You might enjoy HarmonQuest! Bonus fun fact: the DM was originally just an audience member when Dan Harmon came up with the idea and asked for a DM, but is now a regular cast member.

Excellent! I like it.

Is this a Futurama reference?

I watched Kevduit play a version of this game and one of the early quests was “abandon your first base.” Now I don’t know what to think.

I misread that as “self-loathing” and the answer was obvious.

Or “sorry for the inconvenience.”

edit: apparently I misremembered the quote. It’s “we apologize for the inconvenience.”

Interestingly, the book series Old Man’s War addresses this.

This is usually Glock 9’s approach if just trying to speedily loot.

Here I thought that was the cleftal horizon.

Sadly, no, due to it blocking via DNS. AFAIK the only way to block YouTube ads on TV is by sideloading a third party app.

100% on the same page, except that I do have and appreciate my pihole.

The last 1% of ads.

I was just joking, you seem satisfied with your situation; however, a pihole is rarely a bad option.

Then the solution is even simpler!

Sounds like someone has a pihole.

If that’s the case and the ads still work 1% of the time, maybe update the blocklist?

Myspace Tom I know. Thank you!

The very first time I can remember getting spam, I was approximately seven. It was an email linking to a porn site, not that I understood that at the time; I don’t actually recall what enticed me to click - I think they referenced “playing in a jungle” and that sounded fun. The text said (roughly, it’s been over three decades) “come look at my site! I’m not wearing any clothes!” and linked to a site featuring several scantily clad individuals but, immediately on entry, a lady in high heels and nothing else.

I took the email at face value and responded, informing the surely real person sending it that shoes counted as clothes.

If I look up “Myspace Jim,” I get this: https://myspace.com/jim

Is that what you meant? Based on the result when I load the page, it doesn’t seem reference worthy, but I don’t know of anything else that would be a solid meme.

This isn’t meant to attack you or your comment, just resolve my own lack of knowledge.

For what it’s worth, when I read your comment, my thoughts went to “it’s worse than that, he’s dead, Jim, dead, Jim.”

This reminds me of once when I was playing the original EverQuest. Someone named Dunn entered the zone and everyone there started OOC broadcasting anything from “Dunn!” to “Dun dun duuuuuuuun!” I was young and sheltered and didn’t get the reference; I messaged the guy something like “what was that all about?” and apparently he didn’t, either. Probably pretty fun to be that popular for thirty seconds for no known reason, though.

There’s an accounting of this kind of event happening in the Catch Me if You Can novel. I can’t attest as to whether it’s true and unfortunately it’s been long enough that I don’t remember details, but I believe it’s primarily the protagonist overhearing two women talking about how attractive he is during a bus ride. I think at this point he’s in shackles, which could be considered to enhance the story.

I thought that was pretty typical.