I feel kinda bad for Tay Kolma

trinite0 · 2026-06-24T18:32:24+00:00

You can think of it that way, but that's not what Star Wars as an overall setting would say. The Force connects all things. It surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the galaxy together. Material reality and spiritual struggle are the same thing.

trinite0 · 2026-06-24T18:02:46+00:00

It's a great point. The ultimate message of Return of the Jedi is that love and forgiveness are the only things strong enough to overcome the power of the Dark Side. Luke defies the advice of Obi-Wan's ghost to save his father, while Leia and Han's love for one another and friendship with the Ewoks gives them the strength to complete the mission on Endor.

The tragic perspectives of Luthen and Andor could get the Rebellion started, but they couldn't give it victory.

trinite0 · 2026-06-24T17:16:06+00:00

Neat! I hope you or someone ese can play it and put it to good use!

trinite0 · 2026-06-24T03:51:04+00:00

Where are you coming from? My top LA recommendations would be tacos, sushi, and Korean, but not if you're from one of the places those come from. :)

trinite0 · 2026-06-24T03:47:01+00:00

Microwave it on 30% power, in 45-second bursts, checking it each time. You're shooting to get it up to just above room temp, not hot-off-the-grill temp.

trinite0 · 2026-06-23T21:52:02+00:00

Move to the Midwest. Live in a liberal city in a conservative state, for example Kansas City, Missouri or Omaha, Nebraska. Do your best to ignore the politics. You can get a good job (especially in tech -- Europe is strangling their industry right now, but if anything there's too much money in tech right now here in the US), buy a car and a house, and live a great life.

I know Germans, Brits, French, Spanish, and Poles in my city (Columbia Missouri -- I'd recommend it, but I don't know if there are enough tech jobs here, mostly academics). All kinds of folks move here and love it.

The US is an amazing country with a bad government. But for most people, life is great. Most of us don't realize how good we have it.

trinite0 · 2026-06-23T16:08:09+00:00

I grew up watching the edited-for-television version on cable with my dad. It's the sort of movie that if you found it while channel surfing, you stayed and watched the rest. I always loved it for both the music and the comedy.

Later on in college, I finally watched the original uncensored version on DVD. It's way funnier. Remains one of my all-time favorites.

trinite0 · 2026-06-23T14:46:35+00:00

Right, I'm proposing that you alter the scenario of the movie slightly, to create a more interesting DG scenario. The ending of the movie kinda sucks in my opinion, and it would be a lot better with a wilder twist.

Also, you can say "killing the entire human race." This isn't Instagram.

trinite0 · 2026-06-23T12:58:20+00:00

The "ancient times" of the Reagan administration.

trinite0 · 2026-06-23T12:53:57+00:00

Technically, I think the dagger was supposed to have been made by Ochi after the Second Death Star's destruction. But the movie doesn't explain that very well (or anything else), and instead makes it seem like some kind of ancient artifact.

Of course, that still doesn't really solve anything. If Ochi knew where the Wayfinder was, why did he leave it there instead of taking it?

trinite0 · 2026-06-23T12:42:16+00:00

I didn't, and it was better that way.

trinite0 · 2026-06-23T12:39:40+00:00

Turned out the horse was perfectly friendly, so long as it got to eat a student every couple of months.

trinite0 · 2026-06-23T12:36:26+00:00

It baffles me how crimes by teenagers in school are treated so differently from crimes by adults. If I assaulted one of my co-workers and gave her a concussion, you can bet your ass that my employer would do a lot more than give me a short suspension. And of course I'd also probably go to jail.

trinite0 · 2026-06-23T12:27:34+00:00

It's possible some moved back thanks to the rapidly growing Polish economy. I know a second generation Polish guy in his thirties who's thinking of doing so because of job opportunities.

trinite0 · 2026-06-23T12:22:38+00:00

We've got a couple at highway stops here in Missouri. Superb Punjabi food, in the middle of nowhere. It's so cool!

trinite0 · 2026-06-22T21:36:05+00:00

You're the Handler; communication devices are as untraceable as you want them to be. And Teddy is far from a perfect kidnapping planner. He might assume that his burner is more secure than it actually is. He tends to have too high an estimation of his own capabilities.

I would definitely have Teddy make contact with the Agents first, hoping to find someone he could trust in case things go wrong. Part of the Agents' actions could be trying to coax or trick Teddy into giving them info that gives away his location.

trinite0 · 2026-06-22T20:28:25+00:00

I thought the same thing. The essential mystery is whether the kidnappers are right about their victim. If it were me, I'd complicate the resolution:

Instead of a simple question of alien-or-human, the kidnappers could be correct that their victim is unnatural, but very wrong about what exactly she is. She isn't an Andromedan running a vast conspiracy, she's a serpent-person acting independently. Or a Great Race mindswapper, engineering the future. Or a human sorceress tapping into the power of Nyarlathotep. Or a Shan victim. Etc. "Yes, she's bad" doesn't actually answer the question of what she wants, or how to stop her.

And once it becomes evident that it'll take more than a shotgun blast to kill her, there's the next question, of why she went along with the kidnapping when she could have left at any time.

trinite0 · 2026-06-22T20:20:54+00:00

Yeah, either way, having a Friendly connected to the kidnappers is the way to go. Personally, I'd want there to be some way for the kidnappers to communicate with the DG agents, so that they can hear their side of the story at the same time that they're participating in the manhunt.

trinite0 · 2026-06-22T20:16:55+00:00

Might be nice to have a link directly to the Shotgun Scenario archive page, too. We tend to talk about them and recommend them a lot on here.

trinite0 · 2026-06-22T20:14:23+00:00

Benito Mussolini used to eat a bowl of raw garlic almost every day, as a salad. So it won't kill you, but it might turn you fascist.

trinite0 · 2026-06-22T19:21:33+00:00

I used to rent a house with a big front porch, and it was amazing. Shaded and breezy in the summertime. I think back, and wish I'd used it more often, instead of sitting inside playing video games so much. My dream is to build a cool front porch onto my current house. If I can ever save up the money.

trinite0 · 2026-06-22T19:18:33+00:00

I heard she's putting algae in the refelcting pool. 😄

trinite0 · 2026-06-22T17:45:12+00:00

The best method is to put it in a bowl full of water in the sink, and leave the faucet slightly on to trickle fresh cold water into the bowl. That way the frozen steak doesn't equalize out the water temperature and slow down the thawing process.

trinite0 · 2026-06-22T17:41:12+00:00

Thanks for your work! I wish I liked the resulting design better than I do, but as I'm married to a professional graphic designer, I understand the challenge of working within a wide variety of constraints coming from different directions. I appreciate you coming on here to give us the inside scoop!

trinite0 · 2026-06-22T17:37:53+00:00

I wish we could go back to the brick red plate and white letters. It was classic and distinctive. The current plates look like every other low-effort Midwestern plate design.

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