Miles O'Brien

And China is enslaving people currently.

I mean, the post is about the UK and we’re bringing up other countries for no reason, right?

My gender-non-specific human, why do you insist on calling every single person here shitty for calling out BS reddit tactics?

Are you in love with their CEO or something? It’s a little weird.

I got banned from about 15 subreddits I never even knew existed once by calling out a transphobic dogwhistle, and when I inquired about the bans, the mods insinuated I was a child molester and neo-nazi.

Reddit mods don’t need to follow any sort of logic.

And confidently asserting someone is a dick because they got banned from a subreddit is hilarious, and should probably prompt some self-reflection.

Different state?

He’ll have to look maybe two counties over. Probably just gonna go to the county on the other side of the one he lives in.

bone and muscle density is still different, and distributed differently

I think people who say things like this don’t actually know any post- or even mid-transition people.

But I don’t want to date a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.

Oh wait, that’s a different kind…

It’s called “executive dysfunction” and it doesn’t make you lazy.

My sister and I would make people around us uncomfortable with our “fighting” but the second someone tries to butt in and take one side, we both would jump down their throats that they have no right to talk shit about the other sibling. And Your Deity help you if you actually raise a hand against one sibling, because you might catch a baseball bat in the neck from the other.

It’s like my mother. I am allowed to call my mom an asshole for certain things, but the second someone else does it, that’s not cool.

It’s called Dragon Storm, and it’s funny you mention friends inventing it because my family does know the only living creator. It’s been an interesting story with all the legal issues and tracking down business partners.

The game is very much modeled after D&D. It has some basic campaigns you can run, and has some general background lore.

The premise is that there’s are weird magic storms that pop up sometimes (Dragon Storms) and make some people (who have dragon blood) turn into magical creatures like werewolves, unicorns, Pegasus, as well as regular animals like wolves and horses. It’s more than those couple, but it’s been quite some time since I played and am having trouble recalling things I didn’t personally have as characters… They later added dragon-kin that are either full-blooded dragons that take humaoid forms, or descendants of dragons that banged humanoids in humanoid form. Those tend to be more powerful.

You use cards and dice to do things and have character sheets to keep track of stats.

I personally think the game is too rigid in its rules and world building, with the card aspect. I’ve had players argue with me over whether I’m allowed to alter stats of things on the cards for the narrative. I’ve had plenty of players meta-game with their memory of the cards. “Rule 3.14” is the Dragon Storm “Rule of Cool”

It was fun to play growing up, though I wish my family had also played D&D.

A ttrpg with cards and people usually bring minifigs and map grids, if not DM supplied custom maps.

Nobody wants “Trumps’ Nussy” to be a phrase they’ve pictured, yet here we are.

I can help you out with 2 of those 3 things!

There’s a D&D-like game that I used to play that actually has education requirements to read different languages. If your background didn’t give you the trait, you had to learn from someone who knew how to read.

It made for some interesting role-playing when normally intelligent people were playing illiterate characters.

I once had the opportunity to take a really nice microscope from a school district I was working for when I was 18.

I was working on sorting all the old curriculum for 1st-12 grades core subjects for disposal/recycling and then receiving new stuff.

They were updating the entirety of all science departments and the highschool was getting rid of their old microscopes. The ones that were in working order were to be placed aside for donation, and the non-working ones simply tossed in the dumpsters.

I was allowed to take whatever I wanted that was to be thrown away, but I figured I didn’t want to spend time and money tracking down the right bulb to fix the best non-working one, and decided not to take one.

Current me is cursing younger me because I could have easily swapped out the light with a LED, and even if I couldn’t, there were LITERALLY microscopes with broken optics and working lights, and I could have just taken one extra one for parts…

Young me was dumb.

I did snag a mostly-complete rock sample set for demonstration of various geology testing techniques. Also a fist-sized chunk of silicon.

So I wasn’t completely dumb.

Ever notice the nickelodeon logo once looked like a normal splat of goo, then it became a foot?

Ever notice that some of the shoes had some odd camera angles that highlited the literal children’s feet?

Dan Schneider:

We broke out the deep-core drill, and set it up in sub-basement level 419.

It’s gonna be a rough few years. (fingers crossed it’s just a few years…)

Unfortunately, plenty of other countries would take him in, but it would be nice if no country would let his ass in.

Like someone else said, it’s not their mess to handle. However, I personally don’t want other countries to deal with him in any way. We just kick him out and he can figure out what to do from there.

I have told managers, to their faces, I do not have a smart phone… While holding my smart phone.

So far, while most have quite noticeably glanced at my phone, none have actually called me out on it.

If any of them ever do, I will just get a prepaid flip phone and use that for work.

It’s curtains for me.

I guess I’d better frame my next comment differently!

I meant widow, sorry for not being clear.