Finn

S’right

Roll20 as a VTT, Discord for comms with the German group, MS Teams for the Dutch group (their preferences). I play twice a week with them on average - and since I'm based in the UK I couldn't do it at all without online access.

I get to GM for my players in the Netherlands, Germany etc without it costing a fortune and taking ages.

Ah thanks, I replied after seeing a single post- apologies

I have friends who do LARP in Germany and across Europe. There are plenty of rules covering how combat is resolved, use of magic etc.

Can't remember who said it, but some writer apparently commented that any new writer's first 100,000 words will be crap. Rather than give up, the trick is to write those first 100,000 so you can get to the good stuff.

A sad reflection on the state of my bluesky feed that I skim-read that post as referring to "roof fascists" and wondered what the latest US news was.

If they exist and they are realised I'll tell you exactly what will happen:

a) Trump's enemies - who already think he's a pedophile - will say "SEE!" and nothing will happen

b) Trump's allies will say it's deepfaked misinformation and nothing will happen

I suspect one of them always tells the truth and the other one always lies. Tread carefully.

I walked past Peter Levy a former BBC local news presenter in a supermarket

The paedophile poet of Sardis
Accidentally stepped in the Tardis
And lived out his days
Having changed his foul ways
Re-enacting key scenes from "Quo Vadis"

(I couldn't resist that after hearing the rhythm of the chapter title in my head)

Fire up a VPN just long enough to read them. Or leave it on and pretend to be in Tierra Del Fuego for fun.

Who on earth is Gary Knight?

I understand the post format by the way, I just think movie!Legolas was a shitty Gary Stu so he’s definitely a wrong answer.

Post your favourite ’Lord of the Rings’ character. Wrong answers only.

When the movie of this finally comes out, I hope the real life woman this girl becomes is shown walking hand in hand with the young actress who portrayed her. And I hope the grim fate of everyone responsible is shown with a cold blooded caption too.

Oh that’s so unfair. It’s not just oil, it’s any resource. Venezuela has bauxite , Greenland has lithium (essential for batteries) and other rare minerals. It’s “bad luck Ghorman” all the way down

Just head back in time to work for TSR in the 90s, their forgotten realm modules were basically cut-scenes featuring the NPCs from the novels that the player characters were privileged enough to be allowed to watch (while occasionally fighting henchmen)

U.S. Steel production SURGES!*

*ᴮʸ ¹%

no new pictures. where are you at mentally.

"Come Out Ye Cowards ICE" Dedicated to Renee Good & Alex Pretti YouTube video by Ben Grosscup

Wonderful reskinning of a classic

#ice #minneapolis #resist

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze0X...

When that Man is Dead and Gone (1941) - Protest song against Hitler (Live Take) YouTube video by Lizzy & the Triggermen

Catchy old number!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDkh...

It provides an easy out for genuinely damning leaks: “that’s another of those fake ones”

Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it. Says Skeletor feeling daunted but doing his best.

Another week on Bluesky. Another week of "We've pointed out why the system is flawed, so why hasn't it collapsed yet."

Give it a nudge ffs.

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

At 76 years old, the Boss is still kicking ass and taking names.

youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...

Alt-text: A stylized, painterly portrait of an older white man with a bald crown, white hair around the sides, and a long white beard, seated calmly and facing slightly left. The image uses a psychedelic, oil-paint–like filter with swirling brushstrokes in greens, blacks, and muted neon tones, giving everything a soft, wavy, chaos-tinged texture. The background is dark green with repeating abstract shapes, framed by a decorative green border. Large white text fills the right half of the image with a quote that reads: “If I see an ass-hole banging himself on the head with a hammer, and I tell him you can get a head-ache that way, or even die, and he answers with metaphysics, I do not argue with him. I leave him to go on banging himself on the head. Life is too short to argue with people like that.” Below the quote, smaller text credits “– Robert Anton Wilson” and notes it is “from a 1995 email conversation.” A small “rawilson.com” appears near the bottom. The overall tone is wry, Discordian-adjacent wisdom: practical reality shrugging at abstract nonsense, rendered in trippy chaos aesthetics. Generated with Bluesky AltText, a CustomGPT.

“If I see an ass-hole banging himself on the head with a hammer, and I tell him you can get a head-ache that way, or even die, and he answers with metaphysics, I do not argue with him. I leave him to go on banging himself on the head. Life is too short to argue with people like that.” -- RAW

So Jan 6 was the Beer Hall putsch, and Charlie Kirk was Horst Wessell. What other lazy reworkings are the writers sneaking in? Himmler/Hmiller is too obvious to count. Any others?

What We Do In The Shadows

I still think “Britain’s Got Wankers” would be a catchier and more accurate title.