Number+1 is apparently too difficult for Google's self-contradicting resource-wasting "AI" summary. My own screenshot, just now, because I saw it claimed that this would result and... it did. NEVER trust Gemini (Google's imposed "AI Mode"), even for the absolutely most basic functionality.
Iβve used Redbubble for DTG printing since 2010 and their print quality has improved immensely over the years. The shirts still require a bit more tlc than shop-bought screen printed, but if washed at 30Β°C and hung to dry, they will last quite a while. I also use TeePublic (Redbubble bought them up a few years ago.) Similar quality.
I've decided to write up my notes (including mental notes that love in my head) for my homebrew #DnD setting that I've been using for years and put them into a form that is comprehensible to other people. House rules, custom classes, nations, religions, planar cosmology, etc. I've been slowly compiling it into a book, but I think I might just release things a couple pages at a time on my itch.io storefront. I need a name for this material though.
The problem is that I don't know what the setting should be called. The world and the places in it all have names, but I don't like setting names that are just names. Look at "Ebberron", for example. The name tells you nothing. Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, and Greyhawk also tell you nothing, but you know what the individual words mean so they conjure an image in your mind. Even if the image is fuzzy and indistinct, it's still clearer than you'd get from FaerΓ»n, Krynn, or Oerth.
@malin My working title for the setting compendium is "From the Scrolls of Hiræth", but that's a title that doesn't mean much to people who haven't looked inside the cover yet. It's also a bit long. "Ultraviolet Grasslands & The Black City" is long too, but it earns its length by being cool and evocative as hell.
@malin UVG is a far future, science fantasy setting by Luka Rejec. The Circle Sea is surrounded by the Rainbow Lands. Between the Purple Land and the Black City, there is a very long stretch of wilderness called the Ultraviolet Grasslands. There are many interesting points to visit and trade with. You can join a caravan (or start your own) and decide where to visit next, but travel times are measured in weeks. It's a beautiful book. Highly recommended.
Ebberron is too specific. Forgotten Realms and Greyhawk are too vague and only slightly better than the GURPS setting books "Fantasy" and "Fantasy 2". Dragonlance strikes a balance of naming a unique thing in the setting with words you already know. I'm probably overthinking it. The names really boil down to brands to group all the material together.
My world has a lot of unique features, but none of them lend themselves to a pithy, succinct summary like "Dark Sun" or "Spelljammer".
BREAKING: Pope Leo today announced that the Catholic Church supports Palestinian statehood. He went on to call out Netanyahu for refusing to recognize Palestinian statehood, and called for Palestinian statehood anyway.
This is an important step forward. I launched this global petition calling on the USA to recognize Palestinian statehood. Please do sign & share: c.org/zqgdSZKDVn
I support Palestinian statehood. I was going to boost your message until I saw that you included a bullshit poll. Those polls accomplish nothing. The polls that are effective are public opinion polls by recognized polling organizations.
Let's not get too excited. The Pope merely repeated the existing policy supporting a two state solution, so it's not really an important step forward in that regard.
Got to write a bunch of stuff, some estate related, some other stuff, including fixing whatever went wrong with my new plates, got a letter saying my request exceeded the character length, which is doesn't, either I did something wrong, or the person entering my form (yes, they still use paper forms and enter them into the computer manually) messed something up, but B0XEN is under the character limit for the Bee Friendly plate, so there's no reason to reject it.
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my mum was a SA soldier and she loved everybody. She was at our house once with one of our foster daughters when that girls father popped in. My mum got on famously with him and afterwards when being told that he had done time for murder said she judged people on what they were not their labels
I always believed this, but I paused to fact check and the Salvation Army's website seems to think that's not the case: salvationarmyusa.org/the-lgbtqβ¦
I was about to send this to my christian friend (mostly to needle / him,) but I wanted to have my facts in hand before I do that. Do you have references for this?
I know their bible says to do that, but I also know most christians are bad at following their bible so they are eating cheeseburgers, shrimp, and aren't actually wishing death on homosexuals.
#DnD #ttrpg folks, is there a real word for the "gish" warrior + magic combo? There have been many tries at compounds or portmanteaux: swordmage, spellsword (oh, I just got that pun!), hexblade, swordsage, and so on, but is there a real word for this? Even TV Tropes settles for "magic knight" & "kung fu wizard".
I'm trying to name a mystic monk class for things like Jedi ("I'm so in touch with magic that I can do awesome combat stunts") or Youxia ("my kung fu is so good, it's literally magic").
@DM_Zeppelin I started looking at foreign translations of Star Wars for ideas and wandered into the Latin version of Wikipedia. "The Force" is "Numen". That seemed a promising lead and I've studied Latin so I went down a rabbit hole of "Pars Luminis Numinis et Pars Tenebrarum Numinis". I really got sucked in by the latinized character names like Comes Dooku and Magistri Quaegonus Jinn et Obivani Kenobi. "Obivani"!
