[-] ZDL@ttrpg.network 2 points 5 hours ago

OK, this one is going to be tough to explain. I'll start with pictures:

These are two variants of 陈年八仙果 (chén nián bā xiān guǒ or "Aged Eight Immortals Fruit"). Basically you hollow out a pomelo, fill it with a mixture of plum pulp, tangerine peel, assorted spices (including licorice), and salt. Then you dry it until it's dense. You cut it up into those wedges you see above and ... well ... you eat it.

Or you make tea with it.

Or you chop it up finely and use it to flavour meat dishes.

But mostly you just eat it as a snack.

[-] ZDL@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 day ago

5:30 on workdays, anywhere between 7:30 to 11:00 on weekends.

[-] ZDL@ttrpg.network 4 points 2 days ago

I'm pretty sure that entire message was provided by degenerative "AI". It just reeks of the format and language of an LLM chat bot.

Could people who have actual technical skills check something for me? Does this code even work?

[-] ZDL@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 days ago

"Duration" isn't one of the "familiar first four dimensions". That's the point.

[-] ZDL@ttrpg.network 1 points 3 days ago

it starts with the familiar first four dimensions (length, width, depth, duration)

Duration?

It starts with that?

Then it starts with a complete and absolute failure to comprehend even the basics of relativity.

[-] ZDL@ttrpg.network 7 points 3 days ago

When (if) science discovers it, then I'll think of multiple timelines. Until then it's an entertaining fiction at best.

[-] ZDL@ttrpg.network 9 points 3 days ago

I think in terms of reality as can be seen, measured, observed, and inferred from that.

"Timelines" and "parallel dimensions" are not a part of any of that, so no, I don't think of reality as different timelines. Those are (often very entertaining, I'll admit) fictions.

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[-] ZDL@ttrpg.network 4 points 3 days ago

There are several pre-modern cities with populations as little as 10,000 in history. When I consider that I used to live in this town:

Well, that's a town of about 3500 people. A third of a "city". I could bike from end to end of it in minutes, and over the three years I lived there I probably got to know well over half the population by face.

So if "Underdark City" is a pre-modern city with a population in this range, I could easily see this map as being a (smallish) neighbourhood of the city.

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[-] ZDL@ttrpg.network 5 points 4 days ago

Toss-up between autumn and spring.

Spring because that's when the really good teas start showing up, when most of the flowers start showing (there's nothing quite as beautiful as a plum tree filled with blossoms and icicles) and the days' length starts to increase visibly in the race to the equinox.

Autumn because that's when all the really good crops start hitting the markets, because the horribly humid heat of summer starts to fall, when the moon cakes start showing up (along with the nice delicate rice wines hitting the scene) and the colours start their final run toward their winter forms.

[-] ZDL@ttrpg.network 25 points 5 days ago

The absolute first non-food thing I ever bought in China was a jade "bi" pendant. This is what they look like:

(To be clear, this is not mine for reasons which will become obvious in a moment.)

I was told by the seller that you should never take it off as she strung it on red silk for me, because it's to "protect your health".

Since 2001 I've taken this off only five times, all but one of which was because the string frayed through and it had to be restrung. I don't believe in the slightest that it has any impact on my health, but as a minor, neurotic superstition it stays on. (Which is why I couldn't share a photograph of mine: I'd have to take it off.)

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I think that’s just one of Granny’s myths, though.

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Uhh...

This "mini-course" offered by Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario is not a joke. It's a legit course being given to grade 11 and 12 students.

Thoughts?

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Haiku for you... (ttrpg.network)
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Help me, I am trapped
In a haiku factory.
Save me, before they...
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When he struggles to reach across the board to move his chariot, I lose the plot.

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… that everybody who confuses correlation with causation winds up dying.

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I'm not joking …

… but he is.

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So when they return to port they can just Scandinavian.

explanation if needed"scan the navy in"

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They are, after all, what they are.

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Because proper tea is theft!

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Then it struck me.

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