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since ICQ is now offline I think the oldest that still works is Neopets (2005) or Deviantart (2003)

I mean they would just make it about intent: it's already a crime to access a computer system in order to do illegal things, for example (“accessing computer system for dishonest purpose”)

A photo of the moon, pixels and blur

who up posting their 8× handheld cellphone moon pics

Run Away Song

critical O/NSR advice in musical form open.spotify.com/track/44Q9xA...

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Robert Eggers please do Vathek 🙏

Cooking Instructions Mmm...chips. The following cooking instructions are for a full tray of McCain Chips For smaller quantities reduce the cooking time accordingly. For best results cook from frozen. "Do not overcook and watch carefully during the final minutes of preparation.

mmm...chips

most checks are resolved in one roll, Criticals become a bit more of a hype moment (break out the special dice), it’s very close to table-based results

note for high skills: a roll >95 is always a failure, you need to fall back to tables when skills exceed 100

no-tables #Runequest rolls:

d100 vs target
1 = Critical, 100 = Fumble
increasing numbers (67, not 76) or doubles ≤ target are Special

if needed (e.g. combat) doubles might be Criticals: roll another d100 ≤ your roll to confirm
doubles over target might be Fumbles, roll > your roll to confirm

a smaller circle of “rules the players need to know”

I like this for lore/world as well: things required by the rules, things we must to agree on, things we can negotiate, things which don’t matter (fluff)

e.g. Mothership puts a bunch of lore in the negotiate column when people expect it “harder”

Chapter 1 of Moby Dick, page 1 The phrase ‘Call me Ishmael’, the first sentence of the book, is highlighted in blue, with careful highlighting on the very big C at the start. Above this, written in ballpoint pen ‘His name’

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix

Standard Ebooks are repackaged Gutenberg books so it's a subset

because it’s basically a C algorithm written down

it’s also my least favourite out of any spec I’ve implemented

it’s probably not a great sign that the official W3C RDFa test suite has contained syntactically-invalid files for 7 years and no one has noticed/complained

github.com/rdfa/rdfa.gi...

there must be literature that is published only in Braille, right?

How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.

It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.

www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

not trying to get blocked but I have like 5 types of rice in my cupboard right now and I cook all of them in the microwave

“dad, excuse me, I need to focus”

it’s a pity the game developer (Zoink) got absorbed

she can play it all by herself now and has finished the game 5 times over (!)

possible that this will be available as an add-on to the current campaign?

modern mandatory passports date from the outbreak of WWI so unfortunately this is an entirely European problem 😅

time to break out RFC2550:
datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc...

I think from a business perspective they basically don’t care about the RPGs at all: they don’t sell minis, but it’s sorta free licensing money

... ah, turns out Acecco is in liquidation

Lim Mt Albert looked like that and got bought out by Acceco, and now Acceco's shelves are looking the same way ...

it seems to be the year of “everyone loves Borges now”; three of the novels I’ve read so far (Katabasis, RF Kuang; Martyr!; Kaveh Akbar; Greek Lessons, Han Kang) have referenced him

cat standing like an Egyptian Bastet statue looking out a window

Cat sitting on pillow with legs

Portrait of cat with large glossy eyes

Cat in sun on windowsill, meowing

more cat because people keep asking odd questions

no I don’t vacuum my cat (?), she is a zero maintenance cat, we don’t even brush her

it is in Green’s dictionary greensdictofslang.com/entry/3lu5foa