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Tesqovara

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“Tropic skies, primordial mysteries, what more could one ask for?” - HPL

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Tesqovara, to pnw
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I just discovered that my home is right near the site of the ancient Native American ‘capitol’ of the Chemakum people named Tsetsibus, meaning ‘place where the sun rises.’

I took advantage of the sunny weather to walk through the pathless forest above the shore that once hosted hundreds of people. The protected cove now hosts an oyster farm and a few other modern developments.

The Chemakum inhabited this spot for ~12,000 years, but no visible traces remain.

Looking south from the rock outcrop. The head of the little cove. You can see one of the mansions that have been built on the hillside. The road wraps around the bay, just inside the trees there.
Swords ferns, maple and fir trees, everything is green, it’s been raining for days. This is the hillside above the shore, the forest become too thick to really move through save on deer trails.
Strange round rock formation I stumbled on in the woods. There’s a name for these stones, but I can’t remember what it is.

Tesqovara, to DoctorWho
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Nicely done, Steven Moffat.

#DoctorWho

Tesqovara,
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@SJohnRoss I completely agree. They do a nice job a balancing out their respective, shall we say, excessive or indulgent tendencies. All of my favorite RTD-era episodes are the Moffat-penned ones.

I remember me and my friends watching The Doctor Dances when it aired and freaking out because the show was actually so good! As lifelong Dr Who fans and gamers, we had way too much emotional energy riding on the revival's success. Look at it now.

Taskerland, to random
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Yesterday was interesting on here...

Me: I like this game but not sure I see eye-to-eye with the fandom surrounding it.

The Fandom: WHAT. HOW DARE YOU. PROVIDE TEXTUAL EVIDENCE IMMEDIATELY. WE ARE COMPLETELY NORMAL.

Tesqovara,
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@kyonshi @Taskerland I had nothing to do with it. I swear. 🤞

Tesqovara, to random
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I’m looking for 1 or 2 more players for my Florentine Italy, weird-mystery OSR game. It’s run over Discord from the Western US. It uses LotFP as a system, but isn’t grotesque or uncomfortable.

Each session is its own adventure, kind of West Marches, so you can come and go. The setting is the Weird 17th Century, Hammer Horror meets Lovecraft meets Doctor Who.

I generally try to schedule for the last Thursday of the month, realistically every other month. Send me a DM if you’re interested.

LeviKornelsen, to random
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    Tesqovara,
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    @LeviKornelsen I started an old-school rpg blog recently. Feeling a lot of disillusionment about the hobby at the moment however, so I’m kind of on the fence about putting anything out there. So might not be worth adding:

    Deathfrombehindrpg.blogspot.com

    bedirthan, to random
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    I go to Walla Walla a few times a year. It's a flavortown. Lots of wine, some beer. Great restaurants.

    But, tucked away in the mountains to the northeast is a tiny town of 1200 with a restaurant up for a James Beard Award.

    It's basically 5 hours from Seattle. Heck, it's an hour from Walla Walla. And yet people discovered a little pasteria in a mountainside village and it's up for Best New Restaurant in the whole USA.

    Tesqovara,
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    @bedirthan And here I thought Walla Walla was only famous for “The bloodiest stretch of sidewalk in North America.”

    The times they are a’changin’

    Tesqovara,
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    @bedirthan What is the name of the little town if you don’t mind me asking? Everything I recall about that area was pretty rundown time I was up there. (7-8 years ago now).

    SymbolicCity, to random
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    Assuming bad faith on Alexander's part is probably unnecessary, but this article sows enough doubt that I'll be sticking with the term Jaquaysing until someone demonstrates to me that she actually requested that he take her name out altogether: https://diyanddragons.blogspot.com/2024/01/xandering-is-slandering.html

    Tesqovara, (edited )
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    @LeviKornelsen @CatDad @SymbolicCity This whole thing is a bunch of no-talent white men arguing about their egos overtop of the achievements of a talented trans woman. Disgraceful, disrespectful, she doesn’t need to have her name dragged through this drama for their benefit. More people should just learn to STFU.

    randomwizard, to DnD

    Added mirager spells.

    https://github.com/random-wizard/adventure-combat-engine/blob/main/markdown/adventure-combat-engine.md

    Mirager is Tom Moldvay's version of the 1st edition AD&D Illusionist. In all my years of playing, I have never had a player want to be an illusionist.

    Got me to thinking that 2nd edition did improve on 1st in some ways. It took the idea of Illusionist and expanded it to Wizards could pick a school of magic to specialize in; Abjuration, Alteration, Conjuration, Echantment, Divination, Illusion, Invocation, Necromancy. Seemed like a logical next step.

    Tesqovara,
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    @chgowiz @Tim_Eagon @randomwizard Yes! Come explore the mysteries of Etinerra with us.

    auguryignored, to Depression

    Worldbuilders, roleplayers and writers with #depression and #anxiety : How do you deal with the sense of deep alienation and disgust with your own creative work on days when the brain is just not cooperating? #ttrpg #rpg

    Tesqovara,
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    @auguryignored I mean, that’s pretty much everyday. Movement is important, don’t stagnate in one place. Even a walk is often enough for me. But physically getting up and out of that psychological muck and get your mind/body link active is key. I also recommend a healthy dose of psilocybin mushrooms. On occasion.

    LeviKornelsen, to random
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    If you are, by some happenstance, at all interested in Lamentations of the Flame Princess and unaware of the surrounding politics, this video title should clear that up for you instantly.

    51 minutes, man. Whoo.

