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I need to read The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum again - I just need a dose of Eco


I really wanna play some new RPGs, which seems weird because I'm in an RPG group for playing new RPGs. But we've spent a year on Blades >.>

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@silverwizard I don’t know Fate yet but now I get your Burning Wheel references, and yes, it’s pretty much haggling all the way: “What’s the Ob? Are you sure?” “Can I FoRK this?” “I use Artha to reroll”
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Yeah! You find the Ob, and then you haggle about your pool. You pays your money and you make your bets. Sometimes you get a lemon.

I love that about BW personally. Every choice is about finding the pieces!



Making an RPG tool for managing clocks in Blades
Obviously, when you say the scene is over, I just *drop* the whole clocks table and make a new one - because, how else do you clean up data?


I've figured out a trick for RPG divination that feels elegant.
When someone uses a Divination skill I set a difficulty, then, when the player asks a question about the future (where I don't know the answer), I ask them what answer they want.

If they succeed, they are correct.


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Yeah! Federated Identity is a basic and sensible thing the web needs, and so much of the problems people have with platforms could be solved!

Honestly - we need ISPs to provide OpenID like emails *at the very least*

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I mean, that makes sense. I didn't mean as the *only* option, I meant it as a quick way to give everyone an option. Kinda like how so many people are like "here's an ISP email" and then get a GMail anyway.

I have an ISP email, but I also have my domain mail!



Converting all my math writing to little endian and only using reverse polish notation


I might become addicted to buying Microsoft Surfaces and putting free OSes on them and trying to make them usable by others.

This weird "nun chuck computer" design I'm using, where you have a tablet, and then a USB keyboard is really nice. It's currently my main computer.

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@HippyWizard Sorry no dice if the tablet doesn't take my ps/2 model m keyboard

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@PizzaFacts2go newegg.ca/p/0Y3-04KS-01C…
It sure does!

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@PizzaFacts2go newegg.ca/p/2S7-07JP-1K0…
Wait - that one is backwards

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@HippyWizard One time I went to an office at my last job and there was a computer connected to a TV using an HDMI cable, an HDMI to VGA adapter, a VGA cable, and then a VGA to HDMI adapter.

Then I remembered that I was the one who originally set that up.


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@PizzaFacts2go Fuckin' A

that's amazing!

Tell me what happened, and I really hope you say "They only had a VGA cable and wouldn't buy a cable"


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@HippyWizard No she just originally had a laptop that was VGA only so I got her connected to the TV once. Then she got a new laptop that only had HDMI and my brain went "ah yes just add another adapter no need to actually think for a moment".

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@PizzaFacts2go Oh, lol, that's even better

All the steps make sense!


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Uuuuug, I miss my USB Model M, I should use my Climate Inaction Plan money for that...

But really I was to make a keyboard with magical sigils

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diner obstructive? Uuuuh?

I've been mostly working on building a sigil library using SVG magic so they scale really well



So the Hamburgler used to steal burgers, mostly for redistribution, but after years realized he needed to make systemic change. This is why he disappeared, he attempted to unionize several McDonalds.

McDonalds Corporation cannot stand a Robblerouser.





Look, if you had, the one ring, or one opportunity To seize everything you ever wanted, one moment Would you capture it?

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Printing a Monstrosity Druid subclass on DM's Guild where you can wildshape into a Monstrosity and get nothing else, settling today's drama forever
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Printing a Sourcebook called 'Fixing the D&D Movie' where it fixes all the movie's many rules mistakes

Also has a Rod of Savril just to annoy people who hate the old movies



Does anyone else get a thing where they eat a bunch of food and then feel incredibly hungry, but wasn't there before?
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I had a non-celiac wheat allergy for 17 years, so I've had like 100 doctors try to diagnose me with celiac, so I think I'm safe from that one >.<
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That happens to me sometimes, with no pattern I can recognize.


Thinking about an RPG/Boardgame where a group of refugees from a dying earth trying to resettle the ruins of Elon Musk's strange and badly made colony on Mars. Trying to repurpose weird and strange ruins into habitation, before their ship's supplies fail.

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That's a lot of series in a single sequel

This is worse than Final Fantasy 10 2

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Damnit! They decided to make 1 kid with 10 forms instead of 3 zombies!

