John Curtin 🔜 PAX Unplugged!

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.

The image is of the cover of the upcoming Starfinder Second Edition book, Tech Core. In the top left corner of the image is the "Starfinder" Second Edition logo, and in the bottom left corner of the image is the "Paizo Live" logo.

Hark! Another fun stream about the journeys to come in Pathfinder and Starfinder! Join Maya on Twitch NOW to hear about Tech Core and more: buff.ly/mxF5VAf

I don't know how to tell the kids that "protein-maxxxing" is not a new thing, I've been eating peanuts by the pound for years

Fun reminder that Jared Kushner's dad is a convicted felon who along with his other crimes hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law and record it when he learned the brother-in-law was cooperating with authorities, and Trump not only pardoned him but made him ambassador to France.

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See you on the slopes!

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SAM ALTMAN: "People talk about how much energy it takes to train an Al model ... But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart."

“Evil starts when you treat other people as things. There are perhaps worse crimes, but they begin when you treat other people as things.” - Terry Pratchett

the lesson of the pandemic lockdowns should have been "the only people important to the functioning of society are the workers who actually do things"

if every rich asshole on earth vanished in a puff of smoke tomorrow, nobody would notice or care

Oh hey my friend wrote this! He's not on Bluesky so I can't tag him, but he has a lot of other really wonderful qualities

I don't know who needs to hear this but you can just eat croutons as a snack

(oh me too - how could you not!)

I still get a kick out of anyone using something I've made. One of my finest moments as a game designer was having one of my characters get swallowed whole by a monster I had designed

A system built to eat people never stops eating people.

So real. I've been lucky enough to see some of my things appreciated (and someone in the anthro community uh *really* appreciated some of my work once) but so often it feels like I tossed my turnover into a void and I have no idea how it's been seen by The Community (whatever that means)

One Turn Kill Is A Perfectionist's Perfect Rogue-Like Deckbuilder | Bearly Factual Productions, By John Curtin Get more from Bearly Factual Productions, By John Curtin on Patreon

Alright, first 100% game of the year goes to the delightful lil rogue-like deckbuilder One Turn Kill! Under 20 hours to fully complete, with plenty of challenge and interest. My one complaint is that it's too short!

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Normie white dude candidates saying ‘Love Thy Neighbor’ were pretty important to Reconstruction I as well.

I've been playing a little bit of Wildermyth every night as my bedtime story and it is truly a treat

It's a day off. Everyone is taking it easy. No one expects any company announcements or anything. It would be wrong for me to spoil something else about Galactic Ancestries...

And after dealing with Sinema, Manchin, Fetterman, and other folks who enter as liberal candidates and then start caucusing with conservative causes, there are many who do not trust him to keep acting liberal once he has achieved power, which locals under his governership all say is his MO

As a plugged-in American, part of that candidate's problem was him platforming (and sympathizing with!) some of the worst boosters of the 'opposition,' so it becomes "do you want the Red or the Blue person who pals around and hangs out with Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon" in an illusion of choice

in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with.

this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.

The Pickle Rick breakdown by the therapist remains top-notch writing that was totally ignored by the fandom

Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)

This was Wes Anderson *as hell.*

It's not a great song, it's just catchy and singable! We don't need to do this to ourselves, America!

#Starfinder discussion:
"Extreme radiation should give you superpowers!"
"It does. Flight. Telekinesis. Phasing. All the powers of a ghost!"

Or my favorite reversal of that saying,
"Fools seldom differ"

So

Evil Midi-chlorians

Admin Officials in the Epstein Files:

Donald J. Trump
Melania Trump
Howard Lutnick (Commerce)
John Phelan (Navy)
Paolo Zampolli (Kennedy Center)
RFK Jr. (HHS)
Kevin Warsh (Fed Nom)
Mehmet Oz (CMS)
Elon Musk (Fmr DOGE)
Steve Bannon (Fmr WH)
Alex Acosta (Fmr Labor)
Bill Barr (Fmr AG)