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bruce springsteen opened a concert last night calling trump corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous. that’s right sweetie he’s not for YOU and neither is “born in the usa” and it never has been x

assiraphales

like r we forgetting this is a man who cancelled a show in north carolina bc of their anti trans legislation or WHAT

pisshandkerchief

say that king

my-random-fandoms

thetrekkiehasthephonebox

Verified: Microsoft 365 gets massive 45% price hike — and it's all to do with AI tools (Tom's Guide - January 17, 2025)

mothwizard

oopsie i tripped and spilled my link to archive dot org's downloadable copy of Microsoft office suite for 2007, which features no AI tools and is a powerful word processor that still holds up just fine on windows 10!

prokopetz

I've touched on this in passing in recent posts, but: speaking as a technical writer, it is 100% okay to mix mechanical text and flavour text in your short-form RPGs. The rule against ever allowing the two to meet is a good one in its original context, but it's important to understand that the original context in question was long-form RPGs written in an era where it was customary for an RPG's main rulebook to contain a full-length novel worth of microfiction. Like, yeah, drawing a bright line between between which bits of the text are the game's actual rules and which bits are for narrative inspiration is valuable when the alternative is making people painstakingly comb through three hundred pages of microfic every time they can't remember what this or that piece of mechanical jargon means, but that's less of a concern when your game is only 1500 words long. Don't feel that you're not allowed to get a little fancy with your skill descriptions just because some random urban fantasy game from 2006 abused the privilege.

prokopetz

(If you're fuzzy on why this was ever a problem in the first place, it's because people mostly don't read long-form RPGs cover to cover. Sure, they might do so once or twice in order to gain a baseline familiarity with the material, but thereafter, they're going to be engaging with the text principally as a reference manual. That is, whenever they pick up the book, 95% of the time it's going to be to look up or refresh their memory about something specific. A bit of microfic that was a fun read the first time around quickly becomes an annoyance when you're trying to find a specific piece of information that's drowning in a sea of unformatted prose with no easy way to locate it.)

prokopetz

For those who have no frame of reference on the sort of thing that inspired the "strict separation between rules and fluff always" dictum, let me give you an example.

I picked up an RPG back in the aughts where character creation chapter was formatted as an orientation-lecture-slash-personality-assessment being delivered by one of the game's iconic NPCs. The GM was literally instructed to sit their group down and start reading the text aloud, in the voice of that NPC; every so often, a little piece of the character creation rules would pop up in a sidebar, and the performance would pause for the players to carry out that step.

Sounds like a fun gimmick, right?

It was, kind of, except that this was not a short-form game. The character creation chapter was fifty pages long. If you wanted to roll up a character solo – or even refresh your memory about available choices – you had to wade through fifty pages of screenplay-formatted dialogue hunting for nuggets of rules in the margins.

This was an exceptional case, but far from the worst; in this context, that whole generation of gamers developing a knee-jerk aversion to letting the fluff touch the crunch isn't exactly surprising!

prokopetz

#misc #i have no doubt this is a mild example of this #but i was rolling up my character for a mage game a few months ago #and trying to find the bit where they teach you how to roll the dice was a Trial

Mage has historically been so bad about bloated microfiction overrunning the mechanics that sometimes they'd accidentally leave out significant chunks of the rules, and nobody – not even their own editors – would notice until after book had already been printed and distributed. Mage Revised famously omitted the rules for what Paradox accumulation actually does to you, and if you know anything about Mage, you'll know that this is kind of a big deal!

advicefortranskids

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dyscomancer

This is a good time to remind everyone to swap from Apple to Android the next time they have the means and need to get a new phone

Android phones are almost universally...

Cheaper

More durable

More customizable

Faster & more reliable

Less likely to remove perfectly workable features just because they are "old"

Better for pirating media

Y'all have got to stop enabling Apple's insistence on being a fashion brand rather than providing electronics that respect your autonomy and decision making powers.

Next time you have a choice in the matter, go Android. One minute of being able to actually browse your file architecture without jumping through proprietary bullshit and you'll be hooked, I promise.

irisbaggins

JUST A HEADS UP TO Y'ALL CONTEMPLATING SWITCHING: DO YOUR RESEARCH ON WHAT ANDROID PHONE YOU WANT.

This is because there is a massive variety on Android phones, as Android is open-source - yes you heard me! Open source which means you can have a lot of power if the open-source-ness of the OS was kept - and it means there can be really shitty phones out there. A lot of "cheap" Androids are bottom-of-the-barrel stuff you really should keep away from, and some are so terrible it's a scam.

A massive tip from me, is to go look up reviews from reputable phone tech Youtubers. Misterwhosetheboss, Marques Brownlee, and similar have some fantastic reviews on phones, and I recommend Misterwhosetheboss highly. Both of them are incredibly informative, and with Arun's backlog, you can find everything from a low-tier, mid-tier, high-tier, or Extra-High-tier to fit you. Find a phone you think fits you, don't just switch blindly, and don't always take the most popular Android. 'Cos I can tell you, sometimes, a mid-tier phone can really challenge Samsung and whatever bs they have going on.

