temporary autonomous zone

…it’s been the frontier of human condition for as long as we’ve wrought civilisation from the wild; always ephemeral; always pollinating, seeding anew, and burgeoning along the fresh meadowlands of social intercourse…

…there’s one clear victor and it’s not even close…

…not in fifth-edition dungeons + dragons: knowledge checks are intelligence, judgement is wisdom…

…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…

…my cat loved to do this with the styrofoam inserts from my original transformers boxes…

…oh, that’s pretty!..reminds me of when i redecorated my bedroom the summer of `83…

…maybe he’ll do the world a favor and step into an industrial shredder…

(shame about his genetic legacy, but hopefully all their mothers are mostly good people who give them a fighting chance at turning out well)

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East Asia gets a very mixed representation in western media, but it’s still better than the (effectively) no representation that is typical of SEA (bar like one or two countries).

…for all grief folks give kara-tur, they made a respectable effort to represent the breadth of pacific asia folklore and culture; no less a patois of anachronistic legendarium than D+D did with western europe…

https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Malatra

…hey kid, wanna buy a t-shirt?…

…i was going to say 16 ⅔ feet based on 1 ½ meters being about 5 feet, pretty close…

TIL!

…i also had no idea aluminised tetrapacks were recyclable; always figured composite materials were dead-end landfill fodder…

(the changeover wasn’t entirely in the sixties, though: as a kid, we used to peel cartons open and scrape off the wax for craft projects clear into the early eighties, never realised the packaging had changed prior to the advent of plastic screw-tops)

…typically they’re coated with food-grade wax…

…i visited fourty years ago; it was pretty lush…

…the revolution will not be televised…

…just a little kiddie diddlin’ so mossad’s comfortable letting her on the inside track…

…which are essentially the entire electorate and media apparatus supporting both parties…

…he’d’ve resoundingly trounced trump if the democratic party hadn’t conspired against him in 2016, but if he won the executive the democratic party would have done everything in their power to make sure his administration was no more effectual than carter’s…

…advanced marvel superheroes, the full FASERIP system…

…with some clever geometry, it could be sized for metric-integer weight, length, and volume…