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LeviKornelsen

@LeviKornelsen@dice.camp

Canadian maker of tabletop RPG bits and assorted weirdness.

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"Chaosium hires Mearls" take:

At this point, I kind of feel like Mearls has had as much dragging for "I fell in with an utter shitheel and gave him a BIG hand up" as there is to take.

He didn't do a public mea culpa, and one is possibly owed, but I'm also not sure Wizards lawyers would have let him.

Not a fan, but I just can't work up any real heat on the guy anymore.

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As someone who uses "folks" a lot because I grew up in a hick Alberta village of 600 people (named "Mannville", no less), I love the fact it's been widely adopted as inclusive language.

Not least because that usage would've irritated a notable chunk of said hick village back in the day.

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Have we considered the possibility that AIs aren't "hallucinating" at all but are just naturally sarcastic assholes?

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Consider:

Stinking hairy man-creatures with only a patch of pale skin around their bright eyes, dressed in layers of filthy rags with a few furs crudely lashed on - untrustworthy, often spiteful, but offering and trading in marvels.

I'm just saying; early colonial traders as monster-men works way better than the "savages" they traded with.

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My hopes that we'll eventually see actually ethically sound AI are consistently undermined by the people who are in charge of the main organizations in the field.

Especially this fuckwad.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/sam-altman-is-full-of-shit/

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Urban Fantasy Concept:

  1. Ritual behaviour is how you talk to your unconscious, and the more personal, the better.

  2. Psi-like abilities are controlled primarily at the unconscious level.

  3. The art of magic is the design of psychologically-personal religions.

  4. Psychics half-believe batshit stuff, know perfectly well that it's batshit, will stab you for trying to explain it's wrong.

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Successfully fired and glazed chess dude.

Quality level: Weird stuff found at an import store (And, to be clear, I am perfectly fine with this. Will seek improvements, but this clears "I would not be ashamed to sell this".)

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Levi and Junior have just left the house to play in the backyard.

Junior reverses course and sprints houseward. Levi watches in confusion.

J: I forgot! I forgot! I forgot to put sunscreen on my Barbies!

L: That's not....

Slam of back door

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Wicked Movie:

I have read the full run of Baum Oz books (and have them all in glorious hardcover), most of the other-author books of the "famous forty" canon, the full set of the Maguire takes, and have seen the musical and a PILE of film and series stuff.

Not an expert, but I do know the material.

The new upcoming movie might or might not be particularly good!

But the objections at this point REALLY sound like "I don't know what I'm talking about, but want to make noise to cover my racism".

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In the race for "Boringest assholes alive", I've got $50 on "Dudes who are still posting mad about Brie Larson". To place, not to win; the competition IS fierce.

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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.

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Paycheck was surprisingly good this round, so instead of the microwave kiln, I opted to splurge and ordered the fancy desktop kiln to attempt firing of my little dudes.

Gonna break out my fireproof slabs and set up a workstation for when it arrives.

Novel ceramic game pieces look to be in my very near future! Whee!

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I now have a design version of the Chessables in which they are heavily armed.

  • Bottom row is standard chess: Pawn, Reeve/Rook, Knight, Bishop, Queen, King.

-Middle row is: Damosel, Mann/Merchant, Prince, Princess, Friar

-Top is: Vampire, Skeleton, Witch, Elf, Wizard.

(A few are not pictured here, including the Hood and Ranger.)

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"A mount other chess pieces can ride on" is not the silliest thing I've designed, but it's close.

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I swear, every time I boot into Windows, it does an update that reactivates some bullshit that gives me grief in Linux.

This time: It auto-re-enabled "Fastboot", locking my backup drive to Linux until I went back in, hunted it down, changed it back.

Such utter nonsense.

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Realized it's actually been a year and change since I recapped what my chessables ARE, so:

I wanted a chess set plus a ton of extra pieces, for variant chess games, tokens for other stuff, etc, so I made some 3d printable ones.

They came out pretty cool.

Then I 3d printed them as molds and cast them with plaster and painted them.

I'm still working on making them as aluminum molds for plastic injection.

I'm now ALSO working on making them as plaster molds to slipcast them as ceramics.

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Heroes solve problems for local areas, and then become leaders of those they've saved. That's how the stories go!

So when the heroes show up having solved a horrifying problem... The local people might say to each other "They probably want to be in charge now, right? That's how it works?".

And some of them will want to make that happen! And some of them won't! And the ones in charge currently will have especially strong feelings on the matter.

Clearing the dungeon as political debut.

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While I'm mucking about with ways to make my little chess dudes out of recycled plastic (I've been using a plaster-concrete concoction), I realised I could probably switch the process and make plaster molds, and slipcast the pieces.

Which classes them up enough I'd likely feel good about selling them!

Test mold #1 formed perfectly, though I forgot to add a well for extra slip....

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Any shapechanging spell in an RPG that doesn't include "Oh, and you can change whatever you like in the pants and chest departments, etc" has failed to understand why a great many people would pursue that magic.

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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.

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You know what I love?

Branches of ancient technology that dead-ended somewhere, but could have carried on in the right conditions.

In my head, that's deeply engaging fantasy material for doing "Things are weird and different here".

So if you know of sources for that stuff: Grabby hands

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For those who cannot go big enough on the Deluxe DM screen.

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Okay, this diagram came out surprisingly professional.

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It's been a minute; let's do this again:

If you are a Tabletop RPG nerd and have less than, say, 500 followers (or think you have less than 500 that are actually active):

  1. Write a post to introduce yourself and your particular nerdery, if you haven't already got one pinned.

  2. Reply in the comments with a link to or copy of that post.

  3. Share, check back to find people you want to follow, all that.

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The main difficulty with Free Speech Absolutism as a position is that I don't believe anyone who says that's their position. Like, even a little.

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