Happyroach
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Happyroach
@happyroach.bsky.social
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Kinda creaky. I work at a desk under a garage. Fan of TTRPGs, science, Anthropology, speculative fiction, webcomics...too many interests.
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It depends on the rpg. Over the Edge, PDQ#, Fate Acellerated Edition, can create characters with major differences in traits, abilities, and extras. Even Orbital Blues, where everyone plays a bounty hunter haunted by their past, has individual character gambits- which strongly affect play.
Seriously! Come ON people!
Shouting into the void here but in general, if an article is interesting enough to post a screenshot of, it's interesting enough to post a link to so the people you're sharing with can actually read it, tell who wrote it and where it's from, assess its credibility, etc.
Very true. Things could have been different if I relied on the garden for food or income. But as it was, it wasn't even like hunting or fishing. Maybe if I was eating the gophers. 😬
My partner and I once had a decent sized plot in a community garden, and did OK (we gave up because I didn't want to kill gophers over a hobby), but the amount of work, and the amount of failure, was incredible. There is no way we could scale it up to actually mange a difference in our diet.
I still remember the three months we took to grow a strawberry. Admittedly it tasted wonderful, but still.
It's pretty simple if you just set enough of the town on fire, the guards will be distracted by running aground being on fire, you walk in, and Bob's yer uncle.

Anyone know where I can get a spare dragon?
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Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash.
The Monstere Mash: beholde, sepulchral smash!
Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast -
Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!
Calling out anyone in the bay area that can take a cat!
I know this is a waste of time, but of anyone in the Bay Area can take on a cat, this ~5 month boy I trapped for TNR turned out to be way friendlier than I thought and also has a limp that does not pain him but can't be easily fixed.
"My God. I want five of them."
"And by five of them, you mean the dresses, right?"
"............ Maybe."
I bring it back to Al Franken, and the reaction of "If they can do this to one of the Good Guys, they can do it to any white male. Including me."

It's the anti Me Too resentment that white men might be subject to the same sort of scrutiny that women and PoC have always been subject to.
Are you seriously saying there isn't a better candidate than one who wore Nazi tattoos for decades, worked for Blackwater, and disparaged People of Color and women? THIS is your best? This is the hill you're willing to die on?

Seriously?
That was a totally underrated, very fun and witty film. I enjoyed it almost as much as "Incredibles".
I still think that in many ways this is a reaction by Obama era pols to Franken resigning. Instead of "Do Better", they decided they would never let another white "progressive" male face consequences, and happily attack any PoC and/or woman that reveals a vulnerability.
I think that given that few things are held in as much contempt in America as middle-aged women, Defining the parade as a "middle aged women thing" is a method to diminish its impact.
Eh, Bernie Sanders is backing him, how bad could it be?

(Narrator: it was actually pretty damn bad)

I'm just amused that Bluesky has gone from "She's mean to her staff! UNACCEPTABLE!" to "Who hasn't gotten a Nazi tattoo at one time or another?"
"How many people have, completely accidentally raised their right arm straight out, palm down, just coincidentally in front of a swastika flag? Almost everyone, right?"
The Atomic Rockets webpage has a thing where they will display books and magazines that reused same spaceship design. Often evidently not by the same artist.
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Me when I post something on bluesky then 3 minutes later think better of it and delete the skeet
Heather Rose Jones' Alpennia series' dense alt-Regency Ruritarian fantasy. Start with Daughter of Mystery.

The Warden Series, by John Ford. Conventional, but with good characterization. I think it really kicks off in the second novel.

The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir. Indescribable.
That's one of the few modern designs I like. Sleek, without excess greebles.

Also, it doesn't have windows all over the place like a lot of designs. Nicely done.
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THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE and PEANUTS debuted the same month. Hard to believe they're of the same era.

Hat tip to Lev Grossman for that bit o' knowledge.
I rather like my boss, she contributes a lot to make my work environment pleasant, and the things I don't like about my job are completly out of her control.

Of course my partner calls my department "Busytown", so.
*Sigh*, another Friday on Bluesky.
I'm not sure those people know what post-modern is except for "Post-modern is what I point to when I say"I hate this because it's post-modern.""

To be fair though, that was also the case decades ago back when post-modernism was actually a thing.
Your talking about a TV series based on X-2, right?