That happened in a Call of Cthulhu game many years ago, three pursuing cars full of cultists suddenly skidded off the road and exploded. (The third roll was with different dice.)
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Thinking about it, two rolls may have been the same person, same dice back to back (although the dice were definitely not favouring, they’d been used plenty of times before). Then a 2nd person rolled on new dice and got the same and we lost our minds. And then I rolled a 97.
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Not quite as unlikely, but at D&D last night, I got a natural 20 and a natural 1 at the same time while rolling with advantage.
Making it more unlikely is that I did the same thing last week while I was the DM and rolling with disadvantage.
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I had a player roll 18 three times in a row in a gurps game. Different dice for each…
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One of the players from last night had previously played Call of Cthulhu where he and his partner rolled 100 and 99 for their sanity scores, making it a VERY unusual game.
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This will probably only make sense to Londoners or anyone who have been to London:
Why on Earth are you running to catch a Victoria train!?!?! The next train is only 1 min away 
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I can’t imagine the horror of people who run for the tube in central London if they had to commute using Northern Rail 
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Chicago used to have an extensive system of cable cars, whose operator once said he wanted to have a system where no one would run for the car, because they could always see the next one. A couple of the lines operated with 30 second headways at peak periods.
The cta does not share the enthusiasm for frequent service.
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Cant imagine it! I would also run if it’s on a different London line. Victoria Line is just PEAK
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Watching people getting pissed off for missing a tube train when there’s another in 2-5 minutes is one of my favourite London things. Just shows they don’t know how good they have it.
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I was walking past the kitchen trashcan[1] and spotted this. My first thought was, of course, “Never even heard of a band called Ground Mild Sausage, but it must be terrible if my partner threw their CD in the trash.”
rubbish bin ↩︎
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While looking up large mouse mats to verify the size in another thread, I found two of about the right size. One is blank like the ones I have. The other, which is a few pounds cheaper, has a bunch of charts for “technical analysis” printed on it—e.g. if the stock price graph is this shape now, it will definitely rise soon. I suspect the cheaper price reflects the value of the advice.
(I find patterned mats very distracting unless they’re for the specific game I’m playing.)
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My desk is black. It is covered by a large black mouse mat. On that mat sits a black keyboard with dark grey keys and black legends.
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I suppose it’s not that odd, but same. Except my keyboard is dark grey and the keys are black with light-grey legends.
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I haven’t used a mouse for my home office in a long, long time (and thus haven’t needed a mouse pad). I was a long-time trackball user but I recently switched to a touchpad.
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With computers, I use trackballs. (Wired. I know too much about Bluetooth.) These are for gaming…
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I’ve been told to tone down the evil laugh when we are playing my type of games…
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I feel opposite: perhaps “duration of evil laugh” may be a good metric for rating boardgames.
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Is schadenfreude a mechanic tag on BGG?
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