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I think The People Under the Stairs is my favorite Wes Craven movie.

Any of my Minnesota tech industry peeps have an opinion on this program? I'm skeptical and a family member just enrolled. http://www.mprnews.org/story/2014/12/15/prime-digital-academy Lex Larson? Kevin Lovecraft?  https://primeacademy.io

These little nuts have been visiting relatives (and dogs apparently) for over a week and finally get back tonight. Can't wait.

Finished watching season 1 of Rebels last night. Can I even properly express how great it was? Here are some words: Tarkin, blaster-lightsaber, non-OSHA compliant catwalk, sassy droid, stolen custom-painted TIE, dogfight, last-minute rescue, Corellian Corvettes, pew-pew-pew!

Weekend is over. https://vine.co/v/OPLplJq1T5i

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Just watched the Rebels episode guest starring Lando. He totally deserved this, of course.

Ran three 5Ks in five days to get back into the habit. My legs... #whatadouche #runningpost

Watched VHS Viral . The framing story is crap. Really terrible. I did not get that people on the street were watching the short films on their phones. It made no sense. The magician short was meh. Some of the scenes seemed to be filmed traditionally, not "found footage" style. The middle story that the image is from is by far the strongest part of the movie. You could just watch this one and be done. A scientist opens a door to a mirror dimension and meets himself. Hijinks ensue. I really liked this one. The last one with skater punks vs cultists was ok at best. I'm willing to believe that's how shitty Socal skater punks act, but I just wanted them to be eaten.

Never too early to start on pre-gens for a con game. Four to go.

Some TMNT character ideas here for you. http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2014/06/03/what-if-birds-had-arms

Watched a documentary about sleep paralysis called The Nightmare . Now I have to sleep by myself in an empty house. I hate you, Greg Gorgonmilk. So very, very much.

Whoa. It's Friday night and I'm home alone making dot-matrix D&D character sheets. Like junior high all over again. Only the edition has changed. This is accurate to margins, line count, and font size of the Epson FX-80 (as close as I can get, anyway). Now I'm going to drink Mt. Dew and read my dad's Playboys. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B927w0kbCuZBZHdTZ1FWU0syeE0/view?usp=sharing

Apparently a still from test footage for the movie version of the book Brother Termite . James Cameron never made it though. The book is excellent.

Four years between these pictures. It goes too fast.

Good night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sy8yXftLJM

Some Don't Sleep You remember the light in the sky. It took you. The things came. They tested and probed you. You think. Maybe they did it for fun. You saw them send your boyfriend back. They shined a light in his eyes, he fell asleep, and he disappeared in a flash. They shined the light at you, but you didn't sleep. The things appeared to discuss you. One looked at you, an almost pitying voice said in your head some don't sleep. Some don't forget. They took you far, far into their ship. Are you on a ship? The tests they did on you...changed you. You can feel a power inside you. What did they do? There are others here. Some are wearing clothes out of style for decades. Some look like hybrids of them and humans. They know things you don't. They say there are weapons nearby. Tools. They know where. A blast of energy leaps from your hand and the door explodes. You're getting out. Going home.  ---------------- 1st level dungeoncrawl through a gigantic spaceship. C

I watch alien abduction movies so you don't have to! Except you should watch Extraterrestrial if you like that sort of thing. Pretty fun "cabin in the woods" horror. Good aliens. Good effects all around. Final girl was great. Scene on the ship was not quite up to Fire in the Sky level, but that's pretty much impossible to beat.  I give it four out of five probes. https://youtu.be/CXDhXQrLtMU

L.O.Fucking.L. Hard physical exertion should be a lonely journey to the dark places of your own soul. Not a freaking mixer. That’s crazy, man. Save the mixer for the mocktails. “Fitness” is a byproduct of you seeking out pain like a particularly masochistic fish might seek out fish hooks. “Fitness community” is an oxymoron. 1) There should be no COMM-unication in working out, because be quiet, and 2) the only UNITY you should be having is your spiritual communion with the God of Being Tired (Barnaby, a mythical fat bulldog slumped on a golden floor for all eternity). http://gawker.com/your-fitness-community-sickens-me-1721750094?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_facebook&utm_source=gawker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Attention, nerds. We have blue lightsaber action. Originally shared by Tshaka “Villain McBeardface” Armstrong I. Can't. Even. Click thru for the best video you will see all day. This gave me goosebumps. #starwars   #theforceawakens   https://instagram.com/p/65PhxOs_RH

Knock out three not-too-shabby (for me) drawings for a project. Try to draw the last one. This sucks. Try again. This sucks. Try again. This sucks. Fuck this drawing. Project stalled.

