Yoknapatawpha Hippie

History buff. Translator. Copyeditor. Writer since the age of 14. DIY RPG maniac since '83. I am not a foodie, I'm a drinkie.

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@Dizc0rz @FixinDC @SizweLo This guy sure loves the word 'compounding.'
So I'd say pure compounding copium.

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@micpewpew Pick up Ars Magica, and play the troupe system. Each in turn get to be the GM for one session, and players get to play different characters every session—all within the same Convent.
It's literally a TTRPG boot camp. AND it's a blast!

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@ZidaneD84096 @Noctisvelt What does that even mean?
Is it just "your spin" or do Christians in general believe they can baptise long-dead people now?
Like, you go to Ramagrama, open the Buddha's casket, baptise the ashes and boom—the Buddha is now a Christian in Heaven?

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@AuthorGoodwin Hemingway said something about writing "the slow parts," but I can't find it. Probably in his letters.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

“Use AI or get left behind.”

I don’t think you understand how desperately I yearn to be left behind. Go on without me. Leave me alone with my critical thinking skills.

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@SketchesbyBoze Is this Gabriel guy on crack?

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@ManFirestorm @AgrivarDragon I agree.
When I run First Edition AD&D at the game store, we have people young and old coming up to the table to look at the terrain at first, but then they stay and watch us play for a bit, and some even return with questions after we're done.

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In the first frame of her video, the Templo Mayor has twin stairways—like it should—but it stands right next to the shore?
Later in the same video, the Templo Mayor is no longer next to the water... but now it only has one stairway?

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@A_DungeonDelver It's very real, but it's temporary. Those players will learn.

First time I set foot on a pitch, I realized I *wasn't* Michel Platini or Diego Maradona.
"Oh, it's not as easy as it looked. I'll have to work on it—"

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@JoJoFromJerz Happy 🎂🎉 Jo!

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@its_hipolita I love Haaland. His demeanor reminds me of Ronaldinho who was THE most fun to watch.

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@TCMartin_Books @osgamer74 Do you think it's a lie?

I literally have a friend who talks about "degrowth" and abolishing the stock exchange, and another friend who believes Russia has secret submarines the size of the Empire State Building that *never* need to surface, ever.

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@DarthPedro99 @osgamer74 Even MORE so back in the '70s and '80s.
My parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts, even my friends' parents: everyone had better things to talk about. I honestly don't remember hearing a political conversation until the mid '90s.

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@YoDanno Not heroes per se, but lovable 'picaresque' adventurers/reluctant heroes with not much to lose.
In that regard, Brancalonia is very much AD&D-esque; the only thing it lacks are images of PCs being killed by random monsters.

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@AnimalExtender @fakehistoryhunt Also, GERMAN planes bombed Pearl Harbor, as explained in this moronic AI book.

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

20 years ago: “Don’t believe anything you read on the internet. You don’t know who these people are.”

15 years ago: “Don’t believe anything you read on the internet. It’s all written by (insert preferred term for political or religious group whose beliefs oppose yours).”

10 years ago: “Don’t believe anything you read on the internet. It’s all fake news and propaganda.”

5 years ago: “Don’t believe anything you read on the internet. It’s all catfishers and scammers and spam.”

Now: “Trust your business, your medical diagnoses, your kids’ education, your policing, your search answers to AI. It’s read everything on the internet so you don’t have to.”

The internet has truly made us more stupid, like that’s been the plan all along.

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@BasedMikeLee It's because it would have used more than just one line on the list. Simple as that.

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@osgamer74 Books also.
I've had young people tell me that Mark Twain was racist and that Raskolnikov (in Crime and Punishment) was cringe—and that's just in my extended family.

We're gonna end up in a world with just Sesame Street, Taylor Swift, and not much else.

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@gurusculler @fakehistoryhunt @monstroso Vikings were "Super Soldiers."

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@dieworkwear One theory is that many men see the world as a supermax prison, so they smuggle in untraceable stuff—like crypto—and work on their bodies because their bodies are the only thing that "the prison guards" can't confiscate.