Wandering Adventure Party

@ifixcoinops The way you can absolutely make someone's day by gushing about an indie game or a lesser-known author's work is the best.

I've been using the Mass Effect soundtracks as mood music while playing Ironsworn Starforged.

This has had the side effect of reminding me how the trilogy ended with a choice between genocide, sacrificing yourself to become robo-slaver, and genocide but with extra steps (forcibly changing everyone's genetic makeup without their consent goes in the genocide bucket for me).

Oh, and bonus hidden option "let this genocide happen and the next cycle does the other genocide"

#MassEffect #TTRPG

@gwync @PhoenixSerenity And extra especially when it's not risky for us.

I decided to edit the journal of an Ironsworn Starforged campaign I'm running for posting on my blog.

This is Voyages of the Vigilant

I imagine Eveline Hawking as like a Kaylee Frye or Cally Henderson type character, elbows deep in her ship.

https://alexanderkeane.com/2025/12/15/voyages-of-the-vigilant-an-ironsworn-starforged-campaign-pt-1/

#TTRPG #Ironsworn #Starforged

@wyrmworksdale I love the meme about Tim Curry and Michael Caine being the best token human actors in Muppet movies for opposite reasons.

Caine treating the Muppets as fellow actors and Curry treating himself as a Muppet.

@BoredomFestival @socprof Honestly, it won't even be good for them. Likelihood is that a bunch of people will downgrade or cancel.

Subsidy from the government was easy money in their pocket they didn't have to chase down.

This week was a Santa's workshop at my daughter's school.

She could not wait to Christmas for me to open the present.

So who has an awesome new hooded blanket with rockets and astronauts? Me. Awesome gift from the Nugget.

#Parenting #Space

I recently converted my blog back from Hugo to WordPress. I really liked Hugo, but the hosting service I was using was expensive for what I could do on my shared server (for a personal site that I have no intention of monetizing in anyway, given ethical concerns with my job) so all my posts had to make it to the site through the specific computer that housed all the markdown files and had Hugo on it to generate the HTML.

I kinda missed the ability to bounce between devices.

When The Prison Rape Elimination Act Stops Applying To Trans People: Critical Info For Advocates - National Association for Public Defense

What Just Happened On December 4, 2025, NPR reportedly obtained an internal DOJ memo instructing inspectors to cease evaluating prisons and jails in the US on adherence to Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) standards that specifically address the needs of […]

National Association for Public Defense (publicdefenders.us)

The National Association for Public Defense has put out some information about the Trump Administration's plan to stop applying the Prison Rape Elimination Act to trans and non-binary individuals.

It's easy to write off people who've committed crimes as less than human or deserving punishment, but *no one* deserves to be sexually assaulted and this move to strip protections from assault is bullshit.
#PREA #Transphobia #ProcessIsPunishment

@elektron @jwz And some Microsoft. My work email is an Ohio.gov, but we use Microsoft Exchange to host.

RE: https://dice.camp/@thomas/115677964173532987

I might add the "Game I got for my kid but now I'm thinking of new campaigns for" category for Magical Kitties Save the Day from @SneakAttackPress and @atlasgames

Bought the box set to introduce my daughter to RPGs. It's actually a really fun system on its own and any game that features "Hyper-Intelligent Raccoons" as a possible villain has my attention.

@audreygwinter It helps that I had an experience of having my distro have a very old copy of emacs and python in its store and I was forced to install both from the command line.

It was just way harder than say, downloading an exe in Windows and double-clicking it. (Linux has gotten better with things like .deb files being able to do that, but FSF kinda does the snooty "just install guix to install emacs" route... which honestly had me checking if I could stand to go back to vim)

@audreygwinter You're absolutely right.

I personally love my Linux machine, but it definitely calls for skills I developed being a nerdy kid who played with MSDOS machines that were ancient when I got hold of them.

Really wish half as much effort was put into improving GUI support in Linux to make it better for the actual average user as is put into arguing that someone "just" needs to get more comfortable in a CLI.

@huskify It's Washington or UConn right?

So apparently some Idaho guy wants to amend the state constitution to ban a religion because they are [checks notes] raising money to feed the poor.

Seriously? Like there's a whole amendment about free exercise of religion. Not to mention that the last time this Catholic read the Bible, Jesus was all about feeding the poor and "what you do to the least among you."

Anyway, here's a link to the foodbank fund drive: https://www.thesatanictempleidaho.com/devils-pantry-2025.html

#Religion #Hypocricy #FirstAmendment

@munin Dont forget also associating it with "that thing that will get our license yanked by lying to us"

@beeoproblem @nazokiyoubinbou @notjustbikes Honestly, the way they get driven, they should not be classed under the same license as regular cars, should require a separate license and test, like Commercial Drivers get.

Went back into playing Ironsworn Starforged last night. I forgot how much I love this game. I rolled up an archeologist type character who's looking for how a vanished precursor species dealt with the terrible electro-magnetic storms that tear through the sector wrecking ships. She also flies around in a kit bashed starship made of junkyard bits.

It's such a fun solo game.

It's also 75% off (so $5) on DriveThruRPG right now if you don't have it!

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/391653/ironsworn-starforged

#TTRPG #Ironsworn

@ajroach42 Personally I'd love if the cargo e-trikes came down in price. If I could get one cheap enough and just slap some kind of canopy over it, the 28mph pedal assist of a class 3 is fast enough to get me to work about as quick as I do in a car.

Currently reading through the second Nancy Drew book, The Hidden Staircase.

The Mansion is giving me dungeon ideas for my Eberron game. Love secret doors and passages.

#TTRPG #Eberron #NancyDrew