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Superman Fights for a Better Tomorrow — Even for His Enemies - Reactor More celebrations of radical decency can't hurt.

"The emphasis on choosing to do good, even imperfectly, is what makes the aspirational characterization of Superman so powerful."

@thenerdypriest.bsky.social discusses why this version of Superman works so well, and what sets him apart from the Supermans of the past

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Laws change.

When I die, please do not write an AI obituary of me *or* code an AI replica, however well-intentioned. But please do preserve my skull in lucite and make collecting the interest off my vast fortune contingent on presenting said skull to the bank, leading to a centuries long series of heists

Ways & Means: New Hopes & Horrors for Heart: The City Beneath - now on Backerkit. Featuring a bramble-encrusted wooden tower with a band of hapless adventurers attempting to climb.

IT LIVES. Back Ways & Means RIGHT NOW so we can PAY MONEY to these EXCELLENT WRITERS & ARTISTS to make EVEN MORE HEART buff.ly/8x6LWln

Superman Fights for a Better Tomorrow — Even for His Enemies - Reactor More celebrations of radical decency can't hurt.

Woohoo! @thenerdypriest.bsky.social 's Superman article is up!

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Headshot of young Leo during his ‘Growing Pains’ days

Leo, more recently, in a tuxedo

Born Nov. 11, 1974, Leonardo DiCaprio is 18,530 days old today, matching Wilford Brimley’s age on the day ‘Cocoon’ was released. Congrats Leo! You’ve reached the Brimley/Cocoon Line.

This is true and also, increasingly, I am less and less understanding of a public that indulges these lies - because what is meant by illegal in too many minds is "inhuman". And that belief is encouraged by the media, yes, but at some point citizens have to take responsibility for it too.

Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or
weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who
sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless
the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the
joyous; and all for your love's sake.

The Vantage board game from Stonemeier

I got a 10.5 pound baby board game!

What if you could see Sidney Poitier playing Sweeney Todd?

For authenticity they should also record our kids scream singing Eurovision songs in the background

Faith and Fandom: 60 Second Sprints of Spiritual Guidance for Nerds (and "Normies") 60 Second Sprints of Spiritual Guidance for Nerds (and "Normies")

I have a book! It’s available for preorder! Faith and Fandom: 60 Second Sprints of Spiritual Guidance for Nerds (and Normies)

Message #RPGaDAY2025

In a Forgotten Realms game, my friend Joe and I played Ghostwise halfling brothers which meant that our mutual telepathy with one another got used by the party to turn us into de facto walkie talkies.

It was pretty great

Gunn Marvel Movies: you're never too broken to find family in those you care about

Gunn DC Movies: the United States government's foreign policy represents a unique and direct threat to humanity

What Gaming Has Taught Me About Being Mayor I became mayor of a village in rural Ohio for the same reason I’ve often wound up a game master: no-one else showed interest in the job. Now the specifics, as always, are more nuanced than th…

I had a dream that i was asked at a mayors conference to talk about how gaming impacts my governing and remembered this morning that I actually wrote on this topic a year into my first term

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Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or
weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who
sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless
the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the
joyous; and all for your love's sake.

The Parent Trap premake we were robbed of

Think about the time after your clever politicking, when the grandchildren come and ask you what you did, and you are all alone with your iniquity. Think about that time now, before you act with evil. Every day, not just on Tisha b’av or Yom Kippur. Be uncertain, and be kind. /3

Bratz August 3, 2007: The Final Year in Cinema Week 31

did you know that there's a Bratz movie? that has Jon Voight? and Chet Haze? And those are like, the 12th weirdest things about it?

As they should

I will 1000% haunt anyone who has clippy write my obituary

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Warm bath reading

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Tavern #RPGaDAY2025

I ran a charity one shot where the heroes started off in a tavern and as they waited for the adventure to begin, more stuff kept happening to keep them there - fires, the mysterious stranger getting poisoned, rats etc.

Spoilers: the tavern was alive and keeping them prisoner!

Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or
weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who
sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless
the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the
joyous; and all for your love's sake.

[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

I wish people spent as much time worrying how to make me happy as they do men; I guess the problem is apparently that when I am unhappy I don’t turn it into everyone else’s problem by being an evil terror

One weird thing about raising kids in this epoch is how whenever you are trying to teach them sharing, compassion, kindness, honesty, etc you can just say "you don't want to end up like Donald Trump, do you? His parents never taught him how to behave" and they get it like you're invoking the Krampus

look, just be interested in other people. not like a specimen, like a fellow sojourner on this planet.

learn to make small talk. it's not innate. American culture loves it, but it doesn't teach it. almost everyone has something to say.

bring something to the table. doesn't have to be flashy.