Back from the field with car problems, and other stories...
Added 2025-09-20 17:00:59 +0000 UTCThe Midwest did not kill us
All is more or less okay.
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Hello Mr Tex, save voice, glad you didn't get into the Fentanyl trap. Having worked at the corner of misery and greed (Walgreen's) retail pharmacy, I've seen so many patients get put on that or other hard narcotics and they are then lifetime patients. Thank you for all that you and your team do the podcasts and tabletop sessions are a source of much joy while I am at work (new job going very well)
Jolope100
2025-09-30 04:20:59 +0000 UTCCommiserations on car issues. I've been keeping a 2004 Honda element going on a student budget in the polar-vortex ridden midwest (a.k.a. gasket-be-gone). It's been hard but I love the thing and can't see another car being something I love as much, especially anything made in the last decade. I want to get it through another 100k miles. At the same time, corporations love pigeon holing us into points of existential dependency, giving us a "choice" between continuing to pay a system *all* the money or be faced with the abyss. We can't get by without personal transportation most places, and the options post ~2010 are dire sensor-laden traps that demand more and more money for less and less mechanical reliability. Every mechanic I've chatted with in the last few years (across two countries) bemoans this. And nothing being produced now or the foreseeable future is addressing this mounting cost/practicality crisis, adding to healthcare, inflation, wage, information, and housing crises. It's sad how much the big business world is fixated on creating or maintaining white-knuckle hydraulic despotism. See also. what AI wants to be; conditioning creative thinking, troubleshooting, and critical reasoning to a subscription service that companies offer generously now but are fully intent on throttling and upcharging later (per "blitzscaling" through growth to find profitability later.) Waking up each day feels like being a small mammal running to avoid the careless footsteps and callous predation of the farty dinosaurs above. So thanks to the BPL & Aux for providing an accessible burrow to chill with. Indulging in stompy robots can be very important for staying sane, because the process demands a level of humanity we deliberately don't get elsewhere.
Matthew
2025-09-27 21:37:58 +0000 UTC"left your phone in the car"? As a Midwesterner JOKES ON YOU! We have to leave the phones in the car as they have to plug into the cigarette lighter to work! (Man did I just age myself) Question of the week, local play group wants to start playing traveller but they are looking at Mongoose Traveller. Is this more or less the same or should I try to steer them to "regular traveler"? Also save voice if needed. Thank you for inspiring me to actually record my playthroughs. Currently playing through BTA where I am fighting to keep the St. Ives alive and posting 1 video a week has been nice. Trying to stream an indie zombie survival game (Vein) that's a "demo" (really just early access for free currently) but there is no set schedule for that as work is work Anyways keep swinging and a gun question next week.
Czarvak
2025-09-23 10:36:01 +0000 UTCG’Day Tex Re: Advertising, there is a simple thing to remember “Today’s Pop songs are tomorrow’s car ads” That is all.
Lord Travis Lance the 3rd Matheson esq
2025-09-23 02:16:04 +0000 UTC
