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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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    BrianBinh,
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    @LeviKornelsen Trophy Dark. In Trophy Gold, you can fight and win and have another adventure, but Trophy Dark is about your last desperate attempt to make one last big score or, more likely, die trying. If you face the monster directly, you die.

    juergen_hubert, to d100
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    Okay, I must say that reading through old / material is certainly good for lots of interesting plot ideas, among other things.

    Such as:

    "The main cult of an expanding empire is planning to marry one of its priestesses to the city god of a remote city-state in order to tie that city closer to the empire!"

    I hadn't come across that type of plot before, but it certainly has lots of potential for adventures...

    BrianBinh,
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    @juergen_hubert What kind of dowry do you need to provide to marry into divinity?

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    BrianBinh,
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    @LeviKornelsen Kirby?

    BrianBinh, to random
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    Just checking out a cool looking conlang script... Not again!

    BrianBinh, to random
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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?

    BrianBinh, to random
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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.

    openculture, to random
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    A Determined Art Conservator Restores a Painting of the Doomed Party Girl Isabella de’ Medici: See the Before and After

    https://www.openculture.com/2023/09/art-conservator-restores-a-painting-of-the-doomed-party-girl-isabella-de-medici.html

    BrianBinh,
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    @openculture The Renaissance version of "With filters/No filter".

    Daojoan, to random
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    The worst thing about online learning is that everything has become a video. Every code tutorial. Every design tutorial. Nobody actually writes out a guide anymore.

    It's just "hey guys welcome to my tutorial" and watching 10 minutes of content that mostly isn't relevant...

    BrianBinh,
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    @Daojoan Before watching a tutorial video, I always check the comments first for that highly rated comment that says "Actual tutorial starts at 5:34".

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    BrianBinh,
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    @LeviKornelsen There are too many temples on squares. I love a good temple at the end of a street though.

    I love alleys that wind like a labyrinth, but it's even better when they suddenly dead-end at a weird little shrine.

    Yora, to DarkSouls
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    I think might be the of my generation.

    By now the game is positively primitive on a technical level, but even after all these years, there's still seemingly no end to people trying to go through the whole game in increasingly more difficult ways.

    BrianBinh,
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    @Yora Now I feel old – the of my generation was .

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    BrianBinh,
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    @LeviKornelsen New Pokemon just dropped. I choose Pineturtle!

    LeviKornelsen, to random
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    You should definitely call your creative output "content" if is just meant to fill up the container of your format, or pad the platform, or if it's meant to act as material in your bid to be micro-famous, or it is in some other way just some processed filling you are placing inside of a different endeavour.

    Then, I can avoid it, knowing that neither of us actually cares about it.

    BrianBinh,
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    @LeviKornelsen I just call my creative output "my stuff" (or "artisanal small batch nerderies" when I'm feeling cute). I make it because I want to see it exist outside of my head & sometimes other people like them too.

    My greatest reward is when someone says "I thought your thing was cool, so I used it to make a new thing which is also cool, thereby increasing the amount of cool stuff in the world."

    The second greatest reward is cash, because I need currency to exchange for goods & services.

    BrianBinh, to random
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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.

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    BrianBinh,
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    @RustyBertrand I'm starting to think it was a bad idea to elect a bunch of people to plan our future who have explicitly stated that they want the world to end in the fires of war so their dead god can live again to rule the Earth in accordance with ancient prophecy.

    PaddyHatchet, to random
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    Is there a word for the odd melancholy when your favourite song is replaced with a different favourite song.

    BrianBinh,
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    @PaddyHatchet Musikgeschmackveränderdernschmerz: the pain of changing taste in music

    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 random
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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!"

    steveshives, to random
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    "I wish you would separate your Star Trek/pop culture content from your political content."

    And I wish you would fuck off and watch someone else's YouTube channel. Let's see who gets their wish.

    BrianBinh,
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    @steveshives "When did Star Trek get all political?"

    It premiered on September 8th, 1966.

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    @LeviKornelsen Some of the best adventures I've ever run involved PCs with a paragraph of backstory each and a napkin with something like "wizard hiding in hollow tree, angry gnome?" scrawled on it.

    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?

    LeviKornelsen, to random
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    The discovery that it's possible to retroactively improve a messy movie/franchise by adding prequel material and connective stuff is driving a lot of what they're doing with Star Wars right now.

    And like, on the one hand, it's working, and it's kind of neat to see it happen.

    But on the other hand, hoping we'll get some genuinely new shit here soon.

    BrianBinh,
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    @LeviKornelsen "Star Wars: Unrel Char", a movie about a character in the Star Wars Galaxy who's completely unrelated to any of the ones we've already seen.

    BrianBinh, to random
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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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    @LeviKornelsen I grew up in an isolated town with a huge Polish population. My kid knows a bunch of Polish words that he doesn't know are Polish. To him, it's just slang that Grandma uses.

    LeviKornelsen, to random
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    So, who's going to make a Fables RPG?

    https://billwillingham.substack.com/p/willingham-sends-fables-into-the

    BrianBinh,
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    @LeviKornelsen @GregStolze Is all the art free now? The IP was released into the public domain, but DC could argue that the art produced for it by other artists was "work for hire" that they own. They don't own the characters, but they could claim ownership of the exact images already drawn of those characters. Just like Snow White is a public domain character, but you can't use a picture of her that was drawn by Disney artists. It will be interesting to see them define the edges of this.

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