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Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow -- Gabrielle Zevin By the end of this year, I don't know that I'll be able to order everything I've read like Kyle does, but I'm giving serious thought to a Top 10. And this book is sure to be on it. I started the book and got: best friends since childhood, one ma...

Kyle wrote: ↑Thu May 25, 2023 8:49 am Correct. Also, it turns out that I'm 100% that bitch.

How did this get here?

I have both. Go small to start. More versatile.

My first hand Zelda experience ends with A Link to the Past, 30 years ago. Which was fantastic and which I played with your husband extensively. Since then, I have Zelda'd vicariously through my children who consume the games voraciously. They're pretty cool.

Phoebe wrote: ↑Wed May 24, 2023 5:22 pm The word "recently" inspires curiosity but also not my business.

DNA test.

Phoebe wrote: ↑Wed May 24, 2023 5:42 pm
Akiva wrote: ↑Wed May 24, 2023 2:01 pmTina Turner

Right?

The Mere Wife -- Maria Dahvana Headley This is the modern reinterpretation of Beowulf that I was getting to. It may be the best book I have read this year. This is all about monsters and mothers and mountains, and it is epic! Epic. That's plenty of information... now go read it!! If it's been a min...

Okay... I just Googled celebrity Kyles, and of the top 20, I only recognized 2... Kyle McLaughlin from Twin Peaks, who was the only famous Kyle I could think of, and Kyle Gass of Tenacious D, who I forgot was a Kyle.

Did you go, Kyle? It's only a little over an hour from you. You could have participated in all sorts of cool Kyle related festivities. Celebrity Kyle panels. It would have been awesome.

Pass the Pigs is an awesome game. It's an easy ice breaker, because it's cute and funny and easy to learn. And it's a press your luck game, so it's addictive to some personalities. I keep this in my stable of games that I use for people who look like they're overwhelmed by their first time at Game N...

Yeah, all that counts. Professor X can beat a lot of powerhouses simply because they have no defense against his psychic powers.

Not 100% sure, but I think Superman's only vulnerabilities are kryptonite and magic.

Yeah, 2 I suppose. But it sucks to see that lethal violence still isn't allowed.

I'm ready to be done with this one, but I similarly appreciate the experiment. I'm very interested to hear what you started it with.

But if I gave it a plot and a map and a cast of characters... maybe teach it to use random encounter tables... but even then, how do you get it to handle the unexpected? I think the AI could eventually be a great mechanical GM, in much the way that 20+ years ago Hauze raved about Icewind Dale (or wh...

I'm having a tough time here. In the beginning, it was cool, because I imagined that there was a plot. But there wasn't. We keep finding ourselves in weird puzzle spaces that we only solve by making up solutions and telling the GM we escaped. It's presented like a puzzle, but the pieces don't actual...

I'm in!

She was created with mirrors and shadows, so the illusion won't hold up once you enter broad daylight.

The School for Good Mothers -- Jessamine Chan Holy jumped up Christ! This was brutal! Every mother's worst nightmare, but played out in horrifying slow motion. Frida is a divorced mom who has one very bad day, and her child is removed from her custody. If she ever wants to regain custody, her only ...

Sure. 1.

Mike says, "Clearly, whoever did this to us... whoever kidnapped us and drugged us and kept us for the last two weeks... whoever this person is has also messed with our phones. It doesn't matter. There's a police station near here. We'll get there."

Mike says, "Tahlvin, you still have that box, right? I say we go to the police. This is clearly kidnapping, and I assume we were drugged, and... Oh God, our families have to be SO worried after all this time." He pauses, his mind pulling him in too many directions at once. "Let's call...

Yeah... Dresden came heavily recommended to me a couple decades ago, and I read two books (I think), and by the end of the second, I was just tired of it. I don't remember much, except that I remember thinking that magic was fickle and it's workings seemed so incredibly plot-dependent that it felt l...

