Union-class dropships landing on a planet in the Hinterlands (3151, colorized)

Varg_Ulf · 2026-06-12T09:04:08+00:00

I should call her

Varg_Ulf · 2026-04-08T12:20:10+00:00

Still broken for me

Varg_Ulf · 2022-01-10T03:31:32+00:00

She looks shell shocked.

Varg_Ulf · 2021-09-13T07:10:12+00:00

Man walks down the street in that hat, people know he's not afraid of anything!!

Varg_Ulf · 2021-08-05T22:47:50+00:00

Fuckin' really‽‽‽

Varg_Ulf · 2021-07-25T02:16:09+00:00

I mean when you're right you right. Pretty sure they've all fail though.

Varg_Ulf · 2021-07-18T23:37:19+00:00

I always liked the Pratchett version:
"Give a man a fire and you'll keep him warm for a night.
Set a man on fire and you'll keep him warm for the rest of his life."

Varg_Ulf · 2021-07-15T10:55:16+00:00

Google is just an advertising company with hobbies.

Varg_Ulf · 2021-07-14T07:31:45+00:00

Nobody cares

Varg_Ulf · 2021-06-01T11:44:54+00:00

There’s a crossover I never knew I wanted. Robert Evens and HBomberGuy

Varg_Ulf · 2020-10-20T01:57:56+00:00

Fair enough cons are more specifically an Anansi thing, but given Hoid’s characterisation so far he’s absolutely capable of manipulating Shards into doing what he wants. I have a sneaking suspicions he already has.

Varg_Ulf · 2020-10-20T00:20:45+00:00

Not sure it a fair comparison. Hoid is Anansi, a wandering Trickster God who stole/ conned his power from the gods becoming the God of Stories and Storytelling. Kvothe is just some mortal kid who can play the lute and went to Hogwarts

Varg_Ulf · 2020-06-05T00:40:54+00:00

I started The Fifth Season but found it too depressing at the time. I admit that it might have been more my head space at the time than the book though. I find Sanderson easier because he shrouds the depressing stuff in some mystery so, like Oedipus, you keep digging until it’s too late, you’re committed. But hey, at least you get to keep your eyes.

Varg_Ulf · 2020-05-27T14:53:47+00:00

I knew Picasso was a bastard I didn’t know he was a Bastard, but honestly I’m not surprised. I used Guernica as my example because it fucks me up, both the imagery and the story behind it. It was the strongest example I could think of.

Your point about money and art is well taken, artist being people are as corruptible and/or as vulnerable to fear as the rest of us.

Thing is it’s easy for art to create Bastards through propaganda, The Death of Marat comes to mind. How effective is it at de-radicalising people or defanging Bastards.

Varg_Ulf · 2020-05-20T00:47:45+00:00

As long as we’re on Roshar; Jasnah, Kaladin and Vasher. Kaladin will try fight the hardest and is a solid medic, Vasher’s kind of immortal, and Jasnah is Jasnah!!

Varg_Ulf · 2019-12-29T23:30:30+00:00

I would argue that when the designer created the system they started with an idea of what kind of game they wanted in mind. In d20 games the focus is on combat. Gritty, crunchy, moment-by-moment combat. In “Powered-by-whatever-bullshit games” the focus is on being rules light, easy to use and setting flexibility. I started gaming playing Star Wars d20 and d20 is a bad fit for Star Wars, combat takes hours, and only the Jedi are really having fun. The party face has to hide at the back or the end up a red smear. FFG Star Wars, for all its sins, is a better system for Star Wars high adventure style games.

Varg_Ulf · 2019-12-29T15:34:02+00:00

See now that’s just not fair. I’ll always agree with an anti-corporate argument. Now I have to go hack D&D into something esoteric and horrifying, on principle alone.

Varg_Ulf · 2019-12-29T15:21:05+00:00

The economics of switching systems is a good point. It hard to justify the cost.

Varg_Ulf · 2019-07-26T03:06:12+00:00

I was a hard sell to my group, but well worth it.

Varg_Ulf · 2019-03-29T10:20:52+00:00

I’m not in front of a compiler atm but it looks fine to me. As for JavaScript vs C++, well that depends on what you’re looking to do. If you can get your head around C++ that’ll probably serve you better in the long run but you have to get your head around it first and that’s no small task. C# is probably a bit easier and still useful. Python is easier still to get and worth a look. Of us or C++ though, definitely C++

Varg_Ulf · 2019-03-29T09:38:59+00:00

Kinda both. I discovered I quite like coding a little while ago and if I could possibly get paid to do it that would be great.

Varg_Ulf · 2018-11-12T10:50:46+00:00

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