@mandaris “Stairs, right?” … “I know!”

@odd Ah, awesome. I’ll check it out. I was thinking of Wagons East! ...poor old brain...

@odd is that the one with John Candy and Richard Lewis? I remember enjoying this a lot but so long ago. Def time for a rewatch. Candy was such a gem.

@mattgemmell Nice tutorial! :-) Can well relate to tactical RPG as a sort of anti-meditation…a round of simulated life or death conflict realigns perspectives about our relatively safe lives quite well.

@pimoore a Marx Brothers joint from 1933. Freedonia tries to avoid war. A good percentage is unquotable sight gags, much like real life.

@pimoore Good sir, the main reason anyone reads what I write is because it looks like it's probably worthwhile—and that is exclusively because of your Tufte implementation. "Indecipherable rantings here or there, look at the breathing room, the eye just glides..." So thanks for that, because, it’s nice.

@jsonbecker ...or was it three lefts making a right? Or NO U-Turns! Some traffic metaphor—anyway, the point is, yeah, I’ve experienced something like that and it does seem a mutual re-fueling is happening, often unbeknownst to those involved. Until all of the good and bad about spirals starts to become apparent.

@DaveyCraney @jean @hollie Cat charisma has this timbre...hard to over do it...:-)

@jsonbecker Yes, sadly, I have taken part in more than enough. As far as I am able to discern it has something to do with three rights making a left...

@Munish I’ve always experienced 'the world' as encouraging and critical, diverse and outspoken. There has been no end of people telling me what’s what, what it means, and why it matters.

I think, since that pandemic, it has proven difficult for many to keep their informational constructs intact, and that folks have all sorts of reactions to this—from industrial strength denial that there are any bubbles in the first place, to non-committal self-congratulatory guilt pimping, and everything else in-between. That’s where most of us are too, in the Great Between great between.

I have to stop capitalizing things for no reason other than cheap effect. There is some site hawking life/work balance with exactly that name, so I de-capitalized and emphasized instead.

I guess I must now also add that the reason I want to be clear about my non-affiliation with a site selling "life/work balance" is that the concept is empty, despite sounding quite reasonable. Really, are life and work these two distinct things that are naturally out of balance? And each of us is left to resolve that conundrum on our own? Of course not—work is part of life, not the other way around.