Debating whether or not to get a haircut today or postpone it until tomorrow. I'm leaning towards the latter.
in local news: the norwegian food authority has, over the last twenty years, several times noted injured, sick or dead animals, and conditions that were not up to snuff, with this one farmer.. In 2013 it was to the point that they made him stop keeping cattle, which this year he could and did resume. The last inspection did again uncover animals that had died while grazing - without the farmer noticing - and several other dissatisfactory things, and so they got out the biggest bluntest tool they have, denial of activity
and their phrasing is as scathing as you can be in a neutrally worded official document
"It is the opinion of the food safety authority that you have, over an extended period, shown a lack of understanding and competence in attending to the needs of the animals.
The denial of activity is, in this case, all-encompassing. You may not keep any production animals, including horses. You may not own them, you may not trade them, you may not use them, and you may not care for them."
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jungleroomxIt's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovelsRegistered Userregular
Shark and Porp.
Chat's First Couple.
I don't mean first like... you know... nobody else here has a relationship...
Either way, congrats on being awesome you two, even if Shark won't laugh at my puns.
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MrMisterJesus dying on the cross in pain? Morally better than us. One has to go "all in".Registered Userregular
Kesha's new single is fire fire one hundred
and she's going to have an album coming soon???
be still my queermo heart
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Geth roll 3d6 for SirLandShark
Geth roll 3d6 for Porp
Geth roll 3d6 for BeNarwhal
Geth roll 3d6 for Tyrannus
Geth roll 3d6 for RMS Oceanic
Geth roll 3d6 for Quid, I guess, I needed a sixth sea adjacent Chatter
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I rather enjoy the weird muse machine learning thing that is going on.
Every day, a bot trolls popular streaming videos to find the words to their latest single, and stitches them together to the backing music track, doing its best to isolate the words from the background noise.
I rather enjoy the weird muse machine learning thing that is going on.
Every day, a bot trolls popular streaming videos to find the words to their latest single, and stitches them together to the backing music track, doing its best to isolate the words from the background noise.
In not adorable news, girl never texted me back yesterday. *sigh*
Modern dating is the worst.
Lol yes
I went on 4 dates last week (with 3 people)
It is a shit
This one on Wednesday seemed to go well. She agreed to give me her number. She initiated the hug. And she said her phone was wonky but I wasn't worried. But who knows.
I have learned I can't read people at all anymore.
Just a blind man walking into walls.
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syndalisGetting ClassyOn the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Productsregular
I rather enjoy the weird muse machine learning thing that is going on.
Every day, a bot trolls popular streaming videos to find the words to their latest single, and stitches them together to the backing music track, doing its best to isolate the words from the background noise.
Also I am tired today. I tried turning the AC to 75 last night because my electricity bill was 150 last month because we had like a week and a half over 95 and multiple 100+ heat index days.
So a few degrees does save money as I normally have it at 72.
I sweated my ass off last night because of it and slept like crap.
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JacobkoshGamble a stamp.I can show you how to be a real man!Moderatormod
oh my god, who sharked the chat
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MrMisterJesus dying on the cross in pain? Morally better than us. One has to go "all in".Registered Userregular
JacobkoshGamble a stamp.I can show you how to be a real man!Moderatormod
I posted this in the SE++ roleplaying thread and why not milk the effort twice
So I did end up picking up Star Trek Adventures and I'm probably 3/4 through the book. Here are thoughts!
- The background "what you need to know about the world" stuff is all presented in-universe, as little bits of text (news archives, transcripts of scientific lectures, emails from Romulan spies, etc). It's very cute but I think if I didn't know Star Trek already I'd be pretty lost. That feels like a missed opportunity to me; the last (shitball) TV show was twelve years ago, I don't think you can just assume that random people know the ins and outs of Star Trek.
- HOWEVER, I think the game makes up for this in the chapter immediately afterward, which is the kind of "what you do in the game" chapter. It's incredibly clear and descriptive and comprehensive, breaking down all the different typical Star Trek plots into their constituent types (crisis on a planet, mysterious phenomenon, tense negotiations, etc) and spending a lot of time talking about the intended feel. Reading these first chapters, a hypothetical Trek newbie might not be very clear on the difference between Klingons and Romulans, but they should come away with a very strong idea of how a Star Trek story is supposed to go and what kinds of things you'll probably be doing in it. I also particularly like that the game keeps emphasizing that it's about people working together to solve problems and resolve conflicts. Sometimes with other Star Trek products I got the feeling I was reading something written by wehraboos who were mainly interested in COOL SPACE WARS instead of the optimistic future or the morality-play storytelling.
