My pal growing up had a dad that repaired arcade games. He had one of these in his garage a while. It was glorious!
I’ll never forget Aerosmith tossing the keys to you through the TV screen - “if you’re watching this, they’ve taken us” or whatever. Perfectly cheesy, wannabe-Duke-Nukem stuff. Love it.
This is some classic 80’s stuff!
I love the dark, fantastic, and scantily-clad imagery right next to those gems that look very much like Dungeons and Dragons dice. It feels like a little treat for the true nerds that could see it for what it is - as if to say “yeah, we got the art to draw in more normies, but this is for the DnD crowd, babay!”
Thanks for posting :)
Not me! But that’s only because I can’t roll for shit.
Looks real good, man!
Also, way to take a nice picture, man. Framed it real well.
There's a lot to it! But I think I have a good start....
In DnD, you and a group of people are imagining things + crafting a story together.
As a player, you can be any type of character in this story, though there are often boundaries that depend on the group (for instance, youre unlikely to be a 43 year old human computer programmer with a hobby of collecting faberge eggs if the story you're taking part in happens to be in a Lord Of the Rings' Middle Earth-style world - instead, you might be a svelt dwarf with a peculiar love of elven music).
You determine what your player does in a variety of situations, from mundane to fantastical. If there's something you'd like to do, there's a way to do it that's (somewhat) balanced and fair for everyone else participating. For instance, you can't just declare you're the strongest and destroy all of the goblins - you have to prove that by rolling dice. Players interact according to guidelines and rulesets.
One of the people in your group acts as the Dungeon Master. Ideally, they essentially control everything else about the game - the setting (they'll describe the city you're in, how a cavern wall feels cool to the touch, the scars on the face of an orc you've battled before, the enormity of rhe giant in the distance, etc) and, when interacting with aspects of the game (shopkeeps, opponents, wildlife, sentient flora, elder gods, ferrymen, etc), they'll become those aspects of the game and role play accordingly. These also follow the same guidelines and rules you follow - so a goblin horde cannot just overtake your party, they'll have to prove that by rolling dice and the like against you all in combat.
I hope that helps a bit!
We've all been there.
That's some cool artwork! I'm glad you found a good concentrate to vape :) they can be rough sometimes. I've never coughed harder than when I accidentally took a huge puff off a poor pen.
Disposable vapes got me (and I'm sure so many of us) through both good and bad times - they've been my go-to when I'm outta town and fit nicely in my suit pocket for weddings and shit, lol. Finding good stuff inside a disposable vape? Even better!
But I will say that, since swapping to a detachable battery, it's been so much easier to find live resin, live rosin, and other good stuff in simple, battery-less cartridges. I haven't busted into filling my own cartridges yet but that seems like the next logical step in stonerdom, lol.
Could be worth looking into for yourself, if you become a big ol' vape dawg! Or even if you don't - some of the battery options out there just seem awesome. I've got one that the cartridge like, fits partially inside of? So it's pretty overall small and plenty discreet, lol.
Anyhoo, I'm rambling. Thanks for sharing, dude!
Mimi Parker was an absolutely amazing singer. If anyone reading gets a chance, "Holy Ghost" by Low will show you what I mean.
I appreciate the recs, friend :) Nissa Familia and Push Pull are next on my list!
Lol no kidding. Glad we made it out the other side! I'm assuming you're from the US as well?
Aside from the initial class meeting, my bowling credit was largely "independent study", meaning I just had to log 9 games a week at the school's rec center bowling alley.
I mistakenly did the math one day. I don't remember the figures (thank goodness) but I'd have saved a lot more money than I thought (for a cheaper state school) just....bowling 9 games a week at the local bowling alley.
But where's the prestige of a college credit approved by my professor, a fella that I think played Lollipop Chainsaw on the Xbox + "Party in the USA" over the PA every day I went in that summer? Lol
Just saw your updated pic - lookin' real good!
And I found the ghost! You've got a sweet glassware shelf going :)
So happy to hear that you're getting some relief :) and I hope the ice packs help! Good luck to you, friend.
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