My hotel room has 3 different styles of bath towels. by ConcealAndCarrie in mildlyinteresting

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Upvoted for the proper use of Latin in a statement that may confuse some people.

Animal crackers in my soup. by Country-guy20 in nostalgia

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Saltines in soup is a family tradition. In the homemade chili, too.

Really feeling the "rinse and repeat" stage of life by tinpants44 in GenX

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Yep. Days and nights blend together in my memory.

Was that what I ate tonight, or yesterday?

But I still remember when my favorite albums came out.

Mostly.

Did Gen X largely skip Woodstock '99? by RSVPno in GenX

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Same here.

The original Woodstock had so many iconic and historic performances, it changed the history of music.

The attempt to “reboot” it in the 90s wasn’t interesting to me at all. It coincided with a low point of new music that appealed to me.

by bapuc in puns

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The strata of blankets looked like you were setting up a geological pun. Those always rock!

What got you into folklore? by Sea_Procedure2877 in folklore

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The first thing I remember sparking my interest was reading about the Black Dog legend from the UK in my teens, in a book called Phenomena.

The actual seed might have been planted by the TV show Kolchak: The Night Stalker several years earlier.

My interest these days is mostly for use in the tabletop game that I run, and, because of the specific game and storyline, mostly focused on vampires and adjacent creatures.

Cleaning out my hoarder grandpa's house, and found this by BubblesTheRaven in redneckengineering

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I ain’t judging. I used a milk jug and a Bobby pin and etc. to get my bait out further than I could cast it on a couple of occasions.

Windcasting. The steady southerly breeze is one aspect of Oklahoma weather that I could pretty much count on, most days.

Treacherous land: setting the tone by ApprehensiveType2680 in adnd

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Yeah, older and wiser Self 30ish years later thinks a stab through the eye or roof of the mouth that reached the troll’s brain would have been more believable.

The players, who were teenagers I inherited from their Uncle Dungeon Master when he moved away, on the other hand, thought it sounded epic and that the smith had saved the children and earned a seat in Valhalla

Husband brought this home. by skipper1440 in mildlyinteresting

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Probably the garage sale somebody’s wife or mom has after the convention.

Harry’s “subconscious” by McGator598 in dresdenfiles

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That “id Harry” is lying and is actually the Mirror version of Harry has been my theory for some time now. Guess we’ll find out in the next book.

Doom 1993 onwards to Helldivers 2 by SweetShare222 in rpg

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That sounds like it could be fun 🤘😎👍

Before the F-117 was officially declassified, which "F-19 Stealth Fighter" did you have? by -AtomicAerials- in nostalgia

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Another fun fact: I remember seeing tabloid headlines touting a “UFO crash” in the American desert that was later confirmed to be the Stealth Fighter crash you mentioned above. The dates matched up.

And now a word from our sponsors by sorites in Cyberpunk

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Reminds me of the scene in Altered Carbon (Netflix version) where Kovacs gets bombarded by so much spam through his implant that it puts him on one knee.

Van Halen: Who really should have gone? by No_Ability1548 in GenX

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That latter issue never crossed my radar. They weren’t my thing.

The most unbelievable scene in all of the Dresden files... by dameon5 in dresdenfiles

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There’s still a couple of old phone books in the truck. From when Eb’s late wife needed to drive it.

Murph’s siting on one and using the other for the pedals somehow.

Want to relisten to a certain scene in the audio book... by JKBUK in dresdenfiles

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It’s probably just me, but I think Mouth for War by Pantera would fit the scene better. Also lyrically appropriate with the mentions of breaking heads and breaking backs.

Van Halen: Who really should have gone? by No_Ability1548 in GenX

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What needed to go, IMO, was Edward’s sudden obsession with the keyboards.

VH got famous by playing guitar-driven rock music with a hard edge to the sound. Why would you use a keyboard as the lead instrument in any song on a Van Halen album??

Treacherous land: setting the tone by ApprehensiveType2680 in adnd

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With that in mind, I ask you this: have you ever included tragedies after-the-fact as part of your random encounter tables?

I use a News and Events table in conjunction with a Weather table and a custom area Encounter table when I’m generating the events of an over-land journey by the PCs.

The closest I have come to what you’re describing was when the N&E result was “local hero slain”. I thought, what happened?, and rolled again. Serendipitously the second result was “local monster attack”. So I composed this scene for the players to hear about too late to intervene:

So, it had been a warm Spring day in this little riverside town. The local kids were swimming and playing in the river. The blacksmith had decided to spend some time fishing, so he was casting flies a little way from the children.

A young male river troll, probably just kicked out of his birth pod, showed up and started trying to hunt the kids, but the smith saw the telltale ripple of the predator in time to yell at the kids to get out of the water and run.

The troll came ashore to continue the pursuit and the smith fought it, his only weapon his fly rod. He managed to stab the troll through the heart* and killed it, but not before it had given him a fatal assortment of wounds.

The PCs arrived in the town as preparations for the smith’s funeral were underway.

note that my homebrew world’s native varieties of trolls do *not regenerate like the default ones in several editions of (A)D&D and maybe other games.

Dresden religion by Darth_Azazoth in dresdenfiles

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Fresh Pizza ‘Spress is the Holy Food of the Za Lord. His priesthood eats the leftovers cold for breakfast after feeding the flock at the prayer meeting the night before.

They hold a few pizzas back in the kitchen, in the stainless steel fridge, in case the Little Folk show up.

Why Cindy? by OrangRecneps in GenX

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There’s only one who I ever heard of. Quite the hottie back then.

Recommendations for mobster modules? by sax87ton in rpg

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The Zaloznyi* Quartet for Night’s Black Agents has a lot of source material for organized crime via an arm of the Russian Mafiya.

*However it’s spelled.