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What is your relationship with online social media? Are you all in all the time with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, discussion forums, etc.? Or are you a social media hermit? Do you love the whole concept of social media, or do you consider a scourge of civilization? If you are all in...

What is digital detox? OK, I just Googled it. Well, I haven't read or posted anything to a gaming forum for many months. The old edition war arguments are a few years past for me, but the bad feelings about D&D nostalgia linger. I don't see how a wide spectrum digital detox would restore my...

I hope the joke was "Because of you!" I don't remember being part of any 3rd-4th edition trouble. I think I only ever made one post about 4th edition, ever. (I didn't play it, so had nothing to say about it beyond that one post.) Bullgrit

Ever had your enjoyment or support of something ruined by other people in that group? Ruined enough that you come to dislike participating in that something anymore? Maybe you enjoy reading and discussing books in groups, but after a while you get really tired of so many people insisting every...

Scott DeWar -- I haven't been in a long while. I got two emails this evening from ENW, telling me my email box here is full and that I got this mention, so I came back to check my email and this thread. So, um, hi y'all. Long time no see. Bullgrit

Thanks, everyone. I'll look more into the D&D5 Starter Set and the Pathfinder Beginner's Box. Both/either might be exactly what I'm looking for, and he needs. Bullgrit

Thank you very much for the link to the basic rules. I've skimmed through the pages . . . it's not completely 3rd edition, though it is very close -- close enough for me and my purpose. It's definitely not at all 4th edition. Seeing that the date at the top of the page is this month, is this...

My 13 year old son wants to start DMing some D&D with his friends. I've DMed for him and his friends a couple of times -- see www.totalbullgrit.com/blog/again-the-boys-delve-into-the-dungeon/ So he knows the general conept of the game, and the very basic rules. I've given him a copy of the old...

Interesting. I don't think I've ever seen beer in a can in any non-American media. It's either bottles or glasses/mugs/steins. Really? Only America has the above very general categories? Schools, currency, food, cars? If you want to be unhelpful in a discussion, why bother posting in it? Are...

Well, yes, I know that. I'm asking what small details stand out to you. Some things I suspect are much less common outside the US, but are common in American media: pick up trucks, pizza, beer in a can. Bullgrit

The American themed party thread brings this to mind. Apparently the red plastic cup is an American thing, not seen "in the wild" (as someone said) in other countries. Several years ago, I was entertaining a Swedish coworker visiting the US. While out driving, she spotted a yellow school bus...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKZqGJONH68 If you don't know, Solo is the company/brand that makes those cups. I've seen them used commonly as disposable drink cups for as long as I can remember. And despite what the above song says, Solo cups don't easily crack; the cheap copies do easily...

It's the facility where SHIELD docs revived Coulson. The team learned of the place from SHIELD records -- remember, SHIELD calls it the "Guest House." I thought I saw SHIELD logos in the place. (At least SHIELD fonts on the various labels.) Coulson and crew went in heavily armed, hacked their...

Yeah, I understand the phenomenon. But it doesn't seem to fit Coulson's situation. It's not like he survived a plane crash that everyone else didn't. He was injured, and doctors saved him, brought him back from [-]the brink of[/-] death. That's what they do. His issue now seems to be that at the...

T.A.H.I.T.I. What the hell?! They want to get one of their team into a SHIELD medical facility, but the facility is classified and locked. So they kill two SHIELD (good guys!) guards to get in. THEY MURDER TWO MEN to save one of their team! Holy crap. The writer and director and whoever OKed...

The sword is something I've had since I was 18 or 19. My girlfriend at the time gave it to me as a gift. I don't remember where she found it. It's not anything particular, just a sword. Bullgrit

Is it that the person making a nasty comment on the Internet is a jerk, or is it that the commenter doesn't think of the target as a real person (with real feelings, etc.)? That is, does the anonymity make a person a jerk, or does it make everyone else unreal? Is it that the Internet makes...

Whenever I see pics or videos of someone doing some gymnastic, or acrobatic, or just non-lifting-a-weight strength feat, I thrill at what a body can do. I really want to be able to do a hand stand. I would love to be able to hold myself perpendicular to a poll. I'm relatively flexible...

Awesome jokes! Thanks. [Can't give you xp right now.] Bullgrit

I don't know any secrets that I feel a need "to shout out to the world." That is, I don't feel a need to reveal any of the secrets I know. I've always been a good confidant because I don't have the gossip urge. I like knowing things, and I'll listen to gossip, but I don't tell it. <shrug> It's...