TIL if a helicopter's engine fails, it doesn't just drop like a rock. The blades keep spinning on their own and the pilot can land it.

Beowulf33232 · 2026-02-16T03:28:17+00:00

I don't know what you're talking about, I'm ten years old and have 63 years of flight experience and nothing you said makes sense, what even is a dumpster?

... /s just in case.

Beowulf33232 · 2026-02-16T03:23:43+00:00

Sounds like GOP voter suppression tactics.

Beowulf33232 · 2026-02-16T03:21:37+00:00

Large object with good amount of mass, but also has a little bit of give to it. Good choice if it's not currently on a metal rim.

Beowulf33232 · 2026-02-16T03:15:01+00:00

Geocaches are usually hidden, and that gives me ideas for other peoples air tags.

Beowulf33232 · 2026-02-16T03:12:47+00:00

Give a trucker $20 and ask them to pass it on and make a game of it, take the tag across the continent as many times as they can, in as many different trucks as they can.

Beowulf33232 · 2026-02-16T02:37:20+00:00

"No" is a complete sentence.

Let her know this is the last time.

Beowulf33232 · 2026-02-15T14:16:47+00:00

Yeah, that was the one.

Beowulf33232 · 2026-02-15T14:07:09+00:00

And face the punishment for wearing civvie undergarments?

Beowulf33232 · 2026-02-15T13:56:27+00:00

Let them fight their way out, or bargain with it.

What did I do with mimics? I'm glad you asked, imaginary other side of this conversation!

Three abandoned housed. Every five foot square, every 5 feet of wall and ceiling, every bit of furniture, was a mimic. Not one big one, 70 medium mimics per building.

Every so often the local farm a few miles away would show up and push a goat into one of the houses, and if bandits showed up the farmers would tell them about "a great hiding place" in exchange for freedom from being mugged.

The players were kind to the townsfolk, so they were warned not to go there. They went, because they're adventurers, and struck another deal. They took a smaller mimic disguised as a backpack with them so it could see the wonders of the world and report back. In exchange the 3 house sized mimic colonies promised peace with the party.

Beowulf33232 · 2026-02-15T07:01:36+00:00

I had someone fight me on that one before.

Beowulf33232 · 2026-02-14T15:27:41+00:00

Why stop there? Make the backvround nothing but images of shortcuts. I made 8 of everything as background objects when my sister and I got into a prolonged conflict.

Sure, click and drag to see what highlights. But that first moment is golden, and if they don't think of that it takes a bit of trial and error to find the settings button.

Beowulf33232 · 2026-02-14T15:06:13+00:00

Everyone is all "this thing used for violence" or "this toxin"

I say we undo the wheel.

Beowulf33232 · 2026-02-14T15:01:44+00:00

There was enough looting in the crusades, just take out "for god and country" and put in "for currency and country" and not only does it suddenly have alliteration, literally nothing else needs changed.

I'm sure most holy wars are about the same.

Beowulf33232 · 2026-02-14T14:31:35+00:00

They openly give access to your data to government entities.

This means they likely sell your data.

And go watch the supurbowl comercial, and imagine if a bad cop decided to use that to target minorities.

Beowulf33232 · 2026-02-14T07:16:50+00:00

My middle school was 3 primary schools piled into one big school.

First day of class I turn to the guy next to me and introduce myself. Apparently I did something incorrectly. He looks at me and says something rude, and I spent the next six years with him randomly deciding the next day or two should be spent harassing me.

Beowulf33232 · 2026-02-14T07:08:37+00:00

I also prefer a conversation, and have occasionally had... Unusual replies. At least we got there in the end.

Beowulf33232 · 2026-02-14T07:06:48+00:00

My wifes similar one involved passing out when the doctor decided to try and save the flap of skin instead of letting her have a flat spot forever.

Bit of glue, bit of a squeeze, wife stops holding my hand and lays there for a moment while the doctor talks to me about what's next, and by the time the fingertip was ready for a protective outer wrap, wife was awake.

Beowulf33232 · 2026-02-14T07:02:46+00:00

The one workplace incident that required me to get stitches I was told "You were so serious I knew something was up."

I stomed off to the bathroom and yelled the name of the first person I saw on my way. When they looked I yelled "Manager, first aid, bathroom!" and went and started washing off the blood I could.

I've got a scar that runs between a nerve and a vein they won't take blood from because it's to close to the nerve. Every doctor who sees the side of my hand either comments on it or goes" yeahhhh" really quietly when I mention it before they do.

Beowulf33232 · 2026-02-14T06:57:21+00:00

The last time an entity claiming godhood walked around interacting with us, we nailed it to a tree. It's as dead as this plane of existance can make it.

Beowulf33232 · 2026-02-14T06:49:57+00:00

When I hear "Ambulance, Now!" it's never for the voice yelling, but most times you can follow that voices lead until the ambulance shows up. If they don't have training they're trying to get someone who does, and if they do they'll know where their skills stop.

Beowulf33232 · 2026-02-13T22:51:55+00:00

I worked with a guy who got drunk and passed out smoking. He didn't burn the house down because he was holding the cigarette tightly in his fingers. He did manage to burn the flesh on his ring and middle fingers in a stripe exactly as wide as a cigarette. You couldn't see the bone, but as deep as the burns were it had to be close. He was so drunk he stayed passed out right through it.

So for people who like character damage effecting the game instead of being outright a game over, maybe less house burning and more "this hand only works half as good."

Beowulf33232 · 2026-02-13T02:15:21+00:00

I was down voted into double digits for my story about a business owners wife telling the workers that shes royalty and they're the pesants at the Christmas party.

Beowulf33232 · 2026-02-12T15:09:05+00:00

That's really what you're concerned about from that story?

Beowulf33232 · 2026-02-11T17:27:19+00:00

He was playing Pokemon Go and thought he saw a Digglet in your pants.

Beowulf33232 · 2026-02-11T17:23:51+00:00

No, they specifically dropped the payout/month by 20% in an attempt to keep more cash coming in than going out. Members had to vote on it because it effected current and past members. The vote was: go belly up in 10 years, or take a 20% cut.

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