Leading edge Gen X geek and nerd. SF, games, etc. Yes, that is Bear from the ".hack//SIGN" anime. I identify with him as an old fart gamer surrounded by young punk gamers. I haven't adopted any comatose teenagers, though. Eastern USA.
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Last Notes npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button Is there a hashtag for finding out what artist created something for when a quick image search doesn't help? One I wonder about is: #WhatArtistMadeThis https://cdn.masto.host/dicecamp/media_attachments/files/117/378/049/236/642/056/original/64cf28577c0382c2.jpg npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button I always worry that I am annoying people. Seems to be what I do best. But the great thing about Mastodon is that if you are being frequently annoyed by me, it's your own fault for following me, or not muting or blocking me if I post under hashtags you otherwise like. npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button Is there a way to name someone and have their name show up with their userid as a link, rather than just the userid? For example to put "Sandra Boynton" and have it linked to @nprofile…teje? #fedihelp npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button There's a music video running on my other monitor. Seems to be from an #anime about cute schoolgirls driving tanks. The slightly creepy bit is that I doubt that's enough information to identify it from a whole bunch with that premise. npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…rwst I saw an article about an old WWII battle site in a jungle in New Guinea with unrecovered bodies. The locals never go there for fear of ghosts. Or fear of unexploded munitions. npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…805j Someone set up us the bomb! npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…d0yj Wiktionary says no. "Usage notes At this point, geofronts only exist within Japan and in science fiction." https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/geofront npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…d0yj It goes back to the original "Neon Genesis Evangelion" TV series at least, where it means a giant underground spherical space. npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button Another full load of mulch acquired. npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…p560 I didn't get to be where I am today by reading Alt Text on social media! Neither Mrs. CB nor I ever read Alt Text! npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…8p63 The Traveller Starship Geomorphs. Nominally for the #ScienceFiction #ttrpg #Traveller, it is very useful for clicking together any kind of spaceship or futuristic building. https://travellerrpgblog.blogspot.com/2020/07/starship-geomorphs-20.html npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…8yex @nprofile…pfuj On her Patreon she explains/rants about how it was because because it mentions someone who committed suicide in 1903 and that violates Youtube's "self harm policy." And she wasn't sufficiently energetic in stopping to note that Suicide Is Bad. npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…8p63 https://cdn.masto.host/dicecamp/media_attachments/files/116/841/483/994/447/767/original/9f8404718c60c6f4.jpg npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…pfuj @nprofile…n9qs I have a recurring problem that it seems my mailbox in summer makes a dandy ant nursery. npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…ugpy "vultures look aggressive and whatnot, but when you actually get rid of vultures out of an ecosystem, all sorts of things go haywire." For literal vultures, you get things like rabies, leopard attacks on humans, and failure of sky burials. npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…awd8 My mind goes into the science fiction aspect where you do this with better and better thumb drives until eventually you get an AI in it that starts playing Cyrano De Bergerac, editing the emails to be better, and hilarity ensues. npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button OK, my inter-library loan website lets me bookmark a book to read later, but doesn't notice that I already got it and returned it. And has no way I can find to delete such bookmarks. npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…d0yj MIL? npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…d0yj I've got that around somewhere, but never got around to watching it. npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…26k7 @nprofile…ugpy I dealt with one medical company who insisted that they could not tell me if they had gotten the check I mailed them. They'd deposited it and my bank paid them, but they kept no record of it. They refused to say either "Yes, we got that check", or "No we didn't get that check." npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…67f3 @nprofile…uygl @nprofile…5rsp Does this mean the system has a copy of everyone's balance, or at least balance range? Or are they just taking the risk that someone with a very low debit balance could spend money they don't have for a week? npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…d0yj Of course, as soon as you publish it someone will pop up complaining that you are ripping off [story]. npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…mzkl @nprofile…ugpy The one quality I noticed back in my USENET days was the assumed level of knowledge. Some groups are fine with