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p.s. I have a new book of science cartoons: tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
Two weeks since my last post, and... Well, not much going on here. Little of this, little of that. Lets see, 18th I met with the lawyer to wrap up the estate, Vik hadn't planned on going so soon, somewhat surprising after losing his mom a few years, but then there are really two ways to react to that, plan for your time, or try not to think about it. Guess which one he did? Yeah, bunch of accounts don't have a beneficiary, so the lawyer is working on that including subpoenaing companies for the amounts as they're not particularly interested in giving it out to a non-account holder. Well, should be, I haven't heard from them since that meeting, and I do need to pay a retainer and such before they can do anything, so going to have to check in with them. Thanksgiving was a big nothing, his family which I don't know all that well is 150 or so miles away. I had been thinking of wandering around eastern IL along I70 near to the Indiana border as its possibly where I'll relocate to, but just didn't feel like it in the end, which was prolly good considering the storm that hit today. Instead I've been doing various things around the house, packing up the books my sister wants from Vik's collection, ditto for the comics @RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist wants, though those will likely get repacked into smaller flat rate boxes, as you're not supposed to ship comics Media Mail. Also moved the altar to the book case the living room TV'd been on, I moved the TV, the unfinished media computer and the power station or whatever you call it into the computer room.
A little cramped compared to the table, but it'll do for now, after all, long term I expect to get rid of that book case as well as some of the others, so it'll be re-located to a semi-permanent home, permanent until I move then.
What else... Cancelled the WalMart+ membership, not out of any belief of striking back at them or anything, its just that now its me as both Vik and the roomy's cat passed, it just doesn't seem worth it, I get very use out of it, the only thing of value in there is the Parmount+ membership, and that's cheaper than the W+ membership. Sure, W+ offers an electric car charging discount, much like they do for fuel, however that's only for Walmart charging, and that's only in like half a dozen states right now, who knows when it'll get here, plus I mostly charge at home. Ordering a Boox Go7 tablet/e reader tonight, its basically an Android tablet with an e-ink screen, which should work for most of what I use my tablet for. Oddly I can order it direct cheaper than I can get it from WalMart.
Oh, did a small project on T-day, removed the shower doors as I've never been a fan of them. Oddly, I tossed them up on Marketplace for shits and giggles, a set of shower doors, tracks and hardware, dirty but complete free... And they were taken less than 6 hours later. Didn't think anyone wanted them any more, colour me shocked.
Kinda chipping away at various little projects, debating how I want to handle the books and comics, prolly contact Half-Price Books for the former, I have a CSV file with all of them, as for the comics... Not sure, have a store that's supposed to be buying them, but I'll prolly be old and grey by the time they make an offer, so I might just throw the collection on Marketplace at a flat price and see what I get, 10,500 comics with a few graphic novels for... $7K maybe? I think that's a very generous price, prolly higher than a store would give me, but still quite reasonable.
Beyond that, gotta get my insurance situation sorted out, and that's about it other than chipping away at the estate.
During WWII a German vessel fired upon sailors floating in the sea after the Greek vessel Peleus was sunk. The officers were tried and convicted in the Peleus War Crimes trial.
On top that was "at war". On top this is killing of humans in a state of peace without police investigation, without prosecutorial proceedings, without a judge. This is murder for propaganda.
honest question. Is it still a war crime when there is no war? I am asking, as police often uses tear gas against civilians, which is legal (unfortunately), but doing the same in a war would be illegal.
The US government doesn't want that there are survivors, otherwise people could find out that they are murdering harmless fishermen to distract the public from the Epstein files.
The second order to murder the two survivors, unarmed, wounded, probably burned, clinging to the charred bits of the boats IS A WAR CRIME.
Is this why Adm Alvin Holsey resigned? Why he didn't order the second attack to murder survivors? Instead SEAL Adm Frank Bradley ordered the war crime.
in all seriousness who is going to hold them accountable? US judicial system? The democrats? Majority of US public? Rest of western world? US allies? UN? ICC? No chance, someone might issue a strongly worded condemnation at best and they know it.
@janeishly These orders are the moral equivalent of the My Lai Massacre, or the Battle of Manilla, in which 100,000 unarmed civilians were slaughtered.
Now think about the poor sailors who will spend the rest of their lives knowing they did the wrong thing. And that they have no way to atone for it. These are kids. We owe them better leaders, and must hold those leaders accountable for every one of these murders.
him,) but I wanted to have my facts in hand before I do that. Do you have references for this?
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in reply to Vee • • •My grandfather was buried in Campbellton, New Brunswick. There's a motel just beyond the cemetery.
As we crested the ridge for the cemetery service, the Journey's End sign came into view. And we broke out into rather undignified laughter. π
The last time I was there, the motel had been rebranded to Comfort Inn. Probably for the better.
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