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The TV shows I remember watching in the 1970s are reruns of I Dream of Jeanie, The Brady Bunch, Welcome Back Kotter, and WKRP in Cincinnati.

I remember building a potato gun with my dad and my older brother. We used hair spray as a propellant, a cook stove switch as a trigger, and a couple of old junk cars in an empty field were our targets. My brother and I discovered that if we used oranges instead of potatoes, we could make a...

Yep, it was 7th grade for us. Middle school was pretty intense at my school...not just for math, it was also when we learned how to diagram sentences, write in cursive, and build our own experiments using the scientific method. This is all pretty basic stuff in hindsight, but it wasn't very...

We've had handheld calculators all my life, but I still had to memorize the multiplication tables in middle school, endure numerous classes in algebra and trig and geometry in high school, and suffer through four semesters of calculus in college. Even though we can punch any combination of...

Nice to see DungeonScrawl getting the nomination--I use the heck out of that tool.

It is interesting just how much of a game-changer (pun intended) the Open Gaming License was in the industry. When Wizards of the Coast bought D&D from TSR, they didn't have to give us an open license. Nobody asked them for one, it wasn't a requirement of the purchase agreement (as far as I...

There's no such thing as a "bad click" or a "bad view" on YouTube at the moment. The content creator gets paid either way, so they have no incentive to be honest, factual, or even pleasant. You've already clicked on their video, so they've already gotten everything out of you that they...

As far as I can tell, project management is basically emailing people a list of things to do and then watching them not do those things.

I'll have to take your word for it. I made it halfway through S1:E1 and decided it wasn't for me.

Oh yeah, for sure. If I ranked geek fandoms by order of awfulness, D&D doesn't even make it to the Top Five.

But it's got Matt Mercer's face on the thumbnail! How are you not outraged?!

I think that for some players, each mission objective is "the game," and all of the story and background and world-building and behind-the-scenes stuff is just the setup. I have had players who honestly believe in their heart that a "game of D&D" doesn't start until they step into a dungeon...

Management is like a dog sled team. Unless you're the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

Tangent, and unpopular opinion: this is how I feel about "Field of Dreams."

The concepts of winning and losing are difficult in a story-based, episodic game...which most RPGs are. My take on it: an RPG is a vehicle for different stories and missions. Your character can complete or fail those missions, but the game doesn't end when they do. So you might "win" or...

I've been telling my nieces and nephews that this is Rage Against the Machine:

I know, I know. I gotta fix that.

A solid list. For me personally: I've never seen Mank or The Killer I'd swap The Social Network with Gone Girl But yeah, that's a good ranking you've got there, Snarf.

Yep, I can agree with that. Times change, and pop culture changes with it.