@tweetsbymoi Huh, for me it was 7th grade. (The first year of middle school, when children suddenly transformed into adolescents and had to prove it.)
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The Downside: By the evening, I get, er, kinda loopy? It’s a little bit like being tipsy, and I’m told that’s what it looks (or sounds) like.
The Upside: Can’t drink beer on this medication, but when carb starvation makes me tipsy, maybe I don’t need it? 😅 Anyway… 1 week down, 11 (or more?) to go…
Oh, and the medicine’s not for anything terribly serious, allow me to reassure you. But it is something better dealt with than not, and now seems like as good a time as any.
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My doctor told me to reduce carbs in my diet while (temporarily) on this medicine so my liver isn’t poisoned by whatever carbs turn into whatever they turn into while this stuff is in my system.
She told me I could do it gradually, like, cut 25%, then go down to 50% of usual. But shooting for 75%, I know I’ll land at 95%. If I’m shooting for 50%, I’ll land at 80%. So I just sort of cut as much as I could handle, all at once.
Now I know why she suggested I do it gradually. The effect has been pretty profound on me. By which I mean:
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Months later, I’m still thinking about this, and how easily I can see this happening today in so many places. twitter.com/pookleblinky/s…
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@mcjulie @Vylar_Kaftan Seriously. I’m thinking it’s time for a Mary Wortley Montagu biopic.
https://t.co/eMxKM5LjEf @mcjulie @Vylar_Kaftan (Not to downplay the fact inoculation was practised by people in the Ottoman Empire and other places when Western European doctors still considered it madness, of course. But MWM’s story is compelling for other reasons, including that she was a smallpox survivor herself.)
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@jeremiahtolbert @StaceyCKs1 It is, after all, the best era. Have I ever mentioned teaching The Muppet Movie in an Intro English-Speaking Cultures Through Cinema class? We watched the Muppet Movie to talk about kid-directed telegraphing of values of resistance and subversion of adult expectations, etc. @jeremiahtolbert @StaceyCKs1 Oddly, my students insisted that the message (esp. in the final song, “Don’t Stop Dreaming,” etc.) was directed at 100% adults and not kids, “because kids still know how to dream, while the process of high school & university renders adults unable to dream and hope.”
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“Neanderthal thinking”? Get a better metaphor.
(The irony of using bad/outdated science to critique policy for being insufficiently science-based is so palpable it hurts.)
https://t.co/vZfe19qlLb To be clear: Neanderthals took care of their injured and sick. (Evidence shows compassion/care for the ill/injured was a pretty important among Neanderthals.)
Meaning: Texas and Mississippi wouldn’t be reopening now if their governors were engaged in “Neanderthal thinking.”
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@Lawrenc89144923 @DTrowbridge7 This is a bit like saying, “Well, the building burnt down and everyone inside died, but I feel like some of them were smokers and if they hadn’t been, they might have handled the smoke inhalation better and survived.” @Lawrenc89144923 @DTrowbridge7 To be clear, you’ve had ~51x as many deaths per capita as South Korea. With a better gov’t response and an educated populace that just wore fucking masks and washed its hands as directed, you could likely have prevented ~490,000 of the deaths you’ve had in the US.
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Another Appendix K post is up now! This one is of the very bloody mystery/investigation film BLOOD RAIN (혈의누, 2005) directed by Dae-Seung Kim, which reminded me a little of The Name of the Rose, but in Joseon-era Korea.
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@JustinHowe @inCatastrophe @rajanyk @amysundberg @jeremiahtolbert @Scott_H_Andrews That’s how my co-GM and I ran an SF PbP game years and years ago! It was a lot of work, though, mainly in meshing together different PCs’ actions.
https://t.co/Q6n7kHoxsj @JustinHowe @inCatastrophe @rajanyk @amysundberg @jeremiahtolbert @Scott_H_Andrews (I don’t know if @katfeete ever managed to find the old play logs or not. I suspect they’re locked away in some old Eudora Light email archive I have but can’t open at the moment.)
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@JustinHowe @inCatastrophe @rajanyk @amysundberg @jeremiahtolbert @Scott_H_Andrews Right! I think there are probably some ways to do that! I kind of wonder if some kind of a Luck Roll (with modifiers based on declared character “stances”) and PbtA-styled “choose 1” or “choose 2” or “choose 3” might not be a way to abstract PbP combat.
