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It was actually some knock-off Italian soda called Mount Stressor.

When I was in high school in the 1990s, I found in my school library a copy of Isaac Asimov’s non-fiction book “An Easy Introduction to the Slide Rule”. The card in front showed it had last been checked out in 1977, two years before I was born.

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The Great Steamboat Race "The Great Steamboat Race," published in Uncle Scrooge #11 (Sept-Nov. 1955), is in my opinion one of Carl Barks' best stories. Which is ...

Indeed, that’s exactly where my mind went. They have to use the original ships from 1870, which sank, so Scrooge floats his ship by filling it with inflated inner tubes. By the end, it’s just tubes lashed together with wire, a boiler, and a paddle wheel. comicsradio.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-...

The author names in the “comment section” are absolute gold.

Tanith Lee’s Tales from the Flat Earth are a key formative experience for me, having read them twentysome years ago. Their intertwined snaking stories with a heady mix of myth and mystery, blurring of fact and legend—sexy, dangerous, and dreamlike—all greatly influenced how I shape and tell stories.

Every day, someone with poor understanding of statistics is tantalizingly close to discovering that people in live in cities, yet seldom is enlightenment achieved.

Most days I feel like Mr. Lynch here.

But then sometimes I read the news and see what’s happening and think of the people enthusiastically doing all that to others, and I begin to understand why someone would want to build the Torment Nexus…

What is the oldest published version of the Sorcerer class/kit in D&D? I'm wondering if the absolute first incarnation of a Sorcerer EVER in the history of D&D (and D&D compatible published works) was 3rd edition. My gut tells me there's probably been 100+ hom...

As far as this research shows, while the term sorcerer was occasionally used as a title or synonym in pre-3.0 D&D, it was never specifically associated with spontaneous casting, innate ability over learning, or charisma over intelligence.

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And yet, they keep bringing up the distinction between sorcerers as innate spell casters versus wizards as trained magic-users, when this difference was invented whole-cloth for D&D 3.0 which wasn’t published until the year 2000.

I’m surprised they didn’t order everyone to switch to 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔨𝔱𝔲𝔯.

Broken machinery that gets parts into the food, followed by failure to scan the finished products magnetically or with X-rays to check for metal fragments, as is supposed to happen.

Maybe the Nobel Piss Prize…

Actual wolves would have done a significantly better job of raising a person.

Most people, when giving a press conference that they themselves called in advance, would at least read over their prepared statement beforehand, maybe even rehearse it once or twice—but not Donald “Confidence” Trump. He’s so confident, people can’t stop talking about how he wins confidence games!

It’s just throwing its CPU to the audience!

Grok is from Stranger in a Strange Land, which is after Heinlein’s fascism-is-cool-phase, and more or less marks the beginning of his dirty-old-man phase where most of his books are about self-insert character Lazarus Long self-inserting into his own mother and underage female clones of himself.

YouTube video by Yoram Bauman Chicken chicken chicken

The conference presentation is a must-see: youtu.be/yL_-1d9OSdk

I didn’t even know Waffle House had a severed floor!

Too late, I already let the upside-down mayonnaise packet confuse me…

Ah, for the days of true Presidential leadership, when we got proper speeches like JFK’s vow to lower egg prices:

“We promise these things not because they are over-easy, but because they are hard-boiled!”

Thinking outside the box can be desirable, but not when that box is objective reality.

I ran BitD followed by Scum & Villainy for a combined three years or so (currently running a FitD supernatural secret agency hack of my own design), and honestly forgot the claim map even existed. We managed to have plenty of player-driven story without it.

Hey, Elon, thanks for confirming we got the right names!

I suspect he’s rapidly learning a lot about how other people are capable of both reach and imagination…

Importantly, though, anthologies are not full of short stories that completely fail the launch.

Ah, yes, lasers, famously known for their loud booming sounds, caused by uh, well, hrmm…

Just wait for the Roman fire department model to hit health insurance: Before the ambulance will take you to the hospital, you’ll need to sign the five-year indenture contract (plus a pending credit check, of course, and if they don’t like what they see, they’ll dump you out on the road halfway)…

Well, that’s an omen…

I describe it as the feeling that you are the voice in your own head, screaming at yourself to get up and do the thing, sometimes even a fun thing that you want to do, but the part of you that’s in control of your body just ignores you and keeps doing some mindless low-reward task instead.

And I’ve seen dozens of posts from people stating that Astarion in Baldur’s Gate III either helped them realize they were or had been in an abusive relationship, or helped them come to terms with having been in one and accepting that it was not their fault they’d been victimized.