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• Post #2951286

  D&D would not be my choice of #TTRPG for Traveller (for me the appeal is the classless 2D6 part, not the OTU), but unironically happy if it means folks can play a system where their starting characters' elaborate backstories are actually plausible for once.

• Post #2951285

  Buying a stack of gauze, antiseptic and gloves at a convenience store at a quarter to three in the morning while dressed head to toe in black like a sadsack straight to video Tarantino knockoff protagonist.

• Post #2951284

  Me, a normal, neurotypical film enjoyer: I like the way the posters for this three-film series have similar composition, typography, and a recurring design element, but the third one is red when it should be magenta, my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

• Post #2951283

  Being reminded today, as so many in my peer group celebrate a crewed spaceflight, that my formerly hypersensitive sensawunda receptors have atrophied, possibly beyond repair. I simply do not give a shit about anything beyond the blue marble, except insofar as it can benefit the blue marble, which it mostly won't.

• Post #2951282

  Figured out I should probably take the night off from work when I realized I was verbalizing my symptoms like Leeloo from The 5th Element. "Fatigue. Faa-teeegue. Faaaaaaateeeeeeguuuuuh." #ChronicIllness #Lupus

• Post #2951281

  Grimwild being the Deal of the Day on DTRPG when the creator has rather infamously ghosted the project feels weird IMO. I've purchased digital access to open-licensed #TTRPG PDFs for convenience where the original stakeholders are defunct/deceased (e.g., OpenD6) but this feels like a step too far in the circumstances, given that the Community Edition exists and is actively being worked on: https://groov-games.itch.io/grimwild-community-edition

• Post #2951280

  I deleted my Kickstarter account years ago (blockchain bandwagon was last straw). Something like a third of my backed projects never materialized but I never could be too mad about it. (My favorite was the solo-dev rhythm video game that never shipped because God had called on him to abandon it.)

• Post #2951279

  Spring allergies plus summer heat equals mood falling and an early winter of my discontent

• Post #2951278

  Thought I'd try listening to the venerable (and venerated) History of Rome podcast and…it's kind of terrible? Pop history through an uncritical military/political Great Men of History lens that butchers the Latin like Romans sacking Carthage. Apparently "it gets better" after the fall of the Republic, but I'm not grinding 40+ hours on a podcast like it's a dang JRPG when the underlying approach seems so weak.

• Post #2951277

  I am not a person who makes computers do useful things for other people (or even myself, more often than not). I know there are infinite reasons why software (like so many things) seems so much worse on average than How It Used To Be. Still, as a mere User, I sometimes cannot resist nursing my secret belief that mantras like "programmer time is more valuable than [CPU/bandwidth/user time]" and "the code is the documentation" are somehow to blame for (waves va...