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I realize that this is probably a hopeless idea but I can't help but feel quixotic this week. I'm in a regular gaming group but I miss pbp games. I would like to start a new game that is GMless and ruleless - just interactive fiction. I think we're all mature enough to play nice without a boss. If s...

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I tried this and it was pretty cool but I wound up never going back.
I found a training area that upped skills that used up your moves - I guess the limit is so you don't abuse those areas.

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So, if they decommission an airport, do the runways become ranways?

Good to see you about!

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An early Merry Christmas to everyone! Love you All.

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DMDarcs wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 7:54 pm I did have a theory that one of his parents was an old-timey gynecologist, and that he as a young child discovered some anatomical drawings, got really confused, and started Cthulu-ing.

I literally laughed out loud.

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Yea, they are often boring. It's all "Here comes the super scary thing!" page after page and then it's something a bit odd but not particularly scary. I think part of the problem is that the world has moved past him in the last century. Existentialism and accepting that the universe is cha...

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Ah shit. I gotta say that the heads of the democratic party have the worst communication skills possible to be near the top of a major country, and Biden's administration was bad even for that group. They let lies stand uncontested and rarely address complaints. Trump has been a weak and vulnerable ...

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Voted today, only 35 minute wait which is better than it has been all week. Living in a heavily democratic area in a republican states means too few voting locations.

Turnout feels very high which gives me some hope.

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Israel has proven it's willing to kill 10 innocent people to kill 1 terrorist. I'm semi-convinced that they look for an excuse to attack Gaza and Lebanon every decade or so to destroy most of their infrastructure. Much like the devastation in Yemen, this is partly about the rivalry between Saudi Ara...

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Yep. Maybe it comes down to all the amount of stuff you're expected to know to enjoy the current thing. If that other stuff isn't that great, then it's like homework. I stayed with Marvel through Endgame. I've seen a couple things after that. Most of it feels the same. If they did a 2nd season of Mo...

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Provenance, by Anne Leckie Read this book. And Leckie’s Imperial Radch trilogy. She’s superb. I've read all her novels. She's the best at intertwining the personal and the epic. It sounds like you have Translation State to look forward to. It delves more into aliens. I've been listening to the Sing...

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Like all things Apple, I've totally avoided Apple TV. But this, I gotta watch. I'll get Apple TV for a month and binge their stuff once Murderbot is out.

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And I think Mike and I have talked about it before, but the acting and narration by Kevin Free is some of the best I've heard. Really made it that much better. 2 quick things. 1. I listened the 6th Murderbot book, another novella. It's a murder mystery and the weakest of the series but still a very...

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6. The Little Hours

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Garlic butter is too runny to be a good dipping sauce. Unless you like grease stains on your shirt. Mayo is just fatty paste. I bet the people who like it were the kids who ate paste. Ketchup is alright but you can kick it up a notch by using most of the same ingredients and going with Barbeque sauc...

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I bless you all.

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OH YEA!

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Network Effect - Martha Wells. This is the first novel after a series of novellas in the Murderbot series. For a general understanding of my love for the series, go read my review for All Systems Red or any of the stuff Mike's posted about them. I've rated this book much higher than the novellas fo...

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Beautiful.

The first part demonstrates why people stuck with a geocentric assumption had such complex formulas for predicting locations.

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What Kyle said. PC games are now sold almost entirely online and have been for years. They are occasionally sold directly or through places like itch.io but Steam is the largest seller of games and manages updates, mods, etc. of the games. I've seen games sold on Amazon that are really just Steam ac...

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Typically when your population starts to age, a bulge of elderly workers start hitting the age where they can't work at the same time. If there aren't enough people in the younger generations to: (1) care for them; and (2) replace their labor-- then you run into real problems with worker shortages....

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Why is a slow population growth a bad thing? All the arguments I've heard that it's bad are about a human constructed system of physical or digital pieces of paper that we have given weight and turned into a method to trade for goods and services. Is it actually a bad thing? I'm probably at the sam...