What a time to be alive!



dd if=Downloads/indexes--0|jq

Somehow, somewhere, I deeply broke and will never be repaired



When I was a kid I had the revelation that I wanted to be the person people were talking about when they said "I know a guy"
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Yeah, I use to want the same but not so much now. That was back when I was getting my IT degree though.
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Friends of mine have confirmed they told someone "I know a guy" and called me, so I'm pretty happy


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If you ever want to see how I write code - check this out

Basically - Youtube crashes my tablet so I wanted to be able to go vlc `ytsearch.sh some video` and just get a list of videos and go

It's not complete, but it's working.

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I still want to add:
Better support for subscriptions and RSS
Better support for grabbing related videos
Better support for looping so that when a video finishes it gives you the same search back or the related video (based on flags?)
Making this code not make the reader cringe
some sort of wrapper toolchain to execute the pieces so you don't run it via backticks
manpages


The thing about The Website Is Down is that the problem is as much Web Dude's as Chip's, and both are terrible - and that's what makes it good

Unlike Geek Triumphant bullshit like The IT Crowd or other stuff, it's a farce and a comedy of errors, not dunking on "non geeks"

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@HippyWizard But also...... I have been web Dude in that moment and done things I knew wouldn't work to buy time

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@PizzaFacts2go Oh! Yes! We've *all* been Web Dude

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Anyone remember the "Don't Taze Me Bro" thing and how a dude got tazed for asking a question at an open question period?

Wasn't that fucked?

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i always just laughed about it, but I'm not sure I've ever seen the video. Yeah, that's pretty fucked. We're so callous that it's basically just a joke.
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Yeah!

Like - it was a funny phrase - but it's also just hard to engage that the funny phrase was the focus - not the state violence against a boring question



I just thought: "how do I fork and await in shell"

and I am cursed



Trying to maintain a balance of not feeling too guilty and not doing too much, but it's very challenging
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Ooh, I should get you in touch with my partner, she's terrible at both but she's getting better.


Damnit - feed parsers and feed readers are different for RSS
I am trying to find examples of RSS feed *readers* in shell, not a sed/cut/grep one liner explanation >.<

Concentrating is hard right now though




I bake when stressed, and uh, don't bake chocolate chip pancakes for two kids with a combined age of 4 when stressed


Buyin' my wife journal subscriptions as a surgery gift

Totally non-geek family

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@HippyWizard Oh my goodness I LOVE this idea - hopefully she heals up quickly

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I guess Becky is in surgery today

fuck

It's routine... and it'll make her feel better

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Buying her a membership to the Canadian Psychological Association so she can access their journal archive while in the hospital
They call our gift giving normal


Whose idea was it that every single security standard should include "no server should have a port open to the public internet"?!

"This server has port 80 and 443 open to the internet" is a risk I need to close so often and I hate it



I need an onscreen keyboard for Linux that can show up on login and lock screends

bonus points for splitable

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I really want to play a tabletop strategy game, just you know, bunch of different moves, maybe a small squad vs another squad


Fuck - I should just buy OGRE and gaze wistfully at it because my wife would hate it




I need a text message or xmpp tab open to myself so i can make notes as I work through various difficulties without needing an external app I don’t necessarily trust


I continue to be astounded at the lengths companies whose business is selling transit via communication networks will go to to keep devices that access those networks out of the hands of consumers.


You know what has a lower impact on the environment than fireworks? 400 batteries!

Everyone knows that!



It weirds me out they let me name a kid

Wife was getting stitches and while she was out I got to just... name a human



I love it when a personal goal/project gets completed or someone has a win in some way on my feed... it feels so exciting to see other people succeeding in the things they wanna do 😄


88906 packets transmitted, 51368 received, +32829 errors, 42.2221% packet loss, time 90494ms

Oops, forgot about that



There are two very tiny, extremely adorable baby skunks that have no chill or fear that keep just wandering around my house.

They're here right now under the back deck... so tiny so cute and I'm certain that, while I'll keep my distance, a spray is just around the corner bc these beautiful babies are steathy and just come right up

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Okay, now there are three baby skunks. Today I saw three at the same time....