When I used to work in the office I probably worked about 5 hours a day at most. The rest was spent on personal projects, fucking around, whatever

Now that I work from home it varies between two and four.

My production is exactly the same.

His “candidacy” is to have his living expenses covered for another year while squirreling away enough cash so he doesn’t ever have to be an AM radio talk show host again.

“Putang ina.” (“Son of a removed”)

They said this charming Filipino phrase whenever I did something stupid. So, often enough to count as a catchphrase.

True.

Also, not only are people nicer on Lemmy, I find that I’m nicer on Lemmy.

think most people can tell that majority of African and Asian countries have anti-LGBT law without needing “international attention”

Until I read this very article, I had no idea that being gay in Malaysia was punished by 20 years in prison.

Seems like a nice enough guy, but I’m not a fan. Which is fine, since I’m not his intended audience.

Mostly Harmless.

Allies.

This isn’t the 90s anymore. Today, unmoderated/poorly moderated online spaces are breeding grounds for the usual toxic assholes who ruin everything.

Blackadder, Red Dwarf, Fawlty Towers, the IT Crowd, and (oddly) The Good Place.

Maybe he should cut more checks to right-wing grifters. That should help.

The Universe is a big place, so it almost certain.

But so far we don’t have compelling enough evidence to verify this.

Absolutely. If you’re willing to eat horse, more power to you.

I still subscribe to a couple of niche subreddits because their lemmy equivalents haven’t taken off yet. But aside from the occasional check-in, I don’t really visit any more. Amazed at how much time I wasted each day on nothing.

The level of research is evident—Tim Powers doesn’t skimp on the details at all. I normally don’t like espionage thrillers but he makes the Great Game come alive. And that’s before the weirder elements come in.

I’m finally reading Declare by Tim Powers. All I can say is holy shit I never knew how much I needed this book in my life.

If they gave in on day one or two, I may have stuck around.

But as it stands, a week without Reddit has effectively broken my addiction. I’ve already uninstalled Sync from my phone, deleted my comments, and I only see Reddit pages when they show up as relevant search results.

So they could reverse direction tomorrow and I would be indifferent at best.

Since I left Reddit, I’ve had a few searches yield very helpful Reddit results. I read them and move on. I’m running an adblocker and I’m not providing value by commenting. I see no problem with this.

So just like that a bunch of communities I’m subscribed to are gone? I guess I could make another account on beehaw but this is quickly becoming more trouble than it’s worth. I’ve broken my Reddit addiction. Maybe it’s time to leave lemmy before I get attached.

We watch Halloween III: Season of the Witch every Halloween night, going on 20 years now. Similarly, we watch The Blair Witch Project on our anniversary each year.

Last year we decided to make Pontypool our Christmas horror movie—so here’s to a new holiday tradition.

ps. Mrs. French’s cat is missing.

Between sessions: Google Docs (one document per campaign). Props and visual aids are handled separately, the campaign document is just for me to write down my ideas, session notes, etc.

During the session: I’ll print out the document and scribble on it with a pen as needed. I’ve tried editing the doc live (via laptop) during the game but it takes too long and requires too much focus to type as opposed to just jotting down/crossing out as we play.

At this point, I’m not going back out of pure spite.