@levitte In a record store, the staff was the algorithm, which checked if you were into thrash metal or reggae.

@clacke I många lägen är det inte värt att vänta tills man observerat huruvida de bättrar sig. Kostnaden i det fall de *inte* gör det kanske är för hög.

@Lilla_AnnaMD Klart att Y blir ledsen. Jag tror inte han/hon kan handla annorlunda. Människor har inte fri vilja. Men jag rekommenderar verkligen X att dra.

@gorhendad_oldbuck Didn't know that word, thanks.

In late-90s #Stockholm there was a subculture with only two members: #bipolar #skateboard #Goths.

Designing a game about Satanist cauldron makers: Kettlers of Satan.

#boardgames

Funny detail in Marryat's 1836 novella "The Pirate". Current conventions for English fiction don't allow you to annotate dialogue with explanatory parentheses in the authorial voice.

#books #reading #writing #language

@pergus Yes! Gygax & Arneson!

@pergus It's truly bizarre. A bit like how Beck Hansen is a lapsed 2nd generation Scientologist.

@pergus LMGTFY: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beck

@pergus

Dungeons & Dragons was designed by two members of Jehovah's Witnesses. #ttrpg #dnd