Phil. A. Ménard (AKA The Chatty DM)

Slay the Spire 2 is real fun.

Multiplayer StS2 is even more fun.

Plus bonus drawing penises, boobies, and critters while playing with my partner.

Yikes!

And I can't say "cooler heads will prevail" to alleviate this renewed existential crisis because the US president is allegedly a fucking idiot with dementia that will not be removed by the checks and balances of the system.

I'm not blaming any of you, but the system is broken beyond repair.

For the first time since I was a young adult, I can conceive that a huge flash outside the windows could make me look away from my work screen and I'd be vaporized seconds after that.

I live within a 1 hour walking distance from Montreal's downtown, likely less.

I feel you, fren.

Des fois, vers 50 ans, on brise ou on vire plusse à gauche. ;)

Des fois, vers 50 ans, on brise ou on vire plusse à gauche. ;)

Interestingly enough, French grammar hasn't really drilled their use in my writing so I tend to use too many parentheses.

That you went with Vincent and not Maximilian marks you as a friend, Steven. I saw the Black Hole in a drive in, when I was WAY TOO YOUNG.

🤣Have a Dopamin on me, Jason🤣

Yesterday I generated a 3 series of taglines for our (redacted) experience, organized in categories and in bullet points.

I added: This was done with natural intelligence, I just happen to structure my thoughts and deliverable like that (i.e. as I was thought in academia).

And a personal argument that using a conversational tone in a TTRPG books for the non rulesy parts and boxed text with a different layout for the rules bits makes for a better product.

But that's just me selling my own style as "good". Moving on. :)

That and the fact that LLMs, having been trained on the gold standard of TTRPG writing makes actual writing good TTRPG material suspicious to mediocre readers and writers not able to spot the difference. A difference harder and harder to see.

Or maybe I'm repeating all y'alls points. :)

THIS, ALL THIS.

The kneejerk response to other and crucify people in public as a dopamine hit for their own miserable lives.

What were you like in the 90s, dad?
(cue 'Iris' from the Goo Goo Dolls)
90 - Graduated high school, had hair on head, not face.
92 - Graduated pre-uni, playing lots of GURPS
95 - Graduated uni, playing GURPS and Magic
96 - Met Mom
97 - Moved 600 km North
99 - Gained 30 lbs, came back, got married.

It's 12 degrees Celcius outside, my windows are cracked, fresh air is coming in.

It's false Spring everyone, the Harbinger of Second Winter!

Essaie de l'installer comme une imprimante generique? (celle qui dit "Bonjour" dans ta liste d'ajout d'imprimante quand l'imprimante est branché à ton ordi).

A part ca, j'ai pas vraiment de trucs car je suis un nouveau dans MacOS.

La réponse c'est "oui c'est possible, mais compliqué en maudit"

La Canon ,contrairement à ma HP, parle le "AirPlay", le langage d'imprimante de MacOS mais j'ai remarqué que les pilotes de Canon ne sont plus compatible avec MacOS.

I wrestled ways to get MacOS, Debian, and a 15 year old HP Laser printer to talk to each other and I hit the "Flow" while doing it, so I get what Rob says here. :)

Took me a while to figure it out, but I turned my "looking for work" Raspberry Pi 4 into a Print Server and now all my computers (I have a lot) and my Chromebook can print on it!

WooHoo!

Ever since I got Macs in my household (I spent the weekend setting up my 3rd) I was unable to print with my ageing but trustworthy LaserJet Pro p1102w.

Turns out MacOS no longer speaks "HP"

So I dug, and searched, and came up with Debian's CUPS (a linux-based print server).

The unidentified one when things get REALLY desprate!

It's still great to listen to!

I mean, 20 years ago, a whole bunch of friends in NYC remade their own version of Fantasy TTRPGs (Burning Wheel) to do EXACTLY that.

"My group likes intra party conflicts, D&D should provide better support for that" is a bad take. Especially in this golden age of TTRPGs.

Expand outwards, find the game that embraces your needs instead of expecting the general audience, mass marketed entry level game to do it for you.

:)

Hi Mistplay Shinobi, I'm Stack Overflow!

I’m something of a Misplay Shinobi myself

There's a Fish and Chip place where you can get Doritos-flavoured batter for your chippies!

(Pet peeve: I have little patience for people arguing the "logic" of rules made by much better game designers than them.)

No shade on the players at my store, but many are English as a Second Language and several balk at the "mechanical logic" of the Shinobi "during combat, but unblocked, but after damage, but coming attacking..."