Another RPG bundle - Scion 2E
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ffutureshttps://bundleofholding.com/p
This isn't a genre I particularly want to play with at present, but it looks like you get quite a lot for your money. Layout and design seem good, and the art avoids some common cliches although some of it does veer towards one uncanny valley or another.
Later - I'm reliably informed that the Storypath system itself uses mechanics similar to World of Darkness 1e, which I'd somehow missed.
Bundle of Holding: Scion Origin
Mar. 23rd, 2026 03:02 pmjames_davis_nicollThe 2024 Second Edition of Onyx Path Publishing's Scion, the tabletop roleplaying game about the children of gods discovering their birthright in the modern world.
Bundle of Holding: Scion Origin
Rest in peace Xander
Mar. 23rd, 2026 06:07 pmelisiHowever
kerk_hiraeth has been re-posting their old Xander fics In Memoriam, and I thought it would be nice to link them here.Inside Knowledge
Missing scene for S7 (post ep.11, Showtime)
Drabble
Right Hand Man
Post-series, Xander passes away
1.3k words
A message finally delivered
Xander receives a letter from Cordy
1.3k words
Following the Rules
A little scuffle
200 words
An Honorable Farewell
A funeral
Drabble
Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay
A contemplative moment
Drabble
I guess The Old Family Lawyer just doesn't exist anymore
Mar. 23rd, 2026 06:09 pmoursinAnyway.
Partner and I are in need of a solicitor for a fairly routine and non-urgent matter, so, looked up who it was we went to last time we had a routine life admin thing requiring the services of a legal professional.
(This was actually a bit more time-consuming than I anticipated, have I mentioned that archivists are really Not All That at keeping on top of their own papers? The cobbler's children syndrome.)
But, I found the name of the practice and looked them up on The Internetz and they are there, as having gone out of business some few years ago, on Companies House website.
And they are by no means the first solicitors I have had dealings with, though I think the ones in Kentish Town saw me through the purchase of First Flat and present dwelling and possibly various other legal matters, but are now no longer operating more or less adjacent to the Tube station.
I suppose that these days one should not anticipate that you have Old Mr Thing the attorney-at law and Young Mr Thing his son who keeps up the practice and Even Younger Mr Thing who is being brought on in the family tradition -
- and that these things come and go like everything else and they are no longer quite the repository of folk memory like in mystery novels.
Way back when I was starting out as a Wee Babby Archivist, I remember that a big thing of the day, practically A Crisis, was solicitors' records. As I was never actually employed in a repository where I had any direct dealings with the problem, I'm not sure whether this was due to practices going defunct, or just somebody going down into the cellar and realising that they still had all the papers from Jarndyce v Jarndyce back to its origins along with tons of other stuff. But anyway, there were Massive Amounts of Very Misc Material (quite surprising what turned up) which looking back I suspect had all sorts of issues around ownership to complicate matters even further.
(If anyone has recs for N London solicitors would be glad to hear of them.)
Rather behindhand notice
Mar. 23rd, 2026 03:42 pmthe_comfortable_courtesanWish to inform those that are interested in Clorinda Cathcart's Circle that Volume 25, Choices: Taking Decisions will appear this coming Friday, 27th March:
A Parliamentary election causes considerable upheaval to the summer plans of Society in general, and of Clorinda and her circle. But besides any choices concerning the government of the nation, several of them find that they have to make decisions touching on more personal matters.
The delay in making this announcement has been caused, in part, by problems with the Google Books version: but it is hoped that these will be resolved in a timely manner.
"When you are simply maintaining, the world is at a loss"
Mar. 23rd, 2026 03:11 pmmuninnhuginnAlso, what is it with folk objecting to my belief in my own prognosis, as if accepting, living the maintenance treatment is something they can reject on my behalf? Fear, of course, but it's immensely annoying.
But, anyway, a better summation of how I am, where I'm at, than I could've done myself. And useful as I cosider whether to resign earlier in the year, rather than hold out to the end of the year and my 60th.
When ‘evangelical’ meant anti-Communist (part 1)
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slacktivist_feedThe last time
Mar. 23rd, 2026 12:32 pmmoemSo his last message to me was one coming from loving concern, and an opportunity he saw to do a caring, parenty thing, when for half a year our roles were mostly reversed (I had been doing things like helping him eat and brushing his teeth).
I like to think back of that conversation, now three years ago. It sounded so thoroughly and delightfully normal when we had it.
Interesting Links for 23-03-2026
Mar. 23rd, 2026 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. Trump has delighted apocalyptic Christians. They say the End Times are coming
- (tags:apocalypse religion Christianity politics Israel middle_east Palestine )
- 2. VFX artists vs. The Golden Gate Bridge
- (tags:cgi bridge sanfrancisco )
- 3. The seven new towns set to be built across the UK, mapped
- (tags:UK housing )
- 4. Iran says coastal attack will lead to full Gulf closure and mine-laying
- (tags:iran middle_east usa war doom )
Microsoft Xbox One Hacked
Mar. 23rd, 2026 11:01 ambruce_schneier_feedIt’s an impressive feat, over a decade after the box was released:
Since reset glitching wasn’t possible, Gaasedelen thought some voltage glitching could do the trick. So, instead of tinkering with the system rest pin(s) the hacker targeted the momentary collapse of the CPU voltage rail. This was quite a feat, as Gaasedelen couldn’t ‘see’ into the Xbox One, so had to develop new hardware introspection tools.
