9 is my setup but I don’t gis on my computer, it’s just my home office setup

Hey tell him I like his blocky video game

The elephant could be carried. A C-123K could drop the elephant in a large crate with a parachute attached

US-ian here, yes please

Perhaps they migrated

Ahh, a man of culture

The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York Second, defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking.

• Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

Wait, I thought everyone played “Gun fire or fireworks” 🤔

I, too, nominate this person’s mother

Admiral Cloudberg did an amazing write-up of the Paradise fire. She usually duplicates her Reddit articles on Medium, but I don’t think she did with this one 😔

Sam Kinison had this bit about world hunger being a problem because aid agencies kept bringing assistance to people that live in a desert. It’s, of course an oversimplification and quite frankly inaccurate, but he was a comedian of his time and all of that.

The point in mentioning it is that I feel the same way about people that lose their homes to floods in a flood plain, or to fire in a forest.

"Oh. You want another house? In the same place? The place that has burned every ten years for the last TEN MILLENNIA!? Oh, and you want to build it out of matchstick wood AND PLASTIC! You see this? You see this here? It’s stone! And this? Concrete! Yeah! A common building material THAT DOESN’T BURN!!! "

Humanity is doomed

dalekcaan is 100% right. Sir Pterry’s early books are downright Adamsinian, and while his later books trade the silliness for sharp social commentary, the humor and wit never diminish.

Where are you in your Discworld journey? Which is your favorite so far?

This is a quote from a book called The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

Congratulations, you are one of today’s lucky ten thousand, and you are in for a treat! (If you like absurdist British humor

Not again!

One of my messages to the group was essentially: “I set aside time today to write dialogue and plot points. Here is a detailed map of the city I made instead”

World building for the game I run.

Instead of, you know, actually preparing enemy NPC stat blocks, or maps, or writing dialogue, or making sure combat will be balanced and not a TPK.

World building is fun

I read this in his voice. Oh yeah!