I just finalized the paperwork on adopting a 4 month old rescue puppy. So this weekend will be spent purging my apartment of old documents, clothes, appliances, and furniture that we can do...
I just finalized the paperwork on adopting a 4 month old rescue puppy. So this weekend will be spent purging my apartment of old documents, clothes, appliances, and furniture that we can do without in order to make space.
I'm actually not looking forward to it. Definitely looking forward to the pup, but my wife's predilection towards retail therapy and then her tendency to hoard stuff has always been in tension with my anti-consumerism and tendency to feel burdened and anxious about owning stuff. Her family was abandoned by the sole breadwinner and they wound up having to scrape by on welfare. She gets easily attached to material things and I think gets a way bigger hit from buying stuff than most people as a result. I, on the other hand, come from an immigrant family and moved around so much during my formative years that I never had the same address for more than 2 years until I was 26. I, consequently, feel ill-at-ease being anchored to any one place for long. Owning or being invested in things that I can't easily pack up and take with me makes me feel manacled and weighed down.
This has basically been that "one fight" for us and the main reason we've never actually got around to cleaning, organizing, and unpacking our apartment despite having lived in it for 8 months now.
I foresee much fighting and many tears over the weekend, but I think it will be worth it in the end.
And somewhere in the middle of this I have to finish submitting my taxes too.
Tomorrow is GopherCon Russia, a Go programming conference, which I will attend. Sunday I will have to work overtime to finish something and then maybe treat myself to an Italian place near my office.
Tomorrow is GopherCon Russia, a Go programming conference, which I will attend. Sunday I will have to work overtime to finish something and then maybe treat myself to an Italian place near my office.
It's actually my tradition not to listen to an artist the day of their show, so I'll have to check your link later! This is somehow my first time seeing him just through bad luck and timing - I'm...
It's actually my tradition not to listen to an artist the day of their show, so I'll have to check your link later!
This is somehow my first time seeing him just through bad luck and timing - I'm sure it'll be wonderful. Leon is also in my wife's top 3 musicians, and we got a babysitter and are going to dinner at a tapas place that's 21+ after 6 PM (which means we haven't been there in like 3 months).
We had a great time. Pretty even mix of songs from first and second albums. The dinner and convo with my wife may have been just as fun though! We talked about everything under the sun.
We had a great time. Pretty even mix of songs from first and second albums. The dinner and convo with my wife may have been just as fun though! We talked about everything under the sun.
Gotta get some yard work done, now that it's springtime and the grass is getting too tall. But we'll be taking a break at some point to play the old Dune board game I bought off eBay last week and...
Gotta get some yard work done, now that it's springtime and the grass is getting too tall.
But we'll be taking a break at some point to play the old Dune board game I bought off eBay last week and which just arrived today! My wife grew up playing the game, which was made in the mid-80s shortly after the David Lynch film came out.
I'm totally stoked to play this board game, because it looks like a refined/upscaled version of one of my old favorite board games: Shadowlord!
I also recently got my hands on an on the old Dungeon board game from the early 80s, which I haven't played since it came out.
Dune ran me about $40 (plus another $12-ish for shipping), and it was missing the little round Sardukar marker, but I have the means to print a new one so it's no big deal. Oh, it was missing the...
Dune ran me about $40 (plus another $12-ish for shipping), and it was missing the little round Sardukar marker, but I have the means to print a new one so it's no big deal. Oh, it was missing the d8's as well, but I've got a ton of those laying around. All the other pieces are there, but the box is in rough shape and it's obviously been played. But I bought it to play, so I really don't mind.
Near-mint versions start at $70 and climb to over $100 pretty quick, last I checked. One important thing I've learned about buying Old Stuff I Used To Own (like the old D&D Basic and Expert box sets I bought last year) is that they never, ever get cheaper or in better shape than they are right now, so if you're pining for an old board game or RPG from your youth, just grab it.
As for yard work: I hated it till I bought a house! Now I call it Play In The Yard Day. :)
Dungeon as in Dungeon!? I just played that a few months ago for the first time. I was in the process of transcribing the manual rules to make a tweaked version for my friends based on the original...
