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Nuke the Nuclear Kitty@efindel.bsky.social |
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Nuke the Amazing Nuclear Kitty, and his human, Travis Casey (all pronouns accepted). Together with Julian Stanley, we're Ebon Gryphon Games! TTRPG gamer/computer guy/writer.
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Shepherd
@neolithicsheep.bsky.social
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"you will outlive them" my guy thousands of people will not. Alito and Thomas already have blood on their hands after overturning Roe. Not everyone they have harmed has lived. Not everyone will live. They are killing people right now, today.
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Shepherd
@neolithicsheep.bsky.social
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Like... "you will outlive trump and Thomas and alito" buddy are you sure about that cause there's tens of thousands of victims of trumps shitty handling of covid who who would argue that point except they're dead. They did not live through his administration.
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Missing The Point
@missingthept.bsky.social
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Breaking: GOP leaders, donors debate whether Trump’s campaign can continue in the face of child rape charges. Insider: “He may just be too rapey at this point to handle another four-year term.”
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Missing The Point
@missingthept.bsky.social
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Breaking: Republican National Committee considers replacing Trump with a candidate who has raped fewer women and children, perhaps even zero.
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Lydia Polgreen
@polgreen.bsky.social
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The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: I'm 48, and in my adult lifetime there has been one Republican who won the popular vote. But I will probably spend the rest of my life under the authority of a Supreme Court dominated by hard right conservatives. How is that democracy?
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Missing The Point
@missingthept.bsky.social
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When you saw only one set of footprints in the sand it was then that the New York Times was carrying Trump.
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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social
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Banning medical debt from credit reports. Cracking down on junk fees. Banning non-competes. Capping credit card fees. Negotiating drug prices. Expanding OT pay. These Biden policies don't make headlines, but this is what it looks like when government works for the people.
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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social
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Once again, I just want to say that lavish gifts to Supreme Court justices shouldn’t just be “disclosed.” They should be banned, outright. This should not be a radical position.
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David Kaib
@davidkaib.bsky.social
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People pushing criminalization of homeless people want them to die. There are internal differences over how openly to do this or how fast. This isn’t ignorant or irrational—it is ghoulish. The stakes have to be made clear.
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wade of mutilation
@waderockett.bsky.social
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This goes for TTRPGs too! Small and mid-tier publishers have very little budget for marketing and advertising, and can’t make game stores promote their books. If nobody you know has heard of your favorite game, tell them about it!
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Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social
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The right wing majority on scotus legalizes bribery and criminalizes homelessness because to them, rich people deserve rights and poor people deserve nothing. If they were deserving they’d be rich.
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Randall Munroe
@xkcd.com
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And here’s my guide to determining the age of an undated map xkcd.com/1688
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Nuke the Nuclear Kitty
@efindel.bsky.social
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Definitely agreed!
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Nuke the Nuclear Kitty
@efindel.bsky.social
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I agree, but I'd still suggest that "more effective" is a better phrasing than "stronger".
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Last Gamer on the Left
@lastgamerontheleft.bsky.social
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It's absolutely okay to say 'the US severely needs a stronger regulatory system' and 'the US's current regulatory system is regressive and authoritarian' in the same breath, I think, given that both manage to be true at the same time.
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Missing The Point
@missingthept.bsky.social
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Breaking: President Biden to appear at national event alongside rapist and convicted felon. Security to be enhanced; Biden campaign defends decision.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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The media isn't interested in the biggest technology story of the 2020s, the rapid transition to clean energy, because 1) it will destroy a bunch of oil based wealth and is a boring, competirive low margin business 2) it makes Democrats look good for helping it and they want Republicans to win
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Nuke the Nuclear Kitty
@efindel.bsky.social
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It became "Wisdom" in the published version (and was already prime requisite for Clerics in the draft). The connotations of the two are very different now, but I suppose Gygax might have been thinking of the sense in "cunning man" (which is the male equivalent of a "wise woman")
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Nuke the Nuclear Kitty
@efindel.bsky.social
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It's state government, and the people in charge have the logic of "we lose $1.5 million for every day this application is down, so obviously we can't afford to replace it!"
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Nuke the Nuclear Kitty
@efindel.bsky.social
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Don't talk to me about VMS, I'm still maintaining eight AlphaServers running it. 😿
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@granitegeeknh.bsky.social
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"Person selling thing says next version of thing will be amazing!"
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Very Very Common Mike Dunford
@questauthority.bsky.social
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Again: The only effective way to stop this is to vote for Democrats up and down the ballot, every election, while simultaneously working to reform and reshape the party.
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Lauren
@laurenkayes.bsky.social
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It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits
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Nuke the Nuclear Kitty
@efindel.bsky.social
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In the draft, fighting-men essentially get +1 to hit per level. The published version would give them a slower improvement, and do it in 3-level groups. The +1/level would return as an optional rule in AD&D 1e.
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Nuke the Nuclear Kitty
@efindel.bsky.social
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In the draft, magic-users have a first level spell, "read magic or languages", which can be used to read writings in unknown languages, including scrolls and such. In the published version, this was split into two spells.
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Nuke the Nuclear Kitty
@efindel.bsky.social
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The saving throw table in the draft has "Saving throws are with a 20-sided die" under it... which would get left out of the published version!
