Connor Baird

Designing games and writing books

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@memecrashes This is like the guy who doesn’t want AI to cure cancer because then humans don’t get to, or Gavin Belson not wanting to live in a world where someone else to make the world a better place better than he does.

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@AGOWA What’s the outcome going to be here? More legal costs for Albertsons (passed along to customers) who will then shy away from offering discounts in the future to avoid legal hazards.

How exactly is this making our lives better?

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@SandyofCthulhu "Oh, that's weird. You said that in English and not German."

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@tanomuzeA We've conquered small nations over less

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@TheGreatErenan @SandyofCthulhu I threw a lot of daggers to grind out stats back in the day.

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@PyresMagicka If that’s true, we have some serious un-canceling to do!

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Style: western RPG; looking for retail quality (Magic the Gathering cards, for example). Primarily an interior shot; includes one character on a “spell card”

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Looking for a fantasy illustrator for book cover. Not cutesy or romance or cozy, but also not quite epic and definitely not grimdark.

Yes, your budget is acceptable.

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DMs now open

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@monsterhunter45 Cozy Fantasy is in the fantasy genre for a reason.

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@Colin_d_m Ironically, public educators kept schools shut down far longer than necessary under COVID, causing that very lack of socialization, while those evil homeschoolers got together and defied the state in order to socialize their kids

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In writing, they say you have to know the rules before you break them, but fortunately I have been able to skip that first tiresome step.

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@zarathustra5150 It’s a decent book. Not amazing. But solid craft.

Goodreads in general has really wacky ratings; the ratings say far more about the readership than the books. Popular romance novels have astronomical ratings (4.5+), and acclaimed literary stuff is often sub-4.0.

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@TheGregYang It’s okay to need help and not have the answers, to not have a solution and to not be accomplishing things. The mindset you have cultivated to get to where you are is currently maladaptive.

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@NateSilver538 Star Trek future requires it. Who doesn’t want Star Trek future?

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@jaketapper Rejecting primitive theocratic weirdness is progress.

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@mcahogarth Deep cut: “My Claim to Fame” - Mark Knopfler

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@tszzl Asimov’s views on robot ethics and humanity’s ideal future kept changing, to the point where he eventually went, “never mind all that earlier stuff; robot-enabled benevolent communist hive mind run by a supreme mind is what I really meant.”

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@TheGregYang It’s not Lyme.

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@TheGregYang @tferriss I would bet $1000 you do not have actual Lyme disease that a physician specialized in infectious disease would confidently diagnose, and as a result you are going to do some things to your body that you should not (e.g., antibiotics).