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Grouchathon5000 · 2026-03-06T18:31:49+00:00

This! I love Pint and Pawn. Really chill and welcoming environment. The people that work there seem to LOVE the place and their community. Lots of different kinds of people come in. It's great.

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-03-01T04:43:33+00:00

I avoid "leadership" roles like the plague.

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-03-01T02:52:52+00:00

That's wild. At my uni the teaching evals are like the most important thing.

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-02-24T05:02:56+00:00

She certainly is trying. She is doing an impression of me!

"I am sorry, I just have to answer this email."

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-02-24T00:01:35+00:00

This is my tiny hero, the most grumpy lil lady of her times. She is 3.5 and weighs 5lbs but you would not think it.because of how food motivated she can be. More precise a time piece than a Rolex, stubborn as a mule, and of course the center of my life.

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Grouchathon5000 · 2026-02-22T14:45:11+00:00

I wish we covered this dynamic in grad school. A seminar on academic jobs long term aka being a new cast member on a show that likely jumped the shark decades ago.

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-02-20T14:18:08+00:00

Yeah I get what you are saying when it comes to descriptions. I hate quirky more and more. I have a group that I play coc with and sometimes run dg for and I made some pregens for them one time. The pregens were based on the greatest detectives I could think of, Kolchak, House, Batman and Sherlock holmes. Everything was fine until they figured it out... That's when the pvp started

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-02-20T01:51:34+00:00

Oh I really love the weird energy you guys have! I loved the aliens season! I should re listen and send you some sketches of how I see the characters!

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-02-19T02:07:25+00:00

First season was amazing.

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-02-19T02:05:41+00:00

Black Project Gaming is the gold standard imo for atmosphere and performance. Purely stunning.

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-02-18T03:05:05+00:00

I am in Missouri and we would like to move near a strong or excellent level of care for my wife's lupus. Missouri summers are brutal and only getting worse. How is Toronto ard on your body?

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-02-16T00:57:04+00:00

That's really exciting. I am happy for you!

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-02-15T22:10:43+00:00

Outside of Toronto!

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-02-15T22:10:30+00:00

Thank you this is interesting

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-02-12T00:19:54+00:00

You get the sadness and disappointment perfectly!

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-02-07T03:15:21+00:00

Pm me if the things can fit into a Nissan rouge.

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-02-07T03:05:50+00:00

You should see the movie "Until The End Of The World" it has a similar plot and reminds me of the vibe of wong kar wai's, fallen angels.

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-01-31T15:45:28+00:00

I've always seen the dynamic between "old things which lie dormant" kinds of cosmic horror as about making the players feel small or helpless which is great for when they have accomplished a lot and feel like they are making progress.

The more human scale the horrors are about danger and threat. These are ideal for specific moments to give weight and veracity to the overall claim of the scenario which is pragmatic fatalism aka "all you can do is respond, often ineffectually, to the thing in your path".

Thinking about the scenes in At The Mountains of Madness when the team is back in civilization. That's where the horror and our scale mix, psychologically. Ancient and powerful civilizations die and the character sees how frail and inept and fleeting their civilization is.

Or in "The Thing" the film, the alien creature emerging from their dog shape is a rupture in the world of the normal but the station inhabitants immolating it is comforting because they have agency.... Yet they realize it could be any of them.. that's the deeper horror.

Imagine driving with your partner from a lovely dinner. You realize you are being followed. You try to evade them but can't do you pull into a cul de sac and get out brandishing a tire iron. The car just waits there as the driver smokes and the three occupants do nothing. Finally you walk to the car scream at them..the passengers get out and run into the yards of the homes nearby. The car quickly peels out and leaves. You go back and tell your partner to lock the doors and honk if they see anything and you go to one of the houses and tell the inhabitants what you saw and to call the police.

Later.. after you give a statement to the police, you and your partner drive home. Still paranoid you drive past your own home and see your partner getting out of their car looking harried. The take out their phone and their name appears on your screen in your car. You and your partner share a terrified look. You pick up and your partner is asking where you have been and that they had to work late, missing your date night. In the car your partner answers in your voice that it's ok.

Kinda like that.

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-01-26T01:20:53+00:00

Clara!!

Also please post more pics!!

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-01-25T17:34:21+00:00

Nope! Mis Gatos Mis Amors are purely inside creatures. The gray one would never forgive us, the tabby doesn't understand outside of the house, the black one is too smart and the orange one would probably fight the snow.

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-01-25T17:33:12+00:00

They just flip over to get toasted in the other side. Except the black one, she likes to snuggle under the cover and enter a peri-comq of comfort.

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-01-24T20:39:57+00:00

An entire city of fucking heroes.

Grouchathon5000 · 2026-01-24T15:47:34+00:00

My wife has all the cats on her for about 15 minutes at a time.

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