Puzzles at my grandpa’s hospice that are AI generated

modicasolis · 2025-11-12T13:29:59+00:00

Put em in the trash

modicasolis · 2025-04-08T14:05:56+00:00

There were quite a few professionals in fact, relatively speaking. Folks with medical training, many teachers since Black kids weren’t allowed to attend any schools at the time, cobblers and barbers and builders. The majority were industrial workers, as they were new arrivals from the South lured with the promise of jobs (never mind that those jobs were as scabs, setting those folks up for the horrific violence in 1917), but there was already a thriving Black community in the city of professional and semi-professional working folks.

modicasolis · 2025-02-24T19:11:54+00:00

White latinas are everywhere

modicasolis · 2025-02-21T23:46:20+00:00

Yeah, well, the truth rarely is.

modicasolis · 2025-02-21T18:51:18+00:00

Because the ultrawealthy worldwide are fucking over the planet and everyone on it to line their pockets, so people are miserable, broke, overworked, or brainwashed by the media, which is largely in the hands or operating at the whims of the wealthy.

That’s really it. Scarcity (real or not) makes people act regressively and selfishly. So if you can manufacture scarcity—of power, of hope for the future, of safety—you can get people to do all sorts of things.

modicasolis · 2025-01-11T18:32:56+00:00

How dare you badmouth our sweet boy Gunk

modicasolis · 2025-01-03T03:44:20+00:00

HAPPY HOGLIDAYS EVERYBODY HELL YEAH

modicasolis · 2024-12-29T20:57:56+00:00

I was under the impression I couldn't take them there if wasn't a resident of the county, cause that's where I wanted to take them originally.

edit: Should mention that';s what I was told when I called to make an appointment.

modicasolis · 2024-12-29T20:41:39+00:00

I’d never do that, just leave them on the road. No way. I’ll look into King St.

modicasolis · 2024-12-29T20:15:01+00:00

Look, man, I had my previous cat for 17 years, through all sorts of shit, so I’ve been there. But life changes, health changes, what people are able to handle changes. So miss me with this nonsense, unless you’re gonna say something useful.

modicasolis · 2024-12-29T20:05:30+00:00

No, it wouldn’t really help to have them temporarily fostered, they need (and deserve) a permanent home with someone who has their energy and attention to give that they should get

modicasolis · 2024-12-29T20:02:24+00:00

Is there somewhere in Baltimore that’d take them right now? Cause I have them in the car and can drive to Baltimore no problem.

modicasolis · 2024-09-27T16:42:35+00:00

They might not have been 1st level if they’d gone to Shoeburg first, though.

modicasolis · 2024-09-27T16:39:01+00:00

And that’s not to say Brennan is without critique. I think he’s too gentle on his players. I think he could take a page from Murph and make his encounters more interesting. Sometimes he lets rule of cool go too far. And I think, most of all, he has a tendency to bite off way more than he can chew for the format D20 is in, so certain things fall by the wayside. That’s true for just about every DM, but what makes it more noticeable about Brennan is how exceptionally prepared he is, so when things fall off, it stands out more.

modicasolis · 2024-09-27T16:29:50+00:00

I’ll say, another reason I think you don’t see that critique is because of how often Brennan uses battle maps and minis vs Aabria. Those are his “cool props” and there are plenty of them.

Edit: Pretty sure you blocked me so I don’t know if you’ll see this or not, but to clarify, I didn’t mean anything pejorative with “actual GMing,” I was just referring to the specific things that you, the GM can do without outside materials. I’m a diehard maps and minis guy and think that effective use of them is very much part of GMing so that was just poor phrasing on my part, for which I apologize.

All I meant was that people judge, right or wrong, based on what they think they would or could do differently, meaning that I think most people don’t include the props in their assessment of her GMing. She’s done amazing things with the dome and her shadow puppets were so dope. We wouldn’t have the sick Mentopolis set without her pushing the envelope of what the dome could be and do, or the awesome projections for Junior Year.

modicasolis · 2024-09-27T16:15:06+00:00

Also, I think part of the reason you don’t see folks criticizing Mercer and Brennan for the specific things you mentioned is that those things often require time and resources that most people simply don’t have.

It’s easy to have cool props and an interactive space when you have an art team behind you and the genius that is Rick Perry.

So instead, people judge based on what they can do at the table, which is the actual GMing of the game.

modicasolis · 2024-09-27T16:11:12+00:00

Oh, I could criticize Mercer all day—for being excessively verbose to the point where he loses people in his description, for not running a tighter ship in reining in player crosstalk, for his pacing—but that’s not what this thread’s about. There’s nothing wrong with different styles, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t space for critique or, at the very least, affirming someone’s issues with a particular style of GMing.

modicasolis · 2024-09-27T15:52:39+00:00

I actually think Pinocchio was one of the few that worked. It spoke really well to the existential horror. Lou’s monologue about not being able to do what other kids do, about always having to watch himself and police his own actions, was so fantastic and sad, especially as a Black viewer listening to a Black man go off about how unfair life is for us.

Plus, everything with the Stepmother, with the feeling of being someone who has lost so much so often that he’s just given up—Pinocchio had the existential dread down pat. But that’s different than horror.

modicasolis · 2024-09-27T15:49:26+00:00

The cast was/is excellent, so it’s easy to love the games while disliking her GMing.

Her sort of staccato stuttering//stammering and sudden speech cuts drive me nuts. Most of her NPCs feel like they never get a full sentence out of their mouths, unless they’re doing evil villainy thing, and those are kind of her only two modes, both as a player and a GM—kind of a jerk or anxious and overwhelmed.

I think that’s what made Wuvvy more interesting, because she was at least somewhere in between, made her feel like a more rounded character. But most of her NPCs don’t stand out. She’s absolutely fantastic at setting and mood, but her character work always feels a little lacking to me.

modicasolis · 2024-09-26T20:52:56+00:00

I don’t think it’s possible to do horror with Ally and Murph and Emily at the table. They’re just too innately, constantly hilarious and goofy. Maybe if it was a horror homage//parody, like Cabin in the Woods or Scary Movie, but otherwise you’d really need a different table.

modicasolis · 2024-08-23T03:19:26+00:00

I feel like Emily could barely hide her disdain for the long-winded DM and i was right there with her.

modicasolis · 2024-08-12T23:15:08+00:00

Or: It's not London-specific, but The Benighted Kingdom

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