Yep

When me and my younger brother were little, we were outside playing and digging in the snow with an old claw hammer from the barn. It must have been shortly after watching the classic Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.

I got the bright idea to tell him to stick the claw of the hammer in the snow, then pull it out and lick it, just like Yukon Cornelius does, and maybe we could find gold.

Needless to say, tongue + ice cold metal hammer were quite the match and he was stuck instantly. Being as little as we were he panicked and ripped it off, along with a large thick chunk of tongue skin. Quite a bit of red snow that day...

I remember getting in trouble for that one. My parents definitely thought I tricked him on purpose, but I couldn't have been more than 8 or so and definitely did not. I also remember that hammer sitting outside for the rest of the winter, with a chunk of tongue still frozen to it.

Wait, are you saying you didn't have to actively think about which is right or left before? I've always had to think about it, only for a second, but it's definitely an active thought thing for me.

Revolt.chat is quite similar to discord and open source. They do run a centralized server to make it easy for everyone to get onboard, but it can be self hosted as well.

That being said, I still don't use it because nobody else does, and that's the problem with all chat and social media apps.

TheTrove was a collection of tabletop RPG books and magazines going back decades that has never had a decent replacement yet. It was fairly well organized and quite complete with tons of obscure games and out of print books. It had a different name or two before that but the collection always migrated somewhere until The Trove was finally shut down. I really miss that collection, even though I've managed to track down most of what I needed, it has been much more difficult since the shutdown.

Baldur's Gate

Yeah, definitely. I didn't know people didn't have to think about it for a second.

I got the Creality K2 with CFS and I love it.

It did arrive with a broken door, which seems to be a common issue, but Creality shipped a new one with no hassle and I got it in under a week. Other than that I've had no issues.

It's large and crazy fast compared to my older Ender 3. It does multi color, although I find the purge waste seems excessive, so I avoid most multi color prints except ones that change at layer height, which it handles automatically. The CFS is still useful for swapping automatically if a roll runs out. I've got over 200 hours on it now and it hasn't skipped a beat. I love being able to print anything anytime without spending all the time tinkering to keep it running like I did with the Ender.

I specifically avoided Bambu and waited for this printer to release because of Bambu's closed ecosystem. They remind me too much of Apple. Creality has a decent track record with open software, maybe not the best with support, but it's worked for me.

Drinking

Why would anyone want to drink something that tastes awful, so they can have a night of fun they probably won't remember, and wake up feeling awful?

If I'm gonna have a fun night, I want to remember it, not hear about it from others. And the risks are too great. Risk of doing something stupid I would never normally consider that could embarrass, injure, or kill myself or others.

If that's your idea of fun, more power to you, but I'll pass.

Lastname-Server

I know, I'm boring. But at least my laptop and desktop have cool names:

Firstname-Laptop

Firstname-Desktop

Diskprices is great for comparing price per terabyte across different brands.

YOU MUST GATHER YOUR PARTY BEFORE VENTURING FORTH!

/thread

Stop trying to make 'fetch' happen! it's not going to happen!

I mean, it's a split second, but yeah, I gotta think about it. I don't think there would be noticeable lag, but it's definitely a conscious thought. I just thought everyone had to have the thought go through their head, it's not just like an instinct or anything.

The Boeing patch

the developer's an ass

It's great at coming up with ideas for magic items, monsters, traps, plot hooks, etc.

I ran a Christmas session last year, it was a dream session so I handed out tons of magic items cause they wouldn't be keeping them. ChatGPT generated every single one, and I didn't tweak anything at all. Which made for a few interesting items with redundant or contradictory stats, but that was explained by it being a dream.

I have used it many times to give ideas for new items, new monsters, etc. Recently I was creating a blood-themed dungeon and asked for monster ideas and it gave me an Animated Bloodpuddle (reflavored Gelatinous Cube with extra abilities), and a Hemogoblin (ravenous blood thirsty goblins). There were others but those ones stuck out as cool and ended up being quite fun for the party.

Well, I'm not saying I'd like to build a summer home here, but the trees are actually quite lovely.

Deep space radar telemetry