Plus when you know the company is stealing money from its workers and pushing the use of generative AI...it's a real enthusiasm killer for sure.

I read UKLG's The Disposessed for the first time last year, and part of what I loved about it was how blunt she was about how she chose to represent the day-to-day in an anarchist society, while still maintaining how preferable it still was to a capitalist one!

Commiserations! Join me down at 304 😮‍💨

The wheels of my van, too, sometimes explode into manholes that lead into sewers like some secret oubliette door from Labyrinth

Well, time to never see anything they publish on Steam appear in my recommendations again!

yeahhhh, goodwill burned at this point, really 👎 This went from a project I was actively excited about to one I'm not gonna be touching with a barge-pole 💀

"actively working"

...half a year on: that blurry owl is still their hero image everywhere 🙃

...not even going to open the can of worms in the line underneath: "ancient British king" 🙃

To be clear, though: I'm loving the book, just wincing at these bits that survived the editing process - ones for the 2nd edition 😉

Bonne chance! 🤞

Understood! I'll try and get the info ASAP 🙏

Quick question: I'm in the process of moving house and don't know the new address yet! When is the deadline for this?

Bed. Definitely bed. I want to street-race in luxurious comfort thank-you-very-much 🛌

My last producer treated them as exceptional with dedicated pest-control days; a bug-only ticket day when the pile gets too high, and everyone comes together to squash bugs all day and laugh about the weirder ones - it becomes a game instead of a chore! 😁

"You would have, but you were always running away!" 🤺

I don't remember the name, but I remember a bunch of druids sending some knights off into a series of boss battles, none of which I could ever win, haha. There was one that jumped out of the mud to scary music and it scared baby-pooks shitless every time! 🤣