It's Rumination Birthday Cake rounding the corner!

I have two kids now, life is good

Evidence that I have terminal TTRPG brain, exhibit 1000: Roll under your SERENITY score when you attempt to accept the things they cannot change Roll under your COURAGE score when you attempt to change the things they can Roll under your WISDOM score when you attempt to know the difference

Today I saw a guy on Reddit asking about how to use an LLM to interpret and disambiguate board game rules. BOARD GAMES. People would rather use a clanker than read a 25-page rulebook and hash out questions with their friends at the table. Nightmare dystopia fuel.

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

Ideal relationship dynamic

“You gotta learn AI or get left behind!” is a bit galling given that the entire purpose of AI seems to be to steal our work and fuck our brains and shit up the planet, which is to say, its GOAL is to leave us all behind. That, in order to make its owners rich.

Interestingly, while the GenAI industry is fraud, the user experience of "Prompt repeatedly and variously until you get something good enough" is gambling. A lot of AI boosters are hooked on it.

I'm glad that Bloodborne, a single video game that is good, will not live on as more video games, but as a film, a medium that video games have historically thrived and excelled in. The highest form of art.

Bored at work so I tried my hand at some digital collaging. Pretty happy with how it came out, gonna use it for a homebrew MÖRK BORG class.

Here's a fun thought about the current moment. Assuming WWIII doesn't start, and assuming the Trump Republican party doesn't hold onto power forever, there will be poison pill backlash effects in decades to come from his actions today.

Correct, and even moreso when you consider that every Republican in every stage of government has been laying the tracks to reach this point over the last 40 years. Mitch McConnell did this. Bush did this. Newt Gingrich did this. Even the so-called "moderates" were giving cover all along.

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Good post. I think the fundamental difficulty is that role-playing is an activity which encompasses many modes of communication; my needs from a game text can vary widely literally by the minute. 🧵

Hey Americans— if you know anyone in the armed forces, now would be a great time to reach out and make sure those people know their rights and obligations concerning unlawful orders! Cause you better fucking hope at least some of them will be ready to refuse them.

> "Build strength, your body won't hurt as much" > Work out > Body hurts > mfw

Hi! As Jay's co-creator — while also being a fellow *contractor* at PCG, not associated with any of the business decisions being made — I think this summary of events laid out by Xeni is accurate to what I remember of the unfolding distribution problems that kept Yazeba's off of shelves.

Thinking about publishing economics for no particular reason today— is there such a thing as an "unexpected smash hit" contract an artist could sign where their fee upfront is commensurate with the fact that most projects make very little money, but in the event it blows up they get cut back in?

It's a truism of toddler parenting that they don't sleep when you would want them to, but maaaaaaaan come on kid

This.

This. This. This.

It's pretty simple, I think killing people is wrong, but I also think letting the strong kill the weak is even more wrong, and I will use violence to protect those that cannot protect themselves. If your morality stops at the first, let me offer up: you are the reason the world is where it is.

Yesterday I shoveled some snow and then sat in a chair for a few hours, so needless to say I'm laid out with a back spasm today 🥲

Hot take: anyone saying the Trump regime wants to encounter violent resistance so they can use the insurrection act and suspend elections is missing another, important possibility. Namely, even if these fucking Nazis don't encounter violent resistance, they will lie about an insurrection anyway.

I have so many questions about the lore of Host-Vic Michaelis. How did she land VIP? How old was she when she met Bianca's dad? Does she view Philomena Cunk as a personal attack? These are the mysteries.

Hot take: The flanking rules in 5e are bad. They make movement boring by making certain options mechanically optimal and encouraging clustering for a slugfest rather than tactics. Also undermines rogue class identity by making sneak attack available while standing still in front of an enemy

I read a lot this year. Best horror: A Lush and Seething Hell by @johnhornor.bsky.social Best graphic novel: Berserk by Kentaro Miura (daring I know) Best SF/F: The West Passage by Jared Pechaček Best Classic: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Make a Bond movie casual: Lawnraker

“What radicalized you?” Being alive in the world with eyes?

Guess I'll post this again

'Tis I, the CHAMPION OF NIGHT!

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.

I know we all know the Ms. Rachel anti-Semite of the year thing is transparent nonsense, but for the record if she ever DID tell me to purge the infidel I would assume she had a kind and loving reason and go do it

My Modest Proposal to fix traffic, reduce road rage, and increase public transit usage: Everyone gets a vehicle-mounted rocket launcher, tied to your identity and non-transferable between individuals, and you only get one rocket in your whole life.

The missus and I were busy yesterday

It is often said that you should choose your friends wisely, and that is true. A true warrior knows that the reverse is true, too. Your friends have also chosen you. Strive always to live honorably and prove they chose wisely.

Taxing billionaires is at best a half measure. Quite a lot of the damage they do is not what they spend their money on, but rather how they got it in the first place, i.e. ignoring environmental harms, exploiting labour, algorithmic manipulation. The full solution is labour power and regulation.

Chronos down in Hades 2, feels good!

when someone says "my dice are cursed" you sort of have to agree with them because if you say "marius you are a grown man and I know you know that's not how probability works" they won't say anything but they'll treat you like you are in league with the cursed dice

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

Sick brag alert: finished reading Anna Karenina. I am now the LitBro you have all heard about. Hear my half-baked analysis and despair.

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