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malin

@malin@dice.camp

Working on an open-source RPG, so anyone can make any changes, and pass their ideas on.

Download: https://bindrpg.itch.io

If you'd like to collaborate on an RPG project, come and say 'hi' on Matrix:

https://matrix.to/#/#bindrpg:matrix.org

#rpg #ttrpgs #gemini #foss #TeXLaTeX

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ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs, to random
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    @ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs
    I like Serbia's most straight-forward attitude. E.g., here we have 'fuck-off coffee'. As a night winds down, the host brews the final coffee, before everyone fucks off.

    LeviKornelsen, (edited ) to random
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    malin,
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    @LeviKornelsen

    • Flashbacks (as in Blades in the Dark).
    malin,
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    @LeviKornelsen I suppose so, but then a few things could cross boundaries.

    I've got Story Points (5 XP for a backstory element, which does a current thing), which counts for 8, 5, 3, and possibly 6 (since the 'current thing' brings in a henchman, who can become a PC later).

    malin,
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    @LeviKornelsen
    If you need examples for 3, the (objectively) greatest system-for-story device comes from a Dr Who Initiative system.

    • Anyone speaking goes first.
    • Anyone using items goes second.
    • Third comes fleeing.
    • Fourth is combat.

    This would be really stupid in any other game. But if you think through any scenario, you can see it spilling out a perfect Dr Who scene.

    ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs, to random
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    malin,
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    @ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs
    It was always funny reading about Anthropologists pitching up somewhere and thinking they'd study people then return to their own space to write, while keeping food stores.

    Then, obviously, someone asks 'what's that? Are you not going to share?', and the 'totally impartial observation' method starts to crack.

    The funniest of the lot has to be the guy who arrived specifically to study people's calorie intake, while hoarding baked beans.

    malin,
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    @ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs I don't know why you hate them, but my knowledge is scattered, and usually about 40 years out of date.

    The earlier books I read did a lot to explain to the general public that various people were in fact, people, which apparently came as news.

    It's also nice to read about other cultures, since most people can't realistically travel that far, and the Yanomamo et. alia probably don't have time to chat with everyone who wants to see the world.

    juliancday, to random
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    The web is great going great: Google only surfaces Reddit and things it wants me to buy, and every other website pops up a 50% banner begging me to accept all cookies.

    malin,
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    @juliancday
    There is another path.

    A black void opens. You search but find nothing. An old lady yammers about her vinyl, and tells you where you can find other places. Along the road, a party of greybeards yammer about emacs. They tell you about a story of space, written by a collective, one part per week, but they forget to mention where the stories lie.

    To find this grand story, must hunt through the silent landscape.

    Join us on .

    LeviKornelsen, to random
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    Tabletop gamerdom is, historically, largely defined by bespoke, hand-crafted folk art remixes of prior material, all the way back to Wesely, Arneson, and Gygax.

    Trying to figure how the widespread, strong reactions both in favor of and against AI, which is industrialized machine remix, are entangling with subcultural values on that topic is odd.

    It feels like they should connect all over the place, but aren't, that much? Like, there's compartmentalization or something on that score?

    malin,
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    @LeviKornelsen
    Every fool's errand in Philosophy begins by assuming that if our words are unclear, we can disambiguate and analyze them until clarity arives.

    What do people really 'deserve'?
    What is justice?
    What is piety?
    And simplicity?

    All of them are muddy thinking to be released. So if the underlying question amounts too 'which ideas should people own', the answer is 'you can't own a recipe', no matter how many batons you have.

    TarkabarkaHolgy, to nature
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    Today's match is Aye-aye vs Rat! Vote in the toot below!
    12/13

    photo of a brown rat in grass

    malin,
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    @TarkabarkaHolgy pretty sure that first one's a rat on cocaine.

    jonny, to random
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    i don't know of any other album that still hits to me 24 years later as hard as it did the first time aside from The Unseen, created while Madlib took mushrooms for a month straight diving through his entire record collection. put on some headphones, listen all the way through, miss half of it, come back 10 more times, repeat.
    https://youtu.be/nWqNXuQCaWo
    https://quasimoto.bandcamp.com/album/the-unseen

    malin,
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    @jonny @fb why not peertube?

    malin,
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    @jonny
    I'm not sure what "common" mean here.

    Peertube is peer-to-peer. You can archive videos by torrenting them, at which point you're also hosting them whenever you want. This preserves some metadata (I've not checked how much).

    It's also real, which is a big plus.

    malin,
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    @jonny I'm not sure how 'heavy' it is, but a anything which uploads a video will be about as heavy as peertube. How would the service become more light weight while uploading videos?

    I'm pretty sure you could host it on a raspberry pi atm. The bottlenecks are bandwidth and IO, both of which receive some help from others seeding.

    malin,
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    @jonny isn't the bottleneck seeders? Like, if I torrent 5 peertube videos, I'll help uploading them, no?

    So there would only be interfaces available among a few peertube instances, but the video's not lost, and new interfaces can be brought up.

    Is this successor just to put the interface on a new p2p network?

