That looks so wonderful! I do wish I could spend more time exploring nature (work has me very busy these days).

My wife and I recently moved to a small town with a privately owned, 2000 acre forest preserve; we took a picnic lunch just a short way in a while back, and I desperately want to explore more of it.

Imagine only knowing that a people in a tourist submarine died and learning the details through a muppet meme on a 196 forum

“I know EXACTLY which one of these pillars you MIGHT be hiding behind”

We did skip a lot of Season 1, so maybe that helped my perception of him.

I’ve been Takeshidude since I was maybe 11 back on Lego.com

Feels wrong to have any other name

If I were to create Communities around art/photography, am I correct to assume that all those image files would be living on my instance's storage?

I had just finished Voyager season 2 when they pulled it off Netflix. I’m going to have to chase down the DVDs on eBay at some point.

Frankly, I’d really like to play D&D 5e, but I can’t get anyone else to DM. Same for Call of Cthulhu 7e.

As far as systems I haven’t run before, I’m interested to see what MCDM’s system turns out to be.

Stars without Numbers seems cool (though I do prefer a system that lets me use dice I can’t find in a Monopoly box).

I own, but have not played (player or GM) the Avatar Legends system. It looks very lovingly put together, but I wish it hadn’t been built on Fate.

I’ve also got a neat little indie(?) system called Upwind that is very narrative focused, and has players sort of bet on suggested conflict outcomes against the GM with a hand of cards. Very interesting, but I haven’t had the bandwidth to get ready to run it for anyone.

Thanks for the advice here, folks.

I’ve got a technical roadblock getting my instance installed, and with stress at my job (of course also considering valid concerns raised here), I am not going to pursue running a fediverse instance at this point in time.

I use Handbrake to get my blurays into a format I can use on my Plex server so I can stream my physical media whenever I want.

Handbrake generates 10 previews for each file so you can get a sense of what it looks like, and it happened to be this frame.

While I can't say I agree with the political views of the lemmy devs (at least as described in this article, as I have no other reference point), I think that it shows one of the really cool things about the fediverse. So what if those guys over there are weirdos? I can take the ball they gave me and go play somewhere else with other people.

I plan to create this community on my instance (once I figure out how to get it running)

I kinda feel like Wes was the enlightened 24th century child who is validated, supported, and taken seriously by people who want him to succeed.

Except for when the writers just have the rest of the bridge crew be mean to him ("shut up, Wesley"). He makes a really good point in "Datalore" (S01E13) when telling Picard that if he was any other officer and not a teenager, his concerns about Lore impersonating Data would have been taken seriously.

My memory probably is more of early Web 2; I was born in the late 90s, so I suppose I missed the really wild west days.

Flash games were great though; it seemed like every company that even slightly catered to people under 30 had a website with some game on it.

There was someone who would reply to askreddit questions and spin up some story that always ended with his dad beating him with jumper cables no matter what the original question was about.

Beating your kids isn’t funny, but this guy’s stories were a riot.

Cool! Does anyone have any myths or legends about the tallest peak? A slumbering creator deity or source of life?

Do the Vikraghallan city states bicker about petty things like how streets should be laid out? Do they agree on some uniform currency or system of measurement?

I've only heard of Savage Worlds, but never looked into it; I've only run D&D 5e and Call of Cthulhu 7e

Hi! I know this is almost 3 weeks old, but we need community engagement or else there's no community

I see some large mushrooms on the western coast, north of Tzamlitr. If I journeyed there, what would I see? Just a normal forest but with tall mushrooms instead of pine trees? A normal plain with mushrooms instead of grain?

Where is the tallest mountain? What is the furthest point from which I can still clearly see it's peak (assuming it's noticeably taller than its neighbors)?

But then we wouldn’t have the glory of the r/nostupidquestions post “is Stephen pronounced the same as Stephen?”

I’ll have Sir Patrick Stewart soliloquizing about space followed by a rad fanfare as I get breakfast.

Sounds pretty cool to me.