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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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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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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 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 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!

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I think enough time has passed that we can finally get this out in the open:

Dejah Thoris was actually quite comparable and I'm tired of pretending she wasn't.

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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?

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When your kid proudly shows you that they've learned a new skill or got a good grade on a test, don't just say "I knew you could do it, buddy!"

Instead, try saying "Indeed you are powerful as the emperor has foreseen!"

BrianBinh, to DnD
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DM tip to really mess with your players' heads:

Act as a neutral arbiter of the game's rules and setting. Don't twist wishes to screw them. Don't present them with "gotcha" scenarios designed to make them mess up.

Just be fair and reasonable. Their paranoia from past terrible DMs and all the "Evil DM" memes they've seen will have them waiting for you to spring something on them.

Then, when they finally let their guards down, just keep being fair. Nobody needs that "Evil DM" stuff.

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Thundarr the Barbarian is the Ego of man, attempting to navigate his world between the instinctive impulses of the Id–represented by Ookla the Mok–and the moral compass of the Superego–represented by the wise sorceress, Princess Ariel.

In this essay, I will...

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Just putting this idea out there, Hollywood:

"Cocaine Bear 2: Rise of the Meth Wolves"

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"I still think they're good, but I'm no longer impressed by their incredible range." –me after finding out King Crimson and King Diamond are two different bands

Have you ever had that "Those are two things?!" moment about something?

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Slayer's "Raining Blood":The Weather Girls' "It's Raining Men"::strawberry jelly:strawberry preserves

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Just checking out a cool looking conlang script... Not again!

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It's the night before Halloween. October 30th is known as Devil's Night in my homeland, the icy wastes of Nordor (a.k.a. Michigan). In keeping with my personal liturgical calendar, I will now watch "The Crow" and drink whiskey as I do every year on this night. Do you have any personal annual traditions?

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Helpful reminder: A critique is an in-depth analysis of something and examines both its strengths and weaknesses, as well as its biases and points of view. If you just say "This thing sucks", that's not a critique. That's just scorn.

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Gen X: Remember when we got so into alternative music that it became mainstream and then we all got really into Gregorian Chant and Tony Bennett for some reason?

Elder Millennials: Nooooo, but it sounds like something that could have happened.

Younger Millennials: I can't tell if you're joking or not.

Gen Z: Cap! Fr fr.

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.

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History: In 1918, the Romanov family was assassinated by revolutionaries, but the body of young Anastasia Romanov wasn't found in the aftermath.

Animators trying to one-up Disney: "Maybe she survived and went on a magical adventure!"

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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?

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It's like the opposite of those people that buy a game & download it 13 times. You know you can reopen a PDF after you close it right? Somebody out there has files on their computer labeled
"Robots and Ruins pamphlet.pdf"
"Robots and Ruins pamphlet(1).pdf"
"Robots and Ruins pamphlet(2).pdf"
"Robots and Ruins pamphlet(3).pdf"
"Robots and Ruins pamphlet(4).pdf"
"Robots and Ruins pamphlet(5).pdf"
"Robots and Ruins pamphlet(7).pdf"
"Robots and Ruins pamphlet(8).pdf"
and so on up to (13)!

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'Tis the season, so I'm thinking about . In Bram Stoker's "Dracula", he repeatedly refers to the garlic used to ward off vampires as "flowers". Dr Van Helsing has them delivered from the Netherlands, where they know about growing flowers from bulbs. When Lucy wears a necklace of garlic, it isn't a string of papery white bulbs like you might have in your pantry for cooking. She has a garland of these blooms.

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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".

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"Bilbo" was just a nickname. His full name was William Beauregard Baggins.

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Using two spaces after a period was only correct for a narrow span of typographic history (after the introduction of the linotype machine ~1886 until the adoption of phototypesetting in the 70s and 80s). If you aren't casting hot metal type (or using a mechanical typewriter), stop doing it.

Continuing to do it on a computer with digital kerning is like slicing the end off your ballpoint pen with a knife because you learned to write with a quill and "that's how you're supposed to use a pen!"

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.

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