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neilnjae

@neilnjae@dice.camp

Mainly here for the TTRPG community. I'm at the story / indie games end of things. #RPG #TTRPG

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RogerBW, to rust
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I've finished 2023 day 4 in . https://codeberg.org/Firedrake/adventofcode2023/src/branch/main/04

neilnjae,
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@RogerBW Yes, parser combinators are the way to go!

neilnjae, to haskell
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Day 4 done, still in Haskell, simpler than the past couple now we're out of the weekend.

A little bit of thought led to a pretty neat solution, I think.

Full writeup at https://work.njae.me.uk/2023/12/04/advent-of-code-2023-day-04/
Code at https://gitlab.com/NeilNjae/advent-of-code-23/-/blob/main/advent04/Main.hs

neilnjae, to random
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Day 3 done. The hard bit was expressing some simple concepts that were fiddly to implement.

Writeup at https://work.njae.me.uk/2023/12/03/advent-of-code-2023-day-03/ , code at https://gitlab.com/NeilNjae/advent-of-code-23/-/blob/main/advent03/Main.hs

Anyone else think these problems are harder than the earlier ones from previous years?

strypey, to Games
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Anyone remember a game called DownFall? It was sold under the name of Milton Bradley, inventor of The Game of Life. Although by the mid-1980s was just a brand name of Hasbro.

Anyway, it involved dropping plastic tokens through a series of plastic cogs, which players took turns to operate. Hoping each time that their moves would allow their tokens to drop, but not the opponent's:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBOJe7cPv8A&t=13

(1/?)

neilnjae,
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@strypey Of course, the challenge of the game is about knowing how the system works. If you do, you can manipulate it so that money/counters flow for you while preventing the other participant from getting any benefit.

Yep, a good model of capitalism.

LeviKornelsen, to random
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    neilnjae,
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    @LeviKornelsen The official Everway discord server has a great bot for card draws. I'm not sure if it's open source, or if the developer is open to sharing. Do you want me to dig a little?

    upmultimedia, to StarTrek
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    I've always been a fan of Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) and have loved the re-evaluation upwards its been getting this decade.

    But Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) is still terrible. Just cheap looking, low energy and feels thrown together.

    "It wasn't too good," Ronald Reagan wrote in his diary.

    A Klingon struggling with an unconvincing looking worm puppet
    Young Spock looking sexy
    A lacklustre title card saying "... and the adventure continues..."

    neilnjae,
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    @upmultimedia All except Christopher Lloyd as the Klingon. He was great. The rest, yes. Dire.

    LeviKornelsen, to random
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    I need swashbuckling, black-powder-era media to play in the background while continuing to muck about with Saints.

    Musketeer stuff is obvious, but also just finished watching Plunkett & Mclean again, which was a lovely bit of counterweight to the glossed-up feel.

    What else is out there?

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    @LeviKornelsen @Faintdreams And the Hornblower miniseries from UK TV. Ioan Gruffudd starred.

    satsuma, to random
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    Day 6 - favorite game you never get to play.

    There’s probably something of a theme here, but my pick for this one is T&T which I haven’t actually played since spending an absolute fortune getting a copy of the Deluxe edition shipped from the USA a few years ago.

    I really should offer to run a game and see who is interested!

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    @satsuma I've never played it. I'll be up for a game!

    bwebster, to random
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    Confession time: I have no idea what a Trad RPG actually is. I started gaming 10 years ago, so I don’t think I’ve ever played one. From context clues I’ve been trying to piece it together (Google hasn’t been helpful):

    • Trad games predate PbtA and the OSR
    • I’ve never seen any edition of D&D referred to as Trad
    • meta-narrative tools aren’t part of Trad play, story control lies mostly with the GM
    • players interact with the world solely through characters
      I don’t know if any of these are true 😂
    neilnjae,
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    @bwebster I'd call all those Trad. VtM perhaps less so, because it doesn't (purport) to focus on the action-adventure-combat style of many Trad games.

    neilnjae, to boardgames
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    A couple of games of Paint the Roses this evening. Both were close victories. Good fun!

    What are your favourite co-operative games?

    neilnjae, to boardgames
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    A first game of Mind Mgmt this week. A fun game of hidden movement. Us agents weren't able to quite get our act together to corner the hidden-moving recruiter before the clock ran out.

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    neilnjae, to boardgames
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    My local club did another all-day meeting last weekend. Here's my recap of the day. What do you think of the games we played? https://www.lbboardgames.org.uk/2023/07/july-2023-meeting/

    eladrin, to tisseksplayspace

    What's on your would like to play/GM list? For me it is:

    Forbidden Lands
    Achtung! Cthulhu
    Hjältarnas Tid
    Ironsworn
    Genesys: Embers of the Imperium
    Coriolis
    Symbaroum

    I mean, the list changes on a daily basis, but it is fun to think. Lots of on there!

    neilnjae,
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    @eladrin Brighter Stars (Cortex Plus take on Star Trek)
    Our Traveling Home (basically, Howl's Moving Castle)
    Everway
    Fight With Spirit (high school sports melodrama)
    Spindlewheel (Tarot-ish improv toolkit)

    @indiettrpg

    genesisoflegend, to random
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    I am slowly rewatching TOS with fresh eyes. I can absolutely see the shining heart of Star Trek slowly emerging and they did remarkably well considering the constraints.

    neilnjae,
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    @genesisoflegend I've been rewatching it too, the first time since my youth. I've been surprised how weird it's been!

    Timo_Micro, to random

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    @Timo_Micro Two good choices.

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