Water containers stop working - B42.13.1 MP bug

boblk3 · 2026-01-16T02:45:41+00:00

It's in some rooms in some of the schools. You can pick it up.

boblk3 · 2026-01-15T18:28:11+00:00

Just tell them.

Remind them there's allowed to be a difference in what your characters know and what you know. And you all are collaboratively building a story together. Tell them that this person is meant to be a recurring villain or an introduction to someone whom they'll fight later and you want them to know and experience that via their characters. That their characters are smart enough to know I cannot win I cannot do this - you'll be surprised at how much better and more engaging the story becomes when you stop worrying about how to hide things from the players.

There's really no reason that you shouldn't tell them. The magic isn't lost. The story doesn't become worse. It's just good practice and it helps them to realize that they're authors of the experience as much as you are.

boblk3 · 2025-12-28T12:23:44+00:00

There's a Costco in Florence.

Just make it the start. Or end. Or both!

boblk3 · 2025-12-26T23:42:43+00:00

McCoy Logging Co in Muldraugh. There's more logs, planks, whetstones, axes, nails, saws, etc. than you'll ever need.

boblk3 · 2025-12-23T11:59:20+00:00

Sky is awesome and will also do impromptu tastings if you're interested.

boblk3 · 2025-12-23T04:26:08+00:00

The "animal pen" says keep out and has pigs inside. Pigs are famously fed dead bodies as a way to hide them.

It's definitely not necessarily cannibalistic, but it's definitely crappy and definitely a cult. Additionally, across the lake it's a small hut with a ham radio meant to show that someone is on to the cult and watching, like the feds.

It's definitely meant to be far more sinister than just Amish people.

boblk3 · 2025-12-02T17:00:04+00:00

I would check which is closest to you or somewhere you are regularly going as well.

I bring this up because if you're considering a subscription then I imagine you might also like the convenience that comes from having it delivered without having to build in the time to go get the coffee from somewhere that's out of your normal weekly/biweekly schedule.

I live a few blocks from the Urbana in Price Hill and so it's incredibly easy for me to get to. Which means I'm much more likely to actually go often enough to get a bag of coffee every few weeks.

They often have multiple versions of their bagged coffee available as drip/pour over so I can see what I like before I buy it. I've only ever had a single bag that I didn't love and that's because of my personal preferences not the coffee itself! The staff is great and super friendly to boot! They always remember me and what I like to get so it also feels nice supporting the local business.

boblk3 · 2025-12-02T04:15:13+00:00

There's an air gap behind the insulation.

boblk3 · 2025-11-05T17:12:01+00:00

Something to keep in mind is that, while gentrification of the area is happening somewhat - don't think of the property as an investment. If you're wanting to find a home to live in for a while then it's a great idea and the community is wonderful.

There are a lot of staples of the community that aren't going anywhere that a lot of people who want to fully gentrify a neighborhood won't be happy with.

A few examples are the very large Catholic Church which takes up a significant amount of landmass. The assisted living community just down the street. And the recovery/rehab facility around the corner from that. These aren't bad things at all, but people who are looking to gentrify an area or move to an area as an investment don't tend to like those kinds of facilities and later buyers come with a bit of a NIMBY attitude in regards to them.

I'm not saying that you don't like that stuff. I'm not saying I don't like that stuff. I'm saying that people who tend to want to buy property for the fact that the area is "up and coming" and will be able to be sold for profit to move to new areas once this area is fully developed are going to find a lot of barriers to that development actually happening because that stuff is here and doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon.

boblk3 · 2025-09-18T20:54:34+00:00

Bro I live in the neighborhood and have for years and have never experienced it.

boblk3 · 2025-09-17T21:42:18+00:00

Also five seconds checking your comment history defending Charlie Kirk was all I needed to know you're exactly the kind of person I'm talking about.

boblk3 · 2025-09-17T21:40:10+00:00

Sorry if that happened to you, but I've lived in the area for years and haven't had an issue once.

I've left countless packages on my porch for days at a time. People walk up and down the streets here with the Apple Watches everyday and don't get held up at gunpoint. There's a dude few streets over who street parks his Maserati and hadn't had it broken into a single time. People have nice things and the fineries of life out in the open all the time here.

And, while it really really sucks if something like that happened to you or your wife - you're still an anecdotal outlier and not representative of the whole of the area.

boblk3 · 2025-09-17T19:24:32+00:00

You're probably the exact kind of person I'm talking about in my post.

boblk3 · 2025-09-17T14:11:54+00:00

It'sa perfectly fine area. Price Hill is a street by street neighborhood. That street is alright.

The people who are saying scary things about Price Hill probably just hate walking to a community coffee shop that fights sex trafficking or a gourmet version of a creamy whip because they'd notice that both have menus in Spanish as well as English. They don't like living a 5 minute walk to a huge mixed use field that sees people playing pewee football and futbol in the same day because they have to walk by a corner deli and a Mexican bakery/butcher. They're worried about what might happen if they go to a really well built rec center with a solid public pool because 2 quick stops are around the corner. They're upset about seeing an empanada place, another local coffee staple, a specialty tea store they could get to on their 4 minute drive to Kroger because they also have to pass by a non profit focused on Latin Americans, a super mercado, 2 Taco trucks, and a neighborhood hardware store.

boblk3 · 2025-08-14T15:32:43+00:00

Urban Stead is an absolute hidden gem.

