thomas @trappleton@wandering.shop

my intro toot is sincere but i sure do sound like a big eager dork lol

#introduction Hi, I'm Thomas. I write and host The Episodic Table Of Elements, a podcast that looks at the fascinating stories behind every element on the periodic table, at http://episodictable.com

I also love tabletop games, especially D&D and MtG. I'm looking forward to learning what Mastodon is all about!

I am astonished that the team behind D&D 5e, under WotC, came up with the advantage/disadvantage mechanic. It's just about the only example I know of a market leader *actually* bringing an innovation to the table. Surely they took the idea from some poor unknown publisher who languishes in a basement, right? But I've never heard such accusations.

Oh wow. The rest of these are unlabeled.... But clearly not blank. I don't even have a single optical drive in the house. Maybe that's for the best???

Do you guys remember these dinky little CDs? They would absolutely tear up any slot-load drives they found, it was like a huge prank

ohhhh shiiiiii thanks for the serial, bro!! Hope I don't get kicked off of battle.net XD gl hf ka dd

Whoa, this is a throwback. For all the history and chemistry and journalism classes and all the cashed tuition checks, this $14 book (with accompanying CD-ROM!) was the single biggest influence upon my career.

It's not a very prestigious career.

Ah. So that's how I saw that movie, i guess.

Okay, this is pretty wild. "YOU THINK THIS IS A GAME, A TALE TOLD BY HUMANS, A GAME DESIGNED BY HUMANS. ***THINK AGAIN***"

So this was the closest thing I had to "Ceci n'est pas une pipe," I guess.

I think I also might have "borrowed" this from Steve Painter. Sorry buddy.

What a bunch of garbage. Oof that's a terrible stay to a eulogy, sorry. Uh I played the demo disc of tomb raider/Jedi Knight a whole lot. Tomb raider had no textures so everything was just grey. Jedi Knight had some appropriately cheesy FMV clips. I think I needed the BASIC software for some boring bad class?

I've got some twenty-year-old CDs here that I can't really justify keeping around anymore, but it feels wrong to just trash them. So gang, get ready for... #CDFuneral

the way you act around your pets when no one else is home is your truest performance of the self

my intro toot is sincere but i sure do sound like a big eager dork lol

When you receive a magazine in the mail -- especially if it's for a very niche interest -- do you wonder what the mail carrier could have thought of you, if they happened to see it?

Anyway that's the series of emotions that flooded my brain upon seeing this silly image.

Is it just me, or did using a computer feel a lot more insular before 24/7 internet? You could read Encarta articles or play skifree or try out shareware from the dollar store and that was about it. But at least you felt alone.

Ironic since the PC was probably in the living room, too, in front of the whole family. But now when I hop on the computer, everything is in a browser and it feels like walking out in public. There's no going back.

the X-Wing tabletop miniatures game looks like a whole lot of fun, but the idea of playing and trying to win a game as the Space Nazis is, idk, awkwardly uncomfortable to me? so is the prospect of playing a game with somebody who has fun collecting the spaceships belonging to the faction of Space Nazis.

Am I alone in this/overthinking this/whatever?