Playin' some original X-Com, peering into a strange fantasy realm where the US is actually willing to work with other nations for the good of the world.

if i ever unironically complain about the younger generations my account has been compromised

The reason Moby Dick is the most American novel ever written is because it is about a violent white man enacting a confusing revenge fantasy against a cheap source of oil.

Yeah, why not. 1 like for 1 TTRPG in my library (until I run out). And as it says, please quote it for other #ttrpgsky stuff and share what's in your library. Let me fill in the free space right away, by the by: AD&D 2e, D&D 3.0, 3.5, and 5e.

look I'm just concerned, you're going to wear those things on your eyes every DAY for the rest of your LIFE? just because you told the so-called optometrist what he wanted to hear about your rapid-onset vision dysphoria? no, do NOT bring up "the surgery" again, they are HIDING the regret rate from y

Got bored enough to try Candy Crush thingy for the first time in a few years Finished a level Like five pop-up "events" I don't understand Finished another level Got seven more Quit I just wanted to match 3, not participate in Magic Magoo's Lottery of Microtransactions for Wayward Children

Fatal car accident, call that a momentum mori.

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The unofficial G-Witch ‘All about Mercury’ celebration zine, by official show staff, is still I think the most notable and transparent vent against corp behavior within Gundam history. They created their own celebration work, because they didn’t trust the parent company to do so authentically.

Got a recurring bug in Skyrim where I'm being turned into a vampire despite already being a werewolf. Console commands aren't fixing a thing. Possible solution: get Serena to turn me into a vampire legitimately and then do the cure quest (and save more often to better avoid the bug).

I know I'm occasionally guilty of it too, but wow am I extremely tired of the "X meets Y, for fans of Z" way of opening blurbs on books and games and other media. I get why, I don't blame authors or devs, it's easy and currently works, but also it's just... kinda sad that that's where we've been at.

Got an incubator full of chicken eggs. Should be done in a little over a week. Candled them and a lot look like they should be viable, and most that aren't are in the "I'm not sure, this shell is so damn thick" category so they'll get a final candling near the end. Ah hell gonna have baby chicks.

It's this little gem and it's not up for debate

me making my bed: well this fucking sucks. what the fuck. me lying in it: haha fuck yeah!!! yes!!

Oh hey so this wasn't made up for the D&D adventure I saw it in. Also popped up on my timeline while I'm out donating blood. Serendipity!

Just a big ol' keyring strung with thumbs to bypass fingerprint locks.

Tonight in D&D: "I assume the dwarf is uppies-challenged."

One of the throw-away details in a M:tG novel that sticks in my head to this day is the idea that artificial planes have a tendency to be "layered" kinda like... a nested doll sort of thing? Urza observes it about both Phyrexia and Serra's realms at one point. I donno, it's just kinda interesting.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Now imagining keeping a HRT yeast culture around like a sourdough starter.

Now I know about these things and thus SO DO YOU.

Read this. Yes, you. Finally finished it, just now. Iris is a stubborn disaster asshole and I love him. I have a lot more I want to say about it but not enough space for an essay, so I'll summarize it as hey, go read this.

The way you can tell the BBC knows they're lying when they smear trans people as rapists is that if we were rapists they'd move heaven and earth to protect us

this is a society that hates children and hates the queer, of course it loves conversion therapy. bipartisan commitment to grinding down the young, to torturing them into doing whatever their official owners (parents, schools, the state) tell them to do

Really, the only joy I've taken of April Fools Day as April Fools Day for years now has been @systemmastery.bsky.social 's episodes, because they always put so much into making something genuinely clever and interesting. I still go back to their fake 7th Sea episode regularly, it's so funny.

I fucking hate things like TDOV and the upcoming April Fools Day because what we're told is some kind of fun or celebration always turns into a stressful pile of FUCK from the whole world around. Nobody's allowed to have a nice day except the rich white shitbirds.

if shitty white cis boys had to endure 1% of the shit I do they’d shoot themselves “Oh no the trannies brigaded me! I will not be covering SCTOUS anymore” Babe, I once had the CEO of Stardock call a brigade on me when I had 300 followers and was in the middle of terrible drug withdrawls WOMAN UP

Oh godsdamnit the discourse is gonna be a fucking nightmare. Cis people who have a ”witty” “joke“ to make: no you fucking don’t.

trans day of i just want to exist bro leave me alone

Space feudalism, especially if you make it weird. Don't have to just recreate historical mores and power structures but In Space, and I don't think it's remotely a good society to ever be in... but I like the stories you can tell in it, especially how it's maintained or falls apart.

The most damning thing I can say about Vaas in Far Cry 3 is that Dying Light's Rais is more memorable and interesting an antagonist.

Robert E. Howard wrote some of the most self-indulgent pulp to ever pulp, and Conan is still popular. Someone's gonna be digging through KU in a hundred years looking for lost gems the same way people are trying to recover other old media and save it from being lost today.

Writing a comic is not the same as drawing one. Drawing it takes 100x more work, pays like shit and is treated like shit. Artists should be first bill and treated like gods.

Everyone cheering for this is, scientifically speaking, stone fucking stupid. This is yet another moment in which we watch a “down with fascism” neoliberal give full, vertical vertebrae support for mandating the exact sort of tools that fascism outright requires. Idiocy. Sheer fucking idiocy.

not to be that girl but all cops do this

Fighting the urge to shove some pizza rolls in the toaster oven at 11pm.

I… I just had to…

Unfortunately, the challenge Deus Ex failed to predict was getting people to take the damn medicine during the plague.

this made me mad but was relatable so I had to buy it

My most woke opinion is that when a corporation is found to have committed a crime that resulted in harm, since a corporation cannot be imprisoned we must instead execute it. Revoke its incorporation, seize its assets, and distribute them among its victims

Boosting so this can reach my circles as well. Read the thread and if you have actual legal knowledge, please do share what action, if any, can be taken. There was an incident a little bit ago in one of my communities where something like this happened so also asking there.

Superhero stories let us experience impossible fantasies like unpowered flight, radical acceptance and celebration for our differences, and rich people with moral centers.

Wish I had more privacy, I'd like to try out dictation software to get some of my writing ideas done and down while I'm doing other stuff, except for the "likely to get constantly interrupted" part. It's harder to pretend to pay attention while still talking about my own thing.

Inspired by this, I made a dodecathedral

"The Dragonrend shout will force a dragon down from the sky... after it spends about half the duration just flapping around looking for someplace to land, just like if you hadn't bothered."