Posts by satchmoz@mastodon.sdf.org
(DIR) Post #91631 by satchmoz@mastodon.sdf.org
2018-09-19T17:41:10Z
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@tomasino i toggled off of meta array and now im toggling back. Im hoping that clears the last of my funniness.When redoing the domain settings through mkhomepg it was loading ma.sdf.org instead of my site.
(DIR) Post #150360 by satchmoz@mastodon.sdf.org
2018-09-23T14:28:41Z
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@maiki Im a big fan of it. Replaced all my cloud storage with it.
(DIR) Post #270450 by satchmoz@mastodon.sdf.org
2018-09-27T15:29:15Z
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I still daydream of building my own ideal D&D variant one day. But then again don't we all? #rpg
(DIR) Post #270452 by satchmoz@mastodon.sdf.org
2018-09-27T17:15:35Z
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@maiki My opinions on this fluctuate a bit, but as of today: The pages and pages of spells are a big burden on play and with my boyfriends group I regularly see them struggle with it at character advancement. Like I can tell them more or less what "Color Splash" does because ive seen it crop up so many times across editions or variants...
(DIR) Post #270453 by satchmoz@mastodon.sdf.org
2018-09-27T17:15:42Z
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@maiki ...but if your a wizard in D&D and your advancing; you have to flip to your class page, discover what level spell your learning, flip to your wizard spell list, find a spell you might be interested in, and then look it up int the alphabetical list of spells to decide if you like it.
(DIR) Post #270454 by satchmoz@mastodon.sdf.org
2018-09-27T17:16:27Z
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@maiki I'd much rather chuck D&D spell casting and replace it with something more freeform that requires less real life spell book memorization.
(DIR) Post #270455 by satchmoz@mastodon.sdf.org
2018-09-27T17:17:18Z
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@maiki Ive also grown fond of systems where you don't have to roll twice for every combat action. (Attack and damage) but instead use threshhold of success to determine damage.
(DIR) Post #270456 by satchmoz@mastodon.sdf.org
2018-09-27T17:18:30Z
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@maiki Never found a variation of D&D where non-lethal combat wasn't mechanically awkward. (Everyone who learns D&D in front of me wants to do an "action movie" knock out of somebody from behind after stealthing up and I almost always have to house rule it.)
(DIR) Post #270457 by satchmoz@mastodon.sdf.org
2018-09-27T17:19:42Z
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@maiki I'd also really like to see a D&D ship with a more naturalistic bestiary. Less about monsters being evil but about being wild ecologies with violence being only one possible out of a spectrum of resolutions.
(DIR) Post #270458 by satchmoz@mastodon.sdf.org
2018-09-27T17:20:02Z
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@maiki Advancement for accomplishing goals instead of killing set amounts of dangerous things.
(DIR) Post #270460 by satchmoz@mastodon.sdf.org
2018-09-27T18:02:08Z
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@maiki I played a scifi space-operay game where players actually listed short term and long term goals, and got XP for advancing or accomplishing them. No good for a mud but would be the version id have in mind for ripping off, off the top of my head.
(DIR) Post #294760 by satchmoz@mastodon.sdf.org
2018-09-30T03:02:55Z
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Hello SDF, this evening I speak to you from a strange land.
(DIR) Post #362669 by satchmoz@mastodon.sdf.org
2018-10-04T14:05:55Z
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After spending a 1.5 ~ 2 years away in BSD land. I'm mulling over switching back over to GNU/Linux.I'm usually pretty resilient to the disease of distro/OS hopping.
(DIR) Post #436879 by satchmoz@mastodon.sdf.org
2018-10-08T20:31:20Z
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Google+ exposed non-public data for 500k users, then kept it quiet https://arstechnica.com/?p=1389775
(DIR) Post #447809 by satchmoz@mastodon.sdf.org
2018-10-09T15:08:08Z
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@Ricardus Possibly related: https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/watchdog-wants-investigation-of-nikki-haley-s-private-jet-flights/article_d32bcbb0-cb2e-11e8-8c2a-076e4f7ad7a1.html"A federal government watchdog asked the State Department on Monday to investigate whether U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley broke any regulations by accepting seven flights on private jets from three South Carolina executives last year."
(DIR) Post #572374 by satchmoz@mastodon.sdf.org
2018-10-16T16:04:41Z
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Sometimes I think about the pre-80s Pre-GNU hacker culture described by Stallman and others. Where software freedom was both the norm and undefined; and all the froody people getting in on the ground floor doing exciting things which lay the foundation for the present.It's tempting to think of it as a golden age, that one ought to have lived then and not now.However it's a golden age restricted to a small handful of people in a handful of prominent universities.
(DIR) Post #656738 by satchmoz@mastodon.sdf.org
2018-10-20T15:15:31Z
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@tomasino Marvel cosmic superheroes from my childhood.At the university where I work it's Smurfs.
(DIR) Post #679051 by satchmoz@mastodon.sdf.org
2018-10-21T18:23:37Z
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On a fresh copy of Windows 10 you have to race to disable the built in store if you don't want a candy crush launcher or a half dozen other pointless bits of claptrap cluttering your start menu.But when Microsoft gives people the ability to uninstall the calculator tech sites act like it's a big deal.
(DIR) Post #680295 by satchmoz@mastodon.sdf.org
2018-10-21T21:45:09Z
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@nydel Its all about walled gardens, invading your privacy, dictating to users, proprietary software, vendor lock in and making hardware disposable. Apple, Microsoft and Google are all mostly interchangeable on most of those fronts.I avoid them all when I can.
(DIR) Post #824608 by satchmoz@mastodon.sdf.org
2018-10-28T16:09:31Z
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Hey guys this account is dead. I have moved over here: https://anticapitalist.party/@trashHeap