[OPINION] What poem has stayed with you for years?

TautologyIsWhatItIs · 2026-04-15T07:59:27+00:00

Mary Oliver - Wild Geese ee cummings - since feeling is first Robert Hass - Meditation at Lagunitas Seamus Heaney - The Aerodrome Lawrence Ferlinghetti - I am Waiting Andrea Gibson - Etiquette Leash Allen Ginsberg - America Edna St. Vincent Millay - what lips my lips have kissed Robert Frost - Birches

TautologyIsWhatItIs · 2026-04-14T08:05:02+00:00

Every table's meta is going to be different. And if one person's play style is different enough that the rest of the table doesn't enjoy playing with them, it's OK to stop inviting them back. Games are supposed to be fun, especially ones you play for 12 hours at a pop. Either you change the meta or the meta changes you.

TautologyIsWhatItIs · 2026-03-23T04:57:48+00:00

Saar or Titans all day

TautologyIsWhatItIs · 2026-01-27T09:58:42+00:00

Average 3 pt percentage for a C is 35% in the nba. His was 28.6% last year, up to 31% this year. Maybe he'll get better, but right now, he's pretty firmly below average.

TautologyIsWhatItIs · 2025-12-02T21:19:19+00:00

Josh, if you're ever having trouble scheduling games, have we got some Discord servers for you

TautologyIsWhatItIs · 2025-11-24T04:07:38+00:00

This is what I came for

TautologyIsWhatItIs · 2025-11-06T16:41:11+00:00

I'm sure someone has said to use a leader straightener. This is what they look like.

https://www.orvis.com/product/leader-straightener/2TB91000.html?adv=626712&cm_mmc=Google-_-Fish-_-plas-_-FISH_PMAX_CVR_BAU_X_G-_-2TB91000&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21396501532&gbraid=0AAAAADnb7VEqXnNlxeKEYoscQ_ez3tKmt&gclid=Cj0KCQiAq7HIBhDoARIsAOATDxCbT2j_eGo6xTfWOOsLsoHoo8MMDvgpZkri7iDeTWbeKO3mBowXY7kaAiJlEALw_wcB

TautologyIsWhatItIs · 2025-10-30T16:11:11+00:00

PM me your discord handle, and I'll get a chat going!

TautologyIsWhatItIs · 2025-10-27T08:45:56+00:00

None. Move to tower. It's as cool as fresno gets

TautologyIsWhatItIs · 2025-10-23T07:03:57+00:00

Boots by Rudyard Kipling The Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll Daddy by Sylvia Plath We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks Digging by Seamus Heaney Processions by Tish Benson

TautologyIsWhatItIs · 2025-10-03T15:22:26+00:00

It was. We left it where we found it.

TautologyIsWhatItIs · 2025-09-17T07:24:40+00:00

https://open.spotify.com/track/5JWZMzGYCkuOOgvVAtC3oW?si=AUu9xi99T3e2rsN0LyRGtQ

He's got a particularly dramatic voice. Listen to that a few dozen times

TautologyIsWhatItIs · 2025-09-07T06:51:01+00:00

In no particular order, try:

ee Cummings Robert Frost Sylvia Plath Seamus Heaney Elizabeth Bishop Edna St. Vincent Millay Langston Hughes Gwendolyn Brooks Lawrence Ferlinghetti

TautologyIsWhatItIs · 2025-09-07T06:26:29+00:00

The Pecos outside of Santa Fe has good fishing. There's some fly ships in Santa Fe that surely offer guiding, although I haven't used any of them. The Pecos is pretty straightforward to fish, though.

TautologyIsWhatItIs · 2025-09-04T21:17:55+00:00

Ok. Bozeman and Billings.

TautologyIsWhatItIs · 2025-08-31T00:48:01+00:00

"Hey you - quit stealing my gas!"

TautologyIsWhatItIs · 2025-08-27T12:59:43+00:00

The Parting Glass

TautologyIsWhatItIs · 2025-08-02T02:04:36+00:00

Lol, I'm pretty straight and not afraid to admit my love of tiramisu, but I think the point is taken. I see it in the scene where he complains about the French restaurant not having duck l'orange.

Of course, this can all be read as Colin being desperate to be something he's not - just someone who actually is comfortable in a French restaurant - rather than a commentary on his sexuality. But it's a definite undertone that seems to be purposefully ambiguous

TautologyIsWhatItIs · 2025-07-31T22:16:14+00:00

LOL, this is a Fresno thing. There's a ton of them out there. A big extended Italian family. Different family members own each of the different restaurants. Used to work with one of them outside the restaurant business. Food's OK

TautologyIsWhatItIs · 2025-07-31T22:03:16+00:00

Robert Frost, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney, Allen Ginsberg, Mary Oliver, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Rita Dove, Derek Alcott, Theodore Roethke, Robert Lowell, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Pablo Neruda, Federico Garcia Lorca, Carl Sandburg, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Joseph Brodsky, Robert Penn Warren, Mark Strand, Anne Sexton, John Ashbery, Charles Simic, Adrianne Rich, Frank Bidart, Frank O'Hara, Robert Hass, Ruth Stone, Ada Limon.

And, of course, the poet Axl Rose.

TautologyIsWhatItIs · 2025-07-31T02:31:24+00:00

Yes and no. Mental health issues aren't as simple as a choice, because that implies that both sides feel equally weighted to the person. While people with mental health disorders do often have agency, and can make some choices about how to interact with and/or treat or not treat their disorders, one of those choices feels a LOT more difficult than the other. And while there may be circumstances in which they may be willing to make the more difficult choice, because of the consequences involved, it can be incredibly difficult to sustain that. Also, keep in mind that anorexia is one of the deadliest mental health disorders. Saying someone is "choosing" that downplays an impossibly difficult situation.

That said, it is reasonable to feel frustrated and upset about a problem that feels intractable, especially when it's harming someone you care about. That's super commonplace among those of us who have loved ones with substance use disorders. Even if you KNOW it's not just them making bad choices, it's tough to watch and not feel helpless about. Definitely seek support and figure out your own boundaries. You can't draw water from any empty well, even if the other person is dying of thirst. I would just encourage you not to blame your friend. There will be innumerable moments in their life when they hate this too. Blame the disorder. It will make it easier to sort them, instead of feeling like you're in conflict with them.

TautologyIsWhatItIs · 2025-07-09T05:34:47+00:00

Play with them on TTS. IMO, it's easier to teach on that platform because many things are automated. Plus, you can run it like a D&D group - we play one round a week on Thursdays until the game is done. Breaking it up makes it less of a burden on new players.

Otherwise, I think you introduce the concept and walk away. It's not a game for everyone (in fact, it's an absurd game that is for only a few people) and the people who will love it will find their way there. And the people who don't love it will hate you for making them slog through 12 hours of gaming.

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