Pronell

Have fun with it!

D&D 5e game:I have two planets orbiting each other.

1200 years ago it was just a moon, then somehow the moon fell and almost ended the world.

But the next day there was a moon again.

Really it's another version of the same world from a parallel timeline. The act of summoning it led the powers that be to seal the system in a bubble plane to keep the chaos from spreading.

The wizard who did it fell in love with himself from another timeline. The BBEG is two liches who are each other's phylactery. If both cannot be defeated before the first revives, there is no way to stop them.

Such a tragic story, to do that much for love and then only be vulnerable when you're near your love.

Their name is Zeitounessian, and I have a party on each world trying to stop him.

Neither party has yet determined that there are two of him.

It was covid, there had been nothing new for ages, and then Agatha had her beloved twist and song.

Yes, she was popular, and I was curious to see where it would lead.

Given that the Loki show led us to see He Who Remains for the first time, I wonder if there's any shot Agatha leads us to Wanda. (Someone here speculated she is under the control of Doom.)

There's a Douglas Hofstadter book, Le Ton Beau de Marot, which is all about the art of translation. Specifically one poem by Marot, translated over and over again.

In the book, he convincingly makes the case that translation always has choices that must be made, and in translating a poem, choices must be made about which parts of the original must be held strictly to and which are open to interpretation. Rhyme, meter, structure, tone, etc.

It's a fascinating book, really.

So is the art the product or the intentional process? That's the core question here.

Because computers can and do translate, and there are choices made along the way.

Are those choices made? Are they made with intent?

And if they are, does that intent qualify as artistic?

It's a neat question and not easily discarded.

We had a similar issue a few years back. Who owns a macaque's photography? Are they the artist, or the person who gave them a camera?

Here he is on Spotify.

Should make you happy.

I'm not that fortunate, but I recognize it's better for everyone else anyway.

Home ownership isn't my retirement plan, I just want to own where I live.

In the end I'm financially fucked, it's remarkable I got a nice house at a good price anyway.

I can't hold a generation hostage over my finances. What am I, a boomer?

I, for one, would not mind if my property value stagnated or decreased so that others could have a better life.

But I'm not most people, nor am I in a decision-making capacity.

It's also worth saying that I live in a single family dwelling on a larger than normal city lot, so I recognize that I am a part of the problem and still wouldn't want to change the way I live.

My first CRPG, and my only RPG had been D&D.

My dad ran a campaign for our family when I was seven or so. Original D&D, not even advanced. It didn't last terribly long but left a lifelong impression.

I recently inserted Creeping Coins to my Curse of Strahd campaign, as a matter of fact.

It was an unpopular twist, despite the group carrying a fortune in cursed money and having nothing whatsoever to spend it on.

Probably Epic. It's one of the times Steam is at peak usage and sabotaging a big Steam launch would 'work well' for them.

Of course trying to sabotage and failing makes Steam look better, which is why Epic continues to flounder.

My buddies and I would play on the Playstation (2?) and I got very very good at ninja roping across the map to drop dynamite on someone's head and swing back to safety in time.

Nothing more I loved than that maneuver, except maybe getting a concrete donkey.

Ahh, Sock. They ruined an already failing show by going all-in on season 2 Sockmania. Not that it was his fault.