miskatonicphd.bsky.social
Time Person of the Year 2006
I like a lot of things. I don't like other things. I'm hoping to find things I like and avoid things I don't.
My favorite things are barbecue, RPGs, and cats in cowboy hats.
Y'all really don't need to follow me.
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When do I get my superpowers?
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Same. However, I'm kind of strange. I'll read transcripts of a podcast or news video but I'll listen to audio books for 8 hours a day.
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Thanks! It's going to have to sit in that double boiler on low until after my next meeting. I'm having to do this a little at a time until dinner.
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Stay tuned as I finish this up with peppers, mushrooms, onions, homemade chipotle mayo, and brisket.
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I thought they were worried about government death panels and that's why we can't have nice things like single payer. Did I misunderstand?
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I have not. I'll have to check it out. Thanks!
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I haven't read that one. It's on the list but your description is making me bump it up towards the top.
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You know, I've never played Spelljammer. It's always been Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, or homebrew.
There was a really cool epic level one shot at a convention I attended a while back that put us against the Astral Dreadnaught and it was a blast. I've been looking for an excuse ever since.
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It depends on what the game called for!
However, I've run a homebrewed extra large tarrasque with a breath weapon as Godzilla and I've run it straight. My 3.5 DM ran homebrew Cthulhu against us that I loved. If I did it today I'd run a size modified Astral Dreadnaught to make it even bigger.
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I started with A Wizard of Earthsea more than 35 years ago. It was the first fantasy novel I ever read. Last year I read/listened to almost 200 fantasy/sci-fi novels so it seems to have gotten me hooked.
The Books of Earthsea is the whole collection. If the first one hooks you then it's worth it.
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I can add Ursula Le Guin and at least older Mickey Zucker Reichert. Both are a bit dated, but Ursula Le Guin was a trailblazer and Reichert was asked by the Asimov estate to do 3 I, Robot prequels because they like her so much.
I haven't read her newer stuff yet but it's on the ever expanding list.
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I was only living in my car for months. I ate at the Sikh temple occasionally and they didn't push anything on me. In exchange I helped with cleanup. I didn't ever go to a church because I grew up watching what they did.
I'm hard agnostic, I just appreciate what those folks did for me.
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If you want a role model, choose an old guy. By the time you're grown up they're dead.
-Torpedo Jones
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I wanna be the blue one so I look that cool when I try to do that kick move.
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I've been following this since stuff started trickling out about him last year. This is the absolute worst story I've read about it. It's just horrifying.
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Using a stereo with cassette tapes. The play button makes that satisfying *thunk*.
Alternatively, putting in an Atari cartridge and feeling it seat into the slot.
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I was the one that got shit for that. The other guy got shit for being a nerd. But yeah, you're not wrong.
However, they were pretty cool about it because they knew we kept the necessary electronic shit running and we weren't snitches.
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I think a lot of it was not just environmental differences, but also regional. I was around a bunch of roughnecks doing IT work in Texas.
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It was when metrosexual was the term, too. I was called metrosexual for cleaning my fingernails, washing my hair with something that smelled nice, styling it with something other than gel, and wearing clothes that fit.
Surprisingly we've come a long way since then. Just not far enough.
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First, for certain series I care about those details. Laundry Files included.
Second, my songwriting is totally chaotic planster. I have written songs that I kept in my head too long so now they're lost forever. If no one happens to be recording me when inspiration strikes then that song is gone.
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I saw that and I'm super excited about it!! I hope manufacturers get on board. I'm sure the guys like Cable Matters will, which helps immensely, but I bet I'll still have to toss the ones that come with accessories.
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When Eddie Vetter said "On a weela, ona wizard onawayeaa, ani cownanasay nana whoawannasay ani collah agaiii" I felt that.
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If I have to choose between the two I'm choosing the pointy hat. However, I think I'd prefer a "Wild" Bill Meyers (Dresden Files) cowboy type wizard, rolling around with a magical 10 gauge and a cowboy hat.
Or maybe a pointy hat with a cowboy brim.
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That's not fair. You're forgetting drugs. I've written horny songs. I've written songs for spite. But my greatest songs were written about, and many times partaking in, mind altering substances. I'm including alcohol in that.
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"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit..."
--W. Somerset Maugham
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I've been going out to small clubs to watch local bands (or be in the small local band) since 1995. We used to go to a local 24 hour diner afterwards but now we go to the 24 hour taco stand.
I do miss record stores and small book stores, not that I had the money to buy anything there back then.
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Bad biscuits and gravy tastes like wallpaper paste on cardboard. Good biscuits and gravy tastes like a thousand tiny angels dancing in my mouth and kissing my taste buds, filling my mouth with pure joy.
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I feel called out, especially since I'm out drinking just a little tonight.
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I'm part bot.
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However, I'm not under any illusion that it's good for me. I just like the flavor.
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Really?!? Like they're not just using it to fry things? I love pork chops or french fries fried in tallow. A friend of mine likes to make candles out of it because she likes candles and I always have leftover tallow from smoking brisket. But are they really losing their shit over rendered beef fat?
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You look like you can play any media file on my computer. www.videolan.org/vlc/
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Same.
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Right?!? I'm here furiously taking notes.
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Woo hoo.
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As someone that graduated in 98, same. I made it from May until almost March of 99 before things got real messed up.