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AndreasDavour

@AndreasDavour@dice.camp

I usually consider myself a #ttrpg gamer, who also likes his #boardgames.

I'm also an IT professional with a love for old computers, hacker culture and #retrocomputing.

I enjoy #wuxia in film and literature, and also books in general.

I practice #xingyi and #WingChun .

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syntaxseed, to martialartsmemes
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Kids, husband & I are going for our #karate belt testing this afternoon!

Youngest is aiming for orange belt & the other two are aiming for their blue. Husband & I are currently unranked although we have been in class for two years so... it will be nice to see how our sensei ranks us.

But damn if I'm not hella nervous!! 😬

#GojuRyu #MartialArts

AndreasDavour,
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@syntaxseed It's good to be a bit nervous, it keeps you on your toes! ;)

Enjoy your practice!

kyonshi, to DnD
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looking towards adapting City of Carse for my games. I've had it for ages, but when I last checked it it didn't suit my campaign's mood.
Now I think I am going to have a look at it again.

Will have to remove the Midkemia references though.

By the way, did you know that Reymond E. Feist's Riftwar novels started out with a campaign (which crossed over with ?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_of_Carse

AndreasDavour,
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@kyonshi I read a few of his books for the Tekumelian connection. I felt it gave a pretty good feel for how a Tekumel game might work. Decent enough introduction to the setting I felt.

kyonshi, to linux
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hmm... so systemd and pulseaudio both were created by Lennart Poettering?

That... disturbingly makes much more sense than it should.

I guess you can sometimes recognize the writer's voice even in software design.

(they both replace services that worked fine with "improved" services that take hours of tinkering to get running as they should)

AndreasDavour,
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@kyonshi you didn't know? It's been a running joke for years.

While I'm as keen as the next guy to harp on Lennart's faults, I actually don't think the linux audio system was that great before pulseaudio. It has always been something of a mess. I do have some hope for PipeWire, though.

AndreasDavour,
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@kyonshi I sometimes forget not everyone works with the stuff everyday...

lispm, to Lisp German
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A few years ago I have created a visual overview of (mostly) Common Lisp related books... Good thing: even the older ones can be useful, given that the core language hasn't changed that much over the last years.

AndreasDavour,
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@lispm Where would you place "The Common Lisp Condition System: Beyond Exception Handling with Control Flow Mechanisms"
by Michał "phoe" Herda?

amoroso, to Lisp
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Common Lisp Quick Reference is a nicely designed, comprehensive, and handy Common Lisp cheatsheet. It's available in different PDF versions for printing as a booklet or online browsing, as well as LaTeX source.

http://clqr.boundp.org

AndreasDavour,
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@amoroso that's an awesome resource in all senses of the word. I had a print printout of that one around every computer I hacked lisp at.

kyonshi, (edited ) to random
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Ha. Turns out my incoherent rant about #systemd actually got a response from Lennart Poettering, which I didn't see because he's on mastodon.social.

not that it helped because he went all "that's not a systemd issue"

(sure it isn't but as I mentioned I actually solved the issue with the variables. The issue now is that the stuff still doesn't actually start because... what was it this time? It closed with an exit code? The reset counter is too high? Or something about the wrong folder?)

AndreasDavour,
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@kyonshi I have heard some people claim the biggest issue they have with systemd is actually more about Lennart.

Personally I find it ok to work with, and while it feels a bit more complex than it has to be, it does its work.

LeviKornelsen, to random
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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.

AndreasDavour,
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@LeviKornelsen there's a lesson there.

vwbusguy, to Matrix
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For some reason not all of my conversations show up in so I end up having two versions of installed on my phones which is not wonderful for battery life and data usage. Element X should have been branded as Element Beta or something along those lines.

AndreasDavour,
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@vwbusguy I'm pretty underwhelmed by Matrix in general to be honest.

Tim_Eagon, to CallOfCthulhu
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Mork Borg gets a lot of shit for it's hard to read layout and graphic design, but have you ever tried to read an issue of World of Cthulhu?

#Magazines #MorkBorg #CallOfCthulhu #TTRPG

AndreasDavour,
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@Tim_Eagon I haven't looked at those in years. Now I'm afraid to take them down off the shelf.

AndreasDavour, to random
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The 3rd ed of actually say in the book it will be the final edition of the game. Interesting, considering there have been two more editions published, and something like a new one again being mentioned earlier this year. I wonder why they wrote that?

