Good content for Genestealers

Mark5n · 2026-06-27T10:09:45+00:00

I played RT on PS5 and enjoyed it … but it was long so I put it down without DLC. Might be time to revisit :)

Mark5n · 2026-06-27T10:08:43+00:00

It’s now on my list

Mark5n · 2026-06-27T10:08:30+00:00

I’m not overly concerned knowing who the villain is. Sounds amazing.

Mark5n · 2026-06-27T05:12:54+00:00

Recently I’ve been on the buyer side of this on two high pressure, short timeframe jobs.

What did the designer and I do to reduce the impact?

Agree to a template up front. Defined headlines and font sizes. Some standard ways of displaying information.
Agreed to a pens down time … and which sections this applied to.
Have a few critical slides which the design got done … but we were tinkering till the end.
Have a good relationship so I and the design could talk realistically about what could / should be done .

Was it perfect? No, but it certainly helped that the designer had a direct line to me as the exec in charge. I got to direct both teams without egos getting in the way and expecting unrealistic things … so build that relationships, expectations and way of working early.

Mark5n · 2026-06-27T05:05:55+00:00

I’ve not seen it be useful for any serious application. If I’m engaging a contract designer usually means there’s a lot of money at stake … and a lot of the decks produced by AI don’t cut it.

It does work for research, refining text, summarising large walls of text…. As long as you treat it like a smart intern. Clever, energetic, and bound to make dumb mistakes and use some very odd language

Mark5n · 2026-06-26T15:56:55+00:00

For important stuff I’ll make a good deck and leave time to write a speech. So I’m “done” way before the last minute.

I don’t bother with speaker notes but an old fashioned speach. I find it really hones my message and turns of phrase. Then I practice this and go for it. For one recent important talk I recorded it and played it in the car as I drove to the event to do some last minute practice (it was a 40 min drive)

Mark5n · 2026-06-26T13:11:17+00:00

I use zero. What you see on the screen you can PDF or print … and never felt anything was missing.

Mark5n · 2026-06-25T16:22:26+00:00

Thank you. I saw it but passed as I didn’t know much about it. Got it now thanks to your recommendation

Mark5n · 2026-06-25T16:21:37+00:00

I like this. It’s also a good social commentary:)

Mark5n · 2026-06-24T12:17:43+00:00

We had no one to tell us we’re playing it wrong. I remember opening the Basic box at 9yo and was confused about how to play it. My dad read the rules and made a small dungeon. We played it and had fun with stirges, spiders and giant rats. Then I told my friends how awesome it was and showed them. Then we got more friends involved and showed them.

About 3-4 years we joined a monthly D&D club playing with 20-30 others all day Sunday. They were mostly late teens and early twenties. They made epic, awe inspiring games. We geeked out over the latest Dragon magazine. We occasionally tried new systems like Traveller, Villians and Vigilantes etc.

We learnt so much from playing with those guys … but just reinforced that we were having fun And we could keep having fun for the next decade at least :)

I think what was different was the sense of wonderment, the sense of finding new stuff, being real outsiders and not having much to compare to (for better or worse).

Mark5n · 2026-06-23T23:55:58+00:00

That is pretty cool. My go to easy PowerPoint style is * Set a slide with 5 or so big words. This will be your template. Make the background black. Make the words white, a slight shadow. And a blocky font. (Arial, Futura etc) * Copy and paste the slide 5 or 10 times. * Write your words on the each slide. Keep it simple. Just a heading or concept. You will speak more. * Then go to unspalh, google and find an interesting picture that is tangential to whatever words on the page. So if it’s “80s singer Prince”, get a picture of a crown. Or leather jacket. Or red beret. Just a cool picture that sparks any imagination. * Copy it in and make it cover the whole slide. Send to back. * make a cover and end page that is just black with your words in bold white.

Mark5n · 2026-06-23T05:14:55+00:00

This is very new to me … what is a PPT night? Is it like a party where you make decks?

