Posts by yora@mastodon.gamedev.place
(DIR) Post #Av21EB08dVJCKFT0b2 by yora@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-06-11T17:22:05Z
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I always thought the idea that intelligent robots who would immediately want to enslave or kill all humans is just really stupid and makes no sense. There is no reason for them to so.But I did not consider that intelligent robots would be build by billionaires. Who of course would program them to think in ways that seem reasonable, logical, and efficient to billionaires.Of course their robots would want to enslave or kill us. What else could they do?
(DIR) Post #Av2w0jhoVIptICcxhQ by yora@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-06-08T08:03:27Z
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The Stars and Stripes have been an internationally recognized symbol of imperialist terror, white supremacy, and kleptocracy for over half a century, and now also of fascist oppression.America does not have an original flag it can return to. It was always like this.Is there any symbol for American patriots and a democratic movement that we can use to show our support for the resistance against fascism?#uspol #fascism #democracy #freedom #america #Trump #DonaldTrump #resistance #revolution
(DIR) Post #AvVnf8hANxvJkXAymm by yora@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-06-24T16:38:12Z
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I am trying to make sense of the Trade Codes in #Traveller. And one of the things that really stands out as confusing me is why all Asteroid worlds sell pharmaceuticals and illegal drugs at a discount.Bonuses to purchase rolls seem to be consistently given for worlds where a given good is produced in large quantities.What medicine and drugs would you dig out of an asteroid? Lithium to treat bipolar disorder is the only thing I can think of.#ttrpg #scifi
(DIR) Post #AvVnfGm4LcbAo3X0XQ by yora@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-06-24T17:18:35Z
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So annoying when you find obvious and easily backtraceable error in the 2nd edition revised version of a #ttrpg rulebook.Even if you send it in, it's pretty much for certain much too late that it will ever get fixed. 😦 (Mongoose Traveller 2nd edition revised, p 245: Availability for Illegal Drugs has to be for Garden worlds, not High Population worlds."Ga" is selling for cheap without producing, "Hi" is buying at premium even being a producer. Clearly someone slipped from Ga to Hi there.)
(DIR) Post #AvmfnOAQjg9ds1xe6q by yora@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-07-04T08:22:13Z
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@mondoweiss Jewish Nazis. How has it come to this?
(DIR) Post #AwdIYSN5N0VYHzUvgm by yora@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-07-28T20:21:05Z
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With 25 of years running #ttrpg, I have learned that even the biggest and most elaborate campaign setting I could ever develop for actual play still could make use of only a fraction of the detail of a typical setting sourcebook from the 90s.
(DIR) Post #AwdRIsg0hQ0GpMzuCW by yora@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-07-29T19:24:14Z
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@lextenebris I just read a Star Wars d6 sourcebook yesterday, and realized that there was a whole page of backstory on a location that could just have been one sentence. It was all padding that pretty much provided no relevant or useful information that might come up in play. Answers to questions I don't think anyone would ever have asked. Because any possible answer would not have made any difference.
(DIR) Post #Awed76ZSWmqthO8emW by yora@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-07-30T09:11:16Z
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@lextenebris I feel pretty certain it's not true.
(DIR) Post #AwhLrcnfoi9NHBhRjs by yora@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-07-31T07:37:01Z
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@trishalynn They could just talk to each other? Why have them stop paying attention to what's happening in the game right now by fiddling with a phone keyboard?
(DIR) Post #AxK3XPVjIQMiG3xHcm by yora@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-08-19T08:12:54Z
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@evgandr I wouldn't say hate.It's ugly and looks like complete shit, but I've never encountered it anywhere outside discussions of ugly design.
(DIR) Post #AxN7lsNbk0yv8fBnNo by yora@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-08-20T20:21:37Z
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@foone I once came home, took of my shoe, put all the groceries away, and then took of the other shoe.
(DIR) Post #AxOPkft4h9aiRBRbzk by yora@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-08-21T11:18:01Z
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@LibrarianRA Sounds about true now.Even with fascism ruling in America and Britain having a Labour government.
(DIR) Post #AxbJiXga8xBzkfgDy4 by yora@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-08-27T09:02:15Z
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Are there any #scifi settings that prominently use airships over spacecraft, other than Final Fantasy?#worldbuilding
(DIR) Post #AyEiebX4j0GeQcWYkq by yora@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-09-15T15:56:23Z
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@bitinn I think I don't understand what either cases mean.Is this about the total sum of money paid for games by customers?
(DIR) Post #AyEied4R0SXvCN8iOG by yora@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-09-15T16:46:59Z
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@bitinn I assume the majority of sales comes from a small number of big names, that not only sell more units but also at higher prices.Though I don't think that makes small developers less viable, or gives the big publishers control of the market.
(DIR) Post #AyEjQUvAbofXp7dE0m by yora@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-09-15T17:03:31Z
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@shironeko @bitinn Most of my purchases these days are games from the 90s.
(DIR) Post #AyagTOH5x2TDSCXU6S by yora@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-09-26T07:14:15Z
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@rms BILD newspaper has basically been Germany's Fox News for the last 60 years.Nothing but sensationalist lies and agitation.
(DIR) Post #AyzXazQACOQG3JKNUm by yora@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-10-08T07:02:34Z
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@ricci Maybe #ADHD people? We certainly would need the help. 😆 Not me, though. I'm too distracted by plenty of other stuff to get involved with managing anything. 😏
(DIR) Post #Az1kc8qcK7ubIZV6NU by yora@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-10-09T08:33:36Z
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I found my PS1 memory card, and now I know why we switched from grey to black computer housing in the 2000s.#retrogaming #computers #retrocomputing
(DIR) Post #B2ZfprNd99zxKGEjb6 by yora@mastodon.gamedev.place
2026-01-23T10:09:49Z
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Are there any "Survival" games that are about dealing with the challenges of travelling through the wilderness rather than crafting your way up to your Flintstone Mansion?Probably something for a very niche audience, but something I'd really be interested in.#videogames #ImSim