Wait, What? has been one of the prime ways that I've kept up on comics for years and it's coming to an end as a regularly scheduled podcast. I'll miss having Graeme and Jeff talking about the comics industry, manga, and pop culture so much. I highly recommend their read throughs of Avengers, Judge Dredd and Fantastic Four.
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@Jyoti I first properly became acquainted with the song through Poe's take on it. I must have heard the Go-Go's version before, but this one was in my ears a lot in the early aughts.
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@cdevroe That's a thoughtful take on POSSE. I've been frustrated with needing to set up CW and alt text after automated posts from my WordPress blog, so I agree that manually composing posts is probably the better approach now.
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Mastodon breaks with my adherence to POSSE (Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere) so I've been doing weekly digests to be sure I have a record of things I can be confident in lasting. Embedding makes it easier for posts I shared, and I can add in my own stuff properly included in the blog entry. Here's what I made this week:
https://apollolemmon.com/2022/12/18/social-digest-2022-12-11-2022-12-17/
It's definitely a bit unwieldy. Has anyone else come up with a good way to maintain POSSE?
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@AaronCrocco I find the feel has been quite different for most of Mastodon's history. It has been much more of a slow burn for me (I made my own instance back in 2018), not the rapid adoption and engagement Google+ had. Within a year there I had a pretty wide reach and good engagement. It took until the past couple months for Mastodon to feel close to that.
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@AaronCrocco we have some significant differences here. There is no Google to shut things down. If we need another five years to get most others over here there isn't going to be a kill switch looming over us. Google+ had a lot going for it but Google's leadership was a liability.
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Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling made music inspired by The Prisoner, a formative tv show for me. They produced tracks for every episode and released some related covers. Their first video was a remarkable recreation of the opening of the show.
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@hellcowkeith When designing Gloom, were there any particular places you were taking inspiration from for mechanics? Have you made or encountered any home rules that get players to lean more into storytelling?
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I was fortunate to grow up in a household with countless speculative fiction around. My father had many novels around, and I'd eventually read everything by some authors like Tolkien and Terry Brooks, and read extensively from others like Frank Herbert and Ursula K. Le Guin. Alan Burt Akers' Dray Prescot books (Transit to Scorpio, etc.) always intrigued me, but I never got far in reading them. I wonder if it would be worth revisiting that sword and planet series.
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Cory Doctorow's (@pluralistic) Poesy the Monster Slayer is Celestine's favourite book. We either read the ebook or listen to the audiobook most days. She can now recite portions of it and here she is explaining Great Old Ones.
