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i just got this comment over on twitter and honestly i think this is one of my favorite things that has ever been said to me about writing

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“IT’S A SWORD, IT’S NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE.” My favourite scene from The Hogfather. ___ See how this comic was made here.

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#’how to flirt with a witcher 101′ with jaskier

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This was the thing that kept hitting me when I first played The Witcher 3. "Ciri is in trouble! I must find her urgently!" But first I'm going to go fight this monster, and help out this blacksmith, and see what that question mark is on the map, and maybe go off to another country to help my brother out on his revenge quest, and play cards with everyone I meet, and...

You can start a questline that has an NPC go, "Let's meet at midnight at the docks" but it doesn't have to be that midnight. You could wander off to the other side of the map looking for witcher gear diagrams and killing drowners because you're a few levels under the recommendation for that quest and you want to get more experience first.

There's a very definite dissonance between the main plot telling you to hurt and the rest of the game presenting you with a hundred different things to distract yourself with doing.

We often talk about "ludonarrative dissonance" in terms of morality and situations like "the story says violence is bad, but the gameplay enables and encourages you to kill things" but my actual fave version of it is "the story says you have a very serious plot-relevant time-sensitive thing to do, but the gameplay enables and encourages you to buzz off into the world and search for collectibles for five weeks"

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So many questions.

I've completed 5 pages of this thing. There are 10 more pages of questions to go.

The UK Government have launched a consultation on whether AI should be allowed to scrape content online with complete disregard for copyright.

The consultation is stuffed to the brim with technobabble buzzwords and jargon that frames AI as wonderful and that this is a foregone conclusion.

You can submit a response via the link above and tell them what you really think.

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here's my holding out for a hero xenk edit <3

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I had my end of year appraisal meeting with my manager and we got the pay bit of the meeting. He told me I would be getting a pay rise and showed me the amount, and then asked me, "Are you happy with that?"

What am I supposed to say in answer to that?

"No. I demand you stick another zero on the end."?

"Thank you, oh benevolent and merciful capitalist overlord, for deeming me worthy of having a bigger portion of the money you charge our clients for my time."?

"I'm delighted. I don't think I'm worth anything like that much money."?

What was he expecting as an answer?

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Today I am mostly thinking about a spin-off of The Mummy (1999) in which Jonathan comes into possession of (read: steals from an auction house) an ancient relic from a temple of Dionysus, and unfortunately it turns out that he’s exactly the kind of rambunctious fiend who, when he touches the relic, is immediately recognised by it as One Of Us, and the relic’s awesome powers are activated, meaning that Jonathan himself becomes a vessel for bacchic power, and people just start going absolutely fucking nuts around him and inviting him to impromptu orgies and raving naked in the hills and buying him really expensive wine, and he has absolutely no idea what the fuck is going on, and the only person unaffected by the relic’s powers is Ardeth Bay, so the two of them have to try and find a way to unlink Jonathan from the power source while everyone around them gets worked up into an increasing bacchic frenzy, and Jonathan is like “You know what, this isn’t that bad, actually! Yes, the orgies are a bit awkward, especially when you’re just trying to browse for a nice hat and then the milliners start going at it, but actually, the free wine is quite nice! Do we really have to put a stop to it? I just got handed a lovely bottle of 1909 Château d'Yquem, which is worth a fortune and really does complement a cheesecake,” and Ardeth just has to take four incredibly deep breaths until the red mist fades and he’s composed enough to remind Jonathan that the bacchic rites of myth ended in people being torn apart, so yes, they really ought to put a stop to it, and then Jonathan takes a moment to consider all the ramifications of that, and he’s like “All right, but can we wait just a tiny bit, because if the people who own that auction house end up getting torn to pieces in a ritual frenzy, that would actually be very good for me, because it might mean that I don’t get my kneecaps broken later in a non-ritual context,” and then Ardeth has to resist the urge to throw him into a river

@belphegor1982 do you have Thoughts on this

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every time you make freezer food for dinner instead of buying takeout like you actually want you should earn two hundred dollars cash and a round of applause

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A software tester walks into a bar. Runs into a bar. Crawls into a bar. Dances into a bar. Flies into a bar. Jumps into a bar. And orders: a beer. 2 beers. O beers. 99999999 beers. a lizard in a beer glass. -1 beer. "qwertyuiop" beers. Testing complete. A real customer walks into the bar and turns on a screen reader. The bar goes up in flames.

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The UK government are doing a bad thing.

Template letter to reps here:

Write to them link here:

Consultation, here:

I am asking especially able, or non-energy-challenged people to step up and challenge this. I am exhausted. I could do little to adapt and personalise the template letter. I fear my contribution will not be heard.

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flowers for no reason is always 10/10

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I had this stupid idea and had to draw it. Enjoy the only Among Us content I will (probably) ever make.

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I like to imagine that Sam Vimes, instead of dying properly, instead got minor godhood. All watchmen at some point thank him for his actions, his actions a ripple across the Disc. There's precedent in the Duchess of Borogravia, and in his arc. He keeps getting promotions, and hates each one. What higher status could he be unwillingly raised to than divinity, eternally watching the watchman?

Anyways, that's just a headcanon i've got