The rondels.

I'm fairly confident that episode was the first time that RPGs were ever portrayed as a positive, fun thing for people to do. It wasn't simply a joke "durhurr how nerdy, LOL AMIRITE?"

I want that version of Dune now.

That's okay, I have like… 6 months of experience. We can suck together!

Try getting just one suggestion that you can actually hear out of an audience. It's rough- everyone shouts out to be heard. But I'd be game for trying it. Come to Pittsburgh, and I'll get us stage time. I'm assuming you volunteered, and if you didn't, you've been voluntold.

In my backpack, right now- some empty reusable sandwich bags, some scraps of receipts, some juggling balls, and a phone charging cable.

I always thought that Molly's nails were just mirrored and looked otherwise uninteresting- until extended. Of course, and I was certainly reading too much into this, but the use of tropes like mirrorshades was meant to convey that Molly was a reflection of our ideas, not an idea herself.

WHAT? KEITHA0000 IS AN IDIOT?

"Oh no, not again."

Transmissible cancers in humans are not unheard of, but they're extremely rare and are almost always caused by tissue donations. This is largely because our bodies have already learned how to stop it themselves- our immune systems usually prevent these malignancies from developing into full on cancer.

The wardrobe department just loves Rickards. She's always got the best outfits. I just want to take everything she wears and turn it into a three-piece suit, because while I can be quite comfortable in a dress, I really don't have the figure.

I want a suit constructed like Felicity's grey-with-neon-green dress. I loved that dress, even if the tailor was asleep at the switch and let her go out in public with the back all ill-fitting and rumply- nothing a few well placed darts couldn't fit.

I'm worried about the consequences Jamie X might face. Because this scumbag teacher is going to press charges. How do I know that? Because they're a fucking scumbag, that's how I know.

The difference is that the original knew which parts were dumb, and it winked at the audience. This wasn't particularly funny, although the opening bit with the security guards was okay.

I think the headline and the content aren't really aligned here. I could build a story deeply founded on science without doing any exposition. Every plot point could be driven by science, in some fashion, and I'm not compelled to explain a lick of it to the reader.

I suck at bluffing games, if only because people automatically jump to the conclusion that I'm bluffing, even when I'm not.

We all do things that don't make sense to ourselves, but they probably made sense to some part of ourselves. "I am large, I contain multitudes."

Bah. The fun is doing the transformation, and finding the weird intermediate steps that you can use to introduce new uses of the toy. That's what I loved about them.

One of my rules of life is this: everything other people do makes sense, to them.

I generally don't buy games at launch, sale or no sale. Because here's the thing- I know it's going to get cheaper, not because of Steam sales, but simply because demand is going to decline. I'm in no rush. I don't need to start playing today, tomorrow, or six months from now. I don't need a Steam sale, because at a…