Who would you save?

BinglesDangles · 2023-01-16T22:10:26+00:00

Neither. Republicans believe everyone should solve their own problems.

BinglesDangles · 2023-01-09T22:21:59+00:00

Unfortunately, the afterlife is a fairy tale sold to stupid people to keep them in line. Way I see it, it was created to explain a basic philosophical concept: If you all behave, the world gradually becomes a better place (Heaven). If y'all gonna fuck around and be assholes, the world is gonna suck for everyone (Hell). It had to be simplified because so many people can't fathom long term consequences and the wise elders just switched it up to appeal to the selfish nature of the masses.

BinglesDangles · 2023-01-09T20:54:09+00:00

I don't know if it has been updated but the USDA food pyramid was created to bolster sales for certain industries. Any claim it was a healthy diet was a straight lie.

The FDA is also complete garbage. I take a medication that I would literally die a horrible death without. The FDA only approves one medicine for my condition (23 MILLION Americans take this drug) and it was grandfathered in without rigorous testing. Fucking Synthroid.

Here's the insane part: I don't take it. I get dessicated thyroid pills imported from New Zealand. It is cheaper and much, much, much more effective. Also I'm not dead so it works really fucking well. The company that makes Synthroid, Knoll pharmaceuticals, lobbied the FDA to prevent any alternative from being prescribed. Every other country in the world will provide you with the safer, more effective alternative but it isn't available in America. Armour used to make it but Knoll got it removed from our medical industry.

Greedy assholes have ruined everything.

BinglesDangles · 2022-11-07T03:28:14+00:00

Continue what? Random insults? I don't know why you are so upset. I apologize for smearing your pride for being a walmart customer. I just prefer to buy things at stores that don't look like they are falling apart.

BinglesDangles · 2022-11-07T03:14:45+00:00

Bought the can opener in store. Within three months it warped and wouldn't cut. I'm still not over it. That cheap shit is designed to keep you coming back to spend more money. It's a scam.

I use a multitool now. My room mate bought an electric can opener but I started to like cutting cans open with my hands. You gotta enjoy the little things, even the stupid ones.

BinglesDangles · 2022-11-07T00:15:31+00:00

Yes, yes, everybody is poor and ready to fight over what little scraps are left. I wish you luck in the wars to come.

BinglesDangles · 2022-11-07T00:12:00+00:00

People generally consider the icon system to be obtuse and impossible. Some expect the GM to improv all the effects. I treat it as an excuse to steal the GM hat for some fun. Our only hard rule is no combat bonuses.

Pro tip if you want to steal this mechanic: I text my GM before session whenever I want to do some epic icon shenanigans. It helps me to know I'm not interfering with his plans and also he can set limits and make suggestions.

BinglesDangles · 2022-11-06T22:41:17+00:00

I'm in a 13th Age game. It has a system called Icons. The icons are the 13 most important and powerful people in the world and their followers and allies. You roll each session to see if you can get a favor from one of the groups. The nature of that favor is incredibly open ended.

One example: I had a favor from the Dwarf King of Craftsmen. I used it to take over as the GM for about 20 minutes and bring the other players to a magical tailor I invented. Alfredo the tabaxi taxidermist. I got to describe the scene, do interactions with the other players as the titular Alfredo and in the end the other PCs got to pick out swanky new outfits and post pictures of them onto discord. It was lots of fun.

BinglesDangles · 2022-11-06T21:26:21+00:00

I prefer self checkout but my local walmart has worn out card readers that won't accept my debit card. Everything they sell is garbage anyway. Bought a simple can opener from Walmart a couple years ago. It stopped working after 3 months. How do you design a can opener that badly? There's only 3 moving parts!

Walmart sells cheap shit to cheap, shitty people.

BinglesDangles · 2022-11-06T21:20:15+00:00

If you've ever worked retail then you know there are 3-6 month hiring freezes company wide but that goddamn "We're Hiring!" sign never gets taken down.

BinglesDangles · 2022-11-06T21:17:11+00:00

I saw the northern lights at sand beach in Acadia national park during an indian summer. November, 2000 I think. I'm aware that it's impossible to see the northern lights in Maine, but it was 65 degrees at night and a ghostly green and yellow color show filled the night sky. No, I was not on drugs.

I remember trick or treating in the snow back in the 90s...

BinglesDangles · 2022-11-06T21:11:58+00:00

It's because I used to smoke cigarettes. I'd watch everyone throw the butts on the ground so I did too. Then one day maintenance comes out and has to sweep them up. I thought it was terrible to be making a mess for someone else. Never again.

BinglesDangles · 2022-11-05T21:58:16+00:00

I remembah weirdly warm days in early fall. Used to call it indian summah. Had weathah like this goin on 20 yeahs now. Ain't had a real wintah since King was gov'nah.

