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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#PLEASE PLEASE, #schools and #faculty, stop "teaching" #Adobe #Photoshop, #GoogleDocs, #Microsoft #Windows, #Zoom, and other commercial software applications.
You're not providing #students an #education, you're providing companies customers.
We never taught Smith-Corona, or Turbo TS40, or Ford Tempo. We taught, respectively, typing, wood shop, and student driving. We should teach word processing, computer technology, and communications.
#K12 #Teaching #HigherEd #EdTech
#ScreemingInTheDark
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Using Word or Google Docs or LibreOffice doesn't matter to me (much; I hate Word) but *forcing* students to use any one piece of software is myopic.
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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BitBucket: "You can automate your shit with pipelines!"
Me: "But how do I automate the automation?!"
I just want not need to manage my pipeline schedules through the *web*
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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.
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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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@chris @deonandan How is ChatGPT useful for kinetics? The interaction / feedback cycle is high-latency, and it's turn-based rather than real-time. I guess the ChatGPT bandwidth is high? But that's only useful if you read fast.
I get how talking something through with an actual person is useful, but ChatGPT needs a lot of babysitting (it doesn't actually understand anything) and your focus has to be taken up dealing with *it* instead of whatever you were trying to do in the first place.
Kinetic Cognitive Style - Stimpunks Foundation
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... Well, this has been doing John Mastodon numbers.
Check out my Daria--Sandman crossover fanfiction, I suppose: archiveofourown.org/series/776…
The DMAD Discontinuum - Blake C Stacey (BlakeStacey) - American Gods (TV), American Gods - Neil Gaiman, Daria (Cartoon), Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land, Everything's Gonna Be Okay (TV 2020), Gargoyles (TV), In the Mouth of Madness (Movie 1994), James Bond
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The question on everyone's mind today
Where Do They Make Balloons?
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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!
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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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I was walking down the street where the houses were numbered, 64k, 128k, 256k, 512k, and 1MB.
That was a trip down memory lane.
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Titan Up The Defense: Titan Up the Defense 315- The Gargoyle Miniseries (1985) on Apple Podcasts
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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
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That makes sense
Blah, I need to get into that series and game
Tiiiiime
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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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If you have a bit of extra, my friend finalized their divorce earlier this month, and temporarily lost part of their child support income due to the haste necessary for the final weeks of that.
They need $342 total to pay for this month's electric bill, and another about $100 for internet / phone. Trying to get them at least $500 total so there's a little bit to get them through until things stablize with their income payments.
Best way is via $bridBurgard on #CashApp if you can help with this.
Next month their finances will be better because the divorce got them a monthly payment for some of the possessions they didn't get to keep in the divorce.
Anything helps here, and they are doing art commissions for the rest.
If you desire botanical drawings or paintings, of #flowers or #herbs or especially #fungi and #mushrooms, please reach out to them here on fedi (@werecat).
If you can't help with the amount needed, please boost this, the bill is due on the 1st of next month (3 days)
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and we made it!
Two comissions, some community aid, and a bit of swapping money between accounts, and the electric bill is covered.
Deeply appreciate the boosts and shares and contributions.
Why the HELL does the Discord desktop app want to have permission to receive keystrokes from ANY application?
And the dialog should not just have "deny", but "NO FUCKING WAY BEOTCH!"
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I dug a bit deeper, and also found it listed on this Red Bubble shop: redbubble.com/i/sticker/Cops-A…
Now that in itself isn't really conclusive as Red Bubble is full of people taking credit for other people's work unfortunately...
But Dana Drewdles does have a website with portfolio work, and while I couldn't find this image listed on it, her other work does seem to have the same style: danadrewdles.com/
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Cops Aren't Supposed to Kill Guilty People Either | Protest Sign | BLM | Black Lives Matter | End Police Brutality Sticker by danadrewdles
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