The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Scribe]

People in all sorts of social pastimes will often stick it out even when the joy has gone out of it, usually because it's their group, and separating yourself from such a social structure can be difficult and painful.

This is yet another thing thats been bouncing around my skull lately. I read an article somewhere recently, talking about how 'the athlete dies twice'. A quick google shows its not a new topic/idea.

I think that sometimes, the same thing applies to people who just get too wrapped up in a hobby that they dont fully or even partially control.

For the athlete, the first death of course being retirment from competition or training. It can suck very very hard to lose something that can be your primary 'reason'. Its why you get up, its why you eat the way you do, its why you suffer in the gym, sacrifice, go to bed early, its all consuming and when that goes, either due to injury or age or inability to perform its a blow.

Watching a hobby move on without you isnt quite as painful (in my experience) but if its wrapped up in ones social circle as well, it can suck pretty hard.

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

Funny thing is, you should have gone to the doctor. Even without insurance here, a visit probably would have been less than a hundred dollars with prescription. To give you an idea, I was hospitalized this year for about five days. Ambulance ride, MRI, five days in the hospital without insurance would have cost me about 800 dollars total. With insurance obviously it was quite a bit less, but, still.

Oh yeah, I probably should have. But I was dumb back then (probably still am?)

 

[FrogReaver]

The 4E thread feels like a time machine back to November 5th 2008.

Maybe it is.

 

[trappedslider]

Comics without context

 

[Scribe]

There's a reason pineapple lovers have the rep they do, and its on full display currently.

 

[CleverNickName]

Spoiler: I'm genuinely confused

I thought that 'pineapple on a pizza' was a metaphor for 'psionics in D&D' because it's such a radical flavor change from what most folks expect. Similar to "calzone" being a metaphor for something "not being D&D" because apparently calzone isn't "really pizza" according to the Internet.

Is there a psionics thread I'm not aware of? Or did the pineapple metaphor mutate while I wasn't looking?

 

[Scribe]

"that is not the pineapple you are looking for" - Obi Wan.

Spoiler - Its not psions, afaik.

 

[FrogReaver]

There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who have pineapple issues and those who don't.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Stromboli > Calzone

That's right, I said it.

 

[darjr]

There is a lot of untouched grass.