I’ll go with meat pie. 
Mostly because carbs are bad for me, but also because it’s the option the other folks didn’t pick. 
Bonus answer: 3.1415926 is where I settled in college, and I’ve had no reason to remember more since. 
I like pineapple on pizza, so you’ll get no accusations from me! I once made topped a (homemade) pizza with mango, and it was delicious.
How about a question for today…
What’s the weirdest thing you have enjoyed eating?
My answer will be peanut butter and cheese whiz sandwiches. My brother and I “invented” them sometime around the age of 9 or 10, and I consumed them willingly into my 20s. Even now, despite being horrified at the very idea of them, I have fond memories of the taste.
Fruit, certainly. I can’t actually remember the last time I’ve had a meat pie. It was probably Thanksgiving.
3.14159, same as @dprcooke.
Oh, enjoyed? Well, my answer was going to be “a sushi burrito,” but I didn’t really enjoy that much as I dislike raw fish. The wyrdest thing that I’ve eaten was probably those Cupcakes of Fate that I found in the forest that one time.
Are sushi burritos weird? In Toronto, Canada (where I used to live) there was at least one chain that (at least initially) served only poke bowls and sushi burritos. I’ve moved now and don’t get to eat sushi burritos anymore 
Nah, sushi burrito sounds delicious to me. I think @fjur pegged the issue that they just don’t care for raw fish. I would think prepared well it would be great! I could eat poké bowls several times a week, though. There’s a place near my work that does Korean Beef bowls and burritos too. Pretty awesome IMO.
Oh yeah, to my weirdest thing. My failed experiment with a tuna sandwich using waffles in place of bread. I think they’ll substitute okay with breakfast food (bacon, sausage, egg) or fried chicken in between. Canned tuna I would not recommend, however. Consider this a cautionary tale.
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Precisely. They’re simply not to my taste; I recognise that others do enjoy them, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
Not objectively, no, but they are something that was unknown to me until recently, thus I classified them as unusual.
QotD: There are two burglars—a human and an elf. They both break into some lord’s manor and pilfer his coffers. Before they can make their escape, however, they are caught. Both thieves are sentenced to imprisonment. The question is, how long should each be imprisoned?
The elf can live for another 600 years, while the human will be lucky if she can get another 40. If they both get the same sentence length of, say, 20 years, that is a much higher percentage of the human’s life than it is of the elf’s. But if the sentences are scaled to be proportionate to the crooks’ lifespans, the elf could argue that the human is serving much less time than he is.
Bro code says elf takes the rap for the human. Depending on the universe, elves are functionally immortal so even 40-100 years is a slap on the wrist.
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I think the punishment should be tailored to the crime, so they should be given the same length of imprisonment.
Also, just because an elf lives longer doesn’t mean that their perception of time in the moment is any different. So the in-the-moment experience of 20 years of prison will still be relatively the same.
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Stand and deliver! Elf breaks the human out of prison and they redistribute the wealth!
dum dum dum da dummmm
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All of those are certainly good answers. I think there’s definitely several different factors to consider in this. Is the purpose of the imprisonment to punish the perpetrator, or to protect society from their crimes? (Or to reform the inmate…) And do elves in fact experience time at a slower subjective rate? They don’t seem to act or react any slower than other races/species/peoples/kindreds/lineages/ancestries.
QotD: What about speedsters, who explicitly experience time at a higher subjective rate? If the Flash, Quicksilver, or Tachyon were imprisoned, a 5-year sentence could seem like decades, centuries, or longer. Thus should they get shorter sentences?
QotD: Who is a historical figure who you think is obscure and underappreciated?
Robert Hooke! Read a fascinating dual biography of him and Edmund Halley called “Out of the Shadow of a Giant.” Hooke is known today almost solely for Hooke’s Law, which governs the relationship between force and displacement in springs. But he was the Royal Society’s experimentalist in residence and came up with all kinds of physics demonstrations and observations, including a good fraction of the stuff credited to Sir Isaac Newton! Hooke even realized the inverse square law of gravity and the idea that gravity is a property of mass before Newton did. In fact, Newton probably came up with his story about the apple as an obfuscation to claim credit for the idea first, and had such a fued with Hooke that, after Hooke’s death, Newton ordered the only portrait of him destroyed. Newton’s famous quote, “if I have seen further, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants” was actually a dig at Hooke, who was very short.
In summary, Isaac Newton was a jerk and Robert Hooke laid the real foundations of experimental physics, thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
(Halley was also fascinating…as a wealthy patron of science he bought a ship and crew, made himself captain, and sailed around doing scientific expeditions.)
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Heh, “I saw an apple falling” was his best attempt at a cover story for stealing someone else’s work? What a schlub.
Well that’s just downright petty.
Indeed!
