leftcoastscott.bsky.social
He/him, mostly harmless.
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Harn has always had incredible maps, probably the peak of "realistic" map design for its day, and at least top five even now. It's a bit of a contrast with how gonzo the world building is, but it all works pretty well.
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Best we can offer at this time is fourth territory. Deal?
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I once had a book from a kickstarter shipped (in bulk) from China to Vancouver, then across the continent to a fulfillment center in New York, and then mailed to me. In Vancouver.
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Looking forward to the Bond/Reacher crossover. Or dreading; hard to tell these days.
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Nah. It's basically the all-star game, its purpose is to line the pockets of zillionaires. Patriotism is just a marketing strategy.
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Yeah, pre-9/11. I used to take month-long business trips to the US with just an Ontario driver's license. Easy to see why it changed, still felt like a loss.
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So my occasional escape game is "Gratuitous Space Battles." You create massive space fleets and watch them blow up. Surprisingly satisfying.
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Haven't looked up the numbers, but c. 2002? AKA the winter before I moved to Vancouver. Mayor Bad Boy called in the army to help clear the snow.
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I dunno why we're seeing these quotes from the intern. Can someone get an interview with President Musk?
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Darn, looks like I didn't get the job.
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I had a lot of trouble following the broadcast sound (which I attributed to my aging ears and the general ambience of a group of folks watching), but when I watched a YouTube video later it was clear as day.
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Oh, we are 100% treating Trump's statements as threats. That's the only common sense, reasonable response.
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Thiel is backing a project to build a libertarian city called "Praxis." They fixated on Greenland as the site for this city when Trump first started musing about "buying" Greenland, in 2019.
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The only unreasonable amount of garlic in gumbo is none.
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I have discovered new ways to swear. And my dad was from Glasgow, so that's saying something!
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Just nobody tell Kendrick.
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I haven't seen a job posting yet, but I imagine the qualifications include "occasional lifting up to 20kg."
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I'm not sure if "okay, I'm not going to swing this baseball bat at you today" really counts as negotiating.
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If it is, it'll be the one good thing to come from all of this.
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Originally? To support the troops in WWII. Now? It's really just the inertia of tradition, but I think it's a requirement of the various leagues - I don't believe the Raptors or Senators or whoever can just decide not to have anthems, it'd have to be the NBA/NHL/etc.
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Worth noting that the Irvings, while technically Canadians, are oligarchs in the same mould as Musk and company. There is zero chance they would do anything other than use this as an excuse to ramp up prices (and their own profits).
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Can't wait for The Road Warrior!
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It's been out there. Part of the reason Trump's narrative shifts so much - from drugs to immigration to trade deficits to 51st State - is that he gets asked questions that demonstrate he's wrong.
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I'm fond of Cory Doctorow's suggestions: pluralistic.net/2025/01/15/b...
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They probably still own a few others from TSR's Amazing Engine line, including Totally Not Aliens, Totally Not Dune, and Totally Not Star Wars.
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At one point in my late forties, I managed to twist my ankle while sleeping.
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Alt text shaming: those are d10s, not d20s! Also, that's a World of Darkness character sheet, so it'd be a Storyteller, not a DM - wait, where's everyone going, I got lots more nerdiness!
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I'm sure lots of people had my attitude, and it helped hide the real horrors that were going on. I dunno what to do about that. Will take some processing. (2/2)
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I remember when I first heard rumblings of not great behavior, it sounded like rock star stuff - infidelity that isn't admirable, but that I mostly think of as a private matter. (1/2)
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As a Canadian, it seems to me the only scenario by which Canada is annexed by the US probably implies most people in the US have lost effective voting rights.
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Is he, though? Has anyone run this by @dieworkwear.bsky.social for an official ruling?
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Not really true - there's the nuclear option. Junk the NPT, develop nuclear weapons. I'd peg that as the more frightening scenario, but then I'm a woke peacenik type.
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r/Canada was essentially taken over by a group of right wing mods some years back. I hardly ever posted there, but at one point they mass-banned everyone who'd posted to any of a list of "left wing" subs, and got me. r/onguardforthee is a more inclusive alternative, but not as big.
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So for example, I sitting here in Vancouver am aware that a megathrust quake will occur someday, but that could be tomorrow or it could be five centuries down the road. So I don't sweat it too much. Everyone dies from something, right?
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For any of those geological events, the odds they'll occur on a human timescale are quite low. But as you increase the timescale, the likelihood of an event somewhere in that period increases.
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Oh, we know about it. I figure it's a race, western North America going in the Big One, or basically the rest of the US and Canada getting suffocated by Yellowstone.
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Yeah, this ain't the world I thought we were headed towards when I first got onto Usenet, 30-mumble years ago. I feel like we've lost the public square of the internet. Dunno if we can get it back.
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I suspect it's the difference between personal/trusted comms and the wild west. There's all sorts of emojis that we use sincerely in texts or small audience discords and such, but are more likely to be manipulative in a post to the world.
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Also gen x. My voicemail message is "please hang up, and text like a normal person." Started as a joke, turns out it's a ridiculously effective screen for telemarketers, robocalls, scams, etc.
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I believe itch also charges creators less than drivethru. So even for comparatively big creators like Evil Hat, I still go to itch first.
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Noted free speech absolutist, Elon Musk, telling us what we can and cannot say about our elf games. I'm a little surprised he's claiming familiarity with the hobby, he doesn't seem like he'd have the necessary empathy to rp anyone different from him.
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The crossover we need but probably don't deserve.
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I've been using the alpha for about a year. It's fine, if a little lighter on the feature list than you'd expect from something that's part of DnDBeyond. Dunno how much of a future it has with the other one in development.
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Does it come with an explanation of what a feudal technocracy actually is? I've never really been clear on that one.
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Of course, there's also games that use cards - standard playing cards, custom sets, tarot cards, etc. And Dread, which uses Jenga towers. Lots of cool options.