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Aspiring Polymath, Discursive Multipotentialite, Improv Comic, Chemical Engineer, Lefty, ADHD, Tabletop RPG enthusiast, Home Repair aficionado. He/Him
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December 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Translators work hard to make sure that the translated words, sentences, paragraphs, chapters, etc, not only convey the author's meaning, but also the author's *style.*

Translators are alchemists. They are artists, and poets, and researchers, and editors. They are magicians and wizards.
December 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Holiday festivities in medieval and Tudor England included a celebration of social chaos and misrule, a tradition now honored in vestigial form for the next ~30 hours at supermarkets
December 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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It's Solstice time again so white dragons, night hags and frost giants, don't forget to use your +2 bonuses
December 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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All I want for Christmas is the headline.
December 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
My family is doing a Yankee swap, and gag gifts have been banned. My mother suggested a live lobster as a great idea for a serious gift. She is amazing.
December 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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“Imagine a carpenter who couldn’t figure out how to adjust their table saw, or a surgeon who shrugged and said something like, “I’m just not a scalpel person.” We would never accept that.“

www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/plea...
Please learn how to use your computer
"The number of professionals in journalism, media, communications, and academia who still don't understand how to use the very tools they depend on for their livelihood is, frankly, staggering."
www.niemanlab.org
December 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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One of the most essential questions of TTRPG design boils down to this simple truth:

We want them to be able to shoot lasers, but we don't want them to shoot lasers *all the time*.

(Shooting lasers being a proxy for Doing Cool, Effective Stuff)
December 17, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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"I can't afford art, but I produced my book anyway using AI artwork and ripped off the artist community."

is 2025's

"I can't afford to tip, but I went out to eat at a sit-down restaurant anyway and stiffed the wait staff."
December 17, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Interesting word of the day is: certamen

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/certamen
certamen - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
en.wiktionary.org
December 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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trad is when you ignore the rules to tell a story. storygame is when the rules drag you kicking and screaming into telling a story
Trad is design that's ashamed to be telling a story. Storygame is design that's ashamed to be playing a game.
December 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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"Failing Forward" in 13th Age #youtube #dungeonmaster
December 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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situations is "deadlier combat" instead of just not focusing on it. Want to make your game play faster? Deadlier combat. Discourage violence? Deadlier combat. Or, just don't have combat as a discreet option, and have mechanics that support diverse solutions.
December 12, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Bonus rant.

Any skill engagement system that is constructed in the format of “roll to not look like a dumbass” is (modulo comedy), a failure to understand why people are here.

(The problem is not failure. The problem is is framing)
December 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”

Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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If Kohler can view the user’s toilet data, as it admits to doing in this email exchange with technologist Simon Fondrie-Teitler, then it’s not—by definition—using end-to-end encryption. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.

Full story by @mjgault.bsky.social here:

www.404media.co/kohlers-smar...
December 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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I keep telling people I have a great joke about Cassandra, but nobody believes me.
I told a joke about Orpheus the other day, but looking back no one thought it was funny.
I had a joke about Jacob/Yisrael, but I really wrestled with posting it
November 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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If you rebooted RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK today with the same temporal margins, it’d be set in the 1980s. Neo-Nazi punks would have their faces melted by the opening of a forbidden arcade cabinet at the KB Toys at your local mall. Indiana Jones would wear a Hawaiian shirt and Chuck Taylor sneakers.
We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 28, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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For better or for worse, The Xbox Kinect was released 15 years ago today.
November 4, 2025 at 10:07 AM
November 28, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I know I'm late to the party, but I'm really disappointed to learn that snail based technology didn't work out. (@captwhiskers.bsky.social add this to the bucket list)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasilal...
Pasilalinic-sympathetic compass - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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“Midfolk” is such an on-point name for fantasy humans.
November 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Interesting word of the day is: Archeus

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archeus
Archeus - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM