The Dungeon of Dredmor

Somewhat hot take, but "feeling unsafe" is one of the worst concepts to come out of 2010s left-wing politics, and a major reason that Twitter Leftism was overrun with overgrown mean girls.

Captions:

OMG this is beautiful!!!!! look at them!! ❤️❤️❤️ their so cute!

here's libreoffice, its similar enough to the microsoft suite to be useful to me.

notepad ++ it's free, it's slim, it has tabs, notepad but better in literally every way, you can customize it with tons of plugins, it's pretty much the standard in any IT company I've ever been at

Rewatching Treasure Planet (great movie, watch it) made realize something about the way that stories convey information to their audiences. There's been a lot of discussion on the overuse of plot twists and how many stories prioritise surprising their audience over telling decent stories. However, if you instead reveal the "twist" to the audience before it becomes known to the characters, you can build tension and stakes. Treasure Planet comes right out and tells you that Long John Silver is the main villain almost immediately after his introduction (And even before he's introduced we're warned about a cyborg, so you'd have to be pretty dense to not put 2 and 2 together and realize he's a bad guy). So when the audience watches him and Jim bond and grow closer, it builds tension for when Jim finds out and it highlights the tragedy of their friendship, because we all know it's not going to end well. Then, after the truth is revealed, stakes are created because we want the friendship between Jim and Silver to be repaired, because we know it was real, but we don't know if can be after what Silver's done. And all of this would have been lost if Silver's true nature had been a cheap plot twist. The tragedy would be completely overshadowed by the surprise and betrayal, and any investment in their relationship would have been built on the false impression that Silver was a good guy.

I remember at one point seeing a breakdown of who knows what when by genre, more or less:

wow you're PIRATING that work of art? maybe take a step back, stop acting so entitled, and actually SUPPORT the art you say you love, by giving your money to the person who bought this out of print book to flip it on ebay.