"Unlike the vacuum cleaner, the radio, or the bicycle, which retain their use value when everyone has one, the car... is only desirable and useful insofar as the masses don’t have one."

My contribution to the proud tradition of trying to understand alignment languages. I discuss why speaking alignment languages in AD&D is socially taboo, how then they are meant to be used to identify creatures with a common ethos, & what this suggests about what alignment language actually is:

designing a dystopia for the British: in the year 40k, a Turkish Pope who lives in Nepal will control whether or not you can sail to another star system with a literal beacon of faith in Catholicism and the sprawling future bureaucracy is inefficient

next time there's a month long massive multiplayer roleplaying war game i better not be on deadline

a lot of you on here

not now, kitten. daddy ate an egg that fell on the ground and a street-smart white blood cell and a by-the-book cold pill are currently fighting a virus voiced by laurence fishburne inside his body

don't ask to buy her a drink, ask to buy her winrar

"It's in a better place, Misato. Or rather, it's in the same place, but now it's got a big hole through it."

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison. Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

The economy, fools!

Ty at Mindstorm Press (@mindstorm.bsky.social) is a great developmental editor for RPGs: collaborative, attentive, intelligent. If you need someone to help you with your next project, you should hit him up.

Record of Lodoss War

perseverance and resolve are both great but sometimes your only reward for not taking an L is an L of equal or greater value at a later date

This is true for OSR ttrpgs too lmao

My lawyer @prismaticwasteland.com has cleared me of any liability for sharing this meme edit I made:

Almost Home - this month’s riso print to ring in the fall. Not sure how to describe it, but this time of year always feels like I’m almost “home” so I wanted to come up with something that touches on that feeling a little

my generation was made to apologize for party rocking

Roguestar Trader #art #roguetrader #homestarrunner

supreme Court rules 7-2 guns illegal, rocket launchers mandatory

Today, CER launches our paper “ElectroLink: Modern Passenger Rail Service for Southern California.” ElectroLink shows how electrification, level boarding and through running can speed up trips, improve access for all riders, and bind together the region. ⚡♿🚴 calelectricrail.org/electrolink-...

im doing taxonomy but wokely

Pirotess 🌱 #ロードス島戦記

i think often about this discussion between Yoshiyuki Tomino and Hideaki Anno. it's one of the funniest ways anyone has ever talked about restraint vs self indulgence in art.

Me living by the sword: Swords rule Me dying by the sword: Ugheueghhh

lmfao www.inquirer.com/opinion/lett...

this is what its like going to the target by pike place

my money is he accidentally turned on airplane mode and can't figure out how to turn off

I was today years old when I learned that France translated the name of the Wizardry series lol

the pp, long erect, must soften; long flaccid, must engorge. thus it has ever been

Homechar Runner

push to standardize RPG classification

Pirotess | Record of the Lodoss War

argument about cersei lannister but no one can spell cersei correctly

Got bored. Realized I've never actually attempted that extremely specific 90s anime poster shading. Materialized an elf off the cover of some OVA you walked by at Blockbuster to shade.

Art by • Nobuteru Yüki

im smokeng on that O'Neill Cylinder

Deedlit 🤍 Record of Lodoss War #ロードス島戦記

Continuing my series about municipal life in AD&D by examining another odd Gygaxian assertion - that dealing with all NPCs "should be expensive and irritating". I talk about the universal avariciousness of NPCs & the portrayal of the municipality in contrast to the dungeon & the wilderness:

as a 388 month-old i know the importance of nap time

I played hexen for five minutes

Presenting for the first time ever, a 16GB completely lossless VHS rip of 1986 Anime California Crisis, Timed & subtitled from my hacked VCR. archive.org/details/lone...