Not exactly misheard but what I came up with and which became canon to my household despite not really sounding alike:

Tape Five’s ‘Taxi to Bombay’ became ‘Text me Your Butthole.’ (And please do not.)

Edit: Just remembered an actual misheard one. I am a bit hard of hearing, and the They Might Be Giants song Subliminal I heard as Submersible. Considering that the lyric is ‘Subliminal… in an unnoticeable way,’ my interpretation was pretty damned funny.

Don’t worry about the difficulty level and just play for the story.

If that isn’t for you, then definitely throw in the towel. I am truly biased though as I have played D&D for a good deal of my life.

This name was made for a MUD back in 1994. The full name is Pronell Mordini, and he was a perrin (otterfolk) merchant king, a background character in the world.

I was tasked with making my own palace and marketplace but the game shut down months later.

I’ve more or less been using the name online ever since then, as it’s almost never taken. Someone did get to pronell@gmail.com first, but who cares, especiially now?

My wife sometimes goes by Mrs. Pronell online. I’ve teased her that it should technically be Mrs. Mordini.

Fair point, I was ignorant of their weekends. But I was also considering that their society has been in disarray during protests for months.

Even that doesn’t mean there wouldn’t be school.

I still distrust news that comes from any of the regimes at play here.

And any deaths of civilians would be tragic. Of course if a school was indeed hit that would be a horrific thing.

After months of protests, I truly doubt a bunch of girls were at school on a Saturday.

Just like the US said Iraq was removing premature infants from respirators in Kuwait. Bullshit.

Just like Israel said Hamas was beheading babies. Absolute nonsense.

It’s meant to generate rage first and foremost, to dehumanize the enemy.

War is dehumanizing enough.

I do not trust Iran one bit. Iranians, maybe. They’re the ones suffering here. But the regimes at play here can all get fucked.

I’ve had an idea for years I really want to try using this system.

The basis is the SCP story “What happened to site 13?”

And the answer is ridiculous, I won’t spoil everything but in the end they win by sending the site to an alternate dimension.

So I want to do that, have them win, then translate the end state into a dungeon in my D&D world for them to conquer.

I suppose that will have to be posted there and not here, hah.

I will check them out!

It’s basically climbing a tower and killing most of what is in your way, but even then that is abstract.

It’s a deck building roguelike, and one of the best.

When You Go, by Jonathan Coulton

For the past several years, I’d have to say The Bamboos. I love me some good funk.

I would be very glad to be wrong here!

Using fossil fuels to make fertilizer has fueled human growth.

When capitalism dies, a LOT of people die off. It is inevitable - eventually we have to wean off of oil, and it isn’t just transport but materials and fertilizers.

So we have to plan for a smaller world community as well, and help those in crisis as the world community shrinks.

Yup, another here. Been with my wife for fourteen years, this will be our 11th wedding anniversary.

Hudson Hawk, Bruce Willis’ longtime passion project where he and Danny Aiello play singing cat burglars.

I genuinely love it despite it not being very good at all. Saw it in the theater knowing nothing at all about it.

Okay, Kramer.

Given the economy, it may be “If you see someone stealing food, no you didn’t.”

I hadn’t heard that, so I googled!

https://case.edu/news/new-study-shows-alzheimers-disease-can-be-reversed-achieve-full-neurological-recovery-not-just-prevented-or-slowed-animal-models

I had loved Jay Johnston ever since the Mr. Show days. Used to cheer when he popped up in things.

Fucking traitor. I flip off the screen anytime he’s on now.

City of Lost Children is my pick. It has such amazing worldbuilding. Drops you in cold with no apologies and trusts you to just go on the ride.

I have a weekly D&D game with my favorite aunt and uncle, as well as my Dad and my cousin’s husband.

The latter runs one weekend, and I run the next, completely separate games of course.

I’m 51, my dad is 79, and his sister and her husband are a few years younger than he is. No idea on my fellow DM, I suspect late 40s.

If you find a common thread to hang on to, you can have a great relationship.

In this case, my aunt and uncle knew I was a huge weird nerd whose dad introduced him to D&D at 7 years old, so they thought to invite me when their daughter’s husband made a game for them.

Seven years later, we are still at it and I run a game for my friends as well.

These relationships can be nurtured, as all can. You just have to find and maintain the why’s.

Even people who don’t give a crap about birdwatching may still love to see the birds their old friends spot.

But to further your point, I don’t make much of an effort for those relatives that I don’t have much in common with.

This year’s Christmas present is a box of homemade fudge, rice krispie treats, and spicy chex mix, all homemade.

That’s the effort I put in for those I don’t have in my weekly or monthly life but are extended family.