My cats are now at an age (both are 13) where they’re finally starting to slow down, and Athena has taken to watching TV with me. By far her favorite thing to watch is @DrawfeeShow (she also loves it when I play Animal Crossing).

I hate alignment in #DnD. It’s reductive at best and disruptive at its worst. While I don’t use it in my games, I came up with a new alignment chart that I think can still be useful for those who need or want one (plus a copy that aligns with the current alignment chart).

Not sure how many people play the fortune cookie game, where you add “in bed” at the end of the fortune, but I think I have a contender for the best one ever.

I’m watching the Unofficial @DrawfeeShow Stream of A Celebration of Cats (2019), and I only want to hear reviews from @AtNathanYaffe from here on out. You’d think I’m being sarcastic, but I’m not. That Star Wars review was dead on perfect. It’s exactly how I feel about Star Wars.

.@dimension20show Have y’all thought about selling 3D print files (.stl) for your minis to sell on the @dropout store? While I’m sure some would love it to run D20 home games, I thought of it because Corn Gremlin minis would be perfect for an encounter I’m running. Just a thought

Are @CollegeHumor and @CriticalRole thinking about merging? This week alone, @BrennanLM, and Lou Wilson are on CR, then @samriegel and @VoiceOfOBrien are on @UmActuallyShow. Plus, there’s @KrystinaArielle, @quiddie, and @erikaishii, who are all over CH & CR in the last few weeks.

Wait, is that @WillingBlam in his @samriegel shirt?! That’s brilliant! I didn’t know this was something I wanted until now, but I need to have a shirt that does that with one of each layer of the cast, or there needs to be a shirt for each member of @CriticalRole doing that bit.

I’ve figured out why it bothers me when comedians go on rants about Millennials (well, besides the fact that they often misidentify and misrepresent us). It’s because they’re punching down, or at least that’s their intent. Always punch up. Punching down is just bullying.

For context only: It’s a supercontinent world with 9 nations, 22 metropolises, and a smattering of towns (still working on it). Wilderness is winning, civilization is protected by rangers, trains connect people, and wars are rare. Urban sports would be a lynchpin of society.

I started watching the @dimension20show Adventuring Academy vodcasts. The one with @GabeJamesGames touched on sports, which clicked in me the importance sports would have for the world I’m building. So important that I need to design one to be playable in game, even if we don’t.

This kind of self-isolated belief not only creates incongruity with reality, but makes it also makes it impossible to make real change or negotiate to gain advantages where possible. It’s self-destructive on many fronts.

This realization came about as I was listening to a group of old people talk about Oregon’s gubernatorial race. They wholeheartedly believed their choice would destroy Gov Brown (who can’t run b/c term limits), despite no state-wide Rs, and an overwhelming D majority in state.

This is understanding helps me understand people better. As an example, if you live in an echo chamber that has you believe that Trump was overwhelmingly popular, and that Biden was reviled, with no challenge on that belief, it’s only logical to assume the election was stolen.

I had a realization after overhearing a political conversation today. The dangers of echo chambers aren’t that you isolate your world view. The biggest danger is that you lose perspective of the scale of your opinion, which causes a distortion in your perception of reality.

This is a perfect analogy for American politics, and does a great job of explaining our current partisan divide. https://t.co/WREqCVCmiq

The Santa Barbra chapter really didn’t add any resolution to what existed before it. It only added a cycle of violence, but that was better served by the final confrontation at the theater. The direct transition from the farm to the epilogue would’ve been more poignant. 3/3

In general, I think boss fights should be specific to games where it’s the point (Mario, Zelda, Souls, etc.), or it’s ingrained in the DNA (esp comic book games), but games like TLOU2 would be better served to avoid them. At most, supplement them with complex encounters. 2/3

I know I’m super late to the party, but I finally played #TheLastofUsPart2. It’s an otherwise good game, but the entirety of the Santa Barbra chapter was entirely superfluous, and the two big boss fights (AvE & the blob infected) ran counter to the flow of the game. 1/3

I’m not going to lie, about the only thing on CNN that I really care about anymore is @ChrisCillizza’s The Point, which I think is a YT exclusive. I wish he had his own YT channel. I‘d fully kick in $5-$10/month if he went independent, but I’d support his own spin-off channel.

Both deliver neutral lines equally reflectively, though, which is why I feel like it’s not a matter of quality of performance, and perhaps more reflective of character/actor approach.