CodexArcanum

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[–] CodexArcanum 5 points 23 hours ago

Absolutely. Pandemic "inflation" threw all kinds of prices too high and nothing is coming back down because most industries are so small that they're all essentially oligarchies now.

I am dead certain that the pandemic has actually put the US into a hard recession which the Fed has been covering up with various tricks. I'm pretty sure that after the presidential election, whichever way it goes, the economy is going to tank.

[–] CodexArcanum 24 points 23 hours ago

Seems like the feature freeze for 4.3 is still in effect. I imagine they won't merge it in until they start compiling features for the next build. Good for them though, the feature they paid for is finally coming!

[–] CodexArcanum 2 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

I can pretty rarely get under $30 for just myself ($50 for two i consider quite the deal now) and we live in a city with many options, and most places i would order from are about a 10 minute drive. I'm not saying it's right or good, just that the prices you see are in line with what I've been seeing. Food is quite a bit more expensive right now.

[–] CodexArcanum 4 points 23 hours ago

Everybody.... Get! In! Line!

[–] CodexArcanum 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

"Match this fit" meme but it's all 80s and 90s Trek looks. (I think DS9's mirror universe fashion holds up pretty well.)

[–] CodexArcanum 3 points 23 hours ago

No joke, a friend's advice for getting good at pool/billiards was to start playing with my off-hand dominant. And he was right! It didn't take long to get back up to speed with my other hand and my game is way better because I have a better intuitive feel now, and I'm not caught by unfavorable shots since i can freely use either hand forward to play.

I do this with any physical activity I'm trying to improve at now. It trains the brain to focus on the mechanics of the task, not just autopilot through it. And being a little more ambidextrous is just real nice!

[–] CodexArcanum 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I do love how in the face of all advice and evidence, lots of these people still believe that there's somehow a way to turn those imaginary numbers into real, actual, spendable money.

[–] CodexArcanum 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This kind of information is all suppressed now, but early on when Facebook only had likes, there was a lot of discussion on how downvotes weren't really needed. It was believed that people engaged more with content they enjoyed, and ignored unfavorable content.

This is wildly wrong. People obsessively engage with content they hate, to the extent that it probably makes more sense to only have a down vote button. Everyone knows that now, and the big sites uses psychological studies funded by casinos to gamify engagement, entirely in the pursuit of click-pennies.

What do votes mean? On lemmy it seems nothing. On other sites they mean revenue for the owners.

[–] CodexArcanum 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wtf is this post and these comments? It's a rainbow potion that does almost nothing, in a roguelike game full of hundreds of random items. I thought Lemmy(world) was a fairly progressive space. "Fruit cake" are you assholes fucking serious right now?

They obviously need to add a clear potion of "Cishet Tears" that permanently enrages one seemingly normal NPC.

[–] CodexArcanum 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There are a ton of competing models for how the early universe formed. In order to explain why the universe is so smooth and flat though, they all invoke the idea of a short (10e-37 seconds) period of time immediately following "the singularity" that is presumed to have been literally the first point. During inflation the universe blows up 100000 times in size (and correspondingly drops in temperature by the same factor) then immediately slows down to roughly the rate of expansion we see today.

There are a lot of simulations and theories about this could have worked. And I'm sure they all have lots of grounding and math and believers. But none of thr explanations I've ever heard amount to more than "when I do this funny thing, the math works and none of of us know why" and that has been the state of quantum physics for 70 years: a series of "we don't know but the math works."

In software, we call that tech debt and I feel like our current model of profit-driven science isn't capable of actually finding or reporting the answers that underly the debt-riddled results out of modern labs.

[–] CodexArcanum 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Isn't AI web 3.5 since web 3.0 was already blockchains?

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16392555

Ashes: Hard Reset OST by John S. Weekley

I saw over the weekend that the soundtrack had been released ahead of the upcoming (!) prequel (‼️) to the amazing series of Doom mods. The Ashes series rules, play them if you haven't. The soundtracks also rule and I had the Afterglow OST in heavy rotation all last year.

