Human, cishet male, married to @rezmamakelly(who calls me a berry picker). Pronouns are he/him/his. Former professional paranoiac. MN Green party. GURPS for days.
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Everything You Wanted To Know About Chili But Were Afraid To Ask? All the varieties from Texas Competition (Meat. Spice. Water. All else is forbidden on pain of death) to Cincinnati from Skyline and everything in between? And then you can talk sides.. cornbread, frybread, cinnamon rolls.
Ah.. what I get for trying to clean my phone without shutting it down. That webcomic was a balm for my soul.
Oh sweet Cthulhu, yes. 4ezmm
The view from the chain bookstore, maybe.. or a section at a big box store. Or the towns that don't have comics or game shops. I'll admit I haven't looked to see if there's a Comixology equivalent for independent titles outside the Big Four (DC, Marvel, Image, Dark Horse?)
True.. they're a bit of work. Still, cornbread will work just fine. Doing anything fancy with it, or plain to offset the chili?
Cornbread is good. I can't always talk my wife into making frybread and while cinnamon rolls sound interesting I haven't tried it enough times.
Frybread, cornbread, and cinnamon rolls?
Huzzah! I should make coffee.
The stores fill up with Halloween and 'fall' decor but it's still warm enough to bask outside.
Monday, September 26th, 1960. The corruption part's been possible since day 1 but I'd argue that television is what made charisma more important than intelligence. Not that JFK was dumb, mind, but he happened to open the door.
The appeal to an authority that no longer exists? The uselessness achieved through constant repetition? The assumptions it makes about the mindset of the speaker as regards the humanity of the audience? The whole 'you are what you said at age 12 and can never be anything else' aspect?
Early on, before Gillian smuggles Valentine Michael Smith out of the hospital. Ben talks her into bugging a hospital room.
Just World Fallacy in action.
Darn it, now birria quesadillas sound good. And El Rey de la Birria is open after work. Hmm.
Awfully tempted to throw that into the idiolect but I keep having the urge to make it Manic Pixie Sex Mommies. Either way, it's the opposite of the God-King-Father/Iron Surgeon element of the frame.
Darn skippy. 'Course, I haven't done that since 10th grade, but still.
"What's wrong with a kiss, boy?"
Maybe, but I suspect that the desired 'state-funded segregation academy' schools won't have computer labs for the most part. Maybe whatever the next caste up gets.. techbro-optimized private STEM schools?
I thought they knew early on that S4 was the end so they went hard on things, thus the multi-parters. Could be wrong.
Like ENT S4?
Sounds like a good afternoon. Love the bread and butters.
Now that's a fish whose idea of a garbage pizza is pepperoni, sausage, mushroom, and sun-dried tomatoes.
It became a trophy used as a paperweight, much like culture and history. Seems like the wrong people watched Hudson Hawk and took notes.
Casablanca with zombies. Kaiju love triangle. Nuclear war musical. Gary Gygax hagiography.
And now I want to reread Heinlein's 'Double Star'.
Seem to recall that being an argument in Stranger in a Strange Land.. Gillian fighting the assumption that she'd do the cooking because the remote control was closer to the male character. 'Course, they were fighting over who got to microwave a steak. Unmitigated horror.
One of my reflexes. If there's a Richard, I look for a Dorothy. If there's a Kimball, I look for a Clarissa. If there's a Talia, I look for a Susan.
Or a glass of Spotted Cow with a couple shots of espresso mixed in. Goes well with beer cheese soup (got to have the popcorn on top though).
Or was all that Signal leakage and buffoonery earlier this year just a ruse to mask ruthlessly effective EMCON?
Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes, I suspect.
That's something Xcrawl never spent much time on, as far as I'm aware. That is a good concept, though. Lots of work for diviners and illusionists.
Oh.. crud. That would make such a cool Commander deck.
On the fence of the White House as a warning to the next ten generations that some gifts come at too high a price?
That's one memory I would not mind losing. Knowing my luck I'll lose English first.. or GURPS.
