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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 4 points 5 hours ago

The main role of CEOs seems to be schmoozing with other CEOs and venture capitalists. I don't know if AI can do that just yet.

The fact that so much of our economy and world is based on the whims of some rich assholes is concerning.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 9 points 5 hours ago

Yeah... my current job like...

  • doesn't do real code reviews. They just kind of eyeball it, from what I can tell
  • doesn't do automated testing
  • Doesn't write tickets with enough information for anyone to figure out what to do

But they've been doing it this way for years, so changing it is a long road.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 0 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Did zuck personally buy these or did a team of analysts doing research make proposals and he picked some?

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 points 9 hours ago

Sure. But I don't want to live there full time. I want to be able to walk to the bar, take a bus to the show, and so on.

Honestly, the distant sounds of humans can also be comforting in a white noise kind of way. Sometimes I think about how they're all part of someone's life story.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It could maybe be useful information if the questions, answers, and test taking process are all public and non-binding.

Like, they get a pen and paper and a quiz appropriate for high school seniors. They're filmed taking it in a classroom, and the results are all public. Different institutions can grade each test.

If you want to vote for the guy who says "the president writes laws" then that's on you.

If conservatives try to make it like old timey literacy tests, it's non binding so it can't so much harm. Might even make them look bad, since it's all public.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 5 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I almost never hear my neighbors.

I'd rather hear some noise and live in a walkable area than have silence and live in a car-hell cultural void

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 6 points 1 day ago

I don't have a car but someone close to me does. Mostly for visiting family outside the city. I've said this often enough when we're stuck in traffic that now she just looks at me and preemptively says "don't say it!'

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 7 points 1 day ago

I can think of a couple acts of kindness I'd probably not repeat. But generally I try to be kind anyway.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, this is one of the reasons why I only want to live in the NYC area of the US. Just take the train or bus, don't worry about it.

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

Excluded middle

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

Oof. I've had places that the pipeline was getting long. At one of my previous jobs I made it so all the tests could run locally, and we were keeping the full build as slow as possible.

We also didn't do any browser tests (eg: selenium) because those tend to be slow and most people are bad at making them stable.

It's important to know whats worth testing.

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

That's the plan. Unfortunately the market is kind of meh. Lots of AI slop. Lots of getting ghosted.

 

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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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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