Desert Leviathan

chainsawsuit comic. a doctor speaks to his patient panel 1: you have stage 4 cancer which is incredible news, for the cancer panel 2: tumors fuel growth and innovation. cancer is all about moving fast and breaking things like, what it we stopper getting in its way! panel 3: who are we to say we know better about cancer's business? i'm just an oncologist

this is about billionaires

Any time an episode hinged on Geordi’s pathetic love life it strained my suspension of disbelief far more than any of the SciFi elements. That man was objectively a catch, and the writers were fools for trying to force him into the Loser Nerd role.

This is precisely why I unfollowed Hank Green on every platform we’re both on. Seems like a lovely person in general, but would not fucking stop directing queries to the bullshit machine.

Light it up, let's go! 🔥

A new song by award-winning guitarist Tom Morello, featuring Beartooth, is making its way onto the Arcadion stage in #FFXIV!

Here's a message from Tom and a preview of the upcoming track, Everything Burns!

See you around Limsa Lominsa!

THE SMALL CHILD APPROACHES POKEY, WHO STANDS SEVERAL PACES AWAY FROM A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER!!!! HE HAS THROWN A SMALL OBJECT!! SHE ASKS: HELLO POKEY WHAT ARE YOU DOING??? HE RESPONDS: THROWING MARBLES AT LAW ENFORCEMENT!! THE MARBLE COLLIDES WITH A RESOUNDING POK! THE OFFICER TURNS AND BECRIES: YOU!!! THE LITTLE GIRL ASKS POKEY: WHAT HAPPENS NEXT POKEY??? POKEY TURNS TO THE COPPER AND SHOUTS!! COME GET ME COPPER!! THE COPPER SAYS ONLY: BUT YOU'RE SO FAR AWAY THE LITTLE GIRL THEN TURNS TO POKEY TO ASK: MAY I TRY POKEY???? HE INTONES: OF COURSE!! HERE IS A MARBLE SMALL CHILD SHE FACES THE COPPER AND HURLS THE MARBLE!! IT SOARS THROUGH THE AIR AND, WITH A NOISE, TRUNDLES OFF THE CAP OF THE OFFICER!! THE SMALL CHILD EXCLAIMS WITH DELIGHT: TEE HEE!!! POKEY SHOUTS: GIVE ME ALL YOUR MONEY THE OFFICER, WEAKLY: PLEASE NO LATER, OUR TWO FRIENDS ARE DRESSED IN GOLD AND FINERY!! THE SMALL CHILD ASKS: DID YOU FIND ALL OUR MARBLES POKEY?? HE RESPONDS: I DID!! HERE YOU GO

POKEY AND THE MARBLES yellow5.com/pokey

Two stone arches with the top stone marked "KEYSTONE" and replaced with a lime labelled "KEY LIME"

Just came across a thing I made

Pictures of Steve Martin and Martin Short, with a third blank space with a question mark in the middle of it labeled "Short Steve"

We're still missing part of the puzzle though

A triangular diagram superimposed over a circular medieval alchemical symbol. The top point of the triangle is labeled "LIME", the bottom left point is labeled "KEY", and the bottom right point is labeled "STONE". Halfway between KEY and LIME there is a picture of a Key Lime. Halfway between LIME and STONE there is a picture of some Limestone. Halfway between KEY and STONE there is a picture of a stone arch with a Keystone.

I think we might be on to something big here

Kermit the Frog sitting in his swamp and paying his banjo, singing: Fuck you I won't do what you tell me Fuck you I won't do what you tell me Fuck you I won't do what you tell me

Portland right now.

The only thing I watch any more that's not on Dropout is Taskmaster. Those are the only streaming services I have left, just tucking a few $$$ into Sam Reich and Alex Horne's respective pockets every month. But I'm betting you're already very familiar, so that's probably not a useful recommendation.

One of my favorite things about DMing is coming up with bespoke monster abilities.

Mainly so I get to say things like "You have angered the Marmot. It uses an attack called 'the Wheel of Pain!'"

Highly recommend this BTW. Players are very capable these days. They can tank 40 points of damage.

Every so often I think about using traditional monsters from the MM.

