Damoren – a review of campaigns i’ve run and previous reflections.
I’ve fun modern “kitchen sink” settings where it has magical elements. And Damoren reminds me of this and like any GM who has run this and prepared for this –…
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Gaming, tools, and thoughts from Game in the Brain.
Wealth is Easy, Intermediate is Status: it they still made GURPS Source books
being a Power-gamer before I’m still hardwired to look for Optimals. As a GM the rules on wealth in GURPS applied intelligently its one of the easy “controls” to master. …
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2020-12-19
D&D
Finished Tower of Doom with my Son
with 4usd controllers, we played and finished it. It was unlimited life so it was possible. I only discovered so many moves by accident. There is a rising attack (shuryuken)…
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2020-12-05
D&D
Dungeons and Dragons: Shadows over Mystara – Steam
Nostalgia Trip. Got Dungeons and Dragons: Shadows over Mystara in Steam to run in an i3-4150 del optiplex 3020 (2015). I cannot do this on a keyboard. I need to…
Read more →Operating Costs. The Cost of Computers – modern or old.
One of the thigns that Interrupt my meditation is the Cost benefit analysis. I can afford this 7500php (200usd) 5000 PassMark computer. I could probably afford to buy one every…
Read more →Hard Scifi Setting Notes – Homesteaders and Size References
Skyhooks or Inertia Bank Tethers are interesting to me because its created a paradigm where I’m trying to conserve Inertia. I’m not thinking of reaction mass, I’m thinking of inertia…
Read more →Good Cop/Bad Cop is Dividing Attention
Realizing that Good-Cop/Bad-Cop is a tactic meant to Divide Targets resources. When you are making a decision and trying to predict your outcomes. Creating two sets of outcomes based on…
Read more →Optimistic – New Project that may Help more than myself.
One side project that will really help me in the Longrun is working with a Friend to teach him and study with him FreeCAD and Blender. The main Project I…
Read more →Can Science Storytelling be Engaging?
Near Earth Prospects Doing some TRPG musing – How do I run a 2050-2100 TRPG setting without a lot of prep and with believable world-building? For feedback. 0) The goal…
Read more →Milestone Freecad – imported floor plan and scaled it
I am just too fucking busy. other than being my own 3 man team at work in the ERPnext migration, Problem Solving the Plant issues because my plant manager has…
Read more →Visualizing Hard Scifi Settings – Tethers.
Visualizing a freighter carrying hundreds of tons of material cargo in 2200. It deposits its cargo by having the cargo drift out of its wake and get slowed up and…
Read more →Daydreaming of TL9 – a game that Spans 2050 to 2200.
Traveller Games in TL9 2050-2099 ike Delta-V where freelance Astronauts of various specializations are getting hired and trained for pioneer missions to catch asteroids, comets, and material to bring…
Read more →Economies of Effort and Frustration and Sadness
So much is a working memory problem: its really the ability to drill down deep and break down the problem into components. It costs attention to do the following: ..to…
Read more →I drink my own Cool Aid. I cannot just have “Save Money” as a Goal.
Obviously given how Naive I am, my internal rhetoric is not “Save Money”. My internal rhetoric is: “I am setting ERPNext to help people Work From Home and to be…
Read more →Death is Painful in many ways I didnt and can’t imagine
the more I understand about the body, the more uncomfortable I am in killing scenes. One cannot help it as a GM, World Builder, and Storyteller – getting some powerfully…
Read more →Changing Attitudes towards responsibility – I’m not an “Idea man”
Before I assumed so much and thought many things were possible. Now that I’ve tried them and realized the Social Physics in place that prevents an organization from doing something…
Read more →System Generation replaced with Organization Generation
I’ve tackled Organization mechanics before in My notes on Organization in TRPGs in 2016 Jun 07. Whats changed is that 4 years since I’ve finished more books and applied more of my understandings as…
Read more →Emotions, Colors, Set Theory, and Bayesian Probability – the limitations of my mental model
Bayesian probability for me was a difficult concept to follow. I had to wrestle with it for a while and eventually I settled with the use fo Expected Monetary Value calculations:…
Read more →A luxury to manage your emotions
why is my family, time to think, talk with friends, and rest considered a luxury? Its not a boat, a plane, an extra home, an extra car, an extra set…
Read more →Understanding Computers – they are and probably will be blackboxes
What is Virtualization? It’s pretty much running a computer within a computer by simulating the circumstances that would make a computer think it has what it needs to run. A…
Read more →Cash Poor, Time Rich – the Time Cost of Open Source
Alicloud had documentation about limitations which I appreciate. I wish we keep in mind the limitations when offering solutions and are capable of giving options that don’t profit us. As…
Read more →Research Work as we Try to Migrate Quickly to ERPNext
My Arts Background makes different in the way that I know all the Non-technical Assumptions and Questions people who are NOT IT will ask. My Goal is to have more…
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2020-09-16
Art
Tracing Albin Merle’s Works
my drawings have been tracings of Albin Merle’s works. he does a wonderful Series of Space Suits from different eras. Particulary the Artemis XEMU and the Advanced Crew Escape Suit.…
Read more →Sad Acceptance that the Philippines is so flawed as to be unworkable still leads to hope
An email where I have to say something else from what I really think: “Re your plans with ERPNext, it would be great if we come to that point where…
Read more →More Market Consolidation in the News
On the News of NVIDIA will acquire ARM and the “Deterioration” of Occulus and Red Hat (Layoff the total being — reportedly — about 5,000 people). to their Acquirers (Facebook and IBM).…
Read more →TL9 Exo Skeletons and Spare Part Grades
So from my background in Construction and manufacturing, as a Safety Officer, and Quality Management officer, as well as inspiration from Seveneves and Delta V I’ve come to the conclusion…
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2020-09-12
Writing
Context to my Game Writing: Writing about Space Work with my Perspective
When writing up the Operational Safety Limits of a Scifi Space Suit as a Construction and Work Place Safety Officer is VERY DIFFERENT. A lot of writers kinda shit on…
Read more →N+1 Benchmarks and Perspectives
In Doc DuBois who I imagine in my head the whole time to be Niel deGrasse Tyson in Seveneves. He points out why certain options were only allowed to them because…
Read more →5 year old Optiplex 3020 (i3-4 series) kicking my X555Q (A12-9 series)’s Ass
With the 30GB database (its a 1.3GB download but unzipped becomes 30GB) I am migrating from my A12 laptop to this Optiplex 3020 with an I3-4000 (2015) desktop. Hopefully the…
Read more →ERPNext Reflections: Inherent Complexity – Prerequisites Skill
What makes ERPNext or any ERP hard to learn is the dizzying prerequisites. Because ERPs need to link data there will always be prerequisites to coordinate. Making a Material Request…
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