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pooserville

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Another refugee from Muskrat's $8-chan, lurking quietly in the virtual corner of the party with an IPA. He/him. 60% politics, 20% geekery, and 20% random AF. Team Oxford Comma until I die. Trans rights are human rights.

"What, do you wish to know our Lord’s meaning in this thing? Know it well, Love was his meaning. Who reveals it to you? Love. What did he reveal to you? Love. Why does he reveal it to you? For Love." — Julian of Norwich

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lowqualityfacts , to random
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I was once again mistaken for a bot, so here's a picture of me holding a snake. As far as I know, bots can't hold snakes. Not yet. We will be in deep trouble if they ever learn how to.

pooserville ,
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@lowqualityfacts But what if the snake is also a bot?

deinol , to random
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I need help with a playlist.

I’m putting together one called Meow Mix, and it’s just songs about cats (but not from Cats).

I’ve got stuff like
Delilah, Queen
Sheila, Morphine
Lucifer Sam, Pink Floyd
Tommy the Cat, Primus
Maceo, Jane’s Addiction

But I need a few more. But not ones that say cat but mean women.

pooserville ,
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@deinol The Old 97's Murder (Or a Heart Attack) is about a cat who snuck out of the house.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlKmYiLN-7Q

(The cat did come back safely.)

GottaLaff , to random
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⚠️U.S. Food and Drug Administration says consumers should avoid eating shellfish from Oregon and Washington state as they may be contaminated with toxins that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning.
| AP News https://apnews.com/article/fda-warning-shellfish-oregon-washington-f5724c1b91fb78ed16c3f98a7c9e8cae

pooserville ,
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@GottaLaff Well, kinda wish I'd seen this before I had the Eggs Benedict with fried oysters this morning, but I'm still breathing fine so I guess I dodged that bullet.

robindlaws , to random
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I’ve seen some clickbait in my day but the article is about a slingshot not a catapult

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjrr5l81954o

pooserville ,
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@robindlaws Brits use the word "catapult" to refer to what we would call a slingshot, so it's not clickbait it's just intercontinental language confusion — or, as George Bernard Shaw would put it, "two countries separated by the same language."

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The decisions and policy that have the most profound impacts on the greatest number of human lives often aren't the ones talked about most often in political discourse.

What is the biggest difference between life in this era and say... European feudalism?

I would argue it's near universal literacy. And along with simply having access to the written word, the highest percentage of a population armed with some scraps of what you might call a "liberal arts education"

The ability to self-teach.

pooserville ,
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@futurebird It’s worth reiterating that the “liber” in “liberal arts” means “free” — as in this is the knowledge needed to participate in society as a free person.

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My alternate history novel takes place in a universe where instead of the Confederacy losing the Civil War, they lose the Civil War even harder, just absolutely crushed

pooserville ,
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@geekysteven I'd like an alternate history where the Confederacy loses the peace.

quinn , to random
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how did americans end up with such stunted moral philosophy?

i guess maybe it's not just americans per se we just open our mouths and make complete fools of ourselves more often.

pooserville ,
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@quinn My short answer is: Slavery. In order to justify holding other human beings as property, we decided that 1) the appropriate way to read the Bible was to select individual verses and ignore broader themes and 2) believing the right things was all-important and actually doing the right thing was at best irrelevant and at worst a distraction from the important work of believing. And the result is a moral philosophy unworthy of humans.

GottaLaff , (edited ) to random
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GOP Fascist Party

Via Bruce Bartlett (Bio: "Once a conservative, now progressive")::

Republican lickspittles appointed to the federal courts by Trump and Bush have succeeded in destroying 235 years of trust in the American judicial system.

pooserville ,
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@GottaLaff I wonder how much of this is people on the center-left being disgusted by Republican judicial antics and how much is people on the looney right listening to Trump rant about "biased judges" and "Deep State conspiracies."

GottaLaff , to random
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I always wonder why #GagOrder doesn’t include reposts.

