Wandering Adventure Party

@Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems yeah even up to the early 80s, Oregon and Washington were places racists often considered far enough from the “evils” of the East coast liberals that “true white men” could ‘live in peace’. Thus why people like Robert Mathews showed up.

I feel like the thing people don’t realize about the PNW is that the city/rural political divide is VERY stark, and that’s because it’s swing more liberal is relatively new.

@sludgecatheter@outerheaven.club the organizers choose a list of 3 and we vote on them. It definitely leans towards the organizers tastes which is fine. Liking the books isn’t a requirement.

I do pan the books, but I do so in a way that gets people to laugh, so if there is stigma there, I bypass it. Most others there begin more positive about the books. I worry if I am demoralizing the organizer though. This is specifically a horror Bookclub.

@sludgecatheter@outerheaven.club yeah I feel the exact about myself as well. I just find if harder to sit down and make myself read these days (which makes it all the more important to try). I feel a certain … anxiety reading meaty fiction. If it’s mindless, I can turn off my brain. If not, I’m thinking “shouldn’t I be reading something educational/productive?”

Are you enjoying the books? I appreciate the different selection - kinda. I have to admit the people who organize this club have completely different tastes than I do. It is still nice to try other things even if I’m kinda annoyed at the plot.

@sludgecatheter@outerheaven.club too real. I’ve come to accept that despite my best efforts, I will keep procrastinating until the last week, and then I will shot gun the book.

… I finished the last one literally 20 minutes before the meeting was to begin.

Sherwin-Williams has the city by the balls, apparently ​​

Today I learned that the nearby city mandates in code not only the color, but the exact brand of paint that the fire hydrants must be painted with.

I have ordered a bunch of native wild flower varieties. It’s more seeds than I have space for, so I may have to see if I can find places to casually spread them about.

Waste is very often subjective. To a system, waste is expression in which the system does not intend. Therefore the removal of waste in a social system is the removal of freedom for actors within the system.

@fujiwara@sakurajima.moe Slay The Spire(‘s stairs).

Sometimes I don’t know what to say to people struggling. Sometimes I send them duck pictures.

@magnetmagician@sakurajima.moe Freedom to do is also freedom to not do. I wouldn't do anything that gave me anxiety like that.

I'm in a similar boat. Weed makes my thoughts race a bit, and gives me the annoying sensation in my head like someone is playing TV static nearby, but otherwise has no other discernible effects. It's purely unpleasant for me as well.

@julia@eepy.moe At one point I understand that people are at different abilities. At another, I noticed the Gam Gam 'somehow' figured out the fucking poorly designed smart TV when it meant not missing her favorite show.

@cthellis@urusai.social

After all with D&D it was part of the set

I don't think this is entirely true. It is of later editions, but I believe the original White Box (1974-77) did not contain dice, only some booklets and sheets, and if I recall with CHAINMAIL combat, the d20 was optional ​​ but I don’t have a copy on hand to verify that so take with salt.

This morning I realized that unless something changes, next season I will have the space and resources to start beekeeping.

Getting into this position has been a slow (and often painful) project ongoing for years. I am experiencing something like excitement, and now I can ramp up in earnest.

I am experiencing something akin to low excitement. I’ve bought some native wild flower seeds to plant, a couple of books on beekeeping, and I discovered there’s a certification class being held in two weeks. ​​

@rinmari68k can confirm, I should not be trusted. I don’t even trust myself.

@Kingu@sakurajima.moe we’re supposed to believe in some circles that that a wafer of bread transubstantiates into the body of Christ. If Jesus is on the toast, I think theologically speaking your toaster just gave you a free Eucharist prayer and you should dig in.

The next historical game I want to try to run is Empire of the Petal Throne. For those unfamiliar, it is the second or third TTRPG (depending if you let the copyright office officiate) to come to existence, and the first published setting (Tékumel).

That’ll have to wait until I can acquire a copy though. #TTRPG

@Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems capitalism excels at the efficient use of resources… /s.

Oh, found an interview

[Tunnels and Trolls] typed it up myself on my Remington 1907 typewriter

That was a pretty old desk typewriter, even back in 1975.

https://poplitiko.blogspot.com/2015/06/tunnels-trolls-creator-ken-st-andre.html?m=1

#typewriter #TTRPG