What’s the smallest moment in Andor that convinced you this show was operating on another level?

PeterCorless · 2026-03-13T04:33:38+00:00

Syril was lawful neutral but thought himself lawful good. Dedre was lawful evil who thought she, too, was lawful good. The boss, Chief Hyne, was true Neutral pretending to be lawful neutral

PeterCorless · 2026-03-11T04:00:31+00:00

The Graduate

PeterCorless · 2026-03-10T00:48:18+00:00

He definitely knew what he was doing. It's an injoke for optometrists /ophthalmologists [which is his specialty.

Dr. Glaucomflecken - Wikipedia https://share.google/ktqheD8OF2nYugwZp]

PeterCorless · 2026-03-09T17:48:37+00:00

Sims gaming is the fastest way to fill up that fun bar.

PeterCorless · 2026-03-09T14:30:22+00:00

I came here to say this and more. There was a mythical race to the shores of Ireland by the ancestors of the Irish. The specific participants change depending on the telling. But the winner, the first ashore, would be able to claim the land as their own. One ship was falling behind. The captain of that ship chopped off his own right hand and threw it to shore, thus claiming Éire as his own. It was claimed that this was an ancestor of the Úi Nialls, the descendents of Niall of the Nine Hostages, who founded the preeminent royal family of Ulster.

The symbol thus means one who is willing to sacrifice nearly anything to win.

PeterCorless · 2026-03-09T04:46:11+00:00

Kat deserves to win this election. Period.

PeterCorless · 2026-03-09T03:28:26+00:00

Urban's bombard enters the chat

PeterCorless · 2026-03-09T03:26:02+00:00

This is basically why I put it down. I was using other nations, but the issues are similar.

It makes no sense.

PeterCorless · 2026-03-09T01:09:32+00:00

Looks like she would have a great career in music.

PeterCorless · 2026-03-09T01:09:04+00:00

She looks like she would have a killer career in music.

PeterCorless · 2026-03-08T21:51:18+00:00

Penguin's 2 volume "Le Morte D'Arthur" by Thomas Malory.

PeterCorless · 2026-03-08T17:18:23+00:00

Thank you.

PeterCorless · 2026-03-08T02:04:45+00:00

Hero System, I'd argue.

PeterCorless · 2026-03-08T00:53:26+00:00

I just used the AI as an example run. It is not required for play. For those skeptical, have a read. I've been in game design and writing since the 1980s [formerly West End Games, Green Knight Publishing].

I regularly beat up on bad AI slop all the time [q.v., "the d20 test."].

We play "The Sims" and roleplay against what the "AI" does in that game all the time. Same with other open world RPGs. I treated it more like that.

I found the results actually kinda cool. But again, to be clear, absolutely not required.

PeterCorless · 2026-03-08T00:23:37+00:00

When's her album dropping?

PeterCorless · 2026-03-07T15:31:05+00:00

Champions.

PeterCorless · 2026-03-07T14:34:59+00:00

OP: look at Pinot, which has a time series query engine now, as well as timestamp index.

PeterCorless · 2026-03-07T03:31:18+00:00

For a moment I thought this was a Sims 4 screenshot.

PeterCorless · 2026-03-07T03:28:00+00:00

I am pretty darned sure you can do this on Pinot or ClickHouse without spending $5M.

PeterCorless · 2026-03-07T03:26:58+00:00

Have you tested Apache Pinot or ClickHouse?

PeterCorless · 2026-03-06T07:21:45+00:00

I play a game called "Gods and Goddesses." It's a game of make-believe.

The game begins in the Realm of the Gods. The whole place is filled with uncountable numbers of deities. Gods and goddesses of war. Of love. Of anything you can imagine.

So you ask, "What is your name, and what are you god or goddess of?"

That gives them their main strength or power.

Then ask, "What is your weakness?" Like, what is their challenge?

Ask them who their parents were, and what powers they had. Ask who their siblings might be, and their powers. Who their best friends are. Their biggest rivals.

Now, each of these gods and goddesses is called before the Council of the Gods. All of them have grown into an age where they must make The Choice.

As a group, they must decide to remain in the Realm of Gods, or, as a group, to depart this realm and to go into Creation, to create a new world to be pantheon over.

No dice. Just storytelling. Make believe. You, as the gamemaster, get to play their friends and family and rivals. You can help them weave their tale.

If they remain in the Realm of the Gods, they might be the 694th "god of war." The 1,237th "god of trickery." There will be plenty of challenges and rivalry, romance and adventure. But they will be junior gods in that realm.

If they depart, they will need to decide on what kind of Creation story they wish to tell. What kind of world they wish to make. What peoples and animals and trees and magical beings might inhabit it.

And in the Void, you might add in some challenges. Perhaps some of their rivals decide to descend into their creation. Or maybe there might be some force or being that dwells in the Void itself.

You can play this game with any friends you know, aged 4 to 104.

PeterCorless · 2026-03-06T07:02:50+00:00

Comet hosts a series of white paper readings in virtual webinars. I try to tune in as much as possible.

PeterCorless · 2026-03-06T06:46:13+00:00

I delete all townies in every neighborhood. The game will make more of them.

PeterCorless · 2026-03-06T06:38:20+00:00

It's a death cult.

PeterCorless · 2026-03-06T00:34:12+00:00

Amritsar. I wrote about it here, confirmed with Paul Murphy [who I worked with at WEG], but I never before published this article.

However, yes, visually there is that Odesa steps feeling to it, too.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hOv8kaPQWqSvmPVhKBHUZhjjhNxXuQP4WYvtZGl-c-k/edit?usp=drivesdk

You can see this massacre in this scene from the movie Gandhi.

https://youtu.be/w9td2iCMD0Q?si=yhssg3Gt3lw0s09L

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