I haven't actually played this character yet because the group I made it for failed to launch (and I'm currently between tables), but I really want to play this character. He's a Dwarven Wizard, scion to a massively wealthy trade baron. He got a job as a diviner for the family business and worked there most of his life, but at some point he realized that long-term divination is mostly bullshit, the bit that isn't is just statistics, and his job is just a sinecure to keep him comfortable since he will likely never run the company (too many older brothers). He studied magic on his own time because he thought it would help him with his job so he has some skill as a wizard. Sometimes he will go to rougher pubs and listen to adventurers talking about their adventures and imagine what it would be like to leave it all behind. Then, after a messy, public divorce, something snaps and he walks out of his job, goes to the outfitter and buys a bunch of fancy equipment, and signs up with the first adventuring crew he can find under an assumed name.

Same. It's a real joy if you have a good table. It's more work though, which makes DMing a bad table that much more painful.

Damn girl are you a 16:10 display device because that ratio is visually pleasing and comfortable to hold.

😭 nooo I can change

The poems
I wrote,
I love 'em
but I'm broke.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_(play)

the hardware / games compat problems were definitely real, at least for me. the number of times I've had to dive into config files to fix a hardware problem has dropped way off since I first started using linux. It's very much better now.

I just had a horrifying vision of AI SM tools that help you optimize your public presentation. Get AI critiques as well as tips for appearing more favorable. People do it because you need to be well-received by AI evaluators to get a job. Gradually social pressure evolves all public figures (famous or not) into polished cartoon figures. The real horror of the dead internet is that we'll do it to ourselves.

I like this; I have a lot of commands that I don't use often enough to justify an alias, but still need to rerun all the time. thanks!

For me ctrl-r is faster most of the time, history | grep [command] is better if I can't easily pattern match (don't remember it exactly, using several flag variations, etc.). they're both good tools.

I didn't know this was a thing. tyvm.

I'm not superstitious, but when I'm walking on sidewalks or tile floors I have tended to try to avoid cracks or lines. It's an easy but engaging puzzle to try to do it while maintaining a normal gait, like the ambulatory equivalent of Sudoku.

Then, one day, my high school geometry teacher taught us about angle bisectors and the game changed permanently. Now, in addition to visible lines, any line intersections now produce invisible bisector rays that must also be avoided. I made a picture to show where you can't step on a sidewalk. It has been decades since high school geometry and I still try to avoid bisector lines any time I'm on a suitable floor. I have never added another rule to the game since, and it wasn't til this post that I thought about how strange that is.