Dungeon as in Dungeon!? I just played that a few months ago for the first time. I was in the process of transcribing the manual rules to make a tweaked version for my friends based on the original Legend of Zelda haha I haven't finished transcribing though. Sitting in my OneNote (and now Indigrid) waiting to be completed. Then I have to design a map to layout, and then figure out how the hell I'm going to make a board of my own. I'm digging a hole for myself that I can't find a way out of.
Yup! The 1981 version: https://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/424735/dungeon It was in REAL NICE shape, too. Box a bit beat up, but everything was inside and looks like it's been played maybe five times.
the only reason I know it's Friday is because of this thread appearing in the feed I have this idea for a prototype of a game that I'd like to experiment with. I want to find out if it work well...
the only reason I know it's Friday is because of this thread appearing in the feed
I have this idea for a prototype of a game that I'd like to experiment with. I want to find out if it work well as a small, plot-driven game set entirely within the confines of a fictional smartphone. The smartphone in question houses an AI that shows peculiar, though not entirely fictional qualities.
There's a lot of sci-fi fiction going around that drum up fears of AI as an idea: that they would necessarily develop malicious consciousness and seek to kill off humanity, or conquer the world, or some other nonsense. I just want to see how my vision of an AI works out – that which is not unlike what Person of Interest has portrayed in both of their ASIs.
I think I was inspired, for this particular idea, by a manifesto I'd read. It talks about incorporating device-local AI to analyze the user's patterns and formulate personal suggestions, instead...
I think I was inspired, for this particular idea, by a manifesto I'd read. It talks about incorporating device-local AI to analyze the user's patterns and formulate personal suggestions, instead of sending the same data to corporate servers where it can be analyzed for ads.
I'm with you here. I'm renting a dorm room in a regular house split up into six rooms and recently got the chance to also rent the shed in the garden for use as a workshop. It's small and l had to...
I'm with you here. I'm renting a dorm room in a regular house split up into six rooms and recently got the chance to also rent the shed in the garden for use as a workshop. It's small and l had to clean out all the furniture inside because it was formerly used by the landlord to store stuff. Thankfully it disassembled nicely and now quite literally takes up 99% less space, just have to put things together when they ask me to.
I've moved my tools over to the shed; an old stick welder l bought a month ago plus all the accessoiries, angle grinder, bench vise and a small workshop storage cart l also bought a month ago that l still need to clean.
I still need some kind of workbench though so l'm planning to gather up some steel and weld myself a nice, small but sturdy table that can take a beating. Not sure on the specifics yet but l'll figure something out. l'll also need to move the fluorescent tube lamp because l keep banging my head into it, and set up a fume extractor/filter so l can weld inside the shed safely(because outside means l blind the whole neighborhood).
Still fairly new to all of this stuff but it's a fun pastime and honestly very refreshing to start from nothing and make my own stuff.
What's your workshop like?
more cynical than probably anybody else will be, but probably trying and failing to get more sleep and continuing to stave off a long-running emotional collapse, so that's irritating. on a lighter...
more cynical than probably anybody else will be, but probably trying and failing to get more sleep and continuing to stave off a long-running emotional collapse, so that's irritating.
on a lighter note, maybe i'll finish this article for my wiki over yonder at some point this weekend, since i haven't made an edit there in like four months or something.
The '''Judicial Reform–Minority Representation and Autonomy Act, 1951''', better known as the '''Judicial Reform Act, 1951''' is a current federal statute of the [[Kryfona Kingdom]] that was enacted by the [[38th Assembly of the Kryfonsparliszaiye]] on 17 April, 1952 and enacted into law by King [[Xeriren Awaseq]] later that day. A package of major reform bills aimed at increasing minority representation in the courts, ensuring fairness in the court systems of the Kryfona Kingdom by necessitating translation services, and establishing quotas of diversity for courts in the Kingdom among other things, the Judicial Reform Act, 1951 was one of the most comprehensive overhauls of the judicial system in the history of the Kingdom. It is perhaps most notable for the creation of two minority seats on the [[High Court of the Kryfona Kingdom]], as well as the creation of similar minority seats in other courts at lower levels of the Kingdom, but the bill is also regarded as having established the "Jadozsy rights" standard, which necessitates the recitation of the rights of the accused under the Kryfona constitution when they are detained by law enforcement.
