Gaming, tools, and thoughts from Game in the Brain.
The cost of Security. I was talking to my mentor and team, about how I tend to be ok when we spend about up to the Opportunity cost or the…
Read more →Plot Twists Formula. Begin by think through the Positives and Negatives of something when encountering the tendency to simplify to Bad Guy or Good Guy, ask Why. An example would…
Read more →Just to get over the annoyance that Dogs cant be the “Form” taken by the Spirit of the Find Familiar spell. Dog Small Beast Armor Class: 11 Hitpoints 3 (1d4+1)…
Read more →My mentor is retiring on the 20th. We may have one more project where we may see each other again. The project is : Kanban for the plant. But it…
Read more →So I was distracted about D&D since I invested in the Starter and Essentials Kit. I thought it would be “easy enough” to get my son into. But I was…
Read more →Systems Thinking It was when I was catching up with old friends where my problem with running games came about. My first instinct is to look for a simple algorithm.…
Read more →I think the problem is that LIMITS are not taught to the GMs. They imagine skills are like physical Abilities – at a certain point they can deadlift 600lbs*, and…
Read more →I was hoping the red was going to go down over time. Still my review is 200+ cards every day. My thesis is that as I have more mature cards…
Read more →Testing OBS and Screencasting to show me tinkering with notes. Using an AMD A10 processor, 8GB RAM, Win10, 64bit. This translation of De Re Military is in the Public Domain.…
Read more →Strength and Endurance training is quite different from skills like Project or Business Operations Management or Chinese. That should go without saying, but we gravitate to what mental model is…
Read more →My Dungeon Fantasy Box Set Arrived. I bought D&D starter set and essentials for my son and myself. I have more Material as a GURPS GM to Run Mines of…
Read more →Skill is a concept that keeps changing year to year in my life. Although we are being introduced to skills early in life, it is through games where I see…
Read more →I thought I mastered HSK4 (1200 words) months ago. But when I downloaded the 2012 HSK http://www.chinesetest.cn/index.do from the official website I’m shocked by the “new words” I’m encountering. That…
Read more →i’m in a problematic system: 1 have a cost benefit analysis – the unnecessary over time because we have no Biometric/Time keeping devices on work sites amounting to 24,000usd of…
Read more →I was on study leave but I did the quick analysis of the likeliness I’ll be able to see old friends again and It just doesnt compare. Also the wife…
Read more →the supplier project team made some critical mistake and we have sufficient documentation to prove it as well as a simple paper trail of how the mistake was made. I’m…
Read more →I compensate a lot using SRS and my obsessiveness of writing my flawed understanding. Going through a thought again and again. Be it a regret, guilt, or a puzzle, the…
Read more →150428 Gaming Ideas Repository Thinking out loud. 13 or younger player may have problems learning to a TRPG. Particularly as I’m experimenting teaching my 8 yr old son to like…
Read more →My strategy for this Study Leave was to migrate from PLECO to ANKI. I theorized that Migrating from Pleco to Anki would save me 1 hour a day of study…
Read more →I only got a few hours to study and work. Cleaned up HSK 1-4 definitions. It was difficult because it didnt look cleaned up when I started studying those words. …
Read more →Tomorrow, 191210, I will be using ANKI as my daily driver. Problem: Cannot Uninstall Anki 2.0 – I forgot how I installed it. I didn’t write it down. I just…
Read more →Reddit Thread I’ve started migrating from Pleco to Anki because there are key features that are easier in Anki than in Pleco. but Pleco is a great starting off point…
Read more →Concepts I re-remembered reviewing the Material. 3d6 Bell Curve. Rarer Extremes, more frequent near the Median. The biggest change is that scores at the extremes, rolling a 15 or higher…
Read more →I’m in lecture 5 of 24 Lectures of the Science of Mindfulness. I’ve been listening to so many work-related studies I’ve beat my Good Reads Record of 11 books to…
Read more →Bought the D&D Starter Edition and the Essentials Toolkit. My son is too young at 8, Turning 9 early next year. Kids (below the target age of the material) need…
Read more →A fresh graduate of a 4 year course has a starting basic salary of about 16,000php per month. We have 13th month pay which makes the annual computation of the…
Read more →Agency and Leadership. When I think of Agency – I realize, why do I need a Leader? When I have an awesome team, we don’t have a leader, we may…
Read more →I really hate the idea that a team, department, the section has to read someone’s mind, non-standard output/input, undefined roles, and responsibilities. Undefined Roles and Responsibilities and Undefined Inputs/Outputs creates…
Read more →Every time I get a – You should talk to your mom about what her plans she has for you… something happens where she’s not in a mood and we…
Read more →I am struggling to be a Numb as possible for work, yet look at the positive side. I can see it whenever 1-2 manhour task (outside of expectations) seems like…
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