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BrianBinh

@BrianBinh@dice.camp

I'm a simple man: I like my beer cold, my music loud, and my swords laser. I write TTRPG stuff & design nerdy t-shirts. (he/him/anh/anh ấy)

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LeviKornelsen, to random
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Here's an assertion that should be fairly agreeable with a second of consideration:

In a trad game, when it comes to how much gravity the game mechanics exert on play, the pull of the character sheet and the things the player imagines based on it is notably stronger than the great majority of of other rules. It's the dwarf star of rules gravity.

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BrianBinh,
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@LeviKornelsen It depends on how far back "trad" goes. In a 21st century "trad" game, the character sheet is a list of buttons you can push to make things happen. In a 20th century trad game, the sheet is a bunch of notes that help you remember who your character is and a bunch of loose parts that can be cobbled together to make things happen.

"I cast 'Solve Problem'. Does that work?"
Vs
"I have a Grease spell, a wagon wheel, and 50' of rope. First, I will construct a rudimentary lathe..."

BrianBinh,
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@LeviKornelsen If the character sheet is the dwarf star of rules gravity, GM rulings at the table are the dark matter.

Tim_Eagon, to madisonwi
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I’ve been dispatched to the first outdoor Dane County Farmer’s Market of 2024 to get some treats for the family!

BrianBinh,
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@Tim_Eagon @DM_Zeppelin
Me, 2 hours ago: "Heh. That's a reference to that song."

Me, 1 hour ago: "Ha! He didn't get the reference to that song."

Me, just now: "Oh snap! That was a reference to a song by the Scorpions... Because the scorpion chili sauce... Gah! I was blind, but now I see!"

BrianBinh, to random
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The English suffix "-ard" (as in "drunkard", "laggard", "braggard", and "sluggard") is used to make adjectives into deprecating nouns.

"He's drunk" is just a description.
"He's a drunkard" is a moral judgment that finds the subject lacking.

The same process turned "he's wise" into "he's a wizard".

"Wizard" was the medieval equivalent of "smartass".

LeviKornelsen, to random
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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.

BrianBinh,
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@LeviKornelsen As someone who partied epically hard in his youth (I once started drinking at a party in Ohio on a Wednesday afternoon, started following folks to other parties to "keep it going", and ended up at a party in Chicago that Friday night with no memory of crossing Indiana), my expert opinion is that playing Minecraft by yourself at home in the evening is very okay and you should just keep doing that.

BrianBinh, to random
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"Bilbo" was just a nickname. His full name was William Beauregard Baggins.

LeviKornelsen, (edited ) to random
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    BrianBinh,
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    @LeviKornelsen It would depend on how likely I think "custom" means "more expensive" and how expensive the non-custom ones already are.

    If I want the color of Set A used in the mold for Set B, is that any extra work or cost than just making Set B in its regular color? Do they normally make 20 sets at once so custom orders mean not making 19 matching sets at the same time?

    I'm more likely to follow through if there's some indication of price: "Custom orders welcome (typically X%-Y% more)".

    BrianBinh,
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    @LeviKornelsen "Contact us for a quote!" isn't that inviting in a world where people also say "If you have to ask, you can't afford it!"

    epidiah, to random
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    Missing Farscape again.

    BrianBinh,
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    @Tim_Eagon @epidiah Farscape was a great show packed with a lot of interesting characters and also John Crichton was there.

    BrianBinh,
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    @Tim_Eagon @epidiah I found him annoyingly inconsistent. He studied his whole life to prepare to be an astronaut to explore the universe. After 20 minutes on a planet full of dozens of intelligent alien species, he's whining that he wants to leave because he's bored like a kid being forced to wait at a shop while his mom tries on shoes.

    LeviKornelsen, to random
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    Have watched Rebel Moon part 2.

    It's gorgeous.

    It's badly, badly, badly written.

    I recommend turning off the sound and having snacks.

    BrianBinh,
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    @LeviKornelsen Ah yes! The old "watch Braveheart on mute while blasting heavy metal albums" ploy.

    BrianBinh, to random
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    You've heard of Plato's cave, Socrates' method, and Diogenes' lamp, but have you heard the allegory of Bophides' nuts?

    BrianBinh, to random
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    I just got a gut punch while working on my project. I found a lot of perfect illustrations on a stock art site, all by the same prolific artist. The style was distinctive & would have given the book a unified look instead of "here's a bunch of public domain stuff you've seen a million times". I couldn't buy them at the time, so I saved them in a gallery on the site so I could get them later. I just went to look & they're all gone. The artist seems to be deleting their accounts.

