If people think that and can’t see how dumb that is, they aren’t worth your time. Hair color does not define a personality. Lol.

out of curiosity, why do folks gravitate to Obsidian over something like Notion? Obsidian always struck me as a bit intimidating.

fuck yeah, thx for the recs!

I hate these fucking woowoo health grifters with so much passion. Thank you for the podcast links - my go-to for this stuff is the podcast “Maintenance Phase”

they probably get damaged over time when shoving minions on them.

Yeah that makes sense. I guess you would have to engineer some sort of screen protector solution in that case? Maybe someone makes custom ones on etsy or something?

Idk if you can find something that is a good size for that, AND fairly portable. No one else seems to be chiming in and I wanna be helpful, so I went to rtings and filtered down to TVs that are super thin and relatively affordable. Doesn’t get you a touchscreen, but maybe one of these would be good for you? https://www.rtings.com/tv/tools/table/177723

The only solution like this i’ve seen before is custom tables where people build a cheap TV into a table with a glass tabletop. Quick poke around the web suggests that this is the cheapest ready-made version of that option.

This is so awesome!

This is a cool book! Great advice, especially for prep-heavy RPGs like D&D. I can’t say that I have personally put it to use, but that’s my own inexperience as a GM.

sure, but this isn’t a clickbait article. It’s a substantial article with quotes, data, and context, which uses a clickbait headline to garner engagement because nobody clicks on boring headlines anymore. You could certainly distill the article down to “Manmade dams shifted the Earth’s rotation”, but that doesn’t even get into the “how”. Becky Ferreira gets into the “how” in the article. I understand that the internet has turned into a hellscape of ai-generated clickbait articles, but could we be more careful about throwing that accusation at real articles from real journalists?

Y’all really hate to actually read an article, huh?

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I think that specific piece is going to vary from group to group for sure. My group is all pretty inexperienced with rpgs and not taking it very seriously, so that might be part of why we can go on a looser schedule. We don’t have tons of details to hold together, at least not yet.

I am new to running a group but generally i’ve picked up a couple things:

• One is having a loose schedule, and just scheduling games for days when everyone agrees that they can make it. Don’t try to force a weekly schedule or whatever. I’m sure that works for some groups of dedicated nerds, but for most of us this is just one hobby in an array of other hobbies and interests. Better to treat it like a rolling game night, than to treat it like weekly band practice.
• The other is dividing your crew into “core cast” and “guest roles”. Some players are just more flaky or less dedicated than others. Your “guest roles” need to have a good narrative reason why they are in-and-out. I think i’m having an easier time with this because my game is Blades in the Dark, where the party is a gang of scoundrels. Scores usually start and end within a single session, so it is easy to write around a scoundrel or two that is only available for some missions. When they are gone, they are off on other solo missions, or they are indulging their vice or whatever. I understand that this is more challenging if you are playing an RPG with multi-session dungeon crawls. Maybe the character chose to take an alternate route through the dungeon, or they were knocked out or something?

Do you just ignore the fact that the PC carrying the magical Orb of Whatsit is off on holiday when the king demands the Orb to save the kingdom?

I think a key part of this is not giving key items to guest role characters.

The only real argument against lab-grown meat is that it might not reduce emissions that much. But even if lab-grown meat has an equivalent carbon footprint to farm-grown, there is still a critical difference: we don’t have to kill innocent creatures to produce it.

In the 21st century, we can easily maintain a nutritious, balanced diet without consuming anything produced by an animal. For this fact alone, humans should be reorienting our entire food chain away from animal-based products, because most animal products are produced via factory farms that functionally torture animals from birth to slaughter. But eating meat is so embedded in our culture - we like the taste of it, and most people don’t have to face the harsh reality of slaughtering innocent creatures to produce it, so for most people it’s actually HARDER to go vegan than it is to just go with the flow.

I hate these “debates” about lab-grown meat for this reason, because to me the controversy seems made up. There are literally no downsides, it just solves this “momentum” problem overnight. Even if the emissions are equivalent, it’s still a net gain for the planet because we dramatically reduce suffering worldwide.

totally! like it’s the kind of writing that works fine for fiction because it just has to be evocative. But here, I need to know what you actually mean in terms of performance!

I appreciate the idea behind this blog, but I think this post would have benefited from audio or video examples, because I don’t find the text descriptions particularly helpful. Like, what does this even mean?

Loose voices tremble, gravel, and let words crash into each other. Tight voices keep thing neat and clipped, from chipper to brutish.

Very cool, great map and idea. Thank you!

ahhh got it. Thank you!

Can someone explain this a bit better? I’m not exactly getting what these are. So they are nanogenerators, which coulkd be used as a component of all electricity-generating technologies? The article specifically talks about them converting kinetic energy into electrical, but i’m confused by the solar cell comparison. Wouldn’t these be implemented into new solar panels to increase their efficiency? It seems like these still need a “fuel”, like all energy-generation methods?