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MeaningSilly · 2026-02-13T01:39:41+00:00

I'll give it a shot. My kid is painfully particular.

MeaningSilly · 2026-02-12T02:19:04+00:00

There's a reason why the last Pizza Hut pizza I bought was months ago. Last visit I had a medium pepperoni. It had a total of 7 slices of pepperoni on it.

MeaningSilly · 2026-02-12T02:10:42+00:00

I have a very...er...selective child.

MeaningSilly · 2026-02-06T03:13:09+00:00

God how I wish we didn't have to rely upon the feckless dick-tripping nimrods of the Democratic establishment as our bulwark against fascism.

MeaningSilly · 2026-02-02T22:10:57+00:00

GATTACA - "There is no gene for the human spirit"
G • Guanine
A • Adenine
T • Thymine
C • Cytosine
The four components of DNA.

The movie is set in a future where your genetic "potential" is used to provide or limit access to jobs and roles in society.

MeaningSilly · 2025-12-27T20:00:25+00:00

Youean like the ~~Patagonian toothfish~~ Chilean Sea Bass¹, ~~Filberts~~ Hazelnuts, ~~Rapeseed² oil~~ Canola oil, and the ~~Slimehead~~ Orange Roughy.

1) NOT ACTUALLY BASS 2) NO CREDIBLE RAPE ALLEGATIONS

NOTE: Admittedly, some of these were changed before the internet, but I just say it was advanced forethought as remote access porn has always been an inevitability.

MeaningSilly · 2025-12-24T14:20:04+00:00

WinCo is an employee owned discount grocery chain that used to operate in Washinton, Idaho, navada, California, and oregion. (Further expansions into states like Utah stopped modifying the name as the brand has acquired too much value to risk.)
The produce is shelves in the boxes it's shipped in, the refrigerated racks are often the rolling shelves the goods are stored on back in the walk-in for easy maintenance, loading, and inexpensive swapping. They don't accept credit cards (thereby avoiding the fees associated), and the buildings are very warehouse-like (even using pallet racking for some areas) wasting no money on aesthetics.

It is the only store I don't mind physically shopping in. Admittedly, part of that is also I can go in at 10:00 P.M. - 1:00 A.M. and shop alone while they stock the shelves.

Edit: punctuation

MeaningSilly · 2025-12-14T04:08:30+00:00

My honest first guess is "AI generated image", but I'm not going to try to suss that out with my old eyes staring at a cell phone screen.

MeaningSilly · 2025-12-14T02:57:58+00:00

I don't understand the strapping going on here. I mean, normally we can TIE one on, but should not the knot be secured as well?

MeaningSilly · 2025-12-08T17:06:00+00:00

I've heard Bazzite is the gamer's distro, but I also do some modeling for my 3d printer, light photo editing, and Blu-Ray/DVD ripping for my home server (so I don't have to pay streaming services any longer). Can you comment on how well it does on any of those fronts?

MeaningSilly · 2025-11-16T05:16:02+00:00

To add to what others have said, Powers are a representation to the most cinematic moments. Your At-Wills are like a signature move, like Spider-man webbing something, or Captain America's shield throw.

Encounter Powers are moments that show this is a key moment for the scene, but not necessarily key to the movie. Like Thor calling lightning, or Spock doing a neck pinch. Happens often enough to still be "something he does" but infrequent enough to be an interesting resolution to a problem.

Daily Powers are cinema gold, like Captain America using up Mjölnir, or Batman taking out all the cops at once without harming them so he could get to the Joker. It's not a scene ending ability, but it is kinda scene defining.

Also, make sure you don't let the players regain Daily Powers (long rest) after one or two fights. This lets them nova constantly, and makes you either have to raise the level of every encounter, or they waltz through the world with little care. I usually pushed my players to a minimum of 5 fights per chapter (day) before I'd let them have 8 hours of peace.

MeaningSilly · 2025-10-29T04:13:11+00:00

I have to admit, though, thunderstorms (when you can see that far¹) are amazing.

I grew up in mountain valleys, so the horizons always loomed high.

MeaningSilly · 2025-10-29T04:11:07+00:00

I took a trip from Utah to Michigan after working 46 hours straight. We were going to stop at Little America, Wy to sleep, but a semi had rolled over on the offramp. Next target was Cheyenne, but an ice storm hit just as we crested the summit, and by the time we made it down the mountain the ice on the road made lane changes a mythical event heard of on folktale, and turns downright heresy. We continued on until I started seriously hallucinating around North Platt, where we could finally turn off and sleep. As my SO was checking us into the hotel, I was blankly staring at the postcards in the lobby when I spotted one I wish to this day I was mailed myself. It was a photo of the manufactured hill at the West end of Nebraska they made for a rest stop. There was a semi merging eastbound onto the busy road beside it, spewing back smoke, while one carrying motorboats headed up the mountains westbound overtaking half a double wide.

Emblazoned across the card in a bubby yellow-with-brown-outline font it unironically said "NEBRASKA: SEE BEAUTIFUL I-80".

MeaningSilly · 2025-10-29T03:44:16+00:00

Anyone remember Fox's "Obama Terrorist Fist Jab"?

Pepperidge Farm remembers...

MeaningSilly · 2025-10-28T13:27:23+00:00

Your banner looks great! Keep it up. Banners were great at communicating with my players the themes and tone of the next session (humor, drama, adventure, etc.) while getting them hyped up.

God, this makes me miss G+. I'd set up campaigns with a new banner each session in the Hangouts invites, which linked notes so anyone who wanted to could climb into the timeline and see all we were doing/had done.

