Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Staffan]

I like to puree the pizza, refrigerate the slurry, and then reheat in the microwave for 3 minutes and consume. I mean, I guess people do it differently -- like, microwave for 2 and a half minutes, maybe? -- but I expect everyone eats it the same way I do, and both cannot comprehend and will argue incessantly about, doing it any differently.

Ah, good times...

 

[dragoner]

It's really hampering the sale of Juul ecigarettes in Grade School!

That is depressing.

 

[Scribe]

2025 is wiiiiild

I don't know if I want to know what I missed now lol

 

[Gradine]

Except the human brain sometimes sees or interprets patterns when there isn’t one (or not the one that seems obvious). Apophenia

Oh, you're certainly going to come to the wrong conclusions from time to time. Nobody is infallible. But you'll be right far more often than not, and you'll be doing Life(tm) right.

 

[Gradine]

Is it just me or are there a significant number of people really telling on themselves around here?

Listen to people and they'll tell you who they are

 

[dragoner]

Listen to people and they'll tell you who they are

If it quacks like a duck ...

 

[Deset Gled]

"Just asking questions."

On a serious note: report that BS when you see it. Don't expect an immediate response. The mods are always going to give people the benefit of the doubt for a one time thing like that. But the mods here are also intelligent, they remember, and they really do care. If the behavior becomes bad enough, they will take action eventually. But they also don't read every post on the boards, so they need reports to know how deep the problems go.

 

[MoonSong]

Off on a google tangent which led to...

I had no idea that there was a patent fight (that had a movie about it) about the Hut's stuffed curst pizza in 1995. And I had forgotten the current White House denizens were in a commercial for Hut's stuffed crust when it came out.

Stuffed crust pizza - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I think that patent has lapsed ever since.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

 

[RealAlHazred]

Wow.

So, back in the 4th edition days, I ran the D&D Encounters program at my FLGS. Wizards would send physical copies of a module to a hobby shop for free, including poster maps and, sometimes, supplementary material like NPC or item cards or something. The shop would get DMs to run a part of the module every week for 2 hours on Wednesday evenings. WotC got free press, the hobby shop got foot traffic, and DMs got a module for free; everybody won. My short reviews of the ones I ran are here.

Eventually they spun off a Lair Assault series as well. These were much shorter booklets, 16 to 24 pages, covering a single tactical encounter; each one came with a two-sided poster map, tactical cards for the DM showing starting positions, etc. The brief reviews for the ones I ran (all of them) are here.

Obviously, the modules from Encounters had a lot more meat than the Lair Assaults. I ended up with extras for most of everything, and occasionally someone reaches out to me to sell them one.

I just checked. Most of the Encounters modules sell for $25 to $50 which is, I guess, a fair price. I wouldn't pay that for most of them, and would think that price a bargain for Murder in Baldur's Gate or Legacy of the Crystal Shard, for instance.

I just looked up the Lair Assault modules, and they're going for, frankly, ridiculous prices. Absurd. All of them are going for at least $40. Forge of the Dawn Titan is a 16-page booklet. It's selling for between $150 and $200. Into the Pit of Madness is a 22-page booklet. It's selling for between $80 and $100. Those last two are by far not the best of the lot.

Is it collectors?... Maybe I need to hold onto my leftovers for another decade or so, and see what they're selling for then...