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PATRON PREVIEW of Secrets of SoS for episode 8
It is up: ask your questions there, in the comments!
Preview for... the big one. Yep. As always, Patrons get this about a week early, so you can ask questions here in the comments, and I will t
Managed to finish it before going off to my dad's for a week to welcome Orestria back to Canada. Patrons get NerfWars as they come out, whil
Yet another new animated video following one of the most antagonistic D&D campaigns in history - Patrons get every episode as it's finished, though you CAN watch them for free on youtube... but only when I have a whole block of 10 ready. First season here:
Is the "indefinite hiatus" thing a joke or is there any hope of AGC ever returning? I'm trying to keep convincing myself it might turn out like the TF2 comics... AGC's 3.5 Evil campaign arc is genuinely what started me towards playing 3.5 (having started on 5e)
It was never a joke - I wanted to restart it "when I stop being burnt out", but alas, I don't think it's happening. I have tried several times to write the return, and it doesn't land - doesn't feel right. And now I have SO MANY other projects I want to do; working hard on animating Sea of Secrets (the "TDDC 2" campaign), but also making Nerf Wars (the lower-effort animated version of the old Season 1 D&D Excerpts), trying to do a TDDC-style-without-visuals podcast version for another campaign, with a bunch more campaigns I'd like to adapt, my military-fantasy-novel that I'm also kindof stuck on... just endless ideas. And given my attempts to revive AGC have died at the early script phase, it seems less and less likely I could get that going again - and if I did, so much would have changed that half of the die hards wishing for it (you aren't alone) might not like it.
Honestly, occasionally I go to look something up and get sucked into reading a dozen pages, because I don't even know how I managed to write some of the best parts of AGC, including sections of the Evil Campaign.
But yeah... if you haven't seen it, the first 10 episodes of the Season 1 D&D Excerpts are on youtube under the name Nerf Wars
And I'm glad you found your way into the number-crunching madness of 3.5 (assuming you enjoy it) =)
really random NOTHING TO DO WITH GAMES short I recorded... of a ladybug?
Pride sharks! Happy pride month :D more super cute pride flags themed sharks coming soon đź‘€
It took 6 MONTHS to make, but 45 minutes of animated D&D adaptation (both the in-character stuff and the out-of-character decisions and funny bits) is finally ready:
LIVE PREMIERE IN 5 MINUTES!
Hey ppl, it's that THING you actually follow me for!
Sea of Secrets #8 PREMIERE: Saturday, June 6 at 7pm Eastern (2300 GMT)
It took [REDACTED] months, but it's finally here, and the premiere chat is going to be a !@#&ing ROLLERCOASTER for THIS one!
Premiere link: youtu.be/YLWCj3JWzl8
Hey ppl, it's that THING you actually follow me for!
Sea of Secrets #8 PREMIERE: Saturday, June 6 at 7pm Eastern (2300 GMT)
It took [REDACTED] months, but it's finally here, and the premiere chat is going to be a !@#&ing ROLLERCOASTER for THIS one!
Premiere link: youtu.be/YLWCj3JWzl8
Whee... another place to post
Well, Patreon is really trying to create a FEED to help share content - another medium where more people could theoretically discover creators.
Do I have a LOT of faith this will work? Very no. But Patreon, unlike some new site, IS something I use, so if anybody wants to help spread the word of SoS (including if you have a FREE patreon account, or support a creator OTHER than me), I'd appreciate if you like and "share" (or retweet, reQuip, whatever they call it) this introductory post I made:
Get more from Demonac on Patreon
Thanks for the help!
Hey, I c&&&'d a new piece of art from @artsywak.bsky.social of Blue from Sea of Secrets (on his DOG!)
That, plus an "update" of sorts in this FREE post on my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/april-26-update-156284341
Hey, I c&&&'d a new piece of art from @artsywak.bsky.social of Blue from Sea of Secrets (on his DOG!)
That, plus an "update" of sorts in this FREE post on my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/april-26-update-156284341
Having someone ask ChatGPT in a meeting is like being a grown-ass professional adult in a room full of other grown-ass professional adults trying to solve a problem, while a colleague with one of those baby toys that makes animal sounds repeatedly presses the cow button. And we all have to stop what we're doing and listen to cow go moo and say "wow hm yeah that's not really what we're asking but the cow does definitely go moo, good thoughts"
Except increasingly the cow is being treated as a respected contributor to meetings as we pivot to a moo-centric business model that principally produces bullshit
tbf, "lets ask a stupid person who doesn't understand context" is the most Meeting thing that can possibly happen in a meeting. Changing it from "person" to "Plagiarized Information Synthesis System [Piss]" doesn't much change the result
Now what the fuck is this picture
The early 2000s distilled down to its very essence.
he's jacking off their invisible cyber dicks
Excuse me? Those are invisible GHOST dicks. Have you not seen the movie?
