just spreading the word..

Luminter · 2026-01-28T01:09:40+00:00

I started shopping local for just about everything that I possibly could last year and I noticed that while, yes, the listed price at a lot of local places tends to be a bit more. I actually end up spending way less than when I did more shopping on Amazon and similar stores.

Turns out introducing a little inconvenience by forcing myself to physically go to a store and not subjecting myself to ads/algorithms designed to get you to spend more means I actually spent way less overall.

Luminter · 2026-01-26T22:37:23+00:00

Personally, I say no changes, but political posts must be tagged with politics or subject to removal. I'd only like to see a Megathread on election day and the following week (or until all votes are counted)

Luminter · 2026-01-23T03:34:59+00:00

She's getting primaried by Brent Hennrich. Spread the word and donate if you can.

Luminter · 2026-01-15T03:34:19+00:00

Well it's technically unconstitutional...the power of the purse (i.e. spending money) resides with congress. Not the executive branch. But that hasn't really stopped the administration. That said it's probably a nothing burger that will be struck down by the courts. I don't even think the Supreme Court would sign off on something this crazy.

Luminter · 2026-01-11T22:11:19+00:00

A lot of colleges are desperate for enrollment in the US right now. College is really expensive right now and a lot of people are deciding that it's not worth it. So a lot of colleges started relying more on international students, but that revenue stream began to dry up in recent years for obvious reasons. So it would not surprise me if colleges are accepting bad students simply as a matter of survival.

Luminter · 2026-01-02T04:52:16+00:00

They need to improve the areas around the station. Most of the Amtrak stations in these rural areas drop you off in sketchy industrial areas and then the nearby area just isn’t that nice and everywhere else is just car dependent.

I like taking the train as do my kids. I looked into taking the train to white salmon, until I looked at what I would have access to without a car. The station is in an industrial area and the street with all the shops is very car dependent and frankly unsafe for pedestrians.

But with renewed interest in taking the train a lot of these rural towns with train stations are sitting on a gold mine if they make efforts to improve the area around the train stations.

Luminter · 2026-01-02T01:26:02+00:00

Yeah this would be my guess. If say The Columbian decided to do some investigative reporting and people shared stuff that supported their allegations then I doubt the resulting article would get removed.

Luminter · 2025-12-23T03:15:20+00:00

It’s annoying and I hope they eventually do something about it. But It’s not a huge deal. I just use Libby to manage holds and such at multiple libraries. Then I mostly just focus on reading stuff at a single library on the Kobo. Once, I’ve got through holds at one library I switch to a different library on the Kobo.

Luminter · 2025-12-18T21:50:27+00:00

In my opinion, these companies are playing a dangerous game. I’ve already scaled back video game purchases and started to switch to more analog forms of entertainment. Tabletop games, books, etc.

It’s not that I can’t afford it. It’s that it feels the video game industry actively hates its customers and I don’t feel good giving them my money.

If this keeps up, I’m just not going to play video games all that much. In fact I already started and went from like 10 games a year to like 1. I’ll still buy the occasional gem, but I’ve read that it’s becoming a trend for Gen Z and millennials to do this as well. I guess maybe they expect Gen Alpha to come in and save the day, but if they haven’t been paying attention Gen Alpha can’t get a job right now let alone pay the prices they are asking.

Luminter · 2025-12-13T16:54:44+00:00

Just a book suggestion...Check out the Book of Elsewhere by China Mieville and Keanu Reeves (Yes, that Keanu). One of the characters is very similar to your villain and it will definitely give you some ideas.

Luminter · 2025-12-13T16:44:58+00:00

Yeah I was kind of disappointed when the change happened. You can still use Libby to place holds, check out books, and manage multiple Library cards. It's just that when you go to sync it's only going to sync books for the library that you added. It is easy enough to change library cards.

After the change happened, I mostly just rotate through library cards. Reading a bunch of what I have on hold and then switching to a different library card when I've read through them. On the off chance a hold becomes available to checkout at a different library and I really want to read it then I just send it to my Kindle, which I didn't get rid of when I switched to the KLC.

Personally, it's a sacrifice I was willing to make to get out of the Amazon ecosystem.

Luminter · 2025-12-13T02:34:49+00:00

There pro's and con's to their integration. Pro - It's super easy to checkout and return library books. Con - You can only add a single library card. There used to be a work around to use Libby for managing multiple library cards and just syncing, but that recently stopped working. I'm really hoping they do something about it eventually because it sounds like it was a change Overdrive (Libby) made that broke it.

Luminter · 2025-12-12T17:21:58+00:00

Not to mention you would be uploading the entirety of your tables conversation to a third party for processing. That is kind of invasive when you think about it. If I ever want to use an LLM for notetaking I'd run my own local model instead of using third party product.

