SARGE

"See? Totally different."

Why invent when you can get a jump start on iterative design?

It's a bit harder without CAD, but they made it work.

Now I want a trireme with a Corvus painted to look like a crow.

And I will definitely be referring to it as my ship's Corvid. Any time a newcomer tries to correct me, I'll just point to it and ask "You sure about that?"

I've lost my sea legs, unfortunately. It's been about a decade since I set sail and at this point I'm paranoid about any online interactions.

I wouldn't even know where to start with VPNs.

Is this what getting old feels like? Can I go back to limewire?

I ended up finally giving it a shot last month, and I recall having seen stuff about season 2.

I finished season 1 in 2 days, and then found out season 2 hadn't quite come out yet.

Then I did what I always do and waited for all the episodes to come out.. I got halfway through season 2 before my last month I'm paying for streaming services ran out.

So now I will indefinitely be halfway through season 2.

I should have started season 2 the day the last episode was released.

My wife thinks I'm obsessed too.

She's right, of course.

But she doesn't have to remind me of it...

Joke's on her, I turned her into a nerd. She bought the silmarillion.

I used to work demo tables at a convention every year, as the company would pay for people's convention costs in exchange for 14 hours of volunteer work over the course of 5 days.

I decided after the first year that I would be volunteering my time overnight, instead of during the day. They ran after-hours games until 2am, and I usually stayed until 4am to run some more. We usually had about 100-150 people at 10pm, dwindling to about 20 by 4am.

By the end of the night, the temperatures inside are around 60, and nobody is sweating. It's fantastic.

I also decided to start getting dollar store deodorants, the little travel size ones, and leaving them out with some baby wipes with a sign that says something along the lines of "NO JUDGEMENT, EVERYONE FORGETS SOME TIMES, TAKE ONE" With a little picture of "wipe pits, apply deodorant" underneath.

Every year, about half the deodorants have been claimed.

Sure it's like $20 extra if I get things on sale, but it's a small price to pay for not having to smell Convention Stank.

And when my job is literally to walk around a big circle of 10-30 people, most of whom have been walking around since before noon in a hot dealer hall, walking through a wall of "Cool Breeze" is so much less unpleasant than BO.

~~GROND~~

GONK

Look, if you have an aural processing issue I totally understand, but if you're just being racist against droids as some kind of hold-over from the clone wars, GTFO.

There's a massive difference between "GONK" and "GONK". They sound nothing alike.

Next you're going to tell me that ewoks could take on an imperial brigade...

🎶🎵Oh the times, they are a-changin🎵🎶

harmonica solo

HP ain't got shit on The Hobbit.