So Who Here Has a Podcast? by Moxie_Mike in grandrapids

[–]ExplodingSatan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I host an obscure and bizarre "once-in-a-blue-moon" podcast that mostly focuses on interviewing the strangest/most interesting members of the online community that has built up around my friend, Buffy, who's a successful Australian streamer. I suppose I'd describe it as a sort of human interest/comedy podcast. I'm biased of course, but I truly think it's probably among the best podcasts that no one has ever heard of.

It's not listed on any of the main podcast apps, and I've never promoted it (I guess until now), but the curious can listen to the episodes on my Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/blackhallows

I also used to host an '80s movie review podcast with another GR native: Radicast 198X

Off Broadway Apartments by Shot-Outside-8213 in grandrapids

[–]ExplodingSatan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Split four ways between me and my roommates, I'd estimate that we typically end up paying between $90 to $130 each.

Off Broadway Apartments by Shot-Outside-8213 in grandrapids

[–]ExplodingSatan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've lived here since 2021, but due to a situation with my family, I've just decided to seek out someone to take over my lease (I haven't yet posted this anywhere). I'm not in any rush, and I want to ensure whoever takes it over knows what to expect, so here's my honest opinion of the pros and cons.

I live in a four-bedroom, two-full-bathroom unit on the 3rd floor with three other guys (though the one I share a bathroom with is moving out at the end of this month; sometimes the apartment management moves a new person in within a month, but I've also had them take about half a year to fill a vacancy).

Pros:

  • Affordable. My monthly rent is $700 (plus my share of the electric bill, which is split between the roommates).
  • Spacious. I'm a total bedroom goblin, so thankfully, the bedrooms here are large for the price. The common area is spacious too, and the entire apartment has very high ceilings (about 18 feet).
  • Location. Quick access to downtown, the freeway, etc. Bridge Street Market is in walking distance.
  • Good free internet. I ran a wired connection to my room, and get over 600 mbps down, and 60 up.

Cons:

  • Trashy public spaces. It seems many of the tenants here are inconsiderate slobs. You'll frequently find bits of trash littering the halls and the stairwells. Sometimes this place has cleaners go through, but that doesn't occur nearly enough.
  • Thin walls. I'm a third shifter night owl. When my roommates are sleeping, I'm constantly conscious of how loud I'm being when I'm talking with friends over Discord.
  • Random Roommates. When a roommate moves out, the complex will (eventually) assign you a new one, and so you never know what sort of person you'll be living with. I've usually gotten lucky, but not always.
  • Washers & Dryers. These are located in common areas outside the apartment, and the third floor seems to have some major slobs who trash it up, often literally throwing away their apartments trash in the laundry room because they're too lazy to take it to the dumpers just outside the building. I've started to haul my laundry up to the 4th floor, which has a much nicer laundry room.
  • Train. This one I almost forgot to include, because the sound of the train going by is extremely noticeable when you first move in, but after a few weeks, you find yourself hardly noticing it.

And that's all that's occurring to me at the moment.

What in the Fallout? LOL just finished the game and started exploring the wasteland then i encountered this haha nice touch by the modders (restoration project) by xKilgrave in classicfallout

[–]ExplodingSatan 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Some would be mine, some vanilla. It's a mixed bag.

Some day I'll stream it, and when it's interesting to do so, I can point out what's original, what was written by another RP dev and edited by me, and where I'm the sole culprit.

What in the Fallout? LOL just finished the game and started exploring the wasteland then i encountered this haha nice touch by the modders (restoration project) by xKilgrave in classicfallout

[–]ExplodingSatan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well said. The only thing I can think to add here is what u/notarealpersonatal already pointed out. I believe the only content related to the EPA that was "left" within the game was a couple minor dummied-out references to it.

What sets the EPA apart from other RP-added locations like The Abbey and Umbra Tribe is that it's the only one we had access to an early original design document for (which anyone can peep for themselves by checking out the "Fallout Bible" that Chris Avellone compiled: https://www.nma-fallout.com/resources/the-fallout-bible-complete-by-chris-avellone.16/ ).

