Chinese update
It’s hard to find time when I lose sleep because of our newborn. Two weeks no drills. 57/68 (83%) 1 hour and 15 mins (distracted doing chores) NPCR Chapter 6-7…
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Gaming, tools, and thoughts from Game in the Brain.
Core Mechanics can get complicated.
I almost take for-granted how complicated the basic mechanics can be: Determine relevant Scores or Stats for the roll. This has a lot of implied knowledge. They can be intuitive…
Read more →World Building is a Skill
It was only recently I realized World building as a Skill. As a skill it has many components with the goal making an immersive setting. Immersive settings have many traits…
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Despite sick, no sleep (new born), and a lot of things going on. 79/97, 1 hour of 40mins. NPCR 12 and 13. So many lost memories.
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44/48 42mins I should spend each word writing a sentence that uses that word. In 汉子. That would mean tests would take up more space. Maybe limit it to a…
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79% 38/48 So my brain is trying to form connections. I’ve realized and learned some feelings or thoughts that I associate to the connections forming. Particularly stories per characters that…
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I lose the score card when I set up the screen rotate and it rotates. 25% out of 50ish. 6 hours on and off. At the hospital playing nurse maid…
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2016-11-16
reflections
Calling it Laziness is Lazy
After all the improvements I had worked out in my life I realized more and more that laziness is the most unhelpful way to frame a person’s problem. Empowerment, education,…
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100% npcr 12, 49 items and about 30 mins. So I built the tones into the exercise. I need to move into chapter 13. It takes me about 2min per…
Read more →What is the conditions for optimal study to practice ratio
The best in a quick (2 min search and verify) for what I’m looking for : practice to study ratio. https://www.actualized.org/blueprint/theory-practice-ratio In this article they call it theory which is…
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NPCR lesson 12 43mins, 45/49 I realized I need to practice my tones more. So as I write the characters or the 文字 I need to note the tone. It…
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2016-11-12
Uncategorized
Personal Time and Motion of small things.
it takes me about 5 mins to work with my reference document system (finding the right set of notes in the right set list). 2 mins for a quick search…
Read more →How we game
Finding out how we game as objectively and precisely as possible would mean a lot of self reflection, note-taking, and feedback from your players or Gms. This is my notes…
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2016-11-01
Any Game System
Conditional Success, Significant Actions
Conditional Success is basically replacing failure with an Extreme cost for Success. The Margin of Failure determined how much it would have cost to succeed and if the Player or…
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2016-11-01
health
Breathing, and Running Mechanics.
i forgot how much the breathing part of my run mattered. The “right” way to breath (belly breathing in a run, and exhaling in a way that doesnt dry my…
Read more →Driving More; means more time for my Text to Speech app
So I have to drive the wife more because shes at 37 weeks and I still need to “manage by hoseback” and my horse being a toyota fortuner that needs…
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2016-10-18
Any Game System
Character Actions, becoming Character Limits.
I read Atul Gawande’s Checklist Manifesto and it dawned on me how Dungeon World really helped with the Character Options List called Basic Moves. I didnt realize how important it was…
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2016-10-15
health
Exercise Routine
This is an exercise routine that uses soldier Physical Fitness Exams as benchmarks. It emphasizes strength and endurance so that in Airsoft Game conditions one can have the best performance.…
Read more →Good on Paper, but not Practical
As I’ve finished C in Dr. Arthur Hill’s Operations Managmeent Encyclopedia there are a lot of ideas and ideals I wish we could have in our company but its not…
Read more →Subjective Feelings as a Benchmark in Physical Stress
A feat of strength really should have recovery as part of the formula. Like a 2-min or 10-sec recovery between sets. Disclaimer: I dont count my reps, I do a…
Read more →Finished The Long War: Killer of men, Marathon, and, Poseidon’s Spear
These books makes me want to run a GURPS game set in that era (early 5C BCE). Although I would recommend getting the Authors Bibliography, GURPS Low Tech, Greece, etc…
Read more →Accepting Limits, and more constructive Regret
There are a lot of things I want to do, but have no real output. Open RPG Project. There is no real point to the ORPG project particularly the 11C…
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2016-09-17
health
Exercise update
47min, 8km, 5:47min /km,nike 49mins, 6.11km, star trac 3.2km or 2mi in 14lb rig at average of 6kph and 2.0 incline. Effort 4/5, performance 3/5 Did not do a 14lb…
Read more →Leaner Habits and Reflections
So I would like to have an update on my quest to make my habits leaner. Whats changed recently is I’ve been trying to keep logs on Work and Personal.…
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Better from 33% to 70%. 30mins each. So many errands and inefficiencies in how I spend time. I don’t count logging or blogging my progress. I consider it a reinforcing…
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12:30 to 2:11 33% npcr 9 It was painful and effort ass 4/5 if I measure the concentration by how much I could not feel time pass. A long way…
Read more →Motivational vs Practical Self Improvement.
How to differentiate Motivational/Inspirational vs Practical Self Improvement? This is my Tentative List. 1) Actionable. Its an action or set of actions, or a plan. The plan is a usable…
Read more →Chinese Update, Tactics, Pinyin Keyboard, and Cal Newport
Chinese studies ran long: Decided to add more to my training. Particularly trying to make best use of the one hour everyday. Moving stuff around so I can just concentrate…
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Time to move to the next chapter 9, and repeat the process. It’s also time to shift to the npcr audio and just listen to pure chinese sentences and test…
Read more →Chinese update, Deepwork
50 mins. Performance 3/5, effort 3/5. This is npcr 6-8. Trying to think in deep work. More unbroken hours of concentration but I will give way to insightful and inspiring…
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