Me, upon opening a rotisserie chicken bag: "The fuck is wrong with this chicken? Why's it got no breast meat?" Nothing was wrong. It was just put in the bag upside down. Was pretty wigged out for a good five seconds, though.

I only just put this possibility together: is the Astral Gate in Cowboy Bebop at all a parallel for the construction of the Shinkansen in Japan?

You know, I used to joke that the rise of fascism in the US was because the History Channel turned into a conspiracy peddling reality tv network, but now I find myself honestly wondering if the station wasn't coopted by actual Nazis.

Slay the Spire 2 nonsense: The secret to winning with The Regent is, apparently, to first die with him 200 times. Beat Ascension 8 with him in just two runs (Sealed Throne is busted, as it turns out).

Slay the Spire 2 nonsense: Ascension 8 cleared for Ironclad and Silent. Excited to spend the next twenty attempts losing with the Regent.

Slay the Spire 2 nonsense: Playing Ironclad, make exhaust deck, whoops, went infinite with Equilibrium and Prolong against final boss. Oh, you wanted to deal damage? I'm sorry. I've died enough times that this isn't about what you want, anymore.

JD Vance: "We have not reached an agreement with Iran." Literally the rest of the world:

Strongly leaning towards Dragonball Evolution, but The Ridiculous Six was so bad it made us ban comedies, carte blanche, from bad movie night.

Ascension 8 in Slay the Spire 2, get. Now the real Slay the Spire 2 begins...

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

Survival mode kills creativity. Right now, barely treading water. 🌊 Trying to get my bike running, medical bills caught up, get stable before counseling school prep starts. Every signal boost, repost, or sacrificial money offering slaps the hungry beast down more! 🖤 thoughtpunks.com/hel...

Love retro splats? Love 80s & 90s vibes games? Want to revisit them in modern design? SNAP! is for those pulp, gross-genre, + vibes-maxed games in your heart. Set them free! SNAP! is the system used in Vermillion Vespers, the new vampire game! www.drivethrurpg.com... #TTRPG #IndieDev #SNAPSRD

The times lately have been reminding me of that tweet that being wealthy is the cognitive equivalent to getting kicked in the head by a horse evert morning.

Rev is a dear and long friend of mine and I've been a steadfast supporter of their work for many years but they need more than just me and a few of our other friends out there. Their work is kinda transformational and deeply thoughtful and caring. Plz do what you can to keep their world going.

To be real for a second, I am fairly confident that, like in health, prevention is cheaper than cure for businesses.

Long term, I see AlgoGen as a self defeating enterprise. If nothing else, skill deprecation will lead to a crisis where there simply are not enough knowledgeable people to maintain the systems required to keep the plate spinning, to say nothing of the energy/water requirements.

at the breaking point. I may have no choice but to close Thought Punks with the vague hope of fireselling away my work if nothing changes.

I have $900 in my bank account that can possibly help save Rev's life, but I know it won't mean much unless enough people come through with their own donations to truly stabilize the situation. This is an EMERGENCY. PLEASE comment on this post if you can pledge support. #TTRPG #TTRPGcommunity

God's Away on Business, from Blood Money www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5X4...

Ok, Lazy Town, I seen the Sportacus push up clips, I did not know the full extent of your game.

Some Like it Hot. "My father's the conductor." "Oh? Of which orchestra?"

A statement regarding the removal of DDLC from the Google Play Store:

Slay the Spire 2 drama: That face you make when Entropy transforms a card into The Gambit, then Mayhem goes in dry and plays it on a down turn from the top without warning.

I am 99% sure the whole "ask and you shall receive" bit has nothing to do with prayer and everything to do with just... asking people if they can help?

Saw a post like, "Nobody did anything tangible to stop this," which, for the people in power, true; but I distinctly remember a guy literally setting himself on fire for Palestine and he was in the news for, like, a day before the corpos shot that shit down.

