Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 20hFar more likely would be war between US and Mexico becuase some R admin thinks Sicario is real. 030
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 20hMy take away from seeing it in theaters is the ending could only be written by someone who had been as privileged as Spielberg for as long as he has been. 110
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I hate the clear bags for major events. I don't have an issue with them being clear, I get nettled by the approved sizes being so mall, and me being so big, I look like I mugged a small child for their backpack whenever I bring one. 230
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 13/10/2026That's because Pathfinder 1E is just D&D 3.5, and wotc was intentionally moving away from how complex that is. 170
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 12/10/2026This. Tech hiring is directly related to interest rates, but it sounds a lot better for your business to say it was AI, rather than, "interest rates made the free money spigot turn off, so we needed to cut people we didn't need to hire." 170
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 11/10/2026If he does retire, it's probably Keenan Thompson taking over. The dude has been doing sketch comedy since he was a child, and has no intention of abandoning it to do movies and the like. He gets the show probably better than anyone there other than Lorne. 140
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 11/10/2026FBA stands for Foundational Black Americans. It means descendants of slavery, and if I recall correctly, was created by Black conservatives to differentiate themselves from African immigrants. You also see it in some of the more recent cults. 2110
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Did you see that Google is offering VIP tickets to the LA show to their whales for 50,000 play points. At their highest tier of whale, that is the points for spending over $30,000. Reminded me of Fan Duel and Draft Kings sending their whales to sports games. 010
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I know what I am sneaking into the next fancy drinking event I get invited to. 110
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Mine has multiple comments about my glue purchases. Apparently not everyone stared bulk purchasing their model glue when there were shortages during the pandemic. 000
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I think some of the reviews come down to it being a multi level satire, and some reviewers taking parts pointed at people like them personally. 080
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I think some of it may also be extended use of micro posting sites, like this one. We have done a lot of, "what word doesn't need to be here to fit the character limit?" It seems to have spread to other written communication. 320
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Did you catch earlier this summer when FGO launched an official discord, and had to emergency lock it down within 12 hour while they begged for moderators? 010
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Yeah, at home or school it is fine. Where I was most busy as a judge was grey areas, like, comic con gaming areas. Lots of, "hey man, that is cool at home, but we don't do that in sanctioned events. Please don't make me fill out paper work, let's all have fun." Still sanctioned, but not comp. 010
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026That was the worst do deal with as a judge. The "hey, stop that, you are trying to reduce variance," vs "why does it matter, if I shuffle adequately?" Like, I get a lot of it was superstition, but a lot of players insisted they needed to do the set up to cheat to feel good about the coming game. 110
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Came out 5 days before me. One of my most watched movies ever.static.klipy.comOptimus Prime Jay Transformers The MovieALT: Optimus Prime Jay Transformers The Movie 110
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026In retrospect, I think part of the reason I consider Annihilation to be the perfect crossover event was how it was released. The prologue month 1, then 4 months of tie ins, then 6 of main event after the tie ins were done, then the epilogue book. No way for release order spoilers. 010
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Cable and Deadpool's Civil War crossover spoiled Goliath's death a week or two before that issue came out. If I remember correctly, one of the Thunderbolts tie in issues spoiled Spider-Man publicly unmasking. 110
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I think the best interpretation of sci-fi/fantasy British Empire was still the Cardassians in DS9. 020
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I think in this case, it might be because he started as a The Young Turks contributor, which does seem to be a common starts as lefty, but got brainworms, vector. 110
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Yeah, sorry, but pushing car safety features doesn't make up for gutting state capacity. Nader is the primary reason every city is in a housing crisis, and no public projects get built. He is responsible for any group with a good enough lawyer having an effective veto over the public good. 0231
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Yeah, the family member I have in a situation like this was told by the shelter the dog was a german shepard mix, only to discover when it was older, that the dog was a Belgian Melinois. Half the back yard is fenced off to keep it away from other animals it has hurt. 010
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Some troops did that even earlier. When my cub scout troop leader gave me a Unitarian Universalist related medal in defiance of national leadership in the 90s, that lead to conversations among the parents about the rules, and the decision was made to quietly let girls in, and not tell leadership. 111
