No team is near me, so I said to myself “I’ll give it a chance and root for the team with the best logo.” But then the teams were revealed and every single one of the logos is terrible.
Is this superficial and dumb? Absolutely. But I haven’t paid attention since.
At the risk of triggering one or more unanswerable RPG discussions that occur over and over without end, here is a terrific post about unanswerable RPG discussions that occur over and over without end:...
Mileage varies, I guess. I’ve also been playing since the eighties (late Seventies, really). I’ve been a forever GM for most of that (not a forever DM, though). I have not been particularly active on game design forums, but still have seen every argument on this list someplace at least once a year, since at least the Forge era (so, about twenty years or so). Less often recently, maybe. Way more often earlier.
My feed is filled with bad news, which is my fault for using the fediverse as a news feed, but it made me wonder: Which organisations, groups or individual people in the world are doing the most good for our world? I'm particularly interested in those who manage to do good on a larger impact scale (quantity or quality), but if...
Yao Ming (an NBA basketball player) has, nearly single-handedly, saved the lives of tens of millions of sharks by simply asking citizens of China to stop eating shark fin soup. Since he started doing this, the price of shark fins has tanked, and 90+ percent of people surveyed in China support a ban on selling shark fins.
The foundational tenet of “the Cult of Mac” is that buying products from a $3t company makes you a member of an oppressed ethnic minority and therefore every criticism of that corporation is an ethnic slur:...
All of that may be true, but it bears little resemblance to the case the US actually filed against Apple. If you haven’t read the charges, you really should. They are filled with reaches that have long been rejected in similar cases, and a desire for government to broadly micromanage. One type of charge, for example, could easily be brought against any company that makes a videogame for just a single platform.
If you ignore WotC as being in its own league, a handful of companies are now the “top tier” of RPG production. I’d include Mophidius there, with Paizo and Evil Hat, maybe Chaosium. Their products have extremely high production values and large (by TTRPG standards) followings.
The are mostly known for 2d20 games (Star Trek Adventures, Dune), Dragonbane, Forbidden Lands, Mutant: Year Zero, and now publish some more classic titles (Twilight: 2000, Kult).
Wilson’s release will end a disappointing chapter for both sides. The Broncos went 11-19 in Wilson’s starts over two seasons and failed to make the playoffs....
I really wanted a modded Xbox 360 when I was younger because I thought being able to play ‘backed up’ games and having a custom dashboard was really neat....
I sold a bunch of 70’s and 80’s tabletop roleplaying stuff when I went to college. A few years ago, I reacquired many of those titles at collector’s prices. Not my most brilliant financial move.
In early February, Mark Zuckerberg added $28 billion to his wealth in a matter of hours as Meta’s shares soared after the company announced its first dividend payout....
Eh. In these kinds of articles, the story is less “rich seize more wealth from others” than it is “assets already held by rich increase in ‘value’”. Almost everything in this article is “stock price go up” and, therefore, the somewhat imaginary “wealth” number of anyone holding that stock goes up. Basically, the headline could be “changes in stock price make the notional wealth of billionaires fluctuate”. Sort of a non-story to me, because everyone listed in this article could have done absolutely nothing all year, and these numbers would have changed regardless. More interesting (if only slightly) would be an article about changes to their actual assets (i.e. did they increase or decrease shares in their company, etc.). I don’t really get the “let’s keep score” for billionaires thing the media does in any case, but this article is on the more useless end of that useless pursuit.
I’ve been searching around for a way to organize my TTRPG collection of pdfs (numbering in the thousands to tens of thousands) and haven’t really found a silver bullet for it yet. Everything I’ve looked at has some sort of weird thing that’s off about it that doesn’t seem to make it ideal. Is there something out there...
I use Leap (ironicsoftware.com/leap/). One of its better features is that it works great on top of any “folder system”, or even multiple folder systems. Also uses the metadata/tagging system of the OS, so plays nice with other tools.
Researchers who recorded direct neural signals from people listening to “Another Brick in the Wall” have reproduced a recognizable version of the song from the neural data.
You might actually want to look for RPG systems that are a particular kind of bad.
