Practical Tips

[Art, Stay home, stay safe.]

If you ever choose the path of crime, break every law known to man, but never EVER mess with the laws of physics.

[Antti]

"If you can't beat them, join them" DOES NOT apply during zombie apocalypse.

[Kateblue, 2nd star to the right and straight on til morning]

Don't open doors that appear in trees with warning signs about entering, or you might be late for dinner. REALLY late for dinner.

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

if you dungeon-crawl and there is eye of beholder shining ahead, don't rush to it, for it can be an incoming train

[Victor]

If it walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck...it might be a robot. Or a clone. Beware!

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

Victor wrote: "If it walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck...it might be a robot. Or a clone. Beware!"

or mimic or doppelganger

[Victor]

Time travel is notoriously risky, with outcomes that are hard to predict. So, here's a time travel tip: if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Unless it’s a DeLorean, in which case your flux capacitor will probably work better in almost any other vehicle.

[Bryan, Village Idiot]

When upgrading you cybernetic body parts, make sure you check for Malware. We don't want a repeat of Jupiter.

[Nackles]

When time traveling, don’t sweat the small stuff. 1,000 years from now, the room you’re leaving from will be in the exact same layout and only look more futuristic when you get there. You will never appear inside an object that is now taking up the physical space you once left. What you really need to worry about is not sleeping with relatives.

[Bryan, Village Idiot]

When creating a replicant of yourself, make sure you have a psycho-social tape that will last for more than 20 generations. I can't tell you how many planets we have had to nuke due to this lack of foresight!

[Art, Stay home, stay safe.]

When terraforming an uninhabitable planet, don't..
Find a planet able to support life, there's no shortage of those!

[Kateblue, 2nd star to the right and straight on til morning]

Before you walk through that mirror, pack a suitcase!

[Kateblue, 2nd star to the right and straight on til morning]

When hosting a "practical tips game," don't forget everyone will lost interest eventually!

[Bryan, Village Idiot]

When making a negative comment on Bryan's favorite game...be prepared! You may push him over the edge to write as many practical tips as possible every single day!!!

[Art, Stay home, stay safe.]

When taking a photo of a black hole, don't try making it a selfie. It will suck, as in "suck you right in".

[Kateblue, 2nd star to the right and straight on til morning]

When playing the practical tips game, encourage Brian to write as many practical tips as he can!

[Kateblue, 2nd star to the right and straight on til morning]

Never walk at night without a stake in your purse.

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

Never assume that a book will actually end with an ending and not a cliffhanger

[Kateblue, 2nd star to the right and straight on til morning]

Aw, Z, what disappointed you recently???

Always have your antigravity belt on hand when approaching a cliffhanger :-)

[Kateblue, 2nd star to the right and straight on til morning]

Well, Art, how do you defend yourself if a black hole photo bombs you while you are taking a selfie?

[Bryan, Village Idiot]

When making first contact, please don't share any details of first contact movies humans have created. It might give them ideas and it sets a bad precedent.

[Bryan, Village Idiot]

When the zombies attack, avoid using fire against them. The only thing worse than a zombie attacking you is a flaming zombie attacking you.

[Kateblue, 2nd star to the right and straight on til morning]

LOL, Bryan. I particularly liked the flaming zombies one.

Zombies. Can't live with them, but they can live without you. They just can't eat without you.

[Art, Stay home, stay safe.]

Kateblue wrote: "Well, Art, how do you defend yourself if a black hole photo bombs you while you are taking a selfie?"

I refuse to answer that question without my lawyer present.

[Art, Stay home, stay safe.]

Soon we wil be voting for the Best Practical Tip, so here's another one for you:
If you want to join the contest and have a chance to win a prize, write a practical tip of your own!

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

Don't tip over thinking about a cool tip!

[Bryan, Village Idiot]

When floating in the vacuum of space try not to blame yourself for forgetting to tether, but instead praise yourself for being a one way explorer!

[Dan]

If you travel back in time to a period before you're born, make sure you don't kill either of your parents. Wait until after you're born.

[Bryan, Village Idiot]

Hello, this is Dan from the future! Don't listen to past Dan! Killing your parents, even after you are born, won't make you a wizard. I repeat. IT WON'T MAKE YOU A WIZARD!! Past Dan...give up this foolish quest before you destroy the whole of space and time!!

[Bryan, Village Idiot]

When submitting to the gods, make sure you keep yourself unremarkable. Its never a good thing that your god knows your name...so much more work that way.

[Bryan, Village Idiot]

Please clone responsibly. Make sure you adhere to the rules and for god's sake, stop cloning your clone's clone! Clone Protective Services (CPS) is understaffed and already over worked!

[Art, Stay home, stay safe.]

Thanks for participating, everyone! The polls are up to select our top entries from group members and the top three entries will be awarded prizes.

That being said, the game doesn't have to stop there, so keep sharing your practical tips with us. One may never be too prepared to face wormholes, clones or zombie invasions!

[Art, Stay home, stay safe.]

The results are in!

The winning advice is: "If you can't beat them, join them" DOES NOT apply during zombie apocalypse." by Antti

Congratulations Antti, you are the winner of our little Practical Tip contest and the grand prize is a $10 Amazon card. Please PM me your email address and I will send you the code required to reclaim your Gift Card.

2nd and 3rd place are tied:

Also, be kind to sentient robots. It may rule the galaxy in another 40-50000 years. by David

And

Pack your towel first, because if you have a towel, aliens will loan you almost anything because you must have just misplaced it, I mean, you have a towel so the logic follows. by Yvonne

Congratulations David and Yvonne, both of you get an ENC each, which you can use to pick your titles of choice for our group to read and discuss!

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

Congrats to all the winners!

[Art, Stay home, stay safe.]

Soon we will be voting for moderator entries as well, though there will be no prizes involved this time around.

[Kateblue, 2nd star to the right and straight on til morning]

Nah, it's enough of a prize just being around here.

[Yvonne]

Woohoo I tied for second. I take a towel everywhere.

[Sarah]

Art wrote: "The results are in!

The winning advice is: "If you can't beat them, join them" DOES NOT apply during zombie apocalypse." by Antti

Congratulations Antti, you are the winner of our little Practic..."

I managed to miss this announcement, but that's awesome. Congrats to winners. Thanks for the prize support, that's really generous of you guys.

[Art, Stay home, stay safe.]

Sarah, make sure you don't miss our other ongoing event:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...