@Michael Lucas Question: What's the stretch goal where you make an audiobook by watching the movie a...

@Michael Lucas Question: What's the stretch goal where you make an audiobook by watching the movie and trying to read your novel out loud at the same time?

explaining to a 3 year old that if you crush peanuts and butter you don't get peanut butter *or* but...

explaining to a 3 year old that if you crush peanuts and butter you don't get peanut butter *or* butternut squash

Boeing has all these contacts leftover from the whistleblowers but apparently would rather appease M...

Boeing has all these contacts leftover from the whistleblowers but apparently would rather appease Musk than become the new Luigi

Do you think that Irish Coffee could use absinthe instead of Whiskey?

Do you think that Irish Coffee could use absinthe instead of Whiskey?

Trump and Vance are confused why everyone else isn't behaving like sycophants because they run the U...

Trump and Vance are confused why everyone else isn't behaving like sycophants because they run the US.

Ok, let's sum this up. The thing that gets to me about the Signal chats is the Vice President of the US talking about bailing out Europe. There was a comment about how only the US could drone a building, which is wild, I feel like I could probably throw a bomb at a building using the contents of most kitchens. Sure - maybe the US's bombs and drones are fancier - but I think we need to zoom in on that.

The US administration thinks that it's getting value for its money on defense. There's a theory that the US military budget is being spent on getting stuff rather than mostly just a slush fund for defense contractors. But this leads them to believe that they're the most powerful people in the world and that they're as much stronger than any other country by the amount more they spend on weapons.

And because of that they think that Europe couldn't stop terrorists. There's a belief that people aren't shooting drones at civilians because they *can't*, and they're mad that people are relying on them to fire drones at civilians. They believe that everyone else is just ungrateful for their droning of civilians. They can't envision a world where blowing up innocents in an apartment building is considered a bad move.

Trump and Vance are confused why everyone else isn't behaving like sycophants because they run the US.

I've been threatening to start a blog for a bit now. I guess the Signal War Plans forced me to do it...

I've been threatening to start a blog for a bit now. I guess the Signal War Plans forced me to do it. Fuck.

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My least favourite anti-pattern in everything is when someone gets the term Don't Repeat Yourself (D...

My least favourite anti-pattern in everything is when someone gets the term Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY) stuck in their head.
They then start building wrappers around an interface that has all the same inputs as their interface. So now you have 2-3 layers of abstraction on top of every interface, all of which add complexity. Because they are Not Repeating Themselves where things aren't the same. BAAAAAH

I don't understand people's economic choices.

I don't understand people's economic choices.

One of the worst parts of modern life is innovaton. One of the most annoying things that could happen in my economic life is if Kijiji Innovated. If Kijiji improved/changed it could only annoy me.

I see people being mad about "Dead Games", and I also see people mad about Live Service Games. My entire goal in gaming is for my games to never change. I don't want changes, I want to play, see the story, finish, or mess with systems.

I don't get the search for innovation in corporations, and I don't get why someone would want them to. I don't get why people get annoyed by a product not updating.

I really don't understand people's existential horror at Star Trek transporters.

I really don't understand people's existential horror at Star Trek transporters.

If you're a materialist - why do you care if your body is preserved alongside your mind. Why is it a problem that you get stored in a pattern buffer?

If you're not a materialist - why do you care about the body and not the soul? Why do you think your soul would become untethered because of changes in your body? I don't get it!

The most annoying sin a TTRPG designer can commit is saying "this is the coolest part of the game, i...

The most annoying sin a TTRPG designer can commit is saying "this is the coolest part of the game, it should be rare"