Because I regularly have to remind myself:

Online commentary on ICE in Chicago and Portland are being brigaded by bots and MAGA shits with too much spare time. Thus in certain online groups and spaces ICE support looks stronger than it is. If you look outside these spaces? Different story.

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

My best childhood friend is having part of his lungs removed on Halloween (post-cancer op). If you could send him good vibes and prayers (provided you believe in such things), that would be awesome. 💜

I cannot stress how important Rebecca has been for trans gamedevs. I wouldn't be here if not for her and her wife.

Help if you can.

Frogs Together Strong 🐸

Has this person just recently been acquainted with Johnny Cash? Johnny Cash has been cool since before I was born. I'm 48.

Blood & Black Lace

Solid choice! I'm getting a friend of mine into giallo now, and that's definitely on the list.

The best Doctor Who theme (because of the guitar).

Right on! When I was a little kid, I used to fake being sick so I could stay home and watch this. 😀

FUCK. My Microsoft mouse just quit working (It's an Arc mouse that now won't hold the titular arc) and my backup HP mouse just appears to be dead. I luckily found an old cheap-o generic mouse that appears to be working. Hopefully that holds until payday.

I am so fatigued today. I hate my dying heart.

MSOffice covered! Good for the time being! Bless you all, folks! Taz has food, I have food, and my two outstanding bills are covered 💜

Thank you!

For sale, a Western Digital MyCloud EX 2 Ultra NAS enclosure with two 4TB drives configured in RAID 1.

I paid $400-ish for this a few years back. Asking $200. If you need a high volume storage solution for your home network, this is an excellent deal.

Msg me if interested.

Man, I am fed up with Itch. Now waiting on day 20 for a whopping $12 payout and almost an entire week with no response to my email to support. They need to hire more people.

They allege that they not only have run adventures but so regularly. That said, they're also insistent that this level of prep is absolutely normal and common. Neither of which I believe to be true.

I would fall apart trying to do that much prep work. Which is why I used the qualifier of "unhealthy" earlier. I think this borders on clinical obsession.

I could not. And, yeah, to be clear the person in question was talking about adventure prep. Not notes about what occurred in actual play. PREP. Somebody finally got a little cheeky and noted that this would amount to roughly 1200-ish pages of notes for every 4 adventures. :)

Right? I've helped develop entire games that weighed in around that many words, but those were, in fact, literally books. Like, 300-ish page books.

Yeah. I could see that many notes for a campaign, easily. Potentially more. But for an adventure? That seems like the DM is unhealthily obsessed with micromanaging every detail of the adventure. I mean, I can't fathom any other reason to write that many notes before play has even started.

Also, I've owned campaign notes (not adventure notes) from luminaries such as Steve Perrin that didn't touch 90k words (but were arranged in a paste-up notebook, which I'm guessing is as equally uncommon).

I am I wrong, or does 90k words in NOTES for running a typical D&D adventure seem entirely over the top? Because somebody is arguing that this is a perfectly normal amount of notes for such a thing. I mean, there are hundreds (if not thousands) of actual D&D ADVENTURES that consist of fewer words.