Rice cooker, after it's halfway, throw in an egg or two, leftover meat, can of beans, soup, or chili, whatever's available. It's nourishing and always tastes good.
mdhughes
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iPhones have like 8-20 hours of charge now, depending on what I'm doing. My old iPod is <4 hours, maybe <2, but it's enough for a walk. And if I'm out, where would I be charging it? I don't usually carry a phone charger and wall wart. If I was out for days, I'd use my laptop to charge it, while listening ON THE LAPTOP, which has analog headphone jacks.
So, it's a pointless conflict.
I have a lightning-analog dongle on my phone headphones, that works fine. I have another analog headphones on my iPod classic for walks. The terrible catastrophe of taking out the headphone jack is nothing. There's no situation where I'd be listening to my phone and want to charge it, if it's on the charger I have a computer with speakers.
I mean, have you met them‽
Leave the Midwest. Coasts and Southwest, we eat spicy foods, tho also most of them are very hot.
It's OK, just tell Abe you're there to kill vampires and he'll let you into his secret society.
OK, that's a whole blog post of a rant there, and not at all relevant. OD&D was a mess, but it's unambiguously freeform, you are repeatedly told to make the game yours, not that you need permission.
OD&D got a good rewrite, by Eric Holmes and later Tom Moldvay. Both are blatant about freeform play.
The one place it looks anything like "rule zero" in AD&D is that afterword, where he tells you to consider: 1. The game as a whole meaning tournaments and West Marches style cross-table compatibility, 2. Your campaign meaning don't fuck with the balance, 3. Filthy peasant players last.
Gary's strident editorials in Dragon were clear, you can't "barracks lawyer" as he put it, out of "you have no rights in AD&D".
I have a lot of lucid dreams, and they're often in a specific city, and sometimes I even go to work in these dreams. I haven't lived in a city and worked in an office in over 10 years, so it's some kind of reverse escapism. I can always leave, and weird stuff happens anyway. I wouldn't trust any of my work output there.
But to let a company try to take over your dreams and never let you escape, you need to stand up and fight that shit. Put them in a never-ending nightmare where nobody gives them money.
"RPGPundit" is not a respectable figure, he's a lying, racist ass. Don't waste your time on his vitriol. I have plenty of other complaints about Gary Gygax, but they're not relevant here.
Jeffro's post is correct about AD&D, which was intended to be a fixed system like Chess, with no variation possible for tournament play, the only thing Gary Gygax did at that time. (Also distinguishing it from OD&D let him rip off Dave Arneson, the real creator of the game… Oh right relevant)
So play OD&D or really anything other than AD&D if you like freeform gaming. That's all there is to it.
Ooh, a whole decade! I've been developing games ("developing") since the '80s. You are literally the guy I referred to, in a studio, with a stupid title. If you'd called yourself a developer without being able to write code at some companies I've worked at, you'd have a conversation with HR. As it is, people can get away with it but it's not true. Words have meanings, even when savages from a fallen age misuse them.
Actual customer service/community managers are fine, we need those; working indie that's the worst part, not having them. But I'm with Bill Hicks on marketing douchebags.
I say "developer" is only for code, "designer" can be any system, level, or character designer (ooh they use spreadsheets!), "artist" is only for drawing things. Marketing douchebags are "marketing douchebags". And since I'm indie, I'm all of those.
But some studios just don't care and have stupid titles; as long as thy get paid it doesn't matter to them. WTF cares what some idiot screaming in a forum says?
If you switch to Scheme (or the few other tail-recursive languages), you can always use recursion, and it's the most efficient solution. It's a bit of a weird shift at first, and the hand-holding do, dotimes, loop macros will let you transition at your own pace, but soon all your "loops" will just be named-let recursion.