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You learned it after I did, junior! ;)

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English as a Second Language. Someone suggested earlier that this could be an artifact of importing grammar from another language. Similar to how my ex-wife who was into photography always said "make" a picture rather than "take" a picture, despite her degree being in English Philology...

I played in such a convention game run by Tim Kask and even he couldn't make it particularly fun, though the players were experienced and we made a game attempt. We sure wanted to find/make the fun!

Was it someone with ESL, as hypothesized?

I am deeply confused by this response. It feels like another case of person A declaring person B ignorant and provincial because person B attests to the existence of terminology person A can't recall ever seeing used. I never suggested that anyone is "wrong" to use the same term for both a...

I've also been noticing some hamstring soreness lately, but the only exercise I've been doing recently which I think really hits those is my morning split squats in my PT exercises. I guess I could have some leftover from my hack squats Monday night. And/or from helping a friend move a heavy...

Last night I motivated to get in a quick session (despite the gym being busy and all the benches taken) between work and D&D. Three sets each plus a couple of drop sets- machine chest flies, lat pulldowns, and triceps extensions. Felt good to fit that in.

How about Hole-Heartedly?

Trap bar was my preference for the couple of years I was doing them regularly, before I injured my back in late 2022. After PT in Spring of 2023 I incorporated some lower weight stiff legged deadlifts but I've stayed away from regular deads since.* That injury seems to have more or less...

Why reply to me if you're not going to read what I wrote? Weird. Thinking about adding a third (or second, depending on how you count, as one got banned) name to my ignore list.

Oh yes, even though I started with and almost exclusively did circuits for the first few years, I learned the etiquette and to be conscious of not taking up equipment/letting people work in wherever possible. Sometimes if someone wanted to jump on a given apparatus in the middle of my circuit...

Correction: I read in another thread that 2E did it too, and double-checked. 2E AD&D makes Dwarves, Halflings and Gnomes even slower, with a base movement rate of 6" compared to Humans, Elves, and Half-Elves getting the standard 12" (see PH 119-120, and 78 for encumbrance modifiers), and no...

Didn't work out on Sunday, recovering from being up late and in the afternoon I had to help a disabled friend shop-vac out some water from under his basement stairs to prevent flooding in the main area. That was reasonably active, though, holding the shop vac steady on the stairs while he...

A debt can be real, I can agree with someone that I owe them something, Or they can legitimately feel that I owe them something due to a promise made, without a legally-enforceable contract being in effect.

This may just be you missing vocabulary for a device you never talk about personally. Soda jerk is archaic terminology because it referred to an employee whose primary job was to operate an old fashioned soda fountain with a lever arm they pulled down on (the "jerk"). I will accept correction...

Fair. I don't normally complain about the 20' move when playing TSR editions. 3E-5E give Dwarves and other short folk a slower base movement rate, but they also give Dwarves a special ability to not be slowed by armor, so DCC really went out of its way to put the boot to Dwarves on this issue...

It's also silly because it's founded in an old misconception about plate armor that it significantly slows the wearer at tactical engagement distances. Which it simply doesn't (at least for people trained to fight in it). But that was what D&D said in OD&D through 4E, so DCC follows suit. If...