As a parent I'm seeing the fucking Jeanette McCurdy thing and fuck.
Why are people so focused on what kids owe their parents and not what parents owe their kids.
Parents fail kids
Kids don't fail parents
Why are people so focused on what kids owe their parents and not what parents owe their kids.
Parents fail kids
Kids don't fail parents
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@HippyWizard Jennette fulfilled every dream her mother ever had for her. It's really easy to see which of them failed the other, you know?
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@HippyWizard Kids def fail parents. We can acknowledge both without acting like one doesn’t exist
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@trustinSelf19 @HippyWizard Kids didn't ask to be born.
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@trustinSelf19 you seem like a bad person, based only on that comment
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@HippyWizard @trustinSelf19 Probably either a performative contrarian or an estranged parent whose kid no-contact'd their ass.
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@HayashiPatrick @HippyWizard You’re the kid that disappointed their parents and is using this status to justify it huh?
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@trustinSelf19 @HippyWizard If that's what you want to tell yourself to make yourself feel better, go ahead. Kids don't fail parents when they never even asked to be born. 😂
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@HayashiPatrick @HippyWizard I’m neither weirdo. Just someone who can recognize two truths can exist.
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@trustinSelf19 @HippyWizard There is only one truth. You can't disappoint someone who never asked you for your consent to be born.
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@HippyWizard @trustinSelf19 You seem like a fuckin idiot based on yours. So even?
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This is why you block socks - they grow like fungus
This is why you block socks - they grow like fungus
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@HippyWizard @dariusMckoy6 @trustinSelf19 Imagine needing a sock to deal with someone you'll never meet in real life. That's sad.
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I just started dreaming of gluing one end of an SSH tunnel to a socket
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@silverwizard just reminded me of that d&d campaign I was in where an owlbear attacked and I fed it a bunch of goodberries so it wasn't hungry anymore and so was happy and stopped attacking because I was playing an animal loving druid.... but then the same thing happened with rats, and a giant squid... and just kept happening because the gm just kept motivating our enemies with hunger... eventually he stopped but it happened more times than I expected that goodberry just worked
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The worst part was the gm was progressively more frustrated every time it happened but I'm pretty sure it was a default reaction to make hunger the motivation...
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That GM also loved set piece fights as the big moment.
So having a cool fight with an octopus in the sewer was 100% a thing he thought was cool. But then we just gave the octopus a goodberry and moved on.
So having a cool fight with an octopus in the sewer was 100% a thing he thought was cool. But then we just gave the octopus a goodberry and moved on.
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Last Sunday:
DM: You see a great elk in the clearing you need to hunt, do you set traps or try to shoot it from where you are?
Me: I use my paladin power to abjure it, making it frightened, and then I walk to it and plunge my great-sword between his eyes.
Thankfully the DM was delighted by my “solution”, DnD is stupid but fun when you take it as a puzzle board game.
DM: You see a great elk in the clearing you need to hunt, do you set traps or try to shoot it from where you are?
Me: I use my paladin power to abjure it, making it frightened, and then I walk to it and plunge my great-sword between his eyes.
Thankfully the DM was delighted by my “solution”, DnD is stupid but fun when you take it as a puzzle board game.
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We needed a great elk heart (among other things) to allow a druid ghost to prepare a potion to heal a treant!
It was force majeure!
It was force majeure!
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I 100% agree, but I have only ever really done ttrpg with Sean and that's always been his approach
Plus my first game was fate, which fits that so well imo
Plus my first game was fate, which fits that so well imo
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Turns out I like music the most when the song is designed to attack me.
It's funny because I love songs that call me awful and super melancholy music, and I am neiiiiiither of those things outside of music.
It's funny because I love songs that call me awful and super melancholy music, and I am neiiiiiither of those things outside of music.
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Amazon's IAM permissions are very strange. I like the amount of granularity - but things like "You can't delete a key if you can't list all keys, even if you specified the key ID in the delete action" is really frustrating and makes the granularity not work.
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A part of me feels like I shouldn't have to be stressed to talk to certain friends of mine because they want to hang out more and don't necessarily understand my 'extreme' caution around covid because of my children.
I want to be clear that I've been careful in who I've let in and these are all people who I appreciate greatly and have no interest in not having in my life, and I don't want to sound ungrateful, I'm just a bit tired of the anxiety I get from expressing my needs around it
I feel like most people have moved on because their circumstances are different and they don't necessarily understand why I haven't yet
I want to be clear that I've been careful in who I've let in and these are all people who I appreciate greatly and have no interest in not having in my life, and I don't want to sound ungrateful, I'm just a bit tired of the anxiety I get from expressing my needs around it
I feel like most people have moved on because their circumstances are different and they don't necessarily understand why I haven't yet
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I hate the feel of keyboard wrist rests. I hate them generally and they annoy me.
