it must be so difficult to act with a character who you can’t even see. thankfully, Foghorn is just that talented
Harbinger of Doom
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Okay but the “we live in a simulation” bros kill me because the assertion is pretty much Creationism with the Unsolved Mysteries filter on.
This Finnish guy has been teaching himself Sumerian, and sent a cuneiform tablet to the British Museum to check his progress. They just emailed him that they've sent him something in the post. I'm now thrilled and excited for a total stranger! Clay tablet mail! www.reddit.com/r/Cuneiform/...
Go see Coyote vs ACME - it’s just old school fun with a lot of heart. Hollywood has a real problem with letting people decide whether they want to see a film or not.
Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner Encounter
ALT: Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner Encounter
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For the love of god pick this movie up. theplaylist.net/john-francis...
‘Dungeons & Dragons 2’: John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein Optimistic Their Sequel Will Find New Studio After Paramount Passed
John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein say Hasbro remains committed to ‘Dungeons & Dragons 2’ and hopes to secure a new studio partner.
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Belphegor's Prime is a 31-digit number. It is a 1 followed by 13 zeros, then the number 666, then 13 more zeroes, then a 1. It is prime, palindromic, and reeks of evil. 1000000000000066600000000000001
If you played D&D in the ’70s or ’80s, I need your help with some research! What version did you say you were playing, and what rules were you actually using? Did you mix OD&D, Basic and AD&D rules/material? What year was this? Tell me what you remember!
Workinge IX to V, nys no waye to make a livinge, Scarsli gettinge by, all the takinge but no givinge, Thei but selle thy mynde and ne nevir issue credit -- Ynogh to make thee wax woode yf thou let it!
Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon (Le voyage dans la lune) was released 124 years ago today. This silent, black-and-white film is the forebear of everything this account is about. 🖖 Enjoy!
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If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
Also, the word of mouth on this movie has been very good. The theatre I was in yesterday was pretty darn full. I suspect it’s gonna have some building steam, so long as they don’t pull it early.
It's annoying how people think that a movie is an automatic failure if it doesn't make a bajillion dollars on the opening weekend. People are too obsessed with box office numbers.
A proper presentation of A Christmas Carol is *incredibly* sympathetic to Scrooge. Not because he's right to be greedy and callous, but because he was once gentle and loving and could be again. The message is that forgiveness is always possible and you can always make a new choice.
The film, which stars Johnny Depp, will try to find the "gray area" in A Christmas Carol. www.avclub.com/scrooge-gray...
And you may ask yourself, "Are they sweet, are they cold?" And you may say to yourself, "My God, where are my plums?"
Just saw Coyote vs. ACME. It was fantastic, strongly recommended!
If you’re the kind of person who loves Hollow Knight and Silksong but wishes it were like 20% less hardcore, Memories in Orbit is a great experience so far.
The real fantasy of this movie is that, given the option, people would spend money to save the world.
Not even Pedro Pascal can make me like Reed Richards, but I do like this movie so far.
Abolish ICE. Fire them all. Prosecute their crimes.
NEW: We obtained recordings of 160+ emergency calls made from or about an immigration detention center where three people died within six weeks. “They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.
"Milo got arrested!" "That's good!" "By an unaccountable secret police force" "That's bad" "He supported them, though, so there's delicious irony at play." "That's good!" "But they came for him because fascist power has reached a point where petty infighting can lead to arrests" "That's bad"
Hey 13th Age fans - I am contemplating a new 13th Age character as our long-running game nears its end. I'd love to hear the coolest One Unique Things you've seen at your tables. I've been playing a wizard with "Master of the Crystalvine Cabal," and it's been fine--but maybe I could go bigger.
“Be Strong enough to be gentle.” Peter Cullen tells the story of how his brother inspired the voice he would use to play Optimus Prime. It’s a simple yet poignant quote that sums up why Optimus and Peter are so beloved. Til All Are One. 💔
maybe his basis is creating a computer smarter *than he is,* which I can handle by writing "compooter" on the side of a cardboard box with a Sharpie
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Twenty Merchants and Their Wares – Brandes Stoddard
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Twenty Merchants and Their Wares Today in my Patreon, I've created twenty shops you might find in a fantasy marketplace, and I've given them just a little weirdness because it's fantasy. Backers get it now, everyone else in three days. You can become a backer for as little as $1 a month!
Do you love any of the games that I have created? Whether it's Monsterhearts, Dream Askew, The Quiet Year, Going For Broke, or a deeper cut, now would be a great time to hit quote-tweet and tell your friends about it! It's been a slow month. 💕✨ store.buriedwithoutceremony.com
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My name is Avery Alder, and for the past eighteen years I’ve been designing tabletop roleplaying games. These are games about community, relationships, doubt, queerness, and the collapse of civilizati...
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Less than 10% of one year’s revenue, 30% of a single year’s profit. A fine is a price. If we must do fines, they need to be 100% of profits during the offending period + 10%.
Reuters: META AGREES TO PAY A MAXIMUM OF $16.68 BILLION TO STATES AS PART OF DEAL -- COURT FILING Reuters: STATES, META AGREE TO SETTLE CLAIMS THAT PLATFORMS HARMED CHILDREN -- COURT FILING
My brain is a machine that turns [every goddamn thing I encounter] into [game mechanics]
A very real problem we're having now is that the medium is no longer new, the new creators are inspired by other video games instead of other art. Miyamoto made Pikmin because he liked being in the garden, but every ONL game is being made because open worlds are cool and UE5 has nice visuals
In honor of Dolly and her commitment to getting books to kids, tell me about a book you read as a child that changed your life. I’ll start: so many, but tonight maybe I’ll say A WRINKLE IN TIME, a book that taught me anger wasn’t wrong.
Things are getting bleaker with each rejection. So once more I'm throwing my Patreon link out to the void. It pays faster than Twitch and you can get in on it for just $1 a month. patreon.com/cypheroftyr
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