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[Magni Prime]

The biggest issue with my youngers how different she is from everyone else in my family. She's an extrovert, loves to be around people and have a massive social presence. The rest of us enjoy being quiet, and staying close to home. Thus it's like oil and water. We love each other, and there's the seed of a good person in there. It's just difficult when she is so radically different than us. As for my older, the school requires two years residency. So for at least two years she's going to be up there and living in New York. It's going to be hard on me, but I fervently believe she's going to absolutely flourish there. We have visited the campus twice now, and both times it was very comfortable for her. I really do think she's going to do well.

I never did get a chance to play the original. That said, I enjoyed the tabletop version. As for the balance between camp and emo, let's face it. The game is nothing but that in a nutshell. The game offered some super powers, but it was essentially a political and drama play. How they're going to pull that off without BioWare level of dialogue, is going to be difficult.  

[Magni Prime]

Incompatibility. That's a good word for it. I love her, she's my girl, but let's face it, she is just completely against everything I know to be. With her older sister leaving, we've still got about 3 years in this house together. What she's done from high school, we're going to move. Who knows what'll happen in those years.

The distance is about four and a half hours by car. Not something that's beyond reason, but not something that can be done easily. The funny thing is, by train or bus it's an 11-hour trip. Hard to believe that it's more than double the amount of time to take public transit than to just drive.

I greatly enjoyed playing vampire the Masquerade. It was a fun game, and it had some interesting aspects to it. A lot of it was political power play, and let's face it, the vampire powers really didn't do much in a combat situation. With the exception of one or two, they were all essentially role-playing tools. Turning that into a video game will always be tricky. I kind of wonder if they're going to have an option to make everything super edgy and dark, Supreme edgelord version. Might as well Pander to your audience, right?  

[Magni Prime]

Don't worry about it old friend . . . I have had a hell of a week myself. Took the car in for a few minor fixes and inspection. Ended up being over a thousand dollars, and then one of the brakes fell off. O F F, fell off. The car has since been back in several times (for free), and it still isn't right back up to where it was. The catch is, I don't really know if I want to take it back to that chop shop. When I am driving and the brakes fall off and lock up because they forgot (or chose not to) tighten a bolt, all trust is gone. That was it, too. I found the bolt on the ground. One bolt. ******** insane. so now the car acts a little funny, but I have no faith in the guys that will fix it. On the other hand, i don't have the money to take it anywhere else . . .

I played V:tM tabletop, and it was a lot of fun . . . just never managed to get around to the digital version.  

[Disturbing Tale Teller]

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[Magni Prime]

Hey, Goosey. *gluggles*  

[Magni Prime]

Mechanically, my car appears to be okay. Nothing is falling off or making weird noises except for a slight squeak from what I think is the breaks. It's nothing I can't live with. What upsets me is that now all the problems are electrical. The door locks repeatedly lock over and over again whenever I turn the engine over until I put it into gear. The cruise control is gone. The traction control likes to go away. One of my tires is now having new problems with the air pressure sensor, a new tire not the one that got fixed. All of these problems are electrical or having to deal with sensors. That garage reprogrammed my car no less than five times. I'm convinced that they screwed up a fair number of other systems, but I'm not taking it back to them to screw up even more. Unfortunately, I'm out of money. So I'm just going to have to live with these little quirks for now. As for fixing their own mistakes, that's part of the reason I'm not going back. The new ownership has you sign a piece of paper saying that you approve of the work before you get your car back. In my mind, unless I'm mistaken, that's them covering their a** for when things go wrong that they either sabotaged, did crappy work on, or just flat-out decided not to look at. I am not trusting anything that I have to sign a piece of paper to say I approve of their job before I even get to see how bad they screwed up. I'm done with them, and I'm doing all in my power to spread the word that you cannot trust that garage. Usually I'm not so vindictive. This time? They deserve it and I don't care.

I miss gaming. Even just tabletop or playing a game that I have. I've got one I believe it's called forbidden island that's a Cooperative game that really was fun. Trouble is I have no friends in real life to play games with. I've got plenty online, but none that I can have over for a meal and a game.

Without a doubt avatar The Last Airbender is one of the best animated things to come out in the last 20 years. It has a wonderful Arc, character development, a decent story, and good animation. I'm glad you're getting to enjoy it with your nephew.  

[Magni Prime]

I saw Endgame tonight....wow. truly epic!  

[Magni Prime]

Mierf.

I haven't looked in here in so long, I'm surprised. For years I've been trying to get away from this site oh, but I couldn't find anything better for me. I can't say I found something better yet. And yet even I have to admit that the site is dying.  

[Magni Prime]

I'm old. My older daughter just got her high school diploma.