Announcing…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbP1pAp49mA …The first-ever [DFO] Banner Tournament! Yes, it's been a long time coming, and now that it's almost March, it's finally here. We went through as many banner comments as we could find from the beginning of the site (thanks, Internet Wayback Archive!), including a brand-new archive of current banners (dating from

Your “Isn’t This the Part…” Final Friday Evening Thread of 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4ZlWEQ17ns Another year, gone and done. Things happened, and now those things are part of the annals of history—no, I said annals, with two Ns, not, never mind. We got a lot to do in this final Friday post, so let's get it started. I want to start off by congratulating everybody

And Now, Time for a Holiday Game

So I posted a mention about this earlier in the Friday afternoon thread, but as it is now officially the "Christmas season," as opposed to your local drug store which has had Christmas decorations and candy out since Labor Day or so, it is time for something that I found

Jets at the Bye: A Jets at the Bye Post

This was going to be another Senor in the Underworld post. It was going to be a sit-in on the poker night that Hades referred to last time, with Hades, Persephone, Senor, and maybe a couple of others, maybe the redhead with the axe referenced from the Pro Bowl post—that

A BattleBots Beat Halloween Special: Conquering the Reaper

Welcome to a very special BattleBots Beat vignette for Halloween. For your enjoyment, but hopefully not for your pleasure, because eww, we bring you this tale of a plucky underdog doing anything and everything to try and shock the world. We call this story, "Conquering the Reaper."* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89LYj3d1jCw "6… 5… 4… 3…" "Bombshell's

The BattleBots Beaties: Because Senor Couldn’t Come Up with a Better Name

Welcome to the second [DFO] BattleBots Awards! With the rebranding this season of the BattleBots Beat, we (I) decided that we needed something cleverer than the generic "BattleBots Awards." But all the good fasteners were taken (the Giant Nut and Bolt by BattleBots, the Giant Screw was a thing that

Your “Giant Nuts on the Table” Friday Evening Open Thread

Evening, lizard people. I'm hijacking the Friday evening open thread tonight because tonight's gonna be a fun night of sports. Well, for me. Well, if I didn't have dress rehearsal for a concert tomorrow night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlpNB0WeQaQ (It's 27 minutes. And 25 of those minutes you're waiting for a cadence. Also we will

Your “TWO Tiebreakers?!?” Monday Afternoon Open Thread

The baseball regular season is over and we have our ten teams playing in the postseason. And the American League is nice and cut and dry. Everyone here except for Ian, Horatio, Fronk (I think), Herodotus (I think), and I will be rooting for the Dirt Raiders come Wednesday in