No, that’s potage. You’re thinking of a mixture, often of incongruous elements.

I had originally written that, but I went and looked it up and it actually is “this”. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

DREAMS ARE MADE OF THIS, WHO AM I TO DISAGREE

At the bottom of the article, under “Can I opt out?”:

If you choose to opt out, please note that on March 5th, 2024 you will lose access to Cross Progression, My Rewards, and RED Forums, and all connected data will be permanently deleted.

Again, it’s not a deal breaker for me, and not nearly as bad as needing an account to even play, but I felt it was at least worth bringing up.

it’s optional for some cosmetic rewards

And also CrossPlay…

Don’t get me wrong, it’s better than requiring the account to play the game, but it’s still kind of a disappointing move.

I had a really neat idea about playing a changeling bladesinger who most likely pretended to be elven to learn the art, although I did have a not-quite-RAW idea about the old switched-at-birth changeling myth, where his elven “parents” would have taught him before he slipped up and they realized what he was.

He was actually three characters in one: a mostly nondescript human “bard”, spinning extremely tall tales about a mysterious elven bladesinger who doled out vigilante justice at night (also the changeling), and the changeling himself, who hated the way people looked at his true form, would only have revealed it to the party if he had no other choice, and really just wanted to be a hero in a group of adventurers, doing the kind of stuff he made up and sang about in taverns.

I came up with this concept a few years ago, but even before COVID I was kind of my group’s forever DM, so even if I ended up at a gaming table again soon I probably wouldn’t get to play it, so if you like it, feel free to use it. You cannot steal what is gifted!

This has been my past four or five weekends. Can’t make myself do anything. It’s maddening.

I am ALWAYS interested in Oscar lore. Thank you for sharing.

When I was younger, I’d be mortified. Now? “If into the archives you go, only pain will you find.” You didn’t have to look, so that’s on you, my dude.

Here

In hindsight, I wish I had better to offer than an Imgur album, but the tl;dr version is he allegedly sent dick pics to a 12 year old shortly before Loss was posted. Some more conspiracy minded folks believe that it may have been a smokescreen to distract from his real life actions, but I don’t have any proof of that and I’d personally like to believe he isn’t that heinous.

While I will agree that a miscarriage is tragedy and I feel for his wife, Tom Broccoli doesn’t deserve your sympathy, friend.

There are no good guys in Borderlands. Full stop.

I absolutely love this change for dwarves. May I borrow it?

Man, ZZT was great. Plus it paved the way for MegaZeux, which is still my favorite “game nobody’s heard of before”. I want that Tim Sweeney back.

BECAUSE👏EVERY👏ACCUSATION👏IS👏A👏CONFESSION👏

I went hunting and found OOP’s blog. There isn’t much more to the story, which I will transcribe here:

until like LAST WEEK
professor B publishes a paper that casually drops the word “husband”
and obviously all the students are like “oh i didn’t know u were married!” because we read that shit like how white suburban mothers read People Magazine
and shes like “yeah, it’s Professor A”
and we all FLIPPED. THE FUCK. OUT
we thought the framed picture of the two of them on professor A’s desk was ironic because hes that type of guy
like, you gotta understand, these two have gotten into YELLING matches in hallways. these two refuse to go on trips with each other. but apparently they have a system where they quite LITERALLY leave all of their work at work and drive home in separate cars and literally NEVER work at home. it is SO funny

“Scotty, why should all these lovely folks buy a bottle of Vitameatavegamin?”

“Well, er… … …It’s green.”

Ah, of course. Hence the popular goodnight, “don’t let the bugbears bite!”

I feel seen.

I’m not gonna argue, though. Well played.