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Covered was a blog from the late 00s, where artists would redraw famous comic book covers and theyâd be shown side by side.
I never managed to submit anything but I was reading along, I loved it. This one, a cover of Walt Disneyâs Comics and Stories 211, was my fave.
Covered: Robert Goodin covers Walt Disneyâs Comics and Stories 211
Is there a fanedit of the 1989 movie âMajor Leagueâ that restores the deleted alternate ending? đ€
âThis study established that Indigenous peoples were living and interacting with the horse before the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 CE, which was the earliest date accepted by Western science.â
Petuh is a mix of Danish and German that was spoken by season pass ticket holders in the Flensburg ferry system in the first half of the 20th century.
Overview of Xanadu from a Gemini perspective.
The text doesnât say, but of course both the web and Gemini support transclusion probably better known as blockquote đ€·đ»ââïž
Daniel Janus, Ted Nelson, and the Web of Documents
Open-ended discussion from 2021 about exoticizing and reductive fonts.
When arguing with fam about something that is 1000% unimportant (what to do in a specific situation in a specific co-op gameâplaying the game without resolving the conflict is not possible, but playing board games has no extrinsic value, itâs just a pastime like any other), would you rather, in an ideal world where you had all the spoons and courage and patience you could dream of:
I loved this comedy book series as a kid, around 1990 or so. (only had the first three ones). I read and reread them many times, although I havenât since. Weirdly enough, the author was only 14 when the first book was published in 1978 (he was 12 when he wrote it). What it lacks in originality (itâs super trope-tastic) it makes up for in perfectly executed pacing, structure, and cast of characters. Felt like a cross-section of Barks and Python. đ€·đ»ââïž
Curious thread on how the class-affecting cargo-cult bourgiouse developed obsession with MĂng (性æ) era porcelaine, in both valuation and discernment, (as opposed to the contemporary QÄ«ng (ć€§æž ) porcelaine) while eliding how a neurotic hangup around smashing it was developed into an endless source of comedy and mirth of the dull and overdone variety. A pair of MĂng cups in 1886 money cost the equivalent of a beta Black Lotus + Mox Ruby does today.
A brownshirt party has 19.5% in the polls in Finnish elections đ
Europe is in a bad place.
Jealous of everyone who missed out on the endless stream of utterly boring april fools jokes on IRC which were boring me to tears. I was crying bone đ©»
Someone made a pie chart of the tiles in the Ra boardgame â„
(is PDF on BGG â requires loginđ)
Clarity in design â„
The first (of whatâs planned to be four) #Talislanta TSL sessions went OK! They rolled a Kasir tribe (named âClan of the Wanderersâ), they started off in The Wilderness. They are 18 Kasir and 14 animals (four burden beasts, six desert beasts, four war beasts).
They have a blood feud with the Desert Wind Tribe.
âOne week south of the Drakkenspire, six weeks west of the Burning Sea, four hours east of the river, eight hours west of a mountainside ruin.â
They sent the bulk of their clan west to set up camp by the river, and sent four to the east to explore the ruin.
On the way there they took a wide berth around a herd of megalodonts, tossed a pebble through a witchgate (that had muddy footprints coming out from it), recruited four Imazi that didnât have any concept of Imazi culture since they had been in Golgoth captivity all their lives (they recruited them to join their clan), explored the first few rooms of an old archean ruin (complete with vat-grown blue strong men with numbers on their foreheads), and found a mysterious box that keeps playing music, then made their way back all the way to the river to meet up with their own clan.
On the DM side, I was scrambling a bit with last-minute prep. I used a ton of stuff from Worlds Without Number and from Location Crafter. Both of those are templatey enough that I could use a ton of stuff from the TSL book, details specific to archean ruins for example.
The MVP was our toolbox of rules that weâve built up over the years (such as rules for a large tribe of people foraging for food).
Kind of interesting thread on 7th Sea 2e where both GMs and players express frustration over the core flow of the game, the core back-and-forth of the convo and how it leads them to state things just for those things to be immediately negated
Why does everyone seem to hate 7th Sea 2e? : rpg
Olivia Jaimes has been knocking it out of the part the last few years and Nancy is, as far as I know, the best of the currently-running daily strips. Itâs more similar to Peanuts than to Bushmillerâs version of Nancy, but that doesnât have to be a bad thing. Here is a gem with Fritzi struggling with the overwhelm of todo lists.
