A blockade even. Just a bit of economic pressure, is all.

“and I need you to do this specific pose otherwise it doesn’t count”. There is probably a sub for it, too!

There is something about Caesar being mocked for being on the receiving end when he went to Asia Minor early in his career. Although that was probably slander, it shows this was viewed as a negative.

Well, there are a few big cliffs, I suppose. But that sounds like a lot of work. Hopefully the shitty weather and constant banter should keep most of ye away.

This makes me irrationally angry. Well done!

Is America projecting again? 好没想到的啊！

Other Dust and its more recent incarnation, Ashes Without Number, are OSR games from Kevin Crawford with many systems to help you create your own post-apo setting and run adventures within it.

Other Dust was especially written as an homage to Gamma World and so has an entire section on creating mutant PCs (5 pages or so of mutations). The setting’s gimmick is that any living being affected by radiation gets “healed” by the global nanite system. But because the system was corrupted during the apocalypse, it will turn those beings into monstrous freaks.

Ashes Without Number goes a bit more generic with more options as to what kind of apocalypse happened, but still has that section on mutations.

Other Dust was a bit involved, with mutation powers, then separate flaws and benefits on top of it, so a mutation could be beneficial or not, regardless of its nature. Then separate to that are stigmatas which are visible aesthetic traits that mark you as a mutant in the eyes of strangers. Ashes Without Number simplified things a bit with positive and negative mutations. And stigmatas which are still there as an aesthetic layer. In both cases Kevin takes care to offer options to pick mutations, randomly or not.

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Known in Chinese as 差不多

Pure Opera!

Oh yeah, no hate on the local specialties! I always looked forward going to IKEA as a kid, for the cardamom based pastries and such. But like… I can’t really imagine what a traditional Swedish cuisine restaurant would serve.

Would you, kindly?

Imagine paying the toll and now Trump says you can’t go because you shouldn’t have to pay a toll… This surely will go well.

Saw a map today, on reddit or around here, showing the dominant kind of restaurants across european countries : local food or foreign food. And sure enough, most of northern and Eastern Europe prefers foreign food. Anyone who’s traveled around Europe will have a fairly good idea why.

All I’m saying is, the bit about food doesn’t work for all countries.

They could call it the Calvin Duncan Act maybe.

I read these tweets but heard them as the poster adressing his Seneschal instead of grok.
“Abelard, what is the meaning of this?”
“Abelard, why is that Aeldari angry?”

Even with my terrible level in Latin, I’m glad to say I got that reference!

Hmm, I’m looking forward to seeing what happens to ICE agents trying to antagonise a whole fucking base worth of Marines…

It’s got electrolytes!

Didn’t Texas have massive electrical power grid issues last… winter was it? How do you have a third world power grid and that many data centers?