Call me weird but I think the sexually assaulting trafficked minors is the bad bit.

One of the many reasons I don’t like conflating statutory rape and paedophilia is I don’t like criminalizing mental disorders. People with dangerous/antisocial disorders get treated all the time and may never act on them. When people *do* assault minors I dgaf what pathology led them there.

Dungeons and Dragons 5e isn't even the best system for the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon.

Of the 10 best needle drops in TV history The Americans has, like, 5 of them.

British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo #ShareGoodNewsToo

Gloomhaven campaign comes to a close after 2 years as the the Fast and the Foodiest destroy the existential threat to the city.

too real lol

So, say you have a Tellarite captain who had command of a Nebula class in a one shot and who (I think rather shrewdly) undermined a Duras/Romulan plot. Now you're starting a campaign and have to choose between command of an Intrepid, a Galaxy, or an Akira. Wouldn't you want to keep the Nebula?

HOLY SHIT. They found the genes for fibromyalgia - and it's *not* autoimmune, it's the central nervous system. It's very cool to see some progress made on the thing that's ruined my life since late teenage years!

You know Star Trek Insurrections is a damn sight more fun than I remember. I honestly think people put way more on the shoulders of Star Trek than it has any business bearing.

Swedes wondering why you’d string your Julbord out over 25 days

”Patton Oswalt was suspended for saying child abuse is bad” No he wasn’t and no he didn’t. And you either know that and you’re an arsehole or don’t and you’re an idiot. Stop bikeshedding.

It’s like watching a horny drunk try to grope a lamp post.

I honestly can’t believe people are this fucking stupid.

Once again I am begging people to decide whether they want rules-based moderation on here or vibes-based moderation Because if it’s vibes-based moderation you’re not going to like what the mods choose to let slide. If it’s rules-based you just need to learn to use your goddamn brain when you speak.

Emo lad I dated cancelled date saying his bat died. He was ultra goth so sounded plausible. On next meet said sorry about the dead bat & he said "no I meant my battery "

Just found my phone in the fridge. How’s your day going?

Waking up to news from the US and thinking about the Scouring of the Shire again.

Is it weird that it's player housing that's making me want to get back into WoW after fifteen years?

America

My son's boning up on American geography for a test and I'm not sure how to let him know my entire knowledge of Caribbean nations comes from playing Sid Meier's Pirates

Best night out ever: Mass. Brixton. Frankie Knuckles. Dancing for 6 hours until the sun came through the stained glass windows.

Short thread of random thoughts on this truism of "players like to roll dice", using the classic "pick a lock" example: Parker, the World's Greatest Thief is confronted with a lock. As a GM you have 3 options: 1. If it can be picked, she picks it. The player can narrate how. Parker's badass [1/4]

Really looking forward to the intro to RPGs session I'm running for 15-18yo this month. I decided to run a no-prep Fate Accelerated session because I can't think of a better way to get people into good RPG habits from the get go. Imagination and collaboration rather than rulebooks and narration.

This is HUGE 👀

Really want @thesvelteone.bsky.social to share the story from high school involving a musical number from Grease, a chorus line high kick, and a too-tight skirt.

I kinda think if we want to claim it’s unacceptable for the right to use violent, threatening language and then hide behind ”it was only a joke” then we don’t get to do it either. That’s not apples and oranges, that’s straight hypocrisy.

In the locker room while my kid is doing footie training upstairs. The next training session has just arrived and it’s a bunch of teenage girls. I feel so fucking uncomfortable right now.

age yourself with gaming

DROP CROCS!

Imagine moving to Sweden and still never seeing the Lights

Pronouncing Skyrim in Swedish.

How do I tell social media to stop giving me shithouse comedy videos about how to exploit D&D rules because I’d rather piss a stone.

I get the appeal of continuity and canon for people, I really do. But when people say a story is "wrong" if it's not consistent it sounds like they're devaluing or simply not understanding the entire concept of storytelling as a human activity.

Lord give me the confidence of the middle aged white man I am.

They literally get overthrown or assassinated by the CIA. Just ask half the world. Including Australia.

This is the weirdest thing anyone has blocked me for

I have his name muted so I ’ve missed the circus but I understand Elon is getting bodied on his everything app again?

Going to bed at 21:30 so I guess I’ll see you all at 3

The visceral revulsion reaction we all have in this house whenever Kai Winn appears on screen.

The spiciness of food in this house is rated Stockholm < Sydney < Bangkok.

I've a favour to ask of my cisgender UK followers. It'll take you 5 minutes! Please use this template to write to your MP. I know, I know... AGAIN. But this is to counter the letter-writing campaign undertaken by Sex Matters, who want the awful EHRC trans-exclusionary Code to be rushed through. 🙏🏻

Lovely to see that it's now considered cool and good to be a vehement lefty who loves socialism but if you called people like me a stupid naive cunt and dick-rode the reasonable centre between 2016 and 2024 I DO remember because I'm not above petty fuckery. Anyway. Welcome, comrade.

*ℑ 𝔭𝔯𝔢𝔭𝔞𝔯𝔢𝔡 𝔢𝔵𝔭𝔩𝔬𝔰𝔦𝔳𝔢 𝔯𝔲𝔫𝔢𝔰 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔪𝔬𝔯𝔫𝔦𝔫𝔤*

Mornings like this I have to remind myself that the ones doing the work in the US aren’t the ones posting about midterms on social media and have faith that the work is getting done.

The glue wants you to reach into their glueussy and take their children