Some systems with decent math behind them fail because they are too fiddly. They might have tons of modifiers to track, cumbersome rolling, lots of traits based on averages of other traits, and so on. Those types of systems can often be great for things like MUDs, because the computer can hide most of it from the player. And, maybe a roll takes 10 times as long, but that just means the software can do it in 10ms instead of 1ms, so who will care?
If Earthdawn was open licensed, I’d suggest it as being “the right kind of bad”. It’s weird exploding pool step system is interesting because the dice for each step are set up such that the average roll of the pool is approximately the step number.
NFL draft grades: Bears, Steelers lead best team classes as Cowboys stumble (www.usatoday.com)
NFL Draft
Man it has come so quickly. Do any of you keep up either the pre-draft content? What sources do you use for NFL content?
Are y'all watching UFL?
I’m just curious if anyone is watching. It’s been entertaining....
Ten Unanswerable Evergreen Discourses
At the risk of triggering one or more unanswerable RPG discussions that occur over and over without end, here is a terrific post about unanswerable RPG discussions that occur over and over without end:...
[Rapoport]Source: The NFL’s hybrid kickoff model has passed.Here is what it will look like. And will be a lot more fun. (lemmy.world)
Source: The NFL’s hybrid kickoff model has passed....
Who is doing the most good in the world, and how?
My feed is filled with bad news, which is my fault for using the fediverse as a news feed, but it made me wonder: Which organisations, groups or individual people in the world are doing the most good for our world? I'm particularly interested in those who manage to do good on a larger impact scale (quantity or quality), but if...
The antitrust case against Apple (pluralistic.net)
The foundational tenet of “the Cult of Mac” is that buying products from a $3t company makes you a member of an oppressed ethnic minority and therefore every criticism of that corporation is an ethnic slur:...
Here's all the dumb shit Aaron Rodgers recently said on a conspiracy theory podcast (awfulannouncing.com)
Modiphius conducting survey for Discworld RPG
www.modiphius.net/…/discworld-adventures-signup
Broncos to cut Russell Wilson, take on $85M dead money hit (www.espn.com)
Wilson’s release will end a disappointing chapter for both sides. The Broncos went 11-19 in Wilson’s starts over two seasons and failed to make the playoffs....
What is something you wanted as a kid and bought now that you're an adult with disposable income?
I really wanted a modded Xbox 360 when I was younger because I thought being able to play ‘backed up’ games and having a custom dashboard was really neat....
Soft launch of Rascal News
Rascal News is a subscriber-funded source of RPG-related independent journalism: www.rascal.news
Coming soon: D&D pop tarts (www.nasdaq.com)
D&D branding to get both more irritating and delicious....
Billionaire Wealth: The Biggest Winners and Losers in 2023 (www.visualcapitalist.com)
In early February, Mark Zuckerberg added $28 billion to his wealth in a matter of hours as Meta’s shares soared after the company announced its first dividend payout....
Organizing TTRPG pdf collection?
I’ve been searching around for a way to organize my TTRPG collection of pdfs (numbering in the thousands to tens of thousands) and haven’t really found a silver bullet for it yet. Everything I’ve looked at has some sort of weird thing that’s off about it that doesn’t seem to make it ideal. Is there something out there...
Arcology in planning stages (www.newmurabba.com)
If you need plans for an arcology as big as “20 Empire State Buildings” for your cyberpunk game, look no further.
Hasbro lays off 1,100 (techcrunch.com)
Hasbro is shedding 1,100 jobs. SEC filing doesn’t say if they will continue renting Pinkertons.
Will Levis throws a pick, forces a fumble, then runs it in for the touchdown (twitter.com)
USPS to issue D&D stamps (about.usps.com)
In its 2024 lineup of #stamps, the US Postal Service is including stamps commemorating the 50th anniversary of Dungeons and Dragons.
Pink Floyd Song Reconstructed From Brain Scans (journals.plos.org)
Researchers who recorded direct neural signals from people listening to “Another Brick in the Wall” have reproduced a recognizable version of the song from the neural data.
Novice researching RPG rulesets
First, please bear with some initial context:...