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   silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jan-2023 06:40:29 JST silverwizard
   www.opendnd.games/
   
   Remember - D&D is the Tabletop Industry
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jan-2023 07:33:05 JST silverwizard

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     I should clarify - this is incredibly sarcastic
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jan-2023 00:56:11 JST silverwizard

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     @me www.belloflostsouls.net/2022/1…
     [quote]But Williams and Cocks hope to capitalize on the brand’s popularity. D&D Beyond and the upcoming virtual tabletop represent an opportunity to create a “recurrent spending environment.” Meaning monetization and merchandising, the most powerful force in the universe.[/code]
     
     It's weird that WotC is putting out a VTT right around the time that they ban VTTs, and also decide to become the Fortnite of tabletop games.
     
     Also - they're fucking stupid: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/…
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     me (me@social.jlamothe.net)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jan-2023 00:56:12 JST me

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     @silverwizard Is it me, or have WotC been doing some rather scummy things of late?
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jan-2023 01:07:54 JST silverwizard

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     @me Though - to be clear - a huge portion of this is sarcasm from me - because the OGL is just kinda... bad - D&D isn't the industry, D&D should die, it almost did, but 5th edition did some really scummy things to keep everyone else out, and so alienating a huge portion of the creators that are sustaining their market dominance is good - at least to me.
     
     5th Edition really did a lot of work to destroy the thriving indie market that literally almost destroyed D&D in 2012, and now I'm hoping D&D will do it again
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jan-2023 03:03:00 JST silverwizard

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     @spencer @me Wait- not sure what you mean
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     Spencer (spencer@motley.club)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jan-2023 03:03:01 JST Spencer

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     @silverwizard @me Just a heads up: you've got a mismatched tag pair here. ?
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jan-2023 03:30:41 JST silverwizard

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     @me I... do not have that problem
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     me (me@social.jlamothe.net)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jan-2023 03:30:42 JST me

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     @silverwizard Honestly, I don't have much experience with table top gaming outside D&D, though I'd be happy to remedy that.
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     Spencer (spencer@motley.club)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jan-2023 03:33:05 JST Spencer

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     @silverwizard @me You have a block quote that starts with [quote] but ends with a "/code" tag. At least, that's what I see.
     silverwizard likes this.
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jan-2023 03:33:05 JST silverwizard

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     @spencer @me Oh! I was thinking hashtag not BBTag - thanks!
     
     Brain did not just register
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     me (me@social.jlamothe.net)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jan-2023 05:31:41 JST me

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     @firefly_lightning Things are very much in the air at the moment. I'm currently in job search mode, but once things settle, I'd be very interested.
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jan-2023 05:31:41 JST silverwizard

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     @firefly_lightning @me Wanna be a director of engineering or a senior python dev?
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     Becky (firefly_lightning@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jan-2023 05:31:43 JST Becky

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     @me @silverwizard How serious about this are you? And how silly and playful are you willing to go? Because like, this might be a good incentive for me to run another mumble online Helicopter Death game.... but uh, no pressure ?, I just get excited ???.... but dm if you want to too
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jan-2023 05:46:42 JST silverwizard

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     @firefly_lightning @me www.pronavigator.ai/careers
     
     apparently they aren't posted yet - but we're looking for a Director of Development and a Senior Developer
     
     We do NLP and search on large piles of documents. Mostly trying to make the gross badly organized SharePoint everyone be accessible and usable to a person on a phone trying to answer an annoyed person's questions
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     me (me@social.jlamothe.net)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jan-2023 05:46:43 JST me

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     @silverwizard @firefly_lightning My Python's a little rusty, but I could re-familiarize myself.
     
     If that's not an issue, I'd be very interested to learn more.
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jan-2023 06:08:38 JST silverwizard

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     @me Kicked over to XMPP
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     me (me@social.jlamothe.net)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jan-2023 06:08:39 JST me

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     @silverwizard That actually sounds really interesting. Is there someone I can reach out to, or should I just keep an eye out for when it's posted?