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earendel wrote: Sat Nov 20, 2021 10:49 am
Nitpick: D&D is not a board game.
Agreed, though overland campaigns using Avalon Hill hex landscapes came close in my experience.
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earendel wrote: Sat Nov 20, 2021 10:49 am Nitpick: D&D is not a board game.
If you play it around a table, it is.
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earendel wrote: Sat Nov 20, 2021 10:49 am Nitpick: D&D is not a board game.
The term "tabletop games" would probably confuse the average Reader's Digest reader.
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I wish I had thought of this at the time ...

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seaborgium wrote: Sat Nov 20, 2021 9:11 pm
earendel wrote: Sat Nov 20, 2021 10:49 am Nitpick: D&D is not a board game.
If you play it around a table, it is.
I, it’s a tabletop game. I suppose if you use a battlemat and minis it might count.
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earendel wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 6:59 pm
seaborgium wrote: Sat Nov 20, 2021 9:11 pm
earendel wrote: Sat Nov 20, 2021 10:49 am Nitpick: D&D is not a board game.
If you play it around a table, it is.
I, it’s a tabletop game. I suppose if you use a battlemat and minis it might count.
And depending who you play with it could definitely be a bored game
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earendel wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 6:59 pm
seaborgium wrote: Sat Nov 20, 2021 9:11 pm
earendel wrote: Sat Nov 20, 2021 10:49 am Nitpick: D&D is not a board game.
If you play it around a table, it is.
I, it’s a tabletop game. I suppose if you use a battlemat and minis it might count.
"Board" can mean "table"!
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The 11/25 ep. of You Bet Your Life had enough time at the end to bring up an audience member to play one question.

Dakota Johnson's famous dad Don Johnson starred in the 80's TV series, "Miami ____."

(Yes, that is how '80s was written.)

Think of a funny & clueless guess before you look.

What the guy said:
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90210
Fortunately for the contestant it's a spot where Jay is allowed to help and he used a VP reference to all but give away the answer.
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https://www.salon.com/2021/11/27/everyt ... 9-variant/

South Africa appears to have the most confirmed cases of Omicron so far, according to The New York Times. 58 were reportedly concentrated in the bustling province of Gauteng, which is home to the country's capital of Johannesburg...
And there's -three- options to choose from even :roll:
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Time to get this thread back on page one.

Check out today's pizza cutting Google Doodle. It was fun to get to the end even if I lack the proper math/spatial skills.
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MarkBarrett wrote: Mon Dec 06, 2021 10:17 am Time to get this thread back on page one.

Check out today's pizza cutting Google Doodle. It was fun to get to the end even if I lack the proper math/spatial skills.
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18/33 without really trying
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Sliding it over her from LL91:
RandyG wrote: Wed Dec 08, 2021 2:28 pm
classicroadster wrote: Wed Dec 08, 2021 1:43 pm
MinnesotaMyron wrote: Wed Dec 08, 2021 10:50 am
morbeedo wrote: Wed Dec 08, 2021 8:16 am
seaborgium wrote: Wed Dec 08, 2021 2:49 am I didn't remember the Idris Elba show title and let it hang over my head all day.
I knee-jerked to Lucifer, then hit the brakes and realized it was a sounds-like situation - took a full five minutes to pull Luther
I did basically the same, except I started with Preacher. I knew that "...her" was right, so I ran through the alphabet until I got to L.

Does Luther air on TV in the US anywhere, or is Idris Elba just that famous that this will come up? This is the kind of TV question I usually miss.
Pretty sure its on BBC America. I've never seen it but we watch a few BBC shows (Killing Eve in particular) and I've seen the ads there.
It's on BritBox (standalone streaming). If you're into British TV shows -- mystery, cop/detective, soaps/dramas, comedy (British comedy is definitely an acquired taste).... current and going back decades -- it's a find. My wife loves it, and AcornTV too, although I'd say that BritBox is better.
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This is probably too elaborate for the current events thread, but too interesting not to share.

In tree rings and radioactive carbon, signs of the Vikings in North America

Thanks to wood used by Vikings in their Newfoundland settlement, scientists have managed to determine that a few trees they chopped down were felled in 1021. It's long been established, through sagas and archaeology (including carbon dating), that the Norse made it to North America approximately a thousand years ago, but this is the first time a precise date has been determined.

The science behind it was news to me: apparently there was a "cosmic ray event" that caused a worldwide high level of carbon-14 in the atmosphere in 993, which can be found in the rings of trees that were alive at the time. Counting outward from the ring with the spike of radioactivity, they could find the exact year the trees stopped growing. (The trees show evidence of metal tools having been used on them, which is how they're known to be Viking artifacts.)