Nancy by Olivia Jaimes for March 31, 2023 - GoComics
In addition to the âevery instance requests it and that causes a
DDoSâ, there also seems to be the issues of some instances (like
Pleroma) repeatingly requesting the resource. Not sure why it happens
again and again.
On Mastodon DDoSâing Sites âą Michael Nordmeyer
Kind of unique game of 4E like âcombat-as-chessâ but like chess, and unlike something like D&D (which has dice) and Dungeon Command (which has cards), it has nothing, all actions just succeed, more powerful actions cost more action points.
Marred by an unprintable, low-contrast layout (white text on light grey background) and every character being male-coded (like âHuntsmanââsimilar to WotCâs ridiculous insistence of refering to witches as âwarlocksâ) and a very page-wastey layout full of incomprehensible mosaics that Iâm sure look like pictures when seen from the other side of the room since each pixel is like three miles wide.
Interesting nonetheless. Like all unique things, worth a look. More similar to something thatâd belong on BGG than RPGG, I like the idea of publishing games like these as PDFs / PoD books rather than making an overproduced box full of chibi plastic and cardboard.
That said, the action point costs make me wanna play Feng Shui instead, where your awesomeness costs time points (like the Patchwork board game) rather than come from a pool.
Dungeon Tactics - Stormforge Productions | Burnt Jester Games | DriveThruRPG.com
The international date line is an artifact of the west / Europe deciding that itâs own perspective is âuniversalâ and that all other time zones are relative to it and that itâs tough titties for the opposite end of the planet (to the extent that one way to understand the date line is to look at a Mercator style, euro-centric 2d map. As you Pacman-wrap your way over the left or right sides, you inc or dec the date accordingly).
But a universal time zone (like decimal time) would also mean a date line wouldnât be necessary any more. The date would be the same all over the world. Although that would mean that some would have the date change in bright daylight at lunch which could get weird.đ€ Similar to how night owls have to figure out a way to deal with what we in Sweden call âthe little hoursâ; the hours just after midnight.
The Rules Cyclopedia is my second favorite RPG that we never ever get too use (well, we use the occasional rule from it) because itâs too close but yet so far to our normal, slightly more 5e-tilted edition mashup. During the OGL scare, the RC was one of the games I considered (not that itâs open source either, but OSE and DD are and theyâre reasonably compatible).
I was reading some OSR fanzines with a ton of custom classes and monsters today and theyâd probably be usable with RC too, with maybe just the XP curve changing.
I have the kinda blurry (but works just fine) PoD reprint of the US original. This Japanese edition is especially beautiful.
Japanese D&D Rules Cyclopedia | Atlas of Mystara
Feilinâs move list in the original Fighterâs History đđ»ââïž
Fighterâs History/Feilin â StrategyWiki, the video game walkthrough and strategy guide wiki
âexecline is a (non-interactive) scripting language, like sh - but its syntax is quite different from a traditional shell syntax.â
How do people feel about this compared to rc from Plan 9?
execline: a small scripting language
Org mode has an option of âcomefromâ links similar to Tomboy and Howm, called âradio targetsâ, but itâs frustrating that you have to mark them specially. I sometimes wish every header could be a radio target.
I only used Tomboy briefly (obviously it was annoying to have to have Gnome and not be able to just rock out in Emacs) but having fully automated links without any syntax at all, just powered by n-gram indexing, was pretty awesome.
Radio Targets (The Org Manual)
âThe pipe trick uses the pipe character (â|â) to save typing the label of a piped link for several kinds of wiki links. This can avoid potentially making an error while typing the label.
An even better way to save keystrokes that doesnât need any additional characters is by simply attaching text to the link, as in â[[train]]sâ.â
Great approach to generating wilderness hexmaps with a lot of semanticity.
Whose Measure God Could Not Take: Another Method for Meaningful Terrain Generation