teuast

joined 1 year ago
[–] teuast@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I love Mia's meowstache

[–] teuast@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I homebrewed a thing set on an alternate history future Earth where basically, there's an alternate history divergence with Jimmy Carter not losing reelection and then the US basically turning into a demsoc utopia resulting in world peace and sustainable prosperity, and then three different races of aliens show up. At first things go well with humanity, but then there's complications and tensions both between and within those three races, and the most advanced of the three ends up seeing humanity as a threat to them due to a bunch of other factors I introduced that would take way too long to explain and releasing a viral bioweapon that ended up killing most of humanity in the space of a year before a coalition of scientists and soldiers from all four species banded together to synthesize a cure and stop things. All of the game stuff happens well after, in the ruins of civilization, a la Fallout, but with a post-plague instead of post-nuclear aesthetic.

I have a whole novella detailing all of that lore on my Google Drive, most of which I wrote while unemployed in 2019. So you can imagine how weird 2020 was for me.

But that's on the backburner at the moment because my group is playing through the one with Gundren Rockseeker on the Sword Coast right now, with someone else DMing, because my mental health wasn't great in 2021 but we still wanted to play.

 

Tickle my ivories, baby

I found the Guitars community pretty easily and was excited to join it, but didn't find one for my primary instrument, keys. I figured I couldn't be the only one in that position, so I set one up. If you like keys-based music, stop on by! (hey, that was a drawbar organ joke)

I hope I did this correctly. I'm new to Lemmy and not really sure what I'm doing, and tbf it kinda feels a bit like the Wild West out here post-Spezhole, so please let me know if I mucked it up somehow.

[–] teuast@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sick! I wonder if this is where we'll finally figure out when HL3 is coming out?

[–] teuast@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Fair. I work from afternoon into night, so after is a much dicier proposition for me. As long as I get in with some time to spare, I can dry off and deodorize before I do anything, but if I got off work with daylight to spare then afterwards would make a lot more sense.

 

I was coming off my gravel ride today and heading to work when I saw a roadie ahead of me, and so I put my head down and tried to close the gap for a bit of an interval effort. He was really moving, so I had to really work for it, but I did get on his wheel eventually. After I'd had a chance to catch my breath, I came up next to him and said something like "hope you didn't mind me catching a wheel for a second there," which he didn't.

Then he commented on my dirty gravel bike and asked what the trail conditions are like in the area, because he'd been just on the road for a few months and hadn't hit the dirt in a while, and so I filled him in. He thanked me, we complimented each other's bikes, and then our routes split and we went our separate ways.

It was just a nice, friendly interaction of the type that you can't have on a freeway. And imagine, if bike commuting was commonplace, we could all be having those kinds of interactions all the time. Instead, we're all isolated from each other in metal boxes on wheels, and that sucks.

[–] teuast@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just go for hard rides from my house and end at my workplace. Today I did a big trail loop just outside of town, then headed into town from the end of the trail and ended at work, and there you go.

[–] teuast@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

that makes us sound like a fallout faction, but specifically one from the first two games

[–] teuast@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

how bout just lemurs

[–] teuast@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

i try to drink some water in between every cup of water 😎

[–] teuast@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] teuast@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

this is me every monday morning

 

Full disclosure: this is my band and this is shameless self-promotion, but we just played a set at Bottom Of The Hill in San Francisco, and it was super cool. I'm on keys, and I had also just played drums on the opening band's set, so I was both a little razzled and a lot tired, but I still played OK for the most part. Our guitarist and singer were the real stars of the show, though.

Also, hi! Just found Lemmy. /u/spez can suck it.

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