Many microwaves have a timer that can run without microwaving things.

I’m not confident the nurse was wrong!

You didn’t read them in the car on the way home?

GURPS has a specific disadvantage that is essentially this.

Nah, if I remember right, those arrows use the poison from a tree frog’s skin, not something like a snake’s venom. So still poison!

It’s always seemed strange to me that earth never made any sort of meaningfull technological progress despite having access to a galaxy full of new tech.

This actually seemed reasonable to me - if alien tech is anything like ours, we lack the parts to make the parts to make the parts to make the tech, so we can’t mass produce any of it yet. And we’re a bit of a backwater - what resources we do have of galactic interest (vibranium, maybe?) isn’t for sale. So we make do with what scraps do find their way to earth.

…how kid friendly? Haven’t been able to introduce my kids to his stuff yet!

I want a horror movie where some of the heroes are genre-savvy, Practical Guide to Evil style. I picture it starting as a horror, and shifting into a kind of heist storyline

…I would be very interested in seeing how you describe your hummingbirds!

As they burned, it hurt because

…it didn’t occur to them to even start learning Russian before they went?!

My players ran across some Imperial guardsmen killing off skeletons, only for the orcs accompanying them to protest that they were destroying “registered cultural artifacts!” The orcs didn’t have much, and they would leave their bones to their children to help them eke out a meager existence.

Dead? Really? Cuz Portal and Minecraft are my kids’ top two games!

Dragon’s not completely gone; she’s just attending to other stuff while the characters are handling their slice of things. She does show up more towards the end, IIRC. I think she also had some plot resolution; though my memory is fuzzy here.

And some of my other favorites feature in Ward!

More of a callback, I think: https://www.reddit.com/r/grilledcheese/comments/2or1p3/you_people_make_me_sick/

Mine has been docked for months at a time. I recently started shifting it to be near the kids when they’re home; but not undocking it wouldn’t strike me as strange at all.

Some of those solo games can be played with multiple players and no GM, too!

True! I’ve been too focused on our local politics lately!

Well, until the President decides otherwise, anyway.

I suspect most of your audience here isn’t going to be strongly swayed by missing out on oil. Got anything else?