The Duke of Fall

Congested, tired, and writing TTRPG notes like Session 1 is in 12 days... 'cause it is.

So much suffering is the echo of others' self-interest and disdain.

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line... except when those points are on a sphere. The shortest path between the metropolis of Apex City and the Imperium provincial capital Parast leads over the northern polar reaches... and the harsh frozen wilds of Mok'tar. Airship captains who brave the Polar Mok'tar Run can expect punishing winds, searing cold, and over a thousand kilometers of forbidding tundra and its (reportedly cannibalistic?) Turahl denizens.

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#yewdar

Someone at Capcom needs to be told that we see y'all out here putting all shapes and sizes of people in the setting for MH Stories 3. 'Tis glorious to see townsfolk in more varieties than "Ken" and "Barbie," and downright indulgent to see heavyset folk represented *at all* in video games when not played as a bit.

RE: @theverge@flipboard.com

I guess I'm learning how to take Roomba off-grid.

I have lost all patience for the workplace folk who ask questions and then can't be arsed to read more than two sentences at a time. If the answer to what they've asked is even *mildly* detailed they don't even bother reading it; they just blankly ask for a summary.

I get that some folks' time is literally valued as worth more than mine, but this isn't that. This is just laziness-as-a-flex.

RE: @BBC@c.im

They've made it clear that they are just fine with us all dying with poison in our lungs and our bellies so long as they can rule over our graveyard.

So, uh... is dice.camp having issues? This site in particular has been wobbly for the last hour or so. 🤔

What I want is a system that can turn my text descriptions into concept sketches without, y'know, the THEFT and the ECOLOGICALLY DISASTROUS ENERGY FOOTPRINT.

Anyone got one of those yet?

WTF is with all the "Papers, Please, but without the dystopia" games? Like... the dystopia is the point. The surveillance state and all the horrible shit it forces upon you is THE POINT.

If you're playing a "Papers, Please" clone and it's in any way cheerful or cozy, you're basically playing fascist propaganda. Pressing a button to "send someone away" because of they failed a paperwork check should never feel fun or silly.

It should feel bad. Every time.