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8.Johnny Mnemonic

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For me, very much so. Some narrators are competent but nothing special. Some are amazing, with a different voice for every character and with pacing and intonation that bring out the drama and humor. I have not read a single Ann Leckie book but Adjoa Andoh has read five of them to me. A few books ge...

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I love your version! I'm glad more sophisticated people appreciate it as well.

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For people who don't have a ton of board game experience, I'd avoid game with lots of parts that have a long set up time. Taking half an hour to set up and then four hours to play can be a bit much. There are quite a few card based games with minimal set up. King of Tokyo is like battle yatzee; you ...

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7. Heathers

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Ooh, I remember those, not sure about the precursor. Yep, those are bad, too.

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Honestly could not say whether that is worse than the four layer stack of candy would sometimes get that looked like a borg cube, about 1 inch square, with a sequence of burnt coconut on the bottom, then a layer of poop, a slightly thicker layer of marshmallow, and then Pepto-Bismol layer on the to...

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Have you tried stolen orange puffy things? no one steals those Correct. I would think less of people who have those out. I was thinking candy corn was the worst until I reminded of the existence of circus peanuts. What kind of demented, creepy circus did these things come from? I believe that peopl...

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As someone ab about to start novella 4, this is very comforting news.

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You could never be the level of asshat he is. No one on this forum could reach a fraction of that. Meanwhile, I've been unemployed for a week. It's amazing! I'd been burned out for oh so long and thought, 'what the !?#! am I still doing here.' But then the plague hit so I bided my time. Then my boss...

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SSRI withdrawal is real and can be pretty intense. I had to take someone off for a med change and it was draining. Be careful and don't make such a decision all by yourself.

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If I get rich, I'll become your patron.

I'm alternating Murderbot Diaries with other things. It's great knowing I have nice reading in my near future.

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This sounds terrible and gross except for this one part: "And what's weird is that it's like she's got a harem of a boyband. There's the smart one, the emo one, the funny one, the tough one, etc. And they're all almost slavishly devoted to her." Weird? Or... kinda awesome? 🌞 I can write a...

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I'm in the same camp that I hate loss of control. When I drink, it's rarely more than one drink; I can't remember the last time it was more than 2. I also would never smoke anything because of asthma. So, maybe a semi-annual or quarterly nibble of edibles would be my limit.

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5. Inspector Gadget

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Do you ever have That Little Conversation where someone is like, haha talking to urself so weird! And you just smile and nod, yes, I talk to myself, of course I do. And they say, sometimes with a twinkle in their eye, "but do u answer urself ahahahaahahahaaa guffaws!" and you look them de...

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That's ... rather detailed in some ways.

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That's beautiful.
Maybe next dream, BTS will have their limo break down and Jin will offer to give them a rid.

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Hey coach, I've trying to find a way to get my wife to declutter without me coming off as nagging. Any tips or drills you can recommend?

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They also collect the data to sell to third parties in most states. So is even grosser than you think. I hadn't thought about that but it's obvious in hindsight. Whenever companies have sole possession of data, they use it when it's to their advantage and conveniently forget about it when it's not....

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My wife is on it - I don't think it's quite as crazy here. I'm sure it varies tremendously by location based on volunteer mods and the user base.

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While walking from my car to work, I felt a slightly wetness on my thigh. My immediate thought was, "I fucked up and didn't close my thermos all the way." This is a reasonable conclusion as I fail in this way every year or so. I check the front pocket of my bag. Leaked wasn't quite right. ...

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So, now they plan to audit the 2020 results in ... Texas.

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The pair in Tram 015 appear as minor characters in the full sized novel A Master of Djinn. If you liked Tram 015, you'll probably love the novel. It's slightly better if you read the novella A Dead Djinn in Cairo first as part of the plot in that plays into the novel. I agree that this would be a gr...

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A CNN report today on polls showing that 78% of Republicans do not believe that Biden won the election despite the fact that zero evidence that can hold up in court. How do you even start to reason with people so detached from the truth? I also see lots of bile directed at Biden. And not because he ...

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I enjoy the prefab four.

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4. Ghost World

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