…yeah, the first thing coming off are those shoes + pants…

…sandy petersen, greg vaghan, and alex kammer have all published great fifth-edition material based on the king in yellow: take a look at cthulhu mythos, aegis of empires, and the end of everything for inspiration…

…one afternoon about thirty years ago, an apache attack helicopter casually hovered into view directly outside my window, scanned its turret back-and-forth inside my office, and gently settled onto the open field outside: it was show-and-tell day at his daughter’s daycare next door, we learned afterward…

…disappointed to see alarums + excursions end so close to the gold mark but by that same measure its run is nothing short of a triumph by modern standards; lee gold’s shadow looms large and well-earned…

…meanwhile stateside, the executive branch are planning auctions of federal land to corporate developers…

…i think it’s been patched + restored since 2009…

…that’s already been definitively identified…

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…have you tried the dr. pepper milkshake from whataburger?..i haven’t tried it, but i’d like to try it, but i fear i’ll regret trying it…

…cola-flavored gum was a thing when i was growing up; it wasn’t terrible…

…nope; her education was 1980s DoDDS, mine was 1980s TEA…

(yes, secession; autocorrect squiggled it into another word as i was typing)

…just that, though: we were taught that emancipation was just one of many issues stemming from increasingly-fundamental differences in economic, social, and international policy, and that the war itself precipitated from the southern states asserting a right to secession and sovereignty which the federal government did not grant…

…we were also taught that the spark was actually southern states’ seizure of federal assets…

…likewise; my wife was apoplectic when i suggested that the civil war was about secession…

OH YEEAH BAYBEE!!

…typity type-type…

…advanced marvel superheroes, the full FASERIP system…

…i’ve been disappointed with the print quality of most of their POD books since last year: it’s like someone isn’t monitoring the ink levels and one of the CMYK colors almost always looks washed out…

…1981 moldvay red box was my first product, but the first i played i think was 1977 holmes, although i don’t know for certain because i never saw my cousin’s books; in fact, i’ve been unable to identify which module he ran us through to this day…

…if you’re into paper books (and a hefty table) the DK complete world atlas includes a lot of geographic information, or if you prefer a dryer, more-authoritative presentation, the times world atlas is the grandaddy of the format…

…it looks like DK also offers a digital version of their previous editon…

(i have the millenium editions of both atlases, and they’re both fantastic tomes, but i think the DK complete atlas is more of what you’re looking for)

…back in the CRT era i needed at least a 72Hz refresh rate to not feel any discomfort; that doesn’t exactly correlate with framerates on modern LCD displays but i think it’s a good proxy for the threshold of general perceptiblity…

…are greater framerates smoother?..sure, especially in my peripheral vision, but 72 FPS is generally good-enough beyond which returns start diminishing…

…tom hanks made a series fourty-five years ago about two transgendered advertising executives struggling in a world which fears and hates them…