♲ @Pinboard@twitter.com: Some remarks about these donations. First, they are wholly unnecessary. Google runs an enormous D.C. lobbying organization and throwing a few thousand dollars at candidates changes nothing. Apple and IBM prove you don't need a PAC to thrive as a giant U.S. tech company.
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silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2019 21:50:02 EDT 
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silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2019 21:30:44 EDT
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♲ @oerdnj@twitter.com: DoH people, happy now? bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…
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silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2019 21:00:08 EDT
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Get more employees doing different kinds of work
Trade around high profile assignments
Get more training in the budget
Spend more time on threat modelling and risk management♲ @mubix@twitter.com: If you became the CSO, CTO, or CISO of the company you work at tomorrow. What would be the first thing you would change and what what be something you would keep the same? (Current CxOs are excluded ;)
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silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2019 21:00:04 EDT
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The web is a threat ♲ @dangoodin001@twitter.com: My browser, the spy: How extensions slurped up browsing histories from 4M users arstechnica.com/?p=1531629
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silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2019 17:00:47 EDT
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I mean, D&D is a tactical game, rules are a shared language between player and gamemaster, making sure that's consistent matters
Burning Wheel does this *better* but is still tactical, but shoves narrative into those tactics
Fate does tactical *super* well while being narrative
Personally I like tactical games for that shared fiction, it's easy to agree on how the flavour works so you and the GM can agree on what exists. Games like Fiasco and Soth are hard to predict, you can't know how things are going to go, since you don't have a consistent set of tools, which makes them harder to run for people who plan
now, as someone who doesn't plan... I play too many games
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silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2019 16:26:43 EDT
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I mean, firstly, It's D&D, secondly it's the rulestext for a thing
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silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2019 22:52:55 EDT
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Yeah, I found a lot of discussion but no good pacts
Those would be the obvious questions
my rough draft is
Pact of Seasons
The pact of Seasons is a compromise with the Warlock's patron. Many Warlocks *want* something from their patron, often love or power. They are then given power in exchange for service. The power is the goal, and the service is the cost. However, some Warlocks do not want the power the pact brings, they want to simply save their farm or their family. In fact, many Pact of the Season warlocks are actually sold by their families. This imposes a duty on these warlocks, both to protect their homes but also to serve their patrons, neither of which they want, but neither of which they can ignore.
Seasonal Warlocks become incredibly powerful farmers during the warmer months, however, during the Winter they are expected to serve the will of their patron. Many Seasonal Warlocks for Devils will be reluctant generals or champions serving their lords during that time. In fact, the Seasonal Warlock the heroes met in the friendly farming community might later become a foe who would just rather go home.
In spring, Seasonal Warlocks gain the ability to plow 1 acre an hour, just by walking around the edges of the acre, the furroughs appearing magically.
In the summer, Seasonal Warlocks have the ability to affect a number of animals equal to their charisma (not Charisma modifier). Those animals will double their production of wool or milk.
In the Fall, Seasonal Warlocks gain the power of threshing. They can, by running it through their fingers, remove the unwanted part of a plant. This is most commonly used to remove the chaff from grain.
In the Winter, Seasonal Warlocks gain the power to go where needed. You gain the ability to cast Wind Walk one per week.
### Invocations
*Beast Lord:* During the warmer months you gain the ability to ward off beasts. You may cast the Coop spell once per day without expending a spell slot. During the Winter you may cast Conjour Animals once per day without expending a spellslot.
*Fire Soul:* During the warmer months you may, at will, dry someone off, cure exhaustion caused by cold, and light small fires. During the Winter you may cast Flaming Sphere once per day without expending a spellslot.
*Ice Heart:* During the warmer months you may preserve meat equal to 10 pounds per point of charisma. You may also cool food and beverage by touching their container. During the winter you may cast Armor of Agathys and Ice Knife at will without expending a spellslot. -
silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2019 17:20:07 EDT
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♲ @mwlauthor@twitter.com: Every so often, someone declares to the world: "I don't read book descriptions!" #savagedBySystemd amzn.to/2JNzabl
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silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2019 20:12:49 EDT
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ok, dug into this
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silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2019 17:14:09 EDT
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♲ @MrPetovan@twitter.com: @Silverwizard
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silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2019 16:10:02 EDT
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Remember, non-invasive EEGs have been working for YEARS for mind machine interfaces
This is just "something that works, but might kill you, so a billionaire can cyberpunk LARP"♲ @mcgowankat@twitter.com: Neuroscientists know all too well that brains do *not* like having things inserted in them, and respond unhappily and unpredictably. There's no way this tech would be used for a healthy person in the coming years. Maybe not even decades. Cars and rockets =/ brains.
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silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2019 06:29:05 EDT
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oh damn! I've not found this one, despite following
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silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2019 04:40:02 EDT
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♲ @ShadiBartsch@twitter.com: Lame joke for classicists only:
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silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2019 04:00:02 EDT
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The best part of new child:
He wants to be held all the time
The worst part of new child:
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silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2019 00:47:52 EDT
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yeah, that's what I mean, it no longer works -
silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2019 00:40:05 EDT
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Is this the sexy gestapo scene from The Producers? ♲ @nypost@twitter.com: Meet Ice Bae: Latina Border Patrol officer taking social media by storm https://trib.al/oRgZCvW
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silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2019 00:00:02 EDT
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How the fuck did Clark Kent get a birth certificate?!
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silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jul-2019 23:43:30 EDT
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I have a small networked codebase of:
Player, who has some stats but no items or spells or EXP
Monsters, who attack players
Rooms which contain a player and monster
and a small internal tool to allow easy access to what monsters and players are in
need to make monsters able to move, make non-instantly hostile monsters, etc
but yeah, stop me from doing this -
silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2019 16:00:07 EDT
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yeah, my server is underpowered for what it's doing I think -
silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2019 14:30:02 EDT
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