Recent content by Gradine

So when do we have a get-together in Boston and dump a bunch of gaming books into the bay?

And yet!

Oh yeah, my kiddo has been on the Demon Slayer bandwagon for a while now

I feel like when a thread reaches the point where people are referencing the Orcs of Thar then we've run it into the ground as hard as we possibly could

I can't believe I forgot sweat glands!

I mean, I take your point, but we also are far from the only social species in the world. Pattern recognition really was the key.

Scrolling through I had to do a double take, like... why is somebody posting a picture of a, err--........ personal massage tool in this thread? :LOL:

That's really the ship design they went with, huh? :oops:

I've been talking about patterns for reason. One red flag is cause for notice, but not necessarily alarm. Lord knows I've said enough ignorant nonsense in my time. Enough of them happen though and the brush, unfortunately, fits just fine. Hypothetically, if one cared enough to want to be...

Listen to people and they'll tell you who they are

Oh, you're certainly going to come to the wrong conclusions from time to time. Nobody is infallible. But you'll be right far more often than not, and you'll be doing Life(tm) right.

Unfortunately for... well, everyone, really; there are plenty of places on the internet where "modern elements" is explicitly used as a stand-in for "multiculturalism" amongst people who very much don't care for multiculturalism. Someone in this very thread indicated they specifically didn't...

Wasn't this clickbait debunked a while ago?

Evolutionarily speaking, there's a reason why humans won out in the end. It wasn't opposable thumbs or tools that did it. It was pattern recognition. Never apologize for recognizing patterns when you see them.

I don't like to do it either; I'm much happier giving people the benefit of the doubt. For some of us, though, identifying red flags and listening to people when they tell you who they are is literally a survival tactic. Edit: This, basically