clueless newbie questions (even ones that are in the FAQ), other groups are strictly for "Great Experts pontificating solely for the benefit of other Great Experts"* and clueless questions would at best be ignored. * To steal a line from Anna Russell. npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…al0y @nprofile…ugpy This is reminding me of James Scott in "Seeing Like A State" where he talks about the difference between "epistemic" knowledge and "metis", with the later being the sort of thing you call "process knowledge" here. npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button Year ago I overheard a conversation where someone said they never use their turn signal when driving because it is "giving information to the enemy." All interactions with other people are war. #nevent1q…y2r3 npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button And any deal that doesn't have clear winner and a clear loser is a bad deal. #nevent1q…67hd npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…4fxt @nprofile…60fv Will large corporations suing to get the tariff money back will pass it on to the customers? Of course they can. For anything ordered online, shipped, delivered, paid for with a card, or bought on a loyalty card they know who to pay back. Yes, anyone who bought something for cash in person without a loyalty card, they'd have to put up a sign and require receipts, but how many people is that these days? npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…ugpy I'm not sure if this fits what you are talking about here, but I found a problem with groups is the level of knowledge assumed and desired. Some groups are made up of Great Experts pontificating solely for the benefit of other Great Experts.* Which is overwhelming if you are not a GE. And the participants may be impatient or unhelpful to the clueless new guy. * Stealing a line from Anna Russell. npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…hwm8 I don't see it has a rocket on his back, but as a more distant ship. npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button Are there email advertisers who realize that sending one email a month is more likely to get repeat business from me than sending 5 emails a day? npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…sxvw @nprofile…kdpa @nprofile…aske Larval trolleys are of course wire coat hangers. npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…7qxe This is true. I did this the year I retired when I realized the FSA was null once I retired, not at the end of that year. (FSA - A kind of health savings account.) npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…tvnd So, not in the market for Eternal Fire Insurance? npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…tvnd He didn't do any bad things in class for most of the year, maybe? npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button What I really really want from Mastodon is to not be lied to about non-existent replies. If there are replies that are blocked on my instance or otherwise impossible for me to see, I don't want to see a little number claiming they exist when for all practical purposes they DON'T. Yes, I know this faithfully recreates a Twitter "feature", along with the replies that aren't replying to anything I can see. But all these just waste my time an attention to no good purpose. Also: A pony. npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…dlkf That is from "Awlo of Ulm" and in the text they are called arms but are really different kinds of ray guns mounted in arm-like mounts. The humans inside have the usual two arms which they use to operated the battlesuit. (Also, they are all "Submicroscopic" humans in the world our hero gets shrunk down into.) npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…9ake Rut Roh: Six people have died and several dozen have been hospitalized across the US after an outbreak of listeria in precooked pasta meals. The outbreak was first declared in June, leading to a wave of recalls of the pasta meals. [...] The linguine, farfalle and other types of infected pasta were sold by retailers including Trader Joe’s, Albertsons, Kroger and Sprouts Farmers Market. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/04/listeria-outbreak-deaths-pasta-kroger-trader-joes npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…4q78 "GURPS Transhuman Space: Wings of the Rising Sun" is a sourcebook for Steve Jackson's Games Transhuman Space setting, which uses their generic GURPS TTRPG system. It is about a Japanese-based worldwide rescue service in the year 2100 CE. (Snarky people claim it is GURPS version of the old "Thunderbirds" TV series with the serial numbers filed off.) They also have GURPS sourcebooks for: "Disasters: Hurricane" "Disasters: Meltdown and Fallout" https://www.sjgames.com/transhuman/wingsoftherisingsun/ npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…39ss @nprofile…tqvu @nprofile…0g66 I don't follow figures, I just know that life size versions of pre-rebuild Rei and Asuka existed. npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…0g66 Mari, because when rebuilding Evangelion, someone said "You what this needs? More crazy girls." npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…h94j My impression is that all generations think they invented sex. npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…u0pa Exploring the perils of Inner Space-Space-Space! npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…qz4x Great, now I have