Wandering Adventure Party

@izzy@social.shadowkat.net A brief look tells that the Queensland narrow gauge decision goes to cost cutting measures in the 1890s. The Gold Coast decision seems to boil down to Bombardier having won the design contract, and they already had a standard gauge tram design with manufacturing ready to go, thus making their bid more economical (?). That last part is a little hard to nail down.

So basically: moment-in-time cost decisions all around, consequences be damned.

@izzy@social.shadowkat.net I mean you sorta are in the way you’re fighting for a domain name, I guess.

Cool. Shop is quoting $900. Didn’t want to do anything fun this month anyways.

I think from now on I am just going to hang up on anyone eating on the phone. If our base setting level of respect is such that you can’t stop stuffing your face for 5 minutes then I’m done.

The fact that no one can afford their god damn cars and the resulting fact that I have to constantly help them get them fixed is really getting on my fucking nerves. I have spent so much money on cars that are not my own that I’m about to scream.

I just spent $500 helping someone fix their car less than two weeks ago. Now it needs to go back and they’re still just as broke.

I’m not mad at the people; no one wants this. I’m mad at this stupid fucking system, and these pieces of shit no one can afford to own but they must have to survive.

@mikoto@urusai.social I don’t know how it is in the Mastodon-glitch world, but for others: on Sharkey (and maybe misskey?) one can set their reaction acceptance to “Likes only”.

I agree the ability to remove individual reactions would be nice. There’s a lot I’d like from reactions. I wish that reactions allowed the same kind of alt text as images. It’d help just to be able to copy a description of the text and throw it in a machine translator. I’d also like them to collapse into one, instead of being per-instance. It’d be nice if I could +1 another instance’s reaction. The whole implementation seems somewhat half-baked…

@sludgecatheter@outerheaven.club I am resisting opening a fire hose as I am a home brewer (I make my own beer!). I am happy to answer any questions you have ​​

@sludgecatheter@outerheaven.club Both Modelo and Bud are classified as “American Adjunct lagers”, so they are stylistically similar.

I am kinda assuming you are in the US market given you mentioned modelo and Bud.

You will find beers that taste wildly different however. There are MANY beer styles out there. Something common like say, Elysian Spacedust (An IPA, or imperial pale ale) is going to be far more floral and bitter, while something like Guinness extra stout is going to be sweeter and roasty.

@Taweret@timeloop.cafe nah that is definitely a matrix of free-roaming cold weather scrotum creatures.

@sludgecatheter@outerheaven.club really depends on the market. There are a couple of micros here which are “reliable” for this region.

For national beers … that’s kinda tough. Blue moon is alright. I have a special attachment to Heineken special dark, but it’s a bastard to find.

Sopporo or Pacifico are imports I’ll drink sometimes too.

Really if you’re at a decent bar ask who’s on the rotating tap.

One of the fun threads of last weeks game was that the adventurers saw a shady temple they were barred from entering. They got into planning their break and were on the verge of executing when I asked them “…So what’s the goal?”

They entirely stopped. They hadn’t asked themselves once. Like cats scratching at the door, they were just offended that the door was closed.

@chjara@akko.tuxcrafting.xyz it’s almost like energy autonomy is a national-defense concern, that thing right wingers are obsessed about.

I’ve been banging this drum for years: eco friendly policies can easily be justified framed in the concerns of the blue-collar conservative, let alone left or liberal groups.

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net @MiaWinter@tech.lgbt similar boat. Never got to learn my parents native language. Regret it. Though the speakers of that language are (ime) usually massive dick heads about non-native speakers so I get discouraged every time I go back to it.

I enjoyed picking up some Esperanto and it’s far easier to learn. I also keep meaning to pick up Toki Pona (another con-lang)

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net Occasionally the gaze of those beyond the uncaring stars sweep across us on their way to other planes and epochs. A bit of shuddering is in order whenever this occurs.

@fujiwara@sakurajima.moe Happy birthday in advance, if I don’t have a chance to say it later!

@velvet@zoner.work @robustjumprope yeah, they run themselves like a cousin who uses their parents money to continuously chase get-rich schemes instead of focusing on anything important.

Mobile OS, web-companies, privacy tools, and now LLMs. What’s funny is that maybe some of these could have been something, but they could never commit when it didn’t pay out immediately. They fad-chase, which is why the LLM features are so frustrating. It’s just another iteration in the same path of foolishness.

Meanwhile, Firefox languishes. It’s dumb.

Advice: Most people receive a reply-comment better if you just let them know you agree with them first.

The first of my seedlings are coming up ​​

The Zinnias and Marigolds I planted are the first to come up with gusto. But some herbs and and vegetables are peaking through

Watching seedlings come up is probably my favorite part of the growing season. ​​

@robustjumprope That’s rough. Time skips are one of my most hated devices in manga. It’s almost always a “I’ve written myself into a corner and need to hand wave things since I lack the skill to make the needed developments compelling”

The next most hated in media in general is a forceful return to status quo. Combining these two would probably make me rage quit any series outright. Good luck.