Lester
Game Designer/Producer. Canadian Theatre Artist, Stage Manager/Technician. Artist. Writer. Gamer. DM. All nonsense writings are mine alone. Online as: Ravynn. He/Him Desert Bus and Brew Crew Mod. Formerly w/ SQEnix. Also: @ravynn.bsky.social
- I have just learned that my Grade 3 teacher, Mrs. Rokne has passed away. She was extremely beloved in my elementary and personally, she is basically entirely responsible for my love of fantasy books.
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- My deepest condolences to you and your family, friend.
- I actually read it twice in that span (following Dandin and Mariel first and then later reading through Joseph's story). She was so impressed I read it in a week that she gave me Mossflower and Redwall next. Rest in Peace Mrs. Rokne.
- I hope wherever she is, she can see the effect of what she taught me and how I'm a professional writer now too. Chasing dreams and creating worlds at a keyboard because she gave me gentle first steps forward into being inspired.
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- Yes! Knute is her son!
- She used to read to my class for a half hour every day, a variety of books. One day, she read to us Brian Jacques' Bellmaker. The class did not like it, or more accurately the class couldn't really follow along and fell asleep here and there, but I loved the book.
- When she decided not to read it anymore, she leant it to me because I was enraptured. I spent the rest of the week and the weekend right after, plowing through the entire book, something like 350 pages.
- This is beyond infuriating and demonstrates how everyone should really consider their exit strats away from SAAS systems...
- "my case reveals a fundamental weakness: these tools were not developed with academic standards of reliability and accountability in mind." YEAH NO SHIT. Even academics can be really really fucking stupid. #noAI www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Powerful. Republicans are monsters.
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- Unfortunately he should've also pressed about the 'single' part, because republican talking points are that taking a 'cocktail' of vaccinations are causing autism now. *rolls eyes so hard
- Your AI avatar will be healthy as long as your pocketbook is. You however. You die.
- Not enough people on some platforms exist to call out this as utter insanity. Literally makes no fucking sense and this man gets to have his inane delusions in broad daylight with no one going "That's ridiculous"
- And he's right. If you're in a position of government in Alberta, and you take money from a foreign state to overthrow the government and separate, that's LITERALLY TREASON. Jeffery Rath is a literal traitor. #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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- Hell yeah.
- They are actively planning eugenics.
- Capitalism is the weirdest mind drug. Do they think that because they're 'consumers' they are wholly innocent? I guess they do. I guess they literally in fact do.
- Hell yeah Ava. All the people who said "They probably just released her because she wasn't progressing fast enough" can go fuck themselves.
- What the... You know what makes me mad. Studios like these somehow still survive and meanwhile workers doing actually good work are being laid off.
- I'm using 'survive' very loosely here because I'm actually sure this place is funded entirely by one rich guy with a megalomaniacal narcissistic complex.
- I'm having a really fun time settling into Endfield, but I'll be really honest, I have no idea what this game is going to look like in 6 months. It's such a fascinating mix of genres and systems, it seems wild to conceive of where it is going.
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- It just seems like the most boring pathway forward for a guy who can just show up and be on the card anyway
- I'm not watching the Rumble (and I haven't really been watching WWE in a long while) but this caught my attention about them still being really shit to their female talent. Even the smallest, cheapeast dance or theatre troupe pays for costume changes/alterations. The Fed can't? Please. #wrestling
- Pressure works. On to the next fight now. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
- I was reasonably sure before this moment that rendering a person stateless was already a crime?
- It's like someone really did see Motion Smoothing and went "I want all of that everywhere and also a whiskey commercial"
- I believe a good descriptor would be 'catastrophic' for the business.
- Hi, fun fact. There is no statute of limitations on murder. You can ALWAYS be prosecuted for murder loooooong after the fact. Always. Just thought you'd like to be aware of that. Also, unrelated. There's no such thing as absolute immunity.
- Because one friend messaged me: This is true in Canada. This is ALSO true in America. (I imagine this is true in much of the world)
- Literal goddamn treason.
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- He can go visit first.
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- Unfortunate violent things from ICE? Because that was who shot a defenceless ICU nurse in the back last week.
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- I guess that's something then! Must be chilly in hell
- I hate agreeing with him.... But also, maybe as Senator he could be doing something about that. Or you know, calling his Congress peer and mentioning his disgust?
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- I just. Why even bother now? Just extort the advertisers and be done with it, without needing to paint over it with transparent clearcoat.
- At some point, it's literally just going to be AI 'companies' telling brands "Give us millions of dollars annually or we'll freely release material about how your product poisons babies" or something. Like that's for sure the business model but with a bow on top.
- "What radicalized you?" "Nothing. I was a normal guy and I watched two monsters on tv celebrate being monsters and said, no more." #politics
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- I almost could've believed that they at least talked, until he mentioned Walz being happy to see Homan. Nobody likes Homan. People barely tolerate being in the same room as that 'man'.
- This is awesome. But as a Canadian familiar with both cold and snow stuck vehicles, someone get this mayor a hat. You lose a lot of body heat through your head.
- Would someone explain it to me as though I am 5 why this calls out 'Data Centers' and not say....'hospitals'? Try. Please. #politics
- "The US is going to save Greenland from Cancer with our healthcare system" is absolutely not the wild take I was prepared to read on a sunday morning, and I was ready for some truly off the wall BS. #politics
- Ah. Now the directly line for voter interference plan laid bare.
- Just saying: Quoting Andrea Pritzer, "The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards."
- I just want to point out. In literal actual war, you are not allowed to disarm an 'enemy', beat them up, tell them to lay face down on the ground restrained, and then shoot them in the head. And then shoot them a FURTHER NINE TIMES.
- Body Cameras? BODY CAMERAS? TO SUPPLEMENT THE FOOTAGE OF THE OTHER OFFICER WHO CAPTURED IT ON HIS OWN CAMERA OF HIS PEER SHOOTING THAT WOMAN IN THE FACE THAT HE'S PROUD OF AND SHARED HIMSELF? BODY CAMERAS WILL FIX THIS? GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE.
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- Why did you not Whip votes against ICE?
- So they were so worried the Chinese was going to collect all this data that we're now supposed to be relieved that the Americans are collecting even more while they are *checks notes *looks at ICE *gestures broadly
- Stay warm everyone, and solidarity with the General Strike in MN
- It is so painful how deeply uneducated they are. Like, it causes me physical anguish to know these people are trusted with anything more than a bowl of chips.
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- But they are recreations with Dan as the model
