Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[prabe]

This past summer we went on vacation for 4 days to Mount Rushmore before the mining rights deal is signed for Lincoln’s forehead and put a hold on our mail being delivered while we were gone. Cost to us: $0

A couple years ago, my wife and I went to the Black Hills (among other places in South Dakota) and made a point to see as little of the Heads as we could. There was one (very nice) scenic drive that made it impossible, but other than that we managed to avoid all the defaced (heh) mountains in the area.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after you.
-Lao Tzu

The person I responded to just ignored me, so maybe there is something to that. Does this Lao Tzu have a newsletter I can subscribe to?

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

The person I responded to just ignored me, so maybe there is something to that. Does this Lao Tzu have a newsletter I can subscribe to?

 

[Ryujin]

This past summer we went on vacation for 4 days to Mount Rushmore before the mining rights deal is signed for Lincoln’s forehead and put a hold on our mail being delivered while we were gone. Cost to us: $0

A few items I had ordered months ago that were delayed ended up shipping via UPS during that time and were going to be delivered the day after we left. I looked into what it would cost to delay or reschedule delivery to the day we were coming back and found it was going to be something like $20 per package. I ended up asking a friend to come by our house and grab them before porch pirates came by at the cost of a 6 pack of his choice of beer next time we get together to game together. There were 4 boxes so that should work out to be cheaper. So stupid.

A 3 week mail hold cost me something like C$30.00, the last time I went to Seattle.

 

[MoonSong]

I'm like, "I admire you for your courage and dedication. I hope everything goes well for you." Then in the last ten seconds "ahh, that motto isn't the call for peace you seem to think it is..."

 

[Scribe]

I admit, I'm weak. Maybe next year I'll do better but I cannot avoid scanning over the news/articles. Often times, I can skip over the distressing stuff, sometimes I get a good laugh.

"Stoicism is toxic masculinity." That one got me chuckling.

Look around at the world, we could do FAR worse than maybe taking some hints from the past and well, getting over the idea that we as individuals are the end all be all.

 

[prabe]

I admit, I'm weak. Maybe next year I'll do better but I cannot avoid scanning over the news/articles. Often times, I can skip over the distressing stuff, sometimes I get a good laugh.

"Stoicism is toxic masculinity." That one got me chuckling.

Look around at the world, we could do FAR worse than maybe taking some hints from the past and well, getting over the idea that we as individuals are the end all be all.

Without having seen the article in question, it's worth remembering that much of what gets called "stoicism" these days has little to do with the Stoics--same as much of what gets called "cynicism" has next to nothing to do with the Cynics. I can see how someone might look at what gets called "stoicism" these days and see at least some correlations with toxic masculinity.

 

[overgeeked]

"Stoicism is toxic masculinity." That one got me chuckling.

It certainly can lead there, for some. There's a lot of toxicity in many Stoic spaces. But I think that's mostly the era we're living in and the internet rather than anything inherent to Stoicism. People taking the ideas and twisting them to suit what they want rather than learning from what's actually there. Lot of that going around.

Man, I miss the Enlightenment.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Fellow Pineapplers,

If you haven't done so yet, take a moment to check out the final entries and vote in the Third Annual Pumpkin Spice RPG contest, run by our own CleverNickName.

Voting thread is located here-

Thread 'The 2025 Pumpkin Spice RPG Contest - Cast Your Vote!'

Yesterday at 8:01 AM

Here are all of the entries for the 2025 Pumpkin Spice RPG Contest! Links to the original article are below, and I've quoted the entries themselves in the first post of this thread...so there are two ways for you to review them for yourselves before voting.

All ENWorld members are invited to take part in this poll. So have a look, and vote for up to three!

The List of Entries
In their Order of Appearing:

1. Pumpkin Patch and Espresso-Fueled Pumpkin Head by @Vael - a custom Environment and Adversary for your Daggerheart game
2. Rubiaceae...

• CleverNickName
• Replies: 16
• Forum: *TTRPGs General

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[CleverNickName]

Scene: a group of adventurers arrive at the Pearly Gates.

Angel: Hello, and welcome to--ah, it's you guys. Again. Somehow.

Fighter: Hi, sorry for the trouble. We'll just wait here until our cleric--

Cleric: Um, I'm here too.

Fighter: #%@#&!!!

Angel: (opens book) Okay, let's see here. Sir Hunksley the Fighter. It says here that you...were left to fight the entire horde of orcs alone, when everyone else in the party pulled back?

Hunksley: Yep. (glares at the rest of the party) I'm starting to rethink the concept of "companions."

Angel: And hello Radiana, cleric of Pelor. You healed Sir Hunksley from a safe distance, only to be targeted by--goodness, thirty-seven arrows in the following round?

Radiana: (pulling arrows out of her forehead) Indeed. Only twenty-two of them managed to hit, though.

Angel: And then there's Abracadaver the Necromancer. You used a cantrip, and then you were targeted by the other thirty-seven arrows, yes?

Abracadaver: That's the last time I cast Toll the Dead.

Radiana: (under her breath) I doubt it.

Angel: And then... (sighs heavily) ...Hardy Hipthruster, Esquire. Bard of the Singing Swallow Tavern.

Hardy: I didn't know the barrels contained explosives! She didn't say she was a nun! The orc looked at me funny! The shopkeeper is lying, I bought those rubies fair and square! How was I supposed to know that elves can detect syphilis? They told me that tomb was unguarded! Nobody said I couldn't--