Recent content by Arnie_Wan_Kenobi

Don't want to derail this convo too much, but I did want to acknowledge this comment. No, I don't think it's just UK. There's a solid group of my age-group peers who are what we could label "socially conservative," or at least "I-won't-care-what-you-do-as-long-as-I-don't-know-about-it," while...

Somehow, despite never watching Big Bang Theory regularly, Sheldon Cooper telling Penny, "All you get is very expensive pee" if you over-take supplements in a random episode I caught has stuck with me as "good life advice."

TIL Tom Morello (Rage Against the Macine, et al) is apparently "lifelong friends" with Phillip "Moonie" Johnston of the Renaissance Faire circuit. (And the rest of Morello's life is pretty fascinating, too.)

'78 also; Gen X for life! (I refuse to ID as a Xennial, no matter what my childhood was like.) So, I wonder if that's a factor of "American Mall Culture" and what I had access to in suburbia. I didn't experience a "big" bookstore (e.g. Borders, Barnes and Nobel) until I went away to college, I...

I walked into a party supply store on Halloween and thought "Dark Academia, that's gotta be made up to capitalize on popular fiction, right?" and sent a picture of the display to my department chat (I teach English). The responses were all straight "Yeah, that's really a genre," and I left...

It was...okay? Easy read, but the present-tense narrative voice took a minute to get used to (and I kept have to go back and make sure I wasn't missing a POV switch, very character-driven. The POV character is a barrier mage from New Capenna, with "interludes" from the other four mains' POV that...

While I agree this is the "right" answer (insomuch as there is a possibility of a "right" answer), I just finished "Omens of Chaos," so may I unseriously nominate "Strixhavenian"?

Interesting. If these were Dragonlance-branded, I'd pick one up as a curiosity for my favorite setting. But, since they're "D&D/Fizban" branded, I can convince myself to not buy any. But hey, there seems to be a market for collectible dice, so more power to the intended market.

Bro or Bruh? Because, let me tell you--as a high school teacher with a middle school kid--there's a difference. Anyway, went to change my Pulse password out of an abundance of caution, and the site popped up a "Password Expired" prompt, so it looks like they're at least requiring that respose...

I always enjoy reading these origin stories, so thanks for posting, @Reynard. Aside from not really playing D&D until high school, I'm probably a lot like other folks here: Born '78, so as a youngin', Star Wars, naturally was one of, if not the, biggest influence; toys, movies on VHS, the...

Cursive, you can make out the first two letters of first, middle initial, and first initial of last name. Everything else looks like a zig-zag. Initialing looks kinda like the mid-90s California Angels logo. I write a lot of hall passes. It's gotta be fast.

TIL Cochlear Implants were invented in 1957. I was reading a students' paper and it dropped a detail about someone getting them in the 1980s. For whatever reason, I assumed they were a much later development, and external hearing aids were the only available technology until at least the 2010s.

Double post: ignore please.

I came here to say exactly the same thing. I already need to reorganize my shleves to fit everything and I have more stuff than I'll ever play, but I'm still considering popping into my FLGS today to see if anything catches my eye. Edit: It's worth noting that there is nothing out now OR on...

Took me a second to realize that's an old image; I was trying to figure our why that wasn't what I remembered seeing!