Fa sho, beltalowda

Ibn Al-Haytham be with you

Edit: and I suppose the traditional response would be “and Popper with you”

Those people are strangely quiet when it’s a conservative-leaning meme, so I’ve learned to, as you say, tell them to get bent.

I can think of no better situation for the phrase “fuck you and the horse you rode in on”

What’s the opposite of “eating the onion?” I was sure when I saw this headline it was an Onion article, only to find out it’s apparently true; do we have a term for that yet?

Fair. I’m still of the opinion that a good sauce can save a mediocre meal and that’s not necessarily a problem, but I respect your opinion as well

I’m not sure I agree; think about barbeque, Mexican food, Chinese food, curry, salad dressing… Hell, eggs benedict. Ask any chef if sauce is important, and they’ll tell you that there’s traditionally an entire position in high-end kitchens dedicated almost exclusively to sauces (saucier). Since a sauce can be as much an integral part of a meal as the breading on the chicken, I tend to disagree.

Your preferred style of fried chicken sandwich may not heavily feature sauce, but other styles do.

Not all of us have decent fast food chicken chains; out on the West Coast I had 4 Chick-fil-A within easy driving distance before I had one Raising Cane’s or Popeye’s within an hour of my house.

Plus, Chick-fil-A is almost more about the sauce than the chicken. The chicken is ok, but the sauce is chef’s kiss

That book… Was the Bible

I brought a six pack to a final exam in grad school (take the test in the same state in which you study, right?) and people around me perked up and almost literally started drooling when I cracked the first one.

Edit: no, we engineering students don’t have drinking problems, you have a drinking problem!

Do people still use ratemyprofessor? The reviews at my school don’t seem terribly recent

Get this lizardposting outta here

And if you want John K Samson doing indie rock with alt-country influence, the Weakerthans are fantastic. I highly recommend listening to Reconstruction Site straight through.

Windhand. Sort of a psychedelic doom metal with groovy elements and a haunting, ethereal female vocalist

We use Roll20 as a VTT, but we all run a zoom meeting at the same time because we live in different states and continents and it’s good to see their faces (and their kids and partners). Shrug It’s a pretty wide range of technology skills and preferences, so we went with the stuff people know best.

The Paradox of Tolerance writ large in real time

Mörk Borg? Other Fria Liga? Other Borg-likes? Other Kickstarter games? Is that just me?

Don’t get me wrong, I love PF2 and I mostly actually play 5E with my friends on zoom (that bunch of Philistines), but I can’t be the only one obsessively finding niche games online like Into the Odd and Forbidden Lands and Frontier Scum and Inevitable and porting them into system-agnostic hex-flowers that could support Dark-Tower-esque realm crawling and West March-ish living worlds that I can never find anyone that wants to play and…

Do I have a problem? Am I out of touch? No, it’s the D&D players that are wrong

Coming out via She-Ra memes is the best way to ensure that only people that are objectively awesome understand what the hell is going on

I’m not much of a gambler either, but I live in a casino town, and I’ve gotten lots of drinks comped by sitting with $20 in a video poker machine while I drink and shoot the shit with my friends.

Just remember to tip well, and go in with the mindset that any money you’re betting is the cost of entertainment for the evening. It’s a fun way to spend an evening, and plenty of times I wind up going home with money that I would have just spent at a bar.

Edit: also if you’re into sports, the sports book is the way to go. If you wager $10 in what’s called a parlay on 3 different games, you can win $160, so even games you otherwise didn’t care about suddenly become interesting. Betting in three baseball games can be a great way to kill a day hanging out in the summer

Even the cheap places as long as you are wagering a certain amount

I will! I’ve been a little worried to go back to a lot of my HS listening since a lot of of it was fairly religious and I’m not that guy anymore. Some of it probably holds up though: Underoath and Thrice definitely matured and that helps the early stuff hold up, but stuff like Five Iron Frenzy, less so