- The Modiphius 2d20 system is interesting and I think it will work in play but is taking some getting used to. This is my first exposure to it, as I never really looked at Conan or Infinity, and it is still kind of percolating through my head. The basic die concepts are very simple - add your relevant stats up and try to roll under the total with two twenty-sided dice - but the rules add a lot of little wrinkles to it. There aren't many moving parts to keep track of but the same basic rules widgets get renamed depending on context, which means I have to stop and think for a moment and remember them. Like, everyone and everything (even the environment) has "Traits," which are a lot like Aspects in FATE, but if a Trait is purely beneficial it's called an Advantage and if it's purely detrimental it's called a Complication. It took me a bit to realize that those all function the same way.
- The system is pretty rules-light overall, without being a formless goopy mass. The designers have made pretty wise choices about what elements to make very abstract and what to zoom in on and make detailed systems about. In the former case, someone realized that a giant list of skills, many of which revolve around made-up concepts that nobody would know when to use ("duotronic computers") was pointless, so characters have a grand total of six skills, all based on ship functions - Conn, Command, Security, Science, Medicine, Engineering. Your dude is good at Security and Command. Boom, done. Equipment? You get everything you need from the replicator, except if you're away from the ship or in a time-sensitive situation maybe you can't. Boom, done. On the other hand, things that Star Trek characters spend a lot of time doing - research, and fixing the spaceship, and negotiating with aliens, and starship combat - all get detailed, crunchy subsystems that give you a lot of meaningful choices.
- Character gen uses a lifepath system. It can be random, but it doesn't have to be - the book says upfront that it's fine if you just pick what you want. You go through seven stages, picking your person's species, the kind of world (or spaceship) they grew up on, their family upbringing, what brought them to the Academy, etc etc, and I feel like it would be pretty hard to go through this process and not have at least a decent idea of who your character is. I really like that it lets you generate a ready-made personal history for them; it feels really appropriate to the setting to be a dude who grew up on a Vulcan science colony or whatever, instead of just generic D&D farmboy #10.
- I've always wondered how Star Trek could be RP'ed, since it's not really about small groups of people, but the system here seems like it'll work: everyone rolls up their character, and those are Main Characters, and your main characters fill certain roles on the ship (you always need a captain, and after that people can choose to be the ship's doctor or science officer or first officer or whatever). For roles that players aren't covering, everyone rolls up Supporting Cast, who use a simplified character generation system so you can whip them up in a hurry. Every scene, group members decide who they're playing. So if the Captain isn't going on the dangerous away mission, the person who rolled up the captain can play Security Officer Lucky Livesalot or w hatever. Players never need to sit out a scene. I really like that. And if you like a Supporting Castmember and keep bringing them back from session to session, they can even advance in stats just like a PC.
- Wonderfully, the ship is also treated like a character, with stats that can grow and advance as you play. Your engineer can sit around tuning up the warp drive to make it faster, or whatever. It can accumulate traits and quirks that separate it from other ships of its kind so it ends up with a unique feel.
- The book's graphic design is pretty great. Everything is done up to look like an LCARS menu. Reading it on my tablet makes me feel like a future person. On the downside, the PDF has a lot of typos; thankfully, I haven't seen any that affect the rules, but stuff like a big chapter header that says "SSHIP SYSTEMS"? Really? The illustrations in the book are of varying quality. Some of the paintings are gorgeous, others are stiff. The ship and space pictures are all terrific.
In not adorable news, girl never texted me back yesterday. *sigh*
Modern dating is the worst.
Lol yes
I went on 4 dates last week (with 3 people)
It is a shit
This one on Wednesday seemed to go well. She agreed to give me her number. She initiated the hug. And she said her phone was wonky but I wasn't worried. But who knows.
I have learned I can't read people at all anymore.
Just a blind man walking into walls.
I went on a date last week that went well you know, had a jolly time in the park drinking a bottle of rosé, had a nice kisses time, had a text me at the end of it
Had a second date that she seemed into, we laughed and talked a lot, but I dunno maybe I was weird because towards the end of it started to be more distant and got the quick hug goodbye
And the text a day later of you're super great but I think we should just be friends, lmk if you want to hang casually and *shrug*
lol I've been on so many fruitless dates over the last year
Though I guess a lot of them because I wasn't feeling the other person, but then a ton of them with similar to above
So *shrug*
I need someone to set me up or something, this is exhausting
I rather enjoy the weird muse machine learning thing that is going on.
