Wandering Adventure Party

@audreygwinter@dice.camp as usual with these things, I stop and think back “why do I have this expectation?” Must people be this way, must they sound this way? Where does this come from?I think much it comes from a desire for control, for my experience and vision of the world to be some way comfortable to me. But by what right? I can’t reasonably claim it’s harming anyone, or that the world would be a better place without it, not without reverting to some subjective take. Really it’s just an irrational urge to assert ownership over something neither I nor anyone (not even everyone) owns. It’s ok to have these thoughts in your head as long as you don’t actualize them, but when I realize how absurd I am being, the annoyance or anger just kinda melts away. I admit to having some thoughts similar to yours upon a time, but after going through the process above, I realized that introducing new words for structural ideas like gender is going to violate the norms (the programming) the language has put into us, and will never sound fully “right” to us. That’s ok. Someday people will be born who will never know any different.

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.

@audreygwinter ttrpg.network springs to mind.

@audreygwinter@dice.camp I remember when this first released by Ulisses Spiele. The core rulebook was an absolute trainwreck and read a bit like a Shadowrun fan tried to force 40k into a 5E mold. Then I heard C7 got the rights and re-released it after some edits, and I grew hopeful. Then I picked up Imperium Maledictum and lost all faith in C7's ability to edit or direct a product.I guess what I am saying is: If you pick it up, let me know how good W&G and the edition is these days. I'm a bit too afraid to kick them anymore money but I'd like to live vicariously through another. I would be interested in your opinion.

@audreygwinter@dice.camp Part of the problem with dual booting on the same disk is that Windows is not a good neighbor. You generally want to resize the disk from within windows. Sometimes windows updates would flat remove bootloaders. UEFI and secure boot just inherently make things harder and since Microsoft is a big partner in that, they had no desire to make things easier. I gave up on that and just totally isolated windows and Linux to their own drives, with their own bootloaders. It’s a PITA but at least windows stopped nuking my Linux install every few months. I agree the situation sucks. In a lot of cases I am not sure it can be made “better” without OEMs and other vendors working together.

@audreygwinter@dice.camp my thought was that a number of US defense companies are in his ear about all the European defense contracting his stupid posturing has cost them, as they’ve been preferring more “home grown” providers. Restarting the flow of arms to Ukraine is a good apology letter.

@Tim_Eagon I'd give good money to be a fly on the Eagles' locker room wall at halftime when Carter gets his ass chewed off.

@audreygwinter we really are

@vdonnut @kevin @audreygwinter @Da_Gut my aversion is because it's too much work! 3e D&D taught me that!

@audreygwinter I have no idea. I tend not to post on the weekends cuz I have other things I wanna do.

@audreygwinter Friend Computer is excellent at emotional support. All citizens found to be emotionally in need of support are terminated.

@audreygwinter Yes on "the rules get out of the way" when like "the rules were right there for me to use and understand easily" is appropriate