Wandering Adventure Party

@goemonsama This is so cool, and I'm especially loving it while I work through Memories of Celceta

@eldritch48 And about 20% of the lower end of estimates from the Bangladesh genocide of 1971

Incredibly out of practice, but had a big desire to get my Les Paul out this morning and practice a bit.

Hands still know *mostly* where to go, and American Idiot, About a Girl, and Korobeiniki are still fun to play.

#Guitar #Practice #Music

Trying my hand at crafting a #5e background using the 2024 rules, the barrister. Working a custom origin feat around persuasion, so far have it granting Expertise. Feels a tad lacking, so trying to look through other level one options for inspiration.

#TTRPG #DND #Homebrew

@CptSuperlative @pluralistic Funny thing that the most successful Democrat of the 21st century started off in that community organizer collective effort sort of role...

Maybe there's some correlation there?

Having finished Lessons in Magic and Disaster, I've got a little time for reading T. Kingfisher's Nettle and Bone before I really should get into Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor for my monthly SFF book club at the library.

#bookstodon

While I was on a trip over the weekend, I finished reading a review copy of Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders.

I really liked it, especially the messy ways all the relationships got into how history rhymes if it doesn't repeat itself.

Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders

I’ve really enjoyed reading works by Charlie Jane Anders in the past. I first came across her work in around 2010 as io9 gave me a view into what I should be reading as I got back into science fiction as a reader. I also really enjoyed Anders’ All the Birds in the Sky around the same time. So I was really excited when Tor Books approved me to get a copy of Anders’ latest book Lessons in Magic and Disaster through Netgalley.

Alex Keane (alexanderkeane.com)

#Netgalley #Bookstodon #Fantasy #LessonsInMagicAndDisaster

@mattb I enjoyed an LLM powered tool my work had for a bit, until I realized that the bit actually powered by the LLM was kind of buggy, and the voice to text was the bit I really enjoyed...

@LilFluff That sounds like a fun book. Back when I was in school I resisted boredom by following a roguelike tutorial for C++

Ever since reading about Nethack: Falcon's Eye in a PC magazine back in the late 90s, Roguelikes have been a recurring addiction

@Snapai Dwarves are Medium too!

@jk I may or may not regularly walk up to my coworkers and ask if I can use them as a sounding board literally so that I can hear myself explain a problem to someone else.

(The bonus when talking to a coworker is that sometimes they *also* get an idea and then I have TWO ideas to go back with)

@raphaelmorgan @chesheer @jk Like millenials joking about the forbidden candy of tide pods (mostly) didn't eat them, or a lot of Gen X had parents who did remember they had kids?

Wild. Can't be true.

(To be clear, the humor is meant as agreement)

@epidiah Oh like Rage making Killing in the Name all political recently?

Cont'd

My daughter doesn't treat them the same way, she slaps them on everything and everything spreading joy and will force you, even if you try to politely refuse, to share in the joy.

Lessons of Magic and Disaster is a book I'm digesting slowly because stuff about loss and shared joy and shared experience is hitting me in places that are still raw after losing my own mom in 2023. But it's so good. And it makes me think about parents and kids.

#Reading

Currently reading Lessons in Magic and Disaster by @charliejane which of course primes the brain for thinking about #Parenting

My venerable Kobo Aura H2O has a Luke Skywalker sticker on the back that my daughter made me take from her, because she knows I like Star Wars, even though this was the ONLY Luke Skywalker with lightsaber in the whole pack.

As a kid I never stuck stickers on anything because what if that wasn't the right place. What if I WASTED that sticker?

#Reading

@Da_Gut Old school watch out for that kitten style PCs.

Catching up on Monster Man by @gonzohistory and just listened to the Moon, Rogue.

If I ever threw one into a game and a player didn't call out "THAT'S NO MOON!" I will have failed. Especially with the tractor beam effect and everything. Like literally that premise just calls for a Star War.

(Granted my players would probably also name a Spelljammer the Centenial Eagle or something like that...)

And after a trip back to the store because the dough recipe was just not working today, we have pizza in the oven

Daughter has picked out our recipe for daddy-daughter cooking for Saturday dinner.

We're making a sheet pan pizza from scratch, making our own dough and sauce. Should be fun. (And not too many steps fall in the "hand that to me")

#Cooking #Parenting #Pizza

@Taskerland I feel like the Black and Tans are probably less known to the average American, that there was something called "The Troubles" might be known, but specifics are very not commonly known.

Unlike Nazis who've been used as default stand in for evil for 80 years and are right there in the cultural zeigeist