Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[RealAlHazred]

I finally broke down and hit "Ignore." I can't help but wonder why someone would hang out on a primarily 5e board only to use any conversational opening/excuse to bash the edition even when no one asked or it's not germane to the topic at hand. What is this experience affording you?

Interestingly, 5E is not actually an edition of D&D, by any rational measure! In this multi-part essay I will show that my game, Additional Discourses & Digressions is actually the true heir of the title of D&D...

 

[trappedslider]

I wanted to make books of pictures of people staring confusedly into partially disassembled motorcycles, but ended up having to add a few pics of bikes on the track as well, in order for it to sell.

this would be the cover

 

[CleverNickName]

One of my coworkers is a proud mother of three lovely children. Like most mothers, she has a photo album chock full of baby pictures, vacation photos, road trips, and all that stuff from the growing years...but she also has a second photo album which only has pictures of her kids having a tantrum. Angry red faces in the candy isle of the grocery store. Howling tear-streaked cheeks on Santa's lap. Tears of anguish being shed in the driveway. Sobbing over spinach at the dinner table.

At first I thought it was kind of mean. But the more I think about it, the more I think it's brilliant.

 

[RealAlHazred]

this would be the cover

Legendary LAN party. We'll never reproduce the conditions that produced this!

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

What percentage of posters are pains in the butt here because everyone in real life has just stopped engaging with them?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

At first I thought it was kind of mean. But the more I think about it, the more I think it's brilliant.

Fantastic form of birth control, if nothing else.

 

[RealAlHazred]

What percentage of posters are pains in the butt here because everyone in real life has just stopped engaging with them?

When I ran tabletop RPG events at our local conventions, I always made a point to say to my DMs on the first day, "Remember, some people come here because, for their $50, they're guaranteed a table, and they have sufficiently annoyed every gamer they know with their odious personalities that nobody they know in regular life will play with them. If they're too much for you, send them to my table. I will deal with them."

 

[Ryujin]

I was not aware that anybody in NJ who moves outside of it admits to coming from here...

Hence Witness Protection

 

[BookTenTiger]

O rly?

Looking it up, it seems California's Central Valley has a population density of 155 people per square mile. It may be empty as compared to LA. But, there are 28 entire states in the US with lower population density than that! Basically, more than half the states are more empty than the Central Valley. There are five states (North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, and Alaska) with less than ONE TENTH the population density of the Central Valley.

And, besides that, CA, as a whole, is a cultural and economic powerhouse. The Central Valley is the middle of somewhere, because CA is somewhere, in a way that, say, the middle of North Dakota just isn't.

Having lived in and driven around California, there are definitely parts that feel in the middle of nowhere.

I lived in Visalia, a city in the Central Valley, for a bit and once I was driving someone about an hour to Kettleman City, a small town that's mostly a big truck stop. When we got onto a small highway crossing farmland I realized we were low on gas. I figured we'd fill up at the next station. We kept driving and driving and driving... No gas. Finally I saw a little town off the highway. I turned off and I was driving around. There was literally nothing open, nobody walking around, just closed stores and a little cul-de-sac. I saw a guy hosing leaves off the sidewalk. I parked and I asked him if there was a gas station in town.

He looked at me and shook his head and said, very slowly, "No... no... not here..."

If that doesn't give you the feeling of the middle of nowhere, I don't know what does!

Another time I went on a road trip driving randomly around California. I turned east from the coast and drove through the mountains. I was passing oil derricks... I stopped at a little diner. When I sat down at the counter, the waitress asked, "Who are you?"

The diner was basically only patronized by guys from the oil derricks.

The rest of the trip was like that as I drove out to Barstow and other tiny towns surrounded by dry mountains or desert.

 

[Umbran]

I was not aware that anybody in NJ who moves outside of it admits to coming from here...

I think you may be mistaking shame for witness protection.

I kid - I'm originally from New York, where they only recently decided the New York State bird would no longer be a hand gesture.