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2 years ago ::
Jul 23, 2011 - 11:32AM
#441
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Date Joined:
Dec 24, 2004
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Melia is up again due to Dax's White Raven Tactics.
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2 years ago ::
Jul 25, 2011 - 12:07PM
#442
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Date Joined:
Jan 13, 2008
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Melia is up again due to Dax's White Raven Tactics.
I know, sorry, trying to get to it asap. Hopefully later today
Lorem ipsum dolor sit down and shut up.
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2 years ago ::
Jul 25, 2011 - 3:15PM
#443
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Date Joined:
Jun 30, 2003
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Bal, should have used this thread to ask to keep the game thread cleaner. Sorry didn't think of that. I knew that I was going out on a limb with that haste question but thought you might be wiling to call it an extra action since it grants an extra 30' to your move speed. And standing up costs a move action. Just thought of another thing what is the cost of trying the epic stand and failing?
You know you qualify as artillery when it's more effective to use divination magic to locate your targets than a Spot check.
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2 years ago ::
Jul 25, 2011 - 6:39PM
#444
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Asking doesn't hurt anything.  For the kip up, if you fail the tumble check, it costs you a move action and you provoke. (i.e. you stand up normally)
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1 year ago ::
Jan 05, 2012 - 10:34AM
#445
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Congrats on the MBA, Bal!  Naive question: do you feel it will make you better at your job? (Actually, what's your job?  )
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1 year ago ::
Jan 09, 2012 - 5:25AM
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Thanks. At the moment I'm a system analyst/administrator at a bank. Ideally, this doesn't make me better at my current job though, it makes me better at a higher paying one. That said, I have applied the knowledge/insight I've gained in my current position and it has presented me with some ideas for streamlining our systems and making them more efficient or improving upon our processes. I've tended to do that since I started in my current position though and the education generally just polished it a bit. Also, my notifications seem to have gone into remission. I'm going to have to do some manual checking for awhile.
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1 year ago ::
Jan 11, 2012 - 8:29AM
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Interesting. I'm an engineer, and I'm inclined to be skeptical towards "management" (quotes before the notion is somewhat nebulous)... [Cf. Dilbert.] ...but I try to keep an open mind about it. (Just to be sure I'm not misunderstood: no, Dilbert is not realistic. In fact my current boss is pretty good so I really can't complain.)
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1 year ago ::
Jan 11, 2012 - 4:19PM
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Dilbert is pretty darn realistic on the business side. (Though my boss isn't bad either-- by which I mean he's hands off.) I actually started in engineering while I was going for my undergraduate degree, got through the basics-- all the calculus, physics, differential equations, etc... then when I got to the "applied" math and science, it just wasn't as interesting to me. I didn't really think there was as much opportunity to make a good living in pure science though, so I ended up going over into the business school and ended up focusing on the new, at the time, discipline of information systems. For the MBA, what I liked most was strategy though, largely because it boils down to being innovative and assessing strengths and weaknesses then applying or addressing them at an opportune time. (Probably the min-maxer in me.) The issue, of course, is that most of that takes place at the executive level and I don't really have a lot of interest in going through middle management to get there. The only "people" I'm really interested in managing are the corporations themselves (each of which my government has assured me is in fact a person.) So it's either start my own business and grow it, or make the jump directly-- haven't completely decided on which to pursue heavily at this time.
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1 year ago ::
Jan 13, 2012 - 6:47AM
#449
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Dilbert is pretty darn realistic on the business side. (Though my boss isn't bad either-- by which I mean he's hands off.)
Ha! Same here. Though I suspect he'd be pretty decent even if he was more hands-on.
I actually started in engineering while I was going for my undergraduate degree, got through the basics-- all the calculus, physics, differential equations, etc... then when I got to the "applied" math and science, it just wasn't as interesting to me. I didn't really think there was as much opportunity to make a good living in pure science though, so I ended up going over into the business school and ended up focusing on the new, at the time, discipline of information systems.
"new at the time"? That may date you a bit(?), or perhaps it's me misunderstanding what you associate information systems with.
For the MBA, what I liked most was strategy though, largely because it boils down to being innovative and assessing strengths and weaknesses then applying or addressing them at an opportune time. (Probably the min-maxer in me.)
When you put it like that, I want to see you in a top manager position to watch you min-max your company.
The issue, of course, is that most of that takes place at the executive level and I don't really have a lot of interest in going through middle management to get there. The only "people" I'm really interested in managing are the corporations themselves (each of which my government has assured me is in fact a person.) So it's either start my own business and grow it, or make the jump directly-- haven't completely decided on which to pursue heavily at this time.
I like the poke at Citizens United (I try to keep current with US politics/law/news). 
Middle management is very unpalatable to me as well from what I see in my company - except perhaps low-level managers with a technical bent. I do share your interest in higher-level strategical issues... but on the other hand I have a pronounced dislike of reunionitis and I don't want my work life to take over my personal life. Unfortunately both seem a corollary of top management in most companies.
...In the end I decided to have low ambitions. ^^
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1 year ago ::
Jan 13, 2012 - 10:27AM
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"new at the time"? That may date you a bit(?), or perhaps it's me misunderstanding what you associate information systems with.
Not quite that old. Information systems have definitely been around for a good long while, but at least at the college I was at they didn't really have a focused program of study for them until a few years before I transferred into the school of business. Even then, the degree I have doesn't actually mention information systems, despite about 50-75% of my classes in the last two years being in the area. I believe now, that program actually grants at least a concentration in the subject, if not its own degree title.
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