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[faustandfurious]

“The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years” by Chingiz Aitmatov

added to TBR | on my TBR | couldn’t finish it | did not enjoy | it was OK | liked it | loved it | favorite | not interested

Had to look it up because I’d never heard of it before, but seems like it might be interesting?

[mylittleredgirl]

Do you think the 4077th is getting the same patients over and over again because of the loop? If so do you think they’re aware of that?

And what do you think of the idea that early seasons MASH (Henry and Trapper John) is a different version of the loop taking place over the same years as the later seasons (Potter and BJ), and Flagg is responsible for changing things?

ooh exciting questions! so the colonel flagg thing was a manic midnight joke, but it does hold up that like daniels, his primary role falls into the "can you PLEASE stop 'helping'??" honestly i don't enjoy the colonel flagg episodes so i wasn't going to get super deep into recoding them into this theory, but now that you have asked i'm definitely going to think about it more!

they're definitely aware that they get the same patients again and again (identifying each other's past stitches, etc), but i don't think they're actually aware that they are in a time distortion. they seem to have vague feelings about it, but it's not sci-fi, they're stuck with only the language they have in their own genre (what day is it, what day is it).

this ask is inspiring me to find the draft i had of my full technobabble explanation for the temporal anomaly for my real trekkie nerds. if i get some work breaks this weekend, i will!

[identifying-cars-in-posts]

Do you have thoughts on third generation corvettes? And if so, do you like the original rear windshield or the fastback? Mine is a silver 1980 base model

YOOO LEGIT MY FAVORITE VETTE GENERATION. i love third gens, highkey jealous of you for having one! i think i prefer the fastback but they’re all so gorgeous. fantastic taste my friend

[trilobiter]

I was tagged by @saja-star (first time I've seen one of these in a while!)

Answer & tag some people you want to know better or catch up with.

Favorite color: Blue, like a deep, navy blue.

Last song I listened to: The most recent thing I hit play on was for my sideblog: It's called "Napule Canta E More," by Donatella Viggiano. I heard it on the radio yesterday, so I jumped at a reason to play it again today. It's a jazzy little number from 1979 about an exuberant city (Naples) that hasn't realized how doomed it is. Funny enough, it is the only song of hers that is available on Spotify, and I haven't found much information yet about her or her other work.

Last film I watched: Funny enough, I was in a hotel in Naples about three weeks ago, and caught most of Gladiator on TV, in Italian of course. I can't recall putting on an honest-to-goodness film since then.

Currently reading: I've got about a hundred pages to go in The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu. Unfortunately, a few years back I developed a bad habit of always trying to read a hundred pages of a book at a time, which is totally doable for me but means I'm hesitant to pick up a book if I don't think I'll have time to do it. It's a pretty great collection of stories on the whole, though I've liked some more than others.

Currently watching: At this very moment? Futurama. "A Clone of My Own."

Coffee or tea: I don't like coffee, it's far too bitter 99% of the time. But I drink some kind of tea every day. I love a chai latte in the morning.

Currently craving: Honestly I just had dinner, so I'm pretty content at the moment. I guess I'd like some tea, but I am trying to get better about my sleep schedule.

I'll tag @piecesoftape @eclypseaf @soaringornithopter @tuulikki @datasoong47 @onsomekindofstartrek @overthinkingit @eda0bdedb8ba @tactac and anybody else who would like to.

[trek-tracks]

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I tagged 552 of my posts in 2022

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Longest Tag: 136 characters

#spock inventing a new method of storing coffee so that mccoy and kirk can have fresh coffee is just such a lovely detail thank you diane

My Top Posts in 2022:

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#4

Realizing that Amok Time, from T'Pring's perspective, is basically the equivalent of a Vulcan Hallmark Movie, where a holiday (Pon Farr) makes our hero realize she wants hometown boy Stonn and a simple (Vulcan) life instead of big-city (space) boyfriend Spock, and it all comes to a head in an embarrassing misunderstanding in front of her family, is certainly making me feel some kind of way

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#2

Why does this in all seriousness look like the poster for a comedy where an environmentalist activist hermit targets a rich asshole’s yacht club party and then it turns out they’re actually long-lost twins

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My #1 post of 2022

Star Trek craft book, I am begging you to describe this craft project in literally any other combination of words

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[the-lady-general]

Can't stop thinking about @onsomekindofstartrek's "From the Earth to the Enterprise" AU. "We will go to Vulcan in this decade (at warp 5) and give them the finger. Not because it is easy, but because they're easy."

[prokopetz]

Hey, one more question. Do you... and you absolutely don't have to go into detail... do you have any advice on trying to publish a book of RPG settings (specifically geared towards like 5e) online? Can I make money on it if it references D&D SRD material?

Whether you’re allowed to make money off of it really depends on what you have in mind, and in any event it’s a question for an intellectual property lawyer, not for me. Afraid I can’t help you there!

Whether it’s possible to make money, on the other hand, is something I can speak to, and the answer is “usually not”.

