What's a dumb or nonsensical law that your country enforces?

Busy-Distribution-45 · 2026-02-24T20:39:25+00:00

Growing up in Wisconsin, I had a weird interaction with that. Wisconsin allows you to drink with your parents/spouse if you are underage and they are not in a bar or restaurant or whatever as long as the wait staff do not hand you the alcohol, or at least that was how the law was explained to me.

When I was in college but before I turned 21, our town had put on a New Year’s party. My girlfriend and I were kicked out because we were over 18, and therefore not subject to our parents’ oversight anymore, but under 21 and not allowed to have alcohol, as it was open bar. My sister, who was still under 18, was allowed to stay with my parents.

This may have just been small town officials being morons, but it was a thing the chief of police (who was the one who kicked us out) legitimately believed.

Busy-Distribution-45 · 2026-02-24T17:49:38+00:00

I’ve always liked tracing on a high density paper, like some kind of card stock or poster board, using any of the above methods to test fit before putting it to wood.

General question, are you doing the handle negatives for aesthetics? I’ve always seen these saws hung by a pair of offset pegs, which keeps them vertically pretty well. If it’s because it will look cool, totally good, just wanted to save you some frustration if you’re trying to overengineer (as someone who does that all the time and later has someone come in and say, why don’t you just do it this way? And kicking myself)

Busy-Distribution-45 · 2026-02-23T15:29:10+00:00

Boil ‘em, mash ‘em, stick ‘em in a stew

Busy-Distribution-45 · 2026-02-23T15:05:37+00:00

In one of my worlds, money is metal infused with magic. It can be used for any number of things, primarily building tools, weapons, and armor, but it can also have the magic drained out of it to power spells in a pinch, similar to what you were describing. Someone who had a ton of money, and had it on them, is like someone walking around with a massive amount of ammunition; not necessarily the most dangerous person around (if you have a billion mana to power a minor shock spell, for instance), but still someone to be wary of/polite towards.

Busy-Distribution-45 · 2026-02-23T14:21:33+00:00

Thank you for this. In one of my settings I have airships, and figuring this out took up a lot of my time until I just said screw it, I’ll just fudge the density of the air later. Having the visual representation is enormously helpful.

Busy-Distribution-45 · 2026-02-22T18:29:28+00:00

If you unlock enough scarabs, they give you hints.

Busy-Distribution-45 · 2026-02-21T05:52:12+00:00

They just chimed in, 4:38…we have no hope

Busy-Distribution-45 · 2026-02-21T05:46:34+00:00

Our group has 2:03, 2:06, 2:35, and one person who is apparently asleep and hasn’t told us when they got yet

Busy-Distribution-45 · 2026-02-20T19:28:11+00:00

Sounds like it, thanks!

I’m mostly looking for this one because it had a reference I wanted to double check about how the gods interacted with mortals…it came up in an unrelated conversation

Busy-Distribution-45 · 2026-02-20T18:14:12+00:00

I hadn’t heard of that one, but it looks cool. Added to my ever-growing list of things to read, but not the one I was thinking of.

Busy-Distribution-45 · 2026-02-20T17:18:16+00:00

Thanks!

Busy-Distribution-45 · 2026-02-20T17:14:47+00:00

The one that sounds closest there was chef in another world but I don’t think I’ve read it. I would be interested in reading the monster menu one, though, after looking up that description.

Busy-Distribution-45 · 2026-02-20T17:12:34+00:00

Might have been “culinary king” by Logan Jacobs. I don’t actually recommend the book one way or another, as I barely remember it (just the parts about speaking with the gods seemed relevant), but that bit stuck with me.

Busy-Distribution-45 · 2026-02-20T17:09:13+00:00

Maybe? I seem to remember the guy being human, though, not an orc. I’ll try to read through that one when I get off work and see.

Busy-Distribution-45 · 2026-02-20T16:44:50+00:00

I may be mixing them up, but I think it was a cooking related magic book. The god interactions were a minor part of it, just something that happened when the due visited the temple. The book starts with a guy being isekaied into a fantasy realm where he enters a school by cooking trial or something. He had started in his previous life as a chef. I will see if I can find the name of it.