But my new desk hurts my arms, and a wrist rest hates it - and it's annoying
But my new desk hurts my arms, and a wrist rest hates it - and it's annoying
@GordSpence Yeah, my keyboard is already a little low so a tray would make that worse
I might want to do a slightly raised keyboard and then a mat underneath
I might want to do a slightly raised keyboard and then a mat underneath
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@HippyWizard That'd probably do it... or adjust your chair haha
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Just smashed a potion flask, leftover from doing a ritual from The Golden Dawn during a vampire LARP, while cleaning my office
Maybe my dad was right and D&D would get me into the occult
Maybe my dad was right and D&D would get me into the occult
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Gotta admit, I'm a *bit* relieved it wasn't the food ones for our non alcoholic mixed drink parties...
Still sad tho
Still sad tho
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Picked up rainbow temporary tattoos from the local toy store and Shæ and I are living our best lives (I don’t think Ro has realized he has one yet)
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"The sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace"
"Mummy, what's a gigantic nuclear furnace?"
Uhhhhh
I managed tho
"Mummy, what's a gigantic nuclear furnace?"
Uhhhhh
I managed tho
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Adding a .php-info.php to my webserver, but it's just an incorrect static page
Just to annoy people
Just to annoy people
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Yes, our locally patched build of PHP really does have a version number that's 8 kilobytes long and contains valid amd64 instructions, why do you ask?
That just seems natural. It also contains javascript to make it not display if a human reads it, why do you ask?
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Hey - this is important, especially if you use twitter anonymously or you feel threatened by people learning your twitter account
Hey - this is important, especially if you use twitter anonymously or you feel threatened by people learning your twitter account
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@HippyWizard not to be pedantic/blame-the-user type but anonymity shouldn't be expected out of a service that monetizes its own user base. either you accept the defeatist "yea it is what it is" stance and post cats or you go find somewhere that respects yr privacy. greasy move either way tho
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@HippyWizard we're already on to fighting to preserve pseudonymity, even
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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.
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!
It sure does!
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@PizzaFacts2go newegg.ca/p/2S7-07JP-1K0…
Wait - that one is backwards
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.
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"
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!
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
But really I was to make a keyboard with magical sigils
diner obstructive? Uuuuh?
I've been mostly working on building a sigil library using SVG magic so they scale really well
I've been mostly working on building a sigil library using SVG magic so they scale really well
The difference between working with kids and without is that if you don't have kids, and you didn't sleep, it's probably your fault. If you do have kids, you might have woken up at 5 am and just... not had the chance to deal with that fact.
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Damn - at least it's consistent!
My 3 year old is anywhere from 7 to 10 am, but my *1* year old is like "Could be 5? Could be 6? Could be 7? Don't know!"
My 3 year old is anywhere from 7 to 10 am, but my *1* year old is like "Could be 5? Could be 6? Could be 7? Don't know!"
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Ok - so - when I run D&D I tend to tell my players "Vote when you wanna level, if everyone agrees you do". And people tend to level when they're bored of their current power set and want new toys.
So many people tell me they'd go straight to level 20, but I've never seen it.
So many people tell me they'd go straight to level 20, but I've never seen it.
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@HippyWizard Honestly one of my biggest gripes about D&D games is that I'd prefer if I could have level 6 numbers and level 20 features.
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@PunishedLorelai Yeah, that's a totally valid! The cool powers are fun - but the high level numbers break down very badly! And D&D puts its coolest powers in its most badly made places.
And honestly, I am a 12-15 range for games, but 5e wasn't made for over level 12 it feels!
And honestly, I am a 12-15 range for games, but 5e wasn't made for over level 12 it feels!
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@PunishedLorelai But I also think that it says something that so many people can say this about D&D. If D&D is fundamentally about zero-to-hero play and leveling up - why do so many people *have* a favourite range that isn't 20?!
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@HippyWizard I've barely played 5e. I will say that the numbers seem to stay pretty small, except for health.
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@PunishedLorelai They seem small, except for how easily they breakdown.
My players got mad at me when I made an NPC with +17s... using PHB only.... At level 12...
My players got mad at me when I made an NPC with +17s... using PHB only.... At level 12...
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@HippyWizard That does seem pretty strong.
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@PunishedLorelai I mean, I usually had that at level 1 back in 3e days, so it's probably an improvement...
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@HippyWizard That *definitely* seems like a lot at level 1.