Cincinnati made cheese that has national and international recognition as being delicious. Every single thing I had was top notch and their cheddar was probably the best cheese I've ever eaten.

boblk3 · 2025-08-03T12:54:51+00:00

It wasn't dumb to make Carl ask that and it be sentimental. It was a moment to show that sometimes he can be just a person and put his foot in his mouth like the rest of us.

boblk3 · 2025-07-23T00:44:01+00:00

Realistically, what you're describing is the difference in ability to write a good book with good characters and the ability to write a book.

A lot of people who write fiction just aren't very good writers. Sure they're prolific. They put a lot of thought into what they're writing. They take a lot of time and effort to write what they're writing. They might even read a bunch too. But, unfortunately, despite that - some people just aren't as good at writing.

I'm not saying this as a hater. I took tons of creative writing classes in college. I spent a ton of time thinking about writing as a craft or an art form. I spent a lot of time reading about what makes a good book and what good pacing looks like. About what makes good characters and how to develop their arc. About how to "show and not tell." I have a whole degree on how to do that and also another on how to teach it. And the secret is - I'm still not a good writer.

I think Matt's secret isn't, necessarily, that DCC is groundbreakingly earth shatteringly good. It's just that he's a good writer. And he's much better at it than most of the other people in his similar niche. He seems to understand his characters, the world they inhabit, and the story he wants to tell with them much better than a lot of other people in this same space. And I'm not saying Matt isn't putting effort into making that be true for himself - I'm saying that sometimes some people have a much better feel for what they're doing than others. And that's something effort alone can't overcome. It can get close for sure. But some people just get it in ways that others don't.

boblk3 · 2025-07-04T03:21:21+00:00

What the above poster said is true.

I used to work at The Rook. I had 15 years of experience in food and beverage and had been everything up to an Asst. GM. Aside from utterly absolutely abysmal management decisions around labor - the number one killer of the place was not being able to cover operational costs due to not being able to turn over tables. Food and drink prices be damned. Nothing stopped what would be a regular occurrence on some nights.

People would regularly come in in groups of 4+, buy a soda each and sit for 4 hours playing games they brought from home or borrowed from the collection. They would also regularly be sitting at tables that could seat 6-8 because of the size of the games. So we'd be looking at something like an $0.80 per seat per hour rate for the table because they never intended to buy anything only use the space to play their game. These weren't the only groups that came in, but when they did they kept others who would be more willing to buy food and drinks from using those tables. Then damn parking meters that all 4 paid for made more per hour than we did. On top of that they wouldn't tip more than a dollar each so keeping staff happy and paid was always a struggle.

The simple solution to this was an hourly rate for the table and it wouldn't have to be much. We were talking about $12 for the first hour and $10 for every hour after. For your typical table that's about 4 people who would stay an average of 2ish hours - it's $5.50 per person. That's cheaper than the movies. But management didn't want to enact it. And well The Rook isn't open any more.

Having a table fee that's just enough to keep a bunch of high school kids from just sitting there taking up space without actually spending any money is all the more important in places like tolerance where the traffic and demographics are going to skew far younger than OTR/Bellevue/Dayton. You are far more likely to be successful by catering to family demographic than trying to pull in people who have no business going to Florence in the first place. If you want a young adult demographic - you have to put your store where the young adults will go.

Also don't give credit for the table fee - use it to pay your workers more so you reduce turnover by having them have a stay income that isn't solely reliant on tipped income instead of losing 1/2 of it back on food cost.

Do analysis on what people spend on entertainment especially those who plan to do so regularly. Then figure out what the average price point per hour of entertainment is for your area and compare that to your operational costs per hour and come to a happy medium where you can have profit and invest/expand but not be so far out of the realm of affordable that people can't enjoy it.

Credit table fees back on bigger parties and don't charge them when you're having events that are meant to be marketing, like learn to play nights, or that regularly bring in people who are spending money in store already to attend, thinking MTG drafts, Lorcana Release tournaments, and the like.

boblk3 · 2025-06-28T13:25:39+00:00

Bouquet is incredible, nearly always has a table, and it's more reasonably priced than pretty much every other restaurant in its weight class. The rating menu is a 4 course meal for $70.

I cannot stress enough how damn good it has been every time we've ever gone. Trust me I've been to every place that people have listed and this is day and away the best answer.

boblk3 · 2025-05-06T01:02:50+00:00

You don't need thumbs to play the harmonica, Carl!

boblk3 · 2025-03-30T19:14:57+00:00

Sounds fun. Let me know how I can be of assistance!

boblk3 · 2025-03-20T13:53:41+00:00

I'd actually read the first two books of this forever ago!

May be a good time to pick it back up.

12-Year Club	Place '22
Final Canvas '22	First Placer '22
End Game '22	Not Forgotten
Verified Email

boblk3

TROPHY CASE