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So you’re telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?

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excited for a future where I'm simultaneously not-dead-enough to be allowed to have a miscarriage, yet not-alive-enough to keep my own heart and lungs

1. Far Beyond the Stars, DS9
2. Future Tense pts I and II DS9
3. A real dark horse here, but A Taste of Armageddon TOS
4. Best of Both Worlds, TNG
5. Captain’s Holiday, TNG
6. Best Submarine Movie, Balance of Terror, TOS

Honestly really surprised by some of my picks here.

{What terminology is worth using}

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A Taste of Armageddon both because I love a table flip response to a moral dilemma, but also because I’m endlessly fascinated by the way TOS was so polyvocal on the subject of the Cold War, and AToA is the most interesting take.

1. Far Beyond the Stars, DS9
2. Future Tense pts I and II DS9
3. A real dark horse here, but A Taste of Armageddon TOS
4. Best of Both Worlds, TNG
5. Captain’s Holiday, TNG
6. Best Submarine Movie, Balance of Terror, TOS

Honestly really surprised by some of my picks here.

At the time I first read John’s JSA I was actually a big fan of part of Mr. Terrific’s gimmick being that he was the “Third Smartest Man Alive” but it’s good that we aren’t doing that in Superman (2025)

I hate that we are doing male loneliness discourse all the time.

Starfinder being the future of Pathfinder is a missed opportunity rather than being simultaneous to increase crossover potential

This is what I said in WIRED when onlyfans attempted to ban porn in… 2021

Oh huh just like trans people have been saying for a decade

Bioessentialism isn’t cool

The *cities* conversation is a proxy for racism. I think people should stop pretending they don't know this. YEARS ago, I said that "woke" conversations were a REACTIONARY TRAP and to look with suspicion especially on the white people who used the term. I was 1000% vindicated in this.

I’m extremely topical so I’m reading Fading Suns 4e

Sometimes I do think people are overplaying their rhetorical hands, yes

A lot of ttrpg’s are just ok and that’s fine

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Did Biden pack the court? No.

Did Biden greet Trump in the White House with "welcome home?" Yes.

You cannot tell people that someone is a danger and then treat them like an ol' buddy. It's either one or the other, and Biden handled it like the latter.

As of this morning, trans women can also no longer attend:
- Wagner College in New York
- Cornell University in New York

Trans women can no longer attend:
- Columbia University in New York
- Harvard University in Massachusetts
- Brown University in Rhode Island

And they tell us we'll be safe in blue states. And they tell us it's not a pogrom.

(getting my wires crossed between pointless ontological arguments) hot dogs are a jrpg

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A writer waits a lifetime for a moment like this.

Nice image of thought there, sure would be a shame if someone…deterritorialized it.

If one wants some absolutely legit sphere-ing from the 3rd century, there’s always Plotinus I guess!

GURPS Hot Spots: Istanbul, 1453-1703 A.D. The Crossroads Of Crossroads Journeying from Asia or even Africa to Europe by land? Traveling between the Mediterranean and Black Seas by ship? You're going to end up going through what was once Const...

Now that it's out, I can reveal that #GURPS Hot Spots: Istanbul is the culmination of a conspiracy.

A very small one.

Well, just me.

To back up a bit: Everybody loves GURPS's big reference works. Third edition gave us substantial books, a standard 128 pages on ancient Greece

All is crab eventually...