jjjalljs

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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 hour ago

Fixed Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun not being playable in French.

What an oddly specific fix

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 hour ago

I actually haven't! My first was NetHack, which I did terribly at. And then there was a little one called Incursion based on D&D that I loved (I think it's dead, but it was based on DND 3e and had an incredible diplomacy system).

I might check out Rogue one day for historical satisfaction, though.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 5 points 6 hours ago

Hacker should make the phones explode or something. Trash startup funded by trash.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 8 points 6 hours ago

You have to evaluate it emotionally not factually.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 3 points 11 hours ago

How am I supposed to watch a "normal video" of something happening live?

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 4 points 11 hours ago

People are intensely emotionally invested in cars and meat. You could prove beyond all doubt that a vegetarian life would be longer, happier, and more prosperous, and people would disbelieve you because of their feelings.

Many people are little better than toddlers.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 points 12 hours ago

Oh I read about that but never played it. Thanks for reminding me of it.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 4 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Cut it down to three days a week? How much meat do people eat??

I consider myself a half assed vegetarian. A social meat eater. I only really eat meat if I'm like at a party and the host ordered a pepperoni pizza.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Oh I should look into mods then. I played some Tales but the quality of life stuff kept me from getting super deep into it.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 4 points 15 hours ago

Mostly stuff I bought from Bandcamp. It's drm free, but for convenience I usually let it stream from the app.

I also have a bunch of mp3s from older purchases I listen to sometimes, but I don't have a media server set up so that's mostly limited to my desktop.

Sometimes I'll pull up a specific track on YouTube, but that's mostly for "do you remember this song?" stuff. Adblock and the "resume playback from lock screen" make it bearable.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 15 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

You would likely find the end of the stairs, and then more rooms and hallways. You need to walk without purpose for a while for it to pull up the final room.

The dungeon was heavily inspired by the novel House of Leaves. Endless, featureless, black hallways. Great book.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 points 15 hours ago

Well, sunk cost fallacy is extremely common.

But also people don't have perfect knowledge. And people change, and change at different rates.

Imagine a couple that meets when they're both pretty immature in their 20s. They have fun and fall in love. Then they buy a home together, and the woman slowly realizes she's matured into an adult role while the husband is still basically the 20 year old bro. Would you casually suggest burning the whole thing down? Finding a new relationship in your mid 30s, especially if you want kids, when there's no guarantee the new person will be any better, is daunting.

What if they're not financially independent?

It's easy to sit back and tell people how to behave in the abstract, but real situations aren't always so obvious.

 

Rogue likes usually run on a toaster. What're people's favorites?

I have a huge soft spot for Crawl: Stone Soup. Runs in a browser, or probably even lower requirements if you download it. The game's design goals want to minimize tedium and gotchas, so it's pretty respectful of your time. Auto-explore and auto-travel are real nice. So is the global search for when you're like "is there anything in this run with resist poison?"

https://crawl.develz.org/

I've played a little nethack, adom, and angband, but I always go back to crawl.

 

Anyone else playing with the new fractal incursion bonus event stuff? I did a bunch of quickplay fractals this afternoon, and it was pretty okay. The rewards look nice, though. Bought the omnipotion right away.

The wiki as of this writing is still pretty sparse, though: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fractal_Incursion

Hopefully someone will put up timers for the open world incursion events.

 

Do you remember your first character death? Was it memorable?

I usually GM, and NPC deaths don't hit as hard. I don't even remember my first. I lost a warlock in a D&D 5e game, but we were high level so raise dead was just right there. Not very impactful.

Last night, I had a player's first character death ever in a game I've been running. It's sort of Shadowrun + World of Darkness, using Fate for the rules. The player had learned a kind of magic I stole from Unknown Armies: If you take big risks now, you can do more powerful magic later. Blindly crossing a busy street might be a mild charge, but russian roulette would be a major charge.

The players were trying to investigate a warehouse for plot reasons. This player ends up by himself in the basement while the ground level is on fire (for player reasons). He finds an armed goon, a guy dressed like a doctor, and several unconscious people wired up to a machine.

The player goes, "I'm going to russian roulette for a charge."

I go, "Are you sure? It's all or nothing. No take backs. You get a major charge, or you die. You'd roll 1d6, and on a 6 you lose."

They go, "Hmm okay." The player tries to threaten the goon, but the dice don't favor them. Now they're in a slightly worse position, mechanically.

The player goes, "I'm going to roulette" and just rolls the die. No more discussion. It came up 6.

The rest of us are like, "Wait, what? You just..? Right then? That's so... anti-climactic."

I wasn't sure what to do. I hadn't expected them to so casually go for the big score! I thought it'd come up in a big climax scene, not a fully escapable conflict with an unarmed goon!

We talked a little about ways forward that keep the character but don't cheapen the mechanic, but the player was like, "No, I rolled the dice on it and lost. His brains are all over the floor now."

The player had to go sit on their own for a little while. They're thinking of rejoining as an NPC they'd worked with, but said they absolutely do not want to use magic again.

This is one I'm going to remember for a while.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by jjjalljs@ttrpg.network to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

A friend of mine has an old macbook air. It still works, more or less, but the OS isn't getting any updates anymore, and updating to the latest OS seems dicey.

Has anyone had experience installing linux on an old macbook? From a quick internet search it looks like you can just make a bootable USB and have at it. Thinking mint because it's popular and my friend is a pretty basic user. The laptop will be mostly used for like youtube/netflix and basic web browsing.

Edit: a little extra context: I am moderately comfortable with Linux. I ran mint for a while on my desktop, and I've done software development for a job. I can install docker and start a python project fine, but I'd use a GUI for like partitioning a hard drive.

 

I tried it a bit with my reaper in pve and it seemed okay, but I wasn't doing anything challenging that really put it to the test. I haven't tried the others classes yet.

 

I'm looking for players for a weekly game of Fate. I'm thinking something like a mix of Shadowrun and World of Darkness, where the players are vigilantes looking to make the world better. It would start (and maybe stay) at the street level, rather than global or cosmic.

I've been playing and running games for 20+ years.

LGBT friendly. New players okay. Unreliable players less so.

Message me if you're interested. Include a blurb about yourself, your experience with games, with fate specifically, and a joke of your choosing.

 

Like I saw one that was titled "I wonder why rule" and had a picture about overpaid CEOs or something.

Why "rule"? What's the origin of this format?

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