An image of the Pale Dot book. The cover features a horned alien having an existential moment while planets and strange objects orbit around them and plants blossom from inside their spacesuit.

Whoa, Pale Dot got nominated for an Indie Groundbreaker Award for "Best Rules"!

www.igdnonline.com/groundbreakers

Thanks to @sifsweetman.bsky.social for the amazing cover art, @tenpenjenn.com for editing, and @plusoneexp.bsky.social for helping me get the Kickstarter off the ground last year!

Ahhhh that's awesome! Congrats! 💖

My ADHD brain would get so bored if I tried not to make things for a year! It sounds awful to me!

But also I have a mostly good productivity/rest balance in my daily life, so I wouldn't be recovering from years of pushing myself past my limits.

The interesting part of your original question for me was less about whether I prioritize rest and more about who I am producing work *for*.

I don't make things explicitly for self-improvement now, but given funding/time, I think I would! But like, for me and my own curiosity, not for money.

I mean, I know academia chews up adjuncts and spits them out!

But this class feels like the teacher just turned on the modules and forgot about us, and I just want like an actual lecture.

Make Max do stuff for you!

It *would* be great!

Instead it's just a bunch of copy/paste question tests and no lectures or papers, no critical thinking required, and almost no interaction with the teacher. It's very much not what I was hoping it would be!

We do have to reply to other students' posts, but it doesn't facilitate actual conversation, and we don't even get points for the replies, so it's very much a "check the box" kind of assignment.

My community college 200-level History of Art in Architecture class does not require this level of critical thinking, but where else am I going to put this hot take?!?

I hope the instructor actually reads this one:

a woman with long blonde hair is smiling and wearing a white jacket and a pink shirt . Alt: A woman with long blonde hair is smiling and wearing a white jacket and a pink shirt. She laughs a big laugh, that turns into a frown and she raises her hand to cover her mouth, as if she's about to cry.

I think I'd need the full year tbh

Learn woodworking. Maybe start writing fiction again. Make bespoke puzzle box games, personalized for each recipient. I'd certainly still be making things in different forms!

I already don't make things for public consumption, though, so the main difference would be the funding haha

The discussion posts are stupid because they are meant to encourage dialogue, but we are all simply shoveling characters into the icampus void and no genuine connection or conversation is happening. It feels pointless! I'd rather write a paper or something!

If I was going to use AI to write my stupid class discussion posts (lol I would never), I would make sure the words I'm using aren't exactly the same as 3-5 other student's posts.

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A M A Z I N G 💖

I love it, I want to hear everything!

I have props from 2 different scifi shows (Murderbot & Debris), so I definitely won't tell you not to go for it 🤣

Yeah, that's fair! It's definitely not worth driving 8.5 hours one way times 4 for me!

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It looks like you can still bid without a Canadian bank account if you can put a cash deposit down in person!

That's awesome! Congrats!

Holy shit, congrats on getting answers! But also damn that's such a long time to have waited for them!

I need to call out that Desperation is 2 replayable games in a box and Zhenya's Wonder Tales is 6! And they are all Very Good!

I really like a few crafting subs (knitting, antifascistknitting, bookbinding, and discworld) but I do not touch r/rpg, that one is Not For Me.

IT WAS SO DUMB

I love this

YES

Of course!
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Can we mail things to each other?!? I have a book on letterlocking I'm dying to try out!

Ahhhh I wish I could watch this specific game!

Thank you Camilla!

Thank you! 💖 It's definitely a different vibe than the DP edition!

This is so affirming, thank you 💖