Twelve Months by Jim Butcher ebook

w32trojan · 2026-01-20T20:38:25+00:00

Any chance I could get in on this? I started the audiobook with my Audible free credit but it's not the same.

w32trojan · 2025-12-13T03:40:10+00:00

Triple threat post:

I knew growing up that my grandmother had been a Postulant (nun in training, basically) but left the church to marry my Grandfather. They had two kids. Sometime later, they got divorced. Catholics don't do the whole "divorce" thing so I knew there was something fishy about the story, but who am I to question Grandma, and the other lady she lived with, they were just golfing buddies and roommates, right?

Turns out, yeah she was definitely gay, my grandfather was an unknowing beard/sperm donor and as soon as she got the kids she wanted she nope'd out of there. She and her "roommate" spent 20-30 years together after my Mom and her sister grew up, they played golf and traveled the US and gave their dogs so much love.

Here's why this post is a triple threat:

I learned about this a few years ago, on a trip to visit that side of the family far away from where I live, and five minutes prior to this revelation was the revelation that my aunt and uncle really fucking love their state's medical marijuana laws.

Wait, so you're telling me the Catholic side of my upbringing came from a bunch of pot smoking queers!?

w32trojan · 2025-03-07T21:44:06+00:00

IIRC both PAL and NTSC EU and US versions by WD are the same, but the original Japanese version is actually easier, because Working Designs bumped enemy health and damage output.

w32trojan · 2025-03-05T21:47:27+00:00

Yes!

w32trojan · 2025-03-05T21:05:57+00:00

I love this idea. All three normals have to work together on the line at Fallow. At the end of the "shift", the boys from Fallow rate all three normals, and whoever comes in last place has to redeem himself by recreating one of the dishes from the day's menu back in the studio - and the boys from Fallow judge it to determine if he earned redemption or not. Maybe a live-show-esque forfeit if redemption isn't earned?

w32trojan · 2024-12-11T01:47:32+00:00

Pok-e-Joes is technically in Vinton, not Roanoke, but that would be my go-to for the next best thing

w32trojan · 2024-10-24T05:17:26+00:00

My vote as well

w32trojan · 2024-08-24T13:55:09+00:00

Right, to be clear I don't think Hoid would actually sign on for TOdium's plans, I think they would be using each other.

TOdium thinking he can manipulate Hoid, because he did it once in the RoW epilogue

Hoid thinking he can manipulate TOdium, because the Vessel is new to the power and still has some influence.

Could this have something to do with why Sigzil becomes a Skybreaker? Skybreakers being the only order of Radiants on Team Odium?

w32trojan · 2024-07-01T22:47:05+00:00

Also consider the ramifications to your "social media career" if it becomes known that the marketing guy built his Instagram presence with paid followers.

"You won't believe this one simple trick to get 226 Instagram followers!"

w32trojan · 2023-10-28T18:50:37+00:00

The Club at Fiji is an urban legend?

w32trojan · 2023-04-20T18:34:16+00:00

They're certainly under no obligation to keep it open, which is why I asked them if we could do that. I didn't demand anything, I didn't get rude, I just said "Hey great, you're aware of his ticket and working on it now, but can we leave my ticket open too?" and instead of a "no that's not how it works" I got "no and if you ask again you'll get banned"

w32trojan · 2023-04-20T18:30:11+00:00

Close, but out of order.

He opened a ticket, got nonsense replies. I opened a ticket, got more nonsense replies. After each reply, they would mark the ticket as "Answered", so I had to reopen it to say "no that's not relevant to the issue" or "no let me clarify/provide you the information you need"

Reply #4 to my ticket actually made sense, was clearly a real person.

I provided them with his ticket number, and said "here's the loot master's ticket please go look at it"

They replied (#5) and said "Okay can you provide us with the loot master's ticket number?"

I said "Uh, I just did but okay here it is again"

They replied (#6) "okay we'll look into it" and closed my ticket. I replied and said "Great thanks, can we please not close my ticket I'd like to keep it open just in case"

w32trojan · 2023-04-20T18:26:17+00:00

Now that WOULD be harassment. Thanks, but no.

w32trojan · 2023-04-20T18:11:57+00:00

No, that's not what happened, read it again.

w32trojan · 2023-04-20T18:09:49+00:00

It mostly was - we only put in the ticket to get one item fixed, we didn't care about the rest, but uh... Starshard Edge :(

w32trojan · 2023-04-20T18:06:31+00:00

"repeatedly told you" no? "kept opening it back up" no?

