Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[RealAlHazred]

Seems like saying that once is boundary testing, saying it repeatedly is looking for a fix as you say.

It occurred to me, she did something similar on an earlier trip this year; my memory isn't good enough to remember if it happened on previous trips, as I don't usually try to remember any negative things. So, at least twice...

 

[overgeeked]

And delete that comment before hitting post.

 

[trappedslider]

Cloudflare Reports Surge in Streaming Piracy Takedowns, Removes 20k+ Storage Accounts * TorrentFreak

Cloudflare’s latest transparency report reveals a 3,800% surge in copyright takedowns, fueled by a shift to more automated enforcement.

torrentfreak.com

 

[Ryujin]

Cloudflare Reports Surge in Streaming Piracy Takedowns, Removes 20k+ Storage Accounts * TorrentFreak

Cloudflare’s latest transparency report reveals a 3,800% surge in copyright takedowns, fueled by a shift to more automated enforcement.

torrentfreak.com

In Canada the content holders got what they asked for; a 'tax' on recordable media,. to cover their losses from piracy. They learned the meaning of, "Be careful what you wish for" and have regretted it ever since.

What the article doesn't seem to say is how many of those "actioned" items were actually valid, or were overturned on appeal. If it's anything like the issues with Youtube, then a huge amount of claims are invalid, on their face, but still upheld.

 

[TiQuinn]

Trip to see my in-laws almost complete; it just remains to fly back home. Mostly successfully navigated, except for the evening where my mother-in-law sat us down to tell us off for our "permissive" parenting, without actually saying anything about our "permissive" parenting. Like, it was a lot of, "Well, I don't feel like I can say anything," followed by my factual reply of, "I've actually asked you for advice as recently as this week." No specific points were raised, no constructive criticism was given, just a lot of vague, "I don't want to offend, and I don't feel like I can say anything."

I thought it was a clash of Ask Culture versus Guess Culture, but my wife pointed out my mother-in-law's first husband would get into a lot of screaming arguments with his wife, and speculated that her mother has become addicted to the adrenalin rush. Too bad for her my dad and I got into serious arguments my whole life growing up, and I now refuse to get into them unless they are absolutely necessary. I have a thick skin.

I’m a petty bitch when it comes to this and can give as good as I get, namely because I have a good memory growing up of past grievances that I can obliquely reference.

 

[trappedslider]

Next rover needs to have some jazz music

 

[Aeson]

No! No, it doesn't.

 

[RealAlHazred]

No! No, it doesn't.

Sure, it does! It can then play tunes to itself while it waits for NASA to pick it up when its mission is done!

 

[Aeson]

Sure, it does! It can then play tunes to itself while it waits for NASA to pick it up when its mission is done!

I could provide NASA with a list of alternatives to jazz if that's the case.

 

[Meech17]

Not complaining about any pineapple on pizza, but something interesting I wanted to share with you all.

I play a lot of Magic: The Gathering. Much more than I play D&D, infact. One of my favorite formats is Pauper, which has the deck building restriction that all cards must be of the Common card rarity. It's an official format, endorsed by WOTC, but it's largely ignored by them, and very much community driven. As such I'm part of a Discord server for people who play Pauper in my area.

We recently got my preferred LGS to run the format as a regular weekly event in the last few months. Last week a group of guys from the server all car pooled out to my store to join us and play. It was a lot of fun, and I enjoyed seeing them all. One of the guys won for the day too. The store is cool, and they pay out 100% of the entry fees back out as store credit for prizing, so he ended up with a cool $45 or so to spend at a store he's unlikely to visit again any time soon.

I'm showing everyone around the shop, showing them the little arcade, the in-house candy store, and where all the MTG related accessories are and he stops at the TTRPG shelf and mulls it over. I apologetically mention that the RPG supply is a little lacking, but point out some of the cool third party books and stuff that are available. He grabs a copy of Descent into Avernus and looks it over and asks my opinion of it. I tell him I've never ran or played it, but have always thought it sounded cool. It's got some Mad Max vibes, and it's also kind of like a precursor to Baldur's Gate 3.

Here's what's interesting. He tells me he doesn't actually play D&D, or TTRPGs in general for that matter. He does however collect, and reads sourcebooks/adventure modules. And that's what he spent his store credit on.

I just found that kind of fun. I know a lot of books are sold to people who will likely never actually use them, but I always assumed that demographic was more like, people who were being wishfully optimistic.. Like "Maybe someday I will run this." or like me, who enjoys reading source books to steal bits and pieces from them for my home brew game.