I’ve been really impressed with how quickly Connect has shaped up after the whole influx of new users.

Most places that have HR like this work their employees too hard for them to have time to use a ping pong table anyway, so it’s really just a hollow gesture.

A bold move, cotton. Let’s see if it pays off.

I definitely got so wrapped up in searching for images for my game that I didn’t think until afterwards about the fact that I was searching for “children prisoner sweatshop.”

Exactly. At first glance it can spit out some really impressive stuff, but turning that content into a coherent piece of artwork still takes imagination and skill.

I can’t draw very well, but I’ve gotten good at compositing and image manipulation over the years. SD is amazing, but it doesn’t mean that I don’t spend hours and hours piecing together an image to be the way I wanted it.

The terminology is sticking around longer than the format, too! Love me some (webm/H265) gifs.

Calling out the bulkiest NVME drive I’ve ever seen.

I don’t think I’m familiar with that, but I’d like to be.

I feel like that will even itself out in time. With a huge influx of Redditors, comparing the services is going to be a hot topic for awhile. The communities need to settle and the people who will stay will stay. Over time, it’ll be less self-referential and more original content I think.

More like Whyoming.

Woot woot fellow Minnesotan!

It’s not a perfect clone, but it definitely eases the transition. I gave it a try and found it quite usable.

I use Krita almost exclusively, but gimp is a lot more usable with photogimp.

Yeah I’m waiting for Boost and Sync to become available, but I gotta say that Connect has shaped up real nice a lot faster than I would’ve expected. Who knows, I might end up sticking with it.

That first game was rough around the edges, but so so good.

The whole Tome of Beasts series is pretty great, including the Creature Codex. Some of them are a bit too “out there” for me to use in my particular game, but I’d rather have that than another reskinned goblin.

Definitely notice the improved speed and fewer errors lately. Thanks so much for hosting a great instance, and for keeping up with its needs.

Oh lawd they comin’.

A lot of this stuff is pretty opaque to me, but I still read through it because I love how detailed they are in sharing what’s going on under the hood and how it relates to problems users experience. Kudos to you guys!

My players just had a meeting with a dragonborn crime lord. Before they met the boss, they were led in by an elf who was sort of the majordomo for the establishment.

Two “seasons” ago, the barbarian picked up a little figurine of an elvish soldier made out of pewter. It was absolutely just the product of a random trinkets roll table, and she’s been carrying it ever since.

She decided that she was convinced that it looked uncannily like the elf who brought them in, and at the end of this tense meeting with someone who, by all accounts, is a dangerous and powerful person in the city, she slides the figurine across the table to him. “I think we both know who this looks like. Give it to them, won’t you?”

She’s a pretty new player, and I love the kind of non sequitur stuff that she comes up with in RP situations.