    LeviKornelsen, to random
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    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.

    BrianBinh,
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    @LeviKornelsen I've had a love/hate relationship with D&D for a long time, but I've decided that I'm just going to love it. I'm just not going to use the parts I don't like, such as:
    -Race/Class restrictions
    -Measuring encumbrance in "coins"
    -demihuman level limits
    -Wizards of the Coast
    -Gygaxian "fuck those players" monsters like rust monsters and disenchanters

    CITIZEN_OCHOA, to random
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    It didn’t take long for Canva’s Affinity acquisition to feel ominous. - The Verge
    https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/26/24112585/it-didnt-take-long-for-canvas-affinity-acquisition-to-feel-ominous

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    @LeviKornelsen @CITIZEN_OCHOA I got an email this morning from Affinity about their exciting new direction. I was not enthused.

    Kitty from "That 70s Show" pouring liquor into a pitcher. The image is captioned "oh for fuck's sake"

    BrianBinh, to random
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    I don't understand customers. I added some postcards to the Itch page for my personal survival horror game, "Ash Island". I posted a devlog saying "Hey, check out these postcards I made". Seven people read the message about the postcards, clicked the link to go to the page with the postcards, and then didn't download them. Why did you go there?

    BrianBinh, to random
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    My auto complete is on to something...

    BrianBinh, to DnD
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    An idea from my life for your game:
    I once lived in an old Victorian house that was converted into apartments. One day, I looked up at the house from outside & noticed a window on the corner where my bathroom had a blank wall. I checked it out. The bathroom at the end of the hall was 5 feet shorter than the hall. Behind a set of shelves at the end of the hall, I found a door with the knob removed so the shelf would sit flush against it. There was a secret corner room!

    BrianBinh, to random
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    I really like the MCU overall, but this drives me nuts.

    Villain: I believe that all people should be free to determine their own fate and live free of hunger and persecution.

    Audience: Well, that seems fine. I don't see the problem with that. Is this the real bad guy or does the villain come in later?

    Writers: Uh... Uh... typing furiously

    Villain: I also believe in mass murder and random acts of terror that are entirely counterproductive for my cause.

    Audience: Ok. That's bad, I guess.

    BrianBinh, to books
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    I'm currently The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst. I was expecting some dry technical details about kerning or the mathematically ideal textbook angle for the slant of italic , but it's deeply poetic and passionate about language and meaning. It's like opening an astrophysics text expecting a bunch of numbers & stellar spectra, but finding instead a joyous rave about how the human mind is electrical impulses printed on stardust.

    juergen_hubert, to Germany
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    Before proposing marriage to strange, pale women in abandoned castles, you should really do a proper background check.

    @germany @folklore
    https://www.patreon.com/posts/dead-brides-48659085

    Part 2 of German folk tale "The Dead Bride". Drop me a line if you want a machine-readable transcript!

    BrianBinh,
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    @juergen_hubert @germany @folklore
    Strange ✅
    Pale ✅
    Has old castle ✅

    She checks out, Jürgen. I'm going for it.

    BrianBinh, to Starwars
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    My personal head canon is that lightsabers have a lot of mysticism attached but they're still purely physical objects—just like samurai katana. A kyber crystal is a necessary component—like the quartz in a quartz watch or radio—but it's not a magic gemstone.

    I hate Sith "bleeding" their crystals red. I say all lightsaber blades appear white in-universe. The colors are for the benefit of the audience only, just like the music soundtrack.

    BrianBinh, to DnD
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    My kid keeps calling illusionists "illusioners", which honestly seems like a better name the more I hear it. It seems more active.

    Illusionist: "I have illusions. I made them."
    Illusioner: "I do illusions. I illude!"

    (Looking it up, "illusion" comes from the Latin "illudere" meaning "to mock". What do they mock with their phantasms and false sensory impressions? Reality, I guess.)

    BrianBinh, to random
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    I have just peeled and diced a fresh raw beetroot.

    I feel like I should stare at my red hands in horror like people in movies who have just been forced to kill someone.

    BrianBinh, to random
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    I've been drinking smoothies this week with beetroot as a major component. It's quite a healthy concoction, but it does have side effects. One side effect in particular is called beeturia, which is fairly terrifying when you need to take a leak late at night and forgot that you've been drinking beet juice. I thought I was hemorrhaging internally until I remembered the beets.

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