…yep, the whole experience just made things worse and then the medical bills were a nice f*ck-you to top it off…

…if your bill was only $1700 you got off easy; ours took years to pay off…

…isn’t that essentially a port with extra steps?..

…builders cut construction costs; modernist fashion aside, buyers weren’t crying out for cheap sheet-steel fireboxes…

…used to be masonry fireplaces were a thing: once that thermal mass heated up, it would radiate for DAYS…

…my wife had a walkman which folded down to the size of a cassette case…

…my first thought: doonesbury was kind of the granddaddy of the genre…

…down to 49% now as the votes keep coming in; the russian propaganda apparatus reaches deep but not yet that deep…

…don’t look at me; my bard’s half-monk…

…yes, it’s better for him to survive the next 50 months than the alternative: bart simpson in the white house vs. someone competently malicious…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lin7mc5Feso

“Stick with the prod.”

…by ‘attack’ are we talking signal-jamming, hacking, or physical disruption?..

…ye gads, i adore aerial but most of her ouvre pre-ninth wave does nothing for me…

…marvel super heroes also featured a resources ability score and feats to represent financial maneuvers akin to lines of credit; it felt frustratingly abstracted as a teenager living in a discretionary cash economy, but after several decades as a real-world adult i realise that it’s an elegant abstraction for how people actually live and conduct commerce…

…i was going to say flashback or mean streets, but no, it was definitely the original tron arcade game; that pre-dated even war games…

…before a certain point in the early eighties, the line between cyberpunk and science fiction gets pretty blurry, so i don’t think anything i played in the seventies counts…

…i think we explored this place in our call of cthulhu campaign; poor henry was reduced to black ooze…

…y’all roughly correlates with coke, although there are some deep pockets of soda-water in the back country…