Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

The discourse; my impression is nobody pushing AI art is selling it as "hey, this is a cool tool for *you* - it can only fully replace you in places that don't need your ability to make artistic judgment calls." But at pretty much every level it sure seems to be phrased as just more fuck over anything that looks like a worker. This is the sort of alienation Marx was on about.

Oh sweet sacred Corellon Larethian we’re not done yet I’m gonna gnaw my foot off to escape

Important D&D announcement

* D&D Zero offers the same role playing without the calories!
* favorite settings like Hollow World and Red Steel!
* play as a big tiddy goth dragon girlfriend, war toaster, dire halfling, or a very confused coyote!
* game still tanks after 10th level!

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Vitruvian Man, Vitruvian Man
Does whatever a naked dude can
Multiple limbs like Otto Octavius
Extend to describe the exact same radius
Look out, here comes Vitruvian Man!

shut up shut up shut up

There are two wolves inside of you but removing even one would require a partial lobo-tomy

The Anabasis of Bill and Ted

I’m an allium
I’m a legal allium
I’m an Englishman in New York

And, already, it’s being A Day. Пиздец!

Dealing with my parents while low on sleep is enough of a thing without probably bad summer temperatures, and throwing in the world being hot steaming garbage. Pray for me, preferably to something overtly hedonistic.

For a while there, I lived in what I consider the nicest part of the Bay Area, the greater world situation wasn't the hell it became in 2020, and most importantly there was rent control in place, all of which meant a little more resources to deal with personal tragedies and past history; all of which meant I was near at least two yearly conventions to look forward to. And then in 2018 the rent control went away which forced a move, a hoped for job didn't come through, and emotional/physical fallout from 2017 slammed home.

Even though I really shouldn't feel nostalgic for this part of my life (I'd just come out of some truly terrible stuff, and some fairly bad things happened while I lived in Alameda), I can't help thinking about aging, inflation, stuff open after 7 PM, friends elsewhere, and how I don't think I'm ever really going to get to cons again AND ugh, it's a mess.

suddenly I remembered what it was like being at cons, or maybe just an idealized version. Right up there with "is my life worthwhile/ever going to be more realized" as topics to think about at 0300

I am really tired of not being good enough for people who have previously decided that I cannot be good enough for them. I fucking dumped an entire year of my life into this job. Who knows what 2021/2022 would have looked like without being overworked?

The good news is that my replacement actuator came so I can maybe have a working trunk to my car again.

The not-so-good news is I had to fiddle with Amazon stuff to get it and I really hate contributing to Amazon in even a small way.

The bad news is unemployment needs to interview me about my claim despite having all paperwork I was given, it should be indisputable, I thought it was indisputable for two weeks now, and I really do NOT want to deal with those assholes firing me even MORE.

#drawings today, a paladin on a hippogryph challenges a devil, and two monsters, a tanuki and a doppelgänger (I really want a playable tanuki in games!).

The end of The Dark Crystal where they’re like “hi! We’re basically deities now so we really don’t have energy to hang around Thra actually fixing things, so here YOU take it, sorry your entire ethnicity got genocided. Buh-bye!”

Whoops it’s the part of the Excalibur soundtrack which is “Siegfried’s Death and Funeral March,” and you know what that means right? That’s right, INAPPROPRIATE ANACHRONISMS!

Spears shall be shaken! Shields shall be splintered! A sword day, a red day, ere the sun’s rising!

crudites means "raw things" from latin CRUDUS meaning uncooked, raw, bloody

so technically eating chocolate chip cookie dough with a spoon is crudites

should the tanuki character's SCROT POINTS ever reach zero, the character's nutsack is sore and tender and they may create no illusions until after a long rest

Most everyone’s reaction to Ladyhawke:
Me: there are PERCHERONS
Most everyone:
Also everyone:
Me: they RIDE DESTRIERS through a CATHEDRAL during MATINS!