Notices by Greg Stolze (gregstolze@mastodon.social)

@bitterkarella OK, I know we love possums from Protect Trans Youth stickers, and yelling at their own ass, and eating ticks and mosquito larvae, but if you actually SEE ONE they are not cute. They are unhansome animals, Karella.

@bitterkarella I'm not negotiating the virtues or personalities of these marsupials, just the aesthetics. Was your pet PRETTY like a well-groomed golden retriever or elegant siamese cat?

Look in your heart. On its best day, your beloved pet was, perhaps... presentable.

@br00t4c I wouldn't believe Mark Zuckerberg even if he swore he was lying.

It’s just now occurred to me that a lot of Republican electoral strategy has been to make voting harder. This is based on the assumption that there is some Goldilocks zone where it’s too difficult for Black people but not too onerous for the laziest and most entitled white voters.

I am not sure this overlap actually exists.

@br00t4c If Alex Jones ever approved of something I did, I would vomit from pure shame.

HER: (describes the plot of MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS)
ME: Stop, this is a nightmare, it's like THE GIVING TREE but with classism.

@Gargron People hate artists though.

Individuals love specific artists, and society loves art, culture, entertainment...

But at some point as it scales, the collective agrees to treat artists like absolute dogshit.

Perhaps it's because creators evoke strong emotions, and we naturally dislike more stuff than we like...

@RickiTarr Sooner the better, says I.

@MicroSFF
I assume congratulations are in order and you are now a dad?

@heidilifeldman "Why Won't DeSantis Denounce Neo-Nazis?" feels very 'question asked, question answered' to me.

@SwiftOnSecurity I ask this with respect and sincerity: When has putting an entertainer in the White House ever been, y'know, good?

@jendrawscomics why would AI help anyone?

Correct me if I’m wrong but… that big D&D movie didn’t earn back its costs?

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#ttrpg #DandDMovie #DungeonsAndCapital #OGL

I do, I seriously do wonder how much of that can be laid at the foot of “they tried to change the OGL and every deep D&D nerd got pissed as hell.”

It’s not just some guy with a little DM’s Guild shop skipping the film, but how much was “Oh, a D&D movie? I’ll ask my Extremely D&D friend Les their opinion” and Les was like “DO NOT FUCKEN WATCH THAT BULLSHIT OR YOU’RE UNINVITED FROM MAH WEDDING!”

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Maybe part of that is, post-COVID people are still a little wary of going to theaters, and part is probably a slender remnant of nerd-phobia where some people who loved LOTR and GOT still won’t watch a D&D flick, and a tinier part is probably people who watched the first D&D movie (with Jeremy Irons! JEREMY IRONS!!) and swore they’d never get burned again…

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