Phillip Winn @pwinn@social.cleverlibre.org
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Love conquers fear
#nerdery #books #puzzles #ttrpg #anime #Christian #feminist #antiracist #photography #sudoku #golang #python #OpenWeb #AIart #GenshinImpact #tfr
Joined Nov 2022
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"If all you have is an MC Hammer, everything looks like you can't touch it"
- ancient proverb
Sean McCoy (@seanmccoy) has lit my imagination on fire, and the conflagration is threatening to burn out of control! He’s talking about #Dungeon23
https://seanmccoy.substack.com/p/dungeon23
So now I’m talking about #Dungeon23
“A dungeon room a day, every day, for 2023. That’s 365 rooms.”
I’ve never designed a role-playing game from scratch, and I would have said I wouldn’t know where to start, but now I do! I’m going to actually try this, and I already have some ideas about how try to stand out, and maybe avoid producing the same exact mega-dungeon (in a different order) as hundreds of other people.
I’m going to aim for a 52-story building. Seven rooms per floor, and some of the floors might be subterranean. Or trans-dimensional. Because this building, it ain’t right. It ain’t even wrong. It ain’t any kind of building you’ve seen before, and if you wake up anywhere in it, you’re about to have a bad time.
Of course I want it to work well with Mothership 1e rules. The stress mechanic alone is inspiring.
I don’t know. Should my first-ever RPG design be a 365-room mega-dungeon for the best horror RPG system out there? The way I think about it, even if I don’t quite make it 365 days, I should end up with a decent-sized area to explore, right?
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Hello fediverse - here's your occasional reminder that putting alt-text on your images makes a better, friendlier, more accessible environment for everyone.
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The pixie's parasol mushroom (Mycena interrupta), found in Australia, New Zealand, and Chile.
Photo Credit: Steve Sargent
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sargimuss/26650626112
@gpowerf So line 100 is completely buggy in a way only GOTO lines can be, and there’s no flow control at the end, so running (or rather, typing *anything* other than FIGHT) leads to some very confused output.
Still brought back memories, though! :D
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The HOA has sent me a reminder that my Santa decoration should "fully and appropriately clothed" this year.
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I've had to delay this a few days due to work and finals, but here we are.
Mastodon has a huge racism problem. My girlfriend pointed it out and I started looking into it and realizing just how bad it was here. It was stupid of me to hope that a decentralized network would somehow not still reflect the white supremacy ever-present in our world.
So, with the small power I have, I'm trying to raise awareness. I added a section on content moderation (specifically the second paragraph) to Mastodon's #wikipedia article, to make sure the issue is a matter of public record and the ways it can be addressed are as well.
If you can talk about killing Nazis and stomping out racists and fascists, you should not be afraid to #fediblock them online. Protection of the most marginalized is as important in the digital commons as it is in the physical one and if this space isn't to devolve further into a white circle-jerk then protection of BIPOC comrades should be the first priority. Report and block fascists and racists.
Don't look to me for any answers, I get some racism and islamaphobia but I still only pass the brown paper bag test if the bag is one of the slightly lighter ones. Follow hashtags such as #BlackMastodonHistory, #BlackMastodon, and #BlackFedi, shut up, and listen. Not just hear, but listen and take action. Don't argue, don't ask questions requiring labor when you could just google the answers ffs, don't prize whiteness and civility over action.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(social_network)#Content_moderation
@lcparra I’m rather coming to the conclusion that no place is guaranteed to be safe if you want to follow people on scholar.social. They are really amazing trigger-happy! Which is their right, of course, but it seems like bad behavior to me.
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Be sure to catch the end of this clever NASA "climate spiral" video showing monthly global temperature changes between 1880 and 2021
https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/300/video-climate-spiral/ #dataviz #boost #climatechange #climate
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LANGUAGE: It’s enslaved persons, not “slaves”. We are people who were ENslaved. When you say “enslaved”, you make clear that someone else did this to us. When you say “slave” you speak the language and mindset of the people who did this to us. This is important. It is not semantics. #history #language #enslavedpeople #Black #Mastodon #words
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@kevlin @cwebber described ChatGPT as Mansplaining As A Service, and honestly I can’t think of a better description. A service that instantly generates vaguely plausible sounding yet totally fabricated and baseless lectures at an instant with unflagging confidence in it’s own correctness on any topic, without concern, regard or awareness even of the level of expertise of it’s audience.
@u2katrina It's not just beautiful imaged! The stories are also sometimes very moving. There's a character Yun Jin whose story is pretty amazing. Plus you get a mini Chinese opera when you finish it! I have my audio set to Chinese (subtitles in English) to avoid being distracted by the audio, and it worked really well for the opera scene.
My daughter is considerably ahead of me and tells me the stories get even more detailed and wonderful.
I mean, I'm not trying to say you give in. 😜
My audience here is probably in the single digits, and yet still somehow I'm in my own brain, putting pressure on myself to do things "well." For example, I've been thinking I should post more Genshin impact screenshots, because that game is beautiful, and because I've been playing it quite a bit lately. But one thing led to another and now I have 48 images in a folder and still haven't posted any of them.
And this software only lets me post four in a single message! I'm not going to post 12 posts in a row of video game screenshots, am I?
Am I?
To justify the hashtag (see, there I am overthinking again!), I'll at least add some here. My dealer^h^h^h^h^h^h daughter sent me a few she has taken, so I'll post some of those.
The first is from the Inazuma region I recently unlocked, which is based on Japan. The others are a nice set of three nearly-identical images from three times of day in the same spot in Liyue, which is based on China.
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Granville T. Woods an #AfricanAmerican inventor gained the name the "Black Edison". He revolutionized the railroad & electric railway industries with his inventions. One newspaper called Woods “the greatest electrician in the world"
Thomas Edison was an inventive genius but is also claimed to be a liar & thief. Woods' patents were unsuccessfully challenged by Thomas Edison twice.
#BlackTwitter #BlackMastodon #BlackHistory
#BlackInventors #Science #Education
https://americacomesalive.com/granville-woods-electrical-expert-inventor/
@freemo @EubieDrew I sent a DM from an alt account, but I’ll also try to track down an email address.
@EubieDrew @freemo Being blocked by blacktwitter.io is sad. I have it set as a favorite domain, but since they block QOTO, I don't bother replying to any posts. Just boosting.
@milti Everybody I know got 5/6 today! Tough word.
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Love conquers fear
#nerdery #books #puzzles #ttrpg #anime #Christian #feminist #antiracist #photography #sudoku #golang #python #OpenWeb #AIart #GenshinImpact #tfr
Joined Nov 2022