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@JustinHowe @inCatastrophe @rajanyk @amysundberg @jeremiahtolbert @Scott_H_Andrews (It’s strongly cautioned against on the site where I PbP, which kind of suggests it’s… well, a frequent problem. I’ve not quite given up on PbP, but I’m not really bothering to sign up for new ones. Too many really cool characters created for games that never really happened. @JustinHowe @inCatastrophe @rajanyk @amysundberg @jeremiahtolbert @Scott_H_Andrews Though I’d play in yours if you ran one, @JustinHowe! (Though I can easily imagine you having enough of me in our weekly game!) 🙂
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@JustinHowe @inCatastrophe @rajanyk @amysundberg @jeremiahtolbert @Scott_H_Andrews Yeah, maybe? I think the whole “we’re all busy these days,” thing hits PbP harder (because expected posting frequency is often daily or 3x a week) than the weekly RPG or board game group. (It’s kinda easier to book a weekly 3 hour session than 20 min a day on PbP, I find.) @JustinHowe @inCatastrophe @rajanyk @amysundberg @jeremiahtolbert @Scott_H_Andrews I think it may also be something about PbP culture, though: you see a lot of people join 15 games because they know 14 won’t ever get started, and then when 2 actually happen, they’re overextended. Likewise you see lots of GMs or multiple players flake out without explanation.
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@JustinHowe @inCatastrophe @rajanyk @amysundberg @jeremiahtolbert @Scott_H_Andrews I find it’s hard to (a) keep up with daily posting, and (b) to keep up momentum with anything but daily posting. I am in one PbP that has lasted like a year, and ran one decades ago that lasted maybe a year, but everything else has run out of steam within a few months at most.
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@BradJMurray @RyanGK_ I also got zero but this list doesn’t include spam or boiled silkworm larvae, both very popular foods where I live.
(Let alone that fermented skate dish that smells like urinal (홍어), but even that I tried a few times.) @BradJMurray @RyanGK_ Well, or mashed potatoes, but there’s a long story to that one.
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@JustinHowe @pintsizehorror No worries! I’m tempted to try it myself. I actually have almost everything necessary on hand. Actually made some bread with molasses and a little rye flour last night… not as fluffy and light as I’ve been trying to get it, but not bad… @JustinHowe @pintsizehorror And I guess this also answers the mystery of why it came in a can: it was traditionally steam baked that way?!?! Ha.
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@JustinHowe @pintsizehorror Okay, now I just discovered you can steam cook on the stovetop it in an old coffee can! I guess I could do it in the instant pot. Even have molasses. But I don’t have cornmeal. (Which is the ingredient that makes the steam-cooking a good idea.)
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@tweetsbymoi @ajosshi I mean, I heard this from an in-law with a tendency to believe anything. I mention it only to say that the rumors and stories that are circulating are nuts. The gov’t has been very concerned to discourage the appearance of an autocratic response all along, so… @tweetsbymoi @ajosshi Maybe they’re taking the rumors and urban legends as kind of a metric about the general mood re: lockdown or danger levels.
(It’s easier to announce nonsense that calms people down and then rescind it when everyone can finally see it’s necessary, than to push before then?)
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Oh, hey, happy New Year. In January, a couple of Appendix K posts—inspiration for gaming in a Korea-inspired fantasy milieu—were published!
The first is about modern Korean music that could work to set mood or inspire you:
https://t.co/IgVrxUraRT The second is a discussion of the film The King and the Clown, and the look it provides at Korea’s traditional entertainers, for those who like having bards in their fantasy games, or are interested in courtly intrigues involving them:
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@ajosshi @tweetsbymoi Well, this does provide an excellent opportunity to mobilize a scramble-and-panic a week or two from now if/when it turns out this was a horrible idea.
Yeah, I dunno. I assume there are reasons and they’re not being stated publicly, but who knows? Doesn’t seem sensible to me. @ajosshi @tweetsbymoi Meanwhile the stories I’m hearing secondhand from my mother-in-law about the enforcement of rules about gatherings of 5+ people are bananas.
(Like, urban legend bananas: cops visiting the home of anyone who orders “too much” fried chicken or whatever…)
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@JustinHowe @GeekinKorea Yup. I tried to tell him, “It’ll be more fun to make it with Lego!” but he could not be convinced. So many tiny fiddly bits. @JustinHowe @GeekinKorea I’ll just add that it’s too bad the 3D printing place right near our apartment shut down, so I couldn’t get this printed:
(Our printer is too small, and this robot frame thing is great, but the commerical versions that came out later are $$$$)
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This talk on the history of jazz in India is absolutely fascinating. I *really* want to read this guy’s book! (Though of course it’ll be tough reading about stuff I’ll never get to hear!)