The Judicial Reform Act, 1951, was the brainchild of Loyalist MPs Voyket Antosz, Gozsiy Kolzsara, and Pajot Murinsz, as well as Yaraan MPs Heyoz Szyinid, Eids Tariz Jodalosku, and Zyŏn Mekar. Almost a full year was spent drafting the legislation before it was even proposed, work having started in January of 1951. While Antosz and Jodalosku were already well known by then for their judicial activism and Kolzsara reused many of his previous independent proposals on representation in the Kingdom's courts into the bill, the bill took extensive drafting because, owing to its purpose, it was a hotbed of potential legal issues. Many of the proposals were of unclear legality even with careful wording, and as such it was not a given that the bill would--even if passed by the Kryfonsparliszaiye--be able to meet constitutional muster. Nonetheless, by the end of 1951 the group was satisfied they had crafted something which might be able to withstand scrutiny.
i would, but honestly it's complicated to a point where it's difficult to really know where to begin. probably the best summary i've bothered to write on the subject at any point is here, though.
i would, but honestly it's complicated to a point where it's difficult to really know where to begin. probably the best summary i've bothered to write on the subject at any point is here, though.
Surprised I'm the only one, so far. It's Saturday, btw. Usually, I don't care too much about RSD exclusives, but my local shop is dropping some stuff from a recent trip to Japan. Gonna see if I...
ctrl+F "Record Store Day" 0/0
Surprised I'm the only one, so far. It's Saturday, btw. Usually, I don't care too much about RSD exclusives, but my local shop is dropping some stuff from a recent trip to Japan. Gonna see if I can snatch up some of those sweet imports.
"The War of Art" by Steven Pressfield. Many years ago, this book arrived in the mail for me, and there was no indication of who had sent it. I reread it when I need to remind myself that it is...
"The War of Art" by Steven Pressfield.
Many years ago, this book arrived in the mail for me, and there was no indication of who had sent it. I reread it when I need to remind myself that it is entirely my responsibility to control the creative process in my life.
I just started in my PhD lab and we are having a lab party! I've been practicing making pastry lately so I signed up to bring some tonight. I'm a bit nervous that it won't turn out, but everyone...
I just started in my PhD lab and we are having a lab party!
I've been practicing making pastry lately so I signed up to bring some tonight. I'm a bit nervous that it won't turn out, but everyone in the lab is cool, so I doubt it will be an issue. I'm also planning on going to the big state farmers market today and hopefully get a new plant for the new house. So I guess I'd say this weekend is relatively busy!
Going to a Tattoo expo tomorrow with my partner. She has a tattoo booked in the early afternoon, and I'm going to see what I can find for getting a flash one. Tonight is buying new shoes, as my...
Going to a Tattoo expo tomorrow with my partner. She has a tattoo booked in the early afternoon, and I'm going to see what I can find for getting a flash one. Tonight is buying new shoes, as my the top fabric part of my left skater shoe separated partially from the rubber bottom, but that's my fault for buying a cheap pair from Walmart. The reason I did was because that style is hard to find nowadays (the fat-lipped style of skate shoe from the late 90s, early to mid 00s. Then Subway and board games.
Sunday is an open day, so we'll see. Probably play some Rise to Ruins. I don't have any hobbies beyond watching TV and video games, so I'm really boring.
It's dependent on my mood and mental state. If I want to play a game but don't know what to play, I tend to go with a game I've played before. I will go with a classic of some sort, so looking at...
It's dependent on my mood and mental state.
If I want to play a game but don't know what to play, I tend to go with a game I've played before. I will go with a classic of some sort, so looking at either a DOS game like Stronghold or an NES, SNES, or Gameboy game.
I've been playing a lot of Rise to Ruins recently. I also play some Roguelites like Rogue Legacy or Binding of Isaac. I enjoy Stardew Valley, but also try to find time to play AAAish games like God of War (2018), though I don't play many AAA games. I find most of them seem boring.
I don't enjoy multiplayer, really. I prefer single player experiences.
