Given the US-Zionist perfidy, telling people that there’s not going to be a ground invasion only increases my confidence that some ground operation is going to take place this weekend.

Raised about 50 cents over the past few days around where I live.

If global shipping companies are ending traffic through the strait regardless, then Iran doesn’t need to “officially” close the strait to put the thumbscrews on the gulf states.

Looks like Khamenei survived: https://aje.news/p4rw7y?update=4347081

AJE: Iran’s supreme leader to speak soon, Al-Alam TV says

⁠Iran’s ⁠Supreme Leader ⁠Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ⁠will speak within minutes, ‌Iran’s Al-Alam TV reported.

We’ll bring you more on that shortly.

Greenland wouldn’t be a quicker ROI, but right-wing billionaries see Greenland as a “terra nullis” that they can use as a testbed for their Randian feverdreams.

Lol

That’s in Minneapolis in the winter. That’s a lot of people for how cold it is.

He’ll be back.

It currently appears that the rest of the government and military high command is intact: https://www.telesurenglish.net/venezuelan-interior-minister-condemns-u-s-terrorist-attack/?noamp=available

Was the site down for like a half-hour, or was that just on my end?

Absolutely disgusting.

I picked up Metroid: Dread for my Switch and I am thinking of picking up the Metroid Prime remaster as well.

Other than that, probably Minecraft and board games.

Bad fit. Idk what makes this corpo-punk other than the fucking logos. When I think corpo-punk or business goth, I’m imaging a distressed or modded suit/tie thing, not a varsity jacket.

News has been depressing so that discussion isn’t particularly post-worthy for me, and now that I have a partner I have that immediate outlet for talking about my personal life so I don’t feel the need to journal post.

One of my folks’ farm cats was born long haired even though I’ve never seen a long-hair farm cat in that area, so yeah it seems so.

Probably Andrew Bailey, who was appointed as a “co-deputy director” of the FBI. He was Missouri’s AG and is a frothing-at-the-mouth right-wing culture warrior and extreme transphobe.

So, there are a couple key leading design movements.

In mainstream spaces (i.e. 5e D&D-adjacent) you have a new generation of games with a focus on well-tuned tactical combat and trying to tie in more narrative mechanics for non-combat scenarios. These games are generally similar in complexity to D&D 5e, albeit with higher optimization ceilings. Examples: Pathfinder 2e, Daggerheart, Draw Steel, Lancer. I would also slot Fabula Ultima here even if the tactical combat isn’t spatial in nature.

In indie spaces, you have a lot of post-PbtA microgames, where the idea is to riff on an established mechanic with bespoke material for capturing a specific vibe. The 24XX movement is a key example. Really, any of these can be picked up and played with little prep, you just have to find something that you like. You also have diceless (and often GMless) games based on Belonging Outside Belonging, which are super narrative heavy and based on collaborative storytelling. Jenna Moran’s games (Nobilis, Chuubo’s Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine, etc…) are also a major precursor to this movement, but Jay Dragon’s games (Sleepaway, Wanderhome, Yazeba’s Bed and Breakfast) are probably the most notable modern examples.

The other major indie movement is the New School Renaissance (NSR) movement, which is derived from the Old School Revival/Renaissance (OSR) movement. While the OSR movement was mainly about recapturing what was perceived to be lost modalities of play (generally based on a nostalgia for Basic/Expert D&D), NSR games take the core mechanical aspects of the OSR and apply them to more diverse genres and themes. Mothership and Mork Borg are the biggest games in this space, with a mountain of 3rd party support, but games based on Into the Odd (Bastionland, Cairn, Mausritter, etc…) are also a major current.

In addition to these design movements, you still have a lot of stable currents as well, including PbtA/FitD games, trad games published by legacy publishers (Onyx Path, Arc Dream, Chaosium, Free League, Pelgrane Press, Green Ronin, etc…) as well as a fair number of 5e-clones/hacks.

(Miami Herald) U.S. poised to strike military targets in Venezuela in escalation against Maduro regime

Most of the higher-end data center chips that have been the main point of investment aren’t designed/supported for home use or gaming, so even then it might not be usable outside of tensor processing.

AI job applications combined with AI application screening just turns the entire process into a pure lottery.