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Skagit Valley Tulip Festival starts on April 1.

12 hours ago, Asperion said:

A: That was actually hydrogen dunce oxide. 

Q: What do you mean that wasn't done by chloromoron?

A: Besides, the dunce was wearing ox hide, not suede.

On 3/11/2024 at 10:29 PM, Old Man said:

True gaming story: Long ago (roughly 2005, IIRC) our group was playing a Buffy the Vampire Slayer campaign and i proposed building a device based exactly on this sort of thing.  A binocular watch camera, one arm of which included a mirror, while the other was pure refractive optics.  Since it would have stopped the GM's so-called plot in its tracks, he stonewalled it, even after I pointed to available off-the-shelf optics and gave URL pointers to astronomy image analysis software that would be able to do the almost-real-time image comparisons for detection of vampires.

Death Tribble spends his summer holidays in Weed, California, picking dandelions.

12 hours ago, Asperion said:

Earth has been declared uninhabitable. Name some real planet that we need to be transported to, how many needs to get there,  and how we can reach that planet. 

• Proxima Centauri b
• Just one: me
• nth-order probability vortex induced via quantum bogodynamics

Evil's food: cake, as prepared in Anjer, Java, early in the morning of Monday, August 27, 1883

Wildcard:  theme music, E Minor 5/9 Minor/5, from Triumvirat's debut album, Mediterranean Tales.

Color: Black Bolt

McGuffin: a chrono-synclastic infundibulum, from Kurt Vonnegut's Sirens of Titan

From a fanblog, arguably the best news to come this entire offseason for Seattle:

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Roughly 15 percent of Donald’s 117 career regular + postseason sacks occurred versus the Seahawks.

Fat Freddy's Cat with a Thermal Detonator

I go for the "other creepy-crawly" aspect.

Leech

Maxwell Smart

Vidkun Quisling

Yeah, well, I'd much rather do quantum mechanics and molecular spectroscopy than accounting.  Certainly those are more familar to me.

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IRS Form 1041, whose instructions are 143 pages!

Secondary adversary (yes, he's secondary to the Eddorians):  Galactus

Why they joined

For our Shapeshifter, I'll again reach back to my roots, DC Silver Age material, for ... J'onn J'onzz, the Marian Manhunter.

It's generational.

Our GM's Nightmare character is someone who checks off all the boxes in the descriptor .... from the absolute original trilogy canon ... Gandalf the White.

Hey, scavengers need love too!

Since I have been appointed executor for an estate, I have started learning of a whole cesspool ecology of opportunistic bottom-feeders I had not previously imagined.

There are outfits who are most easily described as the equivalent of payday loan (sharks), but they go after inheritances rather than paychecks.  "Get your inheritance now!" is the teaser line.  Since wills and estates that become active are public records, they grab those wills off the government sites where they are posted, scrape all the names and addresses out of them, and spam those with their come-hither (not, of course, mentioning any terms or rates).  I know this because I got one of the come-hither papermails also, even though I'm the executor.

There are also lots of opportunist solo operators who want to buy your house (for rather less than it's worth) but these aren't really a new discovery.

I expect I will continue to learn more varieties of scumbags and ripoff artists as I negotiate this estate thing over the coming months, and I will post descriptions and spread the knowledge as I gain it.

Our Primary Antagonist is the Eddorians.