Either ambient instrumental music (lots of Brian Eno) or any music that I know all the words to (so that my brain doesn’t have to actively process the lyrics).

Historically, it derives from the Northwest Territory, which stretched from Ohio in the east to Illinois, Wisconsin, and parts of Minnesota in the west. It was (poorly) relabeled, and retained the West part of its name instead of the North part, which is strange since the concept of manifest destiny was already in use since at least the 1840s, which argued for the inevitability of westward expansion to the Pacific Ocean.

This neither lines up with the Midwest census area, nor other cultural ideas of the Midwest, both which include parts of the great plains region.

Source: state history classes from inside the Midwest

“Maximum Overdrive” for me.

Also, great call on Megaforce.

The fourth ending is just a red herring.

I cannot remember the last time I saw a KQ5 reference. Well done.

I think they’re implying that a black hole the mass of a person has the same gravitational attraction that the person had before collapsing (negligible).

For anyone in RHEL / Fedora land (or using dnf somewhere else), try dnf needs-restarting to list executables that have mismatched files on disk vs memory. The -r flag will hint if a reboot is needed (due to things like kernel or glibc changes)

Definitely this. There are utilities here with 5% service charges for paying online. I’d rather pay by check

If you’re having concentration problems made worse by the noise, and this has not historically been an issue for you, talk to your doctor. It may be depression or something similar.

The gate crew often gets graded on how quickly they complete boarding, so don’t be surprised when your plane’s “full” overhead compartments are half empty. Stupid job metrics strike again.

The Forever War - Joe Haldeman A fantastic novel on the pointlessness of war, told through the lens of space opera / sci-fi

Remembering things is the primary purpose of the check, but sometimes how you’re applying it might require an alternative skill check to make sense. Here are some examples (from https://rpgbot.net/dnd5/characters/impractical-skill-checks/ ):

Wisdom – Consoling and counselling a creature through a crisis of faith could be done with a Wisdom (Religion) check.

Charisma – Proselytizing for a faith makes more sense as a Charisma (Religion) check than a Charisma (Persuasion) check.

It sounds like you need to force more discussion in session 0 talks (or earlier). Do you want an RP-light, fairly linear game? Great! You’re not alone. But everyone at your table needs to agree to that, or at least one of you is not having a good time.

I like a good hack and slash dungeon crawl. I also like RP heavy games. But those are two very different games, and it’s good to have consistency within whatever game you’re playing.

In 5e, the more problematic part of a paladin making holy water here is the use of 25gp worth of powdered silver in the liquid (which doesn’t actually hurt them more in 5e, just in classical folklore)

This reminds me a little of “A Tale in the Desert”.

Oh that’s definitely true. I was just surprised to see something similar (especially the avoiding eye contact) in the animal kingdom.

But where could it find a host to mutate in is everyone was vaccinated?!

/s

Thanks for the haunted thumbnail. 😂

He is the Emperor of Mankind from Warhammer 40k