Donald Trump must be removed from office for threatening war crimes and genocide. Speaker Johnson: bring the House back into session. Invoking the 25th Amendment and impeachment must be on the table, but Congress should also move on a War Powers resolution to stop Trump.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

A man with a bad cold went to the doctor. The doctor asked him, "Do you happen to be Belgian?" The man was surprised and said, "Yes, but how did you know?" The doctor shrugged, saying, "Oh, you just sound a little Phlegmish."

Chrono Trigger's song, "To Good Friends," is famously played using a music box's timbre. So isn't it funny that, post-WWII, Japan was a major exporter of music boxes, and that that industry experienced a precipitous decline in the 80's, paralleling the story's inexorable drive to extinction?

A few have suggested that some aspects of this mission--joy, international teamwork, diversity--are being played up to stick it to the hateful attitude of the administration. But I don't think it's that. I think it's just that those things are essential to and inseparable from a mission like this.

The Artemis II mission seems good because it is. People seem excited by it because they are. It looks like a testament to the value of teamwork because it needs many people working together to succeed, and it’s succeeding. One of the best things about this is how straightforward it is. Authentic.

I've wished for Arab-made games about Arab mythology for so long, and despite assisting on the project I still can't believe there's one swinging for the fences this hard. House of Hikmah is something very needed in a time where the world would rather erase us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZTu...

The two truths: 1) There is nothing wrong with porn, let people safely make it, let people safely enjoy it. 2) If you let people define porn as bad, authoritarians will ALWAYS expand the definition until their hands are around your neck.

so AI is supposed to revolutionize every single aspect of the reality as we know it, but it's something we shouldn't rely on for anything serious or important cause it's so fucking unreliable, do I get that right my dude ?

"Guys. Just... ok. No, I know what you said, I just, no listen, it's a good plan, I'm just saying you didn't need to tell the opposing general that that is what you're going to do... sigh. Yes, I know that's lying. Just, it's something to think about, ok?"

Been working on a music project that I will admit I don't like a whole lot. Nevertheless, by chugging through it, I have learned a great deal. Sometimes it's worth engaging with something that's outside your wheelhouse. Helps stretch the ol' brain noodles.

Be the cute mascot you want to see in the world: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sReG...

1. Don't assume malice when incompetence is a reasonable explanation. 2. Unless the government is involved, in which case all bets are off.

For better cults in your #ttrpg, remember that almost nobody just joins a doomsday cult just because. They're usually lured in and ensnared before the full extent of the cult's nefarious intents are revealed.

I talked to The Times for a little profile of yours truly. Check it out:

I'm not saying the chemist/composer Alexander Borodin had ADHD, I'm just saying there's a letter from Rimsky-Korsakov relating how Borodin would set up an experiment, run to the piano, then run back to make sure the Bunsen burners didn't torch his house.

I'm not saying the chemist/composer Alexander Borodin had ADHD, I'm just saying there's a letter from Rimsky-Korsakov relating how Borodin would set up an experiment, run to the piano, the run back to make sure the Bunsen burners didn't torch his house.

My favorite line in FFX is Seymour's "Why are you still here?" At first, you think he's just being an asshole (which he is), but then the twist reveals that, no, he has genuine reason to be perplexed. Excellent, and excellently efficient, characterization.

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

One trap my ADHD brain sets for itself is, it has The List of things to do, but if something else unexpected comes up that needs to be dealt with immediately, that thing is not on The List so dealing with it doesn't count as having done something, even though it actually should.

If you've got the spoons for it, Tale of Genji is an absolutely bonkers work. There's a bunch of stuff in there that's culturally specific, but you can kinda gloss over them and still get a lot out of it.

Ascension 7 with all characters get. The new card removal debuff does sting, but it does kinda feel like a slightly lower ascension kind of thing. Definitely an improvement over "fewer rest sites."

"Maybe she's born with it. Maybe it's... oh, she is born with it? O- ok. Nevermind, then.

If the wealthy can get you thinking about who deserves basic needs and who doesn't, they win. They don't care if you think wealthy people are the ones who don't deserve; establishing that it must be earned is the key. With that done, they can just keep expanding the definition of "undeserving."