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    D&D General Bannerets: The Tactical Geniuses with Int 8

    It's a game attempt. Jack Aubrey's brilliance at sea but hapless incompetence on land/in business and politics is certainly fun fodder for novels. I'm not sure such a person is adequately or accurately modeled by a low Int score, but I do think there's something to the notion that a person...
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    D&D General Metal Miniatures Based On the 1977 D&D Basic Set Box

    Rackham made some amazing miniatures. I bought out and resold a bunch of Confrontation models when a local gaming shop went out of business one time.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Always nice to see a Whit Stillman movie reference in the wild. :) This movie is so fun. Very dry. Such a time capsule of NY prep schoolers in the 80s, but more generally of smart kids who had no idea how ignorant they actually were, despite reading a lot. Which is part of the time capsule...
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    OSR OSR News Roundup

    Feel better soon!
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    OSR New edition of OSE in 2026 (updated with some links)

    Good stuff. So you still get Classic, but you also get all the Advanced options in the same two books - Players' and Referees' tomes. All the Advanced stuff is just indicated as such.
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    Our Physical Fitness

    Rested Friday and Saturday, got in for a pretty solid session on Sunday. Smith machines were all occupied but I was not deterred from my intent to stick to the Smith inclined bar bench- I just hit a different exercise first. Machine biceps curls four sets with drop sets on the last (picked...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    The entropy of typos comes for us all...
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    Your top 5 sci-fi movies (and why)

    Thank you! Yeah, IME/IMO there's a big middle zone for most people. I do derive some satisfaction from my job and I know it's healthy for my mood, even though there are things I'd rather be doing at any given moment. If I could choose any job I wanted, it would probably still be one that...
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    OSR New edition of OSE in 2026 (updated with some links)

    Yeah, a lot of great stuff there. Although I wish they'd draw the line at 1 HD for fighter sweep as in OD&D, rather than less than 1 like AD&D, which is less useful and less heroic.
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    Our Physical Fitness

    Sure, yeah. A nice satisfying soreness confirming that I put in some hard work. I don't want to be debilitated (except for a few minutes after a hard leg exercise). I've gotten it regularly in my arms and back and legs, which are all areas where I've seen better growth and development than my...
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    Your top 5 sci-fi movies (and why)

    It's lighter and funnier than Ex Machina, but still dark and good and well-written.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    I bought it a couple of years ago but haven't made the time. Definitely on the list.
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    Your top 5 sci-fi movies (and why)

    Those are all great. Ooh, it also reminds me that I need to show Ex Machina to my brother and our friend we watch movies with pretty regularly. I just showed them Companion the other night, and they quite enjoyed it.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Well, you're required (by forum rules) to tolerate it to the extent of not creating a conflict over it. But of course, that's the original purpose of this thread.
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    Your top 5 sci-fi movies (and why)

    Are you being hostile for any particular reason? Or did you maybe choose the wrong word? I'm not being deceptive or misleading. You seem to have a giant excluded middle in between your two extremes.
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