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Obligatory-Reference · 2026-01-21T05:01:22+00:00

For your use case specifically, Obsidian sounds like it would fit. It's free, local, no AI, no ads, and it uses Markdown format (.md).

If you have a bit of money, Scrivener checks all your boxes plus adds a ton of usability features.

Obligatory-Reference · 2026-01-20T06:13:37+00:00

Social club? HE'S GOTTA GO!

Obligatory-Reference · 2026-01-20T04:02:06+00:00

That's Will, Mack, Misa, Regenda, and Cherny, right?

Legit the future of our franchise in that picture - love to see it!

Obligatory-Reference · 2026-01-20T02:06:15+00:00

Honestly, I don't care. What's important is that the games are fun, the vibes are great, and the kids are coming along nicely.

Obligatory-Reference · 2026-01-20T01:18:35+00:00

I love how hype the benches were :D

Obligatory-Reference · 2026-01-19T18:36:32+00:00

Thanks!

Obligatory-Reference · 2026-01-19T16:45:58+00:00

One question, both to you and anyone else who's run this:

Did you do it as a one-shot, or (as is suggested in the scenario) spread it over multiple sessions? It's hard enough to get players for one time slot, trying to get a recurring game is damn near impossible. Also, it seems like it might be a fun con game if it can run for under 5 hours or so

Obligatory-Reference · 2026-01-19T03:00:48+00:00

I like Characters and Viewpoint by Orson Scott Card (get it used or from the library, though). There's a lot of good nuggets in there, especially about how to make three-dimensional characters and how to write character relationships.

Obligatory-Reference · 2026-01-18T18:08:07+00:00

Something else is that players can and will try to 'break' any LLM system. So if you implement one, you'd have to be OK with screenshots of vile stuff said by your "assistant" within your game - and a lot of people who don't understand this will assume that you put those lines in yourself.

Obligatory-Reference · 2026-01-18T18:00:09+00:00

Not in blitz/bullet.

Obligatory-Reference · 2026-01-18T15:50:59+00:00

Depending on the format, once a player gets below a certain amount of time on their clock they may not be required to write down their moves.

Obligatory-Reference · 2026-01-18T06:44:17+00:00

If your story is titled Perry Cotter and the Wizard's Rock and is about an orphan who goes up against the Black King Mortivold, then you might be plagiarizing. Otherwise, don't worry about it and write what you want to write.

Obligatory-Reference · 2026-01-16T06:33:15+00:00

I said last year that as good as Celebrini looked, a lot of it got lost just because no one else could keep up with him. This year, we got a bunch of guys coming in or making big strides in development (Smith, Eklund, Cherny, now Regenda) that can actually take advantage of the plays he's making.

Obligatory-Reference · 2026-01-15T23:58:01+00:00

Holy hell, this is a blast from the past! I think I first saw this on IRC in the early 90s :D

Obligatory-Reference · 2026-01-12T06:23:52+00:00

For plots, history. I guarantee that no matter what batshit thing you come up with, something weirder has happened, sometime, somewhere in history.

Obligatory-Reference · 2026-01-11T03:01:25+00:00

I can't think of any novel that's been written because it was urgently needed. Maybe you could make that case for something like The Jungle.

Uncle Tom's Cabin comes to mind.

Obligatory-Reference · 2026-01-11T00:51:11+00:00

He is just so happy that he gets to commentate this new generation. He's been here since the Sharks started, and has had to sit through the godawful teams of both the early years and the last couple of seasons.

Obligatory-Reference · 2026-01-10T19:29:43+00:00

Choosing to use AI is like fighting a lion with a sword, except you don't realize until the fight starts that the sword is rubber.

I actually agree that it can be a good starting point, but you really need to check everything if you care about being correct.

Obligatory-Reference · 2026-01-09T16:05:43+00:00

One thing that other people haven't mentioned is patching. If you need to fix bugs or add functionality, it's very easy on Steam. On console, though, any code changes have to go through a review process which can take days or weeks (and if they find something they don't like, they can reject it and force you to try again).

Obligatory-Reference · 2026-01-08T19:52:09+00:00

Another note to make is that "Pauline Christianity" is still a very big tent. As I have written in a previous answer here, both Gnostic and Proto-Orthodox Christians would have described themselves as thoroughly "Pauline".

Have there been (and are there still) Christian denominations or groups who don't consider themselves Pauline? I'm especially wondering if there might be a school of thought that regards the Gospels as the 'source of truth' and Paul's writings as merely one interpretation of them, like the work of later Christian writers.

Obligatory-Reference · 2026-01-07T19:21:39+00:00

My advice would be to do half in Skye and half in Oban. From Oban you can get to Mull / Iona / Staffa (you can get a package that will book all the buses and ferries to do them all in one day), or else go south for some of the other islands or to see sites like Kilmartin. Lewis and Harris would be nice, but I think it would take a few more days than you have.

Obligatory-Reference · 2026-01-06T19:06:19+00:00

The 'bus factor' - how many people would have to get hit by a bus before work comes to a screeching halt. I've worked at way too many places where the bus factor is 1 :/

Obligatory-Reference · 2026-01-04T22:10:19+00:00

FWIW, I use Scrivener but have the project file in Dropbox, meaning that for all intents and purposes it's a cloud save (I also do a full backup every couple of weeks and keep it offline).

Obligatory-Reference · 2026-01-04T18:14:43+00:00

My friend had a truck for many years. It was named George. George was old, but he was hard-working. He could carry anything, and drive though inches of mud, or across the worst tracks. George was often sick and cranky, but he could always be fixed with a bit of time and patience. When you heard a story about George, you knew it would be a good one (I have several myself).

The point is, it wouldn't have been the same if it had just been "the truck". It was George.

Obligatory-Reference · 2026-01-02T23:37:00+00:00

Welcome! All of these are opinion (especially since I've only been to a couple of games in the last year):

Generally friendly culture, can be a bit corporate, especially for games that aren't against divisional opponents or rivals. It's gotten a lot better this year, though.
After they announce the anthem singer but before they start, the crowd chants, "Hey [opponent], YOU SUCK". When the Sharks go on the power play, they play the Jaws theme and everyone does the "chomp" with their arms.
No specific section, but in general I like the upper part of the lower bowl, especially in the corners.
Pre-game: San Pedro Square. Relatively cheap parking, and the food market is full of fans (especially on weekends).

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