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    jian reacted to Autumnal's post in the thread What are you reading in 2025? with Like Like.
    Hailey Piper keeps getting better. The opening of All the Hearts You Eat: The story seems to focus on at least two young trans women...
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    jian replied to the thread What are you reading in 2025?.
    Finished Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein, which is about how our author (a Canadian who writes about equality and climate change) sometimes...
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    Well you've accuracy described the players at my table...
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    jian reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread What are you reading in 2025? with Like Like.
    I’m sure folks once said the same thing about printed books. eReaders have saved me a fortune, a ton of space, dramatically lowered my...
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    The obvious model here is Dogs in the Vineyard, though of course it’s not a OSR/NSR game. You escalate through conflict stages (from...
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    I also think this is a good idea - you could definitely take the core of Nimble and do a 4E style game with it, though of course you’d...
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    It seems to very much want to exist in the space of making 5E even more of a tactical combat game while also making it way, way simpler...
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    jian replied to the thread Wes Anderson Films, Ranked.
    We’ve now seen Moonrise Kingdom (on Tubi) and it’s excellent, so it’s going in at number 2.
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    jian replied to the thread Burger me!.
    One issue I’ve noticed in restaurant burgers is temperature - everything is well delivered but the only source of heat is the burger...
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    I think a better description of most LLMs would be “small talk simulator”. It’s just trying to predict what the next appropriate...
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    jian replied to the thread Burger me!.
    Gosh, that must have been a long time ago - I’ve been eating singles for 45 years. Doesn’t really have a cheddar flavour, more a...
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    jian replied to the thread Vagabond TTRPG, opinions?.
    Reading it now. It reminds me of D&D Story Mode in its magic system, but I’m not sure about the Perks, which I don’t think are what I’m...
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    jian replied to the thread Burger me!.
    American cheese (or “singles” as we used to call it growing up in Korea) does have a virtue of its own and has ended up incorporated...
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    jian reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread Burger me! with Like Like.
    I’m just gonna put it out there. American cheese is the bomb, yo. It melts beautifully on burgers because of the way it is made; by the...
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    jian reacted to Zardnaar's post in the thread Burger me! with Like Like.
    So Saturday night here for us kiwi barbarians. Had 3 beers wife had 3 ciders. Hit her a bit harder so banished her from the kitchen. No...
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