one of the main reasons I DM is to give me an excuse to draw my players' characters

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PRESENTED WITHOUT COMMENT

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you want to experience Twilight Struggle without reading rules for an entire hour? there's a game for that, it's called Watergate

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look at this bullshit

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one of my most actually unpopular opinions is that I think Twilight Struggle, Board Game Geek's #1 game for like 10 years in a row, is not fun

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/183/557/705/756/512/original/615a16e456133b9c.jpg


patreon's four kinds of creator: k-pop star, forest pervert, black barbie, and idiot

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nostr:npub1hn5k6kkqvw008ay9xvmel92hd9k2cyrt7ayccfr2qgxz3e6zf8ysa8mzl8 in THIS economy?


anything that's user-facing has a price that's gonna scale linearly, so adding some operational nice-to-haves costs tens of thousands of dollars a month

on that scale, a $10/mo subscription to Docker Hub for 20 people is essentially a rounding error


one fun side-effect of being involved in cloud spend for years and years is that I'll approve literally any developer expense basically immediately, but I'll very closely scrutinize new additions to our stack: you want six new keyboards, 100 CI hours, a subscription to JetBrains, and a massage? sure - you want _telemetry_? OKAY NOW WE NEED TO TALK


nostr:npub1s8dqv8zje5quzep97lz29xv53ccjy2zdnj8ah6lqzynr2zwr95ssytsyjd
"have you tried skipping vacations or not renovating your house" proposes man who's entire head has not seen the light of day in years


"why do you love computer-headed avatars so much?"

well, one of them taught me how to program

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here, a swingy but ultimately profitable daily tavern roll with an operating cost of 6gp/day

start the players off with a +10 thanks to "opening week" and hope for the best...

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just now realizing that this has made the tavern's operating costs 60gp/day rather than 60gp/week, which is much higher: I can fuss around with that to make it more dramatic...


keep in mind if we assume that our players long rest about every 2 hours, we play about 4 hours a month, that means that the tavern is profitable in about 4 real life human months


we can also make this much faster by rolling on the table Every Day rather than Every Week. More fun: a roll on every long rest. This lowers the expected value of the roll to 31gp a day (the bonus of the roll is determined by how many days between rolls), but it just means they've gotta hustle on those +10 bonuses more.

if they're doing about three heroic or tavern-friendly things per long rest, that has the place paid off in 8-9 long rests, which is much closer to where I'd want it to be.


that still might be too slow, though, a "week" in the game is 10 days, that's 10 full long rests, if you think of a session as maybe containing one, maybe two long rests, it could take a whiiiiile


"What if my players get so obsessed with optimizing their tavern operations that they don't spend any time adventuring" well I guess we're playing co-op SimTavern now, so long as they're having fun it's cool by me


If they're regularly, actively adding a bunch of +10s to their Tav rolls under this system through Gameplay, they could have the place paid off in ~4 in-game weeks


Anything that gives the players a +10 bonus on the Tavern Roll is worth ~35gp, which you can do a bunch of times, like, 7 or 8 times and have it still pay off for the players. If they do something heroic enough that people want to talk about it or think of a clever way to improve business to the tavern? A temporary +10 to the Tavern roll, sure.


If you quadruple the output of successful rolls, the place pays itself off on only 17 weeks, which is within the realm of possibility for the game, and it also makes the rolls feel much weightier: on a critical tavern success you can make hundreds of gp in a week

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on average you're gonna pull in about 15gp a week and it takes 1250gp to get the place up and running, so I feel like there may be some justification to house rule it so that fixing up the tavern is _beneficial at all_


based on some back of the envelope math, fixing up the tavern in Trollskull alley in Waterdeep would take about 2.3 in-game years to justify the expense involved in renovating and licensing it


When I'm building D&D campaigns for my friends, I'm perfectly happy to steal art from Google Images, which is filling up with last-year's-AI prompt-generated art,

anyway, behold the last-ever picture of Sven Borlund, awkward-handed adventurer, before he falls to his death

