Chad Grout

Biological bootloader. Here for the scoop and the laughs. Rarely right about anything.

[Chad Grout @UrbanGrout]

@danushman Keep an active imagination, maintain faith in humanity, remember that (as of this morning) we still haven't nuked ourselves into oblivion. It'll be okay.

[Chad Grout @UrbanGrout]

@markcparrett @adamstatonsmith 250 years? (Checks notes on current fertility rates...)

[Chad Grout @UrbanGrout]

@nohitjerome How do they index your 1st, high XP dungeon run? Are you tagged as soon as you enter the instance?

[Chad Grout @UrbanGrout]

@Gentleman_Ways The chair needs to be next to a window. The books do not. Great vibe though.

[Chad Grout @UrbanGrout]

@willie6850 The fall of women follows the fall of men. I never had to date during the social media era, but from my perspective it might as well be called castration media.

[Chad Grout @UrbanGrout]

@Marky_X_ I need to have the games on my shelf to maximize the chance that I'll ever get to play them. Reducing friction, so they say.

[Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff]

Back in the late 1800s and early 1900s when millions of immigrants flooded our shores, no paperwork was required to immigrate. No passports, visas, or work permits. Anyone who could afford a ticket could board a ship, arrive in America, answer a few basic questions, and be on their way.

They could stay as long as they wanted, work wherever they wanted, buy property, start businesses, and basically do anything any American citizen could do. In fact, in most states, they could legally vote in local, state, and even national elections, subject to the same poll tax, literacy test, or other qualifications required of American citizens.

If they wanted to naturalize, they just needed to register their intent and were given seven years to complete the paperwork necessary to become American citizens, which millions of immigrants were proud to do.

Things began to change in the 1930s with the advent of social security numbers, and then more so with the Alien Registration Act of 1940, signed into law as a WWII security measure. When the war ended, instead of being repealed, in 1946 it evolved into what we now call Green Cards.

In effect, we had completely open borders and the country thrived. In fact, during the decades we now call the Gilded Age—the high-growth period that Donald Trump claims he wants to emulate—our borders were wide open. The reason this worked so well is that we had no welfare state. People came to America for freedom and opportunity only. They came to contribute to our economy, not live off it. They did not drain our resources; they added to them.

The lesson is that immigration is not the problem. The problem is the welfare state. Shut off that magnet and America will no longer attract people looking for free stuff. In fact, we need to turn off that magnet for everyone, so those who are looking for free stuff will leave to seek it out someplace else.

[Chad Grout @UrbanGrout]

@axcilla @RobertMSterling I agree with this. An entire population of people who don't know what they think or why, hate everything no matter what, and can't take care of themselves. Pure civilizational waste.

[Chad Grout @UrbanGrout]

@WowKungen Retail is fucking Democrats moving the goalposts at every opportunity.

[YoDanno #DragonlanceDragonlance @YoDanno]

THIS DAY IN FANTASY HISTORY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1937

On this day in 1937, J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit was first published.

Thirty-seven years later, Dungeons & Dragons arrived, and Tolkien’s fingerprints were all over the early game.

Early D&D used hobbits, ents, and balrogs before those names were changed to halflings, treants, and balors.

And in 1979, Tolkien appeared in Gary Gygax’s legendary Appendix N list of inspirational reading in the Dungeon Masters Guide.

From:

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit…”

to:

“You meet at the inn…”

…there’s a pretty clear road leading toward the dungeon. 🐉⚔️

Happy publication day to The Hobbit.

Which edition of The Hobbit did you grow up with?

[Chad Grout @UrbanGrout]

@anothercohen rofl

[Chad Grout @UrbanGrout]

@towelthetank Everyone's learning how two-party systems work. Welcome to America, folks.

[Chad Grout @UrbanGrout]

Fun watching grown-ups learn how the government divides and distracts its citizens with the creation of a two-party system.

[Neek -{Fates Reforged} @NeeK2323]

Were Classic Andies always this obnoxious and hate filled?
"Go play Retail" how's about you go play Classic?
Forever is new and for everyone.

[Chad Grout @UrbanGrout]

@mcahogarth @Cody87146068 As a casual player intrigued by Forever, I'm confused by the seemingly many different versions of the game out there already. I replayed a version of Vanilla/Classic a few years ago that seemed pretty dead.

[Chad Grout @UrbanGrout]

@DungeonNoir There have been some really good indie versions of Shadowrun released in the past few years.

[Chad Grout @UrbanGrout]

@Articus_chad We will merge with the machines, or they will merge with us. We want access to their longevity and they want access to our sentience.

[Chad Grout @UrbanGrout]

@ZeoTGT You figured out how to trigger the retail bros. GJ!

[Chad Grout @UrbanGrout]

@JamieKaos Older super casual gamer here. Classic is plenty hard enough for me. I've been on raids plenty of times over the years but I just don't take it seriously enough to do the end game.

[Chad Grout @UrbanGrout]

@AutismCapital TF is AI for?

[Chad Grout @UrbanGrout]

@StealthQE4 We shouldn't be shocked b/c @RayDalio has been saying this on every podcast for many years.

[Chad Grout @UrbanGrout]

@szarasciana13 @adamscochran See WWII.