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Nuke the Nuclear Kitty
@efindel.bsky.social
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In the original draft, your AC got better at higher levels. At 4th level, you'd improve AC by 1. Fighters get another 1 at 8, Clerics at 10, Magic-Users at 12. Fighters improve again at 12 and 16, Clerics and Magic-users never improve further.
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Nuke the Nuclear Kitty
@efindel.bsky.social
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THAC0 is described, though term isn't used: Armor classes will be given in such a way as to indicate their efficiency, viz. deduct their number from 20, and the base number to hit them is obtained. Thus, plate mail and shield is "Class 2", and 2 - 20 = 18. (typo "2 - 20 = 18" in original)
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Nuke the Nuclear Kitty
@efindel.bsky.social
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Upkeep cost for player characters is one-tenth the minimum experience points for their current level, paid weekly when on an expedition, monthly when not.
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Nuke the Nuclear Kitty
@efindel.bsky.social
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The available races in the first draft are Elf, Dwarf, and Human. Hobbit/Halfling wasn't in it. Instead of "non-player characters", the even clunkier term "non-real players" was used.
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Nuke the Nuclear Kitty
@efindel.bsky.social
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One thing this has is the first draft of OD&D. In which I've so far found things like: The abilities were originally Intelligence, Cunning, Strength, Health, and Appearance. And yes, that's only five - there was no Dexterity equivalent.
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Nuke the Nuclear Kitty
@efindel.bsky.social
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NEW BOOK ARRIVED
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Courtney Milan
@courtneymilan.com
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In the first six months of operation, low-level crime went down 34% in the places where STAR was operating, and a visit from the STAR team cost 23% of a police visit.
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Becca Patterson
@mreauow.bsky.social
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This sounds wonderful. Which of course means that there's a certain segment of our population who is absolutely going to hate it. Let's drown them out with praise for this kind of system.
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Courtney Milan
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Thread! STAR is such an amazing program--it saves lives, helps people with their real needs, and costs so much less than the endless cycle of awful cops.
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Courtney Milan
@courtneymilan.com
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It also means that you can actually think about things that serve a purpose, but should not be performed by cops, like sending a wellness check, because wellness checks are not being performed by anyone with a gun or a propensity to murder.
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Courtney Milan
@courtneymilan.com
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Even if the person isn’t suicidal, someone in crisis (mental or physical) is not always going to be good at instant compliance. Just by their nature.
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Erin Anderson
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They’re the exact wrong tool for the task. A cop trained to say “Put your hands up or I’ll shoot” by default, is going to get the opposite behaviour than they expect if it’s someone who WANTS to hurt themselves. It’s essentially delivering a voice-activated loaded weapon to a suicidal person.
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John Scalzi
@scalzi.com
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10 times as much electricity for much worse results, ABSOLUTE GENIUS
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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Thanks for Reggie Jackson for saying this, and contempt and defiance, in advance, to the worthless shitbirds who will say he shouldn’t have and that he oughta leave if he doesn’t like it.
Regrettably those worthless shitbirds are now fairly mainstream.
sports.yahoo.com/mlb-at-rickw...
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Encephalophagy
@encephalophagy.bsky.social
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The way math is taught is criminal. I have so many friends who hate math because it got taught by people who were more interested in humiliating 10 years old than in teaching. And then there's the teachers who are just... incompetent and uncaring; or the ones who do care who don't have the resources
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TabletopGamingDeals
@tabletopgamedeals.bsky.social
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Get the Spectaculars core game for only $28
This superhero RPG is normally $105! You save 70%
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Nuke the Nuclear Kitty
@efindel.bsky.social
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All of them. But then, I did get degrees in physics and computer science, so I'm *very* used to having to figure out formulas for things.
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Phil Plait
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If you were, say, Putin, and you created US politicians from the ground up in such a way that they would murder society and literally the people in it, I don't see how they would be very different from Trump and RFK Jr.
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Nuke the Nuclear Kitty
@efindel.bsky.social
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lol, went to check out that review, and it’s the one I wrote! 😸
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Nuke the Nuclear Kitty
@efindel.bsky.social
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I liked it enough to write a few supplements for it and base my own fantasy system on it! 😸
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A.R. Moxon
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“The murdered person was a scary threat to his murderer” is a story our dominant cultural narrative keeps telling, even though the self-evident truth is the exact opposite, given who did the killing and who did the dying. It’s one of supremacy’s purest expressions.
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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SCOTUS protects religious freedom of DEA agents by allowing them to offer expert testimony of their belief that there’s no such thing as a blind mule
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Nuke the Nuclear Kitty
@efindel.bsky.social
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Going for ones I haven't seen mentioned yet... Monsters & Magic - attempts to build an AD&D-compatible game with Fate-like mechanics Cryptomancer - think Shadowrun, but with magical items substituting for the tech, and good mechanics Universalis - narrative, universal, GMless
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Jenny Staff Johnson
@htownjenny.bsky.social
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“Certain people get to be presumed community protectors, even though they are self-deluded menaces. They get to decide who is a danger, even though they are the danger. They get to decide they have defended themselves, even though they are the ones who attacked.”
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