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Re: Dark Shadow's Surprisingly Well-Lit Random Banter #217
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Originally Posted by
Hazyshade
That stupid R. Look at it. Look at it with its stupid dangly leg. Gaaah.
Yes, it just... stands there. Mocking us. Mocking us! :smallfurious:
I prefer Book Antiqua. And love Courier New for the typewriter style.
Although "Bohemian Typewriter" looks much cooler.
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Re: Dark Shadow's Surprisingly Well-Lit Random Banter #217
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Originally Posted by
lacco36
Yes, it just... stands there. Mocking us. Mocking us! :smallfurious:
I prefer Book Antiqua. And love Courier New for the typewriter style.
Although "Bohemian Typewriter" looks much cooler.
I prefer Century Gothic myself.
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Re: Dark Shadow's Surprisingly Well-Lit Random Banter #217
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Originally Posted by
Hazyshade
I would be on board with that. I hate Arial. Or more specifically, I hate Arial being used for any purpose other than the one it was designed for, which is very small print in Proper Case. On signs and in all caps, it is so much worse than Helvetica in every way. It looks like someone just learned how to use Microsoft Word 97. That stupid R. Look at it. Look at it with its stupid dangly leg. Gaaah.
I'm actually quite partial toward Arial. I find it sleek and simple. That said, I have absolutely no typographical sense beyond "fonts which look like any kind of handwriting shouldn't be used in serious contexts", so my taste is dubious at best.
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Originally Posted by
lacco36
I prefer Book Antiqua. [...]
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Originally Posted by
factotum
I prefer Century Gothic myself.
Neither of these are installed on my browser, so they just appear as Times New Roman to me...
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Originally Posted by
lacco36
[...] And love Courier New for the typewriter style.
Courier New is my go-to font for programming, where having a monospace font is a must.
(Did you know that some installations of Eclipse default to a kerned font in its factory settings? It looks horrible!)
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Re: Dark Shadow's Surprisingly Well-Lit Random Banter #217
I tend to default to Times New Roman, though I don't particularly like it. I do enjoy Arial, funnily enough. Also whatever font my browser is currently displaying for the forum, though I'm not sure what it is. Verdana?
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Re: Dark Shadow's Surprisingly Well-Lit Random Banter #217
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Originally Posted by
factotum
I prefer Century Gothic myself.
Every knit-your-own-coffee emporium has its twee knick-knacks priced in Century Gothic Bold lately. Yarn: £6.50. Annoyed cat: £3.75. It's Hipster Futura.
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Re: Dark Shadow's Surprisingly Well-Lit Random Banter #217
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Originally Posted by
Hazyshade
Every knit-your-own-coffee emporium has its twee knick-knacks priced in Century Gothic Bold lately. Yarn: £6.50. Annoyed cat: £3.75. It's Hipster Futura.
That font is bad, and whoever uses it should feel bad. I typically use Times New Roman or Book antiqua Also, Hi everyone! It has been a while! I'm working retail now and am about to start an online bachelors program in the spring semester through Clarion University, it's way north of Pittsburgh. BS liberal studies with an English concentration. Also have been running a 5e campaign with friends, am eight chapters into the novel I'm writing, and am also in a 3.5 campaign with the same group of friends I game with and one of my friends is DMing.
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Re: Dark Shadow's Surprisingly Well-Lit Random Banter #217
There is only one song I know of that fits all of the necessary criteria to be an "old school classic" and that is The Wheels on the Bus go 'Round and 'Round.
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Re: Dark Shadow's Surprisingly Well-Lit Random Banter #217
Finland is a lovely country. Not a whole lot to do, though.
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Re: Dark Shadow's Surprisingly Well-Lit Random Banter #217
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Originally Posted by
Comrade
Finland is a lovely country. Not a whole lot to do, though.
That's because you didn't stay on the bus!
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeands...station-theory
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Re: Dark Shadow's Surprisingly Well-Lit Random Banter #217
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Originally Posted by
factotum
I prefer Century Gothic myself.
I'm pretty on board with Calibri, although I still have a soft spot for the Palatino line of fonts.
