This is one of their biggest worries. They're looking for tech solutions to it because they can't comprehend the idea of "you get loyalty from friendship and shared ethics, not money." www.theguardian.com/news/2022/se...

A useful pain scale, one that's not "a little bit" vs "a lot." Note: The normal, expected amount of pain is ZERO. Not 3. Definitely not 5. If your normal pain level is above 0, that's chronic pain.

Occasional reminder; seems relevant in regards to recent political events. Elections aren't fancasts where you get to choose the perfect person for each role. If there's no great options, vote for the least-bad person.

I love Seventh Sanctum, Fantasy Name Generators, and this tiny title generator: www.ruggenberg.nl/titels.html

I keep it saved out to share with people to explain How Tumblr Works.

They mean freedom for them. Not for women, not for minority groups, definitely not for children.

You might look at Wanderhome settings/expansions; the game doesn't have "stats" as such, so the descriptions of people and places don't read like game mechanics. This is from Broken Down by Andrew Aulenback: web.archive.org/web/20250730... (Archive link because itch is currently down)

My main complaint so far is that it's hard to read. Peach background and light-ish brown text means I keep sliding past the actual text, thinking it's side-notes or something like that. You also can't see all the tags. The "+2 more" etc aren't clickable; whatever they are, I can't get to them.

It looks like she pretty much uses their logos. Unless that's a very famous mountain range silhouette, she probably needs to change her logo. (Even if it is famous, she probably needs to find a different version of it.) She probably needs to change her font, too.

Patagonia™ absolutely does not have to sue Pattie Gonia; they have the option of doing what Linden Lab did with "GetAFirstLife.com": darrenbarefoot.com/2007/01/20/m... They can *grant permission* and then it's not a trademark infringement. And they can make that permission limited and revocable.

Someone is unclear on the concept - this is not how #CreativeCommons works.

This looks fun and even though I'm starting late, I'm going to give it a try. (Which means doing several days at once.) #David'sMonthOfMusic

I don't remember this being age-restricted when it was showing on MTV. I suppose teenagers are more delicate now than they were in the 80s.

I got hit with the KWS ("kidswebservices," not creepy at all) "you need to verify your age" bullshit. I guess I'm done with DMs on Bsky, and a lot of the artwork. My Dreamwidth is 17 years old. Of course they won't use that to verify. They need 4 digits of an SSN. Not necessarily mine, of course.

Sheep is inside the box. I even made air holes for it, large enough to reach in and feed or pet the sheep.

Cannot tell you how many times I've looked at a game I'm interested in, and had it tell me "???" I play dozens of hidden object games. If they don't have enough reviews, Steam refuses to acknowledge they're similar to the other ones I have *from the same publisher*.

Apparently they believe "the story" doesn't include anything outside of its main timeline.

The minimum wage in the US has been $7.25 per hour since July 24, 2009. Average rent was $875. You needed 120 hours to make that - so, either 3/4 of your income, or you got a roommate and it was about 1/3 of your income. Average rent is now $1,698/month. 234 hours. A work-month is ~173 hrs.

Compare to the 1995 ratings. Today's top ratings are cancellation fodder 30 years ago. Today's audiences are very, very scattered. The media companies want you to believe the "top shows" are watched by "most of the US." Today's top shows are the past's "I guess I've heard of that" shows.

Had never heard of Frank's Sign, but on search... stanfordmedicine25.stanford.edu/blog/archive...

Yes. ourworldindata.org/child-mortal... Before the 1800s, about half of all children died before they turned 5. By the 1960s, that was down to 1 in 5 deaths.

Unfortunately not a troll.

There was. Um. Some copying involved. But I'm sure the beta readers will catch all the problems.

You can set the tabs, but you have to manually add line breaks (which, among other issues, fucks with screen readers). If this were done with tabs, a screen reader would say: "2–6 Fail Action: +1 XP Whatever you were trying, it didn't work 7–9 Success: You Pick 2 of have done (most 4 options…"

I made a travel kit of games for exactly this reason. (The tiny deck will fit in the box, but not with the gamebooks.) A Fool's Errand, With These Phantom Hands, & My Welcomed Guest, plus a tiny notebook. (It's better to just have a regular notebook.)

Likely the closest I'll get to playing D&D for the rest of the decade. www.idrlabs.com/dungeons-dra... …The last time I played D&D, there were no sorcerers, warlocks, or wizards; that split happened later. Apparently I have much more affinity for one of them than the others.

It can, but he's already slurring words, repeating himself, and having swallowing issues. And he's very, very concerned about falling down. That famous "leaning" photo is from 2019. (The medical drawing is from 1888.) miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fi...

My company left Salesforce… for Microsoft's ecosystem. There are a few other choices for that kind of data support, but they're all either "evil corporate empire" or "train your staff on a zillion small programs (and retrain them when they go obsolete)." Or both.