Eventually, someone will eat this ancient soup, gain great powers, and become known to all as . . . Souperman.
18.11.2025 02:51 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@amfisher.bsky.social
Attorney, gamer (computer, RPG, tabletop), GM, husband, father, occasional author. Hatch Act restricted, so don't expect much politics.
Eventually, someone will eat this ancient soup, gain great powers, and become known to all as . . . Souperman.
18.11.2025 02:51 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Well, the last person to use 'Canto' correctly was a fascist sympathizer who ended up in the madhouse, so . . . .
18.11.2025 02:43 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Arnold just wanted to eat his shoes while he still had two feet.
18.11.2025 00:43 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Sounds like a Tom Lehrer lyric.
18.11.2025 00:37 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Madness; I need to know the names of extinct publishers.
17.11.2025 23:54 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Youβd better touch the bare copper just to be safe.
17.11.2025 23:48 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0While l agree entirely with your sentiment, I think you could shorten it to say βJon Snow is boring.β
17.11.2025 22:46 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0"Girls delightful in Cuba. Stop. Could send you prose poems about scenery, but don't feel right spending your money. Stop. There is no war in Cuba, signed Wheeler."
"Dear Wheeler: you provide the prose poems. I'll provide the war."
Customs, language, symbolism, all the things that are part of any organization - with SAC we can see them get created, adapt, and change, particularly as LeMay takes over and molds the organization after his image. An interesting niche read.
17.11.2025 22:16 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Book 82: Always at War by Melvin Deaile, a cultural history of Strategic Air Command from foundation to the 1960s. This is a rare book - not about campaigns and battles, or even about planes and bombs, but about how an organization was forged from first principles.
17.11.2025 22:16 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Axis and Allies: Stalingrad. The map is one big space labeled Stalingrad. Both sides shove all their pieces into the space and roll a bucket of dice. High roll wins.
17.11.2025 21:17 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I think Kyllo's still good law.
17.11.2025 17:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I've just gotten to the point where I report every e-mail as phishing. Safer that way, and an easy way to inbox zero.
17.11.2025 17:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Yeah, they're going to lose any sense of reality when they try to make Supreme Court clerks interesting and well-rounded individuals and not a collective of gunners.
17.11.2025 17:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Yeah, yeah, wake me up when an Antipope sets himself up in, oh, let's say Coeur d'Alene.
17.11.2025 16:25 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0State-mandated turkeys is the height of fowl socialism.
17.11.2025 15:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"It's two worms. At least."
17.11.2025 15:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0You say that like it was a bad thing.
17.11.2025 14:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I know nothing about Zelda, having never owned a Nintendo, but this looks to me like Peter Jackson's 'A Tale of Two Elves.'
17.11.2025 14:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
17.11.2025 01:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Eat of this bread, for it is my body.
Drink of this wine, for it is my blood.
Enjoy these Eucharist scrapes, for they are my toenail clippings.
But not like a Clockwork Orange. The elites commit sex crimes, not the proles!
16.11.2025 14:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0And Sherman can send him there.
16.11.2025 14:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0No cash?
16.11.2025 02:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Gotta convert them all!
16.11.2025 01:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The one time I've been to Vegas, after surviving a near air crash, I went in with $100 I was willing to spend at the $5 blackjack table. I walked away with $200 and decided to try my hand at poker. I was a good poker play in college. I lost $100 in about five minutes and walked the hell away.
16.11.2025 00:39 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0You know, this didn't exist until you summoned it into existence. Congratulations on your new child.
15.11.2025 20:39 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0520 degrees of fun!
15.11.2025 17:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I wish I had kept my copies of The New Zork Times, along with all the other 'feelies' that came with Infocom games. Probably worth a chunk of change now.
15.11.2025 17:15 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Bring bear spray, moose spray, and goose spray.
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