Sunrunner44

Doing a bad job, on purpose. My pronouns are: pronouns are for gay retards

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@KevinLamb74 @Danayoub @JHight_Gamer I briefly was thinking, huh, what would the rights cost, could we kickstart that, before realizing that was full-bore, kidney-shaking idiocy. Dammit.

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@KevinLamb74 Dangit, I was hoping for some GAZ 24 that I’ve never heard of and would promptly vastly overpay for on eBay.

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@Nerdcognito No way. Go union; demand it all from those dirty capitalists. Living wages. Free healthcare. Free vet care for Weasels. Dedicated anti-rainbow-drow-bigot rooms. Hopefully it will help kill WotC and they’ll sell D&D to someone that loves it.

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@BugbearBrothers Guarantee this post just sparked hundreds of eBay searches.

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@Lutra_Gaming @trolllordgames I purged a bunch of my C&C stuff years ago on a misbegotten cleaning/winnowing binge and have regretted it since. Such a great collection of old school modules! Might be time to hit eBay or @Waynes_Books …

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@DungeonNoir Every skeezy player ever, when they’re in the only bit of civilization for hundreds of miles: “…so…. How tough do these guards at the jewelers look, exactly?”

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@KevinLamb74 Modern era is spoiled for choice: One Ring sepia design, Symbaroum, Esteren, DCC, Monte Cook, 1e Achtung Cthulhu…. Spoiled for choice really. But maybe no giants? Interesting discussion. Maybe “beautiful, yet not evocative”? All great yet pantsed by the Gazateer covers!

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@KevinLamb74 The original D&D artist run will likely never be beat. Hard statement for a high standard. Without thinking hard, #2 -#4 unordered = Pathfinders WAR era, vampire 1e with Bradstreet, and Warhammer FRPG 1e / 2e; early Cthulhu also lurking in the margins here. Shoutout:Paranoia.

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@elvenmaidinn @KasimirUrbanski “But the room is flooded and covered with weird huge metal spikes!”

“…yeah, but I bet our saves are better than those ogres, I’m going Lightning Bolt”

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@jmgwritten I love he’s never even heard of Amber? Didn’t read it? Get it! Never heard tho, even in passing…?

“What is this Wheel of Misty Thronegame Covenant Time, peasant? Enough of your drivel! This YA were-beaver mage demon love story is far superior!”

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@OD_RPG “What’s that creeper hiding behind that screen from those kids that plainly aren’t his? He’s hiding his COMMIE SATAN PORN, that’s what!”

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@OliverWDahl Suddenly the 5E Gay Dwarven Bakers are really just trying to differentiate thier product in a tight competitive market economy.

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@McFranchisee Those fried pies were life. Convince Big Burger to do a 4 week fried vs baked test and let’s get some metrics!

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@jacobinfante24 Glad you’ve refocused the account on the important stuff here. Tell you what: you get three Bears to do a joint Chalupa review and I’m down for a subscription model!

(Honestly no lie this would be the far end of fantastic, right?)

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@jacobinfante24 Also let’s pour a little out for Johnny Knox and Nate Vasher, fellas.

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@jacobinfante24 Man; Aromashodu. I thought he could be the Bears Marques Colston.

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Plainly I am an idiot. #BearsGogglesOn

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You never think you’re going to say certain phrases, but @kennethhite Detroit is whispering sweet biblionothings for you, brother.

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My list of the best bookstores in existence. At least, the ones I've been to, so there. Most of these have the sound strategy of mixing used and new books which works well if properly curated.

1. John K. King Books, Detroit. An old glove factory with four floors and (they say) over a million books. Really strong for literary biography. Very good prices, so rambling that you will find interesting things lurking everywhere like rare Gulag memoirs (actually I grabbed all those, sorry). This was a real surprise when I first went there. Detroit was once a go-ahead area. They bought up all the stock of the other book-stores as they all folded.

2. Bart's Books, Ojai. Good books among the grow-your-own-yogurt crowd, just up from Ventura. Surprisingly excellent and cheap math and literature sections. You can find things like Tom Wolfe's anthology of the New Journalism, as I did.

3. Powell's Books, Chicago. Preceded Powell's in Portland. Serious holdings, very strong philosophy (I picked up a hardback of Oakeshott's On Human Conduct there), history, literature and math sections. Often not cheap but everything is in very good shape and often worth it. Tight space means excellent curation here. Dicey area now, right on the edge, where bespectacled Asian students with backpacks have been known to vanish into the maw.

4. Moe's Berkeley, CA. Exceptional in most areas but increasingly expensive. The sort of place (where else?) you will find things like Norman Douglas' letters issued by some crowd in Germany. Their math section is probably the best in the USA, but not cheap.

5. Powell's Portland. Very good in all areas, enormous sprawling range. Bouncer at the door to keep the city's gibbering riff-raff out. You can spend days in here and forget the dubious location. I may have done so.

6. Wigtown, Scotland. Nice little book-town in Galloway, far better than that more famous book-town Hay-on-Wye which I don't rate, having been disappointed there twice. It's all bookstores, some of them good. Good place for scones too.

7. The Last Bookstore, LA. Showed signs of decline when I was there a few months ago, but they still have a lot of very good stuff at excellent prices, e.g. some volumes of the Yale manuscript edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson for a few dollars each. I hope they survive the war of attrition on businesses in downtown LA.

I ransacked London for bookstores many times, but the rents seem to have pushed all the really large ones out long ago and I am not a fan of grossly overpriced antiquarian stores catering to people who don't read their books for fear of spoiling them. New York City's Strand I am not crazy about, most of the great stores there seem to have vanished now, even in the Village.

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@SaysSimulation I could fill a fair size book with articles over the last few years on how the Russian economy is about to collapse.

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@Askren This all slaps and looks like @GooeyCube fella!

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@yegwave “I mean, at least we didn’t go to Vegas, bro”