Basically, this is all to supplement OP's post, and apologies OP if I'm slightly obnoxious here. This is just kind of important to me, especially as I have contemplated making the jump myself. An Android can be wonderful, but choosing which fits you is such an important step. This is something your regular Apple user never thinks about; all most of us think about is if the phone is good, and if you want a fancier one, or if you care about the cameras. If we just suddenly jumped ship, we'd fall on our faces, or worse, shill out money to Samsung without thinking (ok jk but also serious because the bs with their flip phone pisses me off). Just, do your research and figure out what YOU want with your phone. Because Android unlocks a lot of doors to find YOUR special phone.

And maybe look up guides and how-tos when you make the switch, because some things may be the same, but others? Ho boy I've wanted to yeet a Lenovo pad into the wall from its absolute idiocy.

Anyway! Have fun! Screw Apple! Find the phone for you!

dyscomancer

I sincerely hope that this post reached and convinced people to stop playing into Apple's game. If I convinced even 10% of the people in the notes (about 25,000 at the time of this reblog) to not get an iphone next upgrade, and if the avg. price of an iPhone is roughly $750, then I have personally cost Apple nearly 2 million dollars and this is one of my proudest achievements

wizard0rb

and its free

msmanlyy

yess this actually works! i use it all the time for applying psds, finding color hex codes, adding overlays/gif overlays to things, etc. it’s really easy to use, it just crashes occasionally.

lantern-hill

I really love the concept of the hope chest when adapted to modern values. Putting aside nice things in a chest as you grow up so that when you move out you have things to make a home with???? like???? sign me up?????

lantern-hill

ok i need to rant about this for a quick sec bc i don’t think y’all UNDERSTAND.

hope chests were something young women would do in their teens in the 19th/early 20th century. basically they would collect, make, and be gifted homemaking supplies throughout their teens; things like cutlery, china, quilts, jam jars, pillowcases, sheets, pots and pans, etc. They would keep all these in a big ol’ chest so that when they married and moved to live with their husbands and start a family, they already had a bunch of homemaking equipment.

now adapt this to modern ideals and ???!!!!! having a chest you slowly build up throughout your teens of things you’d like to furnish your future home with ????????? you spot a cute tea towel in a thrift store and in it goes. a painting your parents won’t let you hang up?? paint chips of the colour your future kitchen will be painted?? salt shakers you think are super cute but your parents hate?? It all goes in your hope chest to remind you to have hope that one day this will be your life????????!!!!!!! hello!!!!?!!?!? HELLO!?!?!??!?

elemental-queen-writes

Yes men, you too.

I have a friend who once joked about stealing a floral bedding set I own, because he loved it. His mother would have thought it weird for him to use it though.

You see something you love that your parents might give you shit about? Into the hope chest.

apas-95

The thing about car-dependency is that… it sucks for people without a car. Big news, right. But, it’s not like that incentive curve is something we can just ignore. When our desire or ability to leave our house at all is conditional on being in a car, that affects all of our behaviour on every level.

Kids are the prototypical ‘person without a car’, and in a car-dependent area, they become dependent on their parents. In a normal, walkable city or suburb, children walk on their own to school, they cycle, they take the bus. Instead of needing to get parental approval - and enough enthusiasm to dedicate the time - to be shuttled around to any given activity, children walk to the park, or to a friend’s house. Even in rural areas, with the infrastructure, children will cycle to school. In a car-dependent suburb, a child is trapped in a single-family McMansion on the edge of town, forced to beg their parents to be able to go anywhere, always under supervision - is it any wonder they’d rather stay inside?

Even in a city, if it’s car-dependent, this is still an issue. When the roads are 100-decibel, 6-lane monstrosities, with cyclists expected to intermingle with traffic, and the busses stuck in the exact same jam, kids aren’t going to be able to get anywhere, assuming their parents even let them cross the street. This isn’t just about proximity, it’s fundamentally related to safety. Car-dependent places are a lot more dangerous to be in, on account of all the cars, so parents feel it’s safer for their kid to be in one of those cars. To boot, when everyone’s in a car, there are less people around, less people who can notice someone in trouble, less people who can help. When places are built with the assumption that everyone will have a car, they become places for cars, which humans can stupidly venture into.

This doesn’t just apply to children. We are all, at some point or another, a ‘person without a car’ - in fact, we’re a ‘person without a car’ most of the time, until we get into one. A lot of people would prefer to remain that way; driving a car is stressful, it takes a lot of effort and concentration, and not everyone likes it at 6AM. But, when your environment is built with the assumption you’re inside a soundproof, crash-proof metal box, that becomes a requirement. The second you’re outside of those conditions, scurrying across deafening, hot tarmac, and dodging heavy-duty pickup trucks (carrying solely one guy and his starbucks order), of course you’d decide that not being in a car sucks. But, the thing is, it’s designing for cars that made it suck, even for the car-drivers.