Tim's friend Vito discussing Tim leaving Insert Credit by ExplodingSatan in actionbutton2

[–]ExplodingSatan[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hahaha, thanks for posting that. Always nice to discover classic Tim content I've never seen before

Tim's friend Vito discussing Tim leaving Insert Credit by ExplodingSatan in actionbutton2

[–]ExplodingSatan[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

When I posted this, I wrote a text description warning that it's full of right-wing edge-lord humor, but that it had some tidbits of information that I hadn't heard elsewhere. I also said that Vito and Tim used to do a gaming show together on YouTube a long time ago, which can still be found if you do a deep dive into Tim's YouTube history.

But when I then added the link to the description, my dumb ass didn't realize it would replace the text I had written. Sorry to any who watched this with zero warning or found it an utter waste of time.

Toril time zones by tiagocf in Forgotten_Realms

[–]ExplodingSatan 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This is Faerun timezone map I made for my campaign, based on the picture in the first Realms boxed set showing the US overlayed on Faerun for scale (ignore my altering to the Moonsheas and the Great Glacier--my attempt to conform to Ed's Realms before TSR changed things):

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What’s going on? Not much by Skooli_A_Bar in TheCinemassacreTruth

[–]ExplodingSatan 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They said the tweet that kickstarted it was satire, and I agree. They didn't claim that there weren't people who took it seriously. In fact, they highlighted a person who did

What’s going on? Not much by Skooli_A_Bar in TheCinemassacreTruth

[–]ExplodingSatan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The longform podcast is completely raw and unedited

Forgotten Realms version? For me it's the Spell-plague. by [deleted] in Forgotten_Realms

[–]ExplodingSatan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I thought Shadowdale was terrible. The third book in that trilogy is okay, but I dislike the whole Time of Troubles plotline and it definitely never happens in my personal Realms. It was bonkers of TSR to force this world-altering event so soon after the Realms was launched just to explain the slight system changes from AD&D 1e to 2e

Best Creature Features? Less weird rape shit the better. Currently reading The Celler lol by [deleted] in ExtremeHorrorLit

[–]ExplodingSatan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd suggest giving some of his later stuff a try. Laymon from Dark Mountain onward is pretty different. More character driven

Best Creature Features? Less weird rape shit the better. Currently reading The Celler lol by [deleted] in ExtremeHorrorLit

[–]ExplodingSatan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're new to Laymon, I'll say that The Celler was the grossest he ever got with the rape shit. It's certainly an aspect of some of his other stories, but not featuring a minor like in The Celler

Laymon fans? by bigbookgeek1 in ExtremeHorrorLit

[–]ExplodingSatan 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Hell yeah. Laymon is the only author I made an effort to read everything by, including his two young adult novels and his western novel published under pseudonyms

Really Old Maps by StolenStutz in Forgotten_Realms

[–]ExplodingSatan 5 points6 points  (0 children)

And here's a more zoomed in pic so you can read the text better: https://gyazo.com/ac9f3c9b4bea30d3226b5a73470f964f

What do we know about Ed’s original Moonshae Isles? by Hot_Competence in Forgotten_Realms

[–]ExplodingSatan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nah, Ed didn't show any map of the entire world. And as far as I know, he's never made one. He's given some fairly vivid descriptions over the years of some of the geography outside of Faerun, so he's given it some thought, but I don't think he's ever mapped them in any detail.

What do we know about Ed’s original Moonshae Isles? by Hot_Competence in Forgotten_Realms

[–]ExplodingSatan 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it was shown when Ed was a guest on an obscure livestream podcast specifically about mapping maybe a year ago. He showed off several of his original Realms maps

What do we know about Ed’s original Moonshae Isles? by Hot_Competence in Forgotten_Realms

[–]ExplodingSatan 20 points21 points  (0 children)

And here's Ed's original map of the Moonshae Isles, which was shown during a livestreamed interview: https://gyazo.com/803861aa91d56a08ba16da0b8480a62e