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discovered some life-changing ttrpg tech during friday’s session: after taking a mid session break, before getting back into the scene, do a sports style locker room interview with each player (in character). it’s 1) funny 2) focusing 3) immediately and personally characterizing

there's that post that sometimes makes the rounds about how the uncanny valley implies that there was a time in our species' development where there were thing that looked like us, but were not us. this is a mildly unsettling thought. it gets worse when you remember that those were people too

I support this!

"you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free...."

Hey there. I see you’re interested in food. Well, watch out, because every food tastes different. Just because one food tastes good, that doesn’t mean a different food will taste good too. Well, that’s all. I think you’re ready to start your food journey. Come back if you need that info again.

I should have a game in this... maybe you will too?

Desire Paths for Wikipedia An extension that remembers the path of a cursor over the linked pages of Wikipedia, “wearing” them into the page.

I've just published a new userscript that remembers the path of your cursor over the linked pages of Wikipedia, averaging and wearing them into the page, showing your browsing history over time

Install at greasyfork.org/en/scripts/5... or read more about it everest-pipkin.com#projects/des...

YouTube video by Ancient Digital Iris

cool camera gadget youtu.be/Kg_2MAgS_pE

I could imagine a King of Dragon Pass-like where you have narrative interludes as A Character. I think there's rich ground here, stuff where the strategic and personal are mixed. Heck this is where Crusader Kings gets a lot of its juice.

there's a tiny bit of this in Total Annihilation or even some characters in a Dota. Black and White, too. strategy games but you have more embodiment than usual.

I think the real problem is "different people like different genres, so you get the intersection rather than the union by doing both". I don't think it's necessarily true though! But that would be what I'd be thinking about if someone pitched me this.

gave me goosebumps when Carle talks about wanting to bring a sense of warmth into a difficult time, and also gave me a new appreciation for using tangents in illustration and design

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Jon and Mac consider: worms, the generative tension between tidiness and chaos, why we feel affection for this caterpillar, brightness, science vs. poetry, a toy you can read, a book you can touch

love this on how The Very Hungry Caterpillar works, and where it comes from lookingatpicturebooks.substack.com/p/the-very-h...

Moby Dick has some of the best sentences in the English language, fight me

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it might cover ground that's a bit too familiar for you, if you're already thinking in this space. but it's well written, gets to interesting places, the Judge Dredd parallels work and do illustrate the points

let me recommend to you the documentary "The Story of Yanagawa's Canals". just very charming, lots of good details. also, obviously, lots of shots which look like this.

a frog is lying on its back, pinned down. prompt window header: congratulations! body text: you have reconstructed the frog! options: continue

operation frog, screenshot, dos (1992) www.mobygames.com/game/52487/o...

ok ok it's not specifically about abolishing the police, but i'm currently reading I Am The Law by Michael Molcher and it is somehow a licensed comicbook tie-in and a readable and critical history of British policing

ah! this is fascinating! excited!

Barrister's powerful speech at Filton Trial reminds jury of its right to defy judge Starmer and the media need convictions to justify Palestine Action's proscription as a terrorist group. Rajiv Menon KC spells out to the jury why it is a vital last defence against government tyranny

If you are baffled by why the jury refused to convict the Palestine Action defendants, it's because – unlike them – you didn't hear the actual evidence. You heard what the media wanted you to know.

Here, I explain what the jury learnt from the trial: jonathancook.substack.com/p/barristers...

I mean good argument that one of the main things wrong with major infrastructure building in the UK is that we do the third when we need the fourth (or, y'know, to run stuff concurrently so the expertise isn't lost)

the core idea [of a nuzlocke] is that limiting the expansiveness of choice allows for choices to be meaningful; the need to move forward to make new choices [and refill a party] creates momentum, and in that forward progress and backward loss linear history is made, and from that history, meaning

image is of a program window within Mac OS 6 of MacPaint. The drawing within the program is a pixelated 1bit rendering of Ethel Cain on a black background with her looking over her shoulder, arm bent and hand resting on her head with her fair flowing toward the right of the composition.

I drew Ethel Cain in MacPaint from 1984 with a 25 year old mouse

of a flax field with cooling towers on the horizon

Flax About to Flower
Digital painting

Folks outside SF/F don't know that Asimov was a sexual harasser because while he was alive fandom thought it was cute (up to and including Asimov being invited to give a lecture on "The Power of Positive Posterior Pinching" at Worldcon, which he, wisely, declined).

daily.jstor.org/asimovs-empi...

I enjoyed this book. Hollowed out podcasters, uncanny pop stars, and a take on vampires I haven't seen elsewhere.

I've said this before, but sometimes a himbo is an absent minded professor with muscles.