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huge if true

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nostr:npub1m430xtlwtahfj0ggyz2jmkamgm90cm5csjxk84puunpgwvy886zqtu6pn6 no, this is a joke, "identification dentification" isn't real and it can't hurt you


so named because your teeth are so frequently used for ID-ing your corpse (note my correct use of the full capitals, there)


ID should always be fully capitalized, because it's an acronym

it's "I.D.", which stands for "Identification Dentification"


"what if Alexa wasn't dogshit" okay, now I'm listening


"what if we put medical records on the blockchain" utter privacy nightmare, wildly inefficient, and hell, it would be amazing if we could get the medical industry to use Postgres


like, I was never bullish on blockchain tech because, despite admitting it was kind of neat as a technology, no matter how hard I thought about it I couldn't imagine a use case for it that wasn't pants-on-head insane, but if you can't think of 10 useful things you can do with a simple conversational AI at the level of ChatGPT, you are not trying hard enough


there are a bunch of people who are treating LLMs like life-changing god tech that will replace all human labor, for the better, which it's not, and then a bunch of people who try to pretend that the leaps-and-bounds improvements in technological capabilities we've seen over the past few years are nothing more than stupid meaningless cut-and-paste-from-human-work line noise, which is also pretty dumb


It’s bullshit that if you have plums that you want to turn into a liquid, that Liquid Plumr would work but it would also render the plums unsafe to actually eat, why would they even make a product like this


I can think of few things that have brought me as much raw happiness and frustration than making friends with a little leopard cat


one of the features I love about Baldur's Gate 3 is that you can give any character an instrument, no matter how poorly equipped they are to play it, and the animations and sound of badly playing the instruments is hilarious

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nostr:npub15p9hvdq8vndpyxqm23c85v5sflayeqv3e6je7vrp2g26t6p6xl7s9r9xju the problem with playing Root is I could be having fun playing Concordia in 10 minutes


after 25 minutes of having the rules of Root explained to me, I might need to not play Root


my read on the Order of the Gauntlet in Waterdeep is that they are complete and utter idiots

this is also supported by their logo, in which they are holding a sword wrong

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Cube Drone

90% JOKES ABOUT SOFTWARE / 10% PICTURES OF CAT
Vancouver, Canada - Lead backend developer for all of virtual reality, or VRChat at least.


A toddler came by, he smelled another cat, it’s been a hard day for Zapp

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nostr:npub1cl9zye4eka6qxr356hs6rfkgfcpwh9pnlxthqql5txgll7l9akmqffglht the first picture is a ptarmigan , the second is a ptarmiganigan


"that's an upright piano, not a grand piano"  EVEN FINDING THIS IMAGE WAS FAIRLY UNLIKELY, OKAY?


#dungeonsAndDragons

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It's not so much that I'm saving all of the potions and scrolls for a more opportune time, it's more that I forget that I have them


Of course now you know me as Morning Noonan, Squire, but someday, gods be praised, you will know me as Morning Noonan, Knight


nostr:npub1mnmsevdexd62vh2d3gpmysc3n4aff7z7nkjkaqyr4975hulf9npqwzx840 of course, but I found Marcella Hazan’s marinara recipe was way better than my tiny mother’s


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Most Canadian options are these piddly little mom-and-pop shops that charge 10x what you'd pay anywhere else for two-decade-old technologies like Drupal and CPanel.

