Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Ryujin]

I'm not thinking about the thing you're thinking I'm thinking.

I'm talking about someone saying "there are only four or five iPhone cases available" while willfully ignoring the thousands more -- better ones! -- currently available. Great if you want one of those five cases, but it's a weird thing to pretend that the others literally don't exist and, if they did, are automatically inferior.

 

[Scribe]

I want a family tree/genealogy of RPGs.

Thanks in advance @Snarf Zagyg

 

[Thomas Shey]

I want a family tree/genealogy of RPGs.

Thanks in advance @Snarf Zagyg

I could probably have done a credible job making one for English language ones 30 years ago. Now--uh---

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

OTOH, when was the last time you bought an app for your phone where Apple or Google didn't get their cut?

The only app I’ve EVER bought was the ReacTable Mobile app and its expansion modules, which was only available from their website.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I'm not thinking about the thing you're thinking I'm thinking.

I'm talking about someone saying "there are only four or five iPhone cases available" while willfully ignoring the thousands more -- better ones! -- currently available. Great if you want one of those five cases, but it's a weird thing to pretend that the others literally don't exist and, if they did, are automatically inferior.

Most cases I buy are from non-megacorp leather workers. Oberon has been our default, but I’ve found some great ones on Etsy as well.

I do buy Apple cables, but mostly 3rd party ones. Apple doesn’t make heavy-duty 10’ cables. And my Mom is HARD on cables- she’s managed to kill the heavy duty 10’ cable I got for her new iPad after just a few months. I’d love to blame the manufacturer, but it’s a brand we’ve been using for years, and hers always need replacing every few months.

If/when we get Apple watches, I know for a fact we’ll be buying a 3rd party band for Mom’s, because she thinks the Apple ones are ugly.

 

[trappedslider]

I want a family tree/genealogy of RPGs.

Thanks in advance @Snarf Zagyg

should also thank @Ruin Explorer cuz i'm sure he could give a character hitting limit post.

 

[CleverNickName]

Smoking sections were a good idea when you consider the alternative at many places was the whole restaurant was a smoking section. Smoking was just so much more the norm at the time. Some did it better than others. The good places divided the restaurant in half with a hall separating the sections. There used to be ashtrays in malls as well

I grew up during the 80s, when there was a lot of pushback against smoking. Joe Camel and the Marlboro Man both got dropped ("cancelled," as the kids would say today), cigarette commercials and candy cigarettes were outlawed, and so forth.

A popular joke at the time was "a no-smoking section in a restaurant is like a no-peeing section of a swimming pool."

 

[Scribe]

A popular joke at the time was "a no-smoking section in a restaurant is like a no-peeing section of a swimming pool."

I was just reading some of his quotes!

“Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that”.

 

[Hussar]

The biggest eye opener to me about the whole non-smoking thing was a buddy of mine who owns a Tim Hortons (well a couple of them now, but, one at the time.)

It cost him about 40 grand to change his Timmies to non-smoking. This would have been about 1992 (ish?). You have to basically strip out EVERYTHING from the restaurant and start over.

He made it back in six months. Because smokers come in, have one coffee and sit for half an hour. Non-smokers come in, have a coffee and leave, opening the seat up to other paying customers. It was astonishing to see how much more money he made by going non-smoking.

It didn't take all that long for every other restaurant owner to see that. That's why you have virtually no smoking in restaurants anymore. A smoking section in a restaurant is just WAY too expensive.

 

[Hussar]

Just want to say that coming into En World this morning and seeing a bajillion new threads about upcoming stuff makes me very happy that I come to En World on a regular basis. THIS IS COOL.