Merry Christmas to me, somehow I missed the news that one of my absolute favorite manga series is finally getting an anime adaptation and it's premiering in like two weeks.

I mean, it was announced like two years ago but finding out this way is actually much better because no waiting.

Sophie is fully entranced watching the latest @drawfeeshow.com

It could be that it's been changed so that it is that simple, but some of these systems will let you say you didn't want to -see- them, but they wouldn't actually go away. I don't even know how to make sure that CoPilot is really gone, it's so integrated now.

I suppose "they did eventually refund the money they stole from me after a bait and switch scam when I reported them to the Better Business Bureau" is kind of positive?

Seriously though, they're the worst of them and that's saying something.

This entire thread is a great read. I'm not a published writer, but as someone who attempted their dream career and had to leave it behind, I think there's a lot in this for all of us.

But this particular one is what is most important to me. "The world will always need more stories."

20 years ago, I said I would never DM a TTRPG again. I have good reasons, my style of creativity doesn't mesh with what makes a DM great.

But um...I may have just agreed to do a #CandelaObscura one-shot so our forever DM can actually play for once. 😱

"I miss three or four of the people I used to be."
-Taliesin Jaffe

Finally watching the first episode of Weird Kids after months of the husband telling me this was exactly the kind of thing I would like. He is correct.

Guillermo del Toro quote "...think about wealth for me for example. A wealthy man that has enough..."

"not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite somebody to beer..."

"...you're rich. If you have, whatever-"

"- yachts and planes and islands and you STILL need more? You're not rich."

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

It also makes you better at spotting bad journalism because you can see the shortcuts taken by places that don't value skilled writers.

Research just to research is one of my favorite hobbies.

"I want to be able to have a record of business conversations"

Exactly! I also have hearing issues and the number of times I've told people that things need to be written and to a specific place and they've fully ignored me... Even my RIF notice went to the wrong email.

As always I'm unfashionably late to the party, but we watched K-Pop Demon Hunters last night and yeah it's as good as everybody says.

I'll spare you all from all my rambling thoughts about it but I do think other filmmakers need to take note of it being the perfect blueprint for modern musicals.

I know a lot of people are already spreading this info, but hoping to spread it a little further: donating to a food bank, food pantry, or food distribution mutual aid group is really important right now, as TFG and the fucking GOP are shutting down snap benefits on November 1. I'll link to a few

This is incredibly true for how we travel, which is why I'm a huge fan of my e-bike.

There are so many benefits to bike travel. More cities and localities need to look at how they can make small changes to better support bikes.

Also, don't read bad books or watch TV shows/movies you don't like just because they're "important" or "highly praised." You like what you like, it's fine. Don't waste time on things you aren't enjoying.

But that's advice for all ages. Even if it's a "classic" if _you_ don't like it, put it down.

It's okay to quit things, even as you get older. The job you thought was going to be your dream job, the career you've been studying for since you were 19, the group of friends you made years ago that aren't meshing anymore. You can grieve the ends of things, but they really can and should end.

We Have at least 70? years of science fiction exploring this proposition and all reaching the same conclusions as Josie.

Which I only bring up because everyone involved in this AI thing is a science fiction fan, but not one who understands what they read.

When you're a kid, the world doesn't make sense, you think it's because you don't get it yet. When you're an adult you have to come to grips with the fact that the world doesn't make sense because it just doesn't. It's hard not to feel some kind of way about it. People reach that at different ages.

I've always felt like the problem is that adulthood is so full of so much stupid that we're constantly feeling like we must be doing it wrong. The system is designed to make us feel like we're the ones messing up to deflect away from issues. Then society also is full of weird "just because" things.

Lot of blatant and very funny pareidolia in the AI space. I no longer wonder why early humans thought every tree that had cankers in the shape of a smily face must be a god

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We played our first session of Daggerheart tonight, and as someone who has never played a TTRPG aside from D&D, this is very different but also very fun.

Actually rolling D12s being the main difference, lol.

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Always happy for a chance to say: I read every real study on the impact of bike lanes on street-level retail. They never hurt. They often help. Sometimes they help a lot:

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There are a lot of great skeletons out there for building a story around, Campbell is one of them.

But if you think there's a real monomyth or that universal symbolism is real, you need to stop talking and go find some other cultures to experience.

I hear so many big budget, big network podcasts and news shows get names of people and places incredibly wrong that I made it a mission to get as close as I could. How can I be honoring someone if I am not using their actual name?

One is their name, and the other is not.

There's a scene in Star Trek TNG that sticks with me. Dr. Pulaski keeps pronouncing Data's name incorrectly. This is one of many small ways she's showing a prejudice against him. He asks her why she says it differently. She asks why it matters.

"Because one is my name, and the other is not."

For Introductions Necessary, I spent hours researching how to properly pronounce the names of the #WomenInSTEM that we featured. I'm lucky to have friends who speak many languages to help me out, but hearing a name from the person is best. If you know someone w/a Wikipedia page send them this link!

Sincerely, that is one of the most amazing things I've heard of in a long time.

I've got a podcast project that involves a LOT of names and the biggest research hurdle I face is figuring out how to pronounce things. Finding video of someone saying their own name is the holy grail.

I wish this didn't hit so hard but the only two therapists I ever went to that were worth anything weren't covered and had me on payment plans...

The last lady that did take it basically said my chronic illness didn't exist and I was being lazy. A.I. definitely wouldn't manage that.