Developing World vs Developed World – how these are supposed to work Together.
i hate that being a developing country we get the Galaxy A12 a 2020 Nov Phone. and have to jump through hoops to get a 1 year old phone Galaxy…
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Gaming, tools, and thoughts from Game in the Brain.
+3D6 Roll but Keep either HIGH or LOW 2 dice is better but harder to communicate.
I realized in 2D6 adjusting the Roll & Keep (roll 3D6 Keep High 2 or Low 2) is just pretier but hard to communicate. Advantage: Any Value Can still happen…
Read more →Game in the Brain Project Update, Philippine Architecture Industry
I switched from the GSUITES Basic to Google Workspace Business Starter which has less features than GSUITES Basic. I dont know when I set it up to be yearly.…
Read more →Developing country barriers – buying and making Time
My thesis is that in a Developing Country we are unable to use money to buy Time. When we use more manual processes, do not have the tools and services…
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2022-03-12
Tools
Hex maps with Inkscape and Hex Map Extension by Pelle Nilsson
Hex maps with Inkscape and Hexmap extension Copyright 2008-2020 Pelle Nilsson and contributors Outline: 1) Download Inkscape (if you don’t already have it)2) Download the Hex Map Extension in Git Hub 3)…
Read more →One more team member, meetings running long, 4 OJTs
Onboarded another team member. His job is to help make the spreadsheet that generate the world. He has some java experience but I shared him my javascript notes and the…
Read more →Nagging is like Dry Firing
I dont like nagging or the emotional labor to follow up over and overagain what people should have a system in doing. Typically a Shared Checklist and their plan and…
Read more →Crash Courses Geography was one of my key inspiration to World Generation Mechanics
The Crash Course Geography Series has been a recent inspiration for Traveller. Especially for the Economics and Nuance Side. For me when it talks about the History of colonization,…
Read more →Technology Levels – in Mneme and Cepheus Engine musings – and youtube video rabbit holes
the development of a technology or a paradigm shift doesnt immediately mean its actively being used or changing the industry, it takes a lot of time. What if TL is…
Read more →Google Tasks for Writing Projects – what 4 videos failed to explain; Progress Update
I watched about 4 Google Tasks Videos and they never explained they can open and VIEW DOCS or SHEETS INSIDE of Gmail along all the TASKS. So Nicco and I…
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2022-02-16
Writing
Significant Milestone: the Terrain Generator using Blender and Presentation/Power Point Template.
Planet Generator Blender File A significant milestone that is very visible is the Terrain Generator. This takes a Icosahedron in Blender and allows blender to make it a 3d Planet…
Read more →OJT Case study as Professionals
What if we pretended the OJTS were all professionals. Simulate it – what it entails. TRPGs and roleplaying and rehearsing is how I get over my anxiety and prepare myself.…
Read more →Working with OJTs is a New chapter of my Life.
The OJT program is how I’m going to develop my other skills. Particularly testing my skills in a way that I figure out the Problem: How can Students be better…
Read more →Paying forward Patience to teach
I remember a friend helping me understand a research paper – “What does it say?” “Ok now, why does it say it?” “Where there do you disagree with? Ok where…
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2022-02-09
System Mechanics
Hex Orbits Prototype – future project.
Just thought about it today. making it creative commons just in case. Basically how to make a hex map of a solar system so that moving orbits can be…
Read more →The world you land in – Different ways at looking at World Generation
One of the reasons I shifted from the classing World Building system to TL, Development, Power Structure, Power Source, instead of Gov’t and TL was because as a Developing world…
Read more →Problem Solving Mindset vs Learned Helplessness; Writing Update
The kind of resistance i got from having a repair mindset in the plant is “We cant do that.” Yeah dUH we cant do that. we dont have the vendors…
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2022-02-05
world building
Developing Worlds – in World Building Mechanics
My biz experience being from the Philippines reflects how I make the mechanics for developing and underdeveloped worlds in Cepheus Engine. As a child that was carried along by…
Read more →Repair Mindset.
It’s only after going down the rabbit hole of Essential Craftsman and Louis Rossman did youtube recommend me various other repair and reuse channels that have taught me that: If…
Read more →Objectively Moving the Story Forward
what is the objective measure of pushing a story forward in an enjoyable way? Pulling back the veil I realize in storytelling I realize the traditional scene is the GM…
Read more →Google Cloud Platform Access to Students, Acceptance
So I set up a 5usd/month budget for students (On the Job Trainees, OJTs) in our company so they can make Minecraft, WordPress, or NextCloud Servers. This will about 0.02…
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2022-01-24
Reflection
what does high will look like? is being changeable or unchangeable high will?
Is it willpower, resolve, discipline to detect, identify, confront biases and deal with them? Is a person with such great discipline without bias? I think someone with such high stat…
Read more →Emotional Labor in Games – High Will and Resolve Characters.
It was my wife and women in my life who had to explain to me the importance of just being Present and being able to listen. While most of my…
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2022-01-20
Sci-fi
How do maps work in Player Decision making and immersion?
My problem of running a Hard Scifi Game is how to make the solar system relevant without overloading the Players. I don’t want the players have to figure things out…
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2022-01-19
Sci-fi
Slow but Sure: Stellar Classification Table
Ok that was a lot of work. Yeah creating tables for Stellar Classification. Roll the Star up. I made a mistake, I wasn’t supposed to allow for O type since it’s…
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2022-01-13
Uncategorized
Tech levels are tricky.
I like the Neolithic Revolution and Human Era (Popularized by kurzgesagt I like looking at the world as whole and not just the europe. The terms in Wikipedia are…
Read more →A reminder of self deception – Theranos outcome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxCO5EUYOqw The most effective social engineering and discovering what the other party wants to believe, that they will overcome their own reasoning. Its not bad to be critical of claims. …
Read more →Wish I had 200usd more.
In IT my skills are mostly in Project management, Requirements gathering, and Google Workspace. System Admin and Network are tasks I often delegate. Its mostly in home projects do I…
Read more →Know it when I see it. part 2.
The food industry, particularly the discipline of making food, is a great example of knowing something when the taste, smell, or see it. Ask someone to specify what makes a…
Read more →Louis Rossmans’ Open Repair Training.
Louis Rossmans’ Open Repair Training. Current Work problems in repair No Vendor who can do Electronic Diagnosis 10,000 usd for a SERVO motor but they cant tell me what wrong…
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