    Tesqovara,
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    @LeviKornelsen That’s too painful to even listen to the whole thing. And I like some of the LotFP books…

    Tesqovara,
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    @LeviKornelsen @jens James is a lot of things, but an apologist for the alt-right is definitely not one of them. Although some of his opinions might venn diagram into some of their petty causes. I think his official stance on the alt-right is “fuck them”

    Tesqovara,
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    @LeviKornelsen @jens I think I’m just disappointed. You can still be countercultural without being an asshole, but he wants to be an asshole.

    I do think we’re all guilty of promulgating a lot of white supremacy norms, moreso than we are comfortable admitting. Unless you’re a homeless ascetic, if you’re in the western world you’re suckling at the teat of white supremacy. James isn’t particularly egregious compared to most of our mainstream culture.

    Tim_Eagon, to movies
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    I finally watched Inglorious Basterds the other night (I had been listening to Conan O'Brien interviewing Tarantino earlier that day). Uh, it was interesting (well acted, well directed), but more as a series of loosely connected vignettes (the opening sequence, the scene in the basement bar, etc.) with a frankly ludicrous ending. I'm pretty sure Pitt thought he was in a different movie and the titular Basterds were completely superfluous.

    Tesqovara,
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    @Tim_Eagon I’ve found Tarantino to be completely superfluous since Pulp Fiction.

    Tesqovara,
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    @Tim_Eagon I loved those early films. I felt like Kill Bill was when he started getting reallly self-indulgent and it just never clicked for me after that.

    rivetgeek, to random
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    I love it here so much.

    Tesqovara,
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    @rivetgeek Sedona?

    Tesqovara,
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    @rivetgeek Looks like good climbing 🧗🏻‍♀️

    Tim_Eagon, (edited ) to food
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    Next week, should I get lunch from the sketchy BBQ wagon operating out of an abandoned gas station?

    #BBQ #Food

    Tesqovara,
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    @Tim_Eagon Make sure to ask about their “secret” menu.

    zdl, to random
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    @Yora @kyonshi @gianniseviltwin @zdl Asterion is one of the weakest adventures in their catalog. Some of the early stuff is quite good, in addition to what’s been mentioned, No Salvation For Witches is great. Your histrionic outburst is the reason James keeps on doing what he’s doing. Some of us want stuff that’s dark and horrific, not another adventure about elves and goblins etc. plus it’s funny watching squares get all upset by it.

    Tesqovara,
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    @zdl @Yora @gianniseviltwin @kyonshi That’s the primary cognitive dissonance of rpgs. Even in elf games you’re slaughtering, murdering, torturing etc. but dress it up with milquetoast art then it’s suddenly “acceptable.”

    It’s the same as real life, we’re only afforded our peace because of bloody, inhuman slaughter of others. It gives people the false impression they have a moral high ground, but our hands are soaked in blood. Lotfp just leans into the dissonance

    Tesqovara,
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    @zdl @Yora @gianniseviltwin @kyonshi It’s hard to be nuanced in 300 characters.

    harriorrihar, (edited ) to random Spanish
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    I was a wild child, and I couldn't imagine a future where I wasn't a child who climbed rocks and slept in caves. At school, a sentence, a word, or a comma was enough to shoot me to some remote place, a landscape to explore, full of life and details. I rarely finished reading their books, and then there would be a test I couldn't complete. They never asked me about those second places, about all the places I escaped to. 20 years have passed, and I'm still there.

    #art #manga #comic #BD #climb

    Tesqovara,
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    @harriorrihar I wish I could buy a print of this.

    LindseyBonnette, to random
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    Is it bad I'm not doing the RPG a day thing just because I dont like the prompts?

    I dont go to cons, my groups mostly run homebrew low lethality adventures, I've played with the same groups of people for a long time, a lot if the prompts are just not interesting considering this. They end up with answers like, "I dont go to cons" and "My answer to this is the same as Tuesdays answer"

    Tesqovara,
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    @LindseyBonnette I just skip the ones that don’t really apply to me, but try to have fun answering the ones that do. Nothing to feel bad about. I’m really enjoying reading different people’s takes and experiences, it’s fun to hear about all the uniqueness that happens outside my own perception.

    vga256, (edited ) to gamedev
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    very few people know of, or remember, David Joiner/Talin: creator of the Faery Tale Adventure series, and Inherit the Earth.

    for years he's been writing articles on medium that don't get a ton of readers. his in-the-trenches recollections of authoring games in the 80s, 90s and 2000s are well told, and are often genuinely heart wrenching. they stand in sharp contrast to the mythical, heroic dramas of self-styled superstar industry vets that have been talked to death already.

    instead, david's stories offer honest reflections on human fragility, and growing up in what usually amounts to a financially ruinous industry, from a dorky teenager to his retirement.

    i thought i'd collect together a handful of his best, in biographical/chronological order. they're all absolutely worth the read:

    The Faery Tale Adventure:
    https://medium.com/@dreamertalin/the-faery-tale-adventure-a-personal-history-4fae0617a18d

    Music-X:
    https://medium.com/@dreamertalin/music-x-b4abc68d6f78

    Inherit the Earth:
    https://medium.com/@dreamertalin/inherit-the-earth-quest-for-the-orb-2cd0fa4cfc02

    Faery Tale Adventure 2:
    https://medium.com/@dreamertalin/the-history-of-faery-tale-adventure-2-c3a17ac02378

    Four Failures (several gamedev startups):
    https://medium.com/@dreamertalin/four-failures-1996-2002-5611b955f14c

    SimCity 4/Sims 2:
    https://medium.com/@dreamertalin/maxis-and-ea-2002-2007-c07f50f66314

    Tesqovara,
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    @vga256 Damn, I LOVED Inherit the Earth when I was a kid. I had forgotten all about it, thanks for posting this.

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