misfiled as "Keet, Electric" @ElectricKeet@awoo.space

Two more #drawings today, adventurers vs owlbear, and a mechanical dragon. I’m mostly thinking about contrast with shadows to pop out figures, with a little trying to use the blending stamp to get some depth of field.

I don't know if I can hope for this as a universal thing, but I'd really like it if people in my personal orbit--at least with me--focused less on how sorry they are about their fuckups and more on actually integrating the data they just got

misery has no inherent value

I don't need their suffering for anything. It doesn't help me with a goddamn thing.

I need them to acquire +1 Thing Learned and then just go forward with that +1 Thing Learned.

"I'm so sorry, I feel awful, I am in pain because I understand what I did was so bad, I hate that I did the thing I'm so sorry about" USELESS

"oh, shit, good call, thank you," EFFICIENT. REASSURING. PROMISING. CORRECT.

can we get everyone to just treat acquiring new social data like we would a new effort-saving thing Excel can do
please

"oh that's way better, thank you" THE END

“When you catch yourself wondering why your reaction in the moment seems to be bigger than it should be, remind yourself that new pain connects itself to old pain.
Losses chain themselves together.
Grief echoes
and must therefore be carried with great gentleness.” - Dr. Alexandra H. Solomon

the true measure of whether someone's old enough to have played AD&D is not their take on the word "race" and whether those player character options include newer groups like tieflings or dragonborn. It's whether they can rattle off different types of polearm.

#drawings so far today; experimenting with Col-Erase pencils on three fire giants, and normal graphite pencils for a ghoul knight, ghoul noble and portrait. Also b/c I was thinking of this awesome Wayne Reynolds painting, there’s a kitty!

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Check your health insurance costs on healthcare.gov because income limits have been slashed. I personally was just a couple thousand over the subsidy limit but will now likely qualify for a $200/mo discount, BUT OPEN ENROLLMENT ENDS SUNDAY. So check on it NOW and save a bunch of money!

https://www.healthinsurance.org/obamacare/beware-obamacares-subsidy-cliff/

i shit you not

we walked out to the chapel building and the camp supervisors put on a play about jesus getting tempted by satan or smth

so satan is getting way into it to scare the kids and he runs down the aisle and bops me on the shoulder as like a "blehhhh i'm scary" thing but he messes up and hits me REAL HARD

so my fondest memory of bible camp is satan kneeling beside me in a dark church to make sure i was okay and cheer me up when i was in pain

"I WANT HIM IN THE GAMES UNTIL HE DIES PLAYING"

"sir, this is a Chuck E. Cheese's"

Dhexdes

people aren't born being happy about being themselves, and if you can achieve that, even momentarily, it's because you've done a lot of hard work and growth.

Keep going, you're doing the right thing and it's working. 💛💚💙

can we take a moment to appreciate owen hurcum, mayor of bangor, in gogledd Cymru?

artwork by Amariah Love; shared with permission

In case you were curious about this console...

The CEO of Intellivision, Tommy Tallarico, follows white supremacists on Twitter and calls critics of the Amico 'communists' and 'gaming racists' (lol)

https://twitter.com/ConVito/status/1410340382270017545

Furthermore, the console has dubious specs, a dubious release timeline, expects an insane cut of developer revenue ('about 50%') and has possibly been misleading its investors.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/06/what-the-hecks-an-intellivision-amico-consoles-leaky-dev-portal-offers-hints/

"what's a himbo?"

well when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie

heads-up: according to a post from a Swiss law firm on Twitter, at least one person has been charged based on ProtonMail emails that the company shared with US law enforcement.

https://twitter.com/GothBotAlice/status/1422570282833915907 is the one we were linked to, https://twitter.com/cho0b/status/1422553834556207116 is the one that quoted, https://steigerlegal.ch/2021/08/02/protonmail-daten-usa/ is the post.

Commander Data from "Star Trek: The Next Generation" sits at the helm/conn of the Enterprise, but instead of the normal glossy touchscreen interface in black, it's a simplified blue & grey Windows 98 dialog box, titled "Options for Flying Through Space".

The sections are

"Warp speed": a volume slider control that slides between "Slow" and "Fast".

"Starfield density": a spinbox for "Number of stars (10-200)"

The right hand side has a pair of giant "OK" and "Cancel" buttons.