Watch Well Games Newsletter: Issue #11 includes an interview with my friend, CoC scenario writer Aaron Hawke, who published "The Secret Song of Lake Billings."
• Who: OS folks familiar with using CoCs
• What: A study on CoC’s in OSS, with the expectation of developing resources afterwards from what we learn
• The ask: > 30 minutes of your time in an interview.
• Sign up here: https://forms.gle/JUUhKjmS2u538DWM8
Researchers, led by Dr. Shurui Zhou from the University of Toronto (UofT) partnering with NumFOCUS to comprehend the implementation of Code of Conduct (CoC) in open-source communities.
I've been awake for who knows how long. Since 2 hours before my alarm is set to go off, anyway. So, since I'm unwillingly awake, here's something further about #ChurchOfChrist#CofC#CoC, the tending-fundamentalist denomination I grew up in. Something I found out yesterday about the eldership of one of the local congregations.
A #ChurchOfChrist eldership, if you don't already know, is a group of men selected by the congregation to lead and make decisions for the congregation.
One advantage to growing up in the #ChurchOfChrist is that #Christmas has always been a secular holiday (except when it gave the #COC a chance to bitch about the #WarOnChristmas ofc).
So I don't have #ReligiousTrauma around the winter holidays, thank the gods.
Hallo #coc7 bubble!
Kann mir wer einen deutschsprachigen oneshot empfehlen? Digital erhältlich, ca. 3h Spielzeit, mit vorgefertigten Chars?
Dankeschön :) #pnpde#ttrpg#CoC#cthulhu
Ziel ist, klug zu regulieren - gemeinsam & global. Man darf darüber den Blick für die Chancen der #KI nicht verlieren. Für diese gemeinsame internationale Aufgabe haben wir mit dem Code of Conduct #CoC und #AISafetySummit Leitplanken gesetzt, so Volker Wissing. #KIKonferenz#MissionKI
Frankreich, Großbritannien, Italien, Japan, Kanada, die USA und Deutschland einen internationalen Verhaltenskodex für Entwickler fortgeschrittener KI vorgestellt - ein Meilenstein und ein Riesenerfolg, so Volker Wissing. #KIKonferenz#MissionKI#CoC#CodeOfConduct
Wow… I can't recall how long it's taken, but tonight Whartson Hall reached the end of Masks of Nyarlathotep. Although I've played it before, I never made it very far into Egypt before meeting a grisly demise, so this has been quite a trip. Did we succeed in saving the world? Well, you'll have to check your newspapers for 1926 to find out (or just listen to the episode when we release it on Friday).
According to @RogerBW we played our first session of Masks of Nyarlathotep in September of 2018. There were pauses in the run, naturally, but five years later—and with two of the original characters heading into the finale—here we are. Huge thanks to @lordof1 for taking on the cyclopean task of GMing.
Am 30. Oktober haben wir, die #G7, einen int. #Verhaltenskodex für Entwickler fortgeschrittener #KI vorgestellt und damit int. Leitplanken gesetzt. Und wollen jetzt weitere Partner für den #CodeOfConduct gewinnen, so Volker Wissing. #Digitalgipfel#AI#CoC
Wir haben gestern mit unserer Cthulhu Runde weitergespielt. Wir spielen eine “Einsteiger” Kampagne. Die Dunkle Saat. Für Einsteiger recht knackig, fanden wir, vor allem für SL. Es gab inhaltliche Fehler, die Karten sind voll unübersichtlich und inhaltlich geht’s ganz gut zur Sache. Positiv: Endlich mal keine Fischfuzzis. Die DSA-Verwöhnten spielenden stellten fest, dass SC in Cthulhu nix aushalten. 😆
Ich stellte fest, dass mich Mothership deutlich mehr gruselt und abholt.
@ceulig@Morgunin ich hab schon ein paar mal #TrailOfCthulhu Module geleitet und finde, die haben im Gegensatz zu den #CoC Sachen oft echt das bessere Informationsdesign. Die Szenarien bestehen aus Szenen (cinematisch gedacht), die durch „Lead-In“ und „Lead-Out“ Beziehungen miteinander verknüpft sind. Diese müssen nicht linear sein. Diese flowchartartige Struktur ist für die SL ne Riesenhilfe. Infos müssen nicht aus Textwänden heraus destilliert werden
"In 1930, large numbers of Jake users began to find they were unable to use their hands and feet.
