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GoblinQuester

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Been a titterpig since anno dazumal … that is, since the 80’s, and titterpig was a word I learned the other month. Mainly been playing RQ and WFRP in the modern time.
Oh, and Trans Rights are Human Rights!

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mrundkvist, to blogging Swedish
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December (Gaming) Pieces Of My Mind #3

https://aardvarchaeology.wordpress.com/2023/12/30/december-pieces-of-my-mind-3-8/

GoblinQuester,
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@mrundkvist I only had in the fridge because I didn't like how runny it was!!!

CrescentSays, to bookstodon

Hey
Any recommendations for books with nonbinary or transmen main characters? Feeling like I could really use the representation, but all I'm finding are transwomen, and that's... not me. As long as it's fiction, any genre is okay.
@bookstodon

GoblinQuester,
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@bookstodon @CrescentSays The main character in K. B Wagers excellent NeoG series is enby.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/cb306824-d1f1-4d30-af58-5ccd1c13710e

thestorygraph, to bookstodon

We’ve just launched a brand new Recommendations section! 🥳

Everyone gets their own personalised StoryGraph "bookstore"! 😍

Browse lists curated just for you, including genre picks, suggestions based on your recent reads, books similar users loved, and more. ✨

@bookstodon

Screenshot of the top of the new "Advanced Recommendations Search" menu on StoryGraph. The top section reads "What are you in the mood for? Books with a similar theme/feel to.. You can select up to 3.' Two books have been selected, and their cover thumbnail shows alongside the title and author, and underneath is a search bar with the placeholder "Search by title and author or ISBN".
Screenshot of the new "Similar users loved.'" recommendations section on StoryGraph. Two book covers are show side-by-side, and there's a "Browse" button top right.
Screenshot of the new "Based on recent reads" recommendations section on StoryGraph. Two book covers are show side-by-side, and there's a "Browse" button top right.

GoblinQuester,
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@bookstodon @lunacia @thestorygraph Yeah, I side eyeing this feature, but so far there actually have been plenty of books that was interesting news to me.
I left Goodreads when the recommendations stopped being personalized and just become what Amazon wanted to push at me.

GoblinQuester, to boardgames
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I’m the Golem lord!

😄

Third time is the charm I have heard! Won again, this time in a three player game and it didn’t take that much longer than with two player.
I’m very impressed, an extremely well oiled game mechanics!

sunflower, to books

recommend me a book! i like fantasy, paranormal romance, sci-fi, queer fiction. i need 12 recommendations from other people for a 2024 reading challenge :blobcatblep:

#reading #books #bookstodon @bookstodon

GoblinQuester,
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@sunflower @bookstodon I would put in three suggestions:

  1. Telepath by Janet Edwards https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/a8ffb5b8-db55-417f-a5e8-470377db83b3

  2. The Green Man's Heir by Juliet E. McKenna https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/35d7dfeb-0bcc-478f-836d-9df8656fd29d

  3. A Pale Light in the Black by K.B. Wagers https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/cb306824-d1f1-4d30-af58-5ccd1c13710e

All three are excellent and have way less recognition than they deserve.

(and of course I recommend Murderbot, but so do everyone else)

mrundkvist, (edited ) to Travel
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From the bus station at the landward end of the urban archipelago that is to the southeast end at St. Helen Empress, it's only 4.5 km as the seagull flies. But walking the streets, bridges and piazzas as I've been doing all afternoon, it is very very very much not possible to keep to a straight line. Oh my poor legs!

(The dotted blue route on the map is a notional shortest one that I certainly did not follow.)

GoblinQuester,
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@mrundkvist One of my Italian colleges said: The whole point of going to Venice is to get lost in the alleys and discover remarkable places 😉

GoblinQuester, to boardgames
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Forgot to post the Root finals at Sunday. I was by far the most inexperienced at the table and ended up in a stable late place. Still got a $40 gift card gracefully provided by Leder games!
#Root #boardgames

franciscawrites, to bookstodon
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As if children's books aren't already losing visibility due to censorship now this...