#Trump Continues Attack on Judge's Family “…essentially amplifying Trump's attacks on the judge's daughter. It links to his previous Truth Social post which was posted pre-gag order and was clearly what the gag order was trying to prevent. It's obvious that Trump is using these articles to be his voice of attacks to circumvent the gag order, hoping he can continue getting away with it” https://www.meidastouch.com/news/trump-continues-attack-on-judges-family-testing-expanded-gag-order

pooserville ,
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@Wileymiller @GottaLaff Some people never grow out of being the kid in the back seat tormenting their sibling while saying "I'm not touching you!"

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    pooserville ,
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    @epidiah I truly love physical books but I have to admit I've never worried about an ebook falling on my head.

    LeviKornelsen , to random
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    Bridge of Birds, Story of the Stone, and Eight Skilled Gentlemen have always been favourites of mine (they're not, like, free of problems, obviously, but still good).

    Turns out they were once collected into an omnibus edition, which I now own.

    pooserville ,
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    @LeviKornelsen It's also available as an ePub from Apple Books. I may have to check them out — I've never read them.

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    pooserville ,
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    @LeviKornelsen It’s also worth noting that Brust himself is a Trotskyist so the protagonist and the author differ considerably on the importance of a revolutionary proletariat.

    pooserville ,
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    @mneme @LeviKornelsen Is the Cycle controlling events or is the Cycle a prophesy that ends up being self-fulfilling because of the elites' view of things? For instance, when Adron's coup failed was that inevitable because the Cycle called for a reborn Phoenix? Or was the "reborn Phoenix" how people justified the fact that the Cycle had failed to move even though a Dragon had replaced the previous Emperor? Maybe the Cycle is the opiate of the masses....

    GottaLaff , to random
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    Via Timothy Snyder: 1/…

    The thing Trump did in Dayton – celebrating his fascist movement's dubious "martyrs"–is exactly what Goebbels & Hitler did bw Nazis' failed coup & their seizure of power. Their song was called the Horst Wessel Song.

    Nazis were obsessive abt being the victims. Once in power they put up monuments to their "martyrs." They sang their Horst Wessel Song as they conquered countries & killed millions to say that they, Nazis, were real victims and therefore always innocent.

    pooserville ,
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    @GottaLaff

    thoughtpunks , to random
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    These games were released FOURTY years [FOUR DECADES] ago. James Bond was 1983 and Ghostbusters was 1986.

    "Modern" and "narrative" gaming is WAY older than people think. Hell, it's approaching middle age.

    pooserville ,
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    @thoughtpunks Pendragon's Passions system. If we go back to the '70s, Traveller's pre-adventuring careers. (Death during character creation? Sign me up!)

    GottaLaff , to random
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    Wonder which fascist gave him the 💸…

    💥 Via Lisa Rubin:💥

    NEW: has filed a bond of $91.63 million in the
    case.

    The source of the bond as well as its terms have not been filed and are not expected to become public info. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.543790/gov.uscourts.nysd.543790.317.0.pdf

    Kyle Cheney:

    JUST IN: Trump formally appeals the judgment against him in the second Carroll trial.

    https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.543790/gov.uscourts.nysd.543790.316.0.pdf

    pooserville ,
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    @GottaLaff That's 8,345,173,020 rubles....

    lolgop , to random
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    You couldn't believe it? Really?

    https://www.vanityfair.com/news/nikki-haley-hillary-clinton

    pooserville ,
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    @lolgop "They're only supposed to do that to Democratic women!"

    Xenograg , (edited ) to random
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    This. Is. Treasure. - Gold Mycenaean Octopus Brooch

    https://www.xenograg.com/1444/this-is-treasure/gold-mycenaean-octopus-brooch?ref=mastodon

    pooserville ,
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    @Xenograg There’s a whole Call of Cthulhu campaign about getting this artifact back from the cultists who stole it before the stars are right for their ritual….

