Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[kermit4karate]

Margaret Weis out here spitting stone-cold facts like Toon is more fun than D&D.

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Toon!!! I haven't thought of that game in 30 years!

 

[Cadence]

As other family members frantically looked for their glasses or went back to get their ID this morning, would the percent of time someone misplaces or forgets to bring things be Wisdom related in D&D tangential stat systems?

 

[kermit4karate]

The money is very much not what's swaying me, option A could have been 'you get a ham sandwich' and I'd still choose that because being an adult trapped in a child's body (and perceived as one by everyone else) would be horrifying. Just the lack of agency children have over their own lives would be miserable to go back to.

Naw, not horrifying. You'd be the talk of the town! Multimillion-dollar sponsorships up the wazoo, your own hit talk show, podcasts -- not ONLY because you'd have an adult's intellect, but also because you could predict future events over the next ~40 years (depending on how old you IRL now).

Then, you could reinvest that first few million you earned, dumping it all in Yahoo during the dot com boom in the mid-'90s and jumping out shortly before the dot com crash around March 2000, pocketing 300x your initial investment!!!

This is probably one of those things where the reality is so complicated that what I'm about to say is completely incorrect, but I'm under the impression that the IRS doesn't care about the source of your income as long as you're actually paying them what you owe.
But I'm not an expert so if a time traveler ever gives you a sack full of money, talk to a lawyer. Or a doctor.

Oh, they care. They always care....

 

[Mannahnin]

Freelance editing and design related:

Your invented language is super cool and all, but ain't no one ever going to call your giant rats ol'kbath-nuar!

Especially since we already know the proper word is ROUS.

I favor Ulsio.

All of the Play to Find Out games so far have been really good. I know for sure I don't ever want to play Skyrealms of Jorune, for instance, and regret selling off my Toon books. Very much looking forward to hearing Nobilis, which is next.

Nice. Jorune is cool, but definitely has issues. Ben Laurence of Mazirian's Garden and Through Ultan's Door fame teased a really cool-looking OD&D hack version of Jorune on his blog over several articles a few years ago, but I don't know if he ever finished it. Sounded super neat-o, though.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Snarf: If you could be any kind of animal, what kind of animal would you be?

Job Applicant: That's a weird question. What does that have to do with the job?

Snarf: Humor me. What kind of animal?

Applicant: .....um, a cat. I'd be a cat.

Snarf: Huh. Interesting answer! Why would you want to be a cat?

Applicant: Well, I have a cat. And it seems like a great life. Sit in the sun. Get fed. You never really have to do anything. It's pretty much how I want to live.


The applicant did not get the job.

 

[SkidAce]

EVERYBODY PANIC

STOP!, Panic time...

 

[Cadence]

Snarf: If you could be any kind of animal, what kind of animal would you be?

Job Applicant: That's a weird question. What does that have to do with the job?

Snarf: Humor me. What kind of animal?

Applicant: .....um, a cat. I'd be a cat.

Snarf: Huh. Interesting answer! Why would you want to be a cat?

Applicant: Well, I have a cat. And it seems like a great life. Sit in the sun. Get fed. You never really have to do anything. It's pretty much how I want to live.


The applicant did not get the job.

The exam to get into either our middle school or high school program (don't remember which) included what animal you would be. I picked hippo and it was probably about having no natural predators. For a job I guess it would that you can fight off any challenge and get to wallow in the mud and get dirty doing things?

 

[kermit4karate]

For a job I guess it would that you can fight off any challenge and get to wallow in the mud and get dirty doing things?

Oh, my god, you are speakin' my language!!!

 

[Ryujin]

STOP!, Panic time...

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[Cadence]

Oh, my god, you are speakin' my language!!!

I'm assuming for the interview I should leave out about the part about spinning my tail like a propeller and launching sh*t everywhere...