The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Cripes! Even under medieval Trial by Ordeal, if you survived, that was God testifying you were innocent. 011
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The choppiness of his speech is getting worse. Small bits. Lots of left-outs. Forgotten. Words. Left out words. Then remember. Repeat. When remembered. Restate to do-over. Leaves out words (the best words) he can't find, then restates them. When he remembers. As a do-over. Good brain. 040
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Someone needs to make a video with the audio from this commercial over the light streaming from Unicron's maw. 020
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026But as far as a dedicated guide on "how to play your toy soldiers as individuals" like the 6e rulebook appendix and the Skirmish pamphlet, I don't think so. 110
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026There was a skirmish scenario in the 5th edition Siege book. I think there were some skirmish scenarios in the old campaign packs like Terror of the Lichemaster? I remember when reading the WHFB 3e rulebook, I noted a distinct lack of anything saying said you HAD to play with massed units... 110
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026That's because this was just another play date during the Make-A-Wish presidency. 000
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Look, I'm just saying that 'holo' implies some sort of optical storage technology, and evidence points to massive storage capacity - those robots have been running for over two hundred years (!) and not run out of memory to store their experiences in. No wonder a few develop sapience... 010
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Not to "Um, acktually..." here, but to totally "Um, acktually..." here: The reels are an unknown form of branch-off technology called holotapes. We don't actually know how they function or if magnetism is involved. 110
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I've got a friend who sometimes does things like, "I printed and painted this one mini because it looks really cool. I have no idea what an 'owlbear' even is, but it's awesome. Guess I'll store it in the LotR tub for now..." and I'm so envious of that. 110
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026That's been a goal of mine for a long time, but I'm shocked at how badly starting with WHFB has conditioned me to, "Well, I guess I need 17 of these with 3-man command squad to start with..." thinking. I plan EVERYTHING as if I'm going to be playing 2000 points of rank n' flank this weekend. 110
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I see the 5e rulebook and 4e/5e army books, and models that match the timeframe... 110
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026He looks like MBS beat some of his money back out of him. 000
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Started with a 2600, then a local diner had a few arcade machines, and the VS. System Super Mario Brothers brought me in. But the one that defined me as a gamer? The Legend of Zelda. The 8-bit original that had a captivating manual and told me that it's dangerous to go alone - take this... 001
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Everything's PR or branding when your 80s brain has liquefied. 010
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026...scientists have been trying to put together a LEGO Pirate ship using the instructions for the Millennium Falcon. But now that we've discovered LEGO Pirates and Star Wars are completely different lines, we can finally start building age of said frigates. That about right? 230
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I'm just a layman who follows health and neurological feeds to keep up with possible treatments for my LongCOVID. My understanding of this is that we've been locked out of brain stem disease and function research because... 130
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026A "news channel" where he controls the camera? I give it three days before he's on there shirtless, tie worn as a head band, ranting about electric boats and how the windmill sharks snuck a 'b' into 'dumb' since the 80s. 010
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026He has no idea what AI is and less of how it works or what it does. It's just another in 3-4 decades of magic words - like "modem" and "Internet" and "URL" - that he's heard the tech wizards use to conjure up the things people say about him in the nether dimension they call "online". 010
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Speaking from a late GenX / Xennial perspective: the average Boomers still luxuriate in computer illiteracy. Like, they just WALLOW in it, like pigs in mud. Any computing tech is a magic mystery box containing a small god or demon that makes Amazon and 'the videos' happen. 110
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The Boomers are still relying on GenX to hook up their printers for them. AND to print things out for them. The mystery box has been on their desk for at least 30 years now, and they still hit the power button every day with trepidation as to whether or not that's the actual 'GO' button. 000
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Late GenX / Xennial checking in from invisibility: I don't think that's a Boomer opinion, and it gives Boomers too much credit. The Boomers on the average are too computer illiterate to be anti-enshittification: they just accept that the small god of the mystery box works in strange ways. 100
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I was done after seeing 3. Specifically, after watching Grant play the casting of a velociraptor sinus chamber like an ocarina to confuse them long enough for the scout raptor to come over the hill and shout, "Cheese it, the marines are landing!" 050
