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(Previous chapter)“I, Matteu, take you, Alessandra”—Matteu sighed with galaxies in his eyes—“to be my wife. I vow to be faithful to you in good times and in bad, in sickness...
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That's right. Naming this update for the Big Man himself because it's just that big. I almost considered naming it instead for one of my favorite tween...
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This almost certainly has already been figured out by someone else, but here goes: D66 is really handy to index a radial hexmap, so long as it has a radius of 3 from the...Linked by the ring
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I’m somewhat a connoisseur of cozy slop games. Ever since I played Harvest Moon (since renamed to Story of Seasons—don’t play games with me, kid) and Rune Factory via emulator...Linked by the ring
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I drafted an (unused) rule that players can sacrifice their characters to let the rest of the crew escape whatever situation they’re in. It was requested by friends online and...Linked by the ring
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Oh my God. That’s her. How about a double feature, baby? Black Athena It’s hard to explain to people how fucked the field of Classics is. There’s a guy who almost exclusively...
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It’s not like I don’t have a VPN, but it’s not like I always have that shit on either. If BlueSky is going to comply in advance with the Texas government’s threat of internet...
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A specter is haunting elf-games… the specter of WORKER PLACEMENT! (Please, God, don't let people read this as if I was suggesting this was actually a manifesto and am not just...Linked by the ring
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I followed an independent tech journalist for a while because I don’t trust most big news firms to report on technology (or, really, most things) without falling in lockstep...
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I’m considering this post to have been co-authored by my partner. She had seen the movie closer to when it had come out, and she told me it quite frustrated her because it felt...
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Sorry in advance for shooting from the hip. This is a ramble. My friend Ènziramire shared with me a quote by some liberal economist or philosopher—can’t find it, so bear with...
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Alright, my babies. We need to talk about Attack on Titan. I’m not an anime head but, in 2013, the same friends who showed me Sword Art Online also showed me Attack on Titan...
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I've finally posted an updated version of my homebrew heartbreaker Cinco! having accepted that it is a living document and that there will always be gaps whether because I'm...Linked by the ring
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Last night, Instagram showed me a reel by @roseistheart: btw, the b*blical Adam & Eve story was taken from the ancient Sumerian myth, the tale of Enki & Ninhursag around 2000...
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I got new rules, I count 'em.I liked my existing rules for conversations, being basically the same as in D&D Fifth Edition, but I felt like they lacked structure up to the...Linked by the ring
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Some more Resourciv updates! These are actually implemented in-game, but they have implications for how I design leading forward. Production I was giving myself a headache...
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There was a viral comedian set where this nepobaby guy does microaggressions at a clocky trans woman who reveals she works at a defense contractor but is also a self-identified...
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I’ve mentioned in passing my haven rules for my homebrew heartbreaker Cinco! but never took the time to describe it in much detail. Remember that I don’t really fuck with...
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Well. How quickly did you expect an update? When I ran my inheritance simulation, I also calculated the Gini coefficient of the population’s wealth distribution. The Gini...
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I’ve been procrastinating on Resourciv because I couldn’t come up with a demographic or economic framework (or perhaps meta-framework, since I really want to support different...
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I mentioned earlier I was using Gus L. and I’s dungeon from Fantastic Medieval Campaigns so I could be lazy and not have to prep much for my home campaign’s alien arc—isn’t...Linked by the ring
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Joseph B. Tyson argues in Marcion and Luke–Acts: A Defining Struggle that the canonical version of Luke's gospel and the heretical gospel of Marcion, which was supposed by some...
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The phallus is masculine in the same way a penis is masculine. I wrote a primer on Lacan’s concept of phallic desire a month ago, and I realize—although my blog is mine and my...
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The vocabularies of certain Indo-European languages encode a memory of a social taboo against speaking the name of the bear. Germanic languages famously (although not quite...Linked by the ring
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A peek into my dark, twisted mind. I came across someone hacking OD&D for the titular Anglosaxonese setting of HârnMaster and seemingly adjusting the rules to be more Hârn-like...
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A friend forwarded me an email from a prominent left-Catholic journalist asking Texans, or perhaps by implication left-leaning Christian Texans, to contact her to chat about...
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Feats are a big hit, turns out! I’m bringing back level 0 ancestry feats because I can tell my friends just wanted more to play with. “I don’t like complexity” mfs when they...
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My name is Anh. I’m a state-employed service worker. The conversation usually stops there. It’s not that I’m embarrassed of my line of work, but most don’t assume I’m anything...
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Okay. They slapped me on the wrist at work for saying in an email thread which CC’d my boss’ boss’ boss that I hadn’t (past tense!) used AI on a project. They apparently spent...Linked by the ring
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“What distinguishes man from beast?” “I know this one.” Matteu gestured towards the bird, plucked clean of its bones, on the table. “Behold!” he glanced at me, and smiled at...