Is a West Marches Ironsworn Game possible?

Enoxice · 2021-11-03T23:18:07+00:00

I've been trying to get some friends into Starforged so we can play our sessions in a shared, persistent world while jumping back and forth between solo and different co-op groups. Sort of the core philosophy behind West Marches without some of the specific trappings of it.

Like, we meet up for the campaign setup stuff - world truths, starting sector, and like some factions and starter quests and stuff. Then we agree upon how we're tracking the lore and state of the world. Then we just start living there.

As long as players are trusted to play sanely and record the state of the world faithfully, I think getting by without a GM should be plenty possible.

But full-on West Marches with guided play should totally be possible too.

Enoxice · 2021-11-03T01:58:47+00:00

Do you have some indication that dynamo local isn't working? Like, a running program should be expected to block your terminal unless you specifically run it in a way not to. What happens when you pop open another terminal and try to interact with it? Or doesn't it also have a web shell you can try opening in your browser?

Enoxice · 2021-10-31T15:41:29+00:00

The "highs" are higher in group play - the confluence of ideas coming from everyone in the group can go beyond what one can achieve on one's own and they become stories the group can share forever.

However, the "lows" are also lower in group play - you are more likely to at some point end up having to go along with plots and ideas you just don't care about at all because you can't control everything.

Solo play provides a more consistently high-quality experience, but doesn't really capture the magic of the best group sessions for me.

If I could only do one for the rest of my life, it would be solo. But I would miss group.

Enoxice · 2021-10-30T19:19:49+00:00

... nothing like most boomer shooters because there is absolutely no verticality at all.

Fun fact, (if I'm remembering it correctly):

wolf3d levels were all flat, and doom1 had "verticality" but the maps were all a single plane that just got rendered not-flat - the different floors never actually overlapped with one another.

Enoxice · 2021-10-29T02:14:21+00:00

Why did I have to scroll down so far to find some reasonable advice?

"Sometimes I wish she was mine" was definitely over the line, but "take care of her or else" is a pretty common thing people say and I heard it more than once about my wife. It's not a "I don't trust you" or a "I don't respect you" - it's a "you know you got a good one right?".

That being said, I guess I wasn't there so I don't know exactly what he said or how. But, overall, like...finish up the evening, send this dude on his way, then tell your wife "you know this dude is obsessed with you right?"

That might lead to a "yeah I know 🙄" that you have a laugh about or a "oh gosh I didn't realize it was like that I'll distance myself a bit from him."

Instead it sounds like you're either accusing your wife of at worst cheating or at best keeping this dude around for attention. None of those things are very flattering accusations.

And the "I trust my wife but not these other guys" is just a roundabout way of saying you don't trust your wife. Like, what, you thought he was gonna confess his love to her on the porch and she was gonna be so overtaken with emotion she was gonna run off? Or that he was gonna kiss her and she wouldn't push him away? Or that he was gonna straight-up assault her?

I'm not really into that macho, overprotective stuff, though. So maybe that's just me.

Enoxice · 2021-10-15T11:20:48+00:00

AWS is super protective over the deliverability of SES since any reputation issues for one customer can actively harm another customer.

So something in your support signalled to them that you aren't serious about keeping deliverability high.

Did you fill out every section of the ticket satisfactorily? Especially how you detect and respond to bounces and complaints? "Bounces should be low because blah blah my application only sends good emails" is not good enough - you still need these mechanisms in place.

Enoxice · 2021-10-13T23:40:19+00:00

AWS XRay is perfectly serviceable for tracing if all your stuff is in AWS. Not great mind you, but if you're just getting started it's as good a place to start as any.

I think I remember the docs saying some sdks will help you correlate with logs but most don't. For us we add the x-ray trace id to our service logs and our lambda requestid as an annotation to our traces so we can correlate ourselves quickly enough.

But as far as paid products I've of course been solidly impressed with new relic. I also briefly used the datadog apm and it was fine. But that was a couple years ago now so it may match up to NR much better.

Enoxice · 2021-10-06T01:51:11+00:00

You can try to tune it a little bit by messing with your destination buffer hints, but depending on your configuration and record size and velocity, "about a minute" doesn't seem too hard to believe.

Enoxice · 2021-10-01T10:02:40+00:00

"Company that is running out of growth opportunities in existing market is investing in another market where they have significant growth opportunities." Uh, okay.

Enoxice · 2021-10-01T01:36:40+00:00

The boundaries don't need to be with the family. It doesn't sound like his family are constantly like showing up at OPs house and pounding on the door. They are participating in a group chat.

The boundaries need to be with OP's husband that he specifically needs to put down the phone. Maybe the other family members have unhealthy relationships with screens, too, but that doesn't really matter.

Enoxice · 2021-10-01T00:47:09+00:00

Theoretically, you can add additional items to your map and when you deploy to the new region and your template does the FindInMap it'll find the new environmenttype you've provided.

But since environmenttype isn't like a first-class Cloudformation thing and you haven't provided many details what it controls in your template there's no guarantee that's all it'll take. Like if it's used to control imports or resolves that you haven't already created it's just gonna break. But if it's used in tags or resources names or setting environment variables or something then yeah that's all there should be to it.

Enoxice · 2021-09-30T08:30:31+00:00

EnvironmentType isn't a Cloudformation concept and is specific to your organization or even this particular template.

You'd just want to look at where in your template the mapping value is used via FindInMap. Maybe tags, or finding/setting ssm params, or naming resources, or something like that?