Tabletop RPG supplements typically don’t move anything like the same volume as core rulebooks. If you’re publishing your own game, the supplement treadmill can be viable because it keeps the game active and supported, thereby driving core rulebook sales, which is where your real money is.

Producing third-party supplements for somebody else’s game is a much trickier proposition, because you’re driving sales of their core rulebooks without seeing any of that benefit yourself. There are basically only two categories of publishers who can make that viable:

Large outfits who mainly publish their own games and also do third-party supplements on the side. They’re able to reduce production costs for the third-party stuff by piggybacking on the publishing infrastructure they’ve already got set up for their first-party stuff, so there isn’t a huge amount of sunk cost for them, and it’s not the end of the world if any given third-party supplement doesn’t sell.  

Content mills that are able to churn out large numbers of short supplements very quickly, then stick them up on DriveThruRPG for five bucks a pop. The labour cost of producing any individual supplement is so low that a long-term trickle of random impulse purchases will usually make your money back eventually, at least once you hit a certain critical mass in terms of the sheer number of supplements you’re selling.

If neither of those scenarios describes you, you should generally count yourself lucky if you make enough to break even on your labour costs. A lot of folks do it anyway, but they’re basically just doing it because it lets them claim their hobby as a business expense for tax purposes, not to make real money.

[datasoong47]

onsomekindofstartrek said: A large proportion of English speaking people people can’t do it, though I imagine if you grow up speaking one of those languages you learn to. I can do it. It’s hard to describe

The only thing I’m finding in Google (excluding a surprisingly large number of sites about breastfeeding) is something about producing the /r/ sound.  It had a video, and what they were calling “cupping the tongue” is similar to how I produce the /r/ sound, but it doesn’t sound like it could possibly be what’s described on that page, because that page was describing it as something that produced a similar sound to rounding, and that sounds nothing like rounding

The only other possibility I can think of is tongue curling, but that’s something that’s apparently biological whether one can do it or not, so it doesn’t seem like that would be plausible for a sound in a language - if a significant proportion of the population is unable to produce a sound, it couldn’t possibly be a stable phoneme.  Unless maybe there’s some genetic oddity in Tillamook-speakers that made that ability near-universal among them, which seems unlikely

[yamoktime]

tag meme

thanks to @thylantics for tagging me! (and thanks for the love for my url! I think yours is rad as hell too!)

rules: answer 17 questions and tag 17 people you want to get to know better!

nickname: does it count that I have a compound name but basically everyone exclusively uses the first half? otherwise not really except some of my friends call me Communist Dad (or just Dad)

zodiac: taurus

height: 5′6″ (about 1.65 m)

hogwarts house: gryffindor but I don’t want to think about harry potter

last thing i googled: a local scifi convention to see if it’s been cancelled

song stuck in my head: none at the moment

following: 105 blogs

followers: 21 on this blog, a few hundred across all my blogs

amount i sleep: 7-8 hours on average

lucky numbers: prime numbers or multiples of 3 I guess

dream job: I want to run my own farm

currently wearing: link to photo I took earlier today cuz I’m too lazy to describe my clothes

favorite songs: there are too many songs I love to really have favorites, so I’ll just pick 2: Rise to the Sun by Alabama Shakes, and Fever Dream by The Diamond Light

favorite instrument: I primarily play guitar but I love hearing traditional drumming -- the louder the better!

favorite authors: going solely by whose stories and novels I reread the most, Alistair MacLeod and Sherman Alexie

random fact about me: I once walked a mile or more through the Arizona desert in summer, with a suitcase full of canned sardines and tortilla chips

I don’t have many followers so I’ll just tag a couple people I’ve interacted with @angrywarrior69 @onsomekindofstartrek if you feel like doing it

[prokopetz]

So is there a tabletop RPG that approximates any of the weirder Final Fantasy magic systems? I'm thinking mostly of FFVIII, where you couldn't really do shit without a summons, that both gave you your magic, and could help out in combat directly, and which you had to manage, since their compatibility with your characters would go down if you used the wrong spells. Limit breaks would be cool too.

Anima Prime is explicitly built around that sort of thing, with the caveat that it expects you to do a fair amount of homebrewing to support particular settings. Out of the box, it’s sort of a grab bag -- there’s a bit of limit-break-style super moves, a bit of soulbound weapons, a bit of monster-summoning that straddles the line between Final Fantasy style nukes and Pokémon style pet monsters, etc. The default milieu is probably closer to RWBY or Final Fantasy XIII than it is to Final Fantasy VIII, but it’s readily adjustable.

If you’d prefer something with crunchier mechanics and more out-of-the-box options, you might also check out Tenra Bansho Zero. It’s a localised Japanese title that self-describes as “Hyper Asian”, and presents a setting and a set of rules where a cursed samurai, a child mecha pilot, an oni Jedi Knight, a Shinto MiB, and Robocop are a totally plausible group of player characters. Fair warning, though: the rules might charitably be described as “a bit much” -- not in the sense that they're particularly complicated, but in the sense that there’s just rather a lot of them! Each of the previously described character types has its own unique subsystems, and there are more besides.