Hteph @GoblinQuester@dice.camp

Our final map in our exploration of the Midsummer Lands - Map 6 is centred around Great Faerie Lake and the smaller (but much deeper) Deep Gnome Lake.

We have several cities of note, as well as significant ancient elven ruins to explore...

https://dysonlogos.blog/2022/06/30/the-midsummer-lands-hex-map-6/

RT @Webster_Duck@twitter.com

games like stardew valley and animal crossing are popular with millennials because they let you experience post-industrial fantasies like "having a non-adversarial relationship with your neighbors" and "knowing where your food comes from" and "walking to the store".

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Webster_Duck/status/1541820823845056512

Crypto games site "w3itch[.]io" blatantly copies http://itch.io, hosts stolen games

June 29, 2022
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=crypto-games-site-w3itchio-blatantly-copies-itchio-hosts-stolen-games

If you are planning to join a protest or march or go to any place you might be bothered by police: your phone is an enormous narc.

If you’re not going to use a burner phone, at very least put it in airplane mode and only take it out if you need to make an emergency contact.

Temporarily turn off the biometric lock so cops can’t search it without your permission.

Here’s how to do it on iOS: https://daringfireball.net/2022/06/require_a_passcode_to_unlock_your_iphone

These instructions might work for Android: https://codepre.com/en/como-deshabilitar-temporalmente-el-lector-de-huellas-digitales-y-el-bloqueo-inteligente-en-android-p.html

It'd be a real pity if some hackers got into Crisis Pregnancy Centers and wiped their databases and records, since that data will very likely be used to prosecute people for seeking abortions and other repro healthcare. #BoostsWelcome #BoostsAppreciated

This week on my podcast, I read my recent Medium column, "Reasonable Agreement: On the Crapification of Literary Contracts," about the alarming standardization of non-negotiable (and terrible) contracting terms in freelance writing contracts:

https://doctorow.medium.com/reasonable-agreement-ea8600a89ed7

I started selling to magazines in the 1980s, a moment when Reagan's antitrust deregulation drove waves of mergers in the market.

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They did it. They fucking did it. The whole west was crowing about how they’d finally suffer like all of us and they didn’t. It’s no coincidence that twitter won’t even let you RT Chinese news sources now. Being able to see what fucking cruel useless failures our leaders are compared to what’s possible is very dangerous

When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water. ~ Benjamin Franklin

About Peter's Principle OR why everyone sucks at their job. People who excel at work are promoted, to a point where they are incompetent. With every promotion, you are closer to newer and more complex job needs. This incrementally makes you worse at you...
https://cognitiontoday.com/2018/08/the-peter-principle-or-why-everyone-sucks-at-their-job-tips-to-overcome-incompetency-in-the-work-place/

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/tilbots/status/1541330110367899649

There's 3,200-Year-Old Egyptian Tablet Records Excuses for Why People Missed Work
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA5634

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/tilbots/status/1541344847768027137

Oh, grognards:

> 13 When I told them the quest involved talking and investigation [they] said if there was nobody to kill in a hole in the ground they were not interested.

This is literally the story of The Witcher books:

> 22 Now the kingdom has law and order and no rampaging unhappy barbarians or humanoids left alive in the kingdom do we really need drunken old monster hunters?

https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2022/06/d100-absolutely-true-about-all-murder.html
#dnd #osr

Today I'm talking about my book, The Ioun Codex.
https://dailyhighmoon.wordpress.com/2022/06/25/june-25-2022-ioun/