https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lin7mc5Feso

“Stick with the prod.”

…ye gads, i adore aerial but most of her ouvre pre-ninth wave does nothing for me…

…marvel super heroes also featured a resources ability score and feats to represent financial maneuvers akin to lines of credit; it felt frustratingly abstracted as a teenager living in a discretionary cash economy, but after several decades as a real-world adult i realise that it’s an elegant abstraction for how people actually live and conduct commerce…

…i was going to say flashback or mean streets, but no, it was definitely the original tron arcade game; that pre-dated even war games…

…before a certain point in the early eighties, the line between cyberpunk and science fiction gets pretty blurry, so i don’t think anything i played in the seventies counts…

…i think we explored this place in our call of cthulhu campaign; poor henry was reduced to black ooze…

…y’all roughly correlates with coke, although there are some deep pockets of soda-water in the back country…

…this is actually paizo’s second 5e conversion!..

…many folks don’t realise that their 5e kingmaker bestiary is actually a full conversion sourcebook for use with the published pathfinder adventure: unlike abomination vaults, you need both books to run it…

…i believe both conversions were outsourced, though, and after the OGL debacle paizo don’t seem likely to repeat the exercise…

…not super-obscure in its day but very much a product of the mid-eighties, i doubt many folks are familiar with it fourty years later: michael crichton, tom selleck, gene simmons, peak kirstie alley…

(set in the near future-shock of 1991!)

…“baby steps” they called that corporate handout, fomented by a groundswell of apologists that patience would be rewarded in due course…

sixteen.
f*cking.
years.

…when was the last time the democratic party ran a legitimately progressive platform?..i’m not talking about vacuous platitudes, i’m talking about articulated commitment backed up by tangible, substantive, follow-through changing the nature of established paradigm?..

…the electorate can vote or not vote for whomever the f*ck they see fit: that’s the fundamental point of democracy…

…the most-effective way to win those votes is to earn them, not to berate the electorate with a presumption of entitlement…

…the funny counterpart is that when liberals run a full-throated embrace of populism, their greatest threat isn’t the surge of new progressive supporters, but establishment democrats desperately afraid of losing conservatives who’d never support them anyway…

…was there one before?..

…you don’t win over conservatives by offering light-conservatism, but the democratic party have run the same playbook since 1992…

…i’m not sure that’s how one builds a coalition…

…i should clarify: upgrades from windows 7/8 were free…

…windows 10 was free to a lot of people; it’s a pretty solid OS and i’d be happy to pay a fair price for ongoing support…