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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • The classics are good, Crazy 8’s, Go Fish (which is better reversed, where you can see other people’s hands but not your own), Egyptian Ratscrew, President/Scum, and so on, but I genuinely enjoy Mao the most.

    Between the simple quality of the base rules and the fascinating depth, deduction, and memory puzzle as the game progresses… It’s wonderful. Sadly, too many people choose to play the game as an inside joke or gatekeeping game, whereas the game is best played with a more teaching role at heart. Still penalize for failure to follow rules, but enunciate why and be deliberate about it, so they have a chance to learn from their mistakes, or others’!


  • Perhaps there was some confusion or miscommunication here. I’m not asking to convert him to my religion, make him “more liberal”, get him to be a mini-me, make my work life “easier” by making him more “standable” or anything like that. I am personally able to work just fine with the kid as it is, and have no professional issues with them.

    I do not feel I have any sort of agenda I’m pushing, I just see them exhibiting misogynistic behaviors and drifting towards a subgroup that’s known for mass shootings, and I think I can in any way help prevent him from going that route.


  • Some other community members have picked out good introductory episodes that don’t have too many in-jokes, especially because with all podcasts they get better as they go on and so the earlier episodes while not bad are not as good as the current stuff. However, my suggestion would still be to start at the beginning and work from there. It’s not the sort of podcast you have to stay up to date on or else you’ll miss out, so just take your time with it, let it fill in the lulls between your other podcasts’ releases, and you’ll catch up in no time!





  • I mostly listen to the Rooster Teeth podcasts, so here goes:

    FaceJam is a podcast that nominally is about trying every new (limited time) fast food creation to see if you should try it too, but it’s more a comedy podcast where they talk about their encounters with staff/public at the restaurant, tell jokes about fast food, etc. 10/10 would recommend.

    RTP (their official rooster teeth podcast) is something like 900 episodes long, but all of that can be discounted if you want for their more recent (i.e. like four episodes ago) change of hosts and format to three incredibly funny comedians and writers who just wanna tell you their jokes, and they nail it. 9/10

    Lastly, if you just want something bonkers the fuckface podcast is a podcast with three hosts best described as a lot of Lore About Nothing. It goes in wild tangents and has some of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard in it, but it’s quite funny… Albeit hard to look up or talk about with others.





  • Huh, that’s an interesting route to take. I worry it’ll become too similar to the trap of “pink isn’t a girl’s color, it’s actually a boy’s color and they switched in the XX’th century and it’s the color of blood so it’s manly” that I’ve seen a lot of people fall into (kicking myself because I was one of them). It’s not a bad step to be in, in that it helps normalize normally “feminine” actions/dress/etc. as things men can wear, but it’s also just… still gendered unnecessarily?

    To be clear, I haven’t watched it yet and still intend to, I just worry about that from your description of it.



  • I definitely do some level of this but I can step it up for sure. I’m the only guy in my position and while I have about five years of experience on any of them I respect them all and give them the same deference they do me, we’re one big team and all in the same position, nobody’s anybody’s boss in any way.

    I don’t talk about my wife enough though, I could do that and hopefully at the same time counter the “boomer humor” comic sorts of jokes





  • None of my bookstores have journals or ink! You’re very lucky wherever you live, I have to order all my stuff online.

    I’m a game developer so I’m frequently in front of a computer and take a lot of notes that way, but nothing quite feels the same as a nice fountain pen, and anecdotally I feel like I do recall things I handwrite a lot better than those I type.

    …for memory retention though it can go either way really, because if you handwrite it you just remember it better, but if you type it up you have it instantly indexable searchable wherever so remembering it isn’t as important because you can find it immediately.