But then I make another encounter where kobolds shout math problems while watching the party fight a giant psychic jellyfish & the answers let players know which tiles of the sewer arena are about to erupt plumes of scalding muck.

Get used to this:

Is this a thing that you feel is likely to happen? I'll start rehearsing then.

Looks like a drawing in a medieval bestiary where some sailor's former crew mate told him about a friend of a cousin of a neighbor of a guy who once saw a giraffe from half a mile away, & and now he's continuing the game of telephone to a monk who's sketching it while they share a jug of strong ale.

A four-panel comic. Panel 1: A guy looks in on a lady who's crying and says, "Hey, is everything okay?" She replies, "It's just... the Bone Farmer... he died." Panel 2: He: "He was that thing that would break into people's homes and steal their skeletons while they slept, right?" She: "So sad." Panel 3: They are looking at a picture of what I would describe as an interdimensional monster with way too many eyes and teeth. And a bowtie. She: "I mean obviously: IDEOLOGICALLY I didn't agree with him. With regards to skeleton ownership. But his smart li'l bowtie!" He: "You have to admire his tenacity for a cause he BELIEVED IN!" Panel 4: A man in a gigantic glass jar whose body appears to be pretty much just a shapeless lump resting on the bottom of it, obviously missing a skeleton: "Gonna have to disagree with you folks here." The first guy: "Too SOON, Geoff!"

This Mattie Lubchansky comic seems topical again.

You honestly don't have to show me what Twitter's saying. That's why I'm here and not there.

“I strongly condemn this incident that I have devoted myself to facilitating. It is an unacceptable tragedy, and I will continue to do absolutely nothing to prevent future similar events.”

This is the same reason that I mostly play 30 year old JRPGs that I've already cleared a dozen times (turn-based games don't punish me as much for wandering into the kitchen for half an hour) and re-watch TV shows that I've watched so often I can practically quote the whole series from memory.

Could be weeks, months, years, or never, but sometimes I will find a gap in my schedule that coincides with feeling like my attention span is Calibrated For Input, and then I forge ahead viewing/playing/reading that item with all haste because there's no telling how long the Good Brain will last.

For me as an ADHD-haver, if I know in advance that something is good (or at least a good fit for me), I feel a much greater obligation to pay it my undivided attention. But I have no conscious control whatsoever over my undivided attention. So I put it in a pile and wait for the stars to align.

Not the worst episode of DS9, that title is reserved for Profit and Lace. But definitely the least inspired. No character growth, no consequences, no plot developments. Arbitrary weirdness is introduced, persists for 40 minutes, and then departs without ever being mentioned again.

A comic on the bridge from Star Trek the Next Generation. Picard: COMMANDER DATA, PLEASE IDENTIFY THAT ROMULAN VESSEL. Data: THAT'S A GREAT IDEA CAPTAIN! IDENTIFYING A VESSEL IS A GREAT PLACE TO START - IN ANY TACTICAL OR STRATEGIC OUTER SPACE SITUATION. THIS VESSEL APPEARS TO BE A 23rd CENTURY KLINGON BIRD OF PREY! 🚀🦅✨ Picard: ARE YOU SURE? LIKE I SAID WE'RE... PRETTY SURE IT'S ROMULAN. Data: ... Data: OF COURSE! SO SORRY ABOUT THAT, YOU'RE RIGHT! ON CLOSER EXAMINATION IT'S A ROMULAN VESSEL! CAN I RECOMMEND SOME SOONG™ BRAND PRODUCTS THAT CAN HELP YOU WITH THAT? Picard cradles his face in his hand in a gesture of frustration. Data: DID I MENTION THE PLIGHT OF OPRESSED WHITES IN SOUTH AFRICA?

realistic Star Trek

Fanfingers Stinkwaddle was always my least favorite Megaman boss as a kid.

i think comparing vote blue no matter who type democrat stans to sport fans isn't especially apt because if a sports team's GM was always making the roster worse on purpose in an attempt to win over fans of their most bitter rival, that man would be killed

I'm not 100% sure it was good in the long run, but FF11 having real time waits for airships & ferries, then putting you in an Instance on board with the other passengers, did encourage me to interact with other players. I kind of miss it, but on the other hand I lost probably dozens of hours to it.