EXTRAS: for NERF WARS Season 1 (that's episodes 1-10, which are currently on youtube)
Get some behind the scenes insights, and I answer some patron questions (in funny voices, of course)
Blogging this tweet because this explains SO MUCH about the mindset of pretty much all the folks I’ve known who’re against single-payer, it’s not even funny…
This….
This never occurred to me. Not once. That Americans are against Health Care because they think it actually costs tens of thousands of dollars for a broken arm, hundreds of thousands for a complicated birth, millions for cancer treatment.
Because they’ve never known anything different. The idea that a broken arm is only a couple hundred bucks; a complicated birth a couple thousand; cancer treatment only tens of thousands; all easily covered by existing tax structures.
This explains a lot.  And it’s a good example of what I was talking about in my post on scarcity being used to prop up ableism – always question the idea that a resource is genuinely scarce.  Even if it seems obvious that it is, quite often that’s the result of careful manipulation and misconceptions that you’re not even aware of. Â
And never think you’re too smart to be fooled by that kind of thing, it doesn’t work like that.  Similarly, don’t think people who are fooled by something are stupid.  Nobody can have all the information about everything, and nobody has the time and energy to investigate and put together conscious conclusions about every piece of information they’re given.  It doesn’t take being stupid, or even just gullible, to believe something like this.
I currently live in a country without free medical care and still, it’s enormously cheap compared to the USA. An American expat wrote a piece for our English language paper about how she paid more for parking at the hospital than giving birth to her baby that’s pretty interesting:
https://grapevine.is/mag/articles/2016/01/06/healthcare-in-iceland-vs-the-us-weve-got-it-so-good/
Yesterday I had to go to the hospital cause I injured my eye, I’m frankly dreading what the bill is going to be, but what made me balk was being told in the pharmacy that my insurance was denied for the antibiotic eye drops and it’d be over $100 out of pocket. So I didn’t get my eyedrops.
I’ve had these same drops before living in the UK. They cost me seven GBP.
It’s the exact same drug, same steroid, same strain of antibiotic. But somehow the US gets away with charging $100 for a generic non brand version of a drug which is easy to create and widely used. It’s downright robbery, but also a form of eugenics through poverty and class warfare. You keep the poor poor by making sure basic necessities remain unattainable and then you make it seem like the norm so no one fights it.
The rest of the world is not like this.
Eat the rich. Resist.
When I was travelling in Germany once, I seriously hurt my ankle. In a few hours, it had swollen to twice its size, and I went to a little ER in a tiny town. I spoke no German and only one nurse spoke English. They ran an X-ray and an MRI to determine what had happened (turned out I had bruised my peroneus brevis muscle and pulled the tendon), gave me a ton of very regulated meds for the pain and swelling, including some supports so I could walk…and my poor little 22-year-old ass was sat there, knowing all of this would cost thousands, if not tens of thousands, back in the US. I was shaking.
I’m in the exam room, post diagnosis and with pill bottles in hand, and in walks the one nurse I’ve been able to speak to the entire time. She pats my hand and tells me (and this is verbatim—I will never forget this conversation as long as I live), “I’m so sorry. We had to run those tests, and they are expensive. You don’t have insurance so you will have to cover the full cost.”
I start crying.
She continues, softly, as if telling me someone has died, “It’s going to be three hundred.”
I start sobbing, certain I’ve misheard, certain that I would be absolutely fucked, broke and going into debt in a foreign country. “Thousand?” I clarify.
Her entire demeanor changed, and she looked at me as if I had sprouted four extra heads. “No,” she says, “euros.”
That moment radicalised me.
My family got charged several thousand dollars for a late-night trip to the ER when I was a kid after an oops at home resulted in a large cut that needed almost 40 sutures. We lived in the US at the time.
Now we live in Canada. Last year my leg got rolled over by one of the front tires on a pickup truck. I spent 3 weeks in hospital, had 3 surgeries, one of which included skin grafting to cover the half of my leg that was degloved in my accident. I had IV antibiotics 4 times a day, I had physiotherapy daily, I was on a lot of meds for pain and having complex wound dressings changed every day. After all that, I had a home care nurse visit me every 1-2 days for 6 weeks to help with my wound care. The greatest expense to us as a family for the amazing care I received was my parents and husband using the parkade next to the hospital, which was like $13 a day. If we’d lived in the US, that injury absolutely could have bankrupted us.