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Re: Dark Shadow's Surprisingly Well-Lit Random Banter #217
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Originally Posted by
Knaight
I'm pretty on board with Calibri, although I still have a soft spot for the Palatino line of fonts.
Palatino ftw!
I have been increasingly not on board with Calibri since it became the default Microsoft Office font and it started appearing on millions of black-on-white A4 printouts sellotaped to glass doors saying Please Contact Facility's for access Outside 9:00-18.00am. But it's a step up from Arial in that regard at least.
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Re: Dark Shadow's Surprisingly Well-Lit Random Banter #217
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Originally Posted by
Comrade
Finland is a lovely country. Not a whole lot to do, though.
Uh. Ok then.
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Re: Dark Shadow's Surprisingly Well-Lit Random Banter #217
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Originally Posted by
Comrade
...Not a whole lot to do, though.
When there's nothing else to do, then you dance, drink, and..... something else. Spoiler: Just ask William Shatner
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Re: Dark Shadow's Surprisingly Well-Lit Random Banter #217
Alas, I don't drink, and out of mercy to the people around me, I generally avoid trying to dance.
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Re: Dark Shadow's Surprisingly Well-Lit Random Banter #217
I am banned from dancing in at least 4 countries, plus 2 that technically don't exist. Not counting micronations.
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Re: Dark Shadow's Surprisingly Well-Lit Random Banter #217
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Originally Posted by
HalfTangible
I am banned from dancing in at least 4 countries, plus 2 that technically don't exist. Not counting micronations.
My dancing is the reason one of those countries doesn't exist :smalltongue:
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Re: Dark Shadow's Surprisingly Well-Lit Random Banter #217
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Originally Posted by
Hazyshade
My dancing is the reason one of those countries doesn't exist :smalltongue:
The funny is strong with these posts. I haven't danced, ever. Actually skipped the only school dance I could've gone to by faking sick. It didn't sound fun anyway being that it was a no contact dance at my horrible special education school.
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Re: Dark Shadow's Surprisingly Well-Lit Random Banter #217
My credit card company has this thing where if they think a purchase is suspicious, they send me an email to ask if I did this.
"Did you just spend $30 on RPG books?"
Yes, yes I most certainly did.
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Re: Dark Shadow's Surprisingly Well-Lit Random Banter #217
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Originally Posted by
WarKitty
My credit card company has this thing where if they think a purchase is suspicious, they send me an email to ask if I did this.
"Did you just spend $30 on RPG books?"
Yes, yes I most certainly did.
My dad currently lives in Russia for work, so every month or so our credit card will get cancelled and we'll get a call telling us that someone's stolen our card.
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Re: Dark Shadow's Surprisingly Well-Lit Random Banter #217
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Originally Posted by
WarKitty
My credit card company has this thing where if they think a purchase is suspicious, they send me an email to ask if I did this.
"Did you just spend $30 on RPG books?"
Yes, yes I most certainly did.
That's pretty cheap for RPG books. Used ones I'm guessing or PDFs?
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Re: Dark Shadow's Surprisingly Well-Lit Random Banter #217
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Originally Posted by
Solamnicknight
That's pretty cheap for RPG books. Used ones I'm guessing or PDFs?
Humble Bundle PDF's.
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/warhammer-rpg-books
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Re: Dark Shadow's Surprisingly Well-Lit Random Banter #217
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Originally Posted by
HalfTangible
My dad currently lives in Russia for work, so every month or so our credit card will get cancelled and we'll get a call telling us that someone's stolen our card.
He hasn't told that to the bank? When I moved abroad I immediately contacted my bank so tha they knew.
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Re: Dark Shadow's Surprisingly Well-Lit Random Banter #217
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Originally Posted by
FinnLassie
He hasn't told that to the bank? When I moved abroad I immediately contacted my bank so tha they knew.
That doesn't mean it actually got through.
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Re: Dark Shadow's Surprisingly Well-Lit Random Banter #217
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Originally Posted by
FinnLassie
He hasn't told that to the bank? When I moved abroad I immediately contacted my bank so tha they knew.
