Kal-El814

As someone who grew up in northern NJ and would go to NYC somehway regularly in college, I put New York in quotes because I don’t think there’s a meaningful, geographical distinction between the city and the surrounding areas for foods like pizza and bagels. I can’t speak to Connecticut since I don’t think I’ve had either food there, so I wouldn’t know exactly where to draw the line.

Bread and cheese are 2 of my favorite things on earth. I don’t mean peasant food pejoratively!

I do what I can.

Let’s be clear... New York City bagels and pizza are both delicious, there’s no disputing that. However, it’s not uncommon to hear people talk about both of these peasant foods as though you cannot get a decent slice or bagel outside of NYC, which is crazytownbananapants. What say you D1P?

If I’m getting chain pizza around Boston it’s normally Pizzeria Regina. Ernesto’s recently opened a second, non-North End spot near my house in Somerville and they’re legit.

I think smaller lobsters taste sweeter though.

2/10

Check out Blades in the Dark. It's a D6 based tabletop RPG about being a group of scoundrels in a haunted, "whalepunk," city in the vein of Dishonored. I'd not played many tabletop RPGs before and had certainly never GM'd one. But a bunch of my buddies went to a cabin this winter and I GM'd. The time just flew by, it was great. The system does a great job of letting the GM and the players make the fiction as they go. The book has a general framework, setting, district maps, some prebaked rivalries and suggested scores. But part of why we liked it so much is that we sorta played it like we were making up the world as we went within the author's framework. The players decided to be a gang of drug pushers, so they got to decide how their drug worked, why it was better than what was currently available, how they could keep their sources exclusive, etc. So unlike something more traditional like DnD, where your characters have explicit hitpoints, enemies have explicit skills, it's a lot more conversational. On most scores you also just jump right into the first conflict. So if the players in our game were gonna go to a local den, kick people out, and take over their turf, we'd roll for engagement based on their advantages / disadvantages, and the outcome of that roll would dictate where we start. A great roll could establish, "okay you have a guy on the inside who can vouch for you and your tight with the Gondoliers, so we'll assume there was no trouble getting to or into the spot." Where a crap roll would be more like, "Okay, you're tight with the Gondoliers so they can get you close, but the ferryman was out late last night and is coming off his high, so he's drawing attention to the boat by being bragging about something going down to anyone you pass on the river. And your man inside is going to want a cut of the score for selling out his current employer." You also just pick a load before you go, light / normal / heavy, and you can "spawn" items mid-score based on your need provided you don't exceed your load. You don't have to say, "I'm going to bring my pistols and my bone charm," beforehand. If shit gets spooky, you can say, "good thing I brought my bone charm," tick it off, and you're good. You can also flash back when you run into trouble, which helps avoid analysis paralysis pre-mission. Take some stress when you run into a guard, flash back, and roleplay how you bribed him or kidnapped his kid for leverage before the score. Dunno how your comment turned into a novella on Blades... I guess I miss playing!

If this was porn, we’d be at the part where the woman is eyefucking the pool boy. We’re seeing side boob at best, her top isn’t even off. And people are ready to pop. Sad. Thank you.

Aww thank you. I just searched for “demod” and found the first one that looked like it would work with the image restrictions.

I assume @CastlevaniaNut18 has seen pics of @The def star right? I believe he’s posted them before. She has also seen me IRL so I say let her voice be heard.

It’s @The def star and it’s not even close. That said I will accept any sympathy votes but OLO if I get none at all.

Ant-Man and The Wasp is rad because it's a more personal movie. Like Ragnarok or Black Panther (even though neither are on Black Panther's level), they succeed because they go deep into what makes those specific characters tick. Ragnarok doubles down on the glimpses of Thor's humor we largely saw in Avengers and Age of Ultron. Black Panther has more development of its protagonist in that movie than Iron Man has across all his combined appearances. Ant-Man and The Wasp bothers to talk about the shit that Scott did in Ant-Man and Civil War. Unlike Infinity War which almost literally said, "Sokovia Accords OLO," we get to see what that did to someone who wants to help but isn't a god like Thor, a billionaire like Iron Man, who can't run away to Wakanda like Cap. Cap busted his buddies out of The Raft and Scott ended up with an ankle bracelet and house arrest. With friends and a partner he fucked over while trying to do the right thing. A family he can't bail on. I appreciate that, especially post Infinity War, that it's possible that this movie might come off like it's a minor league game. But I'll take these "smaller" scale stories over stuff like that and Iron Man 2 any day, even though I like and enjoy those movies too.

There’s also no chance he wrote that or believes it so whatever.

Personally I liked that there were no real villains in this, and that Ant-Man really isn’t even the main guy... he’s just helping out Hank and Hope. I get why that might feel weak, but honestly I’m just pleased that this isn’t the unpteenth MCU film that boils down to, “white man with beard and hubris sort of learns a lesson kind of but actually just doubles down on 19 in the second act, gets dealt a 2, pats himself on the back for it, calls it character development, and acts like he’s learned something we all know he’ll have forgotten by his next cinematic appearance.” Please refer to every Iron Man, every Avengers, Doctor Strange, Thor, Guardians, etc.

Starbucks should charge an extra $1 a straw just so I can watch people lose their shit like when Dunkin’ Donuts decided to charge a quarter to people asking for a foam cup to go over their plastic iced coffee cup because god fucking forbid their precious epidermis touch a sweating beverage or they spend 3.99 on a koozie that will last them until ragnarok.

This thread also known as, “Blue Balls 2: This Time It’s Personal”

Been mainly playing the PC version about MGS V. Man that game is good. Also still playing PUBG and sweet lordy lord I am bad at online FPSs.

Politicians troll the earth and set it up so that people cannot protest without getting harassed, cannot vote easily, cannot cross the border and legally request asylum without being separated from their kids and getting locked in cages, etc. But god forbid someone makes Mitch McConnell’s coq au vin mildly unpleasant. Also lol at fat sack dancing the only jig he knows, the “democrats would do it too lambada.”

I am FULLY in favor of end-credit stingers that are 100% troll.

If I showered 2X per day on the regular, my skin would dry out like crazy/

There has to be a temperature at which it's unsafe to fly, right?

They should ask forgiveness of their sins... OH WAIT HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Charlie Kirk is one of the dumbest motherfuckers walking the earth.