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Thinking back to the time I was being interviewed by a recruiter from Spotify, who asked me if I was in the Eastern time zone. When I said I wasn’t, they explained to me they could only hire from the Eastern time zone because everywhere else was too far away to overlap with their European offices.
Trying to cheerfully explain to them that there were, in fact, time zones east of Eastern time did not go over quite as well as I had anticipated.
Null Prof. DM is hyping up Deathbringer by saying it’s 5e with some streamlining and harshness. He also has spoken about it in the same breath as the OSR. And it’s now officially a Shadowdark hack.
OSR just means it’s printed in monochrome and looks like the art was done by Rorschach.
Well, that technical interview was a disaster. I’m glad it happened on an application for short term role. It’s a good reminder that the type of question companies say they’re going yo test you on might not be anything like the questions they ultimately ask, though.
Technology Connections Oh man, right-wing heat pump and dishwasher spaces must be in a wild tizzy this weekend. This is going to be worse than all of the people suddenly asking why Star Trek had to go and get all “woke”.
I’ve been on #Mastodon for a month now, and I’ve just been posting pics of my #cats
It’s amazing how quickly you intuited the rules around here.
Well, see, the thing is, if you actually review the output, you suddenly start becoming very critical of the technology, and nobody who desperately wants to be excited by it is going to do that.
I’ve been using LLMs to tailor my resume to various job postings, and the amount of editing I have to do each time is not insignificant. It’s only marginally easier than updating my resume by hand.
Randahl Fink They’re going to go where the people, and particularly the media, are. Not only are they not here, but quite a few of them got cold welcomes when they tried it out, and won’t be back.
They like their corporate ecosystem. They don’t like the rawness of the “real” Internet. This is why they all treated it like a smelly Star Trek convention before the iPhone came out.
Moreau Vazh 100%. Daggerheart just exists for CR to have leverage over WotC. The fact that they can sell it as merch is just gravy. And there’s a reason they sold out their first printing basically overnight: they didn’t print that many.
Moreau Vazh Indeed. And that’s great at the table level. I run my games very similarly. The issue is more… “out there”, you know? Like, when “rulings, not rules” becomes a mantra that translates to “the GM has spoken, so sit the fuck down”.
I’ve seen the moden/OSR divide spoken of as “high trust” vs “low trust”, and the bulk of the OSR community has kind of shown itself to be individuals you probably shouldn’t trust demanding to be in high trust environments.
Meanwhile, the modern game landscape seems to be split between people who refuse to read, and people who refuse to think for themselves.
Everywhere you look, it’s kind of a hellscape.
Moreau Vazh “Rulings, not rules” is fine and dandy if someone is marking down the rulings and ensuring consistency over time. But then rulings become rules, or valence players become tools for the GM and their bestie to play with.
I’d rather have rules I can ignore than rules I need to make up and codity myself in order to maintain my own self respect.
Moreau Vazh Oh, fun! So, they have a whole pattern of bad behaviours! And here I thought it was just selling overpriced copies of 40 year old modules to people who don’t understand the games they play enough to replace old monsters with new ones.
Moreau Vazh This is why I don’t run APs (since strong narrative guardrails need to be set by the end of one book/chapter in order to actually facilitate the flow from one episode to the next).
The flip side of this is that I also just don’t seem to be able to fit in in the general online TTRPG spaces, since they’re either filled with people who think that pre-written adventures should be as linearized and as firewalled as possible, or those who refuse to accept rules sets as anything short of the inflexible, inarguable commandments from God Almighty. Meanwhile, I also can’t stomach OSR spaces and circle jerk around “rulings not rules”, because I still expect to get some kind of state or physics engine out of these things I’m paying for.
Moreau Vazh I hadn’t heard about Goodman, either. I’m assuming it’s what I’m currently seeing about their working with Judge’s Guild, which seems to be run by out and open neonazis? Or have they taken other masks off that aren’t floating to the top of the search engines yet?
IX is absolutely stellar. I was also really disappointed by the severe differences between VII and VIII, as someone who also started the series with VII, but IX pulls things back in the direction of VII. It’s still very different, in the same way that all FF games after… IV, I think?.. have been quite different, but it feels more true to earlier games, and to VII in particular. I cannot recommend it enough.
The lack of ads is great, yeah. And the knock-on from that is the (perhaps over-sold) lack of recommendation system, since ML-based post display is usually tuned to maximize ad views, they end up filling your feed with emotionally charged engagement bait.
Without the ads, the system of being fed content you didn’t subscribe to, and the system of maximizing the emotional impact of that content, never comes to be, and the social media landscape looks wildly different.
I’m so tired. Dear gods am I tired.
Due to my layoff, I’ve started rationing my physiotherapy appointments. My supplementary health insurance lasts until the end of March, so I can try and draw things out a bit more and do work on my own. My gym membership is also paid up for the next 11 months, so I have lots of runway to rehab independently. So, my PT gave me a gym routine for solo rehab, and told me I should do it 2x a week when I have an appointment, and 3x a week when I don’t.
I tried it out this weekend, and things went well. I was happy with it. Then on Tuesday night, I did it again, this time with more weight. I wasn’t going to do anything else until my physio appointment this morning.
But my wife decided she liked doing the weights, so we went yesterday morning. I was just going to do some of my physio ‘homework’, not my gym routine, but… but… the equipment was right there. I felt good! It was low weight! And maybe I just needed to get used to doing this stuff more, like I would if I was working a manual labour job. It only takes a week or so to acclimate to that!
Yeah… That was a mistake.
I’m so tired today. My everything feels so heavy. And I have karate in an hour! WTF?!?? What’s that doing in my day???!?
At least I don’t have to get up for work tomorrow, I guess.
Chris Trottier Americans also don’t want them. They speak French.
2021-2024 we didn’t have this shit
Sure you did. It just wasn’t happening to white folks within your borders, so nobody gave a shit. What you’re seeing now is the face of the US outside of the country, y’all just never had to see it.
This is the face of the US to non-whites, y’all just never cared enough to do something about it.
All that’s happened is that they finally crossed a line that is moved white folks to action. But that’s just a matter of degrees, not types.
I’ve always considered myself a Nintendo fanboy, but hearing about other Nintendo fanboys on the Internet is a continual culture shock. I love my Switch games, but the hardware is weak sauce, and the Switch 2 is unconscionably expensive. I’ve said before that I don’t care about the game prices going up, but I have a hard limit on what I’ll spend on the base hardware, since it doesn’t even include a play experience.
But also, I am continuously playing games on my PCs. Usually old ones. I’m currently replaying Final Fantasy 7. I just finished Ocarina of Time. FF9 is up next once I finish 7. Doom/II and Duke Nukem 3d are constantly revisited. I was planning on playing Baulders Gate I and II before picking up 3. I’ve been meaning to finish Doom 2016 for… well, 10 years now. My Steam collection is overrun, and almost exclusively with games that will run on my little convertible ultrabook.
I don’t think these people like video games. I think these people just like being on a “winning team”, and they chose Team Nintendo when they were “winning”.