Wandering Adventure Party

I love it when my over-engineered code winds up being engineered exactly right. We merged a large change and nothing on my end changed because my code already handled the assumption change correctly.

@yon@sakurajima.moe has happened to me before too.

I call it out whenever it happens now.

I wonder if there is some kind of ancestral conspiracy among HR workers where they are oath bound to not tell you what the random meeting they schedule is about.

Because you have to have zero empathy or clue to not understand why that kind of meeting might cause anxiety.

(It was just a quarterly ‘how’s it going? We’re checking in with every employee’)

In order to get an insane NPC to spill his secrets, the party members had to imbibe one the concoctions on his belt that was sacred to his order. Imbibe isn’t really the story though. Essentially this was glowing purple liquid with floating electric orbs in it. He’d drink it, vomit it up (where it’d form a floating orb), and then bottle it up, Where the next party member would imbibe it. They’d learned that it was perfectly safe because he’d done this with this bottle “hundreds of times”. They were not reassured. They have no idea what the purpose of this magical drink is.

Neither do I. I just wanted to fuck with them and the NPC is totally insane.

#TTRPG

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net
‘The last word’ in an argument is the quarry of children. The number of people who have not gotten this memo is astounding.

Player after refreshing on last week’s events

ah yes. Now I remember this trauma you inflicted on us…

Mostly: While I had a pretty bad incident in the past, most people have pretty solid hardware experiences with Apple computers. Even if it doesn't have the same iron, I think a lot of people will sacrifice memory for a device they know is otherwise 'good' or well constructed. Especially since the windows market has always felt ... dodgy.

I'm not particularly fond of Macs myself, but the Neo is something Apple has been missing for a long time: A true entry-level Mac laptop. It's nice to see an entry that is more aimed at normal non-luxury user.

If it's performance ends up being able to handle basic tasks it could be a pretty solid hit. Wish they'd 16GB of RAM into it like similarly priced windows machines. But so it goes with Apple.

@sludgecatheter@outerheaven.club @rosey@catgirl.sex It's really annoying when they're cold on the outside but somehow boiling hot in the inside, too...

@sludgecatheter@outerheaven.club They really are a pain to move. Last time I moved I hired a couple of guys to help me move boxes.

...They bitched about nothing but the book boxes the whole time.

I do prefer physical over digital books. But I totally understand people who prefer the portability of a digital collection. I dedicate a lot of my space towards my books.

A lot of people know that a female fox is a vixen. Almost no one knows that a male fox is a 'dog'.

@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems I am sorry that happened to you. ​​ people suck sometimes.

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net yeah, most of mine were from the same.

When I like …13-16 and working dish pit duty, one of the other cooks liked to sneak things from the broiler into the pit without alerting me just to fuck with me. So ended up grabbing things fresh out of the oven a lot if I was careless. My hands were fucked up for a bit there.

That and all the other ways you can get burned in a kitchen that I am sure you’re aware of.

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net if it’s any comfort, a lot of the ones I have had faded to almost unnoticeable these days. I hope you’re alright.

Null, you are not making my character a boat fucking cuck.

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net @yassie_j@labyrinth.zone Washington has mandated sick leave, though it’s not a flat number. Your employer must provide you with one hour of sick leave per 40 hours worked. You are also legally protected when taking that sick leave. Your employer cannot ask for a doctor’s slip unless the duration exceeds 3 days.

See: https://www.lni.wa.gov/workers-rights/leave/paid-sick-leave/

@considermycat@eldritch.cafe @ErikUden@mastodon.de We should be pedantic. I have no love for Hegseth or the other ghouls; but the editorializing just gives people an excuse to ignore what’s happening, and what’s happening is fucked up enough on its own.

If you want to accuse him of anything, accuse him of creating an environment where people feel comfortable doing this. That’s a totally fair assertion. There’s too much damning truth available to need to resort to misinformation, misdirection, or lies.

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