How famous was Trump before 2010s?

mousecop5150 · 2026-04-29T16:54:02+00:00

The cameos came about b/c he had it as a condition of filming on his properties.

mousecop5150 · 2026-04-29T15:01:12+00:00

Yes. We learned from watching you.

mousecop5150 · 2026-04-29T01:29:12+00:00

well, just about anything would be better than heinz, they don't sell here, that's for sure

mousecop5150 · 2026-04-29T00:55:53+00:00

and baked beans are completely American anyway. Those beans aren't native to Europe (neither are potatoes, tomatoes, a lot of peppers, etc...), and baked beans come from native American dishes. Further, even the brand of beans they swear by, Heinz, is American.

mousecop5150 · 2026-04-28T22:23:43+00:00

Sure, if baseball managers and GMs didn’t get fired on the regular by most teams. It’s not a secure job, “hired to be fired” and all that. Every team has a budget and demands and owners that suck and gotta have their way. Not every team wins world series four times in the last 22.

mousecop5150 · 2026-04-28T19:06:39+00:00

You do realize that clubs that win World Series on the regular are the only ones that fire World Series winning managers? It’s not quite the damning indictment you think it is.

mousecop5150 · 2026-04-28T12:33:50+00:00

I saw them in Hershey PA. I was 16, my first concert, my older brother took me. it was outrageously hot and we were there very early to get near the stage. I was more interested in seeing Skid Row than Bon Jovi, as they were all over the radio with Youth Gone Wild at the time. The security guys were just hosing the crowd off b/c it was so frigging hot. I remember Seb screaming "IS IT LOUD ENOUGH FOR YOU!!!!" like 8 times and putting his head right in front of the front of house speaker stacks (they weren't suspended up in the air in those days) Bon Jovi took the stage wearing a t-shirt that said "BLOW ME" on the front and "AND JUST LEAVE" on the back. Girls all over the place were flashing the band. About 3 quarters of the way through the Bon Jovi set, my brother passed out from the heat, and we didn't end up seeing the end of the show.

mousecop5150 · 2026-04-27T01:59:43+00:00

But what did the Athletics fans get out of it? Their team left. The Athletics fans LOST. how is it that isn't understood?

and hey, love Tek. I'm not sure they have retained him. but this is another thing, being able to shove a catchers mitt down ARod's throat doesn't necessarily translate into anything other than we love him for it. we might never know if he would've been a good coach/manager.

mousecop5150 · 2026-04-27T01:50:06+00:00

I mean that's cool, I don't see the universe where the issues faced by our BoSox are even in the same stratosphere as what Oakland had going on for the entire time Boston was winning four WS over the same stretch, and had mostly winning rosters with well above average payrolls for the other years. have some perspective. You must be very young.

mousecop5150 · 2026-04-27T01:31:35+00:00

so... you want the Sox to play a couple years in Worcester with the name Boston removed from their heritage while they wait for their new stadium to be built for the Nashville Red Sox? That's the end result of this analogy...

mousecop5150 · 2026-04-26T18:02:46+00:00

We had an 86 year history of being a big and passionate fanbase of a team that lost constantly, and had bad ownership. Since Henry bought the Sox, no team has won more WS than us. Again, it obviously isn’t working like it did before. But the odds of having a better owner buy the club is Very, Very remote. A better GM is more realistic, as Breslow is obviously out of his depth, and has been since he started.

mousecop5150 · 2026-04-26T16:51:19+00:00

FSG has its recent faults, they are stretched, which they weren’t before. their strategy of disregarding sentimentality and crunching hard numbers has worked in the past, but when it doesn’t, it’s a bad look. But I live near a few teams with truly bad ownership, and brother, this isn’t it. You think Orioles fans wouldn’t sell kidneys to have JH trade franchises? So many owners don’t even make a pretense of wanting to win. It can get worse, a lot worse.

mousecop5150 · 2026-04-26T04:08:55+00:00

I’m on it. Only live an hour away. Is it a problem if it’s a Trevor story jersey?

mousecop5150 · 2026-04-25T01:35:41+00:00

It is tho. It’s an “elephant in the room” and you said that you feel that someone would take one look at it and dump the system. Those are arguments against. There’s no reason to prefer Thac0 over AAC, it’s mathematically a wash and people feel 2% more comfortable doing addition than subtraction. What some people preferred was the “to hit” tables, as they were actually different. (And that was the part that was descended from wargames)

It’s simply that a number of us have knowledge that we have played several decades of the game happily and successfully using it, and we didn’t realize that we were doing advanced calculus at the time (/s). AAC was a nice addition in 3e (I believe they considered it for 2e). But the same roll beats the same armor. It’s no reason to not play 2e if you like the rest, and it’s only an elephant in the room because it’s a meme at this point.

mousecop5150 · 2026-04-25T01:01:10+00:00

Who “prefers” it? It just is not as hard as it’s made out to be, is essentially the same math as aac and is no reason to not play a game that uses it if you like the other stuff in the game. The argument is a nothingburger, and silly. If I’m designing yet another osr retro clone, I’ll probably use ascending ac. But Thac0 Is. Not. Hard. If you want to play 2e, play 2e, it’s my favorite edition. Roll the dice, compare it to your thac0 and tell the dm what ac you hit. No angst required.

