Dinner party with gnocchi and fresh baked bread

Saruman warns that fearing the Palantir or attempting to regulate his production of Uruk-hai will hasten the coming of Sauron

I've been thinking about rolling dice in #TTRPG lately. I think we roll dice too often, especially in systems like D&D where you are rolling so many times during combat and for doing basically any physical feats or learning anything about the environment or NPCs. 1/8

Something I've been noticing lately is hobbyist brands (think tabletop games including board games, war games, miniatures, & RPGs) have started advertising products as manufactured in the US. It took me a bit to realize it isn't a reactionary thing but a way to say tariffs won't effect us.

During the Pandemic a friend & I watched the Brazilian film O Último Cine Drive-in (The Last Drive-in Theater) about a family run drive-in that is going to be demolished. The mother of the family is in the hospital with a chronic condition. They put on one final show at the drive-in 1/7

I’m tired of headlines like “State Legislature of X might pass crazy law about Y” because it is always the craziest most partisan legislators proposing a bill that will never pass to get headlines. No, Oklahoma is not going to pass a law that every university build a Charlie Kirk statue.

From listening to how Christians I know who are MAGA or MAGA adjacent talk about Kirk it seems clear to me that most of them did not know who he was and if they did they thought of him as a Christian influencer rather than a political activist. 1/4

Season 3 of Strange New Worlds was bad. Biological determinism was the central theme in multiple episodes this season. Undercutting one of the three good episodes this season which attempted to fix the mistake of previous seasons that had cast the Gorn as genetically evil.