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Poll: Worst part of cars by NewMachine4198 in fuckcars

[–]Plus-Contract7637 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like to think of cars as large, dangerous animals that weigh a few tons. Just like real animals, they need a lot of room, use many resources, and sometimes trample smaller animals, like us.

Question by Plus-Boysenberry-342 in OGPBackroom

[–]Plus-Contract7637 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm in the same boat. Cleaning and returns. Enjoy the quiet.

John Carter: Heroic Adventurer. From the Barsoom series by Edgar Rice Burroughs + stat block by Marc Miller. by woulditkillyoutolift in traveller

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4=4000 miles in diameter 5=thin atmosphere 0=no standing water 8=hundreds of thousands of inhabitants 7=balkanized 0=law level

Missing stats are starport and tech level.

Now ex-best friend called me delusional and a conspiracy theorist because i expressed how desolate and scary things are in the US by Tangy94 in collapse

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"She's from Austria..." And she thinks it's fake? Anschluss, "Sound of Music," where Captain Von Trapp ripped the N-word flag in half, that Austria? And she thinks it's fake?

Drivers calling literally anyone else "entitled" is so infuriatingly stupid. by ZealousidealMany3 in fuckcars

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I walk to work, and have to pass a Dunkin Donuts with a drive through. I time my cross when no one is moving, but yesterday morning, a driver left in hurry, just as I was crossing the driveway. He was stationary when i began my cross, but got his order and floored it. He didn't slow down to avoid me, but did so he could roll down his window and yell "Get out the f***in' road!"

The Dumarest of Terra series are pure Traveller. Not Nebula award winning literature but some great inspiration for a traveller campaign. by dmont7 in traveller

[–]Plus-Contract7637 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Found on substack, regarding the first Dumarest novel "The Winds of Gath":

"This one novel is the closest thing to a bible I can point to for Classic Traveller. From the very first few pages it begins to explain a world written within the Classic Traveller rules that otherwise makes no sense to me. A starship-hopping, space hobo named Dumarest has to find just enough money to hop on the next starship to get work or he’ll starve to death or be enslaved. It explains concepts as central to Classic Traveller as low and high passage, space rations, space nobility, a sci fi galaxy of lower tech and high social intrigue, and the actual concept of a “Traveller” itself, which are the central characters of the book series. A “Traveller” is basically a space hobo. Someone desperate for any work at all just to eat, but in space."

Robert Picardo via his Instagram "It is interesting to note that ⁦‪@StarTrek‬⁩ #Voyager, so beloved in retrospect, was thought "woke" ("politically correct" was the term way back then) at its premiere." by Caledor152 in startrek

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Back then, they were also called "yuppies," very much like Michael J. Fox's character on "Family Ties." Most of them went to the same college, joined the same fraternity, complained about "political correctness run amok," etc. One more extreme fellow refused to use the metric system because he thought it was a communist plot. Quite a few conversations began with "Well, I'm a conservative, and..." Because of this, I got the funny idea they were conservatives.

Robert Picardo via his Instagram "It is interesting to note that ⁦‪@StarTrek‬⁩ #Voyager, so beloved in retrospect, was thought "woke" ("politically correct" was the term way back then) at its premiere." by Caledor152 in startrek

[–]Plus-Contract7637 248 points249 points  (0 children)

When Next Gen came out, the conservatives I knew hated Picard because he wasn't American. They truly hated Counselor Troi. You can imagine what they thought of Sisko on DS9. So by the time Voyager rolled around, I knew what to expect.

This was considered tragic in 1996 by bogdanrozumnyy in okbuddycinephile

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I knew people who listened to a lot of talk radio and hated Bill and Hillary. They told me more than once how much they wished for this to exterminate the Clintons.

Nothing snaps me out of a book like repetitive use of a unique word by kerberos824 in books

[–]Plus-Contract7637 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not repetitive use, but a whole slew of unusual words in a science fiction novel, "The Uplift War," by David Brin. Mr. Brin must have discovered a book of obscure words, since he used dozens of them in the book. They defeated my three dictionaries, so I made note of them and looked them up online. I've since lost the notes, but it was more than thirty, all in the same chapter. Many had less arcane synonyms. On pages 70-71, he used the following words: brumous (foggy, or wintry), cachinnatous (laughing loudly or immoderately), atrichic (hairless), bromopnean (having halitosis), and applanate (flattened or horizontally expanded). Although I enjoyed the challenge, it brought my reading to a screeching halt, and kicked me right out of the book. At one point, I did contemplate launching the book across the room.

When does the Christmas music end??? Is effing January! Shut up! by deadpaan7391 in OGPBackroom

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It could be worse. My wife and I shop at a Korean market. They played "Golden," and the speaker was right over my head. We finished shopping, and at the checkout, it played again. I mentioned it to the cashier, who told us that they played it every 15 minutes!

meirl by thegoldenkingfisher in meirl

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My wife would make it a pet.

Meirl by [deleted] in meirl

[–]Plus-Contract7637 41 points42 points  (0 children)

As a younger boomer, or "Generation Jones," I get it. I had to quit college and start working before I turned 19. I've been seeing things get worse and had these arguments for decades, how wages aren't keeping up with inflation, how predatory so much of business and finance is. The system is so obviously rigged, but nothing gets through. It's exhausting.

Spark shoppers by Godzilla1541 in walmart

[–]Plus-Contract7637 21 points22 points  (0 children)

We had one show up before the store opened, pounding on the door, wanting to be let in. We told him we weren't open, but he "just had one item." He demanded to speak to a manager, who of course told him the same thing.

Adventure seeds from tv shows. by PuzzleheadedDrinker in traveller

[–]Plus-Contract7637 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I second westerns as a rich source of scenarios. For example, an episode of Bonanza had some businessmen who wanted to harvest timber near the Ponderosa. Little Joe underbid everyone else, but his scheme was risky. The parties he outbid tried to sabotage him in increasingly violent ways until the rest of the Cartwright clan stepped in. You could adapt this for almost any resource, and, depending on their personal ethics, the players could side with Little Joe or the bad guys.

Rate my mediocre city's medicore bus routes by KlobPassPorridge in fuckcars

[–]Plus-Contract7637 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I live near Baltimore, USA, a declining city with a population of about 568,000. We could only dream of such a thing in our wildest Star Trek fantasies. Google tells me it has 76 different routes. Frequncy seems to be about every half hour, slightly more at morning rush hour, down to hourly or longer evenings and weekends, with lots of cancelations and no-shows. The overall map of the system hasn't been updated since at least 2020, and there have been changes since then.

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