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 17/09/202620 year old me wouldn't get a word in edgewise, given the vehemence with which I would be telling him (A) trazadone, motherfucker, get you a prescription ASAP, and (B) your college advisor fucked up your hours conversion from quarters to semesters, get it fixed and you can still finish soon! 010
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The vibecession may be made cloudier by the fact that decades of anti-intellectualism have reduced the populace to using the wrong terminology, thus confusing educated theorists? We're now a nation that, on average, reads at a fifth-grade level, right? 000
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026So, what if a large number of respondents simply don't know exactly what "inflation" means, and are using it as "the bad word for when you feel nervous about stuff"? 101
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Yesterday, out of nowhere, for no reason, my brain served up the sound of Carrot Top going, "one eight hundred, dial A T T." I've been scared to think verbally ever since. 010
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I wouldn't mind hearing your thoughts on Fallout 2D20. Every time I start reading a 2D20 core book, I give up, but because I think, "This is mostly doing what FFG Star Wars/Genesys does, and if I'd encountered 2D20 first, I'd probably be bouncing off Genesys like this." 020
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Yeah, that tracks with my experience looking. You'd think Heinz would jump on this, at least, given that I can find their malt vinegar and brown sauce at my local grocery. 110
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026There seems to be a related instinct that, when times feel bad, we buy less and try to save more. And perhaps we interpret that as 'not being able to afford things' rather than 'something has me defensively hunkering down as a consumer'. 010
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I have a hypothesis that I have neither the means nor expertise to test: In our extreme consumer society, Americans are prone to interpreting general political discomfort or pain as 'Is it that I can't buy enough stuff? Yeah, that must be it...what's that word from the news? Inflation?" 110
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It's because you ate one of those 1993 Halloween Oreo packs, isn't it? Get well soon! 010
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Cripes. I wonder if this is some sort of generational overcompensation by former latchkey kids turned parents. 000
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Do you have a suggestion for a good curry ketchup available in the States? 110
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026And then everyone goes, "You know, now that he mentions it, Dave IS one slick, silver-tongued bastard who always gets the better of the deals." And then Dave goes, "Oh, hell, I probably COULD do it...shit, he was talking about me!" 110
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026...were recorded specifically by a Seldon looking at the numbers and going, "If we goose them with the idea at this time, that should get them looking for someone suitable to try negotiating independence via trade or services, when they otherwise wouldn't." 110
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I've always suspected that the "Right now you're facing a crisis - the numbers suggest a militarily superior neighbor seeking to conquer or otherwise annex you. However, the equations show that there should be a suitable guy to negotiate independence via trade or services," type recordings... 110
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026It's there in how Seldon's psychohistory can't predict the actions of an individual on any time frame, but can chart the general flow of human behavior for a thousand years well enough to record time-released explainers to activate as needed. 110
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I think one could make a case that you could sum it up as "Lots of things happen in the day to day, but they never change what humanity is." 110
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I thought this was a pledge to maintain the current quality of posts, not a preview of new content to come. 080
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026(Never saw corpo firepower back off so quickly.) All this with just prior edition knowledge and flipping through the decking chapter of a book I'd never handled before, all on the go. An amazing session. (I heard later that it inspired the rigger player to pick up decking on the side, afterwards) 000
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Then, during the end-session chase scene with a corpo helicopter closing in on the rigger's van, I used the stock PC's backup vehicle rig to borrow the riggers drone to use as a halfway range relay, hack into the helicopter's PAN, and do a deliberately noisy attempt to get into the altitude controls 100
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026were such a breath of fresh air. At one point, I scanned the enemy to see if they were also running a TacNet, they were, and I hacked their feed to put their positional data into our TacNet overlays. Allowing the troll heavy to start shooting people through house walls. 100
The Psychopomp @narzoth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I was living out of town for a bit while my old gang was playing a campaign of (then new) 4e. On a visit, they were doing a quick mission, so I guest-starred as the orc decker sample character straight out of the book. The 4e changes to hacking with AR allowing the decker to get into the firefight 110