OVH is the best data center that's _actually in #Canada_ but it's twice as expensive as Hetzner so you really have to be feeling extra-patriotic to put up with them


nostr:npub1nxqes39phpn89y5sa0cftpwyjfsf8g4k3xfez9ttz0yptdncwg4sakpjyu
the accepted common spelling of zhuzh has shifted twice in my lifetime

https://blog.cube-drone.com/p/zhuzh-it-up

which is to say maybe these rules are just made up


nostr:npub1zls95jufkmmykxhq4ev022adw2et6hf5n242zpcfwasd6x22njuqr7zkr5 also then when you say "I need this, on the double" you can then provide exactly which double you meant!


look, my pizza is _fine_, like, I make my own dough, I always make it on a thick cast iron pan with a generous glug of olive oil so it crisps up nice on the bottom and slides out easy, but it's "we have pizza at home" pizza, not like, _PIZZA_ pizza, y'know


nostr:npub1jg68w4h0c0cxrur7zxkm7js3aww7l40qg223g440dvkgzvsnh3vsues7ld go around to your neighbors and ask them if they're interested in a $20 subscription to More Plums Than You Know What To Do With, might get some bites


YYYY-MM-DD-MM-YYYY is the superior date format, I will not be taking notes


nostr:npub1mnmsevdexd62vh2d3gpmysc3n4aff7z7nkjkaqyr4975hulf9npqwzx840 reported, nsfw

:P


I've made crumble, I've made jam, still... still plums. Always plums. Forever plums.


how you imagine a CSA membership will go: "oh, so much fresh local produce, I'm so healthy"

how it actually goes: "fuck, more plums, what am I going to do with THESE"


this is why we are the best metaverse, no i will not be taking questions

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depending on how you parse and prepare this, Volo's tour could occupy the better part of an extremely boring session, it could result in you just... showing players Chapter 9 and going "uh, have fun I guess?" or any number of things in between


In #DungeonsAndDragons "Dragon Heist: Waterdeep", as written, there is a way that you can accidentally force the DM to read out the entire contents of a 25-page chapter.

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Remember when Microsoft got a stern talking to from the government for having the audacity to include their applications bundled in their OS, and then anti-trust law got its anus torn clear out and Apple just made an OS that you're not allowed to program for at all unless you run it by them first


nostr:npub1xs2elfw8jfwvst5avn2jklkn9ndqmrrk2tx3na82fazz5vj089rs55ertq how do you feel about people who spend hours of their day bristling about the existence of socially inept people?


There is a place at the mall called "Solar Orthodontics" and I can't help but think that those solar panels would be too small to be practical


this is nobody's fault but my own for taking too much darn time to finish

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Ladies:

- if the man has an awesome, sculpted bod
- but he's eternally pushing a large stone up a hill

He's SISYPHUS, watch out!


nostr:npub1vwvqlfdtlpd93qst6prwq5h5cwsm260kaxdr97yckhjx6jmy84equ99m80 not on the carpet you aren't


"maybe don't?"


"glad you told us, I guess"


I AM EXTREMELY SMUG!
Tiff got it!


i'm just trying to live my life and my wife talks at me for 25 solid minutes about her opinions on specifically the relationship between Grimes and Elon Musk and while I'm usually pretty willing to play ball with HUMAN CONVERSATION WITH THIS PERSON WHO I LOVE, I cannot muster even the most basic ability to give a shit


nostr:npub1lm4a6ktg6htfexsar9e28e7gz2l7j0xe3fv48xjgrk7zwq4az73s3znpla i tried to join a subreddit on Lemmy once, if they ever get around to letting me in I’ll give it a shot 🙄


nostr:npub1usvw93ush87y5382u9gadhs5282pca065lkcse4qgv80nundxqkqmhcrxl Also Discourse supports real-time-chat and events and calendars and a bunch of other standard forum features either out of the box or with FOSS first-party plugins


nostr:npub1usvw93ush87y5382u9gadhs5282pca065lkcse4qgv80nundxqkqmhcrxl tbch their full service hosted pricing subsidizes the development of their free client, you can run a Discourse application for 1000 members on a $10/mo Hetzner box ez


I run a little Discourse silo for my friends and it handles that great, after a fair bit of tweaking to get it to stop being so damn parochial about what we're allowed to post. I'd say that being slow, preachy, and irritating are absolutely not the right problems to be solving with Discourse in the first place.

