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archetypical nerd; #rpg #ttrpg #unix #linux #programming #ui #history #trivia #munich #music #retrocomputing
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Blog: https://executable.pseudoco.de
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2024-07-07 22:25:17

Pitch: superhero show where all villains are basically different versions of Peter Gabriel.

2024-06-23 00:26:49

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No PETSCII?

2024-06-21 22:38:28

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Better than when disabling http3?

2024-06-18 23:43:05

"[authors] have written a very short book that's not nearly short enough."
Brutal.

2024-06-16 16:36:23

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In this specific case? Stereotypical unified "Catholic Polytheism", deity venerated locally. So, yes, from a purely simulationist perspective it's possible.
So players not doing this – just like the noble PC not having everyone whipped for similar reasons – requires a certain level of meta-gaming, to be honest.
That's why I'm asking: Should this be prevented in world-building (hard to do), campaign setup (e.g. no PC clerics of high social standing), players not being needlessly obstructionist? Or do people actually like that part of gaming?
Sometimes I'm a bit worried about the level of feudal fandom in fantasy RPGs…

2024-06-16 16:11:14

Oh boy, in a #thedarkeye chat, the old "I'm a cleric of the war goddess, why does nobody RESPECT MAH AUTHORITEH" argument resurfaces.
How do you handle that in your #ttrpg games? Clerics and the like often are members of organized churches with plenty of worldly might, plus plenty of *literal* divine powah. A desire to be treated differently is justifiably, from an in-game, simulationist point of view.
Alas, this immediately triggers my "nerd power fantasy" GM-sense.

2024-05-30 19:06:27

I still can't believe someone came up with the term "Tactical Domain Driven Design".
"Our ports are 9mm and even our rifling is hexagonal!"

2024-05-07 23:02:08

Say I want to play around with some old sequencers/DAWs/trackers and #midi …
I can't use VSTs directly, and I don't have any synths, and little room. (I did just get a PicoGUS, if that helps)
Any interesting, not too expensive little devices I can get? Interesting synth boxes (without they keys)? Haven't soldered in 20 years, but maybe some Raspberry Pi project? Run VSTs on some other machine and connect them somehow to the retro system?
#retrocomputing #midi

2024-05-07 19:33:59

These Emacs transient menus seem to be all the hype, but to me they kinda look like the old WordStar help screens. What am I missing?
#emacs

2024-04-30 17:01:43

We've got all kinds of new-fangled programming languages and IDE integrations in the last decade, but did any one of them ever try to give us back spaces in names?
Underscores are a bad replacement, they shouldn't even be in ASCII.

2024-04-08 17:49:01

Alternatives to eclipse-watching:<li>24 hours of Smash Mouth' "Walking on the Sun"</li><li>Staring at one of those horrible blue LEDs while a black cat walks by</li><li>Making thine eye offend thee</li><li>The other trad way of losing your eyesight.</li><li>Reading Gene Wolfe's "Book of the New Sun" without a dictionary</li><li>Looking at Netbeans</li>

2024-04-06 21:13:22

If you're doing a *new* OS you might as well ditch POSIX.
For extra credits, do it without ASCII (or its supersets).
#osdev