The hobo code and hobo nickels made it into the game too. It was fairly comprehensive.

John Hodgman wrote the book The Areas of My Expertise, which has a list of hobo names for some bizarre reason.

Kingdom of Loathing, in making a multi-player clan hobo dungeon, used that list of names as a random hobo name generator, and then named the boss of the whole place Hodgman, the Hoboverlord.

I went to a standup show where Hodgman was supposed to do a set and he had cancelled, replaced with Brian Posehn. Brian was also awesome but I really wanted to tell John Hodgman how he inadvertently saved my life.

Now the details of how you get that specific item are even weirder but I’m done phone typing.

I once helped someone get a Hodgman’s Imaginary Hamster and in return he gifted me a few IRL pot plants (Super Lemon Haze, a damn good strain) that I used to pull myself and my Dad out of a pit.

Game inadvertently saved our lives, and I still haven’t gotten to thank John Hodgman.

(Yes, the game is that insane and silly. Getting that damn hamster requires at least 10 people working together.)

Very good and very silly game.

To prove it’s safe, he will have… Don Jr do a line in a live conference.

Games have been around the $50-$70 mark my entire life.

It’s a sad reality, but I expect prices of major mainstream games to go up, regardless of tariffs.

For me it was universal from the get go. My parents told me there’s a whole lot of religions all around the world and I thought “Well then all of them must be wrong.”

It’s expressed as anti-Christianity because that’s the one that affects my daily life.

Yeah, sorry about that. I work for an insurance company, but not for much longer. (Not that I ever made that worse for you, I am/was in collections.)

Players: “What about that item you gave us in the third session but never used? This must be what it was for all along, right?”

DM to self: What the hell are they talking about?

Absolutely, mileage will vary, so do your research.

Mine got me a mortgage when nobody else was lending. Got my wife the house she’d always wanted, her grandma’s place. I’d been a member for more than a decade by that point. The mortgage wasn’t even through them, they found us the lender, so they at best got a referral fee.

Move your shit to a credit union. They are far more forgiving.

Lawsuits will not beat fascists.

Hey, congrats!

That had to have been a huge relief, finally getting the transplant you needed.

I’m seething, but that isn’t all that useful, I need to find a more productive way to be.

Hopefully we will get there. But we have to build before we can break down.

If that victory is won, and I do believe it can be, then we can rebuild better than before.

With climate change and everything else we face, can we realistically pull through? Fuck if I know, but this is literally the fight of our lives and futures. We have to unite, no matter how angry we are at various leftist factions.

Me? I assumed women would unify for their right to bodily autonomy. Since they didn’t I don’t dismiss them but hope to bring them into the fold, because they’re needed and do not want to live as Handmaids, for one example.

Okay, fair. But we need to be allies in this. I don’t know where to start either but I want us to pull out of it somehow.

Help build us up, please, and not tear us down. I apologize for discounting you. We can only move forward if we unify, and the left is goddamned bad at that.

There’s no useful discussion to be had from you. You’re just looking for a fight.

I’m tired of reddit refugees coming here and bringing that attitude.

I’m an American who has never had that bravado, has always voted against this bullshit, and even online we get spat upon when we are the ones who will somehow have to overcome the largest military on the planet.

Fucking hell, try being, I dunno, useful or supportive. If we fail here, you’ll face the consequences. That’s the sad reality.

I once saw a conspiracy documentary about that bombing. The theory was that the reason the damage was so bad is that the shockwave detonated improperly stored C4.

I’ve always been curious if that was true. It would in no way exonerate McVeigh, of course. But it’s interesting.

Well not annually.

Worth reading, though! I giggled the whole way through.

If the mayor is pro-AI, then the city’s actual citizens are in for a ride.