@xgranade couldn't they just assign a value to a variable that's saved in the shell? I thought that was the thing you could do with bash, sure it's all global variables but they work as long as you're careful

@ilmari @BestGirlGrace @foone bigger number is smoother on the finished product there at least!

@BestGirlGrace @foone Wait until you find out the units used for ramen and infrared spectroscopy (inverse centimeters)

It does mean stronger bonds get bigger numbers, but that's about the only thing that makes sense about it, particularly for some reason we put the smallest number on the right when graphing

@kyonshi Yeah, that might be true, but I'm not willing to read through the entire bazillion pages of gibberish to find out, so I'll go with it. probably isn't as terrible as the other two

@kyonshi (I seem to recall that the section I'm talking about was very close to when he claims TSR used time travel to steal his rule ideas for their Marvel RPG

@kyonshi I only know this cuz I was explaining hybrid to someone recently, and scanned through the first few pages looking for quotable sections XD

@kyonshi The version I read had some pretty racist comments in it, but I'm not surprised that they're easy to miss considering how long it is, and how many different versions there are.

Also, one of the few bits I could actually understand was a comment on how this set of rules only applies to men as whenever he puts in accurate rules for women people keep calling him. sexist

For those of you not familiar with the excellent fantasy webseries Ren: The Girl With The Mark, they're doing an advent run of making a number of their patreon-exclusive posts public - including this short story which I wrote for them, I've done a number of short fiction pieces to help give more viewpoints on the world of Alathia :)

https://www.patreon.com/posts/day-6-boar-of-143649907

Boosts and thoughts/feedback welcome!

#WritingCommunity #Fantasy #SFF #AmWriting

@BestGirlGrace @kit Yeah, hope your mental health improves soon, the friend group's being worried about you and hoping you do better soon

@WizardOfDocs I think survivor was popular a few years before that? They wanted something that everyone would recognize instantly

@WizardOfDocs Weakest link was also a HUGE cultural force at the time

@meldar16 and I have a game in a charity bundle for Doctors Without Borders and their Palestinian relief efforts. Please donate if you can, and you'll get a ton of cool ttrpgs. Good games for a good cause!

https://tiltify.com/@jesthehuman/gamesagainstgenocide

#ttrpg #RPG #DnD #CharityBundle

Amusing sometimes how gamers will shout to the heavens for gameplay variety and challenge, but the moment a developer changes their preferred playstyle by so much as an *angstrom* they become Heston finding the Statue of Liberty on the beach.

@Canageek@wandering.shop Damn it, because I've recruited Yuffie (What is Yuffie's gender anyway?) I can't reach the materia that I can see until later in the game *makes grabby motions at a third All Materia)

#FFVII

Ohhh! Somebody has been mapping the RPG Blogosphere! Over time! With a discussion and graph and animation!

https://elmc.at/mapping-the-blogosphere/

My vector drawing of the IBM 5150 motherboard is complete!

Thanks to MTM scientific https://www.mtmscientific.com/pc-retro.html for releasing the gerber files for their reproduction motherboard. I wouldn't have had the patience to draw out all the traces myself...

I need to clean up and optimize the SVG but I'll eventually publish it for anyone to use.

#retrocomputing

The Gavle Goat is being assembled right this minute! For those who enjoy a bit of goatwatching.

Will be dedicated on Sunday, first day of Advent and then #GoatWatch2025 is on!

@hypnogoria
https://www.youtube.com/live/IhU2MIUaFlg

@kit Is that the CCG or the later non-ccg version?

Lads, deciding on the colour scheme for this 30k fanfic. the 9th Legion "The Steel Fists"

I'm thinking silver as the main colour? if so what for the trim, would purple work? Blue maybe?

Or another colour with a silver trim?

note: I will eventually be actually painting each of these schemes

@xgranade I mean, I see it? If you mention poker to me then I think of a bunch of mad men type douchebags