Detail from today's Bloom County. Glorious.

I almost forgot that it's time for Realms of Cthulhu !

Headed to the Y.  I haven't been running since April... #runningpost   #whatadouche

Emailing Abby's school made me think of helicopter parenting, that made me think about actual helicopters, and thinking about helicopters always makes me think of the coolest helicopter ever, the Hind. So here's a Hind.

I agree with the frog about mash-ups.

My neighborhood movie theater just posted this on FB. Apparently a family got their Christmas card pic taken with Jeremy Renner while in costume? I can't explain the "hustla" mug. Except that Hawkeye is gangster.

Why do white whiskers stick out of my beard perpendicular to my face? Is there a biological rule? I know I'm getting old, whiskers. No need to remind me.

Also watched Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead . Entertaining, but not sure if it wants to be dramatic horror, or comedic horror. Better at just being comedic. And despite having a truck that runs on zombie breath, there are no real car chases. Some nice zombie twists though, with telepathic control of zombies, an explanation why they might be fast or slow, and of course, their use as a fuel source.

Just watched The Sacrament . I give it three Dixie cups of Kool-Aid out of five. And the statement in this screenshot is a dirty lie.

I'm 5'11", tall enough to block shorter people, but actual tall people still get in my way. I try not to stand in front of short people. http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2015/08/15/432289382/the-good-listener-are-tall-people-obligated-to-stand-in-the-back-at-concerts?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20150816

Thanks to Jay Exonauts I'll be attending and DMing an event at my first Con of the North in February. I've lived in the Twin Cities for looong time and never gone. Since Jay is trying to organize a big "Saturday Night Space Opera" event, guess what I'm running.

Originally shared by The Art of Not Being Governed #Cthulhu2016 ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KSjiT5be3g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KSjiT5be3g

When listing things, always put them in alphabetical order

Canadian natural 20. Originally shared by Kirill Grouchnikov This is Team Yellow Captain speaking. We've just been rekt.

Purchased. Long drive tonight. Can't wait to listen. https://play.google.com/store/music/album/The_Sword_High_Country?id=Bjtdot7flocpldsdhfbl7d3b7kq&hl=en

Someone put Unholy Land on Scribd. Why bother? It’s pay-what-you-want. Prompted by Paolo Greco's post. http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/141291/Unholy-Land

#gameable   Following The British Library is a good idea. http://goo.gl/dRc0Ne

Test for that little mini game I posted a couple days ago. I'll have to redo it in a word processor to format the text more than I can in Real Paint, but this is the idea.

We chased Hitler down a staircase, into fucking monster central. This might be a TPK. I'm going to cast as many halt undeads as I can.

Holy shit! Hitler is in Castle Ravenloft!

It's time for Weird Wars Ravenloft ! I want mah scalps!

No Stat Hit Die based D&D minigame Fighter Die type: d8 HP: 8 Armor: Heavy, -3 from damage Choose one: Powerful Swing - Once per fight when you hit with a melee attack you roll for damage twice and take the better result. Eagle Eye - Once per fight when you attack with a ranged weapon you roll twice and take take the better result. Choose one: Break Stuff - on a 4+ you break what you want broken. Intimidate - on a 4+ you scare a minor NPC. Lead - Once per fight on a 4+ 1d8 of your soldiers attack with a d8 for one round. Cleric Die Type: d6 HP: 6 Armor: Medium, -2 damage Healing Magic: Between fights you can heal yourself or a companion 1d6 HP Rebuke the Dead: When you hit an undead creature with a melee attack roll twice for damage and take the better result. Choose one: The Blessings of Law - once per day for one fight you and your companions gain 2 HP and increase your die type by one (ie, d4 becomes d6, d6 becomes d8, d8 becomes d10). The 2 HP are lost at the end of the fight.

