The Gaming Den

My employer is saying I can't get my W-2 until February 7th. Now, I had heard that they can't send it out later than January 31st, is that true or is that just legal folklore? And if it's true, who do I bitch to? Edit: to clarify, they said they aren't mailing them out until February 7th. If you do...

Current random musing (which is coincidentally about foul-tasting alcohol): I have no idea if this bag listed on Amazon is any good, but I really appreciate that they use a bottle of Jack Daniels to demonstrate its capacity (bottom photo): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0716PNSFD?psc=1&pf_rd_p=f91f8...

. Someone else has to be pondering the fact that IPAs are to dudes what the PSL is to chicks.... Uh, they're easy for niche brewers to make, okay (not great) and while you expect at least one in any sampler pack, you're getting sick of how they have become at least 5 out of any 12 such variety pack...

Ironically, at least idiot and moron were once also words that mean the R word and/or crazy in the relatively distant past, or at least close in meaning since our understanding of these concepts was worse. If you look through 19th century census reports, you can find official counts of the number o...

Looked at the last heartbreaker I was considering, years back now. I was starting with mechanics and class differentiation schemes and never even finished that. But the placeholder magic split I had was: Might - physical enhancement, healing, dancing weapons, blade barrier, etc Sleight - trickery, s...

My nephew: Did you get a good night's sleep.
His dad: Yeah.
My Nephew: How dare you betray our family tradition!.

My Nephew

"I can't wait for event"

Lago PARANOIA wrote:The only virtue of this movie is that it's ambitious. Ambitious in the sense of a high-school couch potato competing in an Olympic triathlon.

Lago, please.

Olympic triathlons are middle distance affairs. You're thinking of at least a half-Ironman.

This is the thing that I just can't believe - WHY haven't "they" ripped off more of the samurai/western movies for SW? It's widely known that ANH was a rip-off of one, why hasn't anyone done it again for SW? It's so easy, there's tons of material, it's practically already written for them...

The overall problem with the franchise is that the 1977 film was a true cultural milestone. It shifted the entire film industry (production, marketing, release schedules, target demographics, etc), the popular perception of science fiction as a genre, how toys were marketed for my entire childhood a...

I liked all three of the new movies. Liked, not loved. I found The Last Jedi to be a fun ride while I was watching it in the theater, but with a whole bunch of "Wait, WTF, that makes no sense?" moments that became obvious within ten minutes of discussing the flick waiting for the bus home....

because apparently any hyperdrive can destroy entire fleets now and the fact that every X-Wing had its own hyperdrive makes every space battle retroactively not make any sense. His answer was that he was pretty sure eventually some future author would retcon a satisfactory answer and he didn't real...

Went to see the Harriet Tubman biopic this week, The scene where she crosses the Mason Dixon line into freedom for the first time is a big emotional scene with swelling music and a shot pulling back to show the whole landscape.........with vegetation and topography that doesn't much look like any pl...

"real vampire footage" nets me 14,200,000 hits on Google right now. Here's an article from the fucking Smithsonian (which reads like an attempt to preserve the masquerade): https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/real-life-vampires-exist-they-are-scared-admit-their-practices-doctors-1809...

The flipside of that is that I never did credited work above playtests because in the late 90s and early aughts when I was gaming in circles with a lot of people being paid for work on Exalted and other more obscure RPGs. it was abundantly clear that I was earning a lot more than they were in my job...

Thanks.

This made me feel a whole lot better about the state of the electrical in my house.

A bit of a cheap shot, but I still chuckled:

Now to post an actual Non-US News Story that makes me laugh in this thread: A rugby enthusiast, a Polish chef, and a convicted murder on day release are crossing the London Bridge at the same time........ https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/nov/30/narwhal-tusk-and-fire-extinguisher-used-to-tack...

Not sure it's a category, but I always thought that Producer / Director was a more useful description of the GM's role. Yeah, it's a person with more authority over the production, but also radically different responsibilities from the others involved.

Imagine if the gaming den was a professional engineer who was fixated on bicycle bottom brackets instead of on tabletop roleplaying games: https://youtu.be/GWDztuezn0g (a lot of tech and math talk dense, or you can just skip to the heavy profanity lobbed at most of the bike industry around the 32 mi...

Saw Jojo Rabbit at bargain Wednesday. It's a very good film and it's scary how timely its messages are.

But the use of Tom Waits' "I Don't Wanna Grow Up" as the song for the Hitler Youth Camp montage was downright superlative.

That beer distributor is not to be trusted. They have 99-packs of beer and they keep them on the **floor**?!?!

Question: Where does Robocop fit into all this? Sign me up with Honest Trailers on that. "The king of having his cake and eating it too." Robocop has a bunch of trappings of satire, but the climax is one guy in the boardroom realizing how to manipulate the corporate rules now hardcoded in...