Wandering Adventure Party

@Tim_Eagon Well bump *that* guy in particular.

@Tim_Eagon @BigJackBrass @Printdevil Yeah, but the joy you got from playing with them is worth more than any boarded collection.

@juergen_hubert Should Charlemagne and Barbarossa both awaken at the same time, things will probably get *weird*...

@blind_mapmaker @juergen_hubert Whoopsie!

@juergen_hubert Just a side note: those drawings are beautiful.

@IcarusGames "As you leave the shop with your ill-gotten loot, you are struck from above by a flaming rock moving as fast as a lightning bolt. You are dead. What's your next character? I'd recommend someone less kleptomanic." And if it happens more than once, I stop playing with them.

@Tim_Eagon Daylight Saving Time is over. This is Standard Time.

I live in southeastern Ohio.

It's October 27.

The leaves on the trees have not yet begun to change.

I'm feeling rather out of sorts.

@Tim_Eagon Sigh. I'm glad I couldn't get the web app working for the home radio station of the Steelers (WDVE; they use iHeartRadio and it freaking *sucks*). I'd have been breaking shit by the end of the game.

@juergen_hubert They probably all ended up on mastodon.social instead of fanning out. It's one of Mastodon's major issues.

@DejahEntendu I have been working very hard for years to use "folks", "y'all", or my native "yinz", but every so often a "guys" slips out to cover mixed company and I wince the instant it escapes my lips.

I'm going to admit to something that's going to get me in trouble.

I *despise* "neopronouns". I'm talking about things like "hir", "faer", "xe" and so on.

I don't dislike the idea. Gender is far beyond a binary. We need new words.

I just hate that all these neopronouns sound like bad sci-fi/fantasy fan bullshit. They don't sound like *English*.

But I just have to get over it, I guess. Mutual respect and all that.

@Tim_Eagon @kimlockhartga @octopuddle @grayson I knew what it was about as soon as I heard it. Had to argue with a guy who claimd it "celebrated" youth violence, informing him that it was a *warning*. He didn't want to listen.

@kimlockhartga @Tim_Eagon @octopuddle @grayson "Oh, I don't listen to lyrics, I just like the music!" Drives me a bit mad (-er).

Neil Peart said it best: "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice." You cannot be "neutral". You cannot be "apolitical". You are either antifascist OR YOU ARE A FASCIST.

Anybody whining and moaning about how "if we would only come to an understanding and cooperate" is a collaborator, and a coward. "Oh no, the US is so divided. Both sides! Both sides!" You've drunk their Kool-Aid and obediently gotten out of the way, bowing down.

"You have to tolerate a little hate." "You have to allow them a little violation of basic human and civil rights." "You have to allow them a little hatred of anything not cishetero white Christian."

Fuck that. No. I will not. I will not "reach across the aisle" to such people. I will not compromise with them.

"There are three sides to every story" is sophistry. There are not always "three sides". Sometimes one side is right and the other is wrong. That is, ostensibly, why we have courts, though the judicial system has been rigged and currently does not function as intended.

The GOP are *wrong*. The fascists are *wrong*. The phobes are *wrong*. There is no "compromise" that isn't collaborating in some way. "You have to tolerate a little evil to get what you want" is bullshit.

@Tim_Eagon @RogerBW @deinol @Da_Gut I would give *so much* for a well-filmed Silmarillion. Even animated.

@Tim_Eagon @deinol @Da_Gut A 300 page book with a *lot* of characters. Unless you're content to just leave most of the dwarves in the background.