Been hearing about this on Twitter but I haven’t seen a thread here about it.

https://www.berkeleyside.com/2019/10/07/...d-thursday

We need to start some infrastructure work.

October 13 is International Plain Language Day

No, I didn't know either, until I got an office email about it.

No, that is not some euphemism.  This is the real thing.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the...story.html

God help us.

And this one is courtesy of Rob Kelk, who suggested it to me a couple days ago in a private message.

Competition #2:  Quotes In Discussion

Quote:Winter is coming.
The cold never bothered me anyway.

Pretty much what the thread title says.

Here we can drop off random ideas, or even just ask, "Hey, has anyone done this yet?"

Not quite crossovers that must/shouldn't be since this isn't limited to crossovers, and not quite "looking for fic" thread, since that implies that you know it exists, just not where.

I'll start this off.

So, there's a metric fuck-ton of "Jaune Arc is Time Looping" fics or "Jean Arc Does Something Else"....

But why the hell should that be limited to just Jaune?  I mean, sure, he's in a position to cause a LOT of butterflies...  But he's not the only one.

FFS, let's see what happens when frickin' PYRRHA is the one time-looping!  It hits the Groundhog Day plot perfectly, except there's no time limit, and her win condition is simply the permanent elimination or neutralization of Salem... and somehow not dying in the process.

So has this one been done yet?

Replace the word ‘Money’ in a movie title with ‘Monkey.’ Which movie is the most immediately improved?

I'm waffling between "Monkeyball" and "The Monkey Pit" myself.

(Yes, this is shamelessly stolen form a Twitter post, but meh, it's a different group here.)

Yes, the burger chain.

It's called Feast of Legends, and it's no joke.  100 pages of rules and campaign setting, and a few gaming sites have already reviewed it and generally approved.  As one put it, you're not going to get a year of play out of the campaign, but it's fun for the occasional pickup game.  Looking at it, they pulled out all the stops; the art is gorgeous and the production quality is top-rate.

Yes, it's an advertising thing. But whoever did this is one of us, and it shows.

...Over the past couple months at work I've been working my way through a playlist selected from my multi-thousand-song MP3 collection, selected for "power songs" for Doug and other "inspirational" music for DW.  And today, I just happened to notice that alphabetizing by artist caused this little theme group to fall together, entirely by chance:


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It made me laugh, and I wanted to share the laugh.

Specifically, this combo version of Time and Breathe (Reprise) from Dark Side of the Moon. The proposed effect is kind of the opposite of the direct meaning of the lyrics, but takes them as a cautionary tale and combined with the performers seems reasonable - and even if Doug already has an established effect for the original, it's also established that covers can have more or less different effects depending on how they pop to his metatalent/subconscious. It could also be a minor rejuvenation or healing effect, removing some of the wear of aging (up to a decade) or just a day's worth of fatigue. It depends on the needs of the story and what you can talk past Doug's GM I suppose


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Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
Fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say

Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
When I come home cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away, across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spell

What MIT Media Lab's funding scandal says about sexism in tech

The article focuses on MIT's Media Lab accepting money from Jeffrey Epstein... which, while an important story to tell, puts a slant on the issue.

Quote:Even though Epstein was listed as "disqualified" in MIT's official donor database, the Media Lab continued to accept gifts from him, marking his contributions as anonymous so as to avoid disclosing their full extent. If faculty members expressed disapproval of the transactions and the school's relationship with the sex offender, efforts were made to keep them in the dark.