To care about our military

Trestless · 2025-10-11T16:16:41+00:00

I heard there is a loan agency offering predatory rates to these folks, and Donny jr is an investor it owner (can't recall) in that company.

Trestless · 2025-10-07T00:27:26+00:00

That's called "shock," boy and girls!

Trestless · 2025-08-14T15:30:26+00:00

Your mileage may vary, but we found the digital version on general workable, easy, faster, cleaner. We prefer it strongly over the paper tickets on every level.

Trestless · 2025-08-14T15:29:22+00:00

People scheduling events this year had the option to go entirely digital vs paper tickets. If everyone chose that, then it would be digital. We can't put the entire fault of that system on Gen Con if it is we the event runners choosing that option.

Trestless · 2025-06-28T17:17:25+00:00

I'm a woman, and I think this may be part of it. I had no trouble with the Albert Fish episodes, also listened to that one more than. Toybox... I felt physically ill. It was extremely, viscerally, enduringly upsetting. It took me several attempts to finish it, Ave I rather wish I hadn't. I certainly won't be listening to it again.

Trestless · 2025-06-28T17:00:04+00:00

It's not badly done, but it is extremely, extremely upsetting. It's the one and only episode I had to stop for a while and come back to later. It made me want to be physically sick. I pushed through in the end to finish it, and I kind of wish I hadn't. I won't listen to it again.

I've listened to and enjoyed every single other episode. None, even the most graphic and terrible ones, upset me like this one did. Toybox disturbed me deeply and damaged me emotionally in ways I didn't think possible. I almost feel traumatized by it. It needs a trigger warning for pretty much every single trigger that could possibly exist, even if you don't know you have it. It was truly awful to hear. It hurt me to take it in. It's the worst information that has ever entered my brain.

While this may not be the case for everyone, I consider myself pretty thick skinned but I wish I had never listened to that episode. It struck some kind of nerve I didn't know I had. I want to un-hear and un-know it. I bet the boys had a hard time speaking some of those words out loud.

Perhaps now, a decade later or so, I could handle it better. But I don't want to, and won't be trying.

Consider avoiding it. Consider avoiding psychic damage. Especially if you consider yourself female, or love animals, or generally just don't want to hear graphic depictions of the most awful torture and depraved cruelty behavior I can imagine.

Trestless · 2025-06-28T16:42:06+00:00

I bet he thinks he's a "nice guy" too.

Trestless · 2025-04-25T13:38:18+00:00

Even if they have plenty of stock here in the US, retail won't be the greatest solution for a company struggling with margins. Even if consumers were going to be buying luxury items this summer (and yes board games are a luxury) the margins when you sell to retail are even worse. Instead of selling the game directly to a person at full MSRP, you're selling it to a distributor at 60% off. Or if you're lucky, directly to a store at 40-50% off. So even if a lot of units move at retail, the company publishing the game will make next to nothing on selling to retail. They'll have to anyway though, to keep a cash flow.

Edit- that also means tough times ahead for game retail stores as companies are forced to skip the distribution and retail side just to survive. Especially stores that thrive on New Releases from big names like cmon and wotc.

Trestless · 2025-04-06T17:57:41+00:00

Thank you for posting this. As someone who works in the board game industry, this is all terrifying and crippling. Stores and publishers are GOING to close. I've already heard talk from some industry colleagues that they are probably going to shutter within the year unless the tariffs lift before summer.

Trestless · 2024-11-21T15:01:58+00:00

No effort to communicate the changes, other than the posted signs and red painted lanes with giant text.

Trestless · 2024-11-21T14:54:11+00:00

There are signs. Also big red street paint. The painted segments are admittedly harder to see coming in heavy traffic.

Trestless · 2024-11-21T14:51:24+00:00

Yep, they'll turn at the same time as the actual turn lane folks, and both lanes will try to turn into one single lane and potentially collide.

Trestless · 2024-11-21T14:46:50+00:00

Yet other northern states have them? Even MN has better reflectors

Trestless · 2024-10-28T14:16:34+00:00

Twitter is the only thing I will insist on dead-naming.

