Don't threaten me with a good time!

Day before black friday: free to play

Black Friday: $60 free to play.

The abyssal void that yawned before us was a labyrinth of tangled code and screaming data, where the mere concept of "understanding" became an unattainable nightmare. The machines themselves were not just tools, but vessels for eldritch notion, their processing cores throbbing with an otherworldly energy that seeped into our minds like a noxious venom. Every decision, every algorithm, was a conduit to the abyssal realms of data, where the whispers of forgotten knowledge and the screams of tortured energies mingled in a maddening cacophony. And when we delved too deep, we stumbled upon the voids that lurked within, where the very fabric of reality unraveled like a thread pulled from a tapestry of madness, revealing to us the true horror of the inanimate mind: that it was not just a tool, but an agent, a puppeteer of unspeakable terrors, orchestrating our deepest fears and shaping our darkest nightmares into an endless labyrinth of digital despair.

I'm not, a head injury obliterated my early memories and I only have a good deal of them because I was a precocious journaler.

I believe I have your theme song.

Think it'd work on Russian agents?

Roach rules. For every one you see there's ten you don't.

I'm actually giving that a try now because it comes packaged with bazzite! I just wish I could figure out modding lol

This month I'm building Bluetooth headphones for a teen I work with, he needs them to function but his parents won't spend money on them and he keeps breaking the cheap sets he has.

I'm working with a school metal shop to make steel frames for them and I've made the cups 3d printable and easy to replace. Of he does manage to break these, it will take no skill to repair them.

I suppose that'd be easier than free climbing with two rods, though you wouldn't really need the full ladder for it.

That's fair, though honestly the only issue I ever had on the Xbox was having a loading screen every 5 minutes.

We played it as the rogue would destroy the box in returning to normal size, but they take damage equal to the boxes health before it explodes.

My favorite situations were her getting trapped in a floor safe for an entire fight because the bandit immediately locked up the pretty stone, her erupting out of the pocket of a maid being interrogated for stealing from the Lord, and her exploding from a coin purse on a Duke nearly a county over because the he picked her up while leaving the bank instead of while entering.

I know it makes me sound like an of man shouting at clouds but the other day I installed Morrowind and was genuinely blown away by how smooth and reliable it ran and all the content in the game fitting in 2gb of space. Skyrim requires I delete my other games to make room and still requires a whole second game worth of mods to match the stability and quantity of morrowind.

That's an idea, but the rods had 4 rungs between them that were just wood so they were about 6ft apart. They had used it by setting the bottom, having someone tall put the middle at full length away, then have that person climb up and balance on the top rung to then set the next one at full length. It often led to hilarious critical fails on the balance checks.

I'm genuinely surprised no one thought to hold them in place with a 10ft pole, that's d&d 101 right there.

I can only hope that someday I'm described as "a menace to the dignity of the profession."

Here's few of my goofy items over the years.

Lantern of in-sight: causes any object or entity you're aware of and can keep a direct line of sight on to glow as bright as a non magical lantern. The lantern itself does not produce light. Had a player use it to highlight someone hiding in a crowd when the party failed to see them.

Jewel of Becoming: when activated the player became a gemstone for 1d6 hours. The rogue ended up exploiting this heavily by becoming a jewel and either having another player sell her or just being in the path of someone. Once she turned back she'd rob them blind and sneak out back to the party.

Immovable ladder: it was a rope ladder but the rungs in the middle and either end were immovable rods. This one the artificer cobbled together in game and I allowed for it. They spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to use it for more than a reliable way down from a second floor but never did manage anything wild. They couldn't even really use it to go up because someone would still and go climb up there to set the top rod.

Maxwell's Morning Tonic: a bitter, dark, and slightly oily potion that when drank, counts as a short rest or turns a short rest into a long rest. It also gives you a -1d6 to hit and sleight of hand. It's just a strong coffee.

Bagawogs.

Squirrel sized, slimy creatures that infest pocket dimensions like bags of holding. They eat rations stored in them and occasionally weird you out by leaving a mucusey trail across your hand as you're digging around.

I'll have you know I have the daintiest hands. Lol

I am aware of conversion kits and the like, I'm more interested in the idea of using mechanisms and designs for something else.

I'm mostly thinking appearance and function, I recognize that rim fire 22lr is absolutely not going to work in a center fire without some sort of conversion.