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deinol

@deinol@dice.camp

Just another Rpg geek. (he/him)
By day I’m a boring computer programmer.
I like #ttrpgs and #boardgames
I read a lot of #history

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deinol, to DnD
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Not to start a war, but the Shadowdark Facebook group I saw a link to a YouTube claiming Shadowdark “won” the OGL war.

First, you can never “win” open gaming. You can temporarily become dominant. If anyone has, it’s Paizo who often gets as much or more shelf space as D&D.

Second, while Shadowdark uses the 5e CC-BY SRD, but it contributes nothing to open gaming itself. It’s got a 3rd party license, and it’s fine enough, but that isn’t open gaming.

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.

deinol, to scifi
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One of the weird premises of Dune is the notion of scientific secrets. It’s really hard to keep scientific secrets. Once you know something is possible, if you have the resources of numerous planets for centuries, you can absolutely recreate anything ever invented.

Usually the limiting factor is resources.

Okay, now that I think about it’s one of the least weird assumptions. Just a dumb one.

deinol, to books
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I have finished Heretics of Dune

I don’t really know what to make of it. On the one hand, it’s back to political maneuvering and is at least readable. But it’s still mostly about eugenics. And controlling people through sex.

I feel like you can skip God and enjoy this one, but you are still better off ending at either 1, 2, or at most 3.

deinol, to Warhammer40K
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The silly thing I did 25+ years ago was decide to paint each individual harlequin in different colors. No uniform army, each gets to be unique.

So I’ve got 5-10 models I need to paint, and I could use color scheme suggestions. Bright, queer, fabulous, delightful colors.

What should I paint?

deinol, to books
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I have finished reading God Emperor of Dune. It ended exactly as it must, but I’m still not certain what to think of it. So far it’s my least favorite book, mostly because of the homophobia.

My recommendation is to probably stop at book 2 or 3.

But I shall forge ahead anyway.

deinol, to books
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I see that Herbert believes in traditional marriage, between a woman and an immortal sandworm hybrid.

deinol, to books
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I’m most of the way through Midnight Tides, but I have two lingering questions from House of Chains.

First, does the random Forkrul Assail that Karsa Orlong freed ever show up again?

Second, who is the random (immortal?) guy in a tower Karsa Orlong met and does he become important?

There are sometimes threads in this epic that are abandoned, and other times ones that are long dormant.

deinol, to Warhammer40K
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Played in a doubles 40K tournament yesterday. It was fun, but a long day. I played my Imperial Guard and my teammate played Custodes. I was the Artillery support for his objective taking monsters.

deinol, to books
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A third of the way into God Emperor of Dune. Now his sexism and homophobia is showing. I know there’s subtext along the way before this, but it’s really blatant in Moneo’s conversation with Idaho about why Leto keeps an all women army.

deinol, to books
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I have finished reading Children of Dune. I definitely appreciated it more as an adult.

I’m still digesting it, but feel like the important message is that unless we stop destroying our environment and begin thinking in terms of multiple generations then humanity is doomed. And maybe destroy the things that are polluting the environment until they become too costly to operate. Probably avoid dictatorship though.

Interpretations may vary.

deinol, to science
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I made the mistake of commenting on a public news post over on CorporateBook about our record high temperatures, saying “if only we’d listened to climate scientists 50 years ago…” and all the crazies had to reply with the usual propaganda.

Yes, climate change has occurred naturally before. But never at the rate we’ve seen the last few decades.

I really should stop looking over there.

https://xkcd.com/1732/

deinol, to random
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“We say of Muad'Dib that he has gone on a journey into that land where we walk without footprints.”

  • PREAMBLE TO THE QIZARATE CREED

I have finished Dune Messiah. It’s definitely worth reading with the original. It’s probably best to stop here. Beyond lies only madness.

But I will walk the path of madness a little further.

deinol, to scifi
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I’ve decided I should actually try reading the rest of the Dune books. I tried once before, but bounced off either the 2nd or 3rd. But thinking on it, that was 35 years ago when I was twelve. So maybe it’s time for my adult brain to try it out.

😅

deinol, to queer
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Finally getting around to watching Bridgerton. Question without spoilers, but in the books do all the Bridgerton siblings end up in heteronormative relationships, or do any end up happily queer?

deinol, to random
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Drive Thru Rpg is running a big sale right now, so now is a good time to drop some coin on your favorite independent creator.

Some Traveller related favorites from me:

300 ton alternate Far Trader ships from Moon Toad

https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/153837/ship-book-a2l-far-trader

Solis People of the Sun, a nice detailed using real stars near earth

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/422968/Solis-People-of-the-Sun

deinol, to linux
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I need Linux networking help.

We have a device that runs embedded linux and we manage wifi connectivity via the wpa_supplicant application. We have clients that are wanting to connect them to a Cisco IPSK network.

It’s been a long time since I did networking, and IPSK + radius is something I only vaguely know about.

But I can’t find anyone talking about the two in the same article.

Anyone know if it’ll even be possible?

deinol, to random
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Nepenthe A483436-B Ni (2724 Balgua/Foreven)

VlWG-11

Nepenthe Vlight Winged Glider-11

Vx: 10.67 tons Speed=6 Advanced Protected Weeks Q=-2

A personal glider designed for use in low gravity, dense atmosphere worlds. It contains an air filtration system that purifies air for the rider, a long range comms, GPS system, and also converts to a paddle boat for water landings. Primarily used for entertainment purposes on Nepenthe and can be rented for 300 credits a day.

deinol, to fantasy
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Looking for book recommendations for female and queer sci-fi and fantasy authors. Especially classic ones (pre 80s), but I know they aren’t as prominent then.

deinol, to history
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Facebook Clickbait Headline: Ancient shipwreck with Orichalcum may prove Atlantis existed!

Me: Um, that’s a copper/zinc alloy. We call that brass. It’s a neet find, very early for brass, but it’s not Atlantis.

deinol, to miniaturepainting
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Now that I’m more than halfway through my Ogre Battle Box, I’m pushing to finish it off.

Although there’s a box somewhere in storage that has the infantry and light GEVs, plus hopefully the turret to my Fencer.

deinol, to epic
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I should mention that if you are interested in Epic/Battletech/Ogre scale miniatures, SJ Games is doing a project for a new set of tanks that I’m of course getting two of.

https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/steve-jackson-games/ogre-minis-4/

#Kickstarter #Ogre #SJGames #Epic #LegionImperialis #Battletech #Miniatures #MiniatureGames #WarGames #OgreMiniatures #Crowdfunding

deinol, to epic
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One quarter of my Ogre tank division painted.

deinol, to miniaturepainting
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Took a break from 40K to paint a few other minis.

Snowy day stuck inside. These paint up pretty fast.

deinol, to newmusic
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What was your favorite album of 2023?

Mine was The Maybe Man by AJR

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