What I think it might actually need is something more akin to federation...


It's not Discourse being slow and preachy and irritating that killed the forum, it's modern interconnected mega-sites like Reddit and Twitter and, now, Mastodon, I think.

I can go from zero to having an opinion on r/Pathfinder2E in like 20 seconds, and if I want a place to shoot the shit I have one right here


it's not like PHPBB was running on rocket fuel


Dan Luu's insistence that Discourse doesn't constitute a real, moneyed, solid attempt at making a modern forum because it's slow and preachy and irritating seems wrong to me too, mind you: I mean, he's not wrong that it's slow and preachy and irritating but it's absolutely the Modern Forum Contender par excellence despite those things


by this standard the discourse web client is also a DDoS attack


the CTO of Discourse claiming that a search index hitting a website every two minutes constitutes a DDoS attack is certainly one of the things of all time

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nostr:npub130sepcqmjmzp7jmtu9f73rx2spuvp7j8xkzd855gu4jtmcgrsaws3xkfgt
it will be missed but I can manage to be unhelpful in any management scheme, no matter how moddern


how the press handles coverage of climate change protests

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nostr:npub1xs2elfw8jfwvst5avn2jklkn9ndqmrrk2tx3na82fazz5vj089rs55ertq

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GoDaddy has been buying and dismantling every competitor they can get their hands on in the domain/web hosting space for as long as I can remember,

could someone in the states, like, reboot antitrust law at some point? we miss u, buddy


nostr:npub1kvr8pu0gzckd4aagwels06jktf0ewtx7dtysmf9gtuh5c5e3w93saryey2
that is very funny


the other chump kill is a trap that's so Very Obviously a trap that if you fall for it, even as a beginner, that's on you


nostr:npub130xlduvdu9xkdwcegrujvftepkm8p8agk9xjhyskezu4skx2snjs8dcunr obviously I'm exempting the fediverse, being as it's software I'm literally current using to ask the question :P


I feel like dat isn't doing much lately (especially with Beaker discontinued) - ipfs has increasingly wide support which is nice but I haven't ever encountered it used for anything


I liked decentralized tech for a while until bitcoin shat so vigorously in the well that the whole ecosystem was ruined. Anything interesting in the space that's NOT a blockchain?


the Pathfinder Beginner Box is actually almost identical to a D&D Beginner Box that I ran for some friends a long time ago, down to the mini-dragon at the end of this book, and in that adventure the cleric was, indeed, rendered into a fine goo, although, in the game's defense, it does provide an obvious out in the treasure

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I'm sorry, you've died of "being a wizard"

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one thing I think is funny is that Pathfinder's Beginner Box has at least two rapid fire chump kills in it because FUCK YOU, BEGINNERS


nostr:npub1tngz0cyyzr00wyfrmqs30uteesen06zsm0rlpftaupssngsyq6rs8hwla4 is it free-standing? What color are you planning on building the guillotine? Will it be visible from the street level? Have you had an engineering review on the design of the guillotine? Do you have insurance in the case that someone accidentally harms themselves with the guillotine? Can everybody have a guillotine?


I spent 3.5 years trying to get my strata to approve a cosmetic change to my deck, your glorious collectivist revolution may require more effort than simply cataloguing grievances on your social media of choice


Either get some lumber and a big blade or shut the fuck up, you can't describe guillotines on twitter a billionaire to death


I have a friend who's been spending the writer's strike getting progressively more radicalized and now he can't get through a conversation without rolling out the mental guillotines for some ill-defined billionaires, and as much as I'm a union man and pretty solidly centre-left I'm getting kinda sick and tired of that shit.


can't talk

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These CSA carrots are making me feel inadequate,

