keepcarrot [she/her]

I feel like people like remembering shenanigans or getting one over a shitty GM, but actually playing it was a slog especially with experienced power gamers at the same as new players. Also apparently enjoy arguing semantics to “win”. Bleh

Were it only the French metric people forcibly converted everyone to base 12 or something

I love it when people link to such posts as if they’re a solution as well

This feels like Napoleon’s soldiers and the mamluks, or what was said about them.

Or something. Above a project of certain size, divisions of labour and stuff make the project complete faster, but before that it seems like a lot of extra busy work that slow down the project

Part of me likes poring over lists of slightly different things with complex interactions, but for the most part I think such rules are a relic back when the design philosophy seemed to be “use these dice” and “the players might do it, there should be a rule and probably a roll”.

Also SR5 having drug effects separate to the drug prices, among many other things. I really want to see a more nerdy SR vidya but that probably won’t happen

I am aghast at how difficult interviews are compared to literally every aspect of most jobs I’ve had.

One could, indeed, argue that consulting firms make their bread and butter by not having things work but fixed temporarily.

I imagine for security best practices, software prefers update on open (if not update on checking a central update server regularly like yum -whatever update), but for user convenience this would be better for so many things.

My dad had tapes, but I never got to see data go from a tape to ram. They had 8 GB of space, I remember

Reminds be of the conversations about transferring hard drives using the public transport system in my city. Good bandwidth, terrible latency. Then everyone got faster internet and stopped pirating

I always feel a world apart from horny PCs, my characters are very sexless even if there’s no reason for them to be

I miss mine. Good battery life. Big hard disk. Chugged a bit on google docs with large documents. Hot processor. Liero

I remember one Dark Heresy campaign where the majority of damage caused to the players was dropped grenades and Molotov cocktails.

Kind of interesting. I wonder if I’ve helped keep any odd torrents alive

Someone suggested Zim on the FOSS thread for an internal personal wiki

I feel that about my systems that sometimes have settings attached

Damn, could he at least pretend? That’d kill me

NewPipe lets you listen to youtube videos without the screen on (and also download them or just the audio).

Probably the main thing I use

Bleh, had an argument with someone about switching to signal or something other than FB messenger and he flat out refused on the basis that it would require him to have another app on his phone.

Three months later, he had signal installed on his phone. No idea what happened there, probably someone with more social clout than I had got him to install it. No mention of the prior argument.

Yeah, life support being off or at reduced power would mean carbon dioxide build up and it would probably get a bit sweaty, but you can survive for quite a long time in a sealed room, especially with how much spare space is in Star Trek rooms.

Unless life support includes something like “shields that keep all the air in” or something.

I agree with the theme of the post, but some of the examples need more work, possibly at the expense of being less quippy