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Sure, and there were some you didn't mention that acquired more local color when they moved. Best I can think of is the Browns becoming the Orioles. Obviously not all names will have any deep local connection, though there are some trends in that direction--local indigenous tribes are kinda...

Take care of yourself and your people, we'll see you when you can make it back.

The Dodgers, at least, did. It's plausible that the Colts did, too. And the Twins changed their name (from Senators) before the Rangers did.

Whoever did the kitchen (a lot of it looks DIY, but that doesn't mean it all is) cut the countertop into pieces, so at least they didn't make that error. And here in Maryland earthquakes are much less common. Again, not arguing, they'll plausibly settle wrong and break eventually.

Not arguing, but I don't think I've noticed any breaks in the granite countertops here. They wouldn't be my first choice, but I don't dislike them enough to want them gone, either.

I might go with something manufactured, tile or quartz or recycled, if I were replacing the countertops. That's my preference though--butcher block is perfectly fine, if that's yours.

This is like an addition bumped out on the back (with an extra bathroom in it) and the kitchen more or less entirely redone (absorbing a breakfast nook into the workspace, removing the double-wall-oven, installing a new double-wall-oven in the absorbed breakfast nook, new cabinets and...

If I were going to buy a house, I'd rather have work the current owners had lived with for a couple-few years than something brand-new and right out of HGTV, whether it was DIY or contracted out. The place we bought like five years ago has had some serious work done, but the previous owners...

No, it's not a job, but letting a reply to something one posted go unanswered can be challenging.

I'm willing to admit there are some thoughts that take more words to express than others, and I'm willing to admit that there are some people who think longer--or at least wordier--thoughts than others, and there's really nothing wrong with either of those things: I'm just not going to read...

Yeah. If you're actually replying to different points, or at least replying differently to different things, it's probably fine. If you're carefully and precisely destroying all context to pick something apart, it's probably not. It's definitely easier to read a short post, innit?

I think I just had a discussion elsewhere about this. :LOL:

Not only no, but hell no.

It's a pain, yeah. I'm glad things seem to be moving the right direction for you.

I agree that the idea that the players never care much about the setting or anything in it is at least not inherently true. I have a player at my tables who arguably does more to keep the games running than I do, and I'm pretty sure that all of the players care some about the setting--they...

I enjoy it when a game uses tropes familiar to everyone at the table. It eases communication and understanding of what's going on, and it means any inversion or subversion or unexpected mash-up is more likely to land. I don't expect a game to invent its own tropes, that rarely works.

Best way to avoid burnout is to do something else for a while--possibly not even anything gaming-related. Take walks, read books, go new places, do new things. Fill your soul with beauty and/or joy.

I need to see about reserving that at our local library of choice. Thanks!

Yeah, I find I enjoy the games I do more, the less I argue with people about them.