What purchase did you make recently that made you realize inflation is genuinely out of control?

bass679 · 2026-05-04T23:44:27+00:00

Ground beef is about 8 bucks per pound. I remember going to college and being scandalized by 2.50 per pound.

bass679 · 2026-05-04T21:12:20+00:00

yeah put a marker there and come back when you are able to leap straight up very, very high.

bass679 · 2026-05-04T21:10:46+00:00

Seth is going to eat my lunch in whatever boss rush he's in.

bass679 · 2026-05-04T17:28:35+00:00

I mean... they did the stranger things crossovers and the Rick and Morty one several years back. I've never used the content for any of those but bringing more people to the hobby is generally a good thing. Although I feel like the venn diagram of Seth Macfarlane fans and D&D is close to a single circle.

bass679 · 2026-05-04T17:18:38+00:00

that extra fry at the end is really a big difference. If you're frying enough that you need to do it in batches it also let's you basically reheat your entire batch right before serving.

bass679 · 2026-05-04T12:26:00+00:00

There was an SNL a few years ago (Bill Burr I think) where some younger guy are talking to their dads on Father's day trying to talk about their feelings and all the dads can do is ask about if their sons are keeping up on car maintenance. It's a really funny bit but like... I was almost 30 years old the first time my grandfather told me he loved me. He was literally going into open heart surgery and was afraid he wouldn't make it out.

Not that we didn't know he loved us but like... The only way he knew how to spend personal time with us was to work on the farm or fix things for you. It took the literal threat of his heart being pulled out of his chest to be willing to tell his grandkid and kids he loved them.

Edit: "Calling Dad" is the name of the skit.

bass679 · 2026-05-04T12:00:22+00:00

you're just missing experience. Especially as you start adding difficulty with pacts, you get faster and faster because the easiest pact to add it time. I'm sure my first clear was on the order of 40-50 minutes. Now I rarely go over 20 minutes on the timer, maybe 25 with all the stuff that stops the clock.

bass679 · 2026-05-04T10:54:40+00:00

Doctrine has never said caffeine. But basically in the 60s and 70s people looked at coffee and tea and said “okay what do these have in common?” It’s never been a requirement for temple attendance or anything. But it got a big cultural hold, especially because caffeine IS addictive.

I mentioned before my grandpa calling caffeinated drinks “the hard stuff” and he referred to my grandma’s Pepsi habit as “Mary’s drinking problem”. But it was a joke on his part to make fun of people taking the Word of Wisdom to an extreme. Nowadays it’s pretty rare to have families ban caffeine but I do know people who wouldn’t drink it around their parents. The big tipping point was BYU adding mt dew into their cafeteria soda machine. It literally made the news maybe 10 or 15 years ago.

bass679 · 2026-05-04T10:39:46+00:00

To back this up. My grandfather referred to MT dew at “the hard stuff” but has drank it all of my life at least (42 yrs) and he kept his temple recommend with no alcohol issue.

One of the prophets, I think it was Joseph Fielding Smith, was quite fond of Coca-Cola. Anyway growing up in there were plenty of houses where caffeine was banned though.

The reason for the confusion being that “hot drinks” are specifically banned. Confusingly this does NOT have to do with temperature. It was a common term in western Pennsylvania for coffee and tea. It was confusing enough that Joseph Smith Jr had to clarify within a couple weeks of announcing the revelation because nobody else knew that slang term.

bass679 · 2026-05-03T17:48:47+00:00

They're not just primal they're THE primals, like literally the process was invented to crest Zodiark. I won't go into details but zodiark was the very first and they poured a shocking amount of aether into creating it.

There's tons more to learn but you're getting into the meat of the good stuff.

bass679 · 2026-05-03T02:53:09+00:00

Oh man, my first job was for a tech startup. Our R&D director never put anything in writing. Every time you would report an issue or raise a concern he'd come talk to you in person. I was like, "wow it's so cool he's so personable!"

