Spatula City!

The original Master of Magic for DOS. It’s STILL being actively modded 32 years post release and has never quite been duplicated.

The Age of Wonders series does a fairly good job with the feel, but it’s just not the same.

One of the weirder concept RPGs and so very well executed. The fact that it didn’t gain more traction is madness.

I really should play again with mods

Gross Pointe Blank is FANTASTIC!

Hell yes to both!

The ironing is delicious

Always has been. They can slap on a genteel veneer with their faux progressive popes, but the structure is always the same.

Good point. The Behind the Bastards on her was pretty wild.

Is there any other kind?

Pay for Cool Zone Media. I have no qualms supporting their work, even if most of what I listed to is the work of the Honorable Doctor Reverend Robert Evans.

It was the magic smoke escaping through the screen.

• Every state in the US (most in the form of being driven through back in the 70s), including Hawaii and Alaska
• Mexico over a dozen times, primarily Laredo
• Canada (for a day as part of a cruise)
• England and Scotland 4 times, including my honeymoon (about a month in total)
• Ireland (part of the aforementioned honeymoon, 4 days, including being in Dublin on St Patrick’s Day)
• This part gets a little weird… Italy, Austria, Switzerland, WEST Germany… all before the wall fell
• West Berlin then East Berlin, the latter being the first time I’d ever had a gun pointed at me (polizei)
• Hungary as part of a trip to find where my paternal grandparents had lived prior to coming to the US
• New Zealand for 2.5 weeks to see Hobbiton… as well as a wealth of natural beauty and KORORA
• US Virgin Islands (St John)

EDIT: also France for 6 hours via the Chunnel ;)

It’s also in the Ultima series starting at IV. The second RPG series I played after Wizardry. I also played some Bard’s Tale games, but not as much as the former ones.

Damn I’m old.

Bewegen Sie nicht!

Sir-Not-Appearing-In-This-Film

My shots were far less clear, but still absurdly lucky due to a brief break in the rainy week we’ve had in Southern California.

It’s a fantastic movie that was just a bit late for the spoof movies of the late 70s/80s and too soon for the torrent of them in the 2000s.

‘I am the famous comedian Arnold Braunschweiger’ is not only something I say to my wife without context but also makes me laugh uproariously.

The Dogg Zzone and Bigfeets.

Both absurd comedy by Cracked alum Robert Brockway, Seanbaby and Jason Pargin (the latter only for Bigfeets). Just a Patreon plug and nothing more.

I’m behind on my listening, but this is a top tier podcast!

Information dense but delivered in such an engaging format.

My parents had a zebra when I was growing up in Northern California. He was skittish, to the point that this animal lover never got closer than 10 feet until it wound bolt. He brayed at sunrise, easily drowning out the roosters. He sadly ingested part of a mat in his stall which ended up killing him.

After my parents moved once I left home, they got 2 more of these fancy donkeys.