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[Magistrum]

If professionals fail to do this it doesn't mean it's impossible, it means that individual is unprofessional.

I think this is a good summary. We know you won't be perfect all the time. We demand you to be perfect all the time.

We all fail, but we all have expectations of perfection around our occupation. Everything else is not supposed to be the active constant safeguard measure, we as operators are.

[ggamer]

I mean, we live in a society

[Frumple]

I maintain that if the gun is properly retained and handled (finger off the trigger) it cannot go off, this is my argument that you can safely wear your firearm with a round in the chamber, hammer cocked, and the safety on,

Like... okay, but that's just kinda' wrong. Those things do make it safer, but not safe. Shit happens, and about the only way you can be sure an otherwise functional gun is not going to fire is if it isn't loaded. Full stop. There's no guarantee for anyone that they're going to be able to keep a firearm pointed in a safe direction in case of an accident.

We accept the risks for certain roles, and ideally provide the resources they need to mitigate them as much as possible, but that doesn't mean they aren't there (or a civilian can actually meet similar standards of mitigation, for that matter. Big ol' difference between being fed for keeping up to standard and having to feed yourself while keeping up to standard, et al).

E: ... any case, yeah, like basically every single bit of firearm training I've encountered over the course of my life have been pretty clear on transporting loaded firearms, with the directive about as clear and consistent as pointing it at something you don't want to die. Don't. Don't do it. The same alcoholic with a history with organized crime that taught me how to make pipe bombs when I was a pre-teen even repeated and was consistent on that one.

[JoshuaFH]

I'm gonna eat a can of pears that have been in my fridge for two years now. I'm sure canning lets things last for a long time, but I'm not sure how long. 

[Doomblade187]

I'm gonna eat a can of pears that have been in my fridge for two years now. I'm sure canning lets things last for a long time, but I'm not sure how long.

if you canned it, no.

If it's factory canned and not expired, feel free.

[pisskop]

Expiration dates are rough guidelines, usually synonymous with 'sell by' dates.

I am fairly certain they just math up a timeline based on when 4.4% of [product] will make ferrets sick when force-fed after [ x ] many days.


P: And TIL how to make bbcode bullet points.

[Descan]

I´ve noticed that after the first few centuries in worldgen the number of necromancer towers tends to stabilize, regardless of how many actual necromancers are there.

I think the reason is that early necromancers get gods-given knowledge directly and found towers, whereas later necromancers just find a master to teach them and move in with same.

In the 5000 year timeline I did get some (scarce) new towers, so it´s not totally impossible, though.

Modern necromancers just can't save up enough skeletons to move out of their masters tower. Damn this economy.

[Egan_BW]

You'd think it would be easier, what with all the silly mortals dying constantly. Unfortunately, they seem to hoard the bones inside crypts and such. Quite rude, really.

[Descan]

It would be nice if one of the Necro-Villian-Plots was 'convert an area/town into a dark citadel to spread my EEEEEEVIL!' for tower-less necromorphs.

[Frumple]

You'd think it would be easier, what with all the silly mortals dying constantly. Unfortunately, they seem to hoard the bones inside crypts and such. Quite rude, really.

Clearly they need to reanimate the crypts, then. All the bones plus a nice crypt golem-thing, too.

...

... there's actually a web/light novel series that sorta' rolls with that. Death Mage Doesn't Want to Die a Fourth Time, or somethin' like that. At one point the protag basically haunts the architecture of an entire town and orders it all to walk off.

[hector13]

I appear to have done some unpleasantness to my back, without really having done anything.

Perhaps I need a new seat.

Ah well, my wife stuck her elbow in it and I feel better for the time being. Hopefully I don’t wake up unable to move tomorrow.

[MrRoboto75]

You'd think it would be easier, what with all the silly mortals dying constantly. Unfortunately, they seem to hoard the bones inside crypts and such. Quite rude, really.

Clearly they need to reanimate the crypts, then. All the bones plus a nice crypt golem-thing, too.

3.5 D&D had an undead monster that was basically a giant animated humanoid graveyard.  Dirt, Gravestone, Corpses and all.  I think it could release corpses as undead minions, or just grab people and 'bury' them in its mass.  I can't remember what book or name it had though.  Closest I could find was a graveyard golum in Libris Mortis, which is just animated dirt.

There was also the corpse collector, a golum of sorts specialized in gathering corpses after big battlefields.  Big iron humanoid that carries dead bodies by just impaling them on spikes on its body, mainly the back.  Monster Manuel 3, I think.

[Tack]

Backs are temperamental creatures. If it gives out on you once, you’ll notice it forever

[pisskop]

Step one:  Buy this.
Step two:  Place on ground with at least 3 feet of open smooth floor in any direction.
Step three:  Lie on back, with roller resting perpendicular to your body at about neck height.
Step four: Push 'up', moving the roller down your back in a slow motion.  Try to push your spine into the roller, and lean to either side as it hurts or feels good.


Absolutely recommend using a roller for muscle pain in the back.  I use it for my neck as often too, since Im down there.

[Doomblade187]

Care to explain why you use Yahoo search, Pisskop? :3

And ooh, that sounds relaxing.