howfar @howfar@octodon.social
aka @amancalledprak - I like tabletop RPGs, housing law and overthinking genre fiction. #MeFite
New Adventure Zone and a new Mountain Goats album. The MeFite nerd demographic is heartily entertained this weekend...
Chilling. It's like they're sending some sort of warning. https://octodon.social/media/RYPEyFBxoLrhTZcQ_iU
I love the old BBC Light Programme 'Paul Temple's serials, as they are some of the most glorious escapism that exists, but even I must admit that the plots are nonsensical to the point of utter incomprehensibility. Still, the vicarious whiskies-and-soda more than make up for it.
Here's one from the Internet Archive
archive.org/details/PAULTEMPLEANDTHEVANDYKEAFFAIR
And the current BBC on demand one:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03pc96p
@howfar I encountered the same thing this morning.
One of them had been booted from their instance by the time I checked the profiles, so seems to be some species of mass follow scheme.
Overnight 5 different accounts, from 5 different instances, with no profile pictures or previous updates, followed me. They're not identified as bots.
Anyone else experiencing anything similar?
I mean, they might just be drawn to my wit and erudition, but somehow I'm sceptical.
Did the people who didn't make a Harry Potter MMORPG just really not like money?
Blood & Wine Witcher DLC is good, and I'm enjoying the change in the weather, but is the plot twist is perhaps a touch too obvious? Maybe I'm wrong, of course, but it seems like it's going to turn out to be some sort of combination of the Holmes story 'A Case of Identity' and The Big Lebowski.
It's a funny thing, going to sleep. Knowing that I'm about to embark on (at least) a day's worth of experience that I will only remember the briefest scraps of in the morning. Knowing that the low value I place upon this unremembered experience when awake doesn't diminish its reality any more than my dreaming self's disregard for waking reality diminishes that.
And so I pass through the gates of the silver key, never to return unchanged.
In a pub on Gloucester Road, Bristol and a man has just bought his drinks at the bar with a very good tabby cat, wearing a leash and hi-vis collar, on his shoulder. More of this sort of thing!
I have always placed Ian McShane in my top five sexiest men. Apparently, however, he is very hard to dress for roles because he has such a small bottom. As I am, myself, similarly anticallipygian, I find this a great comfort.
Last toot needs an #eastangliangods tag too.
Couple of days to go, yet, but if they fuck up "American Gods" I'm gonna set my car on fire.
"No Mr, just Wednesday" #americangods
Dear Lazyweb: is there a USB 2.0 to USB Micro adapter (of the kind you'd use to connect a USB memory stick to a smarphone) out there that clips onto a keyring?
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Fascinating short piece on accounting for the oddness of The Wind in the Willows, a book which has always perplexed me a great deal.
https://blog.oup.com/2010/08/wind-in-the-willows/
I wrote my own rather (massively) less well-informed speculation a few years back, without having read the link above.
Is Dishonored 2 still shit on PC or have those known problems been patched and resolved?
Horseradish, year two.
Hello, Octodonners. It looks like Alice's patreon in support of our chosen instance has plateaued. Please do what you can to help our friendly neighborhood cyberpunk queen, @CobaltVelvet
Donating is grand; boosting this, even, will be helpful, to get the message around.
Currently here, in Bristol. Just mooching around. But what it makes me think of is how much I'd love an app that provides a "history" layer to our electronic maps. It could provide links to Wikipedia articles, books, public records, old pictures etc. Maybe have an oral history component, allowing users to submit their own recollections or family stories as well as tag sources.
Is there anything remotely like that available?
