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

[payn]

"What do you mean you don't have oatmeal?! I thought this was a restaurant, that you served actual food."
"Sir, this is a pizza shop."

....but what if its pizza ranch??? Fetch me my oatmeal!!

 

[overgeeked]

Yes, its a problem not knowing the type of restaurant you are attending. A lot of folks assume the restaurant should be a buffet.

Or, like around here, they intentionally go to a buffet then endlessly complain that it’s not a specialty restaurant focusing on their favorite dish.

“Sir or madam, we must ask you to kindly stop berating the bus boys as they have no control over what’s in the trough. Yes, we’re all quite aware you want an authentic Cubano hand-made by actual Cubans, but this is a buffet in Ohio. Perhaps going to an actual Cuban restaurant might be a good place to start.”

 

[CleverNickName]

Scenes from Tasha's Pizzeria of Everything
Act VII, Scene XXVII

Tasha's: Welcome to Tash--oh, it's you.
Customer: Okay so the worst thing about pineapple is--
Tasha's: (grabs broom, climbs over counter)
Customer: Gah! Not the broom!!
Tasha's: I told you to stay out. Go on, git! Shoo!
Customer: (from the sidewalk) I THOUGHT YOU LIKED PIZZA!
Tasha's: They don't pay me enough for this.

 

[overgeeked]

So, if I managed to avoid commenting on something in another thread, but came here to brag about having done so, do I lose any good karma from the initial act?

I don’t think it’s about karma. I think it’s about trying to avoid derailing the other thread while still saying the thing you can’t keep in. If I know something will start a pointless argument, derail a thread, or it’s just me having a day, I’ll post it here instead. Now that I’ve found this thread.

I wish more people would use it like that. Instead we get 500 posts about edition changes and whether the 2024 version is a new edition in the what happened to Ray Winninger thread.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

“Sir or madam, we must ask you to kindly stop berating the bus boys as they have no control over what’s in the trough. Yes, we’re all quite aware you want an authentic Cubano hand-made by actual Cubans, but this is a buffet in Ohio. Perhaps going to an actual Cuban restaurant might be a good place to start.”

Cuban Sandwiches, Ranked
10. Pan con Timba
9. Pan con Minuta
8. Elena Ruz
7. Croqueta Preparada
6. Pan con Bistec
5. D&D 5e.
4. Cubano
3. Frita Cubana
2. Pan con Lechón
1. Medianoche.


Zeno: Welcome to the greatest Cuban Sandwich joint in the world! What can I get you?

Achilles: Do you have a muffaletta?

Zeno: Um, no. We serve Cuban sandwiches.

Achilles: Cool cool. I'll get two shawarmas to go, please!

 

[CleverNickName]

I think Karma would be a cool warlock patron.
Or a very uncool one, it's up to you.

 

[overgeeked]

I think Karma would be a cool warlock patron.
Or a very uncool one, it's up to you.

No one’s ready to see what karma has in store for them. Even the villains think they’re the heroes.

 

[CleverNickName]

Decided not to post this in the "antagonistic" thread. Maybe I should have?

 

[Gradine]

"What do you mean you don't have oatmeal?! I thought this was a restaurant, that you served actual food."
"Sir, this is a pizza shop."

 

[Ryujin]

"Because [D&D] is a gradual series of revelations / That occur over a period of time / It's not some carefully crafted story / It's a mess, and we're all gonna die. . "

So if you've followed my posts for any time or read my campaign story hours you know it is a hobby horse of mine to push against the idea of D&D as a story game with notions of closure or emulating narrative or cinematic conventions as a goal of the game or even any particular scene or encounter.

This is the place where if I were @Snarf Zagyg, I'd have a subtitle that said something like "Every time I hear someone say 'Everything happens for a reason' I want to punch them in the face just to prove them right."

I was listening to NPR's Fresh Air the other day and the guest host (Terry Gross was on vacay, which is why I bothered listening) was interviewing Rachel Bloom. I have never watched Crazy Ex-Girlfriend but they played a clip of one of the songs from it and I fell in love with the song (embedded below + lyrics). Not only because I agree with its view of life. . . but because that is my ideal view of D&D. If you listen to it with D&D in mind, it really kinda works. It makes me think of how in my longest and most successful D&D campaign, while the PCs resolved what became the central concern of the game, there were still about a dozen loose threads and the game ended satisfactorily after 5+ years (real-time) with the party dissolving to pursue whichever of those mattered most to them, some of which would put the PCs - now fast friends - into conflict. The End. Everyone loved it.

Also the lyric about "People aren't characters. They're complicated / And their choices don't always make sense" makes me think of all the times I've witnessed players argue about the in-game choices of another "not making sense" (something I would put the kibosh on these days). The people who play D&D characters are not characters themselves.

Anyway, I was gonna start a thread about this, but then I decided, what's the point? I'll share it in that wackadoo thread instead.

Here's a clip from the way the song was presented. Warning: Spoilers for the show.