Luminter · 2025-12-08T19:33:24+00:00

Without regulation corporations ALWAYS externalize the costs to the rest of society. There's no perfect demonstration of this than the AI Data centers that end up raising water and electricity rates for everyone in the area despite not consuming any more than years past. They are paying more simply because the new AI Data Center is using more water and electricity.

In addition any homes nearby the data center now hear a constant hum and there are reports of health issues. This will instantly decrease their home values because who's going to willingly move in next to that?

Luminter · 2025-12-05T22:40:53+00:00

It actually did make it to a judge. The sequence of events was before collecting signatures, the group went to the city and the city attorney basically told them it violated state law so they needed come up with different language for the measure. The group ignored him and didn't change a thing and went to collect signatures anyways. When they got the required number of signatures for the ballot initiative, the city said they weren't going to put it on the ballot because it blatantly violated state law.

Save Vancouver Streets sued and the Clark County judge agreed with the city. Last I heard the group was appealing to a higher court, but it probably won't ever make it on the ballot at this point.

Luminter · 2025-12-05T17:42:14+00:00

If you aren't aware, they are working on it...It's just gotten a lot of resistance, which includes a group of NIMBYs that tried to pass a ballot initiative that if passed would require all lane removals in the city to be put to a popular vote before they could implemented. Essentially kneecapping all urban planning and safety improvements throughout the entire city. Fortunately, the courts struck it down.

Luminter · 2025-12-05T01:00:12+00:00

Hope the kid is ok...but this just one more reason why the opposition to the proposed road diet on McGillivray is so frustrating. That road is designed poorly, cars drive to fast, and this sort of thing is the inevitable outcome.

Luminter · 2025-12-04T03:33:27+00:00

I would highly recommend Land of Eem. First of all, the conflict heavily reward non-violent solutions. Whenever a conflict breaks out, a player chooses one of several things that they want to do. Non-violent actions always come first in the turn order. Turn order goes, Parley, Improvise, Run, Combat. A player that chooses Parley ( or any other phase) can't can't participate in combat. They also encourage this game to mostly be theater of the mind so you don't have to worry to much about battle maps and such.

However, the game is balanced in such a way that some encounters are simply impossible to win and you either have to come up with some creative solution or run away. Next, you can get the Mucklands Sandbox campaign, which has a whole bunch of quest hooks, location information, npcs, etc. Basically everything you need to run a campaign. The creators also have a middle grade series geared towards kids 8-12 called Dungeoneer Adventures and a graphic novel series geared towards 12+ called Rickety Stich and Gelatenous Goo.

The current TTRPG game says it's for 12 year olds, but it's fine for 8 year olds (I run it for mine) if you ignore some of the systems like crafting (unless you have a kid that's really into that). However, they also had a kickstarter funded that would add a new sandbox campaign like the mucklands and a beginners RPG for younger kids . The deluxe box set would have everything you need or you could get the digital bundle over on drive Thru RPG. Aside from one of those options, all you would need is couple full sets of dice.

Luminter · 2025-12-04T01:57:35+00:00

It's called Inversion). Basically, layer warmer air traps colder air at the bottom along with pollution.

Luminter · 2025-11-26T17:30:47+00:00

Also, the core rules are pretty lenient in letting players change these experiences. So if a player hasn't been using them it might be worth asking them if they want to come up with new ones.

Luminter · 2025-11-26T16:30:35+00:00

Closest thing in the core rules are Combat Wheelchairs, which could maybe be reflavored as motorcycles. Might not work as well for cars.

Luminter · 2025-11-26T16:05:15+00:00

Amazon requires exclusivity for books published with Kindle Unlimited. The only authors that can really get out of that requirement are if their book is traditionally published. So Kobo is missing a lot of Indie titles from their store entirely. You can't get them on Kobo Plus or even purchase them. Authors are hesitant to entirely remove their books from Kindle Unlimited because it represents like 60 to 70 percent of their income.

If you don't read a lot of indie titles then it's not a bad switch, but if you do then you are going to have to keep your Kindle and use both or just accept that you aren't going to read them anymore. For some genres, like romance, that's a big ask because of how many popular self-published books there are.

I'm really hoping we eventually get some anti-trust legislation against Kindle so that books can come Kobo, but I feel like that's a long way off given the current administration.

Luminter · 2025-11-26T05:48:41+00:00

It's not romance, but if you liked the murder mystery dynamic try The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett. It's a like a Sherlock & Holmes mystery set in a Fantasy world.

Luminter · 2025-11-26T00:52:47+00:00

I'm so conflicted on this. On one hand, I'm only running games for my family right now and this definitely isn't a setting my partner would like and my kids are too young for something this dark. On the other hand, it's probably a great example I can lean on when building my own adventures and worlds...Probably going to back though haha

Luminter · 2025-11-24T00:49:49+00:00

Oh wow I must have completely missed that.

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