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1.)MLP Friendship is magic (because there's sadly a reason it's banned on these forums).
[Others as they come up, but hopefully not

I would like to create an RPG Dwarf game on the forums. Doing so presents some process issues and I would like to make this process as easy as possible for myself as DM. THis is sort of a scratchsheet.

(NOTICE: All this is copyrighted so don't even try saying it's yours.)

1.) DM Issues:
A.) Representing Terrain and Areas:
B.) Using Microsoft paint or hand drawing for ease of editing and universal availability.
C.) Indicating Elevation, Items, and perhaps basic artwork/function
D.) Shared through photobucket or easily DM controllable content system.
E.) Easily replicated and reusable tilessets to indicate grass, trees, bushes, snow, stone, etc.
F.) Design of Wilderness areas to have meaningful use.
G.) Ease of posting and preparation.
H.) Not getting bogged down in rules, because rules lawyers aren't fun.
I.) Note keeping (simple enough overall)


2.) Player Issues:
A.) Sense of meaning and reason to post
B.) Sense of ability to intelligently impact game
C.) Sense of seriousness/lack of trollololololing
D.) Posting Flexibility (what happens if you're not there)
E.) Sense of fairness (especially in the absence of a huge rule system).

 3.) Design Feature Issues:
A.) Possible player actions: Choices, even bad ones, can make a game worth it.
B.) NPC interaction with Players. While Players have choices, so do NPCs and those can impact the players. The world does not revolve around them.
C.) Handling player ability to impact the world. Updating maps and notes, having those changes be reacted to appropriately by NPCs and the world at large. Action. Reaction. Counteraction, etc.
D.) Tactical Deployment. Not always possible, but perhaps.
E.) Possibility of creating areas altered by players with forts, farms, businesses, homes etc.
F.) Allies and Enemies for and against the players.

Others as they are thought up.

This thread will be based upon various things I will be working through when designing a game for possible use on these boards. Helpful comments are appreciated.

Exactly what it says on the tin.

Tried googling. Didn't come up with much more than, "press the buttons when it goes to sleep cause it's an energy saving feature."

I'm actually beginning to miss the old corded mice. Is there any way to make this thing more reliable? Can a "sleep" or whatever setting be adjusted (assuming that's even the problem)? Any ideas would be rather appreciated. Thank you very much.

So I got really depressed and finally started seeing a doctor for it in Jan or Feb of this year. I'm fine with her being an M.D. and not a psychiatrist or whatever.

I told her right off the bat that I was in an odd situation at the moment financially and didn't have insurance. She agreed to make the visits $75 cash each time for about a 45 minute to 1 hour visit.

She prescribed celexa (cito phram... however you spell it), adjusted the dosage up accordingly over time etc. The whole time, I've been an incredibly appreciative patient, paid up front in full, said thank you excessively, etc. She says she likes talking to me etc. Plus the meds are like $4 a month generic, that's workable.

So far, I feel way better on the medication than I did off it. It's not 100% but I'll take it. She seemed to like the idea of adding a new medication on top of what I was already on called Welbutrin. (however you spell that). Only problem is that stuff is EXPENSIVE, even in the generic form, it's almost $100/month. I can't afford that and I told the pharmacist that straight out.

I informed my doctor that I couldn't afford the new meds and asked if I could just keep on the old meds without the addition. In a perfect world, I would do both, but unfortunately I can't make that happen. For some reason, I keep getting told by her staff that I should see a psychiatrist. The latest phone message from them is that I can keep seeing my doctor and staying on the meds FOR NOW, but that I should make an appointment with "my psychiatrist" as soon as possible....

Is it just me or am I being nudged towards the door?
I don't have a psychiatrist and I can't afford one.   
I just want to keep seeing my doctor the way things are. No, it's not perfect, but it's wayyyy better than it was before.

Am I overreacting to this? What the heck is going on here? I don't like the staff telling me "FOR NOW" and that "You need to make an appointment with your psychiatrist as soon as possible." I don't get why they are saying this, knowing I can't afford one. I really don't see how I'm any kind of a problem patient. With one exception (because I couldn't afford the meds) I do everything the doctor tells me and I am very grateful for everybody there helping me.

A.) My doctor knows it's incredibly difficult to get any kind of mental help on a budget and has told me so. She knows county services are overburdened and have a several month long wait list.
B.) My doctor knew of my limited financial means beforehand.

