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Autumnal reacted to Reynard's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) One Store's Sales (D&D 2014 & 2024) with
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I'm on reading week and finished the first draft of my Term 1 reports, so I'm powering through books now. Next up is the first Hunger...
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Working in a context where you hear words pronounced on the regular sometimes gets in the way of communication ... :LOL:
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It’s also up to the author what edits they accept. The editor cannot force the edits on the author. The editor’s job is to improve...
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Autumnal reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
Elsewhere: "This product isn't racist! Also, could you review this product by an actual Nazi?" I'm now pretty sure that first product...
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I wanted something short after Anathem, so I grabbed Samantha Harvey’s Orbital, which won the Booker last year. It’s gorgeous, but is it...
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Autumnal replied to the thread What are you reading in 2025?.Oh yes. It’s one of the great tips for copyediting. (Another is to start at the bottom of the page and go up line by line. You can use a...
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When I was recording audiobooks, we often found errors--some of them were pretty egregious (such as "two-car garbage"). I sometimes...
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Autumnal reacted to Umbran's post in the thread Judge decides case based on AI-hallucinated case law with Like.
The objections to generative AI are recent, not "sudden", and are so because the concerted pressure for its widespread corporate...
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Autumnal reacted to Deset Gled's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
Aggressive stupidity can be a form of hostility. It was a rough day for my ignore list when I came to that realization, but so much...
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Autumnal reacted to el-remmen's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
I saw Deliver Me From Nowhere (I think they changed it to add "Springsteen" to the title just before release) last night. I am a fan...
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Autumnal reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
Blind spots can be as harmful to discussion as hostility.
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Autumnal reacted to trappedslider's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/06/nx-s1-5518215/edmund-fitzgerald-shipwreck 50 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald, a 'rock star' ship, sank...
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My brothers and I started with BECMI when my parents bought us the Basic Set. We played that for years before we discovered AD&D...
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It gives you a good wizardly air.