Jim Dagg

This is when your life *starts*. Most people spend their 20s learning how to adult; 30s are when you find your calling, your people, and your life. 40s are when you thrive. Take your time -- you've got plenty of life to live.

I mean, that's the dream, isn't it? Baddie on couch is a good place to be.

Reblusking for the midnight crowd!

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Who wants to make a quick and dirty Gameboy homebrew called "We should kill all the nazis in the US Government right now and their sycophantic followers"? I'll make an RA set for it. It'd be allowed, apparently.

I've said before: the only thing scarier than when something randomly stops working is when it randomly *starts* working

Retro Achievements is a Nazi bar. Don't support them.

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“There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama, and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime, and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means on a special kind of kaleidoscope known as a versificator.”

The part of Orwell's 1984 that everyone forgets is how human music has been replaced by soulless, machine-generated pop songs. The AI attempt to take over the film and music industries is an attack on the human spirit. Boycott AI actors. Boycott AI bands. Support human artists.

I guess the next question is who is going to bring a suit about it, because anymore, the law is "that annoying thing that we have to pay off later" rather than any sort of a guiding star with this admin.

It's never too late to pick up a new art or hobby. Please don't limit yourself because you're "too old".

Hegseth speech is horrifying but there is this

I hate this (complimentary)

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It's such a bonehead move -- someone said it's like the closest thing to a Tom Clancy opener they've ever seen and I think they're right. Just waiting for Hegseth to secretly be a suicide plant so that PMCs can be the designated survivors and take over the military or some such nonsense.

I have an Aeropress but I still haven't gotten around to testing it out. Need to get on that!

This is making lightbulbs and sirens go off in my brain. *Every* game I write has a quick reference to the player-facing rules attached to -- or on -- the character sheet, but for GM-ful games, maybe there's something to addressing the two audiences (GM and PC player) more distinctly.

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I learned to manually brew coffee over the course of the last year and a half-ish? Using a Hario Switch, electric gooseneck kettle, and a two-pour recipe. This is the same kit I brought with me to Metatopia because the ritual of making and drinking my coffee, one cup at a time, is irreplaceable.

This right here. You brighten the world by your presence in it, and you deserve love and care because you draw breath. I'm glad you're here.

"bishadow" was RIGHT THERE

I would also love an inset image with the example of an XP track with one mark to clarify. More examples and visual aids in my games please!

Let's all to take a deep breath & understand that we have reached the phase in fascism where if they want to declare you a criminal, you are a criminal. You can not magically avoid it, or do exactly the right thing to stay off the list. Fascism must always have enemies, and one day you will be one.

The latter, btw, is an evolution of Phase/Shift, my previous anti-fascist cyberpunk supernatural action game:
vagentzero.itch.io/phaseshift

Sure, I'll bite:
* The Recipe With Kenji and Deb
* Let's Learn Everything!
* Lateral
* Party of 1
* Eat My Globe

I have two WIP:
* Guardians of the Six Realms, Saturday morning fantasy JRPG roleplaying about "citizen guardians" trying to make their layered world a better place
* The Adventures of Shadow Platoon, optimistic military action inspired by GI Joe that asks: what if our heroes actually helped people?

G is a very close second for me for reasons you stated. I go D. My "pandemic project" was learning mainland Chinese cooking, and you put India and the rest of South and SE Asia in there (Korea *barely* fits in)? Greece and a good chunk of the Levant? Like, that's my happy place.

Queen

They can't all be homeruns.

i’m a believer in ineffective altruism. i think that everyone in america should be issued a vga to s-video cable adapter and a bale of hay