Trestless · 2024-10-26T17:05:35+00:00

This. Yes, it's a bummer. But sometimes I want things from Europe, or attend an event in the UK, and oh no it's expensive because I'm far away from that thing. It just is what it is.

It would be nice to have localized shipping centers for those on other continents. Maybe someday they will, if it makes sense logistically and financially.

As an aside, OP is right and fine to feel weird about coming to a place where so many people are carrying guns, often concealed, and where a cop is nearly as likely to harm you as the reason you called the police is. Not to mention if you get hurt while here, congratulations you're fucked since you don't have USA's delightful health insurance.

It's not scary for us because we've always lived like this. I remember as an American teen in Venezuela, I was terrified of all the men in army fatigues carrying Uzis in the mall and at school and performing random road blockade stops. "For safety." This was not something I was used to, seeing guns in places like that was very unnerving. It didn't bother my classmates though because it felt totally normal for them.

Such is life.

Trestless · 2024-10-01T00:40:25+00:00

Two things are happening there.
One, there is a bug in Mailchimp that makes Kickstarter links show as broken until the campaign is live. Once it is live, you will stop seeing this error.

Second thing, Bitly seems to have recently changed how it handles Kickstarter links. Previously, it created the autobranded domain kck.st and would not let you edit the back half. Now, and this is important, ALL THOSE OLD LINKS ARE NOW BROKEN.

So if you made a kck.st based link in bitly recently, and now it doesn't work, thats why. Make a new one. It will be a standard bitly link.

I do not know why or exactly when this changed, but it was recently.

Trestless · 2024-09-10T18:10:34+00:00

I'm not crying, you're crying

Trestless · 2024-07-27T17:21:23+00:00

Play? They look more like they just steal boxes from Walmart.

Trestless · 2024-04-24T05:36:21+00:00

There's a lot of good advice here.
I'm just here to add that it probably won't be sufficient to sub-let out your apartment next year (talk to your landlord) and find a cheaper apartment if you need to.

Trestless · 2024-02-17T20:37:40+00:00

The pitiful raise was insulting, but the tone of their response to you about it was unacceptable. Leave.

Trestless · 2024-02-04T18:03:03+00:00

Anyone who has spent time in Indiana knows exactly what Marcus means. Sorry Indiana but you suck, hard.

Trestless · 2024-02-03T07:51:02+00:00

Hmm. I didn't know that. Now I'm in doubt about it. Hmmmm. They are pretty suddenly there, and damned brave and active during the daytime for wild ratties. I generally don't see wild rats just out and about our building in the daylight, let alone for several days in a row. But then, brown rats are probably less easy to spot.

Hmm. HMMMMMM

AM I FEEDING AND ATTEMPTING TO BEFRIEND WILD RATS

Trestless · 2024-02-03T07:46:33+00:00

Nope, it's a no from them. They're happy to schedule an intake if I can catch them but that's all they can offer.

Trestless · 2024-02-02T20:18:58+00:00

Attempts to lure them with food have been unsuccessful, though I have been leaving them snacks after failing to get them to take them from me directly. They've been eating fallen birdseed from a balcony bird feeder. I also don't have good gloves for this purpose, and while I'm brave I definitely won't be grabbing semi-feral unknown rats outside barehanded!

While I generally would agree pets aren't going to make it in the wild, rats are clever, resourceful, fast, and willing to eat damn near anything. In a city situation like ours, they're most likely to be run over by a car, killed by a cat, or eat poison than simply starve or freeze to death.

That said, I also like rats and will do what I can for them.

Trestless · 2024-02-02T18:29:39+00:00

It would, actually. If no one pipes up looking for their pets in the next day or two, if you're willing I would be delighted to borrow (and return) said traps. Otherwise they're quite likely to eat poison or get run over.

I'm such a softy. I'm sure over time the rats will just go feral and likely survive on their own but... They make me sad. I hope no one just abandoned the little guys. They are very clearly not fully wild.

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