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2d ago
inShoutout to the guy who showed me how to sleeve my cards at PAX Unplugged in Philly
I've noticed this happens all the time at cons, people just see someone struggling and jump in to help. It's like the whole place runs on random acts of kindness from strangers who are way too good at their hobbies.
2d ago
inBefore and after on my cherry tomato yield after adding a fan
Wait, did you really go from almost nothing to double the fruit in just two weeks from a fan? That seems like a pretty big jump for something that simple... I've got some tomatoes on my porch and they get plenty of wind already, so I'm not sure a fan would make that much difference. Maybe your plants were just stunted from something else and the fan happened to help a little.
2d ago
inTotally changed how I run games after a con in Chicago last spring
Oh man, that three detail rule is gold. I had the opposite problem at a con in Portland last year. I was running a one shot and a player kept interrupting me before I could even finish describing a room. Finally they snapped "just tell me what I need to fight or grab, I don't care about the wallpaper." So now I lead with the important stuff first - monsters, traps, loot - and only add flavor if people ask. It feels wrong at first but players actually pay attention now instead of checking their phones. My group still makes fun of me for my old "as you enter the chamber" speeches though.
2d ago
inSaw a guy at the Portland comic convention last Saturday buy a graded variant just to flip it on eBay before the show even ended.
wesley said it kills the vibe, and yeah, it's annoying, but I dunno if it's worth getting that worked up over. I saw a dude at a show in Denver pull the same move with a slabbed ASM 300 and made maybe $40 after fees. Like, congrats, you just worked a whole Saturday to make gas money. If someone's flipping a book mid-show, they're probably not even reading the thing anyway, so at least they're not clogging up the longboxes with their phone light.
3d ago
inBest day at the old mall in Dayton was last October during a storm
Found a similar thing in an old shopping center outside Cleveland. We were poking around the basement level and stumbled into a whole arcade from the 80s that still had games plugged in. Someone must have kept paying the electric bill on that section by accident or something. I figured if nobody's bothered it for decades, might as well take a few quarters and see what still works.