Level 9 Murdergoat. Thanks, Benjamin Baugh. Originally shared by Renaud “和彦” Lepage Apparently the cow died. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGa3_EvIShA&feature=share

we know that birds of many groups have the evolutionary potential to become big, flightless forms of this sort, so, for as long are birds are around, it’s almost as if the world could once again become the domain of dinosaurs of a sort mostly associated with the Mesozoic. Not sauropod- or tyrannosaur-mimics, but of fuzzy, beaked theropods much like those that first appeared more than 100 million years ago. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/boulay-and-steyer-demain-les-animaux-du-futur

This one kicked our butts immediately. Used a healing surge first round . But we got to the end, almost killed the elemental, and then the dice betrayed us.

Back into The Temple of Elemental Evil !

Follow up to my deceased trackball. This new guy ain't gonna fly. Never going to get used to moving with my finger and clicking with my thumb. Getting returned tomorrow for the expensive wireless model I use at home. So much for trying to save the company $20.

Song of Blades & Heroes is my go-to generic skirmish ruleset, so I'm in for the pdf of the new "Advanced" rules. I do not need any miniatures though. Like, ever again. Someone slap me if I ever say I need more miniatures. http://kck.st/1PxtHRw

Coop was all Joe Cool at the dentist this morning. First full teeth cleaning. No freak outs, thank Hextor.

Excellent. All proceeds from the new country CD go straight to Eddie Spaghetti's cancer fund. https://soundcloud.com/acetaterecords/01-holdin-the-bag?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_medium=Google+&utm_content=https://soundcloud.com/acetaterecords/01-holdin-the-bag

Playing "The Dice Game" with my plastic minis. https://vine.co/v/epTELxhBY0J

If your child throws a tantrum when she sees veggies on her plate, try calmly explaining to her that you never pictured your life like this. Originally shared by The Onion http://onion.com/1hIs1JD

My 15 year-old optical Microsoft trackball 1.0 ps2/usb has died. I'm using a regular wireless mouse for the rest of the day. My wrist will be completely locked up by then. RIP my old friend.

For some reason this showed up on my Facebook feed. This is #gameable somehow, I'm sure.

Japanese ranger with animal companion. http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2015/08/14/history_of_falconry_in_japan_woodcuts_from_the_19th_century.html

Coop's T-Rex growls at my new DCC dice and adventure. I couldn't resist the dice since they were cheap, even though I have yet to play DCC. I realized when I heard Harley Stroh on Drink Spin Run - An RPG Talk Show Podcast that I had run his first(?) Punjar adventure Sellswords of Punjar because it seemed a lot more interesting than the WotC beginning adventures for 4e. So I got this one too just because.

Seen at the Source. About 30 miniatures and two sets of dice included. Never seen it before.

Dice decisions are hard.

Do you want to see attractive men argue about women's fashion and shoot people? Then The Man From U.N.C.L.E. is for you. Guy Ritchie at his best here. Great looking movie. The sixties setting and costumes are gorgeous. I swear the best use of CGI is backgrounds. 60's East Berlin looks absolutely real, but must have been mostly special effects.

And the night ended with Coop projectile vomiting in the backseat while we were on our way home...

A real thing.

Good night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmNrC10Q_w&feature=share

The exit from the dungeons of the Temple of Elemental Evil is finally revealed! The Fighter (me) uses his stonewalk potion to walk through the walls and escape with a single hit point left. The Ranger (Abby) daringly steps right onto a trap (clear!) to escape. We ran away from those goddamn monsters. We win our first session. A little bit of loot is accumulated, but not much.

Originally shared by Tore Nielsen New single from Vodun, all about the Dahomey Amazons. \m/ http://vodun.bandcamp.com/track/minos-army http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmNrC10Q_w

How I Solo Game I’m just going to gush about a couple of gaming products here. I’ve posted about them before, but I’ll go into a little more detail.  Scarlet Heroes This is the best OSR ruleset. Period. The end. I love all Kevin Crawford’s stuff, but Scarlet Heroes is special. Nominally for a single player and a DM or solo play, I’d use it for a gaming group by just changing the damage system back to the classic system. It normally uses a unique system to make it possible for a single character to play through a D&D adventure solo. The rules for skills (traits) and saving throws are more “modern” than most OSR rules, having more in common with 13th Age’s Backgrounds than old school proficiencies or thieves skill systems.  The rules really shine in the section for solo play. You could use these to spontaneously make an adventure on the fly for a group as well. Mostly I use these to supplement the second product(s) I’m going to gush about. Mad Monks of Kwantoom & Ruins of the Und

