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…
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Gaming, tools, and thoughts from Game in the Brain.
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…
Read more →Problem of Prerequisites
I know I’m not that systematic. There is uncertainty and poorly thought out imperssion in my mind in trying something new. We have a finite amount of time to check…
Read more →TL9 EMU Suit and its PSD File and Stats
both EMU unit and Crew Suit PSD file. TL9 Crew Suit 2200 PSD FILE Changed the Shadows Layer into an OVERLAY layer. I used the Overlay property on the layer…
Read more →My open source challenge
Open source sometimes feels like atheism – its mere existence is anathema – a violation of norms. Remembering how MS called it a Virus and has to be destroyed. Remembering…
Read more →Photoshop FIle of the TL9 Crew Vacc Suit.
Photoshop file (gimp compatible) for TL9 Crew Vacc Suit Traced with a lot of liberties from Albin Merle’s 3d Rendering of the Advanced Crew Escape Suit (which should give you…
Read more →TL9 Basic Crew Vacc Suit 2200
Continued from Vacc Suit musings at TL9 One needs to explain that the way we think of suits as changeable set of clothes is NOT the way people who have…
Read more →Vacc Suit Musing from TL9 and implications. Survival Rolls in Hard-Scifi Travel
I’m bothered by Vacc Suit and Combat Env Suit Stats of MgT2E. one is 10kg the other is 2kg and in the setting End+Str+Athl in Load capacity before Bane. I…
Read more →How I slow down.
Slowing down is a Decomposition technique. It breaks down an overwhelming emotion and impulse so that it does not drive me to act rashly as well as allow me to…
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2020-08-27
Uncategorized
Can’t help but pull back the veil and use PM skills.
Project Management (PMBOK) is a skill to structure Uncertainty. It’s for those who want to deal with uncertainty systematically. Its funny that the skill falls under Engineer, Management, and Analysis…
Read more →Flow of Action – How I work changed.
The more experience I have with the time of motion of people – the more I realize that people have their own pace. As well as people need structure –…
Read more →Collect Requirements – Decomposition – Repeat/Retry
when I was listening to lectures on emotions the actionable take away was: 1) I was “hyper rational” before but that was a mistake because it made me ignore other…
Read more →Islands of familiarity
When I get older, it’s not that I’m more thorough. It’s just that I learned a checklist and can only go through that one because I have experienced all the…
Read more →Roll Persuasion or Business Analysis.
There is the Sales Persons Roll to Persuade and Sell the product. Can he/she signal well enough that this is what the client wants. This creates a lot of problems…
Read more →Game Design – is partly writing and doing things systematically consistent
I wanted to use ERPNext for our Journal Voucher (Basically our Master Transaction list for Payable and Receivables). Its not that simple, of that the most important and largest unit…
Read more →System Thinking and Games
The realization that GAMES and system thinking is a decision made in multiple iterations with changing factors that influence the decision. When I realize that AGILE makes sense as a…
Read more →MgT2E Problems with Equipment
what i like doing with my spare time. Armor Piercing and Armor Piercing Discard Sabot Rounds were not Factored in how battle strategies and practices change as we ramp…
Read more →Another Project, when the Other Lost Steam. This time Post Pandemic Philippines 2020 using Traveller SRD.
Doing a simple write up of observations into a Traveller type mechanic. If you are familiar with Mongoose Traveller, I made a “Laborer” Career. It represents a type of “class”…
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2020-08-12
Uncategorized
Methods and Trade-offs.
Capitalism doesn’t “work” and communism and socialism doesn’t work. the way walking, running, swimming, or climbing “work” from getting someplace. A method has trade-offs. Communism, socialism, etc.. have trade-offs that…
Read more →Traveller SRD to Philippines 2021
the equivalent of – livelihoods that are not “Careers” if I convert Traveller SRD character Gen to Modern 2021 Philippines. Note in Traveller “Livelihood Time” is 4 year increments. So…
Read more →I wish I can finish my Homebrew Alternate Cepheus Engine to run Pandemic Philippines
I like running modern-day settings. I want to run 2021 near the “end” of the pandemic. I try to run simulate the Philippines: with its corruptions, the vilification of the…
Read more →Stress is where Heroism can be better viewed. Stress Mechanics
Because of the Stress Mechanic (its like HP but the Stress doesn’t go away so quickly without coping mechanisms like Vices and Habits; unified Conditions see 200425 GITB Quick Combat –…
Read more →TL9 Habitats, Vacc Tape, and Repair Wraps.
Stuff that I find frustrating when I’m prepping for our Traveller Game. After Delta-V and Seveneves I realized that versatility and emergency resources: like the collapsible tanks and emergency life support…
Read more →Trying to Understand T5, for much sophisticated minds (not mine)
I’m really frustrated at Traveller 5 armor making. The Armor Making Form does not line up with the Design Instructions. Example. it says Deliberate Design The deliberate design process begins…
Read more →I’m a third worlder and it seems that in Linkedin people forget it
After realizing frappe is low code, python, and js, web base ERP. I realized that when I saw the majority of the users were African and South Asian, my irrational…
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