SeattleSamurai

Of all the reasons to hate AI, I place above them all the nearly compulsive use of emdash.

Last WorldCon's loots

Same... so same.

Nerds do be loving badge flags...

What do you call someone who isn't a racist, xenophobic, or authoritarian, they just want to see Germany get back on her economic feet and get back a sense of pride again?

Oh yeah, Nazis.

The distinction between the charismatic bigot and the useful idiot has always been irrelevant.

Lol noted

At least he used "you're" right.

Me watching this episode: This is why I don't let you near my eyebrows.
Her: I just go for the middle ones.
Me: THAT'S HOW IT STARTS

I wanna try out that #larp style that's blowing up in China, jubensha. Turns out you can in Seattle, but you'll need some translation help. Turns out I've got that, now I just need three or four more of you to join us... who's in?

Social media is bad for #larp. It suppresses events and promotes toxicity and strife, because that's what makes them money.

They're probably wondering what I wonder: how do I make visible a disability that is activated by being observed? Accommodation is easy for those with canes, wheels, hand signals, etc... empathy is easy. But what if you can't see the need for accommodation because I can't show you the disability?

Anyway, I guess I say all that not to excuse myself, but to explain. I can do better, and sometimes get it right. I'll keep trying, but it's an honest to godz disability, there's only so much I can do without accommodation. I don't think I'm the only one, I think a quote talker is reading this

all listeners have about me, based on my appearance. I forget what you're seeing. I forget I'm the bear in the room. I forget I put you on the defensive if I don't smile harder, laugh often, and shrink. I'm weird and scary for reasons that aren't about me, but expectations of me.

But I never got good at the talking. I collect quotes still, my lingo is often surprisingly relevant. I can work a room, be charming and fun. I can repeat facts like a pro. But i can't say what i feel. It comes out without the proper affect that expresses the context that overcomes the assumptions

Very human like, but "wrong" in some way nobody could quite put their finger on. It was easy to leave me behind. It was easy to be cruel about it. I had it coming, they'd say. I learned to serve, as quietly as I could. It was harder to leave the useful, even if they are unrepentant in their oddness.

Of course, this would all fall apart if anybody asked me something I didn't have a quote for. I couldn't get what I needed, because i didn't have that quote. Eventually, it harmed me, so I started learning how to not parrot, but construct. I was so bad at it. I lived squarely in the uncanny valley

approximate a conversation, with many guaranteed approval noises due to the professional nature of the source material. I've forgotten many of those sources, but occasionally I'll watch an old show or movie and catch one or many of them.

I learned it consciously, like a math or science. While I read like a vacuum, it didn't translate well into speech. People don't talk like that. TV became the source material I trained on. Most everything i said was a quote. Even the boring stuff. With an extensive library of responses, I could

If Autism is a spectrum, where "super into trains" is red and "totally mute" is purple I'm an indigo. Subjected to recurring hearing tests (it was the 70's in the south in the army, autism wasn't on the radar), I remember the day I chose to speak. It was a recognition of an obligation I never wanted

Yes, I agree.
Sorry, twas the 'tism. I'm bad at this on a good day, worse when I'm excited. These things I made are really exciting to me.

It's not a larp. It's support tool for larps, so developers aren't thusly burdened, and can spend more time on on the fun stuff and less time doing, well all that stuff that was listed.
Many hands make a lighter load. It was meant to be uplifting, not condescending.

This thread describes, in detail, why we're making @freeworldlarp.com . So there's less of that, and more story.

Using 'larp' as a pejorative is bigoted abelist nonsense.

Is it working? Did I get the likes?

Not if the larp has a king

This colorful telescopic view towards the musical northern constellation Lyra reveals the faint outer halos and brighter central ring-shaped region of M57, popularly known as the Ring Nebula. To modern astronomers M57 is a well-known planetary nebula. With a central ring about one light-year across, M57 is definitely not a planet though, but the gaseous shroud of one of the Milky Way's dying sun-like stars. Roughly the same apparent size as M57, the fainter and more often overlooked barred spiral galaxy at the left is IC 1296. In fact, over 100 years ago IC 1296 would have been known as a spiral nebula. By chance the pair are in the same field of view, and while they appear to have similar sizes they are actually very far apart. At a distance of a mere 2,000 light-years M57 is well within our own Milky Way galaxy. Extragalactic IC 1296 (aka PGC62532) is more like 200,000,000 light-years distant. That's about 100,000 times farther away than M57 but since they appear roughly similar in size, former spiral nebula IC 1296 must also be about 100,000 times larger than planetary nebula M57. Look closely at the sharp 21st century astroimage to spot even more distant background galaxies scattered through the frame.

🔭 A Tale of Two Nebulae

Image Credit & Copyright: Kent Biggs

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#bereal

I was at WorldCon (the retirement home of geek cons) last week promoting larps. This conversation was the most common:

Me: Ever larp before?
Them: Yeah, back in the day.
Me: Vampire?
Them: Yeah, vampire.

You know why that is? Those books were in gaming stores.

Trees and mountains line the bottom of a landscape image with blue sky visible above. The sky is otherwise dominated by a large and unusual cloud that is brown and gold and has many waves and structures. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

🔭 Asperitas Clouds Over New Zealand

Image Credit & Copyright: Witta Priester

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They should have asked the WWE.

That seems like a reasonable concern. I'd also hate if larp was lost entirely to Disney. But I'd say, like the mediums of TV, movies, and theater, the inclusion of corps didn't suppress indies. It moved people to them, as a portion of the masses are punks.
Disney makes A24 happen.