Allan

Gen X; Programmer; Graph Theory Hobbiest; Player of Games; Voracious Reader; WEF/Sk8J/V ex-pat; He/Him

[Allan @Logipath]

@boymonster I have an itch to run a Star Trek Adventures game where each adventure more-or-less follows the plot of ‘80s-‘90s action movies:

Die Hard
Speed
Broken Arrow
From Dusk ‘til Dawn
etc.

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@BasiliskOnline The thing is that poster had a point, right up to “in terms of character customization”. There is definitely more material available for D&D than any other RPG and it’s not even close.

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@EmmaTalksComics Based on that picture, I assume they’ve been passing the time by playing ping pong.

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@DragonCobolt Nonsense.

Nothing motivates Doom more than getting revenge on Reed Richards.

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Where did you start?

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@PonchoRebound If publishers would stop making games that look edible, I’d stop eating them…

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@Role_Play_Chat Jenna Moran’s Nobilis

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@ithayla Try #youfoundarock. You will find everything you ever wanted to know about licking rocks.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

What movie has the perfect ending?

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@OctavianX That Cricket Field clashes with the rest of your layout…

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@LostR2 I have occasionally tried to use Bridge (the card game) as a metaphor for acceptable error margins in task estimation.

I get a lot of blank stares…

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@smylie Downsides:

Cost.

Hot water takes a little longer when you turn on the tap.

The delay in providing heated water can result in a “cold-water sandwich” (hot-cold-hot) because there’s already hot water in the pipes, but the heater hasn’t spun up yet.

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@smylie Upsides:

The hot water never runs out.

You don’t have a massive supply of water hanging like the sword of Damocles over your basement.

You have precise control over the water temperature (no accidental scalds, if you configure it that way).

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@TinStarGames1 Generally, I try to avoid correcting people’s typos online, but that one does kind of muddy the point you’re making…

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@drgonzo123 The joke used to be about California falling into the ocean. But California’s mountainous; if sea levels rise, some land will be lost, but most of it will be okay.

The highest point in Florida, on the other hand, is only 35% taller than the biggest ride at Disney World…

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@drgonzo123

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@Ranting_Trans (Red Sister by Mark Lawrence)

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@Ranting_Trans That’s a classic, obviously, but the one that drew me into the book fastest was:

“It is important, when killing a nun, to ensure that you bring an army of sufficient size.”

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@MarcMussoLive @mattthr AI in computer versions of board games are typically purpose-built algorithms that were designed for that game.

There is a significant difference between that either machine learning or large-language models (which is what the zeitgeist is narrowing “AI” to mean).