That makes sense to anyone with a unix background
but I *hate* it
all the IDs of events
then sort them (for uniq to be able to consume)
then get how many instances of each line there is
Then sort *by the number of instances of each line*
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There was a real bad roll, the PCs failed a fairly easy save vs some banshees, and everyone died
So yeah, in this case it provided story material because you were somewhat prepared for that outcome. Which may not be the case for all DM if they have a specific idea of the course of the story. When a single player dies, for example, it's harder to recover from it because someone actually stops playing IRL, while in a TPK all the players suffer the same fate, which puts you on the spot but doesn't introduce an imbalance in the player involvement.
And the stories we can build from dice allow us lots of things.
And I know there there's enough spotlight rotation that being out of the spotlight due to death is usually the same as being out of the spotlight due to being in another room.
The death was still incredibly narratively relevant though, but made so by @silverwizard's reaction to the dice (and my character alignment shift). Admittedly, there were setting and character pieces in place to support the resolution already and @silverwizard is a fantastic improvisational GM, but I think it can serve as inspiration to remember that even potentially unfun outcomes of the dice can be made fun with careful interpretation.
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And banshees are cool and thematic when paired with Death Knights
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I believe the Brandon Sanderson "hard magic" systems and other bullshit are definitely a direct response to Dungeons and Dragons and computer roleplaying games - since by definition those games are formal systems
However, predating this, we have the Hermetics who explicitly went out of their way to apply the scientific method to mysticism (especially: Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz) which went out of its way to marry magic and science, and then later the 60s use of the scientific method to attempt to study psychic powers (this later came out in Dungeons and Dragons with psionic rules and their use of the term Sciences to dictate types, and that attitude for different psychic powers)
Dungeons and Dragons was explicitly influenced by people like Carl Sargent - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sargent - who applied parapsychological principles to his mysticism, and Gygax definitely was of that realm.
HOWEVER - despite the fact that Dungeons and Dragons applied a lot of formalism to its magic, and definitely had people influenced by the Hermetic and Parapsychological schools writing it - you can also see that formalism in games like Unknown Armies which reject those traditions. I am fairly certain that until Mage the Ascension or Ars Magicka there wasn't an institutional belief that you could balance magical powers without VERY strictly formalizing them - since the original drive was from wargames, where very specifically defining all yours powers mattered to keeping the game fair.
Later games, like 4th and 5th edition D&D have stronger computer game analysis of them where everything should be passed through a neutral interpreter, and then results come out - and so VERY formal magical rules are required, the same as every other VERY formal rules (see the skill rules in Xanathar's Guide to Everything).
But I think a lot of modern mystical formalism is the other way around, where people do their formalism to historical magic, through the lens of computer games/roleplaying games.
At least - those are the off the top of my head thoughts.
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and it's worse when your monitoring and alerting is bad enough that only ops can see the problem and your devs just wont look
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it took me two days to prove to people that the problem existed - and I built the tooling to repeatedly do it - but now it's a crisis and someone was woken up by it multiple times last night - because I couldn't build new tools fast enough
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He's just sidestepping land rights and treaties
Customer Support singing songs
And me swearing under my breath
At least one of us is practicing joy
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