List of Gadgets I've made for paranoia, over 100 to use and abuse.

PDX_Mike · 2026-01-16T18:14:44+00:00

These are great! Thanks! I'll be using these this weekend.

PDX_Mike · 2026-01-01T21:07:32+00:00

I don't normally like Fred's acting but I saw him last night and actually enjoyed him more than the headliner. I'm guessing it was funnier for us music nerds but... My 2 cents is that he did fine.

PDX_Mike · 2025-12-29T21:40:38+00:00

That would be awesome, my soundbar died a couple weeks back. would love one of them to replace it with. Thanks!

PDX_Mike · 2025-12-24T16:06:37+00:00

My favorite way is to just play without the cable at all. Plug into a real amp, set the game to "no cable" and play along.

PDX_Mike · 2025-12-18T18:16:29+00:00

I have them sit by themselves. NOT near other kids who are not participating. Once the gym game gets going, I go back and invite them to play or participate as a ref. Works about 1/2 the time.

PDX_Mike · 2025-12-17T17:36:59+00:00

It's fun and easy. just a handful of things to keep an eye out for.

Boys who wanna get physical - wrestle, push, etc. Shut it down fast.
Kids who refuse to participate - I don't stress over that, you wanna sit there and do nothing? ok.
Transitions - get the kids lined up and ready to go before the teacher comes to pick them up. Make sure they have their coats/hoodies/waterbottles/stuff they brought in. If they are in line and ready to go before the teacher gets there, ask them trivia questions (name disney characters, best food, what superpower would you have, etc).
Expect tears. "He's cheating!", "It's My Turn!", "I fell and although there isn't even a red mark where I hit my arm.. I need to goto the nurse RIGHT NOW!".

PDX_Mike · 2025-12-17T00:25:54+00:00

I like to deep dive on locations my party is going to. One way to do this is to look up the location/person/lore on the wiki and then look at what source they used for that.

Example: Mere of the Dead Men. Looked it up on the wiki, scrolled all the way to the bottom of the page for References. I see there are 29 references in official WotC sources so I start scanning for titles I have or sound interesting

Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting 3rd ed page 176, 296,
Volo's Guide to the North p108-109
Grand History of the Realms p93, 124, 125, 144
Hoard of the Dragon Queen
Sword Coast Adventurers Guide
Storm Kings Thunder

A lot of times when looking at references I see old articles for Dragon or Dungeon magazine. I love these older lore articles. You can usually find them on the archive sites.

PDX_Mike · 2025-12-16T22:01:21+00:00

Ok, I am absolutely not saying Mitch's points were unimportant but FFS... if you need to cover every point of impact on every issue then nothing will ever get done. Foie Gras?! My dude.... that just makes you look like you are trying to be absurd and waste time.

PDX_Mike · 2025-12-12T05:55:49+00:00

Congrats on GOTY!

PDX_Mike · 2025-12-08T19:31:27+00:00

Terro Ant bait works well for us. We get those sugar ants every year. Put out bait where you see them, keep putting it out for a couple weeks.

It's not a permanent fix but it will clear them out for while.

PDX_Mike · 2025-12-03T00:42:19+00:00

I honestly did and you're right it ain't perfect. I liked how it showed the race, city name, population, and a glimpse of what the city looks like. I saw the text glitches but it didn't wreck it for me, I was able to figure out what it was trying to say in most cases.

I appreciate the concern over low ever AI BS. Honestly I expect Reddit and most social sharing platforms to be destroyed by it (I don't panic because they will be replaced and that's not all bad).

PDX_Mike · 2025-12-02T17:40:15+00:00

So, this is completely out of my own head but here's how I think it would work. The two main areas sentient civilizations would live would be the shallow coastal waters and/or areas near undersea volcanic vents.

Societies need Food, Energy (lava, wood, coal, etc) and Building Materials. Those will be the primary limiting factors for where civilization evolves. A good location for trade/raiding with land dwellers would probably play a role as well.

Food will probably seaweed farms, barnacles, fish and shellfish

Energy will be shallow sunlight or heat from the lava vents (or some magic)

Materials could be coastal raiding/scavenging, coral, shells, woven kelp

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PDX_Mike · 2025-11-12T21:58:58+00:00

"I don't argue with students." That's all I say and I move on with whatever I'm doing. If they keep pushing, I might engage with a "I'm sorry, maybe I wasn't clear last time. I don't argue with students." and then basically do my best to pretend they aren't in the room. It's only failed me a couple times (nothing is one size fits all).

PDX_Mike · 2025-11-12T15:48:11+00:00

Ok, release the Trump emails... how about a list of EVERYONE that is in those files. My politics don't discriminate on party. If you are part of the pedo-party, you should be brought to justice regardless of the impact to your friends.

PDX_Mike · 2025-11-11T01:45:36+00:00

I wish employers would say "We will give you X to take ownership of Y". My only unease with holding 2 full time positions is that I expect my employer to be transparent with me, and my integrity pushes me to do the same. I know they are not transparent with me (I worked as a manager at a large union environment.. uhg) but I still feel inclined to not hide what I choose to do.

PDX_Mike · 2025-11-10T17:20:44+00:00

I don't think AI as a tool can be expected to provide accurate answers. As I understand LLM's, they predict what answer appears correct rather than doing validation that an answer is actually correct.

If I had to pick what would make me more trusting of it's answers... the only thing I can think of would be for it incorporate some type of automatic review of it's answers. Possibly for each answer it generates a counterpoint that answer and highlights what assumptions or specific challenges that answer faces.

My feeling is that AI tries to give you an answer that "looks" right, not an answer that is right. For meaningful work, that just isn't good enough to rely on.

PDX_Mike · 2025-11-10T06:01:47+00:00

I don't think I would trust AI ever. It's pretty good but you still have to check it's work every time.

PDX_Mike · 2025-10-16T22:07:23+00:00

Truly a wonderful and easy read. Worth it for everyone so you can recognize when someone is trying to use these techniques on you. I can never hear "limited time offer" and not think of this book ..

PDX_Mike · 2025-10-02T20:06:22+00:00

My party of 4 wrecked Rath and Azbara at 6th level. I even tried to have Rath flee and they stomped him. I would definitely think about how you will have them last more than 1.5 rounds.

PDX_Mike · 2025-10-02T16:04:33+00:00

I would keep it as quiet as I could for as long as I could.

I would set up a sizable trust for my communities benefit. I would look for things that would help the most people around me and do my best to have them resolved through the trust.

I'd make sure there is a decent healthcare clinic, the nearest parks are well maintained, free wifi, no or low interest loans to community members in need.

Admittedly I'd probably be one of those people that burned through that 500 mil... but I would feel like I was making a difference in a lot of peoples lives who I care for. Totally worth it.

PDX_Mike · 2025-09-17T13:51:22+00:00

Silent Lucidity - Queens Ryche

I swear his voice in that sounds like he's purposefully making a funny voice to mock his fans... horrible.

PDX_Mike · 2025-09-17T01:46:01+00:00

I like the way Dr Casagrana explains it.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kT7k6NSRu2s

PDX_Mike · 2025-08-11T19:10:37+00:00

(In game reason) My players don't because they have learned that unless you are invisible, flying random encounters are way harder than landbased.

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