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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Even in American English -- or at least mine -- "anymore" and "any more" have different meanings. "Anymore" is habitual, and "any more" is an event. They are not interchangeable. One is "I want to stop repeating this" and one is "I want to stop this specific instance".

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Ginger @gentlyepigrams.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

As always, fuck cancer.

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The times that I saw him, the headshot fees were specifically earmarked for Hero Initiative. He was always smiling, always glad to see his fans, and his face lit up even more when he saw costumes and kids. He's a hero. No other word fits.

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's a fantasy, but it's an aspirational one: You can help, and it does make a difference, and maybe you don't win all the time and things don't get better very fast and too many villains do just fine. But you can still help, and it still makes a difference, and that's better than not.

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Superheroes are, for me, the fantasy that we have the power to help, and it makes a difference, and we can live in a better world where the bad guys get their comeuppances.

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Dvandom @dvandom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The playbook system makes it easy to fit to a specific setting, as it's not just the stats, it's also the goals and tropes. You can take a 5e class and tweak it to fit the source material, but the more different the source is from 5e expectations the more work you have. Playbooks are easier.

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Note that atonement (or rehabilitation) does not compel forgiveness. Forgiveness is an act of grace, an act of discretion. The victim is never wrong to withhold forgiveness. You still have to atone even if you are never forgiven. And rehabilitation, whatever that means, is contingent on atonement.

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That looks to me like someone with a rigid support structure waist down, like the suggestion that his giant weird ass is explained by him wearing a walking assist device. Lock the device in place and it holds you fast.

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Either a weird mistranslation, or a metaphor lost to time, e.g. the cream of milk considered the best part or the source of its goodness, and therefore creaminess is an attribute of good divinity.

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It seems to me that the Court's right-wing majority has rarely considered the harm to individuals, particularly when compared to the harm to a Republican administration. This is even more galling in the criminal and immigration context, where they give essentially no weight to being jailed.

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Not to mention, there was plenty of internet in the 90s. I spent the 90s interacting with people worldwide (mostly on Usenet).

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

To my knowledge, troodontids do not have a position on GFR. I believe that there’s a casuality problem otherwise.

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I don't actually have a bigger plan than that; this is superhero RPG, not legal simulator RPG. Is Elaine going to erupt all over the courtroom? That is pretty much the point, yes.

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Corinne's involved in a slip-and-fall lawsuit that one of the superhero PCs is defending in her day job, and somehow there's no footage of the slip and fall, and the x-ray sent over in medical records discovery is fogged.

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Elaine's sister Corinne causes records of her (like surveillance cameras) to decay. Why? How? Because and shut up.

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In my superhero RPG, which is Bronze Age-flavored except where Silver Age flavor slips in, because I am an old, nominative determinism is of course powerful. Elaine Rupton is the supervillain Eruption, predictably. I learned from the best writers.

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Have you gotten into a land war in Asia? If not, then yes.

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That is definitely something that is not epistemologically untrue.

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Oh, that abstract entirely begs the question. Why on Earth would you assume that human brain structure is the brain structure you have to have?

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

As I remarked elsewhere, Sawyer's Quintaglio Ascendance tries hard to do this (for science fiction, at least).

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I answered elsewhere, but troodontids were the group of choice by the people who've speculated about the problem. But we don't really know what produces sapience. We have some hypotheses but no indisputable conclusions.

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

DC would count as a sesquinary world, because of Metropolis and Bialya and the like?

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Rehab or home health visits in the plan? I hope recovery is fast and complete!

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Play a little clicky game on your phone, like Tetris or something. It’s an excellent way to defuse emotional loads, according to the trauma psychologists.

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

One of those heroes was "Maskman", which as a name is so diabolically stupid that it may wrap around to clever.

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I was reviewing an old superhero RPG adventure I wrote called "Space Nazis in Space" -- I know what my players want, and they get it -- and it included an offhand reference to a collective of heroes and agents who fought for the Allies in WWII Europe.

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

When I do such things, they tend to put me in Texas rather than Kentucky, but I did spend slightly more than half my life in Texas (all post-adult).

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The thing about losing the good ones like Dolly is that it means that the responsibility for being a good one falls on us. But it always has anyway.

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Wow! What a frightening thing to have happened! Glad he’s not worse. I hope healing is quick and complete.

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Have you encountered the "Gandalf Big Naturals" meme?

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The bushes in my yard (central US) that have that flower are called "rose of Sharon". They've invasive here, aggressive growers and spreaders. But the flowers are very pretty.

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I was more into fantasy than SF, so my "nerd of a certain age" artist is Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social. His dragons and above all else his Barsoom work is foundational for my aesthetics.

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"Ledan". Cite: www.tumblr.com/roach-works/... Comes from "loaf-eater", as lord comes from "loaf-guard" and lady comes from "loaf-kneader".

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Amazon has screwed up delivering a number of my packages recently, including confidently stating that a package shipped Sunday for delivery Tuesday, oops no, Thursday, detailed tracking info shows that it shipped Thursday, oops, delivery Friday, actual delivery Friday. That is a broken system.

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

My shame is that I try to make it un-goo-ent.

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

One of my freshman honors classes met at 8 AM. No choice of times, contra some of the other replies. That being said, I have no hints: My anxious subconscious wouldn't let me sleep through it.

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I deny the premise. This is a good game, with some really top-notch art and writing. Going all-in makes sense.

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Also island gigantism. Stirges the size of people, kilopedes, cranium capybaras.

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I sometimes wish the world was more like superhero comics.

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

There’s a great Tumblr post about why the song “Deja Vu” was applied to the segment of the recreation of the flight when the pilot did the side slip to lose speed (the recreation was on a cable “air disasters” show).

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I'm sure professionals have a deeper understanding of what it means for there to be a monograph. What's going on?

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The context I take is generally a long, in-depth look at something specific, but since it's pretty clear that a monograph is not a book and vice versa, there's something going on I don't quite grasp.

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

It is routinely used as something specific, because it contrasts with other terms like "book", or "article" (or even "long article") or "essay" or "paper" or even "thesis" (in the sense of a graduate student's final project).

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Greg @gpmorrow.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Does the "mono-" in "monograph" refer to "one topic or subject", "one volume", or "one author"? I am not an academic, so I only intersect with the term peripherally.

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