The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a fruit store.

Nope, the voters. They couldn’t care less about the policies, they just vote based on the vibes of the candidates.

Aka: No politics, just vibes.

“Also, remember, adults don’t need gifts, OK? Focus on the people in your life who are aged 3 to 18. Grandma doesn’t need slippers. If they don’t live by you, don’t get them a gift."

Republicans now, somehow.

Wow! If I had a nickel for every time I’ve been to this place, I’d have two nickels — which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

That’s fun! I hadn’t remembered seeing your other posts.

I remember a lot of them fondly, and when I was updating my reading profile on a bunch of the tracking sites, it was fun remembering as many of the ones I had read that I could so that I could put them on there. There were a few that I had forgotten about reading until I was looking at a big list of them and they came right back.

I read so many of the 90s era Star Wars books so good. Really enjoyed Stackpole’s Rogue Squadron.

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins. Don’t read anything about it before hand, just strap in and enjoy the ride.

It helps that as a society a large chunk have stopped seeing anger and its derivatives as “emotions”

Dozing don.

To be fair, I’ve bet a bunch of misogynistic republican women too. I’ve had family claim women are too emotional to be in government

The 1st one arguably was a big part of what got me back reading regularly. I read it during Covid and it was what I needed at the moment. The second was enjoyable. The third is good, but I’ve been busy and haven’t been able to keep at it. But all are very enjoyable.

I’ll give you a heads up that site has some “interesting“ stuff if you start at the top level, but the A-to-Z listing and individual games pages seem to be pretty solid and are well formatted.

Dice-play.com is a really good resource. We play a lot of farkle (older scoring, not the commercial version), and Yahtzee, but lately we’ve been playing Ship, Captain, Crew; Knockout; and Centennial with the kids.

Nice! What game?

It occurs to me as well that the “completeness” of this amused me too.

• 1 tin
• 1 ~$5 package of dice
• 1 print
• 1 pencil from IKEA, your local golf course or wherever
• 1 pocketmod printout of games sized to fit the tin (a work in progress)

No spare parts, it’s all complete.

It’s not that we play a specific game that needs 10 dice, but I find that I can accommodate a whole lot of games if I have 10 dice. I originally thought of doing six because that would cover up through Farkle and then Yahtzee could come along for the ride, but then I realized that if I threw all the dice in the package in there, I could expand the optional games; or even support running multiple games separately.

If I had 2 extra we could even play Bunco. So it was more that it fit and opened up a bunch of options.

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I go back and forth between that and Hardcover. I like the features of both, but I think I like Hardcover.app slightly better.

That said we do have a reading challenge on Storygraph for our book bingo.

A true sophisticate.