iolar @iolar@zitidar.barsoom.cc
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Life advice:
- be kind
- tip well
- read banned books
- let your fangs grow long
- sharpen your antlers with a fey dagger
- spread your gloomy splendor across the wildlands forever
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Steve Jackson Games:
"Here are the numbers: A product we might have manufactured in China for $3.00 last year could now cost $4.62 before we even ship it across the ocean. Add freight, warehousing, fulfillment, and distribution margins, and that once-$25 game quickly becomes a $40 product. That's not a luxury upcharge; it's survival math."
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“The sky was the color of television tuned to a dead channel”
80s meaning: grey
90s meaning: blue
Today: full of ads from the smart tv vendor
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@jwcph @pluralistic Speaking of paperclip maximisers, I've long suspected that Asimov's true target with his Three Rules of Robotics wasn't robots per se but private enterprise.
It'd be ... interesting ... to have an incorporation statute which ... incorporated those rules of behaviour.
Sigh. Backed another one. https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/2nd-dynasty/aesir-fleet-28mm-starships-for-your-3d-printer "Agog to be the 21st backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Aesir Fleet: 28mm Ships for your tabletop!"
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#television #ScienceFiction #scifi 32 years ago, in the U.S.A. “The Gathering” was broadcast, the TV movie pilot that introduced the saga of “Babylon 5” https://english.netmassimo.com/2013/02/22/20-years-of-babylon-5/
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*Who can't like posting antimastodon remarks here on Mastodon
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*I'm with your scoldy Mastodon program here, but I'm a 71-year-old cyberpunk
*I used to write sci-fi books with manual typewriters
*How much "dismantled future image" do you imagine I would somehow personally fret about
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🤔 Any love for the Commodore SX-64?
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@Computer I am reporting myself to Internal Security, and volunteering for Reactor Shielding duty in hopes that my failures can still point the way to a better Complex for everyone.
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