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@PunishedLorelai I have a power gaming problem. I can't quit
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@HippyWizard Straight to level 20 would be a nightmare. It would be like back when I was playing wow and you'd encounter somebody at max level who had clearly bought their character. Nobody would know how the fuck to play their class at that level
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@PizzaFacts2go New plan
everyone is level 20 and the enemies are bouncy balls that travel a number of squares equal to damage dealt in a random direction whenever you hit one, when they hit a wall they bounce randomly, and they deal 2d8 damage to a player when they hit them
2000 HP per ball
everyone is level 20 and the enemies are bouncy balls that travel a number of squares equal to damage dealt in a random direction whenever you hit one, when they hit a wall they bounce randomly, and they deal 2d8 damage to a player when they hit them
2000 HP per ball
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@HippyWizard I like it because it brings back a reason to use miniatures to dnd
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@HippyWizard For all my quibbles with your system I know that RPGs give you verbs over time for a reason.
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@HippyWizard Granted this would be way more of a problem in like Pathfinder than 5.0
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@PizzaFacts2go Yeah - I love adding new verbs - but lots of people hang up on them.
I'm working on a system where characters are made of cards, and there's shopping-based-nerdery - and I'm hoping it allows very complicated characters without causing too much of that problem
I'm working on a system where characters are made of cards, and there's shopping-based-nerdery - and I'm hoping it allows very complicated characters without causing too much of that problem
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@HippyWizard Being obsessed with caves of qud lately I feel you and love the idea of that. Super modular. Super customizable. Interactions
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@PizzaFacts2go I really need to set aside time to play Qud...
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@PizzaFacts2go If I say "I've not had time to play Qud because I'm too busy Net Hacking" understand that I'm not playing a roguelike...
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@HippyWizard I refuse to understand. I will make it an awkward misunderstanding every time. I will get excited and ask how far you've gotten them get all quiet and disappointed when I find the truth
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@PizzaFacts2go I got to the Lair with a Gnoll Skald
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@HippyWizard Gotta crawl before you can walk
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Ok, so, uh, Jade has forced me to think about finishing the things I've been writing. But - LOOK AT THESE COVERS! HOLY SHIT!
(both images licenses under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0)
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Yeah, now I just need to make book contents that are worth like half of these!
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If you're gonna paginate a list, let people know how many pages there are, and let them skip to any item.
If I need to click an arrow >400 times with a 1 second delay between them, I'll assume you're as bad at your job as an Amazon engineer
If I need to click an arrow >400 times with a 1 second delay between them, I'll assume you're as bad at your job as an Amazon engineer
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Seriously! Let the browser do the work! But noooooo
Need a *desgin system* and a standard javascript button which loads a blob of WASM or whatever!
Need a *desgin system* and a standard javascript button which loads a blob of WASM or whatever!
Yeah, I'm really offended by the whole concept though.
I set my browser up to work for me, why do they do extra work to make it not work as well! Just because they dislike that I might like something different than them?!
I blame Steve Jobs and his obsession with everything looking the way he wanted
I set my browser up to work for me, why do they do extra work to make it not work as well! Just because they dislike that I might like something different than them?!
I blame Steve Jobs and his obsession with everything looking the way he wanted
My Dream Youtuber Patreon Unreachable Goals:
Moving from weekly to every two week videos
Swearing in the damn video
No sponsors that are scams
Paying rent
Moving from weekly to every two week videos
Swearing in the damn video
No sponsors that are scams
Paying rent
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JUST GOT SWORDS OF THE SERPENTINE
I'm pretty damn excited
The sorcery rules, after getting 5 minutes to skim them, are entirely perfect
There are no notes. This is the perfect sorcery system.
In a game with the perfect setting.
I'm pretty damn excited
The sorcery rules, after getting 5 minutes to skim them, are entirely perfect
There are no notes. This is the perfect sorcery system.
In a game with the perfect setting.
The closest I ever got to playing a tabletop RPG was merely owning the Shadowrun 3rd Edition Rulebook. I loved the artwork and the setting, but I was in a very nerd-starved region as a kid.
I love game mechanics generally, and it's cool to hear about elegant rules like this. It's what drew me to the Baldur's Gate PC games as a kid. The magic system was so different from all the JRPGs I was used to.
I need to find a group that plays games like these.
I love game mechanics generally, and it's cool to hear about elegant rules like this. It's what drew me to the Baldur's Gate PC games as a kid. The magic system was so different from all the JRPGs I was used to.
I need to find a group that plays games like these.
Yeah! I am currently overbooked with games :( but I know that Roll20 does like "Meet a group" stuff, and meetup.com is where people meet each other for games in person usually.
But I also understand both of those are hard...
I *love* Shadowrun so really respect it as a choice!
But I also understand both of those are hard...
I *love* Shadowrun so really respect it as a choice!
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What if that Sea Changed into some sort of Deep Sea Magic weapon