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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Works even better if it is one of those posts where you're reacting to something that happened in your IRL world and the rest of us aren't supposed to have the context. :D
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    Where’s The Beastmaster Roleplaying Game? Part 1

    I really dig* the Beastmaster IP. I watched the movie as a kid and the series as an adult. I always did like the lower scale and stakes it showcased -- where being able to have a lion or tiger (and two ferret) allies was a powerful ability, etc. *... aaas a lower-budget sploitation property...
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    Robots, Vampires, and Wombats: Random Campaign Setting Ideas

    Turn the monolithic towers into statues of Ganeesh and make the vampires vampiric squash and you have a Digger homage.
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Because scrolling through your feed clicking 'block ________' on all the pointless gibberish is still you scrolling through your feed, viewing ads.
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    What Show Should Have Only Had One Season?

    It's not 100% obvious, but it seems like you missed the joke.
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    How Fantastical Do You Like Your Fantasy World?

    Similar to this. I care, but the answer can be different at different times or with different games/groups. Heck, if my range can include fantasy and hard sci fi and quasi-realistic* special ops games and weird-world** RPGs, I can certainly get behind both low- and high-fantasy fantasy games...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    The crazy old man I'd see in a parking lot would have a 'spoonful of sugar' shirt with entirely different implications.
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    What Show Should Have Only Had One Season?

    Thus far, we've focused almost exclusively on highly recognizable network (+HBO and now streaming) shows that were a big deal at the time. Also*, we're generally going with shows people think started off as very good shows. What if we open the discussion up to, say, non-HBO cable tv shows and...
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    Overrated/Underrated Geek Media

    Also it was a movie from the 70s gently chiding the 50s at times, and I missed that. Also saw it for the first time as an adult, in a film class, around 2000. Still, I have no strong opinions on Gangster movies (or the crime genre in particular), and I still was able to recognize it as one of...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Must preserve the sanctity of the thread, right? ;) At the same time, if it's not protectionist feelings but instead some kind of 'hey, we were having a moment here' kind of situation, I can totally get the frustration. But at the end of the day it is making demands of other people and their...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    The point was that, in fairness to Payn, his comment was not utter US cluelessness, cultural chauvinism, or assuming that everyone knew how things work in Eagle-land. They had every reason to believe their comment was close to universal in broad strokes, that people would catch the relevant...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Oh, I totally get it. They are playing to the algorithms, and YouTube's monopoly power + watch-the-world-burn social media behavior + having many content creators by the purse strings is the real culprit here. However, if the content creators are warping their product so much to match it that...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    To be fair, remove the word gun from each paragraph and leave everything else as-is (and know that 900 pounds is ~400 kg) and the topic works pretty well for anyone. We all know roughly what a safe is, and how hard moving one that mass would be (compared to other potential home furnishings). I...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    Within the context of negotiating states of affairs with others*, I would vote for 'find acceptable' as the closest term. Likewise, on the happy-unhappy spectrum, I think 'okay' and 'ambivalent**' are the closest to a neutral state. I agree, both unhappy and not-happy are below the neutral...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Oh man, I used to love watching his stuff. Then... not so much. He has just tripled down on all the crass YouTube tactics to get people to click -- hyperbole, all-caps/exclamation points, vague descriptions that require you to click on the video (and watch through the first ad) before you find...
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    (rant) Exhausting brain fog replies

    I suspect that in most cases it is factors other than genuine cognitive impairment. Primarily, a lot of people are reading this board on their phones on lunch breaks, or similar situations. This can lead to rushed reading, and rushed responses. This leads to a lot of instances of people...
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