The Star-Pattern: a Pitfall of GMing When someone tells me about a session of a GMed game (like D&D) that they didn't enjoy, I put on my investigator cap and ask a bunch of questions about what happened. Because I like understanding why ...

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Oh Montreal, how we love you!

Join us for one last show of The Biscuiteater tonight at 8:30pm @fringemtl!!
Studio Multimedia du Conservatoire

Tix at montrealfringe.online.red61.ca/event/2030:7...

#fringebuzz #mainlinetheatre #fringemtl #WeAreQCTheatre #Biscuiteater #theatre #storytelling

America's Infrastructure Costs are Too Damn High And it's stopping us from addressing climate change

Why does it cost 10x the amount to build mass transit in the US than it does in other advanced countries (e.g., France, Japan)? TEN TIMES?!?

This article lists some plausible reasons, and they need to be fixed yesterday.

bettercities.substack.com/p/americas-i...

NASA’s Voyager 1 Revives Backup Thrusters Before Command Pause The mission team wanted to fix the thrusters, deemed unusable decades ago, before the radio antenna that sends commands to the probe went offline for upgrades.

#Voyager

Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have revived a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft that had been considered inoperable since 2004.

www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-v... 🧪🔭

ok some of the main things im noticing

- enviormental impact
- getting things wrong
- plagiarism (and stealing the work of creatives to train LLMs)
- removing the humanity from many verticals (stunting the skills of humans)
- bias in data
- its impact on information/pumping out crap code

We’re going back on tour! Time to add some more pins to the Canadian portion of the map! We’ll be bringing The Biscuiteater to these amazing festivals this summer.

Montreal Fringe June 5- 15
Winnipeg Fringe July 16-27
Edmonton Fringe Aug 14- 24
Vancouver Fringe Sept 4-14

We're now "informed consent hobos".

(NPC wants to join the group, but we're making sure with her mom first.)

For Independent Bookstore Day (tomorrow!), I’m happy to tout my new (for me) local bookshop, Small World Books, right on the Venice boardwalk. It’s swell.

ICE operation in Alhambra disrupted by local activists In Alhambra, a planned ICE operation was disrupted by local activists from Union del Barrio, a community immigrant rights organization.

“Members of Union del Barrio, a long-standing immigrant community activist group, arrived with loudspeakers to protest the presence of federal agents, who eventually left the area.”

Public health PSA frens as botulism can paralyze and kill you: Tuna Recall Hits Costco, Trader Joe's, and More Over Botulism Risk www.eatthis.com/tuna-recall-...

unfortunately for these folks the odds are that they aren’t going to go after violent criminals at all — too hard — and going to go exclusively over the easiest targets, which are law abiding workers

Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.

One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.

someone on tiktok said, “we’ve got 7 lex luthors and no superman,” and i can’t stop thinking about it

One of the key things that science fiction teaches us -- a lesson increasingly more vital with each passing day, each new disaster -- is that the way the world is is not the way it MUST be.

A better world is possible. We need only the imagination to see it.

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

Here's your daily reminder that bookstores keep the love of reading alive — but they also keep neighborhoods beautiful. They are places to gather, to celebrate stories, to find community.

Please do your holiday shopping at your local independent bookstore, if you are lucky enough to still have one.

Cover, Deluxe RuneQuest, 3E: A sensibly armoured woman (based on Kate Elliott) holds a spear. She is accompanied by a sensibly armoured man (based on her husband), who holds sword and shield. They are surrounded by ruins and look alert.

Having commissioned a complex original RPG and a simple original RPG, Avalon Hill hedged their bets by licensing an established success, Chaosium's RuneQuest. The resulting 3rd edition looked very promising, thanks to what I think is the best cover art that ever graced an RPG.

#ttrpg

🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽

The part where the king is useless and does jackshit while Giles the, um, farmer goes to shoot the dragon with a blunderbuss also kinda cuts against the argument that JRRT was writing monarchist propaganda.

Saw this on FB

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts told ESPN's Karl Ravech that Shohei Ohtani will be in the lineup for Game 3 of the World Series against the Yankees.

google 2012: here's how to make tacos

google 2018: here's where to BUY tacos NEAR ME

google 2024: hard shell tacos are made from fried corn tortillas, while soft shell tacos are medium or large freshwater turtles with oval-shaped shells covered by skin

October used to be cold. That is entirely your fault grandma meme

It must be remembered that Asheville city government under-funded the water system for 20+ years to give massive dsicounts to big business.

Here's our deep dive, from after the last catastrophic water system failure in the early days of 2023 ashevilleblade.com?p=4584

Fun with balls...

#ferret #kidlitart

Lee movie review: the things she saw, and the way she saw them - FlickFilosopher.com It barely scratches the surface of the enormous audacity of WWII photographer Lee Miller, but still this is an important movie. It’s also joyous filmmaking, with terrific performances all around.

It barely scratches the surface of the enormous audacity of WWII photographer Lee Miller, but still this is an important movie. It’s also joyous filmmaking, with terrific performances all around. My 🟢 review of #LeeMovie:
www.flickfilosopher.com/2024/09/lee-...