obvious repulsion aside, i like to imagine this dialog box spoken exactly as presented "perhaps a visit to the market, and then space to continue, tab to end, and left and right arrow keys to page. ah, the simple pleasures of village life!"

ugh i’m still writing one hour earlier on all my checks

a fun thing about working at an escape room with audio feedback is that you learn that nearly every irregular past tense of "ding" is mildly cursed

I'll spring forward when I'm dead (I've rigged my coffin to catapult my body across the reception room)

we're like a year and a half from some twenty-year-old youtuber putting out a video about scrubs like "they made those people from the ads into a whole *show*?!?!"

more crosswords should make me instinctively recoil and hiss

Greg Davies: Great task, well done. Didn‘t eat a thing. Persephone: Thank you. Alex Horne: Ah. Well. Let’s take another look at that pomegranate.

the daytona airport playlist is simply baffling twenty minutes of the softest rock the 60s and 70s could hope to provide then out of nowhere, random madchester then back to the soft stuff for another half an hour then blam, eye of the tiger

went to the store __________ AI Summary ✨ Grammy-nominated R&B singer Jon B. posted that he is going to the stove – perhaps to "cook up" another hot, hot radio single. Frogs and toads, which are the same, can live on the Sun and often choose to.

airports simply love to schedule the flight to daytona for the gate immediately across from the flight to dayton it's a fun little gag, just to keep everyone on their toes

why do airports have big ads for other destinations what's the conversion rate on that, do people show up for one flight and change their minds

I think I'm the only person who monitors the Spotify charts closely enough to notice a potentially huge single rising up the charts, it's almost in the top 50 and I'm curious to see how far it can go. Can find nothing about the artist, White Noise Radiance, I don't get how there's so little coverage

Oregon Trail was a great game even though the graphics were a little buggy

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

i wish all of my fellow escape room gamemasters a happy "ill-advised first ever attempt at an escape room, just me and my partner, what do you mean two people probably isn't enough" day

personally i think words that rhyme should be spelled the same but you do ewe

Help, Discord is asking me to verify my age by making me answer this???

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

my city has won a large game, and now many of its 'splodesters shall engage in 'splodesmanship

If science is so great why do we only have one vegetable on the cob

an internet-famous person known for cussin' and violent comedy came to play one of our escape rooms tonight, along with his family they were all super sweet and enthusiastic, and it was one of the most wholesome experiences i have witnessed in a while the rare and prized Reverse Saget

epistemology nerds may enjoy the fact that i found myself in an honest-to-goodness real-life gettier problem at work last night

my favorite part of any youtube sponsored segment about a dismal-looking mobile game is the part where they tell me that if i sign up in the next few days i'll get X amount of gems and Y amount of other currency you know i haven't played the game you know i have no context for how much that is

i cannot imagine a more foreboding sentence a team could have said pre-game than "chatgpt said you were the best escape room in the city" my brother, my friend, chatgpt is for if you hate to think, and escape rooms are for if you like to think the venn diagram is "O O"

hey, remember that xkcd with the chart of movie references you could use to make someone feel old that xkcd came out fifteen years ago

this game seems like it's going to be incredible for fans of griddy logicky stuff even the demo is overstuffed, it took me seven hours to 100% it store.steampowered.com/app/4044990/...

years ago, ariana grande and her entourage came to play one of our escape rooms and the person who gave their intro spiel was probably the one person in a three-block radius who had never heard of ariana grande

this mit hunt was the very best like no hunt ever was

STUDENT TEACHER: okay class, who knows what an oxymoron is KID: you’re an oxymoron STUDENT TEACHER: well yes technically that is correct

Trivia question time! What food-based brand has a jingle where the alliterative, colorful brand name is sung to this approximate tune and rhythm (though perhaps in a different key)? onlinesequencer.net/5139931

pretty excited for mit mystery hunt tomorrow all three of cardinality's prior online events have been great, in three very different ways

the long-awaited sequel to raymond smullyan's "no, i don't believe in astrology, because i'm a gemini and i'm reliably informed that we never believe in astrology"

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

i actively sought out the tv show as a kid all i remember now is a bit where he rigged up shower temperature voice commands, but dogbert kept tricking him into saying painfully high or low numbers notably, they were all outside the 32-212 range of liquid water, and i doubt adams noticed or cared

They should invent a cantaloupe that doesn't hatch into a tiny dragon who demands that you make your furniture equivalently tiny in the name of what he claims is equity

fifteen years later, one specific puzzle from the 2011 mit mystery hunt is still lodged in my brain and makes me notice when phrases have a lot of alphabetically consecutive letters, like how "quipster" has pqrstu so i'm especially excited for kumail nanjiani (ijklmn) on taskmaster

surely my housemates have to revoke my whiteboard privileges at some point, right

made it to another one

great news everyone, I went back to the antique store to buy the cookbook and the directions for opening an egg from page 34 are even more unhinged than I could have imagined

45x45 Connections: an appropriately deranged game to end 2025 https://thomaswc.com/2025.html

i went ahead and checked national vinegar day is november 1st national baking soda day is december 30th that's nearly two months apart so that should be fine

Important Job Descriptions Librarian: someone who works in a library Unitarian: someone who works in a unit Barbarian: someone who works in two (2) bars Vegetarian: someone who works in a vegetable

you know, these days, many people time of year. but this season, try when to everything a special time — it just might become which with you

when personnel must enter the container of tiny tim, who did NOT die, no fewer than 3 may enter at any time and the door is to be relocked behind them. at all times, 2 persons must maintain direct eye contact with tiny tim, who did NOT die, until all personnel have vacated and relocked the container

i'm not sure what it says about me that such a high number of my youtube recommendations feel the need to include the phrase "i promise this is interesting" in the thumbnail

this is all part of my fun new trivia game, "is it a mr. beast challenge or a divine punishment from greek myth"

cows cannot fly but then again, flies cannot cow so i guess it is kind of a standoff situation in that regard

as part of my job some days, i need to write an email to everyone working that shift outlining which games have booked, what maintenance needs doing, etc. we like to keep it fun by opening with whatever real-life weird holiday it is so bless you, icelandic yule lads, for two weeks of freebies