What the heck is this?

As always please don't quote me

Background
So, I'm looking for a job. I've got degrees and certificates and licenses and all that crap. My areas are legal, financial and management, primarily.

Somehow, it appears the human resources people have gone nuts and even partially automated so now your resume is scanned by a crazy machine that more than likely shunts it into a black hole if certain keywords aren't there.... This is new and I do not approve.

Seems I have no choice but to use this god aweful thing called linked in that pegs you into certain categories, which is hard for me, because it's hard to explain what I do, and I can't provide many references because it's all privileged. Shit. In addition, it seems it is no longer voluntary, or rather you can chose not to do this crap but then you'll never get past the HR black hole.... I'm a very private person, who doesn't want to do this, but it seems I must. Drat. Double drat even. Meh.

Also it appears saying what you do and a short general description isn't good enough either anymore. [sigh]. Most people and HR haven't a clue what I do.

I'm a lawyer (sadly). I do a ton of criminal defense, juvenile, domestic relations/GAL (bleh, horrible), probate, wills, estates, guardianships, trusts, real estate, business law, private tort suits (suing people over crap like personal injury or stuff). I've got about three years in this plus o god, maybe 5 or 6 as a clerk before that learning ropes.

I manage talent (bands), which is waaay harder than it seems. Herding. Cats.....

I'm kind of a business adviser (ties in with the whole lawyer thing) dealing with various legal, financial, tax, management and policy areas.

I manage apartments.

I've also done tutoring, and that's just the current stuff....

I just do tons of crap, and people don't believe that I'm even a lawyer at first glance if I'm not in a suit, cause I look like I'm 20 or something and even then.... Meh.

Additionally, when applying for jobs, I often get astonished questions like "why don't you wanna be a lawyer?" [major sigh]. These people don't get what it's like to be repeatedly cussed out by people you are helping (avoiding prison etc), occasionally being punched by a client, or thrown up on by a druggy (in the middle of court once or twice, yays....). Plus just dealing with all the crap.... Additionally, I get people who think I'm somehow going to jump ship to a legal position if they would hire me for a non legal one (nopes), or worse yet, that I must be a shitty lawyer who can't hack it if I'm thinking about leaving the profession.... They should try living a day in my life, except I wouldn't be so cruel as to wish that on them.

Questions:

How do I even begin to summarize this stuff to get a job, when it seems that every job you apply for needs its own resume?

How do I know the magic "keywords" the computers are scanning for when they look at your resume (through the computer, they'd never pay somebody to read 'em)?

How do I handle checking back with job postings? Used to be, you'd call or drop by, but now it seems that's discouraged somehow in favor of email, but then they will never contact you back and you'll probably end up in a spam filter.

Ever get the idea that they've just got tons of applications and don't feel like reading any of them?

I know I'm far from the only one in this boat.

My computer seemingly for no reason turned itself off. Desktop, fairly new, etc. Ran safe mode, found virus with malwarebytes, got rid of it (I think).

Looking at Resource Monitor, I can see there is an svchost.exe hogging the CPU cycles up to 100% on task manager. I've suspended it in resource monitor, but it restarts occasionally, to hog my CPU sometimes, not sure why. I get that this is what happened when Microsoft moved from exe files to dll, and that basically this service host file is dealing with those dll files. Problem being, this is killing my computer speed.


I terminate or suspend the process hogging my CPU and things speed right up, amazingly with no ill effects. Problem: this isn't a permanent solution. Is there one?

Can I further isolate and delete whatever is hogging my CPU if that is safe, or is there some other remedy here?

Currently, two things are eating up space in my voicemail box:

1.) Collect call requests from the jail, several a day.... Filling up my voicemail inbox.
2.) Important voicemails

I need a way to record and save as audio files, voicemails from a droid smartphone. Please, if anybody has any way to do this, let me know. I really need an app or otherwise a method of doing this someway.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

 The internet has several nice, free programs. Sadly, it has several programs pretending to be these programs; they are virus programs.... .

I tried to download speedfan from a fairly legit looking site, except of course.....

Is there any site that basically has a well known listing of legitimate links to well known programs like speedfan (where you manually control you laptop fan's speed)? If not, I'd be tempted to start one, if not for the obvious trap that may create....

Ideas?