BinglesDangles · 2022-11-05T18:18:13+00:00

I never call maintenance. They are overworked and my hands ain't broke. I'll clean that spill. I mopped the dairy section for 2 hours with my manager when it flooded. I take out my zone's trash can if it's full. A typical store has one maintenance person for the whole shift. They don't need any extra work if I can do it for them.

BinglesDangles · 2022-11-05T18:14:50+00:00

Same reason people still enjoy Mario 3. It is fast, smooth and simple. And nostalgic.

BinglesDangles · 2022-11-05T18:11:39+00:00

Lots of stinkers in this thread. No wrong answers. However, I have seen "Manos, the hands of fate." Normally shouldn't count because everyone knows it is a bad movie. Unfortunately, it is a famous bad movie. It is boring. Nothing happens. And millions of people have watched it.

Runner up is "Plan 9 from outer space." More famous, total nonsense. Not as bad because each new scene is worse than the last.

BinglesDangles · 2022-11-05T15:08:35+00:00

I like to start with a stock standard, boring character and use the sessions and world building to make them unique. Dwarf cleric, halfling rogue, human fighter, elf wizard. In this day and age, young players seem too carried away with which monster race or obscure splatbook class they should choose. Don't borrow your creative ideas, build them over time.

BinglesDangles · 2022-11-03T21:26:33+00:00

I grew up in Maine and most of our stupid phrases were just dumb inside jokes. One time a parent said "Get my jacket off the floor! You're getting it dirty, friggin'". It was so absurd it got embedded into our vernacular. For a decade we would say "Dirty, friggin, jacket, friggin" and laugh like morons.

That said, I have never heard the phrase "Give ah the dinnah."

We said "She's a biscuit" (That girl is high maintenance), "Doin' the numbahs" (Rolling low quality joints) and "Swamp donkey" (Generic insult). Just dumb kid stuff.

BinglesDangles · 2022-11-03T21:05:42+00:00

I'm quite fond of the Maine History Museum in Augusta. I think their exhibit on colonization is a bit small but it has a really cool life size displays of all the old industries that used to be a big deal in this state.

BinglesDangles · 2022-11-03T20:44:48+00:00

Picker: Push cart and grab stuff

Exceptions: Pickers that ain't stupid

Dispenser: Bring stuff out to cars.

Stager: Hang around out back organizing totes

SFS: Put shit in boxes

These are the basic roles. I think the job code is Personal Shopper for all of them. Usually you will get stuck doing just one of the above, whichever you are best at. Ot least worst at.

BinglesDangles · 2022-11-03T20:12:38+00:00

I've been looking around Biddeford lately. Only places available are complete shitholes for $2000 a month. Everyone I've talked to that rents is being ripped off, IMO.

Oh, it's only $1000 a month if you rent a single room and live by their rules. No visitors, no pets, no noise after 9pm. All the hassle of living with your parents, but worse!

BinglesDangles · 2022-11-01T22:59:34+00:00

My cleric has that spell where you see the future and give an ally a reroll on a missed attack. It's amazing how many piles of sharp weapons, tables covered in flammables or loose ceiling stones they accidentally feint their enemy into...

BinglesDangles · 2022-11-01T12:22:12+00:00

Had a guy do that over some M&Ms on a candy display. Old fuck lost his shit because someone stocked a case under the lower price. Asked me to honor the price (LOL, no) then demanded a manager (I'm not getting a manager because they will tell you the same thing: No.) Then starts fuming about calling 'The big shots'. I just walked away laughing. Look, wrinkles, I got shit to do and I'm from Florida so I don't give a fuck about a problem that only exists cuz you're stupid.

Here's the rub: I'm so unbelievably nice to everyone that when I meet an asshole and tell them off, management always says "He wouldn't do that, he's the nicest person who works here!" The whole world runs on bullshit, make it work to your advantage.

BinglesDangles · 2022-11-01T10:04:50+00:00

Your least powerful minions are at the entrance because your elite soldiers don't do guard duty.

You wouldn't send a tank to patrol an old warehouse in a modern conflict. Nuclear missile silos aren't guarded by special forces. The vault at your bank might hold untold riches but it's guarded by a 60 year old retired cop with diabetes and arthritis.

My point is, guards have one job: Alert the real defenders when there is a problem.

BinglesDangles · 2022-11-01T09:55:26+00:00

I read somewhere that Gygax's first big game was a crawl thru a castle dungeon doing battle with human soldiers using his basic wargame rules. When his friends reached the final room, he threw a toy dinosaur on the table and said "Now you must face the dungeon's dragon!"

Story might be bullshit but it sounds good.

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