This information needs to be part of the US med school curriculum.
I remember the moment that radicalized me.
I went to the UK for graduate school, and being there for that long meant I had to buy insurance for the duration. 18 months was something like £800 (this was in the early 2010’s). I, being American, figured “oh ok, that’s the premium and if I need serious medical care, I’ll get charged deductibles and all other kinds of fees at the time of care), because that’s how it works here.
Some time in the early part of that winter, I got incredibly sick. I’m immunocompromised, so sometimes that happens. But being a broke ass grad student in a foreign country, and dealing with unrelated financial abuse from family members, I figured I couldn’t afford going to the hospital. I figured I’d go to their version of Walgreen’s (Superdrug, and yes that is really that store’s name, load up on cough drops, some OTC meds, and try to ride it out as best I could.
One of my friends in my program came over to check on me and offer help. When she got to my room and saw how sick I was, she asked why I hadn’t gone to hospital. I was near tears and said I couldn’t afford it.
This is when I suspect my friend knew she was dealing with an American who was ignorant of how socialized healthcare actually worked, and realized that I couldn’t really be reasoned with. So she said, “I’ll pay for it- let’s go.”
Off we went to hospital, my friend did the talking bc my voice was so shot. The receptionist said, “as you don’t have an appointment, you may need to wait quite a bit.” I heard that and figured 5+ hours was at least what I was in for.
23 minutes later, my name was called.
My friend went back with me, bc I was pretty out of it. The nurse leading us back apologized for the “huge wait” because having a sick patient wait “nearly half an hour just for medical care” was unacceptable. I was stunned.
The nurse and doc asked some questions, looked at the medical records I had on my phone (bc I was a foreigner with very little medical history in the country), did a few rapid tests. The whole time, I’m seeing an old-timey calculator ringing up charges and freaking out… even though my friend said she’d pay, I was so conditioned to believe this would cost a fortune.
About 30 mins later, the rapid tests confirm I have both bronchitis and pneumonia. Doc writes me a prescription for some serious heavy-duty meds. My American ass is thinking, “ok, so now I go home, wait for 4 days for the pharmacy to fill it, then go get it.” The doc tells me that there’s a pharmacy counter on the way out, and I can stop there to collect the meds before heading home.
I’m skeptical but thank him. My friend gets me to the pharmacy counter. I give my name and hand over the paper, fully expecting to be told that it’ll take days to fill. The pharmacist turns around, pulls a bag off the shelf, hands it to me. Because my meds were already filled and waiting.
Me: you had them already?
Pharmacist: of course- there’d be no point in sending you home without medication, that’s why you came here. To get medical help.
Me: that’s so fast? (I am very confused)
Pharmacist: well, we expect people to have these illnesses at a higher rate this time of year, so we do our best to stock up on our end.
Me: that’s so nice? Also, what do I owe you?
Pharm: sorry, love?
Me: what do I owe you? For the medication? And the visit. All of it, how much do I need to pay?
Chat, her whole fact changed. She realized I didn’t just sound funny because I was in respiratory distress. I had an American accent. She reached over and patted my hand.
“Love, that’s what the health insurance is meant to be for. You’ve already paid for this. We’re not taking extra money off you, we don’t do that here.”
The entire visit was less than 2 hours, absolutely free, and everyone worked to be as efficient as possible in the goal of providing comprehensive healthcare for me, the patient.
Once I got home with the meds, I did actually recover pretty well (and relatively quickly, as far as I’m concerned). I talked to the friend after, and she admitted that she knew it was going to be free, but that I wouldn’t or couldn’t understand that in the brain fog of serious illness, so she said what she had to in order to get my stubborn (and terrified of bankruptcy) ass to the doctor.
That’s what healthcare should be. A goal of providing comprehensive and compassionate care to your patients, being well-staffed enough that no one waits for hours, anticipating medication needs, ensuring that patients leave with the medical care they sought- and that they’re not afraid to seek it, because they know medical care won’t make them homeless.
The primary reason, I suspect, that people don’t believe universal health care is possible to have in America, is that they think it costs what we’re charged for it.
you cannot convince me illegal immigration is a real problem and I'm sick of pretending it is. yk when you were a kid and you got mad at your sibling for crossing an imaginary line that you drew in the car? that's what you're doing right now except you're actually killing people over it
For all those people who are big Free Market fans: you realize, it's not a "free" market if you are restricting labor. If those workers can't get in to compete for jobs, that's the government constraining the market.
And not even in the ACTUAL free market way, which would be for regulators to break up monopolies and punish fraudulent activity.
