Notices by 1 tripod in 3 trenchcoats (kyonshi@dice.camp)

My old #introduction got lost somewhere

German, he/him, 40s, living in Poland (#lodz). I work in IT and do some geeky computer stuff on the side (#usenet, #uucp, #irc)

My main hobby are #ttrpgs (#osr #dnd, #traveller, #shadowrun) and similar (#minipainting, #boardgames) but I also do writing and reading (#fantasy, #sf) and #cooking

I will be complaining about #kids, #cats, lack of #coffee, and the general state of the world

I do get weirdly obsessed with topics sometimes. But don't we all?

@servelan there is the possibility he meant it as a (still creepy) compliment and not as a rape threat.

But if that's the case he hopefully learned a lesson in thinking before speaking.

@adelinej @kagan @cykonot @servelan hmm, there goes my whole point. Yes, I didn't know this was an actual thing now.

@cykonot @servelan I dunno, more like "if I ever had a choice I'd like to do it with you"

Now I don't know the situation at hand, but I know stupid and horny teenage boys. It just sounds like one of those stupid things they say because they can't even understand how it could be misinterpreted. Teenagers are DUMB, even if they aren't malicious.

On the other hand the guy might just have been an evil little shitnugget, so what do I know?

@kagan @cykonot @servelan I'm just, you know, acting from my own experience of saying and doing stuff I thought was normal or even nice, and having it interpreted in the worst possible way.

I think a lot of people had that experience as teenagers, you know, that stuff you said where even years later you think back and get embarrassed about it?

I just don't wanna jump on the outrage train and call for a kid to be expelled if there's a chance that it might have been just stupidity.

@georgetakei I've been in teams meetings that definitely had some weird time effects going on

This morning on the way to school my son and me watched workers take down the giant beer advertisement that had been gracing the next corner for the last few months. Right now I noticed they replaced it with advertisements for concerts in the local arena. For Dream Theater and Sum 41.

Dream Theater and Sum 41!!

What year is it?!

#music

Dang it's cold today. Sitting at work with a blanket.

Of course it's home office, so maybe I should put on pants instead, but let's not go overboard.

flow charts AND #dnd. it's like bacon and chocolate for statistics nerds.

https://blog.d4caltrops.com/2024/08/bx-procedural-flow-charts.html

#ttrpg #osr #blogospherefind

Good news for fans of the Borderlands movie (if they exist at all): it might not be the worst (recent) failure of a video game adaption for long...

https://youtu.be/k0lyUzdRgFs?si=JVUqdnOSFBjMq5bC

#minecraft #movie

My son got really into Land of the Lost (1974) despite it's atrocious greenscreen effects. At least the claymation is actually decent.
Funnily enough the series shapes up to be much more well-written than I remember from my childhood. I think the German dub I watched it with might have had something to do with that.

I wonder how much it shaped #ttrpg as a hobby, because it came out at exactly the right time, and it has all the proper tropes of a weird scifi-fantasy #dnd game.

@thomasfuchs man this guy is so wholesome I am afraid there's gonna be some dark secret hiding somewhere.

I bet he played dnd in college or something

@BeAware I remember one of my colleagues telling me that twitch was the future and YouTube would be dead in a year, about 5 years ago

so, Justin Timberlake got pulled over for drunk driving, and the cop was too young to know who that guy called Justin Timberlake behind the wheel was.

Feel old yet?

https://www.nme.com/news/music/cop-who-arrested-justin-timberlake-reportedly-didnt-recognise-him-star-said-it-would-ruin-his-tour-3766825

here's the one thing that I want #threads federation to do: I want it to flood the whole weird fediverse stuff into the mainstream.

which it won't, because meta is going to keep all weirdness and left-wing politics far out of reach of any of their users.

currently trying to find new people to follow on #mastodon.
my timeline has become a bit slow again.

@bmacDonald94 yeah you need a login for Xitter anyway, so if you don't have any(anymore) it's pointless even following them.

which reminds me I really should block that site in my network

The Highest Level of All: The Story of Fantasy Wargaming

The Highest Level of All: The Story of Fantasy Wargaming by Mike Monaco, is a free pdf download published at CMU Press under a CC BY-NC-ND license, and dealing with the history of the eponymous (if a bit incongruously titled) Fantasy Wargaming roleplaying game system. Yes, it turns out you can write whole books not only about DnD. At least if it's something as weird as that game at least.

https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2024/05/17/the-highest-level-of-all-the-story-of-fantasy-wargaming/

@xepher @beastman @BeAware the problem is mostly academic until you actually get an article that gets widely shared. then it becomes pretty acute pretty quickly for smaller sites

@xepher @beastman @BeAware not really maybe, it's been known for a while that this can happen. as great as the fediverse is, this is an issue