Thom Lawrence 🍋👀

The best way to understand TTRPG discourse is to imagine a bunch of carnivores and a bunch of vegans arguing about which restaurant has the best cutlery.

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

An unexpected but extremely welcome crossover. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8cX...

Don't really give a shit about James Bond, but which part of Jack Lowden's oeuvre am I missing that got him this far? I guess if Hugh Laurie can become an American heartthrob anything's possible.

I am generally of the opinion that if you're doing terminal heroics, something's probably gone badly wrong, which probably explains that I was today years old when I found out xargs -P is like 50 times faster than GNU parallel?

@mearls.bsky.social this is said with love as someone who enjoys your YouTube videos and has played more Iron Heroes than 5e. But: can I buy you a second (or even third) hoodie? Look at this bad boy for example: www.thearcanelibrary.com/products/the...

“pRoTeCt tHe BrOoD”

RIP to this angel

Guitar String Manufacturer: You get that design for the new guitar string box? Designer: Sure did boss, exactly like a giant condom wrapper just like you asked. Guitar String Manufacturer : what

Waiting at the bakery having ordered a treat containing all treats that don’t contain themselves.

Had a definite type in the 80s.

LOUIS THEROUX: (shouting at ceiling) Hi Wallace, it's Louis. Are you coming down? V.O.: I'd been told to expect the unexpected when Wallace came down for breakfast. WALLACE: Be there in a minute! Enjoy the show! LOUIS: (to Gromit) Is this normal?

Now made so much cider that the mere thought of an apple will make me retch. This is my experience of basically every hobby.

Tell them to go fuck themselves. Revisit the British Business Bank proposals to allow pension funds to invest more risk capital. Remove the stupid six month longstop on SEIS for ASAs. Find more ways to get angels out in secondary rounds. You can have a million cakes and absolutely gorge on them.

Won a box at the first time of asking. Only loss was to Ajani Unrelenting.

Got a letter from the government the other day. Opened it, read it, didn’t say what I’d been led to believe by popular media.

If you see this post a vampire that isn’t Dracula

Panicked that my obscenely expensive graphics card had died, but there was a power cut overnight and a bad CMOS battery meant that it had wiped some BIOS settings the card needed to boot. Went to a computer shop and asked for their oldest graphics card (a GT 730!) just to boot once and fix it.

Abolishing the triple lock only to (partially) fund a National Care Service for the same (completely economically unproductive) sector of society is definitely a thing you can do.

We found a lot of old VHS tapes in our storage and have started to digitalize them. Some of the interviews were broadcasted on Dutch TV, so they are in Dutch. Please let us know what you think? We'll try to add more in the next couple of months. XO, the Betties www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Wonderful hearing @johnaugust.bsky.social (finally!) interviewing Aaron Sorkin on Scriptnotes this week. As an illustration of what a softie I am, they played 90 seconds from a West Wing episode and that was enough to make me cry.

I know it’s a privileged position, but you should just allow yourself to miss opportunities to work with uptight weirdos.

At what point does dramatic licence in historical fiction start to piss you off?

The tacticos were right, Racing Santander are one of the most interesting teams to watch right now.

If they're going to add Tainted Pact to the #mtgarena cube, they should allow snow covered lands (and Wastes) in deck building.

My favourite Dutch band until I saw Pip Blom live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE02...

Some good stuff in here, including a shout out to @dvatvani.bsky.social et al’s work on the StatsBomb xG model and its approach to outliers. Also I maintain that there is no such thing as possession value, just value, and therefore there is no right ‘window’ for PV models.

Felt like this was missing a couple of marg towers, they're packed with protein.

Easy to be smug that I don’t know any of the people here, but I watch loads of stuff on YouTube and Patreon, so it sort of goes to show the long tail is very real. We should be deeply heartened by that!

Over the summer, I've written histories of 13 computer games which reached #1 in the UK charts during 1987: superchartisland.com/timeline/#1987 Here is a thread on what the British public was buying that year, with links

babylon 5 is incredible

crusader kings 2 mid game gavelkind ass map

Good news, everyone.

I remember curating directories of church websites in the 90s. Each one had dancing Jesus gifs, spinning gold crosses, burning bushes, MARQUEE tags. I remember all of us with tenner a month Demon websites. It’s not only AI that professionalises and homogenises everything, that’s just capitalism.

Very fuzzy memory but possibly this?

All my photos are terrible, and I wasn’t struck with any deep thoughts about life, the universe and everything, but that was certainly the prettiest thing I’ve ever seen.

Gonna be rich when I sell all these extra pairs tomorrow.

Preparations.

I think more people should be vegan but I think vegans have ruined most restaurant menus for me personally.

“Augustus found himself in very great embarrassment, and having fallen ill from over-exertion and anxiety, he retired to Tarraco and there remained in poor health.” Every single time.

The original Gusto in Sheffield before they had kids and downsized. I have had parmigiana hundreds of times since, hoping to recapture that magic, but nobody can do to an aubergine what that woman could.

Name That Paradox Map