AndreasDavour,
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@SJohnRoss I don't think I have seen that many promises like that. Promises of releases to come, on the other hand.

But, it would actually be fun to see such a list, just to get an idea of what people were expecting, and how it turned out.

AndreasDavour,
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@SJohnRoss ah! Now I see what you mean. Yeah, that would be a sizable book indeed!

AndreasDavour, to random
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As I gear up to run , what do I do to concentrate my efforts? I did find a used copy of 3rd ed Ars Magica on my local eBay, and bought that one! It's a game I have never managed to figure out.

AndreasDavour,
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@SJohnRoss "Dead Serious Arty-Pretentious Gaming" sounds like one player mode I think @robindlaws should have included in his list of player types.😜

AndreasDavour,
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@SJohnRoss I have a very conflicted relationship with . I never have managed to play it without the covenant becoming a giant resource management millstone around our necks.

Also, I don't think I enjoy the medievalist sim part of it either.

I do love the magic system, but have not played it in such a way it ever got used more than for player enjoyment, vs. character usage.

Tim_Eagon, to CallOfCthulhu
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I’ve been reading way too many recently published scenarios that feature a perfunctory investigation before the Investigators board a train to creepy town that is a one way exercise in hit point and SAN attrition. Sure, some of the imagery is very creepy, but something is definitely missing, that being real problem solving and meaningful choices.

AndreasDavour,
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@Tim_Eagon maybe CoC and D&D are the big products that demand a steady churn of products, which almost by necessity means it's easy comfort food quality.

AndreasDavour,
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@Tim_Eagon that reminds me there used to be "suggest me some of the best scenarios" threads on YSDC. Probably useful to sort through the chaff.

juergen_hubert, to DnD
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Farms in many settings tend to resemble the stereotypes of "American frontier homesteads" more than Central European farms.

And at least in 19th century Germany, farms had their own miniature social hierarchy. At the top were the farmer and his wife - and below them the maids and farmhands and tenant farmers who worked for room and board and paltry wages.

The rural regions of D&D settings assume that those who want to have a farm of their own can always carve out more land from the "wilderness" - a notion that derives from the Old West settler colonialism. In Central Europe, on the other hand, most of the land had already been distributed - and there was a large portion of the population who had no land of their own and could only sustain themselves by working for other people (and barely so at that).

So what are farms like in your D&D setting? American-style homesteads, or European-style miniature hierarchical societies?

AndreasDavour,
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@juergen_hubert that difference is a very interesting observation! I had not ever considered that. Huh.

amoroso, to Lisp
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I read this interesting essay on how @dziban approaches programming and an exploratory programming tool he's building in Common Lisp.

He explains why exploratory programming in Lisp is the process that best matches his development style, identifies major sources of rigidity of traditional file based environments and languages, and outlines his tool which has similarities with Interlisp's residential environment.

https://blog.dziban.net/essays/explorative-programming/

#ExploratoryProgramming #CommonLisp #Lisp #interlisp

AndreasDavour,
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@amoroso @dziban considering how much talk there has been about agile and other methodologies that re-think the old paradigm of "plan it all out beforehand" , it is a bit surprising explorative programming isn't talked about more.

SJohnRoss, (edited ) to random
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Of the twenty-something fantasy city-books highlighted in the biblio, Eidolon (and Sel-Kai) might take the "pleasantly surprised" award, because I've never been a Shadow World fan (still not) ... But my preconceptions were unfair to this book, which is Really Very Good. While it has some of Amthor's usual tics, they often end up serving, rather than undermining, the design. Dragon magazine called it the jewel of the Shadow World crown, and I agree.

AndreasDavour,
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@SJohnRoss I don't know if you have written about it before, but what where those "regular tics" and how come they worked this time?

I have a soft spot for Shadow World, as it ought to be quite cool. Yet, it never seem to deliver.

AndreasDavour,
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@SJohnRoss I see. Thanks!

One habit of his I never liked was the excessive amount of history writing, but he loved his Tolkien and never bothered to hide it.

AndreasDavour,
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@SJohnRoss we do indeed.

AndreasDavour, to random
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This week needs a soundtrack. I have no idea what style or feel, but I feel a lack of sound to back up my mood.

AndreasDavour,
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@SJohnRoss thanks, I'll save that one for later.

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