dec 6 in idea barrages

If candy corn didn’t have the Halloween nostalgia connection, they would be cast off in the “ancient oddities from when people had to settle for terrible candy because the good stuff hadn’t been invented yet” pile with circus peanuts. There but for the grace of Samhain go you, candy corn.

Instead of a dribble glass, it’s a dribble beer mug and you call it your Prankin’ Stein.

the new normal is
realizing that normal
never existed

If I ever have a pet crow, I’m naming him “Corvid Birdsen”.

A fusion of the Alien movies with Sid and Marty Krofft called “H.R. Gigerstuf”.

The only way Mark Zuckerberg could earn our forgiveness as a culture would be if he used his fortune to build crime-fighting gadgets as the grim vigilante Dark Zuckerberg.

Something interesting I’m learning from D&D is the difference between optimizing a character out-of-game and optimizing a character in-character. Like, a character that has found use in certain spells would want similar stronger spells later, would want to develop skills that help with what they’ve experienced, would want to be able to do the things the group they’re in would need. The kind of non-meta-gaming optimization that anyone would do in real life. It’s interesting to learn how that works and how it doesn’t.

Don’t call them “squires” they now prefer the term “adventured servants”.