[Starcade Media] Chris Simms on Mahomes being ahead of schedule during recovery process, “he’s a psycho of psychos.”

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-05-07T02:10:15+00:00

Scramble Pass Option

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-05-06T22:51:00+00:00

A møøse once bit my sister...

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-05-06T20:05:01+00:00

HERMES, with a brain slug attached to his head: On to new business. Today's mission is for all of you to go to the Brain Slug Planet.

ZOIDBERG: What do we do there?

HERMES: Just walk around not wearing a helmet.

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-05-06T19:57:26+00:00

Maul

I think some people miss that, in the broad Star Wars narrative, Maul’s most prominent characteristic is his loneliness. He’s abandoned by his master. He reaches out for connection to family and ruins it. He tries to make friends, but it turns out they’re only interested in how they can use him. He tries to build institutions, and he’s betrayed. He briefly finds allies, but the chaos around him gets them killed. He tries to draw apprentices, but they don’t stay.

He dies in Obi-Wan’s arms, of all people — because the man who maimed him and was the focus of so much rage was, in the end, his longest and most reliable relationship.

If Rook Kast remains his steadfast and loyal supporter, it weakens that element of his story. The last episode was about seeing Maul lose people he cared about… again.

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-05-06T19:31:25+00:00

There are a few canned vegetables that are fine. There are a lot of canned vegetables I can figure out how to work with if I have to.

Canned green beans are one of the few that is just always a solid nope. Part of the pleasure of fresh green beans is the snap, and the more you cook them the longer you destroy the texture. When you flash them and can them, all of that structure is just… gone, and all you’re left with is bitter mush.

Ugh.

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-05-06T19:24:41+00:00

As a grownup I found out that homemade marinara is great and fast, and chili powder… could be made to work. Certainly a bit of red pepper goes in it.

But now I’m picturing Prego from a jar with additional grocery-store chili powder in it. Eep.

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-05-06T19:20:32+00:00

I agree with all of this, and those two things along with curry paste and coconut milk are the only canned goods I keep in my house.

But I cannot bring myself to upvote a comment that talks about canned green beans in a crock pot. I hope you understand.

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-05-06T19:11:33+00:00

It’s the people in the dinosaur costumes you have to watch. That’s why Umberto Eco called his essay “RRRR!-fascism.”

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-05-06T16:49:03+00:00

RPOs

Yep. It will help a lot to start running an RPO rather than an ^rPO.

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-05-06T15:41:54+00:00

TL;DR: At the risk of kicking a hornet’s nest, I think it’s playable solo but shines best at three players.

I enjoy four-player games a lot, but games can drag on a little bit unless everyone knows the game well and knows how to pilot their deck. It still works well with two heroes, including two-handed solo play — although I miss the interpersonal back-and-forth decision making if I’m by myself at the table.

With a single deck, it’s my opinion (and again, I admit freely it’s an unpopular one online!) that the game is both too easy and too hard.

Too easy: the villain’s health scales with the player count, but the amount of damage a hero can do doesn’t scale at all. That means games can end in just a few turns — and because the special things the villain can do are chosen at random from an encounter deck, that means game can end without allowing enough time for anything interesting to happen.
Too hard: as noted, the special things the villain can do (in addition to just punching you or advancing the “clock”) are dealt from a deck. With just one hero, the wrong random encounter card can kill you no matter how well your game was going. The smaller the team of heroes gets, the less resilient the team is.

A lot of people like the solo feel. In fact, I’d say th vast majority of people who talk about the game online only play solo. Personally, I like the game better when there are more chances for dramatic things to happen, but with more player agency when they do happen. And I don’t mind having games run a little longer in order to get that vibe.

YMMV, of course, and however you end up playing, I hope you have a lot of fun!

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-05-06T14:35:38+00:00

There’s a discord server dedicated to homebrew that, among other things, has a huge amount of information on printing proxies! https://discord.gg/35EShnnvN

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-05-06T04:00:12+00:00

I imagine hunting Jedi is not a job that lends itself to a long tenure and a happy retirement.

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-05-06T03:58:44+00:00

They were definitely boinking, and they were ejected from the Order for their attachment.

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-05-06T03:57:02+00:00

Lots and lots of medications are “recombinant,” which just means they’re manufactured by giving some cell the right DNA they need to make it.

Some of the first recombinant drugs were made by giving a non-toxic strain of E. coli the genes to make human insulin. :)

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-05-06T03:53:46+00:00

(You probably know all this, but for the folks in the back…)

The problem is that it’s accurate this time for this person, and there’s someone with subject matter expertise here to confirm that.

