Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[el-remmen]

Oh and I’m @Dr-oyola.bsky.social

 

[CleverNickName]

Good reminder that the dose makes the poison!

Sometimes. Other times, Mother Nature makes the poison for us through natural processes. Some chemicals only become toxic when oxidized or mixed with water, for example. We release something perfectly safe, and then 30 years later Mother Nature goes and adds a hydroxide ion to it and turns it into poison.

For those substances, we try to transform them into safer compounds before releasing them (like mixing chlorine with citric acid), or binding them with stuff that doesn't mobilize as easily (like soaking up spilled hydraulic fluid with kitty litter), or we find other places to put it instead of the environment (like landfills). Bonus points if you can turn a waste product into something useful (yep, even chemicals get recycled sometimes.)

It gets really complicated when you factor illegal dumping into the equation. Or accidents like train derailments. Or when two different industries don't talk to each other, and end up releasing two different waste streams that would be safe on their own, but are toxic when accidentally combined. How do you predict this stuff?

All this to say: mad respect for the environmental engineers out there. Y'all are doing a hard job, and you don't get nearly enough respect for it in the industry.

 

[Scribe]

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Not Forum.

My brother, say less. Just stop digging holy naughty word.

 

[overgeeked]

Game mechanics will always be abused by players looking to abuse the mechanics. Hiding the potential for abuse behind system mastery is not a virtue, it just makes playing the game that much harder for everyone else. Be open about it. Be up front about it. This bit right here is not mechanically solid and is ripe for abuse. Either fix that bit while designing the game or leave it in and just don't play with the people hell bent on abusing the mechanics.

 

[Ryujin]

I am more interested in fellow ENworlders who aren’t [naughty word]s and other gamers who like making stuff than in gaming “names.”

As for Gail Simone, God bless her, but her schtick was not for me back in peak twitter days.

Hopefully I'm not classed as one of the idiots around here, at least not always, but I don't post a whole lot, let alone anything really interesting

@Rob-maclennan.bsky.social‬

 

[Scribe]

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Pre Gym Thought - What I like to play as (Barbarians, Paladins mostly) does not often align with what I like to run (semi-dark fairy tale).

Hmm weird, I'll have to think on that.

 

[Gradine]

I don't post often but you can find me on bsky as xanadulives

 

[Thomas Shey]

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Pre Gym Thought - What I like to play as (Barbarians, Paladins mostly) does not often align with what I like to run (semi-dark fairy tale).

Hmm weird, I'll have to think on that.

Its not that uncommon, honestly. In most games (at least in the more or less trad sphere) the role of GM and player are different enough that things you appreciate in one role may, at best, be uninteresting to you in the other.

 

[dbolack]

If you want a very full and busy feed, you just have to follow Gail Simone, who apparently posts about 50% of all the Bluesky posts on any given day.

I also used to see a lot of Busiek.

 

[trappedslider]

Why does Karl Marx only drink infusions?

Spoiler

Because he thinks that proper tea is theft.