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Really wish I had time and money for therapy rn.

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Mozilla is toying with implementing AI features in Firefox. please show up to the Mozilla feedback forum with me and tell them to Knock It The Fuck Off lol

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/share-your-feedback-on-the-ai-services-experiment-in-nightly/td-p/60519

re-reading "The African Knights" got me realizing how freaking big Africa is. (The title's misleading, because you can't talk about heavily armored cavalrymen without the archers and musketeers who were the reason that armor existed.)

These are all Hausa, so they're fairly inland and seem really different from what little I know about Ife kingdoms and people. That... doesn't seem like a relatively small part of the map.

Earlier I'd run into the idea that Africa shows up as smaller on maps as convenient to Eurocentrism. Mercator projections enlarge stuff further from the equator, and most of Africa and South America are close to the equator therefore less distorted.

Articles talking about this tend to compare places we think of as big (the USA or PRC) to the continent. If you fit west Texas to the Ivory Coast, Hausaland is might be around Illinois; if you flip China and put the eastern edge at the Ivory Coast, this stuff might be somewhere around Xi'an. HUGE.

Cool how some of our oldest stories basically illustrate when sequels work ("what if instead of another epic war we spun off what happened to Agamemnon, then covered themes of justice and vengeance for a few plays") and when they don't ("what if Beowulf fought Grendel's mom? How about a dragon?").

KNKX this evening pointed out that of all things the late great Isaac Hayes covered "Fever" so I looked it up and it's a banger

https://youtu.be/q38_zst5-9Q?si=JwtOP00Q3flnEk47

My next D&D character will be a monk who draws his powers from the Plane of Elemental Air

so an Air Friar

you can tell western coyotes from eastern coyotes because an eastern coyote is larger, usually has a broader muzzle and smaller ears, and typically prefers thinner crust pizzas

and remembering that sometimes what I want doesn't happen, not because of any big personal or intentional thing, but simply because timing didn't work out in my favor.

just thinking - early in the morning and underslept is a great time for it - about how the ideal I feel I have to meet is different from both where I'd be comfortable and possibly what other people actually want.

I really wish timing were better for hiking with friends later AND having a half edible to deal with some of the weird anxiety.

if I had a nickel for every time Alan Silvestri wrote a "Tunnel Chase" piece I'd have 15 cents, which isn't much but it's still noteworthy

oooh! If I eat all these Cliff Bars I have a chance to win a wilderness adventure trip where I can eat EVEN MORE CLIFF BARS!

which would bother Star Wars fans more, referring to The Imperial March as "the music for that dude saying DESSSTINY" or "The Standing at Parade Rest In Front of Windows Theme Tune"?

reflexively moving to raise a lightsaber in salute like Obi-Wan every time I hear The Force leitmotif

including ska versions

In rode the Lord of the Nazgûl, under the archway that no enemy ever yet had passed, and all fled before his face.

All save one. There waiting sat Gandalf upon Shadowfax.

“Oi PISS OFF!” said Gandalf, and the huge shadow halted. "We ain’t interested, we’ve already got one and anyway we’re closed for the evening!”

Random thought; the most D&D element of Lord of the Rings is how Aragorn - a ranger who would probably like to avoid encumbrance or notice by magical creatures - wanders all over the place with a straight up broken artifact of legend, because he might get it fixed up in a few levels.

I cast OTTO'S IRRESISTIBLE FRANCE!

"Couldn't you choose a different spell, like Bigby's Bogarting Bong Rips or Otto's Irresistable Pants? Look, there's Mordenkainen's Executive Dysfunction, on a failed Will save the target can take no action..."

"Yes but what good are they if I can't fling poo!"

"Sacred Garl, it's Defekles the Brown. Speak ye not unto him!"

"Why, brother? Is he not a sorcerer of fell might who would mickle aid our party in battle 'gainst the foul orcs?"

"Nay, brother but..."

"Good morrow friend Defekles!"

"I cast SCARAB'S DUNG BALL at the orcs!"

"Uh...."

"... any that fail their saves be subject now to 2d6 continuing Coprophagous damage, fuck yeah!"

"Uh..."

"There is a war leader standing, clad in now befouled banded mail +1. He waves his khopesh and bellows a challenge in his own language."

"Awright, tough guy, I cast FECAL TORRENT! A cone of liquified stool hits the war leader, fort save at -2 versus nausea for d8 rounds, hooah!"

"Uh... um. Uh, Fred? Do we really need to do this every session?"

"Subtle are the ways of Copromancy! Question them not!"

Olorum Sana as an album to look up later when I’m not stuck in traffic

She-Lob and the Princesses of Power, the LotR spinoff no-one asked for