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this is going to sound like the most boomer take ever but I genuinely think increasing reliance on technology for entertainment in youth is draining creativity. it's that instant gratification which allows you to shut your brain off for a while. these kids aren't having to resort to their own creativity when bored. there's always a solution to "bored" now. BRING BACK PLAYING WOLVES UNTIL BEDTIME

omg. this is not a "technology bad" post. if anything capitalism and consumerism are to blame - both for parents not having time outside work to raise their kids and for advertising towards children being increasingly more common.

i'm aware you're probably tired of hearing "kids these days" complaints but this is not criticism of children, it's criticism of the society and environment they're living in.

Ngl I agree, and I grieve for these kids. I feel like it probably damages their problem-solving abilities, too, tbh. When you can just restart an app you lose the ability to go “what if I turn it like THIS?”

We excel at the skill sets we have to learn. Ask any elderly person and they probably still have half a dozen phone numbers off by heart. I was almost out of high school before I got my first phone, and its phone book had only ten contact slots—I still know a lot of the phone numbers of my childhood. But we no longer have to do memorization like that. Ask me my dad’s phone number. When I was ten it was 814-734-1770. Now it’s 480…….something. No clue about the rest. I think there’s a 76 in there. I don’t know. It’s in my phone.

If you don’t have to learn a skill, you won’t, because your brain will allocate that space to something more urgent. And if the skill being lost is how to make slow progress….

Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

an article on the subject for the curious:

This is what Trans people look like

The government doesn't want you to know this but you can get one pound of whole dried peas, soak them overnight in water, around 8 to 10 hours. Make sure there's enough water, they're going to suck it right up. Around eight or nine cups should be enough. The next day, now listen to me: there's going to be water left in there. You're going to keep it. You're going to boil the peas in that water. Just let it boil and then lower it down to a simmer. Now, you don't need anything fancy here: salt, pepper, marjoram will work just fine. If you wanna get fancy a couple of stock cubes can give it a bit of extra flavor. Chop an onion, and add that in there. You can also add some diced ham (about a pound) or carrot in there if you like. I ain't a cop. You're gonna want to cook this for about two to three hours. You're also gonna wanna have about a cup of water extra, just in case it comes out too thick, you can always water it down. Bam, you're done. And if anyone asks, you didn't hear this from me.

Throwing Children by Ross Gay

[Text: Throwing Children / Ross Gay.

It is really something when a kid who has a hard time becomes a kid who's having a good time in no small part thanks to you throwing that kid in the air again and again on a mile long walk home from the Indian joint as her mom looks sideways at you like you don't need to keep doing this because you're pouring with sweat and breathing a little bit now you're getting a good workout but because the kid laughs like a horse up there laughs like a kangaroo beating her wings against the light because she laughs like a happy little kid and when coming down and grabbing your forearm to brace herself for the time when you will drop her which you don't and slides her hand into yours as she says for the fortieth time the fiftieth time inexhaustible her delight again again again and again and you say give me til the redbud tree or give me til the persimmon tree because she knows the trees and so quiet you almost can't hear through her giggles she says ok til the next tree when she explodes howling yanking your arm from the socket again again all the wolves and mourning doves flying from her tiny throat and you throw her so high she lives up there in the tree for a minute she notices the ants organizing on the bark and a bumblebee carousing the little unripe persimmon in its beret she laughs and laughs as she hovers up there like a bumblebee like a hummingbird up there giggling in the light like a giddy little girl up there the world knows how to love. /end ID.]

An older commission I did for a friend of her Curse of Strahd bard, Charlotte! Flat commissions are fun cause I have to be creative with making the piece look dynamic!

Reblogging this commission for @nyapawlitan again

I still love this piece!!! 💖

Please commission my friend tanuki!! They are one of the greatest artists I know.

happy glorious 25th of may

As of today, we are releasing the February 29th, 2024 version of the Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy full prerelease rulebook FOR FREE.

If you’re wondering what Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy even is, it’s going to Kickstarter starting April 10th, 2024, and, besides downloading the free version we are releasing today, the Kickstarter link is probably the best way to learn what you can expect from it.

As a thank-you to all of those who have supported us with follows, reblogs, likes, and word-of-mouth, we are replacing the cut-down free demo version of Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy that has been available on our website with the full February 29th prerelease version of the rulebook. If you’ve only looked at the demo version, this is huge for you. Four months of constant additions, improvements, playtesting, polishing, and tweaking, plus access to all of the things that were redacted from the original demo version, including rules for handling explosives, advanced melee combat rules, and five fully playable man-eating monsters—and Eureka handles playing monstrous PCs in a way you’ve never seen before! This isn’t just +1 to strength and +2 extra damage taken from silver weapons, playing a monster in Eureka is a whole different experience from playing a mundane PC!

Download the free full prerelease version now from our website!

If you like it, consider giving us a tip on Ko-fi, or the pay-what-you-want version on itch.io! (At the time of writing this, the pay-what-you-want version is not actually set up yet, so your best bet is to get the free version from our website and give us a little donation on ko-fi.)

All subsequent updates to the prerelease version will continue to be exclusive to patreon subscribers; for only $5 you can get the regularly updated prerelease version of Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy as well as many other in-progress projects such as adventure modules and literary works!

And don’t forget, Eureka is fundraising on Kickstarter starting on April 10th, 2024! We need your support there most of all, to make sure we hit our goals and can afford to make the best version of Eureka we can make!

Interested in branching out but can’t get your group to play anything but D&D5e? Join us at the A.N.I.M. TTRPG Book Club, where we nominate, vote on, and play indie TTRPGs, all organized by our team with no strict schedule requirement! Here's the invite link! See you there!

Your great-great-great grandfather was a vampire. However, the vampire genes are so diluted all it means is you’re mildly annoyed by crosses, are allergic to garlic, and get sunburned easily.

twitter's bot problem has gotten out of hand

this may or may not be a fantasy writing exercise for me. please reblog

New commission piece for @nyapawlitan of the handsome bastard Kieran for an upcoming pirate campaign! It was such a blast to work on him

I'll be DMing said pirate campaign, titled "Race for the Shallow Chalice" for both @nyapawlitan and @tanukitheater and other pals, and we will be streaming it live on twitch! I'm excited and also scared.

Between Kieran and the other characters this is just gonna devolve into NNTM (Nerimiere's Next Top Model), probably.

humans are a subspecies of elf known for dying really quickly and being stressed the whole time