Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

"Our clients are an international supplier working with what Seattle is best known for..."

oooh I know seasonal affective disorder!

gentrification?

everything closing at 1900 at latest?
* cranks Nirvana *

don't let money be an obstacle to playing Pathfinder 2e! For only $50 - less if you find a used copy - not only do you get a combination players' and game master reference, but you also get a GIANT TOME you can use as a paperwork or spend one action to use it to improve your AC!

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home, home again
I like to be here when I can
when I come home, cold and tired
it's good to warm my bones besides the fire
far away, across the fields
the tolling of the iron bells
calls the faithful to their knees
to hear the softly spoken magic spells.

no, *you're* stoned and listening to Howard Shore as a break between Zeppelin tracks. and then "Time" since it's my favorite Floyd track and I've never actually listened to it while baked.

hypothetical; you, as the DM playing Strahd von Zarovich, wish to vel... I mean welcome the PCs to Castle Ravenloft. You want to avoid the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor because it's too predictable. What do you choose instead?

do NOT comment "the little children of the night, what sweet music they make. Of course, one who was not a hunter would not understand" on all the Bach organ fugues

I run through the world thinkin’’bout tomorrow, thinkin’’bout tomorrow, thinkin’’bout tomorrow!
I am smelling like a rose that somebody gave me on my birthday deathbed!
I am smelling like a rose that somebody gave me ‘cause I’m dead and bloated!

I wasn’t clever enough to avoid staying for dinner so the usual; it’s taking forever, they’re snappish at each other and presumably there’s a chance she’ll snap at me (when you’re a kid you don’t know that your failure to hop to it in just the right way isn’t an innate moral failing). I feel very stuck, trapped and treading water.

Facing an old issue. ADHD might elegantly explain some consistent problems (RSD, inability to focus on this stuff I do only because it’s required of me and feeling stuck there, and I’m always doing it wrong etc). But that could also be PTSD/CPTSD right? And worse I know you can get CPTSD from people reacting badly to ADHD. Testing reveals work is where I’m least focused and motivated. I guess a label doesn’t matter, what’s important is the negative feelings and how to hack them.

My anger at tech for “everything’s been gentrified out of financial reach” and “brick and mortar places have largely gone away so Amazon can grind bodies, souls and communities to nothing,” is this Venn diagram overlap of resenting Musk, resenting AI and its fans, resenting NFTs, and resenting WotC. Just a lot of vague low lying consistent anger.

“Get out of here bird, they need you on the ground.”
“WHAT? YOU’LL BE DESTROYED FOR SURE!”
“You heard me!”
“ONWARD MY BRAVE HAWKMEN! LET THIS BE KNOWN FOREVER AS FLASH GORDON’S DAY!”

“General Karla, Flash Gordon approaching.”
“Whatta y’mean, ‘Flash Gordon approachin’?”
“On a Hawkman Rocket Cycle.”
#FLASH #AAAAAA

Again, reminded of how I love "Akira's" soundtrack. Pulling on traditional music means you can't think of the setting as just futuristic, modern and Indonesian instruments mean you can't think of it as just Japanese. It's very grounded, but not in a way you can easily classify.

oh yeah it's my favorite Naxatras track, "Sucking, Bubbling Noises and Giggling"

weirdly, this is also my favorite Kyuss track

and my favorite Floyd track

I'm not sure what the connection is.

the correct answer to "tell me about a time you failed" in a job interview is always "there was that botched wetworks job in Uppsala, but I don't think THEY want me telling just anyone about it."

I have film noir syndrome. I get a tough guy voiceover in my head constantly.

THEY DON’T ADVERTISE FOR KILLERS IN A NEWSPAPER.

Shut up Humphrey. Anyway I was saying it’s very rare.

Bottom surgery, that’s when they give you a donkey’s head right?

When he was 23, Frank Frazetta - a fantastic artist who like Bernini was basically trained from childhood - was drawing comics for dirt cheap, and his best known work was still far in the future.

When he was 23, Charles Russell was just starting to try out watercolors.

When he was 23, Norman Rockwell had just washed out of the Navy, and despite being trained from youth as an artist, he was just starting to sell cover art.

When he was 23, Henri Tolouse-Latrec had his 1st gallery showing, and getting laid finally gave him something resembling confidence.

When he was 23, Edvin Biukovic was completely unknown outside Croatia.

When he was 23, Iain McCaig was working on Sesame Street. Which I gotta admit is a dream job.

I can't even find any details of what Tim Sale was working on in 1979.

When she was 23, Catherine Jones had just graduated with a geology degree and was just starting to get into comics.

Sergio Toppi wasn't even *doing* comics when he hit 23.

Angus McBride had just finished his stint in the army at 23 and headed for Cape Town to find work.

Victor Ambrus did amazing stuff by 23 - he'd already had one book published, was starting his career in British publishing, he'd narrowly escaped being executed, seen a horrifying amount of death, hiked across the Austrian border in midwinter and left for Britain as dreamed before speaking a word of English.

Dan Dubuque covering NIRVANA's "Heart Shaped Box" from IN UTERO on Weiss... https://youtu.be/2C-8W3oiPiA via @YouTube

This makes me want to move to a place with great forests and mountains. Despite my sometimes hate on for Seattle and WA, I'm really glad to live in the PNW.