Wandering Adventure Party

I wanted to work this into a reply on something from a few days ago.

I am a devoted believer in compassionate reflection. But I am also deeply aware that bad actors and the powerful purposely invoke or force a particular brand of compassion to disenfranchise their victims and protect themselves from consequences. I think we should be mindful of when this is happening.

That probably makes me overly cynical or misanthropic.

Everyone with half a brain who read the D&D 2024 ruleset immediately started thinking of it as 5.5E.

It only took 2 years, but the community finally bullied Wizards into adopting the obvious moniker. Calling it 5E (2014) and 5E (2024) was stupid as hell and I’m glad that madness is over.

Source: https://dndbeyond-support.wizards.com/hc/en-us/sections/46714233564564-5-5e-Change-FAQs

@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems I remember seeing these speculation markets for the first time and just feeling crushed. The wound in society has really gone gangrenous when people start openly gambling on situations of life and death for others.

I also feel the waters around my feet receding as a massive tsunami
of gambling addiction approaches.

So far I am planning on growing summer squash, zucchini, pumpkins, cherry and Roma tomatoes, cabbage, chamomile, mint, basil, cilantro, green onions, carrots, lettuce, spinach, and potatoes.

Probably a little late for my region, but got most of my seeds started for gardening this year. ​​

@yon@sakurajima.moe When I was a kid a bunch of lovely older kids stuffed me in a closet and then filled it with blankets to the point where I could barely move and breath before locking it. I nearly suffocated. Ever since then I've had a bit of claustrophobia.

I recalled this fact a little late when I went into a large cave system last year that required crawling to get through one part last year. Luckily I am pretty good about managing myself so I made it through, though my friend did note how nervous I was the whole time.

@fujiwara@sakurajima.moe the female cats I grew up with were like you described. Very much “I will love a person but only on my exact terms”.

@fujiwara@sakurajima.moe general personal experience is that while not necessarily less affectionate, female cats are far more skittish and distrusting, especially if they have not been neutered.

@Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems and the various news agencies will breathlessly report what each side is saying as fact, without providing this context to their readership.

@pixel@urusai.social personal theory: probably from the quarter eating days, there is a strange machismo around being ‘good’ and liking fighting games. Disliking fighting games outright then has emasculating associations. So rather than outright dislike them, a misdirection has to happen to save face, one that puts the blame back on the genre. “Oh I would like them, but…”

For my part; they’re stressful to me and I lack competitive bones. I failed just as miserably at learning guitar. I see the appeal though.

Someone I know just accidentally massively overdosed on their prescription medicine. They assumed that the liquid cup from any old medicine bottle was the right dose for liquid medicine. It was not. Not even close.

This is why they keep these things behind the counter. ​​

@mikoto@urusai.social I’ll repeat again that the incident in question involved someone who assumed bad faith on your part and thus overreacted (imo). It’s not bad to reflect and muse on quotations, but don’t knock your head too hard on it.

On another note; I don’t have a lot of patience for the people on fedi who have little understanding about public audiences and differing communication styles, and treat everyone who writes a comment that isn’t full throated agreement or something they wanted to read as a personal offense. They lack emotional maturity.

Stop eating on the mic. It's loud and disgusting sounding. Please.

@weebdeluxe@urusai.social rest up and take care.

A minor reminder that all public timeline posts are not just direct communication, even in reply. There is always alway an implied ‘crowd’ one is also speaking to.

A lot of people are consciously or subconsciously modifying their language to do this. Do not immediately assume condescension just because someone in the public is explaining something outloud they may know you already know. It is probably for the audience.

@fujiwara@sakurajima.moe

He always writes an afterward and both times it was just “sorry this took so long. I have no excuse. I’m pathetic”

Damn That sounds pretty awful

@fujiwara@sakurajima.moe when series drag on and on past their peek I like to say that in the famine world of writing and manga, it’s hard to give up a steady paycheck. How many times have you unenthusiastically trudged to work?

Over coffee at a Starbucks just outside Austin, Texas, Del Bigtree [Former RFK advisor] told me he wants his teenage son to catch polio. Measles, too. He’s considered driving his unvaccinated family to South Carolina, which is in the midst of a historic outbreak, so that they can all be exposed. He prefers pertussis—whooping cough—to the pertussis vaccine, which he later described to me as a “crime against children.” (the Atlantic)

These people are insane and hell isn’t deep enough for them. What in the fuck.