"But first," Mike adds, holding up his phone again, "Let's see if we have reception now that we're out." He waves the phone around, "Huh. Still nothing, but it's probably these buildings. I bet reception's better put on the street." And with that,he is leading the way t...

Definitely 2.

"Give it a shot," Mike says. "And make sure we all stand clear in case anything falls."

Mike is trying to figure out the best way to exit this courtyard and get out in the open. They need to get somewhere they can look for familiar landmarks and try to get their bearings. Are there walls around it? Fencing? More buildings? Is there a gate or door? If walls exist, are they scalable?

I go with 2. This is the point where we seek out Sam Jackson or Harvey Keitel to help us out.

Do that.

Well shit. Had a busy day and now there's too much to read. I'll catch up on this in the morning. Sorry.

He was in shock when he realized what was in the box! Make sure you watch til the end!

Yup. The wounded fend for themselves.

So how does free energy affect agriculture? Can we set up free energy hyrdro farms? People complain about the use of scarce land to create farms, so they become vertical? Initially in large, automated structures like skyscrapers, but then also underground facilities as well. How does free energy af...

I'll wait for the answer to this one.

Okay, you twisted my arm. The dippy boxes tap into quantum effects that draw off energy directly from the expansion of space-time and convert it to electrical power (or whatever). So technically, every all of the energy created is slowing the local rate of expansion of the universe, but A. it's a ne...

I say now is the time to step in. I fear our story will disappear if we sit idly by for too long.

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Of course, now we'll be murdered by mob enforcers.

YOLO?

Fucking excellent though. This response was one of the better ones. I'm interested to see if it will build those restrictions into future responses or if it took it as a one time thing. Having it freeform an adventure really highlights its creative limitations, but if Paizo took an already finished ...

Mike has the same instinct as Tahlvin, immediately pulling out his cellphone to get a signal. Now that he has had time to think, the last day Mike remembers is Friday, April 28th... Arbor Day. Mike had the day off--Arbor Day is an official day off for Nebraska state employees. He remembers throwing ...

Superman destroys Wolverine.

In fact, the problem here is that Superman is the guy to beat. The other matchups mean little (except that they're fun to discuss). Unless someone here is guaranteed to have kryptonite, then the only real possible contenders are Captain Marvel and Dr. Strange.

I don't help anybody without knowing what's in it for me.

I also just now discovered it was made into a movie in 2016. I am going to try to watch it. I've seen the movie. I thought it was okay. Don't know how it compares to the book. It's been awhile, but my recollection is that it didn't quite live up to what it could have achieved. But don't let that st...

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk -- Ben Fountain The year is 2004. Destiny's Child is performing the halftime show at the Dallas Cowboy's Thanksgiving game. Billy Lynn is one of the eight surviving members of "Bravo Company", army infantry war heroes brought back to the states for a 20 cit...

Just a note that seeing "Big Oil" and "Big Solar" side by side like that made me queasy, knowing that if Big Oil wanted to they could buy out all of the solar industry using one half of one percent of their annual revenue. But that's just a me thing and irrelevant to the discussi...

What about Iron Man vs. alcohol?

The players say they want to open the door. The GM dramatically describes the opening of a door without revealing what's on the other side. I'm trying to think of a rule for that to explain that when the main characters (Mike and Tahlvin) encounter a new area, the AI has to describe what they can se...

The trio stands there and surveys their surroundings. They will take no other action until they know what is beyond this exit door.

I don't think Chat GPT knows what it's talking about.

That’s a tough one, since Iron Man and Deadpool are both incredibly powerful and have different sets of abilities. Iron Man has his high-tech suit that gives him unbelievable firepower and flight, while Deadpool has a unique healing factor that allows him to regenerate from almost any injury. Howeve...

Sarah is next to Tahlvin as he opens the door, and Mike is a little behind, watching the shadows for clues... or danger.

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Kyle's the tiebreaker!!

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