I mean, they're right …

… if by "we" they mean "employers."

Aw, thanks!

You can if you're willing to pay for an antispam service. The number of spam messages I get on my blog posts isn't zero, but it's really, really close to zero.

(I wish I could say the same for my contact forms.)

At least it has the correct publication date. Well, there's plenty of time for them to figure it out.

Go by the cover. That will ensure that you're getting the right edition.

A bottle of orange DayQuil with an orange label, next to a bottle of dark red NyQuil with a dark blue label, on the edge of a bathroom sink.

Cold medicine with Hope Cold medicine with Fear

My publisher and I are VERY UNHAPPY about this screw-up, and there are people working to get it straightened out.

B&N, Bookshop and Indigo managed to import the metadata without any difficulty.

I was able to find it on Amazon.fr, so that suggests that the answer is yes!

Note that Amazon screwed up the importation of the metadata, so the product page is hard to find. You can't search for it directly. Instead, you have to search for the original, then click "See All Formats & Editions."

I'm tired of hearing about "looksmaxxing." I want to hear about all your #TTRPG tables out there SNAXXMAXXING

His Majesty the Worm.

Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit “This is the Strait of Hormuz in the data economy. If you want to make a change, this is where you cut it off. Anything short of that is theatrical political posture.”

According to the webXray audit, Google failed to let users opt out 87 percent of the time. The audit said that Microsoft fails to opt out users in the same way and has a failure rate of 50 percent in the web traffic webXray viewed.

Meta's failures were at 69 percent and a bit more comprehensive.

I saw the best minds of my generation produce high quality content for startups that laid them off on a zoom call

Colville's video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr22...
Daði's video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDVS...

@mysticartsdm.bsky.social recorded a response to a video that @mattcolville.bsky.social made. I watched Daði's video. Then I watched Colville's. Then I watched Colville's again. Then I watched Daði's again.

Then I wrote a response of my own. #TTRPG

All I'm saying is, GURPS hails from a time of All Hail the Crunch. And I'd be the first in line to play a streamlined GURPS, but they haven't made one of those yet.

Also combat. GURPS combat is bonkers complicated. I created a full-page flowchart for GURPS 3E combat, and when I tried to update it for GURPS 4E, they'd ADDED so much that I couldn't fit it all on anymore.

(The back of the page had the size/range/speed table on it.)

*cough*skills*cough*

Deleted my earlier post because this one puts mine to shame.

Can't be as risky and unreliable as Windows 11.

Which is why I'm running Linux on the laptop I'm using right now.

He watched the parking ticket scene in Inside Man and thought, "Those are my kind of people."

Eighth grade substitute teacher version:

1. "What's going on there?" "Nothing."
2. "It wasn't me."
3. "But they were doing it, too!"

(Also maps weirdly accurately onto conservative rhetoric regarding climate change.)

Always have been.

The cover of REMONSTERED! THE MONSTERS KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING: Five adventurers—a dragonborn paladin, a forest gnome barbarian, an orc druid, a tiefling bard and a goliath sorcerer—are fighting a rakshasa in the richly appointed office of a royal adviser. On the rear wall is a portrait of a handsome, mustachioed human who wears the exact same robes of honor as the rakshasa. The rakshasa is savagely tearing into the paladin's throat with its claws. The look on the paladin's face is of someone unexpectedly confronting his own mortality. The shellshocked barbarian looks like she's about to drop her absurdly oversize axe; the bard and the sorcerer are clearly terrified, holding their weapons limply. The druid, on the other hand, looks resolute, angry and unafraid.

Times have changed. The old rules no longer apply. Our foes have grown in strength. We must adapt.

Don't worry. I gotchu.

With updated tactics and brand-new tips for every monster, REMONSTERED! THE MONSTERS KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING comes out this Oct. 6. Preorder at bookshop.org/a/511/9.... #DnD

Give your reporters a fair contact.

I lean toward the battlefield.

The cover of REMONSTERED! THE MONSTERS KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING: Five adventurers—a dragonborn paladin, a forest gnome barbarian, an orc druid, a tiefling bard and a goliath sorcerer—are fighting a rakshasa in the richly appointed office of a royal adviser. On the rear wall is a portrait of a handsome, mustachioed human who wears the exact same robes of honor as the rakshasa. The rakshasa is savagely tearing into the paladin's throat with its claws. The look on the paladin's face is of someone unexpectedly confronting his own mortality. The shellshocked barbarian looks like she's about to drop her absurdly oversize axe; the bard and the sorcerer are clearly terrified, holding their weapons limply. The druid, on the other hand, looks resolute, angry and unafraid.

Times have changed. The old rules no longer apply. Our foes have grown in strength. We must adapt.

Don't worry. I gotchu.

With updated tactics and brand-new tips for every monster, REMONSTERED! THE MONSTERS KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING comes out this Oct. 6. Preorder at bookshop.org/a/511/9.... #DnD

Anyway, had to have something for the Bladelocks

I guess it might have been simpler to say "Cast knock without the loud noise."

Also, when you reach level 7, you can cast dimension door once per day from this weapon. At level 11, you can cast it twice per day, and at level 17, you can cast it three times per day. Also, when you reach level 17, you can cast gate once per day from this weapon without any material component.

SLIM JIM
Weapon (rapier), very rare (requires attunement)

You can take an action to insert this sword into any gap between a door and door frame wide enough to admit it and slide it across the latch. Doing so causes any latch, lock, bar or bolt preventing the door from opening to magically unlock.