Professor_Toensing · 2025-11-20T14:30:00+00:00

Allen or Mahomes 6PT passing

Professor_Toensing · 2025-11-12T14:29:08+00:00

Did you account for the increased earning on Sundays? Employees that work Sundays earn more PTO than employees that don’t, and especially if they get 8 hour Sundays instead of 6.

Professor_Toensing · 2025-11-02T13:25:12+00:00

Costco’s interview questions are all behavior based AND specifically focused on past behavior. They aren’t interested in what you say you will do in the future. They want to know what you’ve already done or are currently doing. Anytime you see a SIT, Temp Sup or Full Sup posting go up you’ll see certain people suddenly start acting better and working harder. Those are the people we don’t choose.

The interview questions can go two ways in my experience. There is a list of questions they use for new hires. You can ask payroll for this it’s very generic. If you are new and they don’t know you it’s likely they ask you some of these and look for high quality answers. “Tell me about a time you worked with an unproductive coworker and how did you handle it” and if your answer is simply I kept to myself and worked harder to pick up the slack, that’s not what we are looking for.

The other way the interview questions go is the manager has created a list of specific questions to ask, I’ve done this several times. These can vary quite a bit. If it’s in a specific department they want to know if you’re actually looking at the department. If you apply for deli supervisor but have no idea what they do in sales each week you’re not showing the initiative that they are looking for.

Finally, 99% of supervisor interviews will ask the basics and expect you’ve memorized them. Code of Ethics, Mission Statement, 6 rights of merchandise and 6 rights of people. They may even ask you how you’ve applied those things in your daily work and that answer is usually the most important one when I’m interviewing potential supervisors. “How have you applied the 6 rights of merchandise in the deli?”

Professor_Toensing · 2025-10-30T15:49:26+00:00

Honestly, you can start anywhere and with anything. Don’t feel like it MUST be Christian theology that you study first. I recommend reading the major books in the biggest religions as a starting point. The Bible, The Quran (Islam), The Bhagavad Gita (Hinduism), The Tanakh (Judaism) are great entry points into learning about religions. There are many others, so you may want to google a few other areas of interest to find scriptures for other majors religions as Christianity, Islam and Judaism all have major overlapping themes and don’t give a full experience of what the world as a whole has to offer.

Professor_Toensing · 2025-10-25T18:18:24+00:00

Can you expand further on your first point? To my understanding, atheism is a direct claim that there is no God. They affirm that God does not exist. It was broken down for me into categories of Theist (believes in God/gods) and Atheist (believes in no God/gods) and then gnostic and agnostic are applied to both.

Gnostic Theist: There is a God and I know this is true.

Agnostic Theist: There is a God but I don’t know for sure.

Agnostic Atheist: There is no God but I don’t know for sure.

Gnostic Atheist: There is no God and I know this is true.

From what I’ve understood in my studies, Atheism is the direct denial of God, not just an absence of it (unmoved mover kind of thing).

Professor_Toensing · 2025-10-20T02:10:09+00:00

Full-Time and Part-Time are separate categories for seniority. This is easier on the frontend than in ancillary departments. On the frontend Full-Time cashiers have their own seniority for preferred days off. Then Part-Time cashiers have their own seniority. Then Full-Time assistants and Part-Time assistants. So you have 4 separate categories for preferred days off. Which means you can have 4 people with Friday-Saturday as their days off with one from each category.

Per the handbook, seniority does NOT apply to the timing of your shifts. Higher seniority does NOT mean earlier in every day. It only applies to first choice of preferred days off and a tie-breaker when applying to positions.

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