brian

Nextdoor?

How many years do you think people should do it? Does growing up in the sunbelt satisfy my civic duty here?

If I had an impossible amount of money, one thing I'd waste some on is hiring a team of animators to redo beast wars as a 2d cartoon, leaving its old audio totally intact.

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This was much easier when it was possible to buy a smallish new truck in America

Yeah, if you (as you seem to typically) assess your needs rationally, buy the truck that suits them, and use it as a truck, most people who aren't so pure that they also judge you for occasional air travel are chill?

It actually does double duty in the medium term; I think I'm not the only person to remember their own childhood and ask "do I want the world to have more experiences like that?" People who answer "yes" seem to want more kids.

As somebody who mostly went into tech because I honestly liked it, and graduated in '15, I saw this coming up behind me and distinctly felt like I was running away from a tsunami.

more old doodles

*100k

I mean how cold can you be over 100 btus?

Counterpoint: the problem is morning people

As someone who loves PbtA and bounced off DND, I am genuinely loving watching this saga; your instincts tap into some deeply-buried intuitions but are like 180 degrees from how I felt when I read these rules.

Good luck! It takes a minute to click, but really sings when it does. Hope we get the report

It's low-key the most fun I've ever had in turn-based combat, like, in any system.

I think their imagined audience is "well-meaning young adult who has probably heard the phrase 'dungeons and dragons' but would not connect it to the phrase 'tabletop roleplaying game'".

Having watched the Magpie community around the development of this game, the sheer unfamiliarity of their backers probably backed them into a corner a little bit. There were months where their discord was full of people who weren't sure whether it was a video game.

qwantz lookin ass

Saw this literally exactly as I was starting to wonder

I recently made a comic complaining that NASA refuses to listen to my good ideas for improving the Solar System (xkcd.com/2750).

To my delight, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate has sent me an actual expert panel evaluation of my “flatten the planets” proposal! Sadly, they decided not to fund it.

Even as a child, I found roller blades much more intuitive

As I wrote on Twitter, in a normal sane world I would be a liberal Republican. We would do the thing where fun of me for being a heartless bean-counter and I make fun of you all for not understanding incentives and math, but instead I'm going to vote Blue until I die and also I now support unions.

Everything in the brain is a cycle or a spiral. Cause and effect are sometimes helpful if a proximate diagnosis helps elucidate a cure, but mostly they aren't actually different things.

Fwiw, you are the human who adds the most to my feed and I'm glad you're here. Like, take care of yourself, but if that's a data point, take it.

The Son of Man (French: Le fils de l'homme) is a 1964 painting by the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte. It is perhaps his best-known artwork.[1] Magritte painted it as a self-portrait.[2] The painting consists of a man in an overcoat and a bowler hat standing in front of a low wall, beyond which are the sea and a cloudy sky. The man's face is largely obscured by a hovering green apple. However, the man's eyes can be seen peeking over the edge of the apple. Another subtle feature is that the man's left arm appears to bend backwards at the elbow.

"apple vision pro." thank you

in case you have not heard, there is a new masterpiece out from the Chancellor

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As a substack reader user, I'd much rather move you to feedly than remember to check my inbox now that you're gone

There is such a thing as a "good opponent" and I think you're best off understanding them as such

"Before you tap your card, it [the credit card machine]'s gonna ask you a couple questions" is such a dystopian vibe. Like, independent of the fact that I'm being asked whether I want to tip on a bottle of iced tea from the amtrak cafe car. Even "tip" needs an agency-absolving euphemism.

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