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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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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".

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

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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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 random
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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)!

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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Just putting this idea out there, Hollywood:

"Cocaine Bear 2: Rise of the Meth Wolves"

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.

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.)

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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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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...

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.

BrianBinh, to random
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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.

BrianBinh, to random
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I just got an email from DrivethruRPG telling me that I sold another copy of "3 BONES", the little that could. It's a pretty simple little thing, but it can do a lot. When people read it, they usually say "Oh wow! Yeah! I'm going to use that!" and then they take bits of 3 BONES to add to the other games they play.

I basically made a soup of my favorite game bits and boiled them down to a condensed broth. It's at DTRPG and also at Itch which has a free version you can check out.

BrianBinh, to random
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Slayer's "Raining Blood":The Weather Girls' "It's Raining Men"::strawberry jelly:strawberry preserves

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.

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!"

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

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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!"

    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!

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

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

    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.

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    To Whom It May Concern,

    I don't write for free. Not even cover letters.

    Please do consider me for the position though.

    Sincerely,
    Eppy

    P.S. An invoice for $200, my discounted rate for prospective employers, should be attached.

    BrianBinh,
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    @epidiah "Why do I want to work for you? I require money to exchange for goods and services. I understand you will give me money in exchange for my services."

    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.

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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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