comrade pollux
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cringe and owned since the late twentieth century
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im out here healing my inner child bitch. Fuck You
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When anime DVDs came in clippy cardboard cases.
A peek at a vintage DVD release of an anime classic: Record of Lodoss War OVA. This is the Image Entertainment & US Manga Corps release of episodes 8-13 from 1998 and is a cool little artifact of those early releases.
A peek at a vintage DVD release of an anime classic: Record of Lodoss War OVA. This is the Image Entertainment & US Manga Corps release of episodes 8-13 from 1998 and is a cool little artifact of those early releases.
November 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
When anime DVDs came in clippy cardboard cases.
A peek at a vintage DVD release of an anime classic: Record of Lodoss War OVA. This is the Image Entertainment & US Manga Corps release of episodes 8-13 from 1998 and is a cool little artifact of those early releases.
A peek at a vintage DVD release of an anime classic: Record of Lodoss War OVA. This is the Image Entertainment & US Manga Corps release of episodes 8-13 from 1998 and is a cool little artifact of those early releases.
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From the pages of Gamers Republic and available now in 1999 at Suncoast - Record of Lodoss War!
Prime 90s anime scene here: Suncoast, Lodoss War, and $19-25 a VHS tape or (new-fangled) DVD volume.
Prime 90s anime scene here: Suncoast, Lodoss War, and $19-25 a VHS tape or (new-fangled) DVD volume.
November 11, 2025 at 10:59 PM
From the pages of Gamers Republic and available now in 1999 at Suncoast - Record of Lodoss War!
Prime 90s anime scene here: Suncoast, Lodoss War, and $19-25 a VHS tape or (new-fangled) DVD volume.
Prime 90s anime scene here: Suncoast, Lodoss War, and $19-25 a VHS tape or (new-fangled) DVD volume.
it's wasian winter babe *starts crying*
November 7, 2025 at 7:53 AM
it's wasian winter babe *starts crying*
2026 is the year of linux on the desktop
2027 freeBSd
2027 freeBSd
November 2, 2025 at 12:10 AM
2026 is the year of linux on the desktop
2027 freeBSd
2027 freeBSd
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"Unlike the vacuum cleaner, the radio, or the bicycle, which retain their use value when everyone has one, the car... is only desirable and useful insofar as the masses don’t have one."
I reread this every so often and I'm struck every time by how great it is unevenearth.org/2018/08/the-...
The social ideology of the motorcar - Uneven Earth
by André Gorz The worst thing about cars is that they are like castles or villas by the sea: luxury goods invented for the exclusive pleasure of a very rich minority, and which in conception and natur...
unevenearth.org
October 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"Unlike the vacuum cleaner, the radio, or the bicycle, which retain their use value when everyone has one, the car... is only desirable and useful insofar as the masses don’t have one."
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My contribution to the proud tradition of trying to understand alignment languages. I discuss why speaking alignment languages in AD&D is socially taboo, how then they are meant to be used to identify creatures with a common ethos, & what this suggests about what alignment language actually is:
Alignment Languages are Socially Repulsive
In my last post on languages in AD&D , I teased that alignment languages were a topic worthy of their own post. Was I right? Let's find out....
forlornencystment.blogspot.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
My contribution to the proud tradition of trying to understand alignment languages. I discuss why speaking alignment languages in AD&D is socially taboo, how then they are meant to be used to identify creatures with a common ethos, & what this suggests about what alignment language actually is:
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designing a dystopia for the British: in the year 40k, a Turkish Pope who lives in Nepal will control whether or not you can sail to another star system with a literal beacon of faith in Catholicism
and the sprawling future bureaucracy is inefficient
and the sprawling future bureaucracy is inefficient
a police officer wearing a yellow vest and tie is yawning .
Alt: A notably kinda British looking police officer wearing a high-viz vest falls to his knees and screams to the sky "NOOOO"
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October 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
designing a dystopia for the British: in the year 40k, a Turkish Pope who lives in Nepal will control whether or not you can sail to another star system with a literal beacon of faith in Catholicism
and the sprawling future bureaucracy is inefficient
and the sprawling future bureaucracy is inefficient
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next time there's a month long massive multiplayer roleplaying war game i better not be on deadline
October 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
next time there's a month long massive multiplayer roleplaying war game i better not be on deadline
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a lot of you on here
October 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
a lot of you on here
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not now, kitten. daddy ate an egg that fell on the ground and a street-smart white blood cell and a by-the-book cold pill are currently fighting a virus voiced by laurence fishburne inside his body
October 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
not now, kitten. daddy ate an egg that fell on the ground and a street-smart white blood cell and a by-the-book cold pill are currently fighting a virus voiced by laurence fishburne inside his body
don't ask to buy her a drink, ask to buy her winrar
October 16, 2025 at 1:53 AM
don't ask to buy her a drink, ask to buy her winrar
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"It's in a better place, Misato. Or rather, it's in the same place, but now it's got a big hole through it."
October 15, 2025 at 6:08 AM
"It's in a better place, Misato. Or rather, it's in the same place, but now it's got a big hole through it."
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Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
October 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
The economy, fools!
October 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The economy, fools!
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Ty at Mindstorm Press (@mindstorm.bsky.social) is a great developmental editor for RPGs: collaborative, attentive, intelligent.
If you need someone to help you with your next project, you should hit him up.
If you need someone to help you with your next project, you should hit him up.
October 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Ty at Mindstorm Press (@mindstorm.bsky.social) is a great developmental editor for RPGs: collaborative, attentive, intelligent.
If you need someone to help you with your next project, you should hit him up.
If you need someone to help you with your next project, you should hit him up.
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Record of Lodoss War
October 6, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Record of Lodoss War
perseverance and resolve are both great but sometimes your only reward for not taking an L is an L of equal or greater value at a later date
September 28, 2025 at 8:25 PM
perseverance and resolve are both great but sometimes your only reward for not taking an L is an L of equal or greater value at a later date
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This is true for OSR ttrpgs too lmao
I’m not an expert but based on my dipping my toes in the genre, boomer shooters are either made by the most disgustingly right-wing fash monsters you’ve ever seen or incredibly cool trans women who build custom estradiol vapes that can run GZDoom
September 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
This is true for OSR ttrpgs too lmao