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Trying to figure out which variety of my varied opinions about the B-wing will bring me the most happiness

not-this-crude-matter

#star wars #those goddamn star destroyers

farenmaddox

I have just found. the COOLEST website???

Lost Kitchen Scrolls

It has a huge variety of historical recipes from different regions, taken from manuscripts, transcribed and translated, and a whole section of notes about the context for the recipe. It's really fun and I AM going to try a couple of these recipes.

Look at how this lamb recipe is presented:

This is just such a fun way to learn more about historical foodways and discover traditional cuisine.

Look at all the filters you can use:

Maybe if I can forage some good blackberries this year, I can make a 300 year old recipe for blackberry wine!

Anyway. Check out Lost Kitchen Scrolls.

The thing about Seattle is that I'm not in walking distance of a Taco Bell. When I was living in LA, I was in inconvenient walking distance of a Taco Bell. When I was living in LA, I was in inconvenient walking distance of a Taco Bell. In Seattle? When I had wheels, I was 10-15 minutes from the closest Taco Bell, but now that I don't, it's transit-accessible. Which means that while I used to go to Taco Bell about three times a week, now it's a monthly treat, enjoyed when it's on the way to something else. And is that any way for an American to live?

segamascott

notahorseindisguise

WOAH just saw spiderman eating pizza on a roof

notahorseindisguise

oh shit he ate the whole thing . he just like me frfr

notahorseindisguise

spiderman just left the pizza box on the roof but then came back a minute later and clearly felt bad for littering so now hes swinging through downtown holding an empty pizza box

notahorseindisguise

hes hit a street light

notahorseindisguise

he's swinging away now clearly very embarrassed and he thinks nobody saw it. i saw you spiderman

nycswebhead

fuck

I haven't even seen the Nolan Odyssey yet but I was tired of the "our age of bronze is collapsing" jokes about four weeks ago

crabanarchy

I love handing out amulets to all the junior evil mages and watching them act all corrupted. Staggering around going "ooough I can feel it changing me... what is this dark power?" Idk it's from temu so probably heavy metal poisoning man

silvermoon424

“Who is the internet even for anymore?” is such a valid question. Companies are sanitizing the internet and stifling natural human expression in the name of child safety and being family friendly, but the kids such as fuck aren’t benefitting from this. The internet is becoming too childish for adults and yet still too adult for kids.

prokopetz

I don't disagree that telling stories is amongst the several functions of tabletop RPGs (though it's certainly not the sole function – or even the principal function – of many games), but I think a lot of analyses of story-in-RPGs trip over the GNS model's error of treating the activities of play as identical with the goals of play.

Like, if the goal if play is to produce a story, then the act of play must be identical with the act of telling a story, right? Except that's not how most stories we actually tell work. How most stories we actually tell work is a bunch of Weird Shit happens, then we make up an explanatory narrative to help us make sense of it.

In the overwhelming majority of conventional tabletop RPGs, the act of play is not identical with telling the story. The act of play is identical with experiencing the Weird Shit. The rules are a Rube Goldberg machine which outputs the materials of which stories are made, and if they're competently structured, all you need to do is turn the crank.

This, more than anything else, is why putting Rule Zero front and centre is going to give you problems in traditional games. If you start with the exact specific story you want to produce and ask how to get the rules to produce it, you're not merely setting yourself at odds with any particular rule; you're trying to run the machine backwards!

guerrillatech

ch0co-c0rn3t-lov3

DO NOT DOWNLOAD TUMBLR it will install a virus on your device called tumblr

polarity-disturbed

Being able to draw older people as attractive without reducing or erasing the visual signs of aging, and in fact showing that they're attractive because of those signs, is an artistic skill that should be valued so much more. Honestly, it should earn you an immediate fortune because holy fuck is it a rare commodity. There are so many artists who seem to think attractiveness and aging exist in opposition to each other, so they smooth every wrinkle, erase every crease, and de-age the character until they're basically thirty with silver hair. But when an artist can look at crow's feet, smile lines, weathered skin, deep-set wrinkles, and all the little traces of a life well lived and say, "No, that's what makes them beautiful," that's a level of artistic observation and care I wish we celebrated more often.

naggingatlas

and fat btw

sabertoothwalrus

and balding btw

not-this-crude-matter

Fuck the KOTOR references, if Disney wants to bring legacy Star Wars canon back give us WEG-accurate Victory I-class Star Destroyers with 80 concussion missile tubes, you cowards.

not-this-crude-matter

You're mad at Disney because Star Wars has POC telling explicitly political stories. I'm mad at Disney because not enough planetary sieges broken with crushing missile barrages. We are not the same.