iolar @iolar@zitidar.barsoom.cc

#3022 - Making Tea

Funko called, not the creator of itch, but *his mother,* about "accusatory statements".

oy vey

Every
Game
Designer . . .

Ever

OK, this is pretty damned funny

And if you haven't heard our discussion on AI and tabletop gaming with David Thompson, it was this episode of our podcast, Mentioned in Dispatches

http://armchairdragoons.com/podcast/s13e2/

#boardwargames

Over 350 musicians are speaking out to demand that major labels drop a lawsuit aimed to destroy the Internet Archive.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/tegan-sara-kathleen-hanna-internet-archive-lawsuit-letter-1235195841/

Oh sweet fancy moses.

"An AI company that made a robot called Moxie to socialize children with special needs went under and so now parents have to explain to their kids that their robots are dying."

(a story tailor-made for @pluralistic )

https://aftermath.site/moxie-robot-ai-dying-llm-embodied

OK where do I buy this?
Take my money!

What paywalls were made for!

New essay on how so many people have camped out, so enthusiastically, in the departure lounge of reality…

…in which I share the beliefs of some of actual real-life family members, and I do not want to get in trouble.

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/there-are-no-alternative-facts-some

I'm gonna keep posting this until one of you fucking boosts it

@shlee im about halfway through and cannot tell if this is a shitpost or not

As a kid on the C64 this load sequence meant top shelf, best of the best. It also meant uncopyable.

#retrogaming

Whoever is complaining about stepping on LEGO doesn’t have a child that likes to leave these scattered about the house.

#meshtastic #bbs #tc2bbs messaging service and bulletin board using meshtastic direct messages as an interface to a server #heltecv3 #ubuntu
https://youtu.be/XOg7WHpgqfk
and
https://youtu.be/d6LhY4HoimU
awesome ! With the meshtastic mesh you can retrieve messages and access bulletin boards. Reminds me of .... internet. With no service providers. Home-made net.

The state of search in 2024:

Google: "We threw away decades of search knowledge and Internet indexing and just made an answer up "

Bing: "Here's 100 tangentially related pages from 2010 that I only included because your query appears in a tag cloud in the website's footer"

DuckDuckGo: "Here are the Bing results, only with ✨privacy✨"

Reddit: (this user has deleted their entire post history using PowerDeleteMyShit. Fuck /u/Spez)

Yahoo: "Oh thank god, someone's actually using our search engine! No, we're not just Bing!" *frantically trying to cover up the giant Bing sticker* "NO DON'T GO TO GOOGLE!!!!"

Yandex: "Here are all of the Russian-owned resources on this topic. Only Russian sources are trustworthy. Everything else is fake ne—I MEAN, misinformation"

Kagi: "We'll give you what Google used to give you for free, for the low low price of $10/month!"

Ask.com: [hoarse screaming and clawing noises can be heard from the ground beneath a headstone that says "Here lies Jeeves: 1996-2006"]

A more modern histomap constructed by Schofield & Sims in 2016

Compare to a similar timeline constructed by John B. Sparks in 1931

https://social.vivaldi.net/@randomwizard/112283367617265135

#worldbuilding #history #rpg #osr

#2941 - Cell Organelles

A sad day for #retrogaming
Even the site itself is retro.

https://vimm.net/bbs/?p=viewPost&Post=33640

So I feel like this should be obvious, in general, but it's a good, strong move to use your normal choice of cleaner (LA's, Simple Green, Super Clean, 99% IPA) to get most of the paint off, and reserve a special bottle of paint blitzer for the hard to clean bits.

On the other hand, I have cleaned like fifty minis in these two glass jars (using about 2/3 of my half liter supply) and they are still going super strong.

#paintingMinis #miniatures #painting #paintingMiniatures #miniaturePainting