Oh trust me, we have. :smallsigh:
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Re: Dark Shadow's Surprisingly Well-Lit Random Banter #217
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Originally Posted by
HalfTangible
Oh trust me, we have. :smallsigh:
Are you using it both from Russia and from wherever the rest of the family lives?
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Re: Dark Shadow's Surprisingly Well-Lit Random Banter #217
Oh, that was a great week at the worlds larges beverage trade fair!
Now I know what kind of abuse my body can take while my mind still stays intakt, with me still acting as a respectable businessman.
Had the chance to taste some 54€/bottle beer, as well as a very fine Old Masters 1500€/bottle Havana Club rum and found both very very impressive.
I´m a friend of classic cocktails, so I was pleased to taste a barrel aged (Havana Club, 3 years, 50l) Vespa and an Old Fashioned based on Ryoma and salted caramel.
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Re: Dark Shadow's Surprisingly Well-Lit Random Banter #217
I know the feeling. This weekend I worked at an international craft beer festival with over thirty different kinds on draft.
We had some fun finishing the open kegs.:smallamused:
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Re: Dark Shadow's Surprisingly Well-Lit Random Banter #217
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Originally Posted by
Dallas-Dakota
I know the feeling. This weekend I worked at an international craft beer festival with over thirty different kinds on draft.
We had some fun finishing the open kegs.:smallamused:
Braubeviale and Drinktec function a bit different. For example, every major hops or malt supplier is present and wants to showcase their product (in action).
Using Bavaria Mandarine (Hüll) as an example, that means they did each of the major beer styles using that one hop, so you could sample a Pilsener, Helles, Lager, IPA..... whatever using that kind of hops.
U.S. Hops and Yakima Chiefs went a different route and brought one craft beer showcasing the strength of one of their hops each.
In addition, every manufacturing plant company tried to showcase one of their major craft brewer customers.....
All in all, I´d guess we had over 3000 beers on tap and I managed to sample roughly 400 of them.
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Re: Dark Shadow's Surprisingly Well-Lit Random Banter #217
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Originally Posted by
Dallas-Dakota
I know the feeling. This weekend I worked at an international craft beer festival with over thirty different kinds on draft.
We had some fun finishing the open kegs.:smallamused:
HOLY CRUMBLE ON A STICK, IT'S DALLAS-DAKOTA! :smalleek::smallbiggrin:
How are you? Almost didn't recognise you due to the photobucketalypse.
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Re: Dark Shadow's Surprisingly Well-Lit Random Banter #217
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Originally Posted by
Florian
Braubeviale and Drinktec function a bit different. For example, every major hops or malt supplier is present and wants to showcase their product (in action).
Using Bavaria Mandarine (Hüll) as an example, that means they did each of the major beer styles using that one hop, so you could sample a Pilsener, Helles, Lager, IPA..... whatever using that kind of hops.
U.S. Hops and Yakima Chiefs went a different route and brought one craft beer showcasing the strength of one of their hops each.
In addition, every manufacturing plant company tried to showcase one of their major craft brewer customers.....
All in all, I´d guess we had over 3000 beers on tap and I managed to sample roughly 400 of them.
Very impressive! Sampling 400 beers? How long did this go on for?
The festival I worked at was a locally organised one so in a way different size category but it had a nice quality to it all the same.
It focussed on special beers, mainly IPA's instead of ''regular'' beers like Pilsener and Helles. Also despite being locally organised we had about seven different kinds from the USA.(Now I know what Grimbold drinks, ha)
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FinnLassie
HOLY CRUMBLE ON A STICK, IT'S DALLAS-DAKOTA! :smalleek::smallbiggrin:
How are you? Almost didn't recognise you due to the photobucketalypse.
I'm still around, occasionaly. :smallwink:
Pretty decent. Life is a bit chaotic due to getting too little hours at my current/old job but it opens my time up for some freelancing. For example this week there was the craft beer festival I talked about and the week before that I was bartending at the first class/floor section for two Metallica shows. I miss the financial stability a bit but in the end getting paid to work at these kind of events is pretty awesome.
How are you?
Also, yeah, I still haven't figured out how to fix that. I found some of my old avatars on Photobucket where they seem to work fine but when I try to use them as my profile picture they just link that Photobucket image.