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?
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.
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.
@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...
Random shower thought: ”What if COVID is a bio-correction virus introduced by a ”benevolent” ascended alien sophont to help humanity to survive the “great filter”. They are so beyond our mental capacities that communication is impossible (humans and ants, perhaps they have tried and failed), but like a biologist they are determined to save the humanity whatever we like it or not.
So what do the virus do? Well, in the last stage of pregnancy it kills all the remaining eggs in the ovaries. …
So how that help humanity, the primary is that is reducing human population with a factor of 1000 would make a number of problem just go away, it facilitated the movement of people into arcologies to survive the catastrophic climate change effects that are upcoming until the climate can be brought back to human optimal again.
Hmm, hmm. would make an interesting backdrop for a book, especially if the aliens started to introduce other corrective measures to further their agenda.
@GoblinQuester It wouldn't be effective to do this blindly all over the planet. You only really to reduce the number of people with an affluent western lifestyle. Like me.
Sometimes I'm feel exaggerated annoyance with boardgames for a very ridiculous reasons. Frex in Euphoria I didn't like the resources (clay and stone in a SF setting!) and in Tapestry (that is not how technological evolution works). It completely ruins my experience of the game. Sometimes I can get around it by just renaming stuff in my head and block out the reality (like in SpaceCorp the one use tech is contracts provided by subcontractors and government agencies) ...
... don't get me wrong, theme games with dysfunctional mechanisms is the worst.
But I'm ridiculously sensitive to that perceived (or completely imagined) dis-junction between care for the theme and mechanisms.
@GoblinQuester Yup! Even if the mechanism works as a game mechanic, if it clashes with the theme that impairs my enjoyment of the game. "I want to be making decisions like the ones this (trader, explorer, builder) would make." I'd rather play an abstract game than one with a theme that doesn't fit.
Musing on the difference between binging and following a serial at a pace. I really understand the lure of the binge. To immerse oneself in a media to the exclusion of everything else really pumps pleasure hormones in excessive amounts.
To binge something that has been a serial for a while is a strange thing when you arrive to the point where you have to suffer the waiting-for-the-next-drop-state.
When a new episode/chapter/whatever drops, you get a small kick from reading it at last… <cont>
… but you don’t have the build-up of the binge as you had before, and all of the sudden you “see it in a new light”. The quality may be the same, but the experience of consuming it is no longer bolstered by being high as a skyscraper on hormones, so it feels bland and lacking in the comparison.
Sigh
Binging incomplete serials is setting one up for disappointment.
The big question is; is that disappointment less than the depression of reaching the end of a serial knowing there will be no more?
@GoblinQuester I've certainly found myself falling hard off the end of an absorbing book series, which is why I now try to read in something like rotation rather than a whole series in sequence.
For TV, there's also the question of whether it was intended to be consumed weekly or at a binge. When I did my classic Doctor Who rewatch there were times when it was clearly meant to be watched weekly: lots of recapping and explanation of what was going on.
Third time is the charm I have heard! Won again, this time in a three player game and it didn’t take that much longer than with two player.
I’m very impressed, an extremely well oiled game mechanics! #boardgames#golem
Forgot to post the Root finals at Sunday. I was by far the most inexperienced at the table and ended up in a stable late place. Still got a $40 gift card gracefully provided by Leder games! #Root#boardgames
aurgh, how many errors can a writer/designer put in a paragraph before it collapse into a black hole and kills us all?
If you are going to use science terms, then either learn something about them (they do mean something you know) or get someone to who do know to read it.
If not, better to use magic languages, or invented words, the advantage of that is also that it is time safe, new science will not make your bad science sound even more pathetic. #ttrpgDesign
@GoblinQuester I suspect this sort of thing is done by people whose own reading experience involves being impressed by the presence of sciency terms but not understanding them. Which seems a shame, really.
Really hot day today, taking a walkabout looking at the neighbourhood and lazying in a park. It certainly isn’t like having a garden. But less to worry about in this heat. And no worries for boars or slug infestations…
And ice-cream!
@RogerBW Cool! Let’s have a recreational beverage of choice at a convenient opportunity! I’ll be there all day except perhaps the last one (as of course inconsiderate gits have their student reception scheduled without checking with me 😂).
@slips@kainoahttps://thias.hellqui.st/users/m I'm completely aware of how I can turn off addblocker, I'm just highly suspicious of sites that demands you turn them off. ... I do also understand the problem of them interfering with components.
My company is going (probably, economics is in the balance) for the annual trip to Wales, LLandudno to be a bit more precise. Cool place an dthey have the "greate Orme" there and when reading about it by brain started to go haywire. So now I have a CoC scenario writing in my head about a company trip where the evil Boss is actually a member of a cult that want to raise Jörmungandr from the dragon that was turned to stone here by vikings sacrificing themselves, stopping to reach the sea. #ttrpg
There is actually some intriguing things here: The same is (supposedly) of norse origin, but there isn't any other nordic related names anywhere in the area (of course not, they avoided it after the petrify the dragon incident).
The problem hmmm hmmm is that the Great Orme it has been on the site since the bronze age as a significant copper mine hmmm hmmm perhaps the Vikings just stopped an another attempt to un-petrify the dragon that was actually petrified in a previous age.
@GoblinQuester Every few centuries, the thing starts to move and someone has to re-discover the ritual and put it down again. The Vikings did it. Can you?