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

[Hussar]

why do we as geeks/nerds have to act so pretentious on some subjects?

Why sir, whatever are you speaking about?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

why do we as geeks/nerds have to act so pretentious on some subjects?

This behavior gave us the Um, Actually game show, so it can't be all bad.

 

[Ondath]

Some people doubling down on being insufferable when you point out that they're being insufferable and uncivil is... Annoying.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

why do we as geeks/nerds have to act so pretentious on some subjects?

As Mama Snarf used to tell me, "Snarf, the whole point of the fancy book learnin' and getting all cultured up isn't so that you can feel better 'bout yerself. It's so you can make other people feel worse 'bout their choices. Remember you this- you don't have to rise high, if others fall down low. Now, go get yer mama another case of Mad Dog and some Cool Colt 45 'cuz they pair nicely with the oak tones of these here Parliaments."

 

[Mannahnin]

That’s easy. They wrote and published the superior product years earlier. B/X.

I agree with @overgeeked on this one- Moldvay/Cook is better.

Plus, Mentzer framed Bargle. #Neverforget #Justice4Bargle

B/X is superior for general use (barring Moldvay's sad choice not to let M-Us add more spells to their books from scrolls or enemy spellbooks), but for the specific use-case in question (learning how to play & run D&D from the books, without an experienced player to teach), Mentzer still beats Moldvay, and as far as I have seen still hasn't been topped. From my readings the only "D&D" book in the last forty years that even tried to equal or beat it was the unpublished Referee's guide for LotFP. Though I'd love to hear of others!

I have a Scottish last name that no one can seem to get right. Hell, I have a motorcycle industry award sitting in a cabinet, behind me, that has my last name spelt incorrectly on it. They got it wrong while looking at an email from me.

... that contains my last name in the signature.

I feel your pain. Although for me it's my Swedish first name. Which doesn't even have an Å, Ä, or Ö in it!

 

[Ryujin]

Today's head-desk concussion inducing incident. Cable Services removed the network switch for Helpdesk, leaving them without phones or network connections, without informing the Helpdesk manager. Or anyone else, for that matter. Found out via a "Why can't I print?" service request.

 

[RealAlHazred]

This behavior gave us the Um, Actually game show, so it can't be all bad.

I can't wait to play the home game!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wiggles3d/um-actually

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Some people doubling down on being insufferable when you point out that they're being insufferable and uncivil is... Annoying.

I think those folks are here largely as a game to see what they can get away with.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I can't wait to play the home game!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wiggles3d/um-actually

We subscribed to Dropout for the most recent season of Dimension 20 (a delight), and I've been binging all of the old Um, Actually episodes on the way to the new stuff, and it's impressive how fully formed it is as a game show, even from the start. I like Dropout's other shows, but they're basically just improv games with camera. (Although Game Changer is so clever that it also belongs in some sort of hall of fame.) Um, Actually is a genuinely well done game show.

 

[Mad_Jack]

Yeah. I grew up in the arse end of nowhere. Why do you ask?

Was your school a one-room red building?

I once subbed in a class that had two girls with the same first and last names. They weren't particularly common ones either, it was just an alignment of the stars and nobody at the school thought "gosh maybe don't put them in the same class where the teacher has to remember whose classwork is whose".

Everybody makes jokes about having an evil twin... But it's not so funny when you actually have one.

Check this out... There used to be another family in our town with the same last name as us, which we discovered because we used to get their mail all the time until they moved away. And apparently the father of the family had the same first name as my father.

Years later, starting in high school, I began to get arrest reports clipped out of the newspapers taped to my desk - for a guy with my name (although the first name is spelled differently and the middle initial is different).
Over the years, he's been arrested for everything from driving an unregistered vehicle to drug possession.
At one point he even robbed a local bank.
I've worked with two guys over the years that knew this guy: the first time, my first day at work the guy came up to me and said, "You're ----. I've heard of you." and the other guy came up, looked at me and said, "...You're not him..."
Even my own relatives have called to check that it wasn't me when they saw this guy's name in the paper.

I've almost gotten into fights because people thought I was this guy.

I almost lost a job because they thought I'd submitted two different applications.

But the best one?

My mother was in the hospital. A candystriper came in, looked at her chart and said,
"Mrs. ----?
Oh, are you ----'s mother?
Would you like to see pictures of your grandchild?"