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Data engineer; serial dog adopter; amateur writer, game designer, farmer, cybernetician; left-libertarian; realist of a larger reality. Carving paradise from the heart of a dying monster. No future but the one we build. Everything in common, even the stars
Right before they invade Gaza City, they murder the most prominent individual who would have reported on it to the world.

Add this martyr to the tally - the most journalists killed in any armed conflict in history.

They seek to hide the truth, by burying the truth-tellers.

Hell is not hot enough.
August 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
this is a "kill six billion demons" appreciation post
May 14, 2025 at 3:02 AM
the two genders
May 6, 2025 at 1:52 AM
April 18, 2025 at 1:45 AM
greetings from my loyal and diligent office assistant, Valmont, aka Him, aka Monstercat, aka The Beast, aka Little Shitten or Badcat or Evil Monster when he jumps on my keyboard to get my attention when I foolishly try to work instead of petting him
March 29, 2025 at 3:50 AM
March 22, 2025 at 1:54 AM
March 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
nobody wants fascism-lite. if someone wants fascism, they will just vote for the fascists. if not, they will just stay home, because nobody is offering not-fascism.

you didn't lose because you weren't right wing enough. you lost because you were already too right wing for 10MM+ of your own voters
March 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Deciding between 3 initiative/combat sequencing systems for Twilight Dawn:

1. Classic: round-based phased initiative as seen in B/X D&D, OSE, & other OSR retroclones
2. Action: tick-based initiative as seen in Feng Shui
3. Real-time: second-based as seen in GURPS & Hackmaster

What do we like best?
March 2, 2025 at 6:26 AM
elon is an r-strategist, confirmed
February 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM
L'etat, c'est moi - first time as tragedy, second time as farce. Now you will see come to pass what we have been warning you will happen for a decade. Whoever you are expecting to come to the rescue, they are not coming. It is on each and every one of us. Everything not saved will be lost.
February 16, 2025 at 4:34 AM
February 16, 2025 at 4:18 AM
retvrn
February 5, 2025 at 6:34 AM
how it feels to go to work today
February 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
January 31, 2025 at 11:54 PM
so you're saying some company took your work without consent or attribution and used it to train an AI model? man, that's crazy. who would do such a thing

Pic unrelated
January 29, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Rounding out the class package with some support abilities to help out other characters - buff mental defenses, replenish willpower (mental defense and metacurrency that lets you make extra effort to get rerolls, ignore status effects, etc), and reduce stress (basically psychological hitpoints)
January 25, 2025 at 6:04 AM
of course you can just attempt to jedi mind trick people too if you're not looking for a confrontation. i expect players to use this ability in creative and unexpected ways
January 25, 2025 at 6:04 AM
the juicy part - getting into other people's heads. but you have to break down their resistance first, and other psions can actively fight back. was somewhat inspired by the way mental battles between beings with psionic abilities is described in the Dark Sun Prism Pentad for this part of the system
January 25, 2025 at 6:04 AM
the "brain radio" can come in really handy in certain situations, even if it's one way for anyone else without their own psionic abilities - silently communicate information or coordinate strategy, or just distract or fuck with people
January 25, 2025 at 6:04 AM
worked on psionics for Twilight Dawn. wanted them to be thematically distinct from other casters but use same mechanics. want to give players tools to be creative in play while eschewing stuff like telekinesis or clairvoyance (the province of other caster types), mind zapping for xd6 damage (boring)
January 25, 2025 at 6:04 AM
The party: "I don't understand why the NPCs keep running away from us screaming!"

The party in question:
January 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
One day I will organize all of these links on my to-read list. But today is not that day
January 19, 2025 at 4:50 AM
You're relaxing or partying on a Saturday evening, I'm getting my life together in a series of Google Docs, we are not the same
January 19, 2025 at 4:48 AM
each & every one of you, the living world we share, the struggles & transformations that brought us here & the future that we co-create in every moment, as we emerge into an infinite universe filled with secrets we have barely begun to discover & potentialities which we can scarcely begin to imagine
January 18, 2025 at 6:59 AM