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As a tall person I cannot offer to reach something on a high shelf for a stranger, yet if they ask me I must oblige. This is the law of the giants

if you watch or support this you're a bad person btw. i'm not arguing with you about it either

As a very tall person, it is 100% a habit to just put stuff *up there* (top of fridges, cupboards, above bookshelves) where it's just easier to reach than tables. I just do it idly and then have to scour the entire apartment for eye-level surfaces.

So in a letter Tolkien said that LotR ended about 6,000 years before the modern day, and the genes for white skin didn't appear until around 7,000 years ago... which means that if you wanted to be a stickler for "accuracy," Rings of Power should have zero white people.

Fitz and the Fool, from realm of the elderlings- kissing under a tree, and framed by apricots. Commissioned work

Here's The Life I Always Wanted
(Fitz And The Fool)

Flow chart. Box 1: "Get new idea" leads to... Box 2: "Start new project" leads to... Box 3: "Tell everyone" leads to Box #1. Off to the side, unconnected is Box 4: "Finish project" Box 4:

Also:

A3C1AD, it's a sorta light green/blue.

Apparently it is NOT ok to refer to cleaning supplies as "janitalia".

TTRPG argument starter for Friday 15th January.

That RPG you enjoy? The system doesn't do it's job properly and if you're enjoying it then you're obviously playing it wrong.

Checkmate, nerds.

This is simply not technically possible. You cannot generate enough writing in-house to train an LLM. You cannot generate enough art in-house to train a GAN. People who think they have a model "trained on our own material" are using a base model of mass-scraped data, unknowingly or disingenuously.

A series of books by Robin Hobb on a black shelf. The leftmost three books have coloured artwork, dominantly blue, with gold text. To the right are more books with white covers and black title text, a simpler design. The shelf is filled, with more books visible behind the first row.

@illumicrate.bsky.social I've finally fixed my @robinhobb.bsky.social shelf with your gorgeous special editions. But now I need you to make the rest please!

ALT text copied and pasted from the linked website: An infographic titled “How To Write Alt Text” featuring a photo of a capybara. Parts of alt text are divided by color, including identify who, expression, description, colour, and interesting features. The finished description reads “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head.”

Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...

I’m old enough to remember the strike that happened a whole year ago because companies like Netflix claimed they don’t have enough money to pay residuals to actors for their work. Netflix has $82 Billion to buy Warner Bros.

An isometric cottage core kitchen scene in a cartoon style where the inhabitant (not pictured) has set up to make a cake. They've got two dogs and two cats.

An isometric room scene of a witchy potions lab where green potions are being produced. There's a trio of mice gorging themselves on cheese in one corner.

An isometric scene of a ruined tomb of a knight. The walls have crumbled and vines and other plants have taken over. There's a rusty shield resting against the sarcophagus and a grumpy looking owl surveying the scene from one of the walls.

Been playing some @littlecornersgame.bsky.social and realised that they'd make super cute isometric scenes/maps for TTRPGs

In one of my school plays, I played a soldier who was slower than the rest - the comedy role who responded to all the orders slightly too late.

I'm not sure what they were trying to say when they chose me immediately...

a strong case could also be made that if you were confused by why Bill and Ted would cast themselves in WAITING FOR GODOT, you might also not fully understand Bill and Ted

A good weekend should consist of one day when you do like 25,000 steps and another where you move so little that your Fitbit briefly considers triggering a welfare check.

Somehow PayPal can stop your account if you buy some erotica, and the government can arrest anyone who uses the words “Palestine action” on a t shirt, but this shit is going ahead…?

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Tired of giving your players the same five accents on rotation? Check out NPC Chronicles: give your NPCs voices by pro voice actors! by Maksim Razboynikov on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/hip...

Dave A. Wesley invented roleplaying.¹ Dave Arneson invented D&D. Gary Gygax gave it boring rules.

I don't want to hear a conversation about the origins of the hobby unless you are about to talk about a guy named "Dave" followed by an "A" somewhere.

Just saw a post asking if anyone’s cracked the code on why millennials look younger than their age, and another post stating “millennials are dying at an alarming rate.”

I can only conclude this means we’re all in purgatory and frankly, that explains a lot.