My daughter is also due in September. I know that its just the voice for the first few months. So I got to practice my reading outload. My wife says I rush when reading to her belly. In my defense Heading Home with Your Newborn is important but not the easiest to talk through

Its never to early to read The Hobbit to get someone a lifelong addiction to the LoTR. I was trying for in-utero but my wife was not interested.

That would be fun. Every game would just be a series of different fetch quests with a rotated list of the same enemies. Like a MMRPG but worse and more expensive

ChatGPT give some pretty generic DnD advice. I can’t wait until they make a terrible automated DM. I can’t wait to play the most generic DnD of all time.

I like the changes with weapons properties and I like some of the updates with various classes for some improvements to the weaker subclasses and feats. I overall enjoyed the majority of the changes.

However, from what I have heard and seen I did not enjoy the changes to the Monster Manual and statblocks.

Gross. I was really excited for 5.5 for a while but don’t really want to get it anymore. I liked the PHB class upgrades when I read it but don’t own anything from it yet

I love Christ Perkin and Jeremy Crawford. Who is even running D&D now? They are literally the only people I knew still on the project. They are both great. Were they forced out of WoTC?

And that brick was thrown by a trans woman. That’s a definitely fact for sure

Rent the Skill for sure. If this is the skill you are expected to be an expert or at least experienced you would avoid it as much as possible to avoid being dependent.

I don’t use Signal (gasp I know). But this is a great workaround.

My favorite way to share files is to compose an email and attach the file. I then save it as a draft and then go to another computer and open that draft and download the file. Its the best method and it has worked for at least a decade. Sometimes you have to send it to yourself but the method is perfect

Very appropriate description but missing the most important religious ritual of all: The Meeting. The Meeting is a way to worthship the hierarchy and prove ones worth. Since you can’t just look at nothing and talk about your lives (there is a dedicated “fun meeting” for that) you need something to look at and talk about. This is why PowerPoints are for. PowerPoint are mostly pictures and some words around numbers. Since numbers are scary these numbers are of course color coordinated with good numbers being green and bad numbers as red. So during a meeting you talk about these numbers and make sure they are all the correct color and if not have to remake the PowerPoint to ensure they are the correct color. These numbers are sometimes put together to make lines which need to go up or else they are bad.

Only the most important people have meetings all day and once you have meetings all day you need to make sure you only have important meetings. A really important Meeting has Meetings about it beforehand and afterwards. The higher level the people in the meeting and the more rare the meeting the more important the meeting. There is one most important meeting which is rare and only the most important go to: The Board Meeting. This where C-Suits meet with The Board who are C-suits at different companies. At this meeting they talk about all the numbers and make sure they are all the correct colors and lines all go up.

I’m sure you can find one nearby

Come fly into the twin cities and take a look around. There’s tons of different neighborhoods and you can drive to the major other cities in a day. Duluth is great and got a whole different biome from the Twin Cities. You can go to Rochester which is growing fast and has the Mayo Clinic if you need or want to work medical care. I love stillwater since it’s a small town close to the twin cities but not really a suburb. You can’t really go wrong.

Also to note Minnesota has three different ecological biomes in it. Prairies, coniferous forest and deciduous forests. So you can pick your landscape and see others nearby

That’s a good one as well.

I think it helps to convert the same ratios to easily understood dollars.

So $1 is to $1000 (one thousand) what $1000 dollars is to $1,000,000 (one million) is what $1,000,000 (one million) is to 1,000,000,000 (one billion).

I love measuring thing in Scaramuccis. Its hilarious

Relevant XKCD

Different kind of crypto nerd but still

Exactly. They have wanted to kill public media since the Reagan administration.

Matt Baume did a great job talking about the last PBS was trying to be canceled.