ah, IT issues... yesterday I tripped a fuse when making dinner (the electric kettle somehow creates a power surge just before boiling, and when the oven runs at the same time it gets tripped).
When I put it back my small rpi server in the living room all of a sudden makes issues. It runs, and I can connect to it from the outside, but somehow not from inside my home network.
But I ping it and it seems to be on... but I just can't seem to ssh onto it anymore.
@gonzohistory had a great idea in one of his last few podcase episodes: a game of Lexicon where the players create a fantasy bestiary as a handout for players.
That sounds like something I might want to try. You could integrate this with a game of #dnd or so, where players get some extra xp or something for bestiary entries.
I bought a Razer headset on a whim while in the electronics store earlier. I don't think I will do that again. To get the fuil features I paid for I had to register and give more private details than I had to give for working in one of the biggest banks of Europe.
Why does an electronics company want those kind of details from me. Why do they want me to give all that to use what I already paid for?
The Highest Level of All: The Story of Fantasy Wargaming
The Highest Level of All: The Story of Fantasy Wargaming by Mike Monaco, is a free pdf download published at CMU Press under a CC BY-NC-ND license, and dealing with the history of the eponymous (if a bit incongruously titled) Fantasy Wargaming roleplaying game system. Yes, it turns out you can write whole books not only about DnD. At least if it's something as weird as that game at least.
asked in the #irc channel and found out @ngircd does not allow interlinking of different ircds. which is a feature I thought would be quite normal to have for IRC, but it seems not.
ngIRCd at least is dead simple to set up. others don't make it that easy to get a small server running.
#Agile is basically project management esotericism.
The smartest people have managed to build processes on top of it that work, the same way that some churches have worthwhile charities that do good work, but that doesn't mean the core of the methodology isn't mumbo jumbo.
(ah yeah, going for both developers AND the faithful today in one fell swoop, what am I even thinking?)
playing through Mass Effect 1 the last few days. Man, that game feels somewhat badly designed. It feels like it wants to be both a #crpg and a shooter, and it doesn't quite pull it off.
Also the Legendary Edition I am playing has so many spots that are too dark to see it feels like walking through the game blind at points. If I have to use the map to find the exit of the room there's definitely something wrong.
Had to take both kids to my 7yo's logopaedics today. Packed some additional food and water and snacks so we can have a small picnic in the allotment garden later. My 5yo even took it downstairs with him.
Of course then he stashed it in a secure place in the basement instead of taking it to the car. As one does.
finally got around starting that Mass Effect Legendary Edition I got ages ago and it's... humm... a pretty clunky game? It feels cumbersome and slow and the story takes ages so far and I don't see it getting that much better soon.
so a substitute teacher somehow thought it was a good idea to ask my kid's class what their thought about their home country were. They had to write down 4 things.
I am not sure she expected the results, my son's friend (6yo), the little tiny shy mouse that he is, managed to sum it up with: *broken pavement
*dirty streets
*ugly buildings
*people stealing numberplates and just bribing their way out of trouble
good lord, that kid is a natural born cynic if I have ever seen one.
It occurs to me (for a while already) that something is going wrong when the result of working on a successful media property is getting fired and the company closed.
They most likely can do a tax writeoff like that. #gaming
if i noticed something when talking with outspoken pro-nuclear people it's that you really can't trust anything they say. they are intellectually bankrupt, will use all kinds of shady argumentation tactics, ad hominems, and can't even be bothered to write their own arguments (instead using AI for that)
