Brian Bauman

Watching Star Trek: TNG, and the entire plot of S4E16 is LaForge bemoaning how his AI assistant gave him misleading information and made him look foolish.

Prescient!

An apartment door, nearly half obscured by cardboard shipping boxes.

"Please, you must come inside and try the Amazontillado!"

DM: "So the kids are chasing after you now, laughing at you and mocking your baldness."

Elisha: "I cast Summon Proud Bear."

Borchestershire draught*

The god is dead, but the archives remain.

::cracking +1 whip:: "You sure you want to tangle with us, after your rat army has been dispersed? My brain is full of spiders. I'd have garlic in my soul - if I *had* one!"
Intimidation: 30 on a natural 20

"You might have heard of me before. I'm the mean one... Mister Grinch!"
Intimidation: 29

MFW my GM tells me I'm playing the Grinch for our Christmas one-shot, then hands me a character sheet with a pole about 29.5 feet short.

Moving to subscription-only after CS6.

Apropos of nothing, I appreciate how @paizo.bsky.social's union contract requires that if the company requires materially similar services within 18 months of a layoff, they must offer those laid off their jobs back.

Garth Nix gang rise up!

Not with that attitude.

This is also why young adults seek out edgy things. They're really looking for adulthood, for maturity, for the things that really matter (even if they don't know precisely what those things look like) and eschewing the carefully sanitized world their parents and schools have put them in.

I think one of the defining attributes of YA fiction is that its readers are transitioning into adulthood, and they're desperate for authentic media that's willing to treat them like an adult. At that age, I would have shied away from anything I felt was holding back "because I'm still a kid".

That's fine, I'll take my answer off the air! 😉

That's fantastic! Are there any changes that you're making now that you *would* have made then, but you feel more confident or empowered to do so now?