    BrianBinh , to random
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    An idea from my life for your game:
    I once lived in an old Victorian house that was converted into apartments. One day, I looked up at the house from outside & noticed a window on the corner where my bathroom had a blank wall. I checked it out. The bathroom at the end of the hall was 5 feet shorter than the hall. Behind a set of shelves at the end of the hall, I found a door with the knob removed so the shelf would sit flush against it. There was a secret corner room!

    pooserville ,
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    @BrianBinh Was there a skeleton chained to the wall of the secret room?

    deinol , to random
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    Thinking about these imperial naval bases out here at the far end of the spinward main (yes, a jump 1 could go to Regina from here).

    These are imperial client states, which mostly means they agree to let the navy have a presence in exchange for the protection that adds. Also little imperial embassies in most systems.

    I’m thinking a cruiser squadron each for Hollis and Duì, and a battleship squadron at Xùn. All older models. And of course scouts everywhere.

    Traveller Foreven Subsector Map 2520 Tōto Sundai C443877-8 Co Ph Pi Po { -1 } (672+1) [B756] S - 901 10 NaHu M0 V BD 2523 Hollis A370642-C De He Ni { 2 } (758+1) [784D] - NS - 303 11 CsIm M3 V 2623 Twamley C224456-B Ni Px { 0 } (C33+1) [144D] - S - 820 9 CsIm K4 V M7 V 2724 Nepenthe A483436-B Ni { 1 } (833+1) [354A] - - - 230 9 CsIm G9 II 2820 Qián B672851-A He Ph Pi { 2 } (E78+1) [4A46] - - - 321 10 NaHu M3 V BD 2822 Duì B8A8530-A Fl Ni { 1 } (847+1) [666B] - N - 500 9 CsIm K1 IV 2823 Gaifū Kaisei D662242-5 Lo { -3 } (510+1) [2155] - S - 723 8 CsIm M0 II 2920 Kfonga D203555-9 Ic Ni Va { -2 } (842+1) [634B] - C - 800 8 VAkZ A3 IV 2923 Zhèn B446776-A Ag Pi { 3 } (869+1) [BA6C] - - - 511 9 CsIm KD 2924 Xùn B444663-B Ag Cy Ho Ni O:2923 { 3 } (858+1) [495B] - NS - 402 10 CsIm A3 Ib Colony of Zhèn (2923). 2925 Kǎn C563624-5 Ni Ri { -1 } (755+1) [4525] - S - 502 10 CsIm F6 V K6 VI KD 2926 Gèn D638520-6 Ho Ni { -3 } (440+1) [5286] - S - 732 16 CsIm A2 Ia 3020 Okhokferr A9959DC-A Fo Hi Ho In Tr Cx { 4 } (78A+1) [4D3A] - - R 901 14 VAkZ F5 VI 3021 Pequod C534673-4 Ni { -2 } (750+1) [8425] - - - 601 8 NaHu KD 3126 Kūn D546400-3 Ho Ni Pa { -3 } (A32+1) [5183] - - - 113 7 NaHu K5 IV M3 VI
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    • pooserville ,
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    @deinol Depends how dangerous the area is, but I'd go for a single heavy squadron at Xùn and a few patrol cruisers at the other two and figure the squadron cruises around showing the flag.

    pooserville ,
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    @deinol Probably a cruiser squadron with a battleship as the flagship, something too old for frontline duty but still enough to remind the client states that changing their pro-Imperial policies might have... repercussions.

    And then maybe a half-squadron of patrol cruisers on anti-piracy patrols.
    Xùn as the home port for the heavy squadron but regularly calling on Hollis and Duì, moving back and forth at Jump 1 unless they have reason to move fast.

    pooserville ,
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    @deinol Honestly, I'm a big fan of the late David Drake's RCN series for a variety of reasons, but not least because the protagonists regularly find themselves operating within their client states, opposing client states, and neutral backwaters and their adventures have given me a ton of ideas for Traveller adventures. (Way more than I hope to need, since I'm only running CT until one player's health recovers enough to finish our D&D campaign. Currently hoping he'll be back in action by May.)

