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GoblinQuester

@GoblinQuester@dice.camp

Been a titterpig since anno dazumal … that is, since the 80’s, and titterpig was a word I learned the other month. Mainly been playing RQ and WFRP in the modern time.
Oh, and Trans Rights are Human Rights!

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mrundkvist, to random
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One of the most confusing issues in Leftie political debate is Kenta's social class. In the orthodox Marxian view it's simple: maybe Kenta is petit bourgeois, but he's certainly an employer, and that's it: upper class. In the sociological view, it's equally simple: Kenta is a skilled manual labourer with a few employees and probably no university degree: working class. Then there's the American usage, where as the owner of a small construction business, Kenta is middle class.

GoblinQuester,
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@mrundkvist Isn't that the definition of "petit bourgeois"

GoblinQuester, to random
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I find the social media algorithms quite interesting sometimes (mostly I find them annoying and intrusive). I seldom uses my Insta, but for some reason the my suggestions have been flooded by Babymetal reels, I mean I have nothing against them, and they are cool and so. But it is not really a music I listen too …

Have the spynet picked up that I read a lot of manga lately and intersected that with my music taste (goth and EBM) … and that was the best it could come up with?

cstross, to random
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5/8: When writing technical or scientific detail, how much is plausible vs imagined?

Correctly depicting the background details in an SF/F story makes the utterly imaginary conceit at the heart of the story more plausible—it gains believability by being presented in a realistic context. (The best present-setting SF should leave you unsure how much, if any of it is imaginary.)

GoblinQuester,
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@RogerBW @nyrath @cstross @Hcobb I’m thinking of the guy who, when the google glasses was a thing among tech bros, stepped in among them in a bar and said ”hey google, call mum” and activated several of the glasses.

deinol, to books
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I have finished reading Chapterhouse Dune. My fools errand is finished. It’s not good, and of course ends with loose ends.

I think my personal recommendation is reading the first two books. Although just one or even zero are solid choices. Three is alright, except it’s a trap if it makes you curious and want to read more.

I’m tempted to revisit Heinlein who I haven’t read in at least twenty years, but I’m also afraid he’ll be disappointing.

GoblinQuester,
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@deinol I learned the hard way, do not read book you liked as a little whelp. I realised that I my brain had added stuff which was better than the original, and as a more mature reader I found topic and themes that … had not aged gracefully.
I instead find myself in an ever increasing flood of new authors, indie and self pub that fills my reading time.
(Although right now I’m in a slump and hiding from my TBR which is terrible)

GoblinQuester,
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@RogerBW @deinol My problem is that I'm a really moody reader, I flip flop through styles, themes and plots, depending on what I currently fancy.

masukomi, to random
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@ian_h_cooper Can you share any details about the current status of QuestWorlds? The last update i see on the Chaosium site is from Nov 2022.

Did they abandon work on it? It seems like it was so close.

GoblinQuester,
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@masukomi @ian_h_cooper While we are waiting on a response on that, here is the repository of the SRD.
(as I understand it the work on the ”real” books are progressing)

https://github.com/ChaosiumInc/QuestWorlds

mrundkvist, to hiking
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First hike of the year: Fisksätra to Tyresta, then bus home to Fisksätra. Cafés at Alby and Tyresta.

GoblinQuester,
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@mrundkvist Heh! Jag måste reka just det området eftersom mina "changeling" har fått för sig att de måste kontakta varulvar som bor i däromkring (det är bara en hoper med röda fiskar, men det kommer ju inte göra saker sämre om man säger så).

GoblinQuester,
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@mrundkvist cooolt, det är ju prexis sådana små pärlor man vill hitta, blir till att ta en sväng förbi där nästa helg!

Tim_Eagon, to random
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Ugh, someone scheduled a meeting on a Friday afternoon at 3pm...

GoblinQuester,
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@Tim_Eagon Sadism and pure evil work terrorism, make a revenge meeting at 7.30 Monday morning “to clear up some leftover topic”. Start return tickets with “need more grooming”, at the instant something is dleayed put the ticket in “pending” and demand regroom before put it in ready-to-start again.
Become ungovernable

ElleGray, to random
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    GoblinQuester,
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    @ElleGray
    Seinfeld was one of the first things that made me realize how different my head was wired (or becoming, or being liberated into) because I found it neither funny, interesting or philosophical or all the other birdshit everyone was spouting around me.

    RogerBW, to books
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    There Before the Chaos, K. B. Wagers https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2024/05/There_Before_the_Chaos__K__B__Wagers.html

    GoblinQuester,
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    @RogerBW I think your opinions matches quite well with mine. I think she was still learning when these was written IIRC she wrote them in a frantic tempo and also had a bit turbulent life. So the books could probably gain from some editorial passes and a bit of rewriting here and there.

    eniko, to random
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    in the games industry you can make a hit like kerbal space program and still have your entire shit shut down and everyone go out of work

    GoblinQuester,
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    @nyrath @eniko

    I frakking hate this time-line, even the small, few thing that are enjoyable is sacrificed on the altar of Mammon (together with the world in general, but whatever)

    GoblinQuester, to random
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    It has been just over a year now, and I’m still not used to actually do whatever I like every weekend. No old house to maintain, no garden to plan, prepare and work in, no partner or relative that needs my attention or help.

