i-am-erk.bsky.social
Dad of two queer kids, mediocre storyteller, painter of small toys, medical guy, elder millenial Canuck. It's possible I'm the best DM, you can't prove otherwise. I generally like the world and I just wish it would do better, you know?
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At this stage I think it's safe to say Americans should stop looking to anyone in the establishment for leadership. It's way too late for that.
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I often tell my wife she's pretty great aside from her weird taste in company
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4e was great. It's a great game. It can be improved on - bounded accuracy and the "advantage" mechanic of 5e, for example - but the biggest error 5e made was trying to hide where it learned from 4e, or dropping vital lessons like skill challenges and monster roles.
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You're a monster Dana. As proved by @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social agreeing with you. The woman wrote a musical number about how great it is to be evil. Look who's in your court.
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I can't think of a salad dressing I'd enjoy without the salad, so the post's own logic kind of falls apart.
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They rehired a lot of the people they had in 2016, remember when we had those four really terrible seasons all in a row.
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Yes! I should have known you'd be sympathetic, I've read your book. Damn.
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My friend is in trouble for introducing me to too many unfinished series, don't let her off the hook!
I would like Key as a minion in all the other books I read though. I feel like he and Gideon the Ninth would get along in a disastrous way.
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And then the reporter stood up and gave a ten minute speech about fascism without even asking any questions and the entire UN gave a standing ovation.
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Remember to wear a mask to help keep Godzilla from catching the plague. Nobody wants Godzilla to sneeze.
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Dang sorry drew, best of luck with this
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Also tough because puns anout halcyon days are just too obvious.
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My child read Princess and the Pony several times a day for months. I had to work very hard to keep them away from Ducks.
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Yeah I haven't heard of those out here in the Forsaken Western Reach.
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If the protagonist isn't making everything worse, what's even the point?
Just found this book through a friend and it's a delight, looking forward to reading your others!
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"bro, are ye dicking around" is pretty mighty as well
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Sorry, I'm being unclear in my grumpiness: I don't mean the US we've been dealing with for the last decades, an overwhelming but generally beneficial trade partner. I mean the US we're dealing with now, who apparently think mutual benefit is a sucker's game.
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But if we let Americans use our roads for free, surely, *surely* they'll pay us back in kindness and friendship of equal measure... Right?
I don't know why we've been letting them literally walk all over us this long.
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My sibling
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Thanks Terrill. I've done that too. It's a scary place to be. You're a good person.
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I have had a day like that *from reading comics you drew* so that's kinda neat.
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It always drives me crazy how obvious and unsubtle our opposition is. I realize that despite current events, they're mostly losing, but I wish it wasn't even a fight.
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What, no surfboard? Worst Herald ever.
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This assumes that those people want to resist. I think very few of them care much.
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I was already avoiding American stuff, but it was a good reason to get real hardcore about it.
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Remember that time he made a whole comic about a good chickpea recipe? Hah. That guy just gets me.
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2003 ryan north is a cool guy, he's the ryan north I have the strongest parasocial relationship with. You're cool too, 2025 ryan north, don't get me wrong, but I've known 2003 ryan north for over twenty years now.
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When my human children start shouting randomly at passersby and bashing their faces on the window, I drag them to the door and toss them into the backyard. It works wonders, 10/10.
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This is maybe the purest distillation of the 24h news cycle you can have. "Something might happen to destroy everything and you can't stop it. Read more!"
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Prars.
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If you read the thread, the only person saying that is you. Everyone else is complaining about the Democrats not taking any meaningful action.
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There's nobody trying to vote for the Democrats. Hold them responsible for taking *some* kind of action. Sure, support them to stop the Republicans when it's necessary, but the moment you don't have to, *demand better*. Why would you defend these incompetent milquetoasts as your only other choice.
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I've also met a few of the actors at various cons and they've all stood out as particularly nice folks even by the standards of indie sci fi peeps
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It's important for us to consider and debate our use of language, it has a huge impact on how we form concepts and biases. You don't have to agree of course.
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Oh you draw these! These are great books, my kids read them until they just about fell apart. They've grown out of them now but they're in the "keep until we have grandkids" box which is a place of honour. Love your Watterson inspired art for them, Chris!
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Did you go there to let them out of your head and set them free in their natural habitat?
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As are a huge number of people touting these technologies. Lint in the bum hairs of society.
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Oh no, this is going to be a hard one.
Could you make her the classic Ohio treat, Buckeyes, but instead of peanut butter rolled into a ball, use a protein bar, and instead of chocolate to dip it in, make a kind of Vegemite shell? I'm assuming like all people she doesn't like protein bars.
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Your only option would be to choose something sacred to her and destroy it. Can you make her a sandwich from a loaf sliced lengthwise?
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*boun houn houn*
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It all makes sense of you consider this further evidence that they place absolutely no value on creativity and creation, only on their tech. The content they stole is worthless to them, but the platform they built with it is super important. Understanding this helps see why they're so broken.
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Oh so that's what we're dropping with the possessive apostrophe. Makes sense.
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Seeing a little kid pretend to read a newspaper and just skipping the kanji is a very cute, particularly Japanese thing.
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I... I guess that was close to twenty years ago... So they might have had time for more than one or two more.
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I feel so old, the last one I played was 4 and I just kind of assumed without thinking that this was still a recent re game and they'd probably only made one or two more. Time is weird.
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Oh nooo Anita Bryant died, who will whine about the children now so saaaaad
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I have it on good authority from a friend who worked with him that he's also just a great guy irl.