Unrelated to my previous toot, is there a reason git and github are so opaque and nerve-wracking to deal with? Is it a hazing ritual?
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Epidiah (epidiah@dice.camp)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 06:08:39 JST Epidiah -
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Epidiah (epidiah@dice.camp)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 05:00:27 JST Epidiah I know I'm inviting folks to explain this comic to me, but I'd like to respectfully request a moratorium on posting this every time you see someone critique an existing standard.
That's not what this comic is about.
Here's some context: Nothing this comic is referring to is older than D&D. So pretend its about #ttrpgs.
Is it saying we can't improve on the games that exist?
Or is it saying attempts to replace them all with a perfect game is doomed to merely increase the population by one?
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Epidiah (epidiah@dice.camp)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 23:27:36 JST Epidiah The CEO of Hasbro in front of Goldman Sachs bragging about how he has 30-40 friends who need AI to play D&D.
https://www.enworld.org/threads/hasbro-ceo-chris-cocks-talks-ai-usage-in-d-d-updated.706638/
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Epidiah (epidiah@dice.camp)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 23:27:34 JST Epidiah I mean, who knows? They could be commiserating on their biggest failures.
Goldman Sachs could've been like, "We tanked the world economy and destroyed the lives of millions because we had a hard-on for those tasty, tasty subprime mortgages and we're staffed, top to bottom, with incompetent assholes."
And Chris Cocks is like, "That's nothing! You know that game I own that's all about imagining things? Turns out, it's so boring, people just let a computer do the imagining for them!"
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Epidiah (epidiah@dice.camp)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 04:07:39 JST Epidiah You know what?
I am going to ask you to divide a number by another number in these rules.
I'm going to do it and I'm going to give you rounding instructions.
And I'm going to ask you to be cool with it.
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Epidiah (epidiah@dice.camp)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 00:21:58 JST Epidiah I need to get my blog working.
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Epidiah (epidiah@dice.camp)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 00:21:57 JST Epidiah Blogs are funny things when you try to build them from scratch. I'm no expert, but here's what it looks like to my outsider eyes:
Blogs are almost as old as the World Wide Web itself and yet, in all those years, there has been zero progress made within the core technologies of the web to make them easier to make.
Those that do exist appear to be convoluted hacks that hang so precariously off of those technologies that you're better off just using someone else's hack than making your own.
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Epidiah (epidiah@dice.camp)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 14:43:53 JST Epidiah Reading a piece of fantasy written before D&D and, holy shit, I love #ttrpgs, but I am no fan of what they did to fantasy.
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Epidiah (epidiah@dice.camp)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 04:12:12 JST Epidiah What did I miss?
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Epidiah (epidiah@dice.camp)'s status on Saturday, 18-May-2024 01:16:52 JST Epidiah Recommend a #Book by replying here, but you must follow these 2 rules:
• DO include a single well-crafted sentence or one well-composed paragraph from the book.
• DO NOT include any preamble, explanation, or context for the quoted sentence or paragraph.All else is fair game.
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Epidiah (epidiah@dice.camp)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 21:03:30 JST Epidiah I dig this feature. Please bring back the modem screams.
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Epidiah (epidiah@dice.camp)'s status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2024 11:16:25 JST Epidiah Hi, yes, we leaked your data. To protect yourselves from the consequences of our incompetence, use this other company that leaked your data a few years back. Thanks.
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Epidiah (epidiah@dice.camp)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 05:31:10 JST Epidiah @lanodan So, like, cantrips?
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Epidiah (epidiah@dice.camp)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 05:04:35 JST Epidiah #DnD magic-users cast a spell & forget it. Folks like to point at this and say that makes D&D's magic Vancian.
This bugs me for many reasons I don't care to enumerate. I encourage you to read some Jack Vance if want to know more. It's all in books.
While this cast and forget quality is a delightful constraint in Vance's fiction, it's an awkward trope in D&D's pastiche. The latter does not feel like the former. So I'd like to humbly propose a new term for D&D's version: Regexian.
Hear me out!
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Epidiah (epidiah@dice.camp)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 05:04:34 JST Epidiah Regexes are D&D magic-user spells.
You need at a least an hour to compose one.
You're going to want a full night's sleep (and preferably a fresh cup of coffee) before you even think about tackling that task.
The moment you finish typing one out, it is impossible to decipher what it does or how it does it.
Even copying and pasting one is a task fraught with arcane peril.
And, I mean, can you think of a more D&D-sounding phrase than "Regexian Magic"?
Of course not. There isn't one.
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Epidiah (epidiah@dice.camp)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 00:24:44 JST Epidiah My favorite thing about coffee is drinking it.
What's yours?
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Epidiah (epidiah@dice.camp)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 00:19:27 JST Epidiah @craigmaloney Old-ass is my favorite genre of technology!
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Epidiah (epidiah@dice.camp)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 00:19:26 JST Epidiah @craigmaloney I just wanted to jump in and again thank you for the videos. They, um, they've changed some things in the past 15 years (like removing the Style menu, which was the source of some panic here) but this got me enough info to make some guesses as to where things were now hiding.
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Epidiah (epidiah@dice.camp)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 02:46:38 JST Epidiah 30 years ago, I had a CD player that played CDs when you put the CDs in and pushed play. It was awesome.
Now I have a laptop with orders of magnitude more computing power than what was needed to orchestrate the moon landing. I put a CD in it and it takes 5 minutes to figure out what just happened.
Any sufficiently advanced technology will render the technology of the past indistinguishable from magic.
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Epidiah (epidiah@dice.camp)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Nov-2023 01:10:57 JST Epidiah "You need to install an app to return this physical product" is a whole new level of hell I had not anticipated.