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Our Krevborna campaign continued!CharactersDario Diego Durant, swashbuckling swordsmanUlu, the party's urska momVarro, a young snow elf bearing a magical swordJohanna, lycan bard and fallen noble Father Severin, a defrocked priest with a...
To clear my mind, I wrote a 10-idea list of lessons I’ve learned in past weeks: #1. When looking for a partner, find someone you enjoy talking to. #2. To meet new people, show up consistently at the same places. #3. The internet has no...
Saw a waymo in the supermarket parking lot this morning. First time I’ve seen one around here. Hard to express the withering sense of defeat that immediately washed over me. “We’re obligated to vandalize it,” R said. But there was a guy...
Ever had a conversation so unpleasant it led to the creation of a new project in your to-do list app? Shaky hands, hot cheeks, new project in Things 3.0. That’s when you know it’s serious. Anytime I think I have made progress towards...
A mentor once said this to me: Seven habits of highly effective people Begin with the end in mind Sharpen the saw I got confused, because I remembered that Sharpen the Saw was the 7th on the list. So I corrected him: Stephen Covey said...
A few days ago, I asked the fediverse if anyone knew of a tool I could use to publish an article on my blog and publish the same article as a thread on Mastodon. I already have a way to post summaries of and links to my blog postings...
When I was growing up, there wasn’t any sound better than hearing the jingle of the Good Humor ice cream truck on a summer afternoon. We would hear the familiar chiming sound long before the truck showed up on our street. Giving us...
Content warning: this post discusses punk music that contains themes of humanity repeatedly failing itself. I recently came across some of my music writing from years ago where I reflected on my favorite albums of all time. Since I've...
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We like to imagine that we’re doing ourselves a favor by simping for our favorite oligarchs…that during societal collapse we improve our own odds of survival by betting on and lining up behind the right members of the ruling class. Sadly...
Blackface Orson stars as a wife-killer, duped by his evil comrade Iago (a stage actor who later played Oscar Wilde on TV). Iago uses the handsome blonde idiot Cassio to achieve his goals, poor lovely Desdemona (Marcel Carné’s Juliette)...
I posted last week about starting work on an old Fuji S10-S I received from a family member, its original owner. I mentioned that the stem was seized and that dreaded having to use a hacksaw to remove it. Turns out that the stem was NOT...
my most popular videos: lunch shitpost, BL joke, Australia complaintsI've been posting vertical videos on TikTok / Instagram Reels for about a year now. I already did my first week and my first month retrospectives, and now this is my...
Fil Romero The Dungeon RatThey've evolved. Still scavengers, they now hunt for trinkets between the meat—useful bits and bobs to tempt trespassers. Trespassers bring money, and money is magic. This rat is: Painted with theatre makeup....
A fascinating 11-minute video by Modern Vintage Gamer about the PC videogame piracy in the 1990s: This is a “no honor among thieves” story about a few groups racing to pirate and release one of the most important videogames in history:...