Walter Koenig, the Russian Crewman Chekov on ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 90

We have an adoption date!!!

@Dreampipe I read this today and just the ‘end of an era’ aspect of it is a huge bummer, and I feel for all the people who lost their jobs, of course. Part of me is a little relieved at Mass Effect 5’s cancellation, though, I’ve gotta admit. I didn’t really want to see whatever the Saudi Wealth Fund Approved version of ME was going to be. The legacy of ME and DA (and BioWare’s other games) is still mostly intact for me on an emotional level, and maybe that’s the best we were gonna get at this point.

As mentioned here: I have.a number of cousins Dave. https://www.peacetigers.com/

A lot of AI sucks, I can’t stand AI writing, and I hate what it does to artists, but I think there will be much more people in our hobby in five years than there is right now.

VPN of choice; be sure to check out any before you use them, some are connected to Palantir or the Israeli govt. Organic Maps to track my running without feeding me to a data miner or worse. Foobar2000 for music. VLC for non-music media. Foxit for reading and filling in .pdfs. First Aid and Pet First Aid from The American Red Cross. One time payment for DroidcamX so I can use my phone in lieu of a webcam, resulting in much better quality than any retail webcam.

@Roz Ok but which of these six bears would you vote for if they were the candidates? This is very important to the theme of this thread.

@dvoraen he’s had one bath in his entire life and he let me know very clearly that was NOT an experience he enjoyed, lmao I was actually very proud of him, he didn’t scratch me or anything but he was louder than I have ever heard him be, his meows are usually very subdued

Wisconsin let me the fuck down yesterday. It had one job. Whatever, I’m drinking myself into oblivion, because that’s what Sconnies do.

A couple of days ago I dreamed that I was part of a performance at some kind of arts academy, it was something like the big once-a-year performances those places do. For some reason I was put on the spot and asked to perform a couple of songs before the show started (many of my dreams have a focus on being asked to do something I’m not prepared to do) so I decided to change the lyrics to “Do You Wanna Build a Snowman” to something more thematic, which was nature, and sing that… Back in the waking world, I was on vacation with my family and thus we were all sharing a room. And that’s how my husband and son got woken up by me shouting “IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE A SQUIRREL” out of nowhere at 8am.

@Pavel Okay, so I didn’t invent her presence on that one whole cloth. Whew. Going to have to check this out.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pjzRJstARnE

@Faraday CUTE!!

@Roz obvs so nothing dethrones the AoA thread post count.

Ashkuri’s doodles are awesome. Characters, postcards, random drawing from an offhand comment I made as a joke. Good stuff if you get a chance to take them up on it.

@Cobalt I’ve asked. I’ll message you privately if I get a bite.

I think we all know where we should go edit: wow that’s a big image [image: 1760926304571-cce338b8-5151-4c7a-8554-d33a8821852e-cf005f61a6ab6105d4ee7f38b0ca8f127ce0d22ae0f860ed7edd51eaf0cacbf4.jpeg]