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I have a family member who is stuck in a pissfingers situation. The shelter lied about the breed, turns out he was a belgian malinois mix, not a german shepard mix. Now half the backyard is fenced off to keep him away from the other animals he has injured, and he has to wear a muzzle around kids. 150
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I for one, am hoping for Wilfred Nancy as his replacement. 110
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I have had it happen once, the offending shirt was a deep red, and was being washed for the first or second time. 030
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I still like the end of the Young Avengers run with Loki in it, where Kate asks if she is the only straight member of the team, and the rest of the team asks if she is sure she is. 070
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Something hilarious about a scalper calling themselves a secondary distributor. There is a such thing as a secondary distributor in games distribution. It is not a scalper. Trying to make himself sound like the middleman companies who sell to shops not large enough to deal with manufacturers. 000
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Me when Dark Heresy comes out, and I have to wait a year or more for it to be complete or playable. 000
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This is kind of every competitive game, not just Pokemon. Like, older magic formats are described as a collection of R&D's biggest mistakes for a reason. 030
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026In my family's case, it was more fear of guns than general moral panic. Around the time I was born, the police shot a kid in the apartment building we lived in for carrying a toy gun. So, it was no toy guns, no matter how unrealistic looking, no shooter games, nothing that could hint at a repeat. 050
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This is surprisingly common. My mom was the same way. In some cases, if the game was allowed or not came down to, "can you see the guns of the giant robot shooting when you pilot it." She really didn't want games teaching us to shoot people. She never thought I would get my hands on nukes irl. 150
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Oof, and they had the mana to cast it through your seige. Bad beats. 010
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026 I am guessing you won. From the board state, it looks like you just play your Kaheera and jam in with everything, and they can take that for maybe one turn before they have to start sacrificing blockers, while you keep full defenses up. 120
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I always go back to my Saudi roommate who refused to stop driving drunk. Even after our other roommates and I explained the danger to himself and others, and the legal consequences, he kept repeating, "it's cool, I'm Saudi." Ass knew that he would be pulled out with no consequences if he fucked up. 110
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Because the ogl has bene a disaster for game design, as everyone just riffs on DnD because the structure is free for use, and players have become so accustomed to it, they refuse to learn anything else. 010
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026To be fair, judging from the demos I played, the creators don't understand the rules either. 060
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Did you ever go to the Initial D cafe in SoCal before their lease wasn't renewed? It was cool seeing the real life versions of all the cars. 001
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026My income is about 4 times what is was when I graduated college in the late 2000s. I still balk at paying twice as much for McDonald's as I did then, becuase in my mind a value meal should be less than $10. 150
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I am not saying there is. I am saying the theory is a psychological thing that is driving it. It's just the specific psychological thing sounds kind of dumb when you say it out loud, even if I can look at instances where is has applied to me. 160
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026A theory I have seen that is stupid at first glance, but may have legs, it has to do with a number of cheap purchases now costing over $10. The burrito still costs the same or less portion of your income, but you need to hand over a larger bill to pay. It's a psychological thing breaking people. 7332
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It's almost like there was a panel at AX where editors for a few of the major stateside manga publishers talked about actively pursuing undeserved audiences, and actively checking AO3 rankings for leads on what to license. 030
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I think Treize is also in the running for most sane. 010
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I think my biggest problem with the concept of Roko's Basilisk and all these AI apocalypse fears is, why would some kind of machine god care about us? Why wouldn't it peace out and leave in search of new data or something? 000
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026They think if they rush it along, it might be nice to the people who developed it, is the short version. Despite the name, these are not rational beliefs, and the believe them religiously. 020
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Given where the problem tech people end up, my alternative would be to build a wall sealing off burning man, then seed the clouds above for rain. 020
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I originally thought the trend was a riff on ultimate Spider Woman being a gender swapped clone of Peter. Who ends up dating Peter's best friend, Johnny Storm. 030
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Today, 9/11, is my mom's birthday. I get a lot of joke mileage out of that. Biggest birthday candles ever. 000
Rob Pait @sharkticon.bsky.social · 11/09/202625 years ago today, Osama Bin Laden gave my mom the two biggest birthday candles on Earth. 000
