I’m in the Midwest, where we really have long had wild fluctuations in the weather day to day - think snowfall in the morning in early May followed by 60°F in the afternoon. I’m on the eastern half of Kansas, so there’s a lot of open land to the west for big weather patterns to bounce around, and not a lot of bodies of water to moderate things.

I’ve had better luck commenting on trends rather than days: “Loving all this nice weather the last few weeks!” “Yeah, but honestly, it’s kinda unnerving to have it in January…”

Eh, that seems to suggest it’s entertainment for or about misers, rather than misery

There’s flattering photos of him?

More seriously, what photos is he even objecting to?

Crossed my mind, but felt a little too close to what they’d do.

Figured going after their money sources with this might be more effective for them, anyway

Start with the elected officials who passed this, and their local donors!

I’m assuming each challenge needs resolved separately, right?

Well, sure - the times it turned out fine don’t make for an interesting story!

Wait… It just verifies the age of whoever initially activated the device? Which might predate the bill, implying a long activation time?

Do the authors of this bill even live with children? Cuz they sure aren’t actually dealing with their device usage

Texas has changed a bit since I was there last…

Also Heathcliff

That makes sense - I’d always assumed they did it so people wouldn’t trip all over a pronunciation style they’re not used to

This is amazing

How do you feel about something like Fury Road, where they make a point of including practical effects?

I remember kids would try to sell each other a pass to get to the second floor of one of our one-story buildings; I wonder if the pool rumor started as a similar joke/scam

Well they aren’t meant to be an ID.

Mine still has that expressly printed on the back, “NOT A VALID FORM OF IDENTIFICATION” or something like that.

Why must you always exacerbate the ducks?!

Okay, that makes more sense. Thanks for the clarification!

Wait, yours doesn’t say that?

Hah, I accidentally did this!

Party was following up on a report about a missing person. They slipped into a mansion, and I described numerous automaton guards patrolling the hallways and watching choke points. I also mentioned offhand that they could hear a machine upstairs somewhere, very slowly building to a crescendo.

I intended this to be a stealth mission, where they would suborn a few guards, get eyes on the target, and preposition themselves to enact a rescue. No, as soon as they “heard” the machine, they tried to talk past the first guards, and when that failed, blitzed their way through the whole mansion, under heavy fire, figuring out where to find the hostage based on what parts of the house had the most guards!

It was absolutely my fault for accidentally making it seem more urgent than I intended, but I found it hilarious, and they had a blast!

(Edit) It wasn’t a machine noise, they were hearing a recorded message from another room, over a mechanical thrumming - I forget the details, but it was something about “(suspect) is your friend, you should trust (suspect)”, over and over. I intended to mention that they could hear the hostage clearly resisting, but got distracted - so they decided the hostage was already succumbing to mind control.

The GURPS equivalent of D&D/Pathfinder starts you out at the equivalent of level 5-7 by default. There’s options for lower powered delvers, but the default assumption is that people want to play established characters.

Iirc, there’s speculation that neanderthals needed something like 3000 calories per day just to sustain themselves.

We may have just survived because we can go leaner.