This year Goodreads has removed all children's books categories from their Goodreads Choice Awards, meaning no more or categories. Worse, Graphic Novel & Poetry, have also been eliminated.

Here you can vote to ask them to bring those categories back:

https://help.goodreads.com/s/suggestions/a0G8V00001thIKIUA2/choice-awards-middle-grade-picture-book-novelinverse-each-a-category

@bookstodon

GoblinQuester,
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@bookstodon @franciscawrites @raymccarthy May I just point towards StoryGraph as an alternative.

eniko, to random
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i think i might ditch out of nanowrimo. it was fun for the first few days but now im noticing its stressing me out and i really cant have that interfering with my work on kitsune tails :/

GoblinQuester,
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@eniko I just got a vision if you brushing the tails of a Kitsune!

mrundkvist, to academia Swedish
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The jobs section of my CV looks like I was in jail or a mental hospital from my thesis presentation in 2003 to my first temp lectureship in 2012. Actually I was on a series of small research grants. Honestly!!!

GoblinQuester,
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@mrundkvist Oh, no you don't fool us, we've seen Indiana Jones, you probably fell through a portal and had to fight your way back though a sea of space-nazi-jotun-demons trying to stop you from stealing their precious unobtanium made idol of transcendent sin! Nine is a significant number here! looking forward here to you report book - "A year in each world".

baldur, to random
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Every time the US has one of it’s rare genuine union action, it immediately becomes obvious that US execs don’t know the first thing about negotiation and even less about collective bargaining

GoblinQuester,
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@baldur Yeah, you can see what bosses here in Sweden who have been indoctrinated in the US way of CEOing.
As the times get harsher and companies starts to act ... less benevolent, the Unions starts to respond ... and lets say there is some rough awakening here lately.
Also people has been bribed into lethargy and now suddenly realize that "the company is your family"-crap means that a really abusive parent is present and the the lash is coming out.

marcel, to random
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People who think fall is their favorite season have been gaslit by social media. They think it‘s all pretty leaves and sipping pumpkin flavored drinks on sunny walks. In reality it‘s a wet and gray shitshow that is depressing and one of the best arguments for a couple of months of cryo-sleep.

GoblinQuester,
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@marcel The Moomins had it right, stock up on the food and snuggle into the hay. see you in the spring!

BlippyTheWonderSlug, to random
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My pants are still unavailable.

My tummy rumbleth.

Time for brekkies.

puts toast in the toaster ROUND SIDE DOWN

GoblinQuester,
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@BlippyTheWonderSlug

AAAhhh, you are breaking the fucking world doing that, have you NO shame at all?!?!?!

If I had a toaster I would make two toasts the correct way just to compensate!!!

😜

futurebird, to random
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Ants are the strange members of the hymenopterans. What defines a "bee" or a "wasp" ?

Flying! Stinging! Ovipositing! Bright warning colors!

Ants looked at the main advantages of being hymenopteran and said... nah. I guess stinging is OK... (Though most ants don't sting.) ... but most of this is nothing compared to going eusocial.

Personally I think eusociality is such a huge advantage this makes sense.

But then why aren't the bees who do both more successful? Are they too specialized?

GoblinQuester,
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@futurebird Green biology PhD students gets to to so many strange things during their years.
My thoughts goes still to those who was stumbling around in the Nevada (?) desert holding plastic sheets over a foraging ant to test if changes in the sunlight would affect their abilities to find their way back home again.

emmahunneyball, to boardgames

Man, two days is a LOT of thinking time on . There has to be a happy medium between playing real-time, and playing turn-based where one player takes THE FULL TWO DAYS of thinking time EVERY TURN. By my reckoning this game of Wingspan will take at least TWO MONTHS to complete.

GoblinQuester,
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@emmahunneyball I plays a lot of turn based on BGA, and never ever again anything with more than 12h thinking time, because gosh, i want a game finished within a month ...

GoblinQuester,
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@RogerBW @emmahunneyball mmm ... I run a lot of feel and inspiration and if it goeas to long between turns I loose focus and interests in reading up on the current state and just ends up "do something whatever" which isn't good for either the game or myself.

ifixcoinops, to random
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Hahaha good lord I love when computer mans try to make pinball machines

Remember the Weird Al thread?

