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That REALLY depends. For a while now, a lot of Easter eggs and hat tips have been showing up in film & TV. ET’s kinfolk showing up in the background of Star Wars movies, C-3PO & R2D2 on the walls of scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark, movie posters on the walls of the sets of other people’s...

There’s all kinds of books on names. I think your “friend” is doing it on purpose.😂

Just for giggles… Undergrad: Majors in Econ & Philosophy; minors in Art, Art History, English Literature & Religion Graduate: Law, MBA (in Sports& Entertainment Marketing), certificate in Mediation I’m a junkie for academics.😜

One obvious but obscure place to look is Storm Constantine’s Wraethu novels. The titular beings supplanting humanity are supposedly a direct result of pollution, etc. driven mutations to humanity. IOW, we did it to ourselves. Schlock movies from the 60s-80s like Frogs, Squirm, Empire of the...

Depends on the teacher and what they’re trying to teach. If they’re genuinely trying to teach symbolic analysis, they will be reading those papers.

Been in the TTRPG hobby since 77-78, and bought my first 2 minis the day I got my PHB & a set of purple polyhedrons. And I’ve bought a BUNCH over the passing decades. But 99.99% of mine are unpainted. While I appreciate the skills of those who do, that aspect never attracted me. (And I paint...

Re: symbolic analysis: Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Sometimes the gun isn’t Chekov’s.

Mine is (I just ordered the basic one). The gold plated one was 50% more expensive, and who needs that kind of gilty pleasure?

IME, that’s true of ALL chains. Yeah, they all make an effort to keep the customer experience as uniform as possible between locations, but the human element always matters.

I learned how to edit, and I do it very well. A lot of stuff across all fields is under-edited. And I’m seeing more errors in places you’d expect to see decent editing done, such as in journalism. As the big companies have started shedding staffers, mistakes have risen. For example, I saw...

Editing- in all forms- is underappreciated. So are continuity bibles. I remember running into a particular editing/continuity issue in 3.5: two very different feats with the same name. Most people seeing the subsequently published feat would assume- because of WotC’s own precedents- that the...

Yep. It’s definitely a different vibe. It’s akin to the differences between watching The Big Game in person and watching it on TV. Even if you have a killer setup, great food, and are watching with your hand picked inner circle of fans, going to the game still has a special feel to it. I’ve...

Normally, I’m just cooking for me & my parents, so it is a slower, more deliberate process. But when I started getting asked to do more and more cooking for big family/friend events and giving food as gifts, I had to really learn to standardize several of my recipes. And this corned beef thing...

The time pressure arose from the fact that it takes 7-10 days to brine a corned beef from scratch. That meant I was trying to reverse engineer/master a new process & recipe in 3 weeks for an audience with high expectations. It’s one thing to try out a few different ways to bake tilapia- you...

FWIW, besides some personnel connections, the TV show and the movies are unconnected.

When I was 11 or so, our gym class had a dance unit that lasted about a month or so. We did some square dancing and The Charleston ( 🤷🏾‍♂️ ) as well as some aerobicizing and other stuff. However, the strongest memory of that class was that the teacher allowed us to bring music to be played on...

Actually for St. Patrick’s Day in March. Which is still in Lent. I cook several pounds of the stuff every year these days because we give some to the neighbors, and they’ve already started commenting about how they’re looking forward to it. So I started looking for it in stores to check...

Of the ones mentioned, we have Comet.🤷🏾

Jesse Jackson has died. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/rev-jesse-jackson-civil-rights-activist-dies-rcna42408

Ghidora is one of my all-time favorite kaiju.