LeviKornelsen

LeviKornelsen, 3 days ago to random

"Understand," the magistrix intoned smoothly, "the tower does not bring students like you to perform your invocations and healings in these filthy holes purely because we are righteous. We do it to see how you like it. We do it so you can practice healing on those who will not complain. We do it so you will see how fortunate you are to live in the tower. We do it to be seen as good. And we do it to give you this speech, so that you may begin to wrestle with our - and your - hypocrisy early."

LeviKornelsen, 4 days ago to random

Nothing like a spot of light sensitivity to make you realize how much show trailers trying to be dramatic suddenly flash to white screen.

LeviKornelsen, 5 days ago to random

Amos has most of the best lines in The Expanse, but nothing tops Christjen Avaserala telling Holden "Don't put your dick in it; it's fucked enough already".

LeviKornelsen, 5 days ago to random

Sesame Street out here trying to be upbeat and all I can think is "Oscar's got a brick in his other hand, and we both fucking know it".

LeviKornelsen, 6 days ago to random

Fun RPG ideas:

Key-phrase-based system of negotiation that's literally and explicitly a discussion of game as story.

"I attack him! SURELY (key word; proposing outcome), the champion must vanquish this villain"

"SURELY, BUT NOT YET (key phrase, saying 'you gotta get set back and do an improvey thing first'; he thrashes you soundly and leaves you bleeding in the alley."

...This would amuse some, and repel others with great force.

LeviKornelsen, 11 days ago to random

New playtest version of Awen is up:

https://levikornelsen.itch.io/awen

LeviKornelsen, 11 days ago to random

Anyone else unable to load up itch.io?

LeviKornelsen, 13 days ago to random

Sitting around of the evening, recovering from a hard day of hauling heavy crap about, building an automated roast chicken machine in minecraft.

I'm very exciting.

LeviKornelsen, 13 days ago to random

"Chaosium hires Mearls" take:

At this point, I kind of feel like Mearls has had as much dragging for "I fell in with an utter shitheel and gave him a BIG hand up" as there is to take.

He didn't do a public mea culpa, and one is possibly owed, but I'm also not sure Wizards lawyers would have let him.

Not a fan, but I just can't work up any real heat on the guy anymore.

LeviKornelsen, 14 days ago to random

As someone who uses "folks" a lot because I grew up in a hick Alberta village of 600 people (named "Mannville", no less), I love the fact it's been widely adopted as inclusive language.

Not least because that usage would've irritated a notable chunk of said hick village back in the day.

LeviKornelsen, 15 days ago to random

Have we considered the possibility that AIs aren't "hallucinating" at all but are just naturally sarcastic assholes?

LeviKornelsen, 15 days ago to random

I don't always think about ancient Rome, but when I do, I think about how chariot racing was vastly more popular than gladiators, to the point that mobs wearing the colour of their preferred stables had riotous brawls, politicians were heavily involved, and more.

Roman sports hooligans were chariot fans.

LeviKornelsen, 15 days ago to random

Consider:

Stinking hairy man-creatures with only a patch of pale skin around their bright eyes, dressed in layers of filthy rags with a few furs crudely lashed on - untrustworthy, often spiteful, but offering and trading in marvels.

I'm just saying; early colonial traders as monster-men works way better than the "savages" they traded with.

LeviKornelsen, 20 days ago to random

Urban Fantasy Concept:

1. Ritual behaviour is how you talk to your unconscious, and the more personal, the better.

2. Psi-like abilities are controlled primarily at the unconscious level.

3. The art of magic is the design of psychologically-personal religions.

4. Psychics half-believe batshit stuff, know perfectly well that it's batshit, will stab you for trying to explain it's wrong.

LeviKornelsen, 21 days ago to random

Successfully fired and glazed chess dude.

Quality level: Weird stuff found at an import store (And, to be clear, I am perfectly fine with this. Will seek improvements, but this clears "I would not be ashamed to sell this".)

LeviKornelsen, 22 days ago to random

In the race for "Boringest assholes alive", I've got $50 on "Dudes who are still posting mad about Brie Larson". To place, not to win; the competition IS fierce.

LeviKornelsen, 24 days ago to random

I'm not generally annoyed by discussion of D&D, and can even often participate, but the period of ramp-up to new books is tiring.

I don't have judgment for anyone; I've got my list of crap companies I buy from - but I'm just.... not going to be giving Wizards any money.

LeviKornelsen, 1 month ago to random

Paycheck was surprisingly good this round, so instead of the microwave kiln, I opted to splurge and ordered the fancy desktop kiln to attempt firing of my little dudes.

Gonna break out my fireproof slabs and set up a workstation for when it arrives.

Novel ceramic game pieces look to be in my very near future! Whee!

LeviKornelsen, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

I now have a design version of the Chessables in which they are heavily armed.

• Bottom row is standard chess: Pawn, Reeve/Rook, Knight, Bishop, Queen, King.

-Middle row is: Damosel, Mann/Merchant, Prince, Princess, Friar

-Top is: Vampire, Skeleton, Witch, Elf, Wizard.

(A few are not pictured here, including the Hood and Ranger.)

LeviKornelsen, 1 month ago to random

"A mount other chess pieces can ride on" is not the silliest thing I've designed, but it's close.

LeviKornelsen, 1 month ago to random

I swear, every time I boot into Windows, it does an update that reactivates some bullshit that gives me grief in Linux.

This time: It auto-re-enabled "Fastboot", locking my backup drive to Linux until I went back in, hunted it down, changed it back.

Such utter nonsense.

LeviKornelsen, 1 month ago to random

Realized it's actually been a year and change since I recapped what my chessables ARE, so:

I wanted a chess set plus a ton of extra pieces, for variant chess games, tokens for other stuff, etc, so I made some 3d printable ones.

They came out pretty cool.

Then I 3d printed them as molds and cast them with plaster and painted them.

I'm still working on making them as aluminum molds for plastic injection.

I'm now ALSO working on making them as plaster molds to slipcast them as ceramics.

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LeviKornelsen, 1 month ago to random

Heroes solve problems for local areas, and then become leaders of those they've saved. That's how the stories go!

So when the heroes show up having solved a horrifying problem... The local people might say to each other "They probably want to be in charge now, right? That's how it works?".

And some of them will want to make that happen! And some of them won't! And the ones in charge currently will have especially strong feelings on the matter.

Clearing the dungeon as political debut.

LeviKornelsen, 1 month ago to random

While I'm mucking about with ways to make my little chess dudes out of recycled plastic (I've been using a plaster-concrete concoction), I realised I could probably switch the process and make plaster molds, and slipcast the pieces.

Which classes them up enough I'd likely feel good about selling them!

Test mold #1 formed perfectly, though I forgot to add a well for extra slip....

LeviKornelsen, 1 month ago to random

Any shapechanging spell in an RPG that doesn't include "Oh, and you can change whatever you like in the pants and chest departments, etc" has failed to understand why a great many people would pursue that magic.