Wandering Adventure Party

I wish everything didn’t have an animation. It might make things look prettier, but my soul feels every one of the thousand little delays like a paper cut.

I am not sure who keeps breaking my back-button, but I hope they are made as unhappy and wretched as they deserve to be.

The death penalty debate was so important and incredibly bungled.

It was bungled because it was often framed in the “Does anyone deserve to die?”. I’ve seen enough misery to know that the question has no clear answer.

How the answer should have been framed, and one that plagues far beyond the courts is: Does the state have the grounds to kill any of its citizens?” For moral, legal, and practical reasons, that answer is clearly NO.

The question of whether individuals have grounds to kill each other is a totally separate debate. Those individuals should not be able to hide behind the state.

Of course, in this context, lying can be a form of caring.

There’s a part of me that believes that we’re all just sitting on our pile of shit opinions, ready to pull the cork and reveal how fragile every single one of our relations are.

@nomaakip@sharkey.nomaakip.xyz there is no choice. Boop them all: the fops will know their own.

An Adventurer's Daily Grind at Age 29

@steffo@a.junimo.party usually 5PM or so. This is a bit early in my books, but that’s because work usually folds out in such a way that I have to take all my meals an hour early.

@yon@sakurajima.moe That is the draw of history. Humans are not much different over the last ten thousand years. I could be dropped as a baby in ancient Rome, and no one would know me as anything other than roman once/if I made it to adulthood. You can learn a lot about humans by just looking at what they did previously.

There is just a strange exceptionalism that exists around social media; People think it's a distinctly modern phenomena and disorder. But the roots of all that exist in our psyche and history. People with the means wrote obsessively to their parents complaints, and those who didn't have the means complained bitterly. People even had public boards that they'd attach public replies to. It was for many also a form of entertainment. I think it gets lost how much people, in the absence of mass forms of cheap entertainment, just talked and thought about what they heard. With only some exaggeration, even a reclusive hermit in pre-modern times would probably be considered a shameless gossip today.

@alltherum@freeradical.zone Yes! They were the same chatty, catty bitches that we are often to each other. Maybe even more so, because lacking as ready access to entertainment, many of them had nothing else to do but sit and think about how Mr Johnson in the paper was SO WRONG and needed a STERN REMONSTRANCE, by God.

Anyone who thinks there is something strange about us and our social media habits should really look at Victorian-era letter writing.

In London they’d had letters delivered and picked up potentially a dozen times day. You could exchange several letters a day. They’d copy letters to each other and send along clippings (boosts, anyone?)v verses, whatever.

They would fall into social media in a heart beat and even recognize some things. The notion of being able to post a letter instantly would have driven them wild.

@craignicol@glasgow.social @rysiek@mstdn.social yes. But Microsoft stopped caring about home users needs a long time ago. The whole real point of selling to retail consumers is so that users train themselves in Microsoft products, which in turn makes it easier to wrangle enterprise contracts, the real prize.

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net goodnight. ​​

I guess people were generally surprised by the safety measures I was talking about. For example, I want to do the first game in a public setting so everyone knows everyone before they come to my residence. I also stressed that participation in the game would be on a NOTAFLOF basis.

Some other interesting observations from the LFG event.

* people were interested if I had dog (as a game host), and were generally relieved if the answer was no.
* a lot of people wanted a flexible game of one-shots rather than campaigns.
* a lot of people were surprised that I had a gaming content consent form, which I told them I expected them to fill out. Some GMs wanted a copy for themselves.
* almost everyone was more interested in hearing my scheduling plans than game plans.
* a lot of GMs I talked to seemed a lot more structured and less off the cuff than me ​​

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net the Luna is on loop.

The power switch on the printer seems to have broken such that is stuck on 'on'.

I don't want to buy a gun but that machine cannot be trusted to keep its own hours. It must be put down.

There is a LFG thing soon, where a bunch of players are meeting GMs who are expected to ‘advertise’ a campaign.

I want to do this as a Call of Cthulhu GM, so that plan is kinda insane. I can’t run or plan a horror campaign before I sit down and talk to the players. I might have based my campaign around big goopy sea monsters, and they’re a great fit except they have a phobia of big goopy sea monsters and that’s a hard no. I can work with that, but I need to know first and not waste an entire week of planning. Safety is paramount.

So I am going to have a pair of one shots ready, and then offer to run that while we come to terms. ​:zerotwoshrug:​ hopefully people still bite. Over 10 other GMs are showing. Could be tough.

My family never seemed to consider that visiting a cat cafe on the eve of the anniversary of my cat’s death was maybe something I wasn’t interested in.

Just a hop in, we’re already paid and going to this instead of our original plans. Gee thanks. I was doing really great job not even thinking about it until this stunt. I know they meant well but Jeeze.