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LeviKornelsen

@LeviKornelsen@dice.camp

Canadian maker of tabletop RPG bits and assorted weirdness.

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Most supposed centrists are small-c conservatives; things are working well for them, and they're comfortable; they'd like a little progress, but, you know, as a treat.

Conservative political parties have largely long been reactionary, and many are trending (some deeply) fascistic.

We all know this, right? This is obvious in my circles, I think?

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With minecraft mod now documented and posted in starter state, it is time to do the refine/expand cycle until the spirit of blocky obsession leaves me and I go back to usual projects.

The question now being "What kind of weird crap to pile in?"

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I am always interested in what's part of someone's personal Star Wars canon - the works they personally consider a core playlist, which win the mental argument of what's "rightest" automatically in their head if there's a contradiction.

But!

I do not give the smallest shit about what anyone thinks the central "official canon" is; that is a deeply fucking boring way to try and power move the speaker's favourites to the top.

This makes fan discussions tricky.

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So, hey. Minecraft mod:

https://levikornelsen.itch.io/witchworks

LeviKornelsen , to random
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If I see someone posting about their windows woes, there is a chance (somewhere around 1 in 4ish) that I will then post a "Everyone should try Linux" thing (which is true).

I will, however, do this on my own fucking timeline, because I have just enough self-control and awareness not to be That Guy.

Please, join me, in not being That Guy,

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Baseline Star Wars is Laser Wizard Nonsense, and always has been, and that's great! It that's not actually your speed, or not anymore... I mean, you can watch selectively; some of the off-baseline stuff is really different.

But trying to claim that Laser Wizard Nonsense is NOT the baseline just makes you look silly.

LeviKornelsen OP ,
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@Xenograg - I submit to you that Laser Wizard Nonsense is a specific subgenre-or-sibling of Space Opera (much like Planetary Romance).

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Listen, if I was obscenely rich, I would not only rig an absurd and horrible contest that people would need to play to get my money after my death, but I would get it started before I died, so I could watch them play.

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@conductor - Oh, that probably comes first; there's very few ways to get the obscene wealth without becoming a corrupt creep.

Except, possibly, winning my clever game!

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Vancian Memory Palaces

https://licheslibram.blogspot.com/2020/01/vancian-memory-palaces.html

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@Xenograg - Architecture class at the wizard school, talking about fundamental structures. Advanced classes on renovation.

Students with bowls of burning coals enchanted to render, in smoke, the structures they visualize, trying hard to impress each other.

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@Xenograg - (Said smoke bowls would also naturally appear in heist planning, and "wizard cases the joint" would be something theft targets might take measures against, not just academies...)

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In-game documentation test for mod:

This is almost certainly also overkill, and fuckit, I'm into it.

LeviKornelsen , to random
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New top down Zelda coming: Good.

Protagonist is actually Zelda: Well, that's about time.

Extremely heavy on puzzle-y mechanics: Okay, fine, actually hyped now, you got me.

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Minecraft mod: Actual working components are ready for a 1.0 release (there's tinkering and expanding to do, but there will ALWAYS be more of that to do, until I am exhausted of it).

I just need to document it well enough for users to get into it and arrive at the fun.

...Uggggggggghhhhhhhh, documenting....

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If you see an oversized, greying ape of a man hauling furniture around a conference centre today whilst humming the chorus of "Throw some ass", you have found me.

LeviKornelsen , to random
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Since it got a big mention, I wanted to say a thing about Manyfold that I think is important.

Manyfold is, I think, an extremely clean and helpful tool for analysis and troubleshooting, but utterly cold to initial design.

An appealing design is carried by it's light ease, fevered creative heat, smooth marketing, or some similar factor.

Technical sweetness and maximised function follows appeal.

I can help you with your bottle, but not with your lightning.

https://levikornelsen.itch.io/manyfold

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According to Junior, squeezing a bit of every squeezy koolaid in the house into a bottle of water makes "rainbow drink".

I am surprised by how easy it is to pretend to enjoy "chemical spill at the drinks company" flavour.

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Yeah, my favorite is , what of it?

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@epidiah - Old GURPS covers have this visual energy so extremely that I was fuddled for a good couple seconds there.

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I would like a scholarly book on the etymology of vulgar terms and phrases, because that is, no joke, a fun topic we talk about at my workplace.

Anyone know of any?

LeviKornelsen , to random
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My Minecraft mod of witchy stuff has achieved the level of depth where I need to make a list or table to explain the feature differences between magic brooms.

(Mangrove broom go fast over water! Acacia broom is landspeeder! Oak and birch are major fliers; Oak flies better, but Birch recharges in water, for treks that include ocean).

This is probably overkill. I like that about it.

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@pteryx - Checks spruce and jungle broom features, doesn't favour them all that much.

Well, they WILL, by this time tomorrow....

My current favourite is the Warped Wood one:

All brooms "fly" by making huge jumps with gliding and slow fall, and midair double-triple jumps, etc; they have a maximum charge for jumping.

The warped broom has no maximum on midair jumps; instead, it siphons an XP level from you for each jump. It's deeply bad most of the time, but there ARE situations....

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Black licorice toffee is Not For Everyone.

It's for me.

All of it. Give it to me.

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The problem with getting a properly moral leader at the helm of a nation-state whose entrenched interests are rapaciously imperialistic, hegemonic, and exploitative, is that the job is contrary to their character.

You can sometimes get a reformer in love with an invented idea of that nation-state, soon to be embittered and aged by the reality. But even that's a long shot.

Anywaaaay.

LeviKornelsen , (edited ) to random
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So:

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"It lives, Igor! It lives! It laughs! It loves!"

"Kill it!"

