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As someone who works at an American university, the Canadians absolutely have timed it much better. Fall semester here the students get the full week off; except instead of being in the middle of the semester like Spring Break, they have to wait a full month plus to get any kind of break. Which...

Oh I assumed that that was intentional, the "you" was a general you, not you specifically.

As for Thanksgiving meals, I'm not a huge fan of turkey so I'm more of a sides girlie. Mashed potatoes & gravy is my jam. Cranberry sauce (from the can! I want to see the ridges! Taste the ridges!). My wife also makes an amazing brussels sprouts dish with balsamic vinegar and whole garlic cloves...

The amusing thing is that this actually happens in A Christmas Story. If you haven't seen it, the traditional dinner is ruined so the family end up going out for Chinese (complete with a horrific racist joke about the staff trying to sing Deck the Halls)

We've turned it into a big friend get together potluck where my kid organizes a Mario Kart tournament. The historical context is obviously horrific but it is a bank holiday and it's still a great excuse to get together and celebrate our own community

And that's just if you stick to the single player campaign. I don't know if any normal human is built to withstand the whiplash of going from Stardew Valley to a Call of Duty online lobby.

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance, where we remember and mourn our trans siblings who we have lost over the past year. This includes 21 deaths by suicide and 27 deaths by act of violence (that were reported, as transgender individuals often have their identities stripped from them in...

Was going through my physical media and discovered that I had I forgotten that, long ago, I had bought The Switcher (that is, The Witcher 3 for Nintendo Switch) so I played that last night until I passed out on the couch. Good times.

Yeah, I mean this is a problem with campaign expectations, not the game itself. I've played in and run games with all kinds of specific rules for what was or was not in play. Our college 3.5 D&D group had a character who always wanted to play a centaur. I was never in favor it, but she also had...

I mean, that is exactly what would happen in Dwarf Fortress too, only it'd be funnier

Dwarf Fortress sure is a weird game

I know that I played 1e at some point as a small child, but I have absolutely no memory of it outside of it happening. Mostly I was around 2nd edition because those were the books my older brother had and that was the edition they played, and I got to watch him and his friends play when I didn't...

I was a bit disappointed because I thought this thread would be talking about circus troupes as a framing device for an adventuring party. I did play in a game once where we were part of a circus troupe, and it was a lot of fun! Ironically, as a part of the setting we all had to play humans too

To be fair, in the video game it was basically their built-in excuse to have a "bullet time" button