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Just finished this book and loved it. My wife says DeLillo writes for dudes but luckily I am one.
Hey, #fountainPen people - a question:
Just got my first, and it came with a bladder converter. Seems messy and I'm having a hard time telling how much ink I'm getting.
I was going to shop for a piston converter, but a buddy says he prefers to just refill cartridges.
What are y'all's preferences? Help a noob out?
So, we're staying at a VRBO. We're leaving in the morning, so I'm removing our YouTube accounts from all the TVs we used while we were here.
Other past guests did not seem to do that. I can neither confirm nor deny that the Trumpiest algorithms are getting gayed up before we go...
My kid dragged me to the 10th anniversary theatrical showing of Your Name, which I'd never even heard of.
Holy shit, it was GREAT
Just finished Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and will be slightly off kilter for a bit.
I bounced off the book many years ago, and now I'm glad I did because now was definitely the right time for me to read it. It resonated in a way it wouldn't have when I was a young dumb shithead.
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@HeyeBodo@rollenspiel.social In the 80s, a flyer advertised Dungeons and Dragons at the local library. I went and a college kid slapped a piece of notebook paper down and started writing "STR, INT, WIS..." I was hooked. We played tons of D&D, but also Traveller, Twilight 2000, Car Wars, Champions...
Fell away from the hobby in college, eventually had kids and thought I'd try with them. Found Pathfinder, which felt like a video game to me but they had some fun. One of them is still hooked on ttrpgs.
At the start of COVID, got invited to play 5e on Zoom, and it excited me at first but very quickly felt like this was not the game I remembered. Just didn't feel the same.
So I bowed out, Googled "low fantasy role playing game" and found Low Fantasy Gaming. Rounded up my own group and man, did it take off. 3 year campaign, loved the system, fell in love with the hobby again. Now we play weekly. I run various flavors of old school D&D, another guy runs Traveller, and another guy makes us try more modern stuff - we all love Brindlewood Bay somehow.
We call our group the Sunday Night Dirtbags...
Posted up at the local brewery because I'm bored, hot, and still technically on vacation.
Ran class tonight - Friday is comp rounds but it was just me and a one month white belt. Actually just about the perfect way to get back on the mats after a week's vacation.
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@Daojoan@mastodon.social for what it's worth, you're super talented and are an insta-read for me
Currently reading: Agnet Running in the Field by John Le Carré 📚
Picked this up on a whim while waiting for my kid to finish picking her manga titles last week. Choosing it now to clear my brain after 3 weeks of Umberto Eco. https://micro.blog/books/9781984878878
Back to back #jiujitsu classes, including the constraint based positional class. Not bad for the oldest guy in the gym.
Now excuse me while I lie on the floor and cry myself to sleep...
In this moment of political fascism and corporate enshittification, it's pretty disheartening how many otherwise resistance-oriented sites and services are still using Facebook or Instagram or Discord or Substack for their communications.
Started reading Zen and the Art of Motorcylce Maintenance. Holy cow - why did I bounce off this 30 years ago? It was right in my wheelhouse at the time.
Currently reading: Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon 📚
Started this last night when I couldn’t sleep in the wee hours. Already loving it - it’s like Hunter Thompson crossed with James Ellroy… https://micro.blog/books/9781101594674
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@HeyeBodo@rollenspiel.social it really clicked for my table. Haven't really played Tales of Argosa yet, but the changes all look pretty positive.
I appear to have caught a little springtime cold. Skipping training and drinking tea instead. Would hate to get other dudes sick, especially with a big comp coming up.
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@shizbot Agree there. Tonight is just live goes, and I try to go in with 2 or 3 things I want to try, and if I do in fact try them, that satisfies my win conditions regardless of the outcome of the roll.
(i.e., I tap a guy but didn't pull the trigger on the sweep I'm working on when I could have - not a win)
Hey, #bjj and #jiujitsu peeps - tell me if this sounds reasonable or if it's just copium:
About a year ago, I switched from a very smashmouth, wrestley kind of gym (where I went from white belt to brown) to a new gym across the street.
New gym is much more technique based, and, being new, was mostly lower belts. Nobody over blue except me, the coach, and a purple with sporadic attendance.
Lately, I'm getting caught in all kinds of stuff I didn't use to to a very frustrating degree. The kind of things that make you go, "Have I gotten worse?"
Here's my theory - I've probably gotten really sloppy and developed bad habits in the last year because the newer guys couldn't capitalize on my mistakes. Now, though, they're getting better whereas I've been reinforcing my bad habits for a year, and it's finally caught up to me.
Y'all think that sounds possible?
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@arestelle Oh, thanks for the heads up on Noodler's. Don't know what I don't know yet. Just liked the name "Noodler's."
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@jamesnvc Syringe + converter is an option I hadn't even considered. That might be a best of both worlds kind of thing.
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@RobinMarx I bought a bottle of Noodler's Borealis Black and love it. My buddy uses a syringe to refill old cartridges - I hadn't even thought of that.
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@WeirdWriter@caneandable.social Some of the responses on this thread are very disappointing. Samosas are WAY better than thin mints!
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@acallegaro@mas.to I am only just able to do that. I also don't know where the need to fight through a book I'm not enjoying comes from. But I'm getting older and now realize there are a finite number of books left in my life so I ain't waiting time on duds.
I like bulky!
Really struggling to think of a gift for my son's birthday. Need some ideas!
He's 25, very shy, and not into fitness or the outdoors at all. He enjoys gaming but doesn't want any new games.
Ideally I'd find some experience that he could fall in love with, so (a) he has a passion and (b) I'll have gift ideas in the future.
He also loves Roman history, but isn't a podcast guy so my idea of the Hardcore History back catalog didn't fly.
Help!!!
I don't compete in #jiujitsu, but if I did, I just looked it up and I'd compete at Masters 6. I'm gonna need to lie down for while.
Spent 500 bucks a month ago to have a dermatologist deal with an ugly spot on my forehead before a friend's wedding only to get mat burn on my face last night anyway (wedding is on Saturday).
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@spacekatia Ahhhh - the friend in question is something of a vape fiend, which probably explains his choice.
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@shizbot Oh, totally. I mean, regardless of what's going on, the solution is the same, right? Show up and train.
But after the same guy caught me in the same armbar setup for like the 5th time in 2 weeks after never getting me with it, I've been like, "How am I suddenly falling for this???"
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@Archergal I think this is where I'm going to start. Just ordered some syringes and will try both (filling carts and filling the converter). Of course I had to order more ink while I'm at it
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@backtoanalog That IS the pen I have. Psychic, or is that just where most people start?
The buddy in question had a Kaweco and it was pretty slick.