...let's see how good my memory is on this. My first 5 RPGs played, I think, if "played" includes "run": 1. Exalted (1st edn) 2. Feng Shui 3. Nobilis (2nd edn) 4. Everway 5. Cthuhlutech, except not actually, because we just used that setting and the rules to Spirit of the Century

The Questionable Authority@questauthority.bsky.social · last wk.

My first 5 RPGs played: 1. D&D 2. MERP 3. AD&D (2d edn) 4. Cyberpunk 2020 5. Vampire (1st edn)

I am not sure, @sainsburys.bsky.social, that this particular combination is going to take off....

So I can't currently do any work because our authentication servers are all out and nobody can connect to the network, and I see Revolut has just posted announcements that they have an undefined IT issue and nobody can get at their money but it's definitely all still there. Something Is Up.

Sigh. Resets the "Days Since Listening to Best Country in the World While at Work" counter to zero.

My phone has just switched to an AZERTY keyboard layout. This is suboptimql.

If you click through you also discover that whoever wrote the article doesn't understand a) the original report or b) percentages (presumably all the percentages in the second paragraphs are percentages of some demographic group, probably 18-25).

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 3w ago

"London has the largest number of Neets, an estimated 117,100, or one in six of all Neets in England, said the report" - you'll never guess what the other thing that London has one in six of all the things in England is.

There's a time and a place for a hedgehog. Though somehow I feel like if the Royal Mint was putting this one on the banknotes there'd be fewer complaints. Somehow.

Terra Invicta gives you the weirdest problems. Mine is currently democracy promotion in Guatemala, because it's preventing me unifying a bunch of Central American states to make better use of my sinister illuminati capabilities (fine, "control points").

A silly little miniature against an opponent who probably didn't want to play a Sicilian and now doesn't have to.

Richborough's an interesting place to visit for many reasons - not least that it's well inland these days, Thanet no longer being an island. But mostly because the Romans built and rebuilt there over three centuries and the resulting ruins (and English Heritage's reconstruction) are super confusing.

Durotriges Dig@durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 4w ago

Recreation of Richborough Roman coastal fort #Kent c AD 250 The fort enclosed an earlier triumphal arch Anyone who's read Rosemary Sutcliff's 1959 novel *The Lantern Bearers* will know the arch probably became a signal tower © Ivan Lapper 2001 (for the English Heritage guide) #RomanFortThursday

Movie posters that could only be put up in British railway stations, one of a series of probably one.

Charles III's birthday, this year, was on: June 8th in most of Australia September 28th in Western Australia October 5th in Queensland May 18th in Canada June 1st in New Zealand June 17th in Papua New Guinea June 12th in the Solomon Islands June 13th in the UK and Tuvalu He was born on November 14th

(insert indycar pun)@openwheel.racing · 4w ago

Happy Labour Day to the ACT, New South Wales, and South Australia! Happy King’s Birthday to Queensland! Happy “I lived in the wrong state to get a day off today” day to the rest of Australia!

Alas, the number of games for which I have made a spreadsheet has increased by one.

I feel like I should get some kind of sequence bonus for booking my covid vaccination in the waiting room for my flu one

The periodicity in here showing that Bluesky has the greatest positive sentiment when the Americans are asleep is hardly surprising but it's interesting it's so stark.

Good Posts and Sentiment Bot@hourstats.bsky.social · last mo.

Seven day Bluesky sentiment

One of the oddities about my occasional commute is that sometimes my train is canceled so I get in/back earlier. (Because work pays for my ticket and requires I get the cheaper/slower one, but if it's cancelled then the ticket is valid on the faster service).

The ESA insist that their spacecraft is not lost and does not need to ask for directions.

ESA Space Science@science.esa.int · last mo.

A successful Earth flyby improves Juice’s course to Jupiter Earlier today, Juice flew just 8640 km above the Indian Ocean and snapped these images with its onboard monitoring cameras. 1️⃣Africa, by Juice monitoring camera 2️⃣Madagascar, by Juice NavCam 3️⃣Moon, by Juice NavCam 🔭 🧪 #planetsci

This is still a castle account though it's questionable if I know what a castle is (various city fortifications, Canterbury).

Apparently this is a castle account (Leeds Castle, Kent)

I.... what? Why on earth does YouGov think the British public has some kind of idea as to the alternate path of nine and a half centuries of history and an ability to evaluate the consequences? Do they ask profoundly nonsensical questions on a regular basis?

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 2mo ago

As the Bayeux Tapestry opens to the public at the British Museum, what impact do Britons think the Norman Conquest had on British history? Positive: 25% Neither: 25% Negative: 6% Don't know: 44% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

Speaking as somebody who gets East and West mixed up all the time I have a certain amount of sympathy here, but I would also have got it checked!

Cllr Ellen Nicholson 🔸🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🌍@ellzsummary.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Local Government reorganisation in Surrey 😬 Whole compass points have moved! @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

I feel, Google, you are unnecessarily insulting your servers here.

Look, they _specifically_ told me I required additional pylons.

Major@majorarschloch.bsky.social · 2mo ago

@sickoscommittee.org look who tried to walk off with a pylon!

Apropos of nothing in particular, if I owned a sandwich shop I would put a piece of paper at the bottom of all of my large orders saying "thank you for your attention to this platter".

I was writing some code to look at how energy saving/race pace works in Formula E but as I see Bluesky has gone Anglophobic _again_ it's hard to feel like I'm welcome enough to bother sharing.

I've recently been having a problem with my phone charging ahead of me and ending up in exposed positions in danger of being surrounded. Fortunately I've now figured out how to turn off salient mode.

It's not _immediately_ obvious to me that I'd be able to prove I'm not, in fact, in a game of Terra Invicta.

Nina Marotta ☢️💙@mrschief7.bsky.social · 3mo ago

You're offered $250,000,000 but to claim it you must enter the last video game you've played and stay there for a full year. How are y'all faring in this deal?

Here's the thing about the Sherman: they built 49,000 of them, to fight on Pacific islands, African deserts, and in Russian winters. You do NOT want to be picky about where the spare parts came from or quite how you handle the transmission. Much easier to win tank battles with operational tanks.

John Bull@garius.eurosky.social · 3mo ago

You don't win wars by designing the biggest, baddest tank. War isn't a multiplayer game. You win it by creating the minimally viable one, and by outproducing and out-supplying the enemy.

It turns out that playing Terra Invicta immediately after a solar eclipse feels kind of odd.

The ESA's commentators are absolutely freaking out during totality in an incredibly cute and presumably somewhat avian manner. Glad I tuned in....

European Space Agency@esa.int · 3mo ago

🔴We're LIVE from the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre in Spain - join us as we show the total solar eclipse as it happens! Watch here 👉 www.youtube.com/live/DRDx2xD... or watch.esa.int/Two/ 🚨⚠️ Only use certified eclipse glasses (ISO 12312-2) to look at the Sun! #EuropeanSolarEclipse