    Just me and my hobbies, to do, or not do.

    It is such luxury it feels unreal.

    I have now five days off, I could raise tomorrow and say “I think I take a trip to London today … or Berlin, or I have never been to Paris, lets change that” and just … do it.

    Sooo strange …

    mrundkvist, (edited ) to Travel
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    The Palm Tree Building of Łódź opened in 1956 and preserves trees that had previously grown in the private green houses of industrialists and Czarist officials. The glass building has repeatedly been expanded to accommodate growing trees, until nothing remains of the 1950s structure. But the tallest trees are still in their original places.

    GoblinQuester,
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    @mrundkvist Cool!

    BTW I read your choklad/potät essäer, fantastiskt intressant (och roligt skrivet). Som liten valp så ville jag bli arkeolog, men blev lite för livspraktisk och istället är en smula amatörhistoriker vid sidan om. Så här på äldre dar och med en viss ”disposable income and time” så kanske man ska återuppväcka det intresset.
    Hembygdsföreningar alltså … hmmm hmmmm

    GoblinQuester,
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    @mrundkvist Jag minns att jag hade en metalldetektor när jag var liten, men jag tror vi aldrig fick den att funka, eller så var det nån släkting som hade en.
    Pjaaa, jag är ju tekniknörd så varför inte…

    GoblinQuester,
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    @mrundkvist Jag snyggade till boken på Storygraph och gjorde denna lilla observation, du och Indiana lixom 🤠

    GoblinQuester, to random
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    Now that I regularly plays WFRP,, I starts to dream about gamemastering the whole "Enemy Within" campaign ... I have always said that it is impossible to play these huge campaigns unless you are a teen with to much time at hand. But perhaps it is also possible for us grognards in our dotage.

    GoblinQuester,
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    @RogerBW Ouch ... I was calculating more like 5 to 10 sessions per book. but OTH I know that my players always tends to bog down in drama and details so 15 is perhaps more realistic, or even 20. Anyway A year or two I guess is the minimum...

    masukomi, to random
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    “However, there is something intuitive about the four elements and the roles they play…

    “… a character jumping across rooftops would roll his Fire dice, a character dodging bullets would roll his Water dice, a character intimidating a foe would roll Air, and a character resisting a mind-control spell would roll Earth.” -

    I feel like the author & I are working from different definitions of the word “intuitive”

    GoblinQuester,
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    @masukomi Must have been a friend to the publisher or something, that smells like those heartbreakers conceived in a basement somewhere … but those never got published (except as failed projects at kickstarter).

    LeviKornelsen, to random
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    GoblinQuester,
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    @LeviKornelsen Brilliant!

    grimalkina, to random
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    It is IMPOSSIBLE to answer many of the things that the general public puts in front of social scientists and demands that we solve. Particularly when you work on social topics, people will ask you questions like: why is my boss mean, why doesn't government work, why am I sad.

    When you build foundational theory it's too broad. When you do specific investigations it's too narrow. When you take some breather to talk technical shop you're accused of only talking to scientists and being unfeeling.

    GoblinQuester,
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    @grimalkina I saw exact the same thing when I was working in environmental research and it burned me out of that. In the end it felt so meaningless to try to solve problems when 1) not only it was thankless but actually vilified 2) meaningless because no one wanted to go the extra mile to apply a solution 3) not only where solutions ignored, more problem was always generated.

    StillIRise1963, to random
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    What’s going to happen to all the people without flood and fire insurance when the floods and fires come.

    GoblinQuester,
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    @StillIRise1963 The insurance companies will have voided all those insurances anyway when that time comes …

    mrundkvist, to boardgames
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    plans: my buddy's 50th birthday, babysit my ex's dog, swap car tyres, , water my dad's plants, vacuum house, GM Brindlewood Bay.

    GoblinQuester,
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    @mrundkvist Trying out some solo rules for Runewars and prepping for the main event on Sunday: my Changeling the Lost campaign. Absolutely hilarious crew in that, they are still finding out a bit how to play, but absolutely glorious creativity!

    GoblinQuester,
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    @mrundkvist The set-up is that they have escaped their Faery kidnappers and returned to the real world, but are in a kind of half-half state and have to navigate this new reality. It is a very open sandboxy set up and my players have mostly been bumbling around, solved a mystery for a anonymous taskmaster then forayed into a dungeon-game run by a mad Faery lord. Yes and established a place called home (located in Gamla Stan) … by bending the reality to a pretzel.

    GoblinQuester,
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    @mrundkvist I think that is what I like most with Changeling, it can be a fairy tale, a horror story, an adventure game ... or social criticism ... or a weird mix, all depending on what the players think is most fun.
    Depending what way you lean the characters can be superheroes, dungeon crawlers or detectives.

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