Great for any edition of Paranoia, though. When you're the sole survivor of a mission, nobody can question your statements during a debriefing.
Now THAT's cardiofidelity! Love it.
That's what I've been figuring. So much easier and cheaper to convince your enemy to kill themselves off than to, say, properly maintain an aircraft carrier.
This would just be an avatar, but.. yes, still a bit mild. If nothing else I'd think the move would go up (or each attack includes a dimension door ability). Trying to remember what extras deities get on their home plane.
No love interest named Susan, correct?
Long as nobody burns down Migizi or Uncle Hugo's again.
As long as it isn't 'numb, exhausted submission'.
Traffic wasn't all that horrible, luckily. I don't know how commuters do it every day, though.
I may share a speech community with people but I wouldn't call it a sociolect. Hostilect, sure.
Tom Clancy's Tales from the Floating Vagabond? Or would Toon be funnier?
Volumes I through XII, sure.
I'd be tempted to argue that the 'society' part of that sentence is no longer true. Similar languages and backgrounds but vastly different conceptual frameworks and OODA loops. 330 million-odd 'rugged individualists' picking over the remnants of what used to be a civilization.
Ah.. Sailor Steve Costigan. Some really problematic language but rollicking adventure.
As long as you aren't so paranoid you see every compliment as a threat.
Does make me wonder what sorts of books they sell at guitar shows.
It's a facet of the overemphasis on 'rugged individualism'.. like we're supposed to be 330 million-odd subsistence hunter-gatherers ready to kill everyone else at the drop of a hat.
I think I'd tie it to licenses. So 4 per license.. carry permit, CCW permit, deer license, waterfowl, big game, etc. including 'collector's licenses'. 'Course, that's all pointless without the will to enforce laws in the face of lobbying, corruption, and deadly violence.
Not bad, but I'd expand 'buy' to include 'make'. Seem to recall a few companies making sure anybody with a 3D printer can put together a Liberator or similar single-shot firearm.. or complete a semi-automatic firearm (was it upper or lower receivers?).
Piccadillies are awesome. Probably an attempt to hide how rising prices are going to mess with their offerings. We may see the $10 McDouble yet.
Take your time, this one looks like 6 hours easy.
And so many of them are.. wrong.
So instead of going back to bed I make crockpot soup.
Zombies in the Return of the Living Dead movies and I think the other zombie movies with Russo but not Romero.
Pro 'the life that actually matters'.. so, the money. Optimally money in the hands of WASPs, but.. money either way.
Language is like a muscle.. use it or lose it. I suspect that 'vocal conversation' should be on a hierarchy of needs.. pretty near the bottom (survival needs).
Sounds silly to some but that's a great example of the sort of data that helps put Presidents in context. Have to admit I'd love to know if any of them watched Babylon 5.
Got to remind the property of their status, I guess. Wouldn't want them getting ideas above their station.
Hoses, Pulaskis.. something.
Parasocial relationships aren't just online.
That's really unfortunate. I'll admit I don't buy a lot of gifts for my wife but then we share finances, so she buys herself things and I support and celebrate her in other ways. She's also not a fan of flowers so 'I'll drive you to that yarn shop you like' is generally the best thing to do.
Rush hour traffic all the way to the airport. TSA deciding 'Just kidding!' about tribal IDs working for domestic flights. Surgery next week.
Live brains. Er. I should go have some coffee and a bite to eat.
Hmm. Strong religious persuasion? A friend of mine got married a long while back and she wound up in something like that.. not a lot of gift-giving or holidays but her husband was and is supportive and caring.
Alarm goes off at 4. I force myself up and get ready to fight morning rush hour traffic (all those commuters). My wife wanders out and reminds me we don't need to leave the house until 6. Blah.
TTRPGs. Started as a quarter-life crisis and hasn't really stopped.
The Ghostbusters 2 treatment?
True, it's not a great power source but California's always looking for more water options.
It's half of the Cracker Barrel/Whole Foods Index, which was used to try to predict voter behavior 30 to 50 years ago in 2008 and 2012. Sorry. Even with certain names muted it seems like every week is a decade.
