Moe Lane

Totally.

Beat the Carnies: The Secrets to Winning 5 Popular Fair Games https://t.co/YWiKhWBNwI pic.twitter.com/S9cEwZjlEZ

— Art of Manliness (@artofmanliness) September 26, 2017

Full link here, and I plan to use some of these techniques the next time I’m at a county fair or whatnot.  Which should be more and more often, now that the children are older and can be cajoled into having a good time.  Being able to win at one or another of these games should prove useful when it comes to Dad Points.

Also, the most nerve-wracking.  I mean, you only get one shot at making something like this.  Mess it up, and there’s no way to fix it.

This Acheulean handaxe was deliberately knapped so as to display a fossil shell of the Cretaceous bivalve Spondylus spinosus at its centre. pic.twitter.com/yYxflflISu

— The Ice Age (@Jamie_Woodward_) September 20, 2017

You also have to wonder if the guy who made it ever actually used it. Probably; they didn’t have much margin, back then. But it’s one of those artifacts that you know had extra care lavished on it.

Although the tacit ‘we’ve got all the science fiction and fantasy we can stomach already’ warning is a problem, I guess. Still, it’s maybe paying work?

Big announcement! I'm working with Fox's new San Francisco game studio, and we're looking for freelance writers. https://t.co/Q0pLIt0hyx

— Alexander Freed (@AlexanderMFreed) September 15, 2017

Exciting news for Hasbro’s Hascon, if true.

I promise that I will perform "The Touch" next weekend! Catch me at #HASCON on 9/9: https://t.co/oPp2nvJVQa pic.twitter.com/os81KgZkGd

— Stan Bush (@Stan_Bush) September 3, 2017

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I sometimes wonder what our pets think of our habit of constantly hitting the clicky board that’s in front of the weird light and sound window.  I don’t wonder enough to go actually look up articles on canine or feline cognitive abilities, mind you.  That sounds entirely too much like work.  But I do wonder a little.

Solid advice, dogs pic.twitter.com/arTjeBYqEj

— Watts Martin (@chipotlecoyote) August 29, 2017

You’ll find out when you subscribe to my Patreon. You do subscribe to my Patreon, yes?

This is the only good eclipse picture please delete all your other ones. pic.twitter.com/0uv3PKO4cw

— Thulsa Gloom 🦇 (@ThulsaGloom) August 25, 2017

In fact, I pretty much agree with everything the guy said:

Texas is good, California is bad, Virginia didn't understand the question pic.twitter.com/6vHYtslr8V

— Taqqiya Purveyor (@notwokieleaks) August 22, 2017

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A biographical one. The man clearly gets himself into a variety of scrapes. Or maybe just a Crazy Celebrity game? Hmm…

There is no longer any distinction between Nicolas Cage's movies and Nicolas Cage's life. pic.twitter.com/ADrRuJboUZ

— Jeremy Woodcock (@jwPencilAndPad) August 19, 2017

It’s a shame that I can’t put up the Tweet that made me pick this thread for the honor, but it’d be too much of a spoiler. Just read it.

In 1998, four artists had a dream: to make the internet come alive, with song, and light, and dance. For a time, they captured the world.

— (((≠))) (@ThomasHCrown) August 15, 2017

In context it almost went kind of bad, there.

The new moral of this story is: leave your doors unlocked at night and it will most likely result in free booze.

— Jeff B/DDHQ (@EsotericCD) August 14, 2017

Which is pretty much what the Internet should be for.  This and cat videos — what?  I have a cat. Cats are funny to watch.  Especially the ones on the Internet. And God knows that the Internet can be used for worse things…

Spread the word: The Internet Archive has put up *25,000* 78rpm records, digitized professionally. https://t.co/BwlWuj1NHg pic.twitter.com/30Wxc45S8o

— Jason Scott (@textfiles) August 8, 2017

Three words: arm-mounted flame bracers*.

When your #dnd Monk finds Gauntlets of Flame. #rpg #tabletop pic.twitter.com/L1ge1aOy1V

— Grand DM (@Grand_DM) August 1, 2017

Or maybe four words.  Hyphenated words are always tricky to count. Either way, this is now officially current tech.

Moe Lane

*For best effect, say it like Cool Aquaman.