Some victims could walk, but they had no control over the muscles which would normally have enabled them to point their toes upward. Therefore, they would raise their feet high with the toes flopping downward, which would touch the pavement first followed by their heels. The toe first, heel second pattern made a distinctive "tap-click, tap-click" sound as they walked. This very peculiar gait became known as the jake walk and the jake dance and those afflicted were said to have jake leg, jake foot, or jake paralysis. Additionally, the calves of the legs would soften and hang down and the muscles between the thumbs and fingers would atrophy."
I would love to see this show up in a Call of Cthulhu module. #rpg#coc#cthulhu
Anfang des Jahres hat Minister
Volker Wissing in den USA 🇺🇸 mit Sam Altman zu den Potenzialen von #ChatGPT gesprochen. Heute bestimmt #genAI die politische Debatte und die Einschätzung von Open AI zu #AI-Act und #CoC der #G7 ist wichtiger Input.
„Europa muss sich bei #genAI nicht verstecken. Im Gegenteil: Wir spielen vorne mit. Nun kommt es auf kluge Regulierung an, die international abgestimmt sein muss, wie #G7#CoC, den Deutschland 🇩🇪 mit den USA 🇺🇸 voranbringen konnte“, so Volker Wissing im Pressegespräch mit Jonas Andrulis von #AlephAlpha.
This morning, I read Bryce Lynch's latest review of a Miskatonic Repository #CallOfCthulhu scenario (spoiler alert, he hated it). He made some great points about its, and by extension, most CoC scenarios', verbosity and user unfriendly layout. That never bugged me much b/c quite frankly, I'm used to it, and I've always been able to memorize tons of info. But now I'm imagining CoC scenarios utilizing layouts/formats used by modern trad #horror games like #MotherShip and #LiminalHorror.
@lextenebris@Tim_Eagon@NinjaDebugger That said, I was reading the #Mothership anthology #HullBreach at the same time, which does a great job of packing narrative details
and timelines into its adventurers (I particularly liked its mystery-setup flowchart).
It led me to include less information in my notes than I usually would for a #CoC. It got me thinking about what my adventure should I decide to release it. Just how much detail would I need for it to make sense to others?
@lextenebris@Tim_Eagon@NinjaDebugger All of which is to say ... I get how someone would look at a traditional #CoC mystery and think "too much!" while I'm reaching for my index cards to start understanding the mystery's flow (and thinking that's totally normal) while I look at a beautifully laid out, 1-page #Mothership adventure and think ... "how the heck would I run this? I'll just make my own thing."
@nukehavoc@Tim_Eagon@NinjaDebugger The pamphlet format is definitely not newbie friendly. Newbies will always need more infrastructure and framework in order to understand more of "how is this expected to work" so they can pull the switches and push the buttons of making the machine go.
Or, I suppose, technically I should say not newbies because some people really take to the structure and format incredibly well. Less is more for them. I tend to lean far harder that way naturally that a lot of people I know, which is why I find things like solo and journaling gaming to be so fascinating. I don't have a problem coming up with the filling parts. I never had a problem running more traditionally architected #TTRPGs, which is part of the reason things like #COC scenarios feel heavy to me. I'm going to have to ignore three quarters of it anyway.
But as a experience, the consumption of those COC scenarios is pleasurable and fun. I get why other people enjoy them. They are extended pieces of artistic work in and of themselves.
Künstliche Intelligenz #KI bringt uns in jedem Lebensbereich viele Vorteile.
Sie soll der Menschheit dienen, aber nicht unsere Werte, wie Demokratie, Transparenz und Neutralität, gefährden.
Gemeinsam mit unseren Partnern auf G7-Ebene haben wir einen Code of Conduct #COC erarbeitet. Denn: Regulierung muss ermöglichen – nicht behindern!, so Wissing.
Spannender, intensiver, aber vor allem fruchtbarer Austausch zur Regulierung von #KI zwischen Volker Wissing und US-Wirtschaftsministerin Gina Raimondo. Beim Code of Conduct #CoC kam es zu einer Einigung, die in den nächsten Tagen veröffentlicht werden soll. Großer Erfolg! 🇩🇪 & 🇺🇸 sind dabei enge Partner mit gleichen Zielen. 💪🚀