Perhaps Newton should’ve just stuck with his alchemy and occultism, and left the natural philosophy to other folks.
My answer is undoubtedly Dr. William Thornton. He was an American physician and polymath from the late 1700s and the early 1800s, and an all-around radical guy; here’s a brief overview:
- He was a steampunk inventor, having designed a steamboat boiler, a steam-powered gun, and a steam-powered organ that would be heard throughout a whole city.
- He grew up on a slave-worked plantation, yet he was staunchly abolitionist; he proposed a colony in Africa where freed slaves could go to escape persecution; his ideas eventually influenced the founding of the country of Liberia.
- He won the contest to design the U.S. Capitol Building and the White House, despite having zero formal training in architecture; his designs were just that much more majestic than those of the other contestants, even those who were actual architects.
- He was good friends with George Washington. When Washington died, Thornton wanted to attempt to bring him back from the dead using science! But for some reason no one let him try.
Quote from Thornton about Washington's death, 1819
“My feelings at that moment I cannot express! I was overwhelmed with the loss of the best friend I had on Earth . . . The weather was very cold, & [George Washington] remained in a frozen state, for several Days. I proposed to attempt his restoration, in the following manner. First to thaw him in cold water, then to lay him in blankets, & by degrees & by friction to give him warmth, and to put into activity the minute blood vessels, at the same time to open a passage to the Lungs by the Trachaea, and to inflate them with air, to produce an artificial respiration, and to transfuse blood into him from a lamb. If these means had been resorted to, & had failed all that could be done would have been done, but I was not seconded in this proposal; for it was deemed unavailing. I reasoned thus. He died by the loss of blood & the want of air. Restore these with the heat that had subsequently been deducted, and as the organization was in every respect perfect, there was no doubt in my mind that his restoration was possible.”
- He was the first Superintendent of the U.S. Patent Office, and during the War of 1812’s Burning of Washington D.C., pretty much every building in the capitol was destroyed…except the Patent Office, because Thornton convinced the attacking soldiers not to.
Quote from R. Beresford, 1886, about Thornton's saving of the Patent Office
“A story is told of [William Thornton] that, during the war of 1812, when the British captured the city of Washington and destroyed the Capitol building, a loaded cannon was trained upon the Patent Office for the purpose of destroying it, and he is said to have put himself before the gun, and in a frenzy of excitement exclaimed: ‘Are you Englishmen or only Goths and Vandals? This is the Patent Office, a depository of the ingenuity of the American nation, in which the whole civilized world is interested. Would you destroy it? If so, fire away, and let the charge pass through my body.’ The effect is said to have been magical upon the soldiers, and to have saved the Patent Office from destruction.”
So, yeah. William Thornton was rad, and way cooler than Alexander Hamilton.
QotD: What is an unusual piece of furniture or decor that you have or had?
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QotD: If you play any tabletop roleplaying games, do you more often play “official” Adventures/Scenarios/Issues published by the game’s publisher, or homemade ones crafted by the GM? (Or “unofficial” Adventures created and shared by other GMs, like those on DM’s Guild?)
After receiving the Collector’s Case for OblivAeon, I mounted the first and final EE boxes on my wall as decoration.
Home-brew adventures for me. But I definitely look at published ones for inspiration.
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Coming in late on this one. My ex had an animatronic sunshine from the Rock-afire Explosion, i.e. the robot band that played shows at Showbiz Pizza before they were acquired by Chuck E. Cheese in the early 90s and reskinned as their characters. Not a reproduction either, an actual original that sat in a warehouse in Orlando for decades.
P.S. Lest I forget, she also had a funhouse mirror purchased from a defunct carnival. She was, shall we say… eccentric.
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Well, mine is not nearly as unusual as @Thunderbird’s, but I do have a painting of Azathoth that I made:
Lose 1d6 Sanity.
The only official adventure I’ve played in was The Lost Mine of Phandelver (D&D), and the only one I’ve run was Conspiracy of Clones (Sentinel Comics RPG), and the only other one I own is The Rise of Tiamat (D&D). Meanwhile, I’ve participated in significantly more homebrew adventures, on both sides of the GM screen.
I don’t really have anything against official adventures—they seem to be of fine quality, on average. The main reason I haven’t run more was because…well, I guess I just never bother to buy them? Plus, I often have so many ideas bouncing around in my head that I’m always excited to build an adventure around.
I missed a lot of fun on this thread during my month away. Hawaiian pizza for the win.
There’s nothing stopping you from answering QotDs from a few weeks past. Myself and others have done just that in the past. The way I see it, “Question of the Day” means that a question is posted no more than once a day, not that the question must be answered within a day.
(I assume that no one else will mind, and even if they do, I still hold the Power of the Questioneer, so I have control until someone new takes up the position or one of the previous Questioneers overrules me.)
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