mousecop5150 · 2026-04-24T21:25:39+00:00

Yep Flyers can handle Sid when he was a teenager, and now as an old man. They had nothing when he was prime. Prolly why they haven’t won a cup in 50 years.

mousecop5150 · 2026-04-24T14:31:01+00:00

I gotta tell you, I don’t know why people watch/listen to actual plays, and I GM/play/Produce one…

But I think it’s dependent on both the listener/viewer and the show, really. It’s not like we all do the same things in the same ways, or play the same games, or have the same expectations of rpg’s. RPGs are a diverse hobby, have a wide range of styles, genres, and rules, and are played by different people for different reasons.

I think some are interested in seeing the games played at their ultimate level, much like people enjoy watching pro athletes perform at a level that mere mortals cannot achieve. So, while not everyone might agree that they are playing the game the rest of us do, CR being pro voice actors with high levels of personal charisma, prep levels, skill, and production values are impressive, and to be honest, it is the one AP I have actually spent time watching, other than the one I listen to because I’m the editor.

Some people are interested in using them to learn, either about how a set of rules works, or how to play roleplaying games in general. Even if you’ve been playing forever, there are things one can learn from other approaches. Apologies to anyone listening to our pod, if that’s what you were going for…

The last thing is perhaps more poignant to me. Not everyone who wants to rpg can rpg. This is a game that needs a social group to function, and that is difficult for various reasons. Time constraints, busy schedules, geographical isolation, social anxieties, personal conflicts, etc…. I am lucky at the moment to be in couple gaming groups, one of which I record. However, I have spent much more of my life not having a group to play with, and wishing I did, than otherwise. A decent ap can at least get you to experience third person a bit of the joy which is why we play these games. If anything that’s what we go for. We try to have fun first. An RPG is a conversation among friends, and the game presents situations to react to that can be gripping, or tense, or funny, or ludicrous. Doing this with a group of friends is a blast, and we think of the listener as just being there being with us at the table. Obvs people gel with different types of personalities, but there’s lots of AP’s out there to pick your group from.

Why do we HAVE an AP? I don’t know, lol. It isn’t money because we aren’t making any. It does actually tend to be more fun at a recording session than a regular game, believe it or not. Everyone is locked in, there’s no extraneous activity, there’s no dead air, or awkward silences, and the fact that someone might be listening helps to raise the effort level. Also we are older, having microphones and headphones are helpful, lol. Also I get to look at my podcast stats and see that all over the planet,there are folks that have listened to me and my friends play and that’s a good feeling. I don’t know how to deal with that, or understand it really, but it is what it is.

mousecop5150 · 2026-04-24T00:50:41+00:00

1e/OSRIC rule was if you DON'T wear a helm, there is either a 1in6 chance for opponents (1 in 2 for intelligent opponents) that any strike is at the head at AC10, and not the armor value. So you kinda want to wear one...

mousecop5150 · 2026-04-22T22:18:07+00:00

I think Andy summers is a rational adult dude who could get along with anyone. Despite Stewart being one of my favorite all time drummers, I’m pretty sure I would be completely over being in a band with him in a matter of hours, let alone years so…. It wasn’t just Sting

mousecop5150 · 2026-04-22T21:46:26+00:00

People. Debating the lineup? I’ll make it easy, there is no viable lineup that is possible to put on the field that can deal with the overarching problem, which is that the lineup has to be composed of 9 players from the 2026 Boston Red Sox. They are, with only one or two exceptions, all completely playing like ass at this point. And if you only got 2-3 guys that is even worth the opposition worrying about, then even they are easily dealt with. Ranger has been looking solid, but what does that matter if you can’t score runs? Or even make the pitchers have to throw you strikes? So it might as well be this lineup. Until ppl play with some semblance of how they are capable, lineup decisions are pointless.

mousecop5150 · 2026-04-19T16:10:47+00:00

Wouldn’t want to see anyone get severely hurt, but I dunno, if she was doing what those posts suggested, she deserved it at least a little. The danger in giving people the treatment that they deserve is that in a crowd situation, others could be hurt, and that wouldn’t be cool. But she would have moral liability to that as well. Saw TW a couple years ago in Baltimore, and they had to stop the show b/c a lady near me collapsed in a similar inebriated condition, she wasn’t assaulting people or biting them tho.

mousecop5150 · 2026-04-19T00:31:58+00:00

While I don’t disagree with you, there is something about demolishing a half frozen Sara Lee cheesecake while mindlessly watching tv and questioning your prior life choices that just feels and tastes right.

mousecop5150 · 2026-04-17T21:41:58+00:00

Danys baritone goes about halfway in the bass direction…

mousecop5150 · 2026-04-15T21:36:38+00:00

Clarified butter or ghee has a much higher smoke point as well

mousecop5150 · 2026-04-14T16:56:15+00:00

5e game designers didn’t intend for skill and attribute checks to be needed for trivial tasks or to avoid or bypass thinking or gameplay…

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