Similar. Kraft makes a cheese food product called Cracker Barrel. Both the restaurant and the cheese are trying to evoke an image from an older era of commerce.. same target audience, I suspect.
Uh-huh. How long before we see dozens of those in the Middle East? Or California?
Bingo.
Do the boring stuff. Yes, it's boring and you have much more interesting things to do. But if you don't, THEY will. Y'know.. THEM. The ones who hear about the future being a boot stamping on a human face now and forever and say "Yes, please, gimme them boots!"
Yeah. That's what I keep wanting to know, so I can make that my regular order.
Starting to sound like a Cubano for great justice. Not a bad thing.
Cognitive Dissonance. One of my favorite concepts, up there with tater tot hotdish.
Ah, no. Proof that no generation is immune from the phenomenon of 'I like this book so I'll treat it as a lifestyle guide'. My books, for better or worse, are the Lensman series and the Notebooks of Lazarus Long (plus the Art of Worldly Wisdom). Everybody's got something.. book, movie, etc.
That does sound awfully good. I have to be careful with my vegan options (darn kidneys) but I like the overall idea.
I want to know so I can order one in solidarity.
Oncoming deadlines and a Sunday supplement about improving crop yields, maybe? Necessity is the mother of invention, after all.
Oh, the usual. Not seeing the forest for the trees. Letting our core values be used against us until we dissolve as a nation and as a culture. Wielding America's Razor with a firm hand and no concept of mercy.
Libertè, Egalitè, Canapè?
So the food box program my wife and I are taking part it is an effort by OMC, something called 'Equity Eats', and MN Food Rescue. A box of produce and printed recipes/usage suggestions is a lot cheaper than medication and hospital visits. Another candle in the face of oncoming darkness.
The worst part there would be getting all the non-WASPs out and ceding all that ancestral land.
Closest I ever got, I think, was (after lending someone my coat) "Wear it if you have nothing else. Please." She.. might have taken me up on that- or worn it with extra perfume on. That scent LINGERED.
Really sad thing is it's making me dislike Macross Plus (on Hulu) because that's also a love triangle.
I'll admit I hesitate on Conrad because he reminds me of a protagonist from a Ayn Rand novel. But I'm still holding out hope that one of these episodes includes a working-class revolution and all of them having to flee for their lives on foot. My daughter wants me to watch, too.
One time, one or more targets, framed differently.. it maintains a level of deniability. Either approach kills the target but one way makes the killing official state policy.
The 'DOJ/FBI agents attempted to interview the suspect, who leapt out a window onto some bullets' approach seems different to me. Probably because the agents involved can, and will, do so again, and for every one we know about there are many that don't make the news. 'Lone wolf shooter' is, well..
I still see his candy bars here and there, but that's as close as I get to his content.
5) Wolverine (too popular) 4) Rogue (too much airtime) 3) Gambit (only #3 because of the drama with Rogue) 2) Jubilee (Nothing strong against but House of M made her more interesting, from what I hear) 1) Nightcrawler (Has a lot of melodrama potential, doesn't wallow in it)
All 77 million or so. 'Course, we can't give them all an acre of land. But I could see walling off Utah as Coventry for them.
I need to finish reading that. Looks cool with a group that wants to collaborate on building a setting. I've also heard good things about Index Card RPG but don't own it.
I'd go with something like GURPS Lite. 'Mechanic', not umpteen billion specializations. No No-Landing-Extraction skill. Melee Weapon (Easy, Average, Hard). Hand-To-Hand (Easy, Average, Hard). No familiarity penalties. Cut down on choice paralysis.
I'm not opposed to the idea, though I may not by those. The hoodie made to look like the 6th or 7th Doctor's coat, or the NX-01 coverall in my size, sure. And at one point I had Spider-Man pajamas, but who didn't? Not sure what fandom I'd want as underwear.
Pigeonholing?
I'll admit I say 'Roll DX and tell me how much you succeeded or failed' (as opposed to 'Roll DX-6' or stating the default out loud) to make things sound less daunting.