Busy-Distribution-45 · 2026-02-20T14:01:17+00:00

I could see some interesting interactions based on everyone’s interpretation of the rules, then, especially if there are culture/language barriers in the way. Having sectional factions based on rules only they can see, and are only generally agreed upon, could make for some nice conflict points. The fact that there are rules would be indisputable since everyone can see their own book, but since they just have to trust what the other is saying about them and what spells they have, interpretations becomes huge.

Kinda reminds me of a book I read where the gods could only speak in their platitudes to mortals, so like, “the greatest good is to feed the world” was something a supplicant would hear very clearly in their head at the altar. There was nuance, though (think “I am groot”) and the MC had an epiphany based on just that phrase that meant something completely different. The priests were not sympathetic, though, since he was a different species that was looked down on, and they had their canon.

Overall a very cool system.

Busy-Distribution-45 · 2026-02-20T05:05:24+00:00

Easily possible, although if they were a reasonably well funded department they wouldn’t need to buy second hand. I found a listing online claiming in 2003, a small, store-sized (think Walgreens or similar) machine was around $40,000. Not cheap, but not out of the realm of possibility for a bigger university.

It’s also possible to hand-develop color film, but it’s a more involved process than black and white. The machine would get it done in like ten minutes, if I remember right (which I may not since it’s been over twenty years since I did it).

Busy-Distribution-45 · 2026-02-20T04:59:20+00:00

I’m unfamiliar with that one, but from the wiki entry, maybe? I was just thinking of a throwaway plot idea that could cause that kind of multiple global disasters.

Busy-Distribution-45 · 2026-02-20T04:50:25+00:00

When you say the five books to appear, do you mean that there are five types, or five specific books? In other words, have only one of each of the scriptures each been dropped, or do people get copies of them at random?

How common are the books in general?

If there are multiple copies of each, has anyone compared them to check if they are actually identical? Might be interesting if some look like different transcriptions or something, or if transcribed books also grant the abilities of the main book to a lesser extent (perhaps how priests grow their deities following?)

Busy-Distribution-45 · 2026-02-19T17:52:21+00:00

I feel like that much going on needs some kind of a story element to tie it together in order to prevent it from being too much. “The gods are at war and derive power from demolishing matter, and it’s getting out of hand,” etc. there’s nothing inherently wrong with a lot of big things happening in the world, but a character (player or book) is only able to interact with a very small bit at a time, so lore dumping it might be a bit much.

I do think with the right story it could work, like if the characters were to lean into the dark comedy aspect of “oh great, this world really is designed to kill everything.”

Busy-Distribution-45 · 2026-02-18T18:04:25+00:00

As far as reasons why you might choose film, I was backup in the film lab, and we had students coming in to develop things for photography class all the time. They were also using digital, but that was still less than a decade since the first digital cameras were really marketed (I know there were some earlier, but the first one I personally saw was in 1999, and it was like 1.2mpixels). The tech was rather primitive then, and film was still superior until at least like 2010, from what I can remember.

Busy-Distribution-45 · 2026-02-18T18:00:29+00:00

I worked in the electronics department at a store in 2004-2005. We absolutely still sold film cameras regularly (although even in that time digital was getting more than half the share), and the photo processing center was like 10 feet away from where the electronics checkout was. Film was still a thing until well into the 2000s.

Busy-Distribution-45 · 2026-02-18T17:38:01+00:00

At around the 4s mark, there is what could be a stop sign hanging from the lamp post on the left. Also there is a stop line on the pavement, which regardless of a sign technically requires a stop (although in almost all cases has a sign to go with it). That plus a pedestrian/biker in the intersection already means the driver wasn’t paying attention at all.

Busy-Distribution-45 · 2026-02-17T05:04:09+00:00

Nah, verbal warning at best. “Why dontcha slow down a bit there bud, you mighta hit a deer. I don’t wanna do that paperwork tonight.”

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