Rise to Ruins is tough if you play it the way it's designed to be played. It's also developed by one dude, all of the art is hand pixelled. It's wondrous. I did enjoy God of War, up to the point...
Rise to Ruins is tough if you play it the way it's designed to be played. It's also developed by one dude, all of the art is hand pixelled. It's wondrous.
I did enjoy God of War, up to the point I'm at. The first time playing it, though, I found the combat hard to adjust to, but once you do, it's not bad. I was just spoiled from the smooth combat mechanics of Horizon Zero Dawn, after dumping too many hours into it haha.
As a follow up to this: I got a Hannya mask tattoo at the Expo. My partner got a coffee pot with a flower beside it on her arm. I do not have a picture of hers though, just the one of mine (linked...
As a follow up to this: I got a Hannya mask tattoo at the Expo. My partner got a coffee pot with a flower beside it on her arm. I do not have a picture of hers though, just the one of mine (linked above).
I will be hosting by semi-bi-weekly D&D game tomorrow with some friends, and hopefully finishing off our first adventure. Sunday’s schedule is looking pretty clear, and it’s going to rain all day,...
I will be hosting by semi-bi-weekly D&D game tomorrow with some friends, and hopefully finishing off our first adventure. Sunday’s schedule is looking pretty clear, and it’s going to rain all day, so I might stay in and try to make some progress on The Witcher 3 or 10 billion other games I’ve accumulated over the years.
Are you running something from a published adventure or homebrew? Which edition? Would love to hear any craziness that happens this weekend. I commented in the "what are you playing?" thread about...
Are you running something from a published adventure or homebrew? Which edition? Would love to hear any craziness that happens this weekend. I commented in the "what are you playing?" thread about the game I'm playing in, so would love to hear from you about yours.
I'm going to a bar mitzvah in Rochester NY. It's our first family gathering since getting engaged (last weekend) so I'm sure we'll be a center of attention. Blech.
I'm going to a bar mitzvah in Rochester NY. It's our first family gathering since getting engaged (last weekend) so I'm sure we'll be a center of attention. Blech.
I'm gonna try to drop acid. my friends tryin to get some. I think ill walk around campus and troll people
Be safe and have fun! :)
I just finalized the paperwork on adopting a 4 month old rescue puppy. So this weekend will be spent purging my apartment of old documents, clothes, appliances, and furniture that we can do without in order to make space.
I'm actually not looking forward to it. Definitely looking forward to the pup, but my wife's predilection towards retail therapy and then her tendency to hoard stuff has always been in tension with my anti-consumerism and tendency to feel burdened and anxious about owning stuff. Her family was abandoned by the sole breadwinner and they wound up having to scrape by on welfare. She gets easily attached to material things and I think gets a way bigger hit from buying stuff than most people as a result. I, on the other hand, come from an immigrant family and moved around so much during my formative years that I never had the same address for more than 2 years until I was 26. I, consequently, feel ill-at-ease being anchored to any one place for long. Owning or being invested in things that I can't easily pack up and take with me makes me feel manacled and weighed down.
This has basically been that "one fight" for us and the main reason we've never actually got around to cleaning, organizing, and unpacking our apartment despite having lived in it for 8 months now.
I foresee much fighting and many tears over the weekend, but I think it will be worth it in the end.
And somewhere in the middle of this I have to finish submitting my taxes too.
Tomorrow is GopherCon Russia, a Go programming conference, which I will attend. Sunday I will have to work overtime to finish something and then maybe treat myself to an Italian place near my office.
Seeing Leon Bridges, watching the Masters, and doing some spring cleaning.
Damn... I'm super jealous and envy you. Leon is great and looks like he would be fantastic to see live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_oACPWGvM4
It's actually my tradition not to listen to an artist the day of their show, so I'll have to check your link later!
This is somehow my first time seeing him just through bad luck and timing - I'm sure it'll be wonderful. Leon is also in my wife's top 3 musicians, and we got a babysitter and are going to dinner at a tapas place that's 21+ after 6 PM (which means we haven't been there in like 3 months).
