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my halloween dressup:

lmao

they don't even have dental...

My issue with 5e is that the community's dependence on homebrew to fix problems with the system has caused far too many people to assume they know what good game design is.

not to go all Unabomber but the Authority of the Machine really fucked us up

I need this as an automatic response or something

Kaladin chapter, Shallan chapter

his swagless mental breakdowns this, his homoerotic patterns of grief that. what about HER grief-stricken moments of extremely poor decisionmaking? what about HER incredibly alarming isolation and trauma-driven life choices?!?!?!

yessss I gotta start wingspanposting. Hey you, play Wingspan. it's a boardgame about placing birds in habitats and building points using their effects. It's got very good Steam/Switch versions that add lovely audio clips of their calls, in addition to the beautiful hand painted art each bird gets. Really scratches the shit out of my birdwatching and card game/engine building itches simultaneously.

The base game is North American birds, but for me nothing beats the Oceania expansion. Being able to build a point-raking engine out of your backyard bird faves is really an unmatched experience imo.

GST + TFM my beloveds. I know I was just glazing the artwork but imho they don't do justice to how handsome the Grey Shrikethrush is irl.

Another really good part is that Wingspan has a rock-solid Solitaire mode with adjustable difficulty and extra features. There's no attacking or removal or any hostile interaction between players, so any potential background frustration levels typical of games like it is mostly evaporated. On top of that, Wingspan never drags on. it's always four rounds of a diminishing number of turns each, so games always pan out to like 45 minutes. As much as I love a week-long game of Twilight Imperium, (for another post, don't get me started) table space is a thing that's a thing. Play Wingspan!

Hostages tortured to death. Parents executed in front of their children. Doctors beaten. Babies murdered. Sexual assault weaponised. No, not Hamas crimes. This is part of an ever-growing list of documented atrocities committed by Israel in the five months since 7 October – quite separate from the carpet bombing of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza and a famine induced by Israel’s obstruction of aid. And yet while the western establishment media has been chock full of the most lurid allegations of savagery directed against Hamas, sometimes with little or no supporting evidence, Israeli atrocities are excused or quickly forgotten. Accusations against Hamas are endlessly reheated to paint a picture of a supremely dangerous and bestial militant group, in turn rationalising the slaughter and starvation of Gaza’s population to “eradicate” it as a terrorist organisation. But equally barbarous atrocities committed by Israel – not in the heat of battle, but in cold blood – are treated as unfortunate, isolated incidents that cannot be connected, that paint no picture, that reveal nothing of import about the military that carried them out. If Hamas’ crimes were so savage and sadistic they still need to be reported months after they took place, why does the establishment media never feel the need to express equal horror and indignation at equivalent or worse acts of cruelty and sadism being inflicted by Israel on Gaza – not five months ago, but right now? Israel's torture of doctors, its sexual assaults of Palestinian women, it's leaving premature babies to die after its forces stormed a hospital. Where is the outrage? This is part of a pattern of behaviour by the western media that leads to only one possible deduction: Israel’s five-month-long attack on Gaza is not being reported. Rather, it is being selectively narrated – and for the most obscene of purposes. Through consistent and glaring failures in their coverage, establishment media – including supposedly liberal outlets, from the BBC and CNN to the Guardian and New York Times – have smoothed the way for Israel to carry out mass slaughter in Gaza, what the World Court has assessed as plausibly a genocide. The role of the media has not been to keep us, their audiences, informed about one of the greatest crimes in living memory. It has been to buy time for US President Joe Biden to keep arming his most useful of client states in the oil-rich Middle East, and to do so without damaging his prospects for re-election in November’s US presidential vote. If Russian President Vladimir Putin was a madman and a barbarous war criminal for invading Ukraine, as every western media outlet agrees, what does that make Israeli officials, when every one of them supports far worse atrocities in Gaza, directed overwhelmingly at civilians? And more to the point, what does that make Biden and the US political class for materially backing Israel to the hilt: sending bombs, vetoing demands for a ceasefire at the United Nations, and freezing desperately needed aid? Worrying about the optics, the president expresses his discomfort, but he carries on helping Israel regardless. While western politicians and commentators worry about some imaginary existential threat those brief events of five months ago pose to the nuclear-armed state of Israel, Israel is quite literally wiping Gaza off the map day by day, quite undisturbed.

Middle East Eye

Torture, executions, babies left to die, sexual abuse… These are Israel’s crimes

Why is the same western media obsessively reheating five-month-old allegations against Hamas so reluctant to focus on Israel’s current, horr

reblogging cos I really want this little critter on a shirt or something. fantastic work, artist 👍

acorn