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For some reason, the Timberlands I ordered Friday 13 (Feb) from Champs had a label generated, but apparently haven’t been received at FedEx. I’ve contacted them via their AI assistant ( 😡 ) which told me it was outside of business hours, and I’ll be contacted tomorrow. What is the point of...

Ditto. I picked it up because I wanted something to read on a trip. My edition was advertising the contest to be in the movie. And It’s bad, but it’s fun, IMHO.

Yes.

I used to lose pens all the time, until I bought myself my first serious one in the early 1990s. Since then, only one has been lost, and that one was destroyed in a freak accident. That said, earbuds are something I DON’T buy anymore. Besides the fact that I don’t find them comfortable, since...

Although I’ve long internalized the lesson that buying better quality products is often more economical than buying cheaper ones, I do occasionally need to reinforce it on occasion. Amusingly, the most recent refresher on Vimes’ Boot Theory involved me getting into men’s dress & dress casual...

So it’s actually possible to mess up a compass? TIL!

Most monasteries won’t let women stay overnight on their premises. Do you recall which one it was? Or do you mean a cloister? I’m a lifelong practicing Catholic, and I agree. But one of my favorite sacred spaces (in the USA) is a small Presbyterian chapel near my house. I went to a wedding...

At our previous house, 30+ years ago, my grand uncle installed a replacement garbage disposal. After some time & heavy use, it finally died, and we had to get it replaced. The plumber started working on it, but soon ran into a problem. It took him a MUCH longer time than expected and an...

A man at a convention once griped to Sergio Aragones that he charged $50 for an illustration it took him 5 minutes to do. Sergio countered, “You’re not paying $50 for the 5 minutes it took me to do that drawing. You’re paying for the decades it took for me to be able to do that drawing in 5...

Like others, I like both…I think. I used the qualifier because I’m not sure there’s actually a big difference between HERO and 3.5Ed. In each, almost any character can attempt almost anything, but there’s a big difference in their odds of success at a given option depending on their training...

One time when I got locked out of my car, I talked to the locksmith about how quickly he had gotten in. He himself had noted that it had these (then) new, more difficult locks, but had gotten in in under 90sec. He said locks don’t stop thieves, they’re a speedbump. The more time it takes them...

I’ve loved that meme since the first time I saw it. Ben Afflek and Matt Damon should get cast in a Lovecraftian horror for exactly this purpose.

Cute trailer, but- per site rules- you should probably give a bit more insight into why you posted the video.

Someone just turned me on to Customer Service Wolf: https://customerservicewolf.com/

Tim Very has passed. https://newnoisemagazine.com/news-tim-very-drummer-for-manchester-orchestra-dies-at-42/

Jumping in late on this… I’ve been in the hobby since 1977-78, in multiple groups across 5 cities in 3 states, in over 100 systems. I’ve seen a lot of campaigns fail to resolve, so here’s a list (echoing a lot of what’s been stated already): 1) sometimes, the campaign has no set ending point...

Almost “Twilight Zone”-esque.

Have you taken an arrow to the knee yet?

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Mod Note: The unedited version was a bit much, don’t you think?