    NickEast, to bookreviews
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    Elves, Trolls and Elemental Beings a collection of Icelandic folktales.
    The stories were so so in quality even if I always find lore interesting.
    But I found myself curious the theme of missing people? Was children and people going missing super common in these times? Because why else would it be such a common theme in the folktales?

    @bookreviews @reading



    https://ramblingreaders.org/book/364660/s/elves-trolls-and-elemental-beings

    malin,
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    @NickEast @bookreviews @reading I've not read that one, but I read most of these as warning to children: it's a dangerous world out there, so keep your wits about you.

    LeviKornelsen, to random
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    Tinkering with tables:

    RANDOM IMPULSE

    d6 Monster,
    d10 Villain,
    d20 Otherwise

    1. To Destroy

    2. To Consume

    3. To Hunt

    4. To Nest

    5. To Seize Territory

    6. To Hoard

    7. To Punish

    8. To Debase

    9. To Dominate

    10. To Purify

    11. To Befriend

    12. To Bargain

    13. To Improve

    14. To Endure

    15. To Secure

    16. To Observe

    17. To Serve

    18. To Conceal

    19. To Build

    20. To Evangelize

    malin,
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    @LeviKornelsen
    I misread '8' as 'debate' for a moment.

    > You find a troll at the bridge.

    "Are you gonna tax us?"

    > No! That's a stereotype. Taxation is actually theft.

    "Well, not 'theft', exactly..."

    > Debate me, bro!

    kyonshi, to Prague
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    hmm... my wife is planning our holidays this year and a stay in came up as an idea. unfortunately for at most 2 days. Which is barely enough time to see anything there. pity.

    malin,
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    @kyonshi Yous will see the backdrop to a great many films, including just about anything set in Paris in the last 20 years.

    I don't know that much about films, but I have it on good authority, and I faintly recall seeing some parts from Underworld.

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    @LeviKornelsen Which program are you using for it?

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    @LeviKornelsen

    I thought it might be inkscape, with all the blocks. I need to look into textures for images - this looks cracking.

    ljrk, to random
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    I know it may sound a bit elitist but there's a certain branch of self taught programmers that regularly gets on my nerves in a very non-healthy way: Those who say that it's always good to challenge your thoughts with an outside idea no matter how outlandish it may sound.

    While it does sound great and lovely at first, I will not engage with people who think to have "cracked cryptography" and found a perfectly secure cipher (other than 1TP). Who think they could create something that's Turing complete but without the downsides, who think they can "solve" the halting problem. There are certain limits to be obeyed.

    And at some point, them piling into the industry and giving advice and "good ideas" about how to "secure your computer network" is both dangerous and takes a lot of my time away. And I frankly don't give a shit about their "18 years of experience" in building frontends. I would, if the topic would be frontend. Not, it if it's fucking IT Security mate.

    malin,
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    @ljrk
    Okay, more like "You shouldn't go faster than the speed of light, because actually Einstein said it's the law"?

    malin,
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    @ljrk
    Sounds like @inspiro wannabes.

    masukomi, to random
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    re. the Fantasy Old Wizard trope:

    1. did you know that it's not exclusively white guys who grow to be "old wizards"? Women and people of color do too!
    2. did you know that not all elderly magical women are white, "grandmotherly", or "witchy"?
      3.did you know that wizards aren't required to wear robes?

    Imagine a world of old respected black wizards & cranky old ladies who could invert the planet with a thought, & don't care about your piddling little quest, or plucking herbs.

    malin,
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    @masukomi
    The witch legends here predate any of that by some margin.

    My partner suggested basing the organization on 'doulas', but with a guild (so basically 'unionized doulas').

    Why would you credit magic? Is this a metaphor about medicine being excellent?

    malin,
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    @masukomi
    There's limited art, but every piece I get is a chance to do my own thing, with new stereotypes and standards, so that's easily rectified.

    (actually it's not all that easy, but I don't have room for that rant here)

    malin,
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    @masukomi
    I've gone a little in that direction. There's also the notion of 'doula/ witch' as a 'good/ bad' distinction that people make, depending on it they like or dislike someone.

    Subversion's usually better than pure novelty, because anything that's completely novel takes a few paragraphs to explain, and rarely goes down well.

    malin,
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    @masukomi
    I'm not sure why anyone would think people practised magic at any point.

    There was 'magic' as in 'medicine but nobody knew how it worked, they just did herbs and it worked'.

    Like, 'if ants drink your piss, then you will die', works as a very basic 'augury spell', as it's a predictor of diabetes.

    Or were you suggesting that 'magic' as in 'actual magic' might have been used?

    Chaft, to Catroventos
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    Neil gaiman posted this-
    Posting this for the people who think that Tolkien's world-building was something complete and entire and finished before he started to write.

    malin,
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    @GhostOnTheHalfShell @Chaft
    Side note: this makes studying the language a 4-dimensional nightmare (or 'puzzle').

    > What's this word?

    > Well in timeline 1, it went from East to West, then looped back, so it ends in '-rie', but since Tolkien updated to timeline 4, then it should have gone South and gone North with the Nolder in the fourth age, making it the '-ntie' ending. However, evidence from recent publications...

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