an earworm of "At The Cowwash." stuck in my head. npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…c6n6 @nprofile…qz4x Doing something to help people was always unthinkable, even if that would prevent whatever injustice people were supposed to be hurt because of. npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…c6n6 @nprofile…qz4x One thing that struck me many years ago about "conservatives" is that they don't ever want the government to do anything that doesn't somehow involve hurting people. Possibly people who deserved to be hurt, but the hurting was the important bit. npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…0735 I once had a job where you could sign up for "assertiveness training." I and my friend always felt this was backwards. You should sign up everyone automatically for "assertiveness training" and make it moderately difficult to get out of. Thus only the people who need it get it. npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…qz4x When I moved the other year, I was required to get a new driver's license within 30 days. One of the valid forms of proof of address was a utility bill. How I was supposed to move, set up a new utility account, and get a bill within 30 days was not explained. npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…gwm4 As I recall, wars in #Traveller tend to end not with a decisive victory but when one or both sides become too overextended or exhausted to continue because of these problems. npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…plfp @nprofile…ycum Probably not what you are thinking of, but maybe "City" by Clifford Simak? npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…r0kn Where do you look on your local instance for any donation requests or links? The "About" for my server doesn't say anything about it. Does that mean they don't want any, or am I not looking in the right place? npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…4vdp Bunnies And Burrows npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…m9qs P-AN-D0RA said they had some in a box... npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…mtwn 8~~-({ I recognize the feeling from some years back. npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…mtwn I was in it once, and have several boxes full of them and "The Wild Hunt" that I know I'll never look at again, but am unwilling to toss. npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…mtwn I pretty much only used a smiley or a frowny: 8-)} 8-({ with tears for more intense frownies: 8~~~-({ Otherwise, no. npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…mtwn You can access the chats for Twitch streams via IRC, or you could a few months ago anyway. npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…mtwn See the standard joke about what kind of engineer god is. npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…mtwn There is at least one website that can help with that: https://gurpsland.no-ip.org/articles/ThreeGURPSBooks.htm Mine: Infinite Worlds: Lost Worlds Disasters: Meltdown and Fallout Space GM's Pack There are all those Hell World parallels where Earth is devastated. Why does no one care for the survivors? You have a space station which is also a conveyor. Go to a Hell World parallel and rescue them. npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…93zc @nprofile…args One thing I like in #CJCherryh's "Serpent's Reach" was the idea that each majat (space ant) was an individual, but each time two majat meet they "take taste", i.e. exchange saliva, which updates their memories to be identical. npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…sru6 Not really what you are asking for, but I am very fond of the Starship Geomorphs by Robert Pearce. But they are for sections of starships or space stations or ground buildings at that sort of tech level. Which probably isn't what you mean by "otherworldy elven city." (Note that while they are designed for the #Traveller Space #ttrpg, they aren't particularly specific to that game or setting.) https://travellerrpgblog.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-starship-geomorphs-book-if-finally.html npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…rgxr @nprofile…sdqe I think that falls down on the "against the rest of the Free World'." part. npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…74v9 He should have gotten out of town back when he had the chance. Just saying. npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…mtwn @nprofile…k4rn Isn't this the on ewher eyou can be a "poltroon"? npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…kdkz @nprofile…87q7 So sign language is a critical tool of The Resistance? npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…60lz @nprofile…qz4x Fear of this sort of thing is why I never get around to selling off a lot of my obscure games and books. I don't need the money, but I worry that they'll just get thrown out when I die rather than go to weirdos like me who will appreciate them. npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…7wld "The Terminator." I saw it twice in the theater, which is how I can be sure the Harlan Ellison acknowledgement wasn't in the original release. npub1awwfs78umq2k93ug86k86nn2fttj58maevuwlhgfmsutsx6h8ycslqsmdz Captain Button @nprofile…gwm4 @nprofile…mtwn "Space Opera" from Fantasy Games Unlimited came out in 1980 and had a bunch of stuff inspired by Star Wars in it, including laser swords and some of the psionics powers.