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Queer TTRPG enthusiast spreading the good word about the greatest art form known to mankind™

#TTRPG #trans #queer #PnPDe #VorbereitungOptional #PlotPoint

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Language is fascinating! One word can have two completely different meanings

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therapist recommended trying CBT, now I still have anxiety /and/ my balls hurt

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@fasterthanlime cognitive balls theory

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bubble, help me out. I'm looking for a rules and setting light SciFi focusing on ships (mining, travel, and/or dog fights) rather than characters.
Like "Lasers and Feelings", but everyone gets their own ship.

I am specifically inspired by Fredrik Knudsen's excellent 6h documentary on EVE Online (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCSeISYcoyI) and want to do some space trading and exploit worm holes in mining operations 🚀

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@dnddeutsch @aces@openrpg.de
hatte ich eh auf meiner (sehr langen) Liste von Systemen in die ich mal schauen wollte. Vielleicht nehme ich das mal als Anlass rein zu schauen...

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Tracy (u.a. Co-Autor von und vieler weiterer Abenteuer) verteidigt die Verwendung von in of Abarax mit einem weirden, an den Haaren herbei gezogenen Schreibmaschinenevolutions-Vergleich. Ich habe das Produkt mit ziemlich hohem Einsatz unterstützt, war mega gespannt und könnte grade kotzen 🤢

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/skyraiders/skyraiders-of-abarax-a-5e-world-from-tracy-and-laura-hickman/posts/3918620

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@dnddeutsch @RPGManor
Habe null Kontext, aber bezieht es sich nicht auf Joe Bourrie von dem Absatz drüber?

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Looking forward to see more of this:

Tools to poison data sets for "AI" models. Reading that 300 images can already mess Stable Diffusion up makes me hopeful that we can make image sources unusable for "AI"

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/23/1082189/data-poisoning-artists-fight-generative-ai/

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@tante interesting, but half of that article read machine generated itself with a lot of redundant paragraphs

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When critics celebrate a work that I hate, it makes me feel dumb. I feel like I don't see something that to them is obvious. But I guess it's also the critics' fault if all the reasoning they give is just "it's full of ideas". I don't see it.

https://blog.optional.page/optionalbooks/treacle-walker-alan-garner

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I discovered "Daria" today and got a bit sad that I didn't discover it earlier. It's very relatable today, but if I'd been exposed to it earlier I maybe could have actually learned some things from it then, instead of "just" recognizing its lessons now.
I still very much appreciate it and am taking things away from it (in addition to enjoying the humor and the vibes).
And is that theme song great or what!

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"The internet looks the way it does largely to feed an ever-changing, opaque Google Search algorithm."

Mia Sato's article is part of The Verge's series on how Google Search reshapes the web and focuses specifically on e-commerce and SEO.

"Sometimes you’re just describing all the things that a magnet can stick to, and that’s pretty silly"

https://www.theverge.com/23753963/google-seo-shopify-small-business-ai

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So, I founded a rock band last year, "Lipstick Driver"

It's loud

REALLY loud

And I was a fool who didn't wear hearing protection, so ...

... I got tinnitus! Wheeee

My essay about it all: https://clivethompson.medium.com/musicians-protect-your-ears-aa782825f9b0

A "friend" link in case you're not a subscriber to Medium: https://clivethompson.medium.com/musicians-protect-your-ears-aa782825f9b0?sk=baf68e0ff7aff0bb737d6afe2e69bd2f

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@atthenius @clive
The website is https://mynoise.net/ and it is so amazing! It's just one guy running it, recording and creating all these amazing soundscapes that you can customize. I like combining the piano (88 Keys) with something nature (Irish Coast or one of the rain generators).

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@ryanpendell @bookstodon oh, I recently read that as well! What was your favorite tale?
I liked Icarus because I was surprised by all the small details that are omitted in modern references (literally shortened to just "he flew too Clos to the sun"). And the proto-Romeo-and-Juliet and the nymph that turns into a sunflower

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@KBroquard @ryanpendell @bookstodon
Not OP, but I'd highly recommend it! It's not difficult to read and it's such fun to read all these tales. And there's so much stuff in there!
Here's my full review in case you're interested:
https://blog.optional.page/optionalbooks/metamorphoses-ovid-translation-by-charles-martin

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For the NoScript/uBlock/uMatrix gang

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@Superfreq @kkarhan
Nah, they mean that supporting "no js" is good and that having a site that breaks without js is bad.

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@Superfreq @kkarhan
Also disclaimer: I only do some amateur web dev as a hobby and accessibility hasn't been big on my radar yet

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Power against the fuckery.
Create for you.

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@zzclaybourne

Don’t be seduced into thinking it takes money and technology to make something strong and real and new.
—Laurie Anderson

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“Clive” is a kind of weird name in the US

Every so often, a service worker asks if my name is pronounced “C-Live”

As if I were a DJ or something

I’m tempted to roll with it

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@danhon @clive I was reading it as in "a DJ on tour that you can go C-Live"

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A few days using , and I think I'm going to keep it. It's super polished, and I always wanted a personal , which is essentially what it is.

For me the main advantage over is how good linking between notes works.

The biggest disappointment is that there's no built in

But the real star of this entire thing is , which is much better than I suspected when I glanced it a long time ago. Especially in combination with .

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@ainmosni I don't know if it was Obsidian or Syncthing, but in the three years of using the two one of them ate 20 of my files, so I'd recommend some additional backup. (I'm using git with git-crypt)

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And this "woke culture", is it in this room with us right now?

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I reference this clip from a @Castopod talk surprisingly often.

Presentation at FOSDEM'23. Slide with quote by Adam Curry "I consider a Podcast to be any RSS feed that has an enclosure". Slide: [Screenshot of a Spotify Show] Speaker: "Example: This is not a podcast" Slide: [Screenshot of an XML document] Speaker: "This is a podcast" [Audience Applauds] Slide: [Spotify] Speaker: "For those who did not applaud, this is not a podcast because there is no RSS feed. You can download it. You can listen to it wherever you want to. But you cannot get an RSS feed, so you cannot select and choose the application on which you want to listen to it. And you are in a closed ecosystem here. (Spotify). So this is not the open internet."

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