I really should think up a title

I am sad this doesn't scan to Supercalafragilisticespialidocious.

Dumbstruck, adjective derived from dumbstrike, my cool special attack

She hit me with her dumbstrike, and then I lost the ability to do basic math. She said she'd give me a million dollars to make up for it, but I can't count any more so I have no idea how much money she actually gave me. I'm pretty sure it's more than five, but no clue beyond that.

Amusingly, the first big boom in mainstream popularity for the YouTube video essay format happened circa 2018, so this post actually very slightly pre-dates the Video Essay Era.

Wasn't Nostalgia Critic like a decade before that, or do you just not consider him and Channel Awesome as the first volleys in the video essay era?

Anyway I'm also now the proud owner of a used but mostly complete boxed set for War Law, the mass combat rules for use with Rolemaster

can it help me play a minotaur bard

I wish I could remember the joke I was setting up

That's okay! As it turns out, there aren't playable stats for minotaurs in any edition of Rolemaster I've found, so while there aren't any racial limitations on profession in Rolemaster, there aren't any rules for playing a minotaur. :(

Now I'm imagining the ref from Air Bud, diligently digging through every Rolemaster book, just so he can go "Ain't no rule..."

If he made conditions on the maid outfit, what conditions did he set for that time you turned him into an anchovy?

Not Poison Ivy, different character/s. :)

I wondered if it was going to be Talia (What with the Veronica Lake hairstyle which BTAS also gave Talia), but I believe your answer tells me who it is, which is good as it was such a thorny question

I like the way you phrased that. Really rose to the occasion.

...ok, but my partner is actually named Avery, and they do, in fact, alternate between child-like wonderment at the world, and old man grumpiness at their routine being disrupted.

Maybe Averies are just like that.

Y'all are out there complaining about your OC prompts getting blorbotagged with MCU characters. I'm over here having posts about shit that happened to me in real life getting blorbotagged with characters from Oscar Wilde.

You should replace your profile pic with an aged version of your profile pic. Just for the bit.

Just going to recommend Shikimori Is Not Just A Cutie, and How I Attended An All Guy's Mixer.

I can't believe it took me until just now to put together that Ghidorah is called that because "hidora" is what "hydra" works out to when you spell it in katakana.

The Guydra.

This reminds me of when I found out that all of the monsters in early Power Rangers were riffs on Western creatures, and Rita Repulsa was supposed to be Pandora.

This reminded me of how the original Age of Wonders added a real world clock to the game when you were in full screen mode. I didn't realize why it was there, until it struck me that this meant I didn't need to have a watch on hand or minimize the game to check the time. Very responsible UI design.

Squishy, portable and confident enough in their masculinity to have no superpowers and still wear an outfit like that, in public, aged 18, without fear of ridicule.

The actual worst part of when a post blows up is that I get to bear witness to all the most stellar tumblr usernames in my notes, but I respect people's privacy too much to screenshot and share them all, so now I just have to sit here, suffering, cursed with the forbidden knowledge.

Do what Dickens did, and incorporate them into your stories.

The only other time I can remember Wally's conservative characterization coming up is to contrast with the liberal Pied Piper in his solo book. Especially when the latter came out of the closet, right while Wally was in the middle of a homophobic diatribe.

The only other time I can remember Wally's conservative characterization coming up is to contrast with the liberal Pied Piper in his solo book. Especially when the latter came out of the closet, right while Wally was in the middle of a homophobic diatribe.