Recent content by gnarlygninja

My Thanksgiving started off with me waking to the dulcet tones of the building's fire alarm, which one neighbor had set off working on their car, and then sitting with them for a time because no one in the building has the ability to reset the alarm. The day can only go up from here, I guess.

This scene got a lot less funny for me when I started running into people who don't realize it's a joke.

#2 for me but sometimes I have to talk about how wrong the person was elsewhere.

This is true, my holidays are a lot more relaxed living 2k miles away from my family.

First 48 hours iirc

I hope no one reading this topic needs to hear this, but for the love of god people please stop eating into your microphones.

ime if you ask for media things it doesn't really matter what you actually asked, people online just read it as "tell me about things you like".

Oh, he did this a lot during his one turn at bat as DM too. We started having to reschedule pretty frequently and then at one point he just...stopped responding for about 4 months. He would respond if we didn't talk about dnd, and went to a few outings, but would just clam up and not respond...

Player who cancels at the last minute frequently also cancelled on the group's Friendsgiving plan at the last minute. It's getting to the point that when we do things we're just going assume he isn't showing up and then being surprised when he does.

I don't even understand what's supposed to be wrong with some of these things

I am not surprised to learn a bit of internet trivia I half remembered wasn't correct, thank you for the correction.

I'm speaking from almost total ignorance, but isn't kosher food usually halal (or is it the other way around)? I think Trader Joe's used to have kosher turkey.

Are there actually people out in the world actually would ban people from this sort of thing for not being able to cook well?! That's...so rude I am actually getting worked up imagining it.

It varies a lot depending one where you go. In my family (rural South) there was always a ham involved, one half of my mom's family would usually also have venison (deer season is in November). There is a lot of overlap between the side dishes and desserts though. I have started to embrace the...

The first time it happened, they did mold remediation and it took a few years for the leak to show up again, then it started happening more regularly and they never get around to scheduling the mold guy. But the HOA switched property managment companies earlier this year, and the new guys...