Recent content by MNblockhead

Very nice, thanks!

“I remember a day in class when he leaned forward, in his characteristic pose - the pose of a man about to impart a secret and croaked, "If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud! If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud! "This comical piece of advice struck me as...

Burritos and constrictors do not mix.

No, that sounds awesome. Stop it guys. You are going to make me spend too much money on grub-hub tonight. I have no excuse. I have a fridge full of home-cooked meals prepped to be microwaved.

https://rehabs.com/explore/munchies-hungry-and-high/

I miss their bean burritos with their original "guacamole" paste packets from the early 90s. The beans and guac were the consistency of food squirted from a NASA food tube, but together, late at night, after a long night of, uh, "studying", they were magic.

Great, now we are just stuck eating O's. Given that I am not a morning person, I always thought there should be an "ugh" cereal. "Buy honey-dipped ughs today! The only breakfast cereal made to be eaten in a bowl of hot coffee!"

Same here, but I have to be careful. It is easy to call someone out on this and be wrong. There are good arguments to be made that "10 items or less" is grammatically correct. "Less" was used in English for countable nouns from the dawn of printed English, until Robert Baker decided he didn't...

Yeah. I can find it easier to notice errors in someone else's writing than my own, though I suppose that is true for most people. I'm a prescriptionist by nature. But it is less that I want to force everyone to hew to tradition and not let language evolve, but more that I want to become...

I have some experience in that area as well. It has made me very snooty about how poor most tech manuals and instructions are. I feel tech writing (I'm thinking more about software manuals and tutorials as I write this) has gotten worse as more companies increasingly rely on frequently...

Ya got me. I type DnD all the time. Too lazy to hold shift and reach up to the "5" key.

If that's a store owner's sales pitch, I would not be surprised to learn they are have trouble staying in business.

To be fair, sometimes that guy's right. Unlikely to be the guy starting arguments on TTRPG forum, but you never know...

"Once upon a time, a long time ago, in a far off land by the sea, there lived a much maligned dragon. Don't you know it was really a pity because there never was a different meaning than the obvious one. Puff the magic dragon was only about the loss of innocence of children." I remember...

Maybe a topic for a new thread, but how do you know when its time to ditch a campaign and go on to the next new thing? When is it too limited, too broken, too uninteresting to be able to (or worth the effort to) bang it into shape? As a DM I have only ditched one campaign since 2014. But it was...