Leon Bridges and tapas? Now you're just rubbing it in! ;) Sounds like it'll be a night to remember though... have fun!
How was Leon Bridges? Was he as phenomenal live as I imagine?
We had a great time. Pretty even mix of songs from first and second albums. The dinner and convo with my wife may have been just as fun though! We talked about everything under the sun.
Gotta get some yard work done, now that it's springtime and the grass is getting too tall.
But we'll be taking a break at some point to play the old Dune board game I bought off eBay last week and which just arrived today! My wife grew up playing the game, which was made in the mid-80s shortly after the David Lynch film came out.
I'm totally stoked to play this board game, because it looks like a refined/upscaled version of one of my old favorite board games: Shadowlord!
I also recently got my hands on an on the old Dungeon board game from the early 80s, which I haven't played since it came out.
Gonna be a fun weekend!
Dune ran me about $40 (plus another $12-ish for shipping), and it was missing the little round Sardukar marker, but I have the means to print a new one so it's no big deal. Oh, it was missing the d8's as well, but I've got a ton of those laying around. All the other pieces are there, but the box is in rough shape and it's obviously been played. But I bought it to play, so I really don't mind.
Near-mint versions start at $70 and climb to over $100 pretty quick, last I checked. One important thing I've learned about buying Old Stuff I Used To Own (like the old D&D Basic and Expert box sets I bought last year) is that they never, ever get cheaper or in better shape than they are right now, so if you're pining for an old board game or RPG from your youth, just grab it.
As for yard work: I hated it till I bought a house! Now I call it Play In The Yard Day. :)
Dungeon as in Dungeon!? I just played that a few months ago for the first time. I was in the process of transcribing the manual rules to make a tweaked version for my friends based on the original Legend of Zelda haha I haven't finished transcribing though. Sitting in my OneNote (and now Indigrid) waiting to be completed. Then I have to design a map to layout, and then figure out how the hell I'm going to make a board of my own. I'm digging a hole for myself that I can't find a way out of.
Yup! The 1981 version: https://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/424735/dungeon
It was in REAL NICE shape, too. Box a bit beat up, but everything was inside and looks like it's been played maybe five times.
That's awesome! I hope you enjoy the heck out of it!
It's been a ton of fun so far! The Missus and I have been having a good time. :)
the only reason I know it's Friday is because of this thread appearing in the feed
I have this idea for a prototype of a game that I'd like to experiment with. I want to find out if it work well as a small, plot-driven game set entirely within the confines of a fictional smartphone. The smartphone in question houses an AI that shows peculiar, though not entirely fictional qualities.
There's a lot of sci-fi fiction going around that drum up fears of AI as an idea: that they would necessarily develop malicious consciousness and seek to kill off humanity, or conquer the world, or some other nonsense. I just want to see how my vision of an AI works out – that which is not unlike what Person of Interest has portrayed in both of their ASIs.
I think I was inspired, for this particular idea, by a manifesto I'd read. It talks about incorporating device-local AI to analyze the user's patterns and formulate personal suggestions, instead of sending the same data to corporate servers where it can be analyzed for ads.
Thanks for the suggestion. I just did.
Cleaning the garage, getting the workshop ready for nicer weather.
I'm with you here. I'm renting a dorm room in a regular house split up into six rooms and recently got the chance to also rent the shed in the garden for use as a workshop. It's small and l had to clean out all the furniture inside because it was formerly used by the landlord to store stuff. Thankfully it disassembled nicely and now quite literally takes up 99% less space, just have to put things together when they ask me to.
I've moved my tools over to the shed; an old stick welder l bought a month ago plus all the accessoiries, angle grinder, bench vise and a small workshop storage cart l also bought a month ago that l still need to clean.
I still need some kind of workbench though so l'm planning to gather up some steel and weld myself a nice, small but sturdy table that can take a beating. Not sure on the specifics yet but l'll figure something out. l'll also need to move the fluorescent tube lamp because l keep banging my head into it, and set up a fume extractor/filter so l can weld inside the shed safely(because outside means l blind the whole neighborhood).
Still fairly new to all of this stuff but it's a fun pastime and honestly very refreshing to start from nothing and make my own stuff.
