Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

If I told you Africa’s deadliest mammal had a skull like a draconic nightmare you’d believe that right? But what if I ALSO told you it looked absurdly cuddly and I wanted to hug it?

Um, you’d figure with the incidence of coffee and olive oil in Mediterranean cuisine if you could combine them effectively someone would have, several centuries back, and maybe there’s a reason it’s not a feature of Mediterranean cuisines.

Thought of the day; real urban slang borrows from social under classes forced into those cities. So D&D thieves cant would probably be full of Hin loanwords (maybe also goblin, dwarf or kobold) which probably furthers the stereotype of halflings as rogues.

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can't you hear the screaming in the streets, it's BLOCKWAR!

my dude, did you watch the same Judge Dredd movie I watched in the 90s?

every stone I could turn.
every stream I held in my arms
shed some light
move your magic
take some time
show me how
talisman

all these years I thought I was a monster, and I wasn't; I was just angry, often low on sleep and blood sugar as well, and the worst thing to be said about it was that being angry wasn't usually actionable, so it wasn't so useful here.

not directed at anyone here but; you shit aren't even human. I think you're some sort of nematode, parasitology textbooks in college were full of things like you.

I definitely don’t want to attract mockery, but not much more traffic, by paying $8 to an antisemitic transphobe who makes more in a year than all of Australia.

Growing older, I had to accept making art for a living was probably not going to happen, but my consolation was; the most important thing was actually not money or safety from crap jobs but *entertaining* other people and myself. Unfortunately, a lot of how I reached people was Twitter, so now my ability to entertain is severely limited and I’m not quite sure how I feel about that.

#drawings today; dwarf or duergar expedition to Sekamina (in Pathfinder) runs afoul of a small tyrannosaur, and a batch of sorcerers.

I really really want to go to a convention, stay at a con hotel, go to parties, actually buy stuff. Right now it feels like that's never going to happen.

The Jewish version; a guy goes to a schul in his new home town. It's beautiful, it's great, he feels really connected to the community and... everyone bows on the third step to the bima, consistently, no matter why they're going up there. After services, he's talking to the rabbi and brings this up, and the rabbi's answer is, "Oh! We used to meet in a big basement. There was a really low lying pipe right above the third step to the bima."

A few years later in a wing tsun class; there are some gong fu students, going through this taolu, where you do a number of kicks, blocks, and after about 15', you turn 180 degrees and repeat going the opposite direction. Eventually one of the students asks why the turn after 15'? And the sifu's answer is "Oh. I came up with this when I lived in a real small apartment."

the evolution of D&D is like other evolution, where derived forms aren't completely derived; there are weird holdovers, bits that don't seem functional, and holdovers of multiple "aha!" moments.

HD/HP. Armor class. Alignment. "Race"/ancestry as determinants. etc.

Some of it is what a Catholic would call the power of tradition. Which leads me to ANECDOTE TIME...

How to tell an image is AI generated?

Well, typically the person who fed prompts into the machine will go on about how completely amazing it is that they flipped the switch on the Art-o-Matic and big tiddy pharyngeal jaws ladies came out.

apparently when it comes time to fight Republicans using Republican tactics they don't have the wherewithal to force allowing a senator off a committee or stacking SCOTUS but they have plenty of energy for dictating our only choice for highest office. I'm really tired of this "what are you gonna do about it, get yourself killed off by police and right wing militia while protesting non-violently?" attitude.

it's "I will not flip my shit at my allies" time again