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Notices by silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca), page 19

  1. silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Friday, 04-Oct-2019 02:50:05 EDT silverwizard silverwizard
    • silverwizard
    This is the only possible down-to-earth cosmic game I feel like
    In conversation Friday, 04-Oct-2019 02:50:05 EDT from friendica.obscuritus.ca permalink
  2. silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Friday, 04-Oct-2019 02:43:30 EDT silverwizard silverwizard
    • silverwizard
    I spend my life thinking of cool ideas for RPGs, without enough time or access to friends to run these
    In conversation Friday, 04-Oct-2019 02:43:30 EDT from friendica.obscuritus.ca permalink
  3. silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Friday, 04-Oct-2019 02:40:40 EDT silverwizard silverwizard
    • silverwizard
    The important bit is getting a sense of trading these all powerful items between people, and the fact that there is no backstop if you lose this.

    You are able to fight Darkseid with this, but you can't even survive the surface of Apokoplis without it
    In conversation Friday, 04-Oct-2019 02:40:40 EDT from friendica.obscuritus.ca permalink
  4. silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Friday, 04-Oct-2019 02:39:38 EDT silverwizard silverwizard
    I really want to take the DCU or the 616 and run an RPG where the PCs are 100% normal humans who have access to a series of items from those universes.

    Accountant with a Dial from Dial H for Hero, or drifter getting a Cosmic Cube
    In conversation Friday, 04-Oct-2019 02:39:38 EDT from friendica.obscuritus.ca permalink
  5. silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Friday, 04-Oct-2019 00:30:02 EDT silverwizard silverwizard
    #TTRPGs are a community activity
    There are no RPGs without community

    I think we need to examine how people have let streaming (http://twitch.tv and critical role especially) set a community tone, especially in light of them using native advertising twitch.tv
    In conversation Friday, 04-Oct-2019 00:30:02 EDT from friendica.obscuritus.ca permalink

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  6. silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2019 20:48:19 EDT silverwizard silverwizard
    • Hypolite Petovan
    Well, this dude now lives in France!
    In conversation Wednesday, 25-Sep-2019 20:48:19 EDT from friendica.obscuritus.ca permalink
  7. silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2019 17:40:02 EDT silverwizard silverwizard

    ♲ @isislovecruft@twitter.com: this seems bad



    pbs.twimg.com/media/EFVuQC8U8A…
    In conversation Wednesday, 25-Sep-2019 17:40:02 EDT from friendica.obscuritus.ca permalink
  8. silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2019 17:30:08 EDT silverwizard silverwizard
    There was this one time, two PhDs visited my house for a few days, and during that visit, bought fancy tea, then one of them forgot their tea

    And I have constantly not drunk that tea, because it's their's, not mine

    Right?
    In conversation Wednesday, 25-Sep-2019 17:30:08 EDT from friendica.obscuritus.ca permalink
  9. silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2019 16:00:02 EDT silverwizard silverwizard

    ♲ @the_patches@twitter.com: Millenials at it again.

    In conversation Wednesday, 25-Sep-2019 16:00:02 EDT from friendica.obscuritus.ca permalink
  10. silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2019 14:45:52 EDT silverwizard silverwizard

    ♲ @mwlucas@bsd.network: ​ Not sure which of you I should block...

    media.bsd.network/custom_emoji…
    In conversation Wednesday, 25-Sep-2019 14:45:52 EDT from friendica.obscuritus.ca permalink
  11. silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2019 14:30:04 EDT silverwizard silverwizard

    ♲ @cstross@twitter.com: The trouble with “move fast and break things” is that the people saying it never intend that *their* things get broken — they want to break *your* stuff, and the repair bill isn’t their problem.

    In conversation Wednesday, 25-Sep-2019 14:30:04 EDT from friendica.obscuritus.ca permalink
  12. silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2019 14:30:03 EDT silverwizard silverwizard

    ♲ @GenZdemagogue@twitter.com: Whenever the poor can't afford living, it's about personal responsibility.

    It's never personal responsibility for the rich to buy a smaller mansion if they "can't afford" to pay a living wage.

