Same. It feels like a nightmare many days.

I and a group of FFXIV friends legit hoped NA Fanfest would be in Canada this time. I don’t want to have to worry about people being safe while there.

We hate him too. It may not look like much from outside but there are helpers rejecting his hate and reaching out to help others.

I desperately need to downsize my storage even with the expansion of it we have coming. So much duplicate stuff and at least 50 recipes. I'd be down for giving it away.

I am somewhat jealous of those. I got to replace my card from 1997 with a new one this year and while it's cool, it's not Prince cool.

I’m sorry friend

So much sucks right now and none of it really has to

I actually played in a Slam Masters tournament with my brother as a kid. Round 1 went fine, but then round 2 was on a Sunday which threw me off because I'm not a very good Sunday Morning Slam Master.

One more thing: as much as I love the naming convention of GwF, it might have to change at 4.0. Stormcon is likely to attract a lot of very confused meteorologists, and Conblood, uh, is not a good idea. :D

I've never seen con organizers offer so much transparency into future plans. Bravo for that. I like the plan and trust you'll make it work. As long as there's ample room for panels to grow and flourish, I'm happy. All the panels I visited this year were packed, regardless of the room.

This is

so so so

good

and I skimped a bit on spice. I decided I didn't want to facilitate interstellar travel tonight

That bowl!

(Or cup? Maybe ramekin? Either way awesome)

(and the soup inside looks great too)

Hell yeah, let's go. We definitely need that kind of energy.

I’m remembering now I have made a black bean soup once since I got my immersion blender, but I never even thought about making it spicy.

Wrecking my sinuses, be back later

I really wanna try this. And I’m sure I can find one of my cheap recipes to post.

I've enjoyed your FFXI panels both years even as someone who has only played XIV (so far). I play the Final Fantasy TCG which has ridiculously deep XI coverage, so it's fun to know all the names of people you're throwing out but little to nothing about them. I'm happy to have more context now!

I'll give it a XIV-specific shot.

1. event - The Final Days
2. character - Thancred
3. drink - ginger ale
4. place - Ishgard
5. body part - shin
6. job title - pictomancer
7. object - mirror
8. verb - defenestrate
9. part of house - chimney
10. character (different from 2) - Gaia

It’s a really good song. Love Tom Petty.

I left candy out for people while I stayed in and played Dragon Quest

That’s more effort than I’ve usually put in recently

And to be clear, I don't hate cashew chicken or where I'm from at all! It's sometimes a bit overdone, I think, and my palate has started to shift enough that I don't like it as much. But the story behind David Leong coming to Springfield and introducing it is actually really cool.

I pledge to print more than 0