This one is pretty good. Very heavy with callbacks to the previous OSTs and to the original Doom's music. "Romero Waiting for the Train" is particularly fun for it's mix-in of my favorite OG track. I can't wait to wander more post-apocalyptic subways to this groovy tune!

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16392555

Ashes: Hard Reset OST by John S. Weekley

I saw over the weekend that the soundtrack had been released ahead of the upcoming (!) prequel (‼️) to the amazing series of Doom mods. The Ashes series rules, play them if you haven't. The soundtracks also rule and I had the Afterglow OST in heavy rotation all last year.

This one is pretty good. Very heavy with callbacks to the previous OSTs and to the original Doom's music. "Romero Waiting for the Train" is particularly fun for it's mix-in of my favorite OG track. I can't wait to wander more post-apocalyptic subways to this groovy tune!

 

I saw over the weekend that the soundtrack had been released ahead of the upcoming (!) prequel (‼️) to the amazing series of Doom mods. The Ashes series rules, play them if you haven't. The soundtracks also rule and I had the Afterglow OST in heavy rotation all last year.

This one is pretty good. Very heavy with callbacks to the previous OSTs and to the original Doom's music. "Romero Waiting for the Train" is particularly fun for it's mix-in of my favorite OG track. I can't wait to wander more post-apocalyptic subways to this groovy tune!

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Back around 2007 or 2008 I think, I watched a very cool animation on Youtube. I cannot for the life of me remember the name, and i doubt it's still up since it used a well-known song as the audio track.

It was a pretty standard (for the time) anime-style fight video, set to The Prodigy's "Smack my Bitch Up". It's cel-shaded CGI/3D, and starred a yellow-and-black Sentai-style character. I think he was like a robot superhero? The whole animation was basically a demoreel/pilot for an animator who wanted to launch a show based on the characters.

If anyone remembers this or can find a link, I'd be very grateful! It was a cool fight scene (for the time), and it always bothers me when I vaguely remember a neat thing and can find no trace of it.

 

Seriously! Thanks to all the meme makers out there for supporting Lemmy/Kbin/etc and keeping the alternatives to the corporate internet alive and fun!

 

When her theme kicks in at about 30s is around in the cutscene when I knew trusting her was going to be trouble. Something haunting and dangerous about it, almost circus-like in a way.

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Layers of KETR (lemmy.world)
 

This old meme format popped into my head, but honestly I was lost on what the best punchline would be.

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I totally missed that #RPGaDay2003 was a thing until like the 26th! So, inspired by James, I'm going to play catch up for this year all at once, and next August I'll try to get in on the daily game!

First RPG played this year:

Nobilis. Ran a hacked together "3.9 Edition" using Glitch and Chuubo's rules. Worked pretty well, but has already fallen apart due to adult scheduling.

First RPG Gamemaster:

Me! No intro, I dove in using the books and first principles! Then my best friend got in on it and ran a different game for our group! Good times!

First RPG bought this year:

Delta Green, I think.

Most recent game bought:

Also Delta Green, I believe, the Impossible Landscapes scenario book.

Oldest Game Played:

Brown pamphlet D&D, about as old as you can get unless I recreate the legendary Braunstein or Blackmoor games.

Favourite game you never get to play:

All of them, but FATE and Unknown Armies specifically. Goddamn, I'd love to run so many UA games!

Smartest RPG you've played:

I think they can all vary, depends on the group, the session, etc. Nobilis is easily the most consistently cerebral game I get into though.

Favourite Character:

I really enjoyed my Lord of Doomscrolling emo-kid Strategist from that recent Nobilis game. Hard to play favs though, I love them all in their times.

Favourite Dice:

FATE dice! I have a cool fire-and-ice set that I enjoy rolling quite a bit!

Favourite tie-in fiction:

I liked Dan Abnett's Inquisitor books (Warhammer 40K) more than I expected. Been meaning to reread them, see how they hold up.

Weirdest game you've played:

Human Occupied Landfill (HOL); or that homebrew Gamma World Gurps session that went some places. Both ages ago.

Oldest Game you still play:

I'd throw down one of the Basic clones I have (S&W, ACKS) in a heart beat for some old school dungeon stomping, but honestly anything I want to run seems to be old now: FATE, UA, Reign. I guess those all have good new editions though!

