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Ugggh why do Japanese people hate threads and instead post their five-message commentary as individual unrelated posts that then appear in the app as untethered and reversed?

Reincarnated into a Scholarly Hero: I Wanted to Write an Academic Work About Japanese Light Novels, but Because the Chicago Manual of Style Told Me to Transliterate and Translate All Japanese Titles in My Reference List, I Fear I Won't Reach the Methodology Section Before I Hit the Maximum Word Coun

For a long time, what made a good programmer was a near obsessive attention to details. And now that people want to use genAI and code reviews are bearing almost all the load, that is more necessary than ever. So when a coworker claims they followed a spec when they clearly only very vaguely did...

DM: You creep through the dragon's den, your boots echoing into the otherwise silent cavern... Players: *immersed* DM: Suddenly, something else starts to fill the air... Players: *getting nervous* *dm puts on careless whisper* Players: What. DM: *puts this on the table* Players: WHAT. #dnd

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hashtag not all adventurers

Taking some mandatory corporate training today and so much of it is just the most AI-hawker BS. 😑 No, AI will not let you break the good-fast-cheap rule.

After years at cons accumulating stickers faster than I can possibly use them, I have given up and acquired a sticker book to put them in.

Is it bad that the recent treasure item my character is most excited about is a warhorse. Although actually it's kind of weird to find horses as treasure in the first place. 🤔

PSA: hereditary noble rulers do not have "constituents" This announcement brought to you by a short story I just read.

I would like to roll fewer 1s and 2s, please. 😑

GoogleDocs spell checker just tried to change "look around blearily" to "look around clearly" and. No! Those are opposites! It's also making a bunch of suggestions that seem like they're trying to erase writing style by replacing odd-but-valid phrasings with common and mundane ones. 😒

There was probably a better way to disable PyCharm's git integration than to tell it the git executable was /usr/bin/false but if so the settings screen REALLY doesn't make that obvious.

Apparently Kidzuki is having a seasonal special of curry cheese ramen.