At least Weird Al had coin slots

https://www.knapparcade.org/post/coinless-pinball-the-mysterious-front-portion-of-turner-pinball-s-ninja-eclipse-machine-revealed

GoblinQuester,
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@ifixcoinops Lets put it into this perspective: Over here (Sweden) no one under 60 carries cash, and few of those elders than so do neither.
It is not uncommon with shops having "no cash" signs. Even the beggars take "Swish" (a system to send money by phone).
I do not recognize how the cash looks like any longer as they have changed it since I last saw a bill (ten years ago or something).
I use card, and that is seen as old-fashioned, as most uses their phones nowadays.

bevanthomas, to 13thFloor
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In many legends, the best place to find the Devil is at a crossroads, which is where Faust made his famous pact. The crossroads represents the person's monumental choice, which direction they're going to take. Is it the road leading to Heaven or to Hell?

GoblinQuester,
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@bevanthomas IIRC a cross road (contrary to what I thought) is not a four way cross, but rather the three way T-shape, where the "missing" fourth is the liminal-magic space where gallows/altars/burials should be placed.

seedling, to worldbuilding
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Writing the start of a worldbuilding blog post. I'm thinking about the title king or queen.

One thing I'm generally doing is making everything a lot more local, with less local authority. You'll generally get a local noble of some kind but whose influence reaches no further than the distance you can ride in a day, and to go beyond that is a big deal. An actual king or queen is pretty rare, and a big deal.

GoblinQuester,
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@seedling There is one instance of a Polish King being female. If I remember correctly the only viable (and competent) candidate was a woman, all other would have descended into civil war. But the "constitution said that no queen could rule ... what to do, what to do?
Well, nowhere in the constitution there was anything that the King had to be male!
TADAA! Problem solved. King Jadwiga it is!

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GoblinQuester,
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@hawksquill @bookstodon I think they mostly was disliked by the usual "middle-age white male cis crowd" that can't really handle anything than the milquetoast books they have build their reality around.

lednabwm, to random

Nice....

GoblinQuester,
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@LouisIngenthron @lednabwm In Sweden everything left of the "honestly-not-nazi-party-any-longer-nudge-nudge-whink-whink" underwrite that one.
Left is such an abused word in 'murica.

Omom4075, (edited ) to nature
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Sun flowers (Helianthus annuus) and bumblebees

(I first writed honeybee, but it was wrong)

@nature

GoblinQuester,
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@Omom4075 @nature May I be that frakking person and point out that those are not honeybees, but bumblebees ...

I'm sorry, but I have that morning ...

GoblinQuester, to random
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aurgh, how many errors can a writer/designer put in a paragraph before it collapse into a black hole and kills us all?
If you are going to use science terms, then either learn something about them (they do mean something you know) or get someone to who do know to read it.
If not, better to use magic languages, or invented words, the advantage of that is also that it is time safe, new science will not make your bad science sound even more pathetic.

PTR_K, to nature
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@futurebird @ChristineMalec
Don't know what was going on here. These ladies were swarming up through a crack in the sidewalk. All workers as far as I could tell.

iNaturalist algorithm thinks they're "Immigrant Pavement Ants"
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/182366468
#Ants #Nature #iNaturlist #Arthropods

A seem of brownish looking ants coming from a crack between slabs of sidewalk. They form a clump with a gravely texture in the middle and spread out more thinly to the top and bottom of the frame.

GoblinQuester,
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@PTR_K @ChristineMalec @promovicz @hudsonart @futurebird @Compassionatecrab
A household fix for a stuffy nose here in Sweden is to put a handkerchief on an red wood ant "hill", after using it (shaking off the ants first is a recommendation) the sinuses clear out just fine due to the formic acid.

eniko, to random
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On the bright side I just finished chapter 6 of my story and now have 8200 words written. I don't know if that's a lot but it feels like a lot?

GoblinQuester,
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@eniko What a mad, glorious thing! Again it proves that even the most bizarre things roleplayers dreams up equipmentwise in their dungeoncrawls have nothing on IRL!

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