brian
@lagoda.bsky.social
he/him. "If you're rat-adjacent, you're a rat," but I don't have to go down with the ship.
How many years do you think people should do it? Does growing up in the sunbelt satisfy my civic duty here?
May 28, 2024 at 2:46 PM
How many years do you think people should do it? Does growing up in the sunbelt satisfy my civic duty here?
If I had an impossible amount of money, one thing I'd waste some on is hiring a team of animators to redo beast wars as a 2d cartoon, leaving its old audio totally intact.
May 25, 2024 at 1:42 PM
If I had an impossible amount of money, one thing I'd waste some on is hiring a team of animators to redo beast wars as a 2d cartoon, leaving its old audio totally intact.
This was much easier when it was possible to buy a smallish new truck in America
April 19, 2024 at 12:04 AM
This was much easier when it was possible to buy a smallish new truck in America
Yeah, if you (as you seem to typically) assess your needs rationally, buy the truck that suits them, and use it as a truck, most people who aren't so pure that they also judge you for occasional air travel are chill?
April 19, 2024 at 12:03 AM
Yeah, if you (as you seem to typically) assess your needs rationally, buy the truck that suits them, and use it as a truck, most people who aren't so pure that they also judge you for occasional air travel are chill?
It actually does double duty in the medium term; I think I'm not the only person to remember their own childhood and ask "do I want the world to have more experiences like that?" People who answer "yes" seem to want more kids.
April 12, 2024 at 10:34 PM
It actually does double duty in the medium term; I think I'm not the only person to remember their own childhood and ask "do I want the world to have more experiences like that?" People who answer "yes" seem to want more kids.
As somebody who mostly went into tech because I honestly liked it, and graduated in '15, I saw this coming up behind me and distinctly felt like I was running away from a tsunami.
April 8, 2024 at 3:41 AM
As somebody who mostly went into tech because I honestly liked it, and graduated in '15, I saw this coming up behind me and distinctly felt like I was running away from a tsunami.
I mean how cold can you be over 100 btus?
March 15, 2024 at 7:40 AM
I mean how cold can you be over 100 btus?
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Counterpoint: the problem is morning people
March 10, 2024 at 5:50 PM
Counterpoint: the problem is morning people
As someone who loves PbtA and bounced off DND, I am genuinely loving watching this saga; your instincts tap into some deeply-buried intuitions but are like 180 degrees from how I felt when I read these rules.
March 6, 2024 at 12:22 PM
As someone who loves PbtA and bounced off DND, I am genuinely loving watching this saga; your instincts tap into some deeply-buried intuitions but are like 180 degrees from how I felt when I read these rules.
Good luck! It takes a minute to click, but really sings when it does. Hope we get the report
March 2, 2024 at 5:51 AM
Good luck! It takes a minute to click, but really sings when it does. Hope we get the report
It's low-key the most fun I've ever had in turn-based combat, like, in any system.
March 2, 2024 at 3:27 AM
It's low-key the most fun I've ever had in turn-based combat, like, in any system.
I think their imagined audience is "well-meaning young adult who has probably heard the phrase 'dungeons and dragons' but would not connect it to the phrase 'tabletop roleplaying game'".
March 2, 2024 at 3:08 AM
I think their imagined audience is "well-meaning young adult who has probably heard the phrase 'dungeons and dragons' but would not connect it to the phrase 'tabletop roleplaying game'".
Having watched the Magpie community around the development of this game, the sheer unfamiliarity of their backers probably backed them into a corner a little bit. There were months where their discord was full of people who weren't sure whether it was a video game.
March 2, 2024 at 3:06 AM
Having watched the Magpie community around the development of this game, the sheer unfamiliarity of their backers probably backed them into a corner a little bit. There were months where their discord was full of people who weren't sure whether it was a video game.
Saw this literally exactly as I was starting to wonder
February 27, 2024 at 1:17 AM
Saw this literally exactly as I was starting to wonder
Even as a child, I found roller blades much more intuitive
February 19, 2024 at 5:33 AM
Even as a child, I found roller blades much more intuitive
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As I wrote on Twitter, in a normal sane world I would be a liberal Republican. We would do the thing where fun of me for being a heartless bean-counter and I make fun of you all for not understanding incentives and math, but instead I'm going to vote Blue until I die and also I now support unions.
February 16, 2024 at 2:48 PM
As I wrote on Twitter, in a normal sane world I would be a liberal Republican. We would do the thing where fun of me for being a heartless bean-counter and I make fun of you all for not understanding incentives and math, but instead I'm going to vote Blue until I die and also I now support unions.
Everything in the brain is a cycle or a spiral. Cause and effect are sometimes helpful if a proximate diagnosis helps elucidate a cure, but mostly they aren't actually different things.
February 16, 2024 at 6:55 AM
Everything in the brain is a cycle or a spiral. Cause and effect are sometimes helpful if a proximate diagnosis helps elucidate a cure, but mostly they aren't actually different things.
Fwiw, you are the human who adds the most to my feed and I'm glad you're here. Like, take care of yourself, but if that's a data point, take it.
February 14, 2024 at 2:02 PM
Fwiw, you are the human who adds the most to my feed and I'm glad you're here. Like, take care of yourself, but if that's a data point, take it.