Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Scribe]

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A multitude of requests to multiple departments.
A gross number of emails.
A gross number of complaints to leadership.
1 comment sparking a memory.
1 lone man...complaining to himself that nobody looks deep enough.
1 bug found, and addressed.
1 client satisfied.

The day was both the low, and high, of the week already.

Shadowdark tomorrow friends!

 

[overgeeked]

Re: houses.

Try to get at least 1 1/2 baths. Try to get more land than you think you’ll want. The further you go out of town the more you’ll be able to get.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Re: houses.

Try to get at least 1 1/2 baths. Try to get more land than you think you’ll want. The further you go out of town the more you’ll be able to get.

I don't know if there's been an academic study of this or not, but I'd bet money there's a strong correlation between successful marriages and having at least one bathroom per spouse.

 

[DrunkonDuty]

I don't know if there's been an academic study of this or not, but I'd bet money there's a strong correlation between successful marriages and having at least one bathroom per spouse.

Abso-friggin-lutely. My wife and I each have our own bathroom. The relationship has never been so happy.

 

[Smackpixi]

I like the lore, but I’m not emotionally attached to it. And I’m real tired of tiptoeing around people who’ve made it part of their identity.

 

[The Soloist]

I don't know if there's been an academic study of this or not, but I'd bet money there's a strong correlation between successful marriages and having at least one bathroom per spouse.

I have been with my wife for 35 years. We only had two bathrooms for the last 12. Having a second one is nice, but it's not the source of having a successful marriage. Picking up your stuff once you're done IS. My wife puts away all her stuff (makeup, hairdryer etc) once she's done. I do the same. We leave the place clean for each other. Respect is marriage saving.

 

[Mad_Jack]

I have the Car Wars black plastic box

Ye gods, I loves me some Car Wars...

I still tell people about the Existential Blue Crayon Gun.

 

[Mannahnin]

I always wonder how is D&D so popular if everyone hates it.

I don’t know it’s crazy!

Its called a "vocal minority". Its easy to be vocal and irritable when you're constantly awash in a front-runner in a context where that applies heavy pressure to go along and difficulty finding other options. Its pointless, but easy.

It's also a non-representative sample. People who are motivated enough about D&D to go on the internet and talk about it with strangers are a small minority. But people who want to complain or are looking for help or advice are inherently more motivated than people who are content or happy.

I wonder how common it is that I am fine with D&D, except don't much care for D&D threads. It feels like every time it's either about a known factor (you signed on for this, so no complaining) or some edge case that almost never comes up at the table.

I definitely disregard a lot of threads for those reasons.

The mini games from Metagames/SJG, Task Force Games, TSR and others were so much fun!

Also Nova’s 2-player combat book games- Ace of Aces and Lost Worlds were a blast, especially on road trips.

Total classics. I still have all my old Lost Worlds books. My brother and I discovered them at one of our first gaming conventions, in the 80s, then acquired as many as we could, there and at local game stores. I used to bring them to conventions for many years after, to fill time between other games. Wound up playing a few rounds with Frank Mentzer on a quiet Sunday morning at a local convention around 2009, 2010 because he was also at loose ends waiting for a session he was running. He told me about the OSR.

There was a brief resurgence/re-licensing of the mechanics in the early 2000s. I remember there being a short series of Warhammer 40k ones (Eldar Aspect Warrior, Chaos Space Marine, etc.) but I didn't pick them up.

There was also a WWI air combat simulation game, the name of which escapes me, that had a mechanic for pilot experience. I was OK with it, but not great, and a couple of the regular players liked to use me for target practice to advance their pilot experience. Until, that is, I discovered the Spad and fighting against German aircraft on the vertical, instead of the horizontal. Frustrated the hell out of them

The cover certainly looked like Dawn Patrol, like so many others as well, but it wasn't a RPG.

Dawn Patrol is less a role playing game than a game in which you play an individual pilot who gains experience. If you haven't clicked the link, go check out the screenshots and see if they jog any memories.

Yeah, I've got a strong hunch it was Fight in the Skies AKA Dawn Patrol.

This was originally self-published by Mike Carr starting in '66, then the fourth edition by Guidon in '72, then by TSR in '75, so the term role-playing game didn't even exist yet. It got re-titled Dawn Patrol by TSR in '82, and somewhere along the way it got retroactively labeled an RPG because of the pilot experience system, I expect purely as a marketing trick. But it's really a dogfight wargame/boardgame.

Historical note: It's the only game that's been played at EVERY GenCon, since the beginning.

 

[RealAlHazred]

Ye gods, I loves me some Car Wars...

I still tell people about the Existential Blue Crayon Gun.

I have seen a lot of my friends who loved Car Wars back in the little black box days are loving Gaslands. A great way to reuse your old Matchbox cars.

 

[RealAlHazred]

I like the lore, but I’m not emotionally attached to it. And I’m real tired of tiptoeing around people who’ve made it part of their identity.

Nah, the Lore is extremely simple to understand. In this forty-post thread, I will demonstrate how Elminster is both an aspect of a Goddess, and an author from Toronto...