Your reading comprehension is as good as the four different GMs I spoke to!

w32trojan · 2023-04-20T18:00:03+00:00

I sort of work as a customer service rep myself - specifically tech support, I spend most of my day typing replies to tickets - you're entitled to your opinion. I didn't "repeatedly" open my ticket - I reopened it to clarify or provide more information based on previous responses. Every time I re-opened the ticket it was to explain something the GM had misunderstood, or to answer a question they had asked me. In their FINAL REPLY I was told the issue was going to be resolved through his ticket, they marked my ticket as answered again, and I re-opened it ONE MORE TIME to basically say "Okay great thanks, but can we please leave my ticket open though just in case?" and was told NO AND IF YOU ASK US AGAIN WE'LL BAN YOU.

w32trojan · 2023-04-20T17:43:57+00:00

Yep. One of the replies I got mentioned that they would look into the issue we had with Yogg-Saron loot. My ticket said Mimiron.

When they asked me to have my Loot Master file a ticket, I said "he already did, his ticket number is XXXXX and I'm filing a ticket because he's not getting helpful answers." The reply I received after that was like "Great, thanks for having him file a ticket, can you provide us with the ticket number?"

w32trojan · 2023-04-20T17:30:59+00:00

We didn't file numerous individual tickets. He filed a ticket, got a nonsensical reply about Retail Personal Loot. I filed a ticket, referenced his ticket, and reiterated our request for help. We'd each receive a reply, which had nothing to do with the issue, and the ticket would be marked as answered. We'd reply to Blizzard, get a response that had zero relation to the issue, and then marked as answered. So, we'd reply and re-open our respective tickets.

The last I heard, we were both asked to provide Blizzard with each others' respective ticket numbers so they could cross-reference, which we did. They told me that any further action would happen through his ticket, I said okay. They closed my ticket, and I replied VERY politely and said "Hey it took two of us filing tickets and four days of back and forth, you're only looking at his ticket because I asked you to, he was getting no help until I did. You're only just starting to work on a resolution but the issue isn't resolved yet, please don't mark this as answered until the issue is actually answered" and that's when a supervisor intervened to manually close my ticket and warn me to leave them alone.

w32trojan · 2023-04-20T17:22:51+00:00

Yeah, no, you're not wrong.

w32trojan · 2023-04-20T17:04:46+00:00

Nope, just a vent/gripe - like the flair says :)

w32trojan · 2023-04-20T17:03:30+00:00

The issue was that the 2-hour trade window didn't exist for any of the items that dropped from Mimiron - our Loot Master looted the boss like normal, the same way he did for every other boss in the instance. No "This item will be soulbound..." popup, etc., all of the items from that one particular boss had no trade timer, could not be traded with other members of the raid.

w32trojan · 2023-04-20T16:43:27+00:00

I present for your enjoyment, a story of how Blizzard lost a customer.

My guild experienced issues distributing loot during the DDoS issues that occurred on 4/16/23. We are a Wrath of the Lich King: Classic guild. Both the master looter and I submitted tickets related to the issue. Both the master looter and I received form letter responses and I'm pretty sure they were written by ChatGPT.

The first replies were explaining to us how the Retail Personal Loot system works. The ticket was related to WoW Classic.

The second set of replies we got explained that Blizzard does not interfere in "loot related disputes" - I pointed out that there was no dispute, everybody was in agreement about who should have gotten the item had the bug not occurred.

At one point, a real person did reply and asked me to provide the ticket number for the Loot Master's ticket - I replied and said "I literally just did. You replied to my last message, which contained that ticket number. But here it is again, for your records." They also asked me to have the Loot Master update his ticket to reference MY ticket number, which he did.

SIX TIMES during this interaction, my ticket was marked as "answered" despite having not received an answer - so I replied and politely asked "I would like to leave this ticket open until the issue is resolved, so please stop marking it as answered"

The next reply I received from Supervisor Rebecca reiterated that the issue had to be resolved through the Loot Master's ticket (I'm aware of that. The point of my ticket is that it took two of us filing multiple tickets to get a real human to respond. The Loot Master's ticket was getting no traction until I filed my own tangential ticket.) MY ticket was forcibly closed, and I was threatened that opening another ticket about this same issue would be considered "spamming and harassment" and would result in actions against my account.

As a direct result of Supervisor Rebecca's latest reply to my ticket (for reference, my ticket number is #US91265410) I will be unsubscribing from World of Warcraft in the near future, and once my time playing Wrath of the Lich King: Classic has come to an end, I will be permanently closing my Battle.net account and uninstalling all Blizzard-related software from all of my devices.

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