More weird trouble with the car. This time: brakes.
yay.

But... but... the face-eating leopards weren't supposed to eat MY face!

Wisconsin Governor Evers Vetoes 5 Anti-Trans Bills On Trans Day Of Visibility "I will veto any bill that makes Wisconsin a less safe, less inclusive, and less welcoming place," said the governor.

Thank you, Governor Evers, for continuing to protect trans kids.

Except for that regional encoding. Bought a video tape while at uni in the UK, brought it home to the US, and it didn't work on my VCR.

"Elections matter". That's fucking rich coming from from a senator implicated in the January 6th conspiracy to present bogus electors.

Your pretty much daily reminder that every accusation is a confession for MAGAts.

I'm finding info that Dragon Age: Origins was 2009 - a couple of years after the release of Mass Effect.

Gaming Days, LLC. Announces Charitable Partnership with Doctors Without Borders Adds New, Meaningful Component to Free RPG Day Events

Great pick for a charity partner!

Yeah, I was going to say I can at least pin it to Mass Effect in 2007 for the furthest back I personally know and have experience with. I couldn't say if there's anything earlier than that.

What Song Plays at the End of 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' Season 1? You fight seven knights, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.

You're not the only one putting some thought to it. movieweb.com/a-knight-of-...

Or was this some weird intention to make it particularly useful to characters who focus on grapples and shoves as part of their tactical repertoire?
This isn't the only change in the 2024 rules that has me scratching my head and wondering. (6/6)

There are attacks that don't need an attack roll like grapples and shoves. In every prior edition, those would have ended the Sanctuary, but not in 5e.2024.
It's a really mystifying change. Did they try to simplify the conditions for ease of use and failed to preserve the nature of the spell? (5/6)

The spell-ending text in 2024 is: "The spell ends if the warded creature makes an attack roll, casts a spell, or deals damage."
BIG difference. Casting ANY spell ends Sanctuary - including healing spells. And it's no longer making an attack, it's making an attack ROLL. (4/6)

The text for the spell ending in 2014 is: "If the warded creature makes an attack, casts a spell that affects an enemy, or deals damage to another creature, this spell ends." That reinforces the idea that the Sanctuary protection enables non-violent action including healing allies with spells. (3/6)

In previous editions, Sanctuary is a cleric spell that protects them from direct attacks so they can move about the battlefield healing allies and engaging in other non-violent actions like casting bolstering spells or fixing problems. And that was true in 5e's 2014 rules. But not in 2024. (2/6)

I've run a lot of D&D over the years and I'm running 5e.2024 now. And while there are a lot of good changes in the 2024 rules for 5e, there are some changes that are mysterious and maybe even boneheaded. The one I've most recently noticed is the change to the Sanctuary spell. (1/6)

I just remembered one... Got served by some cartoonist who draws muskrats at the United Cerebral Palsy Celebrity Dinner and Silent Auction. Can't remember his name...

Flight from Heathrow to Dublin with Colin Farrell in Fall 2007. No sign of an entourage, just him. He slept on the plane.

Depends on the felony for me. If they were convicted for encouraging people to burn their draft cards (Eugene Debs), that might be worth a vote. That's standing up for anti-imperialist war principles.
But 34 business fraud felonies SHOULD be disqualifying for a job that's supposed to have integrity.

The info you come up with via texting ultimately defines the course of the mystery and the crime involving Alice. It's highly structured and kind of brutal in a way. I'm not sure my current group would be keen on playing it, but maybe I'll suggest it as a side game. (end)

Cover of the Alice is Missing role playing game box. Image is of the back of a woman, dressed in autumn weather clothing, overlooking at town in the distance. Byline is "Designed by Spenser Starke".

I picked up a copy of the Alice is Missing RPG. And it's a doozy. The podcast Ludo Narrative Dissidents just reviewed it and intrigued me enough to get it.
It's a silent RPG - once playing it there's no talking. It's all done in group texts since you're a friend group searching for Alice. (1/-)

Yeah, have you SEEN this guy's burritos? I shudder to think of them.
The horror. The horror.

It was a great ad. But what are you going to do for us in 2026, Apple? Or was standing up to a tyrannical Big Brother just hypothetical?

I have backed Mutants and Masterminds 4. And I decided to add on the Condition Cards as well. I REALLY want the condition cards.

Hate the surveillance state? I don't think so. It's always been about WHO was being surveilled. J Edgar Hoover and his COINTELPRO programs, the PATRIOT Act, the GOP has been as surveillance-friendly as anybody else... as long as it's the other guys being surveilled.

AKA "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

That was a great statement and Mamdani does well to echo its sentiments.

That's one of the problems with most health care insurance options - you're stuck in a network and can't just pick any specialist you want. Medicare allows you to pick anyone*.
Single, national payor - it's a way OUT of restrictive networks.

*Anyone who takes Medicare payments at all, that is.

You've just opened up a Star Trek themed restaurant.

What are you calling it?

It'll be a Chinese chicken restaurant...

MAKE IT TSO

We're already deficient at this. It's not like a massive reform is going to make it much worse - if we follow models that people have already used.
Who tells people they can/can't get care? Corporations - is that better? No.
Who runs it? Brian Thompson and his care-denying AIs? Not really better.

But can they trust what the LLM is reporting back to them? Will the information be trustworthy or a hallucination from the AI? Will those boys have the tools to analyze what's coming back to them or will they accept anything, no matter how faulty the information is?