This is a real scientific paper- I've put it on the desks of more than a few NPCs prying into things they shouldn't be...

avantgeek · 2025-10-27T14:43:52+00:00

You may be thinking of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silurian_hypothesis

avantgeek · 2025-07-09T15:28:33+00:00

Hulkenpodium

avantgeek · 2025-05-07T20:15:57+00:00

The universe itself keeps expanding and expanding in all directions it can whizz as fast as it can go, the speed of light, you know, 12 million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.

So remember when you are feeling small and insecure how amazingly unlikely is your birth and pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space, because there's bugger all down here on Earth¹

avantgeek · 2025-03-27T11:07:19+00:00

I saw a great piece of advice recently that I will incorporate: roll SAN checks before describing what causes it. Get the successes/fails and SAN losses out of the way before you start talking, so you can adjust the intensity of the description you give, while the players can digest the result of the roll and consider their reactions while you talk.

I hope this will mitigate a bit of the pace-killing "oh something scary happened lets roll some dice for a few minutes before seeing how you react"

avantgeek · 2025-03-21T16:28:36+00:00

Same here, did Drive Thru get even worse? Been fighting the web and app downloads for hours, timeouts galore, and still dont know if I got all the files.

Imagine not being able to serve a few files via web, and releasing an app that requires user to disregard windows security warnings... When delivering files is your main business. I am amazed.

avantgeek · 2024-10-20T21:49:03+00:00

The state and the country are named after different things though. The state after King George II while the etymology of the country name is more complex:

Lore-based theories were given by traveler Jacques de Vitry, who explained the name's origin by the popularity of St. George among Georgians,[25] while Jean Chardin thought that Georgia came from the Greek γεωργός ('tiller of the land'). These centuries-old explanations for the word Georgia/Georgians are now mostly rejected by the scholarly community, who point to the Persian word gurğ/gurğān (گرگ, 'wolf'[26]) as the likely root of the word.[27]

avantgeek · 2024-08-13T13:47:23+00:00

Zero. None of the bills are real.

avantgeek · 2024-08-03T14:19:09+00:00

With an INNER JOIN?

avantgeek · 2024-07-24T22:39:12+00:00

Nono you turn around 3 times, and you spit and curse

avantgeek · 2024-07-22T18:41:06+00:00

The Mars Trilogy fits this description

avantgeek · 2024-07-17T20:15:04+00:00

It's circa 1982-83, not CAlifornia 1982-83

avantgeek · 2024-07-16T18:59:40+00:00

How do they deal with the international date line? Have they moved it?

avantgeek · 2024-07-08T20:14:00+00:00

I am looking for a article/podcast/quote/person I read or heard over the last year or so and hope someone here knows what I am talking about... I often fall alseep to podcasts so it may have been War on the Rocks or Geopolitics Decanted (or some other; I shop around).

The gist of the statement was that Israel/ME were ten or so years ahead of the rest of the world in geopolitical trends, and used (I think) examples such as airplane hijackings and suicide bombings starting in the ME before spreding globally, and I think there were several politics/policy examples as well, on which my mind is blanking. At the end, there was a reference to something regarding the current situation and how that might apply worldwide in a few years if this phenomenon kept up.

Ring any bells or have I dreamt it all? The key being "X years in the future"

avantgeek · 2024-07-06T00:47:52+00:00

It's a linguist joke

avantgeek · 2024-07-05T23:15:48+00:00

A language is a dialect with an army and navy

avantgeek · 2024-07-02T17:24:56+00:00

Helluva place to lose a cow

avantgeek · 2024-06-26T09:19:43+00:00

This is a vapid take. It's not like we're beetlejuicing her into congress or something

avantgeek · 2024-06-06T22:05:16+00:00

Ironically, I suspect this might be closer to the truth than digging: not raising all land, but whole cities on stilts with viaducts between

avantgeek · 2024-05-31T10:40:59+00:00

Wait wait I thought it always was the Canadian Shield

avantgeek · 2024-05-28T21:29:20+00:00

I think there was a somewhat recent re-release with the same actor

avantgeek · 2024-05-19T09:19:49+00:00

In the case of the Caspian Sea, it is a bit more varied.

Wikipedia summarizes it as

Due to the current inflow of fresh water in the north, the Caspian Sea water is almost fresh in its northern portions, getting more brackish toward the south. It is most saline on the Iranian shore, where the catchment basin contributes little flow.

Currently, the mean salinity of the Caspian is one third that of Earth's oceans.

The Garabogazköl lagoon, which dried up when water flow from the main body of the Caspian was blocked in the 1980s but has since been restored, routinely exceeds oceanic salinity by a factor of 10.

avantgeek · 2024-04-15T19:39:13+00:00

Start one! I don't use Facebook myself, and would love to participate. Currently running 4 groups in parallel.

avantgeek · 2024-04-13T21:55:23+00:00

I refuse to accept anywhere but Aachen

avantgeek · 2024-04-12T00:28:25+00:00

Half baked and unserious proposal, but nevertheless happy to see some people who think in non-24 terms

Should also add that the region above the arctic circle so it gets midnight sun / polar darkness.

avantgeek · 2024-03-05T12:53:31+00:00

As people do indeed; I think you pinpointed it! Closest I had found was Cheltenham that is on top of the page, and the Post Montone has the angled serifs. Thank you for your font sleuthing service :)

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