Every day, a bot trolls popular streaming videos to find the words to their latest single, and stitches them together to the backing music track, doing its best to isolate the words from the background noise.
Posts
I'd love it if you took a look at my art and my PATREON!
in local news: the norwegian food authority has, over the last twenty years, several times noted injured, sick or dead animals, and conditions that were not up to snuff, with this one farmer.. In 2013 it was to the point that they made him stop keeping cattle, which this year he could and did resume. The last inspection did again uncover animals that had died while grazing - without the farmer noticing - and several other dissatisfactory things, and so they got out the biggest bluntest tool they have, denial of activity
and their phrasing is as scathing as you can be in a neutrally worded official document
"It is the opinion of the food safety authority that you have, over an extended period, shown a lack of understanding and competence in attending to the needs of the animals.
The denial of activity is, in this case, all-encompassing. You may not keep any production animals, including horses. You may not own them, you may not trade them, you may not use them, and you may not care for them."
Chat's First Couple.
I don't mean first like... you know... nobody else here has a relationship...
Either way, congrats on being awesome you two, even if Shark won't laugh at my puns.
and she's going to have an album coming soon???
be still my queermo heart
I've always been under the impression that Kesha's just fucking with people.
Modern dating is the worst.
Go on my wild goose chase little ones.
ah yes, charquid, the dump stat
Kesha is back? She got out of her terrible contract?
This is awesome!
She can finally record again?
Lol yes
I went on 4 dates last week (with 3 people)
It is a shit
we're just oddly invested in their sex lives
Nooooo
I'm clearing my schedule this weekend.
Gonna spend time on arting.
(Sleeping is performance art)
Check out my site, the Bismuth Heart | My Twitter
Every day, a bot trolls popular streaming videos to find the words to their latest single, and stitches them together to the backing music track, doing its best to isolate the words from the background noise.
http://ai.muse.mu
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Well, I don't know about you, but for me it's because I don't have one atm.
But I don't want to take it out and about much until I buy a filter for the lens
Maybe a protector for the screen
But the filter ring adapters are on back order hmmmm
:bro:
Give me more Kesha. She was my favorite before CRJ unseated her from the pop throne.
i wish i liked those videos, they're genuinely impressive....
but they do nothing for me.
Check out my site, the Bismuth Heart | My Twitter
This one on Wednesday seemed to go well. She agreed to give me her number. She initiated the hug. And she said her phone was wonky but I wasn't worried. But who knows.
I have learned I can't read people at all anymore.
Just a blind man walking into walls.
this is impressive in that people are not doing it. At all.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
What up chat butts?
Gonna bring the tent and also bake bread and bring chaga tea
I'd love it if you took a look at my art and my PATREON!
So a few degrees does save money as I normally have it at 72.
I sweated my ass off last night because of it and slept like crap.
I know right? I'm hazy on the details but 8 ball says yes. Also, new track is just FUCK YOUUUUUUUU: A STORY ABOUT DR LUKE
What?
That don't make no sense after having what sounded like a good first date.
this cannot stand jacob
@gooey
- The background "what you need to know about the world" stuff is all presented in-universe, as little bits of text (news archives, transcripts of scientific lectures, emails from Romulan spies, etc). It's very cute but I think if I didn't know Star Trek already I'd be pretty lost. That feels like a missed opportunity to me; the last (shitball) TV show was twelve years ago, I don't think you can just assume that random people know the ins and outs of Star Trek.
- HOWEVER, I think the game makes up for this in the chapter immediately afterward, which is the kind of "what you do in the game" chapter. It's incredibly clear and descriptive and comprehensive, breaking down all the different typical Star Trek plots into their constituent types (crisis on a planet, mysterious phenomenon, tense negotiations, etc) and spending a lot of time talking about the intended feel. Reading these first chapters, a hypothetical Trek newbie might not be very clear on the difference between Klingons and Romulans, but they should come away with a very strong idea of how a Star Trek story is supposed to go and what kinds of things you'll probably be doing in it. I also particularly like that the game keeps emphasizing that it's about people working together to solve problems and resolve conflicts. Sometimes with other Star Trek products I got the feeling I was reading something written by wehraboos who were mainly interested in COOL SPACE WARS instead of the optimistic future or the morality-play storytelling.
