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One of the players in my #boatmode group likes to build characters and figure out how to âoptimizeâ etc and I do see the appeal of that. What makes it even more fun is that we have so many houserules and place such an emphasis on the logistics game that online âguidesâ are pretty much useless. And our nerfs arenât just limited to âwhat upstream probably intended if there were no broken stuffâ. No, Iâve also buffed classes that were already among the strongest classes, like clerics. It changes the social landscape of the setting.
(People maybe have heard the following before but two awesome, 80/20 nerfs are:
When I first introduced this nerf, players stopped taking Light for a while, not wanting to waste a whole cantrip slot on something they could, for the same amount of money and inventory, just as easily use lanterns for. But after a year or so they wizened up to the awesomeness of it working under water or when holding a weapon in each hand + the diegetic awesomeness of using magical illumination.)
A holocaust-denying anti-vaxxer won in court vs SVT (Swedish state television) for using candid camera in their investigation of her. I donât necessarily disagree with that court decision; surveillance is not a direction I want society to head in.
The problem is with SVTâs subsequent reporting on the court decision; sheâs being refered to as a âmereâ anti-vaxxer eliding her antisemitic, inciteful lies.
My fave Donald Duck artists are Barks, Vicar, and Cavazzano.
Iâm doing a Don Rosa reread now. Iâve accepted that Iâm never gonna make up my mind about him. He has some strange, unsettling, spooky appeal, like Will Elder. My favorit Don Rosa episode is the one with the big bowl in the ocean.
Magritte kicks:
The Empire of Light - Wikipedia
Tribes vs nazis:
Florence Smiley and Evelyn Yathe, Navajos of Tucson, Arizona are... News Photo - Getty Images
PSA:
I declare the following to be the canonical generalization of âsnake eyesâ and âboxcarsâ on die sizes other than six and die amounts larger than two:
Snake eyes: all ones.
Boxcars: all sixes (even when there are bigger numbers on the dice). (Not possible on d5 or smaller dice.)
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IranâSaudi Arabia relations - Wikipedia
Iâve got to admit that this looks pretty interesting:
GitHub - alphapapa/ement.el: Matrix client for Emacs
Slathering videos in DRM is not a solution against sponsor reads:
On the fence about how I feel about the means here. I could be convinced either way.
Red States Are Fighting Their Blue Cities | FiveThirtyEight
I definitely hate the ends in these specific casesâawful GQP policies overriding good dem policies. Thatâs a no-brainer as yâall know the GQP is wack. But thatâs a separate question. đ€·đ»ââïž
Great Creative Commons TRPG that takes a couple of minutes to play (once youâve figured out the rules). As interviewee, I enjoy making up a pretend character and answering in character.
Ceramic frying pans are a scam. I need to get to cast iron. I really donât wanna have to learn everything about caring for them properly but I guess I have to, by process of elimination.
Bonus kitchen tip:
One of the biggest electricity hogs in your house is if you have a touch control stove top, even if itâs induction. Hard knobs save juice. Get an external breaker for your stove and save power.
In #boatmode session 226 I used a math web site (their brandname elided) to figure out how many medium items can fit in a portable hole (3202 medium items) and it âhelpfullyâ suggested that thatâs the volume of 0.45 typical gray whales đđ»ââïž
Weird how there isnât a plain vanilla Unicode smart quotes Unix text filter on Debian as far as I know. This is what I have resorted to for now, as âcrossing the river to get waterâ as this contraption is:
smartypants () { # Using Gruber's SmartyPants.pl /home/sandra/skami/pl/SmartyPants_1.5.1/SmartyPants.pl | perl -MHTML::Entities -pe 'decode_entities $_' 2> /dev/null}
The XMPP nerds have started calling OMEMO âoldmemoâ in favor of the new version which they call âtwomemoâ. Ho hum it was like pulling teeth to get on OMEMO and itâs already being obsoleted?!
Iâve been so anti setex-headers in Markdown (and RST) because they only work on monospace while I was using proportional, so atx headers made a lot more sense.
But it struck me the other day that Iâve been stuck on monospace for a year and a half (since Iâm working over mosh) and setex-headers look amazing in Fira Code and markdown-cycle still works fine in Emacsâ markdown-mode.
Golang has become pretty rough on installing forks. I ran into the same frustrations as these peeps:
Maybe is also going to have ramifications on my branch of The Unsinkable Molly BrownâŠđ€ I used go get to install that but that no longer works.
What an un-thought-through design decision. Even if you like centralization & hate forks, how are we going to be able to send patches if we canât install & test our changes locally?
OgenomtÀnkt av Guillou:
Guillous lögner underblÄser antisemitism | Expo.se
If you didnât already hate Discord:
Yay! Bitlbee supports messages that are more than one line! (I shouldâve looked this up years ago.) The interface is pretty sweet and integrates well with rcircâs multiline support. (Not sure whether you need to prepend every line with the nick addressing, but that only matters in the âgroupedâ window, not if youâre not in a query.)
Monstress wouldnâtâve worked in any other medium than comics. It wouldnât have worked as prose text since there are no words for the trippy assault on the senses it barrages the audience with. It wouldnâtâve worked on cinema or on TV since you need to flip back and forth to even have a slight chance of following along with whatâs going on.
What Happens If North Carolina Bans Abortion? Or Ohio? Or Florida? | FiveThirtyEight
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I was wrong when dissing the âligature heavyâ monospace fonts like Fira Code. It seemed like such a bad idea when I first saw it but Iâve been using it for a year and a half now and itâs so often been helpful and good and made things clearer, and faster to understand. Fira Code is great. â„
I still miss proportional fonts (only reason I use monospace now is because Iâm writing over mosh).
Rolling d66 in some dice-rolling apps:
d6*10+d6
Seems to me that the SRD might need to rely on kinda clunky âforward compatibilityâ bolts to One D&D:
The Kyle Brink interviews: D&D, WotC, One D&D and the OGL - YouTube
That outcome isnât great if it does happen⊠for One D&D, because that means Iâd wanna stick to mostly 5e. Now, some of the house rules I use are already not open source because Iâve lifted stuff (for personal table use) from e.g. Sine Nomine games and from non-D&D games. (For example, I use the âsocialite challengesâ table from Silent Legions.) And maybe Iâd wanna lift the occasional house rule from One D&D similarly. But it looks to be a messy mess and maybe itâs time for a reset like when I finally after over 20 years rewrote my .emacs to an .emacs.d with straight.el.