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Smart. I always say the trick is to come up with answers you can remember that don't actually correspond to Real Life. For instance, my "First place you lived" is actually the name for the town in the first fantasy series I loved as a child. Are you me? Because this happened to me when I...

No problem! I'll just need your account number, your mother's maiden name, and your social security number*. You know, your Star Wars Droid Name... * EDIT: Please don't supply your account number, your mother's maiden name, or your social security number.

Best I can do is $20.

I don't know, Establishments grow too large if unchecked. I think providing reliable checks is a general good.

I've done all of the Old School Essentials Kickstarters (for those not in the know, the Classic version is just Moldvay/Cook Basic/Expert D&D completely reformatted and re-edited) and ended up with a bunch of extra materials. Their first KS did so well (for a box set with a bunch of books) that...

My current favorite is the pistachio baklava at our diner. But I'm always willing to find a new fave...

Went to the local Greek Festival at the neighborhood Greek Orthodox Church, and had the baklava. It's really good. But now I have to consider which I think is better, the baklava at the Festival, or the baklava you can get every week at our favorite diner, which is also fantastic. It's nice to...

I mean, they're the second-best descendants of the Franks!

Silence generally benefits the oppressor.

I can't use Japanese undead in my games. Too much MSG.

I was expecting more nuance. "Well, most are, but some of them are the spirits of the departed and possibly undead." But even those seem really fey in execution...

Are yokai fey?

I find the main delimiter is usually: are they rentals or owned. If they're owned, it's a capital depreciation already absorbed into budget, so nobody actually cares (except the computer security guys, who, if they're good, care a lot). If they're rentals, somebody will notice when the next bill...

After being let go from the Data Center team a few years ago, I was immediately rehired by the Lab team from the same company. It's a great fit for me, as in my decades in IT I've never been able to specialize in any one thing in IT -- most of that time I worked for a terrible boss, who would...

I thought maybe there was a user tool that I missed.

How do you figure out if you're ignored by somebody?

Alien abduction vs immigrant detention I think I've heard it called unparalleled misalignment, but it's basically a quadruple entendre, I guess? EDIT: Oooh, booty call ≠ butt dial ≠ bottom text...

"Youth is wasted on the young." —not sure who said it first, but I last heard it from Auntie Ursa Bonechewer, the age-stealing hag

I usually try to get 8. My daughter always gets up promptly at 8AM, which isn't a problem when I've had my 8 hours, but can be really problematic when I've only had 3 or 4 by then. 24-year-old me thought nothing of running a freakin' marathon with 3 or 4, but 56-year-old me has trouble...

I tell myself I'm 13, and while it's true (emotionally), my body and brain constantly show up the lie...