Exactly!

I posted to the DnD 5e subreddit about a contradiction in the rules between how elementals and demons are summoned, suggesting that someone can summon a demon who can summon their own demon and so on, forever. Rules as Written allowed it and Rules as Intended also seemed to allow it given summoning elementals explicitly restricted doing summoning lesser elementals all the way down.

Anyway I got about to about 50 downvotes because I said I would allow a player to summon a demon who could summon a demon (who could potentially summon another demon) because, well, DnD. Fuck me I guess.

What a treasure!

Sports - Viagra Boys

I heard this on the radio at work near when it released and I laughed so hard that I had to walk into the back. Completely forgot about it then found it organically youtube a few years ago and had the same reaction. Is it the best? Well, no. But it is a unique experience.

I get the sentiment, but it’s not that simple. The kid picking up someone else’s script isn’t a crime. Me denying or filling the script is a professional discretion. Also the company I was working at would not have supported me.

It was legitimate. They arrested the kid later that day and it was in the news. I did have that thought though.

Correct. He was clearly just mad that I frustrated his plans. I didn’t even consider reporting it because it wouldn’t have resulted in anything. We had a bad reputation with the DEA since we were a high volume pharmacy so we had more staff and high turnover. All that led to more than the average amount of employees stealing/selling drugs. We had some pretty sneaky ways of catching it and always reported but all that meant is more work for them and not much credibility.

I guess it technical made money but Kung Pow! Enter the Fist.

I saw it in theater and remember everyone laughing through the whole thing. Absolutely absurd re-dubbing of a couple of old kung fu movies by the guy that later wrote and directed Ace Ventura and wrote the Jimmy Neutron movie. The reviews were utterly horrible (deservedly) but undeniably funny. I still quote it all the time.

For the unaware that where the “That’s a lot of nuts!” comes from.

Years ago I was working as a pharmacist in a very busy pharmacy in a city center. This was during the opioid epidemic in America and being a high volume store, had a lot of regulatory oversight on our controlled substance dispensing.

One Friday evening a young kid came in with a prescription that he said was for his grandmother. It was for a lot of oxycodone from a city two hours away. He had two girls with him when he dropped off the prescription and had never filled with us before, and wanted to pay cash. We had a policy that we didn’t fill prescriptions for maintenance controlled substances for new patients >100mi from our address. We only got so much of each controlled substance so we adopted the policy so we’d have enough for our regular patients. I told him we couldn’t fill it. He started to get angry and mouth off but left.

Cut to Monday which was my next shift and there is a folder with the DEA logo on the front of it in front of my terminal. I ask what it is to someone who worked the weekend and they said an agent dropped it off. I open it and the only thing inside is a business card slotted into those slits you sometimes see on the face of one of the pockets. I call the number and after some introductions the agent asks me if I was the one who denied the prescription on Friday. I confirm and the guys says that it was part of a multi-jurisdiction sting operation to catch a mid-level dealer who was buying scripts from people. He told me I wasted a bunch of their time and next time to just fill it. I told him it’s emphatically my job to not do that and that I didn’t appreciate him using my store since we had a bunch of other issues that local police weren’t dealing without him adding to it but he just hung up. Whatever.

My heart dropped when I saw that folder though and I’m sure that is what he wanted when he did it.

For example, someone who owns a small one man trades business. They don’t get healthcare through their employment so they need to buy it retail.

I have had a David S. Pumpkins suit since just after it aired and I wear it every year.

I have been catcalled twice by other men wearing it. They were very aggressive.

I am also in a stock photo of a business meeting where I am wearing the suit and there are about 30 people wearing normal clothing because I went to a conference on 10/30 where they encouraged costumes, showed up an hour late and had to sit in the front row. The picture is taken of me sitting there hungover and looking tired and everyone else smiling.

It’s the most flammable suit I own.

No regrets.

As good as the 1995 movie was, and it was good, the Techno Syndrome Mortal Kombat song was a certified banger.

Honorable mention to Blood Rave from the Blade Soundtrack

One that I read that I found interesting is in the busking community is “fat hats!”. Since they sometimes use a hat to collect donations, it’s an expression that you hope they collect a lot of money.

When I was 7 my parents took me to Sea World (it was a long time ago and I was too young to recognize the cruelty of their enclosures). My dad told them it was my birthday and they picked me to be the kid that participates in one of the shows. The whales were rebelling though (obvious why now), and they ended up canceling the show. The trainer held me back though and let me go in the back with him to their home pool.

There was a fat yellow line about 15 feet from the perimeter of the pool and I asked why. The trainer told me to take a step over the line. I did and within 2 seconds an adult male orca crested his eye above the water to look at me, just stationary in the water. It was the most potent flight or fight response in my life and I just froze. Those things weigh 5 tons and can move at 35mph and you can see their intelligence in their eyes.

That quickly ended my fascination with whales as a kid.

Well it just blew the gas range and oven across the kitchen and blew out all the windows on the first floor but they had to do nearly a full remodel because of water, smoke, and explosion damage.

My neighbors house literally exploded because of tree in his front yard.

There was a big storm and a lightning strike hit the tree whose roots were around the gas line. The gas line exploded into the house and blew out all the windows on the first floor and dealt catastrophic damage besides. No one was seriously hurt miraculously but it was loud enough that I legitimately thought a plane had crashed.

As I was writing it out I realized it was the latest book. 😆

Probably exists but I had the idea for a roguelike Mario Kart-like game.

The player goes through a tournament of races, getting currency both on the track and via placement and buying weapons/consumables/upgrades at a shop at the end of races. Tournaments begin showing all the details of the tracks, other racers, and environmental concerns but as you progress to get less information and the other racers get more aggressive. Some consumables/modifications can change the environment (e.g., you can get a permanent rain cloud above you to make the track wet around and behind you which would be helpful if you bought the high traction tires).

Placing in the top three wins the run, so the player needs to manage maintaining their tournament standing with taking a longer route and getting enough currency on the track (or stealing it from others through modifications/consumables).

I read somewhere once that their agent would book them at any festival that would accept them. That lead to them getting booed a lot where they didn’t match the rest of the lineup. People began to anticipate them and became a heel type character to avid concert goers.

My first job 20 years ago I had to buy a chain link replacement because someone drove through the chain we had blocking the entrance to the parking lot. It came in a two pack and I have used the spare on my keychain since then.