Wandering Adventure Party

Bryce Miller and Cal Raleigh really raising my blood pressure with that bases loaded strikeout and double play there.

#Baseball #TorVSea #ALCS

@Indiegamereadingclub I feel a lot of this. I miss what it felt like 2010-2015 as I was first really getting into running games.

Like New World of Darkness, Mongoose Traveller, Fate, Shadowrun 4.

I had so many *different* games going on. And they felt different.

I'd say that "dont have to play it to review it" is almost more a symptom of almost every thing is a spin off of 5e, PbtA, FitD, or B/X, with different coats of shine. So like "okay so using that rule to do this, I can see it"

@Wiswell @jappel Honestly, not just oceans, love sitting somewhere covered and watching a thunderstorm

@Taskerland And its funny, because when I think of authors whose promo has worked for me, its the ones who are loudly themselves (Wendig, Scalzi, McGuire) whose posts I enjoy and then when they do a couple posts about new book "oh, Ive liked their very short stuff"

@Axomamma @heidilifeldman I mean, remembering the response to protests against Bush in the 00s, the answer is yes they do, they always have.

Today, I learned that John Candy was originally supposed to be Louis Tully in Ghostbusters and Wayne Szalinski in Honey I Shrunk the Kids.

And that Rick Moranis was originally the one who was supposed to be Ace Ventura before his wife got cancer. (I imagine this was an ENTIRELY different movie than the Carey one ended up being)

But we are getting Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money in 2027, with Moranis reprising Dark Helmet!

#RickMoranis

@Quasit @laprice @gildilinie @literalgrill I mean, thats essentially what people are asking the fediverse to offer, a choice of moderation.

Like if the tools are there for moderators to act, you now have a choice between servers and their moderation policies (and moderation actions) and with existing tools for switching, you can vote with your feet if you dislike those policies.

If the tools aren't there, you leave a bunch of people with a choice of slurs shouted at them or don't exist here

@troublewithwords I do appreciate those headers at the start to prome my brain with a time frame though

Just finished reading the first of the John Silence stories by Algernon Blackwood, A Psychical Invasion.

Totally see what's meant when I read stuff talking about Silence as a proto-Kolchak and proto-Mulder. Doctor doing pro Bono work going and investigating the weird spiritual complaints of patients and cataloging and solving them.

Looking forward to the other five stories.

#Bookstodon #AlgernonBlackwood #JohnSilence

@don_atoms @pluralistic I mean, like the dot com bubble and the housing finance bubble before it, it will pop. The question, like Doctorow has mentioned before is whether there will be anything useful to scavenge (like the dot com bubble) or just a recession following (like the housing finance bubble)

@ajroach42 Especially the "our progressive hero" veneer he's getting from having hired a very competent social media team.

(When the reality of Newsom is pretty far from progressive)

@ZDL @kevin @Taskerland Tomorrow City you say?

(I say as a GM who adores steampunk fantasy and has a player who likes the dieselpunk aesthetic better)

@Taskerland I read my kickstarted books, but even then getting them to the table can be a challenge sometimes too.

(Currently making plans to get my 13th Age 2e books to the table and hoping it happens in the next year)

Translation and Taste

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Love this essay on translation and matters of taste. I agree that all translation strikes a delicate balance of literal meaning accuracy versus the feel of the words versus stuff like wordplay that can get lost in literal translation.

(Like the fact that my own favorite translation of Pushkin's famous novel in verse Evgeny Onegin is the Hostetter translation which livens things up with similar jokes in the text to those in the original)

@vortiwife And I thought the incredibly loud tone as it requested a key combination within so many seconds before factory resetting was bad...

@carturo222 Pathfinder 1e wasn't the first to really make me fall in love, but it was the first that I kept up with releases. Ive got every hardcover from launch to mid 2015.

Golarion was the first pre-made setting I fell in love with.

Quote of the morning (from the Bug playing Barbies):

"MOM, MY HEAD CAME OFF AGAIN!"

(I have refrained from asking if this doll's name is Antoinette)

#Parenting

@Catvalente Ive been loving seeing complaints about "celebration" when all Ive seen is variations on "So, going around killing those we disagree with is probably bad, but excuse me if that thought is all the sad I feel about someone who can be quoted saying the world would be better if we murdered my friends...."

@eniko I mean, yes. But also, can't wait to find my own.

Watching the Fever-Dream game and Coach White seriously looks like Caitlyn Clark of the future travelling back in time to coach herself.

#WNBA #FeverDream