"They're making D&D an MMO" is old enough to run for congress

Posts here are usually about gaming(all), cosplay, UX, game design, & occasionally work. Mostly reskeets because other people are smarter, or more informed, or more eloquent than I am. The best self-defense is to a build a word that doesn't suck (Just & Verdant is the Professional phrasing).

Just a correction of my reply: What is roughly 3 million people is the difference between the turnout in the first and second round. Just realized that it might've sounded like 19% of the voters meant roughly 3 million people, but it's 30 million actually But yeah, turnout is definitely important

The official numbers this year in Brazil are: 21,08% of the voters didn't show up to vote during the first round of elections and, due to campaigns mobilizing people on the streets and on social media, this number dropped to 19,21% in the second round. For Brazil, that's roughly 3 million people.

Numbers: Lula gained 10.2 million votes between the 1st and 2nd round, while Bolsonaro gained 3.7 million. Overall valid votes cast rose by 4.6 million. There were 9.3 million third party votes up for grabs in the 2nd round.

Further addendum: @nilo.bsky.social who seems to know what he's talking about if you look at his profile, disagrees with my take and has outlined why the result may be down not to turnout but to right-wing swing voters who dislike Lula but distrust Bolsonaro more. bsky.app/profile/nilo...

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

trump knows a 3rd rate failson wiggling around like a worm when he sees one, he's got first hand experience seeing the "acting like Daddy but kind of a low rent impression" schtick flame out

"Under Brazilian federal law, all legislators have immunity...To run for President, Bolsonaro decided not to run for his Senate seat. Now, after losing the Presidential election, he no longer has legislative immunity when his Senate term expires in January 2027." Very Special Episode of no amnesty

you write 500,000,000 in ARABIC NUMERALS you slack-jawed brain-dead carbon sink of an undead racist, go try and prove germ theory wrong firsthand by huffing e. coli cultures

it's really, really fucking infuriating to be ruled by public officials so unbelievably, unfathomably, stupidly fucking racist such that you can't really finish your thoughts on the matter out loud because they are in fact public officials

My friends, peers, most every band I know, yes. This is the story for club and underground bands and bands of all sizes.

Wait are you saying that your friends were previously playing for packed crowds but then the economy broke and now nobody is coming?

That’s what I keep telling my friends in bands playing to empty rooms suddenly starting about three-to-four months ago. They love that.

good closing message *HASSETT: THE AFFORDABILITY CRISIS IS A MYTH

Streaming more Hades II this evening starting at 6 PM EST! -R

An exhibition I wish I could see! Now open #PalaisGalliera A Wardrobe of One’s Own: Dissident Femininities in the 19th Century explores the masculine coded clothing and queer identities through tailored dress. It looks fabulous & if I could wiggle my nose I would go immediately! #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Like, people initially did not believe that Vivek had been responsible for the ad. Whereas as soon as people saw the comments they were like "yeah that's Mark alright"

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Oh it's bad bad www.newsweek.com/ohio-venues-...

I'm 35. Barack Obama is the only president in my lifetime who did not leave office after being impeached or in disgrace.

have they ever fucked up in the opposite direction, quoting some guy they say is a rando but is actually a dem operative? why is it always republicans?

Walter was a gentleman who spoke eloquently. He commanded respect. The Roddenberry Archive presents “In Conversation: Walter Koenig,” an in-depth profile of the actor who portrayed navigator Pavel Chekov in the original Star Trek series and movies youtu.be/Z3vzNfxpgZ8?...

Walter was more than Chekov. He was a writer, a teacher, a thoughtful man, and a loyal friend. To the fans who loved him for so many years, thank you. He loved you too. Rest well, my dear friend. Keep navigating a steady course. – George

Just last month, on Sept. 14, he turned 90, on the same day Brad and I celebrated our 18th wedding anniversary. I will always treasure that he and I shared that date.

Gallego plans final midterm travel around Latino enclaves The Arizona Democrat is hitting Nevada, Texas and Florida this week to turn out Latino voters in a handful of key races.

Something that stood out to me when I was in Greensboro, how many Black women were conscientious of their grandparents' role in fighting for their right to vote. "Ancestors have fought for this right, and so it’s my duty to do it," one of them said thepoliticalspectrum.substack.com/p/theyre-att...

dude, you got yourself kicked out of two boarding schools, your Harvard application is rumored to have consisted of two words - "Harvard" and "Kennedy" -, your peers there say you were a dealer in college, your roommate reportedly wrote your senior thesis for you, and you failed the NY bar twice

RFK Jr is being a racist shitgibbon today, so I'm just going to throw this back into the universe.

One thing about the whole "you have to read books if you want to be an author" thing is that if you aim to do more than just genre inbreeding, you have to read stuff outside the genre you're writing, too. May even have to read [shudders] nonfiction.

Once again, good morning from the track. It’s MUCH busier this morning as BC is only a few days away.

A matchup between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Tampa Bay Rays was considered a “nightmare,” a bloodbath of small-ball hermeneutics. But the two old-school, thrifty teams have turned the Fall Classic into a showcase for what money can’t buy. www.newyorker.com/sports/sport...

New substack piece. Is killing everyone a pragmatic decision? As Burnham approves new fossil fuel drilling in the north sea I wonder how many "pragmatic" decisions he has left before everyone sees him as Starmer 2. sophiefrommars.substack.com/p/is-killing...

If you see a supposed fanart of Vodsca made by him, he was selling it at a con but it was done (or at least started) by River, who was cosplaying Vodka with him at Cosplay Trackside. Jim Lee's style is more detailed.

Jim Lee, president of DC Comics, was at Cosplay Trackside cosplaying Musaka.

Bet this goes really hard if you’ve been kicked in the head by a horse

You gotta remember that these racists are dumb though. Bluesky users are gonna get those references, but their audience is gonna assume chai is just a Starbucks size, the 6 is him scoring a touchdown, and they haven't actually gone to Christian church in so long they don't know what day it's on.

I didn't initially realise this was meant to be a negative thing, but when you read the piece it obviously was. Their attempt at a political hit job is quite literally to tell you that Mamdani is baller, and to connect him in your minds with Knicks' victory. Astonishing stuff, let's see how it goes.

In fact I will say the Earnest and Pious Charismatic Ethnic Minority political figure (AOC, Mamdani, El-Sayed) has been a pretty good bet for the American left so far, whereas the Disaffected Gruff White Guy Showcasing True Masculinity (Fetterman, Platner) has been a worse bet. Just an observation.

My most joyless leftwing opinion is that any homework that is, explicitly and obviously, homework for parents is bad pedagogy, unfair on parents, particularly on mothers, bad use of the teacher's time and bad for social mobility.

Look, I know all the reasons we got here, but we really need to start seriously thinking about what we do in a world where The Markets punish whole countries for voting for decency, compassion, and fairness. We must stop pretending the capitalist machine is an objective, value neutral force.

There's no pretense left. J. K. Rowling made her hate for trans women clear in a slur-filled screed slurring them a dozen times and describing them as deceitful and dangerous. So writes @evanurquhart.bsky.social this morning on Assigned Media. *WARNING: Article quotes Rowling's hateful language.*