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Em :official_verified:
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@GossiTheDog very exciting times!
I know that Brennan knows VtM and knows how to both play in and run this setting, so it was disappointing to see the crew go so wildly off the rails here.
In an actual VtM setting they would have received the head of the archon who spared them and sent them to Purpee, nicely gift wrapped, killed for allowing them to continue. Because the initial violations were bad enough, but then their continued violations were just something else. A true demonstration of incompetence to exile them but then ignore them while they still cause damage.
Then they would have all died. If we recalibrated to a lower threshold of lethality they still would have been rebuked for their antics and not just allowed to keep going. Depending on the justicar it may have also involved killing all of their sires and their progeny as well. _That's_ the level of violation we're talking about here.
And you can even get away with THAT if you are building a parody correctly, but in order to parody something you actually have to actually engage with the base source material (it's "what we do in the shadows" not "what we do in wal mart"), and they didn't do that.
Someone pointed out that this really should have been a Kids on Bikes game and I 100% agree with that. Rather than trying to make it fit the VtM rules and system, just put whatever aesthetics you want on top of Kids on Bikes.
Not everything needs to be Campaign 4, or Mothership, or Wraith. But on the other hand comedy just sort of falls apart if it doesn't have something real to anchor itself against.
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@hrefna to quote brennan from the last episode of council of darkness: "i don't know this game super well." 😄
🐉 Can China build its own ASML?
｢ lithography machines are so complex and expensive that only three companies in the world -- ASML of the Netherlands and Japan's Canon and Nikon -- are capable of producing them. Last year, lithography accounted for nearly 25% of global spending on chipmaking equipment ｣
https://nikkei.shorthandstories.com/can-china-build-its-own-asml/
So yeah, it's happening to me: Partner of 20 years decided we should split. 20 years ago I was relatively abled, working and earning. Now, I'm Disabled, often ill and not able to hold down a job. The car that was mine died after I stopped being able to drive it, so partner replaced it with their own. My uncle helped buy the house we live in, but partner's the only one on the title. I have few options. Please no advice cause even I don't know the whole deal yet. Hugs welcome though! <3
Mastodon Migration
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One Morning In Maine...
Rep. Chellie Pingree: Could everybody, just leave us alone in Maine. You know, high paid consultants, the people who want to make money off us, who want to treat us like a Perti dish, just stay away.
We are independent. We don't like to be told what to do, and we are not stupid.
People in Maine hate what is going on in this country... they want to take power back again... They want us to to fight back in Washington... to investigate to subpoena...
h/t @EllenJS
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I wrote about the "hot surveillance summer" trend, why so many West Village fashion girlies are posting AI glasses selfies, and how, for thousands of people (not me!!! lol), cameras on your face have officially gone from creepy to chic. https://www.usermag.co/p/hot-surveillance-summer-aka-why-smart-glasses-feel-different-this-time-meta-ai
@aeryn_thrace just found this on my todo list and I feel ashamed I never boosted it yet! :(
then I saw I did do that from my other account, which makes it a bit better, but I have more followers here, so should have still boosted it here too :/
@egonw thank you! 🥰
Em :official_verified:
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Nizar Kerkeni 🇹🇳 نزار القرقني
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#ChatControl 1.0 HAS PASSED - despite a majority voting against it (314:276) 🚨
After the EU parliament has rejected it TWICE in the past, it has been pushed as an urgent procedure for a new plenary vote. The EU has simply continued to put the vote on the agenda to get the outcome they've wanted since the start.
This is not democratic‼️
📸 Roberta Metsola (EPP) who revived Chat Control 1.0 shaking hands with Mark Zuckerberg. Taken from EP_President posted May 27, 2026 on X.
I'm not a huge fan of the Rolling Stones' Gimme Shelter, but I love this take on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJtq6OmD-_Y&list=RDMMFGL-2Zg2bqw&index=13
Greg Lloyd
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I said a while ago that future wedding photographers will just set up a robot or two and let them do it. I figure that we're about a year away from that. AIs already know which wedding poses are standard. And beyond that, which family photos are standard, too.
Full automation is the final evolutionary stage and natural endpoint of digital photography. What started as "you push the button, we do the rest" ends at "you turn it on, it does the rest."
https://petapixel.com/2026/07/08/beni-is-a-cute-autonomous-camera-robot-on-wheels/
Flores Hobbits scavenged Komodo dragons' elephant kills, study suggests
If Homo floresiensis wasn't a fire-using hunter, its origins could be different than we thought.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/07/flores-hobbits-scavenged-komodo-dragons-elephant-kills-study-suggests/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
Asian Stocks Set to Gain After US Chipmakers Rally: Markets Wrap
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-09/stock-market-today-dow-s-p-live-updates?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Bloomberg Asia @bloomberg-asia-bloomberg
Je n'aime pas la texture des lentilles
Je suis dans la galère quand je veux faire une remontada de fer
Auriez-vous des conseils de recette végé comportant des lentilles qui ne demande pas 2h de cuisine ? 🙏
Le dahl ne marche malheureusement pas :<
@maiwann j'ai du mal avec la texture poudreuse/farineuse des lentilles, et je me suis aperçu que ça allait mieux lorsqu'elles étaient frites ou juste revenues dans de l'huile à la poêle, après la cuisson à l'eau. Ça ouvre de nouvelles perspectives.
Can anyone recommend some relatively affordable managed #Mastodon hosting?
We've been with the absolutely fantastic Masto.host since starting Writing.Exchange in 2017, but it's become prohibitively expensive -- especially for a community of only ~250 active users, as our hosting costs are about to increase another $50 to $589/month this month.
This advice may be useless and/or not what you're looking for, but ...
... our server (with a few dozen people on it, a minority of which are heavily active) had such problems finding reliable and affordable hosting that two months ago we decided to self-host on a cloud provider
we are *somewhat* mediocre amateur coders but had zero, zero experience doing such online setup/maintenance
but we relied heavily on claude and ... damn, it works; works
soloojos (Mastodon)
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Os quiero compartir algo un poco urgente.
Esta chica ha tenido una experiencia terrible con el ICE, y está intentando sacar fondos para ayudar a mantener a su familia después de que se llevaran a quien traía el pan a casa. Ha abierto comisiones por si queréis pedir alguna, o podéis mandarle un ko-fi directamente. ¡Boostear también ayuda!
Cassidy James :rr: :gg: :fh:
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@stephaniewalter designer pair plagiarized someones work? https://petervelnl.blogspot.com/2021/11/vision-encoding-language.html?m=1