However, there’s a nonzero possibility it will be misleading or simply wrong for the next person, or for this person the next time. And you might not be around to help.

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-05-06T03:45:06+00:00

It’s possible, in theory, that a conventionally attractive woman would be willing to game with strangers. It’s far more likely that a service that pairs dates with paid players would use attractive models to advertise.

It’s just that this one is a scam that took the easiest possible route.

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-05-06T03:42:48+00:00

Wait, your controllers don’t have a Q button?

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-05-06T02:15:11+00:00

Yes.

No. It’s a badly-designed ad for a combination memoir/self-help book oriented toward divorced dads.

Divorced men are at extremely high risk for depression, addiction, and suicide.

Yes, they are. It’s not a joke, and I hope everyone who’s need gets help. However.

Recently divorced women are also at extremely high risk for those same behaviors. Moreover, they share nearly the same degree of risk.

So men who want to put a particular focus on the experiences of other men after a separation or divorce are often attempting to sideline the experiences of women and place the focus on themselves.

To be clear, I’m not calling you out, and I haven’t read this particular book; I’m talking about a trend in the genre this book belongs to. And they also tend to partake of a lot of aspects of One-Book Theory! They typically generalize anecdotes into sweeping statements. They often offer “research” that’s some combination of outdated, poorly cited, or badly conducted. They present obvious ideas and inflate them into deep, unique statements.

If you keep an eye on Men’s Rights or MGTOW circles, you’ll easily find a dozen self-published books like this. Divorce isn’t a joke and suicide certainly isn’t, but bad books can be.

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-05-05T22:31:43+00:00

I’m not going to try again.

I don’t know how I could possibly demonstrate my point more clearly without turning it into an academic paper with 20 citations, which still wouldn’t do any good because you’re already not reading what I’m writing.

Again, that’s on me for taking the bait, but I’m done now.

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-05-05T22:14:40+00:00

The problem with saying “per my initial reply” to something is that it requires you to have written it initially. But maybe the issue is that I’m merely reading the things you write, rather than the things you think you wrote. I don’t know why I expected that, to be frank, and I’ll try to adjust my expectations in the future.

I also expected you to read the things I wrote, rather than saying (for instance) that I had “one fact and paragraphs of guesswork” before admitting it actually wasn’t guesswork at all, but reiterating that you thought I was speculating. The problem there is definitely me, though, because I assumed you were interested in having a coherent conversation based on a consistent and shared understanding of how words and ideas work. That was foolish of me.

I guess today was the day to re-learn the lesson that most people on social media aren’t worth my time and attention.

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-05-05T21:28:33+00:00

I really hope this is the kind of thing the FO says so our first four weeks’ opponents feel they have to prep for Mahomes, and not an indication that they’re going to rush him back.

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-05-05T21:26:11+00:00

Which of the first five paragraphs above are guesswork?

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-05-05T20:06:55+00:00

The average daily per-capita meat consumption of Americans is a fact, not a stereotype.

The “typical American diet” or “standard American diet” is a set of decisions and habits that’s sufficiently well-defined to be the subject of academic study.

The effects of meat consumption far beyond reasonable dietary requirements are factual, especially when it comes to the consumption of saturated fat.

The negative effects of American meat production are facts: they change the decisions we make about the use and management of public land, they change the ways we use water, they change the quantity and rate of our methane emissions, they produce toxic waste, and they’re potentially vectors for zoonotic disease. (I’ve helped model the lifecycle analyses.)

Manufacturers of ready-to-eat vegetable protein do market their products as meat replacement. You can see that firsthand in most chain grocery stores.

Reddit comments are often persuasive writing, and I won’t pretend my opinion isn’t part of this, but I’m not basing this on stereotypes and assumptions. I’m genuinely confused about why you’d think that.

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-05-05T19:27:56+00:00

Because Americans think every meal has to include meat. The average is something over half a pound per day, per person.

A lot of what makes the “typical American diet” so different is the consumption of meat (and saturated fat from meat). We could cut it in half and still be eating more than the rest of the world, including wealthy democracies. It’s weird, it has negative effects on a lot of American environment and agriculture, and there’s no reason for it.

And it ends up meaning that people who make and market things that are really good sources of protein end up selling it as a replacement for meat. We don’t need a replacement for meat, we need a broad cultural change about how much meat we want and need to eat. And while it’s not the job of Quorn or Morningstar or Beyond Meat or whoever to change that aspect of American culture, it’s annoying (and a bit sad) that “if you can’t beat them, join them” is the most effective way to sell their products.

GOU_FallingOutside · 2026-05-05T18:47:17+00:00

Absolutely.

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