allison steele, organic human person

lots of people find value in lots of totally absurd things. that doesn't obligate me to value them as well.

i read to be the recipient of interesting or novel ideas. or to connect with people, socially or parasocially. at the most generous, ai can only interpolate between existing training data. llms are remix machines with zero cognition.

what possible use does your slop have for me?

a friend at work told me today that he was the one who pushed for putting xp gains on gathering from herb and mine nodes back in cata.

thinking about that was a significant game design lesson for me back in the day, so even though i was sitting already, i had to sit down.

that was *16* years ago.

She's like an old samurai whose great battles are behind her but every once in a while she kills a man with piece of paper just to prove a point

say it with me now: fuck cancer.

mister brisco county junior, autolycus the king of thieves, ash fucking williams... our hero better win this one.

i think i may have bought a dozen of them, tops. most came free by being a judge or wizards employee. or were included in an event like a prerelease mat from back in those days.

and yes i still want more playmats too. but i have a tiny bit of discipline.

at least 60 playmats stacked on top of a kneeling chair

how many playmats is too many playmats?

world of warcraft screenshot: a void elf demon hunter in void metamorphosis form standing in silvermoon. she is looking down at a tiny naaru at her side that's shooting a ray of holy energy at her midsection

the void does love the naaru substantially more than the naaru love the void.

it's when you really need a game boy but you don't get paid for another couple days so you take out a...

This makes no sense. White Americans have been attacking *Black* churches, synagogues, and mosques for generations. Trying to pit Islamophobia, antisemitism, and anti-Black racism against each other is just gonna lead to all three looking at the white male Christians doing all the attacking.

i wish i hated the turtle set.

instead i just feel nothing at all for it.

i read and bounced off the first book when i was a kid, remembering almost nothing. so i went into that show with essentially no expectations.

and not only is it absolutely gorgeous, but it's enthralling. highly recommended, though i'm still never going to read the books.

90% of evictions in MN are for nonpayment of rent. I did a sample a week ago and found the avg nonpayment eviction in Hennepin County would take $5,122 to stop. Studies (before the high inflation of the past few years) suggest stopping an eviction saves $6,832 in public costs. It just makes sense

my mother always told me that you can be judged by the people who hate you. so it's arguably a compliment.

in what is becoming a sadly evergreen sentiment: today more than most, that fantasy seems so needed yet so far away.

watched the james gunn superman the other day. he gets that character was never intended as a power fantasy. there are tons of overpowered superheroes out there.

the fantasy superman stories offer is "what if there were a man who had the power of a god and chose to be a moral person every time."

the only erroneous statement here is that we did manage to stop calling them "generation z".

i think reasonable people can speculate, given how often he has gotten his way over the course of his life and how often that leads to personal enrichments, whether this is a failure to promote the general good or success at yet more personal enrichment at the expense of others.

People really struggling with the idea that the Iranian government sucks but we shouldn't be bombing them can both be true, eh?

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Now that he’s started a war, I’ve completely forgotten that he’s a pedophile.

Sick, evil fucking idiots. Not just monstrous but deeply stupid. The people of Iran deserve our solidarity.

the nyt editorial board spends its entire op-ed saying "he's bad for doing it this way but some good can come from it. if only he'd done it the right way."

beyond fucking parody at this point.

from the middle of this piece.

so the iranian's biggest sin is... numbers? the US federal government hasn't killed thousands of protesters this year, only a handful. (not counting the dozens of innocent immigrants who died in ice custody)

I can’t emphasise leading w/ empathy for civilians *everywhere* on a day like today enough.

The first casualty here in the UAE, where I live, is an Asian civilian at a residential building.

Many Ukrainians, Palestinians, Iraqis, Syrians, Sudanese & other war-traumatised people live here.

1/2

maureen dowd is not even close to the worst of the lot, yet i find i overindex on personal hate for her. may she never know peace, only ruin.

Oh.

tbh i'm moving so soon this could be a return to alara or neon kamigawa and i would still have to miss it. but i get such strong spiderman vibes from the set that i don't feel bad skipping.

i read the design article though, and it looks like making it was a labor of real love though.

biden said nothing would change and then nothing changed.

how is that a lie again? it's not good but it was true and accurate.