I don’t know if anyone’s seen the absolutely wild reward cards you can get through the Worldbuilders fundraiser right now – they’re basically cards you can present during a D&D game to get a special ability for a bit, themed after important DMs or actual play characters in the D&D community – but all of them (and the page talking about them) are absolutely wild and good for a laugh even if you can’t support the fundraiser
Behold:
I don’t know how I’d even feel about seeing one used in a game (many of them seem much better suited for a humorous campaign) but they’re absolutely hilarious regardless. There’s one for Magnus Burnsides that lets you change a low roll to an 18 and the page accuses Travis McElroy of lying about his rolls. Griffin is give the title “Much-abused GM.”
There’s even a reward card from Mike Mearls that just lets you become the DM for a minute, which feels like the only possible way to try to capture his deeply chaotic energy
So they saw the “don’t tread on me” flag and assumed it was because someone had battled a giant snake and won, huh
Well… For context Commodore Perry forced open trade with Japan and they had these weird scraps of half translated American history by 1861 that was very odd to a Japanese mind so they stylized it and did the prints for the book making it more or less the Legends of America.
tl;dr this woman was hearing creepy phantom nursery rhymes every night and it turned out to be a local industrial building’s alarm system, being triggered by spiders on the motion detectors
which is all well and good but “we investigated the creepy nursery rhymes, and it turns out it’s spiders” is one hell of a true statement
You left out the best part!
The alarm was at some kind of industrial building, and is apparently SUPPOSED to play creepy nursery rhymes, to deter criminals from breaking in in the middle of the night! It was just turned up too loud, and too sensitive, so it was being triggered by spiders.
That’s some creative theft-deterrent there. If you’re breaking in to a place, you kind of expect to hear a burglar alarm. You’re prepared for that, and you’re prepared to grab and go once it goes off.
But if you hear a creepy kid’s voice singing nursery rhymes at a seemingly abandoned industrial building in the middle of the night, you’re going to shit your pants and get the fuck out, in that order.
Give the guy who thought that up a promotion.
holy shit thay video is terrifying i should not have watched that alone
@copperbadge This seems right up your alley. For the retelling anyway.
I have to admit I had seen the headline several times but figured it was some kind of clickbait because what kind of alarm system plays nursery rhymes, but now I understand THE BEST KIND 😀
The anonymous user posted this image to prompt a discussion on how little episodes of the 14 episode first season of Haruhi you would have to watch in order to watch them in every possible order, repeats included.
The thread eventually reached a working conclusion by divising a formula that would solve for any “n” length sequence. The thread’s findings were compiled on the mathsci wiki and titled “The Haruhi Problem.”
Last Monday (10/22/18), university mathematician Jay Pantone created a more professional looking assessment of their findings here. This lead to academia learning about 4chan’s unique findings and it’s being widely discussed.
The problem now is about credit. 4chan being an anonymous image board, there’s no one to cite for the findings.
So I had a job interview today and there was a dude in the waiting room who was chatting up every AFAB person in the waiting room whether they responded or not, and kept going “Hey I’m real good at Origami Swans you want one?” and then writing his number on sticky notes before making paper cranes and handing them to his latest target before turning his attention to the next lady in his vicinity. A little sad, a lot annoying, but unlikely to be dangerous. Whatever.
Dude gets to me. We have half a conversation where he asks me personal questions and I don’t look up from my phone. I get my “Swan”. I’m the last AFAB person in the room so he’s kinda sitting there.
I get to a post about a friend needing moral and/or spiritual support before a medical procedeure, so my ADHD ass goes Oh hey, we have an animal effigy we could sacrifice to the relevant gods! So I take out my lighter and burn the swan roughly 23 seconds after the dude gave it to me, and crush the ashes in my hand because I belatedly realize there’s no sink for me to throw this in. Oh well. Purell the ashes off.
I look up. Dude, and everyone else in the waiting room is staring at me.
“You, uh. Smoke?” Dude tries.
What I Meant To Say: “No I just carry a lighter as a holdover from survival camp as a kid, and if I’m wearing synthetic fabrics that start to ravel, I can use the flame to melt them a bit so they stop.”
What I Actually Said: “No I just have one in case I need to set something on fire.”
I put the lighter away. The hiring manager comes out and calls my name. I go back and have what I think was a reasonably sucessful job interview. I come back out.
I haven’t been able to get the full video but we just celebrated one of our steam locomotives turning 145 by chucking a chocolate cake into her firebox
-t bread. Just hand you a spoon and let you eat straight from the jar. You heathen.
/all around me are familiar faces plays in the distance
Today’s Davenport deals with dos hungry boys part 1
[image description start! Four achromatic panels featuring Davenport, a mustached gnome, and Taako, a chubby elf. Panel one, Taako looks aloof with his arms crossed saying, “I cook for you for 30 years and now you won’t even give me a single bite of your sandwich. I see how it is Captain.” Panel two reveals Davenport sitting at a counter looking tired while gesturing at the sandwich he’s holding while Taako looks over at him. The two go back and forth. D: “… Taako this is peanut butter.” T: “So?” D: “You’re allergic.” T: “So?” D: “You’ll die.” Panel 3, Taako is half heartedly leaning on the table reaching for the sandwich, while Davenport leans back holding the sandwich up and pushes at Taako’s face to keep him back. Taako whines, “So?? I’ll only – c’mon – be dead for a few months!” Davenport says haltedly, “Taako – I can make – you one – withou-” Panel 4, Davenport and Taako freeze looking done as Magnus, burly human man, has leaned in a taken a bite of the sandwich Davenport had been holding up in the air with a chomp. End description!]
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