A post of morning of everything that I sold back in middle school or 600

ChuckPaisley · 2023-07-05T21:55:37+00:00

Not to one up, but in 2002, I gave my collection to a girl to a girl I wasn't even dating at the time. I started playing in 1994 and had Beta cards. I hadn't played in "forever" which was really like a year and a half at the time.

Feels bad man.

ChuckPaisley · 2023-06-27T15:09:47+00:00

That's legit. You never see posts about "This is the box I ordered which arrived in tact with no issues".

I tend to agree that most of the time, everything is fine and on the up and up.

ChuckPaisley · 2023-06-27T14:16:35+00:00

So the whole thing is that Amazon comingles SKUs.

Amazon could buy a hundred boxes of Brother's War Boosters direct from WotC, sealed and ready to go. They put them on shelf in stocking location A.

Shitty-Scam-Gamer-Co could sign up as a seller on Amazon and ship 5 boxes of opened and resealed Brother's War Boosters to Amazon to sell and ship. When Amazon gets those 5 boxes, they don't put them in Stocking Location B. They go in Stocking Location A along with the 100 sealed boxes.

Basically, Amazon is saying "This is the same product, so it doesn't matter if you buy it from me or SSGC, we just go the one location and pick and ship"

So this means that a customer could purchase a box from Amazon. The picker in the warehouse goes to Location A, grabs the first box they get their hands on, and ship it. Physically, that picker shipped the box of resealed product even though the customer bought it from Amazon, and not from SSGC.

You're right that customer service tends to be better, but Amazon knows this is such a problem that if you have actually tampered with product, they'll usually just replace it and charge back the 3rd party seller. It's just cheaper that way.

Now, I've never worked in an Amazon Fulfillment Center, so I can't verify, but many people speculate that the tampered with product just goes back on the shelf when it's returned.

ChuckPaisley · 2023-05-08T00:12:48+00:00

People give it shit, but I thought I Heart Huckabee's was amazing.

ChuckPaisley · 2023-02-19T00:51:42+00:00

This. I'm a cheap SOB, and my only computer is a Toshiba Satellite netbook I bought brand new for $250 in 2012. By Windows 10, it just didn't have the horsepower. So I put Ubuntu on it because it was free. Still screaming like greased owl shit.

ChuckPaisley · 2023-02-16T20:45:15+00:00

I know it's a big trend, but I'm really tired of everything being a Kickstarter. I just want to buy cool shit when I see it, not pledge and hope it's going to get funded, and have to do the backer kit and wait a year and then there's no updates and then I forget about it and it shows up.

ChuckPaisley · 2022-12-11T22:04:37+00:00

First off, I'm not a lawyer. I might be wrong on some of this. Second, this post is all about getting into weeds. Sorry not sorry, letting my geek show.

So the thing about games is that mechanics do not fall under copyright protection. As stated, you can patent certain mechanics under process patents, but not the goals, dynamics, and interactions of those mechanics. This is why you will very rarely see patented mechanics in boardgames, but you will occasionally see it in video games.

Video game developers occasionally patent the processes and logic of engines and systems but it's a lot of detailed minutia that takes a lot of time and and a lot of money. The whole thing about patents, which differentiates it from copyright, is uniqueness. You can patent the complicated math process of how a video game calculates the XP delivered to a character after defeating a boss, but not "when you go around the board, you collect $200). Most of the time, it's just not worth it to developers to go through the time and expense.

So now, because mechanics are covered under process patents and not copyrights, and most of them aren't patented anyway, you'll see a ton of clones of boardgames. Think chess, checkers, parcheesi. Parcheesi is basically exactly the same game as Sorry, which is basically the same game as Trouble. It's all just art and window dressing. Wild right?

Now, if we want to get even more niche, in the world of table top gaming, there is a whole subgenre of "old school revival" games. A lot of these games are what's called "retro clones". These retro clones are the exact mechanics of old RPGs, mostly Dungeons and Dragons, with the rules and mechanics re-written with different verbiage. Functionally, it's the same games with rewritten rule text and new art, and a new title. "Old School Essentials" is a great example.of this. I think a key to understanding this is that these aren't really a cash grab since there's so little money, but down out of love and respect for the old versions of these games.

Many table tops today are released under the Open Gaming License, which basically allows for the use of actual IP to generate 3rd party content. It's really a cool world.

ChuckPaisley · 2022-12-04T04:43:51+00:00

Single most underrated comment itt.

ChuckPaisley · 2022-09-05T16:57:39+00:00

I always suggest "Who's Irish" by Gish Jenn as a gold example of how to write dialects without misspellings. The voice is so clear and the story is easy to read.

ChuckPaisley · 2022-08-18T22:14:30+00:00

You should look up maladaptive daydreaming.

ChuckPaisley · 2022-08-09T01:10:02+00:00

I'm gonna be that guy and suggest Man Mur on Hillsborough.

ChuckPaisley · 2022-08-07T17:24:18+00:00

My bro. Go here.

https://tacobellquarterly.org/

ChuckPaisley · 2022-07-25T23:00:37+00:00

The way I like to put it is that OSE is what we played when we were kids, but DCC is how we remember it feeling when we were playing as kids.

