…i’ve worked at a couple of places which offered a floating holiday in lieu of - i think it was thanksgiving friday?..i’ve also worked a few places which only do six: new year, memorial, independence, labor, thanksgiving day only, and christmas…
…most hourly places i’ve worked don’t do any paid holidays; if they’re closed you just don’t get paid…
…i’m down for cancelling f*cking christmas; federal holidays should be secular…
…give us the solstices, equinoxes, and earth day and i’m pretty good; throw in labor day and memorial day if you want to bump it up to the private-sector seven…
…i’m down for cancelling f*cking christmas; holidays should be secular…
“You unleash a string of insults laced with subtle enchantments at a creature you can see within range.”
…its only component is verbal, and while it’s not subtle casting it’s fair to characterise as subtle casting; i’d argue for first-round surprise in the context of open dialog and in fact that’s how we’ve played it at my tables…
f*ck morning people
f*ck morning, people
f*ck, morning people
…the last thing i want is to interact with another living soul before 11.30, preferably not before 13.30: i wish they were dead, or at least not a part of the world i live in…
…to quote my boss from my third professional job: “i may be a whore, but at least i’m not a slut: sluts don’t get paid”…
…dogpile introduced me to google when it was a brand-new service: i noticed that all the best results increasingly came from the same search engine, so eventually i cut out the middleman and just started using google directly…
…how times have changed; i haven’t used google for years…
…almost fourty years ago, pulse-dial 300-baud modem from my apple //e running VT-52 terminal emulation into a mainframe shell account: just green monochrome text displaying an rn client, you had to be very strategic about what you chose to display because with that kind of bandwidth characters scrolled across the screen slightly slower than your natural reading pace and significantly slower than skimming past anything you weren’t interested in reading…
…most early usenet clients routinely displayed profound boilerplate warning of posts costing thousands of dollars in computing time, which were pretty intimidating to neophyte users!..
…i wonder if the red button has something to with sending to or clearing the public display?..
…also, jiggle it to check if you’re in neutral, then jiggle it again just to be sure: ooh, now you’re stopped at a light, better jiggle it…
(okay, that’s an easy tease, but as a compulsive habit it really does help cultivate kinesthetic proficiency through tactile feeback)
…what do the money detector and red buttons do?..
…i have not thought about wingman’s hangar for a long, long time…
…that’s pretty much ICE’s recruitment demographic…
…i though vibe code was strictly a pejorative term: are there people who use it non-ironically?..
feet.
…it’s a tarantino thing…
…yeah, i think that’s an essential cultural distinction between tabletop and videogame backgrounds; i started seeing the transition in campaign styles in parallel with the advent of structured narratives around the mid-eighties leading into the nineties…
…by contrast, our groups routinely swap DM roles across multiple tables which all share the same more-or-less persistent world, although individual character and DM experiences can vary within the boundaries of narrative coherence…that sustained investment is the fundamental point of of our tabletop campaigns; it distinguishes freeform from prescribed gameplay and is why we chose open-ended campaigns over closed-form boardgames…
…are you familiar with the old RPGA living campaigns?..ignoring the structured campaign setting, that style of pickup game used to be how most folks played…
…if player characters aren’t at liberty to move between campaigns, then ultimately no, they don’t have agency: they’re just ephemeral labor playing-out the DM’s narrative with nothing to show for it afterward…
…mind, i’m not damning that arrangement - some folks enjoy the transient experience - but i have no interest in investing my own creative energy toward anything that i don’t keep…
(i already deal with that sixty-five hours every week and remuneration barely suffices to stay my contempt)
…hot tub time machine; absurdly better film than its pitch had any right to be…
…i was thinking bathtub cheese but that’ll do…