The article mentions this "cosmic ray event" in passing without further elaboration. Apparently evidence of these things can be found in the rings of (old enough) trees around the world, plus records of what has been inferred to be intense auroral activity dating to late 992 were found in Ireland, Germany, and Korea. The actual event is surmised to have been some sort of solar storm.
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Hrm. I've lost both CBS and FOX now over the air...time to do some antenna maintenance...

Must have changed frequencies. Rescan found them, FOX is back to normal and CBS...exists (like, 50% signal, so crazy blocky. No loss). Fiddling with antenna too much is a dangerous game.
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Volante wrote: Fri Dec 10, 2021 10:43 pm Hrm. I've lost both CBS and FOX now over the air...time to do some antenna maintenance...

Must have changed frequencies. Rescan found them, FOX is back to normal and CBS...exists (like, 50% signal, so crazy blocky. No loss). Fiddling with antenna too much is a dangerous game.
You're still in California, right? My first thought was tornadoes. We had a ton of those last night just east of here (KC area).
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opusthepenguin wrote: Sat Dec 11, 2021 3:47 pm
Volante wrote: Fri Dec 10, 2021 10:43 pm Hrm. I've lost both CBS and FOX now over the air...time to do some antenna maintenance...

Must have changed frequencies. Rescan found them, FOX is back to normal and CBS...exists (like, 50% signal, so crazy blocky. No loss). Fiddling with antenna too much is a dangerous game.
You're still in California, right? My first thought was tornadoes. We had a ton of those last night just east of here (KC area).
Yep. Just maintenance on their end.

https://www.foxla.com/news/rescan-your- ... sting-kttv
On Thursday, December 9 at 10:00 a.m. PT, KTTV, Los Angeles, California will begin to broadcast in a new digital format called ATSC 3.0. We will also continue to broadcast in the current format, so that you will still be able to watch FOX programming over the air on your current television set, but you will need to rescan your television set on December 9, 2021 after 10:00 a.m. PT in order to continue receiving that broadcast.
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Volante wrote: Sat Dec 11, 2021 4:13 pm
opusthepenguin wrote: Sat Dec 11, 2021 3:47 pm
Volante wrote: Fri Dec 10, 2021 10:43 pm Hrm. I've lost both CBS and FOX now over the air...time to do some antenna maintenance...

Must have changed frequencies. Rescan found them, FOX is back to normal and CBS...exists (like, 50% signal, so crazy blocky. No loss). Fiddling with antenna too much is a dangerous game.
You're still in California, right? My first thought was tornadoes. We had a ton of those last night just east of here (KC area).
Yep. Just maintenance on their end.

https://www.foxla.com/news/rescan-your- ... sting-kttv
On Thursday, December 9 at 10:00 a.m. PT, KTTV, Los Angeles, California will begin to broadcast in a new digital format called ATSC 3.0. We will also continue to broadcast in the current format, so that you will still be able to watch FOX programming over the air on your current television set, but you will need to rescan your television set on December 9, 2021 after 10:00 a.m. PT in order to continue receiving that broadcast.
Huh. Didn't know anybody was moving to 3.0 already.
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alietr wrote: Sat Dec 11, 2021 7:28 pm Didn't know anybody was moving to 3.0 already.
I didn't know this until looking it up just now, but Clevelanders got ATSC 3.0 as early as the 2016 World Series for 4K UHD broadcast.
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alietr wrote: Sat Dec 11, 2021 7:28 pm
Volante wrote: Sat Dec 11, 2021 4:13 pm
opusthepenguin wrote: Sat Dec 11, 2021 3:47 pm
Volante wrote: Fri Dec 10, 2021 10:43 pm Hrm. I've lost both CBS and FOX now over the air...time to do some antenna maintenance...

Must have changed frequencies. Rescan found them, FOX is back to normal and CBS...exists (like, 50% signal, so crazy blocky. No loss). Fiddling with antenna too much is a dangerous game.
You're still in California, right? My first thought was tornadoes. We had a ton of those last night just east of here (KC area).
Yep. Just maintenance on their end.

https://www.foxla.com/news/rescan-your- ... sting-kttv
On Thursday, December 9 at 10:00 a.m. PT, KTTV, Los Angeles, California will begin to broadcast in a new digital format called ATSC 3.0. We will also continue to broadcast in the current format, so that you will still be able to watch FOX programming over the air on your current television set, but you will need to rescan your television set on December 9, 2021 after 10:00 a.m. PT in order to continue receiving that broadcast.
Huh. Didn't know anybody was moving to 3.0 already.
Looks like all of the Orlando-area stations already have it (and a hundred-ish other).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATSC_3.0# ... n_ATSC_3.0
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