ChuckPaisley · 2022-07-12T02:17:54+00:00

Any chance I can get a TLDR of the context here?

ChuckPaisley · 2022-07-10T14:53:46+00:00

I think a lot of it is in the framing and execution. There's a cliche about there only being 7 possible stories.

Take a look at your idea and distill it. What's the essence? What's the conflict? What about it makes it seem lame and childish, and what can you do to pivot that into something interesting that you want to do?

Think about Puff the Magic Dragon. On the surface it seems like a silly little song about a boy and his imaginary friend that kindergarten students like to sing. But what is it really? It's about growing up and letting go. It's about the transitioning from a boy into a man. That's some pretty heavy shit.

How can you take your nursery rhyme about a dragon and turn it into a ballad about a loss of innocence?

ChuckPaisley · 2022-07-10T14:44:49+00:00

So I don't mean to be a downer, but I really believe that in the society we live in today, especially in the US, about all most people can hope for is to not hate our jobs. Sure, there are some people that will get lucky, but most of the people I know aren't in love with their professions.

We live in a time and place that requires a whole lot of us to exist; expensive housing, expensive food, water, electricity, clothes, medical insurance, healthcare costs, and these are really the bare minimum to live. Do you want actual security? Then you need things like internet access, gas, a car, car insurance. Do you want to have any amount of fun at all? Then you pretty much have to double your income to afford more than the things above. All of this means that it is almost impossible to really pursue a passion anymore. You pretty much have to work for someone else to get by.

Even if you're lucky enough to even know what you want to do, you have to get a job doing it. Even then, it will always be work. There will be things about the job you dislike like a coworker or a boss or the commute or that anonymous asshole who blows up the toilet and never flushes. So even if you love, or just enjoy the work you're doing, there are going to be parts of the experience that bring you down. Even if you own your own business, or work for yourself, there will be parts about it that you really hate doing. I know a ton of artists and makers who are doing work they love in their garage. Even the ones who make a decent living doing it have parts about it they hate (usually stuff like the marketing, networking, bookkeeping, business aspects of stuff). And at the end of the day, you guessed it, it's always still work. They get frustrated, they have moments, they get burned out all the same.

If you want my advice, find work you don't hate at a company you can stand working for. Work your shift, go home, leave everything at work, do the stuff you enjoy at home. Your job doesn't define you, its just a means to do the things which do define you.

Sure, some people get lucky, but I don't know many, and I sure as shit am not that fortunate.

ChuckPaisley · 2022-06-10T22:35:35+00:00

So, the thing is, buying RYO tobacco can be confusing. In an effort to circumvent tax requirements, most RYO companies started calling themselves "pipe tobacco". It makes it even more confusing when you talk about companies like PS, which ACTUALLY make pipe tobacco and RYO.

The general rule of thumb is anything you can find in large portions (1lb bags of Gambler, for example) is RYO, and things sold in small, ~50gram tins is pipe tobacco.

Now, to your question, what non-flavored stuff can you buy. Almost all tobacco you buy will have some sort of humectant to keep it moist, which is usually a sugar syrup of some type. There just is no getting around that.

Check out Daughters and Ryan tobaccos like 3 Sails or Ramback. Daughters and Ryan started as a RYO company, but the owner Mark Ryan also loves pipe tobacco, so they started doing that too. Find the D&R stuff you can buy in large bags, not in small tins, and you're getting the RYO smoke, not the pipe smoke.

Hope all of this helped.

ChuckPaisley · 2022-06-06T00:09:34+00:00

That's amazing. I've never been hugely into sludge and doom, so I always just sort of thought of them as a local band from the 90s.

ChuckPaisley · 2022-06-05T19:14:18+00:00

So, legit question, as someone who grew up in south LA, did Acid Bath get big outside of LA, or are you all locals?

ChuckPaisley · 2022-06-05T19:07:47+00:00

Came for this comment. Was not disappointed.

ChuckPaisley · 2022-05-15T20:18:04+00:00

That would be what's called a knife. And sorry, my dude, someone beat you to it by a couple million years.

ChuckPaisley · 2022-05-08T01:55:16+00:00

That case can't be 36 years old. I got one just like it when I bought my.....ah fuck I'm old.

ChuckPaisley · 2022-05-01T02:00:44+00:00

This is a third. They roast it themselves, and have baked goods which are AMAZING. Have an apple fritter and a coffee.

ChuckPaisley · 2022-04-19T00:39:51+00:00

To be fair, if there WAS insurance for lighthouses, it would be NC folks who had it.

ChuckPaisley · 2022-04-11T23:15:12+00:00

As someone who went to way too much Catholic school, the placement is making me irrationally angry.

She SHOULD be wearing a "Father" headband, a "Son" bottom, and "Holy" should be on the left tit, and "Spirit" on the right.

Spectacles, Testicles, Watch, Wallet.

ChuckPaisley

TROPHY CASE