youtube.com/@any_austin this youtuber is rapidly becoming a non-trivial portion of my media diet
But only the series where he does an employment survey of a video game, and then does a report on it - and - uh - what an ideal gimmick
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I work at a place where everyone gets hyped about AI stuff, and I go "Hey - here's some concerns around data governance" and during the same meeting, the very hype product team agreed to change directions, began brainstorming new ideas, and killed the plans that I had concerns about.
Damn, this is amazing
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Fuck prescriptivist linguistics, I believe that anything I say is what I mean and what I say means what I think it does!
It's all psychosemantic
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Muppets RPG Noodling:
So the GM is playing the character who wants the episode to work. They (secretly) set a list of segments that need to happen. Your goal is to successfully do all these scenes.
Everyone else creates a character, that character has a goal (I think 2-3 would be correct), something they want to happen in the episode. Typically this is gonna be like, flirt with a guest star, manage to do a song, or whatever.
You may generate a guest star once all this is together.
Use some sort of tooling to allow people to take the scene and control it, use a Baron Munchhausen style story-stick game, but probably with some Drama System style stuff to get the game flowing. The GM sets each scene, but then the player whose "turn" it is has *control* and needs to try to accomplish their goals or complete the scene. At the end of the scene, do some sort of Fiasco-style "success" ceremony.
At the end of the game, if the GM succeeded at making most of the scene "succeed", then you move on. Otherwise you take a cancellation point. When you have a pre-determined number of cancellation points, the campaign is over.
If a player accomplishes their goals, they get a star power, which can probably be used in the Drama System style stuff above, or just generally used for bragging points when the series is finally cancelled.
Alternate arrangement would be to use Budget in place of cancellation points.
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Whenever I make an object in our cloud that I don't think is gonna be long lived, I just called it "DeleteMeAfterFeb2023" and it is... very nice.
I just found a random token in our environment and was like "fuuuuuuck gonna take forever to track". And then it had the comment "If you see this after April 2022, delete it"
And, thanks past me
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So Mastodon recently made a change where if you click on someone's profile and view it, and then click follow, you get told "fuck off to your own damn instance and just search you idiot"
Whereas the Mastodon expectation is that I've specifically viewed the profile of everyone I click the follow button for.
I'm not sure why the mastodon community has opted for maximum friction for their preferred workflow.
So I knew this song as a kid. And I cannot find any evidence it exists online *except this website*
I've got a memory of finding a youtube video of one person sing it
Does this weirdness live in anyone else's memory?
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youtube.com/watch?v=zwBjfQPuhF…
The question on everyone's mind today
Where Do They Make Balloons?
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard EnterprisesWhere Do They Make Balloons? · They Might Be Giants (For Kids)No!℗ 2013 Idlewild RecordingsReleased on: 2002-06...YouTube
I describe NPC body language as giving away vibes *a lot*
Like, the PCs say a bunch and I go "She scowls and seems disbelieving but doesn't speak"
Or "She replies " that makes sense", obviously not believing that"
I realize I don't know if I see that elsewhere.
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Hmm, this inspires me to put a body language cheatsheet into my GM screen!
writerswrite.co.za/cheat-sheet…
Cheat Sheets For Writing Body Language - Writers Write
Writers Write is your one-stop writing resource. Use these cheat sheets to help you show a character's state of mind when you're writing body language.Writers Write
One of the things about people being bad actors with APIs is that APIs are a way to make automations more polite, and work on your terms. They are contract.
Twitter is basically WotC and the OGL right now. They want you to pay microtransactions in order to do something you can legally do, but they could, in theory, make take *slightly* more work.
Well, ok, twitter wants macrotransactions
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In the 90s my mom bought of super 90s wireless headphones (INFRARED) in order to watch TV while washing dishes
And as a parent - that's a decision I completely understand now
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If I recall correctly it was on an ear can....
But I am not confident in that assertion
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Claws are White Claws, kinda the worst beer
And yeah, the Wilhoit thing is incredibly funny, you need to attribute it to "American Composer Frank Wilhoit"
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Thinking about a tabletop RPG where the attributes are roles.
So - basically take the Leverage (RPG) model with Hitter, Hacker, Grifter, Thief, Mastermind and then use that in place of like, Strength, Dex, or Intelligence and so on. I would probably use a die pool system since I love it, and so you'd end up with Role + Skill.
And then I think the secret sauce is that you set the consequences of failure based on the Role used. So a Hitter failing generally is hurt, a Grifter is identitied, and a Thief is seen.
If you have each role be attached to a specific kind of health bar - it can incentivize changing roles and so on.
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Yeah - so Wizard Climbing might be Flying and Wizard Swordplay might be Mordenkanen's Sword
I just always worry about that kind of thing where, why would a Wizard main ever roll Rogue, if Rogue can pick locks, but a Wizard can magic them open
I've not seen enough Dragon Prince to know if you can, say, detect the workings of a wizard or whatever
Someone just used the words "tinder box" in the context of tech things.
And my first thought wasn't "thing that burns" but something much worse
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I have multiple working pages and CSS for my statically linked website working
Soon my terrible idea will bear fruit
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so firstly - right now it's just me doing:
pub static {
index: &str = "<html>...
</html>"};The next step is all the objcopy shit - mostly because I don't have a sense of how to do what I want to do in rust yet, since I've probably written a total of like... 2 hours of rust.
And right now the code just sits on my laptop, sorry. I'll probably open it once it's in a reasonably acceptable place.
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