Centrist, progressive, radical optimist. Geophysicist, R&D, Planetary Scientist and general nerd in Winnipeg, Canada.
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I ask this, or for their stealth modifiers, and then roll behind the screen just to fuck with them sometimes. But it’s actually quite useful. I do this once in a while and it trains them not to overreact (and assume ambush) when I ask them for realzies.
Eladrin, basically
Counterpoint. If she is high enough fey, this creates so many opportunities for the DM to fuck with the player in fun and creative ways.
Eg: spell fails, but she pretends it works. Discount applied, item is cursed. Etc. All charm spells cast by user now have inverse effects, and their feet smell bad.
Duck typing is my favourite. Pry it from my cold dead (object that appears to be hands, and probably is, but maybe isn’t).
My party artificer, making a sheering kit…
DM: yes.
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rpg@ttrpg.network•The Great Tabletop Hackathon: Hacking the Gibson in Multiple Cyberpunk Systems
5·11 months agoIt will, but the image has to be in the body, not as the top link. A bit hacky.
Also thanks for sending along this content – very cool!
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Programming@beehaw.org•Bill Gates releases source code to Altair Basic, written 50 years ago to launch Microsoft
2·1 year agoYeah, it’s easy to forget sometimes that they were actually pretty good coders to get started. Obviously that doesn’t always translate to corporate leadership. But hey, assembly is far better than Zuckerberg’s start (PHP?)
Leetspeak is older than AIM haha. I’d wager it is solidly in the pre-internet BBS era in its inception.
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RPGMemes @ttrpg.network•Am I reading this right? You came from a... happy, loving home?
8·1 year agoSanta is amused
A pipecleaner of some sort – bristles on the bottom end. I dunno, it’s been there longer than the gnome.
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Open Source@lemmy.ml•Company claims 1,000 percent price hike drove it from VMware to open source rival
49·1 year agoTheir website speaks corporatese. Not immediately clear what their business model is.
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Science@beehaw.org•Is it possible to dig all the way through the Earth to the other side?
5·1 year agoClassic intro to orbital mechanics question. You could actually pull this off on some of the smaller bodies in the solar system (asteroids, etc.) provided you put the hole through the body from the north to south pole to avoid Coriolis effects. Time would be equal to the circular orbit time at the same altitude. Cost would be astronomical.
I let my players make checks: “what would my character know in this situation?” History roll. Me as DM: “your character would have gone to kindergarten and learned the number 2”
Goblin says: we can arm wrestle for 10%. But I warn you, I am stronger than I look.



Linux is as buggy as you want it to be. If you’re using Gentoo or Arch in production (and aren’t Valve) and are recompiling kernels cause you read a tomshardware article about a scheduler… Then yeah 😀