Rat forced to Race

happy electric feel friday

probably speaks to something unwell in the collective tumblr psyche that those absurdly bleak bad luck brian memes are the only survivors of, like, an entire genre of different advice animal image macros.

Every time I post an example of play involving a d66 table I get people in the notes being weird about, like, the concept of d66 tables, which is very irritating. However, I have to remind myself that having the temerity to look at a centuries-old piece of tabletop gaming technology that you've somehow never heard of before, deciding that you can improve upon it after a whole thirty seconds of thought, proposing an alternative that's both more awkward to carry out and less functional in use, and going away satisfied that you've solved a real problem purely because you find the existing solution's conventions of notation unaesthetic does in fact speak to having the proper mindset of a tabletop game designer.

For those taking issue with the "centuries old" part, here: have a US patent application for a tabletop American baseball simulator that uses a d66 lookup table for action resolution dated August of 1887. This almost certainly isn't the oldest, as the way it's used suggests familiarity to the target audience, but it's the oldest I can find off the jump.

one time i was making potato soup and i needed broth for it but i was out of broth. but in my dog food cabinet there was a carton of chicken broth that i had bought for my dog. now the box did say HUMAN GRADE and the ingredients were just bog standard chicken broth. it did say something about joint health for dogs on there. but the ingredients were normal. i even compared the ingredients list to some normal person broth and they were the same. so i did put dog broth in that soup and it did taste completely normal. but i did use the dog broth.

AAA video game publisher voice: "Look. The goose layed a golden egg, and that's nice! Everyone loved that egg. But keeping the golden goose means paying for bird feed and I don't want to, so I killed the goose."

always remember that chell is canonically* a transgender woman

Jesus Christ

has anyone noticed recently that it's expensive

times like these really make you appreciate pouring river water in your socks

it’s quick, it’s easy and it’s free:  pouring river water in your socks

why would i do that lmao

it’s quick, it’s easy and it’s free

i think people are starting to confuse class analysis with bioessentialism. like... no not all men do this, but Men as a constructed social class do do this. that's still okay to say. that is regular material analysis of the world around us.

Whenever they gave us one of those "read through ALL the instructions before you begin!" trick assignments in school where the steps lead you on an increasingly ridiculous goose chase until the final one tells you to just put your name on the paper and turn it in without doing anything else, I was always like, "Okay, but what's the point? Surely the REAL world won't be anything like this." And then I grew up and discovered that not only is the real world often exactly like that, some people won't even read the first line of the instructions even if they make perfect sense. And these people are called "co-workers"

I think that one of the most frustrating things about algospeak, after the "compliance in advance" self-censorship, is that there is no actual evidence-based justification for it. Everyone who uses it does so because they heard from a guy who heard from a guy that The Algorithm will bury their content if they don't use cutesy euphemisms.

it's weird how its a literal superstition about algorithms, and it's significantly changing English as it's used