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Apt.

Wings of Hope: A Lunar: Silver Star Story Retrospective: L.B. Bryant examines the classic role-playing game Lunar: The Silver Star, and its use of sound and visuals to present a distinctly "anime-like" experience that was novel and unexplored at the time of its release, and remains influential today.

Link: https://www.animeherald.com/2019/11/07/wings-of-hope-a-lunar-silver-star-story-retrospective/

#gaming #retrogaming #rpg

an instrument made out of feathers and rotary telephone dials

• An Oxford comma walks into a bar where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars.

• A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.

• A bar was walked into by the passive voice.

• An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.

• Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”

• A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.

• Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.

• A question mark walks into a bar?

• A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.

• Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Get out -- we don't serve your type."

• A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.

• A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.

• Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.

• A synonym strolls into a tavern.

• At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar -- fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.

• A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.

• Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.

• A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.

• An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.

• The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.

• A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned a man with a glass eye named Ralph.

• The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.

• A dyslexic walks into a bra.

• A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.

• A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.

• A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.

• A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony.

✨ From Jenny and the Cat Club, written and illustrated by Esther Averill. 1958.

From Verso Books:

"In Solidarity with the Students.
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#books #Palestine #protest

Secret Panel HERE 🙌 https://tapas.io/episode/3161466

Trying to resist the temptation to say “I’m behind on everything” because it implies there was a chance I could have completed the work in the time available.

And I couldn’t have.

The work is the work and it’ll get done when it gets done. Putting a bunch of pressure on myself to do the impossible isn’t helpful.

From Jenny and the Cat Club, written and illustrated by Esther Averill. 1958.

My brothers and sisters in christ, to all the PbtA Devs, because we seem to be the only motherfuckers who do this, do not say "the playbooks are available online so we aren't putting them in the print book."

For the love of god, pay the extra 2 dollars a book to print them. Otherwise, in twenty years when every download link to them is gone forever because the internet is ephemeral, your game will be literally unplayable.

To my friends in the #TTRPG scene: Two of my works are included in this bundle, along with 500+ other items, all for $5 (or more, if you're feeling generous).

FYI: I'm not an organizer of this bundle. I'm just a contributor.

If you want some fun stuff for a good cause, it's right here.

https://itch.io/b/2383/ttrpgs-for-trans-rights-west-virginia

Seen on the way back from picking up glasses (I'm trying, universe, believe me):

We fucked up, the internet was supposed to be a fun weird thing with hamsters dancing and now it’s a thing where you pay bills and your boss spies on you

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We're looking in particular for translations! If you know of anyone who writes science fiction, fantasy, magic realism, slipstream, or some related genre in a South Asian language, please let us know!
https://www.blaft.com/blogs/news/call-for-submissions

Nanuraq only started running dogs two years ago and was participating in his first Nunavut Quest, a race that his grandfather and father have both run.

And today he was announced as the winner.

#Nunavut #Arctic