    In conversation Wednesday, 25-Sep-2019 14:30:03 EDT from friendica.obscuritus.ca permalink
  13. silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2019 13:30:03 EDT silverwizard silverwizard

    ♲ @Chinchillazllla@twitter.com: it seems to me that refusal to give soap, clean water, or flu shots to child prisoners should have been an impeachable offense before this Ukraine thing was

    In conversation Wednesday, 25-Sep-2019 13:30:03 EDT from friendica.obscuritus.ca permalink
  14. silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2019 13:20:02 EDT silverwizard silverwizard

    ♲ @necrosofty@twitter.com: This is amazing because it basically says:
    1) politicians are better than you and should have different rules, even in private platforms
    2) hate speech is allowed, but only from those who have the most power to incite violence

    What a statement to make.

    In conversation Wednesday, 25-Sep-2019 13:20:02 EDT from friendica.obscuritus.ca permalink
  15. silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2019 13:00:02 EDT silverwizard silverwizard

    ♲ @FireflyLeigh@twitter.com: when you tell your so he can't be cthuhlu bc he doesn't have wings, then he gets them out of the closet.... #cthulhu

    In conversation Wednesday, 25-Sep-2019 13:00:02 EDT from friendica.obscuritus.ca permalink
  16. silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2019 17:34:18 EDT silverwizard silverwizard
    So a thing I talk about a lot not publicly is about Lennart Poettering

    He made a tool to improve Linux audio when Linux audio desperately needed it. He was 19 and ambitious. I wish I had that kind of talent and drive at 19. He failed, pulse audio is terrible and worse than everything else. However, it got alsa and oss to do a lot of improvements, those projects became better.

    He wrote a bonjour implementation for Linux, which, if bonjour ever did a thing, would have been good. Sadly, Apple hasn't made bonjour work well, and avahi sucks. So no one is trying, but that was important.

    At this point, he got hired at Red Hat, and he was given a lot of leeway. That's important, that leeway allowed him to work on what he wanted. He was an important icon, he had skill and drive.

    And he decided to fix init. A lot of people were arguing about init and its problems. There is a lot to talk about. And since he worked for Red Hat, they used his init tool. The problem was that his project sucked. It was badly made, badly architected, and in no way accomplished its goals.

    But Red Hat used it.

    Lennart Poettering had a lot of opportunity, a lot of drive, and a lot of ability to *do work*. If he had been taught, mentored, and helped, he might have contributed to Linux on the scale of so many of the greats. But instead, the attitude is "sling code or shut up". On one side, there were people saying that Linux audio sucked, init sucked, and bonjour was cool. On the other side, there was a person making something that worked on those problems. He made those problems worse, he made Linux worse, and less pleasant to be involved in, but he *did* something. Because there's no tools in open source to take a talented newb and teach them, criticise them, and give them feedback.

    There's no tools in open source to tell people that their idea is good, but implementation is awful. It's all take it or leave it. Systemd is a failure of community management.
    In conversation Tuesday, 24-Sep-2019 17:34:18 EDT from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
  17. silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2019 13:10:02 EDT silverwizard silverwizard

    ♲ @tjrobotham@twitter.com: @HippyWizard which is funny because if you turn it around they gave players a cheap way to safely fall from any height

    In conversation Tuesday, 24-Sep-2019 13:10:02 EDT from friendica.obscuritus.ca permalink
  18. silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2019 13:00:03 EDT silverwizard silverwizard

    ♲ @ADACTIVITY@twitter.com: Your cyberpunk name is your handle on social media baby the corporations won fuck you

    In conversation Tuesday, 24-Sep-2019 13:00:03 EDT from friendica.obscuritus.ca permalink
  19. silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2019 11:50:04 EDT silverwizard silverwizard
    The removal of Clever play from D&D starting in 4th edition (and continued in 5th), added to its removal from a lot of systems where build is king, really sucks

    It was really bad in 3rd edition and kinda ruined that game, but sucks how far the swing went the other way

    ♲ @thedicemechanic@twitter.com: Well, if you hit a flier with a tanglefoot bag, it will "fall safely to the ground". So no sneaky extra damage for dropping one out of your airship onto a dragon.

    Feels very Hero System, in that the bag as an effect and only that effect, irrespective of clever use. #pf2

    In conversation Tuesday, 24-Sep-2019 11:50:04 EDT from friendica.obscuritus.ca permalink
  20. silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2019 11:50:03 EDT silverwizard silverwizard

    ♲ @thedicemechanic@twitter.com: And kids, this is why we have separation of powers.

    Parliament should make laws
    Executive should enact laws
    Judiciary should rule on laws

    No-one should dominate any other, but keep each other in check. Sometimes it works. Today is one of those days.

    In conversation Tuesday, 24-Sep-2019 11:50:03 EDT from friendica.obscuritus.ca permalink
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