The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Cadence]

As Cadence said, there are cookbooks that have extensive chapters on techniques and methods. I have (or have at least seen) one all about knife techniques. So ... some cookbooks can serve as the sort of reference book you seem to be ... mocking (though I presume gently).

I am sad that my favorite ice cream recipe book did not say in big letters "And if you walk away, tell the newbie that the salt goes in the outside with the ice, and not in the cannister with the ingredients!".

 

[RealAlHazred]

I am sad that my favorite ice cream recipe book did not say in big letters "And if you walk away, tell the newbie that the salt goes in the outside with the ice, and not in the cannister with the ingredients!".

What about the dry ice? Surely that goes in the cannister, right?

 

[prabe]

I am sad that my favorite ice cream recipe book did not say in big letters "And if you walk away, tell the newbie that the salt goes in the outside with the ice, and not in the cannister with the ingredients!".

This is why my wife and I have, for as long as we've been married, had an electric ice cream maker. No salt, no dry ice.

 

[payn]

As Cadence said, there are cookbooks that have extensive chapters on techniques and methods. I have (or have at least seen) one all about knife techniques. So ... some cookbooks can serve as the sort of reference book you seem to be ... mocking (though I presume gently).

Indeed, I was making a joke about the recent notion that adventure modules suck because they dont teach people how to GM. Although, many of them do go into running mechanical techniques, but are seen as usless because they are not a 101 crash course. Im waiting paitently for "Monster Manual sucks because it doesnt teach how to GM" any moment now.

 

[Cadence]

What about the dry ice? Surely that goes in the cannister, right?

Oooh. Now I'm wondering what dry ice would do to the wood parts. I'm guessing starting with it on the outside would freeze everything up pretty quickly (and not in a good way).



<- the promotional picture of the newest version of the one we've had since the early 90s.

 

[Cadence]

"I mean, my first pizza cook book started off with the various kinds of soils you need to grow the appropriate wheat. But that wasn't hard, it just took more time. Now its like they want the chefs to make a pizza without ever having eaten a bunch of slices before."

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Achilles: Do you know what was awesome, Zeno?

Zeno: sigh You're going to say New Coke, aren't you......

Achilles: You're wrong, Zeno. NEW COKE. That was what was awesome. For once, Coca Cola came out with a new beverage. And it was better! And I loved it! And then everyone complained about it. And it "split the market." Blah blah blah. And now we don't have new coke anymore, just stupid old coke. Because old people complained about awesomeness. Just showing up, all the time, complaining about how awesome New Coke was until they got rid of the best thing ever and went back to tired ol' Coke.

Zeno: Okay. Cool. But ... Coke became more popular after that? It was the correct decision, right?

Achilles: Don't be stupid, Zeno! That's just, um, something Latin for ... uh, the people suck, or something. Look- New Coke was better, and the only reason it went away is because all those people unfairly maligned it. Heck, most of them didn't even TASTE it. Instead they just whined about it.

Zeno: Huh. Okay. I agree, that's terrible. But haven't you just spent years since then doing the exact same thing? Whining and complaining about regular coke? Trying to get New Coke back? Aren't you the same thing you are complaining about?

Achilles: What? Of course not! New Coke is NEW! The only way we can return Coke to glory is to go BACK ... to the FUTURE! That's right, I'm using the .... Power of Love, Zeno.

Zeno: If I pay Hector enough, can he get the other ankle?

 

[Cadence]

I swear that is not a fake account by me designed to just put in all the snark I'm thinking in the actual threads instead of here!!

 

[prabe]

Indeed, I was making a joke about the recent notion that adventure modules suck because they dont teach people how to GM. Although, many of them do go into running mechanical techniques, but are seen as usless because they are not a 101 crash course. Im waiting paitently for "Monster Manual sucks because it doesnt teach how to GM" any moment now.

I'm not really interested, but I've also only seen that sort of complaint about the adventures in the Starter and Beginner Sets. Have people been complaining thus about other adventures?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Do DM's actually play the patron? Really? I've never seen that. I certainly don't. That's someone's character. Unless the player approached me first about playing their patron, I wouldn't even consider doing it. Forty years and I've never seen a DM bother playing out a cleric's deity but, for some reason people have to get all up in the warlock player's grill?

Oh, man, I have some stories to tell you about deities in my games. There's "funny coincidences," things that could be omens, portentous dreams, etc.