- The Modiphius 2d20 system is interesting and I think it will work in play but is taking some getting used to. This is my first exposure to it, as I never really looked at Conan or Infinity, and it is still kind of percolating through my head. The basic die concepts are very simple - add your relevant stats up and try to roll under the total with two twenty-sided dice - but the rules add a lot of little wrinkles to it. There aren't many moving parts to keep track of but the same basic rules widgets get renamed depending on context, which means I have to stop and think for a moment and remember them. Like, everyone and everything (even the environment) has "Traits," which are a lot like Aspects in FATE, but if a Trait is purely beneficial it's called an Advantage and if it's purely detrimental it's called a Complication. It took me a bit to realize that those all function the same way.
- The system is pretty rules-light overall, without being a formless goopy mass. The designers have made pretty wise choices about what elements to make very abstract and what to zoom in on and make detailed systems about. In the former case, someone realized that a giant list of skills, many of which revolve around made-up concepts that nobody would know when to use ("duotronic computers") was pointless, so characters have a grand total of six skills, all based on ship functions - Conn, Command, Security, Science, Medicine, Engineering. Your dude is good at Security and Command. Boom, done. Equipment? You get everything you need from the replicator, except if you're away from the ship or in a time-sensitive situation maybe you can't. Boom, done. On the other hand, things that Star Trek characters spend a lot of time doing - research, and fixing the spaceship, and negotiating with aliens, and starship combat - all get detailed, crunchy subsystems that give you a lot of meaningful choices.
- Character gen uses a lifepath system. It can be random, but it doesn't have to be - the book says upfront that it's fine if you just pick what you want. You go through seven stages, picking your person's species, the kind of world (or spaceship) they grew up on, their family upbringing, what brought them to the Academy, etc etc, and I feel like it would be pretty hard to go through this process and not have at least a decent idea of who your character is. I really like that it lets you generate a ready-made personal history for them; it feels really appropriate to the setting to be a dude who grew up on a Vulcan science colony or whatever, instead of just generic D&D farmboy #10.
- I've always wondered how Star Trek could be RP'ed, since it's not really about small groups of people, but the system here seems like it'll work: everyone rolls up their character, and those are Main Characters, and your main characters fill certain roles on the ship (you always need a captain, and after that people can choose to be the ship's doctor or science officer or first officer or whatever). For roles that players aren't covering, everyone rolls up Supporting Cast, who use a simplified character generation system so you can whip them up in a hurry. Every scene, group members decide who they're playing. So if the Captain isn't going on the dangerous away mission, the person who rolled up the captain can play Security Officer Lucky Livesalot or w hatever. Players never need to sit out a scene. I really like that. And if you like a Supporting Castmember and keep bringing them back from session to session, they can even advance in stats just like a PC.
- Wonderfully, the ship is also treated like a character, with stats that can grow and advance as you play. Your engineer can sit around tuning up the warp drive to make it faster, or whatever. It can accumulate traits and quirks that separate it from other ships of its kind so it ends up with a unique feel.
- The book's graphic design is pretty great. Everything is done up to look like an LCARS menu. Reading it on my tablet makes me feel like a future person. On the downside, the PDF has a lot of typos; thankfully, I haven't seen any that affect the rules, but stuff like a big chapter header that says "SSHIP SYSTEMS"? Really? The illustrations in the book are of varying quality. Some of the paintings are gorgeous, others are stiff. The ship and space pictures are all terrific.
- I want to play this ASAP
@Chanus @Hahnsoo1
I went on a date last week that went well you know, had a jolly time in the park drinking a bottle of rosé, had a nice kisses time, had a text me at the end of it
Had a second date that she seemed into, we laughed and talked a lot, but I dunno maybe I was weird because towards the end of it started to be more distant and got the quick hug goodbye
And the text a day later of you're super great but I think we should just be friends, lmk if you want to hang casually and *shrug*
lol I've been on so many fruitless dates over the last year
Though I guess a lot of them because I wasn't feeling the other person, but then a ton of them with similar to above
So *shrug*
I need someone to set me up or something, this is exhausting
Look at the HIPAA violation!
Watching this made me feel as if I was starting to lose my mind.
I'm going there next week and just figured I'd ask for any tips for me going there.
Current plan is Osaka > Kyoto > Sendai > Fox Village > Sapporo > Tokyo
Any must sees? Highly recommended things?
Stuff to know I may not have thought of?