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@rorie horsey events are a thing because cavalry was still a thing when the Olympics were revived. This was so much a thing that the Swedish 1948 dressage team was disqualified because the rules requ...

In the middle ages the church discouraged bathing. Public baths were generally considered seedy, often where prostitutes solicited. A couple of other things to remember this is when soap was created i...

@vinny this is just D20/DnD 3.5 rules. It is why the combat is really weird, it has initiative order and rounds, but just pretends it is in realtime. Then it has to correct to make things fit the dice...

Are you going to try 13 runs in a rogue-like after rogue? I'm mostly thinking more of the old ascii ones, I would like to see Ben playing Moria, Nethack, or Angband.

@brad: Playing so infrequently doesn't help, I learnt where things were reasonably quickly. I started playing after about episode 3, and a couple of weeks later I was in full backseat gamer mode... I ...

You should research the Medium Rover, and Drill Strength 1. Using the Chemistry Lab you can make all the things you need. Then you can make a power train to power up the teleporter.Also the C, and V k...

Just so you know, you can dig out the busted platforms at your forward base. They have a single cable so you can connect a few to the working platforms you brought down.

Who else ordered lego?

In New Zealand, New Years Day and January 2nd are both public holidays like Rorie was wishing. It is officially called the day after New Years Day.

The original Doom soundtrack was composed on a Roland mt-32. It sounds amasing, especially considering the time. It isn't emulated much because it predates general midi (so no sound fonts), and the r...