…marvel super heroes also featured a resources ability score and feats to represent financial maneuvers akin to lines of credit; it felt frustratingly abstracted as a teenager living in a discretionary cash economy, but after several decades as a real-world adult i realise that it’s an elegant abstraction for how people actually live and conduct commerce…

…my grandparents punched fascists; it’s a mark of civility that we only call them names…

…i held my nose and voted democrat in the face of imminent fascism, and i’ll never forgive the fascists for forcing my hand…

…that hard choice wasn’t enough, though, and i don’t blame you for that…

…rather presumptuous that non-voters were democrats…

…this is the crux of it: bernie’s time was eight years ago, and even though i absolutely respect his lucid resolve, the movement needs fresh figureheads to sustain its momentum…

https://acoup.blog/2024/10/25/new-acquisitions-1933-and-the-definition-of-fascism/

…the progressive movement held our collective noses and reacted to an existential crisis for the preservation of american democracy in the face of imminent fascism, and the coalition succeeded at that goal for a short while, but only just…

…how about bluetooth in an '81 98?..

…well, depending upon how you take retcons, there’s the t’au: i think they work best as a force for good doomed to fail in an uncaring universe, personifying tragic loss of innocence…

…that’s the POWER model: the unit posted above is the consumer version with the SX chip, no math coprocessor and fewer function keys…

…my wife came home from a chemistry demonstration with a cooler full of dry ice: we thought it would be fun to fill the master bathtub with hot water, dump it all in at once, and watch what happened…

…besides the obvious violent commotion, our entire house filled with a waist-high impetrable fog, enough that we panicked and quickly evacuated the cats lest they be overwhelmed by carbon dioxide…

…that’s exactly where my imagination went first, and then onward to the league of extraordinary gentlemen, and then i started brainstorming elements for my eberron campaign…

…i think that’s why it says elderly french pirate: he was formidable in his youth, but that was four decades ago…

^{(revolvers may rule the day but a well-timed flintlock will still f*ck you up)}

…IGN goes from 6.5 to 9.5…

…well he’s not…

…what about amber displays?..our VT-200 terminals were green, yes, but our lab full of packard-bells were amber…

^{(or my applecolor monitor 100 which could toggle between monochrome green and full color modes)}

Don’t you think he looks tired?

…it’s that sauder fiberboard bookcase + potted plant…

…man, that’s a deeeeeep cut for a time when electronic arts developed good games…

Don’t you think he looks tired?