Early on in their first game, my players suffered a T.P.K.

A squadron of horrible die rolls killed all three party members in their first battle.

I’m talking skeletons rolling nat 20s against level 3 characters who kept rolling twos and threes for the entire battle.

But they didn’t die.

Instead, they awoke to find themselves in front of the BBEG who enslaved them with a cursed crest and then sent them out to scour the world for a specific list of objects where they were contractually bound to be released once they delivered them all.

This effectively let me railroad the campaign just enough to get the party started.

(This is what I would be saying if I had realized that I could do this immediately instead of staring slackjawed in disbelief as 30 minutes into a well-planned campaign, every single party member died and then accused me of being too hard of a GM and… yeah.)

One trick that helped me is that psychopaths tend to frame things in an either or, where the either is, you do what they want you to do, and the or is, you are a horrible person.

When you find that yourself in that situation, always pick the horrible person option.

What they think of you doesn’t fucking matter.

Once they realize that they can’t manipulate you, they’ll get bored and move on.

It costs you nothing to be a halfway decent person, even on the internet.

Did you have any symptoms?

Long story short, people that use it get really used to using it.

It’s kind of wild to think that you could make so much money by making an open-source TV ecosystem.

Or if making money is not your thing, you could acquire so much internet clout by developing it and then publishing it online.

Additionally, if your smart TV requires an internet connection in order to be set up in the first place, use the hotspot on your phone with a new SSID, and set it up, and then change the SSID on your phone.

After that, it should work without an internet connection, and it’ll spend all of its time attempting to connect to an internet connection that is no longer there.

If you can get that, you should. WD-40 is great at removing spray paint.

generally temperate, A little hot, a little cold, a little wet, a little dry.

On average I would say it’s somewhere between below boiling and above freezing, depending on the season.

I was in second grade when they changed the way that Wednesday is spelled.

It used to be Wendsday, at least that’s how it was spelled in the universe I came from.

Nothing has really made sense since.

I was at the thrift store the other day and I found a box for $5 for sale that had a piece of the Berlin Wall in it.

I don’t even know why, but I had to snap it up, and now it’s sitting on my little curio shelf.

The word trans means across, or on the other side, and gress once again would mean step, so to transgress is basically to cross the line, right?

I did a quick search, but there isn’t really a word to describe the people that don’t cross the line.

The opposite of the prefix trans is the prefix cis, which means “on the same side”

There is an etymology word joke that says something along the lines of, “if “pro” is the opposite of “con”, then is the opposite of “congress” “progress”?”

And if you don’t know etymology, then that seems to make sense.

When you break down the word Congress, you get the prefix con and the root word gress, con means with, and gress means step, so it means to step with or to walk with.

The opposite of walking with someone is to walk apart from someone, so, the actual opposite of congress would be digress, and the opposite of progress would be regress.

Etymology is great at ruining jokes, but it’s also great at helping you understand what words mean and why they mean them.

I think the specific is that 40% of adult Americans can’t read at a seventh grade level.

Probably because they stopped teaching etymology in schools, So now many Americans do not know how to break a word down into its subjugate parts.

I am not a follower of Islam, but I have read some of the materials, and they said that in heaven everyone will be 30 years old.

That seems like a pretty decent age. Like you’re old enough to be an adult at 30, but you’re still young enough to be able to enjoy life if you didn’t have soul-crushing work to do.

Whatever it is, it’s going to be the subject of several YouTube documentaries.

One of my co-workers switched to UBlock Lite instead of UBlock Origin and now the ads are back.

Now he’s working on switching to a non-Google browser.

Good job, Google. You have killed Google for yet another former customer.

What’s optimistic about telling a multi-million dollar company that if they don’t operate with principles that I agree with that they won’t get my business?

Theres a few types of changes that can happen to people.

1: Change hammered in by the vicissitudes of time.

This is stuff like getting used to your dead end job because it’s comfy.

2: Change foisted upon you by happenstance.

This is stuff like becoming a parent or suffering a life changing medical emergency.

3: Reactive change caused by inner turmoil.

This is the kind of change that happens during a midlife crises or by an sudden inspiration that must be acted upon immediately or it loses its potency.

4: Intentional change by measured reason.

This is the kind of change people typically think of when they say people can’t change. It’s the hard kind of change and is rarely done in one’s life and even when it is done it’s the kind of windmill you can waste your whole life tilting at without ever slaying a single giant.

Anyone can change the shape of their soul if they recognize its current shape and start making changes to it.

Changing for the better is the real task.

Yeah, isn’t that what everyone wants?

A website where you talk to people and a robot with no oversight shows up and changes what you say, or silences you, or prevents you from talking to certain people.

At the same time though, I don’t care if billionaires play rock and sock em robots with companies. It just kind of sucks for the people that work at those companies, being tools of a game for rich people to play.