Is that date important? I forget

Ooooooh you dirty, hahaha

Warlock, tapping on cage lock: Wakey wakey

Paladin: Come at last for your blood sacrifice, heathen?

Warlock: Disonia is a vegan god of chaos, not that I expect zealots to understand doctrinal nuance. No, I’m here to talk, you goodies like to talk right?

Paladin: … perhaps…

Warlock: Can we agree that sometimes there are lesser and greater evils? We’re putting together an expedition into the Dark Lands. A crusade, if you prefer…

Oh wow, now that’s a fun surprise! I loved SS2 back in the day, my god, 20 years… Love the banner image too, Croteam’s always had a cute sense of humor.

Yeah, I hate these stories for the amount of Big Ethical Talk it beings out in people. “I would stand by my partner no matter what” is the “I could fight a bear” of emotional labor. Unless you’ve had a serious illness or been very close to someone who has (not parents or siblings, a voluntary relationship), then you just really don’t know what you’re talking about.

I read this one late last year and immediately started planning the most elaborate campaign I’ve ever considered. Haha, it drives you a little crazy just reading it, really amazing stuff. Hope I get it to the table someday!

The most communist farside?

Similar to vampires, every dwarven ship has an enormous boulder occupying a conspicuous place in the quarters. Sleeping near this “home stone” is necessary to prevent dwarves from going sea crazy.

I remember this one from when I was a kid, a true classic! The humor really is in all the details. I love even the attention to stupid little things like the monogrammed “Bob” on the delivery person’s uniform. There’s something just a little bit funnier, a little more narrative maybe, about “Bob, the snake delivery man.”

Yep, in The Eyes of the Overworld, we meet Cugel the Clever, literally the prototypical D&D rogue/thief. He steals from a wizard and is banished very far away for it. He eventually gets back to take revenge on the wizard and steps on a trap or something that banishes him even farther away the second time. His journey picks back up in Cugel’s Saga, a sequel novel, where he goes on more zany adventures and eventually makes it back again as I recall.

For those who needed some news catching up also:

https://www.ign.com/articles/take-two-shutters-kerbal-space-program-2-studio-amid-layoffs

The publisher, Take Two, laid off the entire staff of KSP2. This pissed off many fans, who had paid full price for Early Access to an unfinishee game that now didn’t have a Dev team.

https://www.polygon.com/news/475635/private-division-sold/

Then T2 sold off the studio to this other company. And staffing up for Dev work when none if the original creators are around: 1. Sucks and is miserable work and 2. Almost never works out to produce a quality product.

So yeah, instead of that debacle, they opted for the Disco Elysium 2 debacle where the publishers steal the IP from the original creators and then fail to ever deliver anything with it. I love this debacle because you get a shitty publisher with a disappointing game AND embittered developers who will probably leave game making or go on to make less involved projects. It’s great they can both financially ruin an industry with bad practices while also tearing out the soul of the medium.

This is very exciting! But I’m relying on third-party addons for both Android (syncthing-fork from Fdroid, itself a fork of syncthing-android which wasn’t being maintained) and windows (syncthing tray). I think my Mac and Linux machines are using standard syncthing, but I’ll be waiting a little bit for the rest of the community/ecosystem to catch up!

Orb memes are older than I thought!

Hmmm… I don’t see dbzer0 in the list, I wonder how we escaped? I think we’re like the 3rd or 4th biggest instance, and positive leaning on AI. Maybe @[email protected] just has amazing sys admin skills?

This is great news! I love these 2 games, especially Hexen! Be a lot easier to play them on steamdeck now!

Looks like mods are just starting to go up. Hopefully Jimmy (or a fan I guess) uploads his Faithless trilogy for Heretic. It mixes some elements from Hexen in and is one of the better fantasy boomer shooters I’ve played. Highly recommended when it’s available.

If there’s one hard lesson of history I keep relearning, it’s that almost nothing ever happens until it materially is required to happen. Language and agriculture waited until population density was high enough. The industrial revolution didn’t happen until the logistics and population sizes again necessitated massive changes, even though the steam engine was hundreds of years old. Revolutions don’t happen until the population is starving.

If anything in history is impressive it’s the rare individuals and societies that change before they’re forced to by material necessity (and those cases are often debatable). Really dampens the notion of idealism being viable.

And now folks, realize that this is true of every single thing that humans think about.

You put a duck and a sparrow side by side and maybe it seems obvious that, while not the same, these two things have something deeply in common. But most people have never considered them in one thought. When you get into abstract ideas like “freedom” or “socialism” is it any surprise that most people can’t even recognize them, let alone agree on any commonalities?

You spend all day arranging dogs next to bears going “do you see how these are both canine-form mammals?” and the public is watching a tiktok while dismissing you going “Uh bears aren’t pets, what a dumbass!”

Fair cop, I didn’t check source I just saw it mentioned elsewhere. His company being valued at just over a billlion probably confused people.

I grant that there’s a difference of degrees here, but him being “just” an unethical millionaire doesn’t substantially change my views on the situation.

Someone in another thread mentioned polyamory which I find a personally interesting angle as well, since I practice relationship anarchy. This situation would just never happen to me because all my paramours know each other and know about the activies we do together. It makes me suspicious of these stories because while I also enjoy laughing at a rich guy getting caught, I don’t like that it culturally reinforces this idea of monogamy as a core value and that breaking the trust of such monogamy should have public consequences.

Obviously the last thing I want is society-wide condemnation of the wrong aspect of this situation. It isnt the having a side-piece that’s the problem, it’s the lying to your primary partner (and everyone else) that actually creates the trouble.