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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


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.
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.
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!


I haven't played RPGs in person in years

And that sucks
I wont know my dice anymore! I need to get to know them!


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 >.>


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.

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*
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


Does anyone else get a thing where they eat a bunch of food and then feel incredibly hungry, but wasn't there before?
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 >.<
That happens to me sometimes, with no pattern I can recognize.


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
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



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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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 sounds like fun.
Like, half Prince of Florence, half Terraforming Mars, and half Forbidden Island!

The successor to plan 9 went through a rebranding
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
The file was showing no data with cat and I still don't know why


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"
Yeah, I use to want the same but not so much now. That was back when I was getting my IT degree though.
Friends of mine have confirmed they told someone "I know a guy" and called me, so I'm pretty happy


https://git.obscuritus.ca:3000/silverwizard/YouTuber
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.
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"
@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?
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.
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
Ooh, I should get you in touch with my partner, she's terrible at both but she's getting better.
Lol, oh no, but at least I know I'm not alone 😅😅


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
@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
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 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
Theoretically.
In theory, theoretically, pandemia terminus


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 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
Superman had other engagements.
He feels wrong for naming a kid

Need Rip Hunter


cat Dragon\&DungeonBarcodes.txt |sort | uniq -c |sort -n|grep -v " *1 "|xclip -i -selection clipboard
      2 009281018230
      2 394533151TSR0300
      3 071486018254
      4 071658018259
     12 074470018254
     15 074470018230
     19 071486018230
     25 071658018235
     34 074808018239
     35 074808018253
     69 046363160340


Scanning my collection of stuff
Apparently I have lots of duplicates

Next step is to get that turned into proper codes and then get it turned into actual US-MARC data, and then make that library useful

Annoyingly, apparently Dragon reused the same code several times for their issues, so I have 69 issues inside the 046363160340 block

Nice though

Yes, I know it's the NeXT kernel, but the userland is mostly from BSD+MacOS so this pun works damnit


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

Oops, forgot about that


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 😄


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


People talking about period tracking apps

This was 10 years ago:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/?sh=1c3612286668

Privacy needs to be defended, and also

fuck
uh
burn it down