Welcome!

I agree with what you’re saying, but don’t bones count as organs?

Ahh, you’re right, I’m crossing up directing and producing.

Counterpoint: Jonathan Frakes seems to have done well for Star Trek.

You know, I almost posted that it specifically says on the back “Not to be used for ID”, because I remember that on mine. Looked online to be sure I was right, and couldn’t find it, so I didn’t post it

I had no idea that they removed that. It’s not like they changed function!

Plenty of places stateside where it’s out of character too

I had forgotten what film that scene was in!

I just thought he was finding a hidden treasure…

Yep, this is the post I was looking for.

Writing a book means planning out plot and character arcs and going back to edit and such. Solo RPGs are an entirely different beast. They can inspire books, but they are not an authorial exercise.

From the day care worker’s reaction when I almost did this, it’s a fairly common phenomenon, especially early on. And especially when they accidentally swap the kids’ clothes!

Isn’t that why/how the Internet was created?

Galaxies are closer together relative to their size than stars; but they’re still a few orders of magnitude farther apart than this.

The scale I’ve seen is: If the sun were the size of a ping pong ball, the next nearest star would be hundreds of miles away. But if the Milky Way were the size of a CD, Andromeda would be on the other side of the room.

And people rich enough to stupidly link those AI agents to their bank accounts.

I need to pay more attention to how rich people are using AI personally…

At this point, I question whether they’re even experts in that kind of finance, or if they’re just connected to each other well enough, and have a few willing experts in hand, to maintain their position.

I honestly think the only thing most of them have going for them is that it’s their name on the accounts.

Wolfie will know!

Yeah, I was just poking at what I assumed was a day off the cuff response. Didn’t occur to me they might have tried formatting it, and failed.

Thanks for breaking them out!

…what kind of game is that?!

And yet it still keeps finding ways to tear him down!

Think they want the whole gorilla

I absolutely agree with everything in your first paragraph, and completely disagree with the second! That said, stories evolve at least as quickly as the language they’re built from, and I’m sure every family that hangs up stockings has their own unique spin for Santa. But intentionally gaslighting your kids in order to teach an object lesson about how people will manipulate you seems like an awfully convoluted way to go about it, especially when the kid comes out ahead for it!

I think it started as a story to get kids excited, because that’s fun. In my family, the kids were brought into the act as they got old enough to understand that the point; and I assume this was very common back when kids had to help with everything as soon as they were old enough. The kids then get to practice giving without any intention of getting recognition for it, which helps make more charitable adults.

That’s not to say that the story doesn’t get used to enforce behavior - the existence of Krampus shows a long history of that! But I don’t think it’s used primarily for that anymore.