Don't need to roll up into a ball when you can just go "hull down." Originally shared by American Museum of Natural History Check out the armor on this Fossil Friday! This is Panochthus frenzelianus, a giant glyptodont that lived in South America, just before the extinction of the glyptodonts, at the end of the last ice age, about 30,000 years ago. Some glyptodonts grew to be over 10 feet long and may have weighed as much as a ton, including the shell. Their teeth were small and shaped like columns, with flat surfaces for grinding up plants.  The head of most glyptodonts was armored, and could also be retracted into the shell opening; the feet and tail were protected by armor as well. These shields deterred all but the most powerful carnivores from attacking this animal fortress.  Both armadillos and glyptodonts have a completely bony shell covering their bodies. The shells are constructed differently, however. While an armadillo is covered by parallel rows of bony bands,

"Is this a stand-up fight, sir? Or another big hunt?" These look great! Originally shared by Jay Exonauts Colonial Marines vs. Xenomorph "army men" figures are coming: http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=DMC12404&mode=retail #aliens #Alien #toys #armymen   http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=DMC12404&mode=retail

Excellent. Originally shared by Kevthulhu Thorough, and long, article about Janet Airlines. http://flightclub.jalopnik.com/this-is-the-only-airline-with-non-stop-service-to-area-1721003315

Quick 5e Stat Blocks I like 5e quite a bit, but I think monsters are still too detailed. These are some of the stat blocks I used when I ran ASE using 5e: Moktar - AC 13, HP 15, Spd. 30ft, greatclub +5, 1d8+3 dm, 100 xp Aggressive - As a bonus action, a moktar can move its speed toward a hostile creature. Sick rock poisoning - most moktars in the cave have 4 levels of exhaustion. Spider - AC 13, HP 11, Spd. 40ft, stealth +7, bite +3, 1d6+1 dm+poison, 50 xp Poison - DC 11 Con save, 2d6 dm if fail, ½ if save. If target reduced to 0 HP, the target is stable but poisoned and paralyzed for 1 hour, even if it regains HP. Wolf - AC 13, HP 11, Spd. 40ft, bite +4, 2d4+2 dm+trip, 50 xp Trip - DC 11 Str save or be knocked prone. They’re missing the ability scores, any saving throw proficiencies, and skills. Thinking a single “bonus” entry might work. Bonus +5 that applies to any appropriate skill rolls or save. Or maybe Bonus +3/+5 one non-proficient and one proficient.

If you're going to be abducted, you want pros, not rookies. Originally shared by The Onion http://onion.com/1DQ7lcq

Fuck! http://m.startribune.com/variety/music/321691951.html?section=/

Avian therpod fucks up a rattlesnake. Originally shared by Lex Larson Today I learned that Roadrunners beat the snot out of the snakes they eat by something called a "centrifugal slam" -- they bash the critter into the ground repeatedly. [CN: Close up footage of rattle snake & its demise at the beak of a roadrunner] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IvM3NJ_2fA

More I Was There Too podcast listening. Right before Johnny Roastbeef (his real nickname) did this scene, he met DeNiro for the first time.  He says real sheepishly, “Listen, Bobby, I gotta tell ya something.” “What is it?” DeNiro leans in close to listen. Johnny's got him right where he wants him. “Only because this is a movie am I letting you yell at me. We both know who the real tough guy is here.” DeNiro pauses, looks at Johnny Roastbeef for a second, then bursts out laughing, “Hahaha! Marty! This guy got me good!”

This cast. https://youtu.be/gnRbXn4-Yis

How serendipitous. I've just been contemplating opting Abby out of standardized tests. So far I'm not seeing a downside for her or consequences for funding. Originally shared by The Onion http://onion.com/1Mo0s59

MRW I see the school district has completely rewritten a substantial portion of their website because of my wife and I complaining, but realizing that the content just obfuscates the fact they aren't actually going to help you.

I approve. Originally shared by Emily Willoughby Yesterday on Twitter, #AddLasersToPaleoart  became a thing. It should be a thing here, too.