As I post this, it's a few minutes after midnight GMT on 2024-01-01. Happy New Year, everyone!

Amazing what one can find on the Merriam-Webster website: 10 Uncommon Words for 'Drunkard'

Imagine if Doug sees a book titled "Tosspot's Travels" or "Shicker's Saunter" and ignores it, not realizing that it's about his journey...

... not video games, but tabletop games. Not just RPGs (so DriveThruRPG is out), but board games and wargames. Searching at random I've found a couple, like Tabletop Game and Hobby and The Philly Game Shop, but before I settle on one (for a gift card to belatedly give a now-distant nephew I just learned I won't be seeing at the end of next week), I wanted to find out if anyone here had any places they've done business with in the past and would like to give more business.

Thanks!

(12-28-2023, 02:05 PM)In Old School for Younger Readers!, Bob Schroeck Wrote: Okay, here's one I just dug up and reread for the first time in ten or twenty years: Jim Bader's A Tale of Two Wallets. Late 1990s-vintage Ranma-centric megacrossover (I identified nearly twenty different works, either as major parts or cameos, and I'm sure there are more that went right past me because I was unfamiliar with them and didn't recognize them). Worth a look. Sorta-kinda finished? The main story seems to conclude properly, but there's an incomplete epilogue/sequel tacked onto the end of it, which is unlikely to ever be finished as I seem to recall that Bader passed away some years ago.

Anyway, you can find it on MediaMiner here, or on Fanfiction.net here (link goes to chapter 2, because chapter 1 is actually a genealogy full of spoilers).

I usually read the forum zoomed in to 150%, but there is an issue with the login dialog while zoomed in: the login button (and the password field) do not appear in the browser window. I have to zoom back out to 100% for them to be visible and accessible. That zooming is easy in Firefox is what makes it minor.
Not looking for a fix, I just thought having it documented being a good idea.


Kilroy

Like the title says, Rei in a quiet moment, when I'm not making her want to pull her hair out...

And someone pointed out, she looks like a cat-girl version of Gadget...
I'm still writing, but the holidays is making it hard to focus.

A fluff thread: Other than the obvious "the malls are packed" and "the calendar says so", what are the more subtle signs that it's almost Christmas?

I'll start the list:

• The VLC Media Player traffic cone is wearing its Santa hat
  
• CBC Radio has aired The Shepherd
  

... for all who celebrate.

previous thread

DogbertCarroll's 'Choose Your Own Award'
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13022804/10...-own-Award

EDIT:
A Few Steps Left of Center (Overpower SI in the Hobbit)
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...t-97527769

That's the headline on the CBC story.

Buried in the National Defense Authorization Act is a section that "says no president shall suspend, terminate, denounce, or withdraw from NATO without either an act of Congress or the approval of two-thirds of the U.S. Senate."

Oh, and it isn't law yet. It's passed the Senate and the House but hasn't been signed by the Executive yet.