Any adult who complains about children's memes (Italian Brainrot, 6/7, Aura Farming) is a boomer at heart and deserves the mockery of children.

Instead of XP they could earn Quest Points for obeying me, or Chaos Points for going off the rails. They could spend points in-game to cheat in various ways.
At the end of the session they got to trade in points for candy.

Someday I might write it up as a one pager.

Just finished running a PBTA-lite homebrew Halloween Special #ttrpg for a crew of 7 kids.

They made characters based on their Halloween costumes. I dressed as the devil and gave them quests as the GM.

He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

So excited to join the AWS team! Just pushed my first code update!

my dearest hope is the AWS blackout got caused by someone vibe coding

WHAT NOW - dashare.zone ADMIN

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

“So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.” - Ray Bradbury

Reminds me of Konstantin Yuon. My favorite landscape painter.

When I was researching my book Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India, I learned of a 1000-year-old myth about Roman tech being used to build killer robots to guard the Buddha's remains in Pataliputra, and a Hungarian folklorist read my book & got excited about it, & she managed to dig up a🧵(1/3)

Reminder that August is international procrastination awareness month.

This was always the funniest conspiracy theory to me — that there are MRI machine-like devices that can cure all known illnesses in seconds, but the government has been hiding them — and Trump just posted an AI generated video of himself announcing they're real. We're cooked!

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

sure feels like we're getting near the end of the opening montage now

every creative, attention grabbing thing this campaign does is the answer to “WHAT DO YOU WANT THEM TO DO HUH?” questions

there should be a 1 on 1 coaching service where an upbeat guy 20 years younger than you with all the free time in the world teaches you how to play paradox games in the 45 minutes you can justify spending on them as an adult

Burlington Odd Fellows Reclaims Its Role as a Community Hub | Culture | Seven Days | Vermont's Independent Voice share.google/GvDTflfg3yi6...

The Great and Terrible One
Liv Rainey-Smith
Woodcut artist proof tinted with natural mineral and handmade watercolors. The beast is with tinted with several colors of mica for a glistening effect. Plus the natural blue apatite water will fluoresce under blacklight. Gilded with 12 & 24k gold.

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use development is illegal to build these days.

Let’s unbox and dive into #Zephyr, an anarchist fantasy #TTRPG, by Federico Sohns (@araukana.bsky.social)!

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Odd Fest was an incredible success. We raised money for the North End Food Pantry and met plenty of neighbors. Thanks for supporting local live music at our lodge. Keep up with our events here: www.burlingtonoddfellows.com/events #vt #btv #vtpoli

Ancient-DNA analysis in Science of the long-running dispute over whether the 11,000-yr-old Anatolian culture of Çatalhöyük--the world's oldest known urban society--was "matriarchal" suggests it was "female-centered" w/ evidence of higher status for women than in many other early human cultures.