Wandering Adventure Party

I NEED my junior engineers to see initial problems and not immediately think “well this approach is utterly impossible, let’s do a workaround for 6 hours”. I need them to dig.

If they then get stuck I want them to ask me. These are teachable moments and I want to build them up!

I don’t entirely blame them. One of the tragedies of software development is that so many developers are standoffish assholes that junior developers instinctively spend half a day on wasted workarounds rather than interface with them for 20 minutes.

Player excitedly acquires spell that makes him a large melee tank for a short period. Against a huge creature, he uses it, preparing to hold off the enemy while the back line peppers it to death. The monster needs to roll a 18 or higher to hit in this form. He feels safe.

Smelling a wizard’s hubris, in a single round the dice dish out 3 hits, two of which are critical, all of them for nearly maximum damage.

After thoroughly pulping the wizard tank in one round and dropping him unconscious, the enemy proceeds to reap havoc on the back line until the champion can finish his opponent and save the bard from discovering more about the color of his insides.

Another week of me rolling well enough that the players think that the mooks are boss monsters ​​ I don’t know how I am supposed to balance combat anymore. #TTRPG

@fujiwara@sakurajima.moe they have a very cosmic sense of time.

If I fall asleep, I am sorry. I did not mean to.

You can call folks out on their lack of participation but if the first thing you complain about is people not giving money/material I kinda know your real game…

I bought myself a Sailor Tuzu F.

Of all the entry level fountain pens with a triangular grip, I like the hold of this one the best.

The nib is that very Sailor-signature scratchy. It’s probably the closest I’ve gotten to writing with a FP that feels like a pencil. It’s also very sharp - no matter how light I hold I feel like it’s cutting into the paper and picking particulates. Usually I don’t have this problem on this paper.

I like the look and the feel - but I have two complaints. First is that this is a very dry pen. I loaded up with 54th mass which is a very wet ink and it’s still pretty dry. The feed can’t quite keep up and I have to let it catch up every once in awhile. I’m not sure this would work with a dry ink.

Second is the price. This is in the same price range as a Lamy Al-star and I’m not sure it’s a better pen given the plastic body. It does come with a converter, which is nice. You’re paying for the unique sailor style nib though. I think for entry level a plaisir, safari, or pilot metro are better for being half the price unless you really want that intentional scratch.
#fountainpen

The small ways insurance tries to screw you…

“Our site only supports chrome. We’re not going to tell you, our claims page is just silently broken on anything else.”

Why is it so god damn hard to order a motor belt? ​​ I ordered it twice from the motor manufacturer which both have been refunded (still waiting for that to clear), and once from the part manufacture, and now that is 2 weeks without activity. What the hell!?

With Senator Thom Tillis declining to run again, one of the most annoying trends in US politics is republicans who oppose trump in small ways and then self punish by committing political suicide. Even in mild opposition they opt to enable him.

I took a measure for a bit and found that I do about 900-1200 web searches a month.

Also if you post a vague response to something that is obviously a piece on current events, I will probably also look for a source to add to your post. ​​

Just as a warning: If I am one of your followers and you idly ask a question that I see, there is a really good chance I will spend 5-10 minutes researching an answer for you.

@yassie_j@labyrinth.zone @ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net @Starcross@mk.absturztau.be @kimapr@ublog.kimapr.net to add a little spice to the mix, it was also the national capital there for about 5 years before everyone decided literal swampland was a better place to seat the nation. Probably why the state capital moved to Albany.

@damian how long have you had them? My understanding is that TWSBI has changed their supplier of nibs from Schmidt, to bock, and then JoWo. So you may also have different suppliers depending on the age of the pens.

@damian all pens are manufactured within tolerances. You might have just gotten a chunky one.

brewing outside all day when it was hot was probably not my best decision...

cascade hops are the only hops I can consistently find at my homebrew store and I hate them.

...I just don't like the taste of sucking on a pinecone.

@Sparky@the.gayest.dev yep. OS and init scripts maintainers solving real problems didn’t balk all that long while users griped.

It’s not perfect - but it did bring order to the chaos of the init script landscape.