Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

Apparently in this time of energy and climate crisis Britain’s new Energy Secretary was either created by Charles Dickens or possibly Terry Jones, you don’t get more British than that to be fair.

A DJs exuberance about how wonderfully sunny and clear it’s gonna be got me to switch stations and luckily there was a cover of a Cure song on the station I swapped to!

don't want to go to work, they posted, like nearly everyone else returning from the long weekend

"when did Americans lose their British accents?" since I came over when I was very young and both my parents are Americans, pretty much immediately in my case.

ooorgh. I'm having another "could sleep through the battle of Kursk going on in the next room and then three hours later I'm VERY AWAKE" night.

Some of what I worked on #drawing today, inked a horseman about to be ambushed by drow assassins; a tanuki and doppelgänger; elf cavalier versus goblin billman; four kobolds with different professions.

Trying to read actual fiction for the first time in literally years. So far Harrow the Ninth is right at the edge of being too clever by half in a way that would send me scurrying for wargames magazines or WWII bombers, but it’s not quite there yet.

It’s a horrifying fact of our current existence that ultimately the ability to make art for money - unless you got very lucky with family/partner - is essentially in the hands of landlords. And if *they* have any ability in or appreciation of visual arts it’s completely unknown.

If you have a "wah" or "wah wah" pedal hooked up to your guitar, a red panda will come out and roll around or eat bamboo or something as you play. Since everyone finds that adorable, most guitarists think it's sort of a cheap shot.

The birds associated with this country are actually kinda cool and eat garbage. Like the USA's symbol shouldn't be a bald eagle. It should be something like a F150... crying tears from a Punisher skull at the front... bristling with assault rifles... in front of the twin towers.

It’s at times like this with the USA falling apart I’m glad I’m actually a dual citizen and if things get really bad I can leave for, uh. Um. Oops.

So I’m to understand that the new PM is a horrifying fascist, which is sort of good in that she’s not the other, different, horrifying fascist?

the down side to being reminded by people in other countries that the world is bigger than the USA (as an American I need the reminder), is that basically the same sort of unusually mean people are everywhere and wealth amplifies the ability to be mean, anywhere.

there's nothing you and I won't do
I'll stop the world and melt with you
the future's open wide
the future's open wide
* predictable sudden wave of intense grief *

meine Herren heute sehen Sie mich Glaesser abwaschen
und ich mache die Bett fuer jeden
und Sie geben mich un' Pfennig und bedanke mich schnell
und Sie sieh'n ich bin ein Lump in dieses lumpiges Hotel
und Sie wissen nicht mit wem Sie ereden.

(This comes out of feeling 5e has an okay way of getting most characters' AC to resolve around 14-16ish, and leaning into a more believable part/light/unarmored look for adventurers. But it feels clumsy somehow and I'm not sure what I'm missing.)

Open question; what game systems either do more realistic or more cinematic combat than 5e? PF2e seems okay here, but despite my experience fencing I don't think I'm a particularly good judge of what's most realistic or fun for combat in games.

hot D&D take; skeletons and any monster from Greek mythology (cyclopes, minotaurs, medusae, devil dogs etc) all move with the characteristic slight jitter of stop-motion animation.

it's only garbage if it's from the La Garb region of France otherwise it's just sparkling trash

So if there’s a “panorama” which logically would be about bread and there’s “Bananarama,” theoretically somewhere there’s a poppy English band about banana bread.