Notices by The Duke of Fall :d12: (valthonis@dice.camp), page 2

Looking at finding new folks to play video games with at 44 has me about as rattled as I would be about trying to date again at 44.

@mekkaokereke @blogdiva Thriller's power was in its music video production. Michael's talents as a performer were better shown off in Billie Jean, imo.

@mcc I was force-fed Oracle early in my career via a founder who thought they knew best, even if it meant overpaying for a self-hosted pain-in-the-arse DBMS.

I have spent the 15 years since avoiding anything they touch like it's radioactive. 'Cause it kinda is.

Snoop Dogg is out here living life like he completed the main story quest and is now knocking out the wacky and fun DLC content.

At 43, I can't roll into GMing a game on just Jolt and Doritos anymore…

Which is patently bullshit, if you ask me. #ttrpg

The road to hell is paved with replies of “you're overreacting.”

When you make a character who is basically Gestapo Pope, you give them a suitable name... like Cengo Pale.

In related news, Cengo Pale is now the Aqori Ediqtor of the Faith. Head of their theological council, the Lyria, and chief of their religious police.

He is not a nice person.

@NaClKnight Premise: six high school girls try out ice hockey on a lark and fall in love with the game, join a rec league and fight their way to a meaningful team victory.

Execution: Story is entirely cookie-cutter. You could swap out ice hockey and slot in *any* sport and the story still functions without adjustment. It ended up being "a sports anime about ice hockey," but not an “ice hockey anime" in the same way that, e.g., Haikyu!! is a "volleyball anime.”

@NaClKnight Yes.

PuraOre! Pride of Orange. The hockey anime.

Hot take: Detroit fixed Chicago style pizza.

Yeah, I said it. 🍕

Asked my son today what it was like living next to an protester-occupied lecture hall. He said “not bad, actually. They're better neighbors than the cops.”

A bunch of horny plants get all freaky, and suddenly I'm fighting off a biological attack.

#allergies

This is the future conservatives want:

After a year and a half on the Fedi,
I can honestly say that if you cannot be arsed to give your image posts alt text for our vision impaired siblings, you shouldn't be posting images.

Seriously: I am strategically lazy, and if I can give a damn about writing a description for each of my images then so can you.

Consider it part of the choice to post an image and behave accordingly.

The primary *and* secondary market for college textbooks (particularly hardcovers) are so ravenously exploitative on cost that it makes any hope I'd have of buying some for my own self-study disappointingly dim.

HP is corporatus non grata.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2216875/hp-ceo-says-the-quiet-part-out-loud-make-printing-a-subscription.html

@killyourfm I expect that this is bleed from Creative Business Unit 3's pedigree as MMO developers. They took the overall structure of quests and quest-chains from Final Fantasy XIV and dropped it right into a single player game. In a multiplayer cooperative game like XIV, it's fun. In a single-player game like XVI, it's tedious as hell.

@mekkaokereke Seeing Maryland specifically called out is just wild to me. I spent my elementary school years in the 80s in MD and the Holocaust was a huge part of history lessons. Bewildering to see it go from the place I credit for making sure I had lifelong awareness into the gutter of weaponized ignorance.

Expressions I’ve tried to stop using, and why:

"guys," in reference to a large heterogenous group of humans. Not everyone is a guy, and guy is *not* gender neutral no matter how much guys want it to be. I've been using “y'all,” "folks,” “they," and "them” instead.

"American," in reference to a USA-only subject. The US isn't the only nation state in the Americas, dammit. We're not even the biggest one. I've been trying to explicitly use "US" or “US-ian" where applicable instead.

How about you?