Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

Right's idea of wholesome:

Nobody swears or talks about sex

Race, class, and gender hierarchies are unquestioned

Nothing is dirty or worn

People are encouraged to talk about their relationship with Jesus

Law enforcement or soldiers are present and praised

Left's idea of wholesome:

Diversity is explicitly represented and welcomed

Everyone constantly affirms each other

People are encouraged to talk about their feelings

Cartoon animals (or people dressed as them) are present and cooed over

Discuss!

Bread in the #math student lounge.

Creatives (including game developers) and engineers (including software developers) agree: get a minimal rough draft out there ASAP, then iterate.

The difference is in how stable each iteration has to be. This is what makes video game development so much harder than tabletop: changing a design idea is really expensive.

#GameDev #SoftwareDevelopment #iterate #writing #coding #agile #BoardGames #VideoGames

This (accidental, temporary) blocking also hit me. It even cut me off from my spouse! (Fortunately, she's right across the breakfast table.)

Is there any way to reconnect (or even enumerate) these severed connections? Nobody on either end was notified.

@trinsec @freemo @stux

Animal-related hashtag puns that are not empty:

#moosetodon
#masTOADon

What else ya got?

#Hashtag #HashTagGames

#Moosetodon

I expect that, like last time, I'll be voting for someone else in the primary and Biden in the general. Since I live in Oregon, neither of these votes will matter -- in the strong sense in the primary, since the race will have already been decided, and in the weak sense in the general, because Oregon will definitely go to the Democrat.

The first problem could be fixed by having everyone vote at once or at least randomizing the order. The second could be fixed by a national popular vote.

#NationalPopularVote #uspol #oregon

Here @pluralistic explains, among other things, why he posts threads the way he does.

Incidentally, the fact that I'm quote-tooting here proves one of Doctorow's points: people with the skills and/or funds (In this case, I believe, @freemo) can modify Mastodon to add features.

Coastal park ranger, rolling down her pickup truck window and looking at Violet: "What is THAT?"

#Violet #DogsOfMastodon #MysteryDog #MiniatureGermanShepherd #UnrealisticallyCute

Smile.

Just sayin'.

https://memes.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/5f373fd1-5d33-4bc1-ac66-d7a567764455

#sneakers #DeepPull #timely

Final H tally for #BoardGamesAToZ:

Hive (x5)
Heave Ho!
Haggis
*Hellas
The Hanging Gardens

Previous fortnights:
https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/308826/2023-alphabet-board-game-challenge?itemid=9512214#item9512214

#BoardGames