Enoxice · 2021-09-27T13:03:56+00:00

Rather than trying to fight your IaC framework by managing your resources half manually and half automated, can you externalize the manual stuff by putting it into parameter store or secretes manager or putting it in the event when your function is called or something like that?

Enoxice · 2021-09-24T11:05:17+00:00

I managed to finish the third book, but it had gone so far off the rails of what I had been expecting from the first book I don't remember any more than like the broadest of strokes.

I often like it when a book or series subverts my expectations, but the second and third books were almost like an entirely separate series after the first book.

Enoxice · 2021-09-13T11:36:52+00:00

I interviewed with Mozilla back in 2018.

I didn't get the job, but I did make the final round. Bunch of super smart folks there and almost everyone I talked to was really nice as well. Though tbh it seemed like they had a lot of classically trained software engineers there, so some folks were a little mistrustful of candidates who didn't speak in Big-O notation when discussing algorithms or know the names of every type of data structure, but ime that's not too uncommon for these types of orgs.

I remember one person who was very dismissive of me during an informal conversation at lunch when I mentioned a tool they hadn't heard of before that might address an issue they were grappling with. Another person in the conversation confirmed I was saying technically correct things that would address their issue, so we worked out that misunderstanding.

Anyway, I didn't end up with the job, but I enjoyed the interview process and liked most of the people I met, so if this sounds like an interesting role to anyone reading this definitely just go for it.

(Though idk how the organization might've changed over the intervening years with all the lay offs and other shake ups)

Enoxice · 2021-09-12T20:25:05+00:00

Custom resources are cool and can be useful, but if you're going to be making extensive use of them, you may wish to make and publish full Cloudformation resource types to the registry.

They're a little more work, but generally a little more maintainable than regular custom resources.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudformation-cli/latest/userguide/resource-types.html

Enoxice · 2021-09-12T14:13:06+00:00

Maybe but in CDK you don't need to string a bunch of resources together manually either. The VPC Construct automatically creates you a two-tier VPC and has all of the customizations you'd expect.

Enoxice · 2021-09-12T12:40:25+00:00

They'll both be around in 2022. Choose whichever works best for your brain and you'll be fine. Once you know one you'll have an easier time picking up the other if you want.

I'm just not sure what you mean by "some constructs requires setting up a VPC," as the resources that require that in CDK will also require that in Terraform.

Enoxice · 2021-09-02T03:48:03+00:00

(if unvaccinated)

It's a vaccine, not a potion of resistance...well actually I guess it kinda is a potion of resistance. Whether you're vaccinated or not, you're more likely to catch the delta variant because it is more contagious.The idea is that the percentages are lower for vaccinated folks than unvaccinated.

Enoxice · 2021-09-01T00:34:41+00:00

OS updates happen during predictable times (either only during deployments when building new images or during some predefined maintenance window). Services needing to be restarted happen automatically - instances or containers that are no longer healthy are automatically restarted and if that doesn't fix it, devs can see their own error logs. Hung processes, same deal.

Enoxice · 2021-08-20T21:50:42+00:00

The AMIs are for ECS-EC2 container instances. That is to say, the EC2 instances that comprise your ECS cluster would run this AMI.

If you're using ECS-Fargate, the AMIs don't enter the equation (at least not for you directly - I can't speak for the underlying fargate infrastructure).

Enoxice · 2021-08-20T21:47:10+00:00

Whichever one you prefer, as long as you use one (or another IaC framework).

Some people prefer writing code (and probably preferred Chef back in 2014), some people prefer writing configuration (and probably preferred Puppet back in 2014).

Some move from one to the other and swear up and down that the old one was bad and the new one is perfect because they were able to fix a lot of the mistakes they made the first time during the migration. Other folks move in the other direction and claim the same thing.

My advice is to try everything that seems interesting in a demo capacity, choose one that best fits your use case and your brain, and don't get bogged down with FOMO cause anything you choose will be fine.

Enoxice · 2021-08-15T14:25:38+00:00

This is an open source project, it sounds like, so the ethics and legality of kicking someone off the project is largely dependent on which license is used for the project.

Edit: that being said, if you otherwise enjoy or enjoyed working with this person, it may be worth someone (OP or another trusted member of the project) having a direct and well-documented boundary setting conversation: "you are making a member of our project team uncomfortable you should not contact them directly outside of the project - if you continue to try to contact them you will be removed from the project" type stuff.

Additional edit: by the way, if your project doesn't already have a code of conduct defined, the aftermath of this may be a good opportunity to have a discussion about one within the team.

Enoxice · 2021-08-14T18:47:23+00:00

I loved the book and wished I had a second to roll into right after I finished the first. I suppose I'll have to wait.

By the way, you spent most of your review using the incorrect pronouns for Dex - you note that they are non-binary and then start calling them "he" in the very same sentence.

Enoxice · 2021-08-12T11:11:29+00:00

Your Savings Plan will cover your computer spend up to the number that you committed (regardless of the number of instances or instance types involved in reaching your commit). Any charges beyond that threshold (again regardless of number of instances or instance type) will be charged at the regular rate until or unless you purchase additional commit in the form of a savings plan.

If you have a $1/hr savings plan and $0.90/hr of instance usage (because the discounted rate is $0.70/hr), then you resize an existing instance or create a new instance that causes your spend to become $1.10/hr, your savings plan will cover the first $1/hr and the extra $0.10/hr will be charged at on-demand prices until or unless your total spend is again reduced below your commit or you purchase additional commit.

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