True, I started running The One Ring.
Sessions are my 4-hour infodumps about the Lost Realm of Arnor and the Second Age, thinly disguised as TTRPG sessions.
We’re all having a great time.
Paternal grandad: spent the Korean War in W. Germany, worked at IBM on some of the first “Personal Computers.”
Maternal grandad: Served in the Navy during the last 2 years of WW2. Made art and wooden toys as hobbies.
Maternal step-grandad: small-town bank president, known for his quiet generosity.
“Do not obey in advance” but in pokopia font
Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light
As a Jewish person, I’m not exaggerating that the far right want nothing more than absolute humiliation, dehumanizing, and death to all trans people.
This all-too-familiar sight is happening right in front of our eyes—and I’m not seeing nearly enough decrying and anger to feel remotely comfortable.
Trans right y'all. That's it, end of discussion.
Civil rights are a kitchen-table issue.
Two colour illustration of Barad Dûr, with Sauron's eye at the top. surrounded with the ring inscription in elvish. the sky is red with sparks and ash floating in the air, the tower is above a fiery chasm. The front doors are glowing red with silhouettes of chains and armouries. A cloud of ash conceals the horizon. This will be a banner and riso print first. Digital prints coming later this year.
BARAD DÛR
Been having an absolute blast with the One Ring lately.
Orcs were digging for traces of lost Ring-lore in the ruins of Hollin, before moving on to a meeting in Tharbad.
The party followed and ambushed them, but the Orcs’ green-eyed captain escaped with help from spies disguised as Dunedain.
I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!
I’m filing this under evidence that the “idea guys” are and always have been full of shit.
I found the secret to getting good at pixel art:
1: Find sprites/a tileset you like.
2: Decide you don’t like the color palette
3: Recolor them w/ a color palette you like
4 Start tinkering/modifying/expanding the sprites
5: Oops you tinkered too much and now you have your own tileset/sprites.
we will be blessed as a society not when we have xcom 3 but when all of us have the free time to make xcom 3 for ourselves
Jennifer @JenYetAgain@beige.party in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with. this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US. Feb 9, 2026 at 4:35:18PM Boosted by 968: Favourited by 1324:
mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again
This looks extremely cool!
D6, 4+ you go before enemies, 3 or less you go after.
Some enemies have features that let them always go first (I.E, fast critters snakes) or last (slow ones like zombies).
4e annoys because it doesn't pretend that it's fighting-adventure rules are anything else and expects you to use rules as written. By not lying about itself, it fucks up the normal D&D process of pretending that it's good for other things, which pretence is *self-fulfilling* via quiet rulings.
the more you learn about the antebellum south the more you transform into this
every plantation owner should have been put to death
Two of my closest friends are guys I met in 3rd grade.
“We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend” is words to goddamn live by
All games are political, and the best games are even more political than that.
Feels like a clunkier way to say “the fun is in the limitations.”
The rules create “unnecessary obstacles” (like how pieces are allowed to move, how you are allowed to interact with a ball, etc.) that you have to work around to play the game.
With tax season in full swing, here's our reminder that TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free.
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Your Local Public Library may also have a sizable collection, for the movies you wanna rewatch but don’t consider must-haves.
A red, lightsaber-like knife cuts through a loaf of bread, toasting each slice.
Yes (according to the 2005 Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie adaptation, at least)
Just been reminded of this fabulous truth
I don't know who needs to hear this, but teachers (ECE- graduate school) are fucking exhausted right now and have to keep teaching during *points to world*. It's rough normally, it's been extra rough for years, and right now it's basically boss levels rough. Don't beat yourself up, fellow educators.
🥲 I don’t have “bunch of work” availability atm but if you still need help in June I’d be down!
