Notices by Alex Q (qwxlea@pleroma.site)
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Alex Q (qwxlea@pleroma.site)'s status on Sunday, 07-Oct-2018 23:32:40 EDT 
Alex Q
@eliasg sometimes reddit surprises with some exceptionally good comments.
Now I'm hungry โบ -
Alex Q (qwxlea@pleroma.site)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Oct-2018 01:17:49 EDT
Alex Q
@Miniver besides the whole mishandled mess all of this is, it is scary how Americans think /judge along party lines.
Whoever thought a two party system could be anything but divisive?
What a mess!
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Alex Q (qwxlea@pleroma.site)'s status on Monday, 01-Oct-2018 09:06:46 EDT
Alex Q
@parasurv why delete the old account? And why wait? You can just have two accounts in parallel.
It would kind of miss the point of making online connections. People just get to know you, and then you disappear. You have every right to, but it sounds a bit sad ๐ -
Alex Q (qwxlea@pleroma.site)'s status on Monday, 01-Oct-2018 08:58:08 EDT
Alex Q
@feonixrift @maloki fascinating! It might also explain why online conversations sometimes completely go off the trails. People from different cultural contexts might find it hard to pick up clues, especially online. -
Allison Parrish (aparrish@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Sep-2018 14:29:11 EDT 
Allison Parrish
@eldang I think if I could only teach one thing to the world it would be "transcripts are only maps of talk, not the talk itself"
though I guess that would only be useful if I could also teach the world that "maps aren't just representations, they're arguments"
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Allison Parrish (aparrish@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Sep-2018 14:29:11 EDT
Allison Parrish
@eldang I think if I could only teach one thing to the world it would be "transcripts are only maps of talk, not the talk itself"
though I guess that would only be useful if I could also teach the world that "maps aren't just representations, they're arguments"
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Allison Parrish (aparrish@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Sep-2018 14:29:11 EDT
Allison Parrish
@eldang I think if I could only teach one thing to the world it would be "transcripts are only maps of talk, not the talk itself"
though I guess that would only be useful if I could also teach the world that "maps aren't just representations, they're arguments"
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Allison Parrish (aparrish@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Sep-2018 14:29:11 EDT
Allison Parrish
@eldang I think if I could only teach one thing to the world it would be "transcripts are only maps of talk, not the talk itself"
though I guess that would only be useful if I could also teach the world that "maps aren't just representations, they're arguments"
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Allison Parrish (aparrish@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Sep-2018 14:29:11 EDT
Allison Parrish
@eldang I think if I could only teach one thing to the world it would be "transcripts are only maps of talk, not the talk itself"
though I guess that would only be useful if I could also teach the world that "maps aren't just representations, they're arguments"
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Brendan Molloy (piecritic@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Sep-2018 14:26:45 EDT 
Brendan Molloy
@aparrish it was good. I've been thinking about how I communicate recently and been trying to start working on a narrative work, and finding that how I write and how I speak, while they do overlap quite a lot because I tend to write very often, it feels more rigid and less expressive than my spoken speech.
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Brendan Molloy (piecritic@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Sep-2018 14:26:45 EDT
Brendan Molloy
@aparrish it was good. I've been thinking about how I communicate recently and been trying to start working on a narrative work, and finding that how I write and how I speak, while they do overlap quite a lot because I tend to write very often, it feels more rigid and less expressive than my spoken speech.
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Alex Q (qwxlea@pleroma.site)'s status on Saturday, 29-Sep-2018 10:02:11 EDT
Alex Q
@thomasfuchs a historical model! And it looks as good as new. Really cool. ๐
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Alex Q (qwxlea@pleroma.site)'s status on Saturday, 29-Sep-2018 05:53:41 EDT
Alex Q
@z428 still a bit early here, but that sounds like an excellent way to have fun during the weekend.
Any special kind of beers? It's hard to find good German imports here. -
Alex Q (qwxlea@pleroma.site)'s status on Saturday, 29-Sep-2018 05:49:05 EDT
Alex Q
@kaniini unless you pay for a 'business' subscription ๐ -
kelbot โโโ โโ (kelbot@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 28-Sep-2018 16:27:44 EDT 
kelbot โโโ โโ
This is a pretty interesting concept. Chassis is made entirely out of PCB.
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Alex Q (qwxlea@pleroma.site)'s status on Friday, 28-Sep-2018 16:13:14 EDT
Alex Q
@ajroach42
https://www.flickr.com/photos/technomancy/tags/atreusdeck
https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/novena/updates/1566
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Alex Q (qwxlea@pleroma.site)'s status on Friday, 28-Sep-2018 12:55:44 EDT
Alex Q
@ajroach42 did you see this self - build laptop?
https://icosahedron.website/users/technomancy/statuses/100804105137876734
Low power, but might be not all that cheap. But that keyboard... gorgeous.
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Alex Q (qwxlea@pleroma.site)'s status on Friday, 28-Sep-2018 11:37:48 EDT
Alex Q
@satchmoz @maiki @kensanata
We had a dm who used to say: "it's not about the numbers". Players know approximately what they can do, after that "no plan survives contact with the enemy". You throw your dice and then you pray.
If you played well, you win, if you were an ass... You fail. If you have a nice dm, he might let you live. The games I enjoyed most were the one where immersion was total. There were no rules, just the game (the dm had a million rules, but that's why he was god).
https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/10222/a-story-focused-rules-lite-fantasy-friendly-classless-rpg
The books are great for the dm, and backstories, though.
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Alex Q (qwxlea@pleroma.site)'s status on Friday, 28-Sep-2018 04:04:37 EDT
Alex Q
@kensanata @satchmoz @maiki
*Automatic spells on level up* always end up in breaking the immersion IMHO. Where do they come from? The gods? That doesn't make any sense.
People start to look at spells 'with the most damage' or some such. It's stupid. Advanced Bookkeeping for Nerds 5th edition is not appealing.
It should be possible to play a game without a rule book (except for the dm). Just a couple of dice, a pen and paper.
Use books for research and ideas, not while playing.
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Alex Q (qwxlea@pleroma.site)'s status on Friday, 28-Sep-2018 03:54:42 EDT
Alex Q
@slphilxyz @quad @raucao on the plus side (for Europe) there are some laws that forbid the blind gathering of personal data and then reselling it.
It's still a mess, though...
#privacy (what privacy ๐)
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