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In 1984, I saw a documentary about a startup business in New York that hunted ghosts and imprisoned them. The founders were three scientists, though one of them had theories that were the worst kind of popular tripe, his methods were sloppy, and his conclusions were highly questionable. i.e...

You're getting something mixed up here. A school district is part of the government, and there are restrictions on how the government is permitted to regulate speech. In the case of schools, they can ban a t-shirt because it's lewd, promotes illegal activities, or is disruptive to the...

Is there a merit badge for sneaking onto a United States Air Force base to steal something off one of their planes?

I have a few friends who purchase role playing supplies like dice, dice towers, bags, etc., etc. from places like Temu or Shein. But how many Americans order games from directly overseas?

As @Umbran writes, most of them use weasel language like "this is for entertainment purposes only" in small print. I find people like John Edward and Theresa Caputo, the Long Island Medium, to be odious, morally bankrupt individuals who exploit the grief of others for their own personal profit.

It's really not a very big, complex issue. What's the difference between a lie and incorrect information? Intent. A lie is told with the intent to deceive. If you ask me for directions to the nearest gas station and I tell you take a left on Broadway when in reality you should have taken a...

Yeah. I'm familiar the heartland of America. I just thought you ate both sweet and savory versions of sweet potatoes in your dish.

I thought you folks ate sweet potatoes in both sweet and savory dishes.

What country is that?

You belong in a museum! Despite having always seen Call of Cthulhu at my local gaming store, my first experience was d20 Call of Cthulhu in the early 2000s. I didn't run a proper CoC game until I was in my 30s and I've never played in a CoC game.

The good basis for insisting they're correct is their memory, faulty as it might be. Gaslighting is done deliberately for the purpose of manipulation by behaving in a deceitful, dismissive fashion, so when you say someone is gaslighting another person you're saying they're the bad guy...

When I got to hang out with the ghost hunting group at my museum, we went room-to-room where we'd all sit down and someone would ask questions to any spirits that might be listening while using a recording device. Later on, we all listened to these recordings and in the background hisses and...

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! I can only handle one existential crisis per day! Slow down, cowboy.

Gaslighting is a form of manipulation. i.e. It's deliberate and most often done for nefarious purposes. Someone who genuinely remembers something differently is not gaslighting anyone. Memory can be a really funny thing. I remember having conversations with some friends of mine about some...

Pretty soon Chaosium is going to be able to join the AARP. Nice!

I used to work in a building that was 170 years old (at the time) and I had a lot of visitors who thought it was haunted. We used to let ghost hunting groups spend most of the night in the building and I'd babysit on occasion. I thought it was all a bit silly, but they treated the building...

IF there was a prize for best combination of username and avatar you would win.

I think of adventurers in real life and come up with folks like Guy Fawks, Hernando Cortez, and Blackbeard.

It's healthier so long as you don't drink the water flowing through the Ankh. Though, to be honest, the water doesn't so much flow as it oozes. While I kind of like alignment, it kind of breaks down when you take it out of context of the game it was originally designed for. That said, it's...

I tend to use adventure and scenario interchangeably when it comes to RPGs. An adventure is a self-contained series of encounters that may or may not be connected to other adventures to form a campaign. What happens in an adventure is largely dependent on the game you're playing. If you're...