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poem 

we talk of nature as such a spectacle
of green leaves and amber grain
and joy and poetic melancholy

but the wild world does not perform for us

it's dead branches twisting and reaching
over bare mulch and brown grass,
a weed through the cracks defiant
and a wrap of sticky silken longing
where something fanged waits to lash out

just played through the demo for EMUUROM and it has absolutely charmed me

borbware.itch.io/emuurom

it's one of those 2D exploration platformers, like you have to win the game or lizard or vvvvvv, but instead of dying a lot you get to scan creatures with your scanning gun

halo lore spoilers maybe?? 

@starseeker i knew it had to do with the forerunners somehow

is master chief being able to operate alien weapons just a narrative/mechanical convenience or is it explained somewhere in the lore why/how it is that alien guns just so happen to be constructed to fit nicely in a human hand too

Now I'm imagining an actual tabletop game like a cross between "Papers Please" and "Keep Talking And No One Explodes" where a group of bureaucrats has to process a set of documents according to an extremely convoluted rulebook—documents have to be printed. signed, stamped, initialed, redacted, revised, clipped, stapled, etc. differently based on arbitrary criteria like the day of the week, the number of pages, whether it's portrait or landscape, etc.

If you can't get all the documents correct before time runs out, your government commits an atrocity 😖

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@lewlepton@mastodon.social one should hope it goes by in 20 minutes

idea: sudoku variant like killer sudoku except that, instead of being sums, the irregular shaped areas are annotated with the greatest common factor of the numbers they contain. so like, 2, 4, 6 would be annotated with 2

why did they call it the chicago manual of style when the oxford comma sutra is right there

@kat cause they don't want to fuck the punctuation, presumably

please help my partner petra, it's looking for a roommate in seattle or boston. boosts here or RTs on birdsite are appreciated twitter.com/Infested2A03/statu

was going over meiosis w/ a student & they confessed they had trouble paying attention in biology in part because the subject didn't interest them

& like, I get that, they've been going over stuff like "cell membranes are made of a phospholipid bilayer" for months now, it's not stuff that's interesting unless you were already curious about cells

(and if you were interested, it's not in enough detail)

so I asked: when a tree grows, where does all that mass come from?

and, they didn't know (actually they weren't solid on what "mass" was, precisely, which: fair.)

which isn't unreasonable, they haven't covered photosynthesis or cell metabolism in class yet

idk I'm wondering a lot about how and why we teach science

would people actually be down for being in an exalted 3e game

like

you can flash step someone, uppercut them into the sky, jump up after them, rip their heart out, and then send them plummeting down to earth in an explosion that destroys the army

and all this is mechanically statted out

@Doephin it was relevant in ice age, there were cards and abilities that relied on having snow lands and snow mana. these days it's mostly just a flex

please help my partner petra, it's looking for a roommate in seattle or boston. boosts here or RTs on birdsite are appreciated twitter.com/Infested2A03/statu

a character who is a crow harpy

a character who is an animate scarecrow girl

they're a couple

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