ITGuyLevi

I feel that people not following the wording kills a lot if the experience, obviously the DM is god and makes final calls but, some stuff kills it. I remember playing with one guy that wanted every fight to be epic but he didn't really understand the wording in the monster manual so he would constantly throw huge battles at us and underpower them or just play them weird (like dragons that aren't smart despite their int score). Before ever seeing level 15 our characters could have taken out God's with the gear and crap he had given us.

Fun memories though so I guess it really doesn't matter, it's all about how you like to play.

Yeah but shouldn't the order matter? My understanding was that && just said 'after the previous command, run this... ' so running upgrade before update would miss any changes changes to repos... From what I can tell update is required before upgrade (just like you have it), doing it in reverse missed a ton of updates for me.

I mean that outlook, while it's cool for your campaign, it would make raising the dead (to fight for you) pretty difficult as I thought most animate dead type spells required a dead creature to animate and wouldnt work with an object, otherwise people would just make small effigies to animate instead of summoning the dead in battle.

Personally I used to love it, if the DM did that it inspired players to play; usually whoever had theage would say something like I can't destroy what I can't see and the the fun starts... Someone throws flour from their pack at it (or dirt, oil, something to make the invisible object visable in another way).

I haven't played in over 20 years so I'm sure it's changed a lot but that kind of stuff was fun to me.

I may be totally confused but I've also always done it in that order, otherwise I feel like it would run upgrades from your cache of the apt repos (possibly hitting errors as stuff likes to change), then after it would run apt update (updating the repos).

My thought has always been update repos, then check those repos for software upgrades. I could definitely be wrong though.

First I'm 100% with you, Azure audits who set those messages and they do need to be reported.

Conspiracy time: Every furloughed employee with that message set could be considered in violation of the Hatch Act and that carries with it a possible penalty of removal from federal employment, debarment from federal employment for up to 5 years, and possibly up to a $1,000 civil penalty. I'm really hoping the plan isn't to start firing these workers from agencies the current administration doesn't like to begin with.

Take some time off my dude, it's not worth your health and being that guy will get in the cracks before you realize something is off. After taking two weeks off recently I came back to the world on fire and have started to realize I don't care that much!

I am lucky to get the time I do (It's more than most people I know) but I recently too two full weeks off to spend with my wife for our 20th anniversary, it was amazing. After I got back to work I had hundreds of emails to catch up on and so much extra work that had piled up I started thinking about all the extra work I had taken on over the years to "cover down" for people and then realized that was the most consecutive time I've taken off in the past 9 years.

I think it's time for a change. Not a job change per-se, but time to start taking time for me, my family, and my health.

I'm not a boomer but do love when my wife calls and everyone gets to hear the ever-classic 'Helo Moto' ringtone.

I've found lots of rocks in bags of beans over the years, could be a regional or economic thing too (just as a point of reference, I grew up really poor in the South). As a kid I remember pouring them out on a backing sheet to sort them, little did I realize I'd end up doing something similar as a teen with an AOL CD tin.

Haha, yes, he has played that one quite a bit!

As much as I abhor violence, precharged pneumatic (PCP) options exist. They aren't firearms, anyone can own them, and they can come with really fun features for plinking (like full auto variants and moderators so they are whisper quiet). I say for plinking but I guess I've seen them ranging from .177 cal (think bb) all the way up to .72 cal (more like a shotgun slug).

It is a beautiful hobby but you have to remember they can be deadly, typically holding around 4,300psi in their tank. Please shoot safe if you decide to go this route (not advocating for violence, a tire iron could be a weapon too).