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rivetgeek

@rivetgeek@dice.camp

Old school commie fiction first story gamer swine
Elderly rivethead
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Tribes in the Dark Lead Designer
(He/Him)

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I gotta admit that I'm disappointed to hear that Dire Wolf Digital will be supporting their board games at and not the or . It seems like a wasted opportunity.

rivetgeek,
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@Tim_Eagon I don't know. There's supposedly stuff in the pipeline. I'd say Cortex does not seem like a priority, and they're not allocating resources to developing the line — far less than Fandom did, at least when Fandom was putting money, energy, and people into it. Being at GenCon and not hosting any Cortex or ToX events is a signal of some kind.

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This comment I put in a script is going on my gravestone.

rivetgeek,
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@Steveg58 This is a super simple one that I know someone will think is a typo or a placeholder and try to "fix" it.

rivetgeek, to random
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Fuuuck. The airline changed my connecting flight coming home from Indy in August from being at a good time to departing 8 hours before my first flight arrives. I booked everything though Hopper and luckily got the missed connection insurance, because getting hold of anyone at the airline is impossible. I may just have to fly on the day, invoke the missed connection guarantee, and get a new flight booked then. But it's stressful as hell. Luckily it's coming home and not going, maybe?

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@Da_Gut It is. It makes zero sense. I guess maybe there's a chance they'll reschedule it back? I'm not holding my breath.

rivetgeek,
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Frontier fixed it and rebooked me on a flight that arrives a little later and has a stop, but it was free.

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Some more thoughts:

Gary Numan was really good. He played the entirety of The Pleasure Principle, which was great because a lot of his newer stuff I frankly find tedious. He brought his 3 teen or young adult daughters on stage for one song, which felt a little forced.

Soft Cell was likewise great. Marc Almond had a performer onstage named Christeen who was...interesting. Kind of like Genesis P'orridge. My step daughter was kind of weirded out by it.

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last night at was fantastic. But I've come to the conclusion that Simon Le Bon is beginning to look more and more like Malcolm McDowell.

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This is an example of how Ministry reworked the early stuff. Also: backup singers, and an electric violin and cello:

https://youtu.be/LxuA54IU9Rs?si=c5VXA1-PI0WyKTLm

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@Tim_Eagon Al Jourgensen was basically forced to make the first album, With Sympathy, the way that the record company wanted. He's hated the album for years and both it and Twitch haven't been played live since 1984 and 1987 respectively. This is literally the first time anyone has heard these songs played live in 40 years.

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@Tim_Eagon It was completely not what I was expecting. I think I was expecting him to just play the songs the way the crowd would be expecting and basically phone it in.

Duran Duran changed up their show too and it was great. Granted the last time I saw them was over 30 years ago...

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I'll have some more thoughts on later, but for now I have to say that Ministry's performance of songs from With Sympathy and Twitch was inspired as fuck. It wasn't just a regurgitation of the songs. Jourgensen owned the performances and brought them up to his current standards.

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My step daughter got her hair pretty big getting ready for . Reminds of the time that a friend of mine who had really tightly curled hair let another friend spend hours picking it out. The result was an afro like two feet around. He couldn't get it back down for a week.

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These Anker Sound Core noise cancelling headphones are pretty sweet. Their noise cancelling is really good and they're smart enough to pause when there's an announcement at the airport. They were on sale for $80. I'm really glad I got them, wearing my PixelBuds for hours irritates my ears even with third party foam tips.

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Though I've been drifting away from for a while now, it's still feels really weird to be completely uninterested in the latest releases. I mean, not even a twinge of FOMO.

rivetgeek,
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@Da_Gut @bedirthan @Tim_Eagon @dragoncrown It's also that even aside from "advancement", the start of the game shouldn't set the character in stone. You should be able to change things on your character sheet that don't boil down to advancement, as your character evolves and changes. I'm very much for, "I'm not going to decide [trait] now, I want to give this character some time to settle".

rivetgeek,
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@Da_Gut @bedirthan @Tim_Eagon @dragoncrown A great example of this are relationship and value statements in Cortex games. They're brief phrases that define the trait. You can question those statements, getting additional dice for a roll, but have to reduce the trait after. When you get to downtime/growth/whatever, you have a choice to make. Rewrite the statement and restore the trait rating, or leave the statement and the reduced trait (typically in exchange for increasing another one).

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Apparently since I'll be in CA this weekend I'm going to miss the aurora reaching down to WA tomorrow night. I must be getting old if I'm a little disappointed I'll be missing that to see a bunch of bands.

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This "All Purpose Flour" is a scam. It does not work as sugar.

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Well, I went to my primary care doctor yesterday, and had a bunch of labs done.
In the words of my wife "They are disgustingly good". (She is jealous of my cholesterol reading).
My A1C is a bit high (I've had diabetes for a while) but just barely over what we want it.
Everything else checks out... the low side of normal.
Interesting!

rivetgeek,
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@Da_Gut I found a primary care center that does the blood draws on-site for labs. They're associated with a private hospital in Seattle, which is why I think they do that. It make its a lot easier for me because I'm pre-diabetic (slowly beating it back) and hate to get my blood drawn, not a great combo when it needs to be done every few months. It's hard to procrastinate when the doctor says, "Just go into the waiting area, they'll call you".

rivetgeek,
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@Da_Gut Mine is almost entirely from a voracious soda habit. I just stopped cold except the occasional can of Sprite. My food diet intake wasn't really a concern, I eat pretty light normally, but too much cholesterol and processed food (tbh, I eat because I have to). I started eating more fruits and vegetables. I've lost like 6 lbs but I wasn't that overweight to begin with (20 lbs or so). Crossing my fingers with my next blood lab in a couple months that my A1C drops into the low 5s.

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The owner of this Chinese buffet is watching me eat like they’re casino security and I’m counting cards.

rivetgeek,
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@xinicit https://youtu.be/5KUyhlgxwFI?si=DbXNI9xvlzLvJFj3

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I'm seeing a lot of my fellow Gen-Xers saying "When did we start thinking the police were the bad guys?"

Did you not come up on Fuck the Police? On Killing in the Name?

Or is this only because now that you have your little bit of shit and feel entitled that you want to remake it? To be safe for you, instead of strong for them? To become the generation we hated for not protecting us?

These kids are doing what we did. Being who we wanted to be. Help them, don't shit on them. Fucking cowards.

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@thebrand @LeviKornelsen The dude I know who I met when he was a 16-year old punk kid and who was in a diverse circle of friends that included many sexual orientations and genders and ethnicities turned into a neo-Nazi, racist, Odinist, mouth-breathing MAGA. And he's half-Hispanic to boot. Blows my fucking mind.

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@thebrand @LeviKornelsen One of his best friends growing up, the younger brother of one of my high school girlfriend's friends, was from Guatemala. Their family escaped to the US in the early 80s, and before that they saw some shit. He had to completely disown the MAGA chud even though it broke his heart to do it.

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@kevin @thebrand @LeviKornelsen Way too many of them.

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