Wandering Adventure Party

@AIP_Potsdam Oh, that's a crop. Thank the gods. For just a second there, I thought a sunspot twice the size of Jupiter showed up and no one told me.

@matt
Guess the weather's too nice to stay indoors this... Dear god, it's only been spring for 7 hours...

@matt They actually came back the following Saturday!

I didn't have the spoons to talk to them, though. I thought they'd at least wait a couple of weeks. If they'd come around this past Saturday, I may have entertained them. It was nice enough to sit out on the step at least.

Frustrated with much of the online discourse around my current ttrpg of choice, I decided to try and funnel that energy into a blog, rather than Reddit.

It, uh... it came out much longer than I expected.

Got myself a new nodeBB forum, though! Because why wouldn't I have yet *another* fedi account.

@matt
Man, it must take them forever to collect any information at the rate they go through their pitch. For a half hour of their time, they got one personal question in.

Don't they know they're supposed to get me to install an app on my phone in exchange for a free sub if they want my personals?

@matt
Yeah, I don't ever try to actually discuss much with them. For whatever reason, I just kind of gently egg them on.

It both keeps them away from the neighbours, and also leads to hearing them occassionally say wild shit.

Plus, it's a good reminder that there are still crazy people out there who think enjoying "hard rock" is a sign of moral weakness.

One of these days it will result in them coming back to follow up - they always threaten to - but it hasn't happened yet.

The Jehovas just stopped by for a chat. I have such a mixed reaction whenever I see them. The interruption to my day is always jarring, but I've always found their song and dance kind of entertaining. Plus, for some reason my brain loves to "yes, and" them.

Today, I was totally thrown for a loop as my interlopers indirectly explained to me that they were biblical literalists, and saw a day close at hand where all of our ancestors were risen from the grave, and where death was no longer a thing.

Like, right here. On the planet. My mind is blown.

And people think the housing situation is bad *now*!

@soma_ Welcome! I hope the locals don't give you too much trouble. They can get restless at times.

@matt Yeah, but we know from just talking to people on here that most people have no idea the Local/Global feeds even exist.

I guess cranky haters may be trawling them, though.

@TechConnectify It's fascinating to me that you're getting similarly hostile "reply guy" behaviour from the BlueSky Discover feed as you've been getting here, where there's no such feed.

I'm guessing the experiences are qualitatively different. But if not, it speaks volumes about how many people react to *anything* they don't expect to see in their feed.

@mrjafo It's filtering through to Mastodon, though. Interesting.