Eventually, the Bliss exploit was formulated, where two precise voltage glitches were made to land in succession. One skipped the loop where the ARM Cortex memory protection was setup. Then the Memcpy operation was targeted during the header read, allowing him to jump to the attacker-controlled data.
As a hardware attack against the boot ROM in silicon, Gaasedelen says the attack in unpatchable. Thus it is a complete compromise of the console allowing for loading unsigned code at every level, including the Hypervisor and OS. Moreover, Bliss allows access to the security processor so games, firmware, and so on can be decrypted.
2026/040: Enshittification — Cory Doctorow
Mar. 23rd, 2026 10:11 amtamaranth
Compared with the climate emergency, genocide, inequality, corruption, democratic backsliding, authoritarianism and sustained racist, homophobic, misogynist and transphobic attacks, the internet is just a sideshow. But the internet ...is the communications medium we will use to organise to save our species and planet from their imminent eradication. We can’t win these fights without a free, fair and open internet. [introduction]
Audiobook, read (with vigour and enthusiasm) by the author. Doctorow's foundational argument is something most internet users will agree with: that big internet sites, such as Facebook, Amazon, and the-site-formerly-known-as-Twitter, have become much less usable and user-friendly over recent years. (I would add Del.icio.us, Vinted, Goodreads, LiveJournal...)
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Bullace farm
Mar. 23rd, 2026 09:04 amwatervoleI belong to two Civil War reenactment groups. The Norfolke Trayned Bandes and Little Woodham.
The Norfolks have a strong connection to Bullace Farm and many of them spend a week there every year as volunteers. This year, the volunteers from LIttle Woodham are visiting the farm for a day.
I really really want to be there, but it's a three hour trip on a mini bus, and three hours back again. And I'm paranoid about long journeys. I've had three really bad (lasting more than two months) of sciatica in the last few years, and two of them were triggered by long journeys.
If you've ever had sciatica, you'll know just how painful it is. If you haven't, all I can tell you is that it's the most painful health condition I've had in my life and it can leave you pretty much immobilised for the duration.
The last bad attack was triggered by a long train journey. I chose train rather than car, as I knew I'd be able to get up and walk round at intervals, but sadly, even that and doing tai chi at stations when there were changes, wasn't enough.
By the time I got home I was in agony. My husband picked me up at the station, and I didn't do any journeys after that for quite some time. Even the short distance to physio appointments had to be done lying on the back seat of the car. Sitting upright was't an option, even for five minutes.
Over the next couple of months, I worked my way through three different physios who all agreed that I needed an operation (to be fair, my original bout of sciatica a few years before HAD needed an operation), until, finally, Manfred came back to England (he has an elderly parent in the Netherlands). I walked in with all my weight on my walking stick, and walked out without the stick.
Took a couple of weeks to finish off the job, but that man is a miracle worker. (He correctly identified the cause of my previous bout of sciatica, as well.)
Ah well, to cut a long story short, I shall not go to Bullace Farm, even though I madly want to.
If you want to know what the farm is like, watch Tales From the Green Valley.
Morning medical annoyance
Mar. 23rd, 2026 09:00 amandrewduckerIt always surprises me that Boots isn't open until 9am. You would have thought that there'd be enough people wanting to pick up painkillers or similar on the way in to work.
The Circle Of Something Or Other
Mar. 23rd, 2026 07:01 ampennyarcade_feedGone But Not Forgotten
Mar. 22nd, 2026 09:39 pmquestionable_content_feed
Emily is my wife's favourite character so this story is basically a little present for her (and possibly...for you???)
Snowflake Challenge: day 6
Mar. 22nd, 2026 11:04 pmdancesontrainsTop 10 Challenge.
The category(ies) you choose are up to you. You can give top 10 Fics you read last year, the top 10 songs to create to, the top 10 guest stars on your favorite show, top 10 characters in your favorite book series, top 10... well, you get the idea.
I was very stuck on this for some time - hence the lack of updates since January - but then I remembered that last year I participated in the subreddit r/GraphicNovels's tournament of Top Twenty graphic novels (actually any form of sequential art even vaguely applicable, the guy running the Tournament joked that he was waiting for someone to send in a long tapestry as one of their faves)
My matchup - I was very soundly trounced in the first round by one of the most prolific posters there, and rightly so https://www.reddit.com/r/graphicnovels/comments/1o5ssuv/tournament_of_lists_2025_all_time_top_20_comics/
The eventual winner, it's a really interesting collection and I had a good time thinking of what to add- https://www.reddit.com/r/graphicnovels/comments/1omr7k3/congratulations_to_americantabloid3_for_winning/
The only work I regret not including is Calvin and Hobbes, which I read as an adult and have loved ever since.