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But I don't WANNA LARP.   

The very fact you learned 4e instead of 3.5 will brand you as an annoying newb pretty much forever.   

B-b-but when I asked someone about getting into it he gave me the 4e rulebook to look at.   

I used to own a 3e rulebook and dm guide but I never ended up picking either up.

Bump, since I figured this was a good venue for my post.

I've been really wanting to get into D&D recently, for the first time.  I've read through and mostly digested the 4e rulebook with hopefully a solid enough grasp on the material that I could create a decent character and make it through a play session without being too much the annoying newb.  Anyway, I don't know very many people who play and the local hobby shops don't seem to run consistent games.  I was wondering if anyone had tips for how to find more players (like a forum someone know of for that purpose), or if anyone here is starting up a game looking for some players.  I'm in the *REDACTED* of *REDACTED*, seemingly close to many here.

[killing off writers they wished to discuss]

Breaking news: PD.com book club busted by FBI as assassination ring, due to a ban on discussing living authors devolving into a deadly business of killing off writers they wished to discuss.

In that case, I nominate The DaVinci Code.

DaVinci's already dead, stupid.

I declare the first book club experience a smashing success.

I say get the fuck out of dodge.  You clearly don't respect this girl very much, save her the trouble of having to learn that later on.

http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/

I don't know if anyone has checked this out before.  It's all quite disconcerting.

Squid, don't worry too much about eating healthy.  If you do it long enough and then go back to a fast food joint or something you'll just shit yourself so much that you'll never make that mistake again.

never seen pesto made with kale.
interesting.

When your Farmer's Market CSA is more or less filled with Kale, Chard, Arugala, and Kohlrabi, you need to figure out new tricks.  Plus, you can freeze the pesto for off-season.

Never see enough anything made with kale.  It's delicious, a nutrional wonderland, and grows almost all year round, yet so rarely featured in recipes.

The dish looks pretty tasty.

*REDACTED* traffic.  Fuck *REDACTED* traffic.

That's a shame, since the author is posting in the thread.

I'm glad I caught that.  It did make me go back and reread what I'd posted, just to be on the safe side.

Oh, I get it now.  The intent was to refrain from commentary on the book until it's all over?  My bad.

I will read anything I don't have to download.  Can't do it at work.

I try to be careful with caffeine.  One dose a day, 99% of the time in the form of coffee.  I'll drink it daily for about a week or so, then stop for two to five days and get back on again.  I don't like the physical dependency aspect but I goddamn love coffee, so this is the nice little system I worked out.

I'm getting pretty frustrated with the fact that every time I try to write a coherent post or e-mail someone I get interrupted three or four times through and completely lose my train of thought.  I don't remember where a paragraph or even sentence was going and I have to end with some half cocked piece of what I intended to say.

Yes, I'm really tired of my work interrupting the things I do when I'm supposed to be working.

Organic food - not that awesome.  Big organic industrial farms aren't much of an improvement over big non-organic industrial farms, especially for the cost.  If you can find it, you're better off eating a local non-organic vegetable than you are an organic one shipped 5000 miles.  Of course, local and organic is pretty ideal.

I toured a certified organic farm whose practices were less healthy for their land and the food than most of the non certified places.  Certification costs money, and a smaller farm might very well be organic in all but name.  Not all certifications are the same as well, so one agency could essentially say that as long as you put in your best effort to be organic, you are organic, in the event that organic seeds or pesticides aren't available to your farm.  The place I toured would grow it in *REDACTED* and sell it at farmer's markets in/outside *REDACTED* at an insane price, then turn about a 150% profit over non-organic farms.

Dumbledooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooore!!
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

(humor me here)

He plays a big role in the last book even if he's gone.  So you'll either see him in flashbacks or just lots of dialogue about him.

This movie was definitely the most beautiful of the lot.  The shot where Harry was getting dragged under water by the inferi was gorgeous, as well as Snape and Harry facing off at the end.  I agree about the Quidditch match, it was way more exciting than any of the other movies.  It really gave a contact sport feel to it, with them flying in formations and colliding.

I ended up seeing it quite willingly with my girlfriend on Friday, then had a surprise viewing thrown at me with a bunch of friends on the cape two days later.

They made some bad choices with what they did and did not include.  The bridge collapse at the beginning was needless and probably exorbitantly expensive, which they could have used for an actual battle at the end.  I got pretty Pottertard about it.  I'm surprised to hear about the lack of enthusiasm for this book, I thought this was one of the best.  The mystery about the potions book was really dark, especially after the Sectum Sempra incident, and Harry chasing Snape out of the castle is one of my favorite interactions from the whole series.  I really liked the ambiguity of whether or not Snape was correcting Harry as he deflected his spells or if he was mocking him or both, which the movie missed entirely.  The movie even had that weird bit where Snape told Harry to shush up in the astronomy tower, pretty much giving away his affiliation.

I can't say I'm upset about it because even though I've seen all the movies they haven't ever done much for me.  They've been fun or interesting, and watching how some of the actors tackle their roles is great (Helena Bonham Carter is an excellent Bellatrix Lestrange), I just don't hold them as a high priority.  Meh.