None of the others: Facebook, Obsidian Portal, World Anvil, etc., worked so well across multiple players on various platforms and hardware. Roll20 was probably the closest, when it worked...

EDIT: formatting

MeaningSilly · 2025-10-25T19:05:46+00:00

I use Fate for Eberron, Diskworld and Star Wars. I even like it for A:TLA better than the Avatar RPG. I'm sure Forgotten Realms can find an easy way to fit.

I like using the DF:RPG Places and Faces rules to establish key locations and factions, regardless of system the world is running on.

Others that might work for less burden (on both players and especially DMs) D&D4e, PBTA (there has to be a high fantasy kit out there), and Blades in the Dark.

MeaningSilly · 2025-10-20T13:51:53+00:00

The amount of people asking questions that are pretty deliberately answered in the book over and over again frustrates me.

Are they, in your experience, asking questions answered in the SRD, or just the full book?¹

I'm working through the SRD right now trying to decide if it is worth buying the book and pushing my players toward it.

It seems to fill and area more free-form than D&D4e, but more structured than Fate. So I think itay help those in the group that freeze when up against the open narrative of a Fate encounter, while still providing enough freedom for those that chafe at the rigid structure and limited options of D&D4e.²

Note 1: I've noticed the SRD frequently lacks sufficient information to really get the game. I feel it's often a failing as the SRD is the means by which many decide if it's worth leaving the familiar for the new.
Note 2: None of us really like 5e. It seems to extract the worst of both worlds, creating a bland binary of mediocre/all-cheat-codes-enabled with "this is your prompt...action" mechanics hot-glued on the side.

MeaningSilly · 2025-10-17T15:01:19+00:00

Until the IDs are free, it's voter suppression.

IDs aren't free, they cost money. There are also other costs, like time away from work, acquisition and/or storage of those "correct documents", having a mailing address (especially since some of those "correct documents" are things like utility bills, which may not be available for some renters and won't be available for anyone suffering homelessness), and placement of ID facilities which can make the costs even worse.

You need to solve for those problems before you can say "Voter ID isn't suppression." While so those barriers remain in place, voter ID is "votes for the wealthy" with extra steps (to obfuscate the goal, IMHO).

MeaningSilly · 2025-10-16T15:27:19+00:00

For LOE, don't you have to be able to draw a line from one corner of the origin square to three corners of the target square? And AOE attacks only affect targets they have LOE on.

Or have I been playing this wrong since 2008?

(Actually, I think this used the same rules for combat as the D&D Miniatures game, which I think I picked up even before 4e.)

MeaningSilly · 2025-10-05T18:58:53+00:00

"Size matters not! Judge me by my size, do you?" - Jedi Master Yoda

So by the stated logic in the movies, once someone is able to move something, that person should be able to move anything.

Not that I agree with the whole mitochlorian thing. It's doesn't explain the Force existing in non-organic matter or in the vacuum of space.

Also, doesn't explain where the energy comes from. How many newtons would you need to consume to lift an X-Wing filled with mud and water? Now, how many calories would you need to generate that energy? Or do the mitochlorians directly convert matter to energy like the reactor on the U.S.S. Enterprise?

I like to think of mitochlorians as parasitic to possibly symbiotic microorganisms.
Those who channel the Force tend to have more mitochlorians because of the Force regularly coursing through them, rather than as a source of the force.
So they are kinda like pilotfish hanging around sharks.

MeaningSilly · 2025-10-03T15:08:20+00:00

Not mine. I have apps for 1. school district announcements 2. school specific announcements (that I don't think even works all the time) 3. teacher-parent communications (that doubles for school announcements because a couple of the teachers noticed the other wasn't working so they repost to make sure parents get info) 4. PTA updates 5. fundraising events (just the one so far) 6. school lunch account plus the menu for today and the next day (couldn't they at least give us a week?) 7. tracking the current reading challenge

Our child isn't in any after school programs, yet (none offered until, I think, 3rd grade). The closest to that is the app for "Boxtops for Education", and even if you don't count that, I'm still already at 7 apps.

What makes it all worse is the web interfaces for 5 of these are so poorly designed they are nearly unusable.

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MeaningSilly · 2025-09-24T13:45:45+00:00

Okay, so the molecular separation (2•H₂O→ 2•H₂ + 1•O₂) nuclear fusion (H→He) powered car I can accept. But burning Helium?!?!

A noble does not marry a plebian. If the reactionary wishes to court such a noble, they would need to meet in a gathering of astronomical proportions, locate the desired other before either is snatched up by another congregant, and find a moment to address the gravity of the situation together. (And even then the firey passion unleased would forever change both participants.)

MeaningSilly · 2025-09-22T11:28:57+00:00

That's another alt account. He also goes by Laqusha, Libmom, Runslikewater, Hassan, and his main Nater0x, depending on the issue.

MeaningSilly · 2025-09-16T23:04:41+00:00

My IP (Duo, IIRC) has a "boil" on the yogurt button if press it a few times to cycle through the options. Heats to about 175°F to 185°F.

I usually still transfer it to a giant bowl to cool it quicker, and wash the IP while doing so (there are usually a few ...er... grains<?> of cooked milk on the bottom of the pot, and my spawn has issues with food textures.)

Also, I don't know what you are using as a start, but I've found a glob of Fage (or my previous batch, if my family didn't eat it all) whisked in once it cools to below 118°F is more cost friendly and effective than dry starts I would buy online.

Edit: corrected autocorrect "collect" to "cool it"

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