We use Roll20 as a VTT, but we all run a zoom meeting at the same time because we live in different states and continents and it’s good to see their faces (and their kids and partners). Shrug It’s a pretty wide range of technology skills and preferences, so we went with the stuff people know best.

Mörk Borg? Other Fria Liga? Other Borg-likes? Other Kickstarter games? Is that just me?

Don’t get me wrong, I love PF2 and I mostly actually play 5E with my friends on zoom (that bunch of Philistines), but I can’t be the only one obsessively finding niche games online like Into the Odd and Forbidden Lands and Frontier Scum and Inevitable and porting them into system-agnostic hex-flowers that could support Dark-Tower-esque realm crawling and West March-ish living worlds that I can never find anyone that wants to play and…

Do I have a problem? Am I out of touch? No, it’s the D&D players that are wrong

I don’t even ever get the physical withdrawals or any noticeable effects, regardless of how often I do or don’t drink it. So, since my partner really does need the coffee first thing in the morning and I’m making it anyway, I usually have a cup because I like the taste and ritual. But when she’s out of town or getting coffee elsewhere, I hardly ever have any caffeine.

The exception is when I was taking Adderall every day, I really did feel some effects from the caffeine, mostly potentiating the amphetamine. I do miss that aspect of being medicated

Made well I enjoy the taste, but it’s ever been good at keeping me awake or making me productive.

Same. I eventually figured out that this is likely a symptom of my adult ADHD, and I either need unhealthy amounts of coffee or something a little stronger

Is that a Stanisław Lem reference in the wild? Will wonders never cease…

I think you’re mistaking “conservatives and centrists” for “American government”

Truly a brand new sentence

Looked like it had just come back from the ethereal plane, its eyes were so wide

Well, yeah. If I got chased down and caught by a predator 4 times my size, I’d be a little wide-eyed, too.

You can tell that this wasn’t written by a parent. Parents know that the small child is already covered in jam, despite there being no jam at the BBQ

Not an expert in Eastern religions, but it looks more like Shinto or even Hindu than Buddhist.

“Would you fuck me? I’d fuck me”

The problem with this methodology (using IMDb ratings to compare different seasons and shows to each other) is that every show is going to see a “ratings bump” when people who are disinterested or dissatisfied stop watching and only the die-hard fans are left watching and rating.

And Canada Gooses! Canada Gooses are barrel-chested and majestic! The envy of all ornithologies!

Which is as it should be, as it’s what Conan is.

too goddamn right. I don’t know why I never realized that before.

chemist: da fuq those ecologists doin’ over there?

Man, I just started Man on the Inside by Michael Schur with Ted Danson, and it’s pretty good, but it’s not The Good Place. Looks like it’s time for another rewatch

Folks, if your boo:

• Calls their personality quirks “functional groups”
• Tests you by demanding you elucidate their mechanisms
• Has unexplainable peak splitting between 0 and 10 ppm

That’s not your boo; that’s an organic chemistry

No, yeah, I’m with you. I live in the mountains in NorCal, so the best we’ve got is a Meek’s (decent for building supplies) and a DIY Store (bad-to-mid for everything else you might find at a Home Depot).

The jingle though…My kids have never even lived in the Mid West, but just from visiting my in-laws and watching hockey games, it’s already ingrained in their subconscious. If they hear anyone talk about saving money, they’ll burst out into “Save big money at Menard’s!”

I fuckin’ love Menards. I’m sad I don’t live in MN anymore because we don’t have a comparable store out on the west coast.

I teach college chemistry, and half the time it’s to STEM majors that see the obvious applications, but the other half the time, my students are going into nursing or other “STEM-adjacent” fields and I try and try to get them to see that the applications are there, if they just look, but many of them never do.