un chien misirlou

Boatmurdered is forum poasting, Actual Plays is like Critical Role where you pack several dysregulated personalities into a room and play an RPG while the audience waits for the adultery and recriminations to break out

two things have really made me feel Old: the rise of Actual Plays as a huge-deal entertainment form and the invention of the extraction shooter, in terms of raw 'people *like* this? you aren't fucking with me?'

I admire the raw chutzpah of the formal experiment -- Cortazar wrote a whole short story that was just one long glorious run on sentence, and he made that shit work -- but getting through Rayuela is a slog.

* start creator platform
* get big on the backs of adult work
* tos it away
* ???
* profit??

im not a nothing ever happens guy but at this point i gotta admit the null hypothesis has got hands

sure, but you can make wrong claims about anything, this isn't particularly worse

that comment thread is also aghast at the idea that 'the book is there to serve me' which...yes? all your activities should ideally benefit you in some manner. my lunch was there to serve me, what other purpose could it have

it defeated me, and i really gave a shot because my dad liked it

i think it's playing yourself but if you paid for the book 1. the author got paid and 2. you can do what the hell you want with it, which concludes your relationship. like, it's *distasteful*? but folk get to be distasteful.

sounds like what you want is the HashClash 2019 paper, which explores basically this topic

for real though Espresso Proteini would be a sick Gundam character name. it wouldn't even break into the top 5 most ridiculous ones.

Adopting the term 'homeland' in any government anything was a corrosive choice that plays a significant part in The Current Situation. It's straight up creepy, was called out as such, but it got enshrined anyway.

straight up laundry thinking, them priors are encased in lucite, pass on, pass on

bravo

Almost every -- possibly every -- one Stark's Parker novels starts with 'when,' as medias res as possible, and the *worst* one is 'pretty good,' the best one is great.

confusing and intransigent is a significant proportion of my Brand so ppl need to know what they gettin into

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

I need people to understand that basically any tool is automation. An arrowhead is automation.

Why? Because the alternative is like idk squeezing an animal until it dies

the only one of these things i've had a worse experience talking to is Proton's Lumo for some reason

these are worth a read imo, fun time

This is exactly correct -- not the *scale* of the stake in absolute terms but the *value* of the stake to the characters, what their emotional risk is.

from each according to his paypiggery, to each according to her majesty

"make hay while the sun shines" implies the existence of night hay, obviously to be used as fodder for night mares.

trying to fit this into TANK BLITZ broke me

ok i was just wondering if i'd missed a Fresh Hell in the middle of everything else

flawless, really.

other than 'taking too much of a cut' and 'having bizarre UK-based content restrictions' what are the flaws, i ain't been paying attention

efivarfs absolutely sounds like some sort of horrible Scaninavian micronutrient deficiency

so i was taught one was prime but i'm told it has gotten the Pluto Treatment at some point and no longer counts