brooke @brooke@awoo.space
He/him. I teach academic Hebrew-Bible studies in grad school, and like Korean martial arts & interactive fiction.
I am also @anummabrooke
Joined Apr 2017
@typhlosion Related: reassuring the kid that sometimes, when they just can't understand the instructions no matter how hard they try, it's because the instructions are incoherent in some way (editing errors, poor sentences, or sometimes who the heck knows).
Pray for us sinners, now and in the hour of our being at a week-long professional workshop requiring frequent daily social interactions with people we don't know well.
It's a while since we talked here about how tomatoes are good, but they still are.
@Sparrow @ThatDamnCat D&D is such a wonderful rabbit hole to fall into!
The podcast "The Short Game" (about short video games) recently took a special episode to talk about veteran players' strategies for keeping D&D sessions fast-paced and less prone to drag on at points. It was interesting and I learned a lot. Here's a URL if you like:
http://www.theshortgame.net/118-dungeons-dragons/
@ThatDamnCat @Sparrow (To get down to 500 chars I cut all my "iirc" and "pretty sure" etc, so the post might look very assertive and terse! Sorry if so!)
@Sparrow @ThatDamnCat In Tolkien's Universe, "goblins" in The Hobbit = "orcs" LoTR.
There's a key line in Jackson's LoRT where someone (Gandalf?) says that Saruman bred "Orcs w/ Goblins" to make his Uruk Hai. However, in the books, the line is "Orcs & Men." So Jackson seems to have decided that in his universe these are different creatures.
Still, in Tolkien's LoTR, Orcs vary widely in size & shape, because they are sub-species bred for different purposes (tunneling, war, labor, for example).
brooke
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hi mastodon I'm tired and gay
(this is pretty much usual content from me tbh)
@fireh9lly Me and my family are really digging on this rn.
@awoofriend @Siphonay@wasteland.pro @ZorcNecrophades@theshadowrealm.party From the Shadows, echoing across the Waste, emerges a cry ...
~Awooooooo
ooooooo
oooooooo!
Just explained freezer burn to my family, in case anyone still imagined that I was even the least bit sufferable.
brooke
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good evenong
@maloki
*scans memo*
*thousand-yard stare to horizon*
*disregards hard-wired internet conventions, insouciantly presses caps lock*
AAWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
creepy, photoshop body horror type thing
@Andrea@witches.town no no it's my fault I went on the internet!
creepy, photoshop body horror type thing
@Andrea@witches.town Gah!! *upsets coffee cup, tries to right it, knocks over water glass*
@awoofriend @BrunoSpy@metal.odon.space
~metallic awoooo~
brooke
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awoo.space announcement:
i'm gay
@cnc@cybre.space I will too. My lichess account (anummabrooke) is new but I used to play some correspondence with friends.
@cnc@cybre.space I can never believe that everybody with a directory full of unreadable 20-year-old proprietary word-processor files isn't breaking down the doors to learn about plain text.
srsly tho, we enjoy our old-timey memes here, but they'll pass, new users will have their own in-jokes, and yet it will still
BE TWO DAYS BEFORE I SAY I'M SORRY
@InspectorCaracal@tootplanet.space Or if not, be but sworn, my love, and I'll no longer be a pineapple.
He/him. I teach academic Hebrew-Bible studies in grad school, and like Korean martial arts & interactive fiction.
I am also @anummabrooke
Joined Apr 2017
