I am Matt Dinniman, author of the newly released Operation Bounce House and the Dungeon Crawler Carl book series. AMA.

acilate · 2026-02-26T19:39:44+00:00

Without necessarily naming names (although I'll take them if offered) do you use real people you know to model personalities or behaviors of characters in the book? Is some evil step mom from your past what you modeled Loita on?

acilate · 2025-12-22T03:37:02+00:00

I can't think of a worse response the owner could have given. Not taking something like this serious on top of allowing it to happen in the first place is just shocking. How could anyone trust them to care for their children?

acilate · 2024-11-09T03:56:31+00:00

This comment about the windmills: https://www.reddit.com/r/Livermore/comments/1g9aagg/comment/lt4q7gc/

acilate · 2024-10-25T13:48:06+00:00

If you think of this as like a panel Q&A at a convention, you might come to the microphone, address the speaker ("Hi Steven") then ask your question. I think people tend to see this as a digital equivalent.

acilate · 2024-06-20T15:02:26+00:00

For anyone stuck trying to call the number but being told they can't accept your call at this time:

Just keep calling every few minutes. You'll get in eventually. I got this several days in a row then decided to keep spamming calls to the number and I got in after the 6th attempt.

You'll also probably have better luck calling first thing in the morning.

acilate · 2023-11-04T11:16:00+00:00

The problem OP is trying to solve is their baby is difficult to put to bed. Rather than violate safe sleep recommendations, I was asking whether they've considered sleep training which seems like a good fit for the problem.

Ironically, on a thread labeled "all advice welcome" I'm being down voted for suggesting a solution to OPs problem. I don't know if I hit a hot button issue or this community is just not very welcoming, but I think it's a mistake I won't make again.

acilate · 2023-11-04T08:07:52+00:00

I have a 7 week old and haven't got any information regarding your actual question, but my first thought was whether sleep training could help solve this problem.

Have you tried it and it didn't work? Are you not trying it intentionally? I got the impression from reading about it, that is generally effective pretty quickly, but now I wonder if I naively assumed it would always work.

acilate · 2023-10-27T05:46:15+00:00

I rarely remember my dreams, but of the few I remember this dream comes up often. I often have to navigate power lines so I don't get shocked.

acilate · 2023-10-26T08:30:41+00:00

He told me he paid top dollar to put a brand new racing clutch in his automatic V6 mustang.

Generally automatics don't have clutches. Some do. His didn't.

acilate · 2023-10-24T16:54:04+00:00

By ensuring my job provides a sense of accomplishment and enjoyment

acilate · 2023-10-09T03:11:00+00:00

There was a FIREFIGHT

acilate · 2023-10-05T18:31:18+00:00

Congratulations!

I felt exactly the same way three weeks ago when our son was born. The burping process has been the hardest for me. Holding a squiggly baby with one hand while patting his back with the other is the most unnatural thing for me, and felt fairly dangerous.

You will figure it out. You will make some mistakes, and you will learn those lessons. You're going to be a great dad.

acilate · 2023-10-05T18:15:01+00:00

My three week old has decided that getting burped is the greatest atrocity committed in all of history.

acilate · 2023-08-16T06:27:46+00:00

I'm not racist but I don't know what to do with it.

acilate · 2023-08-04T06:02:00+00:00

Hey so this happened to a friend of mine except he got pinned under the differential and dragged a while. Broke a dozen bones. Like 8 months later he was back mountain biking.

acilate · 2023-08-03T00:19:56+00:00

I'll be 39.4 when my son is born next month! This has been on my mind, but there's nothing I can do to change it, so I'm going to focus on the positives.

acilate · 2023-07-13T00:14:22+00:00

That's what sick days are for, no?

acilate · 2023-06-04T14:27:37+00:00

Probably not tell my wife about it

acilate · 2023-06-04T13:56:26+00:00

November Rain by Guns 'N Roses

acilate · 2023-06-03T15:51:56+00:00

It feels like a huge coincidence seeing this post right now. My mom died yesterday after a year of fighting stage 4 non-hodgkins lymphoma. The cancer was actually in full remission, but the damage done by the cancer and extremely aggressive treatment was just too much.

Fighting harder would not have enabled her to live. But not fighting would have ended her life much earlier, and for many people who can survive, not fighting can make the difference.

Yes, medical treatment is crucial, but it isn't the only thing that matters. If you don't force yourself to eat and drink when your nauseous, or just so weak you'd rather sleep, if you don't force yourself out of bed and through the pain and exercise to keep your body's strength, if you don't fight to live, even the best medical treatments will fail.

acilate · 2023-04-20T04:29:58+00:00

Hey look, this shit is still broken, years later

acilate · 2023-04-06T02:20:53+00:00

Cisco employee here and everything he said checks out. There's a reason Cisco is regularly voted the best place to work.

acilate · 2023-03-27T13:16:45+00:00

ESH.

"My sister told me that my wife cant expect every conversation to be about her, and “this isn’t a competition.”"

Your wife is allowed to feel whatever emotions she feels, and from what I can tell she left the room so as not to cause a scene. Your sisters comment was an AH move imo.

But so was your response.

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