I love this story, thanks for sharing it.

Great work! It’s not that it’s not possible. It’s just not common.

For most it’s an appetite suppressant. Bear in mind, exercise is rarely a weight loss tool. It’s very important but it’s not really a way to lose weight

I’m glad people have correctly realized that the French should be associated with violent anti government riots and not surrendering. That was a meme that needed to die.

It’s not much better in other places. Lots of us rely on being “better than the us” so as it slides, so do we, just a few meters behind.

Politicians need to actually feel concerned about how the people they are hurting will respond. Currently they know there will be nothing more than a few grouchy news articles and upset social media comments.

I’m really tired of prescribing ozempic. It’s the only thing I have access to that works, but it’s not the wonder drug people think it is. Pretty much every other day I have to give the same speech about informed choice around it and how it works. I look forward to a brave new era where there are half a dozen others on the market that I have to give a slightly different speech about.

So. This is the version of reality where I randomly stumble on high quality Jack Aubrey gif memes, is it? Better than a shove in the eye with a dry stick.

I assume one side is going to be clan, though.

King for the IS should be a BattleMaster, just for the name

Glad another Marxist said it. The problem isn’t that capitalism was always the wrong choice, it’s that we’re clinging to it long beyond its best before date.

I’m sure they will absolutely abide by the judge’s ruling and this is the last we’ll hear of it.

In japan they put the handwashing sink on the back of the toilet. It’s smaller, smarter, and doesn’t look weird and gross like this.

Then they brush their teeth in a different room so their toothbrush isn’t two feet from their shit.

Having some weird issues with replying, sent you a DM about it.

How experienced a GM are you? I haven’t worked with this game system but may have some general tips for this scenario.

I don’t recall which one, I think atow? It’s been a while. In general though, I have a feeling anything officially battletech is going to lean way too far into crunch, but I’d be happy to be wrong.

I haven’t looked at S&V, but BT has a much more hard sci-fi feel than SW… I’m assumed it wouldn’t be a great fit. How much does scum and villainy lean on the “space fantasy” angle?

I don’t think they’d bring anyone from outside Lemmy.

Side note, battletech chess set is a phenomenal idea.

I think the right way to go is fine a good local computer store with knowledgeable people and get their help parting out and assembling it. You get some repair coverage and benefits like that, they do the bulk of the work, and you can put your own options in on anything you’re knowledgeable about. It’s what I’ve done and it’s well worth it for the small extra cost.

There’s an element of that to it. The overarching villain represents a hostile monopolistic corpo in the analogy, and a continent-spanning emperor in the text, and “socialism” is going to be needed to defeat him.

These are millenial shooters dangit, boomers were too old for doom. Gen X at most.

More seriously though I just replayed the OG doom and it still slaps, nice to see some folks are trying to recapture that. I should check these out.

I haven’t got a great elevator pitch for it yet but essentially there are a number of different ways to do magic, split by culture. I’ve passed it through a number of filters to keep it from being too much of an anvil, but several of the forms of magic are stands-in for the labour theory of value. Magicians can become very powerful by effectively stealing and monopolizing magic from a larger group of people, or they can be individually quite weak but collectively strong. The ‘socialist’ magicians have learned that they can compete a bit with the stronger magicians by collectively agreeing on someone to share their magic with, but it’s hard to keep a power structure like that when all around them are people trying to steal all their magic.

This stuff is all a backdrop to a story that’s a more standard adventure journey, but those themes do recurrently crop up and will eventually be core to some of the conflict

What I’m thinking after mulling on it since writing this is that I can probably design a simple arc in five short books for the very young, and then step into a more advanced YA arc that stands independent of those books for when the audience ages. Since I’m writing it for my kid, it should work for her. I don’t feel any particular need to publish, though if they’re good I’ll see what happens, so i’ve got a lot of freedom to play with the format.

I agree about language. I’m trying to avoid going too simple on sentence structure and word choices, but I am working on using words that are more phonics-friendly. My daughter can read and understand complex sentence structures but has troubles reading words that don’t sound out well. I’ll see how she goes with it.