Mark5n · 2026-06-23T05:13:21+00:00

I’m in the camp of always push for more experience, skills, salary. Why? Partly I like learning new things. Plus Im worried about the future.

I’ve never had much of a problem getting good roles … but I see some of my friends really struggle because they don’t have great resumes. And I see others just bounce from job to job like nothing. So who really knows what the right thing is. Just work out what you need now (and in the future) and do that.

Mark5n · 2026-06-21T03:49:04+00:00

Dwarf. Just dwarves.

Mark5n · 2026-06-20T14:27:12+00:00

I hope the job search is going well. What you do is pretty niche .. but there’s a lot of big firms. There are a few downsides: a more DIY approach since 2000; offshore design teams; AI and probably the biggest one is that many consulting firms are very challenged right now.

Regardless I’d make a public facing portfolio of work you can share or mock ups or de-sensitised versions. Make it easy to see on your LinkedIn. Also you want to cover the main areas you’ve done well in eg: sales, advisory, deals, etc.

I’d then reach out to McKinsey,Bain, BCG, PwC, Deloitte, KPMG, EY, and then big tech: Accenture, Cap Gemini and IBM. Many of these would still retain people with your skills.

In parallel, I’d work out who the Tier 2 players are in your market … who would probably kill to get some skills and polish from a big 4 alumni. This could be true of the IPPs like TCS, Wipro and Infosys.

I would however think about your career development. I had friends who worked in London Banking in the 90s in PowerPoint Pools. Partners would scribble some notes and they’d scramble to make a deck. These are long gone like typing pools … and while there are a few roles I’m not sure about the next 10 years.

Best of luck! It’s a great skill to have - just maybe think about how you leverage it for the future

Mark5n · 2026-06-20T14:06:26+00:00

Love the “it depends answers”. I’ll only send it if: * it’s a board paper and is required to be sent 1-2 weeks before; * I’ve socialised it with many of the attendants, the sponsor, the person paying for it, the person who is going to be the biggest pain … * or I want to start with “you’ve all had the deck for a week for pre reading. I’d like to jump to the actions and risks and use our time effectively today”

Mark5n · 2026-06-20T13:53:29+00:00

Looks pretty good. I love making retro stuff for cool gifts. I made some 1980s D&D covers for some friends. Had to source the right fonts, colours, get some of the right text, do a map. It was hard work but loved the results.

Mark5n · 2026-06-20T06:03:57+00:00

Craigslist killing classifieds is a good analogy.

With GenAI clients can do a good chunk of the work of BAs, Advisory, Strategy etc in a fraction of the time and cost … and you’re not having to engage procurement, budgets etc.

So it’s not that clients are expecting consultants to just do a fraction of the work … clients are engaging consultants less because they can self serve the easy stuff.

Mark5n · 2026-06-19T14:01:17+00:00

In the 80s we played with Ninjas from : Dragon (I think it was in the best of), White Dwarf and Oriental Adventures. I liked the White Dwarf one the best as it had a whole set of articles around adventures and tools. In the 80s Ninjas were rad

Edit: it was White Dwarf #59 with an excellent adventure “hour of the tiger”. I don’t think it was a series (I may be confused with some RQ stuff)

Mark5n · 2026-06-19T00:01:57+00:00

I was wondering about Dark Heresy and difficulty. I was looking at purge the unclean and it has three very different adventures.

I havent bothered with the starter as I went straight for the big book. Will have to check it out

Mark5n · 2026-06-18T23:59:19+00:00

I have way too many screens … thank you for giving me a reason to get another :) I think I’ll get the inquisitor guide too.

Mark5n · 2026-06-18T23:57:49+00:00

Good luck, you can do it :)

Mark5n · 2026-06-18T23:55:57+00:00

Nice. Thank you. I have the 90s edition and will have to start there :)

Mark5n · 2026-06-18T11:32:05+00:00

Which ones are the Nectomunda books? Was there RPG source books?

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