THIS. If you’re in central Glasgow tonight please close your windows; if you have to be out please wear the best mask you have available. If you can smell it, you’re at risk.
Worth remembering, reading the absolute horror show that Pixar was under Lasseter, that he was unemployed because of this for a grand total of 6 months before Larry Ellison put him in charge of an animation company again, presumably to recreate this nightmare atmosphere there. Still has that job btw
A simple red muslin cover.
Showing the exposed spine with twin tapes and blue-grey thread
Inside printing of the book.
For endpapers, I used two sheets of 22lb cream-colored 25% cotton paper.
Today’s #bookbinding project was not a TTRPG for once. This time I was binding a personal copy of an ebook I recently got about the philosophy of Mòzǐ.
For context, Mòzǐ was a philosopher from the Spring and Autumn period who developed a rival movement (Mohism) to what we today call Confucianism.
a passage from an article by Hunter S. Thompson We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that 8 or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history-which is no doubt true—but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th Century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.
Hunter S. Thompson wrote this about a week after 9/11 and god he nailed it
A sequence of shots from the TV series MASH. Three surgeons are operating in a mobile army surgical theater, and are masked in cotton masks, wearing cotton caps to cover hair, and aprons. Bright lights are visible in their backgrounds. The first, panel shows Frank Burns (an absolute jerk character but Larry Linville, his actor, was not) saying, “Everybody knows war is Hell”. The second panel shows BJ Hunnicutt (Mike Farrell) saying (sarcastically) “ remember, you heard it here last.” The third and fourth panels show Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda) saying, “War isn’t Hell. War is war and Hell is hell and of the two, war is a lot worse.“ 5th panel shows Father Mulcahey, the chaplain (William Christopher) saying, “How do you figure that, Hawkeye?” 6th is back to Hawkeye, saying “ Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell?” 7th is Fr Mulcahey saying “ Sinners, I believe.” The last three panels are all Hawkeye, saying, “ Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. But war is chock full of them. Little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for a few of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.”
With alt-text:
Agree that I hate this is still relevant.
It's a common myth that people in the Middle Ages were constantly drinking alcohol due to water being unsafe.
This is a failure to really THINK about what what life was like, then, beyond "well, what did they drink instead of water?"
Because the answer is, well, they didn't drink very much?
Who wants to help me build itch 2 so my writer friends can actually get paid on time and NSFW stuff doesn't get shadow banned?
Anyone fancy taking a gander thru the ashcan of my latest game design? looking for feedback (any contributors will be credited appropriately)
This is the Hearts based trick style card TTRPG I've mentioned a few times recently
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A lot of people think “surely nobody wants to fuck someone they think is subhuman,” and these people need to be taught about the concept of heterosexual men.
FUCK YEAH ERIKA ISHII
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
Did you know that I have a game in prelaunch on Kickstarter?
It's called Violent Delights, and it's a chess-based RPG about Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. Yes, you guessed it: Your goal is to make the kings smooch!
I'd be delighted if you followed it🙂
Have you signed up for the Breathless 2e Kickstarter yet?
If not, you gotta address this problem right now, I think!
I will say again, the friendliest version of Linux if you're coming from Windows is Linux Mint.
There is still one spot left in the Warrenguard ongoing campaign! Every other Friday evening, online via video chat.
Play the queerest TTRPG about riding dragons there is!
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Let me at it
i would sooner staple my dick to a moving car than use this trash
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one thing i feel ppl have forgotten is that democracy isn’t just having elections, it’s also an *ethic* that you distribute power across society. different authorities over different spheres. wealth concentration isn’t solely abt unfairness, as a power imbalance it’s an affront to democratic values.
Employees who are impressed by vague corporate-speak like "synergistic leadership," or "growth-hacking paradigms" may struggle with practical decision-making
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At a quick glance, this is looking like a chewier and more mechanically satisfying foray into the fantasy PbtA space than whatever happened with Dungeon World 2e.
I'm going to spend the night reading it over in detail, but I'm actually very excited about getting this to the table.
A mockup of a stack of the class cheat sheets for D&D 2024 on a green background.
If you've ever stared at your character sheet and felt overwhelmed you need my Class Cheat Sheets for 5e!
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I'm soft launching migrating my newsletter to Beehiiv.
Check it out, poke around, kick the tires. Let me know what you think.
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A Knight from the Principality of Ponce
I'm late Gen X and all I'm saying is Millennials got fucked harder than anyone else. They were raised on post 9/11 American media and government and it's just been an endless stream of shit. And I'm not even talking about the 09 collapse. The wars, watching guns shred schools, social media insanity
Always lovely. Congrats!
so version 4.0 of my Misfits & Mayhem SRD is out now, ya yeet
#TTRPG #TTRPGCommunity #indieTTRPG
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fairday to you, adventurer