What's your workshop like?
more cynical than probably anybody else will be, but probably trying and failing to get more sleep and continuing to stave off a long-running emotional collapse, so that's irritating.
on a lighter note, maybe i'll finish this article for my wiki over yonder at some point this weekend, since i haven't made an edit there in like four months or something.
That emotional collapse. Do you want to tell us about it?
i would, but honestly it's complicated to a point where it's difficult to really know where to begin. probably the best summary i've bothered to write on the subject at any point is here, though.
I've replied to you in the linked post.
Surprised I'm the only one, so far. It's Saturday, btw. Usually, I don't care too much about RSD exclusives, but my local shop is dropping some stuff from a recent trip to Japan. Gonna see if I can snatch up some of those sweet imports.
"The War of Art" by Steven Pressfield.
Many years ago, this book arrived in the mail for me, and there was no indication of who had sent it. I reread it when I need to remind myself that it is entirely my responsibility to control the creative process in my life.
Good book? I hear a lot of positive talk about it.
It's a must-read for anyone who is seriously wanting to pursue goals.
I just started in my PhD lab and we are having a lab party!
I've been practicing making pastry lately so I signed up to bring some tonight. I'm a bit nervous that it won't turn out, but everyone in the lab is cool, so I doubt it will be an issue. I'm also planning on going to the big state farmers market today and hopefully get a new plant for the new house. So I guess I'd say this weekend is relatively busy!
Going to a Tattoo expo tomorrow with my partner. She has a tattoo booked in the early afternoon, and I'm going to see what I can find for getting a flash one. Tonight is buying new shoes, as my the top fabric part of my left skater shoe separated partially from the rubber bottom, but that's my fault for buying a cheap pair from Walmart. The reason I did was because that style is hard to find nowadays (the fat-lipped style of skate shoe from the late 90s, early to mid 00s. Then Subway and board games.
Sunday is an open day, so we'll see. Probably play some Rise to Ruins. I don't have any hobbies beyond watching TV and video games, so I'm really boring.
What kinds of games do you play?
It's dependent on my mood and mental state.
If I want to play a game but don't know what to play, I tend to go with a game I've played before. I will go with a classic of some sort, so looking at either a DOS game like Stronghold or an NES, SNES, or Gameboy game.
I've been playing a lot of Rise to Ruins recently. I also play some Roguelites like Rogue Legacy or Binding of Isaac. I enjoy Stardew Valley, but also try to find time to play AAAish games like God of War (2018), though I don't play many AAA games. I find most of them seem boring.
I don't enjoy multiplayer, really. I prefer single player experiences.
Rise to Ruins sounds awesome. Gotta try it.
Did you enjoy God of War?
Rise to Ruins is tough if you play it the way it's designed to be played. It's also developed by one dude, all of the art is hand pixelled. It's wondrous.
I did enjoy God of War, up to the point I'm at. The first time playing it, though, I found the combat hard to adjust to, but once you do, it's not bad. I was just spoiled from the smooth combat mechanics of Horizon Zero Dawn, after dumping too many hours into it haha.
As a follow up to this: I got a Hannya mask tattoo at the Expo. My partner got a coffee pot with a flower beside it on her arm. I do not have a picture of hers though, just the one of mine (linked above).
I will be hosting by semi-bi-weekly D&D game tomorrow with some friends, and hopefully finishing off our first adventure. Sunday’s schedule is looking pretty clear, and it’s going to rain all day, so I might stay in and try to make some progress on The Witcher 3 or 10 billion other games I’ve accumulated over the years.
Are you running something from a published adventure or homebrew? Which edition? Would love to hear any craziness that happens this weekend. I commented in the "what are you playing?" thread about the game I'm playing in, so would love to hear from you about yours.
I'll be waiting for Sunday night to roll around. Besides that I'm gonna check out the local record convention on Saturday.
I'm going to a bar mitzvah in Rochester NY. It's our first family gathering since getting engaged (last weekend) so I'm sure we'll be a center of attention. Blech.
Make sure to rain down hard candies at the poor unsuspecting victim :)
Prep for exams. Last semester of college and I want it to end ASAP.
Best of luck on the exams.