WhatACunningHat

Oh good! Ryedale has some lovely old churches - not always especially fancy or impressive on first glance, but some great features have survived.

I can understand why, they're great. :) Have you been to the church in Pickering which still has a lot of its medieval murals?

The other thing I've noticed is a lot of variety in terms of crediting people/teams who wouldn't have worked directly on the game. I've seen HR, finance, IT Ops, etc. on some but not others.

I wonder about this a lot every time there's discourse about team size. When it comes to outsourced work, is it common to just list whole teams or even everyone at a company, even if they weren't all individually involved?

Longhorn cowfish

serpentine critters with the heads of a possum, raccoon, and rat erupt from a garbage bag, scattering trash all around

trash dragons, highly auspicious
#art

Yup.

@elkowalczuk.bsky.social Just received my copy of Wyrd Science and I love your illustrations for the Caves of Qud article!

It's like wet cardboard.

I didn't even manage to get the Six Day Stilt quest. I chased Argyve and his victim into a house, but I was too slow. I have a lot of sandals now. Speaking as a dawnglider, this is super useful.

After 770 hours of vanilla Qud I've gotten some mods to try out. Crungle Mode! is fantastic, after a few false starts I'm now a dawnglider and Warden Yrame has gone insane and murdered everyone in Joppa except for Argyve. And the one person Argyve murdered.

That about sums it up.

Seconded. I'm a print + stickers member and they're all great quality. Even the envelopes are nice, great little treat when they arrive.

It's like that feature in Windows that minimises all other windows while you're dragging a window. Apparently it's caused by shaking the window, but this is not something I've ever knowingly or intentionally done.

After today, bisexuals will once again turn so our thin edge faces you and you can't see us

Yeah, this is better. It flows better, plus it highlights more that worrying about being right or wrong is just... missing the point entirely. What happened already happened, but you get to choose how to react now.

Sending love to everyone on the timeline who needs it today.

You're not a burden that needs to take the "one simple trick that doctors hate."

You're a person whose brain works different and that's okay. Mine does too and I'm not ingesting their swill.

Signed,

A neurodivergent registered nurse.

I've seen people from other countries be surprised by how much of her world building was actually just standard stuff for the genre, or how upper class boarding schools actually work. It also explains the weird out-of-timeness of the HP magical world, because most of the genre is pretty dated.

As far as the books go, HP is just the British "school story" genre with magic layered over it, so people who like that aspect would do well to look up other books set in British boarding schools. A lot of the tropes & structure will be the same.

I spent 3 hours trying to figure out what hammered dulcimer to buy this evening. I want one so bad. Learning to play a many-stringed trapezoid with a mind-bending tuning pattern will go so well with my hellish job & chronic health problems!

I initially found out about it via a Polish acquaintance years ago, and after that I noticed tons of references to it, but before that point I'm guessing I'd just skimmed over them and not picked up on it.

I think the answer to your main question is yes. The slav squat meme has limited spread outside of the regions it's relevant to, and so a lot of people may only have mentally registered the Pepe version.

It feels unlikely now that the Beta Band was name checked in a movie and sent to tour the US. They failed commercially and broke up after a few albums, but what an amazing band to have been funded & broadcast internationally.

As an example, put aside any preconceptions you might have about the band Better Than Ezra (if you're old enough to have any), and listen to the song Particle. The album it's from lost them their record deal and they went in a more radio friendly direction after.

The dying gasps of big labels being willing to fund alt rock & similar bands in the late 90s/early 00s really let some great music out into the world. So many bands broke up or went more commercially friendly in the aftermath though.

"But I have found that in those moments when I do my job well and others benefit from it... I am grateful to be alive, and grateful to have made something."

I'm with you - it was funny he was arrested, but the follow-up where the gov & police are both seemingly suggesting inciting violence online is OK is terrifying. This could open the floodgates.

Anyway, it's pretty different to how I've learnt most things in life, especially coding, where I'm usually split between two methods: 1) Having a pressing need to do a thing & figuring it out while working towards the finished product 2) A lot of reading

And like... I know I'm just describing practice, and this probably sounds very stupid to a lot of people, but I have ADHD and I have *never* been able to do this. But something about having a finished thing at the end of each attempt really helps.