The character Atali from Conan the Barbarian sitting atop a rock covered in snow. The moon frames her from behind and her two giant twins lurk in the background.
⚔️ Conan Issue 15 Variant Cover ❄️
I love Atali set against the moon here🌸😊🌸
A photo of a sketchbook page with a paint brush at the top. The painting is in watercolor, featuring a mossy log with a mushroom on it. Miscellaneous ferns and other rocks and foliage are under it.
Microhabitats are tricky to paint for me, but fun to look at 🍄🟫 #watercolor #sketchbook #painting
You saying the founding fathers weren’t students of game theory?😆
my least OSR take is that I like a billion different species in my games but my most OSR take is that they all have to be a b/x class.
i will absolutely delete my discord account rather than give them personal info to verify age. that company has had so many hacks. they've /already/ had a hack which revealed scanned photo IDs.
i'm not giving them my personal info.
reverse the policy decision.
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Bro looks like a failed candidate to be a Christmas Day Adventurer
Bilbo looking at his phone top on bottom is ChatGPT After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it? You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.
a dusty rose purple @ in a rectangular room. there is a larger chamber to the left
design thread for the current prototype and design work
i'm making a fairly self-contained dungeon crawling microcosm. for this microcosm of the game, i'm doing two closely interrelated magical energy types. they aren't rigidly attached to damage types.
i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests
- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact
amazing!
Google doesn't deserve your homepage, consider: neocities.org/browse
Escape the Algorithm. Curate some nice newsletters for your email. Give yourself a reason to un-clutter that inbox. This has been one of my favs: www.skeletoncodemachine.com
I'll never forget the shock my young self had in the juxtaposition between the utter tranquility of znes snowfall, and the inimitable gutter-humor of nesticle's beloved fecal lord.
Been reading the Morgaine books by CJ Cherryh. Really enjoying them, though it’s hard to pin down their overall vibe. I dig the two doomed outsider protagonists though. And their relationship to one another being some insane mix of camaraderie and conflict is very enjoyable.
Bayo AiAi Sonic Xeno
I don’t think any video game studio will ever top SEGA’s 2009 Christmas Card
my thing is even I didn't have a fiery personal grudge against Twitter, I would not use it for the same reason I don't use Facebook - it's a miserable user experience. It's nothing but ads and ragebait and ai slop. It doesn't have to be a moral stance, it's just a shit product
One of the most gorgeous games I've come across in awhile is Vaults of Vaarn. I love these kind of settings born out of a creators' passion for an imagined place. Ultimately, they're some of my favorite things about roleplaying games.
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I don't think vast swathes of slums pocketed with a smattering of gated communities would make for a very good society, and yet, seemingly half the population votes in that direction. y tho
Netscape Navigator 1.0 in 1994
On December 15, 1994, The Netscape Communications Corporation released the web browser Netscape Navigator 1.0.
#InternetHistory
Only the most insufferable nerds unironically use the term 'TDS' Can't believe the level of Barrens Chat brainrot we've hoisted up and into the psyche of those for whom we most allow the dictation of our everyday lives.
![from a letter by JRR Tolkien to his son Michael:
[here is] the tragedy and despair of all machinery laid bare. Unlike art which is content to create a new secondary world in the mind, it attempts to actualize desire, and so to create power in this World; and that cannot really be done with any real satisfaction. Labour-saving machinery only creates endless and worse labour. And in addition to this fundamental disability of a creature, is added the Fall, which makes our devices not only fail of their desire but turn to new and horrible evil. So we come inevitably from Daedalus and Icarus to the Giant Bomber. It is not an advance in wisdom! This terrible truth, glimpsed long ago by Sam Butler, sticks out so plainly and is so horrifyingly exhibited in our time, with its even worse menace for the future, that it seems almost a world wide mental disease that only a tiny minority perceive it. Even if people have ever heard the legends (which is getting rarer) they have no inkling of their portent. How could a maker of motorbikes name his product Ixion cycles! Ixion, who was bound for ever in hell on a perpetually revolving wheel! Well, I have got over 2 thousand words onto this little flimsy airletter; and I will forgive the Mordor-gadgets some of their sins, if they will bring it quickly to you](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eawrzkefxggvqbrmagkhsmcc/bafkreiehclqi7gi5ioox33zjtsvsk3aid326opn3ix6a2cadj3morubefq)
from a letter by JRR Tolkien to his son Michael: [here is] the tragedy and despair of all machinery laid bare. Unlike art which is content to create a new secondary world in the mind, it attempts to actualize desire, and so to create power in this World; and that cannot really be done with any real satisfaction. Labour-saving machinery only creates endless and worse labour. And in addition to this fundamental disability of a creature, is added the Fall, which makes our devices not only fail of their desire but turn to new and horrible evil. So we come inevitably from Daedalus and Icarus to the Giant Bomber. It is not an advance in wisdom! This terrible truth, glimpsed long ago by Sam Butler, sticks out so plainly and is so horrifyingly exhibited in our time, with its even worse menace for the future, that it seems almost a world wide mental disease that only a tiny minority perceive it. Even if people have ever heard the legends (which is getting rarer) they have no inkling of their portent. How could a maker of motorbikes name his product Ixion cycles! Ixion, who was bound for ever in hell on a perpetually revolving wheel! Well, I have got over 2 thousand words onto this little flimsy airletter; and I will forgive the Mordor-gadgets some of their sins, if they will bring it quickly to you
J.R.R. Tolkien, literal Butlerian Jihadist
The Intro to this lady's vid about Atlyss is one of the most succinct explainers for the history and state of modern MMO's I've seen
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Yarp, I’ve never made an account for, or used Facebook or Linkedin in my entire life, and it’s only ever helped me in keeping things this way lol.
Reminds me of when the (failing) Boring Co. tried to reinvent trains, but worse
Anti-trust now, anti-trust forever!
Apartment Complex is advertising FREE SOUNDBARS for anyone upon signing lease. I’ll put that place on my uninhabitable list kthx
People know that modern success is a game. And you would think that winning the game makes you smart, but actually the way these guys win is by cheating without (luckily) getting caught
One of the most dangerous types of person in civic life is the rich guy (and it's almost always a guy) who thinks that they have expertise on all matters because they're rich.
She pried her ill-gotten millions with some amazing stock trades, like the rest of the ghouls in congress
Driving a GenX metal head van needs to make a comeback
