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Teyrnon

@Teyrnon@dice.camp

Starving Writer, Introverted Storyteller, Pen-and-Paper Gamer, Foolish Idealist, Far Horizon Romantic, Lover of Weird Conversations, and armchair Philosopher.

Interests include: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Space Opera, Folklore, Philosophy, Photography, Computer Graphics, Vintage Computers, Vintage Video Games

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I'm sure I meant to type "certainly not," but somehow, I typed "certain notly" instead. I guess I'm just continuing my tradition of insane typos.

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Taking a moment to ponder if anyone makes a thumbdrive designed to be easily labeled. Obviously, low profile models are right out. It doesn't appear to be a feature that anyone designs these things for.

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I feel like I should point out that sometimes when I call something a "recent innovation," I mean it came about somewhere in the last century or two.

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It's interesting the things that wake you up at night. At about 3:00 AM this morning I awoke with a burning desire to know how large of a text could fit on the floppies I used in my first computer with a disk drive. About 35,000 words.

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Never go to a troll bar unless you are a troll or something larger and tougher than the average troll. It won't be a pleasant experience and it's likely they'll eat you for your troubles. Know your place in the fantasyland food chain.

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Heroes solve problems for local areas, and then become leaders of those they've saved. That's how the stories go!

So when the heroes show up having solved a horrifying problem... The local people might say to each other "They probably want to be in charge now, right? That's how it works?".

And some of them will want to make that happen! And some of them won't! And the ones in charge currently will have especially strong feelings on the matter.

Clearing the dungeon as political debut.

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@LeviKornelsen Sure, this works until the heroes kill the town's favorite friendly dragon. The one who helps with clearing land for crops and redirecting rivers in times of drought. She's also actively discouraged less friendly dragons from entering the area for the past hundred years.

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For what it's worth, I think time travel was entirely overused in the 90s and 00s era of Star Trek. I suspect this was the main reason I drifted away from watching the shows regularly. I only caught the very occasional episode of Voyager after its second season. The less said about Enterprise's Temporal Cold War the better.

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I'm looking for something fun and playful with light horror elements to read as a palate cleanser after reading some truly unpleasant stuff for work. What do you suggest?

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Random Musing: Cemeteries are the absolute last place any self-respecting ghost will hang out. Why would anyone want to haunt their own grave when there's a whole universe out there? On the other hand, prime haunting spots would be libraries and movie theaters because even the dead need entertainment.

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What do you think? Which of the following works best for you?

"for once and all"

or

"once and for all"

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I will never understand people who think it's okay to walk over to someone reading a book, rip it out of their hands, look it over, and demand to know why they're reading it.

Just give me back my book and go away already!

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Does anybody else ever feel disconcerted and dismayed when someone asks your favorite book as though there's only one book to list and not the hundreds or thousands of titles that would tie for first place on any list of favorites? How can they be so thoughtless and callous as to ask me to choose only one?

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A tradition in practice for a hundred-fifty years is not remarkably short. People think their traditions are ages-old, even the ones that became traditions while they were children. Sometimes, especially the ones their parents dreamed up one Christmas because everyone was bored to tears. In fact, if you have a tradition in your family or town with a factual and well-documented history dating back more than three or four generations, that's the exception and not the rule.

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An actually smart appliance would be a dishwasher that had exactly one button marked "start", and could figure out the minimum time, water and soap to do the job, and do it.

This is exactly the opposite of the "smart" we're seemingly getting.

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@LeviKornelsen How about all the usual mode buttons to one side and a nice prominent Auto-Detect button next to an equally large start button?

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@LeviKornelsen What? You mean you don't want your appliances to text you notices and reminders while collecting data about your activities to send to its home server?

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Is it cheating that what I used to call a first draft I now call an outline?

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Some days I very much miss being part of a local writing group.

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I remember reading the Belgariad and Mallorean by David Eddings in 1990 mostly because the people I knew at the time simply would not stop talking about them. I read the Elenium and Tamuli of my own accord and was surprised to discover that the people who were so insistent the Belgariad was a must-read seemed clueless that Eddings wrote other series. I also recall being a little discombobulated by the striking similarity of the plot between the series.

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Delineated tech levels are one of those concepts that give me fits if I spend much time pondering it for a space opera setting. Barring something going very wrong in a settled world's history, most worlds will have access to power generation, industrial fabrication, agricultural technologies, and a knowledge base that pretty much guarantees a post-scarcity technological circumstance in terms of everyday needs.

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If you have a medieval society with germ theory, you don't have a medieval society.

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Thinking about Chaosium's Nephilim this morning got me wondering. How many of you passed on an RPG that looked interesting because your usual gaming group made it clear they wanted nothing to do with it or you otherwise knew they wouldn't go for it? For me, Nephilim, Kult, and In Nomine fell into this category. Interestingly, the group was hugely into World of Darkness and Vampire & Werewolf in particular.

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@thoughtpunks Oh, the group in question was perfectly willing to try various games, just not anything with gnostic or otherwise overt religious themes and motifs.

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Wait, there are still people in this world who tune into the History Channel expecting documentaries about actual history? Wonders never cease!

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Both of my beta readers on this one have taken exception to the color of our protagonist's eyes being described as the color of gunmetal. This is apparently the first time they've ever seen gunmetal used as a color and they insist nobody else is going to know what it is either. What color comes to mind when you see the word? Do you envision a sparkling deep gray color or something else entirely?

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(Checking-out done; verdict in)

Indie RPG designers:

If you're having trouble getting feedback on your writing - and especially if it's short or setting-heavy stuff - go make an account on Scribophile, do a few critiques to get karma, then post it up.

In three days I've gotten, dead easily, the kind of critique that takes notable work to set up by other means; the platform takes that work OUT.

So, yeah; done checking it out: Now hard recommend.

https://www.scribophile.com/authors/levi-kornelsen/works/weirdglass-the-lore/part-1

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@LeviKornelsen Hmm, how does it compare with Booksie? From what you've said it sounds more active at the very least.

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