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Either ambient instrumental music (lots of Brian Eno) or any music that I know all the words to (so that my brain doesn’t have to actively process the lyrics).

I’m not sure if this is sarcastic, since I have neighbors just like this. (I hope it is sarcastic)

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I guess I found my hill:

If you are worried about your sentence leaving ambiguity for your pronouns, then write a better sentence.

A great album. I’d probably put IKSSE3 barely above it since it was my entry point to Coheed (you never forget your first).

Agreed. For an example of station id happening at slightly off times, listen to a live sports broadcast (like baseball). Due to the shorter time between pitches, station id will instead happen between batters, which won’t line up with any given time.

Same thing with hockey, where radio station id will happen when the clock stops.

“Maximum Overdrive” for me.

Also, great call on Megaforce.

The fourth ending is just a red herring.

The Eye of Sauron the Terrible few could endure.

For anyone in RHEL / Fedora land (or using dnf somewhere else), try dnf needs-restarting to list executables that have mismatched files on disk vs memory. The -r flag will hint if a reboot is needed (due to things like kernel or glibc changes)

The gate crew often gets graded on how quickly they complete boarding, so don’t be surprised when your plane’s “full” overhead compartments are half empty. Stupid job metrics strike again.

The Forever War - Joe Haldeman A fantastic novel on the pointlessness of war, told through the lens of space opera / sci-fi

Remembering things is the primary purpose of the check, but sometimes how you’re applying it might require an alternative skill check to make sense. Here are some examples (from https://rpgbot.net/dnd5/characters/impractical-skill-checks/ ):

Wisdom – Consoling and counselling a creature through a crisis of faith could be done with a Wisdom (Religion) check.

Charisma – Proselytizing for a faith makes more sense as a Charisma (Religion) check than a Charisma (Persuasion) check.

It sounds like you need to force more discussion in session 0 talks (or earlier). Do you want an RP-light, fairly linear game? Great! You’re not alone. But everyone at your table needs to agree to that, or at least one of you is not having a good time.

I like a good hack and slash dungeon crawl. I also like RP heavy games. But those are two very different games, and it’s good to have consistency within whatever game you’re playing.

In 5e, the more problematic part of a paladin making holy water here is the use of 25gp worth of powdered silver in the liquid (which doesn’t actually hurt them more in 5e, just in classical folklore)

This reminds me a little of “A Tale in the Desert”.

“Contact” for a similar reason. It’s a mix of all motivations, along with people’s general mistrust of each other.

Password rotation for your “emergency” system account (the one that shouldn’t be root) still needs to be rotated every time someone with access leaves or changes job roles.

I mostly liked it, but it did one thing I dislike in prequel movies: attempt to explain everything. It isn’t quite as bad as the train chase from Indiana Jones and the last crusade which tries to explain all of Indy’s quirks and wardrobe choices in a 10 minute scene… But that felt like the gist of the movie to me.