A place designed for cars, a place that people cannot walk, or cycle, or take public transit through, is a place full of cars - you are not stuck in traffic, you are traffic. Studies have shown that the average speed of car traffic, over sufficient time, is completely unrelated to the thoroughfare of roads. Eventually, because of induced demand, the new seven-lane arterial road will have exactly the same congestion as the two-lane it replaced. The one factor that sharply determines how slow road traffic gets is, listen to this, the speed of non-car travel. It is solely when alternatives become faster that people stop driving and free up traffic. Shutting down main street, only allowing buses through, would drastically increase the speed of the rest of the road network - because each of those buses is 40 cars not in traffic. If you like driving, you should want as many people as possible who don’t want to drive to stop doing it - and whoever you are, you should want to be able to travel without depending on cars.

When I was in the biggest depressive slump of my life, and I could barely get out of bed, I still went shopping for food nearly every day, and even traveled to visit my partner. The supermarket was 10 meters out the door of my apartment, and I could walk five minutes to either train station if I had to. It was peaceful and quiet outside. My disabled mother doesn’t like living in cities, but she loves public transit, and will always take a train ride over a long, tiring car journey - and when every store doesn’t need a parking lot twice as big as itself, whatever walking she does have to do is over a much shorter distance. When I’ve had to call an ambulance in a ‘car-hostile’ place, it has arrived inconceivably faster, on those clear roads, than when sitting in the traffic of the highway-lined carpark that makes up so many cities.

Car dependency sucks for everyone, including car drivers, but it sucks the worst for people already suffering. It strips you of independence, and forces you into a box you might not fit in - and I haven’t even touched on pollution. Car-dependency makes cities and suburbs into dangerous, stressful places, devoid of everyone except the most desperate. The only people it benefits are, really, the CEOs of car companies.

grimesoblivion

My class pretended to play dead.

tyleroakley

Just as the Mayans predicted, the apocalypse came with the signal of a cough.

quibbs

these middle schoolers read better than my high school honors english class

attackonsociallife-deactivated2

I REALLY HAVE TO REBLOG THIS IM SORRY THE FUCKING TEACHER

emodesertwitch

“Stop being dead right now”

kaldurcalm-deactivated20240513

That’s the reaction of an adult who delights in what you just did, but is in the position of Enforcing The Rules, so they have to tell you to stop anyway

soliddreamsblog-deactivated2018

Every time I see that glee face he gets its like “fine I guess I’ll reblog”

positivity-in-recovery

arinashitabun

Art by Hector aka shitty watercolor

skylowalker

moki-dokie

😭😭😭😭

drcrowdpleaser

did-you-know

Researchers say the ‘Elf on the Shelf’ sends a negative message to kids, because an elf that’s always watching but never interacting with them teaches them to accept a surveillance state.

It can also be really confusing because it’s the only toy they have that can’t be touched or played with.

(Source, Source 2)

laurelheller

deansbanshee thank you for your service to society

nicolecoenen-deactivated2016091

Women Self Defense in 1947

littlekiwi37-archive

I’m not sure what’s the best part of this video: the fact that she’s in heels, the fact that she does the whole thing looking like she don’t give a fuck, that chick in the back just exercising and enjoying the show, or the fact that both men and women are observing this and the girls are laughing and the guys look concerned/pensive as fuck as they watch all their tactics get shut down like nothing is even happening.

slenders1ckn3ss

… msties is it just me or is this familiar?

leaper182

Some of these are moves I haven’t seen before.

sweaterkittensahoy

Some of this looks similar to the self defense I learned in a course three or four years ago. It’s definitely got some judo in it (arm bars, throws, fighting to and from the ground). I love this lady. She is rad. I feel like she, much like the rad lady I had as my self defense teacher, would also warn the women that if they don’t think they can gouge out someone’s eyes, don’t start trying because you’ll attack better with something you can follow through on.

satanstrousers

crimelords I’m sorry I couldn’t not reblog this for you

i-feel-fantastic-deactivated202

The cheerful music makes it even better

jungwildeandfree

i vote that once a country becomes quarantine literally any outfit becomes fair game. if you have to leave your house, do it in a cloak, cape, leather jacket, full suit of armor. it’s pandemic time and i for one believe pandemic time deserves a Look. I want people to study this moment not only for history but for fashion.

jungwildeandfree

the best way to avoid corona virus is to have an outfit that slaps so hard that everyone gives you one full meter of awed and respectful distance

tigerlily-monroe-deactivated202

Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle

deadcatwithaflamethrower

Calm the fuck down, Aziraphale.

valjeans

hello everyone this definitely isn’t a list of all the musical boots i could find online in a handy google doc for everyone to use and reblog during this very isolated and boring time!!

la-laborista-republiko

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