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
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
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
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...
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.
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
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
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.
"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
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
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
"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
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 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.
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
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_
"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
"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
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
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
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
@8c1b1aad
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
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"
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
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
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
@e418e2c7 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
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
@92347756 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
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