I have the sudden urge to buy a Ford F250

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#cat

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nostr:npub130sepcqmjmzp7jmtu9f73rx2spuvp7j8xkzd855gu4jtmcgrsaws3xkfgt for fun one of them runs the internet archive


nostr:npub130sepcqmjmzp7jmtu9f73rx2spuvp7j8xkzd855gu4jtmcgrsaws3xkfgt for fun one of them partially designed rust


nostr:npub130sepcqmjmzp7jmtu9f73rx2spuvp7j8xkzd855gu4jtmcgrsaws3xkfgt for fun one of them got tensorflow to run in a shader


where's the AI project to enhance domesticated pet intelligence, I want talking dogs dammit


(because I made this comic 7 years ago)


i did not yet know that someday vrchat would have loads of all three types of vr experience

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"It's pyjama time, tiffany! the time for now is pyjamas! - wait"


nostr:npub1s8dqv8zje5quzep97lz29xv53ccjy2zdnj8ah6lqzynr2zwr95ssytsyjd
this has to be fake, I refuse to believe that there is a place in B.C. called "grindrod"


"Sign the Petition! #Trudeau approves Trans Mountain project, a direct pipeline between YOUR CHILDREN and LGBTQ COMMUNITIES! He must be stopped!"
look, there's gotta be an angle here


it's really hard to find a local masseuse who doesn't have a website packed to the gills with fanciful woo treatments like acupuncture and chiropracty and lymphatic drainage

please, just rub my back

we don't have to pretend it has medical benefits


anyways, it's a warm-up


Tiffany: "Don't mind if I do"
Me: hehehehehe

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local #vancouver news from The Province, completely unmodified, i promise

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man I fuckin' love party tim

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It was this comic from almost a decade ago: ( #unix )

and this post: https://bitbashing.io/async-rust.html

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One of my comics showed up in a hackernews post.

I don't use Google Analytics for user privacy reasons, so the best way to determine what people are doing from my site is just CDN logs and charts:

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I spent the whole day periodically wandering downstairs and prepping a segment of dinner during work. There's baba ghanouj and rice ready, chicken marinating, all I need to do is make a little salad and cook the chicken and I'm done.

The tragedy is that it's Friday and all I really want is to order a pizza.


It’s alive!

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nostr:npub19604u3yacm452fsfhth8vhdqcxhthgdc9drrm43km5uxe9ytxjnq9xw6j3 big public anti-TypeScript stance, removing it from a FOSS project he operates


nostr:npub1ndr6axql5lte2z2nm9t4w72h47xc3wgwlfg0prx29kz6evnsyl6s6eku2d

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nostr:npub1mnmsevdexd62vh2d3gpmysc3n4aff7z7nkjkaqyr4975hulf9npqwzx840 cueball, gun, and seamus endings are non-canon but count as valid endings


I can't even enjoy a good monolith anymore


That man is responsible for ruining more perfectly good technical opinions


I don't like static typing, but I don't like DHH more so I guess bring me your Hindleys and your Milners, it's time for a type system


nostr:npub1xs2elfw8jfwvst5avn2jklkn9ndqmrrk2tx3na82fazz5vj089rs55ertq those are at least consumer-facing, if you're looking for the bottom of the software barrel, I think "intranet software at an old or government company" is where it's at


Zapp is a cute adult cat, but he was _weapons grade adorable_ as a kitten #cats

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r/programmerhumor

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I love SystemD because I love cars from the 80s and comics

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Now that uniregistry is godaddy, I need somewhere less awful to keep my domain names, who's good?


If you're composing content that can't flex in size responsively, like, an image, 850px wide by 700px tall is, like, the upper limit of what a modern iPhone and MacBook can agree on


then I had the kind of unpleasant discovery that on my MacBook, the full height of my browser viewport is like 700px, which feels very, very stout


I spent a little time trying to get a website to support an action on "swipe up" and "swipe down", only to discover that swiping down on a website refreshes it and that obviously takes priority over any locally implemented behaviors


Did you know that you can grate butter like cheese? (I’m baking, this is about to get mixed with flour and oats) #cooking

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all hail king bear

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If it weren’t for the mustard and relish packets this meal would have been wholly compostable

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