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Saturday I hiked up a small mountain to a fire tower. Sunday I got back to the gym for three circuits of dumbbell bench, dumbbell inclined curls, and seated lateral raises, all with drop sets. Then did two of leg press and calf raises, but I started to feel a bit sick (underslept and too much...

Awesome. My best friend texted me when he did that, and I wrote back "Nice! That was your goal, right?" To which he responded "Well, my GOAL is to be The Hulk..." :LOL: Great milestone.

Nice. Alaska, California, and Nevada apparently do that, and Colorado but only after 12 hours. The other 46 just stick to the Federal standard of over 40 hours in a workweek.

Overtime usually has to be hours accrued over 40 in a week, but you have to be physically in the office for more than 40, no? I've had this happen many a time. Put in an extended shift early in the week which WOULD have brought me over 40 hours worked for the week, then had to miss a day and...

Xoth Publishing used to advertise theirs here quite regularly. https://www.enworld.org/threads/free-60-page-guide-to-sword-sorcery-for-5e-d-d.667490/

Some of this can also reflect local deities or powers being seen as benevolent locally but as malevolent by a culture the locals have been in conflict with. I remember hearing years ago that there were communities in the West of Ireland in which the Fomorians were remembered as benevolent...

Did get back in last night. Warm up set of lat pulldowns (narrow grip), three working sets with drop sets on the latter two. Three of machine overhead press with drop sets on the latter two. Three of face pulls with increased weight on the second and third, with a drop set on the third. Biceps...

There were others, with the term psychology being popularized in the previous century. Cranioscopy/phrenology was relatively recent and made a claim to be scientific by rooting psychology in physical causes. The term psychiatry was coined in 1808, the year before Poe was born, and the first...

Same, O brother.

Need to reverse those labels!

Dunk & Egg! I liked the couple of short stories I read about them... oof, many years ago now! :LOL: This grabs me more than House of the Dragon did, for sure.

Looks good! Cool to see Rami Malek; I'm in the middle of a re-watch of The Pacific, which I think is the first place I saw him. Haven't watched Crowe in anything since The Nice Guys and this looks like a role with some meat. Also reminds me that I need to get around to finally watching the...

After my book club did Bowling Alone we read Society of the Spectacle, by Guy DeBord. I wasn't quite sure what to expect, and it was both more Marxist than I anticipated and more philosophical. But some of the insights into our society, though nearly sixty years old at this point, were really...

Jumping around in time & space is also something that happens in at least a couple of V:tM's most immediate fictional influences- The Vampire Lestat and Time Enough for Love. Lucy sounds really cool.

Agreed, and I expanded on that in an immediate edit. Eh. Sexual violence as perpetrated is not quite the same thing as how common or accepted the presentation of it in media is. James Bond novels were still common and uncontroversial light reading when I was a kid. Fictional heroes (not just...

Certainly, although Danielson was also talking about a period predating the site by a couple of decades, and our present discussion by more than forty years. Selection bias certainly could be a factor between my, Ruin Explorer's, and Voadam's experiences vs what Fine observed 5-10 years...

Not that I disagree, but TBF their unusually spacious home/comfortable living circumstances is still pretty consistent with live action sitcoms and family dramas. Homes and living situations being unrealistically nice and big enough to shoot in, in TV shows, has been a trope for decades...

Got back in last night and did a pretty baseline session before D&D. Four sets machine pec flies with drop sets on the latter two, three of machine biceps curls with drop sets on the latter two, and three of machine triceps extensions with drop sets on the latter two. Hoping to get back in...

I agree that as a younger gamer coming into RPGs in the 80s, sexual violence appearing in games I was involved with was very much the exception, and fellow adolescent players who thought it appropriate fare made me and by brother (my main early gaming buddy) distinctly uncomfortable. One of the...

@Steampunkette @Ruin Explorer @Clint_L @Voadam I got sucked into revisiting this thread from last year today, and remembered that we had a general discussion about how uncommon sexual assault was in our gaming experiences, compared to what the article reported from Fine's book. That reminded...