"I'd like to take a long rest"

"Ok, roll for damage"

"Wut"

Bit of a B- comment there Innes

Erm...

I'm a linux guy and so's my wife!

(...because I'm the house sysadmin and moved all the computers off Windows a couple of years ago)

Nice! Gives me throwback vibes to Sea Dogs from the early 00's. Will def have to give it a go. Thanks for the recommendation!

and then you walked from mexico to canada, in case anyone thought the weird part ended shortly thereafter.

Run, run, run, run, run, run, run awaaaaay!

April is, after all, the October of spring!

YES.

Sounds like it was a real...

Press Stranding

So it's 2026 and we're still doing instant-fail stealth sections eh?

Alas.

probably not as mad as we'll be when we hear what they call us

Freebie for @thebeaverton.com:

Mark Carney uses new majority government powers to banish General Zod, Pierre Poilievre to the Phantom Zone

A quacking noise, not unlike a duck.

Which is why I've largely disappeared for the last month. Trying to navigate this has been the most trying experience of my life.

It's true what they say: Pain teaches you who you are.

Turns out I am a person who does not like pain at all. Not even a little.

But it is my constant companion.

I am living on a combination of powerful pain killers and muscle relaxants just to exist and it *still* hurts like hell.

Friends, take care of your neck. You do not want to know this pain.

Which, I assure you, made getting both a CT scan and MRI done absolute, unmitigated torture.

I have had to sleep sitting up for a month now or I end up with massive muscle spasms. I cannot lie down.

I assure you, it sucks so much more than you think. Or even the suckiest thing you can imagine.

For the last month I've been dealing with multiple bulging disks in my neck.

Let me tell you one thing about bulging disks in your neck: It fucking SUCKS.

Will there be support - either through Picotron or the BBS - to change your username?

...or was that just me...

listen we've all had one of those jobs that's mind numbingly boring while also having internet access and before you know it you're halfway through the autobiography of benvenuto cellini which leads you down a rabbit hole that ends in knowing more about the papacy than you ever really cared to know

A miserable little pile of secrets...

I maintain it's the best piece of utilitarian fashion invented.

Blanket? Check
Rain cape? Check
Easy access to privates for taunting your enemies? CHECK

This year's Christmas card goes hard

Still true. Tired of hurting constantly.