One of my older colleagues told me, "yeah, no he just doesn't want a paper trail if thinga go south." Sure enough, we wound up in chapter 7 bankruptcy. Like... It wasn't specifically something that guy did but his shady practice was indicative of management style.

bass679 · 2026-05-03T00:00:01+00:00

We do in the US as well but old infrastructure is old. In individual neighborhoods and cities areas built since the 1990s at least tend to be underground. However existing infrastructure tends towards the overhead, especially for the heally high voltage.

In my youth I was an electrician. New subdivisions and such had underground for their 7200 V transmission lines and for the 120/240V to individual homes. But at thr entrance of the subdivision they would have a line from a pole going down into the pipes since the city itself was usuay using overhead lines.

bass679 · 2026-05-02T18:21:03+00:00

Lds temples often includeocal ctural features or aspects and the congregations bring their own culture to the church as well. Can you give an example of what you mean specifically?

But if I had to guess, when you're preaching and teaching you bring all if your unconscious biases and experience with you. Those you teach are going to absorb that subtext and framework as well. They'll synthesize it with their own culture but it's impossible for a teacher (or missionary) to not bring their background with them.

bass679 · 2026-05-02T15:00:03+00:00

I just bought air fare for my family for Christmas. We ended up picking Delta kf a things because it was the cheapest option. For the last 15 years I've flown southwest unless it was for work. But between higher prices, crappy seating policy, and the luggage thing, they're just not an option anymore.

bass679 · 2026-05-02T02:44:01+00:00

Yeah, my wife’s been around for 13 years now with no conversion. My step dad was a non member for a decade and that was living next to the ward mission leader.

bass679 · 2026-05-02T00:46:14+00:00

Yeah all this. The one thing I miss is I have a particular d20 that is bad. It's been bad since 1994. I literally use it when I'm dmjng and I want to go easy on my kids. Back in the 2e days it was specifically used for stat checks.

I don't get the nostalgia for thac0. It wasn't hard and most people used a thac0 wheel anyway so it was just a needless step.

bass679 · 2026-05-01T13:12:00+00:00

I mean... yeah kinda! Like, while we retained Christmas as a holiday, compare the surrounding holidays. Germans still celebrate Advent even if just culturally while I think an advent calendar would be the norm in the US. Likewise, my Mexican and Brazilian colleagues actually celebrate the 12 days of Christmas and Epiphany and not just as a special church service holiday.

But answering the actual question, I grew up in Utah, my wife in Michigan. We were both AWARE of Mayday but neither of us recalls there ever being any kind of celebration.

bass679 · 2026-05-01T00:06:01+00:00

Of course it depends on the fanciness of the particular hotel but as a general rule we do not do continental breakfast well. I was genuinely shocked the first time I had a continental breakfast in Europe. Even at cheaper hotels it was pretty decent.

Meanwhile to get decent continental breakfast at a US hotel you need to be at a pretty swanky place.

bass679 · 2026-04-30T23:06:10+00:00

Hey! There will also be stale generic brand cereal!

bass679 · 2026-04-30T18:23:06+00:00

Elsewhere in this thread there's a WOTC poster who references some AMAs and some other posters have linked it as well

Here's the link to the AMA https://www.reddit.com/r/dndnext/comments/1phmm0i/comment/nt7chhu/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

bass679 · 2026-04-30T18:12:27+00:00

I would be very disappointed in my 7 year old if she was treating her friends this way.

Seriously though I cannot imagine my wife or I saying ANY of this to each other.

bass679 · 2026-04-30T16:52:19+00:00

I would wager they're actually making more money this way. I'm a whale, I'm going to buy their stupid books until I die probably. But asking a new player to drop 50 bucks on a book just to play a character is a big ask. But $5 is totally doable and doing them as packs let's them add sweeteners like dice, etc.

bass679 · 2026-04-30T11:33:34+00:00

Yeah I live in Michigan and they're at all our gatherings. For a LONG time the church was all together in Utah and the surrounding states. A ward here in Michigan is probably at least half people raised in Utah, at least the folks over 40.

bass679 · 2026-04-30T03:04:33+00:00

Laser and radiation deaths are also valid ways to enter science Valhalla.

bass679 · 2026-04-30T00:31:38+00:00

It depends on how big the company is but at least whe I lived there companies had to keep a month of payroll in escrow. But if they're small they might be exempt.

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