In his first encyclical, Pope Leo XIV quotes J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.”
“It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.”
(Photo: Vatican Media)
I'm listening to the OG Dragonlance trilogy on Audible. Never read it before.
Are people supposed to actually LIKE Tanis Half-Elven? Can't stand him
#dragonlance#dnd#ttrpg
Reminder that under Obama's Iran Deal the Iranians shipped 98 percent of their enriched uranium out of the country - without a pointless and devastating war.
Across the board... Not junkies or freaks, but people who were just as comfortable with drugs like weed, booze, or coke as we are - and we're not weird, are we? Hell no, we're just overworked professionals who need to relax now and then, have a bit of the whoop and the giggle, right?
The amount of people who trust an app so absolutely is beyond me. It can tell someone their car isn't in front of them and they'll believe it instead of their eyes. No wonder Skynet won.
Mandy (2018) is one of those films that short-circuits your sense of normal. A metal album turned into cinema, fueled by grief, madness, and Nicolas Cage in full mythic fury. You finish it dazed, half convinced you just dreamed the whole thing.
It is wild that cabinet meetings have turned into these ritualistic dick sucking sessions. I don't know how these guys can stomach the performance and humiliation.
Found a lot of my old #dungeonsanddragons#TTRPGs stuff going thru totes from the old house. I didn't realize how much word building I had put into my personal settings. Some interesting ideas for my upcoming 4th edition experiment