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I hope they don't go away. I dig going into GC when I'm out and about, but I dig going into all music stores, and their used section is always a fun way to roll the dice.

Dear Diary, The family started the 5E Humblewood campaign after finishing Lost Mine of Phandelver and I think they are sufficiently hooked on D&D. I'm not using Fantasy Grounds for this (and I'm itching to try 4.0 for a campaign!) since there is no Humblewood FG module (though there is one in Roll20, but alas), so I'm going to be doing more theater of the mind for this one and see how they like it. My inclination is that they'll like it a lot. I'll report back. Just look at those cute heroes.

Marvel Champions has been my first LCG. I can see how these things become a problem. Between monthly releases and Etsy, it can get out of hand pretty damn quick. I can only imagine how this will be when they start producing decks for heroes and villains I actually give a damn about... Been playing this solo game, too. Everything Lost is a very small production run (200 copies) zombie apocalypse survival game out of the Netherlands that uses a very clever action card system. It drips with theme and each of four chapters in the campaign plays in about 45 minutes. If you have a change to play Pax Pamir, especially the 2nd edition, you should. If you like contentious multi-player tableau-builders with many opportunities to flip the board, it'll be up your alley. The designer, Cole Wehrle of Root fame and a Lifetime Longhorn, took a lot of time to include painstaking historical detail. Things like the zero sum nature of the economy of the time (19th century Afganistan) is reflected in the economy of the game. I enjoy reading the factoids about the historical figures as much as I like using them to assassinate a character in a rival player's court. Neat stuff! And for more family fun, Calico is a cat-themed game that plays like trying to solve about 7 different puzzles at one time. It's easy to learn, difficult to master. The only interaction is possibly taking a tile from the market that someone else might want - so it's a great game if you want to keep it PG. Also played a bit of Smartphone KS Edition which feels like a more simple Food Chain Magnate. But, unlike FCM, it isn't murder on the eyes. And I introduced Raiders of the North Sea to the in-laws. We played with all the expansions and a great time was had by all. Side note: The official neoprene mat is the most vibrant neoprene play surface of any I've seen, period. It's on sale right now in the Garphill store if you're interested. One of our favorite genres is whodunnits. We're going through the base game of Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game and after finishing the base cases in Detective: City of Angels we've started the first expansion Bullets Over Hollywood, with the expansion that just came out, Smoke and Mirrors, waiting on the shelf. And now, dear reader, you are pretty much caught up.

Great vid. Couldn't find a better host for that than Marty Stewart, imo. But they couldn't tell that dude who played Randy Travis' guitar to take off his jewelry? That stuff scratches like no other. Hearing it clang on the body of the guitar was traumatizing. Side note, The War and Treaty were just on ACL. They killed it, apparently. Should air this weekend. https://www.austin360.com/entertainment/20201111/war-and-treaty-lights-up-rsquoaustin-city-limitsrsquo-with-heart-and-soul?utm_source=SND&utm_medium=Twitter&utm_campaign=austin360

Never let it be said that Boom ever shyed away from defending the veracity of obvious sarcasm. You can install Reaper for free and fix drum mis-hits on day 1. By day 3 you'll be fixing bad notes in your guitar solo. Give it a couple of months and you can join the army of guitar "virtuosos" on YouTube who produce petabytes of sticky sweet error-free guitar playing. Rando chick in pajamas singing on her bed historically didn't have a cheap way to do the same. Now chicks in pajamas singing on their beds can. Democratization son. We haven't had "as played" pop music for decades now. You can disagree and think this is different and AutoTune is an affront to real musicianship, but you're going to just be arguing degrees. And "since the dawn of time" was clearly a reference to the cave paintings in Southern France depicting a Neanderthal music producer cheating like a motherfucker with a tape splicer.

Posting the vid wasn't to get into a convo about the sanctity, or more the complete and total lack thereof, of pop music. Someone just posted a down the middle cover of Dreams so I figured it was more about the hot lead singer than the forgettable rendition of the song. I was just offering the brunette with the killer smile. That vid works just as well on mute, boo the hypocritical provincialities.

The democratization of this technology has finally allowed us to do with voices what we've been doing with instruments since the dawn of creation, or somewhere thereabouts. For all you pure bloods, don't ever read a book about a favorite or admired singer if that singer lived and recorded since the 90s or your entire worldview's gonna have to go flying out the window. (For me, the come to Jesus moment was Reba McEntire.)

True, it is a song released in the last 30 years.

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Worth a watch: (That null test tho)

Squadrons on the Oculus was a hit with the kids. I, however, am quite old and damn near threw up twice.

My copy arrived and this thing is something else. It's biblical, but with much better pictures. $36 on Amazon right now and I mean come on. That's a silly good price for what you get.

I'm shocked that Saban doesn't coddle his players. Shocked.

I have that 1st ed Monster Manual and the artwork inside looks like it was done by Napoleon Dynamite. It's awesome.

I'd rank them Mayer, Hula, Simon.

Yeah, I set alerts, but damn..

Never gets old. Even stared at the indention it made in the case top for a little bit.

If not Urban Meyer, who cares? Fify

Knew it was imminent but that didn't seem to help. This sucks in a profound way. RIP

One of these day we are going to need to have a serious talk with Deej about his unresolved issues with one Stephen Ray Vaughan. We will overcome this together. We must.

Clearly a gift for creating band names, yet stuck with "Beastie Boys." #bottling

Oh, the relic'ing possibilities!

My daughter sick, dying, and you offer me coupon!?!?!?