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  1. Ratina

    Looking for a professional medical opnion RE: MS and Spinal Taps

    Appeal is open and last I heard the insurance company hired an 'Independent' doctor to contact my doctor and he's playing the phone game (the guy refuses to set a date/time to have the conversation, but calls random days expecting my doc to drop everything to talk to him). Saw my GP today...
  2. Ratina

    Board Games

    My group finished Pandemic Legacy this friday (took us 5 sessions), totally worth the money even w/ no replay. 2 of us are probably going to buy it again and play it w/ a different group.
  3. Ratina

    Board Games

    The base Pandemic actually handles that well enough on its own, with only 2 people drawing cards you go through the deck slower and the cards don't get spread around as much so 4/5's happen easy enough. The neat thing about P Legacy is the charaters are consistent regardless of players. My...
  4. Ratina

    Board Games

    it would be fine, we've been doing 3-4 depending on who's over. You have a pool of characters to pick from once you see the board layout and know the objectives. If you like Pandemic i highly highly recommend, just come back and post when the floor drops out from underneath you. My whole group...
  5. Ratina

    Board Games

    My gaming group is about halfway through Pandemic Legacy and holy crap its fun. Describing it as playing in a movie is pretty accurate.
  6. Ratina

    Looking for a professional medical opnion RE: MS and Spinal Taps

    Saw Dr. Magoo, showed him the doctors note i wanted him to write and the MS-Society's template i based it off of. He read it and got cagey, said how it was hard to prove fatigue because its all boils down to taking my word for it. I pointed out how when I started seeing him as a patient I...
  7. Ratina

    Looking for a professional medical opnion RE: MS and Spinal Taps

    Yeah, I never lie to the doctors, health is #1. Got Magoo'd but I learned my original diagnosing doctor opened up his own practice so I will see him Monday.
  8. Ratina

    Looking for a professional medical opnion RE: MS and Spinal Taps

    Unfortunately my Neuro is kinda Mr Magoo. I had a good Neuro but he retired, the new guy who took over at the same practice I did not like so I went to this new one right as all the paperwork started to need to be filled. I am afraid to go to another, more cognisant, Neuro because I am afraid...
  9. Ratina

    Looking for a professional medical opnion RE: MS and Spinal Taps

    i know you're right, its just all i've researched about the grimey shit they can pull. I want to make it clear I wont be taken for a ride.
  10. Ratina

    Looking for a professional medical opnion RE: MS and Spinal Taps

    I don't think the diagnosis is in question they just claim I could still do my job.
  11. Ratina

    Looking for a professional medical opnion RE: MS and Spinal Taps

    Posted this on Reddit too, a neuro responded with some good stuff. "This is rather confusing. First, lumbar puncture is not required for diagnosis of MS if there are enough clinical and radiographic criteria along with no reasonable suspicion for a mimicker (lupus, neurosarcoidosis, etc). I...
  12. Ratina

    Looking for a professional medical opnion RE: MS and Spinal Taps

    yeah! ive got some reading to do. thanks tons everyone! I sent the report of the Tap results to Prudential (literally a paper from the Hospital with those 4 words in the results area), they never said another thing about it. I read the denial and it only said Cytology Neg. So its fair to...
  13. Ratina

    MTG thread

    Thanks! Original idea was Forgemasters and Metalworkers taking Chalice's Trin's and Tangle Wire's and using factory/workshops/smokestacks to create Loadstones and Blightsteels, with Karn and Bosh acting as foremen holding Staffs of Nin and Domination. Artist did a sketch of this and I liked it...
  14. Ratina

    MTG thread

    Had to share my new playmat for Legacy MUD.
  15. Ratina

    Looking for a professional medical opnion RE: MS and Spinal Taps

    I suffer from MS and the severe fatigue that sometimes accompanies that disease. To make a long story short, my doctors and employer agreed I should go out on permanent disability to preserve what quality of life I still had. I was just denied LTD benefits from Prudential whom my employer has...
  16. Ratina

    Mr. Robot

    I'm thinking the sister and the blond are the same person. The few times they have interacted it feels like the same awkwardness of Elliot / Mr Robot. It might be that the whole family is nuts and Tyrell is an Uncle or something.
  17. Ratina

    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    I'm runnin around as Tigtaco if yall need a port.
  18. Ratina

    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    This sucks. We planed a LAN party to play p99 with some friends tonight. We petitioned a head of time to see if it would be ok (the whole IP exemption thing). We were told it was fine, to premake the accounts and and log them in once each and petition again 72 hours before the event. We did...
  19. Ratina

    Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

    DBL PST
  20. Ratina

    Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

    I always felt the first movie had an interesting link to Beyond Thunderdome. That family they hide away with (was it his wifes?) with the shotgun toting old lady and the man child. I want to say that's why he doesn't kill Blaster in the arena, its either the same guy years later or it reminded...
  21. Ratina

    MTG thread

    Serum Powder was there to be a crutch, i figured extra chances to get an early lock hand. Actually never used it in the 1k. Today's weekly event's list is closer to what I won the GPT with, but with a splash of red 4 Chalice of the Void 4 Trinisphere 4 Metalworker 4 Grim Monolith 4...
  22. Ratina

    MTG thread

    Thanks man. but it ended up being a 4.5 suck fest. 1-4-1 and my win was cause the guy didn't show. I value hands with early locks but I don't always pick the right one for the deck i'm against. I need to get more aggressive with mulligans I think.
  23. Ratina

    MTG thread

    Taking this list to a Legacy 1k tomorrow, i think its my list for GPNJ next week. Doom Scraps 4 Chalice of the Void 4 Trinisphere 4 Metalworker 4 Grim Monolith 3 Lotus Petal 4 Serum Powder 1 Scarecrone 4 Daretti, Scrap Savant 3 Goblin Weilder 2 Trading Post 4 Scuttleing Doom...
  24. Ratina

    MTG thread

    Nice lookin power!
  25. Ratina

    MTG thread

    the bounce spells just added to his storm count lol
  26. Ratina

    MTG thread

    we have the Ex rookie of the year... lol
  27. Ratina

    MTG thread

    Like I said, i play other formats strictly for fun. Legacy is a different beast. Maybe because no one around here will play it just to play (I cant get people to test w/ me even if I offer scotch!), they only want to play when there's value. There's a weekly ($10 for 110% credit to top 4)...
  28. Ratina

    MTG thread

    Thats what EDH, Draft, Kitchen Table, and League are for. Legacy is the only format I go to a store and pay cash to play. I like that's its all about the win. No one in my play group plays Legacy. They get my Ratoffering EDH deck to play against.
  29. Ratina

    MTG thread

    Legacy is the only format I play, it helps that I have a giant pool of cards to build from. I love making people quit and Legacy is the only format i feel I can be a total ass and get away with it. (i would play with Demonic Attorney if i could!)
  30. Ratina

    MTG thread

    MUD 4 Lodestone Golem 4 metalworker 4 kuldotha forgemaster 4 chalice of the void 4 trinisphere 4 grim monolith 2 scuttleing doom engine 2 lightning greaves 2 staff of domination 2 coervive portal 2 platinum emperion 1 blightsteel colossus 1 steel Helkite 4 cloudpost 4...
  31. Ratina

    MTG thread

    Yay! Won my first tourney. A GPT for NJ (whoot 2 byes!). Man its fun to go on a winning streak.
  32. Ratina

    MTG thread

    Boettcher is a local player. There's a lot of butt hurt on the local MTG FB group. I'm GP NJ bound tho! (go MUD!)
  33. Ratina

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Went back about 20 pages looking for this. Please help a brother out!
  34. Ratina

    Continuum

    First season was subtle, this one beats you over the head with it. At first I thought that it was a new darker timeline but, as Raes says, that's the Kiera from the original timeline so that don't make sense. Still enjoy the show however
  35. Ratina

    Continuum

    I don't like how in the first few seasons the future government was only hinted at being Orwellian so you could accept that the main character was a good guy. But in season 3 its almost comical how bad they make the government and it makes her look stupid for "believing in the system" or...
  36. Ratina

    MMA Thread

    A coworker of mine is working on a Fantasy MMA website. Its still in Alpha but hes looking for people to help test it. If you have a spare 5 mins hop towww.cageworldwide.comreg and make picks for tonight's fight. Maybe I can get him to post tits (they would be his tits, but the rules are...
  37. Ratina

    EVE Online

    Aww crap, I re-subbed. I blame watching the alliance tournament.
  38. Ratina

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Can anyone caption this for me? maybe 'Drive Thru Banking, Youre doing it wrong' or 'Hey, the sign said drive thru banking.' This idiot was running from the cops in an SUV through busy city streets... Edit: I suck at cropping apparently... http://onebit.us/x/i/xg1fgKrEXM.jpg