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Sargolis, cover for the italian edition.

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@artikid - Damn, that's great.

LeviKornelsen , (edited ) to random
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If you "didn't use the rules" in a given session, and are happy about it, you're probably using the wrong ruleset.

LeviKornelsen OP ,
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@thebrand - Given that I most often hear this from people who are extremely proud of their particular other bent (theatrical or segments of OSR thinking in the region of "combat is a failure state"), the term "legalistic" seems a bit forced, though I won't argue the rest.

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Amos has most of the best lines in The Expanse, but nothing tops Christjen Avaserala telling Holden "Don't put your dick in it; it's fucked enough already".

LeviKornelsen , to random
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Sesame Street out here trying to be upbeat and all I can think is "Oscar's got a brick in his other hand, and we both fucking know it".

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Hang on.

Doesn't Google removing the AI Overviews from search suggest that the feature had, in its short existence, time to accumulate a small but avid userbase who thought it was the best thing since sliced bread?

Those are the conditions under which they detonate a project, right?

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I would like to see "convicted felon, Donald Trump" as the general reference to said asshat in future.

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As someone who uses "folks" a lot because I grew up in a hick Alberta village of 600 people (named "Mannville", no less), I love the fact it's been widely adopted as inclusive language.

Not least because that usage would've irritated a notable chunk of said hick village back in the day.

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Have we considered the possibility that AIs aren't "hallucinating" at all but are just naturally sarcastic assholes?

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I don't always think about ancient Rome, but when I do, I think about how chariot racing was vastly more popular than gladiators, to the point that mobs wearing the colour of their preferred stables had riotous brawls, politicians were heavily involved, and more.

Roman sports hooligans were chariot fans.

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Consider:

Stinking hairy man-creatures with only a patch of pale skin around their bright eyes, dressed in layers of filthy rags with a few furs crudely lashed on - untrustworthy, often spiteful, but offering and trading in marvels.

I'm just saying; early colonial traders as monster-men works way better than the "savages" they traded with.

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"Guilty pleasure" really should mean like "Excitedly getting packages from Amazon, despite knowing how shit they are", and not like "Eating delicious cake".

Not an original thought, I know, but seriously, it'd be so much more useful that way.

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Urban Fantasy Concept:

  1. Ritual behaviour is how you talk to your unconscious, and the more personal, the better.

  2. Psi-like abilities are controlled primarily at the unconscious level.

  3. The art of magic is the design of psychologically-personal religions.

  4. Psychics half-believe batshit stuff, know perfectly well that it's batshit, will stab you for trying to explain it's wrong.

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Successfully fired and glazed chess dude.

Quality level: Weird stuff found at an import store (And, to be clear, I am perfectly fine with this. Will seek improvements, but this clears "I would not be ashamed to sell this".)

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In the race for "Boringest assholes alive", I've got $50 on "Dudes who are still posting mad about Brie Larson". To place, not to win; the competition IS fierce.

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I'm not generally annoyed by discussion of D&D, and can even often participate, but the period of ramp-up to new books is tiring.

I don't have judgment for anyone; I've got my list of crap companies I buy from - but I'm just.... not going to be giving Wizards any money.

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Got proper plaster for moldmaking yesterday and started in on printing off a batch of new masters for the chess-type dudes (with arms on).

Spent my free time today pouring new molds; still need to cure, dry, and get the edges finished, but that's for tomorrow.

Thursday or Friday, I should be testing glazes on pieces out of the old molds, and starting pouring in the new molds.

Been picking my way through this project for about three years now, but satisfyingly finished bits are now in sight!

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Awen (with cards) live playtest went extremely well. Nailed every design objective I had.

Some parts sing perfectly, while others are merely functional,and a couple things got skipped intuitively with no damage done (and will therefore be dropped for the next iteration).

And, with feedback, I now have a whole list of ways to make the dry parts engaging and the fun parts notably better.

Big win.

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Paycheck was surprisingly good this round, so instead of the microwave kiln, I opted to splurge and ordered the fancy desktop kiln to attempt firing of my little dudes.

Gonna break out my fireproof slabs and set up a workstation for when it arrives.

Novel ceramic game pieces look to be in my very near future! Whee!

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I now have a design version of the Chessables in which they are heavily armed.

  • Bottom row is standard chess: Pawn, Reeve/Rook, Knight, Bishop, Queen, King.

-Middle row is: Damosel, Mann/Merchant, Prince, Princess, Friar

-Top is: Vampire, Skeleton, Witch, Elf, Wizard.

(A few are not pictured here, including the Hood and Ranger.)

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"A mount other chess pieces can ride on" is not the silliest thing I've designed, but it's close.

LeviKornelsen , to random
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Well, I now have an odd new phone - the Teracube 2e. Which got my attention because it's inexpensive, works with the e/os easy installer, and has a headphone jack. Also it's got some long-lifespan environmental cred and a replaceable battery (!), which is cool.

I put in e/os with the launcher, aaaand: 45 minutes, dead simple.

And now, the attempt to get all my main needs without ever connecting to Google (the option to do so is there if I can't, but I'm going to try not to).

LeviKornelsen OP ,
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@chgowiz - The likes are as expected: long battery life, no bloat anywhere (meaning it runs fast and lean), and the actual physical device is pleasant in terms of size, weight, headphone jack, etc etc.

Dislikes: Camera is just bad, looking at changing phone cases provided way less options than usual, and I had to re-enable some of their built-in-but-not-really software (and then disable it again) when they did a major update, to keep the three-button navigation I like.

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@chgowiz - There's an official forum for the OS, and people who work on it post there? It feels like a hybrid of a usual open-source community and a business.

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