Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

hot take; we have governments to tackle projects so large in scope and so potentially beneficial to all that a smaller than national government sized entity theoretically can't do them. THEREFORE, how did Amazon get so big they have a space program, when say, Honda or Disney don't? See also; SpaceX, and why that should get broken up.

Here's your not infrequent reminder that I'm not one of the good guys, and you should probably not follow me.

this is twice today I've wanted to say "I'm from Georgia, you think I don't recognize EXACTLY what you're telling me here?" and I would like to think I'm not quite that stereotypical a cranky old person.

"Monday," they thought. "Maybe I got a paycheck or an electric bill." Opening the mail yielded voter's guide, an ad about HOW HORRIBLE (and by sheer coincidence Black, funny how that works) CANDIDATE OPPOSES EXPANDING OUR POLICE FORCES BUT FAVORS LETTING DRUGGIES SHOOT UP IN THE STREEEEET RIGHT BY YOU and a positive ad for WHOLESOME CANDIDATE WHO WILL CREATE POSITIVE HOMELESSNESS SOLUTIONS. "Oh that's right, there's an election coming up," they thought, and flipped back to the district election page in the voter's guide, and immediately circled the previously unadvertized Horrible Candidate and crossed out the other person as a reference for when their ballot showed up.

MY DADDY HE DISOWNED ME CAUSE I WEAR MY SISTER'S CLOTHES!
HE CAUGHT ME IN THE BATHROOM WITH A PAIR O' PANTYHOSE!

but just when all seemed lost the hobbits were rescued from Old Man Willow by Tom Waits, the most powerful being in middle earth

* various klanking and banging noises *
hey now nonny now Tom's a merry fellow
all black his overcoat is,
he got a cheap pair of boots and a lighter and a Morgul knife
and a deck of cards with Mearas on the back
from a Black Numenorean who was selling them on the streets
* koffs *

one two three fo!

Indohyus Indohyus
drinks his own box of apple juice
swimming propelled by his tail
might someday evolve to be a whale
look out
here comes the Indohyus

well if I'm gonna be listening to Arabic language music anyway it's time for the Bad Driving Theme Tune

wo aleach taadi ou ana megdi benirane waaaaaaaaaaaa
*stomps accelerator*

oh no! I have accomplished not one but TWO relatively straightforward tasks and therefore want to do fuck-all with the rest of my day. Admittedly poor sleep thanks in part to the gigantic anxiety spike doesn't help.

fucking DSA. They don't DARE say anything about Ukraine, they don't fucking protest anything in the USA or send me email about that, but the moment an Israeli pulls a trigger, they're VERY UPSET. Dudes, I fucking unsubscribed from you after I gave up hope y'all would ever fucking DO ANYTHING, unsubscribe means don't fuckin' send me emails.

again, how The Shadow soundtrack from the 90s is a little like what would happen if Batman were actually Don Michael Corleone and he fought V'Ger.

"I am honuhed to be heyah on da occashun of y'daughtuh's weddin'." *cracks knuckles*

The idea that ancestry choice is like everything else in the known world of the PCS still fairly familiar, but as the party investigates underground/the wilderness further replacement characters are likely to be from those unfamiliar places has a "crunch" aspect too in any level adjustment. This feels very old skool.

Obviously I think "a cosmopolitan society resulting from centuries of magic, history and trade, creates no easy racist decisions about who are good and bad guys and also gives players more choices" is a good thing.

But now I *also* think, "we have some fairly distinct differences but at the end of the day we're all semi-culturally assimilated anglophones and it's the outside world which is full of weirdness we can't easily relate to" is a very 1970s understanding of the world. Kinda gross and definitely not how the world is now.

you know what would make me less rabidly pissed off at the entire world? That's right, a discussion of LIFTED PICKUP TRUCKS. Shiiiiiiit.

"this would fix me" and it's just being a fictitious nonhuman with a perfect body living in a post-scarcity society

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* Unrelated figures, a ghoul or vampire bride, an orc assassin/Shargaas devotee, and a black backed jackal anthro.

* Unrelated; three genasi (half genies), a water genasi challenges a part halfling fire genasi as his earth genasi bodyguard moves to intercept. Trying to come up with genasi portraits turned into 6 residents of Calimshan in general.

#drawings today, lots of eye contact tho

wait you're telling me y'all moved to LA, THE city in which I've spent just enough time to sample amazing soup dumplings, a rare in a lifetime kosher deli experience, fusion bulgogi burritos, a Brazilian place, and Fatburger, and it was a "food swamp" where you went to McDonald's.

Did you know the covid vaccine doesn’t work? That THEY want a mask mandate back but nobody will let THEM? Etc etc. well now I do thanks to older people talking next to me while I’m trying to draw orc assassins and listen to John Williams through earbuds.

Needless to say I’m nowhere near them now.

Today's definitely being a "I really wish I could commit to talk therapy for a while" sort of morning.

feeling the connection between things;

the world is expansive, inclusive and additive. That includes that situations aren't simple dualisms (and in my case, simple dualisms I tend to believe and really hurt myself with all basically scream that I'm terrible, irredeemably unlovable, relating right back to being trained life is some sort of ugly competition) and that I don't know the whole story (which covers both a lot of anger towards others, and the horrible fatalism I direct towards myself).