Wandering Adventure Party

The horror of being unseen as an individual, but constantly observed, measured, logged as an object.

I wish I'd been keeping physical notes for longer. The digital ones kept getting lost. I moved to physical notes about 2 years ago and I have ~4 full notebooks of handwritten notes. It'd be fascinating to look back at some of the old ones.

Calculating game hours. My group plays about 4 hours (used to be 5) a week. We've been doing this for about ... 12 years. Maybe a bit more. Scheduling is a bitch so lets say only 75% of weeks are played. That's 39 weeks. 39 x 12 x 4

That's an estimate of ~1,872 hours. As a GM I spend at least an hour for each other played prepping or researching, so lowball estimate for me is 3,744 hours on this tabletop group.
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I kinda hate the “follower” visibility, because “follower” is relative to the participants, not to the OP. So if X and Y follow me and not each other, they can see my post but not each others reply to my post.

Like, you’re all cool and in on this, you should be able to participate in the entire discussion. If I wanted to hear from specific people, I’d use direct.

@hellbeast@pleroma.envs.net ain’t they adorable though? ​​

I wrote a letter to someone and it’s apparent that they read it, and then passed it to their girlfriend to read.

…why do people do this? I didn’t write it to share. I thought I’d made that clear. I can’t stop you from summarizing or whatever, but the words themselves should be private. At least don’t be obvious about it.

I don’t disagree with putting content warnings, but the people who say you will get more engagement if you do … are being patently absurd.

Getting more engagement by adding another click is not how web content works. At any point you give people a chance to jump off your ride, you lose some people. It’s anecdotal but I’ve noticed this to be true - cw posts get less reactions, boosts, etc.

It’s fine to acknowledge that humane practices often lead to less than ideal economic outcomes. The economy is not the focus. But we should be honest with ourselves.

It’s 4AM. I’ve made soup.

Socialism has failed and UBI is morally unjustifiable

The things people assert without context. I also don’t want to know what the system of morality makes taking care of everyone unjustifiable.

Well, I already know. It’s property rights. It’s always property rights. That which boils down to “I should get to keep morally what I acquired immorally.”

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net though I know it’s not where you want to be, I am glad you made your journey safely.

This is another reason I hate the culture of thread posting instead of raised character limits. Sometimes the whole thing isn’t federated!

I hate it when I see a post, go to the other instance, see a reply that hasnt been federated to me and … I can’t reply to it, because I can’t see it on my instance.

I really just want to have a manual button that says “update this thread please”.

Don’t do it - you’ve got so much to sleep for!

@Nyborg Beware Banana beer...

I suppose the latin makes sense. You can layer a map of missing peoples over a map of caves and old mines and ... find a dressing correlation. I grew up near a bunch of old coal mines and at least once a year someone fell into a coal hole they missed while wandering the woods and died.

mubisi is something I'd like to make but unfortunately it's kinda impossible to get African Highland Bananas here ​​ I do like the dwarves growing weird bananas instead of like, weird sugar beets.

@Nyborg You'd generally still want barley when you make beer (even wheat beer) for diastatic power, especially if you're working with ye-olde malt. Sparging with pure wheat would also be a right pain because it gets stuck so easily. So, they'd still have to either grow it or trade for it. Trade would be fine for dwarves near lowland settlements, but a pain for dwarves in an "underdark" setting. But maybe they just magic a growing cave? It'd be a stretch for them to spend that much energy creating something like that.

It's unlikely that they'd trade for beer directly. Beer is kinda a pain in the ass as an ancient trade good. It's a lot of water (heavy), somewhat delicate, and as you mentioned, before hops and modern container vessels, it didn't ship all that well. Whiskey and other distilled spirits actually filled this role a lot more nicely historically, so if the dwarves were importing drink it'd probably be whiskey.

On that note, the "foamy beer" is also rather newer development in beer as well like hops, as you mentioned. It would be more like "real ale" which is fizzy, but only slightly. bog myrtle, alewort or other gruits (what we call these kind of beers) would be possible. For sealed barreling like this, they'd also need good source of pine for brewer's pitch. Possible for your mountain dwarves, painful for your underground dwarves.

What it boils down to is that if you were world building, and you wanted your dwarves to have "logical" beer, your mountain dwarves would have to have some strange mountain agriculture, and your deep dwarves would have to just have a completely different fermentable - some kind of fermentable tuber or mushroom. Or just handwave it with magic.

It’s kinda weird that fantasy dwarves are associated with beer. Where the hell do they get the barley and hops if not for trade? It won’t grow underground and most varieties grow poorly in the mountains (which they do in Warhammer I guess). Just an odd association.

What’s your favorite set of die?

I don’t have them with me, but for me it’s a pair of blue stone die. I don’t love them because they’re hefty and pretty (which they are); but because I am banned from using them.

The die are infamously hungry for players blood, and when using them critical hits seem to flow like water. After they were involved in a second TPK involving rank mooks stomping the party through intense rolls, they were banned.

Later, a new player joined us. In the middle of combat he noticed I had the set of die off to the side. He asked why, and so as I explained the story I picked them up and began rolling them. A hit and two criticals later, a more senior player snatched them up and angrilyput them back with a “THIS is why Null isn’t allowed to use them!”

Since then I’ve only brought them out to play in a rare hard boss fights where I think the players will struggle, and they were snatched as soon as things went south. They’ve become accustomed to seeing them and knowing that they’re about to get rocked.

Its fun to have dice that make the party pause and are a byword for evil.
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While there’s no technical benefit for having the AI shoe designer in space, the mission will market the shoes as the first designed off-planet.

AI shoes designed in space and funded by blockchain bullshit. I am guessing we’re only doing this as a species because we’re so bored after having solved all our other problems.

Just FYI: If you're in the US, even if you never have a single interaction with the police, they're still fucking you. Go look at your local city budget. You will almost always find that the city budget is split in two: all the services, public works, and everything else you rely on, and ... The police.

Almost every city is groaning under a big ol' fat police budget, starving out everything else. Local governments don't have money for shit because they have to pay the police.