I’d also like a pony, while I’m dreaming.

Calvin & Hobbes reference appreciated.

I looked it up out of curiosity, and in 2024, New York City provided 1.35 trillion of the state’s 2.3 trillion dollar GDP.

I have an orange butthead who likes to bite but I have mostly trained him out of it, which really means he still does it but very gently or just grazes you with a fang.

Lean into it, make UHF 2!

Nauru makes the news semi-regularly as it is a haven for money laundering.

Community - The slogan was ‘Six seasons and a movie.’

We are still waiting for our goddamned movie!

Something something Westworld.

I made a new D&D campaign in my world. Haven’t had inspiration in a while but I am having a great time with it.

I am hoping to eventually publish some of it more as inspiration for other DMs than to make much money.

In the process of making the map and history for this campaign, I made an unrelated place on the map that is worthy of its own adventure. That kind of unintentional synergy is greatly satisfying, and if I do want to publish the damned thing, a nice bonus.

Also, my players are loving it and unknowingly made a perfect party for my shenanigans.

That’s the basis for a decent standup bit if you’re that type of fat guy.

In my world, wood elves, of buried within a year in a grove, become a part of it (sorta like in Speaker for the Dead) and high elves choose to enact this ritual living separately.

These majestic trees grow to great heights, akin to redwoods. When such a tree dies of old age, the heartwood animates but has only the vaguest memory of its prior lives. That’s the origin of warforged for my world. Incredibly rare, filled with history but oddly disconnected from it.

Haven’t invented new races yet, only twists on existing ones.

Lizardfolk? Eat their dead with reverence, carve their stories onto their bones and then reanimate then for labor or battle. Their dead never truly die and remain a respected part of their culture.

Dwarves care about achieving immortality through craftsmanship, humans through magic. It’s only halflings, and gnomes to a lesser extent, that have simply accepted death and lived their lives.

I assumed and mostly meant the question as a joke about the prevalence of those toxic markets.

Is this projections or the betting market?

I never saw the original movie but it was on HBO and watched it with my wife the other day.

It surprised me, much better than I expected, and it held my interest throughout.

They did that by opening the movie with terrible characatures that the second act fleshes out into people you can relate to, even when they’re being terrible.

The only furry I’ve known is also trans, fwiw.

I mostly agree with you that I do not get the subcultures at fucking all, only to know that they are distinct. I don’t think most furries actually think that they are actually spiritually that animal in any way. Thats otherkin; you’re conflating two weird subcultures.

So the otherkin folk are really weird to me, but I dunno that they are clinically weird unless they truly believe their own shit.

Furries who like to get into suits and party, hey, do your thing, and sorry the real perverts make your existence harder. I don’t wanna yuck anyone else’s yum, just keep them at arms length.

I barely have enough spare cash for my hobbies. I can’t afford fursuits even if I wanted them. It’s weird! (Just mostly harmlessly so.)

I do love that it’s set in Bikini Bottom.

We nuked the hell out of the Bikini Islands for nuclear tests.

SpongeBob and his friends are all mutants.

I actually saw a minute or two of SpongeBob and was surprised/annoyed they didn’t seem to be moving underwater.

I think I expected the show to be more sophisticated in a useless way.

Oh I definitely got the genetic reference already, just wanted to know if I was reading it appropriately as a laugh.

Never having watched SpongeBob, I hear Popeye laughing and think that’s the joke. Am I right?

Oof. I hope there is at least a great story.

But you may get moments where you realize you are a very different person and start to mature or develop more deliberately.

To reply more to the OP, settling into a routine is definitely not the same thing as growing up, although they can happen at the same time.

Routines are fine but also limiting, and maybe that’s what you’re feeling. Breaking out of routines tends to lead to growth and change, but at a cost.

With oil, barrels is the normal unit of measure. Changing that makes it more difficult to compare to other oil spills.