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Got in Monday night again; hit different muscle groups. Trying to stick to a consistent suite of exercises and put in the effort for a little progressive overload, focusing on adding reps now, where I can. Lat pulldowns (narrow grip) four sets with drop set on the last one. Increased the base...

Wat. There was a substantial faction of 1E players who didn't bother transitioning to 2E, some of whom complained about the removal of demons and assassins and apparent kowtowing of TSR to what Jim Ward called the "Angry Mothers from Heck", but there was much less rancor than the edition wars of...

(I'm thinking GURPS) Got a bunch of bonus points from Disadvantages like his addictions, code of honor, and the revolutionary activities in his past which could have gotten him hanged. ;) Certainly not all 18s if we're thinking D&D. Not much Strength, Constitution middling, Wisdom very doubtful...

Yes, the cringe is real. Either thinking about young people we've known, or ourselves as clueless youngsters. I appreciate that by the end of the movie Tom's actually tried out Jane Austen and found he likes her. I was just thinking about how formal and kind of unnatural the dialogue in the...

It's a game attempt. Jack Aubrey's brilliance at sea but hapless incompetence on land/in business and politics is certainly fun fodder for novels. I'm not sure such a person is adequately or accurately modeled by a low Int score, but I do think there's something to the notion that a person...

Rackham made some amazing miniatures. I bought out and resold a bunch of Confrontation models when a local gaming shop went out of business one time.

Always nice to see a Whit Stillman movie reference in the wild. :) This movie is so fun. Very dry. Such a time capsule of NY prep schoolers in the 80s, but more generally of smart kids who had no idea how ignorant they actually were, despite reading a lot. Which is part of the time capsule...

Feel better soon!

Good stuff. So you still get Classic, but you also get all the Advanced options in the same two books - Players' and Referees' tomes. All the Advanced stuff is just indicated as such.

Rested Friday and Saturday, got in for a pretty solid session on Sunday. Smith machines were all occupied but I was not deterred from my intent to stick to the Smith inclined bar bench- I just hit a different exercise first. Machine biceps curls four sets with drop sets on the last (picked...

The entropy of typos comes for us all...

Thank you! Yeah, IME/IMO there's a big middle zone for most people. I do derive some satisfaction from my job and I know it's healthy for my mood, even though there are things I'd rather be doing at any given moment. If I could choose any job I wanted, it would probably still be one that...

Yeah, a lot of great stuff there. Although I wish they'd draw the line at 1 HD for fighter sweep as in OD&D, rather than less than 1 like AD&D, which is less useful and less heroic.

Sure, yeah. A nice satisfying soreness confirming that I put in some hard work. I don't want to be debilitated (except for a few minutes after a hard leg exercise). I've gotten it regularly in my arms and back and legs, which are all areas where I've seen better growth and development than my...

It's lighter and funnier than Ex Machina, but still dark and good and well-written.

I bought it a couple of years ago but haven't made the time. Definitely on the list.

Those are all great. Ooh, it also reminds me that I need to show Ex Machina to my brother and our friend we watch movies with pretty regularly. I just showed them Companion the other night, and they quite enjoyed it.

Well, you're required (by forum rules) to tolerate it to the extent of not creating a conflict over it. But of course, that's the original purpose of this thread.

Are you being hostile for any particular reason? Or did you maybe choose the wrong word? I'm not being deceptive or misleading. You seem to have a giant excluded middle in between your two extremes.

Sure. Just noting the common element of both stories involving a couple of peons getting caught up in great and dramatic events, and us seeing them through their eyes.