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People are pissed about the accessible park because they perceive it as 'less fun for normal kids.' A phrase thats like swinging at a wasps nest. They see it as a downgrade because there's less climbing structures.

So i took steve to the park to see what he thinks because he had four abled kids and might know what kids think of as fun.

And he said that like... less structures isn't actually bad in this situation because his girls were runners and now there's more space to run without tripping or hitting your head. The accessible features are not 'accessible only' but designed so that able-bodied kids can enjoy them too.

The thing about kids is that they really are capable of making their own fun. And big playground equipment is nice, but its nice also to have a variety of play styles.

I dont think the childhood experience is less rich for including others.

And here was my fortune cookie fortune today. Lol

iapetusneume

To piggyback on that previous post about the interesting ways fan fiction can tell a story - I've thought a lot about how this applies to 40k.

The franchise as a whole makes almost all their money from the minis. And the best way to make money is to stick with what sells.

We can't have permanent peace between any group, because we want people to buy the armies to play.

So the actual lore - which has done some incredible things despite these limitations - can't really progress in a direction that would favor peace. That would hurt the bottom line of the money.

But fan fiction doesn't have to worry about that. Fanfic doesn't have to worry about making money, because it doesn't. It doesn't have to worry about being palatable for the dudebros, because they also aren't the ones who are usually reading the novels.

And there's an element of tragedy in every fic that is a fix-it, an AU where someone lives, etc. Because we all know what happened in canon.

All this is to say, i hope we get to one day talk more about interesting narrative things that can be done with fan fiction because of what it is.

oranzhs

Fresh gossip (x)

scorebug

ethernalium

Resident Evil 4 (2023)

hagiomoto

Is there anything he haven't wear yet

Bungie thoughts and memories

Bungie was perhaps my most favorite game developer of all time. They game me Pathways into Darkness, the Marathon series (the original game — why did they have to reuse that name?), the Myth series, Oni.

I even remember Halo being demoed at MacWorld as a multiplayer shooter where you rode together with friends. I was devastated when they were bought by Microsoft to make it an Xbox exclusive. I didn't buy an Xbox until the 360, and that for the Fable series.

I bought a PS4 because, among other games, my coworkers were playing Destiny. We were ride or die with it and its sequel, Destiny 2. I was incredibly disappointed when the started vaulting content *I had paid for*. This pissed me off to no end.

Nonetheless I kept playing to have a place with my friends. But my spouse couldn't play it — it was strictly first person and they get incredibly motion sick in those games. (Let's not even talk about VR….) (And they have *really* wanted to play Sea of Thieves, but can't for a similar reason.)

At that point, I searched for something we could play together. We had done games like Defiance (RIP game & TV show). A lot of people in comments had talked about Warframe, so I investigated and found a new home for both myself and my friends.

And it's still ongoing. But with the effective end of Bungie, with the ending of Destiny 2 (at least it's in maintenance mode, unlock some other games that just get shut down), I am very sad. I hadn't thought to post about it till now, when I came across a tweet thread from Rebecca Ford, the current creative director of Warframe and our Space Mom, about Destiny ending and her history with Bungie, shared in another post by me here.

And it was a loving, mournful post. Because DE (Digital Extremes, the makers of Warframe) are not just developers and publishers, they are gamers and fans. (There is also a meme that DE is actually a music studio that does games on the side, which has a bit of truth to it.)

Loss of any game is bad. The ending of development on Destiny, with no plans for anything in the future, is especially so. It has been a core part of online SF gaming for over a decade.

Be well, Guardians. Your loss is a loss for us all.

#bungie #destiny

#warframe #destiny 2 #bungie #halo #rebecca ford #rebbford #space mom

thememedaddy

unusual-suspects

findafight

Beneath the Golden Willow by Ed Perkins

hachama

"If you ever feel heavy because you care deeply about injustice, suffering, and ecological destruction, remember that a trillion dollar propaganda machine was built to make you numb and it didn't work on you"

thefaultinourchickennuggets

Hi im a librarian amd that's not now this works. If a library allows you to have a digital card and not live in the area, you are NOT taking away resources from other people, that's not how anything works. Please keep doing it!!! The more people that use our services, the more money we can get from funding sources!!! Please use us!!! We are not utilized enough, by people in or out of our community. Thanks.

cryptic-forge

after i made my wooden doll, i was musing about what other unusual materials i might use for a bjd. my partner suggested paper, and also gave me access to their craft paper collection -> i made this.

she is almost entirely made of paper & cardboard. the joints are wooden beads & worbla, because i did figure out a way to make ball joints out of paper, but it really was not worth the effort. all her limbs have tubes of rolled-up cardboard in them to keep the structure sturdy, and the origami flowers are glued around those.

this is extremely different from any doll i've made before, and i had so much fun working with pretty papers & figuring out how to turn them into a poseable 3d object.

nudityandnerdery

Just off the top of your head, don't need to try and look it up to check out anything:

Can you name a web search engine that you used before Google?

Yes

Don't know/just want to see the results

Voting ended onJul 26

The book I'm reading suggests that Google became so market dominant that most people couldn't name a search engine that came before it, so I'm curious.

alex51324

HotBot.

akinmytua2

Askjeeves

whatbigotspost

I primarily used AltaVista and Yahoo before my 10th grade English teacher told me about Google in 2000. I have such a vivid memory of being like, "oh shit this IS a great tool..." which is hilarious to recall 26 years later.

traegorn

Altavista was the big one.

I also used Search Directories (which are different) like Yahoo! too.

finnglas

Okay but who remembers AskJeeves!?

magnetsorwhatever

[raises hand] I do!

AltaVista was my favorite till I replaced it with Google. Probably used Yahoo before that and I can't remember what else. Not sure if Dogpile came before or after, but it was great for aggregating engine results.