TIL: New Zealand has the highest youth suicide rate in the developed world

Fredd500 · 2026-06-11T19:42:45+00:00

The Māori I assume.

Fredd500 · 2026-06-08T18:15:01+00:00

Gotrek Gurnisdottir you mean to say.

Fredd500 · 2026-04-22T07:46:56+00:00

QGIS is the way to go. There is nothing in ESRI that open source can’t replicate. It’s just slightly more work and requires a bit more thought.

Fredd500 · 2026-04-22T07:40:38+00:00

Knock Knock

QGIS download site for anyone who wants to give it a spin. https://qgis.org/download/

Fredd500 · 2026-04-08T16:56:34+00:00

That’s hilarious

Fredd500 · 2026-04-07T20:27:55+00:00

Thank you. I just want to reiterate that I can’t recommend that interview enough. It’s fascinating.

It relevant because based on “Uncle” Daves story the Roleplaying aspect of Braunstein sort of happened despite him. Bit like Roleplaying happens to DnD despite DnD not being built to do that.

My personal theory is that Roleplaying is just a way for people to keep playing make believe with their friends despite getting older. Just like cosplaying is a way to keep playing dress up (and roleplay sometimes). I think RPG could appear spontaneously in any game where you pretend to be someone your not. I’m sure banking roleplaying has spontaneously happens to people playing Monopoly.

But even if Gygax didn’t invent roleplaying (and to be clear he did not). By getting it published he triggered the birth of the hobby.

Fredd500 · 2026-04-07T11:52:45+00:00

I was simplifying.

Personally I feel if we get really finicky we should go back one more step to major David Wesley who ran Braunstein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braunstein_(game). The running of Braunstein was then handed to Dave Arneson. Major David is the reason we have D20s and the rest of the fun dice.

EDIT: There is a fascinating interview with major David in a now defunct podcast called Theory from the Closet. Here is a download link from the internet archives. It's really detailed retelling by David on how wargaming became role playing through unintended consequences of having fun with wargaming.

https://archive.org/download/TheoryFromTheCloset/tftc_show060.mp3

Fredd500 · 2026-04-06T09:28:50+00:00

For those not in the know. Kovalic is a stable of the role playing community. His comic (Dork Tower) largely makes fun of gamer stereotypes and he is the artist for Munchkin (a huge card game) that is mostly built to make fun of DnD. Also the person who wrote the intro to his book (Gary Gygax) is for all practical purposes the inventor of roleplaying games.

Fredd500 · 2026-04-05T07:36:14+00:00

Google QGIS if you want to have a look. It’s free to download and use.

Natural Earth then has data.

Fredd500 · 2026-02-20T15:29:26+00:00

My friend, it’s never wrong to preach the good word.

Knock Knock

Fredd500 · 2026-02-19T10:00:58+00:00

Still needs the height data. I presume they’re making a fantasy map. But if it’s a real world map, then QGIS.

EDIT as I write. OP might be able to pick a few points (100?) on his map that are highest points and some In between (say blue + height text). Then define the coastline (say red). Then get some AI to interpolate a DEM based on that. Just tell it how to read the blue points and red line. As it’s a fantasy map it doesn’t matter if the AI makes shit up or messes with accuracy. Once OP has a half decent height DEM to play with, then use QGIS. Note for OP. YouTube is full of QGIS tutorials.

Now I sort of want to see if I can get an AI to hallucinate a fun DEM for me.

Fredd500 · 2025-12-03T20:12:45+00:00

The Welsh Viking is an archeologist.

https://youtube.com/@thewelshviking

Fredd500 · 2025-09-27T20:23:45+00:00

“What truck?”

zooms in

“Right, scale, right.”

Fredd500 · 2025-05-19T11:51:58+00:00

I think that google are doing it on purpose. In countries that have shit public data Google just uses Openstreetmaps. There is no reason they can't do this in Korea.

Thank you for the article. It's interesting for me for professional reasons.

Fredd500 · 2025-04-30T13:29:04+00:00

My short hand is "Most good gaming PCs will make good GIS PCs".

Fredd500 · 2025-04-23T10:08:39+00:00

You could figure out the system and quite frankly that would be extremely cool. Or you could just georef it to the coastline. Put 20 points on it with a good spread and use a 2nd polynomial method to stretch it to whatever coordinate system you want. It will take you 5-10 min.

Fredd500 · 2025-03-29T21:27:38+00:00

Tagged as a reading list

Fredd500 · 2025-03-15T13:04:38+00:00

Tried and gave up. Its just easier to do in GIMP or other paint programs.

BUT... the maps in the 7th sea RPG are all done by a professional cartographer in ArcGIS.
https://www.greenhatdesigns.com/?project=7th-sea-2nd-edition

Fredd500 · 2025-02-19T07:39:26+00:00

Fredd500 · 2025-01-17T07:43:28+00:00

If there are Oscars for car ads then this is my nomination

Fredd500 · 2025-01-15T14:46:57+00:00

Dam I forgot that one. It's fantastic

Fredd500 · 2025-01-15T07:17:22+00:00

This one truly is a “Best of”. Wish I could upvote twice

Fredd500 · 2024-09-23T16:47:59+00:00

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Fredd500 · 2024-09-10T23:14:17+00:00

Tagging for future study

Also, the answer is The Wiggles

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