I used to wait at the bus stop in the winter at 6am when it was still pitch black out.

It would be light before the bus got there and dark again within two hours of getting home.

This was in Minneapolis, but I lived in the south side while going to a specialized program at North High, the other side of the city, so it wasn’t typical.

New campaign in my D&D world.

700 years ago the moon fell and devastated the land.

This island in particular almost split in two entirely, and a minor god died in the process of saving it.

Now the characters are sent on a mission to prevent a war by destroying one side of the land. In the process they may uncover how they are being used, by who, what really happened back then, who the god was, and the real danger to the lands.

Or they can just do what they were told and blow stuff up… except one character is a secret agent hoping to destroy the other side if it comes to that.

That means they aren’t very valuable even in recycling. Starbucks would not ignore a potentially reliable revenue stream.

Ooh, fancypants here already had bread.

I used it the other day for the first time in six months and it took me about five minutes to remember how to crop an image.

And it was a webp source image so I couldn’t just use kolourpaint.

I’m tired of all the non-fascists bitching about the non-purity of other non-fascists.

We are supposed to be allies. If we can’t work together, we deserve to lose.

Since headlines can’t identify individuals anymore for some reason…

“Marshan Camese, who goes by Nola tha Progressive on TikTok…”

ALL OF THAT, JUST FOR A SAFE CAREER IN ACTING?!

I’d also like a pony, while I’m dreaming.

Calvin & Hobbes reference appreciated.

I looked it up out of curiosity, and in 2024, New York City provided 1.35 trillion of the state’s 2.3 trillion dollar GDP.

I have an orange butthead who likes to bite but I have mostly trained him out of it, which really means he still does it but very gently or just grazes you with a fang.

Lean into it, make UHF 2!

Nauru makes the news semi-regularly as it is a haven for money laundering.

Community - The slogan was ‘Six seasons and a movie.’

We are still waiting for our goddamned movie!

Something something Westworld.

I made a new D&D campaign in my world. Haven’t had inspiration in a while but I am having a great time with it.

I am hoping to eventually publish some of it more as inspiration for other DMs than to make much money.

In the process of making the map and history for this campaign, I made an unrelated place on the map that is worthy of its own adventure. That kind of unintentional synergy is greatly satisfying, and if I do want to publish the damned thing, a nice bonus.

Also, my players are loving it and unknowingly made a perfect party for my shenanigans.

That’s the basis for a decent standup bit if you’re that type of fat guy.

In my world, wood elves, of buried within a year in a grove, become a part of it (sorta like in Speaker for the Dead) and high elves choose to enact this ritual living separately.

These majestic trees grow to great heights, akin to redwoods. When such a tree dies of old age, the heartwood animates but has only the vaguest memory of its prior lives. That’s the origin of warforged for my world. Incredibly rare, filled with history but oddly disconnected from it.

Haven’t invented new races yet, only twists on existing ones.

Lizardfolk? Eat their dead with reverence, carve their stories onto their bones and then reanimate then for labor or battle. Their dead never truly die and remain a respected part of their culture.

Dwarves care about achieving immortality through craftsmanship, humans through magic. It’s only halflings, and gnomes to a lesser extent, that have simply accepted death and lived their lives.

I assumed and mostly meant the question as a joke about the prevalence of those toxic markets.

Is this projections or the betting market?

I never saw the original movie but it was on HBO and watched it with my wife the other day.

It surprised me, much better than I expected, and it held my interest throughout.

They did that by opening the movie with terrible characatures that the second act fleshes out into people you can relate to, even when they’re being terrible.