Lord Tygger

A Grognard tabletop gamer from the Olden Days

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

"You're asking me how a watch works... for now, let's just keep an eye on the time."

It's a great line because it's not really about watches.

On the surface, she's asking for a detailed explanation of something really complex. His response is essentially:

"The explanation is complicated, and understanding every mechanism isn't necessary right now. Focus on the outcome, not the internals."

The watch metaphor works because everyone understands the difference between:

- Knowing what time it is.
- Knowing how a watch actually works.

Most people can use a watch perfectly well without understanding gears, escapements, balance wheels, or quartz crystals.

For young people, apprentices, junior engineers, new managers, or anyone entering a new field, there's a deeper lesson:

- Expertise comes in layers

When you're new, you often want the entire mental model immediately.

You ask:

- Why are we doing it this way?
- What does every part do?
- What are all the dependencies?
- What happens under every possible condition?

Those are good questions. But sometimes the answer would require six months of background knowledge to make sense. It's great to be curious, as long as sometimes you're willing to accept that the answer is "I can't explain it all to you right now."

An experienced person may effectively be saying:

"You're asking a valid question, but you're asking it several chapters before the book has introduced the necessary concepts."

That can be hard when you're young and driven!

[Lord Tygger @LordTygger]

@miles_commodore There is nothing more permanent than a temporary tax.

[Giga Based Dad @GigaBasedDad]

The boys will understand

[Giga Based Dad @GigaBasedDad]

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[Geeky REAL GINGER Sparkles @desert_starr_57]

So @Mattel I'm gonna need "gym bro" and "human resources" Skeletor figures. #motu #mastersoftheuniverse

[The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial]

To address Lauren Southern’s statement’s on Piers Morgan’s show directly, accusing me of being some kind of a fraud, or “larper”:

I am more disappointed than anything because I’ve always liked Lauren and have shown her kindness. I will continue to do that, because I don’t let the actions of others change who I am.

I think there is some confusion about who I am though, and who I was before ai came here, and perhaps some gossip, so let me set the record straight.

I’m a practicing Catholic, who got engaged at 21, married at 22, and had babies at 23, 25, & 29.

That’s a hell of a long game if I were “larping”.

I’ve always worked from home and set my own hours to focus on my children. We do live in a period where most families need two incomes to get by. I do encourage mothers to be in the home as much as possible and put their children first. I did this and my daughters are all kind, talented, intelligent, and well-adjusted.

I am an award winning pie baker. I am always dressed well. I am always put together. That shouldn’t be a 1950s standard. Women should have the dignity to carry themselves well.

As for the 19th amendment, I believe, as our founders did, that voting is a product of the 9th and 10th amendments and I recognize that the size of the government has grown immeasurably since it’s passage. The Federal Reserve which passed 6 years earlier and the income tax that same year have all infringed on our liberty. The conjunction of the three has been a catastrophe.

That said, I’m an imperfect human. I am accused of weird things, most of them false, but a few of them fair, however, not having integrity is not who I am and having my character smeared and scapegoated on a broadcast across the world was a really ugly thing to do.

Now that said.

I’ll continue taking the high road and leaning into it, because on surface level, accusing me of being “a trad larper” is hilarious, and life is more fun when you don’t take things personally.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Josie,
The Redheaded libertarian
Queen of the Trads.

[Lord Tygger @LordTygger]

@John_Schneider @Xmusknewsx They should have the right to refuse bacon if they choose not to eat it.

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

I added all of the Notepad keyboard shortcuts to TinyRetroPad, which "ballooned" it out to 2794 bytes!

If you can spot anything where I don't have full feature parity with XP Notepad, please let me know... or just fix it!

I also recently added optional line numbers and Dark Mode...

Grab the exe, or play with the code:
https://t.co/Kl736oVuvC

[Lord Tygger @LordTygger]

@verbalriotshow People just want to watch the world burn to get their 15 minutes of loud ranting.

[Not the Bee @Not_the_Bee]

Amazon kills “Stargate” show made by original producers, may hand it to someone who would "give it a fresh new perspective" 😭
https://t.co/Rju3t1Hr89

[Lord Tygger @LordTygger]

@wil_da_beast630 "The world is hollow, for i have touched the sky."

[Sandy Petersen 🪔 @SandyofCthulhu]

Conan and Cthulhu are both parts in the same fictional universe.

Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard (who created Conan) were regular correspondents, and put references to each other's work into their stories. This is also why Conan met eldritch horrors frequently. Howard even created Solomon Kane, a grim Puritan who mainly (not exclusively) battled the evil supernatural.

In addition, Robert E. Howard wrote several full-on Lovecraftian horror stories, such as The Black Stone.
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[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

🙏❤️

[Lord Tygger @LordTygger]

@verbalriotshow "With everyone's track record of remakes, these days, what could go wrong?" Muahahahaha [cough][cough][cough] Okay, I'll see myself out. Not like dem moving pictures were gonna last. Passing fade.

[Sandy Petersen 🪔 @SandyofCthulhu]

Boys read less. I think it’s due to modern educational culture.

Libraries, esp school libraries, and english teachers are women-dominated, and they pick books THEY like instead of books boys might like. (There's statistical proof that teachers are likely to call on a boy who raises his hand than a girl.)

Back in my time there were lots of books for boys to read. But modern books often are themed around emotional retrospective, or relationship drama, or something else that an 11 year old boy won’t care about.
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[Michael Knowles @michaeljknowles]

Totally ridiculous. This must happen much sooner than 2044.

[Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630]

One of the all time funny findings, of course spun immediately.

[Lord Tygger @LordTygger]

The stars have aligned! The AI to come! (not a real thing, you should know better!)