Most memorable character demise:

I don't recall any funny or heartfelt ones offhand. Character death has never featured heavily for me, and games where it is common you tend to have a chuckle at the 1st level fighter being melted by a slime trap WHILE the the mage accidentally fireballs them, then you roll up a new target dummy and forget about the last one.

Favourite Convention Purchase:

I hardly get to gaming conventions any more. Uhh... I got an awesome signed copy of Loony Labs' Pyramid Arcade at PAX South one year. That's an underappreciated collection of great games and it was tons of fun meeting and playing games with the owners!

Favourite Con Module/One Shot:

Meh, I never get into these. I do own several neat little games that are clearly convention one-off games, but I couldn't pick a fav of them.

Game I wish I owned:

Well, I DO own Nobilis 2nd (the GWB) which would be it if I didn't. I wish I had original books for a lot of classic games: Paranoia, various D&D, the first Vampire maybe, RIFTS, that kind of stuff.

Funniest Game you've played?

I had a good laugh at the Knights of the Dinner Table game, which is a pretty good farce of early D&D. My Nobilis games do tend to be pretty funny too.

Favourite game system?

FATE. I think Aspects are just the best idea ever. They work well with almost any other system, yet can also be the only mechanic if you want. Truly genius.

Favourite published adventure?

No idea, hardly ever us them. Impossible Landscapes does intrigue the shit out of me, as do megadungeons like Rappan Athuk that I've got sitting here. There's something amusing and thoughtful to me about a long,

spoilerand in the end impossible to win
, scenario that makes me want to explore them with a group.

Will still play in 20 years time?

FATE for sure! I'm a big fan of the One Roll Engine and I'm sure I'll still be breaking that out too!

Favourite licensed RPG?

Weapons of the Gods counts, I guess? Eventually turned into uh... Legends of the Wulin? Not sure what's going on with EOS Sama these days, or those properties. I don't get it licensed stuff much.

Best Secondhand RPG Purchase?

Ooh, a D&D Set 1 Basic Rules (red box) in very good condition that I just found at a thrift store one day!

Coolest Looking RPG product/book?

Uh, I'm just going to brag about owning the absolutely gorgeous Nobilis 2nd edition again! I also have a lot of very cool props and accessories for running D&D that I'm like never going to get to use!

Complex / Simple RPG you play?

For simple it's FATE. Like I said, you could literally have aspects and nothing else and have a very effective system.

For complexity it's Burning Wheel. Just, all of the fucking Burning engine books. I don't understand how Crane and co had time to write these things, let alone play them!

Unplayed RPG You Own?

Far too many of them, sadly. Going to say Delta Green and Unknown Armies are the ones I most want to play right now.

Favourite Character Sheet?

I always design my own and I love them! My Nobilis sheets have been great, but my favorite is for a long abandoned RPG of my own design. It was way too complex and unfun to play, but that character sheet was gorgeous!

Game I'd like a new edition of?

I'm pretty good, haha, got new editions I haven't even gotten to yet! I do wish Weapons of the Gods / Legends of the Wulin had a better publisher and about a dozen more source books by Jenna Morran!

Scariest game I've ever played?

Tremulus, ran a pretty fun and spooky one-off with it for Halloween. But the scariest to come is the DG scenario I've been wanting to run. Got some good, spooky ideas for that one!

Most memorable encounter?

I once talked a kill team of Dragonblood assasins into joining our righteous cause in an Exalted game. That was pretty amazing, and really annoyed the DM since he hadn't planned for them having much personality, since he also hadn't planned on my pacifistic charming character being literally irresistible!

Most obscure RPG that you've played?

My own homebrews, surely. HOL, as mentioned, and a few other weird RPGs from that era like Feng Shui.

Favourite RPG of all time?

The most successful campaign I've run was with Diaspora, which is basically Traveller run with FATE. I really loved that game, and would run another session any time. Greg Stolze's Reign is way up there too.

I think Unknown Armies is my favorite to just read and think about.

Compare your answers with those from the first #RPGaDay.

First time posting! I'll look forward to looking back next year though!

Thanks for reading and happy gaming!

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