I felt sick when I saw that, especially in light of what’s happened to Botham Jean since. 

I work at a small UPS hub. Drivers are informally encouraged to avoid interacting with customers when possible, because the metrics say that this measurably increases the rate of incident reports, AKA shit going wrong. Dogs, customers finding damaged contents, increased turnaround time between deliveries, so on and so…

While the Lunastra weapons tend to hold up through Master Rank relatively well, I would never advise a beginner fight it, let alone farm it for a weapon. It’s one of the most unpleasant monsters to fight in the game, and really where Capcom started to revise its monster creation process from “challenging” to…

I have never forgiven Oprah for Dr. Oz.

My impression is that the main problems people had with EGS is that it did very fishy things with customer information and in fact pulled files from your Steam folder. Market gimmicks aside, it came off a lot more like a plain security issue. 

Anecdote: my parents come from Black Oak, which was the unincorporated area in between Gary and Hammond before it was annexed in ‘76. At the time, the big hit among local teenagers was going to the Flats, the mine located just outside town, and throwing yourself off a forty-foot cliff into the reservoir pond below.…

I’ve observed that people can either be prejudiced because you’re different, or prejudiced because you don’t meet their standards. It’s the No True Scotsman fallacy.  

That sounds cute up until someone says it to your defense attorney.

He’s functional Molyneux. 

It’s not uncommon for people to have a storage shed / garage they don’t mess around a lot with down here, without even getting into barns.

Zallard pulled a near-perfect blindfolded run of Wii Punch-Out, which was hilarious and impressive on equal levels. He struggled more with going through the menu by Wii-Mote than he did in the fights. 

If she’s paid for the audience she can reach, it behooves her to moderate what messages she puts out across that band. Being an “influencer” is a really shitty position in which you’re paid for your personal branding and voice, but have no ability to separate that from you, the person, which may be distinct from the…

If you assume everyone is an asshole, they’re generally happy to live down to your expectations. 

Raising a kid as a single father is a continual exercise in people asking you how you managed to get custody and you fighting down the urge to throw things at them until they stop asking stupid questions.

I feel you, man. 

Goodberry isn’t a ritual spell, according to Beyond.

This is one of those points that doesn’t translate well into AD&D because there’s an enormous list of spells that outright don’t work listed at the start of the quest. Almost all forms of teleportation, illusion, and divination just fail because the demigod that runs…

Amen.

Tomb of Annihilation is a tribute to a much older campaign, Isle of the Ape (riffing King Kong), which is probably the most savage campaign ever officially endorsed. The entire island is enchanted to break down equipment and consumables, so rather than carefully checking off how much food and water you have, the…

I think the working description here is “not even wrong”. Good stuff.

His name was Garry Gygax. May his dice rattle forever.

The main problem is that they’re good at all the things players don’t want to be doing, like not starving to death in the wild, not getting lost, or not traveling to strange and alien places and just sticking around in one biome.