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Here's the Timberland Library board page, with meeting times and agendas. trl.org/board/ If you don't like this shit, show up at a meeting (virtual or otherwise) and tell them so. If you really don't like this shit there are vacant board positions for Thurston and Mason counties.

We believe that we invent pringles. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.

Praise for Preserving Worlds on @means.tv: "A great program! You're gonna look good, you're gonna feel good!" - 8 Minute Abs "Safe, effective, and fun!" - 8 Minute Buns "You can really feel these!" - 8 Minute Legs "Nice, sexy arms! That's what it's all about." - 8 Minute Arms

Ossipago, Barbatus, and Famulimus.

There’s a fan translation of the monumental Teito Monogatari novels that’s currently in progress. So far about 3 volumes are completed but OP is planning on completing the whole series this year. guardianofthespirit.blogspot.com/2024/05/teit...

I have noticed that the people in the ttrpg hobby who complain the most about other hobbyists being subliterate are also not writing texts worth reading

I love that our Baroque Imperial decadence that is incomprehensible to Future Generations is popcorn buckets

all these pejorativized floating signifiers are designed to make: 1) countercultural commitments to egalitarianism and secular ethics seem like stodgy conformism and insufferable nagging; 2) retrograde commitments to bigotry and authoritarianism seem like libertine rebelliousness and sober realism

happy first day of pride, a reminder that if someone misgenders you, you are allowed to punch them in the face, steal their gundam, and start a war to ruin their life, specifically.

GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands

oh my god

If you prep games as situations that are in motion, which motion the player characters will feel compelled to derail, and CAN, you'll almost always get play that's much more satisfying in the way stories are. Cool? Great, you now understand more than half of what's good about "narrativism".

Last year, miHoYo copied my puzzle game Ouros in Zenless Zone Zero. Because they are a recognized, billion-dollar studio and my game isn't well known, some people are now assuming that their version is the original, and mine is the clone. I hope this video clears that up.

the intrusive thoughts won

Once dreamt someone wearing this tshirt so I had to make it a reality

Repeating my old Twitter adage: Is it "discourse" or is it one very loud wrong man we can all block?

Here’s a recent report written by Indigenous and decolonial researchers and activists that offers a historically and empirically substantiated analysis of the socio-political position of Indigenous populations in Russia-colonised territories It’s open access: assets.zyrosite.com/kvOYI6NwLEJ3...

This is very funny to me because I bounced off of Night Vale as it just seemed like they were shamelessly ripping off Joe Frank's radio programs (it wouldn't be the first time Joe Frank was brazenly copied, Scorcese's After Hours would be the most famous instance)

illustration, sega saturn magazine (1998) archive.org/details/sega...

hmm. yeah changing that one back was a good call

Night of the Hunter is a great film in part because it is a terrific examination of women's lives under patriarchy. The children are the protagonists, but the narrative focus on the film is on the villain/victim Willa Harper (Shelley Winters) and the heroic Rachel Cooper (Rachel Gish).

OSR is a type of story game where the rulebook is called a manifesto

WE DON'T NEED PETROLEUM-BASED PLASTICS ANYMORE! "The [bamboo plastic] outperforms most commercial plastics and bioplastics in mechanical and thermo-mechanical metrics while maintaining full biodegradability in soil within 50 days and closed-loop recyclability with 90% retained strength."

example one bajillion of how graphic design makes or breaks your tabletop rulebook

The adventurers face a closed door in a dungeon. While the thief's player states that they are picking the lock, I write down what is on the other side of the door in my notes. After a roll, they open the door and I describe what I had just wrote. Did I improvise or prep the contents of that room?

they didn’t have chairs back then so odysseus had to carry a cuck oar

i saw that when that burger withdrew from my mind, allowed me the exquisite ugliness of returning to consciousness with the feeling of that burning patty still searing deep into my soft tummy matter it withdrew, murmuring ‘have it your way’ and added brightly ‘but then you already are, aren't you’

got a new pull quote for Derelict Star courtesy of Jonathan Blow. thank you so much for playing my game!

This is key to why most SFF readers start in childhood, and it can be a struggle to learn how to read SFF as an adult if you didn’t start teen you still knew how to read like a kid.

Naboo's economic system was built on a foundation of exploited colonial labor, slavery, and drug smuggling Nute Gunray did nothing wrong

Farmers vote Republican because they're people with money & property. So they vote like people with money & property. That's it. It's not rocket science.

Maine Senate election

I am out of money and I could use some help. It is humiliating to ask once again but I don’t have a ton of options. I spent almost the entire weekend sick and sleeping. Hoping the week won’t play out the same way. Good luck, all!! Good luck!!

indie game marketing is untenable right now, bro allegedly took a shot at the president and it got him 22 concurrents

I genuinely believe intelligence agencies benefit from conspiracy theories because those theories present them as more pervasive, all-powerful, and competent than history has ever shown them to be. Conspiracy theories make it seem like only state actors have agency, not you.

A friend of mine just returned from an OSR con and said "My impression of OSR from this con was that it’s intended to give a pretty rigid structure to a scenario, and to make any choice or deviation from the intended path fatal." based on three sessions played, all with different GMs

Ukrainians. The Ukrainian people. Ask a Ukrainian. Not only were we here during Holodomor, we are still here now, and have direct, relevant experience vis-a-vis the question "Did the Holodomor happen and was it the Bolshevik's fault". (yes and yes)

this is not scran

Nothing Queer

TTRPG about me First game: guessing at the rules of D&D without having access to them Latest game: Traveller (LBBs) Longest game: D&D Favorite game: Swords Without Master Favorite mechanics: MF0 Firebrands Favorite setting: Glorantha Favorite art: can't decide

Bi Gan's Resurrection was an excellent movie. I wonder if the giant hands in the silent film prologue were an allusion to Jiří Trnka's short film Ruka, certainly the first thing I thought of

this seems really interesting: comparing the imagination of "mythic frontiers" in American Western films and Hong Kong wuxia films cup.org/4ebtFmu

they're saying this about me

Replaying Mother 3 but not sure I can connect with the setting. A bunch of fascist pig thugs ruled by a narcissistic manchild take over a society which is too spiritually poisoned by love of money to offer any meaningful resistance. I mean nothing like that could ever happen in real life