    pooserville ,
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    @deinol Whatever makes sense for your campaign. For myself, I'm currently running with the 3 LBBs, so a light cruiser is in the 4-600 dton range, heavy cruiser around 12-1600 dtons, and a battleship in the 3-5000 range. But once you bring in High Guard those numbers all need to increase by a factor of 3-10....

    pooserville ,
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    @deinol I feel like 1200 tons to 20,000 tons is a huge jump from heavy cruiser to battleship. If you look at the WW2 US Navy, the USS Wisconsin was 58k tons and the Quincy (heavy cruiser) was 14k tons. If you keep that ratio a modern battleship might be in the 6-7k range, and an obsolete one a little smaller.

    But every Traveller universe is (or ought to be) a little different, so do what fits your concept!

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    pooserville ,
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    @epidiah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZshZp-cxKg

    nickwedig , to random
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    Weirdly, after a year or more not playing any Gloomhaven, I'm now playing it twice a week?

    My wife and I decided to make a concerted effort at progressing through Frosthaven (where I'm having a great time as a Blinkblade helping some terrifying crab people.) And now I'm playing the digital version of Gloomhaven with my brothers, starting a new campaign from the beginning as a Cragheart.

    I wonder which campaign will finish (or more likely, be abandoned) first?

    pooserville ,
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    @nickwedig Digital version is so handy — no setup or tear down time, no having to manage the enemies. And the Jaws of the Lion DLC adds some fun new scenarios as well.

    GottaLaff , to random
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    He makes a good point.

    Mitt Romney: “I will not be voting for former President Trump. I must admit that I find sexual assault to be a line I will not cross in the people I select to be my president.”

    pooserville ,
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    @GottaLaff Romney is my opponent. Trump is my enemy. I don't have to love Romney to recognize the difference.

    GottaLaff , to random
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    😂 Good. Now kindly F off.

    Sen. Joe #Manchin has decided not to launch a run for president after all, HuffPost has learned

    pooserville ,
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    @Wileymiller @GottaLaff As frustrating as Manchin has been, as long as WV gets Senate representation I'd rather have him in the Senate than anyone who has a plausible chance of succeeding him. He delivered on judges and on the Inflation Reduction Act. I don't love him, but I think we'll all miss Manchin starting in January 2025 when we see Senator Jim Justice.

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    pooserville ,
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    @genesisoflegend So you pissed him off, then?

    LeviKornelsen , to random
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    I am no longer allowed to use "I rubbed one out in the magic cave" as an explanation of how I obtained a Djinn ally.

    pooserville ,
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    @LeviKornelsen so wrong…

    SymbolicCity , (edited ) to random
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    players and GMs: How often have you used an epub version of a game or module? (Boost for sample size, please.)

    pooserville ,
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    @SymbolicCity I'm another vote for "never, but I absolutely would if games or modules for my systems were released as epub." Middle-aged eyes mean that epub + larger font size beats the heck out of PDF + zoom in and scroll around.

    LeviKornelsen , to random
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    OSR folks:

    Judge's Guild decided the right way to post about the death of Jennell Jaquays was by deadnaming her throughout in their Facebook post.

    This got them a bunch of yelling-at, during which they doubled down that this was somehow neutral practice, and then it vanished, possibly deleted, possibly reported into oblivion.

    So, like, if they weren't already on your asshole list, mark 'em on down.

    pooserville ,
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    @LeviKornelsen Fuck those fucking fuckers with a rusty chainsaw.

    LeviKornelsen , to random
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    People who make free RPG stuff (like me) need a kickstarter-style site called Redliner, where people who want the free thing pledge to read and give redline-style editorial feedback on X number of pages before release, and get credited for doing so.

    pooserville ,
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    @LeviKornelsen I’m imagining something like a dating app, where you describe what you’re creating and I describe my style of play and you swipe right if I look like a good test reader and I swipe right if it looks like a project I’d read/play.

    Alternatively do it like a classified ad: “Old school player seeks 5e, Dragonbane, or Mothership site-based adventures with plenty of diplomacy and exploration….”

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